Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury

Publisher's summary

Celebrate a Doctor Who Christmas with this luxury treasury of stories, poems, games and recipes for all the family.

Join the Doctor as he visits a Christmas truce in the trenches, gets caught up in an alien plot concerning the recording of Do They Know It's Christmas? and even manages last-minute shopping in Oxford Street!

From heartwarming to heartbreaking, witty pastiches to chilling ghost stories, these tales are the perfect seasonal journey into time and space.

kris-mas n. : 1: the annual festival of Christ's birth, usu. celebrated on 25 Dec. 2: the season in which this occurs.

'And, incidentally, a happy Christmas to all of you at home!' - Doctor Who: The Feast of Steven by Terry Nation

Christmas and Doctor Who are inextricably linked. From the moment the Daleks first appeared at yule-tide to the regular Annual under the tree, the spooky cosiness of the season has always chimed with the series's own brand of comfortable thrill.

This collection covers every aspect of Doctor Who at Christmas, from the Fourth Doctor and Romana wisecracking their way through opening their presents to the Seventh Doctor encountering a dangerous something from Christmas past; from the Sixth Doctor running into another Christmas TV institution to the Eighth Doctor's lonely vigil in a frozen landscape. The Fifth Doctor visits an old companion, the First Doctor lands in a house where Christmas doesn't go as planned, while the Second Doctor finds he has to have a serious chat with Santa Claus. And Bernice Summerfield experiences Christmas on the Braxiatel Collection. Unfortunately.

There are hidden links between many of the stories, which are themselves arranged like a symmetrical snowflake. This being Christmas, alongside the tales, there are instructions for building your own Who adventure game, a monster party game (careful how you play it!), poems both nostalgic and jolly -- including one by accomplished poet Jo Fletcher -- and four delicious Christmas recipes with a Doctor Who makeover, making this a real stocking-filler of a compendium, the ideal gift for followers of the show, young and old.

Individual Stories

Title	Author	Featuring
Last Christmas	Simon Guerrier	Seventh Doctor
UNIT Christmas Parties: First Christmas	Nick Wallace	Third Doctor Liz Shaw
In the TARDIS: Christmas Day	Val Douglas	Fifth Doctor Adric Nyssa Tegan
Water's Edge	Peter Adamson	Sixth Doctor
A Yuletide Tail	Dave Stone	Seventh Doctor Ace
Spookasem	Peter Anghelides	Seventh Doctor
Christmas Special	Marc Platt	Sixth Doctor
Never Seen Cairo	Darren Sellars	Fifth Doctor
The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas	Mark Michalowski	Second Doctor
Last Minute Shopping	Neil Perryman	Fifth Doctor Tegan Turlough
Every Day	Stephen Fewell	First Doctor Ian Chesterton Barbara Wright Vicki
The Little Things	Paul Beardsley	Fourth Doctor Romana K9
UNIT Christmas Parties: Christmas Truce	Terrance Dicks	Third Doctor the Brigadier Benton Mike Yates Jo Grant
The Clanging Chimes of Doom	Jonathan Morris	Fourth Doctor Romana K9
Perfect Present	Andy Campbell	Seventh Doctor
Present Tense	Ian Potter	Fourth Doctor Romana K9
Goodwill Toward Men	Shaun Lyon	Second Doctor Jamie McCrimmon Zoe Heriot
It's a Lovely Day Tomorrow	Martin Day	Fourth Doctor Leela
All Our Christmases	Steve Lyons	Unspecified Doctor
Lily	Jackie Marshall	Fifth Doctor Sarah Jane Smith
...Be Forgot	Cavan Scott and Mark Wright	Bernice Summerfield Eighth Doctor
UNIT Christmas Parties: Ships That Pass	Karen Dunn	Fourth Doctor Sarah Jane Smith Harry Sullivan
Evergreen	Stephen Cole	Eighth Doctor

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