Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury

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Short Trips: A Christmas Treasury is the eleventh Short Trips anthhology.

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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