It reinvents the Doctor and companion for modern television, grounding the show in a world of council estates, celebrity gossip and soap operas. Rose was not only a new vision for Doctor Who but pioneered a revival for the Saturday-night adventure series.Jon Arnold edits fanzines and is a major contributor to Hating to Love.

    The station nearby appears deserted, but there are figures watching from the shadows, all of them waiting for a dead man’s train...

    Just a few things our heroes have to face in this volume of collected short stories.Add to that, an investigation into the strange goings on in a small house in Mevagissey, which sees Lethbridge-Stewart and Anne Travers cut down to size. And much later, the ashes from a destroyed Earth fall on Lethbridge-Stewart and his family. Contains five short stories previously only available in digital format, two brand-new stories dealing with the fallout of two popular Doctor Who serials, and previously unpublished material from the latest Lethbridge-Stewart novels.A collection of short stories from the classic era of Doctor Who, starring Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Anne Travers, based on the characters and concepts created by Mervyn Haisman and Henry Lincoln.Includes:Ashes of the Inferno by Andy Frankham-Allen (brand new, print exclusive)House of Giants by Rick Cross (brand new, print exclusive)In His Kiss by Sue HamptonThe Lock-In by Sarah Groenewegen BEMThe Black Eggs of Khufu by Tom DexterThe Band of Evil by Roger J Simmonds & Shaun RussellThe Playing Dead by Adrian SherlockandSchädengeist’s First Love by Jonathan Cooper (previously unpublished interludes from The Showstoppers)Exodus from Venus by John Peel (original prologue from The Grandfather Infestation)The Lost Skin: Episode One by Andy Frankham-Allen

    With the future of the Fifth Operational Corps in doubt he’s got enough to worry about, but a plea from an old friend soon finds Lethbridge-Stewart and Anne Travers embroiled in a plot far more fantastical than anything on the small screen.Can charismatic star Aubrey Mondegreene really be in two places at the same time? What lengths will ailing entertainment mogul Billy Lovac go to in order to reach his audience? And is luckless journalist Harold Chorley really so desperate that he’ll buy into a story about Nazi conspiracies from a tramp wearing a tin foil hat?There’s something very rotten at the heart of weekend television, and it isn’t all due to shoddy scripts and bad special effects.

    There are far more reasons for a story not to be made than for it to actually see production. Iain McLaughlin, who has written for, amongst others, James Bond, Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes and Blake's 7 revisits more than half a dozen scripts and proposals, giving background to the creation of the stories, explaining why the stories were ultimately rejected or abandoned, and revisiting them with fresh eyes some years later to give an honest opinion of his earlier work and to offer some suggestions and amendments to improve the stories. His essays on the stories are full of valuable information, advice and hints for aspiring writers Stories include The Point of No Return The Last Chance A Stitch in Time (a Doctor Who proposal for Big Finish) Time Heals All Things (BBV) The Celestial Toymakers (a Doctor Who proposal for Big Finish) Cold Comfort (a Doctor Who proposal for Big Finish) Kill or Cure (BBV)

    Wishes are coming true, and if there’s one thing Lethbridge-Stewart still doesn’t believe in is magic. But what if he’s wrong?