BBC CENTENARY SPECIAL

The TARDIS arrives on a sleeper ship on the edge of the Milky Way galaxy in the far future. The ship’s systems are shot and the path to its destination unknown. In order to help, the Doctor will have to slip back in time to listen in on a very important radio broadcast.

Visiting the Stork Club in New York to celebrate the repeal of Prohibition, the Doctor, Maggie, and Kaylaar rescue a chorus girl from a grisly attack. This event carries some sinister connection to Aubrey Warner, recently returned from an archaeological expedition to Greece with a strange illness. It seems vampires are abroad in the Big Apple, and the not-so-legendary Count Wampyr is back from the (Un)dead. But who is aiding the Count in his foul resurrection?

“There are powers and forces that could smash this paltry universe, this stinking sliver of reality, into bone and dust. I could do it, Doctor. I am that.”

The University of East Essex. Affluent, modern, and well regarded. A great place to study. There are students who graduate. There are students who drop out. And then there are students who die. Horribly, frequently and in inexplicable circumstances…

With Kaylaar taking a turn for the worse, the Doctor has reluctantly agreed to visit the Frenazzi’s home planet of Koilara. There, he and Maggie find the planet’s Prelatory Triumvirate distrust Kaylaar for leaving their world—and others have been seeing the same visions of their Great Prophet, Katlannu. The search for answers will cause the Doctor to question his own certainties, and Kaylaar to reconsider the importance of faith.

A visit to prehistoric Earth lands the Doctor and Maggie with two new companions—famed Silurian warrior Azaxia and eighteenth century Madagascan orphan Simon Denon. When they move forward to Durham of the near future, they find Azaxia’s prowess is coveted by the invading Varanost. As Durham and its people are turned upside down, the Doctor wonders whether the solution proposed by a new generation of UNIT may be worse than the problem posed by the Varanost.

Trying to return their new friend Simon home, the Doctor and Maggie stumble across the Timebase Project—a station grounded in the vortex, whose crew are slowly losing their connection to real time and space. Invaders from outside rewrite history, and only sending the station’s blueprints farther back can keep it on track. Can the Doctor reset time without sacrificing the crew or their attackers?

During a faux séance beneath a coffee house, authentic ghosts suddenly appear to the shock of both the audience and the magician. Meanwhile, the Doctor and Maggie are dragged by a disturbance in the Vortex to make an emergency landing behind the coffee shop. With assistance from Phil (the magician) and Heather (the proprietor of the coffee house), the Doctor traces the source of the disturbances to a long-forgotten project from the 1940’s that involving time manipulation. Those experiments misfired decades ago and the effects are rippling forward in time. Now the Doctor and Maggie must stop that ill-conceived experiment before it destroys both the present and future as well.

Two hundred years on from the Doctor’s first fateful visit, Skaro is a peaceful and prosperous planet. The Thals have conquered the demons of their past, and the city of the Daleks is sealed under a forcefield. But the Doctor suspects it’s too good to be true, and his fears are confirmed when a Thal rocket crashes into the city. Before long, he, Maggie, and a group of battle-trained Thal scientists are face to face with the Daleks reborn. Once again, the Doctor must decide whether he has the right to stamp out their evil forever—or risk it spreading through the galaxy.

Celebrating 60 Years of Doctor Who 1963-2023

It is November 1963, and police constable Reg Cranfield encounters Laura Clifford, a teacher at Coal Hill Secondary School. Two of her colleagues have gone missing. Other mysterious events lead Reg and Laura to a police box that is not what it seems, and three visitors from past and future.