DOCTOR WHO: THE COMPANION CHRONICLES – 6.01 TALES FROM THE VAULT
Author: Jonathan Morris
Director: Lisa Bowerman
Performed by DAPHNE ASHBROOK and YEE JEE TSO with KATY MANNING, WENDY PADBURY, PETER PURVES and MARY TAMM
New adventures with the Doctor, as told by his companions Jo, Zoe, Steven and Romana. Welcome to The Vault – jokingly known as ‘The Museum of Terrors’ – a high security establishment where UNIT keeps all of its alien artifacts. New recruit Warrant Officer Charlie Sato is given a guided tour by Captain Ruth Matheson, and the archive reveals some dark secrets. An army jacket, a painting, crystal and a wax cylinder all hold a grave significance, and their stories are told by the Doctor’s companions: Steven Taylor, Zoe Heriot, Jo Grant and Romana…
DARK SHADOWS – 19. THE POISONED SOUL
Author: James Goss
Director: Jim Smith
Featuring NANCY BARRETT as CHARITY TRASK and PANSY FAYE and ROY THINNES as MR LLEWELLYN
“When the music begins, I’ll give you some spins…” Evil haunts a school in Collinwood. A strange creature is attacking young girls, and the headmistress of Worthington Hall is forced to barricade her school against it. But Miss Charity Trask has problems of her own. She fears she’s not in her right mind. She’s seeing ghostly visions, and soon a strange spirit possesses her. Should she go against her every instinct and trust the voice in her head? Especially when it tells her that the Poisoned Soul is a lot closer than she realises….
DARK SHADOWS – 20. THE CARRION QUEEN
Author: Lizzie Hopley
Director: Darren Gross
Featuring LARA PARKER as ANGELIQUE and JERRY LACY as REVEREND TRASK
“One selfless deed. Just one. The first of you to commit an utterly selfless act – and your soul is free. The one who fails – is mine.” Death is not the end for the Reverend Gregory Trask. After shooting himself to escape the torture of being walled-up alive, the priest is sent to the Dark Lord himself for Judgement. To the holy man’s horror, he is partnered with the equally cursed witch, Angelique, and sent to a vast battlefield in 1861 to compete for the return of their mortal soul. But neither is expecting to be pitched into the aftermath of one of America’s most deadly historic battles, nor to encounter the mysteriously beautiful woman who stalks it.
DOCTOR WHO 149. ROBOPHOBIA
Author: Nicholas Briggs
Director: Nicholas Briggs
Starring SYLVESTER McCOY With NICOLA WALKER and TOBY HADOKE
A new adventure in time and space for the Seventh Doctor. Nothing has ever been officially confirmed, but there is a rumour that on a Sandminer, bound for Kaldor City, the robots somehow turned homicidal and nearly wiped out the entire crew. Can that really be true? The robot transport ship Lorelei has a cargo of over 157,000 robots on board, all reactivated. So even if there were any truth in the rumour of that massacre, there’d still be no danger. Surely, there wouldn’t… But then, the Doctor witnesses a murder.
DOCTOR WHO: THE LOST STORIES: 2.6 EARTH AID
Author: Ben Aaronovitch & Andrew Cartmel
Director: Ken Bentley
Starring SYLVESTER McCOY with PATERSON JOSEPH and BETH CHALMERS as RAINE CREEVY
A new adventure in time and space for the Seventh Doctor and his companion Raine. The Lost Stories… Adventures that were originally written for the Doctor Who television series but never made. Now available to hear for the first time… Welcome aboard the space vessel Vancouver. Its mission: to guard a vast shipment of grain from Earth to the planet Safenesthome. Its Captain is called Ace. She seems a little unsure of herself. In fact, some might almost think she was new to the job… Its medical officer is called simply ‘The Doctor’, and he’s perhaps not all he seems either. When mysterious ships target the Vancouver, Ace and the Doctor are pushed to the limit. Meanwhile, there’s something nasty in the grain containers. And it’s not very happy…
EVERYONE’S JUST SO SO SPECIAL
Author: Robert Shearman
The history of the world. All of it. Its wars, its empires. Each and every one of its decline-and-falls. It’s really terribly simple. It’s the story of a bunch of mediocrities who are trying to look special. And it is my duty, it is my pleasure, to expose the lot of them. A little boy who betrays his father to the mercies of Santa Claus. An assassin whose personality is so insipid he erases people with his very presence. A kitty cat that likes to hunt only endangered species. Camel marriages, killer angels, and conjuring tricks that cause worldwide plague. The history of mankind. As told through twenty-one tales of the comic and the macabre. Frightening and funny. Heartbreaking and wise.