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| DEC 14/24: A CHRISTMAS SURPRISE |
One week today, The Doctor Who Project will bring you a very special release - the 2024 Christmas Special: The Christmas Adventure, an all new festive treat featuring the Eleventh Doctor and Maggie Weitz.
The Christmas Adventure is written by Bob Furnell and while Maggie Weitz never imagined the twists her life would take after traveling with the Doctor. From Martian sunrises to battles in the far future, she’s seen the extraordinary. But as the holiday season nears, Maggie finds herself longing for something simpler: the warmth of home, friends, and familiar faces. When the Doctor honors her wish, a Christmas reunion leads to new discoveries and heartfelt moments that are just as powerful as any interstellar journey.
The Christmas Adventure is a festive tale filled with the magic of the season. Blending time travel, cosmic mysteries, and heartfelt human connections, it reminds us of the power of love, friendship, and the importance of finding where we truly belong.
The 2024 Christmas Special will available to download on Saturday December 21st as a free PDF download which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader.
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| DEC 8/24: COMING SOON TO TDWP |
In the lead up to Christmas and the New Year, The Doctor Who Project has some seasonal treats lined up for our readers.
In an all-new Brief Encounter, the eerie town of Evansburg, darkness isn't just a lack of light—it’s alive, consuming everything it touches. The Memory of Darkness weaves a chilling tale where fear, grief, and supernatural forces collide. Katelyn, a woman haunted by her past, finds herself drawn to a mysterious stranger—a wild-haired figure who claims to be a time traveler trapped in the town’s shadowy grip. Together, they unravel a horrifying truth: the darkness is tied to Katelyn’s buried trauma and an unrelenting, fiery presence from her past. As spectral horrors and burning shadows close in, Katelyn must face the ultimate test of courage and sacrifice to save her town—and perhaps her soul.
The story is written by former TDWP editor and writer, Julio Angel Ortiz, his first contribution to the project since Season 31s Gunpowder.
Coming in early 2025 is another new Brief Encounter story, Panic In The Cave by Selim Ulug.
Plus, we've lined up something special for our readers. More details on that forthcomiing. |
| NOV 23/24: NEW BRIEF ENCOUNTER THE TECHNOLOGY THIEVES RELEASED |
A brand-new Brief Encounters adventure is released today for reading pleasure.
The Technology Thieves by Peter Crew features the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe in a new adventure.
“I don’t think that’s Jamie at all. He’s an imposter!”
The Doctor, realizing that the real Jamie must have been abducted when they were exploring the central city of Avenir, returns to the city to look for his companion, leaving Zoe behind in the TARDIS with the imposter. But is Zoe as safe as he thought she was? And who or what is following him? The Doctor himself is soon abducted by a ruthless race of thieves who want to steal his TARDIS to gain power over their enemies. The thieves need the Doctor to operate the TARDIS for them, but if he refuses then his companions will be tortured or killed. Meanwhile Jamie has uncovered a plot to immobilize Avenir’s defensive weapons, leaving the planet to the mercy of its enemies. The thieves must be stopped, but how?
The Technology Thieves is available to download as a free PDF download which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader. |
| Coming soon from The Doctor Who Project is an all-new Brief Encounters adventure by Peter Crew entitled “The Technology Thieves”. The story features the Second Doctor, Jamie and Zoe in an adventure on the planet Avenir. |
| NOV 11/24: THE PAX PROCESS |
We have released a slightly modified and cleaned-up version of the Season 27 story, The Pax Process by Scott Marshall.
The new version can be downloaded in a free PDF document from the Season 27 section of the website. |
| OCT 29/24: SEASON 35 OMNIBUS RELEASED |
The Doctor Who Project Season 35 Omnibus will be officially released November 1st.
The adventures across time and space continue for the Ninth Doctor, Silver, and TARDIS cat, Mortimer. Where and when will the TARDIS take them and how and will they be up for the challenge?
The Season 35 Omnibus is published in 6×9 paperback format, 496 pages and contains all 9 stories from Season 35.
For more information on the Season 35 Omnibus click here. |
| OCT 21/24: WE NEED YOUR HELP |
Hello everyone.
I'm posting this message in the hopes there's a TDWP fan out there that might like to help out.
For the past two+ years I've been trying to get an updated and revised version of The Doctor Who Project Series Bible completed, (as well as an extensive A-Z of the TDWP universe). It's been a long slog but we're almost at the end. But I need some help.
Up to now, its been the policy to give the original story author(s) first dibs on writing up entries for their stories. Unfortunately, there are still approximately 12-15 stories that need entries written up - either the original author doesn't have any time to participate, or we've lost contact with said author.
I'm putting out a plea, if there might be one or two of you who'd like to help out and help get this project finally done. All this entails is simply reading one of the stories and writing up a bible entry for that story. For anyone who does volunteer to help, TDWP will give you a free copy of the A-Z when it's published.
If you're interested in helping out, or would like more information, please contact me at: thedoctorwhoproject@shaw.ca.
Thanks. |
| OCT 18/24: STONE & CAULDRON TO BE RE-RELEASED |
We're sure all of you will be excited to learn that Stone and Cauldron by Jodie van de Wetering will be re-released October 19th as a brand new Brief Encounter adventure.
Originally published in the fanzine Whotopia in 2008/09 in four parts, with an online version released in 2010, this story hasn't been available for over five years. But now, TDWP fans will be able to read this classic adventure featuring the Eighth Doctor, Tamara and Grae.
A previously unrecorded copy of the Stone of Scone turns up on an otherwise unremarkable archaeological dig. The dig’s also having present-day issues - they’re having trouble with a group of neo-pagans who consider the dig interfering with their religion. Or are they? Angus - the researcher in charge of the dig - meets with the leader of the pagan cell, and between them they realise the troublemakers belong to neither camp - they’re just stirring up trouble as a cover to get into the dig site and steal something. Tamara shadows the troublemakers to a pawn shop, where sure enough they try to sell an artefact they lifted from the dig site. Meanwhile, The Doctor and Grae travel back in time to investigate the history of the site, and see if it can shed any light on the strange energy readings they’re picking up in the present day.
Stone & Cauldron is available to download free in a PDF format document which can be read on your desktop, laptop, e-Reader and/or tablet. |
| OCT 9/24: SEASON 36 OMNIBUS RELEASED 10 OCT 24 |
The Doctor Who Project: Season 36 Omnibus will be released October 10th.
Details at: TDWP BLOG |
| OCT 9/24: REVISED SEASON 41 OMNIBUS RELEASED |
Exciting news TDWP fans. The revised 2024 editions of the Season 41 Omnibus are now available to purchase. Both volumes 1 and 2 have been updated and revised.
For more information, or to order your copy, please visit the IN PRINT section on the TDWP BLOG |
| SEP 22/24: TDWP CONSIDERING PUBLISHING AN UPDATED VERSION OF 'THE WRITE STUFF' |
We’ve learned from TDWP sources that the Editorial Board are considering releasing an updated version of “The Write Stuff” publication.
Originally released in September 2017, Range Editor, Bob Furnell, interviewed then current and past editors who had worked on the project since 1999.
“The Write Stuff”, paid tribute to Misha Lauenstein, Terry Baker, Tim Jones, Kyle Bastian, Karen Goldenbaum, Julio Angel Ortiz , Sam “Samantha” Warner, Michael, Robert Mammone, Jez Strickley, Benjamin Pocock, Jeremy Remy, Richard Peevers, – including Art Editor John Swogger – who served as the projects editors and assistant editors.
If you’d like to see an updated version of the publication, drop a quick email or text to let the Editorial Board you’d be interested in a new edition. |
| SEP 22/24: FUN FACTS FROM 25 YEARS OF TDWP |
Have you ever wondered how many stories TDWP has published over 25 years?
What about who have been the most prolific authors to contribute?
Well, if you’ve ever wondered the answer to such questions check out the TDWP BLOG to learn some fascinating facts from the past 25 years.
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| AUG 24/24: SEASON 45 SEASON FINALE |
TDWP Season 45 draws to a conclusion today with the release of The Last Doctor: Part Two.
In the concluding part of the two-part season finale, The TARDIS arrives at a destination the Doctor has long been dreading: the city of London in 2963, one thousand years after he left with Susan, Ian, and Barbara. But time is not running as it should: the continuum has shrunk to this one day; everyone on Earth blindly worships the Doctor; and all the peoples of the universe have ceased their conflict, subjugated by a boy as irresponsible as he is powerful, who claims he is the Doctor’s final incarnation.
Maggie knows in her marrow that the boy cannot be the Doctor, but finds her faith tested by the astonishing return from the dead of her husband, Ollie. As if that is not bad enough, the Doctor’s seventh incarnation has also arrived, concerned his timeline has been knocked off course since he left Perivale with Ace in 1989, and thus intent on assassinating his eleventh self to prevent this ‘Last Doctor’ from existing.
Can the two Doctors, Maggie, and Ollie outwit all the Time Lord’s former foes, now acting in the service of this twisted glimpse of his future? What does all this have to do with the Doctor’s unsettling dreams, and his increasing inability to distinguish them from reality? What secret is hidden beyond Earth’s sun? And what greater force is behind the ‘Last Doctor’?
This time the Doctor means it when he says that nothing will ever be the same again.
The Last Doctor: Part Two is available to download in a free PDF document which can be read on your desktop, laptop, e-Reader and/or tablet.
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| AUG 21/24: IS THIS THE END FOR THE DOCTOR?! |
It’s hard to believe but TDWP Season 45 concludes this Saturday (August 24th) with the exciting second part of the two-part season finale story.
The stakes were raised for both the Doctor and his companion Maggie. Things look tense. Readers were asking, “Is the end for the Doctor?” One never knows, but readers will be able to find out in part two of “The Last Doctor”.
The TARDIS arrives at a destination the Doctor has long been dreading: the city of London in 2963, one thousand years after he left with Susan, Ian, and Barbara. But time is not running as it should: the continuum has shrunk to this one day; everyone on Earth blindly worships the Doctor; and all the peoples of the universe have ceased their conflict, subjugated by a boy as irresponsible as he is powerful, who claims he is the Doctor’s final incarnation.
Maggie knows in her marrow that the boy cannot be the Doctor, but finds her faith tested by the astonishing return from the dead of her husband, Ollie. As if that is not bad enough, the Doctor’s seventh incarnation has also arrived, concerned his timeline has been knocked off course since he left Perivale with Ace in 1989, and thus intent on assassinating his eleventh self to prevent this ‘Last Doctor’ from existing.
Can the two Doctors, Maggie, and Ollie outwit all the Time Lord’s former foes, now acting in the service of this twisted glimpse of his future? What does all this have to do with the Doctor’s unsettling dreams, and his increasing inability to distinguish them from reality? What secret is hidden beyond Earth’s sun? And what greater force is behind the ‘Last Doctor’?
This time the Doctor means it when he says that nothing will ever be the same again.
“The Last Doctor: Part Two” is released Saturday, August 21, 2024 and will be available to download FREE in a PDF file that can be read on your desktop, laptop, e-Reader and/or tablet. |
| AUG 17/24: THE LAST DOCTOR PART ONE |
The Last Doctor: Part One by Hamish Crawford has been released.
In the penultimate season 45 adventure something is rotten in the state of Gallifrey. The Time Lords are contemplating an alliance with the Preservers, a sinister race from a higher plane of existence with vast knowledge of the multiverse. The condition of this union is the total removal of the Doctor from the timelines, undoing all his centuries of good work. The Waiter, a radical young Time Lord, strongly supports this plan.
On Earth, it’s the 23rd of November 2963, and a mysterious boy presides over a harmonious empire, while he waits for the Doctor to arrive.
Fleeing from his own people and trying to evade his date with destiny, the Doctor learns that time and space are contracting, and finds new and unwelcome memories over-writing his last three regenerations: all three Doctors lured from their rightful place in the time/space continuum to be brutally assassinated. The paradox may eradicate the present Doctor before he is even born.
Only as his past melts away does the Doctor begin to comprehend the true threat that outweighs all others: his own future, which threatens to end his adventures once and for all.
The Last Doctor: Part One is available in a free PDF download which can be read on your desktop, laptop, tablet or e-Reader.
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| AUG 10/24: EXPIRATION DATE RELEASED |
The latest Season 45 story, Expiration Date by R. Morgan Crihfield has now been released.
A man going nowhere with no prospects attends a cabin party on a north Texas lake reflecting on his failures before meeting the love of his life. A perfect life together is shattered when his wife and daughter go missing! Desperately he turns to the outlandish Sheriff Cecil Kotto for answers, but first he must tell the story.
The Doctor and Maggie’s past come back to haunt them, nearly to the tipping point where the monster becomes far less clear. A tale that spans a lifetime begs the question: is the Doctor too late?
Expiration Date is available in a free PDF download which can be read on your desktop, laptop, tablet or e-Reader. |
| AUG 3/24: THE OAKWOOD HOUSE VISITATION OUT NOW |
The latest Season 45 story, The Oakwood House Visitation is out now!
The Oakwood House Visitation s available in a free PDF download which can be read on your desktop, laptop, tablet or e-Reader. |
| JUL 31/24: COMING UP NEXT ON DOCTOR WHO |
Coming up on Saturday August 3rd at 7:45 pm on BBC-1, the TARDIS lands the Doctor and Maggie in 1874. In the forbidding Maine mansion Oakwood House, the orphan Elise Marchwood vanished without a trace. Seventy-one years later, Oakwood has become a rest home for the elderly. Yet the staff and residents are plagued by nightmares and visions—and whatever is trying to contact them has an unusual interest in the new arrival in the town, the Doctor.
The Oakwood House Visitation will be available to download free in a PDF document which can be read on your desktop, laptop, e-Reader and/or tablet. |
| JUL 27/24: DEAD GODS CARNIVAL PART TWO OUT NOW |
| The second part of Dead Gods Carnival is out now and available in a free PDF download. |
| JUL 25/24: DEAD GODS CARNIVAL CONTINUES WITH PART TWO |
The Doctor Who Project Season 45 continues this Saturday, July 27 with part two of Dead Gods Carnival by Miles Reid-Lobatto.
In part two Sebastian Ventallier’s ritual was a success. The Dead Gods—the eldritch beings from Baston H. Wheldrake’s blockbusting 30th century horror novel—have arrived on Prospero’s Folly, hungry for souls to bring back to their own realm. Can the Doctor stop this damage, and will Wheldrake live to tell the tale?
Join us this Saturday when Dead Gods Carnival Part Two is released. |
| JUL 20/24: DEAD GODS CARNIVAL: PART ONE RELEASED |
Season 45 returns today with the release of Miles Reid-Lobatto's Dead Gods Carnival: Part One.
Once, Baston H. Wheldrake was the galaxy’s most notorious wordsmith, renowned across the Earth Empire for his chilling true-life tale Dead Gods’ Carnival. Years later, haunted by his success, Wheldrake is tempted back to Prospero’s Folly, the planet where the terrible events he chronicled took place. It seems that his host, galactic plutocrat Sebastian Ventallier, intends to re-enact the gruesome rituals from Wheldrake’s book—and the Doctor and Maggie are trapped with them.
Dead Gods Carnival: Part Oneis available in a free PDF download which can be read on your desktop, laptop, tablet or e-Reader. |
| JUL 17/24: SEASON 45 RESUMES JULY 20 |
Fans will be pleased to learn that The Doctor Who Project Season 45 resumes this Saturday, July 20th, with the release of the first part of a two-part story by Miles Reid-Lobatto, Dead Gods' Carnival Part One.
https://thedoctorwhoproject.wordpress.com |
| JUL 5/24: THE EIGHTH DOCTOR RETURNS IN FIREDOG |
SATURDAY JULY 6 2024
THE DOCTOR WHO PROJECT: BRIEF ENCOUNTERS
FIREDOG by John Swogger
In the quaint Atlantic town of Howell’s point, Dr. Tyler Rockwell believes his Cluster Acceleration Array will make nuclear fusion a reality.
At the same spot in 1327, a rogue graviton thread has landed the Doctor, Grae, and Tamara Scott amid a Viking settlement.
In both times, emotions are running high—between Rockwell, his wife Marie, and lab assistant Susan Wendell in the present, and between two rival couples, Erik the Bold and Gudrid, and Eoryn and Bjaerni, in the past. Also raising temperatures are the gruesome murders at nightfall—the work of a mythical beast known as the Firedog.
Past and present are colliding, and both will be destroyed unless the Doctor can stop the Firedog’s emergence.
This story features the Eighth Doctor, Tamara Scott and Grae
FIREDOG will be available in a free PDF which can be read on your desktop, laptop, tablet or e-Reader. |
| JUN 22/24: UNITED IN WAR RELEASED |
Our latest Brief Encounter adventure, United In War by Ian Cai Mercer has now been released.
In this adventure, the TARDIS brings the Doctor, Susan, Ian, and Barbara to a craft en route to Station Zenox, a neutral outpost established in the 61st century to resolve the powder-keg of trouble to which this region of space has been prone.
It is a desperate time in galactic history: the outset of the Third Intergalactic Peace Conference. Four mighty empires—the Dexian Protectorate, the Lamin, the Sass’Japham, and the Medusoids—stand in dispute, and their enmity is unwavering. They are welcomed aboard by a man named Korlek, who needs the Doctor to conduct the conference.
Can peace be achieved? Is Korlek a friend or a foe? And will the Doctor withstand a persistent mind probe?
United In War is available to download free in a PDF document which can be read on your desktop, laptop, tablet or e-Reader. Download the story from the TDWP website. |
| JUN 17/24: 8, GRAE & TAMARA TO RETURN |
The Eighth Doctor, Grae and Tamara return in an all-new adventure, FIREDOG written by John Swogger, on July 6th.
In the quaint Atlantic town of Howell’s point, Dr. Tyler Rockwell believes his Cluster Acceleration Array will make nuclear fusion a reality.
At the same spot in 1327, a rogue graviton thread has landed the Doctor, Grae, and Tamara Scott amid a Viking settlement. In both times, emotions are running high—between Rockwell, his wife Marie, and lab assistant Susan Wendell in the present, and between two rival couples, Erik the Bold and Gudrid, and Eoryn and Bjaerni, in the past.
Also raising temperatures are the gruesome murders at nightfall—the work of a mythical beast known as the Firedog. Past and present are colliding, and both will be destroyed unless the Doctor can stop the Firedog’s emergence. |
| JUN 17/24: NEW FIRST DOCTOR ADVENTURE JUNE 22 |
Available Saturday June 22nd will be our latest Brief Encounter adventure featuring the First Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan in UNITED IN WAR by Ian Cai Mercer.
The Doctor, Susan, Ian, and Barbara arrive at a critical moment in galactic history, the Third Intergalactic Peace Conference. Four mighty empires are in conflict over a disputed region of space. Is their host, Korlek, a friend or a foe? How does he know so much about the Doctor? And will peace be disrupted due to a troublesome mind probe?
As usual, UNITED IN WAR will be available to download FREE in an easy to read PDF format which can be read on any desktop, laptop, tablet or e-Reader.
So mark your calendars for June 22nd. |
| JUN 8/24: NO PASARAN RELEASED |
Fans of our Brief Encounters range of stories will be excited to learn of the release of the latest Brief Encounters story, No Pasaran by Evan Semon.
1939, Spain. The Republican controlled capital of Madrid is beginning to buckle under the weight of its long siege by Nationalist forces. Victory, it seems, could only be achieved by a miracle. That miracle may come in the form of a mysterious visitor, who offers a quick solution to end the conflict. When the Doctor arrives in the besieged capital, will he be able to make sure history stays on its correct course? Or will the Spanish Civil War become a lot bloodier?
No Pasaran is available in a free PDF download which can be read on your desktop, laptop, tablet or e_Reader. |
| JUN 1/24: UPCOMING RELEASE SCHEDULE |
Following up from our post about a brand-new Brief Encounters story, TDWP will be releasing the following BE stories on the following dates:
- June 8/24: No Pasaran by Evan Semon
- June 22/24: United In War by Ian Cai Mercer
- July 6/24: Firedog by John G. Swogger
No Pasaran features the Ninth Doctor, United In War features the First Doctor, while, Firedog sees the return of the Eighth Doctor.
Keep tuned to www.hedoctorwhoproject.wordpress.com for more details and news. |
| JUN 1/24: NEW BRIEF ENCOUNTER STORY NEXT WEEKEND |
Fans of our Brief Encounters range of stories will be excited to hear that on June 8th we'll be releasing a brand new BE story, No Pasaran by Evan Semon.
The new story takes place 1939 Spain at the time of the Spanish Civil War and features the TDWP Ninth Doctor as he becomes embroiled of the wars final days.
This will be Evan's first story submission for TDWP |
| MAY 25/24: AGE OF THE ICE WARRIORS RELEASED |
Season 45 continues today with the release of the mid-season finale Age of the Ice Warriors by Matt Tovey.
In this latest adventure, the Doctor and Maggie land on Soma, a primitive world not dissimilar to medieval Europe. An afternoon of fun soon turns into disaster as Ice Warriors storm thie Kingdon of All's jousting tournament, capturing Maggie and delivering her into the hands of the warrior-king Yaevar. One army marches south to conquest - the other marches north in defence. Amidst the chaos, can the Doctor and Maggie survive long enough to be reunited?
The mid-season finale Age of the Ice Warriors is available to download in a free PDF document which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet and/or e-Reader. |
| MAY 18/24: RAISING THE OBERON: PART TWO DEBUTS TODAY |
The Doctor Who Project Season 45 continues today with The Raising of The Oberon: Part Two by Mark Horrocks.
In this story, the Doctor, Maggie, and a reluctant Captain Soria Vikander make a perilous journey into the unforgiving waters of Nereus Prime to rescue the salvage team trapped aboard the Oberon.
Already, history seems to be repeating itself, as members of the salvage team have died after seeing visions of loved ones. The only two survivors of the horrors that befell the science vessel are its commanding officer Dr Titania and a coy android, Puck, neither of whom are willing to provide answers. Trying to keep them and the surviving salvagers alive so they can get off the ship is a more difficult task than it appears: at every turn, the Doctor and Maggie find themselves menaced by a mysterious threat that can invade the minds of its prey.
As they search the wreck for the wayward Time Lord and try to find answers, will they be able to stay one step ahead of the dark entity hunting them? Or will they too fall prey to the test subject codenamed: ‘Morpheus’?
Raising The Oberon: Part Two is available in a free downloadable PDF document which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet &/or e-Reader.
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| MAY 11/24: RAISING THE OBERON PART ONE RELEASED |
The latest story of Season 45, Raising The Oberon: Part One by Mark Horrocks is now available.
The TARDIS receives a distress call from another Time Lord, who was aboard the scientific research vessel Oberon, recently crashed on the ocean world Nereus Prime.
The Doctor and Maggie join a crew of salvagers sent to locate the wreck and bring back its valuable contents. Their captain, Soria Vikander, is suspicious of the time travellers and unwilling to accept the Doctor’s help. And with the identity of his fellow Time Lord unknown to him, the Doctor is forced to accept the possibility that the Time Lord may have been the cause of the calamity that befell the starship.
When a team of Vikander’s crew enters the wreck, they soon find themselves replaying the patterns of violence and self-destruction that plagued the Oberon’s unfortunate crew. And the mysterious Time Lord telepathically compels the Doctor to join them down in the depths, no matter the dangers.
Raising The Oberon: Part One is now available to download free in a PDF document which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet &/or e-Reader.
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| MAY 7/24: COMING UP NEXT ON THE DOCTOR WHO PROJECT |
Coming up next on The Doctor Who Project will be the first of a two=part story Raising The Oberon: Part One by Mark Horrocks.
The TARDIS receives a strange message...
If anyone receives this message, please send help. The vessel I’m occupying is stricken. I’m trapped and there’s no escape. I’ve enclosed coordinates. Please, don’t leave me stranded. I can’t stay here, I…
Who is sending this message and why does the Doctor think it's coming from a fellow Time Lord. Find out Saturday May 11th. |
| MAY 4/24: sEASON 45/EP 2: FUR AND THE SKY |
Season 45 continues with the second story of the season - Fur and The Sky by Mark Horrocks.
The Doctor and Maggie arrive in Apache-Sitgreaves National Park, Arizona, unintentionally when the TARDIS materializes prematurely. The Doctor and Maggie discover that forestry works are being terrorized by a surge in activity from a creature of local legend called the “Mogollon Monster.”
When the Doctor agrees to help a local ranger investigate, he and Maggie find themselves pulled into a battle between species from another dimension that threatens to envelope the Earth.
As they search the dark forest, cut off from rescue, can the Doctor tell friend from foe before it’s too late? And will he and Maggie survive to watch Keith Moon drum live?
Will 3,211 kilometers and one paltry year prove to be a costly mistake? There can be much to lose between the fur and the sky.
Fur and The Sky will be available to download free in a PDF document which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet &/or e-Reader. |
| APR 27/24: SEASON 45 BEGINS NOW! |
TDWP SEASON 45 begins now with the season debut The Sawbones and The Grey Fox by Hamish Crawford.
The season premiere is available to download free in a PDF document which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet, or e-Reader. And after you've read the story, drop us a quick note and let us know what you think. |
| APR 25/24: SEASON 45 DEBUTS APRIL 27 |
“No harm in that. I get ya, Doc. Want to protect your identity, your good name. I’ll respect that.”
The Doctor Who Project Season 45 debuts Saturday April 27th with "The Sawbones and The Grey Fox"
The Doctor and Maggie meet Canada's most famous bank robber. |
| APR 25/24: NEW EIGHTH & NINTH DOCTOR STORIES FORTHCOMING |
Fans of TDWP will be excited to hear that both the Eighth (Jeremy Banks-Walker) and Ninth (Anton Robbins) Doctors will see two new brand-new Brief Encounters adventures released in the near future.
The Eighth Doctor will be joined by companions Tamara Scott and Grae in FIREDOG a brand-new adventure later this year. Written by longtime TDWP contributor John Swogger (with additional material by Hamish Crawford) where the TARDIS lands the three travelers in the quaint Atlantic town of Howell’s point, Dr. Tyler Rockwell believes his Cluster Acceleration Array will make nuclear fusion a reality. At the same spot in 1327, a rogue graviton thread has landed the Doctor, Grae, and Tamara Scott amid a Viking settlement. In both times, emotions are running high—between Rockwell, his wife Marie, and lab assistant Susan Wendell in the present, and between two rival couples, Erik the Bold and Gudrid, and Eoryn and Bjaerni, in the past. Also raising temperatures are the gruesome murders at nightfall—the work of a mythical beast known as the Firedog. Past and present are colliding, and both will be destroyed unless the Doctor can stop the Firedog’s emergence.
In NO PASARAN the Ninth Doctor arrives during the final days of Spanish Civil War. Written by Evan Semon, this will be Semon’s first published TDWP story. It’s 1939, Spain. The Republican controlled capital of Madrid is beginning to buckle under the weight of its long siege by Nationalist forces. Victory, it seems, could only be achieved by a miracle. That miracle may come in the form of a mysterious visitor, who offers a quick solution to end the conflict. When the Doctor arrives in the besieged capital, will he be able to make sure history stays on its correct course? Or will the Spanish Civil War become a lot bloodier?
Both stories will be released Summer 2024. |
Grab your marker and your calendar and circle this date – APRIL 27!
We’re about to embark on a new and exciting season of adventures in time and space with the Eleventh Doctor and Maggie Weitz.
The Doctor Who Project Season 45 debuts this Saturday, April 27th. The season will be published over 11 weeks featuring nine original stories – three of which are two-part adventures. The season will be divided into two blocks – Season 45A & B - with the first five stories being released April 27 to May 18, with the remaining four stories released September/October.
Season 45 debuts with “The Sawbones and The Grey Fox” by Hamish Crawford which sees the Doctor and Maggie arrive in 1904 Canada and encounter the famous Canadian train robber Bill Miner aka ‘The Grey Fox’.
The second story is “Fur and The Sky” by Mark Horrocks sees our two travelers get involved in the search for the Arizona Bigfoot.
When the Doctor receives a mysterious distress from a fellow Time Lord in the two-part adventure “Raising The Oberon” by Mark Horrocks, the TARDIS lands the duo on the sunken scientific research vessel Oberon.
The first part of the season ends with the midseason cliffhanger, “Age of The Ice Warriors” by Matt Tovey, the Doctor and Maggie encounter the Ice Warriors on a strange Earth-like planet that resembles Medieval Europe.
The second half of the season which will include the two-part “Dead God’s Carnival” by Miles Reid-Lobatto, “Expiration Date” by R. Morgan Crihfield followed by the two=part season finale, “The Last Doctor” by Hamish Crawford will follow in the latter part of 2024.
Season 45B will also include a fourth as of yet titled story. |
| APR 17/24: SEASON 45 COMING SOON! |
Season 45 Coming Soon including:
The Sawbones and The Grey Fox, Fur and The Sky, Raising The Oberon Part One, Raising The Oberon Part Two, Age of The Ice Warriors, Dead God's Carnival Part One, Dead God's Carnival Part Two, Expiration Date, The Last Doctor Part One, The Last Doctor Part Two.
Stay tuned! |
| APR 8/24: SUBMISSIONS OPEN FOR BRIEF ENCOUNTERS |
We are now accepting story proposals for our BRIEF ENCOUNTERS range of stories featuring TV Doctors 1-7 and/or TDWP Doctors 8-10.
Submission details can be found on the TDWP Blog at:
www.thedoctorwhoproject.wordpress.com |
| FEB 27/24: SEASON 45 STORY ORDER CHANGES |
Since we last reported on Season 45 the Editorial Board has made some changes to the season running order. In addition, the season has added another story to bring the season to a total of 10 adventures - four single stories, and three 2-part stories.
Season 45 will now run as follows:
- Week 1: The Sawbones and the Grey Fox by Hamish Crawford
- Week 2: Fur and the Sky by Mark Horrocks
- Week 3: Raising The Oberon Part 1 by Mark Horrocks
- Week 4: Raising The Oberon Part 2 by Mark Horrocks
- Week 5: Age of the Ice Warriors by Matt Tovey
- Week 6: Dead God's Carnival Part 1Miles Reid-Lobatto
- Week 7: Dead God's Carnival Part 2 by Miles Reid-Lobatto
- Week 8: Expiration Date by R. Morgan Crihfield
- Week 9: The Last Doctor Part 1 by Hamish Crawford
- Week 10: The Last Doctor Part 2 by Hamish Crawford
TDWP Season 45 is scheduled for a Spring 2024 launch. |
| FEB 14/24: SEEKING ASSISTANT EDITOR |
Are you a Doctor Who/sci-fi fan who is looking to get experience editing original short-stories and being part of a team of creative team of writers and editors?
The Doctor Who Project is looking to fill the post of VOLUNTEER ASSISTANT EDITOR to provide editorial assistance with both the Eleventh Doctor and Brief Encounters ranges.
Further details can be found under the “Join Our Team” tab on the TDWP Blog at www.thedoctorwhoproject.wordpress.com |
| JAN 26/24: TDWP ON THE WEB |
| JAN 17/24: CELEBRATING 25 YEARS |
This month marks THE DOCTOR WHO PROJECT's 25TH ANNIVERSARY.
Yes, you read that right.
It was way back in January 1999 that THE DOCTOR WHO PROJECT released its very first story, THE FINAL SUNSET by John Swogger, Misha Lauenstein & Bob Furnell. The story was initially only available to subscribers who were sent the story in Word format via email. Over the next seven weeks, subscribers received a further seven stories that made up the very first 'season' of original, fan written, Doctor Who stories. This was followed in March 1999 when a print edition bringing together all eight Season 27 stories in specially released omnibus edition.
Twenty-five years later The Doctor Who Project has released 190 stories over two ranges - the main range and Brief Encounters - and continues to release new stories.
2024 will also see the release of the main range's 150th story, in addition to consolidating TDWP as the longest continuously running fan produced fiction series in Doctor Who fandom. |
| JAN 17/24: SEASON 45 STORY TITLES |
The Doctor Who Project has confirmed the story titles and writers for Season 45; TDWPs 25th Anniversary Season.
They are:
- The Sawbones and the Grey Fox by Hamish Crawford
- Fur and the Sky by Mark Horrocks
- Age of the Ice Warriors by Matt Tovey
- Dead God's Carnival by Miles Reid-Lobatto
- Expiration Date by R. Morgan Crihfield
- The Last Doctor: Part One by Hamish Crawford
- The Last Doctor: Part Two by Hamish Crawford
Hamish Crawford & Matt Tovey both wrote for Season 44, while R. Morgan Crihfield last contributed a story to Season 43. This is Miles Reid-Lobatto's first story since Lonely Are The Stars in Season 42. The season's second story Fur and the Sky is being written by Mark Horrocks, this being Horrocks first time contributing to TDWP.
An official launch for Season 45 has yet to be announced. |
| DEC 18/23: SPEND CHRISTMAS WITH THE DOCTOR WHO PROJECT |
Looking for something to read over the Christmas holidays? Why not spend the season with The Doctor Who Project reading one, or all, of our Christmas stories?
Not only have we just released a brand-new festive tale with Richard Peevers Attack of the Space Pets which can be downloaded for free, but why not have a read of one of our other Christmas Specials?
TDWP has published 8 Christmas theme stories over the years including:
A Christmas Story by Craig Charlesworth (Season 34; And The Child Shall Lead by Samantha Warner & Karen Kalbacher (Season 36; Angel of the North Parts 1 & 2 by Duncan Johnson (Season 37); Stromboli's Comet by Jez Strickley & Jake Johnson (2011 Specials); The Snow Maiden by Matthew James (Season 38); The Hope of Midwinter's Eve by Nick Krohn (Season 41); and The Yuletide Tradition by James Kyle (2019 Specials).
All of these stories can be downloaded free in PDF format which can be read on your PC, laptop; e-Reader or tablet. |
| DEC 9/23: A SPECIAL CHRISTMAS TREAT |
The Doctor Who Project would like to share this special Christmas treat with you; an brand new adventure featuring the Third Doctor and Jo Grant - Attack of the Space Pets by Richard Peevers.
“They’re the latest thing! The newspapers are calling them ‘Space Pets’.
Space Pets are taking over the United Kingdom! This Christmas, everyone wants one of these cute, furry creatures. Millions are about to be given as gifts across the country. But when the Doctor and Jo find one at the scene of the death of Mrs. Greenacre, the Doctor becomes suspicious. With bright green skin, her death cannot have been a natural occurrence.
Back at UNIT HQ, the Doctor rigs a telepathic synthesizer to communicate with the creature. At first, it claims the Space Pewts came to Earth to as refugees and that they just want to be our friends. But then the Doctor learns the terrible truth. Trapped in his laboratory, the Doctor and his UNIT friends have to race to save the United Kingdom from a very peculiar invasion.
Attack of the Space Pets is available to download as a free PDF download which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader. |
The Doctor Who Project will be holding a YEAR-END SALE on all available hardcopy versions of the Doctor Who Project Omnibus.
Save 20% OFF when you place orders between December 23, 2023-January 5, 2024.
Available omnibus includes: Season 31, Season 32, Season 33, Season 39.
To order copies of available omnibus, click on the link IN PRINT and then scroll down to the appropriate publication you wish to order. |
| NOV 23/23: 60TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL |
It all began on that dark 23rd of November night back in 1963. A television legend was born.
Now sixty years later, we're about to celebrate sixty years of everyone's favourite Time Lord.
Join THE DOCTOR WHO PROJECT as we celebrate DOCTOR WHO'S 60th ANNIVERSARY with a very special adventure written by Reg Cranfield and Hamish Crawford.
In A MILD CURIOSITY IN A JUNK YARD, 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.
There is someone else aboard, who guides the passengers to a distant planet. There they find a galaxy of fearsome foes gathered, and plans afoot. Who has brought them here and what are their plans?
It is a desperate situation, a situation that needs the Doctor. But the Doctor is nowhere to be found …
THE DOCTOR WHO PROJECT: 60TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL - A MILD CURIOSITY IN A JUNK YARD is available to download as a free PDF download which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader. |
| NOV 23/23: BREAKING NEWS! |
BREAKING NEWS!
We have a big surprise for you!
As part of Doctor Who's 60th Anniversary celebrations, The Doctor Who Project will be releasing the "Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special: A Mild Curiosity In A Junk Yard" today at 6:00 pm Pacific time.
Join us in the celebration today, November 23, 2023 at 6:00 pm Pacific (7:00 pm Mountain, 8:00 pm Central, 9:00 pm Eastern, 2:00 am UK). |
| NOV 18/23: CELEBRATE 60 YEARS OF DOCTOR WHO NEXT WEEKEND |
It all began on that dark 23rd of November night back in 1963. A television legend was born.
Now 60 years later, we're about to celebrate 60 years of everyone's favourite Time Lord.
Join The Doctor Who Project on Saturday November 25 2023 as we celebrate this amazing milestone with our 60th Anniversary Special, "A MILD CURIOSITY IN A JUNK YARD by Reg Cranfield and Hamish Crawford.
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.
There is someone else aboard, who guides the passengers to a distant planet. There they find a galaxy of fearsome foes gathered, and plans afoot. Who has brought them here and what are their plans?
It is a desperate situation, a situation that needs the Doctor. But the Doctor is nowhere to be found …
A MILD CURIOSITY IN A JUNK YARD will be available November 25 to download as a free PDF download which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader.
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| NOV 18/23: SEASON 44 FINALE TODAY! |
It's been a rollercoaster ride of adventures but sadly it's come to the season finale for Season 44.
In a brand new adventure penned by Hamish Crawford, the Season 44 Season Finale - Return To Skaro - sees the Doctor and companion travel back in time to the planet Skaro, home of the Daleks.
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.
Return To Skaro is available now and can be downloaed in a free PDF file which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader. Just click on the story link to the left column, or visit the section of the website. |
| NOV 15/23: SEASON 44 FINALE THIS SATURDAY! |
SEASON 44 CONCLUDES SATURDAY NOVEMBER 18 2023 with...
RETURN TO SKARO By Hamish Crawford
Two hundred years have passed since the Doctor’s first fateful visit to Skaro. Now it is a prosperous and peaceful planet. The Thals have regrown their crops and put the ghosts of the past behind them. They are even launching fledgling satellites into space. The city of their deadliest enemies is sealed off under a forcefield, an ocean and a continent away.
It’s all too good to be true, and the Doctor knows it. The Thals’ finest scientific mind, Arvell, has traces of his people’s warlike nature, and the younger generation are questioning their people’s moral fibre. So when a Thal test rocket crashes in the middle of that dead city, the Doctor is suspicious. Before long, he and Maggie and a group of battle-trained Thal scientists are right in the middle of that city, their worst fears confirmed.
The Daleks are born anew, and this could be the pivotal moment to stop their evil from spreading forever—or else let it lay waste to everything in its path. Once, the Doctor was forced to ask himself if he had that right—now, forces are conspiring to put that question to him again.
RETURN TO SKARO will be available to download as a free PDF download which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader.
Cover by Jack Drewell |
| NOV 11/23: SENSED PRESENCE RELEASED |
| The sixth Season 44 story, SENSED PRESENCE by Nick Krohn is now available to download in a free PDF version which can be read on your PC, laptop, e-Reader and tablet. |
| NOV 8/23: ATTENTION PLEASE! |
ATTENTION PLEASE!
If you have been part of The Doctor Who Project as a writer, editor, artist, designer etc over the past 25 years, and would like to a) have an updated bio, or b) a bio included in the updated & revised TDWP SERIES BIBLE, please send one to us by November 30, 2023. |
| NOV 7/23: SEASON 44 CONTINUES 11-11-23 |
The Doctor Who Project: Season 44 continues SATURDAY NOVEMBER 11 2023 with...
SENSED PRESENCE By Nick Krohn
During a faux séance held by a stage magician beneath a coffee house, the Doctor and Maggie are dragged by a disturbance in the Vortex to make an emergency landing on the campus of Piedmont State University in the American Midwest. They discover a series of catacombs that has become the source of multiple hauntings.
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 involved particle acceleration and manipulation of time. Those primitive experiments misfired all those decades ago and are having profound effects on the present day.
Despite attempts by the university and government agencies to cover up and nullify the effects of the disturbances taking place in the tunnels beneath campus, it is clear that things are spiraling out of control, and they are desperate enough to accept outside help of the kind only the Doctor can provide. Now, the Doctor, Maggie, and their new friends must save the lives of the volunteers who participated in that ill-conceived experiment before their sacrifice threatens not only the present day, but the future as well.
SENSED PRESENCE will be available to download as a free PDF download which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader. |
| NOV 4/23: THE TIMEBASE HAS BEEN FOUND! |
THE DOCTOR WHO PROJECT is excited to reveal that the TIMEBASE has been found and now you the readers can discover this exciting new story by Daniel Tessier, Hamish Crawford & Meg MacDonald featuring the Eleventh Doctor and Maggie Weitz.
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?
TIMEBASE is available to download as a free PDF download which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader. |
| NOV 1/23: READ THE TIMEBASE STORY EXCERPT |
The Doctor Who Project is pleased to share with you the Prologue from the forthcoming story “Timebase” by Daniel Tessier, Hamish Crawford & Meg MacDonald.
Part of TDWP Season 44, “Timebase” is the fifth story of the season and features the Doctor and companion Maggie Weitz.
You can read the excerpt from "Timebase" by visiting the The Doctor Who Project Blog here |
| OCT 31/23: SEASON 44 CONTINUES NOV 4/23 WITH... |
Season 44 continues this Saturday November 4th with TIMEBASE, an all new story by Daniel Tessier, Hamish Crawford & Meg MacDonald.
The Timebase Project was launched in the sixty-fourth century. Or was it the twenty-seventh? Or was it the work of Colin Bathersby, a shop assistant at the Pelbridge Shopping Complex in 2013?
According to the Doctor, the Timebase—a military station grounded in the vortex—should never have existed at any time. But, in the course of trying to get his new friend Simon home, he has ended up inside the Timebase, and finds that Professor Camille Avalea and her crew are losing their grips on their real lives. Within a few hours of their arrival, the TARDIS crew are becoming part of this same insidious web—and when Simon is abducted by invaders to the station, Maggie can barely remember he was there.
Avalea must retain control of the Timebase, and fend off the attacks of Commander Mordecai, who leads a ragtag band of humans on a time-ravaged planet and wants to use the Timebase to regain the lives that have been erased from time altogether. With the TARDIS itself affected by the station, and history contorting and collapsing itself around its existence, can the Doctor reset time, undo the damage, and ensure the crew and the Commander are not written out of history in the process?
TIMEBASE will be available to download as a free PDF download which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader. |
| OCT 28/23: M.O.A.B. OUT NOW! |
| M.O.A.B. by Rachel Redhead, the fourth story of SEASON 44 has now been released and can be download for free in a downloadable PDF file that can be read on your PC, Laptop, eReader or tablet. |
| OCT 25/23: MOAB STORY EXCERPT |
This week The Doctor Who Project presents a short extract from the fourth story of Season 44, M.O.A.B. by Rachel Redhead. The full story will be released on October 28th and will be in a free downloadable PDF document which can be read on most reading devices.
You can read the excerpt here. |
| OCT 21/23: COMING UP NEXT ON BBC-1 |
Coming up next on BBC-1 is a new adventure for the Doctor and his companions Maggie and Kaylaar in HOMEWARD by Hamish Crawford & Bob Furnell.
The Doctor's companion Kaylaar, is taking a turn for the worse and 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.
HOMEWARD is available to download as a free PDF download which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader. |
| OCT 19/23: SEASON 44 STORY 3 DEBUTS SATURDAY |
Season 44 continues this Saturday, October 21st with the third story, HOMEWARD by Hamish Crawford & Bob Furnell.
Kaylaar has been haunted by visions of the Koilaran Great Prophet, Katlannu. Unable to explain the visions, the Doctor reluctantly agrees to return his friend home to Koilara. There, they find unrest and disquiet. Koilara’s insular culture means visitors from other worlds are treated with outright hostility, and their two peoples, the Pryanni and the Frenazzi, have grown distrustful and resentful of each other. The planet’s ruling Prelatory Triumvirate bicker among themselves. They suspect Kaylaar of abandoning their principles. And other Frenazzi are having the same visions as Kaylaar—and the rulers accuse these victims of making trouble.
When Kaylaar escapes and follow Katlannu’s commands to journey to the forbidden tunnels beneath their city, Maggie must follow her friend into the unknown and the Doctor must unlock the purpose of Katlannu’s messages. The search for answers will cause the Doctor to question his own certainties, and Kaylaar to reconsider the importance of faith.
HOMEWARD will be available to download as a free PDF download which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader. |
| OCT 14/23: NEXT ON BBC-1... |
Next on BBC-1 is a new adventure for the Doctor and his companions Maggie and Kaylaar in THE EVIL by Matt Tovey.
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…
THE EVIL is available to download as a free PDF download which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader. |
| OCT 11/23: THE EVIL DEBUTS OCTOBER 14 |
SEASON 44 CONTINUES SATURDAY OCTOBER 14 2023
with
THE EVIL
BY Matt Tovey
The University of East Essex. Affluent, modern, and well regarded. A great place to study. Except of course for the deaths. There are students who graduate. There are students who drop out. And then there are students who die. Horribly, frequently and in inexplicable circumstances. The only link? A strange man dressed in a smart black suit. Yet while blood flows freely all around them, those on campus go on as if all is right in the world…
September 2022: Jess Klebitz is not fooled. She is not sucked in by the illusion of normality. She alone sees what others cannot. Profoundly deaf from the earliest age, Jess is resolute. She will not be cowed. She will not submit. She will stand her ground. And if – if – the opportunity arises…she will fight back.
April 2023: Arriving on campus, the Doctor, Maggie and Kaylaar come under immediate attack from forces unknown. Battling through physical and emotional hardships that push them to their very limits, the trio must find a way to bring the age-old killing spree to a final end….
THE EVIL will be available to download as a free PDF download which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader. |
| OCT 7/23: SEASON 44 STARTS NOW! |
SEASON 44 begins today with the season premiere story THE HORROR OF COUNT WAMPYR by Hamish Crawford.
TDWP stories are free and available in a PDF download which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader.
Join the Doctor, Kaylaar and Maggie in this new exciting adventure. |
| OCT 4/23: THE HORROR OF COUNT WAMPYR STORY EXCERT RELEASED |
| THE DOCTOR WHO PROJECT today released an exclusive excerpt from the Season 44 season premiere story, THE HORROR OF COUNT WAMPYR by Hamish Crawford as a short teaser for the forthcoming story. Fans of TDWP can check out the excerpt on the TDWP BLOG at www.thedoctorwhoproject.wordpress.com. |
| OCT 2/23: SEASON 44 DEBUT: THE HORROR OF COUNT WAMPYR |
THE DOCTOR WHO PROJECT SEASON 44
DEBUTS
SATURDAY OCTOBER 7 2023
WITH
THE HORROR OF COUNT WAMPYR
BY Hamish Crawford
It is 1933, and the Doctor has taken Maggie and Kaylaar to New York’s legendary Stork Club to enjoy the repeal of Prohibition and take in a show. But their holiday is interrupted by a grisly attack on a chorus girl, leaving two bite marks on her neck.
This event carries a sinister connection to Aubrey Warner, who has recently travelled to Greece on an archaeological expedition, and returned with a strange illness. Warner’s mentor, Professor Erasmus, assures his family and his fiancée Juliet Gleeson that there is nothing to fear. But they have even less reason to take the Professor’s word when they meet the mysterious Count Wampyr.
At this stage it goes without saying that vampires are abroad in the Big Apple, and the not-so-legendary Wampyr intends to lead them back from the (Un)dead. But someone from another time is aiding the Count’s foul resurrection, and this could give him the advantage he needs to win a final victory against the Time Lords.
THE HORROR OF COUNT WAMPYR will be available to download as a free PDF download which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader.
THE DOCTOR WHO PROJECT
www.thedoctorwhoproject.com
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| SEP 30/23: STORY ADDED TO SEASON 44 |
We have some exciting news to reveal to readers. We've added an eighth story to the Season 44 lineup.
As originally planned, Season 44 was to feature six stories along with a seventh in the form of the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special. The season would conclude on November 11th with Nick Krohn's Sensed Presence which would be followed by the Anniversary Special two weeks later on November 25th.
Instead of the original two week break between stories, the break will now be filled with a new adventure Return To Skaro featuring those menacing pepperpots, the Daleks, penned by TDWP Editor, Hamish Crawford.
Season 44 will still begin on October 7 but the story order will now be: The Horror of Count Wampyr; The Evil; Homeward, M.O.A.B.; Timebase, Sensed Presence; Return To Skaro and conclude with The Doctor Who 60th Annivesary Special: A Mild Curiosity In A Junk Yard. |
| SEP 30/23: SEASON 44 BEGINS OCTOBER 7 |
DON'T FORGET
An all new season of adventures begins Saturday October 7 2023 with The Horror of Count Wampyr by Hamish Crawford. |
| SEP 12/23: ADDITIONAL SEASON 44 STORY DETAILS |
The Doctor Who Project is finally able to reveal details about the Season 44 Season Finale and The Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special
The season will conclude November 11th with an all new adventure by Nick Krohn entitled Sensed Presence.
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.
There will be a short two-week break and on November 25th we'll present a very special story celebrating 60 Years of Doctor Who with A Mild Curiosity In A Junkyard. The anniversary special is penned by Reg Cranfield and Hamish Crawford.
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.
Season 44 will be followed in early 2024 Season 45. |
| AUG 26/23: LATEST BRIEF ENCOUNTER STORY RELEASED |
| Our latest Brief Encounter story The Snow Woman has now been published and available in a free downloadable PDF which can be read on your PC, laptop, e-Reader and tablet. Download your copy today! |
| AUG 21/23: NEW BRIEF ENCOUNTER AUGUST 26, 2023 |
Debuting Saturday August 26, 2023 will be a brand new Brief Encounter story The Snow Woman by Blazej Szpakowicz.
This story features the Second Doctor and companion Jamie McCrimmon. It’s medieval Japan. Haru’s sleepy little village is under siege by the legendary Yuki no Onna, the incarnate spirit of winter—even though it should be the height of summer. Is the scruffy little man from the strange blue temple really their only hope?
The Snow Woman will be available in a free PDF download which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader. |
| AUG 15/23: SEASON 44 STORY DETAILS |
As previously announced, the season will begin October 7 and will consist of 6 stories followed by the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special. The first three stories will feature the Eleventh Doctor and companions Maggie and Kaylaar, who departs in the third story. The remaining three stories and the special will feature the Doctor and Maggie.
Details regarding the season finale (Sensed Presence) and the anniversary special (A Mild Curiosity In A Junk Yard) are being kept underwraps for the time being.
Details about the season are…
Story One: THE HORROR OF COUNT WAMPYR written by Hamish Crawford
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?
Story Two: THE EVIL written by Matt Tovey
“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…
Story Three: HOMEWARD written by Hamish Crawford & Bob Furnell
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.
Story Four: M.O.A.B. written by Rachel Redhead
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.
Story Five: TIMEBASE written by Daniel Tessier, Meg MacDonald & Hamish Crawford
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?
Story Six: SENSED PRESENCE written by Nick Krohn
The exciting season 44 finale.
Story Seven: DOCTOR WHO 60TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL: A MILD CURIOSITY IN A JUNK YARD written by Reg Cranfield & Hamish Crawford
Celebrating 60 years of Doctor Who |
| AUG 5/23: FROZEN ASSETS NOW AVAILABLE |
Our next exciting Brief Encounters story, Frozen Assets by James Kyle is released today.
It is shortly after the TARDIS has left the Great Fire of London, and Adric is only feeling more dejected and isolated from his fellow travelers. Arriving on an ice planet, the Doctor decides to take Adric’s mind off his malaise by investigating a secret tunnel. Before long, they are trapped inside and at the mercy of not one but two of the Doctor’s deadliest foes, working together to pull off an unlikely heist. Meanwhile, Nyssa and Tegan attempt to move the TARDIS to help them but only fall afoul of other visitors to this world.
You can now download Frozen Assets in a free PDF download which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader. |
| AUG 1/23: FROZEN ASSETS: A NEW BRIEF ENCOUNTER ADVENTURE |
Debuting August 5 is an all new Brief Encounters adventure from James Kyle entitled Frozen Assets. This all new story features the Fifth Doctor along with companions Adric, Nyssa and Tegan.
It is shortly after the TARDIS has left the Great Fire of London, and Adric is only feeling more dejected and isolated from his fellow travellers. Arriving on an ice planet, the Doctor decides to take Adric’s mind off his malaise by investigating a secret tunnel. Before long, they are trapped inside and at the mercy of not one but two of the Doctor’s deadliest foes, working together to pull off an unlikely heist. Meanwhile, Nyssa and Tegan attempt to move the TARDIS to help them but only fall afoul of other visitors to this world.
Frozen Assets is available to download in a free PDF download which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader. |
| JUL 28/23: SEASON 44 RUNNING ORDER REVEALED |
Yesterday, the TDWP Editorial Board revealed the start date for Season 44 and today we can share with our readers the running order for all six Season 44 adventures. We can also now reveal that TDWP will be celebrating Doctor Who’s 60th Anniversary with a special 60th Anniversary story, A Mild Curiosity In A Junk Yard.
The season will run as follows:
OCTOBER 7, 2023
STORY ONE: THE HORROR OF COUNT WAMPYR by Hamish Crawford
OCTOBER 14, 2023
STORY TWO: THE EVIL by Matt Tovey
OCTOBER 21, 2023
STORY THREE: HOMEWARD by Hamish Crawford & Bob Furnell
OCTOBER 28, 2023
STORY FOUR: M.O.A.B. by Rachel Redhead
NOVEMBER 4, 2023
STORY FIVE: TIMEBASE by Daniel Tessier, Meg MacDonald & Hamish Crawford
NOVEMBER 11, 2023
STORY SIX: SENSED PRESENCE by Nick Krohn
There will be a short two-week break after Sensed Presence to be followed by the 60TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL on November 25, 2023.
M.O.A.B. is Rachel Redhead’s first story for The Doctor Who Project, while the name of Meg MacDonald may be familiar to TDWP readers as Meg regularly posted original fiction as “Bunny In The TARDIS” in the Fiction section of the Gallifrey Base forum. This is also Meg’s first time contributing to TDWP.
Hamish Crawford and Matt Tovey return following on from their Season 43 contributons, while Homeward is Bob Furnell’s first contribution since 2009 with Questions in Season 35. Daniel Tessier returns to TDWP and this is his first story since his Brief Encounter, The Fossilist (with James P. Quick) in 2018 and Nick Krohn last contributed to TDWP in 2020 with Terror In Timberland in Season 42. |
| JUL 27/23: EXCITING NEWS! |
We have some exciting news for TDWP fans.
Season 44 release dates have now been confirmed!
Yes, you read right. The TDWP Editorial Board confirmed today that Season 44 will debut October 7th with The Horror of Count Wampyr by Hamish Crawford followed by five further releases each Saturday. The season will conclude on November 11th.
Then after a two-week break the Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Special: A Mild Curiousity In A Junkyard will be released on November 25th.
The Editorial Board also confirmed that this season will be followed by Season 45, which will likely see release in January or February 2024.
Further news on Season 44, and 45, is expected to be revealed in the coming days. |
| JUN 24/23: THE FURY HAS BEEN UNCHAINED |
"The fury has been unchained."
Re-discovered in early 2023, Fury Unchained this previously believed lost TDWP story finally sees the light of day. Written by longtime TDWP contributor John Swogger, Fury has been stored on a CD-RW disc for over 20 years, lost and almost forgotten about. But now, TDWP fans finally get to enjoy this new story.
Once, rigs like Rig Delta Seven One could be found all over the northern expanses of the Pacific Ocean, drilling for oil and lining the pockets of the Delta Petroleum company. In these more enlightened times, they sit empty and purposeless, to be carefully decommissioned by Professor Caroline McAllistie and her team of experts so they can do more damage. Caroline believes her greatest challenges are from her corporate-minded colleague Leo Kwouk, who would prefer the rig to be swallowed into the sea and who fears the reprisals of the extreme environmentalist organizations in the area.
But then Caroline finds the body of a fisherman, his flesh enveloped in seaweed and apparently merging with it to create a new and terrifying lifeform. Also on the scene is a mysterious beachcomber called the Doctor.
The Doctor has come prepared. He knows this seaweed is a manifestation of a foe he defeated long ago—but whose origin and purpose he has come to understand more deeply in the intervening lifetimes. However, another malefactor lurks in the background, who intends to unleash the Fury purely to enjoy the chaos it will wreak on Earth.
Fury Unchained can be downloaded as a FREE PDF which can be read on your PC, laptop, e-Reader and/or tablet.
This story features the Seventh Doctor in the sequel to "Fury From The Deep". |
As many of our readers are aware, 2024 will see The Doctor Who Project celebrate it’s twenty-fifth year publishing original fan written Doctor Who adventures. Plans for the season continue to develop and so far we have lined up five new stories as part of the Anniversary Season.
Season 45 is scheduled for publication in early 2024.
A typical TDWP ‘season’ has usually consisted of six stories and with only five stories lined up so far for the season, we’d really like to continue the tradition of featuring six.
With this in mind, we’re letting writers know we’re on the hunt for one more story.
The first draft deadline will be sometime in mid-September 2023.
The only requirements for the story is that it features the current TARDIS team of the Eleventh Doctor and Maggie.
If you’re interested in contributing to the season, please contact us at thedoctorwhoproject@shaw.ca.
So come on all you Doctor Who writers, we’d love to hear from you. |
| MAY 30/23: AVAILABLE JUNE 1 2023 |
Available June 1, 2023
The Doctor Who Project Season 33 Omnibus
Tamara’s dead, Taryn’s gone, and Grae’s about to succumb to the dark side. There is an ancient evil stirring in the shadows, but can the Doctor save Grae before it’s too late? And is it really time Grae decided to branch out on her own?
Travelling solo, the Doctor makes a quick trip to renaissance Italy and revisits the pyramids on Mars before he meets Rachel Silverstein who will soon join him on his travels. Unfortunately, their time together will be short before the Doctor is forced into a battle that he cannot win.
Join us for another season of exciting adventures in this all-new volume that brings all eleven Season 33 stories in one single collection together for the first time.
The omnibus will only be available to order via a special order link. To order a copy please visit the IN PRINT page on the TDWP Blog. |
| MAY 20/23: THE SECRET OF ARABELLE RELEASED |
Our latest Brief Encounter story, The Secret of Arabelle by Michael Baxter has now been released.
The story can be downloaded as a FREE PDF which can be read on your PC, laptop, e-Reader and/or tablet. |
| MAY 16/23: SOMETHING'S COMING! |
SOMETHING'S COMING
Something nasty.
Something that's been lurking in the darkness since the dawn of time.
Something evil.
Something from the fury from the deep.
Beware!
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| MAY 12/23: COMING MAY 20 - THE SECRET OF ARABELLE |
Debuting Saturday May 20 is an all new Brief Encounters adventure The Secret of Arabelle from the pen of Michael Baxter.
In this First Doctor adventure, The TARDIS materialises in a crowded marketplace. The Doctor, John and Gillian wander round the stalls. Gillian sees an item she likes on a jewellery stall and goes to find her grandfather, hoping he will buy it for her. When the travellers arrive at the stall a different vendor is selling lengths of cloth and there is no sign of any jewellery. A fanfare sounds and a jolly-faced, portly man arrives on the scene. This is King Salter, ruler of the kingdom of Arabelle, who invites the TARDIS crew to a sumptuous feast in his castle. Strangely, the food turns out to have no taste. The Queen is a proud, haughty woman who is plotting with the King’s nephew, Basil of Cruett. Then, alarmingly, the dining hall slips out of focus. When it clarifies, the Queen has become a pleasant, homely little woman and Basil no longer exists. The Doctor suddenly realises where they are and what is inevitably going to happen. Can they reach the TARDIS before Arabelle ceases to exist?
The Secret of Arabelle will be available to downloaded as a FREE PDF which can be read on your PC, laptop, e-Reader and/or tablet.
Keep tuned to our website for further updates and information. |
| MAY 9/23: TDWP IS LOOKING FOR WRITERS |
The Doctor Who Project is currently looking for writers to submit story ideas for original Doctor Who short-stories for one of our two story ranges – The Eleventh Doctor Adventures & Brief Encounters.
The Eleventh Doctor Adventures centers on the continuing adventures of the Eleventh Doctor and his current travelling companion Maggie Weitz, while Brief Encounters feature TV Doctors 1-7.
TDWP is a group of fan writers, artists, and editors who work together to bring an original collection of Doctor Who fiction for the reading enjoyment of fellow fans. Stories are based on the original 1963-89 television series. Stories are published in free downloadable PDF documents in a novel-like layout along with specially designed covers. Our fiction is published and written by fans for fans.
If you’d like to submit a story idea, or get a copy of our Submission Guidelines, we’d love to hear from you.
Email TDWP at: thedoctorwhoproject@shaw.ca. |
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