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The Doctor Who Project (TDWP)
is the multiple award winning Canadian Doctor Who
fiction series based on the long-running BBC science-fiction
television series “Doctor Who”. TDWP centers
on the continuing adventures of an alternate Doctor
and his companions. Stories are published as part
of an overall season that concentrates on delivering
a collection of short stories that sees the Doctor
facing new and original situations in time and space.
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| MAR 21/26: 7 DAYS AND COUNTING! |
The launch of Doctor Who Project Season 46 is getting nearer as we speak. This season we have lined up six new stories as well as a Brief Encounters prequel. This is another year of excitement and adventure for fans of TDWP as the Doctor and Maggie travel throughout time and space. And, along the way, they meet a new ‘friend’ the Chief Justiciar of the Huxley Union, Xaul Gertiaars.
The season begins on Saturday, March 28, with the prequel to the season, Jack of All Trades by Hamish Crawford with Matt Tovey. The official plot description reads:
The Huxley Union is a brutal place, and Chief Justiciar Xaul Gertiaars is one of its most formidable figures. Now she has her sights on an audacious criminal who has retrieved one of the Union’s most jealously guarded secrets: the possibility that the Union’s harsh totalitarian society is the result of a malign alien spacecraft beached in a nearby nebula.
Finding a petty thief to aid him, the criminal makes his way to the spacecraft, reckoning its secrets will be child’s play for someone of his caliber. But he has not reckoned on the consciousness still alive within the ship, and its power: it can delve into the mind, and reveal to him that he may be a jack of all trades … but a Master of none.
With secrets buried in a nebula, a mysterious alien intelligence, and the looming presence of the Huxley Union’s iron hand, Jack of All Trades promises to be an intriguing lead-in to the events of Season 46.
Following on from this story, Season 46 officially begins on April 18 with, Either/Or by Hamish Crawford with Matt Tovey.
The Time Lords have detected one of the mysterious Lifeships, adrift and apparently unoccupied in a nebula near the Huxley Union. One of their number, the youthful and impetuous Waiter, goes to investigate in the hope of getting revenge on the Doctor. Meanwhile, on one of the Union’s frontier worlds, the Doctor is deep in the thick of things, teaming up with Chief Justiciar Xaul Gertiaars discover the truth behind the Union’s corrupt totalitarian rule.
Meanwhile, in Revelstoke in 2000, Maggie Weitz is taking a break from her travels, but gets an unusual message from the Waiter …
Or does she?
Time is in flux, causing alternative possibilities and outcomes. Unless one course of cause and effect follows, the connections between events in the present and the future will remain opaque; the Doctor and Maggie could end up separated forever; and justice will not come to Hux’s three Emperors.
Only you, the reader, can choose the path of the adventure and help the Doctor. The universe depends on it.
The season then continues every Saturday for the next five weeks.
The second story of the season on April 25 is Wolf On The Fold by Hamish Crawford and sees the return of Count Wampyr from Season 45 who has teamed up with a foe from the Doctor’s past.
The Doctor and Maggie are enjoying a lull in their usual life of peril. Indeed, their only complaint is their new travelling companion, former Chief Justiciar of the Huxley Union Xaul Gertiaars. Their relaxation ends abruptly when the Doctor’s old friend Lord Byron rides into town.
Byron is on the trail of a disgraced classmate, driven by despair and failure to dabble in dark forces. The Doctor and Maggie team up with the literary legend to uncover the truth. Meanwhile, Xaul stumbles upon a lair of otherworldly creatures, only to be rescued by a wandering count with suspiciously sharp teeth …
Count Wampyr, though, is not the only adversary of the Doctor’s abroad on the moonlit nights around Lake Geneva. There are ferocious beasts out for the Time Lord’s blood—and to get their revenge, they are prepared to twist the timelines and bend coincidence to their will, and leave their foul mark on all human history.
The third story is, The Spaceship and the Witch by Matt Tovey debuts May 2.
A strange woman begins visiting Edgyvyll, and the baker’s son Springyyt is fascinated by her…following her home through the mountains, he meets her grandfather and is introduced to the magical statue they are guarding. Later, he meets the terrible creature they are guarding it from…
The Doctor, Maggie and Xaul arrive in a spaceport under siege from a merciless looter known only as V-SOL14…escorted to safety, Xaul is treated to a terrifying glimpse of her own future. But what connects these events? Can the Doctor restore order? And can a life, at last, be made right?
Will the Doctor discover who the mysterious visitors?
May 9 sees the debut of In Steel We Trust by Luke McCaffery-Parry. This is the first story Luke has contributed to TDWP and we know our readers are going to be knocked out by this exciting adventure.
The Doctor and Maggie arrive on Caldera — a remote planet where the wreckage of the Cyber-Wars has been buried and forgotten. Towers of twisted metal rise like tombstones, and the only signs of life are the android labourers who dismantle the past… and the bitter human Controller who oversees them.
But something is stirring beneath the surface. The Doctor suspects a hidden signal — a pulse buried deep in the planet’s core. As Maggie befriends a curious android named Four, tensions rise, revealing deep cracks in Caldera’s uneasy peace.
In the shadows of a cathedral forged from the ruins of war, an old threat begins to awaken — not just rebuilt, but reimagined. And as the countdown to Caldera’s final destruction begins, the Doctor must uncover the truth behind the myths… before a forgotten empire rises again.
The fifth story of the season follows on May 15 with The Disciples of Xyosis by Peter Crew.
Having foreseen disaster in a terrifying vision, the Doctor diverts his course and lands in East London, determined to prevent a catastrophe. But what is the source behind the pervading sense of uneasiness which can be felt everywhere? Who are the mysterious monks standing discretely at street corners? And why are so many deaths being dismissed as tragic accidents? As the Doctor heads for the morgue, Maggie walks right into the heart of danger where she sees an evil entity manifesting.
Peter may be familiar with those of you who read his 2024 Brief Encounter story, The Technology Thieves. Disciples is Peter’s first story for the main range.
The season concludes May 22 with Coffee, Croissants and Cosmic Chaos by TDWP range editor Bob Furnell.
The TARDIS lands the Doctor and Maggie in early twentieth century Paris. The glittering streets and shadowed rooftops of Paris, a subtle alien network threatens the city in ways no one can see. The Doctor and his companion Maggie must navigate violet threads of energy, strange crystals, and a foe that learns faster than they can anticipate. Into this web steps a young Arsène Lupin, the audacious gentleman thief, whose charm and improvisation may be their greatest weapon—or their greatest risk. As the stakes escalate, the trio engages in a high-stakes duel of wits, blending logic, intuition, and flair in a battle against time itself. Will their combined genius be enough to outsmart a calculating intelligence beyond the stars? Or will Paris pay the price for their audacious adventure?
Season 46 promises to be another season of exciting adventures.
As per past seasons, each story will be available in free downloadable PDF files which can be read on your PC, laptop, tablet or e-Reader.
So remember to mark March 28 in your calendars as that’s when the fun begins.
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The Doctor Who Project (aka TDWP) began life in late 1998 when several members of the then fan group TASC (Telefantasy Appreciation Society of Canada) were discussing the fact that Doctor Who was no longer on television. This group of fans joked about what the show would be like if they were in the producers chair and in charge of making the series. This was supposed to be just a bit of fun, but one of the members, Bob Furnell, asked “why couldn’t we do our own version of the series?” From there Bob explained he had discovered an online fiction series based on the recently cancelled series “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman”, where a group of fans had got together and wrote a fifth season of the series tying up all the loose ends from the previous season. Bob noted that a lot of these stories were quite good and if this idea worked for a group of “Lois & Clark” fans, why couldn’t it work for “Doctor Who”? This got everyone to thinking and they agreed that this might be the sort of project TASC might like to try out.
Four initial questions were asked…
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What if Doctor Who had never been cancelled in 1989?
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What if Seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) hadn’t regenerated into the Eighth Doctor (Paul McGann) in 1996?
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What if the series was still in production today?
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What would we do if we produced the series?
The answers that came from those four questions proved to be quite interesting, and it was at this point that the group decided to launch a fictional version of the television series. The Doctor Who Project was born. From there, Bob and fellow TASC member Misha Lauenstein laid down the initial guidelines for the fledgling new fiction series.
Over the next several weeks, the group (consisting of Bonnie Gale, Terry Baker, Pat Burt, and Jay Demetrick) along with Bob and Misha discussed ideas that would form the basis for this new fiction series.
Progress was slow and sadly the group couldn’t come to any sort of mutual agreement on the project, and as a result, Bob and Misha took matters into their own hands. Together Bob and Misha formulated that the first season of adventures would consist of 6 original stories penned by various Doctor Who fan writers. The stories would be published in Word format and would be emailed out to subscribers weekly over a period of six weeks. The series would use the Seventh Doctor, as played by Sylvester McCoy, for the series first two stories, after which the Seventh Doctor would regenerate into the projects very own Eighth Doctor who would be played by a fictional actor by the name of Jeremy Banks-Walker. The first story of the season would see the return of the Silurians along with the Seventh Doctor encountering former assistant Elizabeth Shaw, who would accompany the Doctor during for the first three stories. For the remainder of the season, writers were asked to create a one-off companion to be featured in their story; each character had the potential of eventually becoming the full-time companion of the Eighth Doctor. The first story would be published in January 1999.
The rest as they say is history.
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TDWP has always been about originality and remaining true to the spirit of the original television series. We have always strived to be innovative and original. As we published each new season of stories, the editors, and writers, improved at their craft. Editorial comments were made on each story asking for selected changes, and together the editor and writer drafted the best story possible. Every one of our writers is committed to their craft, producing stories of up to 40,000 words. As each season was published, the writers grew, and today we produce quality original fiction. Obviously we must be doing something right as we have been the recipients of no less than 6 MediaWest FANQ awards including: "Best Doctor Who Story (General)" three times, "Best Doctor Who Fanzine (General)"; twice" and "Best Doctor Who Artist".
Our writers include some of Doctor Who fandom's best: Arnold T. Blumberg (Howe's Transcendental Toybox), Will Hadcroft (Anne Droyd and Century Lodge, The Feeling's Mutual), Kyle Bastian, Jodie van de Wetering (ABC Television), John Gordon Swogger (The Goddess & The Bull), Tim Jones, Duncan Johnson, and numerous others...
For full details on our range of exciting adventures, please visit one of the links at the top of this web page.
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