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| OCT 13/26: THE DOCTOR WHO PROJECT REVEALS STORY DETAILS FOR SEASON 47! |
The countdown is on! With Season 47 of The Doctor Who Project set to launch on October 24, 2026, we're delighted to reveal the latest details of the adventures awaiting the Doctor, Maggie Weitz and their newest travelling companion, Azrael!
The TARDIS is almost ready for another journey through time and space, and if the latest story details are anything to go by, readers are in for an exciting few months of adventure, mystery, danger and more than a few surprises!
Season 47 promises a wonderfully varied collection of stories, taking our time travellers from a haunted English castle and a mysterious pocket dimension to an alien society on the brink of collapse, a forgotten Royal Canadian Air Force base and even a Canadian shopping mall at Christmas!
Along the way, there will be old enemies, new adversaries, strange encounters, temporal disturbances, unexpected romance and revelations that could have far-reaching consequences for the Doctor and his companions.
The forthcoming season features eight stories, including two exciting two-part adventures, followed by a special Christmas release, with contributions from Mark Horrocks, Hamish Crawford, Mark Hilton, Matt Tovey and Bob Furnell.
And now, we're pleased to share the full line-up, together with a preview of what readers can expect from each adventure!
THE STONE TAPE THEORY — PART ONE
Written by Mark Horrocks
Release Date: October 24, 2026
Season 47 gets underway with a suitably spooky adventure, arriving just in time for Halloween!
It's Halloween night, 2004, and the Doctor and Maggie arrive in Tamworth after the TARDIS detects a powerful temporal anomaly. Their investigations lead them to the historic Tamworth Castle, where the production team behind the live television programme Ghost: Haunted is preparing for its most ambitious broadcast yet.
What begins as a confrontation between sceptics, television personalities and self-proclaimed psychics soon takes a terrifying turn.
Doors slam without warning, long-dead warriors emerge from the castle's bloody past, and the boundary between history and the present begins to break down. The Doctor quickly realises that these are no ordinary hauntings. Somehow, the very stones of the castle have become entangled with memories of the past, replaying centuries of violence with deadly consequences.
At the centre of the mystery are two spectral women, one seemingly attempting to issue a warning, while the other is awakening in fury.
As the broadcast descends into chaos, psychic Dina Ancona becomes caught up in the increasingly dangerous phenomenon. But when Dina vanishes without a trace, the Doctor faces a disturbing question. It is no longer simply a matter of where she has gone, but when.
A chilling opening adventure that promises supernatural terror, historical mystery and a decidedly unusual explanation for things that go bump in the night!
THE STONE TAPE THEORY — PART TWO
Written by Mark Horrocks
Release Date: October 31, 2026
The Halloween horrors continue as Mark Horrocks brings his two-part adventure to a dramatic conclusion!
Tamworth Castle has become the centre of a temporal nightmare. Ghostly figures walk among the living, Viking warriors storm the grounds, and psychic medium Dina Ancona appears to exist in two places at once.
For the Doctor and Maggie, the situation is becoming increasingly desperate. Time itself is beginning to unravel, and the castle's terrifying history is spilling into the present.
Worse still, Dina has become the unwilling vessel of the mysterious and terrifying Lady in Black.
Deep beneath the castle lies a prisoner who has remained entombed for a thousand years, trapped between moments in time and projecting her suffering through the surrounding earth and stone. Every anguished cry threatens to unleash further destruction.
With the television crew fighting for survival and history itself beginning to fracture, the Doctor must discover the true identity of the so-called witch.
But there is a terrible dilemma. Freeing the prisoner may be the only way to save Dina, yet doing so could tear the very fabric of the universe apart!
AZRAEL
Written by Hamish Crawford
Release Date: November 7, 2026
The season's third instalment places the Doctor and Maggie's mysterious new companion firmly in the spotlight.
Only a few days have passed since the Doctor and Maggie discovered Azrael, and although their new friend appears perfectly amiable, her unusual genetic structure and complete loss of memory remain deeply troubling.
Determined to uncover the truth about her origins, the Doctor investigates a comet that is mysteriously phasing in and out of another dimension. Could this strange pocket reality be Azrael's original home?
Upon exploring the comet, the Doctor discovers a dimension-crossing spacecraft stranded on its surface, apparently with a lone survivor. Unfortunately, the wreck is also surrounded by some decidedly hungry flying creatures!
Back aboard the TARDIS, Maggie and Azrael rescue the apparent survivor, only to discover that their guest is not quite what she seems. Before long, the stranger attempts to hijack the Doctor's ship and abandon him on the dangerous comet.
As Maggie struggles to regain control of the TARDIS, the Doctor attempts to communicate with the strange creatures inhabiting this mysterious dimension. But with danger mounting and questions about Azrael's past remaining unanswered, another unsettling possibility emerges.
Can their newest travelling companion really be trusted?
WHITE WATER
Written by Mark Hilton
Release Date: November 14, 2026
Mark Hilton takes readers to the world of Merus for a thought-provoking adventure involving family, sacrifice and the potentially devastating consequences of a society built upon carefully maintained traditions.
Gann has experienced childhood, adolescence and adulthood, with each stage of his life marked by difficult choices and sacrifices. Like anyone undergoing significant changes, he could certainly benefit from a visit to a good Doctor!
On Merus, two communities, the Merusians and Anzoreans, have developed a longstanding relationship in which each depends upon the other. But the stability of this arrangement comes at a price, and the carefully maintained balance is beginning to collapse.
When the Doctor, Maggie and Azrael become involved with Larra Summers and her family, they discover the disturbing truth behind the systems that have kept Merusian society functioning for generations.
Larra's grandson, Gann, finds himself torn between the expectations of his society and a family he barely knows. Meanwhile, growing tensions between the communities threaten to destroy their fragile coexistence.
As old certainties disappear and conflict threatens both sides of the river, the Doctor must determine whether disaster can still be prevented. And for the Summers family, there is an equally important question. After generations of separation, is reconciliation finally possible?
An intriguing adventure that promises to explore the human consequences of an alien society's traditions and the difficult choices made in the name of stability.
ANCIENT LIGHTS — PART ONE
Written by Matt Tovey
Release Date: November 21, 2026
Reality takes a decidedly bizarre turn in the opening instalment of Matt Tovey's two-part adventure!
When Henry Walker's daughter, Lynsey, suffers a devastating cardiac arrest, her life is changed forever. Deprived of oxygen for too long, she is left with severe brain damage, confined to bed and unable to speak.
Facing the prospect of years of rehabilitation, with little certainty of recovery, Henry becomes desperate to find a way to help his daughter.
His thoughts turn to a strange artefact discovered during his military service, an object containing an interdimensional force known as the Ancient Lights.
The power within the artefact is supposedly capable of reshaping reality according to the wishes of whoever controls it. Despite an earlier warning from the Doctor, Henry decides to take a terrible risk.
When the Doctor, Maggie and Azrael arrive in Maldon, England, they discover the horrifying consequences of his decision.
Cartoon characters are roaming freely among the population, old enemies have returned to revel in the chaos, and the townspeople have been transformed into an assortment of strange and terrifying creatures. But the situation becomes even more alarming when the mutations begin affecting the Doctor and his companions!
With reality itself seemingly rewritten, can the Doctor restore order before the Ancient Lights change everything forever?
ANCIENT LIGHTS — PART TWO
Written by Matt Tovey
Release Date: November 28, 2026
The madness continues as the Doctor, Maggie and Azrael face the increasingly dangerous consequences of the Ancient Lights.
All three time travellers are slowly being transformed by the strange interdimensional force, leaving the Doctor struggling to retain control of both himself and the rapidly deteriorating situation.
His immediate objective is to secure an audience with the highest authority in Maldon, none other than Queen Lynsey herself!
Meanwhile, past and present are colliding in spectacular fashion, with events building towards a confrontation in the ancient Colosseum. And, in true Doctor Who fashion, once simply won't be enough!
As the Doctor and his companions battle to defeat the Ancient Lights and reverse the terrible changes they have unleashed, another obstacle stands in their way.
Henry Walker knows precisely what undoing the transformations will mean for his daughter. And he is prepared to die rather than allow it to happen.
With reality hanging in the balance and a desperate father determined to protect his child at any cost, the Doctor faces a confrontation in which the greatest danger may not be the Ancient Lights themselves.
13:00
Written by Hamish Crawford and Bob Furnell
Release Date: December 5, 2026
A forgotten military installation, a sinister temporal mystery and a deadly threat from the past form the basis of the season's seventh adventure.
Officially, there is no record of the Royal Canadian Air Force base at Pembina Point. Even the Doctor has never heard of it. Yet following a chance remark from Maggie, the TARDIS arrives at the mysterious location.
The base appears to have been abandoned for years, and something is terribly wrong. Time itself seems to have stopped, and the longer the Doctor and his companions remain, the more apparent it becomes that they are being watched by an unseen intelligence.
Then, without warning, time resets.
Maggie finds herself back where she started, completely alone. The Doctor has vanished, while Azrael has somehow become entangled in the historical catastrophe responsible for erasing Pembina Point from the records.
As Maggie desperately searches for her missing friends, Azrael discovers that her unusual abilities are being exploited by their mysterious enemy.
The objective is terrifying: to retrieve a powerful adversary long believed dead, imprisoned beyond rescue within one of nature's most inescapable prisons.
Should this ancient enemy escape, the consequences could spell doom for all creation.
What really happened at Pembina Point? Who is manipulating the Doctor and his companions? And just what terrible force is waiting to be unleashed?
THE MATCHMAKERS
Written by Hamish Crawford
Release Date: December 12, 2026
Romance, intrigue and temporal trickery take centre stage in the final regular adventure of Season 47!
Maggie returns home to Revelstoke for a long-overdue medical examination and is advised to take things easy.
Meanwhile, the Doctor and Azrael are summoned by UNIT to investigate a temporal disturbance near the last known location of Atlantis.
With the Doctor away, Maggie finds herself attending a party where she encounters two intriguing men.
The first is Hank Grenville, someone she knows that, in another life, she married and enjoyed a happy future with.
The second is Grant, a suave and charming stranger who quickly captures her attention.
Before long, Maggie finds herself falling in love, although her happiness causes her to overlook several troubling warning signs. Her knowledge of a possible future with Hank only complicates matters further, especially when an extraordinary run of bad luck seems to accompany their meetings.
Unfortunately, just when Maggie could use some advice from her travelling companions, the Doctor and Azrael disappear!
The Doctor, meanwhile, begins to suspect that his investigation is little more than an elaborate distraction designed to keep him occupied while a far greater danger develops elsewhere.
By the time he uncovers the deception, he is stranded in the distant past, facing the mysterious Premenides and his circle of soothsayers.
With the mysteries of Atlantis linked to both Azrael's past and Maggie's future, the Doctor finds himself caught in an extraordinary adventure involving destiny, romance and the manipulation of time.
And this time, saving the day might depend upon getting to the church on time!
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: FOUR SHOPPING DAYS TO DOOM
Written by Hamish Crawford
Release Date: December 19, 2026
Season 47 concludes with a festive adventure that promises to bring a little extra chaos to the Christmas shopping season!
It's December 1992, and Premenides, the mysterious Atlantean prophet and foreteller of his civilisation's destruction, has escaped to West Edmonton Mall just four days before Christmas.
The TARDIS soon catches up with him, but the Doctor discovers that the prophet possesses far greater powers than previously imagined.
Armed with a mysterious crystal that focuses and amplifies his psychic abilities, Premenides can summon terrifying creatures from the past and unleash them upon unsuspecting Christmas shoppers.
And the prophet is not particularly concerned about the safety of those around him.
Still haunted by his failure to save Atlantis, Premenides sees little reason to spare the lives of ordinary Canadians enjoying their Christmas shopping.
With the mall descending into chaos, the Doctor must join forces with an unlikely collection of allies, including mall employees, a Classics scholar and an assistant goaltender for the Edmonton Oilers!
Together, they face a rampaging Minotaur and something considerably more dangerous.
For Premenides possesses an extraordinary ability: he can create gods that never existed, conjuring them into reality from nothing!
Can the Doctor save Christmas, defeat the Atlantean prophet and prevent West Edmonton Mall from becoming the scene of an unimaginable catastrophe?
It's Christmas shopping as you've never experienced it before!
A SEASON OF MYSTERY, ADVENTURE AND SURPRISES!
From the supernatural mysteries of The Stone Tape Theory to the reality-bending dangers of Ancient Lights, the forgotten secrets of 13:00 and the festive mayhem of Four Shopping Days to Doom, Season 47 looks set to deliver an exciting mixture of classic Doctor Who adventure and fresh storytelling.
There is also plenty to discover about the Doctor's travelling companions. Azrael's mysterious origins promise to become an important part of the season, while Maggie faces challenges that could have profound implications for her own future.
And with old enemies returning, new threats emerging and the boundaries of time and reality repeatedly tested, our intrepid time travellers certainly won't be enjoying a quiet few months!
The Doctor Who Project Season 47 launches Saturday, October 24, 2026, with a new instalment scheduled every Saturday through December 19, 2026.
So mark your calendars, prepare for the return of the TARDIS, and join us for another exciting season of adventures through time and space!
The Doctor Who Project Season 47. The adventure is about to begin! |
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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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