'Once and Future': 1: 'Past Lives' (1 Part) by Robert Valentine |
The Time War. The Doctor has been injured and brought to a Time Lord field hospital. His body glows with energy, but this is no regeneration into a future form – instead, the Doctor’s past faces begin to appear as he flits haphazardly between incarnations…
Staggering to his TARDIS, the Doctor sets out to solve the mystery of his ‘degeneration’. Who has done this to him? How? And why? From the Earth to the stars, across an array of familiar times and places, he follows clues to retrace his steps, encountering old friends and enemies along the way. Tumbling through his lives, the Doctor must stop his degeneration before he loses himself completely...
Settling as his Fourth incarnation, the Doctor goes in search of the Monk, with a vague memory that he had something to do with his ‘degeneration’.
On Earth, the Monk is meddling, bringing Sarah Jane Smith to the future UNIT HQ to steal a device for an alien race. The Doctor must help Kate Stewart and Osgood foil an invasion before he can confront the Monk about what he knows…
Tom Baker (The Fourth Doctor), Sadie Miller (Sarah Jane Smith), Jemma Redgrave (Kate Lethbridge-Stewart), Ingrid Oliver (Petronella Osgood),
Rufus Hound (The Monk), Ewan Bailey (‘Mr Mallory’ / Galavaunt / Baravoar), Dan Starkey (Field Surgeon / Black Market Merchant), Stephen Noonan (The First Doctor), Michael Troughton (The Second Doctor), Tim Treloar (The Third Doctor), Peter Davison (The Fifth Doctor), Colin Baker (The Sixth Doctor), Sylvester McCoy (The Seventh Doctor)
Directed by Helen Goldwyn
Release Date:
May 2023
Notes:
*Featuring the Doctor, Sarah, Kate Stewart, Osgood and UNIT
*A Big Finish audio adventure
*I have only listed this story in the Eighth Doctor's timeline, because he is technically still in that incarnation throughout events, just 'degenerated' into a different physical form; I've placed it after the previous crossover event, 'Time Lord Victorious'