Author | Simon Guerrier |
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Series | Doctor Who book: Big Finish Short Trips |
Release number | 15 |
Publisher | Big Finish Productions |
Publication date | December 2005 |
ISBN | 1-84435-149-1 |
Preceded by | Short Trips: The Solar System |
Followed by | Short Trips: Farewells |
Short Trips: The History of Christmas is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Simon Guerrier and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who . It is the second Christmas anthology released under the Short Trips title.
Title | Author | Doctor | Featuring |
The Lampblack Wars | Matthew Sweet | 3rd | Sarah |
Home Fires | Jonathan Blum | 6th | None |
The Feast | Stewart Sheargold | 2nd | Ben and Polly |
Rome | Marcus Flavin | 5th | Tegan and Turlough |
Set in Stone | Charles Auchterlonie and John Isles | 1st | Ian and Barbara |
The Thousand Years of Christmas | Simon Bucher-Jones | 3rd | Jo |
Presence | Peter Anghelides | 7th | Ace and Hex |
Danse Macabre | Joff Brown | 3rd | None |
The Church of Saint Sebastian | Robert Smith | 5th | Nyssa |
The Prodigal Sun | Matthew Griffiths | 4th | Leela |
Be Good For Goodness's Sake | Samantha Baker | 8th | None |
Ode to Joy | Jonathan Clements | 4th | None |
Nobody's Gift | Kate Orman | 7th | None |
The Innocents | Marc Platt | unbound Doctor | Susan |
Comforts of Home | Pete Kempshall | 5th | Turlough |
Christmas on the Moon | Simon Guerrier | 6th | Evelyn |
The Anchorite's Echo | Scott Andrews | 7th | Ace |
The Revolutionaries | John S. Drew | 2nd | Jamie |
The Gift | Robert Dick | 1st | Susan |
Callahuanca | Richard Salter | 4th | None |
Not in My Back Yard | Eddie Robson | 8th | None |
She Won't Be Home | Joseph Lidster | 6th | None |
Saint Nicholas's Bones | Xanna Eve Chown | 2nd | Jamie and Victoria |
The Long Midwinter | Philip Purser-Hallard | 8th | Samson and Gemma |
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