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These stories were all written before the 1996 film starring Paul McGann, and therefore some feature an "alternate universe" Eighth Doctor. There seemed little point in trying to rewrite them for a different Doctor following the film, so I left them as they were. Despite the general misgivings about the plot of the TVM, we all seem to be in agreement that the official eighth Doctor was very good, so I apologise for sidelining him, but these were all written for a fanzine in the years when there was considerable doubt that there would ever be "New Who". And now, of course, there is Even More New Who! Which makes these stories even more of an anachronism, really. I include them now solely for nostalgic reasons, as I wrote them when I was still at school - (so my apologies for some truly awful plotting and grammar). Should any of you care, had the BBC for some reason decided to film an obscure fanzine floating around my school in 1992, the alternate Eighth would have been played by Paul Jones. Largely, I suspect, because he plays a mean harmonica, and was starring in Uncle Jack at the time. And apparently that was popular with a certain group of teenagers in 1992...

In addition, several of these stories do not feature the Doctor. They are a spin-off, based around what might have happened to Mike Yates after his last real appearance on the show, back in Planet Of The Spiders.