Short Trips: The Centenarian
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| Author | Ian Farrington |
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| Series | Doctor Who book: Big Finish Short Trips |
Release number | 17 |
| Publisher | Big Finish Productions |
Publication date | July 2006 |
| Pages | 292 |
| ISBN | 1-84435-191-2 |
| Preceded by | Short Trips: Farewells |
| Followed by | Short Trips: Time Signature |
Short Trips: The Centenarian is a Big Finish original anthology edited by Ian Farrington and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The collection follows the life of a man, Edward Grainger, from his birth through to his death and explores the history of the twentieth century.
Stories
| Title | Plot | Featuring | Author |
| Prologue | At the birth of Edward Grainger, the Doctor must protect him from a demon that wants to change history by averting his creation, a demon known to the Doctor by another name - the Master. | 8th Doctor, the Master | Joseph Lidster |
| Echoes | It's Christmas in 1911, and five-year-old Edward Grainger and his cousin Helen help the Doctor to track down an alien entity who is composed entirely of sound | 3rd Doctor | Gary Russell |
| Direct Action | It's 1915, and time-travelling film producer Jack Holbine is assigned with the task of documenting the life of Edward Grainger's father, Laurence, now a fighter in the First World War, but his assignment proves unsuccessful. Desperate for information, he sends Laurence on a danger mission to Cape Helles, but when his actions leave Laurence in the gravest of dangers, he joins forces with a man who knows Edward in the past and the future... the Doctor. | 4th Doctor | Ian Mond |
| Dream Devils | At boarding school, Edward is the victim of bullying. To add to his problems, a new teacher arrives claiming to be his old friend the Doctor, and his arrival coincides with the infiltration of shape-shifting carnivores into the school | 3rd Doctor | Glen McCoy |
| Falling from Xi'an | When his army of treasure hunter's are killed by an airplane crash, Edward is once again saved by the Doctor, and finds himself battling his fallen friends - and an army of spirits, in the tomb of Qin Shi Huangdi. But can even the Doctor save him from the might of the dead? | 5th Doctor, Tegan and Turlough | Steven Savile |
| Log 384 | Now working as a spy, Edward recruits the Doctor to help him rescue his lover Mai Ling, who has been captured by Nazis and Japanese scientists. But as they infiltrate a top secret research centre, Edward's finds his toughest battle ever has arrived. | 7th Doctor | Richard Salter |
| The Church of Football | In Wembly 1936, Peri is snatched by an associate of Edward Grainger, and the Doctor discovers his old friend is being hounded by a fellow Time Lord... The course of history is once again under threat, and once again, Edward is at the centre of it. | 5th Doctor, Peri | Benjamin Adams |
| Incongruous Details | It's the height of the Blitz, and Edward Grainger has been sent back to his homeland, on a mission to track down an alien gun-man. Instead, he finds a familiar Time Lord... | 6th Doctor, Emily Chaudhry and Will Hoffman | Simon Guerrier |
| Ancient Whispers | On a mission in West Berlin, Edward discovers his old friend, George Tremayne, is under the spell of the Logos. As a dying Doctor crosses Edward's path, Edward discovers that, for once, he must be the one to save the world, the powerless Doctor and his closest friends, single-handedly. | 3rd Doctor | Brian Willis |
| First Born | It's 1950, and Edward is celebrating the birth of his newborn son. But as the Doctor re-enters his life, an alien entity kidnaps Edward's son and holds him hostage in the TARDIS, determind to create a newborn body for himself... It's a race against time for Edward to save his son, whilst the Doctor faces a challenge in saving his three companions, each struck down by the entity. | 5th Doctor, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan | Lizzie Hopley |
| Dear John | It's Edward's 50th birthday, and the adventurer begins to feel his age, whilst his six-year-old son, John, possesses a teddy bear that can speak, think, and as the Doctor discovers... kill. | 8th Doctor, Samson and Gemma | John Davies |
| Checkpoint | It's 1962, and Edward is sent on another mission to Berlin, where he witnesses the shooting of his old friend, the Doctor. As the Doctor endures a slow recovery, Edward discovers an alien ambassador called Stemfer is masterminding a plot to devastate America using soviet missiles in Cuba, instigating a deadly war that will ultimately result in the slaughter of humanity... | 4th Doctor, Romana | Stel Pavlou |
| Childhood Living | It's 1979, and Edward is called to investigate a crashed spaceship whilst holidaying with his granddaughter. But as he joins forces with a submarine crew, the evil Slarvian emperor lurks in the darkness, and as Edward uncovers a Slarvian agent amogst his new team, he meets an old friend who has no knowledge of him... the Doctor. | 1st Doctor, Susan | Samantha Baker |
| The Lost | When his god-daughter and her fiance disappear in New York, Edward launches a surveillance operation at the New York Education Institution. He calls upon the Doctor for help. But this is an incarnation of the Doctor that Edward has not encountered before, and finds himself uneasy to trust his "new" friend, as the Doctor's latest companion, Jamie, infiltrates the institution and discovers three aliens are turning humans into slaves via a time portal. | 2nd Doctor, Jamie and Victoria | based on a story by L.J. Scott |
| Old Boys | 6th Doctor, Peri, Mel, Evelyn | James Parsons and Andrew Stirling-Brown | |
| Testament | 7th Doctor | Stephen Hatcher | |
| Forgotten | 8th, The Master | Joseph Lidster |
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