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  • Published: 2 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529975161
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
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Doctor Who: Tales from Beyond the Doctor

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What happened to the Doctor’s companions after they left the TARDIS?

In Harry Sullivan’s War, by Ian Marter, the Doctor’s former companion has severe misgivings when he is transferred to work in the Hebrides. Is someone out to kill him?

In The Kairos Ring, by Stephen Gallagher, Romana and Laszlo, the Tharil, unite with an American Civil War soldier in the fight against the desperate Sluagh.

In Bessie Come Home, by Paul Magrs, the Doctor’s Edwardian roadster has been restored by Mr Foreman. But a shadowy figure wants to acquire her – at any price.

In London, 1965, by Paul Magrs, Ian and Barbara are newly returned to their own time when they find themselves being drawn into an invisible and dangerous web.

In Sleeper Agents, by Paul Magrs, Ben & Polly find mystery at home having said goodbye to the Doctor. What do the mysterious Harmer & Leamann want with them?

In The Penumbra Affair, by Paul Magrs, a letter arrives at Nest Cottage warning of danger for all former companions of the Doctor. Mrs Wibbsey is compelled to investigate!

Christopher Naylor, Steven Pacey, Stephanie Cole, Jamie Glover, Anneke Wills and Susan Jameson read these delightful postscripts to the on-screen adventures of the Doctor’s best friends.

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  • Published: 2 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9781529975161
  • Imprint: BBC DL
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $34.99
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About the author

Ian Marter

Ian Marter is best remembered by Doctor Who fans as the actor who played the Fourth Doctor's companion Harry Sullivan. In fact, his first role in Doctor Who came a couple of years earlier when he played the character of Andrews in 'Carnival of Monsters'. Marter worked with his friend Tom Baker on ideas for a possible Doctor Who film, and together they developed a script. Though the film was never made, Marter continued to write and novelised nine Doctor Who adventures for Target books. Ian Marter died in 1986. Robert Holmes, the original script writer of 'Ark in Space', served with distinction in the army and also in the police before becoming a journalist and television writer. Holmes went on to become one of the Doctor Who's most prolific writers. He took over as script sditor of Doctor Who in 1974 during one of the programme's most successful periods at the start of the Fourth Doctor's era, and established a background and society for the Time Lords that has endured to this day. Robert Holmes wrote for many other series including Doomwatch, Spy Trap, Dixon of Dock Green, Blake's 7 and many others. Holmes died in 1986, while working on the final episodes of the Doctor Who story The Trial of a Time Lord.

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