Janet Fielding has written a new short story starring Tegan Jovanka, the character she played in Doctor Who with Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor and Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor.
Little Did She Know is in the latest collection, Doctor Who: The Adventures Before, published at the start of this month (October 2024).
Janet’s story takes place between Time Flight and Arc of Infinity, and features the return of the Mara (from Kinda and Snakedance). She says:
“In Tom Baker’s last story, Tegan’s Aunt Vanessa says to her niece, ‘Your father’s farm is hardly the Outback dear’.
“I’ve loved the beauty and drama of Queensland’s sugar cane country ever since I was a kid. So that’s where I put the farm.
“At the end of the next series, Tegan gets left behind on Earth. She has unfinished business with the Mara, a villain that lives inside the mind but can manifest as a snake. There are plenty of dangerous snakes in the sugar cane fields of Queensland.”
The book also includes The Boy and the Dalek, The Fall of Apalapucia, The Morning of the Day of the Doctor (written by Osgood actress, Ingrid Oliver), and more. Here’s the blurb:
What did Osgood do the morning of the Day of the Doctor?
What happened to Tegan before Arc of Infinity, and why does it involve strange sentient lights in the Australia outback?
What was the Tenth Doctor doing in a hall of mirrors, right before Planet of the Dead?
Answers to all these questions lie in an incredible collection of new Doctor Who short stories that give a glimpse into the moments just before we saw the Doctor step on screen.
From Skaro to Apalapucia, from a shop front drained of colour to Rassilon’s tomb, join a host of incredible adventures across the universe with Doctors, companions, friends and foes.
Doctor Who: The Adventures Before is available now — oh, perfect for Christmas!