The Schoolboy's Story
(Short Trips: Repercussions)

Story

Featuring: First Doctor, Vicki Pallister, Steven Taylor

Placement Rating: 
3 - Within a range of stories
Location: 
Indiana, learly 21st Century, and ten years earlier.
Duration: 
The initial meeting with Bobby takes place over less than a day. Bobby's adventures in the TARDIS can only take a few weeks at most, since his appearance hasn't changed enough for anybody to notice once he gets back home.

The TARDiS detects something wrong with time that could threaten all of history when it lands in America. The Doctor, Steven, and Vicki visit a coffee shop, where they meet a man called Bobby Zierath who had travelled with them during his childhood, but who they know nothing about. Realising that the threat is the paradox if they don't spend some time travelling with Bobby, the Doctor then takes the TARDIS back ten years to Bobby's childhood bedroom. Bobby joins them on their adventures, which include:

  • A planet with giant talking mushrooms
  • Meeting kings and queens and emperors
  • Steven getting in a duel in Rome
  • Robots that look like drills
  • Vicki calling The Most High "a cuddly-wuddly"
  • Conidrons
  • The Zaski

After these adventures, the Doctor returns Bobby home on the same evening that he originally picked him up.

Placement Notes: 
The Most High is presumably Beep the Meep, first seen in Doctor Who Magazine.
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