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Why "The Synopticon"? Well, firstly because it's a catchy title! And secondly, this section will be an open forum for you to submit your brief story outlines and we'll add the best here. The format should be similar to those found on the reverse of the regular Book & Video releases, i.e. short and to the point without giving too much away .. just enough to whet your appetite so to speak. If you've written a larger story, or a full piece of fan fiction, then please do submit it, together with a blurb and we'll consider adding the full item as a downloadable file. So, if you have anything and would like it showcased on these pages, then please drop us an EMail and we'll add them in a future update.
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Android :: 1 Item (Added 1 January, 2001) • LCroft :: 5 Items (Added 8 July, 2001) • Aukon :: 2 Items (Added 26 April, 2001) • Malcolm Orr :: 1 Item (Added 26 April, 2001) • A.D. Stewart :: 3 Items (Added 15 April, 2001) • Cliff Maxwell :: 2 Items (Added 3 April, 2001) • Cliff Maxwell :: 4 Items (Added 31 March, 2001) • Samantha :: 9 Items (Added 26 March, 2001) • Mike Castro :: 4 Items (Added 26 March, 2001) • Stephen Mills :: 6 Items (Added 26 March, 2001) • Jason Bagshaw :: 7 Items (Added 26 March, 2001) |
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. The Earth is being invaded by ships from another world. Man is being crushed at the hands of the invaders. When there seems no hope is left, the Doctor arrives, but even he knows he and Man can't win. As a last resort, the Doctor has asked for aid from the reptiles who onced ruled the planet... This story features the Cybermen,
the Sea Devils, the Silurians and the 3rd Doctor |
| Synopsis © 2002 The Android |
. INVADER STROY The Doctor in his 9th regeneration decides to visit Sambro Island in Canada, 1758; but instead, the TARDIS materializes in a small American town, in the state of Pennsylvania in the summer of July 1998. Making the most of this situation, the Doctor decides to explore this American town, called Sharon. However he soon discovers that a Sontaran invader is terrorizing students from a nearby university. THE SPELL CASTER'S CURSE The Doctor takes his new companion Angela, to Charlotte, North Carolina in the summer of June 1997. There, he looks up on an old friend who is in great distress. The Doctor learns that his friend’s 8yr old adopted daughter possesses a gift so powerful, that it has corrupted her to the point of insanity and violence. The Doctor must find the source of her power, and treat her quickly, before the power escalates and destroys them all. TARDIS FEVER This is a rare opportunity to view life inside the TARDIS. As the Doctor sets about repairing a damaged K-9, Emily is slowly recovering from the trauma suffered in North Carolina. Angela does her best to comfort the grieving child, but she becomes uncomfortable when Emily begins practicing her ability to read people’s thoughts. In an attempt to combat her boredom and restlessness, Angela takes Emily exploring through the TARDIS’ many wonders. The many rooms, items, and decorations they come across seem to give some insight into the Doctor’s character; one of the items they find of particular interest is the Doctor’s diary. VISION OF THE CHALLIBIES The TARDIS materializes on a beautiful planet filled with green hilly meadows, sweet smelling flowers, and cute cushy aliens who call themselves Challibies. The Challibies welcome the Doctor and his friends with open arms, but Emily is horrified by their very presence, referring to them as monsters in disguise. The Doctor soon grows wary of their intentions, especially when he discovers an array of skeletal remains, hidden near the Challibies’ dwelling place. THE HORROR OF IXTABI The Doctor lands the TARDIS on Xenobia
4, a forest planet in the early stages of human colonization. There,
he plans to make repairs and encourages Angela and Emily to go exploring.
But the colonists live in fear of a deformed, malevolent, being
demanding sacrifice of the colonists’ young. Moments after
leaving the TARDIS, the girls are kidnapped and taken deep into
the forest to be sacrificed. With the sun setting fast, the Doctor
must work to win the trust of the colonists, and discover the means
to vanquish this threat before it claims the lives of his companions. |
| Synopsis © 2001 LCroft |
. The Doctor and Jamie arrive on a planet on the outer reaches of Earth's solar system. A world where no life should be able to exist, and yet they find giant footprints in the dust... Meanwhile, Cyber-Scientists uncover a crashed ship buried in the ground, the reptilian inhabitants of which, when augmented by cyber-technology, could be highly useful in their planned invasion of Earth... Starring the 2nd Doctor and Jamie, This story is set between the televised stories The Two Doctors and The Wheel in Space and feature both pre-invasion Cybermen and The Ice Warriors. GOLD RUSH A space trader and his crew arrive on Space station Vandor 1 to deliver an unusual rock to their client, Professor Anders. Meanwhile Earth is at war with the Cybermen far away on the other side of the galaxy... But when the Doctor and Jo arrive, they discover that Professor Anders is in fact an agent for Earth security and that this rock holds the secret of the transmutation of base metal into gold... The Trouble then really starts when a squad of Cybermen invades the stationand captures the TARDIS... The Doctor must turn to a corrupt chief of security, a secretive space captain and an exiled Ice Warrior if he is ever going to get his ship back. Starring the 3rd Doctor and Jo, This
story is set between the televised stories Planet of the
Daleks and The Green Death and features
Cybermen and the creation of the Glitter Gun. |
| Synopsis © 2001 Aukon |
.. Hallowsville, USA : 2007 A. D. ' She visited her son's grave just yesterday, Doctor. We found her lying dead on it just hours later. Written across the grave was ' Risen : 10-30-2007.' The Doctor and Angel arrive in a small American town, in the middle of a crisis. Youngsters are going missing, and the dead are rising from the grave. The Doctor uncovers ruthless gangs of undead, and a huge energy barrier surrounding the town. An evil presence is growing here, and unless the Doctor can stop it, the whole planet could be devoured by night. But to save the people of Hallowsville, the Doctor will have to make a sacrifice that will change his lives for ever... Featuring the Fourth Doctor and companion
Angel. |
| Synopsis © 2001 Malcolm Orr |
.. The Doctor & Charley are travelling through time when all chaos breaks lose inside the TARDIS. An alien force causes Charley to dematerialise out of the TARDIS. When the Doctor awakes he finds himself amongst the smoldering wreckage of the TARDIS and in a huge city. Charley's body was taken but her mind has been deposited in the Doctor's mind. The Doctor must find a way of restoring Charley's mind to her body and to find who or what destroyed his TARDIS. The answers all lie in the mysterious tower which rises high above the city. He must face something deadly from Gallifrey's past. An Artronnivor. Set in between the audio stories Minuet in Hell and Invaders from Mars TERRORVILLE Having only just escaped from their previous adventure the Doctor and Frobisher arrive in an abandoned theme park called TerrorVille. What is the mystery behind the corpses with limbs missing. Why are the rides still working and why is a space corp agent from the 23rd Century cowering in a corner behind the ferris wheel. And most importantly what does Varuhm mean and why is grafittied all over the park itself... This story is set straight after The Holy Terror and features the 6th Doctor and Frobisher HELL ITSELF (The 5th Doctor has left Tegan and Turlough in Little Hodcombe to travel on his own) The Doctor arrives in the frozen wastelands of the planet Arritos. He nearly freezes to death when the TARDIS dissolves in the air. He is rescued by a team of scientists who are there delving into the ice. A member of the team is possessed by a creature known in a thousand legends on a million worlds. In the ice it is frozen. When it is unearthed the Doctor will be glad that he left Tegan and Turlough on Earth but he will have to face it alone and enter the very depths of Hell Itself. Set in between the televised stories
The Awakening and Frontios |
| Synopsis © 2001 A.D. Stewart |
.. "If we don't stop them soon, Brigadier, these creatures will very soon control every aspect of human civilization as you know it." It's not a fault that immediately returns the TARDIS to UNIT HQ minutes after leaving Earth. At first the Doctor suspects a major systems fault, but at least he got Sharah Jane back five minutes before they last arrived on Earth like he promised. When he discovers that the truth of the TARDIS's redirection was the activation of the same psionic beam that the Brigadier had used to call in his aide against the Zygons, he becomes worried. Tracing its failure to disengage to an immense electromagnetic shift in the Earth's magnetic field doesn't make him feel any better. What is the connection between so many missing citizens in the surrounding area with robberies of huge chunks of debris from a nearby ironworks? What has caused the Hostile Action Displacement System activated, effectively locking him out of his TARDIS? And how in the universe can he answer these questions in the middle of a nationwide power blackout? Occurring between the televised stories Terror of the Zygons and The Planet of Evil, the story features the forth Doctor, Sarah Jane, Harry and U.N.I.T. DEADLY ALLIANCE "I've made an incredible mistake, Peri! One that could not only destroy your world, but one that may destroy millions of worlds as a result!" Arriving at U.N.I.T. headquarters in Spain just in time for most monumental archaeological discovery ever, the Doctor is immediately reinstated as the paramilitary group's scientific advisor. It is only when he finally evaluates find, a burried spacecraft some 500 years old etched with a familiar cross-hatched pattern that he realizes the truth behind the discovery: utter invasion. As Sontaran warriors take over the U.N.I.T. HQ, the Doctor, Peri, Captain John Benton and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, retired, make a desperate attempt to foil the Sontaran invasion plan. But is it really an invasion? Why are the Sontarans utilizing the captured U.N.I.T. soldiers as slaves in a complex mining operation? Morover, what is the real intent of the Sontaran Forward Observer Merast? Featuring the 6th Doctor, Peri and
U.N.I.T., this story takes place between the television episodes
The Two Doctors and Timelash, and is a
sequel to The Masque of Mandragora, from a certain
point of view! |
| Synopsis © 2001 Cliff Maxwell |
. "Of course I don't mind your people having time travel technology, Tegan! What I mind is that they shouldn't have in for another ten thousand years!" The crew of the TARDIS arrive on earth at the very end of the 50th century. Y50k worries run rampant and most of the world is governed by ruthless dictators and warmongers. When the Doctor detects time travel technology at this period when it shouldn't be, he realizes he must put a stop to it. But when Tegan is captured, he must journey to the far-flung exotic locales of Kanowa, Australasia and Reykjavík, Iceland, tracking the temporal anomalies to their source, determined to put history back on course and rescue his companion. It's just that when he discovers the awful truth about the time technology, his old enemies the robotic Movellans and a certain Prefect Greel, that he realises just the depth of the trouble he's gotten himself into. This story features the fifth Doctor, Tegan, Nyssa and Turlough and is almost a prequel to both The Talons of... and The Shadow of Weng Chiang, and nearly takes place between the televised stories Mawdryn Undead and Terminus...sort of. THE VIKINGS "They are all agents of Loki and bring Ragnarok behind them, nipping at thier heels to destroy us all!" Greenland, 998 AD. The Norsemen under the guidance of their Jarl Eric have maintained a sizable colony in the bleak countryside, but but are faced with the trials of being so far from their homelands. Coupled with a change in religion for many of the colonists, Greenland is a hard land undisposed to the farming they are accustumed to and the vikings which made them so feared. When strangers appear, climbing from within the odd, blue trunk of a mysterious tree, they are suspected to be harbingers of the doom which the adherants to the old religion called Ragnarok, an end to the Norse people. Are they minions of Loki or do they truly come in peace as they claim? Is the blue tree from whence they stepped a shoot of the World Tree, or simply a box as the elder of the strangeres claims? More importantly, how are these strangers, clearly not Norsemen, knowledgeable of the Newfoundland and Vineland, a closely gurded secret of Eric and his son? Featuring the first Doctor, Ben and Polly, this story takes place between the televised stories The War Machines and The Smugglers. THE WRATH OF ZODIN "Why is it that the students showing the most promise are always the first ones to build a bomb for their school science project?" While in mid-flight, the TARDIS controls lock in and the coordinates adjust for a new flight path, much to the dismay of the Doctor. But he's even more affraid then angry when he discovers that it was his own people, the Time Lords, who have guided him back to his home planet of Gallifrey and he now to be tried for high treason and put to death! Aided by Jamie and his old Time Tot playmate, Raston, they escape and head for the Time Lord prison planet of Shada to get to the bottom of the conspiracy to frame the Doctor. The truth proves too horrible to imaging once an ages old Time Lord pact is uncovered. But the real mystery lies in that pact and its connection to the huge asteroid of Validium set on a collision course for 17th century Earth. So many temporal discontinuities, so little time-space. This story features the second Doctor, Jamie and U.N.I.T. and takes place between the televised stories Fury From the Deep and The Wheel In Space. THE STEAMATIC MEN "How is it, Doctor, that ever time we set off to go on holiday we always seem to end up running for our lives?" The Doctor offers to take Ace on a jaunt through Earth history for a vacation getaway. Bracing herself for the obvious outcome, she reluctantly agrees and of course they end up in the wrong time and place entirely. But there are worse places they could have ended up than New Orleans in the early 1900's. However, no sooner do they leave the first all night jazz club only to stumble across a horribly disfigured corpse. What could kill a man in midstride so quickly and yet entirely strip his bones of flesh? When the Doctor realizes there may be a relation between the man's death and other recent disapearances in connection to a lost shipment of clockworks, he knows the true horror behind things is not of this world and must be stopped. This story features the seventh Doctor
and Ace and takes place after the televised story Survival. |
| Synopsis © 2001 Cliff Maxwell |
. The Doctor arrives on the distant planet of Kender, which is populated by giant birds. The birds have a strange ambition and an even stranger leader, a dark haired bearded man by the name of 'Pen'. EYE OF THE WITCH The Doctor arrives in England in the middle of the dark ages, where a village community are being terrorised by a local witch who is trying to awaken an ancient serpent from the depths of the Irish sea. KERRILON The Doctor travels to the Valleys of Wales where he meets a tormented mother whose deranged daughter Kerrilon spends all her time worshipping a strange tree-god at the bottom of the garden. DARK REUNION A spaceship off the dark side of the moon holds Davros who has created a new breed of mutant Dalek, but needs the regenerative cells of a Time Lord to complete his last great plan.... BOOK OF LIVES The TARDIS materialises in a writers office where the Doctor discovers a book that traces his own life from the very beginning .... to the very end. PLIGHT OF THE BLESSEN Whilst visiting 16th century France the Doctor discovers a Blessen, a strange dog-like alien from a race long thought to be extinct. THE UNKNOWN During an annual meeting of the New York State Paranormal and Ufology Society, the Doctor meets a man who is in terrible distress. He claims that he is afraid to go home because his life is being manipulated by a peculiar little alien that lives in a box at the top of the stairs. The problem is........ no one will believe him. WHITEWORM The Doctor discovers that he is being pursued by a 'Whiteworm', a genetically engineered life form that is conditioned to travel the timelines to hunt down and consume its prey. FACE OF TOMORROW The Doctor receives
a distress call from another TARDIS and meets a man who claims to
be a future incarnation of himself. |
| Synopsis © 2001 Samantha |
. The Doctor is summoned to Gallifrey and put on trial for his crimes. The trial is a mockery and the Doctor is sentenced to death. (Please note that this was conceived and written well before the Trial of a Timelord.) All is not as it seems, however... THE CITY UNDER GLASS The Doctor and Peri land on a polluted world and are promptly captured, abused and taken to a city under the ocean where political turmoil is in full swing. The get separated, each side thinks they are spies for the other side, and all sorts of heck breaks loose. THE END OF THE WORLD The Doctor returns to Earth to help the Brigadier sort out a computer mess. The "virus" that has infected the defense networks, however, is none other than Ozmandias (introduced in "Deception"), a villain of pure intellect who wishes to trigger a nuclear holocaust in order to create the proper environment in which to regain corporeal form. INTROSPECTUS The cathartic events of The End of
the World plunge The Doctor into the Time Lord crisis ritual of
Introspectus whereby he is forced to examine his own worth in a
series of mental tests and ultimately pass judgment on his own continued
existence. |
| Synopsis & Original Cover Art © 2001 Mike Castro |
.. The Doctor is forced to make an emergency landing on the planet of Magnus where they are caught by the Magnii and taken to their leader Rana Zandusia who is keen to use Time Travel technology to destroy the Salvakians from a neighbouring planet. While there they meet up with Sil from Thoros Beta but why he is there and who is he working for? Featuring the 7th Doctor & Ace and set after the televised story Survival Updated 11 May: Stephen has now completed writing this story and you can download the finished Article (Zipped Word Document), by clicking here. THE BIRTH OF TERROR The Doctor travels to a planet that he thinks is Earth and when humans are keen to show there latest science advancements only to discover what is happening to the people there and the Doctor knows he must leave the complex but how? Featuring the 3rd Doctor, Jo & The Brigadier and set between the televised stories The Three Doctors & Carnival of Monsters YELLOW FEVER The Doctor arrives in Britain in 1831 the time of the great Cholera outbreak but there are reports that men in plastic masks are terrorizing the local people and there are reports that a strange woman who keeps changing her face is their leader. Who are they and what relevance does it have to the cholera outbreak? Featuring the 5th Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan & Adric and is set between the televised stories Black Orchid & Earthshock THE EVIL OF PLEASURE The Doctor and friends arrive in Blackpool for a holiday but the local people are behaving strangely. The Doctor arrives at the Pleasure Beach only to find it's been taken over by a familiar Chinese Mandarin. Featuring the 4th Doctor, Leela & K9 and is set between the televised stories Underworld & The Invasion of Time THE CHELONIAN INVASION The planet of Jupiter is solid instead of a gas ball. The Doctor is then captured by the Chelonians who turn out to be friendly but their leader is forging a deal with another bunch of aliens to use the Chelonian's laser technology to take over Earth. Featuring the 1st Doctor, Ian, Susan & Barbara and set between the televised stories Marco Polo & The Keys of Marinus CHANGING TIMES The Doctor arrives in the Highlands of Scotland in 1950 to go to a Scottish Castle only to meet up with Hitler who has captured Einstein and has a plan to change the result of World War 2 by going back in time. If this doesn't displease the Doctor enough, Hitler had employed some old friends of the Doctor to make certain the result is changed. Featuring the 2nd Doctor, Jamie &
Victoria and is set between the televised stories The Tomb
of the Cybermen & The Abominable Snowmen |
| Synopsis © 2001 Stephen Mills |
. A massive displacement in the time/space continuum causes a Timequake, sending shockwaves throughout history. Tracing it back to its apparent source, Victorian England, the Doctor & companion find the British Empire even more dominant than believed, and America has been reclaimed as a colony (sorry guys). A eminent scientist has taken up and improved upon Waterfield & Maxtible's exprements, and altered the course of history. Tracing it back ever further, they find that Nelson did NOT die at Trafalgar, and led the Royal Navy on to greater victories. Defeating the scientist, The Doctor becomes an officer in the Navy, serves at Trafalgar, and smuggles his companion (a girl disguised as a man?) onto the Redoubtable, where they manage to shoot Nelson, and ensure history follows its proper course. The Time Slower The Doctor on present day Earth is called in by a top-ranking detective (friend of Lethbridge-Stewart?) to help investigate thefts committed by what seems to be an invisible man - security footage has items just vanish. The Doctor takes the trouble to investigate at 24 frames per second, and manages to discover the criminal is in fact moving at unbelievable speeds. Identification sadly is impossible, so they have to anticipate where he will strike next. They do, and set a trap, but the criminal escapes, even past electrified fencing - he moves so fast, that the on-off nature of the current running through it means he simply waited until it was 'off' and climbed over. Eventually, the Doctor creates a device to detect the displacement, and tracks the villain to is lair. As they pounce, the criminal starts to activate the device, but is shot by the detective. The criminal dies from the gunshot wound, but The Doctor realises that what would have been a quick kill for us must have been hours of agony for him, and so we close with a lecture on needless death & violence. Worldburn The TARDIS materialises in a desert, outside a great city inhabited by a race of intelligent snake people and humans. The humans have been the masters for centuries, victors in a bitter war, where the Snake people, then close to extinction, surrendered unconditionally and accepted their subservient fate in perpetuity. The humans are now decadent and lazy. The snakes are the oppressed masses, but are the driving force, the advances in technology are theirs, the work is done by them, etc. So much so, the factories pour out choking smoke, global warming is common, pollution is rife, etc. The Doctor discovers the truth; although the terms of the peace treaty centuries ago forbade the snake people from ever going to war again, the position of reliance for technology has allowed them to despoil the world so the deserts slowly spread all over, so they find themselves the dominant species by default. The Doctor has to defeat both the Snake people and the humans who discover this & attempt to use it to seize power for themselves. He succeeds, and REAL peace talks begin as he leaves. Gambit of Gallifrey Political style thriller in which Renegade time lord lowers transduction barriers to allow in the last followers of Morbius, who intend to harness the Eye of Harmony, and use it to take them to conquest in his name. As they almost succeed, the Doctor finds he needs to stop the Eye of Harmony from splitting Gallifrey apart and close the barriers at the same time. Not confident of this body's ability with the barriers and left with no other choice, he uses the time scoop to recall his self with the best ability for dealing with the barrier (6th, I chose!) so he CAN be in 2 places at once and save the day. A hurried exit at his bending the laws of time AGAIN ensues, and he has a wry smile at the lack of gratitude.... Offshoot of the Species Doctor find himself in the middle of a fierce space battle, which sees the humans retreat thanks to some stunning tactics from their opponents. Surprised to find that the aggressors were Ogrons, but assumes that the Daleks are out in force again. It turns out that the Ogrons are being led by one of their own and so they fight with almost religious fervour. The Doctor journeys to Ogron homeworld where he finds that the Ogron is a one in a million, a highly intelligent member of his race. Eager to prove himself against the greatest enemy of their one time masters, He challenges the Doctor to single combat, which the Doctor wins by constructing a device similar to the Master's fear generator, and taking on the appearance of the monster they all fear so much. Reduced to a coward, the Ogrons turn against him and the Doctor leaves him to his fate. The Shadowhound of Death On Earth in the roaring twenties, when spiritualism is rife, The Doctor finds the Rani posing as a medium to tap into the psychic forces of a post-war nation. She has succeeded, and is now able to call upon Daemon-like forces to allow her to establish power, summoning "Hellhounds" who kill dignitaries, tracing their psychic spoor and plunge the country into chaos. The Doctor confronts her at a séance, and "The Mark" is placed upon him. working frantically, before the hound appears (some days later) the Doctor creates a homunculus with his aura (some blood, an item of his, etc) so the hound appears and destroys it, not him, and then he taps into the energies the Rani is getting ready to unleash as a finale, with the resultant customary explosion. A WHO treatment of an HP Lovecraft style story, and possible opportunity for a companion to be introduced. Pronouncement of Doom Present day earth. A creature arrives from a race known as Assessors. Their technology is highly advanced, (he can drain the knowledge from an individual's mind, assume their form, etc and the creature has come to assess the dominant species to see if they are making the best of their planet. It transpires that we are not (no surprise there...) and so, as is the creature's (perceived) right, he determines to eradicate man and allow another species to inherit the planet. With the ability to take over another's
body, The Doctor is involved in a desperate pursuit, as well as
moral arguments with the creature debating what is good & bad
in man. Eventually the creature takes over a biologist, drawing
on his own knowledge and the scientists to develop a bacteria that
will kill humans but leave other flora & fauna intact, but one
of the Doctors companions (either a member of the TARDIS crew or
someone from this story) sacrifices themselves, Wester style just
as the virus is developed, showing that man is capable of great
good, and in death the creature is pondering whether his assessment
was correct after all... |
| Synopsis © 2001 Jason Bagshaw |
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