Doctor Who - This Sporting Life
The First Doctor gets caught up in World Cup fever in our latest downloadable Short Trip!
When the Doctor, Steven, and Dodo arrive in London in March 1966, World Cup fever is already underway. But disaster has struck: the trophy has been stolen, and the police are at a loss as to who could have taken it. When someone shoves part of the trophy into Steven’s hands, the travellers become embroiled in the case...
Written by Una McCormack, Doctor Who – Short Trips: This Sporting Life is an authentically Sixties adventure told by Peter Purves. Download this website exclusive title today for just £2.99!
Steven Taylor will return in 2017 in Doctor Who: O Tannenbaum, a Christmas special by Anthony Keetch. You can subscribe to both the 2016 and 2017 runs of the Monthly Short Trips at a considerable saving, with a new story appearing in your account every month as soon as they are released. You can also buy the entire 2015 run of Short Trips as part of a bundle, with four volumes of earlier tales still available to order on CD as well as download.
The most recent Short Trip to be released featured Sheridan Smith returning as Lucie Miller in April's Doctor Who - The Curse of the Fugue, while still to come in 2016, Anneke Wills performs Doctor Who: Lost and Found in June, July sees a villain take centre stage in Doctor Who: The Blame Game, read by Rufus Hound as the Meddling Monk. And then the Third Doctor aids the Prime Minister against a 1970s alien invasion in Doctor Who: Damascus, narrated by Tim Treloar.
For extra adventures, you can subscribe to the Doctor Who Main Range, where every three months an exclusive Short Trip is added to your account – including Doctor Who: The Monkey House by Nic Ford, a new story for the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Turlough available with subscriptions containing Doctor Who: The Two Masters.
For more of the First Doctor and Steven's travels together, visit our First Doctor Collected Page here.