A regeneration. Vampires. Liquid time. What is TIME AND THE DOCTOR and what’s it all about? To put it simply, it’s the opening novella of Season Four of Doctor Who: The Legacy, and concludes the vampire story begun in last season’s cliffhanger UNHAPPY ENDINGS. But then it is so much more. It reintroduces a brand new Doctor (Anthony Stewart Head, first seen in RUINS OF SELF, part the second), a new companion, (Ruby Mundy) and as shown in the teaser, there’s at least one special guest appearance, (Lieutenant General Lethbridge-Stewart). Not to mention the liquid time vampire god, Ashgotoroth, and a few other surprises, too. But according to Executive Editor and one of the writers of this tale, Andie Frankham, his favourite part of TIME AND THE DOCTOR isn’t any of that, it’s ‘… creating the new TARDIS console room. That was born out of the fact that my partner has written a scene for his story where Missy sits on the time rotor, and we all know that the secondary console room does not have a time rotor. Unfortunately, in the next story Richard Dinnick still has the Doctor using the secondary console room. But, between us, we have worked out a reason behind the use of both console rooms.’ After a bit more thought, Andie adds with a smile; ‘My favourite, favourite bit is taking Alf on the emotional journey. She's a much better person now than how she was at this time last year.’ It’s very true that Alf has been through a lot during Season Three, being tortured and killing two versions of her own husband, Nick. To that, Andie agrees completely. ‘Yes, poor thing. But, to be honest, I think we have dealt with her better than any other medium has dealt with post-Survival Ace.’ Always welcoming reader response, what does he feel about the completed story? ‘I await the feedback of this story with trepidation.’ he replies. ‘It hasn't ended up as the story I expected it to be for various reasons that cropped up during the writing process. Whether that is a good thing or not remains to be seen.’ When asked what else he was doing for this season, it’s obvious Andie’s schedule is jam-packed with future projects and plans. ‘My next story [the anniversary story, THE DOMMERVOY MASTERPLAN] is co-written with Richard Dinnick, and that will be the first we have co-written. So it should be an interesting experience. But we tend to be on the same wavelength, so finger's crossed. Following that I will be writing the season finale. Looking forward to that, to do something a bit more unique. The story itself is still up in the air, mind. Otherwise, I continue editing. Oh, and I am getting the spin-off series prepared as well as working on publishing online the complete original novel (written and submitted to the BBC in 1997) that started The Legacy off in the first place. In other words, I'll be keeping myself busy over the next year.’ Busy is an understatement and it all starts off with TIME AND THE DOCTOR on Sunday, 6 July. Teaser He knew that he should not have been there, watching as the soldiers dug through the remains of the tower. As the commander of UNIT UK Lethbridge-Stewart should have been in either HQ or in Geneva with all the other generals, taking care of the world’s security against outside invaders. Brigadier Kowlard had a good rein over UNIT’s affairs in the UK, and yet Lethbridge-Stewart could not bring himself to leave. It was not because of the vampire problem, he knew that, since the vampires had gone to ground. Kowlard still had some men out patrolling London, just in case, but after the previous night’s bit of carnage the vampires were keeping out of sight. Lethbridge-Stewart knew it had nothing to do with vampires’ fabled fear of sunlight, because these “Kuang-Shi” had been seen during the day on many occasions. He simply put it down to how competent UNIT was. ‘Sir!’ Lethbridge-Stewart turned to the soldier that had called him. ‘What is it, corporal?’ Lance Corporal Ashton was standing amidst broken beams of damp wood. Other soldiers continued to remove the wood from around him. He pointed down at the ground. ‘We’ve found the body, sir!’ Lethbridge-Stewart took a deep breath. He got out of the jeep and waded through the wet mud until he came to the ruins. He clambered across the wooden beams, lowering his hands onto the wet wood to balance himself, and stopped when he found himself in a cleared space. Lying in that space, poking out from under broken girders, lay the broken body of the bloody and bearded Doctor. Lethbridge-Stewart shook his head. He never thought he would live to see the Doctor dead. ‘Sorry, Doctor.’ Ashton smiled. ‘Sir, he’s still alive.’