Audio Adventures in Time & Space Audio Adventures in Time & Space , originally just Adventures in Time and Space , was a . It is somewhat unclear when the name originated , or who devised it . Certainly it was coined by the fan group , Audio Visuals , in the mid - 1980s . It did not appear on AV covers until the second , 1986 season — though re - issues of the first , 1984 season bore the label retroactively . As the original AV producer , Bill Baggs was certainly in a position to have conceived the name , but it ' s uncertain that he did . In any case , Baggs began using the title in the late 1990s as the main label for his BBV Productions audio plays . Indeed , several BBV releases were based on old AV plays , and there was a great deal of staff crossover between the two groups . When Baggs co - opted the name , he added the word " Audio " before " Adventures in Time and Space " for clarity , since he had a thriving line of videos at the time . BBV usage . Overview . " Audio Adventures in Time & Space " was a label used by BBV from 1998 to 2004 . It referred to four " seasons " of audio output that featured a wide variety of characters , and indeed was comprised of several different series . Things like " The Time Travellers " , " The Stranger " , " Zygons " , " Sontarans " , " Adventures in a Pocket Universe " and others were all released under the label . The fourth season used a radically re - designed cover template which removed the " Audio Adventures in Time & Space " label from the front cover . Although the overwhelming majority of BBV audio titles were released under this label , not all of them were . Notably the Tom Baker autobiography , " The Boy Who Kicked Pigs " , and the Richard Franklin story , " The Killing Stone " , were firmly not released under this label . Content . BBV used the label differently than AV . Whereas the AV " Adventures in Time and Space " had all illegally featured the Doctor , BBV didn ' t have that luxury . As a commercial entity , they had to find some way of delivering a legal product for sale . They took two approaches to solve this problem . First , they created " approximations " of characters from televised " Doctor Who " and hired the same actors to play them . " Adventures in a Pocket Universe " and so on . Thus a " season " could contain a highly eclectic variety of stories . These stories , by necessity , did not take place in the " Doctor Who " universe — not even with the most generous view of what constitutes the DWU . Colin Baker was " not " playing the Sixth Doctor in " The Stranger " . Indeed , between the first and second season , the British Broadcasting Corporation had a stern word with BBV when they felt that the McCoy / Sophie Aldred output was getting too close to the Seventh Doctor and Ace . From the second season forward , therefore , all the McCoy / Aldred releases were relabelled " The Time Travellers " and their characters were decidedly distanced from their season 1 personas . Second , they tried to get the permission of one of the original " Doctor Who " writers to use the species or characters that the writer owned . Most of these stories could then be marketed as taking place within the DWU . The cover to " The Choice " , for instance , quite legally claims that it is the " return of K9 " , since permission was obtained from Dave Martin and Bob Baker . It is only the second type of story that this wiki makes an attempt to cover . Releases . The following chart lists all the releases under the " Audio Adventures in Time & Space " banner , in the order of their release and tells which you ' ll find on this wiki .