Encounter on Burnt Snake Flat (short story)

was a Brief Encounter short story published in the Doctor Who Yearbook 1993. It dealt with Tegan Jovanka's trauma after being controlled by the Mara.
== Publisher's summary ==
The Fifth Doctor tracks down his old companion Tegan Jovanka in the Australian Outback. A new story by Ghost Light scriptwriter Marc Platt. Illustration by Paul Vyse.
== Plot ==
Tegan is running her father's farm in Australia. She is also worrying about her father, who is laid up in hospital after having been bitten by a snake. The Fifth Doctor arrives to ensure that Tegan is finally free of the Mara's influence, as well as to give her the news that her father will be fine.
== Characters ==
* Fifth Doctor
* Tegan Jovanka
== Worldbuilding ==
* Tegan got her family to wire her money to come home to Australia from London.
* She thinks the Doctor sits like he's waiting for the Dreamtime.
* Her farm has sheep.
== Notes ==
* Marc Platt later wrote another Mara story, The Cradle of the Snake.
== Continuity ==
* Tegan left the Doctor suddenly three years ago in 1984. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)
* The Doctor reminds Tegan he promised the Mara was gone from her head. (TV: Kinda, Snakedance, AUDIO: The Cradle of the Snake)
* Tegan tells the Doctor his celery needs changing. He previously changed it on an Eternal ship. (TV: Enlightenment)
== External links ==
Category:BE stories
Category:Brief Encounter stories
Category:Fifth Doctor short stories
Category:1992 short stories
Category:Stories set in Australia
Category:Stories set in 1987