The Time Travellers (series)

The Time Travellers was an audio series featuring Sylvester McCoy as the Professor and Sophie Aldred as Ace. It was released by BBV Productions between 1998 and 2000. The series was originally unnamed, with The Time Travellers branding only being introduced in the seventh instalment. The tenth and final story instead bore the series title The Dominie, while some later promotion and the Republica novelisation used The Professor & Ace. 
The series appealed to audiences by featuring McCoy and Aldred playing characters very similar to their roles in Doctor Who, the Seventh Doctor and Ace. Bill Baggs had attempted to get the official license for Doctor Who audios and effectively decided to do it anyway when the BBC turned it down. Downtime: The Lost Years of Doctor Who Chapter 20 (Dylan Rees) Despite this, the series also incorporated several licensed concepts from Doctor Who stories, beginning with its first episode, Republica, which was set in an alternate timeline from the 1997 BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel The Roundheads. Later episodes such as Guest for the Night mentioned characters like Truman Crouch and Posedor who had previously featured in the Virgin New Adventures novel Deadfall.
As The Time Travellers continued, the main characters were differentiated further and further from their Doctor Who counterparts. By Ghosts – the seventh The Time Travellers audio and the first of Audio Adventures in Time & Space series 2 – the Professor decided he preferred to go by "the Dominie", and "Ace" began using her real name, Alice. The BBC had sent a warning letter to BBV about the names, having ignored it before; Steve Cole told Downtime that the BBC was enforcing its copyright more strongly at the time as they hoped to find a new partner to make Doctor Who with. Downtime: The Lost Years of Doctor Who Chapter 20 (Dylan Rees) McCoy said in a 1999 interview that the issue was most likely using the name "Ace", which could be copyrighted where "Professor" couldn't be, and Aldred told Downtime they could have "gotten away with it" by calling her Alf (the character's originally planned name).Downtime: The Lost Years of Doctor Who Chapter 20 (Dylan Rees) 
Finally, in the 2021 novelisation of Republica, the Professor's ship was named Cosmos, rooting the character in the public domain Doctor Omega series.
== Stories ==
=== Audio stories ===
BBV Productions released ten The Time Travellers audios in its Audio Adventures in Time & Space line. The first six were the first six releases of Audio Adventures series 1, while the next three were released sporadically over the course of series 2. The final audio, Punchline, was the only Time Travellers release of series 3, and it marked the Doctor Who universe debut of author Robert Shearman, writing pseudonymously as "Jeremy Leadbetter".
# 	Title 	Author 	Released
1 	Republica 	 	May 1998
2 	Island of Lost Souls 	 	May 1998
3 	Prosperity Island 	 	May 1998
4 	The Left Hand of Darkness	 	July 1998
5 	The Other Side 	 	September 1998
6 	Guests for the Night 	 	November 1998
7 	Ghosts 	 	March 1999
8 	Only Human 	 	May 1999
9 	Blood Sports 	 	June 1999
10	Punchline 	"Jeremy Leadbetter"	February 2000
=== Novelisations ===
In 2021, one novelisation of a The Time Travellers audio was released in BBV's Novelisations in Time & Space line. "The Dominie" also cameoed as the Mistress' mentor in the novelisation of The Choice.
Title 	Author 	Released
Republica	Micah K. Spurling	4 September 2021
== Notes ==
to be added
== Cover gallery ==
Republica CD cover.jpg|Republica
Island of Lost Souls CD cover.jpg|Island of Lost Souls
Prosperity Island CD cover.jpg|Prosperity Island
The Left Hand of Darkness CD cover.jpg|The Left Hand of Darkness
The Other Side CD cover.jpg|The Other Side
Guests for the Night CD cover.jpg|Guests for the Night
Ghosts CD cover.jpg|Ghosts
Only Human CD cover.jpg|Only Human
Republica website cover.jpg|Republica(2021 online cover)
Island of Lost Souls website cover.jpg|Island of Lost Souls(2021 online cover)
Guests for the Night website cover.jpg|Guests for the Night(2021 online cover)
Ghosts website cover.jpg|Ghosts(2021 online cover)
Only Human website cover.jpg|Only Human(2021 online cover)
Republica novelisation.jpg|Republica novelisation
== External links ==
== Footnotes ==
 
Category:Audio overviews