Recorded on: 23 July and 7 August 2020
Recorded at: LA Productions
Producer David Richardson said: "We’ve loved working on the Audio Novels for the last four years, and long may they continue. There's also room for shorter stories too, and that's where The Audio Novellas come in – two-hour narrated tales read by Doctor Who legends.
"This duo of adventures takes in the Moon's surface in the distant future and an earthbound tale for the exiled Third Doctor and his UNIT colleagues. They're filled to the brim with imagination and thrills."
Script editor Roland Moore added: "The range is great because it gives us so much flexibility. We give fully immersive Doctor Who adventures, with effects and music as if it was a full-cast recording, but with a single performer.
"And so we can go to any year of the show and produce shorter length adventures – stuff that may be difficult to place in a range otherwise – and they’re all ready to download."
Colin Brake, writer of The Time-Splitters, said: "I was thinking about the sorts of stories that we got in the Hartnell period and things that were familiar from more recent times. So, I came up with the notion of doing something a bit more timey-wimey for the First Doctor than he had during his time on screen. I suppose also I was thinking about things like The Space Museum and the little bits of time mucking about in that.
"Also, I wanted to write a really good story for Dodo and for Steven, who are really great companions for that Doctor. I was hoping from the get-go that it would be Peter Purves who would get to read it, and I’m delighted that he has done so."
The second story’s writer, David Llewellyn, said: "I was really happy to be offered another opportunity to write the Third Doctor, because I love that whole era, especially the early stages with Liz Shaw and the Brigadier - Spearhead from Space is one of my favourite stories in the whole of Doctor Who.
"There’s a really nice chemistry there. Liz Shaw is an underrated companion. She’s no-nonsense. And it was fun trying to imagine her interior world, how her mind works. I think people who listen to this will spot nods to films like The Thing and maybe a little bit of Lovecraft in there as well."
And, Dimension 13 reader Jon Culshaw added: "The wonderful thing about reading this story is that it has the Target Books feel. It's fantastic having new stories from the wonderful Jon Pertwee era and it's so beautifully written. David Llewellyn's story really does feel evocative of that much loved season seven - mystical, industrial at times."
