24 Crawford Street (short story)

24 Crawford Street was the eighth short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas. It was written by Ian Farrington. It featured the Seventh Doctor and Mel.

Summary
Arriving on Earth at Christmas Eve, 1995, Mel is immediately separated from the Doctor and the TARDIS and transported back to 1935, where she is taken in by a local family as they prepare their home for the yuletide festivities. Meanwhile, on the same site in 1995, the Doctor meets an archaeologist named Gregson, who is investigating the remains of a house that mysteriously burnt down in 1935. Learning that a number of unexplained fires have plagued the area since the Fourteenth Century, the Doctor realises that the site is a temporal volcano, and is causing the TARDIS to see-saw between 1935 and 1995. Having located his wayward vessel, the Doctor travels back to 1935, arriving just in time to rescue Mel and the family from a fire that has suddenly broken out. But as everyone runs for the safety of the TARDIS, they realise that five year old Michael is still trapped in the burning building; the Doctor is forced to leave without the boy – but he is able to reassure Michael’s parents that their son will live, as he was the archaeologist he met in 1995, who finally came home for Christmas…

Characters

 * Seventh Doctor
 * Mel

Continuity
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