Audio Adventures in Time & Space


 * Due to our canon policy, this article concentrates on the usage of "" by BBV Productions. Those wishing a fuller explanation of this title's long history with Audio Visuals should consult the AV website.

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 for some BBV 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
BBV used the term 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 for-profit concern, they had to find some way of delivering a legal product for sale. So what they did with the range, by and large, was to create approximations of characters from televised Doctor Who and hire the same actors to play them. The label was then stuck on several different series and the audio plays released in Audio Adventures in Time and Space "seasons". Each season might contain a few stories from The Time Travellers series, a bit of The Stranger, a bit of The Wanderer, one of the Adventures in a Pocket Universe and so on. Thus a "season" could contain a highly eclectic variety of stories.

Most of the 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.

Series released

 * Adventures in a Pocket Universe
 * Zygons (series)
 * Sontarans (series)
 * Krynoids (series)

Individual releases

 * The Rani Reaps the Whirlwind
 * Race Memory
 * I Scream
 * In 2 Minds
 * The Quality of Mercy