A Time & a Place (short story)

 — also known as Time and Time Again — was a Brief Encounter short story in DWM 197. It introduced Barbara Campbell, the daughter of David Campbell and Susan Campbell. Its perspective was highly unusual for Doctor Who prose, being written both from Barbara's first person perspective, but also in the second person.

This is one of the few Brief Encounter stories to have an element, in this case Barbara Campbell, that is remembered by later writers. Barbara's story would be greatly expanded in PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks.

Summary
When the Seventh Doctor travels to Earth, he believes he is somehow seeing his own granddaughter as a child. Instead, he's found Barbara Campbell, Susan Campbell's daughter. They have a brief conversation in which he asks after her mother. The Doctor learns that Barbara's mother has lost her taste for travel and has settled down to her "niche in life". Pleased he had known his granddaughter so well all those years ago when he forced her out of the TARDIS, (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth) he turns his attention to his ostensible great-grandchild. She shows every sign of being a traveller. He briefly considers taking her with him, but then thinks better of the notion. The Doctor departs, secure in the knowledge that Barbara will find her own path in life.

Characters

 * Seventh Doctor
 * Barbara Campbell

Continuity

 * No reference is made here to Barbara Campbell being adopted. This detail would be added later, in PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks.