Subscriber Short Trips

Subscriber Short Trips — 2009–21
Series details
First release:	9 January 2009
Last release:	16 March 2021
Publisher:	Big Finish Productions
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Subscriber Short Trips were a series of audio short stories published by Big Finish Productions for subscribers of their monthly range of stories.

The first eleven stories in the series were readings of previous Short Trips prose short stories. In December 2014, the range switched to newly commissioned original-to-audio Short Trips. The first eight of these releases served to "fill in the gaps" so that every year of Main Range releases from 2010 onwards would have four accompanying subscriber stories. These were added to the accounts of users who had already subscribed to the stories released in these previous years. This pattern of four stories per year continued in subsequent years until the end of the monthly range in 2021. Some of these were commissioned from entrants to The Paul Spragg Memorial Short Trip Opportunity.

The range concluded in March 2021 with the final release in the monthly range. With the restructuring of Big Finish's series structure came the introduction of a successor series to the Subscriber Short Trips known as Interludes, which were released as bonus stories alongside certain boxsets.

As of 2023, the majority of the Subscriber Short Trips are still only available by purchasing a Monthly Range subscription containing the release associated with the subscriber special. However, from 2016-18, fourteen of them were re-released for individual purchase in the Short Trips Rarities range, with new cover art to boot.

Stories

#	Title	Author	Performer	Doctor	Featuring	Released	Corresponding release
1	Museum Peace	James Swallow	Nicholas Briggs	8th	Kalendorf	November 2009	The Eternal Summer
2	The Switching	Simon Guerrier	Duncan Wisbey	3rd	Jo, The Brig, Yates, Benton	June 2010	Legend of the Cybermen
3	Lepidoptery for Beginners	John Dorney		2nd	Jamie, Zoe	October 2010	The Cradle of the Snake and Project: Destiny
4	The Little Drummer Boy	Eddie Robson	Beth Chalmers	1st	Steven, Sara	21 December 2010	The Demons of Red Lodge and Other Stories
5	Twilight's End	Cavan Scott & Mark Wright		7th	Nimrod	July 2011	Rat Trap
6	Lant Land	Jonathan Morris	Duncan Wisbey	5th	Tegan, Turlough	December 2011	Army of Death
7	Neptune	Richard Dinnick	Beth Chalmers	3rd	Sarah		The Doomsday Quatrain and House of Blue Fire
8	Breadcrumbs	James Moran	John Banks	4th	Romana II	23 December 2012	Wirrn Isle
9	Only Connect	Andy Lane					1001 Nights
10	Methuselah	George Mann		5th	Peri	9 January 2014	Daleks Among Us and 1963: Fanfare for the Common Men
11	Tweaker	Dan Abnett			Nyssa		Afterlife
12	A Room With No View	David Bartlett	Stephen Critchlow		Peri	19 December 2014	Gods and Monsters and The Burning Prince
13	The Piltdown Men	Paul Dale Smith	Hugh Ross	2nd	H.G. Wells		Scavenger
14	Late Night Shopping	Matt Fitton		8th	Lucie		Masquerade
15	Waiting for Gadot	John Dorney		4th	Third Doctor, Jo		Mask of Tragedy and Signs and Wonders
16	The Doctor's First XI	Ian Atkins	Stephen Critchlow		Romana I	22 December 2014	The Architects of History
17	Sound the Siren And I'll Come To You Comrade	John Pritchard			Leela		Industrial Evolution
18	Intuition	Rob Nisbet		6th	Mel		The Butcher of Brisbane
19	A Home From Home	Nick Wallace		3rd	Liz, Benton		The Rani Elite
20	The Young Lions	Alice Cavender		8th	Lucie	February 2015	The Seeds of War
21	Crystal Ball	Rob Nisbet		7th	Ace		Prisoners of Fate
22	String Theory	Kini Brown		4th	Leela	12 March 2015	The Entropy Plague
23	Sphinx Lightning	John Pritchard		3rd	Jo	17 June 2015	The Secret History
24	The Warren Legacy	Julian Richards		4th	Romana I	15 September 2015	Terror of the Sontarans and Criss-Cross
25	The Caves of Erith	Alice Cavender		8th	Lucie	16 December 2015	You Are the Doctor and Other Stories
26	The Horror at Bletchington Station	Chris Wing		1st	Dodo	15 March 2016	The Peterloo Massacre
27	The Monkey House	Nic Ford		5th	Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough, Jo	13 June 2016	The Two Masters
28	The Shrine of Sorrows	Julian Richards		7th	Ace	13 September 2016	Maker of Demons
29	The Christmas Dimension	Rob Nisbet		3rd	Liz, Benton	13 December 2016	Quicksilver
30	Collector's Item	Paul J Salamoff		4th	Sarah	21 March 2017	Zaltys
31	The Horror of Hy-Brasil	Russell McGee		2nd	Jamie, Zoe	23 June 2017	Shadow Planet / World Apart
32	Helmstone	Tony Jones		1st	Steven	12 September 2017	The Silurian Candidate and Time in Office
33	The Night Before Christmas	Nic Ford		7th		18 December 2017	Static
34	Mission Improbable	Chris Wing		6th	Evelyn	20 March 2018	Serpent in the Silver Mask
35	Taken For Granted	Ian Hidewell		3rd	Jo, Benton	19 June 2018	Iron Bright
36	The Smallest Battle	Stephen Osbourne		4th	Leela	11 September 2018	The Dispossessed
37	Tuesday	Tony Jones		8th	Harry	1 December 2018	Muse of Fire and The Hunting Ground
38	Loud and Proud	Andrew Allen		6th	Mel	25 March 2019	The Kamelion Empire
39	Still Life	Max Kashevsky		3rd	Jo	19 June 2019	An Alien Werewolf in London
40	An Ocean of Sawdust	Paul Starkey		8th		3 October 2019	Harry Houdini's War and Tartarus
41	A Song For Running	Sophie Iles		12th		10 December 2019	Blood on Santa's Claw and Other Stories
42	Not Forgotten	Benjamin Holland-Smith		6th	Peri	17 March 2020	Subterfuge
43	Home Again, Home Again	Felicia Barker		1st	Susan, Ian, Barbara	30 June 2020	The Lovecraft Invasion
44	The Beast of Muir	Nicole Petit	John Banks	4th	Leela	9 September 2020	The Flying Dutchman / Displaced
45	Crime at the Cinema	MH Norris		3rd	Sarah	8 December 2020	Plight of the Pimpernel & The Grey Man of the Mountain
46	Soul Music	Victoria Saxton		10th		16 March 2021	The End of the Beginning

External links

• Official Subscriber Short Trips page at bigfinish.com