The Scruffy Piper (short story)

The Scruffy Piper

Main setting:

Hamlyn

Key crew

Writer:

Justin Richards

Read by:

Nicholas Briggs

Release details

Part of:

Time Lord Fairy Tales

Release date:

1 October 2015

Reprinted in:

Time Lord Fairy Tales: Slipcase Edition

Audio clip

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The Scruffy Piper was the tenth short story in Time Lord Fairy Tales, featuring the Second Doctor.

Publisher's summary Edit

Space Station Hamlyn is under siege. Thousands of small metal creatures are flying through space, sent by silver warriors to burrow inside the station. The crew's only hope is a slightly scruffy-looking stranger, with a recorder and a mysterious blue box . . .

Plot Edit

to be added

Characters Edit

References Edit

Although they do not directly appear, it is indicated that the Second Doctor is travelling with Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot at this time.

Notes Edit

This story was based on The Pied Piper.
The audiobook of this story was read by Nicholas Briggs.

Time Lord Fairy Tales

The Garden of Statues • Frozen Beauty • Cinderella and the Magic Box • The Twins in the Wood • The Three Little Sontarans • Jak and the Wormhole • Snow White and the Seven Keys to Doomsday • Little Rose Riding Hood • The Gingerbread Trap • The Scruffy Piper • Helana and the Beast • Andiba and the Four Slitheen • The Grief Collector • The Three Brothers Gruff • Sirgwain and the Green Knight • The Emperor Dalek's New Clothes

Cyberman stories

Television

The Tenth Planet • The Moonbase • The Tomb of the Cybermen • The Wheel in Space • The Invasion • Revenge of the Cybermen • Earthshock • The Five Doctors • Attack of the Cybermen • Silver Nemesis • Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel • Army of Ghosts / Doomsday • Cyberwoman • The Next Doctor • The Pandorica Opens • Closing Time • Nightmare in Silver • Dark Water / Death in Heaven • World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls • Ascension of the Cybermen / The Timeless Children

Video games

Destiny of the Doctors • Save Paris • Cyber Assault • Ghostwatch • Return to Earth • The Mazes of Time • Blood of the Cybermen • The Eternity Clock • The Doctor and the Dalek

Prose

Birth of a Renegade • Heliotrope Bouquet • Iceberg • Killing Ground • Illegal Alien • Going Off the Rails • Made of Steel • Plague of the Cybermen • Status Update • The Piper • The Mondas Touch • Dr. First • The Patchwork Pierrot • Alit in Underland

Comics

The Coming of the Cybermen • Flower Power • Cyber-Mole • The Cyber Empire • Eskimo Joe • Masquerade • The Time Museum • Test Flight • Junk-Yard Demon • Throwback: The Soul of a Cyberman • Deathworld • Black Legacy • Revelation! • Genesis! • The World Shapers • The Good Soldier • Dreadnought • The Flood • The Power of the Cybermen / Drones of Doom / Enemy Mine / Time of the Cybermen • In-Flight Entertainment • Assimilation² • The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who • Conversion • Untitled • Cyber Crisis • Supremacy of the Cybermen • The Bidding War

The Cybermen	The Dead Heart • The Flesh Unbound • The Black Sky • The Hungry Sea • The Dark Flame • The Future Perfect • The Ugly Underneath • The Prodigal Returns

Supremacy of the Cybermen prologues	Prologue: The First Doctor • Prologue: The Second Doctor • Prologue: The Fourth Doctor • Prologue: The Fifth Doctor • Prologue: The Sixth Doctor • Prologue: The Seventh Doctor • Prologue: The Eighth Doctor • Prologue: The War Doctor