For David Bowie’s birthday, adventure hooks based on his studio albums’ song titles.
Black Tie White Noise has enough for a regular BBC season...
The Wedding
The Stranger is asked to officiate at a wedding that will unite two galactic civilisations. Or to be the groom. Or the bride. Or something. The invitation’s rather vague.
You’ve Been Around
The travellers arrive on a new world to find people waving and saying “good morning” and addressing them by name and chatting amiably like they’re neighbours. Have they been here before?
(Or: The travellers arrive to find the TARDIS surrounded by police and news crews within minutes of arriving. It seems they saved the planet last week.)
I Feel Free
The travellers are sent to a 77th Century prison planet for a crime they absolutely did commit but which was legal when they did it four thousand years earlier. How do they escape, who was responsible for this miscarriage of justice, and how many of their old enemies are here too?
Black Tie White Noise
The travellers attend a jazz show in Weimar Berlin and have to save the trumpeter from an alien art thief trying to collect him which would rewrite 20th Century Western music.
Jump They Say
Something sinister living under the streets, best not to walk across the road too slowly.
Nite Flights
A plane sets off with two hundred and thirty-three people on board and lands with two hundred and thirty-four. And then another like it, and another. Always on night flights taking off and landing after dark.
Pallas Athena
An ancient city’s patron god reappears, over a thousand years and a move to a new religion after she was last seen.
Miracle Goodnight
A children’s hospital sees a dramatic rise in recoveries from serious conditions. What could be behind this, and why?
Don’t Let Me Down & Down
The travellers have to spelunk into an ancient cave complex to look for a missing group of explorers. Comments from a modern companion about dungeons and/or dragons will become slightly awkward once they spot something watching from the dark...
Looking For Lester
One day, everyone with a certain fairly-common name in London disappears for forty minutes.
I Know It’s Gonna Happen Someday
One of the travellers meets the love of their life. Who really shouldn’t be on this planet or in this century.
The Wedding Song
The travellers are invited to one of River Song’s weddings, and not one of the ones the Stranger remembers happening.
Special: Lucy Can’t Dance
The travellers find themselves backstage at Strictly Come Dancing, and have to make sure one of the contestants makes it through to round two.
