Stories Short Story Big Finish Short Trips Story: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 Losing the Audience 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews 1 Statistics Quotes Overview Released March 2008 Written by Mat Coward Pages 22 Time Travel Present Location (Potential Spoilers!) Earth, England, London Synopsis Losing the Audience was the third short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: Defining Patterns. It was written by Mat Coward. It was notable for featuring the First Doctor and Susan visiting 76 Totter's Lane in 1963 before they eventually settled there. Read Read Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Characters First Doctor Susan The Shakers Show All Characters (3) How to read Losing the Audience: Books Doctor Who Short Trips: Defining Patterns Books Re:Collections Reviews Add Review Edit Review Sort: Newest First Oldest First Most Likes Highest Rating Lowest Rating Username (A-Z) Username (Z-A) Spoilers First Spoilers Last 1 review 28 May 2024 · 283 words Review by Rock_Angel Spoilers 1 This review contains spoilers! We start in 1955 Max a Radio show host is following a women alone home not to do anything bad but to make sure she gets home safe as his audience are being killed. He looses her however and she is later found dead. The Doctor tries to fix the Tardis with Susan trying to leave totters lane for a while and they fly it ending up in London 1955 not there goal at all. Meeting Max Wheeler who then goes on to tell the doctor about his worries about the audience going missing presumed murdered. Susan is very well written very much like a weird teenager trying to get used to 1960s Britian. The Doctor starts to connect local deaths and the audience being missing as the same and wondering if the hum in the BBC studio might be linked. deciding to stay and help Susan and 1st decide to watch the show and keep an eye on the audience from there. Max also tells the Doctor about the Shakers, an alien race some people made a deal with during WW2 to win the war. They ended up being unneeded and forgotten about. Of course they are behind all this not knowing the war is over, this then leads to a quick trap for the Shakers saving the day. The story ends with the Doctor and Susan travelling back too 1963 Totters Lane by accident out of all of the places to end up. I found this story quite dull unfortunately it took a while to get into. It was there for harder to make notes on then usual because of that too. I feel I also just didn't really enjoy reading it either unfortunately Like Liked 1 Open in new window Statistics More Ratings Needed! 3 ratings The Time Scales AVG. Rating1 votes 4.50 / 5 Member Statistics Read 5 Favourited 0 Reviewed 1 Saved 1 Skipped 0 Owned 0 Quotes Add Quote Submit a Quote