Far From Home (Short Trips: Past Tense)

Prose  Some of the themes in Big Finish's anthologies are looser than others.  Past Tense collects short stories which are all set in Earth's past, which is a handy way of putting together disparate ideas from a range of writers.  Alison Lawson's piece has the Doctor follow a distress call to rural Wales in 1928 in the hopes of averting an early Roswell incident.  It's presented mostly from the point of view two local schoolboys and has the atmosphere of an Enid Blyton novel or or a 1980s schools literacy programme (some of the grizzlier material would have almost certainly be granted a section in Scarred For Life) as they encounter numerous male authority figures while they truant from school to help the Time Lord in his mission.

Placement:  Feels like an early "life's champion" tale in the period when he's making up for past mistakes, so let's put it arbitrarily pre-Dying Days.