Hello everyone! 🙂
Welcome to ‘Bradley’s Basement’ blog and I’m Tim Bradley!
This year, it’s my blog’s 10th anniversary! 🙂 To celebrate the occasion, I’ve decided to share a series of blog posts containing reflections on how much I’ve achieved with my blog these past 10 years. There’s plenty to talk about, so let me share some highlights. 🙂
One of the things I’m very pleased with concerning my blog is the fact that I’ve been able to share my series of ‘Doctor Who’ stories featuring the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Billy. I didn’t think that I would ever get to share these stories featuring my favourite characters.
From 2010 to 2015, I worked on my ‘Fifth Doctor’ series from ‘The Railway of Time’ to ‘Orionis’. It’s just as well as that I wrote my initial ‘Fifth Doctor’ series in that period before I discovered about WordPress and being able to create my own website for my own leisure.
As soon as I found my way around my blog in its various posts and pages, I became confident in sharing my first set of ‘Doctor Who’ stories with the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Billy, including ‘The Railway of Time’, ‘The Space Hotel’ and ‘Doom of the Daleks’, in 2016.
The reception to my ‘Fifth Doctor’ series was very positive in 2016 that I decided to share the rest of the series on my blog in the years to come. I also wrote some brand-new ‘Doctor Who’ stories to fill in some gaps, including ‘The Tree of Riverloth’, which I enjoyed writing.
I also got the chance to write ‘The Prime Factor’ – a story that features many elements, particularly in being a prequel/sequel to ‘Arc of Infinity’ with Maxil and the Castellan, as well as having the Kraals and cameos of past and future Doctors and companions in it. 🙂
Without my ‘Fifth Doctor’ series of ‘Doctor Who’ stories, I wouldn’t be able to create my own collection of Short Trips, featuring other Doctors and companions. I wouldn’t have written the ‘Zorbius’ series, which features stories from the First to the Thirteenth Doctors.
I wouldn’t have got to work with the Divergent Wordsmiths and write some fabulous stories, including ones featuring the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Billy such as ‘Psychic Image’, ‘Into the Death-Space’ and ‘Interdimensional Rescue’, which are my personal favourites.
Without my ‘Fifth Doctor’ series, I wouldn’t have been able to put together my epic three-part ‘Doctor Who’ story to celebrate 60 years of the TV show called ‘The Thirteen+ Doctors’. It was a very challenging story to write, but I had great fun writing it from 2022 to 2023.
From my meetings with actors like Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton at conventions, I’ve been inspired with writing more of my ‘Fifth Doctor’ series far more than I ever could have possibly imagined compared to when I penned the initial run of stories from 2010 to 2015.
It’s amazing to think I would get to write and share my ‘Doctor Who’ stories online, especially in script form. I’ve always imagined these stories performed by actors like Peter Davison and Sarah Sutton, as I’ve wanted to write for them as their characters. 🙂
I doubt these stories will ever be adapted by Big Finish for audio, as there’s bound to be legalities to consider before that ever happens. I’m very happy that I can share these stories with everyone on what I would like to see and hear in a ‘Doctor Who’ series.
I’m currently working on uploading the rest of my ‘Fifth Doctor’ series with ‘Swing Time’, ‘Terileptils’ Revenge’, ‘The Blood of Honos’ and ‘Orionsis’ waiting to be shared. Hopefully, I’ll be sharing these stories soon enough to showcase the end of a particular TARDIS trio.
It’s been very rewarding to share these stories online and I’m glad ‘Bradley’s Basement’ has provided the platform for me to share what I love about ‘Doctor Who’ in writing stories featuring my favourite characters. So, stay tuned! There’s plenty more to look forward to.
Thanks for reading!
Bye for now!
Tim 🙂
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I think I just jumped a time track (far safer than ‘out of my skin’). The Prime Factor is six years old? It only feels like last month.
Writing, editing and publishing Divergent Wordsmiths under Alan Camlann, I can safely say that Tim Bradley was one of our ever-reliables. His stories almost always came in early, to spec, and with a quite particular Bradley-ness to them.
You always knew what you were going to get with Tim. Something that challenged the brain or tapped into something archetypally Doctor Who. What could that be? Anything. Everything from a Kimba-like crisis with lions to a mathematical death-trap worthy of The Crystal Maze.
And yet, somehow, in between the work he did for Divergent Wordsmiths, he also managed to run his own saga. The Fifth Doctor, Nyssa and Billy, naturally, but also dabbles with other Doctors across Space and Time. There is never a loss of passion, energy or enthusiasm for his work. That’s remarkable.
When Divergent Wordsmiths came to a close, in fact, one of the biggest tragedies was knowing that we wouldn’t be able to show off another Tim Bradley story. This was true of writers across the board, and Bradley’s Basement, in particular, had been a mainstay for helping Divergent Wordsmiths become known to others.
While that chapter has come to a close — with the Fifth Doctor’s journey with Nyssa and Billy soon, likewise, to come to a crescendo — I’ve no doubt that Bradley’s Basement will continue for a long time yet.
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Hi Wolfie,
Many thanks for your kind words.
Yes, I know. Amazing that I wrote ‘The Prime Factor’ in 2019 and it’s been six years since I shared it on ‘Bradley’s Basement’. I’m very pleased I wrote that story, especially with it being a prequel/sequel to ‘Arc of Infinity’ and featuring Maxil and the Castellan as well as the Kraals and cameos of other Doctors and companions leading up to the Thirteenth Doctor at the time. This was way before I put together ‘The Thirteen+ Doctors’ for ‘Doctor Who’s 60th anniversary.
Writing for the Divergent Wordsmiths was an absolute joy for me, as I got to write some amazing stories. As well as ‘Psychic Image’, ‘Into the Death-Space’ and ‘Interdimensional Rescue’, I enjoyed writing ‘The Crimson Lion’, ‘The Regeneration Dilemma’ and ‘Girl Out of Nowhere’. I didn’t think I’d get to write a story featuring the Trevor Martin Doctor from ‘Seven Keys to Doomsday’ in ‘The City of the Bad Wolf’. Nor did I think I would write the Tenth Doctor and Donna meeting Clara in ‘The Popiz’.
I’m very pleased we worked on ‘The Sunfire Chronicles’, especially with linking all four stories with different teams of Doctors and companions, including the buildup to the final story ‘Quasar of Sarfenia’. I’m saddened that was the last collaboration with the Divergent Wordsmiths at the time and I’m saddened the Divergent Wordsmiths stopped in 2024. But the happy memories of working with you Wolfie as the editor of the Divergent Wordsmiths as well as with other writers like A F J Kernow still remain, especially when working on the 60th anniversary celebrations for stories like ‘Interdimensional Rescue’ and ‘The Thirteen+ Doctors’. They were a challenge and a joy to put together.
At this stage, ‘The Fifth Doctor by Tim Bradley’ is finding its way towards its conclusion, even as I’m putting together the next story ‘Swing Time’ in the series. When it does come to a close, it’ll be a very emotional swansong. But that’s not to say it’ll be entirely over. There’s more to look forward to when it comes to my ‘Doctor Who’ stories on ‘Bradley’s Basement’, but that’s just to tease you and everyone else for now.
Best wishes,
Tim 🙂
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