Lost in Time and Space: An Unofficial Guide to the Uncharted Journeys of Doctor Who

BBC’s immensely popular Doctor Who series is a significant part of British pop culture and a cult favorite worldwide; the televised episodes, however, are just the tip of the iceberg, as the Doctor has referenced countless encounters never expanded upon onscreen. RiffTrax.com writer Matthew J Elliott has accepted the Herculean task of chronicling those “stories between the stories” in Lost in Time and Space: An Unofficial Guide to the Uncharted Journeys of Doctor Who.

Every character the Doctor met off-screen, every place he visited between episodes, and every event he witnessed while the cameras were turned off are meticulously mapped out on a timeline spanning the entire 50 years of Doctor Who, from long before the Doctor “borrowed” the TARDIS until the last days of his eleventh incarnation. This is not a typical Doctor Who project--but, then, Matthew is not a typical Doctor Who fan.

After five decades of time-traveling adventures, you might imagine you knew all there was to know about the greatest hero in all of time and space, but it turns out he was living another life entirely while we weren't looking. This is the story of that life.

Lost in Time and Space, a softcover volume spanning 350 pages, features an insightful foreword by Alan Barnes, the author of the animated Tenth Doctor adventure The Infinite Quest, and a writer and editor for Big Finish Productions' audio dramas featuring five of the Doctor’s earlier incarnations.

Matthew J Elliott is the author of Sherlock Holmes on the Air (2012), Sherlock Holmes in Pursuit (2013), The Immortals: An Unauthorized Guide to Sherlock and Elementary (2013) and The Throne Eternal (2014). His articles, fiction and reviews have appeared in the magazines Scarlet Street, Total DVD, SHERLOCK, and Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine.

Matthew has also contributed to the collections The Game’s Afoot, Curious Incidents 2 and Gaslight Grimoire. His short story Art in the Blood appeared in The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 8 in the UK, and The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 8 in the US. He is the editor of the collections The Whisperer in Darkness, The Horror in the Museum, The Haunter of the Dark and The Lurking Fear by H P Lovecraft, The Right Hand of Doom and The Haunter of the Ring by Robert E Howard, and A Charlie Chan Omnibus by Earl Derr Biggers.

For radio, he has scripted episodes of The Twilight Zone, Vincent Price Presents, Wrath of the Titans, Logan’s Run: Aftermath, Fangoria’s Dreadtime Stories, The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Jeeves and Wooster, The Perry Mason Radio Dramas, Raffles the Gentleman Thief, The Father Brown Mysteries, Kincaid the Strangeseeker, The Adventures of Harry Nile, The Thinking Machine, Fantom House of Horrors, Allan Quatermain, The Prince and the Pauper and the Audie Award-nominated The War of the Worlds and The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer. He is the creator of The Hilary Caine Mysteries, which first aired in 2005.

His stage play An Evening With Jeeves and Wooster was performed at the Palace Theatre, in Grapevine, Texas, in 2007.

Matthew is probably best-known (if at all) as a writer and performer on RiffTrax.com, the online comedy experience from the creators of cult sci-fi TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K to the initiated). He also writes comic books for Bluewater Productions.

He lives in the North-West of England with his wife and daughter.