Emily in July, 1999:
Is it just me, or is Doctor Who short fiction rubbish?
(from Doctor Who: Novels: Short Stories: Virgin/BBC/Penguin/Charity Short Stories)

A quarter of a century (half your life!) later, I'd be curious what you'd consider the best short trips, written or aural.

And worst if you like, though I do find the worse ones served so well by their brevity that they come off more as forgettable missteps.

Not just Emily of course, though she's certainly the one who's consumed the most.

Oh god.

I doubt the ones I've actually ENJOYED will justify a whole thread so I might move it later, but...

...Oh.

The Lawrence Miles and Steven Moffat stories (The Judgement of Solomon and Consequences) that were THE ONLY THINGS I THOUGHT OF are technically Decalogs rather than Short Trips.

*Sigh*

Audio-wise, Regeneration Impossible is great...well, mostly...it runs out of steam and goes on a bit though you'd think a good story could sustain HALF AN HOUR for heaven's sake.

Book-wise, just search for the word 'fun' in Short Stories: Big Finish short stories cos I'm damned if I remember much about most of 'em but I trust my own judgement.

Oh, and there's also A Universe of Terrors: Mauritz which will haunt and traumatise the rest of your life so it gets points for that, I s'pose.

I had one published once - One Step Forward, Two Steps Back in Short Trips: Defining Patterns - which came out in 2008, nine years after Emily's 1999 comment.