has said "I’m sure there was a very good reason for that at one point, but if there is, I’ve forgotten it". Other works Around 1999, Parkin joined Virgin alumni Rebecca Levene and Gareth Roberts to work on the production team of television soap Emmerdale. He also once appeared as an extra in the series. Though he never scripted episodes for television, he later wrote both non-fiction (including 30 Years of Emmerdale) and fiction (Mandy's Secret Diary, Their Finest Hour) connected to the series. He has not worked in TV since leaving Emmerdale. Parkin also writes non-fiction, including guides to Star Trek (Beyond the Final Frontier) and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series (Dark Matters: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Philip Pullman's 'Dark Materials' Trilogy), both written with long-time friend Mark Jones, and Secret Identities: An Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Alias with Mark Clapham. This was followed by Miranda, a comic based on a character in his Doctor Who novel Father Time. The comic was published through Comeuppance Comics, an independent comic company that shut down after three issues. With Parkin's permission, Miranda was killed off in the Doctor Who book Sometime Never... by Justin Richards. Parkin also wrote The Winning Side, the first in the Time Hunter novella series, a spin-off from Telos Publishing's line of official Doctor Who novellas, and Warlords of Utopia, the third in Mad Norwegian Press's Faction Paradox series of novels. Parkin had a regular column, "Beige Planet Lance" in the Doctor Who fanzine Enlightenment, which was published by the Doctor Who Information Network. Selected bibliography Doctor Who and related works Virgin New Adventures/Virgin Missing Adventures: Just War (1996; featuring the Seventh Doctor) Cold Fusion (1996; featuring the Fifth and Seventh Doctors) The Dying Days (1997; featuring the Eighth Doctor) Beige Planet Mars (with Mark Clapham, 1998; featuring Bernice Summerfield) BBC Books' Doctor Who series: The Infinity Doctors (1998; featuring an unspecified Doctor) Father Time (2001; featuring the Eighth Doctor) Trading Futures (2002; featuring the Eighth Doctor) The Gallifrey Chronicles (2005; the last novel in the regular series featuring the Eighth Doctor) The Eyeless (December 2008; featuring the Tenth Doctor) Big Finish Productions: Just War (1999; Bernice Summerfield audio by Jacqueline Rayner, based on the novel by Lance Parkin) The Extinction Event (2001; Bernice Summerfield audio) Primeval (2001; Doctor Who audio featuring the Fifth Doctor) Davros (2003; Doctor Who audio featuring the Sixth