Homework (short story)

Homework
Doctor:	Second Doctor
Companion(s):	Jamie, Zoe
Main enemy:	Time-rift apparition
Main setting:	London, the 1970s
Key crew
Writer:	Michael Coen
Release details
Part of:	Short Trips: Defining Patterns
Short Trips short stories
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Homework was the fourteenth short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: Defining Patterns. It was written by Michael Coen. It featured the Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot. It was also published in Short Trips: How the Doctor Changed My Life.

Summary

Whilst doing his homework, a young boy called Norman Bean is visited by a ghost, who orders him to buy a selection of toys which will result in him becoming a rich person in the future. Scared by the strange instruction, Norman is unable to talk to anyone... until a woman called Zoe appears in his life, followed by a Scotsman... and a madman claiming to be a time traveller on the hunt for an escaped entity which originated in a rift at the heart of space and time.

Characters

• Second Doctor
• Jamie McCrimmon
• Zoe Heriot
• Norman Bean
• Norman's mum
• Norman's grandmother

References

• The older Norman is wearing a Buffy the Vampire Slayer T-shirt.
• Young Norman Bean is a fan of football, Kevin Keegan and Roy of the Rovers. He knows of Star Trek, the Beatles and Hot Shot Hamish of Scorcher. He later becomes interested in spacemen.
• The Doctor offers Norman some jelly babies.

Notes

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Continuity

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