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* Barbara claims to have learned her lesson about changing history in [[Mexico]] in the [[15th century]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Aztecs (TV story)|The Aztecs]]'')
* Barbara claims to have learned her lesson about changing history in [[Mexico]] in the [[15th century]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Aztecs (TV story)|The Aztecs]]'')
* Barbara remembers her travels in the TARDIS to [[1289]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'') [[1794]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Reign of Terror (TV story)|The Reign of Terror]]'') [[1692]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Witch Hunters (novel)|The Witch Hunters]]'') the [[28th century]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sensorites (TV story)|The Sensorites]]'') and the [[30th century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Room for Improvement (short story)|Room for Improvement]]'') She also knows of the significance of [[1066]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]]'')
* Barbara remembers her travels in the TARDIS to [[1289]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Marco Polo (TV story)|Marco Polo]]'') [[1794]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Reign of Terror (TV story)|The Reign of Terror]]'') [[1692]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Witch Hunters (novel)|The Witch Hunters]]'') the [[28th century]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sensorites (TV story)|The Sensorites]]'') and the [[30th century]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Room for Improvement (short story)|Room for Improvement]]'') She also knows of the significance of [[1066]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler]]'')
* A successful WOTAN, refered to as the Machine, was indirectly responsible for the outbreak of [[World War III]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Machines (TV story)|The War Machines]]'')
* A successful WOTAN, referred to as the Machine, was indirectly responsible for the outbreak of [[World War III]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Machines (TV story)|The War Machines]]'')
* In the [[alternate timeline|alternative timeline]] in [[1972]], British scientists use the [[Dalek]] technology which they salvaged from [[Coal Hill School]] in the aftermath of the [[Shoreditch Incident]] in [[November]] [[1963]] to build a time machine. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
* In the [[alternate timeline|alternative timeline]] in [[1972]], British scientists use the [[Dalek]] technology which they salvaged from [[Coal Hill School]] in the aftermath of the [[Shoreditch Incident]] in [[November]] [[1963]] to build a time machine. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
* The [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] now live permanently at the [[South Pole]] following an alternate version of events at [[Snowcap]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'')
* The [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] now live permanently at the [[South Pole]] following an alternate version of events at [[Snowcap]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'')

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The Time Travellers was the seventy-fourth BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel. It was written by Simon Guerrier. It featured the First Doctor, Susan, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright. This novel is sequel to several stories which hadn't happened yet in the Doctor's timeline and therefore occur differently, with different outcomes from The War Machines, The Tenth Planet and Remembrance of the Daleks affecting the alternate future shown in this novel.

Publisher's summary

"Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the fourth dimension, to be exiles?"

24 June, 2006. The TARDIS has landed in London. Ian and Barbara are almost back home. But this isn't the city they knew. This city is a ruin, torn apart by war. A war that the British are losing.

With his friends mistaken for vagrants and sentenced to death, the Doctor is press-ganged into helping perfect a weapon that might just turn the tables in the war. The British Army has discovered time travel. And the consequences are already devastating.

What has happened to the world that Ian and Barbara once knew? How much of the experiment do the Doctor and Susan really understand?

And, despite all the Doctor has said to the contrary, is it actually possible to change history?

Plot

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Characters

References

Individuals

Technology

  • After the WOTAN (successful) invasion, Britain outlawed radio communications devices, as WOTAN had used them to take over peoples' minds.
  • The South Africans have weapons and technology supplied to them by the Cybermen occupying the Arctic.
  • Dalek technology from the Shoreditch Incident helped the British create their time machine.

Notes

  • Unlike most novels in the BBC Past Doctor Adventures (and Virgin Missing Adventures), the back cover does not specify what television stories it is set between. However, it clearly takes place right after Planet of Giants. Chapter One opens with the Doctor saying his closing lines from that story: "I think we're beginning to materialise. Perhaps I shall know now where we are." The main characters are also described as wearing the same clothes, such as the Doctor's cloak and Susan's dungarees, and their previous adventure is also said to have been rough on Barbara.
  • The epilogue of this novel follows the last scenes of the television story The Chase with Ian and Barbara on the bus.
  • The dystopian future of this story is the result of the events of the television story The War Machines — here, WOTAN was successful in temporarily conquering the planet. It is strongly suggested, though not outright said, that this is in fact what was meant to happen to Earth and that the Doctor's involvement changed history.
  • On the cover of this novel, the real world sculpture Traffic Light Tree, located in London, England, is featured.

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