The Nameless City (short story)

The Nameless City
Doctor:	Second Doctor
Companion(s):	Jamie
Main enemy:	Archons
Main setting:	London, 1968; The Nameless City, Great Desolation
Key crew
Publisher:	Puffin Books
Writer:	Michael Scott
Read by:	Frazer Hines
Release details
Release number:	2
Release date:	23 February 2013
Format:	E-book, 48 pages, 6 chapters
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The Nameless City was the second Puffin eshort released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. It featured the Second Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon.

It was later published in the short stories anthologies 11 Doctors, 11 Stories, 12 Doctors, 12 Stories and Thirteen Doctors, 13 Stories.

Publisher's summary

When Jamie McCrimmon brings the Second Doctor a mysterious book, little does he realise the danger contained within its pages. The book transports the TARDIS to a terrifying glass city on a distant world, where the Archons are intent on getting revenge on the Time Lord for an ancient grudge.

Plot

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Characters

• Second Doctor
• Jamie McCrimmon
• The Master
• Thug

Worldbuilding

Individuals

• "Thascalos" tells Jamie that he has a bookshop on Charing Cross Road.
• Jamie remembers that Polly, who had known his Doctor before he changed, described him as an "unmade bed", and noted how accurate the description was.

Species

• The ancient Gallifreyans declared war on the Archons and stole their "seeds" in order to grow TARDISes.

Other

• The Doctor is eating an ice cream cone when he meets with Jamie.
• In London, the TARDIS is parked directly opposite the statue of Henry Irving at the back of the National Portrait Gallery.
• The TARDIS' time rotor is broken, and unfit for time-travel.
• The Financial Times states that gold is priced at $37 an ounce.
• The Doctor states that he still has plenty of jewellery from Tut-Ankh-Amen that they can sell.
• The Necronomicon takes the TARDIS to the Great Desolation, a journey that takes more than eight hours.
• Gallifreyans can identify each other by smell.
• The Doctor has almost forgotten what it is like to have a birthday gift.
• The Necronomicon is partially written in Sumerian, Rongorongo and one of the Vedic Scripts.

Notes

• An audiobook of the story was read by Frazer Hines.
• This story was a crossover with the author's young adult novel series, Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, which features the Archons and their Nameless City.
• Second Doctor actor Patrick Troughton had played a character called The Archon in the final episode of Space: 1999. Considering the Archons of The Nameless City came from Michael Scott's young adult novel series Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel, it is not known whether Scott knew of Troughton's character in the final episode of Space: 1999 when he wrote the Second Doctor story The Nameless City.

Continuity

• The Doctor's recorder is plain with blue stripes. (TV: The Three Doctors)
• The Doctor says he's a genius. (TV: The Seeds of Death)
• The Archons dance to the music of the spheres. (TV: Music of the Spheres)
• The Doctor once told Jamie that TARDISes were grown rather than built. (TV: The Impossible Planet)
• Jamie states that the TARDIS had many, many rooms, including an "Olympic-sized swimming pool." (TV: The Invasion of Time)
• The Doctor states that there is plenty of money in the TARDIS, (TV: Doctor Who) specifically in one of the bedrooms. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)
• The Doctor states that for the TARDIS to heal, it needs a transfusion of gold, mercury, and Zeiton-7; a substance that Jamie notes does not exist on Earth. (TV: Vengeance on Varos)
• The Doctor is startled by the TARDIS erupting a male echo of "The Nameless City", as the TARDIS' voice is usually female. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)
• The Doctor states that his TARDIS is an "Old TT Type-40 Mark-III machine" (TV: Let's Kill Hitler)
• The Master uses the alias Professor Thascalos and speaks a language not heard on Earth since the fall of Atlantis. (TV: The Time Monster)
• Jamie uses the battle cry Creag an tuire. (TV: The Highlanders et al.)
• Polly knew the Doctor before he changed. (TV: The War Machines, The Tenth Planet)
• Jamie knows the Doctor is at least 500 years old. The Doctor is seen holding a 500 year diary in TV: The Power of the Daleks.
• The Doctor says "when I say run, run". (TV: The Power of the Daleks et al.)
• The TARDIS needs Zeiton-7 to function. (TV: Vengeance on Varos)
• The Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver. (TV: Fury from the Deep et al.)
• The Doctor has a fire extinguisher that is the property of the London Underground. (TV: The Web of Fear)