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{{Infobox Story
|series = ''[[Brief Encounter]]''
|name=Time on a Vine
|series=[[Brief Encounter]]
|doctor=Fifth Doctor
|doctor=Fifth Doctor
|companions=an unnamed woman
|companions=[[Business woman (Time on a Vine)|Business woman]]
|setting=an unnamed planet
|image=
|writer=[[John Lydecker]]
|release date = 1 October 1991
|setting=[[Planet (Time on a Vine)|Unnamed planet]]
|writer = John Lydecker
|illustrator=[[Paul Vyse]]
|illustrator=[[Paul Vyse]]
|publication=[[Doctor Who Yearbook 1992]]
|publication = ''[[Doctor Who Yearbook 1992]]''
|prev=Future Imperfect (short story)
|prev=Future Imperfect (short story)
|next=The Deal (short story)
|next = The Deal (short story)
|series2=[[Doctor Who Yearbook]]
|series2=''[[Doctor Who Yearbook]]''
|prev2=Under Pressure (comic story)
|prev2 = Under Pressure (comic story)
|next2=Under Pressure (comic story)
|next2=Under Pressure (comic story)
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a ''[[Brief Encounter]]'' short story published in the ''[[Doctor Who Yearbook 1992]]''.
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a ''[[Brief Encounter]]'' short story published in the ''[[Doctor Who Yearbook 1992]]''.


== Summary ==
== Summary ==
The Doctor rescues a young female executive on an alien planet.
The [[Fifth Doctor]] rescues a young woman on an [[Planet (Time of a Vine)|alien planet]].


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Fifth Doctor]]
* [[Fifth Doctor]]
* an unnamed woman
* [[Business woman (Time on a Vine)|Business woman]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Doctor appears to be travelling alone in this story.
* The woman recalls the previous companions mentioned by the Doctor — [[Teela]], [[Tegan]], [[Leela]], [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]], [[Romana]], [[Nyssa]] and [[Victoria Waterfield|Victoria]].
* In the [[22nd century]], the company the woman advises makes a discovery that helps change the course of an interspecies war. Presumably, it is an agent of the losing side which snatches the woman from her own time and abandons her on the alien planet in an attempt to change this, although this is never specified.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* The events of this story take place over eighteen months, from the Doctor rescuing the woman to returning her to her own time.
* The events of this story take place over eighteen months, from the Doctor rescuing the woman to returning her to her own time.
* Mention is made of a former companion named "Teela", but this is probably a typographical error of the name "[[Leela]]".


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor mentions [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] as being one of his former companions, so the story appears to be at some unspecified point after [[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'', while either [[Turlough]] or [[Peri]] is presumably having a break from the [[TARDIS]].
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* The Doctor also mentions [[Leela]], [[Zoe Heriot|Zoe]], [[Romana]], [[Nyssa]], and [[Victoria Waterfield|Victoria]].


== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{dwrefguide|brief.htm#yb1992b|Time on a Vine}}
{{dwrefguide|brief.htm#yb1992b|Time on a Vine}}
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Time on a Vine was a Brief Encounter short story published in the Doctor Who Yearbook 1992.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Fifth Doctor rescues a young woman on an alien planet.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The events of this story take place over eighteen months, from the Doctor rescuing the woman to returning her to her own time.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]