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The Taking of Chelsea 426

Key crew

Publisher:

BBC Books

Writer:

David Llewellyn

Read by:

Christopher Ryan

Cover by:

Lee Binding

Release details

Release number:

34

Release date:

3 September 2009

Format:

Hardcover, 241 Pages

ISBN:

ISBN 978-1-84607-758-6

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The Taking of Chelsea 426 was the thirty-fourth novel in the BBC New Series Adventures series. It was written by David Llewellyn and featured the Tenth Doctor.

Publisher's summary[[edit]]

The Chelsea Flower Show - hardly the most exciting or dangerous event in the calendarr, or so the Doctor thinks. But this is Chelsea 426, a city-sized future colony floating on the clouds of Saturn, and the flowers are much more than they seem.

As the Doctor investigates, he becomes more and more worried. Who is shopkeeper Mr Pemberton acting so strangely? And what is Professor Wilberforce's terrible secret?

They are close to finding the answers when a familiar foe arrives, and the stakes suddenly get much higher. The Sontarans have plans of their own, and they're not here to arrange flowers..

Plot[[edit]]

to be added

Characters[[edit]]

Worldbuilding[[edit]]

The Rutans and the Sontarans are present.
According to the Doctor, it is about due for the Third Renaissance.

Food and Beverages[[edit]]

The Doctor cannot stand pears. He drinks orange juice in the Grand Hotel.

Notes[[edit]]

This book continues the theme set by the BBC Tenth Doctor Adventures line for 2009, featuring returning monsters from the TV series. It also continues a series of novels in which the Doctor travels without a companion.
David Llewellyn also wrote the Torchwood novel Trace Memory ^[+]Loading...["Trace Memory (novel)"], and would later go on to write extensively for Big Finish.
The title is a reference to the novel and film The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. The number is also reminiscent of the 456, an alien race introduced a few months prior to the book's release in Children of Earth.
The Doctor asks Vienna, "The city or the song?" The song may be a reference to the song by Ultravox, the song by Billy Joel or the Owl City song "Dear Vienna".
This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.
Several elements introduced in this story would later be reused in Llewellyn's novel Night of the Humans ^[+]Loading...["Night of the Humans (novel)"] including the Hexions, Mercutio 14 and the Herald of Nanking.
The Doctor's dislike or pears references the Seventh Doctor's distaste for them in the novel Human Nature ^[+]Loading...["Human Nature (novel)"] from the Virgin New Adventures. The same reference to pears was originally filmed for the televised adaptation of the story in Series 3, but this scene was deleted. The Taking of Chelsea 426, therefore, essentially preserved this characteristic into the revived era. It was eventually directly referenced on television in Series 9's Hell Bent ^[+]Loading...["Hell Bent (TV story)"], and again in Series 10's Christmas Special, Twice Upon a Time ^[+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"]. Incidentally, the latter was novelised by Paul Cornell, who also wrote both versions of Human Nature.

Continuity[[edit]]

The Sontarans last appeared on screen in TV: The Sontaran Stratagem ^[+]Loading...["The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)"] / The Poison Sky ^[+]Loading...["The Poison Sky (TV story)"] and TV: Enemy of the Bane ^[+]Loading...["Enemy of the Bane (TV story)"]. They last appeared in print in PROSE: The Sontaran Games ^[+]Loading...["The Sontaran Games (novel)"].
The Rutans last appeared on screen in TV: Horror of Fang Rock. To date, this is their only on-screen appearance.
The events of TV: The Two Doctors ^[+]Loading...["The Two Doctors (TV story)"] and The Time Warrior ^[+]Loading...["The Time Warrior (TV story)"] are mentioned.
Chelsea 426 was founded by the Interplanetary Mining Corporation. (TV: Colony in Space ^[+]Loading...["Colony in Space (TV story)"])
The Doctor mentions a Krynoid. (TV: The Seeds of Doom ^[+]Loading...["The Seeds of Doom (TV story)"])
While in the TARDIS, Jake plays with the crate of items beginning with C, last seen in TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp ^[+]Loading...["The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)"]. Its contents include an Agatha Christie novel, the Carrionite globe and a Cyberman's chest plate.
The Doctor declares a dislike of pears. (PROSE: Human Nature ^[+]Loading...["Human Nature (novel)","Human Nature"])
At the end of the novel, the Doctor looks around the empty TARDIS. He also did this before his second meeting with Donna Noble. (TV: Partners in Crime ^[+]Loading...["Partners in Crime (TV story)","Partners in Crime"])
The Doctor says "For one thing I've had my fair share of angry mothers lately" (TV: Aliens of London ^[+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"], The Lazarus Experiment ^[+]Loading...["The Lazarus Experiment (TV story)"], Partners in Crime ^[+]Loading...["Partners in Crime (TV story)"])
The Doctor mentions the Battle of Olympus Mons. (PROSE: Transit ^[+]Loading...["Transit (novel)"])

Audiobook[[edit]]

This novel was released as an audiobook in September 2010 by BBC Audio and read by Christopher Ryan.

Audiobook cover

External links[[edit]]

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+'''''The Taking of Chelsea 426''''' was the thirty-fourth novel in the [[BBC New Series Adventures]] series. It was [[Writer|written]] by [[David Llewellyn]] and featured the [[Tenth Doctor]].
-== Publisher's Summary ==
+== Publisher's summary ==
-The [[Chelsea Flower Show]] – Hardly the most exciting or dangerous event in the calendar, or so the Doctor thinks. But this is [[Chelsea 426]], a city-sized future colony floating on the clouds of [[Saturn]], and the flowers are much more than they seem.
+The [[Chelsea Flower Show]] - hardly the most [[Excitement|exciting]] or [[danger]]ous event in the [[calendar]]r, or so [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] thinks. But this is [[Chelsea 426]], a [[city]]-sized future [[colony]] floating on the [[cloud]]s of [[Saturn]], and the [[flower]]s are much more than they seem.
-As the Doctor investigates, he becomes more and more worried. Why is shopkeeper [[Pemberton|Mr Pemberton]] acting so strangely? And what is Professor Wilberforce’s terrible secret?
+As the Doctor [[Investigation|investigates]], he becomes more and more worried. Who is shopkeeper [[Pemberton (The Taking of Chelsea 426)|Mr Pemberton]] acting so strangely? And what is [[Professor]] [[Wilberforce (The Taking of Chelsea 426)|Wilberforce's]] [[Rutan|terrible secret]]?
-They are close to finding the answers when a familiar foe arrives, and the stakes suddenly get much higher. The Sontarans have plans of their own, and they’re not here to arrange flowers...
+They are close to finding the answers when a familiar foe arrives, and the stakes suddenly get much higher. The [[Sontaran]]s have plans of their own, and [[Rutan-Sontaran War|they're not here to arrange flowers]]..
-== The Plot ==
+== Plot ==
-On the colony of Chelsea 426. An eager women by the name of Alice Wendall asks the professor Wilberforce about the discovery of ammonia in the atmosphere, which the professor knows about, and he responds by attacking her with a flower of the colony. She is later seen with him and asks him about the Newcomers, in which, the professor states will number in the ''thousands''.
+''to be added''
+== Characters ==
+* [[Alice Wendell]]
+* [[Professor]] [[Wilberforce (The Taking of Chelsea 426)|Wilberforce]]
+* [[Jake Carstairs]]
+* [[Vienna Carstairs]]
+* [[Tenth Doctor]]
+* [[Brian Carstairs]]
+* [[Bess Carstairs]]
+* [[Mynah bird]]
+* [[Pemberton (The Taking of Chelsea 426)|Mr Pemberton]]
+* [[Wallace Fitch]]
+* [[Smalls|Mr Smalls]]
+* [[Sedgefield|Mr Sedgefield]]
+* [[Zeke (The Taking of Chelsea 426)|Zeke]]
+* [[Assistant (The Taking of Chelsea 426)|Assistant]]
+* [[Bruno (The Taking of Chelsea 426)|Bruno]]
+* [[Major|Field Marshal]] [[Henry Whittington Smythe]]
+* [[Usher (The Taking of Chelsea 426)|Usher]]
+* [[Bashford (The Taking of Chelsea 426)|Sergeant Bashford]]
+* [[Sarg (The Taking of Chelsea 426)|Colonel Sarg]]
+* [[Kade|General Kade]]
+* [[Thomas (The Taking of Chelsea 426)|Captain Thomas]]
+* [[Zack]]
+* [[Jenny (The Taking of Chelsea 426)|Jenny]]
+* [[Strom|Commander Strom]]
+== Worldbuilding ==
+* The [[Rutan]]s and the [[Sontaran]]s are present.
+* According to the Doctor, it is about due for the [[Third Renaissance]].
-Two children, named [[Jake Carstairs]] and [[Vienna Carstairs]] are watching all the Newcomers landing on the colony, as they watch in the hotel room, they figure their father, Mr. [[Brian Carstairs|Carstairs]] will be angry because they were up there. As they start to leave, their father states he's not had a good rest for a fairly long time, and when they come down, he discovers they went up the elevator, so he scolds his children, stating he hopes there isn't a mess remotely anywhere. As he's talking a man in a blue suit called the[[Tenth Doctor| Doctor]] walks in, asking if they have any rooms, which they do. They ask for his name, and he replies "The Doctor" only to be asked for his full name, where he uses his fake name "John Smith". The family is distrustful of the Doctor, and as they give him the room, Mr. Carstairs wants some cleaning supplies, so he gives his kids a ten dollar bill, and after this, the Doctor asks if he can join. Even though distrustful, they allow it.
+=== Food and Beverages ===
+* The Doctor cannot stand [[pear]]s. He drinks [[orange juice]] in the Grand Hotel.
-The[[Tenth Doctor| Doctor]] is walking with the kids and asks them about the town, and they respond with the colony rules stating many strict, harsh rules, that the Doctor mocks with some jokes, and the kids are amused by that. As they enter the shop, Mr Pemberton is telling his employee [[Wallace Fitch]] to get some supplies, while muttering about mice. The man is calm with the children, but the Doctor proves to be a strange fellow to him, and he reluctantly asks about him, and the Doctor tells him he's the Doctor. The man is still very strange man to Mr. Pemberton, who tells the kids it will cost them twelve dollars, but they only have ten, so they promise to pay him back, which he agrees to. When the Doctor and the kids leave, he says things that suggest he knows who he is.
-The kids are leaving when the Doctor spots a television with a man familiar to him, which the kids state to have been in cryogenics for five hundred years, and that's when the Doctor realizes it was a man named Mr. Smalls, who has shown dislike to. He is ranting about the Newcomers and what they will do to the colony, and he even insults the mayor for lack of support agains them. Meanwhile, Mr. Pemberton tells professor Wilberforce about the Doctor, and he shows awareness of the Doctor, clapping in joy. The Doctor is sitting next to some Major who is telling stories about his past, and Mr. Carstairs asks the Doctor if the Major is bothering him, as he and others are bored of his speeches, but the Doctor is fine with him.
+== Notes ==
+* This book continues the theme set by the [[BBC Tenth Doctor Adventures]] line for [[2009 (releases)|2009]], featuring returning monsters from the TV series. It also continues a series of novels in which the Doctor travels without a [[companion]].
+* [[David Llewellyn]] also wrote the [[BBC Torchwood Novels|Torchwood]] novel {{cs|Trace Memory (novel)}}, and would later go on to write extensively for [[Big Finish]].
+* The title is a reference to the novel and film {{wi|The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 film)|The Taking of Pelham One Two Three}}. The number is also reminiscent of [[the 456]], an alien race introduced a few months prior to the book's release in ''[[Children of Earth]]''.
-== Characters ==
+* The Doctor asks Vienna, "The city or the song?" The song may be a reference to the song by [[Ultravox]], the song by Billy Joel or the Owl City song "Dear Vienna".
-*[[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]]
+* This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.
-*[[Vienna Carstairs]]
+* Several elements introduced in this story would later be reused in Llewellyn's novel {{cs|Night of the Humans (novel)}} including the [[Hexion]]s, [[Mercutio 14]] and the ''[[Herald of Nanking]]''.
-*[[Jake Carstairs]]
+* The Doctor's dislike or pears references the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s distaste for them in the novel {{cs|Human Nature (novel)}} from the ''[[Virgin New Adventures]]''. The same reference to pears was originally filmed for the [[Human Nature (TV story)|televised adaptation of the story]] in [[Series 3 (Doctor Who 2005)|Series 3]], but this scene was deleted. ''The Taking of Chelsea 426'', therefore, essentially preserved this characteristic into the revived era. It was eventually [[List of references to other DWU media in live-action BBC stories|directly referenced on television]] in [[Series 9]]'s {{cs|Hell Bent (TV story)}}, and again in [[Series 10]]'s [[Christmas Special]], {{cs|Twice Upon a Time (TV story)}}. Incidentally, the latter was [[Twice Upon a Time (novelisation)|novelised]] by [[Paul Cornell]], who also wrote [[Human Nature|both versions of ''Human Nature'']].
-*[[Wallace Fitch]]
-*[[Bess Carstairs]]
-*[[Brian Carstairs]]
-*[[Pemberton|Mr Pemberton]]
-*[[Wilberforce|Professor Wilberforce]]
-*[[Alice Wendell]]
-*[[Zack]]
-*[[Jenny (The Taking of Chelsea 426)|Jenny]]
-*[[Henry Whittington Smythe|Field Marshal Henry Whittington Smythe]]
-*[[Smalls|Mr Smalls]]
-*[[Sedgefield|Mr Sedgefield]]
-*[[Kade|General Kade]]
-*[[Sarg (The Taking of Chelsea 426)|Colonel Sarg]]
-*[[Strom|Commander Strom]]
-==References==
-*The [[Rutan]]s and the [[Sontaran]]s are present. The Doctor says that they have been at war for around 50,000 years.
-==Story Notes==
-*This book continues the theme set by the [[BBC Tenth Doctor Adventures]] line for 2009 in featuring returning monsters from the TV series. It also continues a series of novels in which the Doctor travels without a companion.
-*[[David Llewellyn]] also wrote the Torchwood novel [[Trace Memory]].
-*The title is a reference to the novel and film ''[[wikipedia:The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974 film)|The Taking of Pelham One Two Three]]''. The number is also reminiscent of [[The 456]], an alien race introduced a few months prior to the book's release in [[TW]]: ''[[Children of Earth]]''.
-*The Doctor cannot stand pears ''(Page 21)'', a fact which was also revealed in a deleted scene for [[DW]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]''.
 == Continuity ==
-*The Sontarans last appeared on screen in [[DW]]: ''[[The Sontaran Stratagem]]'' / ''[[The Poison Sky]]'' and [[SJA]]: ''[[Enemy of the Bane]]''. They last appeared in print in [[NSA]]: ''[[The Sontaran Games]]''.
+* The Sontarans last appeared on screen in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Sontaran Stratagem (TV story)}} / {{cs|The Poison Sky (TV story)}} and [[TV]]: {{cs|Enemy of the Bane (TV story)}}. They last appeared in print in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Sontaran Games (novel)}}.
-*The events of [[DW]]: ''[[The Two Doctors]]'' and ''[[The Time Warrior]]'' are mentioned.
+* The Rutans last appeared on screen in [[TV]]: ''[[Horror of Fang Rock (TV story)|Horror of Fang Rock]]''. To date, this is their only on-screen appearance.
-*Chelsea 426 was founded by the [[Interplanetary Mining Corporation]] (''[[DW]]:[[Colony in Space]].)''
+* The events of [[TV]]: {{cs|The Two Doctors (TV story)}} and {{cs|The Time Warrior (TV story)}} are mentioned.
-*The Doctor mentions a [[Krynoid]] (p. 84)
+* Chelsea 426 was founded by the [[Interplanetary Mining Corporation]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Colony in Space (TV story)}})
+* The Doctor mentions a [[Krynoid]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Seeds of Doom (TV story)}})
+* While in the TARDIS, Jake plays with the crate of items beginning with C, last seen in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)}}. Its contents include an [[Agatha Christie]] [[Death in the Clouds|novel]], the [[Carrionite]] globe and a [[Cyberman]]'s chest plate.
+* The Doctor declares a dislike of [[pear]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature}})
+* At the end of the novel, the Doctor looks around the empty TARDIS. He also did this before his second meeting with [[Donna Noble]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Partners in Crime (TV story)|Partners in Crime}})
+* The Doctor says "For one thing I've had my fair share of angry mothers lately" ([[TV]]: {{cs|Aliens of London (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Lazarus Experiment (TV story)}}, {{cs|Partners in Crime (TV story)}})
+* The Doctor mentions the [[Battle of Olympus Mons]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Transit (novel)}})
-== Timeline ==
+== Audiobook ==
-*The Taking of Chelsea 426 occurs after: [[DW]]: [[Dreamland]]
+* This novel was released as an audiobook in [[September (releases)|September]] [[2010 (releases)|2010]] by [[BBC Audio]] and read by [[Christopher Ryan]].
-*The Taking of Chelsea 426 occurs before: [[NSA]]: [[The Krillitane Storm]]
-*According to The Doctor (on page 54) it is early in the 26th Century ("...about due for the Third Renaissance...").
-== External Links ==
-''to be added''
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+* {{whoniverse|ns34|The Taking of Chelsea 426}}
+* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/chelsea426.htm The Cloister Library: '''The Taking of Chelsea 426''']
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Publisher's summary[[edit]]

Plot[[edit]]

Characters[[edit]]

Worldbuilding[[edit]]

Food and Beverages[[edit]]

Notes[[edit]]

Continuity[[edit]]

Audiobook[[edit]]

External links[[edit]]

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