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series=[[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] |
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number= 32 |
|series =[[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]]  
doctor=[[Second Doctor]]<br>[[Fourth Doctor]] |
|number = 31
companions= [[Jamie McCrimmon]]<br>[[Victoria Waterfield]]<br>[[Romana I]]<br>[[K-9 Mark II]]<br>[[The Brigadier]]<br>[[John Benton]]|
|doctor = Second Doctor
enemy= The [[Jarakebeth]] |
|companions = [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]], [[Victoria Waterfield|Victoria]]
year= |
|featuring = Fourth Doctor
writer= [[Dave Stone]] |
|featuring2 = K9 Mark II{{!}}K9 Mark II
publisher= [[BBC Books]] |
|featuring3 = Romana I{{!}}Romana I
release date= June [[2000]] |
|featuring4 = Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart{{!}}the Brigadier
format= Paperback Book, 288 Pages |
|featuring5 = John Benton
isbn= ISBN 0-563-55596-3 |
|enemy = The [[Jarakabeth]]  
previous story= [[Grave Matter]] |
|setting = [[Earth]], [[June]], [[20th century]]|[[Avatar world]], [[June]], [[20th century]]
next story= [[Prime Time]] }}
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|writer= Dave Stone
|publisher= BBC Books
|cover = [[Black Sheep]]
|release date= 5 June 2000
|format= Paperback Book; 27 Chapters, 280 Pages
|isbn= ISBN 0-563-55596-3
|prev= Grave Matter (novel)
|next= Prime Time (novel)
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the thirty-first novel in the [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Dave Stone]], released [[5 June (releases)|5 June]] [[2000 (releases)|2000]] and featured the [[Second Doctor]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]] and [[Victoria Waterfield]] and the [[Fourth Doctor]], [[Romana I]] and [[K9]].


==Publisher's Summary==
This was the first multi-Doctor novel in the Past Doctor Adventures line up, though in [[BBC Books]]' overall publishing line up the most recent multi-Doctor novel was [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference - Book One]]''/''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference - Book Two]]''. Unlike previous multi-Doctor stories the Second and Fourth Doctors do not meet in this novel.


''In the American Midwestern town of Lychburg, something is afoot. Its citizens are being killed in inexpressibly horrible and brutal ways and the police don't have a clue who's responsible. The only suspects are a mysterious and sinister stranger, who calls himself the Doctor, and his young companions Jamie and Victoria.''
== Publisher's summary ==
''In the [[United States of America|American]] Midwestern town of [[Lychburg]], something is afoot. Its citizens are being killed in inexpressibly horrible and brutal ways and the police don't have a clue who's responsible. The only suspects are a mysterious and sinister stranger, who calls himself [[Second Doctor|the Doctor]], and his young companions [[Jamie McCrimmon|Jamie]] and [[Victoria Waterfield|Victoria]].''


The Fourth Doctor and Romana, meanwhile, have been summoned by the Gallifreyan High Council. A force has been unleashed into the space/time continuum... a force so unimaginably terrible that it is set to rip the universe itself apart and plunge it into primal, screaming chaos from which nothing will survive.
The [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Romana I|Romana]], meanwhile, have been summoned by the [[Gallifrey]]an [[High Council]]. A force has been unleashed into the [[space]]/[[time]] continuum... a force so unimaginably terrible that it is set to rip the [[universe]] itself apart and plunge it into primal, screaming chaos from which nothing will survive.


Of course, since something of this nature happens every other day of the week, the Doctor's really far more interested in finding out what's happened to a close personal friend, who seems to have vanished under mysterious circumstances. And quite right, too. The fate of a universe plunging into fetid and unending chaos can look out for itself for a change...
Of course, since something of this nature happens every other day of the week, the Doctor's really far more interested in finding out what's happened to a [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|close personal friend]], who seems to have vanished under mysterious circumstances. And quite right, too. The fate of a universe plunging into foetid and unending chaos can look out for itself for a change...


==Characters==
== Plot ==
*[[Second Doctor]]
''to be added''
**Has small, neat handwriting.
**Can play the recorder while hanging upside down.
**Cannot remember if you should see a body in a morgue on an empty stomach or a full one.
*[[Jamie McCrimmon]]
:*Can now write in English although it's broken and spelt phonetically.


*[[Victoria Waterfield]]
== Characters ==
:*Is afraid of [[rat]]s and [[spider]]s.
* [[Second Doctor]]
* [[Jamie McCrimmon]]
* [[Victoria Waterfield]]
* [[Fourth Doctor]]
* [[Romana I]]
* [[K9 Mark II]]
* [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|The Brigadier]]
* [[John Benton]]
* [[Wblk]]
* [[Clancy Tilson]]
* [[Katharine Delbane]]
* [[Joel Haasterman]]
* [[Sohn]]


*[[Fourth Doctor]]
== Worldbuilding ==
**Abandons the quest for the [[Key to Time]] the moment he thinks the Brigadier is in danger.
=== Biology ===
*[[Romana I]]
* [[John Benton]] was exposed to something during his career in UNIT that enables him to hold off the effects of an [[anaesthetic]] dart for a short time.
**Is cold and aloof rather then attempting to fit in and be personable (placing the story closer to [[the Ribos Operation]] then any other story)


*[[K-9 Mark II]]
=== Culture ===
**Can climb stairs unlike K9 mark I.
* ''[[Monty Python]] and The Holy Grail'' is mentioned.
* A woman (implied to be [[Margaret Thatcher]]) is [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]].
* [[Ronald Reagan]] is [[President of the United States]]. His administration was investing in [[Christian]] Fundamentalism and the "[[Star Wars]]" program.


*[[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|The Brigadier]]
=== The Doctor ===
:*Meets Romana I.
* The Second Doctor can play the [[The Doctor's recorder|recorder]] while hanging upside down.
:*Knows enough things about the esoteric fields UNIT and the Doctor move in, as well as more mundane military matters to make him a prime target for enemy agents.
* The Second Doctor claims that his own inability to control the TARDIS is the result of security protocols that prevent thieves being able to control the ship properly; he attempts to bypass these by disabling other security protocols, including those responsible for preventing the TARDIS from accidentally materialising inside other objects or in immediately hostile environments such as deep space or the heart of a sun.
*[[John Benton]]
* The [[Fourth Doctor]] reflects that one of the things lost during his forced [[regeneration]]s was the knack for making [[soufflé]]s.
**Was exposed to something during his career in UNIT that enables him to hold off the effects of an anaesthetic dart for a short time.


==References==
=== Individuals ===
*The [[Dalek]]s upon hearing rumours of [[Collectors]] present in near their system pretended that their [[Skaro|planet]] had been destroyed.
* [[Victoria Waterfield]] is afraid of [[rat]]s and [[spider]]s.
* [[K9 Mark II]] has been left behind and recovered by the Doctor after so many long absences that Romana speculates that he must be the oldest coherent lump of matter in the universe when they got him out of the [[Big Huge and Educational Collection of Old Galactic Stuff]].
* Victoria mentions her [[Edward Waterfield|father]].


==Notes==
=== Species ===
*Many of the characters are direct copies of ''[[The Simpsons]]'' characters in this novel, (not The Doctor or any of his companions, of course). However Dr Nick (Dr Rick), Dr Hibbert, comic book guy among others all make noticeable appearances to the Second doctor.
* The [[Dalek]]s, upon hearing rumours of [[Collector]]s present near their system, pretend that their [[Skaro|planet]] had been destroyed.
* The Second Doctor notes that [[Time Lord|his people]] are sensitive to the "shape" of the world, allowing him to sense that he is in a pocket dimension such as the one containing Lychburg.
* The Fourth Doctor met two [[Jarakabeth]]. One was impersonating [[Aleister Crowley]], the other was [[Katharine Delbane]].


==Continuity==
== Notes ==
''to be added''
* The Fourth Doctor sees and hides from the Second Doctor in the TARDIS console room at one point; the two never actually meet, with the Fourth hiding under the console on the opposite side from his past self until the Second Doctor leaves the console room again.
* Many of the characters in the town are references to characters from ''[[The Simpsons]]''. Dr Nick (Dr Rick), Dr Hibbert, comic book guy and others make noticeable appearances to the Second Doctor. A bartender named "Moe" is mentioned.


==Timeline==
== Continuity ==
===For the Second Doctor===
* The Fourth Doctor is on his quest for the [[Key to Time]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'', etc)
*Heart of TARDIS occurs after: [[ST]]: ''[[The Lost]]''
* As the TARDIS malfunctions, the Fourth Doctor says, "Oh no, not again!", something his [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]] would later say in a similar situation. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'')
::In ''The Lost'' Jamie has yet to learn how to write.
* The Fourth Doctor claims to have witnessed some [[Time Wars]], which might explain why he knows about the [[Charon (species)|Charon]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Sky Pirates! (novel)|Sky Pirates!]]'') He discusses [[Rassilon]] discovering the secrets of time travel by stealing the [[Time-jumper|technology]] of a [[Order of the Black Sun|faction]] who [[4-D War|attacked]] [[Gallifrey]], "in retaliation for things we did to them before we'd even heard of them in the first place." ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Star Death (comic story)|Star Death]]'', ''[[4-D War (comic story)|4-D War]]'', ''[[Black Sun Rising (comic story)|Black Sun Rising]]'')
*Heart of TARDIS occurs before: [[DW]]: ''[[The Abominable Snowmen]]''
* Delbane uses the Brigadier's spacetime telegraph to contact the Fourth Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)|Revenge of the Cybermen]]'', ''[[Terror of the Zygons (TV story)|Terror of the Zygons]]'')
* Victoria has started [[Victoria Waterfield's diary|a journal]]. She was depicted writing in a diary as early as [[COMIC]]: ''[[Bringer of Darkness (comic story)|Bringer of Darkness]]''.
* Jamie mentions his first meeting with the Doctor. ([[TV]]:''[[The Highlanders (TV story)|The Highlanders]]'')
* Victoria, although used to technology in her travels, cannot cope with the idea of [[escalator]]s. She reminds herself that she has seen "...[[Cyberman|metal men who walked]]." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'')
* The Second Doctor refers to his body as "new," referencing his recent [[regeneration]] from his [[First Doctor|previous incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'')
* When [[the Golgotha Project]] activated the magical item, code-named "the [[Arimathea Artefact]]," it opened a "rift," similar to the one in [[Cardiff]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Unquiet Dead (TV story)|The Unquiet Dead]]'', etc)
* As the [[Fourth Doctor]] closes the TARDIS door, part of his scarf is shut in it, something he would later do. ([[TV]]: ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'') In this instance, the scrap of scarf stays behind, fluttering to the ground.
* As the Second Doctor is near death, the Fourth Doctor feels weak. A similar event would happen to the [[Sixth Doctor]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]'')


===For the Fourth Doctor===
== External links ==
::The Fourth Doctor elements are between his and Romana's quest for the Key to Time.
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Heart of TARDIS was the thirty-first novel in the BBC Past Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Dave Stone, released 5 June 2000 and featured the Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield and the Fourth Doctor, Romana I and K9.

This was the first multi-Doctor novel in the Past Doctor Adventures line up, though in BBC Books' overall publishing line up the most recent multi-Doctor novel was PROSE: Interference - Book One/Interference - Book Two. Unlike previous multi-Doctor stories the Second and Fourth Doctors do not meet in this novel.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

In the American Midwestern town of Lychburg, something is afoot. Its citizens are being killed in inexpressibly horrible and brutal ways and the police don't have a clue who's responsible. The only suspects are a mysterious and sinister stranger, who calls himself the Doctor, and his young companions Jamie and Victoria.

The Fourth Doctor and Romana, meanwhile, have been summoned by the Gallifreyan High Council. A force has been unleashed into the space/time continuum... a force so unimaginably terrible that it is set to rip the universe itself apart and plunge it into primal, screaming chaos from which nothing will survive.

Of course, since something of this nature happens every other day of the week, the Doctor's really far more interested in finding out what's happened to a close personal friend, who seems to have vanished under mysterious circumstances. And quite right, too. The fate of a universe plunging into foetid and unending chaos can look out for itself for a change...

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Biology[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • John Benton was exposed to something during his career in UNIT that enables him to hold off the effects of an anaesthetic dart for a short time.

Culture[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Second Doctor can play the recorder while hanging upside down.
  • The Second Doctor claims that his own inability to control the TARDIS is the result of security protocols that prevent thieves being able to control the ship properly; he attempts to bypass these by disabling other security protocols, including those responsible for preventing the TARDIS from accidentally materialising inside other objects or in immediately hostile environments such as deep space or the heart of a sun.
  • The Fourth Doctor reflects that one of the things lost during his forced regenerations was the knack for making soufflés.

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Daleks, upon hearing rumours of Collectors present near their system, pretend that their planet had been destroyed.
  • The Second Doctor notes that his people are sensitive to the "shape" of the world, allowing him to sense that he is in a pocket dimension such as the one containing Lychburg.
  • The Fourth Doctor met two Jarakabeth. One was impersonating Aleister Crowley, the other was Katharine Delbane.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The Fourth Doctor sees and hides from the Second Doctor in the TARDIS console room at one point; the two never actually meet, with the Fourth hiding under the console on the opposite side from his past self until the Second Doctor leaves the console room again.
  • Many of the characters in the town are references to characters from The Simpsons. Dr Nick (Dr Rick), Dr Hibbert, comic book guy and others make noticeable appearances to the Second Doctor. A bartender named "Moe" is mentioned.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

v • e
BBC Past Doctor Adventures
 
First Doctor
Susan, Ian, Barbara
Ian, Barbara, Vicki
Steven, Dodo
Ben, Polly
 
Second Doctor
Ben, Polly
Ben, Polly, Jamie
Jamie, Victoria
Jamie, Zoe
Serena
 
Third Doctor
Liz, UNIT
Jo, UNIT
Jo, Liz
Jo
Sarah
 
Fourth Doctor
Sarah, Harry
Harry
Leela
Romana I
Romana II, K9
Nyssa
 
Fifth Doctor
Adric, Nyssa, Tegan
Nyssa
Nyssa, Tegan
Tegan, Turlough
Turlough, Kamelion
Peri
 
Sixth Doctor
Peri
Frobisher
Mel
Mel, Evelyn
The Brigadier
 
Seventh Doctor
Ace
Solo travels
 
Eighth Doctor
Solo travels
Fitz, Anji
 
Other novels
The Master, Ian, Barbara
"Infinity Doctor"
Shalka Doctor, Shalka Master, Alison
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