Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel): Difference between revisions

{{Infobox Story

|name= Mad Dogs and Englishmen  

|image=Mad Dogs and Englishmen.jpg

|series=[[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]]  

|number= 52  

|doctor=Eighth Doctor  

|companions= [[Fitz Kreiner|Fitz]], [[Anji Kapoor|Anji]]  

|enemy= Poodles

|setting= {{il|[[Earth]], [[2074]]|[[Dog World Space Station]], [[2077]]|[[Mayfair]], [[England]], spring [[1942]]|[[Las Vegas]], [[1960]]|[[Los Angeles]], [[1978]]}}

|writer= [[Paul Magrs]]

|publisher= BBC Books  

|release date= [[7 January (releases)|7 January]] [[2002 (releases)|2002]]

|format= Paperback Book; 34 Chapters, 256 Pages  

|isbn= ISBN 0-563-53845-7

|prev= The Adventuress of Henrietta Street (novel)

|next= Hope (novel)}}

'''''Mad Dogs and Englishmen''''' was the fifty-second novel in the [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Paul Magrs]]. It featured the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Fitz Kreiner]] and [[Anji Kapoor]].

[[Professor]] [[Reginald Tyler]]'s ''[[The True History of Planets]]'' was a [[20th century|twentieth-century]] classic; an epic of [[Dwarf|dwarves]] and [[sword]]s and [[wizard]]ry. And definitely no poodles. Or at least there weren't when the Doctor read it.

Now it tells the true tale of how the Queen of the [[Poodle (race)|poodles]] was overthrown; it's been made into a hit movie, and it's going to cause a bloodbath on the [[Dog World]] — unless the Doctor, Fitz and Anji (and assorted friends) can sort it all out.

The Doctor infiltrates the Smudgelings, Tyler's elite Cambridge writing set of the early twentieth century; Fitz falls for flamboyant torch singer Brenda Soobie in sixties Las Vegas, and Anji experiences some very special effects in seventies Hollywood. Their intention is to prevent the movie from ever being made. But there is a shadowy figure present in all three time zones who is just as determined to see it completed... so the poodle revolution can begin.

* [[Iris Wildthyme]] (alias Brenda Soobie)

* [[Noel Coward]]

* [[Cleavis]]

 

* ''[[The True History of Planets]]'' was a book about [[elf|elves]] and [[magic]], until it was rewritten as a text to support a revolution on [[Dog World]].

* The Doctor tells Enid Tyler that he is from somewhere in the south of [[Ireland]] beginning with the letter [[Gallifrey|G]].

* The Doctor was responsible for the repopulation of [[Britain]] by the [[wild boar]] in [[1987]].

* Fritter and Char are [[poodle]] [[archivists]] from the [[Dog World]].

* Everyone is a little bit disgusted when it is revealed that novelist [[William Freer]] and Princess Margaret had been lovers since [[1932]].

* Mida Slike is an agent of [[MIAOW|Ministry for Incursions and Ontological Wonders]].

* Professor Alid Jag is of an [[aphid]]-like species and also an agent of MIAOW.  

* [[Whitby]] is a town in North [[Yorkshire]].

* Noel Coward has a set of [[pinking shears]] that allow him to time travel.

* This is the hundredth BBC Books Novel (EDA & PDA combined). The cover's [[Doctor Who logo|''Doctor Who'' logo]] was printed in reflective gold foil in celebration.

* The novel contains a spoof of J. R. R. Tolkien's experiences writing ''The Lord of the Rings''. The character representing C. S. Lewis in this also appears in Magrs's non-Doctor Who novel ''To the Devil'' — a Diva! and the Smudgelings reappear in his novel ''Something Borrowed''.

* The Doctor still has a beard. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Adventuress of Henrietta Street]]'')