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|image           = Oh No It Isn't.jpg
|name= Oh No It Isn't
|series         = [[Virgin New Adventures]]
|image= Oh No It Isn't.jpg
|adapted into   = Oh No It Isn't! (audio story)
|series= [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures|Virgin <br /> Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]]
|range          = Virgin New Adventures
|adapted into= Oh No It Isn't! (audio story)
|number in range = 62
|number= 1
|number         = 1
|main character= [[Bernice Summerfield]]
|main character = [[Bernice Summerfield]]
|featuring= [[Wolsey]]
|featuring       = [[Wolsey]], [[Menlove Stokes|Stokes]], [[Arthur Candy|Candy]], [[Ferdinand Archduke|Archduke]], [[Joseph (Oh No It Isn't!)|Joseph]]
|enemy= The [[Grel]]
|enemy          = [[Grel Master]], [[Greater One]]
|setting= {{il|[[Dellah]], [[2593]]|[[Perfecton (planet)|Perfecton]], [[2593]]}}
|setting        = [[Perfecton (planet)|Perfecton]], [[autumn]] [[2593]]
|writer= [[Paul Cornell]]
|writer         = Paul Cornell
|publisher= Virgin Books
|cover          = [[John Sullivan]]
|release date= [[1 May (releases)|1 May]], [[1997 (releases)|1997]]
|publisher       = Virgin Books
|format= Paperback Book, 249 Pages
|release date   = 1 May 1997
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20507-3
|format         = Paperback Book, 249 Pages
|prev= The Dying Days (novel)
|isbn           = ISBN 0-426-20507-3
|next= Dragons' Wrath (novel)}}
|prev           = The Dying Days (novel)
'''''Oh No It Isn't!''''' is the first of Virgin Books' range of [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures]] range of novels. This was the continuation of Bernice Summerfield's story following the loss of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' licence. The final story featuring the [[Eighth Doctor]] and [[Bernice Summerfield]], ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'', ended with the Doctor taking Bernice to the planet [[Dellah]], where this novel begins.  
|next           = Dragons' Wrath (novel)
}}
'''''Oh No It Isn't!''''' was the first novel of the "second season" of the [[Virgin New Adventures]].


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
''"The King's balls get bigger every year!"''
''"The King's balls get bigger every year!"''


[[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice Surprise Summerfield]] is settling into her new job as Professor of Archaeology at [[St. Oscar's University]] on the planet [[Dellah]] — one of the most prestigious centres of learning in the [[Milky Way]]. She wants to put her past, especially her failed marriage, behind her.
[[Bernice Summerfield|Bernice Surprise Summerfield]] is settling into her new job as Professor of Archaeology at [[St Oscar's University]] on the planet [[Dellah]] — one of the most prestigious centres of learning in the [[Mutter's Spiral|Milky Way]]. She wants to put her past, especially her failed [[marriage]], behind her.


So she's glad when she gets the chance to take her tutorial group to investigate the lost civilisation of [[Perfecton]]. Three whole weeks of archaeological research in the field. The perfect way to forget your worries.
So she's glad when she gets the chance to take her tutorial group to investigate the lost civilisation of [[‎Perfecton (planet)|Perfecton]]. Three whole weeks of archaeological research in the field. The perfect way to forget your worries.


She doesn't bank on three things.
She doesn't bank on three things.


That [[Menlove Stokes]], Professor of Applied Art, and various other academics would be along for the ride. That vicious alien marauders would decide to explore the planet at the same time. And that a reactivated Perfecton device would plunge her into a situation that can only be described as — [[panto]].
That [[Menlove Stokes]], Professor of Applied Art, and various other academics would be along for the ride. That vicious alien marauders would decide to explore the planet at the same time. And that a reactivated [[Perfecton (species)|Perfecton]] device would plunge her into a situation that can only be described as — [[pantomime|panto]].
 
== Chapter titles ==
# Porterhatch Blues
# New Adventures, New Danger
# A Comedy Tonight
# What Kind of A-Z Would Get You Here?
# Beauty and Bernice
# A Whole New Ball Game
# Fairy Stories
# Another Break in the Narrative
# Just Deserts and Deeper Plots, and Deadly Danger Looming... Lots!
# Raiders of the Seven Dwarves
# 'Scuse Me While I Rip the Sky
# Imminent Destruction Grief
# A Cat in Hell's Chance
# Epilogue: Moments of Pleasure


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
''to be added''
[[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]], now holder of the [[Watkinson Chair of Archaeology]] and [[Rector]] of [[Garland College]] at [[St Oscar's University]] on [[Dellah]], is due to take a number of [[student]]s to [[Perfecton (planet)|Perfecton]], a [[planet]] soon to be destroyed by a [[supernova]] and which has been under [[quarantine]] since the mysterious disappearance of the [[Perfecton (species)|Perfectons]]. Before leaving, she agrees to read through [[Ferdinand Archduke|Professor Archduke]]'s [[thesis]] on [[20th century]] [[theatre]] as a favour after he finds [[Wolsey]] and ignores two men who come looking for her, claiming to be on a mission from God.
 
Accompanied by several other members of staff, Benny and her students travel to Perfecton on the ''[[Winton]]'' and begin their [[excavation]]. After several days, Benny invites one of her students, [[Michael Doran]], to her rooms for [[brandy]] due to her feeling undesirable following her [[divorce]] from [[Jason Kane|Jason]], whom she misses, and downloads Professor Archduke's paper to read before deciding that it will make her seem old. The two men on a mission from God enter instead of Michael and a [[Grel]] [[spacecraft|ship]] attacks, hitting the ''Winton'' before it is seemingly destroyed by a [[missile]].
 
Academics [[Menlove Stokes|Stokes]], [[Otterbland]], [[Ranjit Singh|Singh]], [[Hettie Bonistall|Hettie]], [[Lucinda Pargiter|Lucinda]], [[Epstein]], [[Owl (Oh No It Isn't!)|Owl]], [[A. J. Blandish|Blandish]], [[A. J. Wagstaff|Wagstaff]], [[Warrinder]], [[Janes (Oh No It Isn't!)|Janes]] and [[Farouk (Oh No It Isn't!)|Farouk]] are outside when the ''Winton'' is attacked and flee from the Grel craft to the Perfecton city. There, they fall into a hole and meet [[Thooo]], the last of the Perfectons, who explains that the Perfectons' guns transport their targets into [[the Green]], a world which they had hopes to escape to in order to survive the supernova.
 
Benny finds herself in what she initially believes is [[Heaven (afterlife)|heaven]] before encountering Wolsey, who is now [[humanoid]] and keeps calling her [[Dick Whittington]], her students, who are [[dwarf|dwarves]], and [[Arthur Candy|Professor Candy]], who is a [[pantomime]] dame. They are saved from the Grel by [[Prince Charming]] and Benny faints after realising that she has been wounded. Prince Charming takes her to the [[castle]], where she recognises King Rupert as [[Balsam|Captain Balsam]] of the ''Winton'' and is told that she will select her husband at a ball. However, the suitors are all women and she senses that there are forces trying to bring an end to her story; to avoid this, she accepts each and every proposal.
 
At midnight, Benny's clothes turn into rags and leaves, meeting a [[horse]] inside of which the two men on a mission from God have been hiding from the narrative. Her [[Fairy Godfather]] appears and Benny wishes to see the unseen people to whom the Fairy Godfather keeps talking, allowing her to see a huge audience of Perfectons and leave the stage. She arrives in her bedroom from when she was a child and finds an alien control unit which turns into a magic [[ring]] when she takes it back onto the stage. After [[hypnosis|hypnotising]] Wolsey, she realises that they are all inside Archduke's manuscript and fetches a [[genie]]'s [[lamp]] from a [[cave]] for the [[Vizier (Oh No It Isn't!)|Vizier]].
 
After finding the lamp, the Grel take it from them and are subsequently destroyed by the genie, which then breaks the [[fourth wall]] and allows the audience of Perfectons to enter the world. She takes the lamp to her chambers, having determined that this was the narrative before the Grel's interference, and is told by the men in the pantomime horse that they were sent by the computer of the [[Worldsphere]] to ask her to join the [[Tiny But Interesting Interest Group]] as an agent of [[the People]]. She agrees to consider this and learns from the leader of the Perfectons that the missile was theirs and was intended to make a ship [[Dimensional transcendentalism|dimensionally transcendental]] for them to make their new home.
 
The genie, representing the original programme, intends on destroying this world of pantomime, which was accidentally created when the missile pierced Archduke's thesis, and restoring Perfecton. Benny tricks it into returning to its lamp and rubs her magic ring which, actually being a control unit accidentally sent into the Green by Stokes, summons Stokes, who unwittingly reminds her of the magic words which will take them back to Rupert's castle. The Perfectons try to kill Benny to prevent her from putting the magic lamp on its pedastal, but Wolsey holds them off long enough for her to do so.
 
The ''Winton'' is restored and Thooo uses a Perfecton gun to return his people to the Green before taking the academics to a [[viewing pod]] to watch as the planet is destroyed. They are saved by the ''Winton'' and they all return to St Oscar's, where Thooo is offered a position. Benny wonders if Archduke had intentionally brought about the pantomime world by planting a [[homing device]] in his data module, a charge which he denies. In the night, however, the data module flies into his hands.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
* [[Bernice Summerfield]]
* [[Wolsey]]
* [[Wolsey]]
* [[Menlove Stokes]]
* [[Joseph (Oh No It Isn't!)|Joseph]]
* [[Joseph (Oh No It Isn't!)|Joseph]]
* [[Ferdinand Archduke]]
* [[Polybus Arex]]
* [[Balsam]]
* [[A. J. Blandish]]
* [[Hettie Bonistall]]
* [[Arthur Candy]]
* [[Michael Doran]]
* [[Michael Doran]]
*[[Arthur Candy]]
* [[Epstein]]
* [[Farouk (Oh No It Isn't!)|Farouk]]
* [[Ockjin Fuleep]]
* [[Janes (Oh No It Isn't!)|Janes]]
* [[Marcus Krytell]]
* [[Marjorie Marjorie]]
* [[Otterbland]]
* [[Owl (Oh No It Isn't!)|Owl]]
* [[Lucinda Pargiter]]
* [[Vitor Pluse]]
* [[Anne-Marie Rose]]
* [[Aurum Salvistra]]
* [[Ranjit Singh]]
* [[Menlove Stokes]]
* [[A. J. Wagstaff]]
* [[Warrinder]]
* [[Jayne Waspo]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
=== Books ===
=== Books ===
* Benny accidentally gives Michael Doran a copy of ''[[Make Dangerous Love to Me - The Erotic Poetry of Carla Tsampiras]]''. She tries to save face by claiming "There are bits about archaeology."
* [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] accidentally gives [[Michael Doran]] a copy of ''[[Make Dangerous Love to Me - The Erotic Poetry of Carla Tsampiras]]''.
* Benny is still working on (and trying to get out of writing) her sequel to ''[[Down Among the Dead Men]]''.
* Benny is still working on (and trying to get out of writing) her sequel to ''[[Down Among the Dead Men]]'' with the working title ''[[So Vast a Pile]]''.
* The library on Dellah contains the [[Book of Lies]].
* The library on Dellah contains the ''[[Book of Lies]]''.


=== Culture ===
=== Culture ===
* Benny uses [[Ah]] ''A Perfume For An Alien or Human''.
* Benny uses ''[[Ah: A Perfume For An Alien or Human]]''.


=== Individuals ===
=== Individuals ===
* Benny has the name ''[[Richard Whittington|Dick Whittington]]'' in the panto reality.
* Dr [[Divson Follett|Follett]] is the Head of the Department of [[Archaeology]] at [[St Oscar's University]].
* [[Bernice Summerfield]] is the [[Edward Watkinson]] [[Edward Watkinson Chair of Archaeology|Chair of Archaeology]] at St Oscar's.
* Benny has the name [[Dick Whittington]] in the panto reality.
* [[God (The Also People)|God]] sends members of the [[Tiny But Interesting Interest Group]] to contact Benny about becoming an agent for them.
* [[God (The Also People)|God]] sends members of the [[Tiny But Interesting Interest Group]] to contact Benny about becoming an agent for them.
* [[Wolsey]] is transformed into a seven-foot-tall swashbuckler with marked propensities for singing, tap-dancing, and rude jokes.
* [[Wolsey]] is transformed into a seven-foot-tall swashbuckler with marked propensities for singing, tap-dancing and rude jokes.
* [[Menlove Stokes]] is professor of [[Applied Arts]] at [[St. Oscar's University]].
* [[Menlove Stokes]] is professor of [[Applied Arts]] at [[St Oscar's University]].
* [[Joseph (Oh No It Isn't!)|Joseph]] is Benny's robotic porter, who looks like a hovering sphere about the size of a billiard ball.
* [[Joseph (Oh No It Isn't!)|Joseph]] is Benny's robotic porter, who looks like a hovering sphere about the size of a [[billiard ball]].


=== Locations ===
=== Locations ===
* Benny usually tries to get a word out of the [[Goll]] security who guard the [[Advanced Research Department]], but she speaks very little Goll.
* Benny usually tries to get a word out of the [[Goll]] security who guard the [[Advanced Research Department]], but she speaks very little Goll.
* [[St. Oscar's University]] is located on the planet [[Dellah]]. The Sultan of [[Tashwari]] was the original founder of the university.
* [[St Oscar's University]] is located on the planet [[Dellah]]. The Sultan of [[Tashwari]] was the original founder of the university.


=== Species ===
=== Species ===
* The [[Grel]]'s afterlife is called [[Slawcor]].
* The [[Grel]]'s afterlife is called [[Slawcor]].
* The [[Perfecton (species)|Perfectons]] are small blue humanoids.
* The [[Perfecton (species)|Perfectons]] are small blue humanoids.
== Cover Gallery ==
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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* The novel's title is a reference to a traditional audience participation line common in pantomime productions. Whenever a character on stage says "Oh no it isn't!" the audience calls back "Oh yes it is!" and vice-verse.
* The novel's title is a reference to a traditional audience participation line common in pantomime productions. Whenever a character on stage says "Oh no it isn't!" the audience calls back "Oh yes it is!" and vice versa.
* This novel was adapted by [[Jacqueline Rayner]] as a Big Finish audio drama (see ''[[Oh No It Isn't! (audio story)|Oh No It Isn't]]'').
* The story started life under the working title ''Behind You'' in 1996.<ref>''[[The Big Finish Companion: Volume 1]]''</ref>
* There are quite a lot of rude jokes throughout the novel, many of them made by Wolsey. This is likely a reference to the risque double entendres aimed at the parents in panto theatre.
* This novel was adapted by [[Jacqueline Rayner]] as the first Big Finish audio drama (see ''[[Oh No It Isn't! (audio story)|Oh No It Isn't]]'').
* Wolsey confirms Benny's suspicions about human-cat relations when he refers to her as "servant-woman".
* Wolsey confirms [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]'s suspicions about human-[[cat]] relations when he refers to her as "servant-woman".
* The image on the cover of this novel ''actually'' happens in the novel.
* The image on the cover of this novel actually happens in the novel.
* This is the first novel published by Virgin following their loss of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' licence (it returned to the BBC and they began publishing their [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures|Eighth Doctor Adventures]] and [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures|Past Doctor Adventures]]). As such in this range no direct references are made to BBC-copyrighted elements such as the Doctor or the TARDIS. However any characters and other elements could be licenced from their creators, as such multiple characters and other elements that previously appeared in other New Adventures appear in this novel and the rest of the BNA range.
* This is the first novel published by [[Virgin Books|Virgin]] following their loss of the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' licence (it returned to the BBC and they began publishing their [[BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures|Eighth Doctor Adventures]] and [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures|Past Doctor Adventures]]). As such in this range no direct references are made to [[BBC]]-copyrighted elements such as [[the Doctor]] or the [[TARDIS]]. However, any characters and other elements could be licensed from their creators, as such multiple characters and other elements that previously appeared in other [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]] appear in this novel and the rest of the [[Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures|BNA range]].


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Benny was taken to Dellah by the [[Eighth Doctor]] at the end of [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]''.
* [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]] was taken to [[Dellah]] by the [[Eighth Doctor]] at the end of ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]''.
* Benny first met [[God (The Also People)|God]] in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Also People (novel)|The Also People]]''.
* Benny first met [[God (The Also People)|God]] in ''[[The Also People (novel)|The Also People]]''.
* This novel introduces [[Marcus Krytell]]; Benny meets him in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Ship of Fools (novel)|Ship of Fools]]''.
* This novel introduces [[Marcus Krytell]]; Benny meets him in ''[[Ship of Fools (novel)|Ship of Fools]]''.


== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{dwrefguide|who_na62.htm|Oh No It Isn't}}
{{dwrefguide|who_na62.htm|Oh No It Isn't}}
* {{whoniverse|na62|Oh No It Isn't!}}
* {{whoniverse|na62|Oh No It Isn't!}}
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/ohno.htm The Cloister Library: '''Oh No It Isn't!''']
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/ohno.htm The Cloister Library: '''Oh No It Isn't!''']
== Footnotes ==
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[[Category:Bernice Summerfield sources]]
[[Category:1997 novels]]
[[Category:1997 novels]]
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[[Category:BNA novels]]
[[Category:Stories set in 2593]]
[[Category:Stories set in 2593]]
[[Category:Stories set on Dellah]]
[[Category:Novels set on Dellah]]
[[Category:Bernice Summerfield novels]]

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Oh No It Isn't! was the first novel of the "second season" of the Virgin New Adventures.

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

"The King's balls get bigger every year!"

Bernice Surprise Summerfield is settling into her new job as Professor of Archaeology at St Oscar's University on the planet Dellah — one of the most prestigious centres of learning in the Milky Way. She wants to put her past, especially her failed marriage, behind her.

So she's glad when she gets the chance to take her tutorial group to investigate the lost civilisation of Perfecton. Three whole weeks of archaeological research in the field. The perfect way to forget your worries.

She doesn't bank on three things.

That Menlove Stokes, Professor of Applied Art, and various other academics would be along for the ride. That vicious alien marauders would decide to explore the planet at the same time. And that a reactivated Perfecton device would plunge her into a situation that can only be described as — panto.

Chapter titles[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. Porterhatch Blues
  2. New Adventures, New Danger
  3. A Comedy Tonight
  4. What Kind of A-Z Would Get You Here?
  5. Beauty and Bernice
  6. A Whole New Ball Game
  7. Fairy Stories
  8. Another Break in the Narrative
  9. Just Deserts and Deeper Plots, and Deadly Danger Looming... Lots!
  10. Raiders of the Seven Dwarves
  11. 'Scuse Me While I Rip the Sky
  12. Imminent Destruction Grief
  13. A Cat in Hell's Chance
  14. Epilogue: Moments of Pleasure

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

Benny, now holder of the Watkinson Chair of Archaeology and Rector of Garland College at St Oscar's University on Dellah, is due to take a number of students to Perfecton, a planet soon to be destroyed by a supernova and which has been under quarantine since the mysterious disappearance of the Perfectons. Before leaving, she agrees to read through Professor Archduke's thesis on 20th century theatre as a favour after he finds Wolsey and ignores two men who come looking for her, claiming to be on a mission from God.

Accompanied by several other members of staff, Benny and her students travel to Perfecton on the Winton and begin their excavation. After several days, Benny invites one of her students, Michael Doran, to her rooms for brandy due to her feeling undesirable following her divorce from Jason, whom she misses, and downloads Professor Archduke's paper to read before deciding that it will make her seem old. The two men on a mission from God enter instead of Michael and a Grel ship attacks, hitting the Winton before it is seemingly destroyed by a missile.

Academics Stokes, Otterbland, Singh, Hettie, Lucinda, Epstein, Owl, Blandish, Wagstaff, Warrinder, Janes and Farouk are outside when the Winton is attacked and flee from the Grel craft to the Perfecton city. There, they fall into a hole and meet Thooo, the last of the Perfectons, who explains that the Perfectons' guns transport their targets into the Green, a world which they had hopes to escape to in order to survive the supernova.

Benny finds herself in what she initially believes is heaven before encountering Wolsey, who is now humanoid and keeps calling her Dick Whittington, her students, who are dwarves, and Professor Candy, who is a pantomime dame. They are saved from the Grel by Prince Charming and Benny faints after realising that she has been wounded. Prince Charming takes her to the castle, where she recognises King Rupert as Captain Balsam of the Winton and is told that she will select her husband at a ball. However, the suitors are all women and she senses that there are forces trying to bring an end to her story; to avoid this, she accepts each and every proposal.

At midnight, Benny's clothes turn into rags and leaves, meeting a horse inside of which the two men on a mission from God have been hiding from the narrative. Her Fairy Godfather appears and Benny wishes to see the unseen people to whom the Fairy Godfather keeps talking, allowing her to see a huge audience of Perfectons and leave the stage. She arrives in her bedroom from when she was a child and finds an alien control unit which turns into a magic ring when she takes it back onto the stage. After hypnotising Wolsey, she realises that they are all inside Archduke's manuscript and fetches a genie's lamp from a cave for the Vizier.

After finding the lamp, the Grel take it from them and are subsequently destroyed by the genie, which then breaks the fourth wall and allows the audience of Perfectons to enter the world. She takes the lamp to her chambers, having determined that this was the narrative before the Grel's interference, and is told by the men in the pantomime horse that they were sent by the computer of the Worldsphere to ask her to join the Tiny But Interesting Interest Group as an agent of the People. She agrees to consider this and learns from the leader of the Perfectons that the missile was theirs and was intended to make a ship dimensionally transcendental for them to make their new home.

The genie, representing the original programme, intends on destroying this world of pantomime, which was accidentally created when the missile pierced Archduke's thesis, and restoring Perfecton. Benny tricks it into returning to its lamp and rubs her magic ring which, actually being a control unit accidentally sent into the Green by Stokes, summons Stokes, who unwittingly reminds her of the magic words which will take them back to Rupert's castle. The Perfectons try to kill Benny to prevent her from putting the magic lamp on its pedastal, but Wolsey holds them off long enough for her to do so.

The Winton is restored and Thooo uses a Perfecton gun to return his people to the Green before taking the academics to a viewing pod to watch as the planet is destroyed. They are saved by the Winton and they all return to St Oscar's, where Thooo is offered a position. Benny wonders if Archduke had intentionally brought about the pantomime world by planting a homing device in his data module, a charge which he denies. In the night, however, the data module flies into his hands.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Books[[edit] | [edit source]]

Culture[[edit] | [edit source]]

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Locations[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

Cover Gallery[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The novel's title is a reference to a traditional audience participation line common in pantomime productions. Whenever a character on stage says "Oh no it isn't!" the audience calls back "Oh yes it is!" and vice versa.
  • The story started life under the working title Behind You in 1996.[1]
  • This novel was adapted by Jacqueline Rayner as the first Big Finish audio drama (see Oh No It Isn't).
  • Wolsey confirms Benny's suspicions about human-cat relations when he refers to her as "servant-woman".
  • The image on the cover of this novel actually happens in the novel.
  • This is the first novel published by Virgin following their loss of the Doctor Who licence (it returned to the BBC and they began publishing their Eighth Doctor Adventures and Past Doctor Adventures). As such in this range no direct references are made to BBC-copyrighted elements such as the Doctor or the TARDIS. However, any characters and other elements could be licensed from their creators, as such multiple characters and other elements that previously appeared in other New Adventures appear in this novel and the rest of the BNA range.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ The Big Finish Companion: Volume 1
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