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|novel name    = Lungbarrow
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|series         = [[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[Virgin New Adventures]]
|image           = <gallery>
|number         = 60
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|doctor         = [[Seventh Doctor]]
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|companions     = [[Chris Cwej | Chris]]
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|enemy          = [[Owis]]<br>[[Celestial Intervention Agency | CIA]]
|series         = [[Virgin New Adventures]]
|year           = [[Gallifrey]], [[House of Lungbarrow]], [[Rassilon Era]]
|range          = Virgin New Adventures
|writer         = [[Marc Platt]]
|number in range = 60
|publisher     = [[Virgin Books]]
|number          = 60
|release date   = March, [[1997]]
|adapted from    = Lungbarrow (unproduced TV story)
|format         = Paperback Book, 256 Pages
|doctor         = Seventh Doctor
|isbn           = ISBN 0426205022
|companions     = [[Chris Cwej|Chris]]
|previous story = [[The Room With No Doors]]
|featuring      = Ace
|next story    = [[The Dying Days]]
|featuring2      = Leela
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|featuring3      = Andred (The Invasion of Time)
'''''Lungbarrow''''' is an original novel written by [[Marc Platt]] and based on the long-running [[United Kingdom|British]] science fiction television series ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Published in [[Virgin Books]]' ''[[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]]'' range, it was the last of that range to feature the [[Seventh Doctor]].  
|featuring4      = Romana II
|featuring5      = K9 Mark II
|featuring6      = Susan Foreman
|featuring7      = Ferain
|enemy           = [[Glospin]]
|setting        = [[House of Lungbarrow]], [[Gallifrey]]
|writer         = Marc Platt
|cover          = [[Fred Gambino]]
|publisher       = Virgin Books
|release date   = 20 March 1997
|release date2 = 22 August 2003 (eBook)
|format         = Paperback Book; 36 Chapters, 256 Pages
|isbn           = ISBN 0-426-20502-2
|prev            = The Room With No Doors (novel)
|next           = The Dying Days (novel)
}}{{you may|House of Lungbarrow|Doctor Who and Lungbarrow (in-universe)|n2=the novel as it exists within the DWU}}
'''''Lungbarrow''''' was an original ''[[Doctor Who]]'' novel written by [[Marc Platt]] as an expanded adaptation of his [[Lungbarrow (unproduced TV story)|unproduced television story of the same name]]. Published in [[Virgin Books]]' ''[[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventures]]'' range, it was the last of that range to feature the [[Seventh Doctor]].


It is considered the final novel, under any banner, to feature the [[Seventh Doctor]] as the "current" Doctor, although McGann's [[Eighth Doctor]] had already made his televised appearance by the time the novel was published. Due to a publication delay, however, an earlier-commissioned novel, ''[[So Vile a Sin]]'', also featuring the Seventh Doctor, would be published later.
It is considered the final novel under any banner to feature the [[Seventh Doctor]] as the "current" Doctor, although McGann's [[Eighth Doctor]] had already made his televised appearance by the time the novel was published. Due to a publication delay, however, an earlier-commissioned novel, ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'', also featuring the Seventh Doctor, was published later - although it takes place earlier than ''Lungbarrow'' in continuity. One additional Eighth Doctor novel would be published under the ''Virgin New Adventures'' banner before the series was handed over to [[Bernice Summerfield]].


==Publisher's Summary==
== Publisher's summary ==
''''Nonsense, child,' retorted [[the Doctor]]. 'Grandfather indeed! I've never seen you before in my life!''''
''"Nonsense, [[Susan Foreman|child]]", retorted [[the Doctor]]. "Grandfather indeed! I've never seen you before in my life!"''


All is not well on [[Gallifrey]]. [[Chris Cwej]] is having someone else's nightmares. [[Ace]] is talking to herself. So is [[K-9]]. [[Leela]] has stumbled on a murderous family conspiracy. And the beleaguered [[Lord President]], [[Romana|Romanadvoratrelundar]], foresees one of the most tumultuous events in her planet history.  
All is not well on [[Gallifrey]]. [[Chris Cwej]] is having someone else's nightmares. [[Ace]] is talking to herself. So is [[K9]]. [[Leela]] has stumbled on a murderous family conspiracy. And the beleaguered [[Lady President]], [[Romana II|Romanadvoratrelundar]], foresees one of the most tumultuous events in her planet's history.


At the root of all is an ancient and terrible place, the [[House of Lungbarrow]] in the southern mountains of Gallifrey. Something momentous is happening there. But the House has inexplicably gone missing.  
At the root of all is an ancient and terrible place, the [[House of Lungbarrow]] in the southern mountains of Gallifrey. Something momentous is happening there. But the House has inexplicably gone missing.


673 years ago the Doctor left his family in that forgotten House. Abandoned, disgraced and resentful, they have waited. And now he's home at last.  
673 years ago the Doctor left his family in that forgotten House. Abandoned, disgraced and resentful, they have waited. And now he's home at last.


In this, the seventh Doctor's final New Adventure, he faces a threat that could uncover the greatest secret of them all.
In this, the Seventh Doctor's final New Adventure, he faces a threat that could uncover the greatest secret of them all.


==Characters==
== Plot ==
*[[Seventh Doctor |The Doctor]]
In a prologue, [[the Other]] stands on the Omega Memorial watching riots across [[Gallifrey]] shortly after [[Pythia's Curse]]. He contemplates suicide, but is stopped by the [[Hand of Omega]]. He decides on another plan to leave Gallifrey. Later, a young [[First Doctor|Doctor]] is up to mischief during a tutoring session with [[Badger (Lungbarrow)|Badger]]; he distracts his tutor and runs outside.
**Has the nickname 'Snail' and 'Wormhole' by his cousins (because he has a bellybutton).


*[[Chris Cwej]]
Under [[Andred]]'s command as [[Castellan]], a young captain, [[Jomdek]], is sent to Surveillance Actuary Hofwinter to send a classified transduction order. The datacube is intercepted, but Jomdek and Hofwinter report that it has been sent as instructed.


*[[Ace]]
[[Ace]], now living in 19th century Paris and going by Dorothée, is intercepted on her time-travelling motorbike and encounters what appears to be an exact duplicate of herself, who claims to be "Ace," not Dorothée, and is aiming a gun at her. They talk, and end up reminiscing about various identical life experiences, but "Ace" seems remarkably focused on learning more about the Doctor. Dorothée points this out, and "Ace" vanishes.
**The [[Celestial Intervention Agency |CIA]] kill Ace for 20 minutes and upload her memories to [[the Matrix]].


*[[Leela |Leelandredloomsagwinaechegesima (aka Leela)]]
Andred fields questions from [[Almoner Crest]] [[Yeux]] about President [[Romana]]'s whereabouts, to which he claims she is simply unavailable. In truth, Andred does not know where Romana has gone. [[Leela]] and her [[K9]] visit Andred's office to tell him that they've found a data anomaly. Six hundred and seventy-three years ago, one of Andred's cousins, [[Redred]], was sent on a mission to the [[House of Lungbarrow]], where both he and the House itself went missing. Their conversation is interrupted by a call from Romana asking where her transduction order went, as the "guest" she was expecting never arrived. She claims that "everything" depends on the negotiations she is currently engaged in.
**Is pair bonded to Andred.
**Is pregnant.


*[[Andred |Castellan Andred]]
Yeux speaks to Jomdek, revealing that he is the one who intercepted the transduction order, which retrieved Dorothée.
**Belongs to House of the Redlooms.


*[[Romana II|President Romana]]
Back in Andred's quarters, K9 informs Leela that all record of Lungbarrow's existence has been deleted. Leela never informed Andred that Lungbarrow was the Doctor's home.
**Is negotiating with the [[Tharil]]s.


*[[K-9 Mark I]]
Meanwhile on the [[TARDIS]], [[Chris Cwej]] is experiencing nightmares. The [[Seventh Doctor]] finds him asleep in the bath. Chris tells him about his nightmare, which included a group of women reciting "[[Eighth Man Bound|eighth man bound]]", though he had not previously encountered the chant. The Doctor dismisses the dream, revealing nothing of what he might know about it.
**Learns Andred's security codes.


*[[K-9 Mark II]]
In the House of Lungbarrow, Cousin [[Arkhew]] climbs into the clock in an attempt to find [[Quences]]'s will. [[Owis]], looking for food, encounters [[Glospin]], who teases and scares him about the House [[Drudge]]s and skinless skulls. Owis frames Glospin for stealing food, and the Drudges take Glospin away while Owis retreats to [[Innocet]]'s room. Innocet is building a card tower, while [[Jobiska]] is waiting to play the board game [[Sepulchasm]] with Arkhew. Owis plays with her instead. The Doctor's TARDIS arrives in the House, restarting the clock and trapping Arkhew in it, as well as toppling Innocet's house of cards.
**Has recently returned from [[E-Space]].


[[Rodan]]
Chris and the Doctor exit the TARDIS, with Chris curious and the Doctor reluctant. Chris touches a cobweb, which sends him into a shared vision of the past with Arkhew. He sees the cousins of Lungbarrow preparing for Quences's Deathday. Two Cousins discuss who they think might inherit the House, with a leading contender being Glospin. They suspect that Glospin's job title of "cellular eugenicist" is a cover for a position in the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]]. They are confused by the presence of Owis, who is apparently the Doctor's Replacement, though the Doctor has not died. If the House has loomed more than its allotted 45 Cousins, it could mean a great scandal. Innocet confronts Glospin about documents he is intending to send to the [[Chapterhouse]] regarding the Doctor's claim to membership of the House. Quences refuses to read his will (and therefore, refuses to die) until all of his cousins are present (until the Doctor is present). [[Housekeeper (title)|Housekeeper]] [[Satthralope]], in keeping with this wish, seals the House closed with all cousins inside and buries it under [[Mount Lung]]. Chris sees the [[First Doctor]] stab Quences. Glospin regenerates, and Satthralope convinces the House and herself that Quences is not dead, but in stasis.
* Is Leela's friend.
* Has been sent on a cross-cultural liaison course.


[[Ferain|Lord Ferain]]
Leela has K9 use Andred's security codes to access more restricted records on the Doctor, which alerts Yeux and the CIA. She is arrested. When she is questioned (mostly about the Doctor), chancellor [[Theora]] attempts to get her released, but finds the CIA's operations to be out of her and Romana's control, even when Romana apparently arrives in person. As Theora leaves, the capitol is bombed.
* Is part of the [[Celestial Intervention Agency |CIA]].
* Kept a book called ''An Alternative History of Skaro: The Daleks without Davros''.


'''Flashback / In-Memory Character'''
Innocet, learning about the bet between Owis, Arkhew, and Glospin to find Quences's will, sends Owis out to find Arkhew. Innocet encounters Cousin [[Rynde]], who tells her that Cousin [[Maljamin]] has "gone away" like the rest of their Cousins.


[[Susan]] (appears in flashback-like sequence)
Chris reawakens to the Doctor and the TARDIS missing. He finds a note telling him to stay put, but leaves to find the TARDIS anyway. He finds the Doctor in the kitchens. The Doctor claims not to know this place. Chris keeps hearing voices that the Doctor does not. They separate again, and Chris finds Glospin (wearing a different face than in the dream) imprisoned in an oven by the Drudges. Chris makes a few attempts to free him, at which point the Doctor returns and Glospin immediately recognizes him. Glospin and the Doctor argue, and Glospin reveals that it is [[Otherstide]], the holiday commemorating the banishment of the Other and the exact anniversary of Quences's Deathday. After some small amount of begging, the Doctor gets Glospin out of the oven.
* Her mother died as [[Pythia]] cursed Gallifrey.
 
* Susan's nanny was called [[Mamlaurea]].
Innocet finds Owis talking to Maljamin, who has climbed into a chimney in an attempt to see the sky. She tells Owis to watch Maljamin and ensure he does not leave.
 
The Doctor, Chris, and Glospin find the TARDIS webbed to the ceiling of the main hall. Innocet arrives and confronts the Doctor just as he discovers that it is not, in fact, nighttime, and that it is dark because the House has been buried. Innocet tells the men that Arkhew has been murdered.
 
Theora and Romana, who had projected a hologram of herself earlier, call and discuss the bombing; while there was only one casualty, they determine that it was targeted at the [[Tharil]] embassy and cannot determine its source.
 
Andred, Romana's K9, and Leela's K9 rescue Leela and Dorothée from CIA custody. They are taken to the Presidential quarters to speak with Romana (again a projection).
 
Glospin goes to speak to Satthralope, who has not left her chair in decades. After being informed of the Doctor's presence, Satthralope sends the Drudges after him, but he and Chris are protected by Innocet officially inviting them as guests in accordance with the laws of Housepitality. Chris continues to have visions and nightmares of the Doctor's memories. Back in Innocet's room, Maljamin, who has been tied to a chair, attempts to escape, and Innocet eventually lets him without giving the Doctor a clear answer as to where he and the rest of their cousins have gone.
 
Unrest grows in the Panopticon about Romana's absence, which [[Ferain|Lord Ferain]] and Yeux of the CIA take as an opportunity to seize power. Ferain calls for Romana's impeachment. Leela, Romana, and Dorothée talk while in a projection that looks like an impressionist painting. Romana tells the two humans that Gallifrey must change if it is to survive, and the Doctor is a key factor in this. She sends the two of them to the House of Lungbarrow to find the Doctor.
 
Innocet takes Chris to see the last family portrait, confirming that the person he saw kill Quences was, in fact, the Doctor. Chris has a vision of Quences banishing the Doctor from the House and revoking his name. Satthralope and Glospin confront the Doctor in person. Satthralope wakes the house against Glospin's wishes. The Drudges try to escort the Doctor to the library for imprisonment, but encounter Rynde and Owis along the way. Innocet and Chris find the Doctor as well. The Drudges try to detain the Doctor again, but Badger appears and defends him.
 
Back in Innocet's room, she and the Doctor play Sepulchasm while Chris has more visions of the Doctor killing Quences. The Doctor and Innocet discuss how the Doctor's old room has been rendered inaccessible by a lagoon flooding that wing of the House, likely caused by an experiment left by the Doctor. The Doctor also explains to Chris that his visions are being caused by the TARDIS rerouting the Doctor's subconscious to Chris's mind, as the Doctor's mind cannot contain all of his memories anymore. He also hypothesizes that this is why they ended up at the House in the first place.
 
Innocet, a talented telepath, proposes that Chris allow her into his mind to access the Doctor's memories and clear his name. The first memory they view does indeed show the Doctor stabbing Quences, but the second shows the Doctor somewhere else entirely shortly before the murder. He is in an office in the Capitol when the Hand of Omega enters his office, pestering him. Then, Glospin visits, informing him of anomalies in the Doctor's genetic coding that would imply he is not from Lungbarrow's genetic material. He intends to share this information with the Prydonian Chapterhouse in hopes of having the Doctor removed from the House legally. The Doctor denies this, and drafts a letter of his own informing the Chapterhouse of Owis's looming. He then uses energy from the Hand of Omega to activate and steal a [[Type 40|Type 40 TT capsule]].
 
Innocet accepts that the Doctor couldn't have been at the House when Quences was murdered. The Doctor encounters Quences's ghost, who again expresses disapéointment that the Doctor did not follow his wishes.
 
The Doctor and Glospin play Sepulchasm; the Doctor finds Quences's will in the Sepulchasm board.
 
Leela and Dorothée arrive in the House. They find Redred held in stasis in the House's sabotaged [[transmat]] chamber. The Drudges use Dorothée's groceries (still on her bike from before she was taken in) to make an Otherstide feast. At the feast, the House performs a puppet show reenacting the banishment of the Other. Chris, haunted by the Doctor's thoughts, has an outburst at the play, claiming it is inaccurate; Glospin again accuses the Doctor of being an infiltrator in the family. The Doctor asks for Innocet's help in finding his TARDIS. She refuses, saying that she can no longer trust him. The Doctor says he is no longer bound by Lungbarrow's rules, as he has been disinherited; Satthralope says that that cannot be confirmed until the will has been found. The Doctor procures the will and threatens to "wake Quences up." Badger releases Redred from stasis, who still believes it is the same day he arrived. Redred reveals that he had, upon arriving, delivered an edict from the Prydonian chapterhouse that Lungbarrow, having been found guilty of looming an additional cousin, has five days to appeal the decision before it is excommunicated from the chapter. This is, the Doctor suspects, why the transmat booth was sabotaged.


[[The Other]]
The TARDIS falls from the ceiling. The Doctor deactivates the hologram over Quences's "stasis chamber," revealing a picked-clean skeleton to the House. Satthralope loses control of the Drudges, who begin guarding the coffin. Redred reports that the Doctor's TARDIS is the same one that had been reported stolen "last night" (the night before Quences's Deathday). Glospin, revealing his CIA status to Redred, claims that the Doctor killed Quences and is not truly a Cousin of Lungbarrow. He encourages Redred to try and get into the Doctor's TARDIS for evidence.
* Along with [[Rassilon]] and [[Omega]] was part of the Trimuvate that ruled Gallifrey.
* Susan was The Other's granddaughter.
* Threw himself into the original Loom.


===The Doctor's Cousins===
Jobiska follows the other missing cousins while Chris becomes overwhelmed by the Doctor's subconscious; they both go to the flooded north annex together. Innocet, overwhelmed by these events, follows them, and the Doctor tries to stop her. A creature in the water (an experiment left behind by the Doctor) attacks both of them. The Doctor manages to get them safely to the other side of the lagoon, but Innocet does not want him following her. When Badger arrives to protect the Doctor, she attempts to run, and then threatens the Doctor with a sword. Badger fatally wounds Innocet. As she dies, she tells the Doctor that she did not want the House to know where the other cousins were. She tells him that they are all waiting for him in his own room. The Doctor finds a deep pit in his room that Chris, haunted and delirious, stands over. The Doctor cuts off Innocet's hair, which she had been growing and wearing on her back since the House was buried, and uses it as a rope to get down. He finds his Cousins all in a cavern at the bottom of this well, now surrounding Chris. The Doctor takes back some of his subconscious from Chris and feels all of his Cousins' hate for him at once.


[[Innocet]]
At the lagoon entrance, Leela and Dorothée are discussing whether to follow the others when Romana arrives, this time in person. She is here on the run, having nowhere else to go after Ferain took over the capitol. The lost Cousins emerge from the north annex, and the House produces a bridge for them to cross the lagoon. Chris follows, carrying a beaten Doctor and enacting the Doctor's persona, Scottish accent and all. The Doctor rambles about Eighth Man Bound, saying that he could never see past his seventh regeneration and that he believes it is truly the end for him. Innocet, regenerated and weak, emerges as well. She, with the help of the Doctor's companions, attempts to enter his mind and save him, but can only successfully enter through Chris.
* Loved the Doctor.
* Has [[telekinesis]] and [[telepathy]].


[[Quences |Quencessetianobayolocaturgrathageyyilunbarrowmas (aka Quenses)]]
After seeing all of the Doctor's previous regenerations and an encounter with [[Time (mythology)|Time]], the companions see the Other on the Omega Memorial (the same scene from the prologue). The Other goes to the city slums, where he visits [[Mamlaurea]] and his granddaughter, [[Susan Foreman|Susan,]] telling them to leave for [[Tersurus]]. Susan says she will be waiting for him.
* Lived for 7,000 years.
* The 422nd [[Kithriarch]] of Lungbarrow.
* Served as Ordinal-General of the Brotherhood of Kithriarchs (head of the Houses of Gallifrey).


[[Glospin |Glospinninymortheras (aka Glospin)]]
In another flashback, the Other has a confrontation with [[Rassilon]]. The Other expresses disappointment at Rassilon's styling of himself as a god, then leaves. Rassilon orders all exits from the planet sealed. Glospin enters the vision, having found the companions. Everyone seeing the vision sees the Other enter the central progenitive chamber, dispersing his body into the loom data of Gallifrey.
* In his fourth regeneration, is 1,711 years old.


[[Sratthralope]]
They then see the First Doctor shortly after stealing his TARDIS. He has landed in the old days of Gallifrey, exactly a year after the Other's disappearance. The Hand of Omega leads him to Susan's place, where she immediately recognizes him as her grandfather. She was unable to leave due to Rassilon's closure of the spaceports. Though he does not know how, the Doctor knows her name. The two leave in the TARDIS, and the visions end.
* Housekeeper to the house of Lungbarrow.
* 302 years old.
* Dismissed the hermit as he was too expensive.


[[Jobiska]]
When the group wakes up, Ferain and a number of CIA soldiers have them in custody and place them under "House arrest." Chris's mind has cleared, and the Doctor is healing. He says he has "jettisoned" his subconscious. The Doctor gives Dorothée canisters of [[nitro-9]] that had been in his pockets since they were travelling together. They return to the main hall, where the returned Cousins are rummaging through the Doctor's belongings from his TARDIS. The Doctor enters the TARDIS and disables it, preventing anyone else from entry.
* Old and senile.


[[Rynde]]
In the commotion, Leela and Dorothée sneak away to the kitchens. They prepare to detonate the nitro-9 to unbury the House. Dorothée notices that Leela is pregnant. A Drudge attacks them, but a creature from the Doctor's room enters and fights it off. Leela paralyzes the creature with a [[janis thorn]].
* Was Epicurla Overseer to the Dromeian Chapterhouse.


[[Arkew|Arkhew]]
The Doctor challenges the accusations against him. Satthralope enters, now having lost control of her own mind and speaking directly for the House. She still insists that Quences is asleep, not dead. The Doctor calls the House as a witness in the impromptu trial against him. Chris testifies, describing the Quences's murder as he saw it. Glospin claims that he was regenerating at the time of the murder and that Satthralope personally nursed him through the rebirth. The House denies this, claiming that regeneration is a private process. Only the loom records regenerations, and the House reveals that Glospin regenerated two separate times on that day. In his earlier fight with the Doctor, he sampled some of his DNA, and used it to regenerate into an identical form before regenerating into his current body. After it is proven that Glospin killed Quences, Owis admits to killing Arkhew on Glospin's orders. The House begins to crumble under proof that Quences is dead. The Doctor gives Quences's will to Badger, which summons Quences's ghost. Quences reveals that his murder had been predicted to him, and he had purposefully had his mind transferred to Badger instead of the [[The Matrix|Matrix]]. Quences confirms that his chosen successor is, indeed, the Doctor. Leela and Dorothée return to the main hall just as the charges detonate.
* Dead.


[[Maljamin]]
Everyone except the Doctor, Glospin, and Satthralope are able to escape the collapsing House. Romana orders the Doctor to retrieve the House loom data and keys, which he does. Chris returns into the House to save the Doctor; they escape in the TARDIS.


[[Farg]]
The Doctor gives the House keys and loom data to Innocet, proclaiming her Housekeeper. Romana promises that Lungbarrow will be reinstated as a Prydonian House and that a new House will be grown from the original template. Romana reveals that the negotiations she has been preoccupied with are with the [[Sisterhood of Karn]], bringing the potential end of Pythia's Curse. Leela and Andred's child will be the first naturally born Gallifreyan child of the new era. The High Council has been calmed by Romana's return, and Ferain allows her to remain in power should she send the Doctor on the mission he intended for her: retrieving [[The Master|the Master's]] remains from [[Skaro]]. Chris decides to leave the Doctor, stating that he might return to [[Bernice Summerfield]]. The Doctor leaves everyone to their promised futures.
* Died 200 years ago.


[[Celesia]]
== Characters ==
* [[Seventh Doctor]]
* [[Chris Cwej]]
* [[Ace]]
* [[Leela]]ndredloomsagwinaechegesima (aka Leela)
* [[Andred (The Invasion of Time)|Castellan Andred]]
* [[Romana II|President Romana]]
* [[K9 Mark I]]
* [[K9 Mark II]]
* [[Rodan]]
* [[Ferain|Lord Ferain]]
* [[Badger (Lungbarrow)|Badger]]


[[Almund]]
=== Flashback / In-memory characters ===
* [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] (appears in flashback-like sequence)
* [[The Other]]


[[DeRoosifa]]
=== Other Time Lords ===
* [[Theora]]
* [[Redred]]
* [[Jomdek]]
* [[Yeux]]
* [[Lenadi]]
* [[Mamlaurea|Malmurea]]


[[Chovor ]]the Various
=== The Doctor's cousins ===
* [[Innocet]]
* [[Satthralope]]
* [[Jobiska]]
* [[Rynde]]
* [[Arkhew]]
* [[Maljamin]]
* [[Farg]]
* [[Celesia]]
* [[Almund]]
* [[DeRoosifa]]
* [[Chovor]]
* [[Salpash]]
* [[Luton]]
* [[Owis]]
* [[Quences]]setianobayolocaturgrathageyyilungbarrowmas (aka Quences)
* [[Glospin]]ninymoras (aka Glospin)


[[Salpash]]
== Worldbuilding ==
* Multi-chinned.
=== Books ===
* Lord [[Ferain]] kept a book called ''[[An Alternative History of Skaro: The Daleks without Davros]]''.
* The books ''[[The Triumphs of Rassilon]]'', ''[[The Book of Rassilon]]'' and ''[[The Record of Rassilon]]'' are books that contain interpretations of [[Rassilon]], [[Omega]] and [[the Other]].


[[Luton]]
=== The Doctor ===
* Got stuck in the East chimney of the House of Lungbarrow.
* Before leaving [[Gallifrey]] the Doctor worked in the [[Bureau of Possible Events]] as a [[Scrutationary Archivist]].
* He left his post in the Prydonian Chapterhouse's [[Bureau of Possibility]] "after disagreements about his overzealous political involvements".
* The Doctor departs Gallifrey on a final mission to [[Skaro]], as requested by [[Romana II]].
* When he was leaving Gallifrey, the Doctor nearly stole a [[Type 53]], but dismissed [[TARDIS (Lungbarrow)|this TARDIS]] as "new fangled" and went with [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his Type 40]].


[[Owis]]
=== Gallifreyan culture ===
* Is 675 years old.
* [[Sepulchasm]] is a [[Time Lord]] game, and quite possibly a profanity.
* Was loomed to replace the Doctor.
* The play ''[[Mystery of the New Time]]'' is usually conducted during [[Otherstide]].
* Is quite stupid.
* He killed Cousin Arkew.


==References==
=== Gallifreyan lifeforms ===
* The Doctor returns to [[Gallifrey]] and his house [[House of Lungbarrow |Lungbarrow]].
* Gallifreyan forests have [[striped pig-bear]]s in them.
*Before leaving Gallifrey the Doctor worked in the [[Bureau of Possible Events]] as a [[Scrutationary Archivist]].
* Leela still carried [[janis thorn]]s.
* [[Sepulchasm]] is a Time Lord game (and quite possibly a swear word).
* [[Karn]] is in conjunction with [[Polarfrey]].
* Gallifreyan forests have [[striped pig bear]]s in them.
* [[Loom |Gallifreyan Looms]] create new Gallfreyans.
* The books: ''[[The Triumphs of Rassilon]]'', ''[[The Book of Rassilon]]'' and ''[[The Record of Rassilon]]'' are books that contain interpretations of; [[Rassilon]], [[Omega]] and [[The Other]].
* [[Pythia]] threw herself into the [[Crevice of Memories That Will Be]].
* [[Omega]] was lost in the constellation of [[Ao]].
* The [[Hand of Omega]] befriended the Doctor because it sensed [[The Other]]'s essence in him.
* The Doctor departs for a final mission to [[Skaro]].


==Notes==
=== Gallifreyan locations ===
* The Doctor returns to his house, the [[House of Lungbarrow]].
[[Image:Lungbarrow ebook cover.jpg|thumb|right|250px|The "cover" for the e-book version of ''Lungbarrow''.  (Art by [[Daryl Joyce]])]]
*''Lungbarrow'' wrapped up the last of the continuity of the New Adventures and put the Doctor on course to gather [[the Master]]'s remains from [[Skaro]], as depicted in the [[Doctor Who (1996)|1996 Doctor Who television movie]]. It is also one of a number of the New Adventures which is hard to obtain and is often seen on auction websites such as eBay at prices many times the original cover price.  


*Before losing their license to [[BBC Books]], it had been announced that the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s adventures would have continued in periodic [[Virgin Missing Adventures|Missing Adventures]] releases, with the [[Eighth Doctor]] taking over the NA line. Ultimately, only one Eighth Doctor novel was published and the MA line came to an end before any Seventh Doctor releases could occur (although future Seventh Doctor novels would be released under the [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] line as late as 2005).
=== Gallifreyan technology ===
* [[Loom]]s create new Gallifreyans.
* The [[Hand of Omega]] befriended the Doctor because it sensed the Other's essence in him.
* The [[Time Vortex]] is red when travelling forward in time and blue when travelling backwards.


*The novel which followed ''Lungbarrow'', [[Lance Parkin]]'s ''[[The Dying Days]]'', featured the [[Eighth Doctor]]. When Virgin subsequently lost their license to print original ''Doctor Who'' fiction, they chose to focus on a character from the New Adventures which the BBC did not own, former companion [[Bernice Summerfield]]. ''Lungbarrow'' serves, in concert with ''Dying Days'', to gradually increase the standing of Summerfield's character, laying the groundwork for the later appearance of the Seventh Doctor's then-companion, [[Chris Cwej]], in Summerfield's own novels.
=== Gallifreyan organisations ===
* The [[Celestial Intervention Agency|CIA]] kill [[Ace]] for twenty minutes and upload her memories to [[the Matrix]].
* An organisation called [[Space-Time Accessions Bureau]] exists.
* The [[Ordinal]]-General does not allow members of the [[House of Redlooms]] into the [[Bureau of Temporal Anomalies]].


*Platt's novel, though, is largely concerned with concluding what was known as the "[[Cartmel Masterplan]]". In the final two seasons of the original [[1963]]-[[1989]] run of ''Doctor Who'', the then [[script editor]] [[Andrew Cartmel]] introduced new elements of mystery into the character of [[the Doctor]]. Suggestions of dark secrets that the Doctor might be more than just a [[Time Lord]] were inserted into scripts of stories such as [[Ben Aaronovitch]]'s ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' and [[Kevin Clarke]]'s ''[[Silver Nemesis]]''. Had the series not been effectively cancelled in 1989, the following season would have made some of these revelations. Elements of Platt's planned ''Lungbarrow'' instead became part of the Season 26 serial ''[[Ghost Light]]''.
=== Individual Gallifreyans ===
* Andred belongs to the [[House of Redlooms]].
* [[Susan Foreman|Susan]]'s mother died as [[Pythia]] cursed Gallifrey.
* Susan's nanny was called [[Mamlaurea]].
* Pythia threw herself into the [[Crevice of Memories That Will Be]].
* Omega was lost in the constellation of [[Ao (constellation)|Ao]].


*Along the way to this resolution, ''Lungbarrow'' ultimately reveals much new information about the Doctor's home world and race, some of which had been hinted at ever since the first New Adventures novel. Many of the New Adventures authors migrated to the BBC Books ''Doctor Who'' line and elements of this backstory also made their way into subsequent novels. However, there have also been elements in those novels that contradict it.  
=== Plants ===
* Leela still carried [[janis thorn]]s.


*The novel's revelations about the odd way in which Time Lords reproduce through [[Loom]]s — and the related suggestion that [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] may not have in fact been his biological granddaughter — have proven divisive in fandom. It has also been roundly rejected by the [[BBC Wales]] production of ''Doctor Who'', which has on diverse occasions depicted the Doctor as having had familial relationships close to what a Human would experience ([[DW]]: ''[[Fear Her]]'', ''[[Smith and Jones]]'', ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'').
=== Planets ===
* [[Karn]] is in conjunction with [[Polarfrey]].


*In addition, the claim that Time Lords are born fully mature, never having a physical childhood, is contradicted in [[DW]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'', when a child is shown in a Time Lord ritual.
=== Species ===
* President Romana is successfully negotiating with the [[Tharil]]s.
* Romana did not attend the reception for the [[Chelonian]] envoy.
* [[Fledershrew]]s are present in the House of Lungbarrow.


*A new version of ''Lungbarrow'', with both additions and subtractions to the original text, author's notes and an artwork gallery, was presented as an e-book on the BBC website on [[22nd August]], [[2003]].
=== Relatives of the Doctor ===
* Innocet has [[telekinesis]] and [[telepathy]].


*The Houses that Platt gives Gallifrey are similar to the household featured in Peake's ''[[Wikipedia:Gormenghast|Gormenghast]]'' trilogy. [[Badger]], a character who makes his first appearance in ''Lungbarrow'', has much in common with a character in Peake's ''Gormenghast'' novella, ''[[Wikipedia:Boy in Darkness|Boy in Darkness]]'', which originally appeared in the collected work ''Sometime, Never'' by Golding, Wyndham and Peake. <ref> [http://www.tetrap.com/drwho/disccon/unbound/auld.html The Disccontinuity Guide]</ref>
== Notes ==
*[[Lance Parkin]] on an Outpost Gallifrey forum thread <ref> [http://www.gallifreyone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53208&highlight=lungbarrow+print Outpost Gallifrey forum thread (registration required)] </ref> stated in 2005 that the reason the last three books in the Virgin New Adventures range, including ''Lungbarrow'', were so expensive on the secondary market was excessive demand, rather than an unusually low initial print run. However, he also noted that reprints of these books were not allowed, because Virgin's license expired before a second printing might otherwise have been made.
* ''Lungbarrow'' wrapped up the last of the continuity of the New Adventures and put the Doctor on course to gather {{Roberts}}'s remains from [[Skaro]], as depicted in the [[Doctor Who (TV story)|1996 Doctor Who television movie]]. It is also one of a number of the New Adventures which is hard to obtain and is often seen on auction websites such as eBay at prices many times the original cover price.
*The numbering of this book (60 of 61) refers to the publisher's ''intended'' order, not the actual order of publication. Because of chronic delays troubling [[Ben Aaronovitch]]'s ''[[So Vile a Sin]]'' (which was eventually finished by [[Kate Orman]]), it was actually the 59th New Adventure published.
* Before losing their license to [[BBC Books]], it had been announced that the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s adventures would have continued in periodic [[Virgin Missing Adventures|Missing Adventures]] releases, with the [[Eighth Doctor]] taking over the NA line. Ultimately, only one Eighth Doctor novel was published and the MA line came to an end before any Seventh Doctor releases could occur. Future Seventh Doctor novels would be released under the [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] line.
* The Seventh Doctor's last words in the ''Virgin New Adventures'' series are; "Dorothee! I just remembered. I haven't been Merlin yet!"
* The novel which followed ''Lungbarrow'', [[Lance Parkin]]'s ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'', featured the [[Eighth Doctor]]. When Virgin subsequently lost their license to print original ''Doctor Who'' fiction, they chose to focus on a character from the New Adventures which the BBC did not own, former companion [[Bernice Summerfield]]. ''Lungbarrow'' serves, in concert with ''Dying Days'', to gradually increase the standing of Summerfield's character, laying the groundwork for the later appearance of the Seventh Doctor's then-companion, [[Chris Cwej]], in Summerfield's own novels. Additionally, as part of Virgin's {{w|Virgin Books#Imprints|Black Lace}} erotic novels, the novel ''The Stranger'' (written by {{w|Portia Da Costa}}) centred around an individual called "[[Paul Bowman]]", who, by the author's own admission, was based upon the Eighth Doctor. The events of the novel were notably later mentioned in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Father Time (novel)|Father Time]]'' and ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'', thus unofficially making ''The Stranger'' a part of the DWU, albeit with a minor dating discrepancy.
* This novel, however, was largely concerned with concluding what was known as the "[[Cartmel Masterplan]]". In the final two seasons of the original 1963-1989 run of ''Doctor Who'', the then [[script editor]] [[Andrew Cartmel]] introduced new elements of mystery into the character of [[the Doctor]]. Suggestions of dark secrets that the Doctor might be more than just a [[Time Lord]] were inserted into scripts of stories such as [[Ben Aaronovitch]]'s ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'' and [[Kevin Clarke]]'s ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]''. Had the series not been effectively cancelled in 1989, the following season would have made some of these revelations. Elements of Platt's planned ''[[Lungbarrow (unproduced TV story)|Lungbarrow]]'' instead became part of the Season 26 serial ''[[Ghost Light (TV story)|Ghost Light]]''.
* Along the way to this resolution, ''Lungbarrow'' ultimately reveals much new information about the Doctor's home world and race, some of which had been hinted at ever since the first New Adventures novel. Many of the New Adventures authors migrated to the BBC Books ''Doctor Who'' line and elements of this backstory also made their way into subsequent novels. However, there have also been elements in those novels that contradict it.
* The claim that Time Lords are born fully mature, never having a physical childhood, has been contradicted by several pieces of media.
:* In the television story ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'', the [[Third Doctor]] tells [[Jo Grant]] a story regarding when he was a "little boy".
:* In all versions and adaptations of ''[[Shada (TV story)|Shada]]'', [[Romana II]] recalls having owned a Gallifreyan nursery book when she was "a time tot".
:* In the television story ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', [[the Master]] is shown as a child in a Time Lord ritual. The [[Tenth Doctor]] specifically mentions that before this ritual "[the c]hildren of Gallifrey [were] taken from their families [at the] age of eight to enter the [[Time Lord Academy|Academy]]". The television story ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' reuses footage from ''Drums'' while the Master's childhood is discussed. In ''The End of Time'', the [[Chancellor (The End of Time)|Chancellor]] refers to the "simple task" of the four beats of a Time Lord's heartbeat being transmitted back in time and implanted into "the Master's mind as a child".
:* The [[Eleventh Doctor]] has a cot, seen in the television story ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'', which he claims to have once slept in, and an incarnation is shown as a young boy in the television story ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'', in which he is described by a [[Gallifreyan man (Listen)|Gallifreyan man]] as "that boy".
:* In the television story ''[[The Girl in the Fireplace (TV story)|The Girl in the Fireplace]]'', [[Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson|Reinette]] describes the Doctor as having a "lonely childhood" and being "[s]uch a lonely little boy" while she looks inside the Tenth Doctor's mind. In [[TV]]: ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'', the [[Ninth Doctor]] himself similarly remarks that he knows what it's like to be the "only child left out in the cold".
:* The Ninth Doctor agrees with [[Constantine (The Empty Child)|Doctor Constantine]]'s remark of being a "father and grandfather" in the television story ''[[The Empty Child (TV story)|The Empty Child]]'', the Tenth Doctor recounts being "a dad" or "a father" in the television story ''[[Fear Her (TV story)|Fear Her]]'' and ''[[The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)|The Doctor's Daughter]]'' and his [[Twelfth Doctor|twelfth incarnation]] mentions his "dad skills" in ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]''. In the television story ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'', [[Missy]] mentions a daughter from "the olden days on Gallifrey". In the television story ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'', the Twelfth Doctor mentions how the Doctor "stole" the moon and the President's wife, before correcting himself to say that was a lie from the [[Shobogan]]s, and she was actually the President's daughter, and the moon was lost.
:* The television movie ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'' has the [[Eighth Doctor]] remember being with his father and ''The End of Time'' also has {{Simm}} asking the Tenth Doctor if he remembered the land on the slopes of [[Mount Perdition]] the Master's father owned.
:* In the television story ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'', the Twelfth Doctor recalls running together with the Master when the Doctor was "little".
:* In the television story ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'', the Twelfth Doctor recounts a memory from when he was a "very little boy" about a woman who resembled [[the Veil]], which gave him nightmares for years.
* A second edition of ''Lungbarrow'', featuring both additions to and subtractions from the original text made by the author and accompanied by author's notes and new illustrations by [[Daryl Joyce]], was released by BBCi as an e-book on the official Doctor Who website on [[22 August (releases)|22 August]] [[2003 (releases)|2003]]. It became inaccessible in 2010.
* The Houses of Gallifrey are similar to the household featured in Peake's {{wi|Gormenghast}} trilogy. [[Badger (Lungbarrow)|Badger]], a character who makes his first appearance in ''Lungbarrow'', has much in common with a character in Peake's ''Gormenghast'' novella, {{wi|Boy in Darkness}}, which originally appeared in the collected work ''Sometime, Never'' by Golding, Wyndham and Peake.<ref>[http://www.tetrap.com/drwho/disccon/unbound/auld.html The Disccontinuity Guide]</ref>
* [[Lance Parkin]] on an Outpost Gallifrey forum thread <ref>[http://www.gallifreyone.com/forum/showthread.php?t=53208&highlight=lungbarrow+print Outpost Gallifrey forum thread (registration required)]</ref> stated in 2005 that the reason the last three books in the Virgin New Adventures range, including ''Lungbarrow'', were so expensive on the secondary market was excessive demand, rather than an unusually low initial print run. However, he also noted that reprints of these books were not allowed, because Virgin's license expired before a second printing might otherwise have been made.
* The numbering of this book as 60 of 61 refers to the publisher's intended order, which ultimately was not the actual order of publication. Because of chronic delays troubling [[Ben Aaronovitch]]'s ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]'', eventually finished by [[Kate Orman]], it was actually the 59th New Adventure published.
* Marc Platt has stated that had he worked on the book today he would have done a number of things differently that it would have resulted in a drastically different novel. He had attempted to regain the rights to the novel so that Big Finish could adapt it but owed a massive sum of money in back taxes that it became impossible stating "I should have kept an original copy around since it would have more than likely have paid for the rights single-handedly."{{fact}}


==Continuity==
== Continuity ==
* The hermit that lived on the mountain near the Doctor's home was mentioned in [[DW]]: ''[[The Time Monster]]'' (and more details given in:) ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]''.
* [[The Hermit]] who lived on the mountain near the Doctor's home was first mentioned in [[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'' and later featured in [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]''.
* The [[Sisterhood of Karn]] debuted in [[DW]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius]]''.
* The [[Sisterhood of Karn]] first appeared in [[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]''. They would later be responsible for the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Night of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'')
* Leela met Andred in [[DW]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time]]''.
* [[Leela]] met [[Andred (The Invasion of Time)|Andred]] in [[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]''.
* Romana returned from E-space in [[NA]]: ''[[Blood Harvest]]'', and became president in ''[[Happy Endings]]''.
* Romana returned from [[E-Space]] in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Blood Harvest (novel)|Blood Harvest]]'' and became president in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]''.
* A lot of Gallifreyan history revisited in this novel first appeared in [[NA]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]''.
* [[Ace]] is a fan of [[The Stone Roses]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'')
* Romana gives the Doctor her sonic screwdriver which she built in [[DW]]: ''[[The Horns of Nimon]]''.
* A lot of Gallifreyan history revisited in this novel first appeared in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]''.
* The Doctor used the [[Hand of Omega]] in [[DW]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]''.
* Romana gives the Doctor [[Romana's sonic screwdriver|her sonic screwdriver]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Horns of Nimon (TV story)|The Horns of Nimon]]'')
* The Doctor goes on one final mission to pick up the Master's remains leading into [[DW]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]''.
* The Doctor used the [[Hand of Omega]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]''.
* Romana started negotiations with the Daleks, giving the Master to them under the [[Act of Master Restitution]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)|A Brief History of Time Lords]]'')
* The Doctor goes on one final mission to pick up the Master's remains, leading into [[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]''.
* Gallifrey's renewed ties with the Sisterhood of Karn abolishes Pythia's curse of sterility upon the population. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
* [[Innocet]] tells [[Chris Cwej]] that the Houses are the oldest living things on [[Gallifrey]], the first ones having been grown during the [[Intuitive Revelation]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible (novel)|Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible]]'')
* [[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'' explains that [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'' is a result of [[Rassilon]]'s disgusted response to the Time Lords' reconciliation with the Sisterhood and the lifting of [[Pythia]]'s curse.
* During the confrontation between Rassilon and the Other, it is mentioned that the Looms give the new generations of Gallifreyans the ability to regenerate; Rassilon and the Other cannot do so. This contradicts the suggestion in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'' that the "Morbius Doctors" were the Other's faces, and [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Multi-Faceted War (short story)|The Multi-Faceted War]]'', where Rassilon is said to have regenerated.


==Timeline==
== Illustrations ==
*This story occurs after [[ST]]: ''[[Culture War ]]''
The e-book version published by the BBC on their website included a new cover and seventeen additional illustrations by [[Daryl Joyce]], some with multiple versions. Titles of illustrations are as they were on BBC's site.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20100425023026/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/lungbarrow/gallery</ref> Daryl Joyce remade the chapter 22 image in 2012.<ref>http://www.daryljoyce.co.uk/genre-illustration/doctor-who-illustration/doctor-who-related/to-be-exiles</ref>
*This story occurs before [[ST]]: ''[[Testament]]''


==See also==
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* [[Gallifreyan history]]
File:NA060 lungbarrow.jpg|Original cover
File:Lungbarrow ebook cover.jpg|ebook cover
File:Lungbarrow ebook cover textless.jpg|ebook cover textless
File:Dorotheé flees Paris on her Time bike.jpg|Chapter 3: Dorotheé flees Paris on her Time bike
File:Dorotheé flees Paris on her Time bike version 2.jpg|Chapter 3: Medium version
File:lungbarrow time bike.jpg|Chaper 3: Large version
File:Arkhew hangs above a patrolling Drudge.jpg|Chapter 4: Arkhew hangs above a patrolling Drudge
File:lungbarrow dead of night.jpg|Chapter 4: Large version
File:The TARDIS arrives in the forest-like attic.jpg|Chapter 5: The TARDIS arrives in the forest-like attic.
File:lungbarrow arrival in the attic.jpg|Chapter 5: Medium version
File:Quences arrives for his own funeral version 1.jpg|Chapter 7: Quences arrives for his own funeral
File:Quences arrives for his own funeral.jpg|Chapter 7: Medium version
File:Innocet reads her Journal 1.jpg|Chapter 9: Innocet reads her Journal
File:lungbarrow innocet.jpg|Chapter 9: Medium version
File:The TARDIS hangs in the dust webs.jpg|Chapter 13: The TARDIS hangs in the dust webs
File:Leela and Dorotheé fight.jpg|Chapter 14: Leela and Dorotheé fight
File:Leela and Dorotheé fight version 2.jpg|Chapter 14: Medium version
File:Leela, Doretheé and Romana talk.jpg|Chapter 17: Leela, Doretheé and Romana talk
File:lungbarrow monet landscape.jpg|Chapter 17: Medium version
File:The battle between Badger and the Catalfaque.jpg|Chapter 19: The battle between Badger and the Catalfaque
File:The battle between Badger and the Catalfaque version 2.jpg|Chapter 19: Medium version
File:The Doctor murders Quences.jpg|Chapter 21: The Doctor murders Quences
File:Lungbarrow 5.jpg|Chapter 21: Medium version
File:The Doctor steals an old Type 40 travel unit.jpg|Chapter 22: The Doctor steals an old Type 40 travel unit
File:The Doctor steals an old Type 40 travel unit version 2.jpg|Chapter 22: Medium version
File:It's raining fish - Hallelujah!.jpg|Chapter 25: It's raining fish - Hallelujah!
File:The Doctor shields Quences' body from the Drudges.jpg|Chapter 28: The Doctor shields Quences' body from the Drudges
File:The death of Innocet.jpg|Chapter 29: The death of Innocet
File:Seven & Innocent in House of Lungbarrow.jpg|Chapter 29: Medium version
File:Lungbarrow Ancient Gallifrey version 1.jpg|Chapter 31: Ancient Gallifrey
File:Lungbarrow Ancient Gallifrey.jpg|Chapter 31: Medium version
File:In the kitchen, the Orchid Lizard attacks.jpg|Chapter 32: In the kitchen, the Orchid Lizard attacks
File:Lungbarrow.jpg|Chapter 33: The House of Lungbarrow plummets over the cliff
File:DWM 305 Lungbarrow 1.jpg|[[DWM 305]] illustration
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==External Links==
== External links ==
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/lungbarrow/index.shtml The BBC website's E-book version of '''Lungbarrow''']
{{dwrefguide|who_na60.htm|Lungbarrow}}
* [http://www.drwhoguide.com/who_na60.htm Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of '''Lungbarrow''']
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* {{whoniverse|na60|Lungbarrow}}
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/lung.htm The Cloister Library: '''Lungbarrow''']


==Footnotes==
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You may be looking for House of Lungbarrow or the novel as it exists within the DWU.

Lungbarrow was an original Doctor Who novel written by Marc Platt as an expanded adaptation of his unproduced television story of the same name. Published in Virgin Books' New Adventures range, it was the last of that range to feature the Seventh Doctor.

It is considered the final novel under any banner to feature the Seventh Doctor as the "current" Doctor, although McGann's Eighth Doctor had already made his televised appearance by the time the novel was published. Due to a publication delay, however, an earlier-commissioned novel, So Vile a Sin, also featuring the Seventh Doctor, was published later - although it takes place earlier than Lungbarrow in continuity. One additional Eighth Doctor novel would be published under the Virgin New Adventures banner before the series was handed over to Bernice Summerfield.

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

"Nonsense, child", retorted the Doctor. "Grandfather indeed! I've never seen you before in my life!"

All is not well on Gallifrey. Chris Cwej is having someone else's nightmares. Ace is talking to herself. So is K9. Leela has stumbled on a murderous family conspiracy. And the beleaguered Lady President, Romanadvoratrelundar, foresees one of the most tumultuous events in her planet's history.

At the root of all is an ancient and terrible place, the House of Lungbarrow in the southern mountains of Gallifrey. Something momentous is happening there. But the House has inexplicably gone missing.

673 years ago the Doctor left his family in that forgotten House. Abandoned, disgraced and resentful, they have waited. And now he's home at last.

In this, the Seventh Doctor's final New Adventure, he faces a threat that could uncover the greatest secret of them all.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

In a prologue, the Other stands on the Omega Memorial watching riots across Gallifrey shortly after Pythia's Curse. He contemplates suicide, but is stopped by the Hand of Omega. He decides on another plan to leave Gallifrey. Later, a young Doctor is up to mischief during a tutoring session with Badger; he distracts his tutor and runs outside.

Under Andred's command as Castellan, a young captain, Jomdek, is sent to Surveillance Actuary Hofwinter to send a classified transduction order. The datacube is intercepted, but Jomdek and Hofwinter report that it has been sent as instructed.

Ace, now living in 19th century Paris and going by Dorothée, is intercepted on her time-travelling motorbike and encounters what appears to be an exact duplicate of herself, who claims to be "Ace," not Dorothée, and is aiming a gun at her. They talk, and end up reminiscing about various identical life experiences, but "Ace" seems remarkably focused on learning more about the Doctor. Dorothée points this out, and "Ace" vanishes.

Andred fields questions from Almoner Crest Yeux about President Romana's whereabouts, to which he claims she is simply unavailable. In truth, Andred does not know where Romana has gone. Leela and her K9 visit Andred's office to tell him that they've found a data anomaly. Six hundred and seventy-three years ago, one of Andred's cousins, Redred, was sent on a mission to the House of Lungbarrow, where both he and the House itself went missing. Their conversation is interrupted by a call from Romana asking where her transduction order went, as the "guest" she was expecting never arrived. She claims that "everything" depends on the negotiations she is currently engaged in.

Yeux speaks to Jomdek, revealing that he is the one who intercepted the transduction order, which retrieved Dorothée.

Back in Andred's quarters, K9 informs Leela that all record of Lungbarrow's existence has been deleted. Leela never informed Andred that Lungbarrow was the Doctor's home.

Meanwhile on the TARDIS, Chris Cwej is experiencing nightmares. The Seventh Doctor finds him asleep in the bath. Chris tells him about his nightmare, which included a group of women reciting "eighth man bound", though he had not previously encountered the chant. The Doctor dismisses the dream, revealing nothing of what he might know about it.

In the House of Lungbarrow, Cousin Arkhew climbs into the clock in an attempt to find Quences's will. Owis, looking for food, encounters Glospin, who teases and scares him about the House Drudges and skinless skulls. Owis frames Glospin for stealing food, and the Drudges take Glospin away while Owis retreats to Innocet's room. Innocet is building a card tower, while Jobiska is waiting to play the board game Sepulchasm with Arkhew. Owis plays with her instead. The Doctor's TARDIS arrives in the House, restarting the clock and trapping Arkhew in it, as well as toppling Innocet's house of cards.

Chris and the Doctor exit the TARDIS, with Chris curious and the Doctor reluctant. Chris touches a cobweb, which sends him into a shared vision of the past with Arkhew. He sees the cousins of Lungbarrow preparing for Quences's Deathday. Two Cousins discuss who they think might inherit the House, with a leading contender being Glospin. They suspect that Glospin's job title of "cellular eugenicist" is a cover for a position in the Celestial Intervention Agency. They are confused by the presence of Owis, who is apparently the Doctor's Replacement, though the Doctor has not died. If the House has loomed more than its allotted 45 Cousins, it could mean a great scandal. Innocet confronts Glospin about documents he is intending to send to the Chapterhouse regarding the Doctor's claim to membership of the House. Quences refuses to read his will (and therefore, refuses to die) until all of his cousins are present (until the Doctor is present). Housekeeper Satthralope, in keeping with this wish, seals the House closed with all cousins inside and buries it under Mount Lung. Chris sees the First Doctor stab Quences. Glospin regenerates, and Satthralope convinces the House and herself that Quences is not dead, but in stasis.

Leela has K9 use Andred's security codes to access more restricted records on the Doctor, which alerts Yeux and the CIA. She is arrested. When she is questioned (mostly about the Doctor), chancellor Theora attempts to get her released, but finds the CIA's operations to be out of her and Romana's control, even when Romana apparently arrives in person. As Theora leaves, the capitol is bombed.

Innocet, learning about the bet between Owis, Arkhew, and Glospin to find Quences's will, sends Owis out to find Arkhew. Innocet encounters Cousin Rynde, who tells her that Cousin Maljamin has "gone away" like the rest of their Cousins.

Chris reawakens to the Doctor and the TARDIS missing. He finds a note telling him to stay put, but leaves to find the TARDIS anyway. He finds the Doctor in the kitchens. The Doctor claims not to know this place. Chris keeps hearing voices that the Doctor does not. They separate again, and Chris finds Glospin (wearing a different face than in the dream) imprisoned in an oven by the Drudges. Chris makes a few attempts to free him, at which point the Doctor returns and Glospin immediately recognizes him. Glospin and the Doctor argue, and Glospin reveals that it is Otherstide, the holiday commemorating the banishment of the Other and the exact anniversary of Quences's Deathday. After some small amount of begging, the Doctor gets Glospin out of the oven.

Innocet finds Owis talking to Maljamin, who has climbed into a chimney in an attempt to see the sky. She tells Owis to watch Maljamin and ensure he does not leave.

The Doctor, Chris, and Glospin find the TARDIS webbed to the ceiling of the main hall. Innocet arrives and confronts the Doctor just as he discovers that it is not, in fact, nighttime, and that it is dark because the House has been buried. Innocet tells the men that Arkhew has been murdered.

Theora and Romana, who had projected a hologram of herself earlier, call and discuss the bombing; while there was only one casualty, they determine that it was targeted at the Tharil embassy and cannot determine its source.

Andred, Romana's K9, and Leela's K9 rescue Leela and Dorothée from CIA custody. They are taken to the Presidential quarters to speak with Romana (again a projection).

Glospin goes to speak to Satthralope, who has not left her chair in decades. After being informed of the Doctor's presence, Satthralope sends the Drudges after him, but he and Chris are protected by Innocet officially inviting them as guests in accordance with the laws of Housepitality. Chris continues to have visions and nightmares of the Doctor's memories. Back in Innocet's room, Maljamin, who has been tied to a chair, attempts to escape, and Innocet eventually lets him without giving the Doctor a clear answer as to where he and the rest of their cousins have gone.

Unrest grows in the Panopticon about Romana's absence, which Lord Ferain and Yeux of the CIA take as an opportunity to seize power. Ferain calls for Romana's impeachment. Leela, Romana, and Dorothée talk while in a projection that looks like an impressionist painting. Romana tells the two humans that Gallifrey must change if it is to survive, and the Doctor is a key factor in this. She sends the two of them to the House of Lungbarrow to find the Doctor.

Innocet takes Chris to see the last family portrait, confirming that the person he saw kill Quences was, in fact, the Doctor. Chris has a vision of Quences banishing the Doctor from the House and revoking his name. Satthralope and Glospin confront the Doctor in person. Satthralope wakes the house against Glospin's wishes. The Drudges try to escort the Doctor to the library for imprisonment, but encounter Rynde and Owis along the way. Innocet and Chris find the Doctor as well. The Drudges try to detain the Doctor again, but Badger appears and defends him.

Back in Innocet's room, she and the Doctor play Sepulchasm while Chris has more visions of the Doctor killing Quences. The Doctor and Innocet discuss how the Doctor's old room has been rendered inaccessible by a lagoon flooding that wing of the House, likely caused by an experiment left by the Doctor. The Doctor also explains to Chris that his visions are being caused by the TARDIS rerouting the Doctor's subconscious to Chris's mind, as the Doctor's mind cannot contain all of his memories anymore. He also hypothesizes that this is why they ended up at the House in the first place.

Innocet, a talented telepath, proposes that Chris allow her into his mind to access the Doctor's memories and clear his name. The first memory they view does indeed show the Doctor stabbing Quences, but the second shows the Doctor somewhere else entirely shortly before the murder. He is in an office in the Capitol when the Hand of Omega enters his office, pestering him. Then, Glospin visits, informing him of anomalies in the Doctor's genetic coding that would imply he is not from Lungbarrow's genetic material. He intends to share this information with the Prydonian Chapterhouse in hopes of having the Doctor removed from the House legally. The Doctor denies this, and drafts a letter of his own informing the Chapterhouse of Owis's looming. He then uses energy from the Hand of Omega to activate and steal a Type 40 TT capsule.

Innocet accepts that the Doctor couldn't have been at the House when Quences was murdered. The Doctor encounters Quences's ghost, who again expresses disapéointment that the Doctor did not follow his wishes.

The Doctor and Glospin play Sepulchasm; the Doctor finds Quences's will in the Sepulchasm board.

Leela and Dorothée arrive in the House. They find Redred held in stasis in the House's sabotaged transmat chamber. The Drudges use Dorothée's groceries (still on her bike from before she was taken in) to make an Otherstide feast. At the feast, the House performs a puppet show reenacting the banishment of the Other. Chris, haunted by the Doctor's thoughts, has an outburst at the play, claiming it is inaccurate; Glospin again accuses the Doctor of being an infiltrator in the family. The Doctor asks for Innocet's help in finding his TARDIS. She refuses, saying that she can no longer trust him. The Doctor says he is no longer bound by Lungbarrow's rules, as he has been disinherited; Satthralope says that that cannot be confirmed until the will has been found. The Doctor procures the will and threatens to "wake Quences up." Badger releases Redred from stasis, who still believes it is the same day he arrived. Redred reveals that he had, upon arriving, delivered an edict from the Prydonian chapterhouse that Lungbarrow, having been found guilty of looming an additional cousin, has five days to appeal the decision before it is excommunicated from the chapter. This is, the Doctor suspects, why the transmat booth was sabotaged.

The TARDIS falls from the ceiling. The Doctor deactivates the hologram over Quences's "stasis chamber," revealing a picked-clean skeleton to the House. Satthralope loses control of the Drudges, who begin guarding the coffin. Redred reports that the Doctor's TARDIS is the same one that had been reported stolen "last night" (the night before Quences's Deathday). Glospin, revealing his CIA status to Redred, claims that the Doctor killed Quences and is not truly a Cousin of Lungbarrow. He encourages Redred to try and get into the Doctor's TARDIS for evidence.

Jobiska follows the other missing cousins while Chris becomes overwhelmed by the Doctor's subconscious; they both go to the flooded north annex together. Innocet, overwhelmed by these events, follows them, and the Doctor tries to stop her. A creature in the water (an experiment left behind by the Doctor) attacks both of them. The Doctor manages to get them safely to the other side of the lagoon, but Innocet does not want him following her. When Badger arrives to protect the Doctor, she attempts to run, and then threatens the Doctor with a sword. Badger fatally wounds Innocet. As she dies, she tells the Doctor that she did not want the House to know where the other cousins were. She tells him that they are all waiting for him in his own room. The Doctor finds a deep pit in his room that Chris, haunted and delirious, stands over. The Doctor cuts off Innocet's hair, which she had been growing and wearing on her back since the House was buried, and uses it as a rope to get down. He finds his Cousins all in a cavern at the bottom of this well, now surrounding Chris. The Doctor takes back some of his subconscious from Chris and feels all of his Cousins' hate for him at once.

At the lagoon entrance, Leela and Dorothée are discussing whether to follow the others when Romana arrives, this time in person. She is here on the run, having nowhere else to go after Ferain took over the capitol. The lost Cousins emerge from the north annex, and the House produces a bridge for them to cross the lagoon. Chris follows, carrying a beaten Doctor and enacting the Doctor's persona, Scottish accent and all. The Doctor rambles about Eighth Man Bound, saying that he could never see past his seventh regeneration and that he believes it is truly the end for him. Innocet, regenerated and weak, emerges as well. She, with the help of the Doctor's companions, attempts to enter his mind and save him, but can only successfully enter through Chris.

After seeing all of the Doctor's previous regenerations and an encounter with Time, the companions see the Other on the Omega Memorial (the same scene from the prologue). The Other goes to the city slums, where he visits Mamlaurea and his granddaughter, Susan, telling them to leave for Tersurus. Susan says she will be waiting for him.

In another flashback, the Other has a confrontation with Rassilon. The Other expresses disappointment at Rassilon's styling of himself as a god, then leaves. Rassilon orders all exits from the planet sealed. Glospin enters the vision, having found the companions. Everyone seeing the vision sees the Other enter the central progenitive chamber, dispersing his body into the loom data of Gallifrey.

They then see the First Doctor shortly after stealing his TARDIS. He has landed in the old days of Gallifrey, exactly a year after the Other's disappearance. The Hand of Omega leads him to Susan's place, where she immediately recognizes him as her grandfather. She was unable to leave due to Rassilon's closure of the spaceports. Though he does not know how, the Doctor knows her name. The two leave in the TARDIS, and the visions end.

When the group wakes up, Ferain and a number of CIA soldiers have them in custody and place them under "House arrest." Chris's mind has cleared, and the Doctor is healing. He says he has "jettisoned" his subconscious. The Doctor gives Dorothée canisters of nitro-9 that had been in his pockets since they were travelling together. They return to the main hall, where the returned Cousins are rummaging through the Doctor's belongings from his TARDIS. The Doctor enters the TARDIS and disables it, preventing anyone else from entry.

In the commotion, Leela and Dorothée sneak away to the kitchens. They prepare to detonate the nitro-9 to unbury the House. Dorothée notices that Leela is pregnant. A Drudge attacks them, but a creature from the Doctor's room enters and fights it off. Leela paralyzes the creature with a janis thorn.

The Doctor challenges the accusations against him. Satthralope enters, now having lost control of her own mind and speaking directly for the House. She still insists that Quences is asleep, not dead. The Doctor calls the House as a witness in the impromptu trial against him. Chris testifies, describing the Quences's murder as he saw it. Glospin claims that he was regenerating at the time of the murder and that Satthralope personally nursed him through the rebirth. The House denies this, claiming that regeneration is a private process. Only the loom records regenerations, and the House reveals that Glospin regenerated two separate times on that day. In his earlier fight with the Doctor, he sampled some of his DNA, and used it to regenerate into an identical form before regenerating into his current body. After it is proven that Glospin killed Quences, Owis admits to killing Arkhew on Glospin's orders. The House begins to crumble under proof that Quences is dead. The Doctor gives Quences's will to Badger, which summons Quences's ghost. Quences reveals that his murder had been predicted to him, and he had purposefully had his mind transferred to Badger instead of the Matrix. Quences confirms that his chosen successor is, indeed, the Doctor. Leela and Dorothée return to the main hall just as the charges detonate.

Everyone except the Doctor, Glospin, and Satthralope are able to escape the collapsing House. Romana orders the Doctor to retrieve the House loom data and keys, which he does. Chris returns into the House to save the Doctor; they escape in the TARDIS.

The Doctor gives the House keys and loom data to Innocet, proclaiming her Housekeeper. Romana promises that Lungbarrow will be reinstated as a Prydonian House and that a new House will be grown from the original template. Romana reveals that the negotiations she has been preoccupied with are with the Sisterhood of Karn, bringing the potential end of Pythia's Curse. Leela and Andred's child will be the first naturally born Gallifreyan child of the new era. The High Council has been calmed by Romana's return, and Ferain allows her to remain in power should she send the Doctor on the mission he intended for her: retrieving the Master's remains from Skaro. Chris decides to leave the Doctor, stating that he might return to Bernice Summerfield. The Doctor leaves everyone to their promised futures.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

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  • Looms create new Gallifreyans.
  • The Hand of Omega befriended the Doctor because it sensed the Other's essence in him.
  • The Time Vortex is red when travelling forward in time and blue when travelling backwards.

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  • President Romana is successfully negotiating with the Tharils.
  • Romana did not attend the reception for the Chelonian envoy.
  • Fledershrews are present in the House of Lungbarrow.

Relatives of the Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Lungbarrow wrapped up the last of the continuity of the New Adventures and put the Doctor on course to gather the Bruce Master's remains from Skaro, as depicted in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie. It is also one of a number of the New Adventures which is hard to obtain and is often seen on auction websites such as eBay at prices many times the original cover price.
  • Before losing their license to BBC Books, it had been announced that the Seventh Doctor's adventures would have continued in periodic Missing Adventures releases, with the Eighth Doctor taking over the NA line. Ultimately, only one Eighth Doctor novel was published and the MA line came to an end before any Seventh Doctor releases could occur. Future Seventh Doctor novels would be released under the BBC Past Doctor Adventures line.
  • The Seventh Doctor's last words in the Virgin New Adventures series are; "Dorothee! I just remembered. I haven't been Merlin yet!"
  • The novel which followed Lungbarrow, Lance Parkin's The Dying Days, featured the Eighth Doctor. When Virgin subsequently lost their license to print original Doctor Who fiction, they chose to focus on a character from the New Adventures which the BBC did not own, former companion Bernice Summerfield. Lungbarrow serves, in concert with Dying Days, to gradually increase the standing of Summerfield's character, laying the groundwork for the later appearance of the Seventh Doctor's then-companion, Chris Cwej, in Summerfield's own novels. Additionally, as part of Virgin's Black Lace erotic novels, the novel The Stranger (written by Portia Da Costa) centred around an individual called "Paul Bowman", who, by the author's own admission, was based upon the Eighth Doctor. The events of the novel were notably later mentioned in PROSE: Father Time and The Gallifrey Chronicles, thus unofficially making The Stranger a part of the DWU, albeit with a minor dating discrepancy.
  • This novel, however, was largely concerned with concluding what was known as the "Cartmel Masterplan". In the final two seasons of the original 1963-1989 run of Doctor Who, the then script editor Andrew Cartmel introduced new elements of mystery into the character of the Doctor. Suggestions of dark secrets that the Doctor might be more than just a Time Lord were inserted into scripts of stories such as Ben Aaronovitch's Remembrance of the Daleks and Kevin Clarke's Silver Nemesis. Had the series not been effectively cancelled in 1989, the following season would have made some of these revelations. Elements of Platt's planned Lungbarrow instead became part of the Season 26 serial Ghost Light.
  • Along the way to this resolution, Lungbarrow ultimately reveals much new information about the Doctor's home world and race, some of which had been hinted at ever since the first New Adventures novel. Many of the New Adventures authors migrated to the BBC Books Doctor Who line and elements of this backstory also made their way into subsequent novels. However, there have also been elements in those novels that contradict it.
  • The claim that Time Lords are born fully mature, never having a physical childhood, has been contradicted by several pieces of media.
  • In the television story The Time Monster, the Third Doctor tells Jo Grant a story regarding when he was a "little boy".
  • In all versions and adaptations of Shada, Romana II recalls having owned a Gallifreyan nursery book when she was "a time tot".
  • In the television story The Sound of Drums, the Master is shown as a child in a Time Lord ritual. The Tenth Doctor specifically mentions that before this ritual "[the c]hildren of Gallifrey [were] taken from their families [at the] age of eight to enter the Academy". The television story The End of Time reuses footage from Drums while the Master's childhood is discussed. In The End of Time, the Chancellor refers to the "simple task" of the four beats of a Time Lord's heartbeat being transmitted back in time and implanted into "the Master's mind as a child".
  • The Eleventh Doctor has a cot, seen in the television story A Good Man Goes to War, which he claims to have once slept in, and an incarnation is shown as a young boy in the television story Listen, in which he is described by a Gallifreyan man as "that boy".
  • In the television story The Girl in the Fireplace, Reinette describes the Doctor as having a "lonely childhood" and being "[s]uch a lonely little boy" while she looks inside the Tenth Doctor's mind. In TV: The Empty Child, the Ninth Doctor himself similarly remarks that he knows what it's like to be the "only child left out in the cold".
  • The Ninth Doctor agrees with Doctor Constantine's remark of being a "father and grandfather" in the television story The Empty Child, the Tenth Doctor recounts being "a dad" or "a father" in the television story Fear Her and The Doctor's Daughter and his twelfth incarnation mentions his "dad skills" in Listen. In the television story The Witch's Familiar, Missy mentions a daughter from "the olden days on Gallifrey". In the television story Hell Bent, the Twelfth Doctor mentions how the Doctor "stole" the moon and the President's wife, before correcting himself to say that was a lie from the Shobogans, and she was actually the President's daughter, and the moon was lost.
  • The television movie Doctor Who has the Eighth Doctor remember being with his father and The End of Time also has the Saxon Master asking the Tenth Doctor if he remembered the land on the slopes of Mount Perdition the Master's father owned.
  • In the television story Death in Heaven, the Twelfth Doctor recalls running together with the Master when the Doctor was "little".
  • In the television story Heaven Sent, the Twelfth Doctor recounts a memory from when he was a "very little boy" about a woman who resembled the Veil, which gave him nightmares for years.
  • A second edition of Lungbarrow, featuring both additions to and subtractions from the original text made by the author and accompanied by author's notes and new illustrations by Daryl Joyce, was released by BBCi as an e-book on the official Doctor Who website on 22 August 2003. It became inaccessible in 2010.
  • The Houses of Gallifrey are similar to the household featured in Peake's Gormenghast trilogy. Badger, a character who makes his first appearance in Lungbarrow, has much in common with a character in Peake's Gormenghast novella, Boy in Darkness, which originally appeared in the collected work Sometime, Never by Golding, Wyndham and Peake.[1]
  • Lance Parkin on an Outpost Gallifrey forum thread [2] stated in 2005 that the reason the last three books in the Virgin New Adventures range, including Lungbarrow, were so expensive on the secondary market was excessive demand, rather than an unusually low initial print run. However, he also noted that reprints of these books were not allowed, because Virgin's license expired before a second printing might otherwise have been made.
  • The numbering of this book as 60 of 61 refers to the publisher's intended order, which ultimately was not the actual order of publication. Because of chronic delays troubling Ben Aaronovitch's So Vile a Sin, eventually finished by Kate Orman, it was actually the 59th New Adventure published.
  • Marc Platt has stated that had he worked on the book today he would have done a number of things differently that it would have resulted in a drastically different novel. He had attempted to regain the rights to the novel so that Big Finish could adapt it but owed a massive sum of money in back taxes that it became impossible stating "I should have kept an original copy around since it would have more than likely have paid for the rights single-handedly."[source needed]

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

Illustrations[[edit] | [edit source]]

The e-book version published by the BBC on their website included a new cover and seventeen additional illustrations by Daryl Joyce, some with multiple versions. Titles of illustrations are as they were on BBC's site.[3] Daryl Joyce remade the chapter 22 image in 2012.[4]

  • Original cover

    Original cover

  • ebook cover

    ebook cover

  • ebook cover textless

    ebook cover textless

  • Chapter 3: Dorotheé flees Paris on her Time bike

    Chapter 3: Dorotheé flees Paris on her Time bike

  • Chapter 3: Medium version

    Chapter 3: Medium version

  • Chaper 3: Large version

    Chaper 3: Large version

  • Chapter 4: Arkhew hangs above a patrolling Drudge

    Chapter 4: Arkhew hangs above a patrolling Drudge

  • Chapter 4: Large version

    Chapter 4: Large version

  • Chapter 5: The TARDIS arrives in the forest-like attic.

    Chapter 5: The TARDIS arrives in the forest-like attic.

  • Chapter 5: Medium version

    Chapter 5: Medium version

  • Chapter 7: Quences arrives for his own funeral

    Chapter 7: Quences arrives for his own funeral

  • Chapter 7: Medium version

    Chapter 7: Medium version

  • Chapter 9: Innocet reads her Journal

    Chapter 9: Innocet reads her Journal

  • Chapter 9: Medium version

    Chapter 9: Medium version

  • Chapter 13: The TARDIS hangs in the dust webs

    Chapter 13: The TARDIS hangs in the dust webs

  • Chapter 14: Leela and Dorotheé fight

    Chapter 14: Leela and Dorotheé fight

  • Chapter 14: Medium version

    Chapter 14: Medium version

  • Chapter 17: Leela, Doretheé and Romana talk

    Chapter 17: Leela, Doretheé and Romana talk

  • Chapter 17: Medium version

    Chapter 17: Medium version

  • Chapter 19: The battle between Badger and the Catalfaque

    Chapter 19: The battle between Badger and the Catalfaque

  • Chapter 19: Medium version

    Chapter 19: Medium version

  • Chapter 21: The Doctor murders Quences

    Chapter 21: The Doctor murders Quences

  • Chapter 21: Medium version

    Chapter 21: Medium version

  • Chapter 22: The Doctor steals an old Type 40 travel unit

    Chapter 22: The Doctor steals an old Type 40 travel unit

  • Chapter 22: Medium version

    Chapter 22: Medium version

  • Chapter 25: It's raining fish - Hallelujah!

    Chapter 25: It's raining fish - Hallelujah!

  • Chapter 28: The Doctor shields Quences' body from the Drudges

    Chapter 28: The Doctor shields Quences' body from the Drudges

  • Chapter 29: The death of Innocet

    Chapter 29: The death of Innocet

  • Chapter 29: Medium version

    Chapter 29: Medium version

  • Chapter 31: Ancient Gallifrey

    Chapter 31: Ancient Gallifrey

  • Chapter 31: Medium version

    Chapter 31: Medium version

  • Chapter 32: In the kitchen, the Orchid Lizard attacks

    Chapter 32: In the kitchen, the Orchid Lizard attacks

  • Chapter 33: The House of Lungbarrow plummets over the cliff

    Chapter 33: The House of Lungbarrow plummets over the cliff

  • DWM 305 illustration

    DWM 305 illustration

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

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ The Disccontinuity Guide
  2. ↑ Outpost Gallifrey forum thread (registration required)
  3. ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20100425023026/http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/lungbarrow/gallery
  4. ↑ http://www.daryljoyce.co.uk/genre-illustration/doctor-who-illustration/doctor-who-related/to-be-exiles
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