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novel name= Damaged Goods|
|series         = [[Virgin New Adventures]]
image=[[File:Damaged goods na55.jpg|250px]]  |
|range          = Virgin New Adventures
series=[[Virgin New Adventures]] |
|number in range = #55
number= 55 |
|number          = 55
doctor=[[Seventh Doctor]] |
|doctor         = Seventh Doctor
companions= [[Roz Forrester|Roz]],  [[Chris Cwej|Chris]] |
|companions     = [[Roz Forrester|Roz]],  [[Chris Cwej|Chris]]
enemy= [[N-Form]] |
|enemy           = [[N-Form (Damaged Goods)|N-Form]]
year = {{bp|[[Earth]], [[USA]], [[1987]]|[[Earth]], [[England]], The Quadrent, [[1987]]|[[Earth]], [[England]], The Quadrent, [[1977]]|[[Earth]], [[Columbia]], [[1983]]}} |
|setting        = {{il|The [[United States of America]], [[1987]]|[[The Quadrant]], [[England]], [[1987]]|[[England]], [[1977]]|The Quadrant, [[1977]]|[[Colombia]], [[1983]]}}
writer= [[Russell T Davies]] |
|writer         = Russell T Davies
publisher= [[Virgin Books]] |
|cover          = [[Bill Donohoe]]
release date= [[October]] [[1996]]  |
|publisher       = Virgin Books
format= Paperback Book, ? Pages |
|release date   = 24 October 1996
isbn= ISBN 0-426-20483-2 |
|format         = Paperback Book;<br/>14 Chapters, 263 Pages
previous story= [[The Death of Art]] |
|isbn           = ISBN 0-426-20483-2
next story= [[So Vile a Sin]] }}
|prev            = The Death of Art (novel)
 
|next           = So Vile a Sin (novel)
'''Damaged Goods''' is the fifty-fifth [[Virgin New Adventures]] novel, published in [[1996]]. It features the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Chris Cwej]] and [[Roz Forrester]]. The novel is notable in as that it was written by [[Russell T Davies]], nearly a decade before he revived the ''Doctor Who'' television franchise as [[executive producer]].  
|adapted into    = Damaged Goods (audio story)
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'''Damaged Goods''' is the fifty-fifth [[Virgin New Adventures]] novel, published in [[1996 (releases)|1996]]. It features the [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Chris Cwej]] and [[Roz Forrester]]. The novel was notably written by [[Russell T Davies]], nearly a decade before he revived the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' television franchise as [[executive producer]].


== Publisher's summary ==
== Publisher's summary ==
''''Wherever this cocaine has travelled, it hasn't gone alone. Death has been its attendant. Death in a remarkably violent and inelegant form.''''
''"Wherever this cocaine has travelled, it hasn't gone alone. Death has been its attendant. Death in a remarkably violent and inelegant form."''


The [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Chris Cwej|Chris]] and [[Roz Forrester|Roz]], arrive at [[the Quadrant]], a troubled council block in [[Margaret Thatcher|Thatcher]]'s [[Britain]]. There's a new drug on the streets, a drug that's killing to a plan. Somehow, the very ordinary people of the Quadrant are involved. And so, amidst the growing chaos, a bizarre trio moves into number 43.
The [[Seventh Doctor]], [[Chris Cwej|Chris]] and [[Roz Forrester|Roz]], arrive at [[the Quadrant]], a troubled council block in [[Margaret Thatcher|Thatcher]]'s [[Britain]]. There's a new drug on the streets, a drug that's killing to a plan. Somehow, the very ordinary people of the Quadrant are involved. And so, amidst the growing chaos, a bizarre trio moves into number 43.


The year is [[1987]]: a dead drug dealer has risen from the grave, and an ancient weapon is concealed beneath human tragedy. But the Doctor soon discovers that the things people do for their children can be every bit as deadly as any alien menace - as he uncovers the link between a special child, an obsessive woman, and a desperate bargain made one dark [[Christmas Eve]].
The year is [[1987]]: a dead drug dealer has risen from the grave, and an ancient weapon is concealed beneath human tragedy. But the Doctor soon discovers that the things people do for their children can be every bit as deadly as any alien menace - as he uncovers the link between a special child, an obsessive woman, and a desperate bargain made one dark [[Christmas Eve]].


== Plot ==
== Plot ==
''to be added''
The [[N-Form (Damaged Goods)|N-Form]] is an ancient [[Gallifrey]]an weapon, but this one is damaged. "There's a piece of N-form in every gramme of coke" The N-form has been reactivated for a future war. They were built for the war against the [[Great Vampire]]s, so the damaged N-form has found a vampiric waveform, the boy [[Gabriel Tyler]] and his long lost [[Steven Jericho|twin brother]] that his mother gave away.
 
Mrs Jericho has adopted Gabriel's twin, Steven. Gabriel is draining life from Steven and creating the vampiric waveform as the boys have psi powers. Mrs Jericho believes it to be unfair that Steven is the dying brother and thinks saying that is dying and seeks out Gabriel. the N-form now running amok taking what's left of the ex-drug dealer "the capper" and seek out Mrs Jericho and Gabriel.
 
Mrs Jericho has a Lithopedian: a "stone baby", a rare phenomenon which occurs most commonly when a foetus dies during an abdominal pregnancy, is too large to be reabsorbed by the body, and calcifies on the outside, shielding the mother's body from the dead tissue of the baby and preventing infection. This is Mrs Jericho's un-born child that she has always wanted and with the psi power of Steven has been giving this stone baby life driving Mrs Jericho insane. As she is the centre of the vampiric waveform, the N-form comes after her. She becomes part of the N-form and starts to destroy the Quadrant estate and activates the attack. Every one who has taken the cocaine has a engram on the brain which act as a "dimensional vent, through which the N-Form can the physical world, shoving itself into the brain and taking over. As a shaft of metal is working its way through the brains of the cocaine uses, the only why she can be stopped is by the Doctor activating the shutdown with the use of the Patrexian numbers.
 
But to get to the data core of the N-Form, the Doctor must take some cocaine so he has a engram to connect to the N-Form. Activating the shutdown, Mrs Jericho finally gives birth to her child. The N-form is shutdown but at a price. All but Gabriel Tyler are killed as well most of the people on the Quadrant estate and ever user of the cocaine. Doctor travels back to the Christmas Eve when Winnie gave away Steven, and to when Bev looked down at the Doctor when she was younger.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
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* [[Bev Tyler]]
* [[Bev Tyler]]
* [[Gabriel Tyler]]
* [[Gabriel Tyler]]
* [[Steven Jericho]]
* [[Eva Jericho]]
* [[Simon Jenkins]]
* [[Simon Jenkins]]
* [[Jacob Tyler]]
* [[John Tyler]]
* Dr. [[James Greco]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
 
=== Culture ===
=== [[:Category:Culture|Culture]] ===
* Chris wears an [[earring]] in his right [[ear]], unknowingly identifying with gay culture ([[1980s]] gay culture dictated that the right was the "gay" ear).
* Chris wears an earring in his right ear, unknowingly identifying with gay culture ([[1980s]] gay culture dictated that the right was the 'gay' ear).


=== [[:Category:Diseases and illnesses|Diseases and illnesses]] ===
=== Diseases and illnesses ===
* Compulsory blood tests for HIV are introduced on [[1 January]] [[2014]]
* Twenty years after meeting Chris, David contracts [[HIV1]].
* Twenty years after meeting Chris, David contracts [[HIV1]].


=== [[:Category:Gallifreyan technology|Gallifreyan technology]] ===
=== Gallifreyan technology ===
* [[N-Form]]s exist in a pocket dimension.
* [[N-Form (Damaged Goods)|N-Forms]] exist in a pocket dimension.


=== [[:Category:Individuals|Individuals]] ===
=== Individuals ===
* Chris has [[sex]] with David.
* Chris has [[sex]] with David.
* Roz smokes [[cigarette]]s (as her [[30th century]] metabolism will not allow the cigarette to cause any harm to her body).
* Roz smokes [[cigarette]]s (as her [[30th century]] metabolism will not allow the cigarette to cause any harm to her body).
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* A man in [[Edwardian era|Edwardian]] clothing is featured at the end of the novel and is implied to be the [[Eighth Doctor]].
* A man in [[Edwardian era|Edwardian]] clothing is featured at the end of the novel and is implied to be the [[Eighth Doctor]].


=== [[:Category:Psychic powers|Psychic powers]] ===
=== Psychic powers ===
* [[Gabriel Tyler]] is a low level [[psychic]].
* [[Gabriel Tyler]] is a low-level [[psychic]].


=== [[:Category:Species|Species]] ===
=== Species ===
* [[Haemovore]]s went extinct as their evolution fed on itself.
* [[Haemovore]]s went extinct as their evolution fed on itself.


=== [[:Category:Technology|Technology]] ===
=== Technology ===
* [[Tribophysics]] literally means the science of interacting surfaces in relative motion and dates back to the [[Time of Legend]] on [[Gallifrey]].
* [[Tribophysics]] literally means the science of interacting surfaces in relative motion and dates back to the [[Time of Legend]] on [[Gallifrey]].


=== [[:Category:Time Lords|Time Lords]] ===
=== Time Lords ===
* [[Patrex Chapter|Patrexes]] are a [[Gallifreyan]] Chapter of artists, aesthetes and shallow Epicureans with pretentious minds. They think there's something beautiful about the death of suns.
* [[Patrex Chapter|Patrexes]] are a [[Gallifreyan]] [[Chapter]] of artists, aesthetes and shallow Epicureans with pretentious minds. They think there's something beautiful about the death of suns.
 
=== Food and beverages ===
* The Doctor drinks [[water]] with a slice of [[lemon]] in [[1980s]] [[New York]] whilst holidaying with his companions.
* The Doctor and his companions drink "nasty [[coffee]]" at the Angel Square Café in [[London]].
* Chris gets drunk on melon [[wine]] in [[New York]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This novel written by New Series creator Russell T Davies, features a council estate and a family named Tyler, a similarity to the Tyler family of the TV series.
* This novel was written by [[Russell T Davies]] and features a council estate and a family named Tyler, which is similar to the Tyler family of the TV series. The surname Tyler is one used often by Davies throughout his writing career.
* In an interview on ''[[Damaged Goods (audio story)|Novel Adventures Volume 2]]'', Davies cites the musical ''Blood Brothers'' as an influence on the novel. The musical focuses on two brothers separated at birth, one who grew up in an urban background and the other who grew up to be well-off; this is similar to the relationship between Gabriel Tyler and Steven Jericho in the novel.
* While the fire in apartment 11 is being put out, the Doctor speaks with Mrs. Hearn. He tells her at one point "Somewhere in the universe, the tea’s getting cold,". This is also the penultimate line spoken during the run of the original series from 1963 to 1989 in the final serial [[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]''.
* Gabriel likes the television program ''[[Why Don't You..?|"Why Don't You..?"]]''. The full name of the program is "''Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?".'' [[Russell T Davies|Russel T Davies]], the author of this novel and later producer of the revived series of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' from 2005 onward was the director and producer of this very same television program in the late 80s and early 90s.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Events of this story lead into [[NA]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin]]''.
* Events of this story lead into [[PROSE]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin (novel)|So Vile a Sin]]''.
* The Doctor mentions an anti-[[Dalek]] weapon he built during the [[Shoreditch Incident]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
* The Doctor mentions an anti-[[Dalek]] weapon he built during the [[Shoreditch Incident]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
 
* The Doctor tells Mrs. Hearn during the apartment 11 fire "Somewhere in the universe, the tea’s getting cold," something he told Ace too. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival (TV story)|Survival]]'')
== [[Seventh Doctor - Timeline|Timeline]] ==
* [[Harry Sullivan]] is mentioned here, and described as being the "former head of [[MI5]]" in [[2015]].
* This story takes place after [[NA]]: ''[[The Death of Art]]''
* Roz asks the Doctor to confirm whether he once lived on Earth himself for a time. The Doctor does confirm this, saying he was exiled here. The [[Second Doctor]] was forced to regenerate by the [[Time Lord]]s into the [[Third Doctor]] and was forced to live in exile on [[Earth]] for many years in the [[1970s]], during which he worked for [[UNIT]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'', et al.)
* This story takes place before [[NA]]: ''[[So Vile a Sin]]''
* The [[Osiran]]s are mentioned as potential creators of the weapon inhabiting the Capper's corpse. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'')


== External links ==
== External links ==
* {{Dwrefguide|who_na55.htm|Damaged Goods}}
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* {{whoniverse|NA55.php|Damaged Goods}}
* {{whoniverse|na55|Damaged Goods}}
* [http://www.infoshop.org/sf/index.php/Drug_References_in_Science_Fiction List of Drug References in Science Fiction]
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/dama.htm The Cloister Library: '''Damaged Goods''']


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Damaged Goods is the fifty-fifth Virgin New Adventures novel, published in 1996. It features the Seventh Doctor, Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester. The novel was notably written by Russell T Davies, nearly a decade before he revived the Doctor Who television franchise as executive producer.

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

"Wherever this cocaine has travelled, it hasn't gone alone. Death has been its attendant. Death in a remarkably violent and inelegant form."

The Seventh Doctor, Chris and Roz, arrive at the Quadrant, a troubled council block in Thatcher's Britain. There's a new drug on the streets, a drug that's killing to a plan. Somehow, the very ordinary people of the Quadrant are involved. And so, amidst the growing chaos, a bizarre trio moves into number 43.

The year is 1987: a dead drug dealer has risen from the grave, and an ancient weapon is concealed beneath human tragedy. But the Doctor soon discovers that the things people do for their children can be every bit as deadly as any alien menace - as he uncovers the link between a special child, an obsessive woman, and a desperate bargain made one dark Christmas Eve.

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

The N-Form is an ancient Gallifreyan weapon, but this one is damaged. "There's a piece of N-form in every gramme of coke" The N-form has been reactivated for a future war. They were built for the war against the Great Vampires, so the damaged N-form has found a vampiric waveform, the boy Gabriel Tyler and his long lost twin brother that his mother gave away.

Mrs Jericho has adopted Gabriel's twin, Steven. Gabriel is draining life from Steven and creating the vampiric waveform as the boys have psi powers. Mrs Jericho believes it to be unfair that Steven is the dying brother and thinks saying that is dying and seeks out Gabriel. the N-form now running amok taking what's left of the ex-drug dealer "the capper" and seek out Mrs Jericho and Gabriel.

Mrs Jericho has a Lithopedian: a "stone baby", a rare phenomenon which occurs most commonly when a foetus dies during an abdominal pregnancy, is too large to be reabsorbed by the body, and calcifies on the outside, shielding the mother's body from the dead tissue of the baby and preventing infection. This is Mrs Jericho's un-born child that she has always wanted and with the psi power of Steven has been giving this stone baby life driving Mrs Jericho insane. As she is the centre of the vampiric waveform, the N-form comes after her. She becomes part of the N-form and starts to destroy the Quadrant estate and activates the attack. Every one who has taken the cocaine has a engram on the brain which act as a "dimensional vent, through which the N-Form can the physical world, shoving itself into the brain and taking over. As a shaft of metal is working its way through the brains of the cocaine uses, the only why she can be stopped is by the Doctor activating the shutdown with the use of the Patrexian numbers.

But to get to the data core of the N-Form, the Doctor must take some cocaine so he has a engram to connect to the N-Form. Activating the shutdown, Mrs Jericho finally gives birth to her child. The N-form is shutdown but at a price. All but Gabriel Tyler are killed as well most of the people on the Quadrant estate and ever user of the cocaine. Doctor travels back to the Christmas Eve when Winnie gave away Steven, and to when Bev looked down at the Doctor when she was younger.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Culture[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Chris wears an earring in his right ear, unknowingly identifying with gay culture (1980s gay culture dictated that the right was the "gay" ear).

Diseases and illnesses[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Compulsory blood tests for HIV are introduced on 1 January 2014
  • Twenty years after meeting Chris, David contracts HIV1.

Gallifreyan technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • N-Forms exist in a pocket dimension.

Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

Psychic powers[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Haemovores went extinct as their evolution fed on itself.

Technology[[edit] | [edit source]]

Time Lords[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Patrexes are a Gallifreyan Chapter of artists, aesthetes and shallow Epicureans with pretentious minds. They think there's something beautiful about the death of suns.

Food and beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This novel was written by Russell T Davies and features a council estate and a family named Tyler, which is similar to the Tyler family of the TV series. The surname Tyler is one used often by Davies throughout his writing career.
  • In an interview on Novel Adventures Volume 2, Davies cites the musical Blood Brothers as an influence on the novel. The musical focuses on two brothers separated at birth, one who grew up in an urban background and the other who grew up to be well-off; this is similar to the relationship between Gabriel Tyler and Steven Jericho in the novel.
  • While the fire in apartment 11 is being put out, the Doctor speaks with Mrs. Hearn. He tells her at one point "Somewhere in the universe, the tea’s getting cold,". This is also the penultimate line spoken during the run of the original series from 1963 to 1989 in the final serial TV: Survival.
  • Gabriel likes the television program "Why Don't You..?". The full name of the program is "Why Don't You Just Switch Off Your Television Set and Go and Do Something Less Boring Instead?". Russel T Davies, the author of this novel and later producer of the revived series of Doctor Who from 2005 onward was the director and producer of this very same television program in the late 80s and early 90s.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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