The Nameless City (short story)

The Nameless City
Doctor:	Second Doctor
Companion(s):	Jamie
Main enemy:	Archons, Thascalos
Main setting:	London
Key crew
Publisher:	Puffin Books
Writer:	Michael Scott
Release details
Release number:	2
Release date:	23 February 2013
Format:	E-book, 48 pages
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The Nameless City was the second Puffin eshort released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who.

Publisher's summary

When Jamie McCrimmon brings the Second Doctor a mysterious book, little does he realise the danger contained within its pages. The book transports the TARDIS to a terrifying glass city on a distant world, where the Archons are intent on getting revenge on the Time Lord for an ancient grudge.

Plot

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Characters

• Second Doctor
• The Master (unspecified incarnation)
• Jamie McCrimmon
• Thascalos
• Thug

References

Individuals

• The Doctor hasn't seen the Master in a long time, but knows that he hates him.
• Thascalos tells Jamie that he has a bookshop on Charing Cross Road.
• Jamie remembers that Polly, who had known his Doctor before he changed, described him as an "unmade bed", and noted how accurate the description was.

Species

• The ancient Gallifreyans declared war on the Archons and stole their "seeds" in order to grow TARDISes.

Other

• The Doctor is eating an ice cream cone when he meets with Jamie.
• In London, the TARDIS is parked directly opposite the statue of Henry Irving at the back of the National Portrait Gallery.
• The TARDIS' time rotor is broken, and unfit for time-travel.
• The Financial Times states that gold is priced at 37 American dollars an ounce, and Jamie states that they will never be able to get a ton of gold.
• The Doctor states that he still has plenty of jewellery from Tutankhamun that they can sell.
• The book that Jamie is given by the old man is the Necronomicon.
• The Necronomicon takes the TARDIS to the Great Desolation.
• Gallifreyans can identify each other by smell. The Doctor realizes the Master has engineered this when he smells the cloth the Master used to wrap around the book.
• The Doctor has almost forgotten what it is like to have a birthday gift. It has been hundreds of years since he last had one.
• The Necronomicon is partially written in Sumerian, Rongorongo and one of the Vedic Scripts.

Notes

• An audiobook of the story was read by Frazer Hines.

Continuity

• The Doctor's recorder is plain with blue stripes. (TV: The Three Doctors)
• The Doctor tells Jamie "When I say run, run." (TV: The Five Doctors, Tomb of the Cybermen)
• The Archons dance to the Music of the Spheres. (TV: Music of the Spheres)
• The Doctor once told Jamie that TARDISes were grown rather than built. (TV: The Impossible Planet)
• Jamie states that the TARDIS had many, many rooms, including an "Olympic-sized swimming pool." (TV: The Invasion of Time)
• The Doctor states that there is plenty of money in the TARDIS, (TV: Doctor Who) specifically in one of the bedrooms. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)
• The Doctor states that for the TARDIS to heal, it needs a tranfusion of gold, mercury, and Zeiton-7; a substance that Jamie notes does not exist on Earth. (TV: Vengeance on Varos)
• The Doctor is startled by the TARDIS erupting a male echo of "The Nameless City", as the TARDIS' voice is usually female. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)
• The Doctor states that his TARDIS is an "Old TT Type-40 Mark-III machine" (TV: The Time Meddler, TV: Victory of the Daleks)
• The Doctor and Jamie travel alone. (TV: The Two Doctors)

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