The Eye of the Giant (novel)

The Eye of the Giant (novel)

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The Eye of the Giant
Doctor:	[[doctor::Third Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Liz, UNIT
Main enemy:	Brokk Nancy Grover
Main setting:	UNIT HQ: Circa 1970s Saluta, French Polynesia: 8 June, 1934
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Virgin Books]]
Writer:	Christopher Bulis
Release details
Release number:	21
Release date:	April, 1996
Format:	Paperback Book, 288 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20469-7

Publisher's summary

‘I might have known it,’ the Brigadier said tersely. ‘The Doctor and Miss Shaw have managed to lose themselves on an island that doesn’t exist.’

1934: Salutua, a legendary lost island in the Pacific. Millionaire Marshal J Grover’s expedition arrives to uncover and exploit its secrets. But the task is complicated by a film star’s fears and ambitions and a scientist’s lethal obsession.

Nearly forty years later: UNIT headquarters, London. The Doctor and Liz Shaw are asked to identify a mysterious artefact and trace its origin. The trail leads them back in time to Salutua and a gigantic discovery. Meanwhile, the Brigadier faces an epidemic of UFO sightings and supernatural occurrences that threaten to bring about global panic. Only the Doctor can help him -- but he’s trapped on a mythical island four decades in the past.

Characters

• The Doctor

• Liz Shaw

• Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart

• Mike Yates

• Sees inside the Doctor's TARDIS for the first time.

• Benton

• Had an aunt who read tea leaves.

References

• The time phase oscillator, photon accelerator coils and tachyon beam collimator are all parts of the TARDIS console.
• Grold are flourosilicone life forms; their bodies are more like stone than flesh and require massively high temperatures to function.
• The Doctor still has the Time-Space Visualiser in the TARDIS.
• The Brigadier has been talking to Sir John Sudbury of C19.

Notes

• This story postulates that Mike Yates' and Liz Shaw's careers in UNIT overlapped. This was never seen on television, as Yates' first adventure was the one which followed Shaw's departure — Terror of the Autons. Here we see the first meeting of Sergeant Yates and the Doctor and Liz Shaw. The book claims that Yates had been on "clean-up duty" throughout season 7, and that he'd been combing the countryside for any stray bits of Auton and Silurian detritus.
• According to the Brigadier, the reason the Brigadier is the only officer during season 7 is budgetary. The UN/UK can't afford to give the Brigadier any officers. Thus, he tells then-Sergeant Yates and Benton that they're going to have to be responsible well above their pay grade.

Continuity

• Mike Yates has beens on clean up duties for Autons (DW: Spearhead from Space) and the 'Cave Monsters' (DW: Doctor Who and the Silurians).
• There is a mention of the Doctor visiting a parrellel universe. (DW: Inferno)
• Species similar to the Grold feature in DW: The Fires of Pompeii.

Timeline

In terms of television adventures, this story clearly happens between seasons 7 and 8. Positive reference is made to the events of Inferno, leaving no other placement but after Inferno and before the arrival of Jo Grant and promotion of Mike Yates to Captain.

• Using stories from all media, the story may be more specifically placed between DWY: Reconnaissance and the main narrative in CC: The Blue Tooth

External links

• The Eye of the Giant at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: The Eye of the Giant at The Whoniverse