Downtime (novelisation)

Downtime
Featuring:	The Brigadier Victoria Sarah Jane Smith
Main enemy:	Great Intelligence
Main setting:	London, 1984 Tibet, 1984 London, 1995
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::Virgin Books]]
Writer:	Marc Platt
Release details
Release number:	18
Release date:	January, 1996
Format:	Paperback Book, 263 Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-426-20462-X

Downtime by Marc Platt is a novelisation of the independent film Downtime, released under the Virgin Missing Adventures line. It is one of two novelisations published under the line (the other being The Ghosts of N-Space).

Publisher's Summary

Across the room, in a high-backed leather chair, Victoria saw the old man from the reading room. His face was curiously young for someone so long dead.

In 1966 the Doctor defeated the Great Intelligence, but he knew it wasn’t a final victory. And his companion Victoria, whose mind had once hosted the evil entity, might still fall prey to its power.

Now it seems that his fears are justified. In a Tibetan monastery, the monks display unearthly powers - UNIT are investigating. A new university has opened in London with a secret agenda that may threaten the whole country. Victoria, abandoned in an age very different from her own, and haunted by visions of a father she refuses to believe is dead, is slipping into despair and madness. But are the visions which plague her really hallucinations? Or has the Great Intelligence once again made Earth its target for invasion?

Characters

• Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
• Victoria Waterfield
• Sarah Jane Smith

References

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Notes

• Only Virgin Missing Adventures release in which The Doctor does not appear prominently.

Continuity

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Timeline

• Downtime occurs after: DW: Fury from the Deep
• Downtime occurs before: DW: Battlefield

External Links

• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of Downtime
• Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide entry for Downtime