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== References ==
== References ==
=== Individuals ===
* The Doctor hasn't met his future companion [[Melanie Bush]] yet.
* [[The Valeyard|Zimmerman]] is actually the Valeyard.
=== Species ===
=== Species ===
* Sha'Ol is a [[Tzun]], while Kartakh is a [[Veltrochni|Veltrochini]], which makes their alliance a strange one. By this point, the [[Tzun Confederacy]] has been destroyed, but their technology is important to the plot of the story. The technology is, by this point, in Veltrochini hands.
* Sha'Ol is a [[Tzun]], while Kartakh is a [[Veltrochni|Veltrochini]]. By this point, the [[Tzun Confederacy]] has been destroyed.


=== Planets ===
=== Planets ===
* The "walking mountains" are located on the planet [[Haskor]].
* The "walking mountains" are located on the planet [[Haskor]].
*[[Elchur]] was an agrarian colony until biochemical weapons in an ancient war sterilised its surface.
* [[Elchur]] was an agrarian colony until biochemical weapons in an ancient war sterilised its surface.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Dibber is killed, which explains why the Doctor does not ask after him on [[Svartos]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')
* Dibber is killed, which explains why the Doctor does not ask after him on [[Svartos]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')
* Frobisher thinks about the [[Wallarian|Walarian]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters (TV story)|Carnival of Monsters]]'')
* Frobisher thinks about the [[Wallarian]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters (TV story)|Carnival of Monsters]]'')


== External links ==
== External links ==
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* {{whoniverse|pd12|Mission: Impractical}}
* {{whoniverse|pd12|Mission: Impractical}}
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/missi.htm The Cloister Library: '''Mission: Impractical''']
* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/missi.htm The Cloister Library: '''Mission: Impractical''']
 
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Mission: Impractical was the twelfth BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel. It was the first BBC Books novel to feature a character created in another medium — Frobisher, who first appeared in Doctor Who Magazine's comic stories alongside the Sixth Doctor and Seventh Doctor. As the cover indicates, this story also features Sabalom Glitz.

Publisher's summary

When daring criminal Jack Chance masterminds the heist of a precious national treasure from the planet Veltroch, it is the first step in a chain of events that could lead to the destruction of two civilisations...

Pursued by bounty hunters, the Sixth Doctor and his shapeshifting companion Frobisher run into old acquaintances Glitz and Dibber — notorious rogues who have become involved in something big: a covert government agency on Vandor Prime is forcing the pair to turn their criminal talents to its own ends.

The Doctor and Frobisher are soon drawn into the mysterious scheme themselves — but what game is truly being played by the authorities? How is the group of Ogron raiders involved? And who is so desperate to see the Doctor dead?

Caught in a web of deceit and pursued by ruthless killers, the Doctor's mission — should he decide to accept it — is to join Glitz's gang and pull off the crime of the century. And failure will result in an interstellar war costing the lives of millions...

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Characters

References

Species

Planets

  • The "walking mountains" are located on the planet Haskor.
  • Elchur was an agrarian colony until biochemical weapons in an ancient war sterilised its surface.

Notes

  • This was the first Doctor Who novel to take place between two issues of Doctor Who Magazine comic strips rather than two television serials.
  • This was the first full-length story featuring Frobisher to be published in a non-comic medium.

Continuity

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