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{{Infobox Story
|image=players cover.jpg
|image       = players cover.jpg
|series=[[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]]  
|series       = [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]]  
|number= 21  
|number       = 21  
|doctor=Sixth Doctor
|doctor       = Sixth Doctor
|companions= [[Peri Brown|Peri]]  
|companions   = [[Peri Brown|Peri]]  
|featuring=[[Second Doctor]], [[Winston Churchill]]  
|featuring   = [[Second Doctor]], [[Winston Churchill]]  
|enemy= [[Player|The Players]]  
|enemy       = [[Player|The Players]]  
|setting= [[South Africa]], [[1899]], [[France]], [[1915]], [[London]], [[1936]]
|setting     = [[South Africa]], [[1899]], [[France]], [[1915]], [[London]], [[1936]]
|writer= [[Terrance Dicks]]  
|writer       = [[Terrance Dicks]]  
|publisher= BBC Books  
|publisher   = BBC Books  
|release date= [[6 April (releases)|6 April]] [[1999 (releases)|1999]]
|release date = [[6 April (releases)|6 April]] [[1999 (releases)|1999]]
|format= Paperback Book; 34 Chapters, 251 Pages  
|format       = Paperback Book; 34 Chapters, 251 Pages  
|isbn= ISBN 0-563-55573-4
|isbn         = ISBN 0-563-55573-4
|prev=Deep Blue (novel)
|prev         = Deep Blue (novel)
|next=Millennium Shock (novel)
|next         = Millennium Shock (novel)
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}}{{prose stub}}
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the twenty-first novel in the [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Terrance Dicks]], released [[6 April (releases)|6 April]] [[1999 (releases)|1999]] and featured the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]].
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the twenty-first novel in the [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Terrance Dicks]], released [[6 April (releases)|6 April]] [[1999 (releases)|1999]] and featured the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]].
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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
[[File:Doctor Who Players 50th.jpg|thumb|The 2013 cover.]]
* The novel was reprinted on [[7 March (releases)|7 March]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]] with a new cover to celebrate the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' 50th anniversary.
* The novel was reprinted on [[7 March (releases)|7 March]] [[2013 (releases)|2013]] with a new cover to celebrate the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' 50th anniversary.
* The [[December]] [[1936]] sequences take place contemporaneously with the events of the novel ''[[Wolfsbane (novel)|Wolfsbane]]''.
* The [[December]] [[1936]] sequences take place contemporaneously with the events of the novel ''[[Wolfsbane (novel)|Wolfsbane]]''.
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* The [[Eighth Doctor]] will meet the Players and the Countess again ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]''), and the [[Second Doctor]] will encounter the Countess after these events from her perspective while investigating her role in the Napoleonic Wars ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'').
* The [[Eighth Doctor]] will meet the Players and the Countess again ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Endgame (novel)|Endgame]]''), and the [[Second Doctor]] will encounter the Countess after these events from her perspective while investigating her role in the Napoleonic Wars ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'').
* The [[Tenth Doctor]] would later meet Edward VIII's great-grandmother, [[Victoria|Queen Victoria]], in [[1879]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'') and his grandfather, [[Edward VII]], in [[1902]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Revenge of the Judoon (novel)|Revenge of the Judoon]]'')
* The [[Tenth Doctor]] would later meet Edward VIII's great-grandmother, [[Victoria|Queen Victoria]], in [[1879]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Tooth and Claw (TV story)|Tooth and Claw]]'') and his grandfather, [[Edward VII]], in [[1902]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Revenge of the Judoon (novel)|Revenge of the Judoon]]'')
== Additional cover images ==
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Doctor Who Players 50th.jpg|2013 edition
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== External links ==
== External links ==

Revision as of 08:05, 20 July 2021

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Players was the twenty-first novel in the BBC Past Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Terrance Dicks, released 6 April 1999 and featured the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown.

It was the first novel to mention and feature Season 6B — the period between the end of The War Games and Spearhead from Space — and the first to feature the Players.

This was also the first story to feature Winston Churchill in a prominent role and detailed some of his encounters with the Doctor. The relationship between the two became firmly established when it was carried over into the TV series over a decade later in Victory of the Daleks.

Publisher's summary

1999 BBC Books summary

Promising his companion, Peri, high society elegance in fin-de-siecle London, the Doctor manages to hit the right time, but the wrong place...

The TARDIS has landed on the sun-baked veldt in the middle of a Boer War skirmish. And soon the Doctor and Peri are involved in the adventures of a struggling politician and war correspondent who they know is destined for greater things — a certain Winston Churchill. But mysterious forces seem to be interfering in his potentially great career...

Arriving in London, the Doctor and Peri enter high society but find themselves in a world of intrigue populated by notorious figures from Wallis Simpson to Joachim von Ribbentrop. And behind everything, the Doctor senses the hidden hand of the Players — mysterious beings who regard human history as no more than a chess board. Can the Doctor and Peri find the right moves to defeat them — before it's too late?

2013 BBC Books summary

Arriving on the sun-baked veldt in the middle of the Boer War, the Sixth Doctor is soon involved in the adventures of struggling politician and war correspondent Winston Churchill. Of course, he knows Churchill is destined for great things, but unseen forces seem to be interfering with Winston's historic career... The Doctor suspects the hidden hand of the Players, mysterious beings who regard human history as little more than a game. With time running out, can the Doctor find the right moves to defeat them?

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