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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* This novel also makes for one of the more continuity heavy novels with Terrance Dicks referencing: [[State of Decay]] (which he had previous written a sequel as [[Blood Harvest]]). Also [[The Five Doctors]] (also by Dicks) is references heavily here. | * This novel also makes for one of the more continuity heavy novels with Terrance Dicks referencing: ''[[DW]]:'' [[State of Decay]] (which he had previous written a sequel as ''[[NA]]:'' [[Blood Harvest]]). Also ''[[DW]]:'' [[The Five Doctors]] (also by Dicks) is references heavily here. | ||
* The Eight Doctors revisits point in the past during: | * The Eight Doctors revisits point in the past during: | ||
:* First Doctor: [[An Unearthly Child]] | :* First Doctor: ''[[DW]]:'' [[An Unearthly Child]] | ||
:* Second Doctor: At the end of [[The War Games]] | :* Second Doctor: At the end of ''[[DW]]:'' [[The War Games]], or just prior to ''[[PDA]]:'' [[Players]] | ||
:* Third Doctor: After [[The Sea Devils]] | :* Third Doctor: After ''[[DW]]:'' [[The Sea Devils]] | ||
:* Fourth Doctor: After [[State of Decay]] | :* Fourth Doctor: After ''[[DW]]:'' [[State of Decay]] | ||
:* Fifth Doctor: After [[The Five Doctors]] | :* Fifth Doctor: After ''[[DW]]:'' [[The Five Doctors]] | ||
:* Sixth Doctor: Just before [[The Ultimate Foe]] | :* Sixth Doctor: Just before ''[[DW]]:'' [[The Ultimate Foe]] | ||
:* Seventh Doctor: Some point before [[Doctor Who: The TV Movie]] | :* Seventh Doctor: Some point before ''[[DW]]:'' [[Doctor Who: The TV Movie]] | ||
* The Master retrieves his TARDIS from where he hid it in [[The Face of the Enemy]]. | * The Master retrieves his TARDIS from where he hid it in ''[[PDA]]:'' [[The Face of the Enemy]]. | ||
*The BBC audio [[Bounty]] follows directly from this. | *The BBC audio [[Bounty]] follows directly from this. | ||
Revision as of 02:26, 4 December 2007
Publisher's Summary
Recuperating after the trauma of his recent regeneration, the Doctor falls foul of a final booby trap set by his arch-enemy, the Master.
When he recovers, the disorientated Doctor looks in a mirror and sees the face of a stranger. He knows only that he is called the Doctor - nothing more. But something deep inside tells him to trust the TARDIS, and his hands move over the controls of their own accord.
The TARDIS takes him to a strangely familiar junkyard in late-nineties London, where he is flung into a confrontation between local drug-dealers and Samantha Jones, a rebellious teenager from Coal Hill School.
But the Doctor soon finds the TARDIS transporting him to various other places in order to recover all his memories - and that involves seeing seven strangely-familiar faces...
Characters
- Retrieves his TARDIS from Devil's End.
- Eats a Deathworm to cheat death (again).
Miss Olive Hawthorne
- May have latent telekinetic abilities.
- Dead vampiric leader.
- Plans to make an Inn of the town hall.
- Meets the Eighth Doctor.
References
- Flavia is president.
- Shobogans speak highly of the Doctor.
- Deathworms were tamed by the Morg. The Master experimented on them for his own purposes.
- The Eye of Harmony seen in the TARDIS is a symbolic manifestation.
- The Raston Warrior Robot feeds on atomic radiation in the atmosphere. You can confuse it with two similar brain wave patterns.
- Rassilon's Red is Gallifrey's finest vintage, the Sixth Doctor and Eighth Doctor drink several goblets it.
Notes
- There are several...discontinuities within The Eight Doctors (owed perhaps to Dicks's tendency to insert continuity links everywhere).
- Flavia is president, however according to continuity so far Romana is President (Dicks' own novel Blood Harvest established it).
- Borusa's time scoop was previously destroyed in Goth Opera is now eaten.
- In this novel the Seventh Doctor has a "mid life crisis" while trying to deal with his approaching death...which was more or less addressed in The Room With No Doors and Lungbarrow.
- There is an explanation of how the Master became worm like in Doctor Who: The TV Movie.
- By the end of the novel:
- All 8 of the Doctors have appeared.
- Two versions of the Master (Roger Delgado and another) have appeared.
- At one point there are two Sixth Doctors.
- Borusa testifies in a future where he's still locked in the Dark Tower.
Continuity
- This novel also makes for one of the more continuity heavy novels with Terrance Dicks referencing: DW: State of Decay (which he had previous written a sequel as NA: Blood Harvest). Also DW: The Five Doctors (also by Dicks) is references heavily here.
- The Eight Doctors revisits point in the past during:
- First Doctor: DW: An Unearthly Child
- Second Doctor: At the end of DW: The War Games, or just prior to PDA: Players
- Third Doctor: After DW: The Sea Devils
- Fourth Doctor: After DW: State of Decay
- Fifth Doctor: After DW: The Five Doctors
- Sixth Doctor: Just before DW: The Ultimate Foe
- Seventh Doctor: Some point before DW: Doctor Who: The TV Movie
- The Master retrieves his TARDIS from where he hid it in PDA: The Face of the Enemy.
- The BBC audio Bounty follows directly from this.
