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novel name= Nightshade| | novel name= Nightshade| | ||
image=[[ | image=[[File:Nightshade Cover.jpg|250 px]]| | ||
series=[[Doctor Who]] -<br/>[[Virgin New Adventures]] | | series=[[Doctor Who]] -<br />[[Virgin New Adventures]] | | ||
number= 8 | | number= 8 | | ||
doctor=[[Seventh Doctor]] | | doctor=[[Seventh Doctor]] | | ||
companions= [[Ace]]| | companions= [[Ace]]| | ||
enemy= [[Sentience|The Sentience]] | | enemy= [[Sentience|The Sentience]] | | ||
year= [[Crook Marsham]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom|UK]], [[Earth]], [[23rd December|23]] to [[25th December|25 December]] [[1968]]<br>[[Crook Marsham]], the [[England|Kingdom of England]], [[Earth]], [[1644]]<br>[[Gallifrey]] | | year= [[Crook Marsham]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom|UK]], [[Earth]], [[23rd December|23]] to [[25th December|25 December]] [[1968]]<br />[[Crook Marsham]], the [[England|Kingdom of England]], [[Earth]], [[1644]]<br />[[Gallifrey]] | | ||
writer= [[Mark Gatiss]] | | writer= [[Mark Gatiss]] | | ||
publisher= [[Virgin Publishing]] | | publisher= [[Virgin Publishing]] | | ||
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Written by [[Mark Gatiss]], '''''Nightshade''''' is the eighth instalment in the series of [[Virgin Publishing]]'s ''[[Doctor Who]]'' paperback novels. A [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventure]], it features the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]]. | Written by [[Mark Gatiss]], '''''Nightshade''''' is the eighth instalment in the series of [[Virgin Publishing]]'s ''[[Doctor Who]]'' paperback novels. A [[Virgin New Adventures|New Adventure]], it features the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]]. | ||
==Publisher's summary== | == Publisher's summary == | ||
'''''I HAVE DONE ENOUGH!''''' | '''''I HAVE DONE ENOUGH!''''' | ||
[[Ace]] has never known [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]] so withdrawn and melancholic. He is avoiding her company, seeking solace in the forgotten rooms and labyrinthine passages of his ancient [[the Doctor's TARDIS|time machine]]. | [[Ace]] has never known [[Seventh Doctor|the Doctor]] so withdrawn and melancholic. He is avoiding her company, seeking solace in the forgotten rooms and labyrinthine passages of his ancient [[the Doctor's TARDIS|time machine]]. | ||
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What are the signals from [[space]] that are bombarding the [[radio telescope]] on the moor? What is the significance of the local legends from the [[English Civil War|Civil War]]? And what is the [[aeon]]s-old power that the Doctor is unable to resist | What are the signals from [[space]] that are bombarding the [[radio telescope]] on the moor? What is the significance of the local legends from the [[English Civil War|Civil War]]? And what is the [[aeon]]s-old power that the Doctor is unable to resist | ||
==Plot== | == Plot == | ||
''to be added'' | ''to be added'' | ||
==Characters== | == Characters == | ||
*The [[Seventh Doctor]] | * The [[Seventh Doctor]] | ||
*[[Ace]] | * [[Ace]] | ||
*[[Edmund Trevithick]] | * [[Edmund Trevithick]] | ||
*[[Jack Prudhoe]] | * [[Jack Prudhoe]] | ||
*[[Lawrence Yeadon]] | * [[Lawrence Yeadon]] | ||
*[[Robin Yeadon]] | * [[Robin Yeadon]] | ||
*[[Vijay Degun]] | * [[Vijay Degun]] | ||
*Professor [[Thomas Edward Hawthorne]] | * Professor [[Thomas Edward Hawthorne]] | ||
*[[Betty Yeadon]] | * [[Betty Yeadon]] | ||
*[[Jill Mason]] | * [[Jill Mason]] | ||
*Constable [[George Lowcock]] | * Constable [[George Lowcock]] | ||
*Abbot [[Mervyn Winstanley]] | * Abbot [[Mervyn Winstanley]] | ||
*[[Holly Kidd]] | * [[Holly Kidd]] | ||
*[[Christine Cooper]] | * [[Christine Cooper]] | ||
*[[Tim Medway]] | * [[Tim Medway]] | ||
*[[Billy Coote]] | * [[Billy Coote]] | ||
*[[Win Prudhoe]] | * [[Win Prudhoe]] | ||
*[[Sentience | The Sentience]] | * [[Sentience|The Sentience]] | ||
*[[Oliver Cromwell]] (cameo) | * [[Oliver Cromwell]] (cameo) | ||
==References== | == References == | ||
===[[:Category:The Doctor|The Doctor]]=== | === [[:Category:The Doctor|The Doctor]] === | ||
*The Doctor thinks of [[Susan Campbell|Susan]] almost every day now. | * The Doctor thinks of [[Susan Campbell|Susan]] almost every day now. | ||
*The Doctor needs help on his missions and can't allow Ace to go. | * The Doctor needs help on his missions and can't allow Ace to go. | ||
===[[:Category:Individuals|Individuals]]=== | === [[:Category:Individuals|Individuals]] === | ||
*Ace's parents met on the dance floor of a sweaty [[nightclub]]. | * Ace's parents met on the dance floor of a sweaty [[nightclub]]. | ||
*Ace decides to leave the Doctor for [[Robin Yeadon]]. The Doctor deliberately lands on an alien planet, unable to let Ace go. | * Ace decides to leave the Doctor for [[Robin Yeadon]]. The Doctor deliberately lands on an alien planet, unable to let Ace go. | ||
*[[Robin Yeadon]] waits months for Ace to return. | * [[Robin Yeadon]] waits months for Ace to return. | ||
===[[:Category:Psychology|Psychology]]=== | === [[:Category:Psychology|Psychology]] === | ||
*Ace kisses [[Robin Yeadon]] to calm his hysteria. | * Ace kisses [[Robin Yeadon]] to calm his hysteria. | ||
===[[:Category:Species|Species]]=== | === [[:Category:Species|Species]] === | ||
* The Sentience absorbs the energy from Ace's [[Nitro-9]]. | * The Sentience absorbs the energy from Ace's [[Nitro-9]]. | ||
===[[:Category:Science|Science]]=== | === [[:Category:Science|Science]] === | ||
* References to space (or through the [[radio telescope]]): [[Andromeda]], [[Bellatrix]], [[black hole]], [[supernova]], [[galaxy]]. | * References to space (or through the [[radio telescope]]): [[Andromeda]], [[Bellatrix]], [[black hole]], [[supernova]], [[galaxy]]. | ||
===[[:Category:Television series|Television series]]=== | === [[:Category:Television series|Television series]] === | ||
* The [[BBC]] produced [[Nightshade (Television series)]]. | * The [[BBC]] produced [[Nightshade (Television series)]]. | ||
*[[Edmund Trevithick]] starred in ''[[Nightshade (series)|Nightshade]]'' from [[1953]] to [[1958]]. | * [[Edmund Trevithick]] starred in ''[[Nightshade (series)|Nightshade]]'' from [[1953]] to [[1958]]. | ||
==Notes== | == Notes == | ||
* First ''Doctor Who'' novel for actor-writer [[Mark Gatiss]], who would write and appear in several of the independent spin-off productions before finding fame in the TV series ''The League of Gentlemen''. In the 2000s and 2010s, he would write episodes for the ''Doctor Who'' revival and play [[Richard Lazarus]] in ''[[The Lazarus Experiment]]''. | * First ''Doctor Who'' novel for actor-writer [[Mark Gatiss]], who would write and appear in several of the independent spin-off productions before finding fame in the TV series ''The League of Gentlemen''. In the 2000s and 2010s, he would write episodes for the ''Doctor Who'' revival and play [[Richard Lazarus]] in ''[[The Lazarus Experiment]]''. | ||
* Characters named Dr Shearsmith and Mr Pemberton are mentioned (but do not appear), a possible reference to Gatiss' fellow ''The League of Gentlemen'' co-creators and co-stars [[Reece Shearsmith]] and [[Victor Pemberton]]. | * Characters named Dr Shearsmith and Mr Pemberton are mentioned (but do not appear), a possible reference to Gatiss' fellow ''The League of Gentlemen'' co-creators and co-stars [[Reece Shearsmith]] and [[Victor Pemberton]]. | ||
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* A prelude to this novel was published in [[DWM 190]]. | * A prelude to this novel was published in [[DWM 190]]. | ||
==Continuity== | == Continuity == | ||
*[[NA]]: ''[[Set Piece]]'' explains why the Doctor's shoulder area is such a tender place. | * [[NA]]: ''[[Set Piece]]'' explains why the Doctor's shoulder area is such a tender place. | ||
*The Doctor and Ace's interaction in this novel explains some of the events in [[NA]]: ''[[Love and War]]''. | * The Doctor and Ace's interaction in this novel explains some of the events in [[NA]]: ''[[Love and War]]''. | ||
*[[NA]]: ''[[Happy Endings]]'' reveals that Robin Yeadon married Ace's mum. | * [[NA]]: ''[[Happy Endings]]'' reveals that Robin Yeadon married Ace's mum. | ||
*This story suggests that [[Susan Campbell|Susan Foreman]] was not the Doctor’s biological granddaughter. It was later confirmed in the novel [[NA]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]''. | * This story suggests that [[Susan Campbell|Susan Foreman]] was not the Doctor’s biological granddaughter. It was later confirmed in the novel [[NA]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]''. | ||
*This story takes place contemporaneously with several sequences of [[NA]]: ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'' in which the Doctor and Ace likewise visit England in [[December]] [[1968]]. | * This story takes place contemporaneously with several sequences of [[NA]]: ''[[The Left-Handed Hummingbird]]'' in which the Doctor and Ace likewise visit England in [[December]] [[1968]]. | ||
==[[Seventh Doctor - Timeline|Timeline]]== | == [[Seventh Doctor - Timeline|Timeline]] == | ||
*This story takes place after [[NA]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'' | * This story takes place after [[NA]]: ''[[Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark]]'' | ||
*This story takes place before [[DWM]]: ''[[Memorial]]'' | * This story takes place before [[DWM]]: ''[[Memorial]]'' | ||
'''For the [[First Doctor]] (flashback): ''' | '''For the [[First Doctor]] (flashback): ''' | ||
*This story occurs after [[NA]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]'' (flashback) | * This story occurs after [[NA]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]'' (flashback) | ||
*This story occurs before [[ST]]: ''[[The Longest Story in the World]]'' | * This story occurs before [[ST]]: ''[[The Longest Story in the World]]'' | ||
==Illustrations== | == Illustrations == | ||
* Includes eleven illustrations from the e-book by [[Daryl Joyce]]. | * Includes eleven illustrations from the e-book by [[Daryl Joyce]]. | ||
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file:Vijay investigates.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br>(Vijay investigates)]] | file:Vijay investigates.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br />(Vijay investigates)]] | ||
file:Tertiary console room.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br>(Tertiary console room)]] | file:Tertiary console room.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br />(Tertiary console room)]] | ||
file:Rising from the deep.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br>(Rising from the deep)]] | file:Rising from the deep.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br />(Rising from the deep)]] | ||
file:Winstanley's study.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br>(Winstanley's study)]] | file:Winstanley's study.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br />(Winstanley's study)]] | ||
file:Escape from danger.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br>(Escape from danger)]] | file:Escape from danger.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br />(Escape from danger)]] | ||
file:Medway in York.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br>(Medway in York)]] | file:Medway in York.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br />(Medway in York)]] | ||
file:The tar baby.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br>(The tar baby)]] | file:The tar baby.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br />(The tar baby)]] | ||
file:Nightshade Attacked!.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br>(Attacked!)]] | file:Nightshade Attacked!.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br />(Attacked!)]] | ||
file:Nightshade Billy.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br>(Billy)]] | file:Nightshade Billy.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br />(Billy)]] | ||
file:Beyond the grave.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br>(Beyond the grave)]] | file:Beyond the grave.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br />(Beyond the grave)]] | ||
file:Nightshade Susan.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br>(Susan)]] | file:Nightshade Susan.jpg|[[Daryl Joyce|Daryl Joyce<br />(Susan)]] | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
==Associated Images== | == Associated Images == | ||
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file:Nightshade e-book cover.jpg|E-Book cover. In style with the Past Doctor Adventures. Artwork by Daryl Joyce. | file:Nightshade e-book cover.jpg|E-Book cover. In style with the Past Doctor Adventures. Artwork by Daryl Joyce. | ||
</gallery> | </gallery> | ||
==External links== | == External links == | ||
* [http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/nightshade/index.shtml BBC Website '''Nightshade''' E-book and chapter notes] | * [http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/ebooks/nightshade/index.shtml BBC Website '''Nightshade''' E-book and chapter notes] | ||
*{{dwrefguide|who_na08.htm|Nightshade}} | * {{dwrefguide|who_na08.htm|Nightshade}} | ||
*{{whoniverse|NA08.php|Nightshade}} | * {{whoniverse|NA08.php|Nightshade}} | ||
* [http://www.oocities.com/rico.briggs/tsha.html Bewildering References Guide to '''Nightshade'''] | * [http://www.oocities.com/rico.briggs/tsha.html Bewildering References Guide to '''Nightshade'''] | ||
* [http://www.drwhoguide.com/whona08p.htm Prelude to '''Nightshade''' as published in DWM #190] | * [http://www.drwhoguide.com/whona08p.htm Prelude to '''Nightshade''' as published in DWM #190] | ||
Revision as of 01:01, 5 November 2011
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Written by Mark Gatiss, Nightshade is the eighth instalment in the series of Virgin Publishing's Doctor Who paperback novels. A New Adventure, it features the Seventh Doctor and Ace.
Publisher's summary
I HAVE DONE ENOUGH! Ace has never known the Doctor so withdrawn and melancholic. He is avoiding her company, seeking solace in the forgotten rooms and labyrinthine passages of his ancient time machine. Perhaps he will find the peace he yearns for on his favourite planet, Earth, in the second half of the twentieth century - in the isolated village of Crook Marsham, to be precise, in 1968, the year of peace, love and understanding. But one by one the villagers are being killed. The Doctor has to act, but for once he seems helpless, indecisive, powerless. What are the signals from space that are bombarding the radio telescope on the moor? What is the significance of the local legends from the Civil War? And what is the aeons-old power that the Doctor is unable to resist
Plot
to be added
Characters
- The Seventh Doctor
- Ace
- Edmund Trevithick
- Jack Prudhoe
- Lawrence Yeadon
- Robin Yeadon
- Vijay Degun
- Professor Thomas Edward Hawthorne
- Betty Yeadon
- Jill Mason
- Constable George Lowcock
- Abbot Mervyn Winstanley
- Holly Kidd
- Christine Cooper
- Tim Medway
- Billy Coote
- Win Prudhoe
- The Sentience
- Oliver Cromwell (cameo)
References
The Doctor
- The Doctor thinks of Susan almost every day now.
- The Doctor needs help on his missions and can't allow Ace to go.
Individuals
- Ace's parents met on the dance floor of a sweaty nightclub.
- Ace decides to leave the Doctor for Robin Yeadon. The Doctor deliberately lands on an alien planet, unable to let Ace go.
- Robin Yeadon waits months for Ace to return.
Psychology
- Ace kisses Robin Yeadon to calm his hysteria.
Species
- The Sentience absorbs the energy from Ace's Nitro-9.
Science
- References to space (or through the radio telescope): Andromeda, Bellatrix, black hole, supernova, galaxy.
Television series
- The BBC produced Nightshade (Television series).
- Edmund Trevithick starred in Nightshade from 1953 to 1958.
Notes
- First Doctor Who novel for actor-writer Mark Gatiss, who would write and appear in several of the independent spin-off productions before finding fame in the TV series The League of Gentlemen. In the 2000s and 2010s, he would write episodes for the Doctor Who revival and play Richard Lazarus in The Lazarus Experiment.
- Characters named Dr Shearsmith and Mr Pemberton are mentioned (but do not appear), a possible reference to Gatiss' fellow The League of Gentlemen co-creators and co-stars Reece Shearsmith and Victor Pemberton.
- The character of Professor Nightshade was inspired by Bernard Quatermass.
- A prelude to this novel was published in DWM 190.
Continuity
- NA: Set Piece explains why the Doctor's shoulder area is such a tender place.
- The Doctor and Ace's interaction in this novel explains some of the events in NA: Love and War.
- NA: Happy Endings reveals that Robin Yeadon married Ace's mum.
- This story suggests that Susan Foreman was not the Doctor’s biological granddaughter. It was later confirmed in the novel NA: Lungbarrow.
- This story takes place contemporaneously with several sequences of NA: The Left-Handed Hummingbird in which the Doctor and Ace likewise visit England in December 1968.
Timeline
- This story takes place after NA: Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark
- This story takes place before DWM: Memorial
For the First Doctor (flashback):
- This story occurs after NA: Lungbarrow (flashback)
- This story occurs before ST: The Longest Story in the World
Illustrations
- Includes eleven illustrations from the e-book by Daryl Joyce.
Associated Images
E-Book cover. In style with the Past Doctor Adventures. Artwork by Daryl Joyce.
External links
- BBC Website Nightshade E-book and chapter notes
- Nightshade at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: Nightshade at The Whoniverse
- Bewildering References Guide to Nightshade
- Prelude to Nightshade as published in DWM #190
