The Bodysnatchers (novel)

The Bodysnatchers (novel)

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The Bodysnatchers
Doctor:	[[doctor::Eighth Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Sam Jones
Main enemy:	Zygons
Main setting:	London, England, UK, Earth, 11 January 1894
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writer:	Mark Morris
Release details
Release number:	3
Release date:	August, 1997
Format:	Paperback Book, ? Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-40568-6

Publisher's summary

It is London, 1894. Amid the fog, cold and degradation, a gruesome business is being conducted. The bodies of the dead are being stolen from their graves - men, women and children alike - for the sinister purpose of a very mysterious gentleman.

When the Eighth Doctor and Sam arrive, they are witness to a horrifying scene in the evil-smelling fog: something rises up from the filthy waters of the Thames and devours a man - a man terrified for his life and on the run from the devil himself...

Teaming up with an old friend, pathologist Professor George Litefoot, the Doctor is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. Together with Sam, they discover there is a far graver threat facing London then just earthly grave robbers. Deadly alien beings the Doctor has encountered before are at work, and they bring a whole new twist to the word bodysnatchers...

Characters

• The Eighth Doctor
• Samantha Jones
  • Is still seventeen.
  • Sees a baby with only its spine attached (the rest chewed away by a Skarasesn) and goes and throws up down an alley.
• Professor George Litefoot
  • Is almost sixty years old.
  • Is still good friends with Henry Gordon Jago.
  • Lives at 4 Ranskill Gardens
• Albert Rudge
• Balaak
• Emmaline Seers
• Jack Howe
• Nathaniel Seers
• Tom Donahue
• Tuval

References

• Sam's room in the TARDIS used to be Nyssa's.
• The Xaranti are the enemies that wiped out the Zygons.
• Zygons are from the planet Zygor.
• The Doctor eats some gumblejack fish fritters.
• Emmeline wears one of Leela's outfits that Lightfoot kept from her visit.
• Skarasens provide milk for the Zygons, baby Skarasens are thirty or forty feet long.
• The Zygons destroy the sonic screwdriver.
• The Doctor and Sam use Daxmoil suits to protect themselves in the Thames as they escape from the Zygon ship.

Continuity

• Litefoot first appeared in DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
• The Zygons first appeared in DW: Terror of the Zygons
• The Xaranti appear in PDA: Deep Blue.
• The Doctor tells Litefoot that Leela is married with children (NA: Lungbarrow).
• At the beginning of the story, the Doctor morosely evades Sam's enquiry into the Jack the Ripper's true identity. (PDA: Matrix)
• To date, this is the only appearance of Litefoot without Henry Gordon Jago.

Timeline

For the Doctor and Sam

• This story takes place after EDA: Vampire Science
• This story takes place before EDA: Genocide

For Professor Litefoot

• This story takes place after JAL: The Hourglass Killers

External links

• The Bodysnatchers at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: The Bodysnatchers at The Whoniverse

• • Adapted to audio by Heroic Efforts Productions.