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The Taking of Chelsea 426 was the thirty-fourth novel in the BBC New Series Adventures series. It was written by David Llewellyn and featured the Tenth Doctor.
Publisher's summary
The Chelsea Flower Show - hardly the most exciting or dangerous event in the calendar, or so the Doctor thinks. But this is Chelsea 426, a city-sized future colony floating on the clouds of Saturn, and the flowers are much more than they seem.
As the Doctor investigates, he becomes more and more worried. Who is shopkeeper Mr Pemberton acting so strangely? And what is Professor Wilberforce's terrible secret?
They are close to finding the answers when a familiar foe arrives, and the stakes suddenly get much higher. The Sontarans have plans of their own, and they're not here to arrange flowers..
Plot
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Characters
References
- The Rutans and the Sontarans are present.
- According to the Doctor, it is about due for the Third Renaissance.
Food and Beverates.
- The Doctor cannot stand pears. He drinks orange juice in the Grand Hotel.
Notes
- This book continues the theme set by the BBC Tenth Doctor Adventures line for 2009, featuring returning monsters from the TV series. It also continues a series of novels in which the Doctor travels without a companion.
- David Llewellyn also wrote the Torchwood novel Trace Memory, and would later go on to write extensively for Big Finish.
- The title is a reference to the novel and film The Taking of Pelham One Two Three. The number is also reminiscent of the 456, an alien race introduced a few months prior to the book's release in Children of Earth.
- The Doctor asks Vienna, "The city or the song?" The song may be a reference to the song by Ultravox, the song by Billy Joel or the Owl City song "Dear Vienna".
- This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.
Continuity
- The events of TV: The Two Doctors and The Time Warrior are mentioned.
- Chelsea 426 was founded by the Interplanetary Mining Corporation. (TV: Colony in Space)
- The Doctor mentions a Krynoid. (TV: The Seeds of Doom)
- The Doctor's second incarnation hinted on Sontarans challenging each other to fights to defend their honour. (TV: The Two Doctors)
- While in the TARDIS, Jake plays with the crate of items beginning with C, last seen in TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp. Its contents include an Agatha Christie novel, the Carrionite globe and a Cyberman's chest plate.
- At the end of the novel, the Doctor looks around the empty TARDIS. He also did this before his second meeting with Donna Noble. (TV: Partners in Crime)
- The Doctor says "For one thing I've had my fair share of angry mothers lately" (TV: Aliens of London, The Lazarus Experiment, Partners in Crime)
- The Doctor mentions the Battle of Olympus Mons. (PROSE: Transit)
Audiobook
- This novel was released as an audiobook in September 2010 by BBC Audio and read by Christopher Ryan.
Audiobook cover
