Nothing O'Clock (short story)
Nothing O'Clock was the eleventh Puffin eshort released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. It featured the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond. It was originally the last in the series before the follow-up stories Lights Out and Time Lapse.
It was later published in the short stories anthologies 11 Doctors, 11 Stories, 12 Doctors, 12 Stories and Thirteen Doctors, 13 Stories.
Publisher's summary
Thousands of years ago, Time Lords built a Prison for the Kin. They made it utterly impregnable and unreachable. As long as Time Lords existed, the Kin would be trapped forever and the universe would be safe. They had planned for everything . . . everything, that is, other than the Time War and the fall of Gallifrey. Now the Kin are free again and there's only one Time Lord left in the universe who can stop them!
Plot
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Characters
Worldbuilding
- The Doctor references Radio Four, and later hears The Archers in the background when Amy and Mrs Browning are drinking tea.
- Polly has a Duran Duran poster on her bedroom wall.
- Polly owns a Smash Hits diary.
- The Doctor mentions the best gazpacho he ever tasted.
- The Doctor mentions Maximelos and the Three Ogrons.
- The Doctor mentions Skaronian as a language.
- The Doctor mentions regeneration can affect his memory; blocking or restoring certain remembrances.
Notes
- An audiobook of the story was read by Peter Kenny.
- A revised version of the story was reissued in Gaiman's non-Who collection, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances. Gaiman read the story as part of the audiobook. It would later appear in The Neil Gaiman Reader and again be read by Gaiman himself in the audiobook version.
Continuity
- Amy says her friend Mels set the record for having things confiscated by teachers in school. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler)
- Amy says 1984 is before her parents met, but drifts off, then can't provide any details about them. (TV: The Big Bang)
- Amy repeatedly refers to her fiancé Rory Williams and his occupation as a nurse. (TV: The Eleventh Hour)
- The Doctor has lived eleven lives or more, including the incarnation that he does not like to think about. (TV: The Name of the Doctor, The Timeless Children)
- The Doctor ponders the possibility of a good Dalek. (PROSE: The Ripple Effect, TV: Into the Dalek)
- The Doctor traps the Kin before the big bang. He used the same tactic to trap the Vist in AUDIO: The Forbidden Time.
