Question Mark Pyjamas (short story)

Question Mark Pyjamas
Doctor:	[[doctor::Seventh Doctor]]
Companion(s):	Ace Bernice Summerfield
Main setting:	Ararax XIV Heritage Centre
Key crew
Writers:	Robert Perry and Mike Tucker
Release details
Part of:	Decalog 2: Lost Property
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Summary

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Characters

• The Doctor

• The Doctor wears "Pale blue pyjamas, festooned with red question marks.".
• The Doctor snores.
• The Doctor has occasionally mentioned his granddaughter to Benny.

• Ace

• Ace never liked mornings either in Perivale or Iceworld.
• Ace recalls the last time she was in the house, helping the Doctor with a boy in a barrel.

• Bernice Summerfield

• Benny wears a pink negligee.
• As Benny and the Doctor go to bed (together) he whispers "be gentle with me".
• Benny idly wonders what the Doctor's home on Gallifrey was like.

• Garpol

References

• Benny sees a Martian dwelling as part of Garpol's exhibits as well as a Gond hut and a benefit office from Inter Minor.
• The Doctor comes across his house from Earth, England, Kent.
• The Doctor suggests some tea after a meal to his companions.
• The Doctor reads Ace The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe while working in some hypnosis.
• Ace wonders what her life would have been like in not for the interference by Fenric and the Seventh Doctor.
• Benny drinks several cups of coffee before and during breakfast.
• Garpol bought a lawn mower off a Metatraxi.
• Ace uses a snowdome to connect the Doctor's House with the TARDIS.
• Benny thinks the Doctor's Harley Davidson sounds like the royal beast of Peladon.
• The Doctor bought the Harley Davidson in his third incarnation.
• The wine cellar under the house is huge (and full); the Doctor has wines dating back to the Crusades. He had wines from every conceivable century on Earth. There were also wines from Ribos, champagnes from Manussa and shelf stacked high with Ogron ale.
• The wine cellar becomes linked to the TARDIS via a dimensionally trancendental corridor.
• The Doctor is on the board of governors of the Braxiatel Heritage Trust. He notes to Ace and Benny "Irving can sort this mess out.".

Notes

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Continuity

• The Doctor's House first appeared in COMIC: Fellow Travellers but was described in more detail in print in PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible.
• Ace was last in the Doctor's house in PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead.
• Ace left Iceworld in TV: Dragonfire.
• Ace encountered Fenric in TV: The Curse of Fenric.