Question Mark Pyjamas (short story)

Question Mark Pyjamas

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Question Mark Pyjamas was a Virgin Decalogs short story published in Decalog 2: Lost Property in 1995. It featured the Seventh Doctor, Bernice Summerfield and Ace. It was the only story written by Robert Perry and Mike Tucker to feature this line up of Doctor and companions to be published during the Virgin Publishing era of Doctor Who novels. They later wrote several featuring the Seventh Doctor and Ace.

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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 wears "Pale blue pyjamas, festooned with red question marks.".
The Doctor snores.
The Doctor has occasionally mentioned his granddaughter to Benny.
The Doctor reads Ace The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe while working in some hypnosis.

The Doctor suggests some tea after a meal to his companions.
Benny drinks several cups of coffee before and during breakfast.
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.

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.
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.
Ace wonders what her life would have been like in not for the interference by Fenric and the Seventh Doctor.

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.".

The wine cellar becomes linked to the TARDIS via a dimensionally trancendental corridor.

Benny thinks the Doctor's Harley Davidson sounds like the royal beast of Peladon.
The Doctor bought the Harley Davidson in his third incarnation.

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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.