The Nameless City (short story)

When Jamie McCrimmon brings the Second Doctor a mysterious book, little does he realise the danger contained within its pages. The book transports the TARDIS to a terrifying glass city on a distant world, where the Archons are intent on getting revenge on the Time Lord for an ancient grudge.

Plot

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Characters

References

Individuals

The Doctor hasn't seen the Master in a long time, but knows that he hates him.
Thascalos tells Jamie that he has a bookshop on Charing Cross Road.
Jamie remembers that Polly, who had known his Doctor before he changed, described him as an "unmade bed", and noted how accurate the description was.

Species

The ancient Gallifreyans declared war on the Archons and stole their "seeds" in order to grow TARDISes.

Other

The Doctor is eating an ice cream cone when he meets with Jamie.
In London, the TARDIS is parked directly opposite the statue of Henry Irving at the back of the National Portrait Gallery.
The TARDIS' Time rotor is broken, and unfit for time-travel.
The Financial Times states that gold is priced at 37 American Dollars an ounce, and Jamie states that they will never be able to get a ton of gold.
The Doctor states that he still has plenty of jewellery from tutankhamun that they can sell.
The book that Jamie is given by the old man is the Necronomicon.
The Necronomicon takes the TARDIS to the Great Desolation.

Notes

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Continuity

The Doctor's recorder is plain with blue stripes. (TV: The Three Doctors)
The Doctor tells Jamie "When I say run, run." (TV: The Five Doctors, Tomb of the Cybermen)
The Archons dance to the Music of the Spheres. (TV: Music of the Spheres)
The Doctor once told Jamie that TARDISes were grown rather than built. (TV: The Impossible Planet)
Jamie states that the TARDIS had many, many rooms, including an "Olympic-sized swimming pool." (TV: The Invasion of Time)
The Doctor states that there is plenty of money in the TARDIS, (TV: Doctor Who) specifically in one of the bedrooms. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)
The Doctor states that for the TARDIS to heal, it needs a tranfusion of gold, mercury, and Zeiton-7; a substance that Jamie notes does not exist on Earth. (TV: Vengeance on Varos)
The Doctor is startled by the TARDIS erupting a male echo of "The Nameless City", as the TARDIS' voice is usually female. (TV: The Doctor's Wife)
The Doctor states that his TARDIS is an "Old TT Type-40 Mark-III machine" (TV: The Time Meddler, TV: Victory of the Daleks)

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