The Killing Stone (unproduced novel): Difference between revisions

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|main character = [[Mike Yates]]

|featuring = The Brigadier

|writer = [[Richard Franklin]]

|setting = [[Morocco]], [[1970s]]

'''''The Killing Stone''''' was an unpublished novel written by [[Richard Franklin]].

[[Mike Yates]] has left [[UNIT]] and tries to acclimatise to life in the slow lane. But, as he soon finds out, your past is only a second behind you...

In a meditation centre deep in the Chiltern Hills, Mike Yates is in a contemplative mood. His years of faithful service to the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce have come to an abrupt end, and he is having to take his leave of the people he has come to think of as family.

When [[the Brigadier]] suggests that his former Captain take a holiday in [[Morocco]], Mike finds himself embroiled in an exciting battle with an old enemy that could mean the end for UNIT, [[the Doctor]] and the world...

== Story notes ==

* The story was first planned in the late 1980s. Franklin told ''[[Myth Makers]]'' in 1989 that [[Target Books]] was going to publish it "but unfortunately they've discontinued the series" (likely meaning ''[[The Companions of Doctor Who]]''). He had plans to produce a self-published version that didn't happen. In 2000, he performed a badly reviewed version of it as a one-man show at the Edinburgh Fringe. The story was later released as an abridged audio story by [[BBV Productions]] in 2002, after being turned down by [[Big Finish]]. <ref>''Downtime: The Lost Years of Doctor Who'' Chapter 29 (Dylan Rees)</ref>

* The appearance of [[DWU]] characters was unlicensed and so the BBV audio is not considered [[Tardis:Valid sources|a valid source for writing on this wiki]]. It was remade into a novel, ''Operation: Hate'', with no mention of the ''[[Doctor Who universe|Doctor Who]]'' [[Doctor Who universe|universe]] and Yates renamed as Captain M. Franklin explained in one interview that the BBC had got stricter on copyright since 2000. <ref>''Downtime: The Lost Years of Doctor Who'' Chapter 29 (Dylan Rees)</ref>

== Footnotes ==

{{Unproduced stories}}

[[Category:Unproduced Doctor Who novels]]