Still Lives (short story)
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Still Lives was the fourth short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: Zodiac. It was written by Ian Potter. It featured the Third Doctor and Liz Shaw.
Summary
Helen Martin has gone missing. The Doctor and Liz decide to investigate, but visions of her begin to drift in and out of reality. Are the events of the Inferno about to disrupt the future? Can the Doctor save Helen from past events that could tear the Earth apart?
Characters
- Third Doctor
- Liz Shaw
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Helen Martin
- goes missing after the Inferno incident, when she was patrolling behind the Doctor's hut.
- Mark
- former Republican Security Forces soldier from the parallel universe
References
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Notes
- The stories in Short Trips: Zodiac are inspired by the signs of the zodiac. This story's theme is Cancer.
Continuity
- Liz is sceptical of the Doctor's claim to have recently visited a parallel universe. (TV: Inferno)
- There is a daytime chat show Chorley's People hosted by Harold Chorley. (TV: The Web of Fear)
- Liz refers to the Daily Chronicle journalist James Stevens. (PROSE: Who Killed Kennedy)
- Liz tells the Doctor that Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart is "a bit of maths whizz on the quiet." (TV: Mawdryn Undead)
- The Brigadier refers to the Primords as "werepeople." (TV: Inferno)
