Prime Time (novel)

Prime Time
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Ace
Main enemy:	The Master The Fleshsmiths
Main setting:	Blinni-Gaar
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC Books]]
Writer:	Mike Tucker
Cover by:	Black Sheep
Release details
Release number:	33
Release date:	July 2000
Format:	Paperback Book, ? Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-55597-1
BBC Past Doctor Adventures
← Previous	Heart of TARDIS
Next →	Imperial Moon

Prime Time was the thirty-third BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel. It featured the Seventh Doctor and Ace. This novel presents another take on what happened to the Master following the events in TV: Survival.

Publisher's summary

Coming up after the break, the start of a new series of programmes featuring the mysterious traveller in Time and Space known only as -- The Doctor.

Detecting a mysterious sub-space signal in the Time Vortex, the Doctor and Ace land on the planet Blinni-Gaar. They soon discover that the native population are little more than zombies, addicted to the programmes of the dangerously powerful Channel 400. As the Doctor investigates, he finds that the television company has a sinister agenda that has nothing to do with entertainment.

Why is the Director-General of Channel 400 so interested in the Doctor? Who are the mysterious aliens who watch from the shadows of the Brago nebula? And why is a pack of Zzinbriizi jackals stalking the streets of Blinni-Gaar?

As the Doctor is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of intrigue and deceit he discovers that he has an unexpected ally -- of the most dangerous kind.

Plot

to be added

Characters

• The Doctor
• Ace
• The Tremas Master

References

Foods and beverages

• The Doctor has Coralee wine in the TARDIS.

Individuals

• Ace's second name is Gale.

Planets

• The Fleshsmiths are from the planet Scrantek in the Brago nebula.

TARDIS

• The Doctor's TARDIS has an on board gym.

Television series

• Channel 400 programmes air programs which include Walking with Drashigs and Ogron Hospital.

Notes

to be added

Continuity

• The Master is still infected with the cheetah virus that he contracted during the events of TV: Survival. This contradicts PROSE: First Frontier in which the Master gains a new body immediately after leaving the Cheetah World.
• TV: Bad Wolf bears similarities to this novel: mainly the fact the public are obsessed with reality and quiz shows on television.
• Events of this novel lead into events in PROSE: Heritage.

External links

• Prime Time at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Prime Time at The Whoniverse