Tip of the Tongue (short story)
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Tip of the Tongue was the fifth Puffin eshort released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who.
Publisher's summary
In 1945, a strange new craze for Truth Tellers is sweeping the kids of small-town America. The Fifth Doctor and Nyssa soon arrive to investigate the phenomenon, only to discover that the actual truth behind the Truth Tellers is far more sinister than anyone could have imagined...
Plot
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Characters
- Fifth Doctor
- Nyssa
- Jonny Heftklammern
- Nettie Washington
- Marisa Channing
- Mr Acklin
- Mrs Acklin
- Annabelle Acklin
- Principal Marshall
- Virginia Watson
- Edith Magee
- Mr Finnegan
References
- Children in the town of Temperance hold "Truth Sessions" with their Truth Tellers during matinees at the Horizon movie palace.
- Nettie believes at first that the Truth Tellers originated in "Europe or South America or something" as a chemical experiment for use in the war.
- Mrs Acklin, after seeing Nyssa's outfit, wonders if she could make money selling trousers to women.
- Nyssa speculates that the Dipthodat practice of building houses from secreted polymers similar to sugar could be the origin of some of the candy houses in Earth folklore.
- Three Dipthodat arrived on Earth in 1945 after a time-fracture accident. They were originally on course to arrive approximately one hundred years later.
- Slavery is illegal in Earth's solar system and "every neighbouring system between here and the Dipthodat homeworld," according to the Doctor.
- The Dipthodat are a xenophobic species who feed off of negative energy. They enslaved the Truth Tellers - actually known as Veritans - to help create that energy.
- The Doctor asks Jonny and Nettie to be his companions, but they decline.
Notes
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Continuity
- The Doctor says "brave heart" to Nettie.
- The Doctor references Adric's death (TV: Earthshock) and Tegan's departure (TV: Time-Flight).
External links
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