Scrooge MacDuck/How The Monk Got His Habit (short story)
A novelisation of Scrooge MacDuck/How The Monk Got His Habit, an unproduced Twelfth Doctor TV story, was begun by Peter Harness at the same time as he wrote the episode itself. Both were originally scrapped.
However, in 2020, after Harness unveiled the original synopsis as part of the Doctor Who: Lockdown! watchalong of his story The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion, he was convinced by the positive fan reaction to release the opening scene of the novelisation that never was, in the form of a short story, similar to Russell T Davies's earlier release of the long-forgotten Doctor Who and the Time War as part of the same Lockdown! event.
Summary
Listening to some Earth music in his TARDIS's console room, a Renegade Time Lord currently operating under the alias of "Roger" is put off by the increasingly tinny nature of the sound of the sophisticated TARDIS hi-fi system. The course of action upon which he decides to rectify this and not ruin his evening baffles even the TARDIS herself.
Characters
References
- The Renegade Time Lord not yet known as the Monk is in his fifth incarnation.
- The Monk can order his TARDIS to perform various functions by typing instructions into the command program.
- The Monk has spent a sizable amount of time in Earth's 1970s, where he picked up a smoking habit, specifically favouring Tufty Shag pipe tobacco.
- "Woofer" is defined by the TARDIS as "a loudspeaker designed to reproduce low frequencies".
Notes
- In a callback to early Doctor Who novelisations, "TARDIS" is rendered as "Tardis", instead.
- Per the released outline for the TV story that never was, this scene was supposed to be a setup for the Monk listening to an old record of the song "Ra-Ra-Rasputin" and being inspired to go make the real Grigori Rasputin listen to it. This would have been his first act of time-meddling as a Renegade and also kicked off the plot of the TV story.
Continuity
- The Monk's TARDIS has a voice interface. (TV: Let's Kill Hitler)
