The Nobility of Faith (short story)

	Fourth Doctor
	Vizier
	Jonathan Clements
	Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas
	5 December 2007
Short Trips short stories
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The Nobility of Faith was the seventh short story in the Short Trips anthology Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas. It was written by Jonathan Clements. It featured the Fourth Doctor.

Summary

Ala ud-Din has been imprisoned in a cave by his uncle, the Vizier, who plans to marry Ala ud-Din's love, Badroulbadour. When the TARDIS materialises in the cave, Ala ud-Din thinks the Doctor is a djinni and asks for three wishes. His wishes happen to coincide with what the Doctor needs to do anyway, so his efforts to convince Ala ud-Din that he isn't a djinni fail.

The Doctor is searching for an alien, who happens to be the Vizier. He defeats the alien, sending him back where he belongs, and Ala ud-Din is free to marry Badroulbadour.

Characters

• Fourth Doctor
• Ala ud-Din
• Vizier
• Widow Tuan
• Badroulbadour

Worldbuilding

• The Doctor and Ala ud-Din both want to get to Samarkand.
• Ala ud-Din has never seen buttons.

Notes

• The story is a brief retelling of the tale of Aladdin, with the Doctor mistaken for the genie ("djinni").
• A few exchanges of dialogue are humourously evocative of a pantomime.

Continuity

to be added