Something Borrowed (short story)

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Something Borrowed was the sixth Puffin eshort released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who. It featured the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown.

It was later published in the short stories anthologies 11 Doctors, 11 Stories, 12 Doctors, 12 Stories and Thirteen Doctors, 13 Stories.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

A wedding on the planet Koturia turns out to be a far more dangerous proposition than the Sixth Doctor and Peri ever expected. It marks the return of a formidable old foe whose genius matches the Doctor's. Can the Doctor outwit this villain, save Peri and stop the wedding in time?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

Places[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Koturia was modelled after Las Vegas, making it another New Vegas, and contained replicas of the Sahara and the Flamingo hotel and casinos.

Cultural references[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The person officiating at the wedding is dressed like Elvis Presley.
  • Koturian culture has taken the garish "Vegas wedding" concept and turned it into an event of major cultural significance.

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Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • The story is told in first person from Peri Brown's perspective. It is one of only a handful of officially published Doctor Who prose pieces to be told in this format.
  • This is the first story since the 2005 television revival of Doctor Who began in which the Rani has appeared in any media.
  • The Doctor states that the time period is about 200 years later than Peri's current time period of the 1980s.
  • An audiobook of the story was read by Sophie Aldred.
  • In the Slipcase Edition of this story, the silhouette of Third Doctor is accidentally used in place of the Sixth.

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