An Army of Shadows (short story)
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An Army of Shadows was a piece of prose fiction published in DWMS Winter 1991. It gave a fictional history of UNIT in the form of a Metropolitan report on the organisation, including several accounts of the reporter's own encounters with them.
Not content to present a litany of references to preexisting UNIT television stories (though it did contain its fair share of nods to Third Doctor and Fourth Doctor serials), the content of this in-universe biography provided a wealth of new information about UNIT, including a brief appearance by a new incarnation of the Doctor.
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
An Army of Shadows[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Yates Speaks Out[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Exposed: The Day of the Daleks[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Andrew Dylan
- Mary Gately
- Winifred Bambera
- Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
- Liz Shaw
- Professor Rachel Jensen
- Jo Jones
- Mike Yates
- Francis Gardner
- Kevin W. Parker
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
Individuals[[edit] | [edit source]]
- UNIT have been associated with eight or nine different "Doctor John Smiths" since its formation, including a man with a large, bushy beard.
- Jo Jones is standing as a parliamentary candidate for the Green Party.
Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The table of contents lists this story in three parts:
- An Army of Shadows
- Yates Speaks Out
- Exposed: The Day of the Daleks
- The titles are different on the actual pages:
- UNIT Exposed
- The Alien Cover-up
- Alien Invasion: The Day of the Daleks
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- UNIT currently operates in Maiden's Point. (TV: The Curse of Fenric)
- John Wakefield wrote a satirical book (TV: The Ambassadors of Death) called A Yeti in Tooting Bec. (TV: The Web of Fear)
- "Victor Magister" was apprehended in 1976. (COMIC: The Man in the Ion Mask)
- Kevin W. Parker provides a short inset on Sarah Jane Smith, (PROSE: The Roving Reporter) which mentions her Doctor series (PROSE: Moving On) and Fighting for Humankind. (PROSE: The Roving Reporter; TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?)
