Rags (novel)
Rags was the thirty-ninth novel in the BBC Past Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Mick Lewis, released 5 March 2001 and featured the Third Doctor and Jo Grant.
This novel was the first of two Doctor Who novels written by Lewis, the second being Combat Rock in 2002. Both novels contain adult themes and a number of violent scenes.
Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Join the Unwashed... Join the Unforgiving. Join the Ragged, for we are the way.
A convoy of disenchanted ragamuffins is winding its way through the south-west of England. At its head, a filthy cattletruck containing four punk mummers... and something else. The band plays sudden, violent and hate-filled gigs along the way: Dartmoor, Glastonbury Tor, an old cemetery in Bristol. And every time they play, people die in unspeakable ways. Aristocrats, high-flying stockbrokers, police officers, all find themselves the victims of a Class War that is threatening to shatter society.
Within the dark cattletruck, a malevolent force is leading this ragged army on a Magical Mayhem Tour towards its final, secret destination. With Jo powerless to resist its seductive influence and the Doctor lost in a nightmarish void, can the band from hell be prevented from staging its final society-cracking performance, and thus spelling the end of the road for... everything?
Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Third Doctor
- Jo Grant
- Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
- Captain Mike Yates
- Doc
- Nick
- Sin Yen
- Jimmy
- Rod
- Charmagne Peters
- Emily Sawyer
- Kane Sawyer
- Simon King
- Cassandra King
- Derek Pole
- Jeremy Willis
- Corporal Hannah Robinson
- Princess Mary
- Ragman
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor is working on the TARDIS' dematerialisation circuit.
- I Just Can't Be Happy Today is a song by The Damned.
- The band have recently played at St Columb.
- The Rolling Stones and The Sex Pistols are mentioned.
- Malcolm McLaren helped assemble The Sex Pistols.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
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- This story is a critique of the often-accused Conservatism and deconstruction of the "coziness" (such that it glosses over the nature of the Doctor working with a genocidal military organisation) of the "UNIT era".[source needed]
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Jo refers to her one date with Mike Yates. (TV: The Curse of Peladon)
- Jo recalls her encounters with the Axons (TV: The Claws of Axos) and the Daleks and the Ogrons. (TV: Day of the Daleks)
- Yates refers to the Keller Machine. (TV: The Mind of Evil)
- The Ragman torments the Doctor with images of Susan Foreman and David Campbell. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth)
External links[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Rags at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Discontinuity Guide to: Rags at The Whoniverse
- The Cloister Library: Rags
- Interview: Mick Lewis
