Shades of Piccolo (short story)
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Shades of Piccolo was a prose story published in DWM 80 written by Richard Landen. It was framed as an in-universe memorandum written by UNIT Commander in Chief James Neville-Thorndike, detailing the history of UNIT for the benefit of incoming Commander of the British Branch, Brigadier Charles Crichton.
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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- James Neville-Thorndike is the UNIT Commander in Chief, and writes this letter from UNIT HQ, Geneva, Switzerland.
- UNIT was founded on 17 April 1973.
- The London Event occurred in 1971.
- Professor Travers now resides in the United States of America.
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- This marks the first mention of Charles Crichton, who would debut in TV: The Five Doctors [+]Loading...["The Five Doctors (TV story)"] three months later. While he is addressed as "Brigadier" in this story, he would only be a Colonel when he eventually appears.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The format of a UNIT memorandum is inspired by similar letters written by Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart to the UNIT Commander in Chief in PROSE: The Trial of Doctor Who [+]Loading...["The Trial of Doctor Who (short story)"], which shares a very similar format.
