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|series = [[Virgin Decalogs|Virgin ''Decalogs'']] | |||
|doctor = Seventh Doctor | |||
|series= [[Virgin Decalogs]] | |companions = [[Bernice Summerfield]] | ||
|doctor=Seventh Doctor | |setting = [[New Alexandria]] [[New Alexandria Library|Library]], [[2668]] | ||
|companions=[[Bernice Summerfield]] | |writer = Steven Moffat | ||
| | |publisher = Virgin Books | ||
|writer= | |anthology = Decalog 3: Consequences | ||
|anthology= | |release date = 18 July 1996 | ||
|prev=Fegovy (short story) | |prev = Fegovy (short story) | ||
|next=Timevault (short story) | |next = Timevault (short story) | ||
}}{{prose stub}} | |||
'''''Continuity Errors''''' | '''''Continuity Errors''''' was the eighth story in the anthology ''[[Decalog 3: Consequences]]''. It was written by [[Steven Moffat]] (his first professional ''Doctor Who'' work). It featured the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Bernice Summerfield]]. | ||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
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* [[Seventh Doctor]] | * [[Seventh Doctor]] | ||
* [[Bernice Summerfield]] | * [[Bernice Summerfield]] | ||
* [[Andrea Talwinning]] | |||
* [[Walter (Continuity Errors)|Walter]] | |||
* [[Fred Talwinning]] | |||
* [[Gwendoline Talwinning]] | |||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* [[Andrea Talwinning]] was born in [[2625]]. | * [[Andrea Talwinning]] was born in [[2625]]. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* This was [[Steven Moffat]]'s first professionally published ''[[Doctor Who]]''-related storyline. He would go on to pen the | * This was [[Steven Moffat]]'s first professionally published ''[[Doctor Who]]''-related storyline. He would go on to pen the 1999 spoof ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]'' before becoming a multi-Hugo Award-winning scriptwriter for the revived series from 2005 to 2008, and then the show's executive producer commencing in 2009. | ||
* Moffat | * Moffat reused the idea of the Doctor travelling back in time to alter a person's perception of him in the television story ''[[A Christmas Carol (TV story)|A Christmas Carol]]''. | ||
* The idea of a planet-sized library was later reused in the television story ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'', while the description of the Doctor as a [[Complex Space-Time Event]] was echoed by his self-identification as a [[complicated space-time event]] in ''[[Flesh and Stone (TV story)|Flesh and Stone]]''. [[Arthur Candy|Professor Candy]] himself would ultimately get a televised cameo in the final scene of ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]''. | |||
* Moffat originally considered calling this story both ''History MD'' and ''The Curse Of Fatal Death'', the latter of which he [[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|later used]].<ref>[https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.drwho/c/RePiBUprogQ/m/jTykpuPqEJMJ rec.arts comment]</ref> | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* Professor [[Arthur Candy|Candy]] is mentioned in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Oh No It Isn't! (novel)|Oh No It Isn't!]]'', and appears in [[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]''. | * Professor [[Arthur Candy|Candy]] is mentioned in [[PROSE]]: ''[[Oh No It Isn't! (novel)|Oh No It Isn't!]]'', and appears in [[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler]]''. | ||
* The Library was inspired by the events of [[PROSE]]: ''[[Fegovy (short story)|Fegovy]]''. | |||
== External links == | == External links == | ||
* [http://whoisthedoctor.co.uk/stories/ce.html Decalog 3: Consequences - '''Continuity Errors'''] | * [http://whoisthedoctor.co.uk/stories/ce.html Decalog 3: Consequences - '''Continuity Errors'''] | ||
{{ | == Footnotes == | ||
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[[Category:Bernice Summerfield sources]] | |||
[[Category:Seventh Doctor short stories]] | [[Category:Seventh Doctor short stories]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Decalog 3: Consequences short stories]] | ||
[[Category:Bernice Summerfield short stories]] | [[Category:Bernice Summerfield short stories]] | ||
[[Category: | [[Category:Stories set in 2668]] | ||
