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{{Infobox Story | |range = Short Trips (series) | ||
| | |series in range = Short Trips: Past Tense | ||
|series= | |series number in range = 6 | ||
|doctor=Third Doctor | |number in series = 7 | ||
|companions=[[Jo Grant]] | |doctor = Third Doctor | ||
|setting=[[1960]] | |companions = [[Jo Grant|Jo]] | ||
|writer= | |setting = [[Aldermaston]] and [[London]], [[1960]] | ||
|anthology=''[[Short Trips | |writer = Dave Owen | ||
|prev=The Thief of Sherwood (short story) | |anthology = Short Trips: Past Tense | ||
|next=Graham Dilley Saves the World (short story) | |release date = 9 April 2004 | ||
|series = ''[[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]]'' | |||
|prev = The Thief of Sherwood (short story) | |||
|next = Graham Dilley Saves the World (short story) | |||
}} | }} | ||
'''''Come Friendly Bombs...''''' was the seventh short story in the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] anthology ''[[Short Trips: Past Tense]]''. It was written by [[Dave Owen]]. It featured the [[Third Doctor]] and [[Jo Grant]]. | '''''Come Friendly Bombs...''''' was the seventh short story in the [[Short Trips (series)|Short Trips]] anthology ''[[Short Trips: Past Tense]]''. It was written by [[Dave Owen]]. It featured the [[Third Doctor]] and [[Jo Grant]]. | ||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
''to | Now that the Doctor has control of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]], Jo can go wherever she chooses. She opts to attend the [[Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament]] march in [[1960]], having heard many stories about it from her father. | ||
The march starts in [[Aldermaston]], the site of the [[Atomic Weapons Research Establishment]], and will end in [[London]]. It will take them four days. | |||
Jo is taking this very seriously, and as they march, she worries that the Doctor will say or do something to embarrass her. She is delighted when he befriends [[Bernard Helmann]], a [[philosophy]] tutor who is hoping for some lively debate. She leaves the Doctor with his new friend. | |||
Jo meets [[Joan (Come Friendly Bombs)|Joan]], a veteran of these marches and the leader of one of the local groups. When they stop for the night at a [[church]], she meets the rest of Joan's people, including a [[France|Frenchman]] named [[Didier (Come Friendly Bombs)|Didier]]. They discuss the horrors of the [[hydrogen bomb]]. | |||
The next day, Jo seeks out the Doctor and tries to convince him to travel back in time to stop the invention of the bomb. He seems uncomfortable and returns his attention to Bernard. | |||
On the third day, Jo and the Doctor have a serious conversation. He helps her to see that it's not that the [[atomic bomb]] is good or bad; it's the use of it that is good or bad. Jo finally understands and has found peace with the answer. | |||
On the final day, the marchers reach London, all one hundred thousand of them. | |||
Seventeen years earlier, the Doctor slips into the office of [[Niels Bohr]]. He corrects some of Bohr's handwritten notes, ensuring that the atomic bomb project will not be a failure. | |||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
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* [[Bernard Helmann]] | * [[Bernard Helmann]] | ||
* [[Joan (Come Friendly Bombs)|Joan]] | * [[Joan (Come Friendly Bombs)|Joan]] | ||
* [[Didier]] | * [[Didier (Come Friendly Bombs)|Didier]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* Jo mentions the Doctor interfering in the histories of Sir [[Walter Raleigh]] and [[Christopher Columbus]]. | |||
* The [[Bobodix]] of [[Lonsee-23]] use nuclear devices to "caramelise their [[snadge pudding]]s". | |||
* [[Robert Oppenheimer]] was the inventor of the [[atomic bomb]]. | |||
* As possible destinations, Jo considers meeting her ancestors, visiting [[Mata Hari]], visiting the West, or watching a [[The Beatles|Beatles]] concert. | |||
* The Doctor acquired his [[the Doctor's cape|cape]] in [[Venice]]. | |||
* Joan lost her husband in [[the Blitz]]. | |||
* [[Charles de Gaulle]] is the leader of [[France]] in [[1960]]. | |||
* The Doctor altered [[Niels Bohr]]'s notes. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
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== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* Jo mentions {{Delgado}} and his [[Thunderbolt|nerve gas missile]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'') | * Jo mentions {{Delgado}} and his [[Thunderbolt|nerve gas missile]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Mind of Evil (TV story)|The Mind of Evil]]'') | ||
{{prose | * The [[First Doctor]]'s companions [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]] first became friends on the Aldermaston marches. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doctor's Tale (audio story)|The Doctor's Tale]]'') | ||
* The [[Ninth Doctor]] was also involved with the [[Manhattan Project]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Have You Seen This Man? (short story)|Have You Seen This Man?]]'') | |||
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