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|image = The Showstoppers.jpg | |image = The Showstoppers.jpg | ||
|series = ''[[Lethbridge-Stewart (series)|Lethbridge-Stewart]]'' novels | |series = ''[[Lethbridge-Stewart (series)|Lethbridge-Stewart]]'' novels | ||
|number = 6 | |number = 6 | ||
|main character = [[Alistair Gordon | |main character = [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] | ||
|featuring = | |featuring = [[Harold Chorley|Chorley]] | ||
|enemy = [[Vilhelm Schädengeist]] | |enemy = [[Vilhelm Schädengeist]] | ||
|setting = [[August]] [[1969]] | |setting = [[August]] [[1969]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Jonathan Cooper | ||
|read by= | |read by= | ||
|editor = | |editor = | ||
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|designer = | |designer = | ||
|publisher = Candy Jar Books | |publisher = Candy Jar Books | ||
|release date = | |release date = 25 June 2016 | ||
|format = | |format = | ||
|isbn = | |isbn = ISBN 978-0-9935192-1-5 | ||
|prev= Moon Blink (novel) | |prev= Moon Blink (novel) | ||
|next= The Grandfather Infestation (novel) | |next= The Grandfather Infestation (novel) | ||
}}'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the sixth novel in the ''[[Lethbridge-Stewart (series)|Lethbridge-Stewart]]'' series, released by [[Candy Jar Books]] in [[2016 (releases)|2016]]. | }}{{prose stub}} | ||
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the sixth novel in the ''[[Lethbridge-Stewart (series)|Lethbridge-Stewart]]'' series, released by [[Candy Jar Books]] in [[2016 (releases)|2016]]. | |||
== Publisher's summary == | == Publisher's summary == | ||
: | :"Nuzzink in ze vorld can schtop me now!" | ||
There's a new TV show about to hit the airwaves, but [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart]] won't be tuning in. With the future of the [[Fifth Operational Corps]] in doubt he's got enough to worry about, but a plea from an old friend soon finds Lethbridge-Stewart and [[Anne Travers]] embroiled in a plot far more fantastical than anything on the small screen. | |||
Can charismatic star [[Aubrey Mondegreene]] really be in two places at the same time? What lengths will ailing entertainment mogul [[Billy Lovac]] go to in order to reach his audience? And is luckless journalist [[Harold Chorley]] really so desperate that | Can charismatic star [[Aubrey Mondegreene]] really be in two places at the same time? What lengths will ailing entertainment mogul [[Billy Lovac]] go to in order to reach his audience? And is luckless journalist [[Harold Chorley]] really so desperate that he'll buy into a story about Nazi conspiracies from a tramp wearing a tin foil hat? | ||
There's something very rotten at the heart of weekend television, and it isn't all due to shoddy scripts and bad special effects. | |||
== Plot == | == Plot == | ||
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* [[Samson Ware]] | * [[Samson Ware]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
''to be added'' | |||
== Notes == | |||
* The story was commissioned as a pastiche and blending of {{w|Dr Strangelove}} and ''Doctor Who'' (hence the introduction by the son of Peter George, writer of the book ''Strangelove'' was based on and the film's novelisation). [https://lethbridgestewartnovels.wordpress.com/2016/04/29/nothing-can-stop-me-now-new-lethbridge-stewart-cover-unveiled/ Nothing Can Stop Me Now! New Lethbridge-Stewart cover unveiled.] The two key links are Schädengeist's plan to get everyone to rush into his bunker for experimentation (Strangelove being obsessed with a bunker for breeding humans in) and Mondegreene's cover story of being a 'method actor' who plays multiple roles, a joke about {{w|Peter Sellers}}. | * The story was commissioned as a pastiche and blending of {{w|Dr Strangelove}} and ''Doctor Who'' (hence the introduction by the son of Peter George, writer of the book ''Strangelove'' was based on and the film's novelisation). [https://lethbridgestewartnovels.wordpress.com/2016/04/29/nothing-can-stop-me-now-new-lethbridge-stewart-cover-unveiled/ Nothing Can Stop Me Now! New Lethbridge-Stewart cover unveiled.] The two key links are Schädengeist's plan to get everyone to rush into his bunker for experimentation (Strangelove being obsessed with a bunker for breeding humans in) and Mondegreene's cover story of being a 'method actor' who plays multiple roles, a joke about {{w|Peter Sellers}}. | ||
* The book opens with a confused note from the Ancestral Earth Museum about this story being found in "the Great Northern Desert". This is a nod to the ''Dr Strangelove'' novelisation, in which aliens have written a similar introduction about documents found in the post-nuclear Desert. | * The book opens with a confused note from the Ancestral Earth Museum about this story being found in "the Great Northern Desert". This is a nod to the ''Dr Strangelove'' novelisation, in which aliens have written a similar introduction about documents found in the post-nuclear Desert. | ||
* The real-life near collapse of {{w|London Weekend Television}} forms the backdrop to the story. | * The real-life near collapse of {{w|London Weekend Television}} forms the backdrop to the story. | ||
* Travers and Evans are watching the second day of riots in the {{w|Battle of the Bogside}} in chapter 3. | * Travers and Evans are watching the second day of riots in the {{w|Battle of the Bogside}} in chapter 3. | ||
* They're later caught watching | * They're later caught watching {{wi|The Flower Pot Men}}. | ||
* Lovac refers to {{w|Lew Grade}} and ATV. | * Lovac refers to {{w|Lew Grade}} and ATV. | ||
* The TV show [[BLIMEY]] shows several parodies of contemporary ATV adventure serials and Pertwee-era ''Doctor Who'', including the tortured military acronym (ala UNIT). The villain's roar of "Nuzzink in ze vorld can schtop me now!" is a joke at the expense of ''[[The Underwater Menace (TV story)|The Underwater Menace]]''. | * The TV show [[BLIMEY]] shows several parodies of contemporary ATV adventure serials and Pertwee-era ''Doctor Who'', including the tortured military acronym (ala UNIT). The villain's roar of "Nuzzink in ze vorld can schtop me now!" is a joke at the expense of ''[[The Underwater Menace (TV story)|The Underwater Menace]]''. | ||
* When describing Mondegreene as a racist, Samson makes a joke off the title of | * When describing Mondegreene as a racist, Samson makes a joke off the title of {{wi|Guess Who's Coming to Dinner}}. | ||
* It turns out in the world of ''Doctor Who'', the [[CIA]] did have a mind control method that's blotted out by tin foil hats. | * It turns out in the world of ''Doctor Who'', the [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] did have a mind control method that's blotted out by tin foil hats. | ||
* Hannsen tells the colonel and Travers about {{w|Operation Paperclip}} and how Nazi scientists gathered by it were used in CIA mind control experiments. This is the first time Lethbridge-Stewart's heard of it and he's suspicious about how accurate it is. | * Hannsen tells the colonel and Travers about {{w|Operation Paperclip}} and how Nazi scientists gathered by it were used in CIA mind control experiments. This is the first time Lethbridge-Stewart's heard of it and he's suspicious about how accurate it is. | ||
== Errors == | == Errors == | ||
* Travers and Lethbridge-Stewart know about the use of Nazi scientists but are unfamiliar with Paperclip. In real life, Paperclip had been partly exposed in late [[1946]]. | * Travers and Lethbridge-Stewart know about the use of Nazi scientists but are unfamiliar with Paperclip. In real life, Paperclip had been partly exposed in late [[1946]]. | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* At the end of the story, Lethbridge-Stewart learns he's being promoted to brigadier so he can run HAVOC. | * At the end of the story, Lethbridge-Stewart learns he's being promoted to brigadier so he can run HAVOC. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion (TV story)|The Invasion]]'', et al) | ||
* Travers refers to [[Quark]] remains from ''[[Mutually Assured Domination (novel)|Mutually Assured Domination]]''. | * Travers refers to [[Quark]] remains from ''[[Mutually Assured Domination (novel)|Mutually Assured Domination]]''. | ||
* HAVOC still haven't completed their move to [[Dolerite Base]]. | * HAVOC still haven't completed their move to [[Dolerite Base]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Moon Blink (novel)|Moon Blink]]'') | ||
* [[Bill Filer]] is mentioned as a US intelligence contact. | * [[Bill Filer]] is mentioned as a US intelligence contact. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'') | ||
* Lethbridge-Stewart briefly thinks a "blowhard like [[Scobie]]" is going to be put in charge of HAVOC. | * Lethbridge-Stewart briefly thinks a "blowhard like [[Scobie]]" is going to be put in charge of HAVOC. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'') | ||
* The bunker doors have been constructed from [[dwarf star alloy]] the CIA has | * The bunker doors have been constructed from [[dwarf star alloy]] the CIA has. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Moon (TV story)|Day of the Moon]]'') | ||
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