The Last Dodo (novel)

The Last Dodo was the fourteenth novel in the BBC New Series Adventures series. It was written by Jacqueline Rayner and featured the Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones.

Publisher's summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Doctor and Martha go in search of a real live dodo, and are transported by the TARDIS to the mysterious Museum of the Last Ones. There in the Earth section, they discover every extinct creature up to the present day, all still alive and in Suspended animation.

Preservation is the museum's only job - collecting the last of every endangered species from all over the universe. But exhibits are going missing...

Can the Doctor solve the mystery before the museum's curator adds the last of the Time Lords to her collection?

Plot[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Dorothea
• Tenth Doctor
• Martha Jones
• Eve
• Tommy
• Rix
• Vanni
• Nadya
• Frank
• Celia
• Unique Lady
• Dougal Dunnock
• Mervin the Missing Link
• Agnes
• Millicent
• Albert
• Hr'oln

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Museum staff use MOTLO pendants as teleportation devices.
• Frank wears an iguanodon mask.

Planets[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Belepheron is mentioned.
• Kinjana was the planet on which Frank was born.

Species[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The Elipig, the Fruzin, the Fuffox, the Kivurd, the Vish, and the Dodo are all extinct species.

Galaxies[[edit] | [edit source]]

• The Kinrexian, M82, M83, M84 galaxies are all mentioned by the Doctor as galaxies Eve would have to wipe out before she would be close to destroying all life in the universe.

Food and Beverages[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Martha likes apples. She drinks tea and eats a raspberry doughnut in the MOTLO cafeteria. She eats a packet of sausage and marshmallow-flavour crisps in the cafeteria later.
• Kronkburgers are available on Reblais Beta.

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Martha Jones Blog Sunday, July 01, 2007 mentions these Dodos as "giant mental birds".
• The Doctor names the Dodo 'Dorothea'- a nod to his former companion Dodo Chaplet.
• This story was also released as an ebook available from the Amazon Kindle store.
• Martha says that she found medical dramas hilarious after she started work at the hospital. Freema Agyeman, who read the abridged audiobook which did not include this line, would later star in medical drama New Amsterdam.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

• In both this story and PROSE: The Doctor Trap a being is trying to capture the Doctor for his status as the last member of his species.
• When Eve claims the museum to be a conservation project, the Doctor compares it to a gooseberry conserve conserving gooseberries. He had a similar attitude towards Tryst's CET machine in TV: Nightmare of Eden.

Audiobook[[edit] | [edit source]]

• This novel was released as an audiobook on 2 July 2007 by BBC Audio and read by Freema Agyeman.
• This novel was released again as an audiobook by the RNIB and read by Tim Bruce, Peter Brooke and Charlie Norfolk. It was only available for the registered blind.

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  Audiobook cover

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

• Official The Last Dodo page at Penguin Books
• The Last Dodo at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: The Last Dodo at The Whoniverse
• The Cloister Library: The Last Dodo