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Mad Dogs and Englishmen

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Copyright © Paul Magrs 2002
2002
Science Fiction; Television Tie-In
2002
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 Doctor Who - 8th Doctor*
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Doctor Who - 8th Doctor*     See series as if on a bookshelf
A series of books featuring the 8th Doctor from the once popular British television show Doctor Who.

1) Read it The Eight Doctors
2) Read it Vampire Science
3) Read it The Bodysnatchers
4) Read it Genocide
5) Read it War of the Daleks
6) Read it Alien Bodies
7) Read it Kursaal
8) Read it Option Lock
9) Read it Longest Day
10) Read it Legacy of the Daleks
11) Read it Dreamstone Moon
12) Read it Seeing I
13) Read it Placebo Effect
14) Read it Vanderdeken's Children
15) Read it The Scarlet Empress
16) Read it The Janus Conjunction
17) Read it Beltempest
18) Read it The Face-Eater
19) Read it The Taint
20) Read it Demontage
21) Read it Revolution Man
22) Read it Dominion
23) Read it Unnatural History
24) Read it Autumn Mist
25) Read it Interference Book One: Shock Tactic
26) Read it Interference Book Two: The Hour of the Geek
27) Read it The Blue Angel
28) Read it The Taking of Planet 5
29) Read it Frontier Worlds
30) Read it Parallel 59
31) Read it Shadows of Avalon
32) Read it The Fall of Yquatine
33) Read it Coldheart
34) Read it The Space Age
35) Read it The Banquo Legacy
36) Read it The Ancestor Cell
37) Read it The Burning
38) Read it Casualties of War
39) Read it The Turing Test
40) Read it Endgame
41) Read it Father Time
42) Read it Escape Velocity
43) Read it Earthworld
44) Read it Vanishing Point
45) Read it Eater of Wasps
46) Read it The Year of Intelligent Tigers
47) Read it The Slow Empire
48) Read it Dark Progeny
49) Read it City of the Dead
50) Read it Grimm Reality
51) Read it The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
52) Read it Mad Dogs and Englishmen
53) Read it Hope
54) Read it Anachrophobia
55) Read it Trading Futures
56) Read it The Book of the Still
57) Read it The Crooked World
58) Read it History 101
59) Read it Camera Obscura
60) Read it Time Zero
61) Read it The Infinity Race
62) Read it The Domino Effect
63) Read it Reckless Engineering
64) Read it The Last Resort
65) Read it Timeless
66) Read it Emotional Chemistry
67) Read it Sometime Never...
68) Read it Halflife
69) Read it The Tomorrow Windows
70) Read it The Sleep of Reason
71) Read it The Deadstone Memorial
72) Read it To the Slaughter
73) Read it The Gallifrey Chronicles
Reginald Tyler began writing the book that would become The True History of Planets in 1917, in bed, whilst on leave from soldiering in France.
May contain spoilers
He added, 'Good evening,' and slammed his front door in their astonished faces.
Comments may contain spoilers


TARDIS: And with that, the TARDIS materialised, rather noisily, in the exact spot that their coffee table had been occupying.
   There was a horrible crunch of wickerwork and a tinkle of smoked glass and crockery, still audible beneath the elephantine, transdimensional hullaballoo set up by the arrival of the Police Box.
Extract (may contain spoilers)
As good as her word, Flossie the head cook had led them straight to the unguarded TARDIS.  It had been moved to a loading bay at the back of the hotel.

The Doctor was appalled at how easy it was to recover his ship.

'There's absolutely no one preventing us!' he burst, fiddling with his key.  'It's absurd!  Anyone could be running around this hotel, causing all sorts of havoc.  They're very slack'

'just open the door,' said Anji.  'Let's not tempt fate.'

'No wonder they've had murders,' said the Doctor darkly as he led the way aboard their craft.  'Just about anyone could walk into the hotel, any time.'

Then they were standing in the cool and airy expanse of the console room and Anji drew in a breath of relief.  Home again.

The Doctor was hurrying over to the wooden six-sided control console, holding Reginald Tyler's brick-thick paperback open before him.  Already he was lost to his companions, intent upon his next mysterious task.

With a discreet hum, the doors shut behind them, sealing them into the safe pocket dimension of the TARDIS interior.

'Ah,' said Fitz, as he started to follow the Doctor across the flagstoned floor.  'Speaking of security arrangements and uninvited guests...'

Anji turned then, to see Flossie standing behind her, wringing her stained apron in her big hands.

'My, oh my...' said Flossie.

'Um, Doctor,' Fitz said, tapping him gently on the shoulder.

The Doctor was peering very closely at first the bewildering control console and then the small print of Tyler's book.  Quickly he broke out of his spell and whirled around to see the head cook and give her a welcoming grin.

'Don't just stand there,' he said warnmly.  'Come on in.'

Flossie stepped uncertainly around the thick Persian carpet, and the Doctor motioned Anji to take her and sit her down in the kitchen area.  Make her a cup of tea.  Set her on to baking scones or something, to keep her busy and to take away the psychological sting of stepping aboard a vast, transdimensional craft.

'We can't keep her,' Fitz moaned.

The Doctor shrugged carelessly.  'Never mind.  She's obviously meant to accompany us, the way she just followed us in. She must have some purpose in the grand scheme...'

Fitz's eyebrows went up.  'You don't really believe in stuff like that!'

'No,' smiled the Doctor.  'I'm just covering up for leaving the front door open behind us.  But I'm sure she's quite harmless.  And she wasn't very happy in that gloomy hotel, was she?  She might end up somewhere better now.'

'If she's coming along with us,' sighed Fitz, 'she might well end up dead.'

But the Doctor had already dismissed the apparent problem from his mind.  He was squinting at The True History of Planets again.  In particular, the footnotes to Book Two, Chapter Eighty-Seven.

He read the string of co-ordinates aloud and let Fitz tap them into the navigational computer.  He knew Fitz was happiest with something to do.  'I know you like to be involved,' he told him.

Fitz scowled.  'You really think you can put these into the TARDIS's system and we'll end up there?'

Characters
Doctor 8 - (Doctor)
Fitz Kreiner - (Companion)
Anji Kapoor - (Companion)

 

Added: 01-Jan-2001
Last Updated: 24-Jan-2025

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 07-Jan-2002
BBC Books
Mass Market Paperback
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Date Issued:
07-Jan-2002
Format:
Mass Market Paperback
Cover Price:
£5.99
Pages*:
249
Read:
Once
Internal ID:
715
Publisher:
ISBN:
0-563-53845-7
ISBN-13:
978-0-563-53845-5
Printing:
1
Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Credits:
Blacksheep  - Cover Artist
THIS IS THE 100TH NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING BBC WORLDWIDE
DOCTOR WHO SERIES

'Grrrrr.'

The greatest book ever written.

Professor Reginald Tyler's The True History of Planets was a twentieth century classic; an epic of dwarves and swords and wizardry.  And definitely no poodles.  Or at least there weren't when the Doctor read it.

Now it tells the true tale of how the Queen of the poodles was overthrown; it's been made into a hit movie, and it's going to cause a bloodbath on the Dogworld - unless the Doctor, Fitz and Anji (and assorted friends) can sort it all out.

The Doctor infiltrates the Smudgelings, Tyler's elite Cambridge writing set of the early twentieth century; Fitz falls for flamboyant torch singer Brenda Soobie in sixties Las Vegas, and Anji experiences some very special effects in seventies Hollywood.  Their intention is to prevent the movie from ever being made.  But there is a shadowy figure present in all three time zones who is just as determined to see it completed... so the poodle revolution can begin.

This is another in the series of original advtures for the Eighth Doctor.
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First published 2002
First printing assumed
USA: $6.95
Canada: $8.99

Original series broadcast on the BBC Format © BBC 1963
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BBC Books
Mass Market Paperback

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