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We had a great email to the site from Luke... he wrote...

 guys! You site is great! And the project sounds brill. I was just going to ask, out of interest,you story is set part way through the second doctor's regeneration right? But could you tell me how you would fit the new second doctor novilisation world game in to the setup. Maintaining continuity.

Here's the blurb: The Doctor has been captured and put on trial by his own people - accused of their greatest crime: interfering with the affairs of other peoples and planets. He is sentenced to exile on Earth. That much is history. But now the truth can be told - the Doctor did not go straight into exile. First the Time Lords have a task for him. From the trenches of the Great War to the terrors of the French Revolution, the Doctor finds himself on a mission he does not want with a companion he does not like, his life threatened at every turn. Will the Doctor survive to serve his sentence? Or will this adventure prove to be his Waterloo?

Ashley tries to reply! : Well, it's a poser and it's been on our radar since Terrance Dicks released this story! (it was him wasn't it?) Total credit to the man - the man behind much of the "classic series" tales. And it's fair to say that the unseen-by-television transition between the 2nd and 3rd Doctors is a very tempting story to tell. We're not surprised in the slightest that we're not alone in telling a version of the events. 

Maybe it also depends on how you fit the novels into the canon of Dr Who. Certainly they're more "canon" than a mere amateur video tale, but conversely we did use Jon Pertwee in the role of the 3rd Doctor, so does that make it real? If for the sake of argument you say ours is a real story to be fit into the chronology then the moment that the 2nd Doctor is extracted from his timestream would be crucial - it could happen just at the moment Terrance Dicks' tale is about to convert him to the 3rd Doctor. To be fair I (Ashley) haven't read this story so I really must do so asap...(In Devious he is extracted during the point where he chooses his new face in front of the 3 judges)

Also we could always use the "alternate universe" strategy - doesn't the new series have an alternate earth for the forthcoming Cybermen story...??? hmm not sure.

So unless anyone can place exactly the point at which Devious branches out and gives the mantle of Doctor to an interim, a half-finished model with sketchy memories put in place to perform a specific task for Auriga we'll have to assume ours is an alternative tale.

In fact at one stage Auriga actually dangles the prospect of reality to this Interim Doctor. He says in episode 5 that if he can dig Auriga out of his mess then he can get to be the "real Doctor". (Although that has also been seen as a recognition in the script of the "fake" nature of the whole thing!)

An alternative story, told from the present time about an episode in the Doctor's past. And like a lot of stories the details can become vague. Did it really happen? Were you there?

As we always say, it's just a bit of fun! 


navigation - you are in: news > Continuity

We had a great email to the site from Luke... he wrote...

 guys! You site is great! And the project sounds brill. I was just going to ask, out of interest,you story is set part way through the second doctor's regeneration right? But could you tell me how you would fit the new second doctor novilisation world game in to the setup. Maintaining continuity.

Here's the blurb: The Doctor has been captured and put on trial by his own people - accused of their greatest crime: interfering with the affairs of other peoples and planets. He is sentenced to exile on Earth. That much is history. But now the truth can be told - the Doctor did not go straight into exile. First the Time Lords have a task for him. From the trenches of the Great War to the terrors of the French Revolution, the Doctor finds himself on a mission he does not want with a companion he does not like, his life threatened at every turn. Will the Doctor survive to serve his sentence? Or will this adventure prove to be his Waterloo?

Ashley tries to reply! : Well, it's a poser and it's been on our radar since Terrance Dicks released this story! (it was him wasn't it?) Total credit to the man - the man behind much of the "classic series" tales. And it's fair to say that the unseen-by-television transition between the 2nd and 3rd Doctors is a very tempting story to tell. We're not surprised in the slightest that we're not alone in telling a version of the events. 

Maybe it also depends on how you fit the novels into the canon of Dr Who. Certainly they're more "canon" than a mere amateur video tale, but conversely we did use Jon Pertwee in the role of the 3rd Doctor, so does that make it real? If for the sake of argument you say ours is a real story to be fit into the chronology then the moment that the 2nd Doctor is extracted from his timestream would be crucial - it could happen just at the moment Terrance Dicks' tale is about to convert him to the 3rd Doctor. To be fair I (Ashley) haven't read this story so I really must do so asap...(In Devious he is extracted during the point where he chooses his new face in front of the 3 judges)

Also we could always use the "alternate universe" strategy - doesn't the new series have an alternate earth for the forthcoming Cybermen story...??? hmm not sure.

So unless anyone can place exactly the point at which Devious branches out and gives the mantle of Doctor to an interim, a half-finished model with sketchy memories put in place to perform a specific task for Auriga we'll have to assume ours is an alternative tale.

In fact at one stage Auriga actually dangles the prospect of reality to this Interim Doctor. He says in episode 5 that if he can dig Auriga out of his mess then he can get to be the "real Doctor". (Although that has also been seen as a recognition in the script of the "fake" nature of the whole thing!)

An alternative story, told from the present time about an episode in the Doctor's past. And like a lot of stories the details can become vague. Did it really happen? Were you there?

As we always say, it's just a bit of fun!