Divided Loyalties
Doctor:	Fifth Doctor
Companion(s):	Adric, Nyssa, Tegan
Main enemy:	The Celestial Toymaker
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Books
Writer:	Gary Russell
Release details
Release number:	26
Release date:	October 1999
Format:	Paperback Book, 252 Pages
ISBN 0-563-55578-5
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Divided Loyalties was the twenty-sixth BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel. It featured the Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka. This was the first PROSE novel to feature this line up of Doctor and companions and the first full length novel to do so since 1996's PROSE: Cold Fusion. This was the first, and as of 2012^[update], only full length novel to feature the Celestial Toymaker.

Publisher's summary Edit

There are some evils in the universe that need to be fought. And others that need redeeming...

Many years ago the First Doctor, a student at the Academy on Gallifrey, lost a friend to the mysterious and malevolent force known as the Celestial Toymaker. Now, in his fifth incarnation, the Doctor receives a telepathic call from his long-lost classmate, begging for help.

As he sets out to rescue his friend and exact revenge, the Doctor's companions become increasingly involved. Adric, determined to justify his place aboard the TARDIS, opts to face the Toymaker's game challenges while Nyssa, angered by the Doctor's actions, finds herself excluded by the people she thought were her friends. And what is the connection between the Toymaker and the planet Dymok, whose comatose inhabitants find a new saviour in the shape of Tegan Jovanka?

Plot Edit

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Characters Edit

• The Doctor
• Adric
• Tegan Jovanka
• Nyssa

References Edit

Foods and beverages Edit

• Adric doesn't know what pizza is.

Individuals Edit

• While attempting to turn Adric against the Doctor, the Toymaker creates a hallucination of a childhood friend of Adric, who reminds him about some of the things he's run into with the Doctor, including Great Vampires, Tharils, the Master, the Ferutu and Terileptils.

Species Edit

• Rassilon gave the Great Old Ones names. These included Hastur, Yog-Sothoth, Shub-Niggurath, Cthulhu, Melefescent, Tor-Gasukk, Lloigor, Gog and Magog, Nyarlathotep, Dagon and Raag, Nah and Rok.

Timeline Edit

• Tegan left Earth (the first time) on 28 February 1981.

Time Lords Edit

• The Doctor, while at the Academy on Gallifrey, was one of the Deca, an elite group that included Koschei, Ushas, Drax, the Monk and Magnus.
• In a flashback Vansell, Azmael and Borusa are also seen.
• Also in the flashback scene, the Doctor and Rallon meet up with Badger.

Notes Edit

• Lawrence Miles criticised Gary Russell, targeting this work in particular. He stated that it was the lowest rated Doctor Who novel of all time. ^[1]
• Each chapter in the book is the title of a song by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.

Continuity Edit

• The Celestial Toymaker last appeared in TV: The Celestial Toymaker.

Footnotes Edit

External links Edit

• Divided Loyalties at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: Divided Loyalties at The Whoniverse