Downtime (novel)

From TARDIS Index File, the free Doctor Who reference.

Downtime by Marc Platt is a novelisation of the independent film Downtime, released under the Virgin Missing Adventures line. It is one of two novelisations published under the line (the other being The Ghosts of N-Space).

Contents 1 Publisher's Summary 2 Characters 3 References 4 Notes 5 Continuity 6 Timeline 7 External Links

[edit] Publisher's Summary

Across the room, in a high-backed leather chair, Victoria saw the old man from the reading room. His face was curiously young for someone so long dead.

In 1966 the Doctor defeated the Great Intelligence, but he knew it wasn’t a final victory. And his companion Victoria, whose mind had once hosted the evil entity, might still fall prey to its power.

Now it seems that his fears are justified. In a Tibetan monastery, the monks display unearthly powers - UNIT are investigating. A new university has opened in London with a secret agenda that may threaten the whole country. Victoria, abandoned in an age very different from her own, and haunted by visions of a father she refuses to believe is dead, is slipping into despair and madness. But are the visions which plague her really hallucinations? Or has the Great Intelligence once again made Earth its target for invasion?

[edit] Characters

• Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
• Victoria Waterfield
• Sarah Jane Smith

[edit] References

• Both the third incarnation and fourth incarnations of the Doctor visited Victoria offering to take her travelling with them.

[edit] Notes

• Only Virgin Missing Adventures release in which The Doctor does not appear prominently.

[edit] Continuity

• This continues events of DW: The Web of Fear.

[edit] Timeline

• Downtime occurs after: DW: Fury from the Deep
• Downtime occurs before: DW: Battlefield

[edit] External Links

• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of Downtime
• The Whoniverse - The Discontinuity Guide to: Downtime