Happy Endings

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

[edit] Publisher's Summary

'Doctor, this is my fiancé. Please don’t kill him.'

You are cordially invited to the wedding of Mr Jason Kane and Professor Bernice S. Summerfield, to be held in the village of Cheldon Bonniface in the year 2010.

If everything works out, that is. Between rows, fights and pre-emptive divorce proceedings, there may not be a wedding at all. Especially if there really is someone who wants to prevent it happening.

Everybody’s coming: from Ice Warriors to UNIT veterans, a flirtatious Ace to a suspicious Hamlet Macbeth -- and a very confused trio of Isley Brothers. The Doctor has to organize a buffet, Roz has a mystery to solve, and Chris has a girlfriend who used to be the Timewyrm.

[edit] Characters

• The Doctor

• Bernice Summerfield

• Jason Kane

• Roz Forrester

• Chris Cwej

• Ace

• Sherlock Holmes

• Goes searching for clues with Roz.

• John Watson

• Still fancies Benny.

• Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart

• Is now over 100 years old.
• Gets restored to youth by the Fortean Flicker.

• Doris Lethbridge-Stewart

• Mike Yates

• Is established as bisexual.

• John Benton

• Ishtar Hutchings

• Is 20 years old and still has some of her Timewyrm powers.
• Shags Chris Cwej.

• Reverend Annie Trelaw

• Mikhail Vladamir Popov

• Ruby Duvall

• Hamlet Macbeth

• Savaar

• Rhukk

• Provost-Major Beltempest

• Alexander Shuttleworth

• Jacquillian & Sanki

• Muldwych

• Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart

• Kitai

• A Pakhar.

• Isley Brothers

[edit] References

• Ernest Trelaw died some years ago with Saul the living church watching over him.

• The wedding is held in Cheldon Bonniface.

• The Travelers come and perform a ceremony with Bernice, Jason, the Doctor, an Ice Warrior and others...where they all end up in a field naked.

• There's a bar brawl between the visiting Ice Warriors and the UNIT people.

• Benny knows Irving Braxiatel, however he doesn't know her yet (probably).

• Ishtar uses her innate power of the Timewyrm.

• Hamlet Macbeth tortured the Doctor, but Benny forgives him.

• The Doctor thinks Sherlock Holmes is borderline psychotic.

• Romana II has an embassy for the Tharils on Gallifrey.

• Historically the Land of Fiction was part of the Matrix.

• Ace lost her virginity to Sabalom Glitz.

• Ace's second lover was Jan.

• The Fortean Flicker restores Lethbridge Stewart to youth and health.

• The Master stole the Loom of Rassilon's Mouse.

• The Charrl return the Doctor's TARDIS that he thought he lost in the alternate universe (and because he time rammed it).

[edit] Notes

• When the novel was first published you could send away to Virgin and get a poster of the front cover.

• The introduction is a poem written by Vanessa Bishop, while the end of the novel has words and sheet music entitled Opposites Attract.

• The inside back cover features a larger version of the front cover "wedding photo" illustration.

• Marked as the 50th release in the New Adventures line, this book introduced a new cover design as the series as Virgin prepared to transition it into the Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures line some months later.

[edit] Continuity

Happy Endings references more or less every New Adventure featuring Bernice Summerfield (and some more besides) to date and beyond.

Cat's Cradle: Warhead, Deceit, St Anthony's Fire, Warlock, Sleepy.

• Benny first met the Doctor in Love and War, this is also the novel the Travellers debuted in.

• Kadiatu first appeared in Transit.

• First Pilot Jinkwa gets stuck in a temporal suspension in The Highest Science gets released and dies.

• Benny met William Blake in The Pit.

• Benny met Mikhail Birthright, while Ace met the Charrl.

• Ruby Duvall met the Doctor in Iceberg.

• The original TARDIS that was thought to have been lost in Blood Heat is returned to the Doctor.

• Bernice met James Rafferty in The Dimension Riders.

• Hamlet Macbeth tortured the Doctor during The Left-Handed Hummingbird.

• Benny first met Irving Braxiatel in Theatre of War however the Irving that is at Benny's wedding reception hasn't met her yet.

• Benny met Sherlock Holmes and John Watson in All-Consuming Fire.

• Benny met Romana II in Blood Harvest.

• During Legacy and Theatre of War Benny met the Ice Warriors who attend her wedding.

• Benny met The Master in First Frontier.

• The Doctor undoes the mental block he but in the Brigadier's mind at the end of No Future.

• Benny still has a place in her heart for Guy de Carnac from Sanctuary.

• Joan from Human Nature turns up with a new cat, job and friends. The Doctor and Joan share a moment.

• Benny met Provost-Major Beltempest (and Roz and Chris) in Original Sin.

• Bernice met the crew of the Schirron Dream in Sky Pirates!.

• Bernice met Captain Lisa Derrane during Shakedown.

• Jason, The Master of the Land of Fiction met Benny (though not in any real friendly way) in Conundrum and Head Games.

• saRa!qava whom Benny met during The Also People has changed sex (to male) to appeal more to Benny.

• Benny was tortured (the Doctor tells the Brig about it) and lost her diary in Just War it is returned here by Bernice Dora.

• Benny met her husband Jason Kane in Death and Diplomacy.

• Chris learns Ice Warrior drinking songs which he then uses in GodEngine.

• Benny is 'given away' by the Doctor, but he takes her to find her father in Return of the Living Dad.

• Benny and Jason get divorced in Eternity Weeps.

• Romana encounters Ace again in Lungbarrow.

• Benny re-meets the Brigadier in The Dying Days, this meeting however is before Happy Endings, and despite the events in The Dying Days, no one is surprised by Ice Warriors.

• A scene from the party (when Bernice speaks with Irving Braxiatel) is re-enacted in BFBS: The Wake.

[edit] External Links

• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of Happy Endings
• Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide entry for Happy Endings
• A (very meta-fictional) Prelude to Happy Endings by Paul Cornell

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