Return of the Living Dad

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

[edit] Publisher's Summary

‘It’s me, daddy. It’s Bernice.’

Bernice Summerfield was seven years old when her father disappeared. They said he turned and ran from the Daleks in battle. They said he was a coward.

They were wrong.

For years Benny has searched for her father. Now a clue snatches her from her honeymoon, back to the TARDIS, and on to England in the year 1983. There she at last discovers Admiral Isaac Summerfield, leading a motley crew of aliens, psychics and fanboys. Their mission: to save extra-terrestrials stranded on Earth.

But what is Benny’s father doing five hundred years in his own past? And why has he been waiting for the Doctor to arrive? Can Benny really trust the man she’s been looking for all her life?

[edit] Characters

• The Doctor
  • Gets stabbed in the shoulder.
  • Gets his head smashed into a wall twice, then thrown in a freezing river and then suffers from hypothermia.

• Chris Cwej
  • Has no appendix.

• Roz Forrester

• Bernice Summerfield
  • Is now about 35.
  • Is studying to get a real PhD.
  • Looks like her mother Claire.

• Jason Kane
  • Has a gold tooth.
  • Has been jealous of Benny's long fascination with her father.

• Admiral Issac Douglas Summerfield
  • Has been on Earth since 1963.
  • He also keeps a journal (like Benny).
  • He's met Ace twice.

• Graeme the Spatula
  • Can flip pancakes on his own.

• Joel Mintz

• Tony the Tzun

• Death
  • Was supposedly born when the gods were drinking.

[edit] References

• Issac's group is based in Little Caldwell.

• Navarinos have time travel ability, though they only use it for fun so the Time Lords don't really care.

• The Doctor got access to the destructor codes during his involvement with the Think Tank incident.

• Graeme is spatula made from a left over bit of Auton.

• Jasper and Stewart are the names of two teddy bears that the Doctor and companions won at the Sprung Festival on the planet Vashig.

[edit] Notes

• First meeting of Bernice and her father.
• This is Kate Orman's fourth novel in a row to feature pyramids.

[edit] Continuity

• Delta and the Bannermen first debuted the Navarinos.
• The Doctor and Ace were dublicated during the events of Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark
• First Frontier debuted the Tzun.
• The Doctor goes back to the UNIT safehouse where he was tortured in The Left-Handed Hummingbird.
• A Vardan had been trapped in the phone system since their attempted invasion in No Future.
• Joel Mintz returns in The Room With No Doors.

[edit] External Links

• The Doctor Who Reference Guide detailed synopsis of Return of the Living Dad
• Whoniverse Discontinuity Guide entry for Return of the Living Dad

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