The Blue Angel
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Fitz Kreiner, Compassion
Main enemy:	Daedalus
Main setting:	The Enclave
Key crew
Publisher:	BBC Books
Writer:	Paul Magrs, Jeremy Hoad
Cover by:	Black Sheep
Release details
Release number:	27
Release date:	September, 1999
Format:	Paperback Book, --- Pages
ISBN 0-563-55581-5
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The Blue Angel was the twenty-seventh BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures. It was the first novel to feature Compassion as a companion along side Fitz Kreiner and the Eighth Doctor. This novel also featured the second appearance in the EDAs of Iris Wildthyme.

Publisher's summary Edit

This is a story about Winter...

As the Doctor becomes involved in affairs aboard the Federation Starship Nepotist, his old friend Iris Wildthyme is rescuing old ladies who are being attacked by savage owls in a shopping mall.

And, in a cat’s cradle of interdimensional Corridors lies the Valcean City of Glass, whose King Dedalus awaits the return of his Angel son and broods over the oncoming war...

Plot Edit

to be added

Characters Edit

• The Doctor
• Fitz Kreiner
• Compassion
• Iris Wildthyme
• Sally
• King Daedalus
• Belinda
• Big Sue
• Canine
• Emba
• Garrett
• Icarus
• Maddy sharp
• Marn
• Nesta
• Robert B. Blandish
• Timon

References Edit

• Hyspero
• Galactic Federation

The Doctor Edit

• The Doctor may have a fat future incarnation who has a large moustache and dresses in a Napoleon hat, waistcoat and eye patch.

Individuals Edit

• Iris asks about Sam Jones.

Planets Edit

• The Fourth Doctor has visited Valcea.

Species Edit

• Daleks
• Cybermen

TARDISes Edit

• Iris pretends her TARDIS has a 'bookmark' feature to return to a certain point.

Notes Edit

• Each chapter title mirror's the first few words of the first sentence...giving chapter 25 the chapter title "Iris made Fitz come..."

• The Blue Angel's chapters contains instances of metafiction. The chapters which seem to take place within the Obverse reference fictional events as fiction and ask questions about the link between 'reality' and 'fiction' within its own fictional universe.

• There are also questions (and/or jokes) about Iris Wildthyme's status as a metafictional character.

• The Blue Angel has been adapted into a script (The Blue Angel Adapted by Piers Britton) for use in a university course.

Continuity Edit

• Iris Wildthyme previously encountered the Eighth Doctor in EDA: The Scarlet Empress, where Iris regenerated into her current form.
• EDA: Mad Dogs and Englishmen is the next appearance of Iris Wildthyme.
• The results of the Doctor connecting Compassion's receiver through the TARDIS fully come to pass in EDA: The Shadows of Avalon.
• The Doctor recalls kissing Grace Holloway in San Francisco. (DW: Doctor Who)
• Iris mentions meeting the Doctor and Sam Jones in New York. (ST: Femme Fatale)
• Daedalus knows that the Doctor once had the chance to avert the Daleks' creation. (DW: Genesis of the Daleks)

Timeline Edit

• This story takes place after EDA: Interference - Book Two (Hour of the Geek)
• This story takes place before EDA: The Taking of Planet 5

External links Edit

• Detailed synopsis of The Blue Angel at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• The Discontinuity Guide to: The Blue Angel at The Whoniverse