Doctor Who: Warlock
by Andrew Cartmel
- UK
- Paperback
- Doctor Who Books
- January 1995
Back Cover Blurb
It was the ruthless pack instinct of the primeval forest. But warlock magnified it a thousand times and made it lethal.
There's a strange new drug on the street. It's called warlock and some people say it's the creation of the devil. Others see it as the gateway to enlightenment.
Benny is working with an undercover cop, trying to track down its source. Ace is trapped in an horrific animal experimentation laboratory.
But only the Doctor has begun to guess the truth about warlock.
This disturbing sequel to Warhead moves beyond cyberpunk into a realm where reality is a question of brain chemistry and heaven or hell comes in the shape of a pill.
It was the ruthless pack instinct of the primeval forest. But warlock magnified it a thousand times and made it lethal.
There's a strange new drug on the street. It's called warlock and some people say it's the creation of the devil. Others see it as the gateway to enlightenment.
Benny is working with an undercover cop, trying to track down its source. Ace is trapped in an horrific animal experimentation laboratory.
But only the Doctor has begun to guess the truth about warlock.
This disturbing sequel to Warhead moves beyond cyberpunk into a realm where reality is a question of brain chemistry and heaven or hell comes in the shape of a pill.
Regular Characters
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield / Ace
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield / Ace
Notes
- Warlock was Andrew Cartmel's second book for the range of New Adventures, and the middle part in what would become known as the "War Trilogy". The first book was 1992's Cat's Cradle: Warhead, with the conclusion, Warchild, being published in February 1996. All three books are linked.
- A two-page prelude to Warlock, written by Andrew cartmel, was published in Issue 221 (18/01/95) of Doctor Who Magazine.
Doctor Who: Set Piece
by Kate Orman
- UK
- Paperback
- Doctor Who Books
- February 1995
Back Cover Blurb
Dead. He was dead. How the hell was she supposed to do CPR on a man with two hearts?
There's a rip in the fabric of space and time. Passenger ships are disappearing from the interstellar traffic lines. In at attempt to find out who's behind the disappearances, the Doctor and Ace allow themselves to be captured. But when Bernice's rescue attempt goes terribly wrong, the time travellers find themseves scattered throughout history.
Ace, stranded in ancient Egypt, struggles to survive in an environment as alien as a distant planet: the Earth 3,000 years before she was born. She manages to find employment as a nobleman's bodyguard. And then she comes face to face with the metal horrors which have pursued her through time — the creatures she saw kill the Doctor.
Dead. He was dead. How the hell was she supposed to do CPR on a man with two hearts?
There's a rip in the fabric of space and time. Passenger ships are disappearing from the interstellar traffic lines. In at attempt to find out who's behind the disappearances, the Doctor and Ace allow themselves to be captured. But when Bernice's rescue attempt goes terribly wrong, the time travellers find themseves scattered throughout history.
Ace, stranded in ancient Egypt, struggles to survive in an environment as alien as a distant planet: the Earth 3,000 years before she was born. She manages to find employment as a nobleman's bodyguard. And then she comes face to face with the metal horrors which have pursued her through time — the creatures she saw kill the Doctor.
Regular Characters
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield / Ace
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield / Ace
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart
Notes
- Set Piece was Kate Orman's second book for the New Adventures, and is most notable for writting Ace out of the series for the second and final time. Despite this, she would return on several occasions, including Head Games, for Benny's wedding to Jason Kane in Happy Endings and in the final Seventh Doctor novel, Lungbarrow.
- In a link to Ben Aaronovitch's Transit, Set Piece sees the return of Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart. She would return to the New Adventures in Aaronovitch's The Also People and for a fourth and final time in Happy Endings.
- A two-page prelude to Set Piece, written by Kate Orman, was published in Issue 222 (15/02/95) of Doctor Who Magazine.
Doctor Who: Infinite Requiem
by Daniel Blythe
- UK
- Paperback
- Doctor Who Books
- March 1995
Back Cover Blurb
'The whole structure of the cosmos could be at stake — and the focus of the danger is here on Earth.'
Bernice sighed. 'Charity begins at home.'
Kelzen, a chaotic force in the mind of an unborn twentieth-century earthling. Jirenal, intent on conquering a future society of dreamers and telepaths. Shanstra, evil incarnate — the conflicts of Gadrell Major are her sport and the tragedies of humans are her entertainment.
They are Sensopaths, their minds attuned to the collective unconscious, their power unleashed like a wild animal into the physical world. One by one, the TARDIS has located them. While Bernice faces the life-and-death struggle of a colonial war, with only a hologram of the Doctor to help her, the Doctor himself must confront the all-powerful trinity.
'The whole structure of the cosmos could be at stake — and the focus of the danger is here on Earth.'
Bernice sighed. 'Charity begins at home.'
Kelzen, a chaotic force in the mind of an unborn twentieth-century earthling. Jirenal, intent on conquering a future society of dreamers and telepaths. Shanstra, evil incarnate — the conflicts of Gadrell Major are her sport and the tragedies of humans are her entertainment.
They are Sensopaths, their minds attuned to the collective unconscious, their power unleashed like a wild animal into the physical world. One by one, the TARDIS has located them. While Bernice faces the life-and-death struggle of a colonial war, with only a hologram of the Doctor to help her, the Doctor himself must confront the all-powerful trinity.
Regular Characters
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield
Notes
- Infinite Requiem was Daniel Blythe's second and final Doctor Who novel.
- A two-page prelude to Infinite Requiem, written by Daniel Blythe, was published in Issue 223 (15/03/95) of Doctor Who Magazine.
Doctor Who: Sanctuary
by David A McIntee
- UK
- Paperback
- Doctor Who Books
- April 1995
Back Cover Blurb
The Doctor pointed at Bernice. 'The wench's mind is addled,' he said. Arrest her before she spreads her ungodly heresy.'
The TARDIS is caught in the gravitational field of a dark star. The Doctor and Bernice are forced to evacuate, and find themselves stranded in medieval France — a brutal time of crusades and wars of succession.
As the Albigensian crusade draws to its bloody conclusion, men inflict savage brutalities on each other in the name of religion. And the TARDIS crew find their lives intertwined with warring Templars, crusaders and heretics. While the Doctor begins a murder investigation in a beseiged fortress, Bernice finds herself drawn to an embittered mercenary who has made the heretics' fight his own. And they both realise that to leave history unchanged they may have to sacrifice far more than their lives.
The Doctor pointed at Bernice. 'The wench's mind is addled,' he said. Arrest her before she spreads her ungodly heresy.'
The TARDIS is caught in the gravitational field of a dark star. The Doctor and Bernice are forced to evacuate, and find themselves stranded in medieval France — a brutal time of crusades and wars of succession.
As the Albigensian crusade draws to its bloody conclusion, men inflict savage brutalities on each other in the name of religion. And the TARDIS crew find their lives intertwined with warring Templars, crusaders and heretics. While the Doctor begins a murder investigation in a beseiged fortress, Bernice finds herself drawn to an embittered mercenary who has made the heretics' fight his own. And they both realise that to leave history unchanged they may have to sacrifice far more than their lives.
Regular Characters
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield
Notes
- Sanctuary was David A McIntee's third novel for the New Adventures.
- A two-page prelude to Sanctuary, written by David A McIntee, was published in Issue 225 (10/05/95) of Doctor Who Magazine.
Doctor Who: Human Nature
by Paul Cornell
- UK
- Paperback
- Doctor Who Books
- May 1995
Back Cover Blurb
'Who's going to save us this time?'
April, 1914. The inhabitants of the little Norfolk town of Farringham are enjoying an early summer, unaware that war is on the way. Amonst them is Dr John Smith, a short, middle-aged history teacher from Aberdeen. He's having a hard time with his new post as house master at Hulton Academy for Boys, a school dedicated to producing military officers.
Bernice Summerfield is enjoying her holiday in the town, getting over the terrible events that befell her in France. But then she meets a future Doctor, and things start to get dangerous very quickly. With the Doctor she knows gone, and only a suffragette and an elderly rake for company, can Benny fight off a vicious alien attack? And will Dr Smith be able to save the day?
'Who's going to save us this time?'
April, 1914. The inhabitants of the little Norfolk town of Farringham are enjoying an early summer, unaware that war is on the way. Amonst them is Dr John Smith, a short, middle-aged history teacher from Aberdeen. He's having a hard time with his new post as house master at Hulton Academy for Boys, a school dedicated to producing military officers.
Bernice Summerfield is enjoying her holiday in the town, getting over the terrible events that befell her in France. But then she meets a future Doctor, and things start to get dangerous very quickly. With the Doctor she knows gone, and only a suffragette and an elderly rake for company, can Benny fight off a vicious alien attack? And will Dr Smith be able to save the day?
Regular Characters
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield
Notes
- Human Nature was Paul Cornell's fourth book for the New Adventures, and arguably one of the most important of the entire range — not least because, in 2007, it was actually adapted by Cornell as a two-part story for the television series.
Unsurprisingly, the Seventh Doctor and Bernice became the Tenth Doctor and Martha, with the Aubertides from the book being replaced by the Family of Blood. Human Nature was broadcast on BBC One on 26/05/07 with the concluding episode, The Family of Blood, being shown a week later. - A two-page prelude to Human nature, written by Paul Cornell, was published in Issue 226 (07/06/95) of Doctor Who Magazine. It was the final such item to be published in the magazine.
- Human Nature was made available as a downloadable eBook on the BBC's Doctor Who website in November 2002, and was accompanied by extensive background notes from Cornell and brand-new illustrations from artist Kim Plowright.
After being taken down briefly during the broadcast of the television adaptation, the eBook has been made available again in several new formats, including as a PDF file which includes the book, background notes, the Doctor Who Magazine prelude and also a new section by Cornell on adapting the book for television.
Doctor Who: Original Sin
by Andy Lane
- UK
- Paperback
- Doctor Who Books
- June 1995
Back Cover Blurb
'I'm playing with a fire so dangerous I could scorch eternity.'
The last words of a dying alien send the Doctor and Bernice to thirtieth-century Earth in an attempt to avert an unspecified disaster. Before they can unpack, they've been arrested by the Adjudicators and sentenced to death by the Imperial Army. Their attempts to prove their innocence take them from the mosaic planet Purgatory to a prison inside a star.
Meanwhile Adjudicators Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej have their own problems. Investigating a series of apparently motiveless murders, they have stumbled upon a conspiracy with sinister overtones. On the run and out of luck, the only people thay can turn to are their chief suspects: the Doctor and Bernice
And as they run, somone is watching them. Someone who knows the Doctor of old...
'I'm playing with a fire so dangerous I could scorch eternity.'
The last words of a dying alien send the Doctor and Bernice to thirtieth-century Earth in an attempt to avert an unspecified disaster. Before they can unpack, they've been arrested by the Adjudicators and sentenced to death by the Imperial Army. Their attempts to prove their innocence take them from the mosaic planet Purgatory to a prison inside a star.
Meanwhile Adjudicators Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej have their own problems. Investigating a series of apparently motiveless murders, they have stumbled upon a conspiracy with sinister overtones. On the run and out of luck, the only people thay can turn to are their chief suspects: the Doctor and Bernice
And as they run, somone is watching them. Someone who knows the Doctor of old...
Regular Characters
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield / Roz Forrester / Chris Cwej
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
Tobias Vaughn
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield / Roz Forrester / Chris Cwej
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
Tobias Vaughn
Notes
- Original Sin was Andy Lane's second and final solo novel for the New Adventures.
As well as introducing new companions Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej, two Adjudicators from Thirtieth-Century Earth, Original Sin also managed to include the unexpected return of a villain from the series' past — Tobias Vaughn from the 1968 Cybermen story The Invasion.
Doctor Who: Sky Pirates!
by Dave Stone
- UK
- Paperback
- Doctor Who Books
- July 1995
Back Cover Blurb
'Avast, ye scurvies!'
Hoist the mainbrace, splice the anchor and join the Docto and Benny for the maiden voyage of the good ship Schirron Dream, as it ventures into the fungral dark of air spaces occupied by the Sloathes — thoses villainous slimy evil shapeshifting monsters of utter and unmitigated evil that have placed a system under seige.
Watch Roslyn Forrester and Chris Cwej have a rough old time of it in durance vile! Meet the intrepid Captain Li Shao and the beautiful if somewhat single-minded Sun Samurai Leetha t'Zhan! Roast on the dunes of Prometheus, swelter in the fetid jungles of Anea, swim with the Obi-Amphibians of Elysium and freeze off inconvenient items of anatomy on the ice wastes of Reklon in an apparently doomed search for the Eyes of the Schirron, the majickal jewels that will either save the system or destroy it utterly!
Who will live? Who will die? Will the Doctor ever play the harmonium again? All these questions and many more will be answered within the curuscating, fibrillating pages of...Sky Pirates!
'Avast, ye scurvies!'
Hoist the mainbrace, splice the anchor and join the Docto and Benny for the maiden voyage of the good ship Schirron Dream, as it ventures into the fungral dark of air spaces occupied by the Sloathes — thoses villainous slimy evil shapeshifting monsters of utter and unmitigated evil that have placed a system under seige.
Watch Roslyn Forrester and Chris Cwej have a rough old time of it in durance vile! Meet the intrepid Captain Li Shao and the beautiful if somewhat single-minded Sun Samurai Leetha t'Zhan! Roast on the dunes of Prometheus, swelter in the fetid jungles of Anea, swim with the Obi-Amphibians of Elysium and freeze off inconvenient items of anatomy on the ice wastes of Reklon in an apparently doomed search for the Eyes of the Schirron, the majickal jewels that will either save the system or destroy it utterly!
Who will live? Who will die? Will the Doctor ever play the harmonium again? All these questions and many more will be answered within the curuscating, fibrillating pages of...Sky Pirates!
Regular Characters
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield / Roz Forrester / Chris Cwej
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield / Roz Forrester / Chris Cwej
Notes
- Sky Pirates! was Dave Stone's first novel for the Doctor Who universe.
- The characters of Nathan li Shao, Leetha, Kiru and Sgloomi Po would all re-appear in Dave Stone's 1998 novel Oblivion, an entry in the ongoing series of Bernice Summerfield novels.
Doctor Who: Zamper
by Gareth Roberts
- UK
- Paperback
- Doctor Who Books
- August 1995
Back Cover Blurb
'Good morning. We're doomed. Would you like a cup of tea?'
On the far side of a break in the fabric of space is the planet Zamper, home of a secretive organisation that constructs and sells the mightiest warships in the galaxy. It is to Zamper that the last warriors of the fallen Chelonian Empire have come in a final attempt to restore their race's glory.
Seperated from the TARDIS, the Doctor and his companions are intrigued by the bizarre operations on Zamper. Why are accidents and power failures afflicting the planet? What is the true agenda of the mysterious Management? And what are the strange powers of the alien shipbuilders?
'Good morning. We're doomed. Would you like a cup of tea?'
On the far side of a break in the fabric of space is the planet Zamper, home of a secretive organisation that constructs and sells the mightiest warships in the galaxy. It is to Zamper that the last warriors of the fallen Chelonian Empire have come in a final attempt to restore their race's glory.
Seperated from the TARDIS, the Doctor and his companions are intrigued by the bizarre operations on Zamper. Why are accidents and power failures afflicting the planet? What is the true agenda of the mysterious Management? And what are the strange powers of the alien shipbuilders?
Regular Characters
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield / Roz Forrester / Chris Cwej
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
The Chelonians
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield / Roz Forrester / Chris Cwej
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
The Chelonians
Notes
- Zamper was Gareth Robert's third and final novel for the New Adventures universe, although he would still manage to fit in a further three volumes for the Missing Adventures range before Virgin were to lose their Doctor Who licence in 1997.
- Zamper saw the return of the Chelonians, who had been introduced to the series in Roberts' 1993 novel The Highest Science.
Doctor Who: Toy Soldiers
by Paul Leonard
- UK
- Paperback
- Doctor Who Books
- September 1995
Back Cover Blurb
'Children make better soldiers,' said the teddy bear.
'They kill without compunction.'
The Doctor and Benny are following a trail of kidnapped children across Europe, a continent recovering from the ravages of the First World War. The only clue they find is the toy bear each missing child was given. But someone is aware of their search, and they soon find themselves the unwilling guests on the planet Q'ell where a similar war still rages — and has done for fourteen hundred years.
Stranded on Earth, Chris Cwej and Roslyn Forrester struggle to find a way of stopping the Q'ell from recruiting every child in the world to their cause. And the Doctor tries to start a peaceful revolution on a planet where there is no longer a word for peace.
'Children make better soldiers,' said the teddy bear.
'They kill without compunction.'
The Doctor and Benny are following a trail of kidnapped children across Europe, a continent recovering from the ravages of the First World War. The only clue they find is the toy bear each missing child was given. But someone is aware of their search, and they soon find themselves the unwilling guests on the planet Q'ell where a similar war still rages — and has done for fourteen hundred years.
Stranded on Earth, Chris Cwej and Roslyn Forrester struggle to find a way of stopping the Q'ell from recruiting every child in the world to their cause. And the Doctor tries to start a peaceful revolution on a planet where there is no longer a word for peace.
Regular Characters
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield / Roz Forrester / Chris Cwej
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield / Roz Forrester / Chris Cwej
Notes
- Toy Soldiers was Paul Leonard's third novel for the Doctor Who universe, after Venusian Lullaby and Dancing the Code for the Missing Adventures range.
Doctor Who: Head Games
by Steve Lyons
- UK
- Paperback
- Doctor Who Books
- October 1995
Back Cover Blurb
'This isn't hell,' the Doctor assured her. 'It's only a sequel.'
Stand by for an exciting new adventure with Dr Who and his companion, Jason. Once again, our time-hopping friends set out to seek injustice, raise rebel armies, overthrow dictators and beat up green monsters.
But this time, Dr Who faces a new threat: a genocidal rogue Time Lord and his army of combat-hardened, gun-slinging warrior women. To make matters worse, this foe is a twisted version of the good Doctor himself — and if Dr Who and Jason can't stop him, he'll end all life on Detrios and Earth.
Armed only with their wits and with the modest power of control over reality, our heroes must face Dr Who's evil Double: the megalomaniac scientist who calls himself simply...'The Doctor'.
'This isn't hell,' the Doctor assured her. 'It's only a sequel.'
Stand by for an exciting new adventure with Dr Who and his companion, Jason. Once again, our time-hopping friends set out to seek injustice, raise rebel armies, overthrow dictators and beat up green monsters.
But this time, Dr Who faces a new threat: a genocidal rogue Time Lord and his army of combat-hardened, gun-slinging warrior women. To make matters worse, this foe is a twisted version of the good Doctor himself — and if Dr Who and Jason can't stop him, he'll end all life on Detrios and Earth.
Armed only with their wits and with the modest power of control over reality, our heroes must face Dr Who's evil Double: the megalomaniac scientist who calls himself simply...'The Doctor'.
Regular Characters
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield / Roz Forrester / Chris Cwej
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
Ace / Melanie Bush / Sixth Doctor
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield / Roz Forrester / Chris Cwej
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
Ace / Melanie Bush / Sixth Doctor
Notes
- Head Games was Steve Lyons' third Doctor Who novel and was a sequel to the previous years' Conundrum — itself a sequel to the 1968 television story The Mind Robber.
- Conundrum saw the brief returns of both Ace and Melanie Bush, as well as the Sixth Doctor.
Doctor Who: The Also People
by Ben Aaronovitch
- UK
- Paperback
- Doctor Who Books
- November 1995
Back Cover Blurb
'Just how technologically advanced are they?'
The Doctor frowned. 'Let me put it this way: they have a non-aggression pact with the Time Lords.'
The Doctor has taken his companions to paradise, or at least the closest thing he can find. A sun enclosed by an artificial sphere where there is no want, poverty or violence.
While Chris learns to surf, meets a girl and falls in love with a biplane, Roz suspects an alien plot and Bernice considers that a Dyson Sphere needs an archaeologist like a fish needs a five-speed gearbox.
Then the peace is shattered by murder. As the suspects proliferate, Bernice realises that even an artificial world has its buried secrets and Roz discovers what she's always suspected — that every paradise has its snake.
'Just how technologically advanced are they?'
The Doctor frowned. 'Let me put it this way: they have a non-aggression pact with the Time Lords.'
The Doctor has taken his companions to paradise, or at least the closest thing he can find. A sun enclosed by an artificial sphere where there is no want, poverty or violence.
While Chris learns to surf, meets a girl and falls in love with a biplane, Roz suspects an alien plot and Bernice considers that a Dyson Sphere needs an archaeologist like a fish needs a five-speed gearbox.
Then the peace is shattered by murder. As the suspects proliferate, Bernice realises that even an artificial world has its buried secrets and Roz discovers what she's always suspected — that every paradise has its snake.
Regular Characters
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield / Roz Forrester / Chris Cwej
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart / God
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield / Roz Forrester / Chris Cwej
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart / God
Notes
- The Also People was the second novel from Ben Aaronovitch, after 1992's Transit.
- The book was the first to feature the People, inhabitants of a Dyson Sphere (see Star Trek: The Next Generation — Relics and Star Trek: The Next Generation — Dyson Sphere) known as the Worldsphere which is controlled by a supercomputer known as God, and who are so technologically advanced that they have a non-aggression pact with the Time Lords!
Various titles in the Benny-era New Adventures would feature the People, including Down, Ghost Devices, Walking to Babylon, Where Angels Fear and Twilight of the Gods. - The Also People saw a brief return to the series of Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart — last seen in Set Piece. She would make one further appearance in Paul Cornell's Happy Endings, in May 1996
Doctor Who: Shakedown
by Terrance Dicks
- UK
- Paperback
- Doctor Who Books
- December 1995
Back Cover Blurb
'The Sontarans can never defeat us. It is we who will win.'
For thousands of years the Sontaran clone-warriors and the Rutan gestalt have fought each other across the galaxy. Now the Sontarans have a plan to strike at the heart of the Rutan Empire, and utterly defeat the Rutan race.
The Doctor has his suspicions, but only one Rutan spy knows the Sontarans' secret. He is being pursued from planet to planet by Cwej and Forrester and by a Sontaran hit squad. After a confrontation aboard the racing space-yacht Tiger-Moth, the chase culminates on the library planet Sentarion — where Professor Bernice Summerfield's researches into the history of the Sontaran/Rutan war turn into explosive reality.
'The Sontarans can never defeat us. It is we who will win.'
For thousands of years the Sontaran clone-warriors and the Rutan gestalt have fought each other across the galaxy. Now the Sontarans have a plan to strike at the heart of the Rutan Empire, and utterly defeat the Rutan race.
The Doctor has his suspicions, but only one Rutan spy knows the Sontarans' secret. He is being pursued from planet to planet by Cwej and Forrester and by a Sontaran hit squad. After a confrontation aboard the racing space-yacht Tiger-Moth, the chase culminates on the library planet Sentarion — where Professor Bernice Summerfield's researches into the history of the Sontaran/Rutan war turn into explosive reality.
Regular Characters
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield / Roz Forrester / Chris Cwej
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
The Sontarans
Seventh Doctor / Bernice Summerfield / Roz Forrester / Chris Cwej
Familiar Faces / Returning Characters
The Sontarans
Notes
- Shakedown was Terrance Dicks' third and final Doctor Who book for the New Adventures, although he would go on to write Mean Streets for the Bernice Summerfield range in December 1997, which was effectively a sequel to Shakedown novel.
- Unusually Shakedown was not created entirely for the New Adventures range of books.
It had started life as an independent video spin-off from Doctor Who called Shakedown: The Return of the Sontarans, produced by DreamWatch Media in 1994 and scripted by Terrance Dicks. As is usual with such productions, the cast featured a number of familiar faces from UK science fiction including Sophie Aldred (Ace in Doctor Who), Carole Ann Ford (Susan Foreman from Doctor Who), Jan Chappell (Cally from Blake's 7) and Brian Croucher (Travis from Season Two of Blake's 7).
Dicks subsequently used the script of the production for the middle part of the novel and created a new story around it featuring the regular characters from the New Adventures. The book included eight pages of black and white photographs from the original production, as well as a two-page foreword by Jason Haigh-Ellery and Gary Leigh, the associate and executive producers of the original drama respectively. - December 1995 was effectively a celebration of the Sontarans and the Rutans, as David A McIntee's Missing Adventure novel Lords of the Storm also featured both races, and had one character survive to set up the events of Shakedown.
