The Doctor recalls his treatment of Peri Brown on Thoros-Beta in 2379.Virgin New Adventures Reviews, #43: Head Games by Steve Lyons (or, “Why is Seven Afraid of Six?”).The Doctor refers to his visit to the last Intergalactic Peace Conference.The Doctor recalls the poison vines and acid baths on Varos ( TV: Vengeance on Varos) and Lytton's death on Telos.The mass transit systems were outlawed long ago.( TV: The Brain of Morbius, AUDIO: Blood of the Daleks) The Celestial Intervention Agency make an appearance.Reference is made to Drathro, the 元 maintenance robot.The Doctor was put on trial by the Time Lords ( TV: The Mysterious Planet) and faced the Valeyard, an evil future incarnation of himself.

Short Trips: Repercussions would however later imply one. Due to the end of the range, Grant never received a departure story.

This story marked the debut of new companion Grant Markham.

In breaking this convention, it joins Invasion of the Cat-People, which features two other characters as opposed to one.

The front cover is the only one in the Virgin Missing Adventures to feature no other character alongside the Doctor on the left.

Mel's introduction would later be written by Gary Russell in the novel Business Unusual. Rebecca Levene, Virgin New Adventures' editor at the time, rejected the idea in favour of introducing a new companion for the Doctor.

Steve Lyons originally proposed this novel as an introductory story for the character of Melanie Bush, whose first meeting with the Doctor had not been shown in televised Doctor Who.

The decision by the Doctor to become a recluse is a reflection of the television story The Twin Dilemma following after another violent episode involving Peri.

A soap star has murdered his wife's lover the robotic regulars of Timeriders are performing random kidnappings and a lethal new game show is about to go on the air.Ĭan the Doctor uncover the cause of the apparently random disturbances - or will his appearance as a competitor on Death-hunt 3000 be the last of his life? However, all is not well on the giant, chaotic space station.

But for the citizens of poverty-stricken Torrok, television offers the only escape from a reality too horrible to face.Īngela, a young inhabitant of Torrok, leaps at the chance to travel to the Network with a hermit who calls himself the Doctor. Sixteen channels, and not one of them worth watching. The Network broadcasts entertainment to the planets of the Meson system: Death-hunt 3000, Prisoner: The Next Generation, Bloodsoak Bunny. Publisher's summary 'Organic bugs must be purged from the system,' the screen told him.

Doctor Who by Steve Lyons