Mission: Impractical

Mission: Impractical
Doctor Who book
Book cover
Mission: Impractical
Series Past Doctor Adventures
Release number 12
Featuring Sixth Doctor
Frobisher
Writer David A. McIntee
Publisher BBC Books
ISBN ISBN 0-563-40592-9
Set between The Trial of a Time Lord and
Time and the Rani
Number of pages 288
Release date June 1998
Preceded by Catastrophea
Followed by Zeta Major

Mission: Impractical is a BBC Books original novel written by David A. McIntee and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Sixth Doctor and Frobisher.

As with all Doctor Who spin-off media, its relationship to the televised serials is open to interpretation.

Contents

Synopsis

The Doctor and Frobisher run into Glitz, his henchman Dibber and a band of Ogrons trying to pull off the crime of the century.

Placement

It is not clear exactly when this story is placed with respect to previously written television and comic stories featuring the Sixth Doctor and Frobisher. This reflects the uncertainty concerning how Frobisher's adventures with the Sixth Doctor relate to other Sixth Doctor stories. Precise dating is made difficult by the number of separate occasions on which the Doctor and Frobisher travelled together and the lack of televised reference points between The Trial of a Time Lord and Time and the Rani.

The author, McIntee, says that Mission: Impractical is set after The Trial of a Time Lord and between the Doctor Who Magazine comic strips War-Game and Funhouse. However, as the Doctor Who Reference Guide website points out, Peri is still present in the comic strip Kane's Story, which takes place immediately after Funhouse, so it is inconsistent for Mission: Impractical to be both set before Funhouse and after The Trial of a Time Lord.[1]

Continuity

  • Ogrons were last seen in the Third Doctor episode Frontier in Space.
  • Dibber is killed in this novel, and explains his absence in Dragonfire.

External links

Reviews

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