Business Unusual

Business Unusual

Doctorwhobook
title=Business Unusual
series=Past Doctor Adventures
number=4
featuring=Sixth Doctor Mel, The Brigadier


writer=Gary Russell
publisher=BBC Books
isbn= ISBN 0-563-40575-9
set_between="The Trial of a Time Lord" and "Time and the Rani" (from the Doctor's perspective); episodes 8 and 9 of "The Trial of a Time Lord" (from Mel's perspective)
pages=288
date=September 1 1997
preceding="The Ultimate Treasure"
following="Illegal Alien"|

"Business Unusual" is a BBC Books original novel written by Gary Russell and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Sixth Doctor, Melanie Bush, and the Brigadier.

This novel depicts Mel's first adventure with the Doctor, an event not depicted in the television series. Mel's first appearance in the programme, "Terror of the Vervoids", was set in the Doctor's future relative to his trial in the season-long story "The Trial of a Time Lord". The Doctor subsequently met Mel in the final segment of that story, "The Ultimate Foe", but this Mel was from his future and had already met him. Thus, the events of "Business Unusual" represent Mel's first encounter with the Doctor, but not the Doctor's first encounter with Mel.

"Business Unusual" also plugs another hole in "Doctor Who" history: in the original series, all the Doctors except the First and Sixth shared at least one adventure with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. This novel was the first attempt to match the Sixth Doctor with the Brigadier; the 2000 Big Finish audio drama "The Spectre of Lanyon Moor" would bring both characters and the actors who played them together.

Some of the plot elements of "Business Unusual" (the Pale Man and the Irish twins Ciara and Cellian) form part of a trilogy of novels which began in Gary Russell's Virgin Missing Adventures novel "The Scales of Injustice" and concluded in his PDA "Instruments of Darkness".

External links

*Doctor Who RG | id=whobbk04 | title=Business Unusual
* [http://members.lycos.co.uk/cloisterlibrary/busi.htm The Cloister Library - "Business Unusual"]

Reviews

*OG review | id=bbcp-4 | title=Business Unusual
*DWRG | id=busi | title=Business Unusual


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