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Doctor Who book Deep Blue Series Past Doctor Adventures Release number 20 Featuring Fifth Doctor
Tegan, Turlough, Mike Yates and UNITWriter Mark Morris Publisher BBC Books ISBN ISBN 0-563-55571-8 Set between Warriors of the Deep and The Awakening
(for the TARDIS crew)
and between
The Green Death and The Time Warrior (for the members of UNIT)Number of pages 249 Release date March 1, 1999 Preceded by The Wages of Sin Followed by Players Deep Blue is a BBC Books original novel written by Mark Morris and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Fifth Doctor, Tegan, Turlough, and members of UNIT, mostly embodied by Captain Mike Yates.
As with all Doctor Who spin-off media, its relationship to the televised serials is open to interpretation.
Placement
As a Fifth Doctor novel set in the Third Doctor's era, Deep Blue is notable for possessing a particularly complex chronology. To minimize confusion with later meetings between the Fifth Doctor and Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart (Mawdryn Undead and The Five Doctors), Mike Yates, someone who never met the Fifth Doctor on screen, is used as the main UNIT contact. One of the chief points of interest in the work is how the Brigadier, Turlough and Tegan can appear together, both long before — and long after — they apparently met for the first time in Mawdryn Undead.
External links
- Deep Blue publication history at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Deep Blue at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
- The Cloister Library - Deep Blue
- Deep Blue at The TARDIS Library
Reviews
- Deep Blue reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
- Deep Blue reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide
Categories:- Past Doctor Adventures
- Fifth Doctor novels
- 1999 novels
- Novels by Mark Morris
- Doctor Who stubs
- BBC stubs
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