Deep Blue (Doctor Who)

Doctor Who book
Deep Blue
Series	Past Doctor Adventures
Release number	20
Featuring	Fifth Doctor Tegan, Turlough, Mike Yates and UNIT
Writer	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