The Feast of the Drowned
Encyclopedia
The Feast of the Drowned is a BBC Books
original novel written by Stephen Cole
and based on the long-running British
science fiction television
series Doctor Who
. It was published on April 13, 2006, alongside The Stone Rose
and The Resurrection Casket
. It features the Tenth Doctor
, Rose
and Mickey
.
all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to learn that the brother of her friend, Keisha, was among the dead. And yet he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast of the drowned.
The Doctor and Rose discuss what she saw, and the Doctor says they should go to Mickey's and see what they can find on the Internet. Mickey has already done the research, and gives them his printouts. They find that the ship has been brought to Stanchion House, and that people are going missing near the part of the Thames where it is located.
When the three of them arrive near the building, they see many guards around, and an elderly woman trying to climb over the bridge rail. Her name is Anne, and she says she is trying to get to Peter 'before the feast,' but the Doctor and Rose manage to get her off the bridge. Mickey and the soldiers who came running all collapsed. The Doctor swiped a pass from one of the soldiers, and told Rose and Mickey to stay with Anne and not to let her out of their sight.
As Rose and Mickey try to decide where to take Anne, they are approached by an old man in full navel uniform wearing dark glasses and a scarf around his neck, who introduces himself as Rear Admiral
John Crayshaw. He allows them to take Anne with them, but tells the soldiers to send the ambulance away when it arrives.
Meanwhile, the Doctor went to Stanchion House, and introduced himself as 'Sir John Smith, Scientific Advisor to the Admiralty' with his psychic paper. He glances quickly at the visitor's book, and says that he came to see V. Swann. The lift operator brings him to the correct floor, and watches until he went in. He talks to Vida Swann for a minute before she mentions that her PC had told her Sergeant
Jodie North had come in, and that she had alerted security when she saw him instead.
The Doctor ran out of her office, and realized there were soldiers coming up the stairs and the lift, and no time to get out a window, so he hid in a cupboard until the soldiers had passed, then slipped into the lift before the doors closed. He uses to sonic screwdriver
to open the hidden controls, and goes to the lowest level. The doors open into an underground hangar.
The Doctor is noticed by a scientist named Huntley, and after looking at a section of the ship, the Doctor says that it was sliced up using hydrogen fused anti-cellularisation. Alarms start to go off, soldiers come down the lift, and the Doctor takes off for a room labelled 'Decontamination.' He runs through it into a damp, dirty and dingily lit access corridor. After closing the doors behind him, he notices the salty reek to the air. As he moves down the corridor, he sticks his finger in a mucky puddle and decides it is saltwater.
The corridor opens into a large, dark, circular chamber with a very high ceiling and a huge filthy pool in the centre of the floor. There is a ladder on one side, and the air smells of sea water. The Doctor takes a polythene bag from his pocket and fills it with water from the pool, and then starts to climb the ladder as he hears the doors opening behind him.
The ladder is damp, as if someone sopping wet had climbed up it ahead of him, and didn't dry before reaching the top. There is a barrier across the top of the chamber, but the Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to open the inspection hatch, which has blood on it. The Doctor climbs through with bullets flying around him, and finds himself looking into another enormous access tunnel.
As the Doctor splashes through the freezing salty water in the access tunnel, he comes upon another figure. When it turns, the Doctor sees a young man with bloody welts on his face and neck, and eyes like huge pearls. He tells the Doctor that he doesn't want to hurt his little Keisha, but he can't help it. The Doctor realizes this must be Jay, just as the water gets even deeper and starts churning. Out of the water appeared a pirate and a U-boat captain, who swept Jay back the way he'd come and vanished. The Doctor decides he can't do anything to help Jay right now, and continues down the tunnel. He ends up on a tugboat, its windows covered by tarpaulin.
At Keisha's, the three of them are talking, and Rose realizes that just before Jay appeared, people had collapsed at the newsagent's, and when Anne's son appeared, the soldiers went down. Rose decides to go down to the newsagent's and see what she can find out. She buys a couple of papers, and the woman behind the counter collapses as Jay appears again.
Jay also appears to Keisha, and Anne's son to her. Mickey tries to stop Anne leaving and isn't able to, but does manage to lock Keisha in the bathroom. Rose ran back, and he tells her to go after Anne. She heads for the river.
On the tugboat, the Doctor and Vida meet again. While they talk, the Doctor starts pushing buttons and levers, and gets the boat moving, just as soldiers start firing on it. The Doctor tells her that Crayshaw probably wants to kill them both, as she said she'd been a thorn in his side.
When Rose gets to the river, there are people trying to jump in, and soldiers trying to stop them, and other people watching. As Rose stands there, a tug appears, headed for a restaurant barge, and Rose sees the Doctor climbing around the prow, trying to uncover the windows. She yells at him, and he waves back and tells her to get everyone off the barge. As the tug crashes into the barge, the Doctor and Vida leap off.
The three of them go to the European Office of Oceanic Research and Development, where Vida works. The Doctor asks Vida to show him the 'biggest and shiniest lab' she has. Vida says that she hasn't been able to contact her boss all day, and there is a Vice Admiral
Kelper from Norfolk
due to arrive the next day. The Doctor tells Rose to have Mickey come over and bring Keisha.
Vida talks about her work - studying ocean currents, what is in them and how they move around, using tracers they had developed. The Doctor is busy being all 'boy-with-a-train-set' with the water he brought. Vida says they were studying water taken from area where Ascendant sank, and found no sign of tracers, but there were salts and proteins unlike anything previously discovered.
Doctor asks Mickey and Vida to go through the naval personnel records and see if the crew of the Ascendant had anything in common. He takes blood samples from Rose, Keisha, and Vida, and found that Rose and Keisha had alien matter in their blood, and specs in their eyes.
While going through the computer files, Mickey looks up Commodore
Powers (Crayshaw's boss), and discovers that he was on a ship that sank in the North Sea three years ago. Then they look up Crayshaw, and find that a John Anthony Crayshaw sank in the North Sea in 1759. They ran to tell the Doctor.
The Doctor is still working with the water when he realizes the beaker he was analysing is empty, and the sink is full. He smells seawater, and then the water in the sink jumped out and attacked him, covering his face, but he manages to escape it.
Rose is in the hallway with Keisha when Mickey and Vida come up, and then suddenly it fills with water. Three figures appeared in it - a pirate, U-boat captain, and a Victorian lady. They grabbed Vida and carried her out of the building and away. Rose chased after, grabbing onto the back of a police van. When the van stopped, Rose found herself near the river. While trying to help someone else, she falls into the water and is taken by the water creatures.
The Doctor, Mickey, and Keisha drove around for hours, but could not find either Rose or Vida. They go back to the estate, and Micky walks Keisha to her door, while the Doctor waited in the car. They see a dripping wet Rose ghost, and when the Doctor comes upstairs, he says that he saw her too, although not as clearly. Jackie
(Rose's mum) also saw the image, and is furious with the Doctor. He leaves Keisha with her, while he and Mickey go to get into Stanchion House.
Vida awakes to find herself in the Ascendants storeroom. Crayshaw is there, and tells her that they are 'of the waterhive.' The room is full of people who have recently been taken. Crayshaw explains that they are acclimatising, and only after many years can they be on both land and water. They need Vida to capture Kelper, so they can spread all over the world.
Mickey and the Doctor go to the Aldgate tube station
, to reach a conduit full of phone lines, which passes within a few inches of the decontamination chamber. Mickey asks how he plans to get through the wall, and the Doctor says 'I'm getting quite good at resonating concrete.' He tells Mickey that the tunnel is probably one of the safest places to be, as there aren't many people around to filch water from, so no image of Rose to haunt them. 'I don't want to see her like that again. Do you?'
Rose is moving around underwater, and thinking of her family and the Doctor. Huntley finds Rose, and takes her to where a few of the Ascendant crew are together, including Jay. He tells her that she can't think of her loved ones, because it is what will make them like her. She thinks of the TARDIS
instead, and that helps. Huntley tells her that some people have been able to see through their images, and control them somewhat, and encourages her to try.
Crayshaw takes Vida to an empty Stanchion House in the morning, to arrange a meeting with Kelper, but he is already there. Vida tries to escape with him, but the water prevents it, and they are taken into the lift. When they reach the basement, they find all the rest of the staff. The decontamination doors open, and filthy water comes flooding in.
There is a sudden explosion, and part of the wall tumbles in, revealing Mickey and the Doctor. Vida, Kelper, and a couple of other people manage to climb out before the water traps everyone else. Kelper leaves to talk to the military, saying 'We're going to need Torchwood.' As the Doctor, Mickey and Vida talk about what to do next, the Rose image appears to the Doctor and starts to drain water from Mickey and Vida. Rose herself is able to stop it though, and tell the Doctor to stop the aliens. The Doctor says that she was able to hijack the apparition.
The Doctor realizes that the filaments that Vida has been working with disrupt communication in the hive, and might be a way to defeat them. He sends Mickey and Vida to find the crates that were on the Ascendant and dump them into the river, while he creates a distraction. At the same time, Rose, Jay, Huntley and the others start making their way toward the surface. Vida and Mickey are almost caught by the water, but Rose and the rest interfere, and then help them to release the filaments.
As they were released, Rose thought of the Doctor, and was able to see him, and tell him that they had done it. He said 'Of course you did it,' and activated the tracers. The water in the Thames thickened and changed, and all the people who had been taken were pushed to the surface, restored to normal.
, was released in July 2006 by BBC Audiobooks
. Also included was an interview with the author by David Darlington.
The audio book version was given away free in two parts with two consecutive issues of Radio Times
in December 2006 and January 2007. These versions omitted the interview.
BBC Books
BBC Books is an imprint majority owned and managed by Random House. The minority shareholder is BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation...
original novel written by Stephen Cole
Stephen Cole (writer)
Stephen Cole is an author of children's books and science fiction. He was also in charge of BBC Worldwide's merchandising of the BBC Television series Doctor Who between 1997 and 1999: this was a role which found him deciding on which stories should be released on video, commissioning and editing...
and based on the long-running British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
science fiction television
Science fiction on television
Science fiction first appeared on a television program during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary world not limited by the constraints of reality; this makes television an excellent medium...
series Doctor Who
Doctor Who
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
. It was published on April 13, 2006, alongside The Stone Rose
The Stone Rose
The Stone Rose is a BBC Books original novel written by Jacqueline Rayner and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was published on April 13, 2006, alongside The Feast of the Drowned and The Resurrection Casket. It features the Tenth Doctor, Rose and...
and The Resurrection Casket
The Resurrection Casket
The Resurrection Casket is a BBC Books original novel written by Justin Richards and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was published on April 13, 2006, alongside The Stone Rose and The Feast of the Drowned...
. It features the Tenth Doctor
Tenth Doctor
The Tenth Doctor is the tenth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. He is played by David Tennant, who appears in three series, as well as eight specials...
, Rose
Rose Tyler
Rose Marion Tyler is a fictional character portrayed by Billie Piper in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, and was created by series producer Russell T Davies...
and Mickey
Mickey Smith
Mickey Smith is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, played by Noel Clarke.Mickey is introduced as the boyfriend of the Ninth and Tenth Doctor's companion Rose Tyler, and a recurring character on the programme...
.
Synopsis
When a Naval cruiser sinks in mysterious circumstances in the North SeaNorth Sea
In the southwest, beyond the Straits of Dover, the North Sea becomes the English Channel connecting to the Atlantic Ocean. In the east, it connects to the Baltic Sea via the Skagerrak and Kattegat, narrow straits that separate Denmark from Norway and Sweden respectively...
all aboard are lost. Rose is saddened to learn that the brother of her friend, Keisha, was among the dead. And yet he appears to them as a ghostly apparition, begging to be saved from the coming feast of the drowned.
Plot
Rose is comforting her friend Keisha, whose brother Jay is missing in action after the sinking of the HMS Ascendant, which has just been towed up the Thames in pieces. Rose dragged the Doctor along, and he asks what Jay did on the ship, before deciding to go out for chips (and a newspaper to wrap them in). After he left, Jay's soaked and shivering ghost appears to Keisha and Rose. He talks to Keisha first, telling her to come to him before the feast, and asks Rose to come too. Then he melts away into a puddle, which also disappears. The Doctor returns, and tells them about people fainting in the newsagents.The Doctor and Rose discuss what she saw, and the Doctor says they should go to Mickey's and see what they can find on the Internet. Mickey has already done the research, and gives them his printouts. They find that the ship has been brought to Stanchion House, and that people are going missing near the part of the Thames where it is located.
When the three of them arrive near the building, they see many guards around, and an elderly woman trying to climb over the bridge rail. Her name is Anne, and she says she is trying to get to Peter 'before the feast,' but the Doctor and Rose manage to get her off the bridge. Mickey and the soldiers who came running all collapsed. The Doctor swiped a pass from one of the soldiers, and told Rose and Mickey to stay with Anne and not to let her out of their sight.
As Rose and Mickey try to decide where to take Anne, they are approached by an old man in full navel uniform wearing dark glasses and a scarf around his neck, who introduces himself as Rear Admiral
Rear Admiral
Rear admiral is a naval commissioned officer rank above that of a commodore and captain, and below that of a vice admiral. It is generally regarded as the lowest of the "admiral" ranks, which are also sometimes referred to as "flag officers" or "flag ranks"...
John Crayshaw. He allows them to take Anne with them, but tells the soldiers to send the ambulance away when it arrives.
Meanwhile, the Doctor went to Stanchion House, and introduced himself as 'Sir John Smith, Scientific Advisor to the Admiralty' with his psychic paper. He glances quickly at the visitor's book, and says that he came to see V. Swann. The lift operator brings him to the correct floor, and watches until he went in. He talks to Vida Swann for a minute before she mentions that her PC had told her Sergeant
Sergeant
Sergeant is a rank used in some form by most militaries, police forces, and other uniformed organizations around the world. Its origins are the Latin serviens, "one who serves", through the French term Sergent....
Jodie North had come in, and that she had alerted security when she saw him instead.
The Doctor ran out of her office, and realized there were soldiers coming up the stairs and the lift, and no time to get out a window, so he hid in a cupboard until the soldiers had passed, then slipped into the lift before the doors closed. He uses to sonic screwdriver
Sonic screwdriver
The sonic screwdriver is a fictional tool in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spinoffs. It is a multifunctional tool used by The Doctor. Its most common function is that of a lockpick, but can be used to perform other operations such as performing medical scans,...
to open the hidden controls, and goes to the lowest level. The doors open into an underground hangar.
The Doctor is noticed by a scientist named Huntley, and after looking at a section of the ship, the Doctor says that it was sliced up using hydrogen fused anti-cellularisation. Alarms start to go off, soldiers come down the lift, and the Doctor takes off for a room labelled 'Decontamination.' He runs through it into a damp, dirty and dingily lit access corridor. After closing the doors behind him, he notices the salty reek to the air. As he moves down the corridor, he sticks his finger in a mucky puddle and decides it is saltwater.
The corridor opens into a large, dark, circular chamber with a very high ceiling and a huge filthy pool in the centre of the floor. There is a ladder on one side, and the air smells of sea water. The Doctor takes a polythene bag from his pocket and fills it with water from the pool, and then starts to climb the ladder as he hears the doors opening behind him.
The ladder is damp, as if someone sopping wet had climbed up it ahead of him, and didn't dry before reaching the top. There is a barrier across the top of the chamber, but the Doctor uses his sonic screwdriver to open the inspection hatch, which has blood on it. The Doctor climbs through with bullets flying around him, and finds himself looking into another enormous access tunnel.
As the Doctor splashes through the freezing salty water in the access tunnel, he comes upon another figure. When it turns, the Doctor sees a young man with bloody welts on his face and neck, and eyes like huge pearls. He tells the Doctor that he doesn't want to hurt his little Keisha, but he can't help it. The Doctor realizes this must be Jay, just as the water gets even deeper and starts churning. Out of the water appeared a pirate and a U-boat captain, who swept Jay back the way he'd come and vanished. The Doctor decides he can't do anything to help Jay right now, and continues down the tunnel. He ends up on a tugboat, its windows covered by tarpaulin.
At Keisha's, the three of them are talking, and Rose realizes that just before Jay appeared, people had collapsed at the newsagent's, and when Anne's son appeared, the soldiers went down. Rose decides to go down to the newsagent's and see what she can find out. She buys a couple of papers, and the woman behind the counter collapses as Jay appears again.
Jay also appears to Keisha, and Anne's son to her. Mickey tries to stop Anne leaving and isn't able to, but does manage to lock Keisha in the bathroom. Rose ran back, and he tells her to go after Anne. She heads for the river.
On the tugboat, the Doctor and Vida meet again. While they talk, the Doctor starts pushing buttons and levers, and gets the boat moving, just as soldiers start firing on it. The Doctor tells her that Crayshaw probably wants to kill them both, as she said she'd been a thorn in his side.
When Rose gets to the river, there are people trying to jump in, and soldiers trying to stop them, and other people watching. As Rose stands there, a tug appears, headed for a restaurant barge, and Rose sees the Doctor climbing around the prow, trying to uncover the windows. She yells at him, and he waves back and tells her to get everyone off the barge. As the tug crashes into the barge, the Doctor and Vida leap off.
The three of them go to the European Office of Oceanic Research and Development, where Vida works. The Doctor asks Vida to show him the 'biggest and shiniest lab' she has. Vida says that she hasn't been able to contact her boss all day, and there is a Vice Admiral
Vice Admiral
Vice admiral is a senior naval rank of a three-star flag officer, which is equivalent to lieutenant general in the other uniformed services. A vice admiral is typically senior to a rear admiral and junior to an admiral...
Kelper from Norfolk
Naval Station Norfolk
Naval Station Norfolk, in Norfolk, Virginia, is a base of the United States Navy, supporting naval forces in the United States Fleet Forces Command, those operating in the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Indian Ocean...
due to arrive the next day. The Doctor tells Rose to have Mickey come over and bring Keisha.
Vida talks about her work - studying ocean currents, what is in them and how they move around, using tracers they had developed. The Doctor is busy being all 'boy-with-a-train-set' with the water he brought. Vida says they were studying water taken from area where Ascendant sank, and found no sign of tracers, but there were salts and proteins unlike anything previously discovered.
Doctor asks Mickey and Vida to go through the naval personnel records and see if the crew of the Ascendant had anything in common. He takes blood samples from Rose, Keisha, and Vida, and found that Rose and Keisha had alien matter in their blood, and specs in their eyes.
While going through the computer files, Mickey looks up Commodore
Commodore (rank)
Commodore is a military rank used in many navies that is superior to a navy captain, but below a rear admiral. Non-English-speaking nations often use the rank of flotilla admiral or counter admiral as an equivalent .It is often regarded as a one-star rank with a NATO code of OF-6, but is not always...
Powers (Crayshaw's boss), and discovers that he was on a ship that sank in the North Sea three years ago. Then they look up Crayshaw, and find that a John Anthony Crayshaw sank in the North Sea in 1759. They ran to tell the Doctor.
The Doctor is still working with the water when he realizes the beaker he was analysing is empty, and the sink is full. He smells seawater, and then the water in the sink jumped out and attacked him, covering his face, but he manages to escape it.
Rose is in the hallway with Keisha when Mickey and Vida come up, and then suddenly it fills with water. Three figures appeared in it - a pirate, U-boat captain, and a Victorian lady. They grabbed Vida and carried her out of the building and away. Rose chased after, grabbing onto the back of a police van. When the van stopped, Rose found herself near the river. While trying to help someone else, she falls into the water and is taken by the water creatures.
The Doctor, Mickey, and Keisha drove around for hours, but could not find either Rose or Vida. They go back to the estate, and Micky walks Keisha to her door, while the Doctor waited in the car. They see a dripping wet Rose ghost, and when the Doctor comes upstairs, he says that he saw her too, although not as clearly. Jackie
Jackie Tyler
In "Rise of the Cybermen" and "The Age of Steel" Coduri plays a parallel Earth version of Jackie. In this universe, she is still married to Pete, but they have no children, although she has a Yorkshire terrier named Rose. Despite Pete's success, which has led to Jackie becoming a celebrity, they...
(Rose's mum) also saw the image, and is furious with the Doctor. He leaves Keisha with her, while he and Mickey go to get into Stanchion House.
Vida awakes to find herself in the Ascendants storeroom. Crayshaw is there, and tells her that they are 'of the waterhive.' The room is full of people who have recently been taken. Crayshaw explains that they are acclimatising, and only after many years can they be on both land and water. They need Vida to capture Kelper, so they can spread all over the world.
Mickey and the Doctor go to the Aldgate tube station
Aldgate tube station
Aldgate tube station is a London Underground station located at Aldgate in the City of London.The station is on the Circle Line between Tower Hill and Liverpool Street. It is also the eastern terminus of the Metropolitan Line...
, to reach a conduit full of phone lines, which passes within a few inches of the decontamination chamber. Mickey asks how he plans to get through the wall, and the Doctor says 'I'm getting quite good at resonating concrete.' He tells Mickey that the tunnel is probably one of the safest places to be, as there aren't many people around to filch water from, so no image of Rose to haunt them. 'I don't want to see her like that again. Do you?'
Rose is moving around underwater, and thinking of her family and the Doctor. Huntley finds Rose, and takes her to where a few of the Ascendant crew are together, including Jay. He tells her that she can't think of her loved ones, because it is what will make them like her. She thinks of the TARDIS
TARDIS
The TARDISGenerally, TARDIS is written in all upper case letters—this convention was popularised by the Target novelisations of the 1970s...
instead, and that helps. Huntley tells her that some people have been able to see through their images, and control them somewhat, and encourages her to try.
Crayshaw takes Vida to an empty Stanchion House in the morning, to arrange a meeting with Kelper, but he is already there. Vida tries to escape with him, but the water prevents it, and they are taken into the lift. When they reach the basement, they find all the rest of the staff. The decontamination doors open, and filthy water comes flooding in.
There is a sudden explosion, and part of the wall tumbles in, revealing Mickey and the Doctor. Vida, Kelper, and a couple of other people manage to climb out before the water traps everyone else. Kelper leaves to talk to the military, saying 'We're going to need Torchwood.' As the Doctor, Mickey and Vida talk about what to do next, the Rose image appears to the Doctor and starts to drain water from Mickey and Vida. Rose herself is able to stop it though, and tell the Doctor to stop the aliens. The Doctor says that she was able to hijack the apparition.
The Doctor realizes that the filaments that Vida has been working with disrupt communication in the hive, and might be a way to defeat them. He sends Mickey and Vida to find the crates that were on the Ascendant and dump them into the river, while he creates a distraction. At the same time, Rose, Jay, Huntley and the others start making their way toward the surface. Vida and Mickey are almost caught by the water, but Rose and the rest interfere, and then help them to release the filaments.
As they were released, Rose thought of the Doctor, and was able to see him, and tell him that they had done it. He said 'Of course you did it,' and activated the tracers. The water in the Thames thickened and changed, and all the people who had been taken were pushed to the surface, restored to normal.
Continuity
- This book might take place after "Tooth and ClawTooth and Claw (Doctor Who)"Tooth and Claw" is the second episode in the second series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and was first broadcast on 22 April 2006. In 1879 Scotland, the Doctor and Rose meet Queen Victoria...
". The Doctor tells Rose that humans are "big bags of water" and Rose replies by saying "I remember you saying something like that." In "Tooth and Claw", he tells her "You're 70% water and can still drown" (in response to using the moonlight to stop the werewolf).
- When Rose asks the Doctor if they can try to find out what happened with the Ascendant, he agrees, and she replies "I never knew — my wish really is your command" which echos a line in "Father's DayFather's Day (Doctor Who)"Father's Day" is the eighth episode in series one of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The episode was first broadcast on 14 May 2005...
", where the Doctor says "Your wish is my command."
- The Doctor is now able to resonate concrete (several times), even though he seemed to have trouble with it in "The Doctor DancesThe Doctor Dances"The Doctor Dances" is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on 28 May 2005. It is the second of a two-part story and saw Jack Harkness, played by John Barrowman, join the Doctor as a companion. The first part, "The Empty Child", was...
".
- The Doctor says "Ace-a-mundo — a word I shall hopefully never use again," which is similar to his line "Correct-a-mundo — a word I have never used before and, hopefully, never will again" in "School ReunionSchool Reunion (Doctor Who)"School Reunion" is the third episode in the second series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It first aired on 29 April 2006. The episode's narrative takes place some time after the events of "The Christmas Invasion"...
".
- At the start of chapter fifteen, Kelper says "We're going to need Torchwood," referring to the Torchwood story arcStory arcA story arc is an extended or continuing storyline in episodic storytelling media such as television, comic books, comic strips, boardgames, video games, and in some cases, films. On a television program, for example, the story would unfold over many episodes. In television, the use of the story...
.
- The Doctor uses his alias 'John Smith'.
- There are references to the events of the episode "Aliens of LondonAliens of London"Aliens of London" is the fourth episode of the first series of the British science fiction television show Doctor Who that was first broadcast on 16 April 2005. The Doctor takes Rose back to 21st century London, just in time to witness a spaceship crashing into the River Thames, triggering a...
" - specifically, Rose's "disappearance". This book explores what happened during that time.
Audio book
An abridged audio book version of The Feast of the Drowned, read by David TennantDavid Tennant
David Tennant is a Scottish actor. In addition to his work in theatre, including a widely praised Hamlet, Tennant is best known for his role as the tenth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who, along with the title role in the 2005 TV serial Casanova and as Barty Crouch, Jr...
, was released in July 2006 by BBC Audiobooks
BBC Audiobooks
BBC Audiobooks is a publisher of audiobooks and also a range of spoken word and large-print titles.BBC Audiobooks has published unabridged audio novels, and also the BBC Radio Collection which incorporates dramatisations and non-fiction output derived from BBC Radio programming.In 2010, BBC...
. Also included was an interview with the author by David Darlington.
The audio book version was given away free in two parts with two consecutive issues of Radio Times
Radio Times
Radio Times is a UK weekly television and radio programme listings magazine, owned by the BBC. It has been published since 1923 by BBC Magazines, which also provides an on-line listings service under the same title...
in December 2006 and January 2007. These versions omitted the interview.
See also
- New Series Adventures Canonicity
- WhoniverseWhoniverseWhoniverse, a portmanteau of the words "Who" and "universe", is a word used to describe the fictional setting of the television series Doctor Who, K-9 and Company, Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures and K-9, as well as other related stories...