Millennium Shock
In the last days on the year 1999 the Doctor returns to Earth just as hype and nervousness about the Millennium Bug are at their peak. Everyone is afraid that the world will end, computers will crash, but a computer company that bought up all the reamining stock and product of the failed I2 company claims to have it all covered. The Doctor chances to meet Harry Sullivan again and together they realize that a fragment of the Voractyll intelligence has survived in a microchip inside a pen that Sarah kept, and the alien invasion is on again with the Millennium Bug as the perfect opportunity to conquer Earth.
More fun with Harry returning once more, but this time for the last time. This is the first time that a direct link has been made between the snuffed-out Virgin Missing Adventures range and the new BBC Books with author Justin Richards creating a sequel to his own System Shock. Now we all lived through the New Years Eve in question so we know that the mass power failures and chaos that the book shows us never did happen, but if we want to take the "alternative universe" route and put this one not exactly within the accepted Doctor Who timeline but beside it, it would fit. But hey we're suspending disbelief here, and there are further moments of chaos in the series set on the very same evening that come with their own crises.
Millennium Shock takes place alongside the Fox TV movie that introduced the eighth Doctor, as played by Paul McGann, and at the same time as the novel of the spinoff video production Downtime, although it is more directly linked with the latter. Writers working at Virgin and in the early days of the BBC Books launch seemed to have some kind of conspiracy to wind their tales set in the late 1990s together into a "future history" tapestry, starting with the spinoff Downtime (which has its own immediate links to The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear) and moving to Battlefield from the 1989 season (which was set in 1996 or thereabouts) and tying in with Millennial Rites with the sixth Doctor and his companion engaged in their own struggle against the forces of darkness at the dawn of the year 2000. The links are well maintained throughout all of the stories even if one of them is a bit on the sketchy side when it comes to its actual plot. But I won't give that one away just yet.
So that's Harry for the last time. He hasn't changed, although he's been promoted to Commander with MI5 now, which is a real career switch for a humble naval medical officer who was moved to UNIT in the 1970's. Perhaps the Doctor's influence on his life is what affected him and made him the man he eventually became. The Doctor would like to think so.
But what happens when the Doctor meets a companion from his future who has already left him before he has met her...?
NEXT EPISODE : ASYLUM
More fun with Harry returning once more, but this time for the last time. This is the first time that a direct link has been made between the snuffed-out Virgin Missing Adventures range and the new BBC Books with author Justin Richards creating a sequel to his own System Shock. Now we all lived through the New Years Eve in question so we know that the mass power failures and chaos that the book shows us never did happen, but if we want to take the "alternative universe" route and put this one not exactly within the accepted Doctor Who timeline but beside it, it would fit. But hey we're suspending disbelief here, and there are further moments of chaos in the series set on the very same evening that come with their own crises.
Millennium Shock takes place alongside the Fox TV movie that introduced the eighth Doctor, as played by Paul McGann, and at the same time as the novel of the spinoff video production Downtime, although it is more directly linked with the latter. Writers working at Virgin and in the early days of the BBC Books launch seemed to have some kind of conspiracy to wind their tales set in the late 1990s together into a "future history" tapestry, starting with the spinoff Downtime (which has its own immediate links to The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear) and moving to Battlefield from the 1989 season (which was set in 1996 or thereabouts) and tying in with Millennial Rites with the sixth Doctor and his companion engaged in their own struggle against the forces of darkness at the dawn of the year 2000. The links are well maintained throughout all of the stories even if one of them is a bit on the sketchy side when it comes to its actual plot. But I won't give that one away just yet.
So that's Harry for the last time. He hasn't changed, although he's been promoted to Commander with MI5 now, which is a real career switch for a humble naval medical officer who was moved to UNIT in the 1970's. Perhaps the Doctor's influence on his life is what affected him and made him the man he eventually became. The Doctor would like to think so.
But what happens when the Doctor meets a companion from his future who has already left him before he has met her...?
NEXT EPISODE : ASYLUM
Labels: Harry Sullivan, The 4th Doctor
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