Business Unusual

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Author(s):

Gary Russell

First Pub:

1997

Genre(s):

Science Fiction; Television Tie-In

First Read:

1998

Times Read:

Never (or unknown...)

Rating:

Internal ID:

827

Series:

The Ultimate Treasure
Illegal Alien

Doctor Who - Past Doctors*

#4 of 76

Doctor Who - Past Doctors*

A series of novels by BBC Worldwide featuring stories of the past Doctors for the television show Doctor Who.

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1) The Devil Goblins from Neptune
2) The Murder Game
3) The Ultimate Treasure
4) Business Unusual
5) Illegal Alien
6) The Roundheads
7) The Face of the Enemy
8) Eye of Heaven
9) The Witch Hunters
10) The Hollow Men
11) Catastrophea
12) Mission: Impractical
13) Zeta Major
14) Dreams of Empire
15) Last Man Running
16) Matrix
17) The Infinity Doctors
18) Salvation
19) The Wages of Sin
20) Deep Blue
21) Players
22) Millennium Shock
23) Storm Harvest
24) The Final Sanction
25) City at World's End
26) Divided Loyalties
27) Corpse Marker
28) Last of the Gaderene
29) Tomb of Valdemar
30) Verdigris
31) Grave Matter
32) Heart of TARDIS
33) Prime Time
34) Imperial Moon
35) Festival of Death
36) Independence Day
37) The King of Terror
38) The Quantum Archangel
39) Bunker Soldiers
40) Rags
41) The Shadow in the Glass
42) Asylum
43) Superior Beings
44) Byzantium!
45) Bullet Time
46) Psi-ence Fiction
47) Dying in the Sun
48) Instruments of Darkness
49) Relative Dementias
50) Drift
51) Palace of the Red Sun
52) Amorality Tale
53) Warmonger
54) Ten Little Aliens
55) Combat Rock
56) The Suns of Caresh
57) Heritage
58) Fear of the Dark
59) Blue Box
60) Loving the Alien
61) The Colony of Lies
62) Wolfsbane
63) Deadly Reunion
64) Scream of the Shalka
65) Empire of Death
66) The Eleventh Tiger
67) Synthespians™
68) The Algebra of Ice
69) The Indestructible Man
70) Match of the Day
71) Island of Death
72) Spiral Scratch
73) Fear Itself
74) World Game
75) The Time Travellers
76) Atom Bomb Blues

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This book introduces Mel. Mel was never given an introduction in the series, as she just "popped" onto the scene after the Trial of the Time Lord serial.

TARDIS: "After a few seconds - by which time she was worried in case she fainted from holding her breath - the Doctor entered the large room. Muttering to himself, he seemed to be pressing switches. After a few more seconds, Mel heard a sound quite unlike anything she had ever heard - maybe hundreds of trumpeting elephants, nearby and then far away, over and over again. Then silence, and she was aware of nothing but a soft hum and a few recurring clicks and whirls."

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Added: 01-Jan-2001

Last Updated: 27-Apr-2020

01-Sep-1997

BBC Books

Date Issued:

01-Sep-1997

Pages*:

277

Internal ID:

727

Publisher:

BBC Books

ISBN:

0-563-40575-9

ISBN-13:

978-0-563-40575-7

Country:

United Kingdom

Language:

English

Credits:

Black Sheep - Cover Artist

A security force with no official identity... a managing director with no name... a sinister creature on guard patrol resembling some kind of hellhound... SenèNet is no ordinary multinational company.

The Doctor arrives in Brighton, 1989, travelling alone. He soon discovers his old friend, the Brigadier, has gone missing investigating SenèNet, whose new interactive games console is soon to be released at an absurdly reasonable price. He was last seen at their headquarters - based in the picturesque Ashdown Forest...

Investigating further, the Doctor becomes more and more entangled in a deadly web of intrigue. Together with Mel, a plucky programmer from Pease Pottage, the Doctor must overcome the conspiracy of silence, rescue the Brigadier and save the world once again - something that would be a lot easier if her just knew where to start...

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