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Battlefield (Marc Platt)

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Battlefield is a novella written by Marc Platt. Released in 1991, it is a novelization of Ben Aaronovitch's Doctor Who serial of the same name.

Characters[]

  • Seventh Doctor
  • Ace
  • The Brigadier
  • Ancelyn ap Gwalchmai - the Knight Commander of King Arthur's forces during Battlefield.
  • Brigadier Winifred Bambera - UNIT's Brigadier during the 90s.
  • The Destroyer - a horned demon summoned by Morgaine.
  • Morgaine - a sorceress and the leader of the S'rax.

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Publisher's summary[]

Only a few years from now, a squad of UNIT troops is escorting a nuclear missile through the English countryside. At the nearby archaeological dig, knights in armour are fighting battles with broadswords – and guns and grenades.

The Doctor arrives on the scene and meets two old friends: Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart, called out of retirement to help in an emergency, and Bessie the souped-up roadster.

Ace escapes from death by drowning in a submerged spaceship, only to find herself at the mercy of a demon known as the Destroyer.

The action is fast and furious, as expected in a script by Ben Aaronovitch, who wrote the classic Remembrance of the Daleks. And why do the knights address the Doctor as 'Merlin'? What is the power of the sword that Ace retrieves from the bottom of the lake? Will Morgaine carry out her threat to destroy the world?

This novelization is by Marc Platt, who both scripted and novelized Ghost Light, the story that immediately followed Battlefield in the 1989 season.

In-universe continuity[]

  • The Brigadier previously appeared in The Five Doctors. He reappears in Downtime and in Paul Cornell's novel No Future (which is set somewhat earlier in the Brigadier's timeline).
  • The Doctor visited a similar Arthurian civilization in Steve Parkhouse's comic The Neutron Knights. He also visited Camelot in the annual short story The Creation of Camelot.
  • Brigadier Bambera reappears in Steve Lyons' novel Head Games and becomes one of the main characters of the series UNIT: Brave New World.
  • The Doctor's Merlinic incarnation appears in Nigel Robinson's novel Birthright.
  • What happened to King Arthur is explored in Peter David's short story One Fateful Knight.
  • Ace mentions the underwater spaceship from this episode in Mark Michalowski's novel Relative Dementias.

Sources[]

  • TARDIS Wiki
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