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Doctor Who and the Ribos Operation

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Doctor Who and the Ribos Operation is a novella written by Ian Marter. Released in 1979, it is a novelization of Robert Holmes' serial of the same name.

Characters[]

  • Fourth Doctor
  • Romana I - a Time Lord sent by the White Guardian to work with the Doctor in his hunt for the Key to Time
  • Garron - a human con artist
  • The Graff Vynda Ka - a Levithian tyrant seeking to buy back his rulership, named Vynda-K in the original serial
  • Unstoffe - Garron's lackey
  • Binro the Heretic - a homeless outcast who figures out that Ribos is a planet
  • The White Guardian - a being of immense power which represents order

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Publisher's summary[]

Reluctantly cancelling his well-earned holiday, the Doctor sets off in the TARDIS to trace and re-assemble the six segments of the Key to Time on which the stability of the entire Universe depends.

Assisted by the argumentative Romanadvoratrelundar and K9, he lands on the planet Ribos in search of the first segment and finds himself entangled in the machinations of two sinister strangers, Garron and the Graff Vynda Ka.

Who are they? Is Garron simply a shady confidence-trickster dealing in interplanetary real estate? Is the Graff Vynda Ka just a power-crazed exile bent on revenge? Or are they both really agents of the Black Guardian, intent upon seizing the precious Key in order to throw the Universe into eternal chaos?

Risking his life within the monster-infested catacombs of Ribos, the Doctor has to use all his wit and ingenuity to find out ...

Full summary[]

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In-universe continuity[]

  • The White and Black (who first appears in The Armageddon Factor) Guardians become recurring characters.
  • The Doctor returns to Ribos in Jonathan Barnes' audio drama The Ribos Inheritance.
  • Shlangii mercenaries (mentioned by the Graff) appear in Andy Lane's novel All-Consuming Fire.
  • Bartholomew's Planetary Gazetteer is mentioned again in Lawrence Miles' novel Alien Bodies and Mike Tucker's audio drama Professor Bernice Summerfield and the Bellotron Incident.
  • Levithians appear again in Justin Richards' short story The Twins in the Wood.

Sources[]

  • TARDIS Wiki
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