Mad Dogs and Englishmen

Mad Dogs and Englishmen is a novel written by Paul Magrs. Released in 2002, it is the fifty-second book in BBC Books' Eighth Doctor Adventures series and tells of alien intervention in the work of a fantasy author.

Characters[]

Eighth Doctor
Fitz Kreiner
Anji Kapoor
Reginald Tyler
Iris Wildthyme (or Brenda Soobie)
Noël Coward
Princess Margaret

rest to be added

Publisher's summary[]

"Grrrrr."

The greatest book ever written.

Professor Reginald Tyler's The True History of Planets was a twentieth-century classic; an epic of dwarves and swords and wizardry. And definitely no poodles. Or at least there weren't when the Doctor read it.

Now it tells the true tale of how the Queen of the poodles was overthrown; it's been made into a hit movie, and it's going to cause a bloodbath on the dogworld — unless the Doctor, Fitz and Anji (and assorted friends) can sort it all out.

The Doctor infiltrates the Smudgelings, Tyler's elite Cambridge writing set of the early twentieth century; Fitz falls for flamboyant torch singer Brenda Soobie in sixties Las Vegas, and Anji experiences some very special effects in seventies Hollywood. Their intention is to prevent the movie from ever being made. But there is a shadowy figure present in all three time zones who is just as determined to see it completed... so the poodle revolution can begin.

Full summary[]

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Continuity[]

Author's[]

MIAOW were first mentioned in Magrs' Doctor Who short story Bafflement and Devotion. They are a recurring group in Magrs' Iris Wildthyme stories.
Fox Soames appears in To the Devil - a Diva! and From Wildthyme with Love. He is mentioned in Magrs' Doctor Who short story Kept Safe and Sound.
Mida Slike reappears in various stories written by Magrs - usually alongside MIAOW.
Magrs wrote a somewhat direct sequel known as Fellowship of Ink.
The poodles reappear in various stories by Magrs.

Doctor Who[]

Fitz previously encountered Magrs and Jeremy Hoad's novel The Blue Angel.
Various adventures written by the Smudgelings mirror the Doctor's previous adventures
Iris mentions visiting the Doctor during the events of Lance Parkin's Father Time.

Sources[]

The Eighth Doctor Adventures
1997 The Eight Doctors, Vampire Science, The Bodysnatchers, Genocide, War of the Daleks, Alien Bodies 1998 Kursaal, Option Lock, Longest Day, Legacy of the Daleks, Dreamstone Moon, Seeing I, Placebo Effect, Vanderdeken's Children, The Scarlet Empress, The Janus Conjunction, Beltempest 1999 The Face-Eater, The Taint, Demontage, Revolution Man, Dominion, Unnatural History, Autumn Mist, Interference duology, The Blue Angel, The Taking of Planet 5, Frontier Worlds 2000 Parallel 59, The Shadows of Avalon, The Fall of Yquatine, Coldheart, The Space Age, The Banquo Legacy, The Ancestor Cell, The Burning, Casualties of War, The Turing Test, Endgame 2001 Father Time, Escape Velocity, EarthWorld, Vanishing Point, Eater of Wasps, The Year of Intelligent Tigers, The Slow Empire, Dark Progeny, The City of the Dead, Grimm Reality, The Adventuress of Henrietta Street 2002 Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Hope, Anachrophobia, Trading Futures, The Book of the Still, The Crooked World, History 101, Camera Obscura, Time Zero, The Infinity Race 2003 The Domino Effect, Reckless Engineering, The Last Resort, Timeless, Emotional Chemistry 2004 and 2005 Sometime Never..., Halflife, The Tomorrow Windows, The Sleep of Reason, The Deadstone Memorial, To the Slaughter, The Gallifrey Chronicles