Mawdryn Undead is a novella written by Peter Grimwade. Released in 1983, it is a novelization of Grimwade's Doctor Who serial of the same name.
Characters[]
- Fifth Doctor
- Tegan Jovanka
- Nyssa
- Vislor Turlough - an exile from the planet Trion secretly hired by the Black Guardian to kill the Doctor
- Mawdryn - a scientist who stole Time Lord technology to gain a form of immortality and whom was made into a walking corpse constantly trapped in a cycle of death and rebirth
- Allistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
- The Black Guardian
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Publisher's summary[]
The Doctor's time-travelling machine is trapped in the flight-path of an alien spacecraft in orbit around the Earth. To avoid the fatal impact of a head-on collision the TARDIS resorts to the only escape possible and materialises onboard the on-coming liner.
This solves the immediate problem, but a new difficulty arises - the TARDIS cannot get off the ship until a radio signal transmitting from Earth has been disconnected.
The Doctor sets off in a Transmat Capsule, having programmed the TARDIS to enable Tegan and Nyssa to follow him once he has dealt with the interference.
Naturally enough, things don't go quite as planned...
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Chapter 1: An Accidental Meeting[]
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In-universe continuity[]
- The Black Guardian previously appeared in The Armageddon Factor.
- This story starts a trilogy that also includes Terminus and Enlightenment.
- Perpetual regenerations also appeared in Underworld.
- Turlough's origins are revealed in more detail in Planet of Fire and also explored in Steve Cole's audio drama Kiss of Ice and Marc Platt's audio drama Eldrad Must Die!
- The Mary Celeste (seen in The Chase) and the Queen Mary (seen in Keith Topping's novella Ghost Ship) are mentioned.
- Brendon School is mentioned in David Bishop's novel Who Killed Kennedy.