Prime Time (novel)

Prime Time

Author| Mike Tucker
Series| Doctor Who book:
Past Doctor Adventures

Release number

| 33
Subject| Featuring:
Seventh Doctor
Ace
Set in| Period between
Storm Harvest and Heritage
Publisher| BBC Books

Publication date

| July 2000
Pages| 234
ISBN| 0-563-55597-1
Preceded by| Heart of TARDIS
Followed by| Imperial Moon

Prime Time is a BBC Books original novel written by Mike Tucker and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. (1963-1989 & 2005-) It features the Seventh Doctor, played in the BBC TV Show by Sylvester McCoy,[1] and his companion Ace. It was published in July 2000 and follows the story of the pair on the zombie planet 'Blinni Gaar'.

## Synopsis[edit]

Detecting a mysterious sub-space signal in the Time Vortex, the Doctor and Ace land on the planet 'Blinni Gaar'. They soon discover that the native population are little more than zombies, addicted to the programmes of the dangerously powerful Channel 400. As the Doctor investigates, he finds that the television company has a sinister agenda that has nothing to do with entertainment.

## Continuity[edit]

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* The Master, a renegade timelord and the Doctor's arch-enemy is offered a new body by the Fleshsmiths, as he is infected by the Cheetah Virus, last seen in the story, Survival.
* The TARDIS, the time machine that the Doctor travels in, is revealed to have an onboard gym.
* The doctor who episode Bad Wolf (2005) bears similarities to this novel: mainly the fact the public are obsessed with reality and quiz shows on television.
* References are made to the Foamasi, who appears in the story The Leisure Hive. (1980)

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Past Doctor Adventures

First Doctor|

* The Witch Hunters
* Salvation
* City at World's End
* Bunker Soldiers
* Byzantium!
* Ten Little Aliens
* The Eleventh Tiger
* The Time Travellers

Second Doctor|

* The Murder Game
* The Roundheads
* Dreams of Empire
* The Final Sanction
* Heart of TARDIS
* Independence Day
* Dying in the Sun
* Combat Rock
* The Colony of Lies
* The Indestructible Man
* World Game

Third Doctor|

* The Devil Goblins from Neptune
* The Face of the Enemy
* Catastrophea
* The Wages of Sin
* Last of the Gaderene
* Verdigris
* Rags
* Amorality Tale
* The Suns of Caresh
* Deadly Reunion
* Island of Death

Fourth Doctor|

* Eye of Heaven
* Last Man Running
* Millennium Shock
* Corpse Marker
* Tomb of Valdemar
* Heart of TARDIS
* Festival of Death
* Asylum
* Psi-ence Fiction
* Drift
* Wolfsbane
* Match of the Day

Fifth Doctor|

* The Ultimate Treasure
* Zeta Major
* Deep Blue
* Divided Loyalties
* Imperial Moon
* The King of Terror
* Superior Beings
* Warmonger
* Fear of the Dark
* Empire of Death

Sixth Doctor|

* Business Unusual
* Mission: Impractical
* Players
* Grave Matter
* The Quantum Archangel
* The Shadow in the Glass
* Instruments of Darkness
* Palace of the Red Sun
* Blue Box
* Synthespians™
* Spiral Scratch

Seventh Doctor|

* Illegal Alien
* The Hollow Men
* Matrix
* Storm Harvest
* Prime Time
* Independence Day
* Bullet Time
* Relative Dementias
* Heritage
* Loving the Alien
* The Colony of Lies
* The Algebra of Ice
* Atom Bomb Blues

Eighth Doctor|

* Wolfsbane
* Fear Itself

Other|

* The Infinity Doctors
* Scream of the Shalka

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Doctor Who: Seventh Doctor stories

Television

| Season 24|

* Time and the Rani
* Paradise Towers
* Delta and the Bannermen
* Dragonfire

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Season 25|

* Remembrance of the Daleks
* The Happiness Patrol
* Silver Nemesis
* The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

Season 26|

* Battlefield
* Ghost Light
* The Curse of Fenric
* Survival

Minor appearances|

* Doctor Who
* "The Day of the Doctor"

See also|

* Dimensions in Time
* "The Name of the Doctor"

Audio

| The Monthly Adventures|

* The Sirens of Time
* The Fearmonger
* The Genocide Machine
* The Fires of Vulcan
* The Shadow of the Scourge
* Dust Breeding
* Colditz
* The Rapture
* Bang-Bang-a-Boom!
* The Dark Flame
* Project: Lazarus
* Flip-Flop
* Master
* Zagreus
* The Harvest
* Dreamtime
* Unregenerate!
* LIVE 34
* The Settling
* Red
* No Man's Land
* Nocturne
* Valhalla
* The Dark Husband
* The Death Collectors & Spider's Shadow
* Kingdom of Silver & Keepsake
* Forty-Five
* The Prisoner's Dilemma
* The Magic Mousetrap
* Enemy of the Daleks
* The Angel of Scutari
* A Thousand Tiny Wings
* Bernice Summerfield and the Criminal Code
* The Architects of History
* Project: Destiny
* Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge
* Crime of the Century
* Robophobia
* The Doomsday Quatrain
* House of Blue Fire
* Protect and Survive
* Black and White
* Gods and Monsters
* Love and War
* The Shadow Heart
* Daleks Among Us
* The Highest Science
* Damaged Goods
* Theatre of War
* All-Consuming Fire
* Fiesta of the Damned
* Cold Fusion

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The Lost Stories|

* Thin Ice
* Animal
* Earth Aid

Other|

* Death Comes to Time
* Last of the Titans
* Excelis Decays
* Return of the Daleks
* The Final Amendment
* The Four Doctors
* UNIT: Dominion
* Shockwave
* The Light at the End
* Harvest of the Sycorax
* The Dairy of River Song
* Doom Coalition

Minor appearances|

* The Wormery
* Thicker Than Water

Books

| Virgin Missing Adventures|

* Cold Fusion

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Virgin New Adventures|

* Timewyrm: Genesys
* Timewyrm: Exodus
* Timewyrm: Apocalypse
* Timewyrm: Revelation
* Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible
* Cat's Cradle: Warhead
* Cat's Cradle: Witch Mark
* Nightshade
* Love and War
* Transit
* The Highest Science
* The Pit
* Deceit
* Lucifer Rising
* White Darkness
* Shadowmind
* Birthright
* Iceberg
* Blood Heat
* The Dimension Riders
* The Left-Handed Hummingbird
* Conundrum
* No Future
* Tragedy Day
* Legacy
* Theatre of War
* All-Consuming Fire
* Blood Harvest
* Strange England
* First Frontier
* St Anthony's Fire
* Falls the Shadow
* Parasite
* Warlock
* Set Piece
* Infinite Requiem
* Sanctuary
* Human Nature
* Original Sin
* Sky Pirates!
* Zamper
* Toy Soldiers
* Head Games
* The Also People
* Shakedown
* Just War
* Warchild
* Sleepy
* Death and Diplomacy
* Happy Endings
* GodEngine
* Christmas on a Rational Planet
* Return of the Living Dad
* The Death of Art
* Damaged Goods
* So Vile a Sin
* Bad Therapy
* Eternity Weeps
* The Room with No Doors
* Lungbarrow

Past Doctor Adventures|

* Illegal Alien
* The Hollow Men
* Matrix
* Storm Harvest
* Prime Time
* Independence Day
* Bullet Time
* Relative Dementias
* Heritage
* Loving the Alien
* The Colony of Lies
* The Algebra of Ice
* Atom Bomb Blues

Novellas|

* Citadel of Dreams
* Companion Piece

Video games

* Dalek Attack
* Destiny of the Doctors
* Legacy
* Lego Dimensions

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Doctor Who: The Master stories

Television

| Third Doctor|

* Terror of the Autons
* The Mind of Evil
* The Claws of Axos
* Colony in Space
* The Dæmons
* The Sea Devils
* The Time Monster
* Frontier in Space

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Fourth Doctor|

* The Deadly Assassin
* The Keeper of Traken
* Logopolis

Fifth Doctor|

* Castrovalva
* Time-Flight
* The King's Demons
* The Five Doctors
* Planet of Fire

Sixth Doctor|

* The Mark of the Rani
* The Trial of a Time Lord
* The Ultimate Foe

Seventh Doctor|

* Survival

Eighth Doctor|

* Doctor Who

Tenth Doctor|

* "Utopia" / "The Sound of Drums" / "Last of the Time Lords"
* "The End of Time"

Twelfth Doctor|

* "Dark Water" / "Death in Heaven"
* "The Magician's Apprentice" / "The Witch's Familiar"
* "Extremis"
* "The Lie of the Land"
* "World Enough and Time" / "The Doctor Falls"

Thirteenth Doctor|

* "Spyfall"
* "Ascension of the Cybermen" / "The Timeless Children"

Minor appearances|

* The Caves of Androzani
* "Deep Breath"
* "Into the Dalek"
* "The Caretaker"
* "Flatline"
* "In the Forest of the Night"
* "Empress of Mars"
* "The Eaters of Light"

See also|

* The Curse of Fatal Death
* Scream of the Shalka

Audio

| First Doctor|

* The Destination Wars

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Fourth Doctor|

* Trail of the White Worm / The Oseidon Adventure
* The Evil One
* Requiem for the Rocket Men / Death Match

Fifth Doctor|

* Smoke and Mirrors

Sixth Doctor|

* The Hollows of Time
* The End of the Line

Seventh Doctor|

* Dust Breeding
* Master

Eighth Doctor|

* Time's Horizon
* Eyes of the Master
* The Death of Hope
* The Reviled
* Masterplan
* Rule of the Eminence
* The Monster of Montmarte
* Master of the Daleks

UNIT|

* Dominion
* Mastermind
* Master of Worlds

Jago & Litefoot|

* The Museum of Curiosities
* Jago & Son
* Maurice
* The Woman in White
* Masterpiece

Other|

* Sympathy for the Devil
* The Devil You Know
* The Light at the End
* The War Master
* The Diary of River Song

Books

| Second Doctor|

* The Dark Path

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Third Doctor|

* Who Killed Kennedy
* The Face of the Enemy
* "Freedom"
* Last of the Gaderene
* Verdigris
* "Hidden Talent"
* Deadly Reunion
* Harvest of Time

Fourth Doctor|

* "The Duke of Dominoes"

Fifth Doctor|

* "A Town Called Eternity"

Sixth Doctor|

* The Quantum Archangel
* Time's Champion

Seventh Doctor|

* First Frontier
* "Housewarming"
* Happy Endings
* "Stop the Pigeon"
* Prime Time

Eighth Doctor|

* The Eight Doctors
* Legacy of the Daleks
* The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
* Sometime Never...
* The Deadstone Memorial
* The Gallifrey Chronicles
* "Forgotten"

Tenth Doctor|

* The Story of Martha

Other|

* The Infinity Doctors

Video games

* Destiny of the Doctors
* Legacy

## References[edit]

1. ^ "BBC - Doctor Who - Classic Series - Episode Guide - Seventh Doctor Index". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 12 May 2022.

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