BASIC PLOT
The Doctor and Jo find themselves on the wooded moon of Verd, where gravity isn't the only thing playing strange tricks.

DOCTOR
Third.

COMPANIONS
Jo Grant.

MATERIALISATION CIRCUIT
In the middle of Gravity Well Six, on the moon Verd (page 26).

The presence chamber, Verd (page 94).

PREPARATORY READING
None.

CONTINUITY REFERENCES
Pg 14 "Doctor, are you sure that's Metebelis III?" The Doctor is still trying to get Jo to Metebelis III at this point, as he was in most of Season 10.

Pg 15 "What do you call it, "the famous blue planet of the Acteon Galaxy"? I think I could use a holiday, after Spiridon." Metebelis III, first mentioned in Carnival of Monsters, Planet of the Daleks.

Pg 71 "And only now did she acknowledge, in her heart, just how much she had been tempted to leave the Doctor for a new life with Latep, at the end of their adventure on Spiridon. Oh, perhaps Latep had not been the right man. Bu Jo knew she wanted love." Planet of the Daleks. Foreshadowing The Green Death.

Pg 88 "Jo glimpsed Daleks, Sea Devils, Ice Warriors. She saw their friends drom UNIT, the Brigadier and Sergeant Benton and Mike Yates. She saw images of the Doctor's first two incarnations: the old, crotchety-looking man and the funny little mop-haired fellow, dressed like a tramp." Day of the Daleks, The Sea Devils, The Curse of Peladon, The Three Doctors.

Pg 103 Reference to Metebelis III.

"Again, as on Spiridon, the thought came to her that perhaps her days with the Doctor might be coming to an end." Planet of the Daleks and foreshadowing The Green Death.

OLD FRIENDS AND OLD ENEMIES
None.

NEW FRIENDS AND NEW ENEMIES
Ria, Tonio, Nora, mazy Grace, Gubrious, Peterkin, Weed, Sly, Duke Altero, Emperor Uxis Umane.

CONTINUITY COCK-UPS
None.

PLUGGING THE HOLES [Fan-wank theorizing of how to fix continuity cock-ups]
N/A

FEATURED ALIEN RACES
A Norebo Worm, which creates its own gravity. It is immense, with wings and many-coloured patterns on its body (page 99).

FEATURED LOCATIONS
The asteroid Verd, time unknown but likely the future.

The castle/rocket (page 97).

IN SUMMARY - Robert Smith?
Nightdreamers is decidedly odd. If it weren't for the fact that the author has a PhD in literature, you'd swear this was written by an eight year old who'd seen a few Shakespearean plays. However, there's something about the book that makes you like it in spite of itself. Evoking the era of the third Doctor and Jo through the childlike prose seems eerily appropriate for an era that most of us experienced when we were young. Rather charming.