BASIC PLOT
The Doctor and Ace pitch up on a planet dominated by television in which, like it or not, they have their roles to play.

DOCTOR
Seventh.

COMPANIONS
Ace.

MATERIALISATION CIRCUIT
Pg 6 A field some way away from the city of Blinni-Gaar.

Pg 59 Blinni-Gaar's moon, Blinni-Orkos.

Pg 225 An empty office block in centre of town.

PREPARATORY READING
Survival, Storm Harvest.

CONTINUITY REFERENCES
Pg xii "Coralee was already a distant memory." Storm Harvest

"Daleks on Kar-Charrat. The Vendon war. Voord." The Genocide Machine, unknown reference, unrecorded adventure (but the Voord first appeared in The Keys of Marinus).

Pg 2 "He had always referred to his stolen time machine as home, but it was only since his tussle with the Master in Perivale -only since the planet of the Cheetah people - that he had really believed it." Survival.

Pg 4 "Tonight we investigate the increasing problem of Ogrons." The Day of the Daleks et al.

Pg 10 "A Guldarian farming drone." Also mentioned in Storm Harvest

Pg 18 "Remember the disaster on Coralee last year? He was the one who saved the colony. The Vendon peace treaty. Him. The Dalek problem out on the rim. Him. Peladon, Inter Minor - you name it." Storm Harvest, unknown, The Curse/Monster of Peladon, Carnival of Monsters.

Pg 24 "It didn't matter whether he was leading a crack troop of commandos in an all-out assault on a Dalek stronghold" You probably know who the Daleks are.

Pg 29 "A white haired old man, a slight figure in an Edwardian coat, a tall Bohemian with a long scarf." The first, fifth and fourth Doctors.

"He has been in combat with the Daleks and the Cybermen" Starting inThe Daleks and the Tenth Planet, respectively.

Pg 30 "Those of you who followed the Coralee disaster last year may not know it was the Doctor who was responsible for its successful resolution." Storm Harvest.

Pgs 35-36 "Ace had noticed with itnerest that Coralee had featured in several of the stories. That had made her smile." Storm Harvest.

Pg 41 "Doctor John Smith showing his ward the wonders of the universe again?" The Doctors inveterate alias (The Wheel in Space et al).

Pg 55 "'I don't think that you're a girl.' The Doctor shrugged. 'I could be one day.'" The Doctor does indeed become so in her thirteenth persona.

Pg 57 "'According to all my research, this version of the Doctor should be accompanied by a redhead by the name of Melanie Bush.'" Terror of the Vervoids et al.

Pg 58 "Some of the stuff hadn't been used since Yorkshire - the rock climbs on the beach with Jean and Phyllis. Before the H¾movores got them." The Curse of Fenric.

Pg 63 "Well, there's a Draconian takeaway on the corner" Frontier in Space.

"The Argolin restaurant was on the edge of Gatti's estate" The Leisure Hive.

Pg 65 "He talked about Iceworld, Coralee, Daleks, time paradoxes" Dragonfire, Storm Harvest, The Daleks et al, too many to name.

Pg 87 "The Master was obviously still infected by the Cheetah virus that had almost destroyed them both" Survival. But see Continuity Cock-Ups

Pg 91 "The last time we met you were trying to cure yourself by draining proteins and enzymes from helpless pensioners!" Short Trips: Stop The Pigeon.

Pg 108 "The Master shook his head. 'No a clone would have had all the faults and defects of this accursed Trakenite body.' 'That stolen Trakenite body.'" The Keeper of Traken. See Continuity Cock-Ups

Pg 131 "All she could see was Kara, dying from the wound from the Masters knife." Survival.

Pg 133 "Something was not right with his old enemy. Not just the Cheeteah infection, something else." Survival.

Pg 142 "Well, never mind, you just sit there and relax, because, Dorothy Gale, better known as Ace, one-time waitress on Iceworld, traveller in time and space, and now companion of the Doctor, This Was Your Life!" Dragonfire. But see Continuity Cock-Ups

Pg 145 "On the huge screen behind her was a picture of a Victorian house - Gabriel Chase, after the fire." Ghost Light.

Pg 147 "Ace's breath caught in her throat. The name on the grave was hers." This will be resolved in Loving the Alien.

Pg 160 "He could see humans and Draconians, Ice Warriors and Ogrons... the familiar studded shapes of Daleks casings." Frontier in Space, The Ice Warriors et al, Day of the Daleks et al, The Daleks et al.

Pg 227 "Him in London, during the blitz. Ace held up a photograph of herself from Iceworld." Illegal Alien, Dragonfire.

Pg 229 "Foamasi brandy?" The Leisure Hive.

Pg 234 "Ace. Dead. Not old, young, as she was now." Setup for Heritage and Loving the Alien.

"He had lost too many people, been responsible for too many deaths. Katarina, Sara, Adric." The Daleks' Masterplan, Earthshock.

OLD FRIENDS AND OLD ENEMIES
The Master.

NEW FRIENDS AND NEW ENEMIES
Roderik Shaarl, Barrock, Gatti Rooth, Gartrold Breame.

CONTINUITY COCK-UPS

1. If the Fleshsmiths can clone new bodies, why do they need to steal parts from others?
2. Pg 87 "The Master was obviously still infected by the Cheetah virus that had almost destroyed them both" Except that the Master cured himself in First Frontier.
3. Pg 108 "The Master shook his head. 'No a clone would have had all the faults and defects of this accursed Trakenite body.' 'That stolen Trakenite body.'" Except the Master regenerated in First Frontier.
4. Pg 142 "Well, never mind, you just sit there and relax, because, Dorothy Gale, better known as Ace, one-time waitress on Iceworld, traveller in time and space, and now companion of the Doctor, This Was Your Life!" Except Ace's surname was revealed to be McShane in the New Adventures.

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

1. They don't need to, they just like it.
2. The cure didn't take.
3. Nor did the regeneration.
4. Her father's surname was McShane and her mother's was Gale. She waffles back and forth between them.

FEATURED ALIEN RACES
The Blinnati, green-hued and vaguely reptillians humanoids.

Monteekans, humanoids with compound eyes who cannot smile. Their skin is usually blue but turns white when they're scared.

Zzinbriizi, a jackel-like race.

Fleshsmiths, sterile aliens whose bodies were corroded and who use transplant surgery to replace damaged body parts.

Pg 53 A twelve-foot high octopus.

Pg 229 Ogrons.

FEATURED LOCATIONS
Blinni-Gaar and its city of same name, c 4261.

Blinni-Orkos, Blinni-Gaar's moon.

Scrantek.

IN SUMMARY - Tim Snelling
Perry-less it may be but perilous it is. This story acts as a kind of sequel to Survival from the Master's point-of-view in which we are given quite the runaround in typical Doctor Who fashion with more depth, quite literally, to a TARDIS.