Time of Your Life (novel)

Time of Your Life was the eighth book in the Virgin Missing Adventures series. It featured the Sixth Doctor and Grant Markham. This is one of two novels in which Grant Markham appears. The second was Killing Ground.

Publisher's summary

 * "Organic bugs must be purged from the system," the screen told him. Then, more succinctly, "You die."

The Network broadcasts entertainment to the planets of the Meson system: Death-hunt 3000, Prisoner: The Next Generation, Bloodsoak Bunny... Sixteen channels, and not one of them worth watching. But for the citizens of poverty-stricken Torrok, television offers the only escape from a reality too horrible to face.

Angela, a young inhabitant of Torrok, leaps at the chance to travel to the Network with a hermit who calls himself the Doctor. However, all is not well on the giant, chaotic space station. A soap star has murdered his wife’s lover; the robotic regulars of Timeriders are performing random kidnappings; and a lethal new game show is about to go on the air.

Can the Doctor uncover the cause of the apparently random disturbances - or will his appearance as a competitor on Death-hunt 3000 be the last of his life?

Plot
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Characters

 * Sixth Doctor
 * Grant Markham
 * Krllxk
 * Angela Jennings
 * Anjor
 * Anson Hammond
 * Dan Brookes
 * Dominic Shepherd
 * Firn Kaerson
 * Giselle
 * Glynda
 * Jak Martyn
 * Mae Jordan
 * Miriam Walker
 * Nik Calvin
 * Raymond Day
 * Stuart Revell
 * Terry Marston

Cultural references from the real world

 * There are many real world references to the BBC and to Doctor Who's hiatus.
 * There's also a reference to Mary Whitehouse in the form of a character called Miriam Walker.

Continuity

 * The Doctor was put on trial by the Time Lords in DW: The Trial of a Time Lord and faced the Valeyard, an evil future incarnation of himself, in DW: The Ultimate Foe.
 * Reference is made to Drathro, the L3 maintenance robot in DW: The Mysterious Planet.
 * The Celestial Intervention Agency make an appearance, vaguely mimicking scenes seen (and heard) in DW: The Brain of Morbius and BFA: Blood of the Daleks.
 * The "shadow that hung heavy over the Doctor's future" may be a reference to the series' hiatus in 1985 or to the Valeyard.
 * The mass transit systems were outlawed long ago (NA: Transit).
 * The Doctor recalls the poison vines and acid baths on Varos (DW: Vengeance on Varos) and Lytton's death on Telos (DW: Attack of the Cybermen).

Timeline

 * Time of Your Life occurs immediately after DW: The Ultimate Foe
 * Time of Your Life occurs before MA: Killing Ground