Byzantium! (novel)

 was the forty-fourth BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel. It featured the First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Vicki Pallister. Set at the beginning of DW: The Romans as the TARDIS falls off the cliff this is the first full length story that features Vicki as a 'companion'.

Publisher's summary
"Life is cheap in Byzantium. Life is cheap everywhere that the Romans are."

Byzantium. The imperial city - rising dramatically, as if by a trick of the light, from the peninsula of the Bosphorus and the Black Sea. Its domes and towers and minarets overlook a place of intrigue, lust, power, oppression, resistance and murder.

Romans, Greeks, Zealots, Pharisees ... all meet in the market squares of the great city, but mutual loathing and suspicion are rife.

Into this cauldron, the Doctor and his companions arrive, expecting to view the splendour and civilisation of the Roman Empire. But events cast them into a deadly maelstrom of social and political upheaval. In the eye of the hurricane they must each face the possibility of being stranded, alone and far from their own times, in an alien culture bunker.

Plot
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Characters

 * First Doctor
 * Ian Chesterton
 * Barbara Wright
 * Vicki Pallister

The Doctor

 * The Doctor has faced the "fifty-eight terrors of the universe".
 * The Doctor has been travelling in the TARDIS for sixty years, making him two hundred ninety-six during this story.

Individuals

 * Barbara compares Vicki to Susan Foreman.
 * There is a flash-forward scene which reveals Ian and Barbara will have a son, John Alydon Ganatus Chesterton.

Planets

 * The Doctor has visited Mondas.

Television series

 * Ian mentions The Morecambe & Wise Show.

Continuity

 * The novel reveals that Vicki's last name is Pallister; it was never mentioned in any televised episode.
 * Vicki states that her mother wanted to call her Tanni, but her father preferred Vicki. This is a sly reference to the fact that the new companion's name in DW: The Rescue was originally going to be Tanni.

Timeline

 * This story takes place after DW: The Rescue.
 * This story takes place before ST: Romans Cutaway.