The Deal (short story)

 was a Sixth Doctor Brief Encounter published in the Doctor Who Yearbook (1992).

Summary
The Doctor and Mel travel to Vertipax to meet Mosca Ragazzo, an entrepreneur who has been hired by the Vervaloochenen to check the pollution levels on Earth, amongst other planets. The Doctor has been planting crop circles on Earth to convince the Vervaloochenen that the lazy Mosca has been visiting the planet and doing his job, so that Mosca's employers will believe that Earth does not need cleaning up; after all, they would consider humanity to be the pollution!

Characters

 * Sixth Doctor
 * Mel
 * Mosca Ragazzo

Continuity
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Timeline

 * This story occurs after ST: The Best Joke I Ever Told
 * This story occurs before DWM: A Wee Deoch an ...?