Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)

Mad Dogs and Englishmen was the fifty-second novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Paul Magrs. It featured the Eighth Doctor, Fitz Kreiner and Anji Kapoor.

Publisher's summary
"Grrrrr."

The greatest book ever written.

Professor Reginald Tyler's The True History of Planets was a twentieth-century classic; an epic of dwarves and swords and wizardry. And definitely no poodles. Or at least there weren't when the Doctor read it.

Now it tells the true tale of how the Queen of the poodles was overthrown; it's been made into a hit movie, and it's going to cause a bloodbath on the Dog World — unless the Doctor, Fitz and Anji (and assorted friends) can sort it all out.

The Doctor infiltrates the Smudgelings, Tyler's elite Cambridge writing set of the early twentieth century; Fitz falls for flamboyant torch singer Brenda Soobie in sixties Las Vegas, and Anji experiences some very special effects in seventies Hollywood. Their intention is to prevent the movie from ever being made. But there is a shadowy figure present in all three time zones who is just as determined to see it completed... so the poodle revolution can begin.

Plot
to be added

Characters

 * Eighth Doctor
 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Anji Kapoor
 * Iris Wildthyme (alias Brenda Soobie)
 * Reginald Tyler
 * John Cleavis
 * Enid Tyler
 * Fritter
 * Char
 * Professor Alid Jag
 * Martha
 * Flossie
 * Noël Coward
 * William Freer
 * John Fuchas
 * Ron Von Arnim
 * Princess Margaret
 * Mida Slike
 * Brewster

Books

 * The True History of Planets was a book about elves and magic, until it was rewritten as a text to support a revolution on Dog World.

The Doctor

 * The Doctor tells Enid Tyler that he is from somewhere in the south of Ireland beginning with the letter G.

Earth mammals

 * The Doctor was responsible for the repopulation of Britain by the wild boar in 1987.

Foods and beverages from the real world

 * Freer eats mock turtle soup.

Individuals

 * Fritter and Char are poodle archivists from the Dog World.
 * Everyone is a little bit disgusted when it is revealed that novelist William Freer and Princess Margaret had been lovers since 1932.

Organisations

 * Mida Slike is an agent of Ministry for Incursions and Ontological Wonders.
 * Professor Alid Jag is of an aphid-like species and also an agent of MIAOW.

Planets

 * Karim is a planet inhabited by lobster-people.

Species

 * The Doctor accidentally created the Tusken race.

Towns and cities

 * Whitby is a town in North Yorkshire.

Time travel

 * Noel Coward has a set of pinking shears that allow him to time travel.

Colleges and universities

 * Mida Slike holds a Chair of Bastardisation at the University of Outer Angila.

Continuity

 * MIAOW were previously mentioned in PROSE: Bafflement and Devotion.
 * The Doctor still has a beard. (PROSE: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street)
 * The Doctor's earliest memory is of waking up on a train. (PROSE: The Ancestor Cell)
 * Iris mentions coming to visit the Doctor in the nineteen-eighties, but the Doctor couldn't remember it. (PROSE: Father Time)
 * Fitz somewhat remembers his previous encounter with Iris Wildthyme. (PROSE: The Blue Angel)