Millennium Shock (novel)

 was the twenty-second BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel. It featured the Fourth Doctor travelling alone, but an older Harry Sullivan also appears in the novel. This novel is also a sequel to the Virgin Missing Adventures novel System Shock.

Publisher's summary
''It's 1999 and the Millennium Bug is threatening to bring the world's computers to a standstill. Experts struggle to avert disaster, but a powerful force seems determined to work against them.''

As the government realises the full implications of Year 2000, one company seems to promise all the technological answers... but what exactly are the methods and motives behind the operation?

What is the connection between the Millennium Bug, a raid on a Russian nuclear base, a break-in at a British defence contractor, and a pen that Sarah-Jane Smith kept as a memento of a past adventure? The Doctor and Commander Harry Sullivan of MI5 must discover the truth before the world is plunged into a digital winter.

No longer just an expensive miscalculation, the Millennium Bug could also be the key to an alien take-over of Earth...

Plot
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Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Harry Sullivan
 * Mike Foley

Individuals

 * At some point prior to 1998 Sarah Jane Smith's aunt had died.
 * Terry Brooks is Prime Minister of Britain.
 * Harry Sullivan is older than when the Doctor last met him. He's still working for MI5.

Continuity

 * This novel is a sequel to MA: System Shock.

For the Doctor

 * Millennium Shock occurs after BE: The Stranger, The Writer, His Wife and the Mixed Metaphor.
 * Millennium Shock occurs contemporaneously with MA: Millennial Rites, DWM: Plastic Millennium, DW: Doctor Who (1996), IW: The Panda Invasion and part of TW: ''Fragments.
 * Millennium Shock occurs before VD: UNITed We Fall.

For Harry

 * Millennium Shock occurs after MA: System Shock.
 * Millennium Shock occurs before BFU: The Wasting.