A Big Hand for the Doctor (short story)

 was the first Puffin Eshort released to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who.

Publisher's summary
London, 1900. The First Doctor is missing both his hand and his granddaughter, Susan. Faced with the search for Susan, a strange beam of soporific light, and a host of marauding Soul Pirates intent on harvesting human limbs, the Doctor is promised a dangerous journey into a land he may never forget...

Plot
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Characters

 * First Doctor
 * Susan Foreman
 * Aldridge
 * Captain Douglas
 * Child 1
 * Child 2
 * Igby
 * Gomb
 * Soul Pirate Captain
 * The Doctor's mother
 * J. M. Barrie

The Doctor

 * The Doctor is given a bio-hybrid hand with only two fingers. After promising to work with Aldridge for four days, Aldridge gives him a temporary replacement, which is in fact a rather large girl's hand.
 * The Doctor complains about humans and buttons, and makes remarks about Velcro.
 * The Doctor recalls "the Inscrutable Doppelgänger fiasco", and the two-litres of TL-positive blood he'd had to part with.
 * The Doctor's costume has been chosen by a computer so that he may blend in "with the locals".
 * There has been a lot of death in the Doctor's life.
 * The Doctor has parked the TARDIS in Hyde Park.
 * The Doctor references in his head the school Hogwarts from the Harry Potter series, noting that no one would appreciate his reference for almost a century.
 * The Doctor's real hand was cut off by Soul Pirates. The Soul Pirates capture people in the night and make off with their body parts, not wasting a piece; thus derives their name, "the Soul Pirates".
 * There are numerous things that do not make the Doctor happy, including "chit-chat, answering questions in times of emergency, answering questions in times of complete calm, the paintings of Gallifreyan Subjunctivists..., the Earth spread known as Marmite, the human TV show Blake's 7, which was patently ludicrous, and the clammy, pungent squeeze of a Victorian London crowd." Susan Foreman is listed as one of the few things that could make him happy.
 * The Doctor has been hunting the Soul Pirates across time and space. The group that had cut off his hand were the last left on Earth, and had not seem him for 20 years. The Soul Pirates had a strong shielding case, making them undetectable. One piece of their shield had fallen off for a few minutes, giving the TARDIS time to find them.
 * The Doctor has a communicator watch.
 * The Doctor had been eaten twice before, on the same holiday, by blarph whales in Lake Rhonda who found it hilarious to swallow bathers and then pop them back out through their blow-holes.
 * The Doctor has a flashback to Gallifrey where his mother asked him to tell her about his adventures.
 * The Doctor screams "D'Arvit!" as a curse.
 * The Doctor tricks the computer into using its own anti-gravity ray on the ship itself, thus "end[ing]" the ship.
 * The Doctor receives a new hand, indistinguishable from being fake, except for a small pink line around the Doctor's wrist and, as Susan notes, it being "a little too big".

Susan

 * Susan Foreman follows after two children into the beam to try and save them.
 * Susan believes that she is going to see "mummy", and invites the Doctor to go with her.
 * Susan, in Aldrige's office, flicks her fingers against what looks like a tiny TARDIS. Aldrige claims that an octo-shark is inside it.

Aldridge

 * Aldridge closed his practice on Gallifrey because he found the Time Lords pompous, particularly in calling themselves "Time Lords".
 * Aldridge has a group of "amphibi-men" waiting for tail extensions in "the back".
 * Aldridge can shoots poisonous bristles out of his chin to knock out strangers. The police had taken to calling these adventures 'Stork Babies'.
 * Aldridge notes a time when the Doctor had laughed, when he was attacked by homicidal worms. The Doctor notes that the worms released nitrous oxide, and so he had laughed against his will.
 * Aldridge is a Xing surgeon.
 * Aldridge jokingly suggests that the Doctor regenerate, and that maybe the next one will have a better sense of humour, as well as a sense of fashion.
 * Aldridge offers to give the Doctor a less 'pronounced' nose.
 * Aldridge's middle name is "clumsy".
 * People believe that the children went missing because of "the curse".
 * The Soul Pirates have a tractor beam that uses a soporific agent to make whoever is in it to hallucinate.

Igby

 * Igby talks in the third person and calls the Doctor "white hair".
 * Igby has orange skin, reminding the Doctor "of the pungent, toxic goo twenty-first-century ladies chose to slather on their skin in the name of tan."
 * The Soul Pirate's motto is "We Never Land".
 * Igby's signature attack is to split his enemies heads with a blade. He marks on his arm the amount of times that he has done this attack. When he does it to the Doctor, the Doctor catches the blade in his hands.

Species

 * A Time Lord on Gallifrey called The Interior Designer once suggested that the "Time Lords" call themselves "Temperors" (A mix of "Emperors" and "Temporal") and was thus nicknamed the "Bad Temporer" for the rest of his quantum days.
 * Time Lord brains are worth a lot of money.

Miscellaneous

 * The Captain kept the Doctor's hand around his neck as a souvenir.
 * The epilogue reveals that the events of the book, from the children being trapped in the anti-gravity beam to the Doctor fighting off the captain, was being watched by J. M. Barrie, who would later write Peter Pan.

Continuity

 * The First Doctor loses his hand in a sword fight battle and has to have a new one made for him. The Tenth Doctor also lost his hand in a sword fight, although in his case his grew back. (TV: The Christmas Invasion)
 * The Doctor contemplates saying "Bah humbug," but notes that that catchphrase belongs to someone else. The Ninth Doctor would later meet Charles Dickens, saying "humbug" to him, and note that he was a fan. (TV: The Unquiet Dead) The Eleventh Doctor also used the plot of A Christmas Carol to get Kazran Sardick to save a crashing starliner. (TV: A Christmas Carol)
 * The Doctor occasionally sees visions of his future, and wishes that he was as fit and able as his future self. (TV: The Eleventh Hour et al) He considers that all of the "running down corridors" may have caused him to be more fit in the future. (TV: Castrovalva, TV: Vengeance on Varos, et al)