The Bodysnatchers (novel)

The Bodysnatchers was the third BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures novel. It was the first novel to feature the Zygons who had previously appeared in 1975 Doctor Who television story Terror of the Zygons. It also featured an appearance of Professor George Litefoot whom the Fourth Doctor had met in the 1977 TV story The Talons of Weng-Chiang.

Publisher's summary
It is London, 1894. Amid the fog, cold and degradation, a gruesome business is being conducted. The bodies of the dead are being stolen from their graves - men, women and children alike - for the sinister purpose of a very mysterious gentleman.

When the Eighth Doctor and Sam arrive, they are witness to a horrifying scene in the evil-smelling fog: something rises up from the filthy waters of the Thames and devours a man - a man terrified for his life and on the run from the devil himself...

Teaming up with an old friend, pathologist Professor George Litefoot, the Doctor is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. Together with Sam, they discover there is a far graver threat facing London then just earthly grave robbers. Deadly alien beings the Doctor has encountered before are at work, and they bring a whole new twist to the word bodysnatchers...

Plot
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Characters

 * The Eighth Doctor
 * Samantha Jones
 * Professor George Litefoot
 * Albert Rudge
 * Balaak
 * Emmaline Seers
 * Jack Howe
 * Nathaniel Seers
 * Tom Donahue
 * Tuval

The Doctor's items

 * The Zygons destroy the Doctor's sonic screwdriver.

Fashion and clothing

 * Emmeline wears one of Leela's outfits that Litefoot kept from her visit.

Foods and beverages

 * The Doctor eats some gumblejack fish fritters.

Individuals

 * Samantha Jones is still seventeen. She wants the Doctor to be proud of her, and does all she can to appear brave to him.
 * Professor George Litefoot is almost sixty years old. He's still good friends with Henry Gordon Jago. He still lives at 4 Ranskill Gardens

Objects

 * The Doctor and Sam use Daxmoil suits to protect themselves in the Thames as they escape from the Zygon ship.

Species

 * The Xaranti are the enemies that wiped out the Zygons.
 * Zygons are from the planet Zygor.
 * Skarasens provide milk for the Zygons, baby Skarasens are thirty or forty feet long.

TARDIS

 * Sam's room in the TARDIS used to be Nyssa's.
 * The HADS is mentionned, and is used to prevent some Zygons to steal the TARDIS.

Continuity

 * Litefoot first appeared in DW: The Talons of Weng-Chiang.
 * The Zygons first appeared in DW: Terror of the Zygons.
 * The Xaranti appear in PDA: Deep Blue.
 * The Doctor tells Litefoot that Leela is married with children. (NA: Lungbarrow)
 * At the beginning of the story, the Doctor morosely evades Sam's enquiry into the Jack the Ripper's true identity. (PDA: Matrix)
 * The Doctor remembers being romanticly involved with Grace Holloway. (DW: Doctor Who)
 * The Doctor uses a Venusian lullaby. (DW: The Curse of Peladon)
 * The Doctor mentions his encounter with his fourth incarnation. (EDA: The Eight Doctors)

For the the Eighth Doctor and Sam

 * This story takes place after EDA: Vampire Science
 * This story takes place before EDA: Genocide

For Professor Litefoot

 * This story takes place after JAL: The Hourglass Killers