The Time Travellers (novel)

The Time Travellers was the seventy-fourth BBC Past Doctor Adventures novel. It was written by Simon Guerrier. It featured the First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Susan.

Publisher's summary
"Have you ever thought what it's like to be wanderers in the fourth dimension, to be exiles?"

24 June, 2006. The TARDIS has landed in London. Ian and Barbara are almost back home. But this isn't the city they knew. This city is a ruin, torn apart by war. A war that the British are losing.

With his friends mistaken for vagrants and sentenced to death, the Doctor is press-ganged into helping perfect a weapon that might just turn the tables in the war. The British Army has discovered time travel. And the consequences are already devastating.

What has happened to the world that Ian and Barbara once knew? How much of the experiment do the Doctor and Susan really understand?

And, despite all the Doctor has said to the contrary, is it actually possible to change history?

Characters

 * The Doctor
 * Susan Foreman
 * Ian Chesterton
 * His national service number was 15110404.
 * Barbara Wright

Continuity

 * The dystopian future of this story is the result of the events of DW: The War Machines - here, WOTAN was successful in temporarily conquering the planet. It is strongly suggested, though not outright said, that this is in fact what was meant to happen to Earth and that the Doctor's involvement changed history.


 * Following an alternate version of DW: The Tenth Planet, the Cybermen now live permanently at the South Pole. The South Africans made a deal with them for weaponry.


 * The Doctor states that the time-warping events of this story will draw the attention of the Time Lords, and it's now more likely they'll find him; the Doctor now wants to find a safe place to leave Susan so she will not be found, a retroactive explanation for leaving her behind in DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth.


 * The epilogue of this novel follows the last scenes of DW: The Chase with Ian and Barbara on the bus.

Timeline

 * The Time Travellers occurs after DW: Planet of Giants.
 * The Time Travellers occurs before DW: The Dalek Invasion of Earth.