Mad Dogs and Englishmen (novel)

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.

Characters

 * The Eighth Doctor
 * Fitz Kreiner
 * Anji Kapoor
 * Iris Wildthyme (alias Brenda Soobie)
 * Reginald Tyler
 * Fritter
 * A poodle archivist from the Dog World
 * Char
 * A poodle archivist from the Dog World
 * Professor Alid Jag
 * An aphid
 * Martha
 * Brenda Soobie’s (Iris Wildthyme) (dog world poodle) companion (for over 60 years).
 * Flossie
 * Noel Coward
 * William Freer
 * John Fuchas
 * Starves to death, forgotten about.
 * Ron Von Arnim
 * Is just a bit unstable.
 * Princess Margaret
 * A poodle (royal Poodle) from the Dog World
 * Mida Slike
 * Agent of MIAOW.
 * Holds a Chair of Bastardisation at the University of Outer Angila
 * Brewster
 * Cleavis
 * Enid Tyler
 * John Fuchas
 * Nöel Coward

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.

Continuity
Spearhead from Space, Planet of the Spiders, Terror of the Zygons, Pyramids of Mars, The Blue Angel, The Adventuress of Henrietta Street,

Timeline

 * This story takes place after EDA: The Adventuress of Henrietta Street
 * This story takes place before EDA: Hope