Downtime (novelisation)

Downtime by Marc Platt is a novelisation of the independent film Downtime, released under the Virgin Missing Adventures line. It is the second of two novelisations published under the line. The other is The Ghosts of N-Space.

Publisher's summary

 * Across the room, in a high-backed leather chair, Victoria saw the old man from the reading room. His face was curiously young for someone so long dead.

In 1966, the Doctor defeated the Great Intelligence, but he knew it wasn’t a final victory. And his companion Victoria, whose mind had once hosted the evil entity, might still fall prey to its power.

Now it seems that his fears are justified. In a Tibetan monastery, the monks display unearthly powers - UNIT are investigating. A new university has opened in London with a secret agenda that may threaten the whole country. Victoria, abandoned in an age very different from her own, and haunted by visions of a father she refuses to believe is dead, is slipping into despair and madness. But are the visions which plague her really hallucinations? Or has the Great Intelligence once again made Earth its target for invasion?

Characters

 * Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Victoria Waterfield
 * Sarah Jane Smith
 * Kate Lethbridge-Stewart
 * Gordon James Lethbridge-Stewart – known as 'Gordy'
 * Daniel Hinton
 * Ex-Flight Sergeant Haroldson – known as 'Harrods'
 * Professor Edward Travers
 * Captain Douglas Cavendish
 * Brigadier Charles Crichton
 * Christopher Rice
 * Anthony, the New World D.J.
 * Roxana Cywynski, Victoria's landlady
 * Celia, Brendon Public School secretary – known as 'Twickers'

Continuity

 * This story continues the events of DW: The Web of Fear, as well as concluding the 'Yeti trilogy' which began with The Abominable Snowmen.

Timeline

 * Downtime occurs after: TVC: The Wanderers
 * Downtime occurs before: ST: The Glass Princess

For the Second Doctor

 * Downtime occurs after: DW: Fury from the Deep
 * Downtime occurs before: ST: Twin Piques

For the Third Doctor

 * This is set after NA: All-Consuming Fire (novel)
 * This is set before ST: The Glass Princess