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|name= Asylum
 
 
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|series=[[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]]
 
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|featuring=[[Nyssa]]
 
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|setting={{il|[[London]], the [[England|Kingdom of England]], [[Earth]], [[1346]]|Unnamed planet, [[35th century|3488]]|[[London]], the [[England|Kingdom of England]], [[Earth]], [[1278]]}}
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|setting=[[London]], [[1346]] and [[1278]]; [[Planet (Asylum)|Unnamed planet]], [[3488]]
 
|writer= [[Peter Darvill-Evans]]
 
|writer= [[Peter Darvill-Evans]]
|publisher= [[BBC Books]]
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|publisher= BBC Books
|release date= [[May]] [[2001]]
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|release date= [[7 May (releases)|7 May]] [[2001 (releases)|2001]]
|format= Paperback Book, ? Pages
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|format= Paperback Book; 10 Chapters, 254 Pages
 
|isbn= ISBN 0-563-53833-3
 
|isbn= ISBN 0-563-53833-3
 
|prev=The Shadow in the Glass (novel)
 
|prev=The Shadow in the Glass (novel)
|next=Superior Beings (novel)}}
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}}{{prose stub}}{{dab page|Asylum (disambiguation)}}
'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the forty-second [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] novel. It featured the [[Fourth Doctor]]. It also featured [[Nyssa]] ''after'' she had departed travelling with the [[Fifth Doctor]].
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the forty-second novel in the [[BBC Past Doctor Adventures]] series. It was written by [[Peter Darvill-Evans]], released [[7 May]] [[2001 (releases)|2001]] and featured the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Nyssa]].
   
 
== Publisher's summary ==
 
== Publisher's summary ==
''My view,' said the [[Fourth Doctor]], 'is that you can run - in fact it's often by far the best option - but you can't hide. I'll see myself out.''
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''"My view," said [[Fourth Doctor|the Doctor]], "is that you can run in fact it's often by far the best option but you can't hide. I'll see myself out."''
   
 
''[[Nyssa]] felt a pang of disappointment. He had gone. She would probably never see him again.''
 
''[[Nyssa]] felt a pang of disappointment. He had gone. She would probably never see him again.''
   
The [[Oxford|town of Oxford]] in AD 1278 seems a haven of tranquillity. Under the summer sun, merchants, students and clerics go about their daily, unhurried tasks. [[Alfric]], the proctor of the [[Franciscan]] friary, has only two minor problems: one of the friars has gone missing, and there's a travelling showman, calling himself the Doctor, with a pretty young noblewoman by his side, attracting crowds in the narrow streets.
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The [[Oxford|town of Oxford]] in AD [[1278]] seems a haven of tranquillity. Under the summer sun, merchants, students and clerics go about their daily, unhurried tasks. [[Alfric]], the proctor of the [[Franciscan]] friary, has only two minor problems: one of the friars has gone missing, and there's a travelling showman, calling himself the Doctor, with a pretty young noblewoman by his side, attracting crowds in the narrow streets.
   
 
When the missing friar is found dead, the Doctor is convinced he has been murdered. There is a ruthless killer at large, and Alfric reluctantly teams up with the Doctor to track him down.
 
When the missing friar is found dead, the Doctor is convinced he has been murdered. There is a ruthless killer at large, and Alfric reluctantly teams up with the Doctor to track him down.
   
Their investigation leads towards the most celebrated of the Franciscan brotherhood: [[Roger Bacon]], famed throughout [[Christianity|Christendom]] as a scholar - and, in the far future, the subject of a revolutionary thesis by [[technographer]] [[Nyssa]] of Traken.
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Their investigation leads towards the most celebrated of the Franciscan brotherhood: [[Roger Bacon]], famed throughout [[Christianity|Christendom]] as a scholar and, in the far future, the subject of a revolutionary thesis by [[technographer]] Nyssa of [[Traken]]
   
 
== Plot ==
 
== Plot ==
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== Characters ==
 
== Characters ==
*[[Fourth Doctor]]
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* [[Fourth Doctor]]
*[[Nyssa]]
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* [[Nyssa]]
*Brother [[Alfric]]
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* Brother [[Alfric]]
*[[Richard of Hockley]]
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* [[Guy de Marenne]]
*[[Roger Bacon]]
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* [[Richard of Hockley]]
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* [[Roger Bacon]]
*Brother [[Oswald (Asylum)|Oswald]]
 
*Lady [[Matilda (Asylum)|Matilda]]
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* Brother [[Oswald (Asylum)|Oswald]]
*Brother [[Thomas (Asylum)|Thomas]]
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* Lady [[Matilda (Asylum)|Matilda]]
*Brother [[Hubert (Asylum)|Hubert]]
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* Brother [[Thomas (Asylum)|Thomas]]
 
* Brother [[Hubert (Asylum)|Hubert]]
*[[The Chancellor]]
 
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* Chancellor [[Philip of Seaby]]
*Brother [[Godwin]]
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* Brother [[Godwin (Asylum)|Godwin]]
   
 
== References ==
 
== References ==
 
* The Doctor passes himself as a monk of the house of [[Prydon]] and swears on the [[sash of Rassilon]].
* The Fourth Doctor is travelling alone.
 
* He passes himself as a monk of the house of [[Prydon]] and swears on the [[sash of Rassilon]].
 
   
 
== Notes ==
 
== Notes ==
 
* The Doctor is travelling alone in this story.
''to be added''
 
   
 
== Continuity ==
 
== Continuity ==
* Later in the Doctor's personal timeline, towards the end of his fourth incarnation, he would meet Nyssa for the first time from her perspective on [[Traken]] in [[1981]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken]]'') In Nyssa's personal timeline, the events of this story take place many years after she parted company with the [[Fifth Doctor]] on [[Terminus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'')
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* Later in the Doctor's personal timeline, towards the end of his fourth incarnation, he would meet Nyssa for the first time from her perspective on [[Traken]] in [[1981]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken]]'') In Nyssa's personal timeline, the events of this story take place many years after she parted company with the Fifth Doctor on [[Terminus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terminus (TV story)|Terminus]]'')
* Nyssa had previously been reunited with the Doctor, then in his fifth incarnation, on [[Gallifrey]] after being transported to an alternative [[Death Zone]] by [[Borusa]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Five Companions]]'') She would subsequently meet the Fifth Doctor in her mind shortly before his [[regeneration]] into his [[Sixth Doctor|sixth incarnation]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Winter (audio story)|Winter]]'') Later still in her personal timeline but earlier in his, she would re-join him as one of his companions. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cobwebs]]'')
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* Nyssa had previously been reunited with the Doctor, then in his fifth incarnation, on [[Gallifrey]] after being transported to an alternative [[Death Zone]] by [[Borusa]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Five Companions (audio story)|The Five Companions]]'') She would subsequently meet the Fifth Doctor in his mindscape during his [[regeneration]] into his [[Sixth Doctor|sixth incarnation]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Winter (audio story)|Winter]]'') Later still in her personal timeline but earlier in his, she would re-join him as one of his companions. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Cobwebs (audio story)|Cobwebs]]'')
* Nyssa recalls the Doctor's regeneration into his fifth incarnation ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]''), visiting [[England]] in [[September]] [[1666]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Visitation]]'') and [[June]] [[1925]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Black Orchid (TV story)|Black Orchid]]'') and killing several [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock]]'').
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* Nyssa recalls the Doctor's regeneration into his fifth incarnation, ([[TV]]: ''[[Logopolis (TV story)|Logopolis]]'') visiting [[England]] in [[September]] [[1666]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Visitation (TV story)|The Visitation]]'') and [[June]] [[1925]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Black Orchid (TV story)|Black Orchid]]'') and killing several [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] in [[2526]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Earthshock (TV story)|Earthshock]]'')
   
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
*{{dwrefguide|whobbk42.htm|Asylum}}
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* [http://mysite.science.uottawa.ca/rsmith43/cloister/asylum.htm The Cloister Library: '''Asylum''']
   
 
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Revision as of 05:00, 14 February 2020

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Asylum was the forty-second novel in the BBC Past Doctor Adventures series. It was written by Peter Darvill-Evans, released 7 May 2001 and featured the Fourth Doctor and Nyssa.

Publisher's summary

"My view," said the Doctor, "is that you can run — in fact it's often by far the best option — but you can't hide. I'll see myself out."

Nyssa felt a pang of disappointment. He had gone. She would probably never see him again.

The town of Oxford in AD 1278 seems a haven of tranquillity. Under the summer sun, merchants, students and clerics go about their daily, unhurried tasks. Alfric, the proctor of the Franciscan friary, has only two minor problems: one of the friars has gone missing, and there's a travelling showman, calling himself the Doctor, with a pretty young noblewoman by his side, attracting crowds in the narrow streets.

When the missing friar is found dead, the Doctor is convinced he has been murdered. There is a ruthless killer at large, and Alfric reluctantly teams up with the Doctor to track him down.

Their investigation leads towards the most celebrated of the Franciscan brotherhood: Roger Bacon, famed throughout Christendom as a scholar — and, in the far future, the subject of a revolutionary thesis by technographer Nyssa of Traken

Plot

to be added

Characters

References

Notes

  • The Doctor is travelling alone in this story.

Continuity

External links