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|series = ''[[Brief Encounter]]''
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|main character = [[Gustave Lytton]]
|name=Mistaken Identity
 
 
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|setting = [[London|East London]], [[1984]]
|main character= [[Gustave Lytton]]
 
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|writer = [[Gary Russell]]
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|illustrator = [[Tim Keable]]
|year=A pub close to Walford Station, [[London|East London]], [[1984]]
 
|writer=[[Gary Russell]]
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|publication = [[DWM 176]]
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|release date = [[11 July (releases)|11 July]] [[1991 (releases)|1991]]
|illustrator=[[Tim Keable]]
 
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|cover date = [[7 August (releases)|7 August]] [[1991 (releases)|1991]]
|publication=[[DWM 176]]
 
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'''''Mistaken Identity''''' was a ''[[Brief Encounter]]'' short story printed in [[DWM 176]].
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'''''Mistaken Identity''''' was a ''[[Brief Encounter]]'' short story published in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 176|176]].
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== Summary ==
 
== Summary ==
[[Gustave Lytton]] arrives at a pub close to Walford Station in East London to meet a potential new employee named [[Joe Payne]]. While waiting, he notices that the barman bears a strong resemblance to [[Kiston]] and can't help wondering if it ''is'' him. Payne fails to arrive and Lytton, satisfied that the barman is not Kiston after all, leaves the pub and heads for Walford Station where he is joined by two male police officers.
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[[Gustave Lytton]] arrives at a [[pub]] close to [[Walford Station]] in [[East London]] to meet a potential new employee named [[Joe Payne]]. While waiting, he notices that the barman bears a strong resemblance to [[Kiston]] and can't help wondering if it ''is'' him. Payne fails to arrive and Lytton, satisfied that the barman is not Kiston after all, leaves the pub and heads for Walford Tube Station where he is joined by two male [[police officer]]s.
   
 
== Characters ==
 
== Characters ==
* Gustave Lytton
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* [[Gustave Lytton]]
:* Is at the pub to meet a man called Joe Payne.
 
   
 
== References ==
 
== References ==
 
* Lytton recalls his work for the [[Dalek]]s and capturing [[Davros]].
 
* Lytton recalls his work for the [[Dalek]]s and capturing [[Davros]].
 
* Since being stranded on [[Earth]], Lytton has rarely moved outside his [[West London]] base of operations.
 
* Since being stranded on [[Earth]], Lytton has rarely moved outside his [[West London]] base of operations.
* Lytton wonders if the barman is in fact Kiston.
 
   
 
== Notes ==
 
== Notes ==
* This is the first crossover between ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[EastEnders]]''. It predates [[TV]]: ''[[Dimensions in Time]]'' by more than two years and the ''[[National Television Awards Sketch 2011|National Television Awards Sketch]]'' by nearly nineteen years.
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* This is the first crossover between ''[[Doctor Who]]'' and ''[[EastEnders]]''. It predates the television story ''[[Dimensions in Time (TV story)|Dimensions in Time]]'' by more than two years and ''[[Dermot and the Doctor (TV story)|Dermot and the Doctor]]'' by nearly nineteen years.
* As ''EastEnders'' is depicted in ''[[Army of Ghosts (TV story)|Army of Ghosts]]'' as being only a soap opera, this story should perhaps be regarded as "imaginary" rather than as "canon".
 
   
 
== Continuity ==
 
== Continuity ==
* Lytton first appeared in [[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks]]''.
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* Lytton first appeared in [[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]''.
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* This story is set at some unspecified point between [[TV]]: ''[[Resurrection of the Daleks (TV story)|Resurrection of the Daleks]]'' and [[TV]]: ''[[Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)|Attack of the Cybermen]]''.
   
 
== External links ==
 
== External links ==
* {{dwrefguide|brief.htm#dwm176|Mistaken Identity}}{{prose stub}}
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Revision as of 02:27, 25 July 2019

RealWorld

You may be looking for the comic story.

Mistaken Identity was a Brief Encounter short story published in Doctor Who Magazine 176.

Summary

Gustave Lytton arrives at a pub close to Walford Station in East London to meet a potential new employee named Joe Payne. While waiting, he notices that the barman bears a strong resemblance to Kiston and can't help wondering if it is him. Payne fails to arrive and Lytton, satisfied that the barman is not Kiston after all, leaves the pub and heads for Walford Tube Station where he is joined by two male police officers.

Characters

References

  • Lytton recalls his work for the Daleks and capturing Davros.
  • Since being stranded on Earth, Lytton has rarely moved outside his West London base of operations.

Notes

Continuity

External links