The Doctor on My Shoulder (short story)

The Doctor on My Shoulder
Doctor:	Tenth Doctor
Main setting:	Earth and Princess Cilia's ship
Key crew
Writer:	Daniel Roth
Release details
Release date:	17-23 December 2009
Adventure Calendar - Online Fiction
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The Doctor on My Shoulder is a two-part online short story released in serial form on the BBC's Doctor Who website as part of the 2009 Adventure Calendar.

Summary

Shrunk down to the size of a doll, the Tenth Doctor enlists the help of a teenage boy to rescue a princess.

Characters

• Tenth Doctor
• Mason Valentin
• Ana Comparetto
• Max
• Ulian robots
• Princess Cilia

References

Television

• The Tenth Doctor loves The Snowman and recognises his location as Earth because of it playing on television. He mentions the snowman flies around and dances with Father Christmas.
• The Doctor says that there's "something [he's] been avoiding" and "after all the flying around, having fun, and doing the impossible [he's] reali[s]ed something: [He's] the Snowman and...time's up."

Notes

• This is the last piece of new Tenth Doctor fiction to be officially published prior to the regeneration in TV: The End of Time.

Continuity

• The Doctor refers to having been Father Christmas at times. (COMIC: A Christmas Story, PROSE: The Man Who (Nearly) Killed Christmas, PROSE: A Visit from Saint Nicholas)
• The Doctor refers to the fact that at least the Christmas tree isn't trying to kill him. (TV:The Christmas Invasion)

External links

• "The Doctor on My Shoulder, Part One" on the Doctor Who BBC website.
• Part Two