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|publisher= Virgin Books
 
|publisher= Virgin Books
 
|release date= [[15 February (releases)|15 February]] [[1996 (releases)|1996]]
 
|release date= [[15 February (releases)|15 February]] [[1996 (releases)|1996]]
|format= Paperback Book, 11 Chapters, 250 Pages
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|format= Paperback Book; 11 Chapters, 250 Pages
 
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20461-1
 
|isbn= ISBN 0-426-20461-1
 
|prev= Downtime (novelisation)
 
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[[French Revolution|Revolutionary]] soldiers arrest an ailing [[First Doctor|Doctor]] as a curfew breaker. [[Dodo Chaplet|Dodo]] is recruited by a band of wandering players whose intentions are less than pure. Deep in the dungeons of the Bastille, [[Prisoner 6]] tries desperately to remember who he is. And outside time and space, a [[The Pageant|gathering of aliens]] watch in horror as their greatest experiment goes catastrophically wrong.
 
[[French Revolution|Revolutionary]] soldiers arrest an ailing [[First Doctor|Doctor]] as a curfew breaker. [[Dodo Chaplet|Dodo]] is recruited by a band of wandering players whose intentions are less than pure. Deep in the dungeons of the Bastille, [[Prisoner 6]] tries desperately to remember who he is. And outside time and space, a [[The Pageant|gathering of aliens]] watch in horror as their greatest experiment goes catastrophically wrong.
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== Chapter Titles ==
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* Prologue: If
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# The Best of Times
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# Carry On Chopping
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# The Miserable Ones
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# The Phantom Of The Theatre
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# Some Minor Alternations to the Dialogue
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# A Clockwork World
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# If God Really Existed, It Would Be Necessary To Abolish Him
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# All The World And All The Men And Women
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# Frenchmen! A Further Effort If You Truely Want To Be Republicans
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# The Misfortunes of Virtue
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== Plot ==
 
== Plot ==

Revision as of 18:21, 20 November 2014

RealWorld

The Man in the Velvet Mask was the nineteenth novel in the Virgin Missing Adventures series. It was written by Daniel O'Mahony. It featured the First Doctor and Dodo Chaplet.

This novel contained a narrative that provided an explanation for the heart controversy regarding the Doctor's physiology. The narrative in The Man in the Velmet Mask stated regeneration would result in the growth of a second heart. This came about due to the apparent the presence of only one heart inside the first incarnation of the Doctor, seen in the story The Edge of Destruction, before the concept of a binary cardiovascular system was introduced in Spearhead from Space. The newly-regenerated Third Doctor displayed two hearts in an x-ray that was taken of his chest, as did future incarnations.

Publisher's summary

"The triumph of virtue. The misfortunes of vice. Who said the play had to be like the book?"

24 Messidor, XXII: the TARDIS has landed in post-revolutionary France, or so it appears. But the futuristic structure of the New Bastille towers over a twisted version of Paris. And First Deputy Minski, adopted son of the infamous Marquis de Sade, presides over a reign of terror that has yet to end.

Revolutionary soldiers arrest an ailing Doctor as a curfew breaker. Dodo is recruited by a band of wandering players whose intentions are less than pure. Deep in the dungeons of the Bastille, Prisoner 6 tries desperately to remember who he is. And outside time and space, a gathering of aliens watch in horror as their greatest experiment goes catastrophically wrong.

Chapter Titles

  • Prologue: If
  1. The Best of Times
  2. Carry On Chopping
  3. The Miserable Ones
  4. The Phantom Of The Theatre
  5. Some Minor Alternations to the Dialogue
  6. A Clockwork World
  7. If God Really Existed, It Would Be Necessary To Abolish Him
  8. All The World And All The Men And Women
  9. Frenchmen! A Further Effort If You Truely Want To Be Republicans
  10. The Misfortunes of Virtue


Plot

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Characters

References

The Doctor

Individuals

  • Dalville offers Dodo cigars and snuff, both of which she refuses.

Locations

Time Lords

Notes

  • According to the novel, Time Lords grow their second heart after their first regeneration. This is an attempt to rectify the implication in the television story The Edge of Destruction that the First Doctor had only a single heart.

Continuity

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