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| Illegal Alien | |
| Series: | Doctor Who - BBC Past Doctor Adventures |
| Release Number: | 5 |
| Doctor: | Seventh Doctor |
| Companions: | Ace |
| Enemy: | George Limb The Cybermen |
| Setting: | London, November 1940 |
| Author: | Mike Tucker and Robert Perry |
| Publisher: | BBC Books |
| Publication: | October 1997 |
| Format: | Paperback Book, ? Pages |
| ISBN: | ISBN 0563405708 |
| Previous Story: | Business Unusual |
| Following Story: | The Roundheads |
Contents |
Britain is at war. Night after night the Luftwaffe are bombing London. A serial killer dubbed the Limehouse Lurker is stalking the rubble-strewn streets. But a deadlier threat falls from the sky in the shape of a sinister silver sphere...
Cody McBride, ex-pat American private eye, sees the sphere crash-land and split open - and glimpses something emerging from within. But the military dismiss his account of events - the sphere is simply a new German secret weapon that has malfunctioned in some way. What else could it be?
Arriving amid the chaos, the Doctor and Ace are the only people to believe McBride. The sphere bears all the hallmarks of sophisticated alien technology - and whatever was inside it is now loose in London.
Before long, they have embarked on a trail that brings them face to face with hidden Nazi operatives - and some very old enemies...
This novel was originally submitted as a television story to have been part of Season 28 of the original series of Doctor Who. It was initially submitted under a pseudonym as Mike Tucker had been known within the BBC as having predominately worked with special effects. [1]
Illegal Alien (the unproduced TV story) was a Cyberman story set in the 1940s, originally submitted just prior to the production of The Curse of Fenric Tucker and Robert Perry were asked to re-submit it for the following season as Fenric was also set in the 1940s.[1]
Mike Tucker noted in Doctor Who Magazine about the writing of the novel (and its TV heritage) that;
"Illegal Alien was originally written in script form. When I (Mike Tucker) was writing the novel, the early part I was working from our original script to get all the dialogue for the novel, so that was quite nice for me - it was the novelising of an unmade story in effect. The opening two parts of Illegal Alien, when it finally hits the bookshelves, is damn near what was in the scripted version. When it does come out it may show some of the problems, in that it would have been a very expensive production, which could ultimately have been its downfall."[1]
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