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The Taint
Series:	Doctor Who - BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures
Release Number:	19
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companions:	Sam Jones, Fitz Kreiner
Enemy:	Azoth
Setting:	Earth, 1963
Author:	Michael Collier
Publisher:	BBC Books
Publication:	February,1999
Format:	Paperback Book, --- Pages
ISBN:	ISBN 0-563-55568-8
Previous Story:	The Face-Eater
Following Story:	Demontage

Publisher's Summary

The TARDIS has finally brought the Doctor and Sam back to Earth -- and straight into danger.

It is 1963. Six very different people have been gathered together for study by parapsychologist Charles Roley in his stately home outside London. All of them claim to have been possessed by the devil, and all have shared similar delusions -- they describe the same bizarre 'death cave' riddled with demons.

Roley's experiments are having a gradual yet terrifying effect on his subjects, and the Doctor and Sam discover the connections between those tainted with the madness are more disturbing than anyone could guess.

For the Doctor, too, has seen the cave they describe -- on a dead world, billions of years ago.

Characters

• The Doctor
• Samantha Jones
• Fitz Kreiner
  • This is Fitz's first appearance.
  • Fitz kisses Sam, she thinks it's like kissing an ashtray.
  • Fitz strips a concussed Sam and then sleeps in the same bed as her, she wakes up and screams, obviously upset.

References

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Notes

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Continuity

Alien Bodies, Unnatural History,

External Links

Doctor Who Reference Guide - Detailed Synopsis: The Taint