The Fifth Doctor Who by Peter Davison

the Fifth doctor The fifth Doctor Who was played by Peter Davidson, chosen as a contrast to Tom Baker, but yet an actor firmly established in the public's mind (in part due to his role in All Creatures Great and Small).

The regeneration into the fifth Doctor was a problematic one, which nearly failed. The Doctor briefly took on aspects of all four previous Doctors before recovering in Castrovalva.

The series took a back to basics approach, with a more series feel, and many of the Doctors enemies were re-introduced including The Master, Cybermen, Omega, Sea Devils and the Silurians.

The Fifth Doctor is considered to be the most human of all the incarnations, less pretentious and selfish and far more reserved. He preferred to react to situations rather than initiate them and gained peoples trust by honestly proving himself.

This humanity made the doctor more prone to indecision and to occasionally panic under pressure. He also showed the greatest abhorrence to violence and needless pain or bloodshed, unable to execute Davros in cold blood.

The fifth Doctor died after being exposed to the drug Spectrox in it's raw toxic form while on the planet Androzani Minor. With only one antidote dose available, he sacrificed his own life so that his companion (Peri Brown) would be saved, and as he regenerated into the sixth Doctor, expressed doubt for the first time ever that regeneration may not be possible.

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The Ultimate Treasure

by Christopher Bulis

The Ultimate Treasure by Christopher Bulis

The Ultimate Treasure is a Doctor Who novel featuring the fifth Doctor and has been written by Christopher Bulis.

A shopping trip for the Doctor and Peri turns sour when the become embroiled in a mysterious transaction involving the sale of co-ordinates leading to Rovan's hoard - the ultimate treasure.

The Doctor and Peri join the quest, but the Time Lord remains sceptical. What will they find - and why has it remained undiscovered for so long?

The...

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reviewed on Tuesday 11 August 2009

Superior Beings

by Nick Walters

Superior Beings by Nick Walters

Superior Beings is a Doctor Who novel featuring the Fifth Doctor and has been written by Nick Walters.

Peri is getting used to time travel with the Doctor, and the TARDIS seems to like her, even leaving little presents for her.

The TARDIS takes them to a pleasure planet to meet a group of very advanced humans, Peri falls for the charms of the local hunk and finds herself flying headlong into a quite different form of time-travel...

The Valethske ar...

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reviewed on Tuesday 11 August 2009

The Sands of Time

by Justin Richards

The Sands of Time by Justin Richards

The Sands of Time is a Doctor Who novel featuring the Fifth Doctor and has been written by Justin Richards.

Upon arrival in Victorian London, the Doctor and his companions Nyssa and Tegan head straight to trouble and Nyssa is kidnapped by egyptian extreme religious fantatics while in the British museum.

Meanwhile the Doctor and Tegan are greeted by a stranger who knows more about them than he should and invited to a very strange party.

Why are room...

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reviewed on Tuesday 11 August 2009

Lords of the Storm

by David A. McIntee

Lords of the Storm by David A. McIntee

Lords of the Storm is a Doctor Who novel featuring the fifth Doctor and has been written by David A. McIntee and features the infamous Sontarans.

The Sontarans and the Rutans have been fighting a war for millenia, billions have died on each side and whole solar systems have been destroyed in the conflict.

The tide of battle may be about to change though and victory may be in one sides grasp. The world of Raghi is crucial to this victory, currently settled by huma...

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reviewed on Tuesday 11 August 2009

The King of Terror

by Keith Topping

The King of Terror by Keith Topping

The King of Terror is a Doctor Who novel featuring the Fifth Doctor and has been written by Keith Topping.

As the millenium nears it's end, the future of the human race rests on the activities of one multimedia company, InterCom.

Suspecting that old mistakes are being repeated, the Brigadier asks the Doctor and his companions to investigate the company's Los Angeles headquarters. But their infiltration is disurpted by the murderous games of terrorists seeking the...

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reviewed on Tuesday 11 August 2009

Imperial Moon

by Christopher Bulis

Imperial Moon by Christopher Bulis

Imperial Moon is a Doctor Who novel featuring the Fifth Doctor and has been written by Christopher Bulis. In the year 1878 three ships from the British Imperial Spacefleet set a course for the moon.

The discovery of a mysterious diary, recalling a seemingly impossible journey, takes the Doctor and his companions back to a crucial moment in history -- and into certain danger.

The Moon is far from deserted in 1878 with hostile plant and animal life, the Doctor and ...

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reviewed on Tuesday 11 August 2009

Goth Opera

by Paul Cornell

Goth Opera by Paul Cornell

Humanity's time on the Earth is nearing its end, the Long night has begun and an age of the undead has arrived.

1993 in the city of Manchester and the vampires of Great Britain have received a message, the long awaited arrival of their messiah is nigh, now is the time for recruitment.

Meanwhile the Doctor and his companions are enjoying a well earned holiday in Tasmania when Nyssa is attacked by a demonic child. She manages to fight off the beast and escape unharme...

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reviewed on Tuesday 11 August 2009

Fear of the Dark

by Trevor Baxendale

Fear of the Dark by Trevor Baxendale

The year is 2382 and archaeologists have landed on Akoshemon’s only moon, seeking evidence of the planets infamous past.
The Doctor and his companions are drawn into assisting these scholars only to uncover much more than just ancient history.

Something is waiting inside the labyrinth of caves, something that remembers the spiral of war, pestilence and deprivation that ruined Akoshemon. Something that rejoiced in every kind of horror and destruction.

An ag...

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reviewed on Tuesday 11 August 2009

Empire of Death

by David Bishop

Empire of Death by David Bishop

In the year 1856 a young boy discovers he can speak with the voices of the dead. He eventually becomes on of England's most famous and celebrated spiritualists.

1863 and Queen Victoria is inconsolable with grief following the death of Prince Albert, leaving the British Empire effectively without a leader. The Queen has one final hope of a secret séance.

The Doctor and Nyssa are also coming to terms with loss following the death of Adric and Tegan's sudden departure. ...

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reviewed on Tuesday 11 August 2009

Divided Loyalties

by Gary Russell

Divided Loyalties by Gary Russell

As a student at the Academy on Gallifrey, the Doctor lost a friend to the malevolent and mysterious force known as the Celestial Toymaker. Many years and five incarnations later, the Doctor receives a telepathic call from his long lost friend, begging him for help.

As he sets out to rescue his friend and exact revenge, the Doctor's companions become increasingly involved. Adric, determined to justify his place aboard the TARDIS, opts to face the Toymaker's game challenges while...

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reviewed on Tuesday 11 August 2009

Deep Blue

by Mark Morris

Deep Blue by Mark Morris

A Lighthouse keeper reports a ball of light plunging into the sea off Tayborough Sands and Mike Yates from UNIT is sent to investigate. The very last thing he expects to find there is an old friend, with a new face.

The Doctor arrives on a pleasure beach in the 1970s, with his companions all of which are hoping for time off after their latest adventures, but they do not get to relax for long.

Violent incidents are at an all time high in the area and people are goin...

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reviewed on Tuesday 11 August 2009

The Crystal Bucephalus

by Craig Hinton

The Crystal Bucephalus by Craig Hinton

The Crystal Bucephalus is a restaurant that is patronized by the very highest echelons of society the 10th millennium. The restaurant is unique in that it sends its guests back in time to sample the best foods and drinks of times past.

When the most notorious crime boss in the galaxy is killed in the prestigious restaurant, the Doctor and his companions are arrested for the murder. To prove they are innocent, they must track down the real killers and uncover a conspiracy over 5...

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reviewed on Tuesday 11 August 2009

Cold Fusion

by Lance Parkin

Cold Fusion by Lance Parkin

The entire universe is at stake and I'm locked in here with another incarnation of myself, and not even one of the good ones!

More than one TARDIS lands on a barren ice world. The fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan find a once ordered society on the verge of collapse, as rebels wage a dirty war with Scientifica, the ruling elite. All that stands between order and anarchy is the massed presence of an Adjudicator peacekeeping force.

But is peace the only reason for t...

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reviewed on Tuesday 11 August 2009