Return of the Living Dad
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| Author | Kate Orman |
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| Cover artist | Mark Wilkinson |
| Series | Doctor Who book: Virgin New Adventures |
Release number | 53 |
| Subject | Featuring: Seventh Doctor Chris, Roz, Bernice, Jason |
| Publisher | Virgin Books |
Publication date | August 1996 |
| ISBN | 0-426-20482-4 |
| Preceded by | Christmas on a Rational Planet |
| Followed by | The Death of Art |
Return of the Living Dad is an original novel written by Kate Orman and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Seventh Doctor, Chris and Roz, Bernice and Jason.[1][2]
Plot
[edit]Bernice Summerfield's father disappeared when she was seven years old, but during her honeymoon, a clue leads her to discover him 500 years in his past, in England in 1983.[3]
Notes
[edit]This novel's working title was Big Trouble in Little Chalfont.[4]
Paul Cornell had input into part of the story of Return of the Living Dad, while Orman had input in Cornell's Human Nature.
Reception
[edit]Readers of Doctor Who Magazine gave the novel a rating of 73.29% (from 805 votes).[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Shelf Life" (review) by Dave Owen, Doctor Who Magazine, #241 (July 1996)
- ^ Bibliography of Australian Literature, p587
- ^ Pearson, Lars (1999). I, Who: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who Novels (1st ed.). Des Moines, Iowa: Mad Norwegian Press. ISBN 0-9673746-0-X.
- ^ "Licence to Kill", by Matthew Jones, Doctor Who Magazine #252 (May 1997), p. 30
- ^ "The best (and worst) of Virgin", by Dave Owen, Doctor Who Magazine, #265 (May 1998)