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Mad Dogs and Englishmen (Doctor Who)

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Release number
  
52

Pages
  
249

Originally published
  
January 2002

Page count
  
249

Publisher
  
BBC Books

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Publication date
  
January 2002

ISBN
  
0-563-53845-7

Author
  
Paul Magrs

Genre
  
Speculative fiction

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Series
  
Doctor Who book: Eighth Doctor Adventures

Subject
  
Featuring: Eighth Doctor Fitz and Anji

Preceded by
  
The Adventuress of Henrietta Street

Similar
  
Paul Magrs books, Doctor Who BBC 8th Doctor books, Speculative fiction books

Mad Dogs and Englishmen is a BBC Books original novel written by Paul Magrs and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz and Anji.

Contents

Plot

A race of alien poodles alters a 20th-century fantasy epic to aid their civil war.

The Doctor infiltrates a groups of writers known as the Smudgelings, Anji experiences some very, very special effects in 1970s America and Fitz meets an old friend.

The book also features a jolly hotel chef and dogs with opposable thumbs.

Tolkien

  • The novel contains a spoof of J. R. R. Tolkien's experiences writing The Lord of the Rings. The character representing C. S. Lewis in this also appears in Magrs's non-Doctor Who novel To the Devil — a Diva! and the Smudgelings reappear in his novel Something Borrowed. Another character represents Ray Harryhausen.

    • Cameo

  • Noël Coward appears in the novel.
  • John Major makes a short cameo in the climactic scene at the 'Champagne Supernova' club.

    • References

    Mad Dogs and Englishmen (Doctor Who) Wikipedia
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