Return of the Living Dad

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Return of the Living Dad
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Author Kate Orman
Cover artist Mark Wilkinson
Series Doctor Who book:
Virgin New Adventures
Release number
53
SubjectFeaturing:
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]

Contents

Plot

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

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

Readers of Doctor Who Magazine gave the novel a rating of 73.29% (from 805 votes). [5]

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References

  1. "Shelf Life" (review) by Dave Owen, Doctor Who Magazine, #241 (July 1996)
  2. Bibliography of Australian Literature, p587
  3. 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.
  4. "Licence to Kill", by Matthew Jones, Doctor Who Magazine #252 (May 1997), p. 30
  5. "The best (and worst) of Virgin", by Dave Owen, Doctor Who Magazine, #265 (May 1998)