52 - Mad Dogs and Englishmen

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THIS IS THE 100TH NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING BBC WORLDWIDE DOCTOR WHO SERIES
‘Grrrrr.’
The greatest book ever written.
Professor Reginald Tyler’s The True History of Planets was a
twentieth-century classic; an epic of dwarves and swords and
wizardry. And definitely no poodles. Or at least there weren’t
when the Doctor read it.
Now it tells the true tale of how the Queen of the poodles was
overthrown; it’s been made into a hit movie, and it’s going to cause
a bloodbath on the Dogworld – unless the Doctor, Fitz and Anji
(and assorted friends) can sort it all out.
The Doctor infiltrates the Smudgelings, Tyler’s elite Cambridge
writing set of the early twentieth century; Fitz falls for flamboyant
torch singer Brenda Soobie in sixties Las Vegas, and Anji
experiences some very special effects in seventies Hollywood.
Their intention is to prevent the movie from ever being made. But
there is a shadowy figure present in all three time zones who is
just as determined to see it completed. . . so the poodle revolution
can begin.
This is another in the series of original adventures for the Eighth
Doctor.
MAD DOGS AND ENGLISHMEN
PAUL MAGRS
Published by BBC Worldwide Ltd
Woodlands, 80 Wood Lane
London W12 0TT
First published 2002
Copyright c
Paul Magrs 2002
The moral right of the author has been asserted
Original series broadcast on the BBC
Format c
BBC 1963
Doctor Who and TARDIS are trademarks of the BBC
ISBN 0 563 53845 7
Imaging by Black Sheep, copyright c
BBC 2002
Printed and bound in Great Britain by Mackays of
Chatham
printed by Belmont Press Ltd, Northampton
With thanks to:
Joy Foster, Louise Foster, Mark Magrs, Charles Foster, Gladys Johnston, Michael
Fox, Nicola Creegan, Lynne Heritage, Pete Courtie, Brigid Robinson, Jon
Rolfe, Antonia Rolfe, Steve Jackson, Laura Wood, Alicia Stubbersfield, Sid
Hansen, Paul Cornell, Bill Penson, Mark Walton, Sara Maitland, Meg Davis,
Amanda Reynolds, Lucie Scott, Richard Klein, Reuben Lane, Kenneth Mac-
Gowan, Georgina Hammick, Maureen Duffy, Shena Mackay, Vic Sage, Lorna
Sage, Sharon Sage, Rupert Hodson, Marina Mackay, Jayne Morgan, Val Striker,
Andrew Motion, Louise D’Arcens, Malcolm Bradbury, Steve Cole, Jac Rayner,
Justin Richards, James Friel, Andrew Biswell, Gary Russell, Kate Orman, Jon
Blum, Neil Smith, Patrick Gale, Patricia Duncker, Russell T Davies, Stewart
Sheargold, Stephen Hornby, Jo Moses, Graeme Vaughan, Sarah Churchwell,
David Shelley, Bridget O‘Connor, Peter Straughan, Tiffany Murray and Larry,
Julia Darling, Roz Kaveney, Carol Ann Johnson and Jeremy Hoad.
Contents
Chapter One 6
Chapter Two 12
Chapter Three 19
Chapter Four 23
Chapter Five 31
Chapter Six 38
Chapter Seven 44
Chapter Eight 50
Chapter Nine 56
Chapter Ten 62
Chapter Eleven 67
Chapter Twelve 71
Chapter Thirteen 80
Chapter Fourteen 86
Chapter Fifteen 92
Chapter Sixteen 98
4
5
Chapter Seventeen 104
Chapter Eighteen 109
Chapter Nineteen 115
Chapter Twenty 121
Chapter Twenty-one 125
Chapter Twenty-two 131
Chapter Twenty-three 138
Chapter Twenty-four 144
Chapter Twenty-five 151
Chapter Twenty-six 156
Chapter Twenty-seven 161
Chapter Twenty-eight 167
Chapter Twenty-nine 172
Chapter Thirty 177
Chapter Thirty-one 182
Chapter Thirty-two 186
Chapter Thirty-three 201
Chapter Thirty-four 207
About the Author 208
Chapter One
Reginald Tyler began writing the book that would become The True History of
Planets in 1917, in bed, whilst on leave from soldiering in France.
While in that hospital in north Yorkshire his nerves were shattered and his
mind was shaky and febrile. From the uncertain froth of his various hypnagogic
states, commingled with the product of his extensive studies in linguistics and
mythology, he dreamed up one of the most curious books that the century
would produce.
He was somewhere near Whitby, apparently. It was a town that had already
inspired the writing of alarming books. In the last century, one man had holi-
dayed there and had written of a black-hearted, bloodlusting devil who arrived
from the churning sea in a wooden box and who, with his silvered tongue
and his ferociously pointed teeth, had enslaved the young girls he met on the
Prom. Another had visited there and had written of a feisty young madam who
voyaged to a Wonderland – or at least, an amoral, absurdist hell of her own
making.
The stiff, salty air of the seaside town was still, in 1917, thick with lurid
imaginings and the young Reginald (not yet the esteemed Professor he was to
become) was ripe for inspiration.
Gulls wheeled and scrummed for fish heads and scraps.
The sea foam crashed on wet, black rocks.
And the twentieth century grumbled its inexorable way forth: its commotion
persistent as the sound of gunfire from across the sea.
Reg was a skinny and sickly, gentle but impatient soul and, already, at this
tender age, he could speak a forbidding number of languages; alive, dead and
of his own invention.
Often he would wake from a stupor and babble at nurses. Some say that he
could even talk to the animals, though he was better with domestic pets than
anything too exotic.
He was, in short, a brilliant, inventive person, damaged by war and destined
to write a biggie.
Chapter One 7
That much is clear.
The True History of Planets was begun in those teenage years of the century, and
it was the book he laboured at for much of the ensuing decades. He worked on
it laboriously, after the First War and then through the second, by which time
he was an esteemed college professor, at one of the oldest universities.
There was never enough time for Reg. Never enough hours in the day, nor
days in the year, or years in the century.
His opus grew slowly and he grew old with it. Selfishly and slavishly he kept
it to himself, sharing its shadowy, learned bulk only with a number of his most
valued colleagues and fellow scribblers, during the thirties and forties.
This society of writers, based around his college, gathering once a week to
discuss and to read aloud their works in progress was known, rather jovially
amongst themselves, as the Smudgelings. All of them were convinced of the
greatness and the seriousness of Reg’s massive book.
It was a book he was working on till the day he died.
This was much later, in the early nineteen-seventies, by which time he was
long retired, much fˆ
eted as a scholar, and still shackled to his immense imagi-
native work.
At the end of his life, Reg had left his ancient university town and had moved
south, to live by the sea again, in Bournemouth. This was to appease his long-
suffering wife, Enid, who dearly wished to live in a bungalow by the sea and
no longer in a damp, clammy university town.
Enid had stuck loyally by him during his years as a professor, though she
despised the academic life. It had been she who, as a nurse, had coaxed him
through that nervous illness of 1917. She stayed with him because she loved
him, though hers was not a happy life.
When he died in 1974, it was Enid who at last went into Tyler’s makeshift
study in the bungalow’s garage to sort out his affairs. She was the one who had
hoiked out the dusty manuscript of the ongoing book and promptly sold it for
a bomb.
One that set off reverberations everywhere.
Up and down the length of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries on Earth,
and other worlds besides.
Notably the dogworld.
Not that the doughty Mrs Tyler cared.
She had always considered Reg too precious with his novel. The agents and
publishers she consulted during her early widowhood all told her that it was a
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