Stories Book Target Collection Doctor Who: The Rescue 1 image Overview Characters How to Read Reviews Statistics Related Stories Quotes 1 Overview Released Thursday, January 21, 1988 Written by Ian Marter Pages 139 Story Type New Companion Introduction Time Travel Future Location (Potential Spoilers!) Dido Synopsis Having left Susan on Earth, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara land the TARDIS on the planet Dido in the year 2493. There they discover two humans, Bennett and Vicki, trapped in their spaceship, the only crew to survive death at the hands of the hostile Didonians. But the Doctor is baffled: the Didonians are a peaceful nation. What has happened to change them? Why have they murdered the crew of the spaceship? Why, apart from the mysterious Koquillion, are they strangely absent? The Doctor must find the answers - and quickly. For a rescue ship is on its way from Earth intent on revenge and time is running out for the planet... Read Read Favourite Favourited Add Review Edit Review Log a repeat Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Owned Save to my list Saved Characters First Doctor Barbara Wright Ian Chesterton Vicki Pallister Show All Characters (4) How to read Doctor Who: The Rescue: Books The Rescue Reviews Add Review Edit Review Submit a Review Statistics AVG. Rating230 members 3.45 / 5 GoodReads AVG. Rating230 votes 3.45 / 5 The Time Scales AVG. Rating2 votes 4.75 / 5 Member Statistics Read 15 Favourited 0 Reviewed 0 Saved 0 Skipped 3 Owned 1 Related Stories Other adaptations of this story: We define an adaptation as a recreation of a similar story but on a different medium or with different characters. Classic Who S2 • Serial 3 · (2 episodes) The Rescue Rating: 3.61 Story Skipped Television Reviews(11) More Actions View Sets Close Related Sets Set of Stories: First Doctor Set of Stories: Doctor Who (1963-1996) Add Review Edit Review Skip Skipped Unowned Owned Save to my list Saved Quotes Add Quote Link to Quote Favourite DOCTOR: Oh, I can't understand it. I just can't understand it. Violence is totally alien to people on this planet. IAN: Oh, well, people change, Doctor. New leader, different set of circumstances. DOCTOR: No, no, no, my dear Chesterton, no. All the more reason for people on this planet to hate death and destruction. My dear boy, when I was here before, the, what, the total population amounted to, a handle of people. Merely a hundred. IAN: Is that all? DOCTOR: Yes, exactly. All the more reason for holding onto life. Peace, friendship, happiness. This means everything to the people here. — Doctor Who: The Rescue
