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| Author | Terrance Dicks |
|---|---|
| Series | Doctor Who book: Past Doctor Adventures |
Release number | 21 |
| Subject | Featuring: Sixth Doctor, Second Doctor Peri |
| Publisher | BBC Books |
Publication date | 26 April 1999 |
| Pages | 251 |
| ISBN | 0-563-55573-4 |
| Preceded by | Deep Blue |
| Followed by | Millennium Shock |
Players is a BBC Books original novel written by Terrance Dicks and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Sixth Doctor and Peri meeting Winston Churchill during the Boer War and prior to the abdication of the would-be king Edward VIII. Flashbacks scenes feature the Second Doctor meeting Winston Churchill in 1915 during the First World War, these sequences serving as a partial prequel to Dick's subsequent novel World Game, which is set during Season 6B.