Return of the Living Dad
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{{Short description|1996 novel by Kate Orman}}
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{{Infobox book
|name = Return of the Living Dad
|image = Return of the Living Dad.jpg
|caption =
|cover_artist = Mark Wilkinson
|author = Kate Orman
|series = Doctor Who book:
Virgin New Adventures
|release_number = 53
|subject = Featuring:
Seventh Doctor
Chris, Roz, Bernice, Jason
|release_date = August 1996
|publisher = Virgin Books
|pages =
| 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."Shelf Life" (review) by Dave Owen, Doctor Who Magazine, #241 (July 1996)[https://books.google.com/books?id=YgX_TOK9xa4C&dq=Return+of+the+Living+Dad+orman&pg=PA587 Bibliography of Australian Literature, p587]
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.{{cite book |title=I, Who: The Unauthorized Guide to Doctor Who Novels |last=Pearson |first=Lars |authorlink=Lars Pearson |edition=1st |year=1999 |publisher=Mad Norwegian Press |location=Des Moines, Iowa |isbn=0-9673746-0-X}}
Notes
This novel's working title was Big Trouble in Little Chalfont."Licence to Kill", by Matthew Jones, Doctor Who Magazine #252 (May 1997), p. 30
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)."The best (and worst) of Virgin", by Dave Owen, Doctor Who Magazine, #265 (May 1998)
References
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{{Doctor Who books|selected=New Adventures}}
{{Seventh Doctor stories|selected=Books}}
{{Bernice Summerfield stories|selected=Books}}
Category:1996 science fiction novels
Category:Virgin New Adventures
Category:British science fiction novels
Category:Seventh Doctor novels
Category:Novels set in the 1980s