Perfect Day (short story)

Perfect Day was a short story published in the Doctor Who Yearbook 1994. It was written by Mark Gatiss.
== Summary ==
After dropping off the Gravis on Kolkokron, the Doctor takes Tegan to the day the Earth is destroyed, where they meet two people, an old woman and a crippled boy, calmly waiting for the end to come.
== Characters ==
* Fifth Doctor
* Tegan Jovanka
* Cuther
* Susha
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Doctor once claimed that he was standing at Wellington's side in the Battle of Waterloo, but later claimed that he stood with Napoleon.
* The Doctor mentions Frontios, Refusis and Balanystra as worlds where humanity survives.
* The Doctor and Tegan drink mead with Susha and Cuther.
* The Doctor knows a version of the story of Noah's Ark in which Noah had to leave behind unicorns, centaurs, basilisks and many other such animals.
== Notes ==
* This story equates the end of the world seen in The Ark with that mentioned in Frontios.
* Mark Gatiss is miscredited here as "Marc Gatiss".
== Continuity ==
* Tegan recalls Nyssa telling her about the destruction of Traken. (TV: Logopolis)
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