Love and War (TV Story)

***Love and War*** was the third serial of Season 30 of *Doctor Who*. It was written by Paul Cornell, directed by Alan Wareing, and starred Richard Griffiths as the Eighth Doctor, Saskia Reeves as Guinevere Hoult and Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield.

This was the first story for Lisa Bowerman as Bernice Summerfield, who joined the Doctor at the climax of part 2.

## Synopsis

Heaven is a paradise for both humans and Draconians — a place of rest in more ways than one. The Doctor comes here as an apology to Guinevere, leaving her to go wandering alone in the city, and become involved with a charismatic Traveller called Jan.

But the Doctor is strenuously opposed to the romance. What is he trying to prevent? Is he planning some more deadly game connected with the mysterious objects causing the military forces of Heaven such concern?

Archaeologist Bernice Summerfield thinks so. Her destiny is inextricably linked with that of the Doctor, but even she may not be able to save Guinevere from the Time Lord's plans.

This time, has the Doctor gone too far?

## Cast

* The Doctor - Richard Griffiths
* Guinevere - Saskia Reeves
* Bernice Summerfield - Lisa Bowerman
* Jan - Seán Carlsen
* Máire Mab Finn - Rebecca Lacey
* Roisa McIlnery - Niamh Cusack
* Christopher - Barbara Marten
* Brother Phaedrus - Bernard Holley
* King Arthur - Keith Allen
* Clive - Jack Ellis
* Piers Gavenal - Paul Mark Elliott
* Death - Fiona Walker

## Worldbuilding

### Currency

* Dalek eyestalks are worth twenty decacredits in bounty at an imperial base.

### The Doctor

* The Doctor is known as Karshtakavaar — the Oncoming Storm — by the Draconians.
* The Doctor can blow fire using an oil lamp.
* The Seventh Doctor deliberately "killed" his sixth incarnation (though he was unborn at the time), knowing that Time would need a champion.

### Culture

* The 20th century is Bernice Summerfield's favourite era.
* Cruk is used as a swear word.

### Groups

* The Travellers are a group of people who originated on Earth as anarchists and unhappy people. They use Puterspace instead of drugs to attain higher states of consciousness.

### Individuals

* Máire mentions Abslom Daak, a Dalek Killer who has also met the Doctor.
* Chad Boyle suddenly started mailing Christmas cards to everyone from his school days.
* Guinevere learnt to ride a horse in Adelaide in 2107 from a man named Medge.
* Fyan Trench is one of the people killed by the Hoothi.

### Libraries and archives

* The Doctor goes to Joycetown Library on Heaven to get a book to take to the Monks of Felsecar.

### Organisations

* The Vacuum Church believes only death and suicide can relieve the pain of life.
* Kale is a guard for IMC.

### Planets

* Bernice Summerfield was raised on Beta Caprisis.
* Heaven is a planet on the edge of both human and Draconian space and is considered neutral ground. It was settled after the Dragon Wars.

### Psychic powers

* Jan Rydd has pyrokinetic powers that he gained through experiments with the military. His "secret" name is *Aradath*.

### Species

* Earth Reptile is the politically correct term for Silurian.
* The Hoothi are fungoid creatures that can exist as spores or as a planet-sized gas-filled sphere travelling through space.
* The Sontarans are currently "busy" in the Magellanic Clouds.

### Theories and concepts

* The First Law of Time is a moral law as well as a legal one.
* Death and Time are referred to as Eternals.

## Notes

* This story had a working title of *Heaven*.

## Continuity

* The Doctor takes Guinevere to Heaven as an apology for allowing the Daleks to destroy Tethrak. (TV: *Destruction of the Daleks*)
* Máire uses a Dalek gunstick as a weapon. (TV: *The Daleks*)
* Whilst in Puterspace, the Doctor experiences his worst memory, namely his third incarnation spending ten years dying in the TARDIS while travelling through the Time Vortex, and refers to his former companion Sarah Jane Smith, (TV: *Planet of the Spiders*) whilst Guinevere encounters a hallucination of King Arthur, whom she accidentally killed. (TV: *The Herald*)
* Guinevere refers to being transported to Arthur's World after opening a rift there. (TV: *The Green Knight*)
* The Doctor mentions that he has a model train set somewhere in the TARDIS. The Fifth Doctor claimed that he had wanted to drive a steam train as a boy. (TV: *Black Orchid*)
* The Doctor refers to his former companion Dodo Chaplet, (TV: *The Massacre*) who he claims reminded him of his granddaughter Susan Foreman. (TV: *An Unearthly Child*)
* The Doctor initiates telepathic contact with Benny. (TV: *The Three Doctors* et al.)

## Home Video and DVD Releases

### VHS

* This story was released on VHS in 2002.

### DVD

* This story was released alongside *Goth Opera* on a DVD Box Set entitled *The Bernice Chronicles* in 2006.
* This story along with the other stories in Season 30 were released as *Doctor Who: The Complete Thirtieth Season* in 2008.

### Blu-Ray

* This story along with the other stories in Season 30 were upscaled in 1080i50 high definition and were released as *Doctor Who: The Collection - Season 30* in the UK.