John and Gillian - Other Appearances

Other Appearances

In the novel Heart of TARDIS by Dave Stone, the Doctor commented that he had friends and family living in late twentieth century London.

In the Virgin New Adventures novel Head Games by Steve Lyons, which took place in the Land of Fiction from The Mind Robber, the new Master of the Land of Fiction creates versions of John, Gillian, and Dr. Who, to use against the real Doctor and his companions Ace and Benny Summerfield.

John and Gillian — or rather John Brent and Gillian Roberts — appeared in the novella Time and Relative by Kim Newman, featuring the Doctor and Susan, and taking place in 1963, some six months before the events of "An Unearthly Child". This John and Gillian were friends of Susan's, attending the Coal Hill School with her. Aside from the coincidence in names (an obvious homage), there is no resemblance between them and the John and Gillian of the TV Comic strips.

The original John and Gillian appeared in a comic strip story in Doctor Who Magazine issue 337. In the story, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the television series and drawn in the style of the TV Comic strips, the Doctor (in his then current guise of the Eighth Doctor) and his grandchildren shared a light-hearted adventure on the planet Darbodia. It is revealed at the end of the strip that the whole adventure was just a dream of the Eighth Doctor and he wakes up, with the artwork returning to the usual modern art style of the comic strips.