Jason Peter Kane is a

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from

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's range of original full-length ''

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'' novels, the ''

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''. The ''New Adventures'' were fully licensed novels carrying on from where the ''Doctor Who'' television series had left off. Jason was introduced in

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's novel ''

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'' in 1996.

Character history

Jason was born on

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1983 and grew up around

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. Jason's father, Peter was abusive towards Jason and his sister, leading Jason to eventually run away from home. In 1996, Jason was caught in an alien transportation beam, causing him to be deposited in a swamp on the planet t'Kao in the 26th century. After thirteen years, the first human being he saw was Bernice "Benny" Summerfield. They fell in love and got married, but after a turbulent relationship were soon divorced. When he first meets Benny, and they discuss their sex lives, Jason candidly discusses having slept with nine women, five men and a number of (to varying degrees) humanoid aliens. Jason became a romantic foil for the recurring character of Benny, with their marriage being the centrepiece for the New Adventure '' Happy Endings'' (by

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), itself celebrating the whole New Adventures line as its fiftieth book. We see them as a happily married couple in ''

Return of the Living Dad ''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. Plot Bernice Sum ...

''. However, when the BBC withdrew the ''Doctor Who'' licence, the New Adventures planned to continue with Benny as the lead character and an editorial decision was taken to split up Benny and Jason, as depicted in ''

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''. The Benny-led New Adventures launched with Benny a single woman, but Jason remained an intermittently recurring character. He remarries in '' Deadfall'', but his new wife does not appear again in the series. When the New Adventures came to an end, Jason was trapped in an alternative dimension regarded as the equivalent of Hell, but Benny's adventures continued with an ongoing series of novels and audio dramas by

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and, through an agreement with creator Dave Stone, Jason re-appeared. The character is portrayed by Stephen Fewell in the audio dramas. The Big Finish series has restarted Benny's relationship with Jason, but it is strongly implied in '' The End of the World'' that he has been killed. The

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novel '' Burning Heart'' (also by Stone) hints that Jason and Benny may at one point have children. In the novel, the

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and Peri journey to the 32nd century and meet a man named Kane, who expected the Doctor to recognise him. Kane's first name (never revealed) is "one of those...that were unisexual".

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