STORY 42: THE HUNGRY PLANET.A DOCTOR WHO STORY
TV ACTION ANNUAL 1974
WRITER: UNKNOWN
ARTIST: JIM BAIKIE
DATE: SEPTEMBER 1973
A living planet captures the Doctor. He meets fellow space traveler Harry Trent.
Together they must escape and destroy the alien organism.
A wonderful story that is more TV Comic than Countdown with excellent art and a lovely use of colour.
I have read many negative reviews of this strip that states that the Doctor could simply escape and it's completely out of character for him to wish to destroy the planet.
This is nonsense. I read it again tonight just to be certain of my views: Clearly the planet is going to consume life and represents a massive danger to the entire universe.
Great strip, reminds me of Dan Dare for some reason.
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STORY 43: CHILDREN OF THE EVIL EYE
TV COMIC PLUS TV ACTION
ISSUES 1133 - 1138
WRITER: DENNIS HOOPER
ARTIST: GERRY HAYLOCK
DATES: 01/09/73 - 06/10/73
The Doctor is sent on a mission by the Timelords. He arrives on the Earth in a future society ran by children.
At the end of the story he is joined on his travels by a young boy, Arnold.
TV COMIC PLUS TV ACTION
ISSUES 1133 - 1138
WRITER: DENNIS HOOPER
ARTIST: GERRY HAYLOCK
DATES: 01/09/73 - 06/10/73
The Doctor is sent on a mission by the Timelords. He arrives on the Earth in a future society ran by children.
At the end of the story he is joined on his travels by a young boy, Arnold.
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STORY 44: DR WHO IN NOVA
TV COMIC PLUS TV ACTION
ISSUES: 1139 - 1147
WRITER: DENNIS HOOPER
ARTIST: GERRY HAYLOCK
DATES: 13/10/73 - 08/12/73
The Doctor and Arnold go through a supposed super nova to emerge in a hidden solar system.
Landing the Tardis on a planet they face many dangerous prehistorical creatures and ultimately the Spidrons , giant spiders with alien faces.
There are similarities between this story and the following years TV story "Planet of the Spiders".
TV COMIC PLUS TV ACTION
ISSUES: 1139 - 1147
WRITER: DENNIS HOOPER
ARTIST: GERRY HAYLOCK
DATES: 13/10/73 - 08/12/73
The Doctor and Arnold go through a supposed super nova to emerge in a hidden solar system.
Landing the Tardis on a planet they face many dangerous prehistorical creatures and ultimately the Spidrons , giant spiders with alien faces.
There are similarities between this story and the following years TV story "Planet of the Spiders".
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STORY 45: DR WHO IN THE AMATEUR
TV COMIC PLUS TV ACTION
ISSUES: 1148 - 1149
TV COMIC
ISSUES: 1150 - 1154
WRITER: DENNIS HOOPER
ARTIST: GERRY HAYLOCK
DATES: 15/12/73 - 26/1/74
The Doctor returns Arnold to his home in the 31st century.
He then sets controls to take himself back to the 20th century but encounters a primitive time capsule en-route and aids its' 19th century creator, who has no power left.
This results in a series of events involving accusations of witchcraft, WW1 and Timelord involvement.
As I have stated before, Jon Pertwees' strips are fondly remembered by many due to the " Countdown/TV Action" period but in reality the TV Comic strips in this period are usually just as good and sometimes better.
This is an absolute classic.
TV COMIC PLUS TV ACTION
ISSUES: 1148 - 1149
TV COMIC
ISSUES: 1150 - 1154
WRITER: DENNIS HOOPER
ARTIST: GERRY HAYLOCK
DATES: 15/12/73 - 26/1/74
The Doctor returns Arnold to his home in the 31st century.
He then sets controls to take himself back to the 20th century but encounters a primitive time capsule en-route and aids its' 19th century creator, who has no power left.
This results in a series of events involving accusations of witchcraft, WW1 and Timelord involvement.
As I have stated before, Jon Pertwees' strips are fondly remembered by many due to the " Countdown/TV Action" period but in reality the TV Comic strips in this period are usually just as good and sometimes better.
This is an absolute classic.
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STORY 46: THE DISINTEGRATOR
TV COMIC ISSUES: 1155 - 1159
WRITER: UNKNOWN
ARTIST: MARTIN ASBURY
DATES: 2/2/74 - 2/3/74
The story starts with the words "Back in the 20th Century, the Doctor is soon busy again..."
This is a reference to the last panel of the previous strip seeing the Tardis leaving 1914 to presumably return Tobias and Thomas to their own time of the 19th Century.
We then find the Doctor in a police car rushing towards the scene of a crime where the steel bank vault door has disappeared along with the money.
Professor Pillbright, working for a criminal gang, supplied the means for the robbery with a robot he has built ( the Disintegrator) which in actual fact is a Dalek. The Professor is working for the Daleks who plan to invade Earth and have a secret base on the moon.
In conclusion, this is a story that unfortunately suffers from any explanations as to how breaking into bank vaults and sending the Prof a "Build Your Own Dalek" (he is seen constructing a Dalek in episode 4 ) helps the Daleks' invasion plan. This together with the lack of any exposition on the fate of the Doctors' travelling companions from the last story rather point towards a missing instalment, or two, of this story.
Why that would be the case I have no idea.
TV COMIC ISSUES: 1155 - 1159
WRITER: UNKNOWN
ARTIST: MARTIN ASBURY
DATES: 2/2/74 - 2/3/74
The story starts with the words "Back in the 20th Century, the Doctor is soon busy again..."
This is a reference to the last panel of the previous strip seeing the Tardis leaving 1914 to presumably return Tobias and Thomas to their own time of the 19th Century.
We then find the Doctor in a police car rushing towards the scene of a crime where the steel bank vault door has disappeared along with the money.
Professor Pillbright, working for a criminal gang, supplied the means for the robbery with a robot he has built ( the Disintegrator) which in actual fact is a Dalek. The Professor is working for the Daleks who plan to invade Earth and have a secret base on the moon.
In conclusion, this is a story that unfortunately suffers from any explanations as to how breaking into bank vaults and sending the Prof a "Build Your Own Dalek" (he is seen constructing a Dalek in episode 4 ) helps the Daleks' invasion plan. This together with the lack of any exposition on the fate of the Doctors' travelling companions from the last story rather point towards a missing instalment, or two, of this story.
Why that would be the case I have no idea.
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STORY 47: IS ANYONE THERE ?
TV COMIC ISSUES: 1160 -1169
WRITER: DENNIS HOOPER
ARTIST: GERRY HAYLOCK
DATES: 09/03/74 - 11/05/74
Sir Humphrey Picton and the Doctor arrive in Australia to meet with Dr French, the creator of a fantastic new radio telescope.
The Doctor has great misgivings about the radio pulses that this will transmit but is ignored and this results in catastrophic disaster for the Earth and the planet Morrax.
An absolute belter of a story, a great example of why Pertwees' strips are so fondly remembered.
TV COMIC ISSUES: 1160 -1169
WRITER: DENNIS HOOPER
ARTIST: GERRY HAYLOCK
DATES: 09/03/74 - 11/05/74
Sir Humphrey Picton and the Doctor arrive in Australia to meet with Dr French, the creator of a fantastic new radio telescope.
The Doctor has great misgivings about the radio pulses that this will transmit but is ignored and this results in catastrophic disaster for the Earth and the planet Morrax.
An absolute belter of a story, a great example of why Pertwees' strips are so fondly remembered.
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STORY 48: Dr WHO in Doomcloud
DOCTOR WHO HOLIDAY SPECIAL 1974
WRITER: UNKNOWN
ARTIST: UNKNOWN
DATE: MAY 1974
A poisonous gas cloud threatens to eliminate Earths' populace.
In some very dark scenes, unusual for the Doctor Who comic strip, to continue the Human Race, survivors are chosen and others are left to die.
Obviously the Dr saves the day for all by defeating the invasion plans of the Zirconians but this astonishingly bleak story leaves a profound mark.
The lovely Sarah Jane Smith makes her first appearance.
DOCTOR WHO HOLIDAY SPECIAL 1974
WRITER: UNKNOWN
ARTIST: UNKNOWN
DATE: MAY 1974
A poisonous gas cloud threatens to eliminate Earths' populace.
In some very dark scenes, unusual for the Doctor Who comic strip, to continue the Human Race, survivors are chosen and others are left to die.
Obviously the Dr saves the day for all by defeating the invasion plans of the Zirconians but this astonishingly bleak story leaves a profound mark.
The lovely Sarah Jane Smith makes her first appearance.
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STORY 49: Dr WHO in PERILS of PARIS
DOCTOR WHO HOLIDAY SPECIAL 1974
WRITER: UNKNOWN
ARTIST: MALCOLM STOKES
DATE: MAY 1974
The Doctor is almost runover on a motorway. He decides he needs a holiday and gives Sarah a wardrobe of clothes to chose from.
My wife wishes I would do this.
They end up in the Wild West ,take an apache with them and finally arrive in Paris in 1880.
On page 3, Sarah is referred to as Liz (one of his former companions) in a caption note.
Wonderful conclusion but I won't spoil it for you here...
Excellent story.
DOCTOR WHO HOLIDAY SPECIAL 1974
WRITER: UNKNOWN
ARTIST: MALCOLM STOKES
DATE: MAY 1974
The Doctor is almost runover on a motorway. He decides he needs a holiday and gives Sarah a wardrobe of clothes to chose from.
My wife wishes I would do this.
They end up in the Wild West ,take an apache with them and finally arrive in Paris in 1880.
On page 3, Sarah is referred to as Liz (one of his former companions) in a caption note.
Wonderful conclusion but I won't spoil it for you here...
Excellent story.
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STORY 50: DR Who in WHO'S WHO ?
DOCTOR WHO HOLIDAY SPECIAL 1974
WRITER: UNKNOWN
ARTIST: UNKNOWN
DATE: MAY 1974
Easily the best of the strips in this excellent magazine (only the third actual Dr Who magazine) although it does also feature a reprint of a brilliant TV21 Daleks strip.
The Doctor is giving his Tardis a "Ten thousand year service" (an idea that pops up again in the TV Comic strip) when an energy burst propels Sarah and the Dr into another dimension whereupon they meet criminal versions of themselves (an idea liberally borrowed from the earlier TV story "Inferno".
Sarah (in her third strip appearance) finally has a vague resemblance to Elizabeth Sladen.
This is also the third and final appearance of Sarah as a companion with the third Doctor.
DOCTOR WHO HOLIDAY SPECIAL 1974
WRITER: UNKNOWN
ARTIST: UNKNOWN
DATE: MAY 1974
Easily the best of the strips in this excellent magazine (only the third actual Dr Who magazine) although it does also feature a reprint of a brilliant TV21 Daleks strip.
The Doctor is giving his Tardis a "Ten thousand year service" (an idea that pops up again in the TV Comic strip) when an energy burst propels Sarah and the Dr into another dimension whereupon they meet criminal versions of themselves (an idea liberally borrowed from the earlier TV story "Inferno".
Sarah (in her third strip appearance) finally has a vague resemblance to Elizabeth Sladen.
This is also the third and final appearance of Sarah as a companion with the third Doctor.
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STORY 51: Size Control
TV COMIC ISSUES: 1170 - 1176
WRITER: DENNIS HOOPER
ARTIST: GERRY HAYLOCK
DATES: 18/05/74 - 29/06/74
The Doctor encounters a huge spaceship and is taken onboard.
He believes that the Time Lords are responsible for this but they are not.
Giant insect creatures bathe the Tardis in acid.
Tyrraxian and Mantis are at war and a lot of dimension changing occurs.
A lovely 7 parter but the conclusion is hurried and unclear.
Wonderful images evoking Land of the Giants type action.
This is sort of the beginning of the end with the third Doctor becoming paranoid and believing the Time Lords are behind this.
TV COMIC ISSUES: 1170 - 1176
WRITER: DENNIS HOOPER
ARTIST: GERRY HAYLOCK
DATES: 18/05/74 - 29/06/74
The Doctor encounters a huge spaceship and is taken onboard.
He believes that the Time Lords are responsible for this but they are not.
Giant insect creatures bathe the Tardis in acid.
Tyrraxian and Mantis are at war and a lot of dimension changing occurs.
A lovely 7 parter but the conclusion is hurried and unclear.
Wonderful images evoking Land of the Giants type action.
This is sort of the beginning of the end with the third Doctor becoming paranoid and believing the Time Lords are behind this.
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STORY 52: The Magician !
TV COMIC ISSUES: 1177 - 1181
TV COMIC plus TOM AND JERRY WEEKLY ISSUES: 1182 - 1183
WRITER: UNKNOWN
ARTIST: GERRY HAYLOCK
DATES: 06/07/74 - 17/08/74
The Tardis brings the Doctor to England's Middle Ages where he is imprisoned in a castle, run by the traitorous brother of Lord Geoffrey, Waldeau. The magician Signus intends to transfer Waldeaus' mind into the mind of Lord Geoffrey.
At the end of part 6, a terrifying apparition summoned/ created by the magician appears on the wall of the room that The Doctor and Lord Geoffrey are in, it looks almost identical to the apparition that Sarah would later see in the Tardis console room 2 years later in episode 1 of the TV story "Pyramids of Mars".
TV COMIC ISSUES: 1177 - 1181
TV COMIC plus TOM AND JERRY WEEKLY ISSUES: 1182 - 1183
WRITER: UNKNOWN
ARTIST: GERRY HAYLOCK
DATES: 06/07/74 - 17/08/74
The Tardis brings the Doctor to England's Middle Ages where he is imprisoned in a castle, run by the traitorous brother of Lord Geoffrey, Waldeau. The magician Signus intends to transfer Waldeaus' mind into the mind of Lord Geoffrey.
At the end of part 6, a terrifying apparition summoned/ created by the magician appears on the wall of the room that The Doctor and Lord Geoffrey are in, it looks almost identical to the apparition that Sarah would later see in the Tardis console room 2 years later in episode 1 of the TV story "Pyramids of Mars".
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STORY 53: " DR WHO IN THE METAL EATERS !"
TV COMIC PLUS TOM AND JERRY WEEKLY ISSUES: 1184 - 1190
WRITER:UKNOWN
ARTIST: GERRY HAYLOCK
DATES: 24/08/74 - 05/10/74
The metal eaters from the 1970 strip "The Mysterious Meteorite" seem to be back but in reality these are the product of an experiment by a biologist, Professor McTurk ,assisted by his daughter.
The Doctor enlists the armys' help to save the day.
A pedestrian strip that seems to suggest the strip is now being written by TV Comic writers rather than Countdown /TV Action writers and Pertwee is no longer Dr Who on TV but they can't introduce Tom Baker yet so treading water.
TV COMIC PLUS TOM AND JERRY WEEKLY ISSUES: 1184 - 1190
WRITER:UKNOWN
ARTIST: GERRY HAYLOCK
DATES: 24/08/74 - 05/10/74
The metal eaters from the 1970 strip "The Mysterious Meteorite" seem to be back but in reality these are the product of an experiment by a biologist, Professor McTurk ,assisted by his daughter.
The Doctor enlists the armys' help to save the day.
A pedestrian strip that seems to suggest the strip is now being written by TV Comic writers rather than Countdown /TV Action writers and Pertwee is no longer Dr Who on TV but they can't introduce Tom Baker yet so treading water.
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STORY 54: "DEAD ON ARRIVAL"
THE DOCTOR WHO ANNUAL 1975
WRITER: UNKNOWN
ARTIST: EDGAR HODGES
DATE: 01/09/1974
After a trip to the planet Mezlob (a planet with gravity 27 times greater than Earth) Jo gets into the molecular adjustor in the Tardis and awakes as a ghost.
Clever story about a parallel Earth with excellent art.
Of the 4 World Distributers Jon Pertwee annuals ,this is only the second one to have comic strips in.
THE DOCTOR WHO ANNUAL 1975
WRITER: UNKNOWN
ARTIST: EDGAR HODGES
DATE: 01/09/1974
After a trip to the planet Mezlob (a planet with gravity 27 times greater than Earth) Jo gets into the molecular adjustor in the Tardis and awakes as a ghost.
Clever story about a parallel Earth with excellent art.
Of the 4 World Distributers Jon Pertwee annuals ,this is only the second one to have comic strips in.
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STORY 55: "AFTER THE REVOLUTION"
THE DOCTOR WHO ANNUAL 1975
WRITER: UNKNOWN
ARTIST: EDGAR HODGES
DATE: 01/09/1974
The Dr and Jo touch down on Freedonia, a planet that the Dr had helped in a revolution on his last visit.
The Drs' former friend Kamoa has turned the majority of citizens into robots and himself into a living brain.
This is a fascinating, original and intelligent story that even preempts the later Tom Baker television story "The Brain of Morbius".
THE DOCTOR WHO ANNUAL 1975
WRITER: UNKNOWN
ARTIST: EDGAR HODGES
DATE: 01/09/1974
The Dr and Jo touch down on Freedonia, a planet that the Dr had helped in a revolution on his last visit.
The Drs' former friend Kamoa has turned the majority of citizens into robots and himself into a living brain.
This is a fascinating, original and intelligent story that even preempts the later Tom Baker television story "The Brain of Morbius".