Perceptions (comic story)

Perceptions
Doctor:	Eighth Doctor
Companion(s):	Stacy Townsend, Ssard
Main setting:	London
Key crew
Publisher:	Radio Times
Writer:	Gary Russell
Artist:	Lee Sullivan
Colourist:	Alan Craddock
Letterer:	Elitta Fell
Release details
Printed in:	Radio Times
Release date:	4 January - 8 March 1997
Format:	Comic - 10 parts
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Perceptions was a Radio Times comic story featuring the Eighth Doctor, Stacy Townsend and Ssard.

Summary

The Doctor and his friends, Ssard and Stacy Townsend, arrive in Victorian London, where they discover a spaceship which is invisible to the people of the time. They meet the ship's occupant, P'fer'd, an Equinoid. He resembles a gaudily-coloured horse. P'fer'd tells the Doctor his wife M'rek'd is missing. Stacy and some street urchins rescue M'rek'd from a freak show. However the owner of the freak show is not himself human, but a shape-shifting alien; Stacy and the urchins are attacked. P'fer'd is re-united with M'rek'd and the Doctor and Ssard with Stacy... apparently.

Characters

• Eighth Doctor
• Stacy Townsend
• Ssard
• P'fer'd
• M'rek'd

References

• The Doctor mentions the body bepple fad of the late 29th century.
• P'fer'd disguises his ship and himself with a Mark III Image Inducer.
• The Doctor says without the arrogance of the British Empire, humanity would have never progressed and ventured out into the stars.
• The Doctor calls P'fer'd's tactic of employing street urchins "very Holmesian.”
• Stacy says the urchins look like they've walked straight out of Oliver Twist.

Notes

• The Equinoids match the description that the Doctor gave in the television story Frontier in Space of a race attending the third intergalactic peace conference.

Continuity

to be added

External links

• Perceptions at the Doctor Who Reference Guide