Third Doctor comic stories

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Third Doctor comic stories appeared in Doctor Who annuals, TV Comic, TV Action, Doctor Who Magazine, and Doctor Who: The Third Doctor.

Comic strip companions of the Third Doctor

Regular

• The Brigadier (TV Comic, Doctor Who Magazine, Prisoners of Time, Doctor Who: The Third Doctor)
• Liz Shaw (TV Comic, Doctor Who Magazine, Prisoners of Time)
• Sarah Jane Smith (Polystyle Holiday Special, Prisoners of Time)
• Arnold (TV Comic)
• Jo Grant (Doctor Who Annual, Doctor Who Magazine, Doctor Who: The Third Doctor)
• Sergeant John Benton (Doctor Who Magazine, Doctor Who: The Third Doctor)
• Captain Mike Yates (Doctor Who: The Third Doctor)

One-off

• Finney (TV Action)
• Brod (TV Action)
• Davie Jenkins (TV Action)
• Professor Lammers (TV Action)

Third Doctor comic stories

• Many of the early comic strip stories did not have individual story titles so there is no "correct" title for many of the strips. Commentary and listings from older sources may use variant titles.
• The titles given below conform to widely accepted titles (as referenced by Jean-Marc Lofficier and revised by John Ainsworth (comic historian)). The titles below were also adopted and used by Doctor Who Magazine and throughout Doctor Who Classic Comics (to which John Ainsworth was a major contributer).
• The titles used below are firstly taken from the strip itself or from titles given by the preceding issue. In some cases the writer/artist has been able to provide a title for a given piece of work.
• The listing below shows first publication details only. Reprint details can be found by following the story links.

Polystyle

TV Comic (1970-1971)

With the Brigadier and UNIT

• The Arkwood Experiments (TVC 944-949)
• The Multi-Mobile (TVC 950-954)
• Insect (TVC 955-959)

With Liz Shaw and UNIT

• The Metal Eaters (TVC 960-964)
• The Fishmen of Carpantha (TVC 965-969 featuring the Brigadier)
• Doctor Who and the Rocks from Venus (TVC 970-976 featuring the Brigadier)

Travelling alone

• Doctor Who and the Robot (TVC 977-984)
• Trial of Fire (TVC 985-991)
• The Kingdom Builders (TVC 992-999)

Countdown/TV Action (1971-1973)

Travelling alone

• Gemini Plan (Countdown 1-5)
• Timebenders (Countdown 6-13)
• The Vogan Slaves (Countdown 15-22)
• The Celluloid Midas (Countdown 23-32)
• Backtime (Countdown 33-39)
• The Eternal Present (Countdown 40-46)
• *Sub Zero (Countdown 47-54)
• The Planet of the Daleks (Countdown 55-58, TV Action + Countdown 59-62 featuring Finney)
• A Stitch in Time (TV Action + Countdown 63-70 featuring Brod)
• The Enemy from Nowhere (TV Action + Countdown 71-78 featuring Davie Jenkins)
• The Ugrakks (TV Action + Countdown 79-88 featuring Professor Lammers)
• Steelfist (TV Action + Countdown 89-93)
• Zeron Invasion (TV Action + Countdown 94-100)
• Deadly Choice (TV Action 101-103)
• Who is the Stranger (TV Action 104)
• The Glen of Sleeping (TV Action 107-111)
• The Threat from Beneath (TV Action 112)
• Back to the Sun (TV Action 116-119)
• The Labyrinth (TV Action 120)
• The Spoilers (TV Action 123)
• The Vortex (TV Action 125-129)
• The Unheard Voice (TV Action 131)

TV Comic (1973-1975)

Travelling with Arnold

• Children of the Evil Eye (TVC 1133-1138)
• Nova (TVC 1139-1147)
• The Amateur (TVC 1148-1154)

Travelling alone

• The Disintegrator (TVC 1155-1159)
• Is Anyone There? (TVC 1160-1169)
• Size Control (TVC 1170-1176)
• The Magician (TVC 1177-1183)
• The Metal-Eaters (TVC 1184-1190)
• Lords of the Ether (TVC 1191-1198)
• The Wanderers (TVC 1199-1203)

TV Comic specials

TV Comic Holiday

• Assassin from Space (TV Comic Holiday Special 1970)
• Undercover (TV Comic Holiday Special 1970 featuring the Brigadier)
• Fogbound (TV Comic Holiday Special 1973 featuring the Brigadier)

TV Comic Annual

• Castaway (TV Comic Annual 1971 featuring the Brigadier)
• Levitation (TV Comic Annual 1971 featuring the Brigadier)
• Petrified (TV Comic Annual 1975)

TV Action Annual

• The Plant Master (Countdown Annual 1972)
• Ride to Nowhere (TV Action Annual 1973)
• The Hungry Planet (TV Action Annual 1974)

Polystyle specials

• Secret of the Tower (Doctor Who Holiday Special 1973 featuring the Brigadier)
• Doomcloud (Doctor Who Holiday Special 1974 featuring Sarah Jane Smith)
• Perils of Paris (Doctor Who Holiday Special 1974 featuring Sarah Jane Smith)
• Who's Who? (Doctor Who Holiday Special 1974 featuring Sarah Jane Smith)

Doctor Who Magazine

Title	Writer	Featuring	Printed in	Released
Time & Time Again	Paul Cornell	Seventh Doctor, Ace, Benny, First Doctor, Second Doctor, Fourth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Susan, Jamie, Zoe, Adric, Frobisher, White Guardian, Black Guardian	207	25 November 1993
Change of Mind	Kate Orman	Liz, the Brig, Benton	221-223	22 December 1994 - 16 February 1995
Target Practice	Gareth Roberts	Jo, the Brig, Benton	234	21 December 1995

DWM Specials

Title	Writer	Featuring	Printed in
The Man in the Ion Mask	Dan Abnett	the Brig, Benton, The Master	DWMS Winter 1991

Doctor Who annuals

• The Time Thief (Doctor Who Annual 1974 featuring Jo Grant)
• Menace of the Molags (Doctor Who Annual 1974 featuring Jo Grant)
• Dead on Arrival (Doctor Who Annual 1975 featuring Jo Grant)
• After the Revolution (Doctor Who Annual 1975 featuring Jo Grant)
• Under Pressure (Doctor Who Yearbook 1992 featuring Jo Grant, the Fourth and Seventh Doctors, and Ace)

IDW Publishing

Miniseries

• The Forgotten (TF 2 featuring Jo Grant, the Brigadier, Sergeant Benton, Captain Yates, the first ten Doctors (save the War Doctor), and numerous other companions)

Doctor Who (2012)

• Dead Man's Hand (DW12 15 featuring Matrix projections of the first eleven Doctors and the War Doctor)

Prisoners of Time

• In With the Tide (POT 3 featuring Sarah Jane Smith, Liz Shaw, and the Brigadier)
• Endgame (POT 12 featuring Sarah Jane Smith, Liz Shaw, the Brigadier, the first eleven Doctors (save the War Doctor), and numerous other companions)

Titan Comics

Doctor Who: The Third Doctor

Title	Writer	Featuring	Printed in	Released
The Heralds of Destruction	Paul Cornell	Jo, the Brig, Yates, Benton, Osgood, the Master, Ramón Salamander	3D 1 - 5	14 September 2016 - 22 February 2017

Miniseries

Title	Writer	Featuring	Printed in	Released
The Lost Dimension	George Mann, Cavan Scott, Nick Abadzis		TLD 1, 3, 8	14 September 2016 - 22 February 2017

Back-up strips

Title	Writer	Featuring	Printed in	Released
Prologue: The Third Doctor	George Mann, Cavan Scott	The Master, Cyberman	2016 Convention Special	21 July 2016

The Many Lives of Doctor Who

Title	Writer	Featuring	Printed in	Released
Invasion of the Scorpion Men	Richard Dinnick	Sarah, Dahensa	13D 0	26 September 2018

External links

• Altered Vistas - In the Comics - The Third Doctor
• Third Doctor in Doctor Who Magazine at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• Third Doctor in TV Action at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
• Third Doctor in TV Comic at the Doctor Who Reference Guide