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|setting = [[Harmony (planet)|Harmony]] | |setting = [[Harmony (planet)|Harmony]] | ||
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|publication = ''[[ | |publication = ''[[The Dr Who Annual 1968]]'' | ||
|release date = September 1967 | |release date = September 1967 | ||
|prev = Only a Matter of Time (short story) | |prev = Only a Matter of Time (short story) | ||
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'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the fifth illustrated short story in | '''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was the fifth illustrated short story in ''[[The Dr Who Annual 1968]]''. It featured the [[Second Doctor]], [[Ben Jackson|Ben]] and [[Polly Wright|Polly]]. | ||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
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* [[Alba]] | * [[Alba]] | ||
* [[Sandor]] | * [[Sandor]] | ||
== Worldbuilding == | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* The people of Harmony recently received a batch of automatics from [[Andromeda (galaxy)|Andromeda]]. | * The people of Harmony recently received a batch of automatics from [[Andromeda (galaxy)|Andromeda]]. | ||
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== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* Like many early ''Doctor Who'' print stories, both comic and prose, the Doctor is referred to as "Doctor Who" or "Dr. Who". The word "doctor" is not even seen as a proper noun here when used on its own to refer to the character. | * Like many early ''Doctor Who'' print stories, both comic and prose, the Doctor is referred to as "Doctor Who" or "Dr. Who". The word "doctor" is not even seen as a proper noun here when used on its own to refer to the character. | ||
* As with other stories in [[ | * As with other stories in ''[[The Dr Who Annual 1968]]'', the Second Doctor refers to Ben and Polly as "my children", or, individually, "my child", "my girl", or "my boy". Uncharacteristic of the [[Patrick Troughton|Troughton]] Doctor, this seems to be a hold-over from the [[William Hartnell|Hartnell]] interpretation; there was simply too little time between when Troughton took over and this annual had to go to print for the annual's editors to understand Troughton's approach to the role. | ||
* As in other illustrated stories throughout the Second Doctor's appearances in [[World Distributors]] annuals, the Doctor is shown here wearing his [[stovepipe hat]] — despite the fact that Troughton had abandoned the hat some eight months before publication. | * As in other illustrated stories throughout the Second Doctor's appearances in [[World Distributors]] annuals, the Doctor is shown here wearing his [[stovepipe hat]] — despite the fact that Troughton had abandoned the hat some eight months before publication. | ||
* The [[Second Doctor]] and [[Ben Jackson|Ben]] have an especially contentious relationship here, perhaps because the Second Doctor is generally characterised throughout [[Doctor Who Annual 1968|this annual]] as being considerably more like the televised [[First Doctor]]. At one point, the Doctor threatens to abandon Ben "in some world filled with loathsome monsters [where] you may begin to feel at home at last." Their extreme discord, however, is a essentially a {{w|plot device}}. | * The [[Second Doctor]] and [[Ben Jackson|Ben]] have an especially contentious relationship here, perhaps because the Second Doctor is generally characterised throughout [[Doctor Who Annual 1968|this annual]] as being considerably more like the televised [[First Doctor]]. At one point, the Doctor threatens to abandon Ben "in some world filled with loathsome monsters [where] you may begin to feel at home at last." Their extreme discord, however, is a essentially a {{w|plot device}}. | ||
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* The Doctor gives the world the name "Arcady", after an alternate spelling of {{w|Arcadia (utopia)|Arcadia}}. This was also the name of a [[Arcadia (planet)|world]] visited by the [[Seventh Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deceit (novel)|Deceit]]'') The ''actual'' name of the planet, at least according to its inhabitants, is "[[Harmony (planet)|Harmony]]". | * The Doctor gives the world the name "Arcady", after an alternate spelling of {{w|Arcadia (utopia)|Arcadia}}. This was also the name of a [[Arcadia (planet)|world]] visited by the [[Seventh Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Deceit (novel)|Deceit]]'') The ''actual'' name of the planet, at least according to its inhabitants, is "[[Harmony (planet)|Harmony]]". | ||
* The Doctor suggests the [[Milky Way]] is his home galaxy. This is consistent with later ''Doctor Who'' fiction, but the preferred ''Doctor Who'' term is "[[Mutter's Spiral]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') | * The Doctor suggests the [[Milky Way]] is his home galaxy. This is consistent with later ''Doctor Who'' fiction, but the preferred ''Doctor Who'' term is "[[Mutter's Spiral]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Alien Bodies (novel)|Alien Bodies]]'') | ||
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[[Category:1968 DWAN short stories]] | [[Category:1968 DWAN short stories]] | ||