TV 21's Time Machine (short story)

TV 21's Time Machine
Main character(s):	TV 21 reporters
Main setting:	Venus, 2066
Key crew
Publisher:	City Magazines
Editor:	Alan Fennell
Release details
Printed in:	TV21 50
Release date:	1 January 1966
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TV 21's Time Machine was a 21 short story printed in TV Century 21 that contained elements from the Doctor Who universe.

It detailed the operation of the TV 21 Time Machine and mentioned Unity City, first introduced in The Daleks comic story Duel of the Daleks.

Summary

On Venus, special TV 21 reporters sort out all the planet's news and feed the selected material into a computer. The type is transformed into radio waves and fed into the cyclon, where the waves are atomised and blasted from the aerial at one hundred times the speed of light. In Unity City, this process is reversed using a receiver aerial, after which the news story is passed to the London editorial offices.

Characters

• TV 21 reporters

Worldbuilding

• The time machine is the second piece of equipment of TV 21's "vast video-report network".
• The cyclon is a wheel-like feature at the centre of the aerial on Venus.

Story notes

• Although technically a 21 story, Agent Twenty One does not appear.

Continuity

• The machine was regularly used to obtain the details of Amos Burke's investigations for the Los Angeles Homicide Bureau in 1965. (COMIC: Who Killed Elias Hoodreim?, Who Killed Lord Nelson? et al.)
• In 2065, a fault developed in the machine's Fireball XL5 receiving channel and engineers had to be called in. (COMIC: The Menace of the Monstrons)