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{{Infobox | |image = The One Second Hour.jpg | ||
|series= Stories in ''[[Countdown (magazine)|Countdown]]/[[TV Action|TVA]]'' specials | |||
series= ''[[ | |doctor = Third Doctor | ||
|enemy = Sir [[Norman Ormsby]] | |||
companions=| | |year = [[London]], [[1970s]] | ||
|companions=[[The Brigadier]], [[Mike Yates|Yates]] | |||
writer=| | |featuring= | ||
publication=TV Comic Holiday 1973| | |setting= | ||
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|publication = ''TV Comic Holiday 1973'' | |||
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'''''The One Second Hour''''' was a short story printed in ''TV Comic Holiday 1973''. It featured the [[Third Doctor]] and [[the Brigadier]]. | |||
== Summary == | == Summary == | ||
''to | [[Third Doctor|The Doctor]] is working on a [[drug]] called "[[Time-shrinker]]", which speeds up a being's [[metabolism]] so the world around the is perceived to move at a much slower pace. As he tests the drug on himself with the help of Mike Yates, the end of the experiment is witnessed by [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]] and [[Knight|Sir]] [[Norman Ormsby]] of the [[Civil Service]]. At the speed he is moving, the Doctor briefly disappears from everyone's [[vision]] and captures [[Firearm|submachine gun]] [[bullet]]s fired at him with ease. | ||
As the Doctor explains his invention - intended as a way to help [[UNIT]] better counter [[the Master]] - Ormsby steals the drug and uses in on himself. With superhuman speed, he goes mad with power and dreams up ways of taking over [[United Kingdom|the country]]. However, he neglects to listen to the Doctor's warnings about the side effects, namely an accelerated [[age]]ing rate and extremely high friction. He [[Explosion|explodes]] in a [[fire]]ball outside a [[village]] like a [[meteor]] strike. | |||
The Doctor guesses Ormsby aged to about 200 [[year]]s in the few [[minute]]s he was under the effects. He shelves the experiment and intends to find another way to face the Master. | |||
== Characters == | == Characters == | ||
* [[Third Doctor]] | * [[Third Doctor]] | ||
* [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] | |||
* [[Captain]] [[Mike Yates]] | |||
* [[Knight|Sir]] [[Norman Ormsby]] | |||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
' | * A couple of drops of [[Time-shrinker]] speeds up a being's metabolism to the point where every [[second]] in the surrounding world would be experienced by them as one [[hour]]. | ||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
'' | * The Doctor claims that [[old age]] is not deadly to both him and the Master. However, his advanced age contributed to the demise of his [[First Doctor|first incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'') The Master would much later accelerate the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s physical age forward [[Century|centuries]] in an instant, greatly sapping his strength. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]''/''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'') | ||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
''to be added'' | ''to be added'' | ||
{{The Master (TotA) stories}} | |||
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[[Category:Third Doctor short stories | [[Category:Third Doctor short stories]] | ||
[[Category:The Master short stories]] | [[Category:The Master (Terror of the Autons) short stories]] | ||
[[Category:Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart short stories]] | [[Category:Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart short stories]] | ||
[[Category:1973 short stories]] | |||
[[Category:Stories set in London]] | |||
[[Category:Stories set in the 1970s]] | |||