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|image = | |image = From D. Connell of Essex.png | ||
|series = ''[[21 (series)|21]]'' stories | |series = ''[[21 (series)|21]]'' stories | ||
|main character = [[Derek Connell]] | |main character = [[Derek Connell]] | ||
|featuring = [[Brent Cleever|Twenty One]] | |featuring = [[Brent Cleever|Twenty One]] | ||
|setting = [[2065]] | |setting = [[2065]] | ||
|writer = | |writer = Derek Connell (writer) | ||
|publisher = City Magazines | |publisher = City Magazines | ||
|editor = [[Alan Fennell]] | |editor = [[Alan Fennell]] | ||
|publication = TV21 23 | |publication = TV21 23 | ||
|release date = | |release date = 26 June 1965 | ||
|prev = From Special Agent Peter Ayliffe (short story) | |prev = From Special Agent Peter Ayliffe (short story) | ||
|next = From J. Webster (short story) | |next = From J. Webster (short story) | ||
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* [[Brent Cleever|Twenty One]] | * [[Brent Cleever|Twenty One]] | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
* Connell has recently read his first ''[[TV 21]]'', thinking it to be the "best [[Newspaper|paper]] out", and hopes to become an agent of the [[Universal Secret Service]]. | * Connell has recently read his first ''[[TV 21]]'', thinking it to be the "best [[Newspaper|paper]] out", and hopes to become an agent of the [[Universal Secret Service]]. | ||
* Connell has not previously heard of the "mysterious" [[Penelope Creighton-Ward|Lady Penelope]]. | * Connell has not previously heard of the "mysterious" [[Penelope Creighton-Ward|Lady Penelope]]. | ||
Latest revision as of 18:24, 26 February 2024
From D. Connell of Essex was a 21 short story printed in TV Century 21 that contained elements from the Doctor Who universe.
Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Aspiring agent Derek Connell writes to Twenty One. Although Connell is fully aware of humanity's monitoring of the rising Dalek threat, Twenty One helps him to understand how the Universal Secret Service remains informed of the actitivies of Earth's own operatives, such as the Stingray and XL5 teams.
Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Connell has recently read his first TV 21, thinking it to be the "best paper out", and hopes to become an agent of the Universal Secret Service.
- Connell has not previously heard of the "mysterious" Lady Penelope.
- Connell suggests dropping Cosmic Capers for "a week or two" and printing plans of Marineville and the various W.A.S.P. vessels in its place.
- Twenty One explains that most systems work on the same principle as television but then the radio waves carrying the pictures are fed through a special wave accelerator which boosts their speed across space from 186000 miles per second, the speed of light, to 200 million miles per second. This is how reports are received so quickly.
- Twenty One mentions the editor of TV 21.
Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
to be added
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The hyper-space video-phone is said by Connell to be used for reports on the doings of the Daleks. (COMIC: Power Play et al.)
- Penelope Creighton-Ward is, among many other things, a reporter and correspondent for TV 21. (COMIC: Duel of the Daleks)
