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|image = Annual 1967 The Playthings of Fo.jpg | |image = Annual 1967 The Playthings of Fo.jpg | ||
|series=[[Doctor Who annual|''Doctor Who'' annual]] | |series=[[Doctor Who annual|''Doctor Who'' annual]] | ||
|doctor=First Doctor | |doctor = First Doctor | ||
|companions=[[Jack Strong|Jack]], [[Dot Strong|Dot]], [[Harroll Strong|Harroll]], [[Shelly (The Playthings of Fo)|Shelly]], [[Chertzog]], [[Hill (The Playthings of Fo)|Hill]] | |companions=[[Jack Strong|Jack]], [[Dot Strong|Dot]], [[Harroll Strong|Harroll]], [[Shelly (The Playthings of Fo)|Shelly]], [[Chertzog]], [[Hill (The Playthings of Fo)|Hill]] | ||
|setting=[[Rhoos]] | |setting = [[Rhoos]] | ||
|enemy=[[Fo]] | |enemy=[[Fo]] | ||
|writer= | |writer= | ||
| | |anthology = The Dr Who Annual 1967 | ||
|release date= | |release date = September 1966 | ||
|prev=The Devil-Birds of Corbo (short story) | |prev = The Devil-Birds of Corbo (short story) | ||
|next=Justice of the Glacians (short story) | |next=Justice of the Glacians (short story) | ||
}} | }} | ||
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* [[Fo]] | * [[Fo]] | ||
* [[Ff'ni]] | * [[Ff'ni]] | ||
* [[Kaark Supremo]] | |||
* The [[Kaark]]s | * The [[Kaark]]s | ||
== | == Worldbuilding == | ||
'' | * The planet [[Rhoos]] is the eighth planet in the [[P'Tuu System]]. | ||
* Rhoos is described as "third of a [[GO-star]], [[80000000 (number)|eighty million]] [[mile]]s from primary, less axial inclination than [[Earth|Terra]]." | |||
* [[Fo]] is from a race of one-eyed giants in the distant [[Black Galaxy]]. | |||
* The Doctor uses a [[Box (The Playthings of Fo)|black box]] to slay Fo. | |||
* According to an illustration, animals in Fo's zoo include a [[giraffe]] and what might be a leopard (or possibly a tiger) and a gorilla. | |||
== Notes == | == Notes == | ||
* | * While Harroll Strong and his children Dot and Jack had been major parts of the previous story, the Doctor's other three companions are only named in this story. In ''The Devil-Birds of Corbo'', they appear only as part of a description of the group of humans, and in illustration. | ||
* This story is notable for being the first to offer an explanation as to how the occupants of the TARDIS are able to understand every language, everywhere they go. In this story, it is explained by Shelly, despite the fact he'd only just met the Doctor, that it is a result of the "automatic mental adjustor" in the TARDIS. | |||
== Continuity == | == Continuity == | ||
* The TARDIS' abrupt departure from | * The Doctor is taking the humans who had been stranded on [[Corbo]] home. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Devil-Birds of Corbo (short story)|The Devil-Birds of Corbo]]'') | ||
* The TARDIS' abrupt departure from Corbo ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Devil-Birds of Corbo (short story)|The Devil-Birds of Corbo]]'') has damaged the [[space-time locator]] mechanism. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Peril in Mechanistria (short story)|Peril in Mechanistria]]'') | |||
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