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|name        = Funny Phone Call!
|image            = DWA CS 234 FUNNY PHONE CALL.jpg
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|series            =[[DWA comic stories]]
|series            =[[DWA comic stories]]
|doctor            = Eleventh Doctor
|doctor            = Eleventh Doctor
|companions    = [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]]
|companions    = [[Amy Pond|Amy]], [[Rory Williams|Rory]]
|enemy            = [[Chugra]]  
|enemy            = [[Chugra]]  
|year             =  
|setting             =  
|writer            = [[Trevor Baxendale]]
|writer            = Trevor Baxendale
|editor            = [[Natalie Barnes]]
|editor            = [[Natalie Barnes]]
|artist            = [[John Ross]]
|artist            = [[John Ross]]
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|publication =[[DWA 234]]
|publication =[[DWA 234]]
|release date = [[8 September]] [[2011]]
|release date = 8 September 2011
|publisher        = [[BBC Magazines]]
|publisher        = BBC Magazines
|format            = Comic - 1 part (4 pages)
|format            = Comic
|epcount = 1
|prev    = Vacuum Packed (comic story)
|prev    = Vacuum Packed (comic story)
|next        = The Deadly Mutant (comic story)
|next        = The Deadly Mutant (comic story)
}}'''''Funny Phone Call!''''' was a ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'' comic strip published in [[2011]]. It featured the [[Eleventh Doctor]].
}}'''''Funny Phone Call!''''' was a ''[[Doctor Who Adventures]]'' comic strip published in 2011. It featured the [[Eleventh Doctor]].


== Summary ==
== Summary ==
While the TARDIS is travelling in the Time Vortex and the [[Eleventh Doctor]] is busy, [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] hear the telephone ring in the console room. Amy answers it. All she hears is static. She stops in mid-speech to play with the controls. The TARDIS is rocked and the Doctor comes running in, dressed only in a towel. He was having a swim and water has gone everywhere!  
While the TARDIS is travelling in the [[Time Vortex]] and the [[Eleventh Doctor]] is busy, [[Amy Pond]] and [[Rory Williams]] hear the [[TARDIS telephone|telephone]] ring in the [[TARDIS control room (The Eleventh Hour)|console room]]. Amy answers it. All she hears is static. She stops in mid-speech to play with the controls. The TARDIS is rocked and the Doctor comes running in, dressed only in a [[towel]]. He was having a [[swimming|swim]] and [[water]] has gone everywhere!


With [[sonic screwdriver]] in hand, Amy is moved away from the console. She is under some form of neuronic control that almost leads to the TARDIS breaking up. The doors fly open and Rory is only just saved from drifting out into space by the Doctor, who grabs his leg and pulls him back in, but not before a [[Chugra]] appears and tries to get aboard.  
With [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonic screwdriver]] in hand, Amy is moved away from the [[TARDIS control console (The Eleventh Hour)|console]]. She is under some form of neuronic control that almost leads to the TARDIS breaking up. The doors fly open and Rory is only just saved from drifting out into space by the Doctor, who grabs his leg and pulls him back in, but not before a [[Chugra]] appears and tries to get aboard.


The Doctor believed the Chugra extinct. Waking Amy up from the control, the Doctor uses the neural feedback to travel to the source of the control a [[Chugra|Chugra Warship]] trapped in the vortex by the [[Shadow Proclamation]] for crimes against temporal physics.  
The Doctor believed the Chugra extinct. Waking Amy up from the control, the Doctor uses the neural feedback to travel to the source of the control a [[Chugra|Chugra Warship]] trapped in the vortex by the [[Shadow Proclamation]] for crimes against [[temporal physics]].


Deciding not to help, the Doctor takes the TARDIS out of the vortex and back into normal space. The Doctor comments on the shocked look on Rory’s face not because of the Chugra but because the Doctor has dropped his towel!
Deciding not to help, the Doctor takes the TARDIS out of the vortex and back into normal space. The Doctor comments on the shocked look on Rory's face not because of the Chugra but because the Doctor has dropped his towel!


== Named characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Eleventh Doctor|The Doctor]]
* [[Eleventh Doctor]]
* [[Amy Pond]]
* [[Amy Pond]]
* [[Rory Williams]]
* [[Rory Williams]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
* The Doctor believed the [[Chugra]] extinct.
* The Doctor believed the [[Chugra]] extinct.
* The [[Chugra]] know of the [[Time Lord]]s.
* The Chugra know of the [[Time Lord]]s.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This is perhaps the most television referenced comic strip story so far and also the most true to character script.
''to be added''
* This is the first time the Doctor has been seen without clothes apart from a towel.


=== Original print details ===
=== Original print details ===
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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* Loads in this tale: the telephone ringing in the TARDIS, Amy asking if it was [[Winston Churchill|Winston]] calling, the [[Eleventh Doctor]] dressed in only a towel and armed with his [[Sonic screwdriver]], mention of the TARDIS swimming pool and water going everywhere, Rory falling out of the TARDIS when the doors open only to be pulled back in by the Doctor grabbing a leg, and mention of the Shadow Proclamation punishing the Chugra by trapping them in the vortex.
* When the telephone rings, Amy asks if it's [[Winston Churchill]] again. ([[TV]]: ''[[Victory of the Daleks (TV story)|Victory of the Daleks]]'')
* The Doctor is wearing a [[towel]] and armed with his [[the Doctor's sonic screwdriver|sonic screwdriver]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Lodger (TV story)|The Lodger]]'')


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Funny Phone Call! was a Doctor Who Adventures comic strip published in 2011. It featured the Eleventh Doctor.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

While the TARDIS is travelling in the Time Vortex and the Eleventh Doctor is busy, Amy Pond and Rory Williams hear the telephone ring in the console room. Amy answers it. All she hears is static. She stops in mid-speech to play with the controls. The TARDIS is rocked and the Doctor comes running in, dressed only in a towel. He was having a swim and water has gone everywhere!

With sonic screwdriver in hand, Amy is moved away from the console. She is under some form of neuronic control that almost leads to the TARDIS breaking up. The doors fly open and Rory is only just saved from drifting out into space by the Doctor, who grabs his leg and pulls him back in, but not before a Chugra appears and tries to get aboard.

The Doctor believed the Chugra extinct. Waking Amy up from the control, the Doctor uses the neural feedback to travel to the source of the control — a Chugra Warship trapped in the vortex by the Shadow Proclamation for crimes against temporal physics.

Deciding not to help, the Doctor takes the TARDIS out of the vortex and back into normal space. The Doctor comments on the shocked look on Rory's face — not because of the Chugra but because the Doctor has dropped his towel!

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

Original print details[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • Publication with page count and closing captions
  1. DWA 234 (4 pages) NEXT WEEK – THE DOCTOR MEETS A MYSTERIOUS MUTANT!
  • No reprints to date.

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]