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|image= The planet master.jpg  
|image= The planet master.jpg  
|number=
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|doctor= Third Doctor
|doctor= Third Doctor
|companions= [[Dave Lester|Dave]]
|companions= [[Dave Lester|Dave]]
|enemy= [[Rayner]], [[Master Plant]]  
|enemy= The [[Master Plant]]  
|setting= [[Carradine Estate]], [[1970s]]
|setting= [[Carradine Estate]], [[1970s]]
|writer=  
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|publication= Countdown Annual 1972
|publication= Countdown Annual 1972
|release date= [[1972 (releases)|1972]]
|release date= 1972
|publisher= Polystyle
|publisher= Polystyle
|format= Comic, 8 pages
|format= Comic, 8 pages
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== Summary ==
== Summary ==
After materialising in the path of a [[motorbike]] [[Dave Lester|rider]], the Doctor becomes involved in a local mystery involving a [[Rayner|mad professor]] and an rather intelligent [[Master Plant|plant]].
The Doctor and a young boy, Dave Lester, journey to the mysterious Carradine estate. There they find deranged genius Professor Rayner has created a huge Master Plant which can harness and control all other plants. The Professor's plans for world domination are thwarted when the Master Plant kills him. Besieged inside the Professor's laboratory by an approaching army of plants, the Doctor has only minutes to concoct a way of defeating the apparently unstoppable Master Plant.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Third Doctor]]
* [[Third Doctor]]
* [[Dave Lester]]
* [[Dave Lester]]
* [[Rayner|Professor Rayner]]
* [[Carradine]]
* [[Carradine]]
* [[Master Plant]]
* [[Professor]] [[Rayner]]
* The [[Master Plant]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
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== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* Though this story would have been written in 1971 for inclusion in the 1972 annual, the [[Third Doctor]] is clearly no longer [[exile on Earth|exiled on Earth]]. He has complete use of [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]]. He's even shown executing some "short hop" precision flights. This places this strip (and many others in ''[[Countdown (magazine)|Countdown]]/[[TV Action]]'') at least a year or two ahead of events on television.
* Though this story's publication predates ''[[The Three Doctors]]'', the [[Third Doctor]] is not depicted as being [[exile on Earth|exiled on Earth]], having complete use of [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] and even shown executing some "short hop" precision flights. The Doctor's exile being more of a suggestion than an established fact is, however, in line with how it was depicted in ''[[Countdown (magazine)|Countdown]]/[[TV Action]]''.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==

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The Plant Master is the ex post facto title of the Third Doctor comic story in the 1972 Countdown Annual. Like many pre-Marvel comic strips, it had no title on first publication. The name gained traction after being used by Jean-Marc Lofficier in The Terrestrial Index and confirmed by John Ainsworth in his then-comprehensive listing of Third Doctor strips in DWCC #4.

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The Doctor and a young boy, Dave Lester, journey to the mysterious Carradine estate. There they find deranged genius Professor Rayner has created a huge Master Plant which can harness and control all other plants. The Professor's plans for world domination are thwarted when the Master Plant kills him. Besieged inside the Professor's laboratory by an approaching army of plants, the Doctor has only minutes to concoct a way of defeating the apparently unstoppable Master Plant.

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Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

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Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

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