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comic name= The Glen of Sleeping|
|image       = Glen of sleeping.jpg
image= [[File:Glen of sleeping.jpg|250px]] |
|doctor      = Third Doctor
series= ''[[Doctor Who]]'' - [[TV Action]]|
|enemy        = {{Delgado|c}}
number=|
|setting      = [[Scotland]], [[1970s]] and [[1745]]
doctor= [[Third Doctor]]|
|writer       = Dick O'Neill
companions= |
|artist       = [[Gerry Haylock]]
enemy= [[The Master (UNIT years)|The Master]]|
|publication = ''[[TV Action]]'' 107-111
year= [[1745]]|
|release date = 3 - 31 March 1973
writer= [[Dick O'Neill]]|
|publisher   = Polystyle
artist= [[Gerry Haylock]]|
|reprint      = DWCC 20
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|format       = Comic (10 pages)
colourist=|
|series      = [[TV Action|''TVA'' comic stories]]
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|prev        = Who is the Stranger (comic story)
publication title= ''[[TV Action]]'' 107-111|
|next         = The Threat from Beneath (comic story)
publication dates= 3 March - 31 March [[1973]]|
|reprint2=Past Masters, Classic Comic Strips|epcount = 5
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'''The Glen of Sleeping''' was a ''[[TV Action]]'' comic story featuring the [[Third Doctor]].
previous story= [[Who is the Stranger]]|
next story= [[The Threat from Beneath]]|
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== Summary ==
== Summary ==
The Third Doctor encounters an [[The Master (UNIT years)|old foe]] and some time-travelling Scotsmen.
While on a fishing holiday in [[Scotland]], the Doctor encounters a group of archaeologists who are investigating the legend of the Glen of Sleeping. One of the scientists is in fact the Master in disguise who summons Red Angus his clansmen from their centuries-long sleep. With Angus and his men under his command, the Master intends to use them to capture a nuclear submarine in a near loch. The Doctor traces the cause of the clansme's long slumber to two chronons, an alien time-trap device. Using the chronons the Doctor is able to send himself, the Master, the submarine and the clansmen back to 1745. Pursued by redcoats, the Doctor may never be able to escape back to the twentieth century.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Third Doctor]]
* [[Third Doctor]]
* [[The Master (UNIT years)|The Master]]
* {{delgado|c}}
* [[Professor]] [[Barnes (The Glen of Sleeping)|Barnes]]
* [[McAird]]
* [[Iain (The Glen of Sleeping)|Iain]]
* [[Sentry (The Glen of Sleeping)|Sentry]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
''to be added''
* The Doctor finds a [[baked beans|baked bean]] [[tin]] while [[fishing]].


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
''to be added''
* This was the first appearance of [[the Master]] in the ''Doctor Who'' comic strip.
 
=== Original print details ===
 
(Publication with page count and closing captions)
 
* TVA 107 (2 pages) Next week, an intrusion from the present!
* TVA 108 (2 pages) Next week, a modern menace awakens!
* TVA 109 (2 pages) The world in peril — next week!
* TVA 110 (2 pages) Next week, an ingenious battle with time itself!
* TVA 111 (2 pages) Next week: the Doctor finds himself pitted against the Daleks!!


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
''to be added''
''to be added''


== Timeline ==
== External links ==
* This story occurs after [[CC]]: ''[[The Prisoner of Peladon]]''
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* This story occurs before [[TVA]]: ''[[The Threat from Beneath]]''


== External links ==
{{Third Doctor Polystyle comics}}
* [http://www.alteredvistas.co.uk/html/third_doctor.html Altered Vistas - In the Comics - Third Doctor]
{{The Master (TotA) stories}}
{{Third Doctor TVC/TVA comics}}
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[[Category:The Master stories]]
[[Category:Third Doctor TVA comic stories]]
[[Category:Stories set in the 1740s]]
[[Category:1973 comic stories]]
[[Category:Stories released in 1973]]
[[Category:Stories set in Scotland]]
[[Category:Stories set in the 1970s]]
[[Category:Stories set in 1745]]
[[Category:The Master (Terror of the Autons) comic stories]]
[[Category:Five part comics]]

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The Glen of Sleeping was a TV Action comic story featuring the Third Doctor.

Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]

While on a fishing holiday in Scotland, the Doctor encounters a group of archaeologists who are investigating the legend of the Glen of Sleeping. One of the scientists is in fact the Master in disguise who summons Red Angus his clansmen from their centuries-long sleep. With Angus and his men under his command, the Master intends to use them to capture a nuclear submarine in a near loch. The Doctor traces the cause of the clansme's long slumber to two chronons, an alien time-trap device. Using the chronons the Doctor is able to send himself, the Master, the submarine and the clansmen back to 1745. Pursued by redcoats, the Doctor may never be able to escape back to the twentieth century.

Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]

Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • This was the first appearance of the Master in the Doctor Who comic strip.

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

(Publication with page count and closing captions)

  • TVA 107 (2 pages) Next week, an intrusion from the present!
  • TVA 108 (2 pages) Next week, a modern menace awakens!
  • TVA 109 (2 pages) The world in peril — next week!
  • TVA 110 (2 pages) Next week, an ingenious battle with time itself!
  • TVA 111 (2 pages) Next week: the Doctor finds himself pitted against the Daleks!!

Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]

to be added

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

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