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 '''''Treasure Trail''''' was a [[1976 (releases)|1976]] ''[[TV Comic]]'' story that was published a couple of weeks after the conclusion of the debut of ''[[The Seeds of Doom (TV story)|The Seeds of Doom]]'' on [[television]].
-Like several other ''[[Doctor Who]]'' stories, it was set in [[World War II]]. Unusually, however, it took place late in the [[war]], about a [[month]] after the [[Battle of Monte Cassino]], in a [[Borosini|northern Italian village]] whose inhabitants were [[partisan]]s. Of the many glimpses of World War II provided by ''Doctor Who'', ''Treasure Trail'' may be the only one set amongst the Italian resistance.
+With ''[[The Dalek Revenge (comic story)|The Dalek Revenge]]'' and ''[[Virus (comic story)|Virus]]'', ''Treasure Trail'' is the last of a trilogy of stories in which the (unseen) [[Time Lord]]s send the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith]] on various missions by taking control of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]].
+At the time of its release, it was only the third ''[[Doctor Who]]'' story to be set during [[World War II]], following its ''[[TV Action]]'' predecessors ''[[Timebenders (comic story)|Timebenders]]'' and ''[[Who is the Stranger (comic story)|Who is the Stranger]]''. Whereas those two stories took place in [[Nazi]]-[[Blitzkrieg|occupied]] [[France]], ''Treasure Trail'' was — and remains — unique in that it took place late in the [[war]], about a [[month]] after the [[Battle of Monte Cassino]], in a [[Borosini|northern Italian village]] inhabited by [[partisan]]s. Of the many glimpses of World War II provided by ''Doctor Who'' in the ensuing decades, ''Treasure Trail'' may be the only one set amongst the Italian resistance.
 == Plot ==
 The [[Time Lord]]s send the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Sarah Jane Smith|Sarah-Jane]] on another mission without clear instructions. They find themselves under [[Nazi]] [[aircraft]] fire almost immediately upon disembarking [[the TARDIS]]. The Doctor's people have dumped them near the [[north]]ern [[Italy|Italian]] [[town]] of [[Borosini]] in the [[summer]] of [[1944]].
-Suspected by the local [[village]]rs of being Nazi [[Spy|spies]], they are brought before the town's [[priest]], [[Father (title)|Father]] [[Antonio (Treasure Trail)|Antonio]]. The Doctor convinces the priest they are [[English]], using the [[writing]] on the TARDIS' [[police box]] exterior as proof. Any doubt about the pair's identity, however, is far less significant than that [[Hermann Goering|Goering]]'s Nazis are entering the village. It seems they are after whatever [[art]]istic treasures they can find.
+Suspected by the local [[village]]rs of being Nazi [[Spy|spies]], they are brought before the town's [[priest]], [[Father (title)|Father]] [[Antonio (Treasure Trail)|Antonio]]. The Doctor convinces the priest they are [[English]], using the [[writing]] on the TARDIS' [[police box]] exterior as proof. Any doubt about the pair's identity, however, is far less significant than the fact that [[Hermann Goering|Goering]]'s Nazis are entering the village. It seems they are after whatever [[art]]istic treasures they can find.
-They storm into the church, and Antonio shows them the [[Raphael (painter)|Raphael]] hanging in the knave. Impressed, [[Lieutenant]] [[Schuler (Treasure Trail)|Schuler]] spreads word of the painting up the Nazi chain of command. Meanwhile, the villagers fear that the Nazis will just steal their art as they've already done elsewhere in [[Europe]]. The Doctor offers his aid and wins Antonio's trust by bringing him forward in time to [[1976]], so he can see the rebuilt [[Monte Cassino]] [[monastery]].
+They storm into the [[church]], and Antonio shows them the [[Raphael (painter)|Raphael]] hanging in the knave. Impressed, [[Lieutenant]] [[Schuler (Treasure Trail)|Schuler]] sends word of the [[painting]] up the Nazi chain of command. Meanwhile, the villagers fear that the Nazis will just steal their art as they've already done elsewhere in [[Europe]]. The Doctor offers his aid and wins Antonio's trust by bringing him forward in time to [[1976]], so he can see the rebuilt [[Monte Cassino]] [[monastery]].
-[[Giovanni (Treasure Trail)|Giovanni]], a local [[partisan]] who has given the Doctor and Sarah a hard time, confirms that there's a massive shipment of stolen art soon to pass through by [[train]]. The Doctor [[Operation Stop Thief|proposes]] to blow the [[Railway|line]]. They do this, retrieve all the stolen art via a [[mule]] trail, and bring it all back to the TARDIS. The Time Lords send the TARDIS to [[April]] [[1948]], where the Doctor offloads the art. To the Italian press, it seems as though the art has magically reappeared. Only Antonio and Giovanni in Borosini knows it's ''not'' [[magic]], but it's a [[secret]] they [[vow]] to take to their [[grave]]s.
+[[Giovanni (Treasure Trail)|Giovanni]], a local [[partisan]] who has given the Doctor and Sarah a hard time, confirms that there's a massive shipment of stolen art soon to pass through by [[train]]. The Doctor [[Operation Stop Thief|proposes]] to blow the [[Railway|line]]. They do this, retrieve all the stolen art via a [[mule]] trail, and bring it all back to the TARDIS ahead of the Nazis. The Time Lords send the TARDIS to [[April]] [[1948]], where the Doctor offloads the art. To the Italian press, it seems as though the art has magically reappeared. Only Antonio and Giovanni in Borosini knows it's ''not'' [[magic]], but it's a [[secret]] they [[vow]] to take to their [[grave]]s.
 == Characters ==
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 == Notes ==
-* This story makes no significant references to other [[DWU]] fiction, although it does follow on from ''[[The Dalek Revenge (comic story)|The Dalek Revenge]]'' and ''[[Virus (comic story)|Virus]]'', with the TARDIS still under the control of the Time Lords.
+* This story makes no significant references to other [[DWU]] fiction, although it does follow on from ''[[The Dalek Revenge (comic story)|The Dalek Revenge]]'' and ''[[Virus (comic story)|Virus]]'', with the TARDIS still under the control of the Time Lords. From the Doctor and Sarah's perspective, the events of ''[[Hubert's Folly (comic story)|Hubert's Folly]]'' take place immediately after.
 * It is never explained why the Time Lords deem the Italian treasures important enough to send the Doctor to save them. However, in the later audio story, ''[[Fallen Angels (audio story)|Fallen Angels]]'', the [[Fifth Doctor]] refers to the works of [[Raphael (painter)|Raphael]] as a [[fixed point in time]]. Another audio story, ''[[Operation: Hellfire (audio story)|Operation: Hellfire]]'', shows that the Time Lords have sent the Doctor [[Operation Hellfire|on a mission]] during the Second World War once [[1943|before]].
+* No exact date is given [[Doctor Who universe|in-universe]] as to when most of the story takes place, though it does specify the [[summer]] of 1944. If real-life dates apply, one month after the end of the Battle of Monte Cassino would set the story in [[June]], after the capture of Rome.
 == Continuity ==
+* [[The Doctor's TARDIS|The TARDIS]] is still under the control of the [[Time Lord]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Dalek Revenge (comic story)|The Dalek Revenge]]'', ''[[Virus (comic story)|Virus]]'')
 * The [[Eleventh Doctor]] again used the writing on the [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]' [[police box]] exterior to prove that he was from [[London]] when he met [[Adolf Hitler]] in [[Berlin]] in [[1938]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Killer]]'')