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== Summary ==
== Summary ==
[[Third Doctor|The Doctor]] has been pursued through time and captured for the "crime" of [[time travel]]. Taken to [[New Britain]] in [[3550]], the Doctor is sentenced to trial by combat by [[Mar-Kom]], the ruler of New Britain. The [[Time Lord]] allies himself with [[Theophilus Tolliver]], the [[inventor]] of [[Earth]]'s first [[time machine]], to uncover the truth about Mar-Kom.
The [[Third Doctor]] has been pursued through time and captured for the "crime" of [[time travel]]. Taken to [[New Britain]] in [[3550]], the Doctor is sentenced to trial by combat by [[Mar-Kom]], the ruler of New Britain. The [[Time Lord]] allies himself with [[Theophilus Tolliver]], the [[inventor]] of [[Earth]]'s first [[time machine]], to uncover the truth about Mar-Kom.


== Characters ==
== Characters ==
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== References ==
== References ==
* The TARDIS travels the edges of [[Galaxy 884]].
* The [[time police]] can track the Doctor's TARDIS to the [[end of time]].
* The Doctor is referred to as an ex-Time Lord.
* The Doctor uses [[Jupiter]] as an intensive.
* Theo invented his time machine in [[1897]].
* Theo is a friend of [[H. G. Wells]].
* [[St. Paul's Cathedral]] still stands in New London.
* [[St. Paul's Cathedral]] still stands in New London.


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
 
* In a rather unusual bit of intertextuality, Theophilus Tolliver is implied to be the unnamed traveller from [[H.G. Wells]]'s ''[[The Time Machine]]''.
 
* In a rather unusual bit of intertextuality, Theophilus Tolliver is implied to be the unnamed Traveller from [[H.G. Wells]]'s ''[[The Time Machine]]''.


== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor has been placed on trial before for his [[Non-interference policy|actions]] involving time travel, ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') as he would again in the future. ([[TV]]: ''[[Season 23|The Trial of a Time Lord]]'')
* The Doctor has been placed on trial before for his actions involving time travel, with his [[second incarnation]]'s [[The Doctor's trial (The War Games)|trial on Gallifrey]] for violating the [[non-interference policy]] being the reason he was an [[exile on Earth]] in the first place. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'')
* Theo is a friend of [[H. G. Wells]], whom the Doctor has met before ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Piltdown Men (audio story)|The Piltdown Men]]'') and will meet again. ([[TV]]: ''[[Timelash (TV story)|Timelash]]'', [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Time Machination (comic story)|The Time Machination]]'')


== External links ==
== External links ==

Revision as of 06:58, 24 April 2023

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The Eternal Present was a Third Doctor comic story published in TV Action.

Summary

The Third Doctor has been pursued through time and captured for the "crime" of time travel. Taken to New Britain in 3550, the Doctor is sentenced to trial by combat by Mar-Kom, the ruler of New Britain. The Time Lord allies himself with Theophilus Tolliver, the inventor of Earth's first time machine, to uncover the truth about Mar-Kom.

Characters

References

Notes

  • In a rather unusual bit of intertextuality, Theophilus Tolliver is implied to be the unnamed traveller from H.G. Wells's The Time Machine.

Continuity

External links