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|companions= [[Izzy Sinclair]] | |companions= [[Izzy Sinclair]] | ||
|enemy= [[Beep the Meep]] | |enemy= [[Beep the Meep]] | ||
|setting= [[BBC Television Centre]], [[London]], [[12 October]] [[1979]] ([[Meta- | |setting= [[BBC Television Centre]], [[London]], [[12 October]] [[1979]] ([[Meta-fiction universe|parallel universe]]) | ||
|writer= [[Alan Barnes]] | |writer= [[Alan Barnes]] | ||
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Revision as of 04:34, 4 December 2013
- You may be looking for the real world periodical of the same name.
TV Action! is a Doctor Who Magazine comic story featuring the Eighth Doctor and Izzy Sinclair.
Summary
The Doctor and Izzy have a brief meeting with an old enemy of the Doctor's known as Beep the Meep in a parallel universe, one where the adventures of the Doctor are nothing more than televised programmes and science fiction.
Characters
References
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Notes
- The strip marked the twentieth anniversary of Doctor Who Magazine. The story is set on the very day Doctor Who Weekly first saw print and ends with a confused Doctor looking at the first issue. The date is also said to be when Izzy was born.
- The strip's title is a nod to TV Action, which published the Doctor Who comic strip prior to the launch of Doctor Who Magazine.
- Tom Baker appears as himself in the story. He became the first of two real life Doctor actors to appear as himself in a Doctor Who storyline, the other being William Hartnell given his cameo as "Billy" in AUDIO: Pier Pressure. His lines are taken from actual interviews with Baker.
- Many references are made to 1979 BBC shows, with cameo appearances by actors who refer to themselves by their character's names: the TARDIS lands in the Blue Peter garden, near the memorial to the dog ; the first people met are extras in Blake's 7 Federation soldier costumes; brainwashed servants of Meep include actors from The Onedin Line, Grange Hill, and Fawlty Towers and the puppet Basil Brush; and BBC Outside Broadcast vans are used to transmit black star energy.
Continuity
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