The Arkwood Experiments (comic story)

The Arkwood Experiments
Doctor:	Third Doctor
Featuring:	The Brig
Main enemy:	Cedric Mathews
Main setting:	England, the 1970s
Key crew
Publisher:	Polystyle
Writer:	Roger Noel Cook
Artist:	John Canning
Release details
Printed in:	TV Comic 944-949
Release date:	17 January - 21 February 1970
Reprinted in:	[[reprint::DWCC 4|DWCC 4]]
Format:	Comic - 6 parts (12 pages)
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The Arkwood Experiments was the comic debut of the Third Doctor, UNIT and the Brigadier. It followed the first major break in Doctor Who comic strip history — a nearly two month gap since the Second Doctor's swansong. The gap somewhat mirrored the unusually long seven months gap between season 6 and season 7 on television.

Summary

Ten-year-old genius Cedric Mathews drugs his school friends and sends them on a rampage across the country.

Characters

• Third Doctor
• Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
• Cedric Mathews

References

• The Doctor and the Brigadier are attacked by an aggressive flock of parrots.
• The parrots are last seen flying off towards the town to wreak havoc there — and oddly, are never seen nor mentioned again.
• Among the zoo animals affected by Cedric's drug are parrots, penguins, a gazelle, a panther, and a lion.

Notes

• The first words spoken by the Third Doctor in his comic book tenure is: "What?" It is said in response to the Brigadier asking him to meet him at the zoo.

Continuity

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