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|release date= [[4 January (releases)|4 January]] - [[8 March (releases)|8 March]] [[1997 (releases)|1997]] | |release date= [[4 January (releases)|4 January]] - [[8 March (releases)|8 March]] [[1997 (releases)|1997]] | ||
|publisher= Radio Times | |publisher= Radio Times | ||
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|next= Coda (comic story) | |next= Coda (comic story) | ||
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'''''Perceptions''''' was a [[RT comic stories|''Radio Times'' comic story]] featuring the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Stacy Townsend]] and [[Ssard]]. | '''''Perceptions''''' was a [[RT comic stories|''Radio Times'' comic story]] featuring the [[Eighth Doctor]], [[Stacy Townsend]] and [[Ssard]]. | ||
Revision as of 08:32, 5 January 2021
Perceptions was a Radio Times comic story featuring the Eighth Doctor, Stacy Townsend and Ssard.
Summary
The Doctor and his friends, Ssard and Stacy Townsend, arrive in Victorian London, where they discover a spaceship which is invisible to the people of the time. They meet the ship's occupant, P'fer'd, an Equinoid. He resembles a gaudily-coloured horse. P'fer'd tells the Doctor his wife M'rek'd is missing. Stacy and some street urchins rescue M'rek'd from a freak show. However the owner of the freak show is not himself human, but a shape-shifting alien; Stacy and the urchins are attacked. P'fer'd is re-united with M'rek'd and the Doctor and Ssard with Stacy... apparently.
Characters
References
- Ssard joined the TARDIS so he could "see the universe."
- P'fer'd disguises his ship and himself with a Mark III Image Inducer, which takes up too much power.
- The Doctor says without the arrogance of the British Empire, humanity would have never progressed and ventured out into the stars, and Stacy would never have been born.
- Stacy complains about Victorian London's smells, fleas, cold, and germs.
- P'fer'd's ship got lost and ran out of fuel because his wife had the stellar map upside-down.
- M'rek'd is captured and put in a freak show in Kennington Park.
- Equinoids have knowledge of Galactic Law.
- The Doctor calls P'fer'd's tactic of employing street urchins "very Holmesian.”
- P'fer'd's ship is disguised as "Binns, Beech & Evans Solicitors." P'fer'd is Mister Binns.
- Stacy says the urchins smell bad, talk badly, and have walked straight out of Oliver Twist.
- The Doctor offered Stacy to see the universe, "one trip round the outer rims."
- The shapeshifter electrocutes and kills a young boy.
- The Doctor gives P'fer'd space energy cells.
- A woman mentions Carfax and Bedlam.
Notes
- The Equinoids match the description that the Doctor gave in the television story Frontier in Space of a race attending the third intergalactic peace conference.
- This story was intended to be continued in Deceptions, where the shapeshifters would be revealed as Zygons. Instead, the final story was Coda.
Continuity
- The Doctor mentions the body bepple fad of the late 29th century. (PROSE: Original Sin)
- Ssard calls a policeman a "blue guard." (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)
