The Thing from Outer Space (short story)

	[[doctor::Third Doctor]]
	Portsmouth, 1970s
	Countdown Holiday Special 1971

The Thing from Outer Space was a short story in the 1971 Countdown Holiday Special, a forty-eight+63-page oversized edition of the magazine. It was one of the very few bits of Doctor Who prose ever published by Polystyle in their long association with the franchise, and the only Doctor Who content in the issue.

It featured the Third Doctor.

Summary

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Characters

• Third Doctor
• Captain Fenton

References

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Notes

In this story the Doctor is the leader of an organisation based in Portsmouth that is similar to UNIT but is not identified as such.

Continuity

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Timeline

• The Thing from Outer Space occurs after TVC: The Kingdom Builders.
• The Thing from Outer Space occurs before DWM: Prelude: White Darkness.