The Eternal Present (comic story)

The Eternal Present
Doctor:	Third Doctor
Companion(s):	Theo
Main enemy:	Mar-Kom
Main setting:	England, 1971 New Britain, 3550
Key crew
Publisher:	Polystyle
Writer:	Dennis Hooper
Artist:	Harry Lindfield and Gerry Haylock
Release details
Number of parts:	7
Printed in:	TV Action 40-46
Release date:	20 November 1971 - 1 January 1972
Reprinted in:	DWCC 4, DWCC 5
Format:	Comic
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The Eternal Present was a Third Doctor comic story published in TV Action.

Summary

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.

Characters

• Third Doctor
• Theophilus Tolliver
• Andron
• Mar-Kom
• Technician
• PC Ernest Whitehouse

References

• St. Paul's Cathedral still stands in New London.

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

• The Doctor has been placed on trial before for his actions involving time travel, (TV: The War Games) as he would again in the future. (TV: The Trial of a Time Lord)

External links

• The Eternal Present at the Doctor Who Reference Guide