Cummings (Black Orchid)
Constable Cummings was a police officer in Oxfordshire during the 1920s.
Biography
By 1925, Cummings was a constable under the command of Sir Robert Muir. He was on duty at the police station on 11 June of that year when the TARDIS was confiscated from Cranleigh Halt and moved it to the police station (TV: Black Orchid [+]Loading...["Black Orchid (TV story)"]) where he called in the army from Crowshott to try to get inside of it. (PROSE: Black Orchid [+]Loading...["Black Orchid (novelisation)"])
According to one account, Cummings met Sergeant Markham, who returned with Sir Robert, the Fifth Doctor, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka and Tanner, outside of the police station and told his superior about the TARDIS. (TV: Black Orchid [+]Loading...["Black Orchid (TV story)"]) According to another, he met the group inside the station and began to book the Doctor, Adric, Nyssa and Tegan for being drunk and disorderly based on them being in costumes before showing Markham to the TARDIS. (PROSE: Black Orchid [+]Loading...["Black Orchid (novelisation)"])
The Doctor, under arrest on suspicion of murder, produced his key and easily opened the TARDIS doors. He exonerated himself by allowing Muir, Cummings and Markham to enter and briefly travel in the TARDIS back to Cranleigh Hall. (TV: Black Orchid [+]Loading...["Black Orchid (TV story)"])
