The Eternal Present (comic story)

The Eternal Present was a Third Doctor comic story published in TV Action.

	Third Doctor
	Theo
	Mar-Kom
	England, 1971 New Britain, 3550
	Polystyle
	Dennis Hooper
	Harry Lindfield and Gerry Haylock
	7
	TV Action 40-46
	20 November 1971 - 1 January 1972
	DWCC 4, DWCC 5
	Comic
TVA comic stories
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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)
• Theo is a friend of H. G. Wells, whom the Doctor has met before (AUDIO: The Piltdown Men) and will meet again. (TV: Timelash, COMIC: The Time Machination)

External links

• The Eternal Present at the Doctor Who Reference Guide