The Underwater Robot (comic story)

The Underwater Robot was a TV Comic story featuring the First Doctor, John and Gillian.

	First Doctor
	John, Gillian
	The Professor
	An unnamed planet
	Roger Noel Cook
	John Canning
	4
	TV Comic 768-771
	3 - 24 September 1966
	Comic
TVC comic stories
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Summary

Beneath a deep ocean, the time-travellers are brought aboard a giant, walking robot. The robot is, in truth, a pirate-operated craft used by two insane inventors to plunder surface ships of their wealth. The First Doctor fights to free the slaves aboard the robots, and to overthrow its sinister operators.

Characters

• First Doctor
• John Who
• Gillian Who
• Underwater Robot
• The Professor

Worldbuilding

• The Doctor's TARDIS has an airlock which opens on the roof of the police box.

Notes

• This story is given the title of "Underwater Adventure" in the "Comics Checklist" section of DWM 62.

Continuity

• The Doctor uses his monocle to examination the TARDIS scanner. (TV: The Sensorites, The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Web Planet, The Space Museum, Galaxy 4, The Daleks' Master Plan)