Planet from Nowhere (short story)

Planet from Nowhere was a short story published in The Dr Who Annual 1969. It featured the Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon and Victoria Waterfield.

	Second Doctor
	Jamie, Victoria
	Axal
	The Dr Who Annual 1969
	September 1968
Doctor Who annual
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Summary

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Characters

• Second Doctor
• Jamie McCrimmon
• Victoria Waterfield
• Salonian King

Worldbuilding

• The Salonian King describes a war between the Salonians of the Western Hemisphere and the Colonians of the Eastern Hemisphere.
• Axal was flung into the void between galaxies after its sun went supernova.
• The Salonians worship the Life Principle, represented by the Ankh symbol from Ancient Egypt.
• Axal is actually the planet Earth.
• The Doctor doesn't know of which branch of Earth the Salonians descended from.
• The Salonian king plans to use cobalt bombs to destroy the Colonians.

Notes

• This story represents one among many different accounts of the final fate of the planet Earth in Doctor Who fiction. Others of note include TV: The Ark and TV: The End of the World.

Continuity

• The TARDIS previously materialised in intergalactic space in PROSE: When Starlight Grows Cold.
• A previous story in this annual, PROSE: Lords of the Galaxy, had also described a future Earth leaving the confines of its solar system, though under seemingly different circumstances.