The Thing from Outer Space was a short story featuring the Third Doctor in the 1971 Countdown Holiday Special, a forty-eight+63-page oversized edition of the magazine. It was one of the very few bits of Doctor Who prose ever published by Polystyle in their long association with the franchise, and the only Doctor Who content in the issue.
Summary
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Characters
- Third Doctor
- Captain Fenton
References
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Notes
In this story the Doctor is the leader of an organisation based in Portsmouth that is similar to UNIT but is not identified as such.
Continuity
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Timeline
- The Thing from Outer Space occurs after TVC: The Kingdom Builders.
- The Thing from Outer Space occurs before DWM: Prelude: White Darkness.
