Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (comic story)
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde was the third and penultimate comic story in the Tales from the TARDIS series. Narrated by the Fourth Doctor, it was an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's novel The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Notably, it was the only story in the Tales from the TARDIS series not adapted from a work by H. G. Wells.
Plot
The Fourth Doctor shares verbatim a strange tale told to him by the English lawyer Utterson, who, when walking with Dr. Lanyon in London one day, saw a brute of a man push over a child and declare his name to be Edward Hyde. The crowd seizes Hyde, but he offers to pay off the girl's father, and he produces a £25 check signed by Dr. Henry Jekyll. Astonished, as Jekyll is one of his clients, Utterson visits the doctor and asks about their connection; Jekyll tells him nothing but insists that his will be changed to include Hyde as sole beneficiary.
Two days later, Hyde brutally assaults an old woman in the park, and Utterson confronts Jekyll again. This time, the doctor explains how he created a potion to separate his rational self from his inhuman urges, which manifest in the form of Mr. Hyde. But, Jekyll tells Utterson, he is losing control of Hyde. That night, Hyde murders Sir Danvers Carew and is chased by police to his home, where they seize his chemical supplies including the antidote to the potion. Hyde escapes to Dr. Lanyon's home and demands that Lanyon fetch chemical supplies from Jekyll's office. After complying, Lanyon finds Utterson and tells him what has happened, and Utterson rushes to help. However, after a final appeal from Jekyll, Hyde takes control and leaps out the window, jumping from rooftop to rooftop pursued by police. He slips and falls, and as the crowd watches, his corpse transforms back to the shape of Jekyll.
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Notes
- This comic was originally published in Marvel Classics Comics #1. For its rerelease in Doctor Who Weekly, new opening narration from the Fourth Doctor was added.
Continuity
- Robert Louis Stevenson published the account of Jekyll and Hyde as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. (AUDIO: Medicinal Purposes)
- Hyde was a member of the Sisyphean Society in the Land of Fiction. (COMIC: Character Assassin)
