A Stitch in Time (TVA comic story)
- You may be looking for the Comic Creator story of the same name.
A Stitch in Time was a Third Doctor comic story published in TV Action.
Summary
After colliding with an exploding galaxy, the TARDIS takes the Doctor to England in the year 5000. There, in the ruins of the British Library, the Doctor meets the last remaining men, or 'norms', on Earth. The TARDIS is carried off by a giant airship piloted by a race of mute supermen known as the 'mutants'. Defeating the leader of the mutants the Doctor saves the TARDIS from destruction. With the norm, Brod, the Doctor travels to New York in 1872. There they seek out Professor Cassells whose biological experiments were the original cause of the Earth's devastation in the future. However, unable to believe the Doctor's incredible story, the Professor refuses to halt his research.
Characters
Worldbuilding
- Six-legged camels have evolved from camels.
- Cassells calls the TARDIS a "Jules Verne fantasy".
Notes
- This story largely takes place in an alternate timeline in which the Earth was devastated by a nuclear war started by the experiments of Theodore Cassells.
Continuity
- The Doctor once again uses Jupiter as an intensive. (COMIC: The Eternal Present)
- The Doctor is once again involved in the abandoning of the Marie Celeste. (TV: The Chase)
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