The Enemy from Nowhere (comic story)
The Enemy from Nowhere was a Third Doctor comic story published in TV Action.
Summary
The Doctor is invited to Dowmphilly tracking station to observe the launch of a new space platform. However, the platform is in fact a launch pad for a nuclear arsenal. When a mysterious object is detected approaching earth it is assumed to be a meteor and, despite the Doctor's warnings, the space platform use it as target practice for a nuclear missile. As the missile has no effect it soon becomes clear that the object is a spacecraft, In retaliation, the space platform is apparently destroyed. Fearful that the Earth has instigated a space war what it cannot hope to win, the Doctor travels in the TARDIS to the alien vessel to confront its unseen occupants.
Characters
- Third Doctor
- Davie Jenkins
- Weatherall
- Sir Ian MacGregor
- General
- Sir Malcolm Ruttsby
- Carl
- Joe
- Fred
- Secretary
Worldbuilding
- The general asks whether the alien menace is anti-matter, which the Doctor says is "quite another thing".
Notes
- These Zerons are not those from the later story Zeron Invasion, nor are they the Xerons from The Space Museum.
Continuity
to be added
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