The Galaxy Games (comic story)

The Galaxy Games
Doctor:	First Doctor
Companion(s):	John, Gillian
Main enemy:	Klondites
Main setting:	A planet
Key crew
Writer:	Roger Noel Cook
Artist:	John Canning
Release details
Number of parts:	4
Printed in:	TV Comic 776-779
Release date:	29 October - 19 November 1966
Format:	Comic
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The Galaxy Games was a TV Comic story featuring the First Doctor, John and Gillian.

Summary

Finding themselves guests of the Galaxy Games, the First Doctor enters John as a competing athlete representing the planet Earth. But a rival team, the Klondites, are ready to take any measures to prevent John winning the title for Earth.

Characters

• First Doctor
• John Who
• Gillian Who
• Guide

Worldbuilding

• The Doctor times a Klondite athlete as running "one minute fifty seconds for four forty yards".

Notes

to be added

Original print details

(Publication with page count and closing captions)

• TVC 776 (2 pages) Don't miss John as Earth's one-man team, next week!
• TVC 777 (2 pages) John runs towards his doom! What will be the outcome next week?
• TVC 778 (2 pages) Will John fall into the clutches of the Klondites? See next week!
• TVC 779 (2 pages) Dr. Who dices with death in a new adventure starting next week!

Continuity

• The Doctor uses his monocle to examine where John disappeared. (TV: The Sensorites, The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Web Planet, The Space Museum, Galaxy 4, The Daleks' Master Plan)