Doctor Who Trump Card Game (game)

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Doctor Who Trump Card Game
Doctor:	Fourth Doctor
Main enemy:	Fleet of Alien Monsters
Main setting:	Fleet of Alien Monsters' attempted destruction of Earth
Key crew
Publisher:	Jotastar
Release details
Type:	Card game
Release date:	1978
Format:	TCG
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The Doctor Who Trump Card Game was a card game made by Jotastar in 1978.

Publisher's summary

Doctor Who and the Legendary Legion Battle the Alien Attackers

Earth is threatened with total annihilation. An overwhelmingly, deadly fleet of Alien Monsters, have joined forces to bring about Earth's destruction and her only hope of survival lies with the fabulous Doctor Who. The Doctor has returned to Earth's past, in his incredible Time and Space Travelling Machine known as the Tardis, to recruit the greatest band of warriors known to mankind. With the help of this Legendary Legion of Earth's past Heroes, he hopes to crush the dreadful invasion before it becomes too late to save the Earth from a horrible fate.

Game play

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Card list

Heroes

• Geronimo
• Wyatt Earpe [sic]
• Davy Crockett
• Robin Hood
• Thor
• Sherlock Holmes
• Boadicea
• Samson
• King Arthur
• Alexander The Great
• Spartacus
• Annie Oakley
• Colonel James Bowie
• Chaka/King of The Zulus
• Shiao Chi/Samurai Warrior
• Hercules
• Docto Who [sic]
• The Tardis
• Lord Nelson
• Parthian Warrior

Aliens

• The Cybermen
• The Ice Warriors
• The Yeti
• The Autons
• The Silurians
• The Sontarans
• The Sensorites
• The Mechanoids
• The Axons
• Sea Devils
• The Daemons [sic]
• Omega
• The Draconians
• The Spiders of Metebelis
• Gellguards
• The Giant Robot
• The Wirrn
• The Zygons
• Davros
• The Ogrons

Worldbuilding

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Notes

• The Fourth Doctor's card is titled "Doctor Who". The card list mistakenly calls him "Docto Who".
• A majority of the hero cards are historical figures and fictional characters who had no relevance to Doctor Who.
• Jotastar previously released Marvel Superheroes Card Game, which also included a card for Thor.

Continuity

• The Eighth Doctor referenced having befriended Geronimo in AUDIO: Storm Warning ^[+]Loading...["Storm Warning (audio story)"] and PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon ^[+]Loading...["The Shadows of Avalon (novel)"].
• The First Doctor previously encountered Wyatt Earpe in TV: The Gunfighters ^[+]Loading...["The Gunfighters (TV story)"].
• The Eleventh Doctor recalled meeting Davy Crockett in PROSE: The Silent Stars Go By ^[+]Loading...["The Silent Stars Go By (novel)"] and PROSE: Strangers in the Outland ^[+]Loading...["Strangers in the Outland (short story)"].
• The Doctor was depicting encountering Robin Hood as the First Doctor in PROSE: The Thief of Sherwood ^[+]Loading...["The Thief of Sherwood (short story)"], as the Twelfth Doctor in TV: Robot of Sherwood ^[+]Loading...["Robot of Sherwood (TV story)"], and as the Fourth Doctor in PROSE: The Return of Robin Hood ^[+]Loading...["The Return of Robin Hood (novel)"].
• The fact that the god Thor actually existed, alongside other elements of Norse mythology, would be attested in later works, including PROSE: The Spear of Destiny ^[+]Loading...["The Spear of Destiny (short story)"], which featured the Third Doctor but subscribed to a euhemeristic interpretation that the Norse gods were mythologised version of ordinary mortal Norsemen, and COMIC: Dr. Who's Time Tales 37 ^[+]Loading...["Dr. Who's Time Tales (DWM 37 comic story)"], where the Fourth Doctor related a story acknowledging Odin as a genuine deity. Thor would later appear as a god in COMIC: The Incomplete Death's Head ^[+]Loading...["The Incomplete Death's Head (comic story)"].
• AUDIO: The Wrath of the Iceni ^[+]Loading...["The Wrath of the Iceni (audio story)"] depicted the Fourth Doctor meeting Boadicea. She later met the Tenth Doctor. (PROSE: The Lonely Computer ^[+]Loading...["The Lonely Computer (short story)"])
• Sherlock Holmes was shown to be a real person within the Doctor's universe in a number of sources, most prominently the novel PROSE: All-Consuming Fire ^[+]Loading...["All-Consuming Fire (novel)"] where he shared an adventure with the Seventh Doctor.
• A number of sources likewise acknowledged King Arthur as a real being. The first was a crossover game, GAME: Basil Brush goes Rent Collecting ^[+]Loading...["Basil Brush goes Rent Collecting (game)"], which featured both the Doctor's TARDIS and King Arthur's castle, although the two did not meet face-to-face. PROSE: The Creation of Camelot ^[+]Loading...["The Creation of Camelot (short story)"] would later feature the Fifth Doctor encountering him, and TV: Battlefield ^[+]Loading...["Battlefield (TV story)"] would see the Seventh Doctor featuring that his apparent future self would become Merlin at King Arthur's court.
• AUDIO: Farewell, Great Macedon ^[+]Loading...["Farewell, Great Macedon (audio story)"], adapted from an unproduced TV script, featured the First Doctor meeting Alexander the Great, although this adventure ended with Alexander's death, meaning Doctor Who Trump Card Game's scenario cannot logically have involved the Fourth Doctor prevailing upon that prior acquaintanceship to recruit the presumably-younger, living Alexander into the Legendary Legion.
• PROSE: The Slave War ^[+]Loading...["The Slave War (short story)"] featured the Second Doctor's companions encountering Spartacus, though the Doctor and Spartacus did not meet directly.
• Many sources depicted elements of Greco-Roman mythology as real within the Doctor's reality, starting with COMIC: Guests of King Neptune ^[+]Loading...["Guests of King Neptune (comic story)"] in which the First Doctor met Neptune. Hercules specifically was acknowledged as a real being in PROSE: Mythical Monsters ^[+]Loading...["Mythical Monsters (short story)"] and later appeared in the Third Doctor novel PROSE: Josephine and the Argonauts ^[+]Loading...["Josephine and the Argonauts (novel)"].
• The Second Doctor had previously been shown to meet Horatio Nelson in PROSE: H.M.S. TARDIS ^[+]Loading...["H.M.S. TARDIS (short story)"], and would do so again in PROSE: World Game ^[+]Loading...["World Game (novel)"]. The Third Doctor also encountered him in PROSE: Danse Macabre ^[+]Loading...["Danse Macabre (short story)"].
• The Cybermen are depicted as a hybrid of the design seen in TV: The Invasion ^[+]Loading...["The Invasion (TV story)"], dubbed "the Early CyberFaction" by PROSE: Archive - A History of the Cyber Race ^[+]Loading...["Archive - A History of the Cyber Race (short story)"] and AUDIO: The Early Cybermen ^[+]Loading...["The Early Cybermen (audio story)"], and simply "the Invasion Cybermen" by PROSE: The Monster Vault ^[+]Loading...["The Monster Vault (novel)"] and the CyberNomads from TV: Revenge of the Cybermen ^[+]Loading...["Revenge of the Cybermen (TV story)"].
• The Ice Warriors debuted in TV: The Ice Warriors ^[+]Loading...["The Ice Warriors (TV story)"].
• The Yeti debuted in TV: The Abominable Snowmen ^[+]Loading...["The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)"]. Their nature as "creations of an evil alien intelligence" is acknowledged.
• The Autons are illustrated in the "Daffodil Man" model seen in TV: Terror of the Autons ^[+]Loading...["Terror of the Autons (TV story)"].
• The Sontarans are illustrated with the appearance of the Marshal seen in TV: The Sontaran Experiment ^[+]Loading...["The Sontaran Experiment (TV story)"].
• The original Silurians, later identified as "Early Silurians" by PROSE: The Monster Vault ^[+]Loading...["The Monster Vault (novel)"], debuted in TV: Doctor Who and the Silurians ^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)"].

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External links

• WHO TRUMPS: Top Trumps in the TARDIS? at hypnogoria.com
• imdoctorwho on Blogger