Journey Back to Earth (game)

Journey Back to Earth
Doctor:	Dr Who
Featuring:	Menoptera
Main enemy:	Zarbi
Key crew
Publisher:	World Distributors
Release details
Type:	Board game
Printed in:	The Dr Who Annual 1966
Release date:	September 1965
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Journey Back to Earth was a board game printed in The Dr Who Annual 1966. It featured Dr Who trying to make his way back to Earth, and was a game for two or more players. The objective of the game was to try and steer the Tardis back to Earth before the other player(s).

Summary

The Tardis and its inhabitants try to make their way back to Earth.

Characters

• Dr Who

Worldbuilding

• The TARDIS may land on Mars.
• The TARDIS may sight a flying saucer.
• The TARDIS may be followed by an unknown craft.
• The TARDIS may land on The Web Planet.
• The TARDIS may break the Space Barrier.
• The TARDIS may land on the Moon.
• The TARDIS may land on Venus, which appears to be covered in trees.

Notes

• Unusually for this type of board game, in this game, to reach the end you have to roll the exact number of spaces to land on Earth and win the game.
• Whether it is Dr Who who is trying to get back to earth is ambiguous; he is shown in an illustration at the top of the game, but is not referenced in text. Whether the players trying to compete against each other to reach Earth are diegetic is likewise ambiguous.

Continuity

• The Doctor previously met the Menoptera and the Zarbi in TV: The Web Planet ^[+]Loading...["The Web Planet (TV story)"].