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THird Doctor was in TV Comic for about a year before TV Action launched
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:''You may also be looking for the [[game show]] ''[[Countdown]]'' or the comics story ''[[TV Action!]]'' '' | :''You may also be looking for the [[game show]] ''[[Countdown]]'' or the comics story ''[[TV Action!]]'' '' | ||
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'''''TV Action''''' was the final name of a weekly [[Polystyle Publications, Ltd.|Polystyle]] comics magazine that began its run under the name, '''''Countdown'''''. Published in Britain from [[1971]] to [[1973]], the magazine contained comic adaptations of television programmes, but targeted a slightly older audience than its sister publication, ''[[TV Comic]]''. The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' strip moved to ''Countdown'' | '''''TV Action''''' was the final name of a weekly [[Polystyle Publications, Ltd.|Polystyle]] comics magazine that began its run under the name, '''''Countdown'''''. Published in Britain from [[1971]] to [[1973]], the magazine contained comic adaptations of television programmes, but targeted a slightly older audience than its sister publication, ''[[TV Comic]]''. The ''[[Doctor Who]]'' strip moved to ''Countdown''. | ||
== Overview == | == Overview == | ||
In the late [[1960s]], Polystyle was eager to start a magazine that appealed to a slightly older audience than its ''de facto'' television adaptation flagship, ''[[TV Comic]]''. Whereas that publication had debuted with "funny animal" comics and adaptations of young childrens' shows like ''[[Muffin the Mule]]'', they wanted something to compete with ''[[TV Century 21]]'', which had been replete with comics based on [[Gerry Anderson]] properties. When that magazine folded, the license to print Gerry Anderson comics became available. Polystyle seized on it, buying not just the right to do new comics, but to reprint what had come before in ''TV21''. SInce shows like ''Stingray'', ''Thunderbirds'', ''UFO'' and ''Fireball XLV'' all had a kind of space-age theme, a natural title was ''Countdown''. To reinforce the theme, Polystyle unusually numbered the pages backward, so that readers were "counting down" to 1 as they read. | In the late [[1960s]], Polystyle was eager to start a magazine that appealed to a slightly older audience than its ''de facto'' television adaptation flagship, ''[[TV Comic]]''. Whereas that publication had debuted with "funny animal" comics and adaptations of young childrens' shows like ''[[Muffin the Mule]]'', they wanted something to compete with ''[[TV Century 21]]'', which had been replete with comics based on [[Gerry Anderson]] properties. When that magazine folded, the license to print Gerry Anderson comics became available. Polystyle seized on it, buying not just the right to do new comics, but to reprint what had come before in ''TV21''. SInce shows like ''Stingray'', ''Thunderbirds'', ''UFO'' and ''Fireball XLV'' all had a kind of space-age theme, a natural title was ''Countdown''. To reinforce the theme, Polystyle unusually numbered the pages backward, so that readers were "counting down" to 1 as they read. | ||
