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|image=Dr Who TARDIS xstolen.jpg
|image = Dr Who TARDIS xstolen.jpg
|series=[[DWM backup comic stories]]
|series=[[DWM backup comic stories]]
|main character= [[Plutar]]
|main character= [[Plutar]]
|featuring=  
|featuring= [[Fourth Doctor]]
|reprint = DW84 4
|reprint = DW84 4
|enemy= [[Sillarc]]
|enemy= [[Sillarc]]
|setting= [[Gallifrey]]
|setting= [[Gallifrey]]
|editor= [[Dez Skinn]]
|editor= [[Dez Skinn]]
|writer= [[Steve Moore]]
|writer= Steve Moore
|artist= [[Steve Dillon]]
|artist= [[Steve Dillon]]
|colourist=
|letterer=  
|letterer= uncredited
|publication= [[DWM 9]]-[[DWM 11|11]]
|publication= [[Doctor Who Weekly]] [[DWM 9|Issues 9]], [[DWM 10|10]] and [[DWM 11|11]]
|release date= 6 - 20 December 1979
|release date= [[12 December (releases)|12 December]]-[[28 December (releases)|28 December]] 1979
|publisher= Marvel Comics
|publisher= Marvel Comics
|format= B&W 3 parts / 12 pages
|format= Comic
|prev= The Final Quest (comic story)
|prev= The Final Quest (comic story)
|next= K-9's Finest Hour (comic story)
|next= K-9's Finest Hour (comic story)
}}
|epcount=3}}'''''The Stolen Tardis: A Tale of the [[Time Lord]]s''''' was a [[DWM backup comic stories|backup comic story]] published in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' in [[1979 (releases)|1979]]. It was set on [[Gallifrey]] and featured [[Plutar]] as the main character.
'''''The Stolen TARDIS''''' was a [[DWM backup comic stories|backup comic story]] published in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' in [[1979 (releases)|1979]]. It was set on [[Gallifrey]] and featured [[Plutar]] as the main character.


== Summary ==
== Summary ==
On [[Gallifrey]], because of his support for interference in other worlds to defeat evil, [[Plutar]] is failed at the [[Time Lord Academy]] and sent to reconsider his views whilst working as a [[TARDIS]] technician. While working away in one of the TARDISes, an alien, [[Sillarc]], arrives under cover. He uses a hypnotic image of a circus to set about stealing a TARDIS — the one Plutar is repairing.
On [[Gallifrey]], because of his support for interference in other worlds to defeat evil, [[Plutar]] is failed at the [[Time Lord Academy]] and sent to reconsider his views whilst working as a [[TARDIS]] technician. While working away in one of the TARDISes, an alien, [[Sillarc]], arrives under cover. He uses a hypnotic image of a circus to set about stealing [[Kairel's TARDIS|a TARDIS]] — the one Plutar is repairing.


Together they travel back in time (but not in space) and Sillarc tries retrieving a spare [[relativity differentiator]] from Plutar. Both of them make it back into the TARDIS, with Sillarc narrowly breaking through the doors, but upon returning to Gallifrey, Sillarc escapes alone in the TARDIS. He is shocked when the TARDIS reappears and he finds Plutar waiting for him with armed guards (having made use of another TARDIS). Sillarc's memories are wiped and he is exiled. In recognition of his great initiative, it is suggested that Plutar reapply to the Academy.
Together they travel back in time (but not in space) and Sillarc tries retrieving a spare [[relativity differentiator]] from Plutar. Both of them make it back into the TARDIS, with Sillarc narrowly breaking through the doors, but upon returning to Gallifrey, Sillarc escapes alone in the TARDIS. He is shocked when the TARDIS reappears and he finds Plutar waiting for him with armed guards (having made use of another TARDIS). Sillarc's memories are wiped and he is exiled. In recognition of his great initiative, it is suggested that Plutar reapply to the Academy.
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== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Plutar]]
* [[Plutar]]
* [[Fourth Doctor]]
* [[Sillarc]]
* [[Sillarc]]
* [[Kairel|Lord Kairel]]
* [[Kairel|Lord Kairel]]


== References ==
== Worldbuilding ==
''to be added''
''to be added''


== Notes ==
== Notes ==
* This back up strip is introduced by the Fourth Doctor and is also tailed by him for the conclusion, where it is revealed that the Doctor has been watching the story on a video screen. The reader never finds out if Plutar becomes a Time Lord, as according to the Doctor, the rest of Plutar's life story is on another tape, which can't seem to be found at the moment...!
* This backup strip is introduced and concluded with messages from the [[Fourth Doctor]], similar to the framing narration of ''[[Tales from the TARDIS (comic series)|Tales from the TARDIS]]''. The conclusion reveals that the Doctor has been watching the story on a video screen, but cannot find his other tapes about Plutar.
{{quote|What's that? Did Plutar become a Time-Lord? ''Hmm''– actually, the rest of his life-story's on another tape, and – er – I can't '''quite''' seem to find it at the moment… You know how it is… Ah well… Perhaps another story for another day…|[[Fourth Doctor]]}}
* Although the story does not make this explicit, Plutar can be interpreted as a young [[First Doctor]]. ''[[The Infinity Doctors (novel)|The Infinity Doctors]]'' alludes to this in the context of its hints about an "[[eternal return]]" which sees the life of the Doctor echoing throughout Gallifrey's history and timelines: in that book, [[the Doctor (The Infinity Doctors)|the Doctor]] recalls how he once looked through Gallifrey's archives for records of an individual from an earlier age of Gallifrey, whose life had surprising parallels to his own.


=== Original print details ===
=== Original print details ===
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