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When the [[First Doctor]] ([[William Hartnell]]) had regenerated into the Second (Patrick Troughton), things had been relatively easy for [[Polystyle Publications, Ltd.|Polystyle Publications]], the official ''[[Doctor Who]]'' comic licensees. There had been precisely a one-week gap between Hartnell and Troughton on TV and their ''[[TV Comic]]'', a weekly publication, had easily followed suit. In 1969, though, Troughton was leaving at the end of the season. To make matters worse, there would be a significant break as ''Doctor Who'' cut its annual episode output almost in half. It was almost six months between the end of ''War Games'' and the beginning of ''Spearhead'', easily the longest gap between new televised episodes of ''Doctor Who'' up to that time. | When the [[First Doctor]] ([[William Hartnell]]) had regenerated into the Second (Patrick Troughton), things had been relatively easy for [[Polystyle Publications, Ltd.|Polystyle Publications]], the official ''[[Doctor Who]]'' comic licensees. There had been precisely a one-week gap between Hartnell and Troughton on TV and their ''[[TV Comic]]'', a weekly publication, had easily followed suit. In 1969, though, Troughton was leaving at the end of the season. To make matters worse, there would be a significant break as ''Doctor Who'' cut its annual episode output almost in half. It was almost six months between the end of ''War Games'' and the beginning of ''Spearhead'', easily the longest gap between new televised episodes of ''Doctor Who'' up to that time. | ||
[[File:SecondRegen.jpg|thumb|left|The only licensed image of the actual regeneration of the Second Doctor. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Night Walkers]]'')]] | [[File:SecondRegen.jpg|thumb|left|The only licensed image of the actual regeneration of the Second Doctor. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Night Walkers]]'')]] | ||
Not wanting to | Not wanting to stop publication of their ''Doctor Who'' comic strip, Polystyle kept on publishing stories featuring the Second Doctor; however, the decision was made ''not'' to set the interregnum stories prior to ''The War Games'', but rather after. In the stories, the Doctor has indeed been [[Exile on Earth|exiled to Earth]], but was awaiting his [[Time Lord]]-imposed [[regeneration]]. For a time, the Second Doctor lived the high life as a celebrity based in [[London]]'s swanky [[Carlton Grange Hotel]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Action in Exile]]'') He travelled the Earth, responding to calls received via the Carlton Grange switchboard, with nary a [[UNIT]] soldier in sight. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Mark of Terror]]'', ''[[The Brotherhood (comic story)|The Brotherhood]]'', ''[[U.F.O. (comic story)|U.F.O.]]'') | ||
One day, conveniently around the time ''Spearhead from Space'' aired on TV, he was a celebrity panellist on ''[[Explain My Mystery]]'', a game show of sorts that asked experts to explain supernatural phenomena. Unable to diagnose the caller's mystery over the phone, the Doctor went into the English countryside to a farm. There, in the deep of night, [[Animated scarecrow (The Night Walkers)|scarecrows]] animated by the Time Lords captured him and forced him to regenerate. Then, they sent [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] on one last journey, leaving the reader to believe that when the Doctor arrived, he'd fall out of the TARDIS in [[Oxley Woods]] as the Third Doctor, just as he did in the first episode of ''Spearhead from Space''. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Night Walkers]]'') | One day, conveniently around the time ''Spearhead from Space'' aired on TV, he was a celebrity panellist on ''[[Explain My Mystery]]'', a game show of sorts that asked experts to explain supernatural phenomena. Unable to diagnose the caller's mystery over the phone, the Doctor went into the English countryside to a farm. There, in the deep of night, [[Animated scarecrow (The Night Walkers)|scarecrows]] animated by the Time Lords captured him and forced him to regenerate. Then, they sent [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] on one last journey, leaving the reader to believe that when the Doctor arrived, he'd fall out of the TARDIS in [[Oxley Woods]] as the Third Doctor, just as he did in the first episode of ''Spearhead from Space''. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Night Walkers]]'') | ||
