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Though one of the first perishable goods associated with ''[[Doctor Who]]'', memory of the product has persisted, thanks to the fact that its packages contained collectible trading cards that [[Doctor Who and the Daleks (short story)|told a story]]. | Though one of the first perishable goods associated with ''[[Doctor Who]]'', memory of the product has persisted, thanks to the fact that its packages contained collectible trading cards that [[Doctor Who and the Daleks (short story)|told a story]]. | ||
Despite the name, it was ''not'' a tie-in with the feature film ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'', which was at the time still a year away, but rather with [[season 1]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Also, they were not "sweet cigarettes" in the early 21st century sense of being a [[cigarette]] sweetened with flavouring. They were a completely non-[[tobacco]] product — a {{w|candy cigarette}} that was entirely consumable but ''shaped like'' a cigarette. Moreover, the box that was roughly the same dimensions as a [[British]] cigarette pack. It's unclear how the product may have tasted as, strangely, the first of the product's stated ingredients given on the rear of the pack was "[[Skaro]]" — the name of the Daleks' [[homeworld]]. | Despite the name, it was ''not'' a tie-in with the feature film ''[[Dr. Who and the Daleks (theatrical film)|Dr. Who and the Daleks]]'', which was at the time still a year away, but rather with [[season 1]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]''. Also, they were not "sweet cigarettes" in the early 21st century sense of being a [[cigarette]] sweetened with flavouring. They were a completely non-[[tobacco]] product — a {{w|candy cigarette}} that was entirely consumable but ''shaped like'' a cigarette. Moreover, the box that was roughly the same dimensions as a [[British]] cigarette pack. It's unclear how the product may have tasted as, strangely, the first of the product's stated ingredients given on the rear of the pack was "[[Skaro]]" — the name of the Daleks' [[homeworld]]. | ||
A PDF file containing the complete story with illustrations is included on the [[DVD releases|DVD release]] of [[TV]]: ''[[The Keys of Marinus (TV story)|The Keys of Marinus]]''. | A PDF file containing the complete story with illustrations is included on the [[DVD releases|DVD release]] of [[TV]]: ''[[The Keys of Marinus (TV story)|The Keys of Marinus]]''. | ||
[[Category:Doctor Who licensed food]] | [[Category:Doctor Who licensed food]] | ||
