TV 21's Time Machine (short story)
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TV 21's Time Machine was a 21 short story printed in TV Century 21 that contained elements from the Doctor Who universe.
It detailed the operation of the TV 21 Time Machine and mentioned Unity City, first introduced in The Daleks comic story Duel of the Daleks.
Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
On Venus, special TV 21 reporters sort out all the planet's news and feed the selected material into a computer. The type is transformed into radio waves and fed into the cyclon, where the waves are atomised and blasted from the aerial at one hundred times the speed of light. In Unity City, this process is reversed using a receiver aerial, after which the news story is passed to the London editorial offices.
Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The time machine is the second piece of equipment of TV 21's "vast video-report network".
- The cyclon is a wheel-like feature at the centre of the aerial on Venus.
Story notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Although technically a 21 story, Agent Twenty One does not appear.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The machine was regularly used to obtain the details of Amos Burke's investigations for the Los Angeles Homicide Bureau in 1965. (COMIC: Who Killed Elias Hoodreim?, Who Killed Lord Nelson? et al.)
- In 2065, a fault developed in the machine's Fireball XL5 receiving channel and engineers had to be called in. (COMIC: The Menace of the Monstrons)
