The Eternal Present (comic story)

The Eternal Present was a Third Doctor comic story published in TV Action.

Summary
The Third Doctor has been pursued through time and captured for the "crime" of time travel. Taken to New Britain in 3550, the Doctor is sentenced to trial by combat by Mar-Kom, the ruler of New Britain. The Time Lord allies himself with Theophilus Tolliver, the inventor of Earth's first time machine, to uncover the truth about Mar-Kom.

Characters

 * Third Doctor
 * Theophilus Tolliver
 * Andron
 * Mar-Kom
 * Technician
 * PC Ernest Whitehouse

Worldbuilding

 * The TARDIS travels the edges of Galaxy 884.
 * The time police can track the Doctor's TARDIS to the end of time.
 * The Doctor is referred to as an ex-Time Lord.
 * The Doctor uses Jupiter as an intensive.
 * Theo invented his time machine in 1897.
 * Theo is a friend of H. G. Wells.
 * St. Paul's Cathedral still stands in New London.

Continuity

 * The Doctor has been placed on trial before for his actions involving time travel, with his second incarnation's trial on Gallifrey for violating the non-interference policy being the reason he was an exile on Earth in the first place. (TV: The War Games)