The Night Walkers (comic story)

The Night Walkers was a story published in TV Comic featuring the Second Doctor. It is considered to be the conclusion of Season 6B. Published in three parts from 8-22 November 1969, it is the last TV Comic story to feature the Second Doctor and the very last adventure of this incarnation, loosely serving as a direct predecessor to Spearhead from Space.

It is also the only story to feature and properly show the Second Doctor's regeneration, given that his last regular TV appearance didn't show him regenerating, and also uniquely the only time the Doctor has regenerated in a comic story as opposed to an onscreen episode.

Summary
The Doctor has become a celebrity in the early days of his Time Lord-imposed exile on Earth. He is a panellist on the game show Explain My Mystery. One of the callers, Mr. Glenlock-Hogan, a farmer, has a mystery, a strange case of scarecrows who walk at night, which stumps the Doctor. Intrigued, he goes to explore the farmer's land at night so he can see the walking scarecrows for himself. When he does, the scarecrows capture him with an energy weapon and reveal they were sent by the Time Lords to begin the second phase of the Doctor's sentence. As the Doctor is being carried off by the scarecrows, he calls out to the frightened farmer: "Fear no more, Hogan... After this dreadful night has passed your scarecrows will not walk again!"

With the captured Doctor in tow, the scarecrows head for the TARDIS. Once inside, they force his regeneration and set the TARDIS controls to dematerialise. They leave the TARDIS to land. . . somewhere else on Earth.

Characters

 * Second Doctor
 * Scarecrows
 * Perry Conway
 * Mr Glenlock-Hogan
 * Mrs Swiggings

Continuity

 * The Scarecrows were sent by the Time Lords as they sentenced the Doctor to death. (TV: The War Games)
 * The Second Doctor eventually finished his regeneration into the Third Doctor on board his TARDIS. (TV: Spearhead from Space)