The Spoilers (comic story)

 was a Third Doctor TV Action comic strip story. Consistent with themes seen in the television series at the time, it had an ecological theme. The titular "spoilers" were those people who had ruined a planetary environment — not, as commonly understood in the 21st century, advanced knowledge of a future story.

It was reprinted as a Fourth Doctor comic strip story in the 1977 Doctor Who Winter Special.

Summary
The Doctor finds himself caught in the middle of a conflict between the warlike Fars and the peaceful Rafs. Will he stop this war?

Characters

 * Third Doctor / Fourth Doctor
 * Soton
 * Venin

Continuity

 * The Doctor is once again assigned a mission by the Time Lords. (TV: Colony in Space, The Three Doctors)