Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1432718-20140910033202/@comment-188432-20140912233710

Upon further discussion with PicassoAndPringles, I'm fairly convinced that I spoke too soon, above.

From his further description in chat, it sounds like the story is essentially parodic. The story is not chiefly about what happens to the Doctor and his companions. Rather it's the story of the hunt for a fictional missing episode, complete with descriptions written up in the Radio Times and DWM. So it seems to me like it wouldn't be a valid source, any more than An Adventure in Space and Time is.

However, without access to this anthology, it's really hard for me to judge the impact of this story on the others in the collection. And that's where, it seems to me, there might be a way to establish the "story within a story" as being a part of the DWU. So I'm going to bow out of this one. I would just ask those of you with access to the volume to read these other stories with an extra critical eye.