Timeslip (comic story)

Timeslip is a Doctor Who Weekly comic story featuring the Fourth Doctor and K9 Mark II. It is notable for introducing the concept of retro-regeneration, depicting the first time a Time Lord has reverted back into their previous incarnations.

Summary
The Fourth Doctor and K9 drift into contact with a deep space entity which feeds on time itself. As time begins to move backwards, K9 reverts to the components from which he was made and eventually to a pool of metal. Meanwhile, the Doctor moves back through his third, second and finally his first incarnation at the point where the Doctor first threw the switch to bring life to his TARDIS.

As the power reversal switches the power off, the entity weakens and time moves forward enough to throw the switch on, then back off, then on and so on. Each time the switch is changed, the entity experiences indigestion and eventually weakens. As time rolls forward once again, all that is left of the entity is a puddle on the TARDIS floor.

Plot
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Characters

 * Fourth Doctor
 * First Doctor
 * K9 Mark II
 * Space amoeba
 * Third Doctor
 * Second Doctor
 * First Doctor

Worldbuilding

 * The Fourth Doctor wishes to get in contact with Romana claiming that things have been moving slowly in her absence.
 * When the Doctor is regressed backwards in time, he has visions of past adversaries, including CyberTelosians, Daleks,, Movellans, Ogrons and Zygons.

Original print details

 * Publication with page count and closing captions


 * 1) DWM 17 (4 pages) Next Week: Bid Time Return
 * 2) DWM 18 (4 pages) Next Week: The Star Beast

Reprints

 * 1) DWMS Summer 1981
 * 2) DW84 18 (Doctor Who (1984) colourised reprint)
 * 3) DWCC 27 (Doctor Who Classic Comics colourised reprint)
 * 4) The Tides of Time
 * 5) DWC 4 (IDW colourised reprint)
 * 6) Doctor Who Classics Volume 1 (IDW colourised reprint)
 * 7) Doctor Who Classics Omnibus Volume 1 (IDW colourised reprint)

Continuity

 * K9 has returned to the TARDIS. (COMIC: K-9's Finest Hour)