Theory:Doctor Who comic strip discontinuity and plot holes/Prisoners of Time


 * The First Doctor(travelling with Ian, Barbara and Vicki) wants to introduce his companions to a friend of his. So he sets the TARDIS controls and takes them straight there. However, the First Doctor was unable to control the TARDIS.
 * Maybe he's testing out a potential control unit, as he's done in several EU works? Unfortunately, it was not to be and shorted out/burned up/exploded soon after the first use. Pity.


 * The Sontarans hail the Fifth Doctor as a hero and ally. However, this was most certainly not the case at the time.
 * Clearly the Fifth Doctor had a more pleasant run-in with the Sontarans at some point. The enemy of my enemy is my friend and all that.


 * The Seventh Doctor and Ace encounter the Master. Ace and the Master recognise each other, placing this after Survival. However, the Master shows no signs of the Cheetah Virus.
 * In the intervening time, the Master has discovered a temporary cure for his condition.


 * The villain(Adam Mitchell) plans to timescoop all of the Doctor's former companions, including Adam Mitchell.
 * Probably wishful thinking. If he could manage to timescoop his younger self before that fateful event, his life would be alright. Too bad the timescoop had other plans.


 * The Sixth Doctor is travelling with Frobisher. Frobisher ends up meeting all the Doctors, and is able to recognise the Tenth Doctor as the Doctor, despite not having met this incarnation before. However in Where Nobody Knows Your Name (comic story), set after Prisoners of Time from Frobisher's point of view, Frobisher completely fails to recognise the Eighth Doctor as the Doctor.
 * Either Frobisher loses all memory of this event after it occurs (which does tend to happen for multi-Doctor stories), or the memory dulled with time. He only saw them very briefly, afterall, and WNKYN Frobisher was rather too busy being a bartender to cast his mind back to that fateful day.