Talk:Untitled (TVC 798 comic story)

Notes on restoration
After some discussion with User:OttselSpy25, I have reverted this page's long-standing deletion. Back in 2017, User:CzechOut believed that this was likely unlicensed: "parody and therefore unlikely to have been specifically licensed by the BBC/Terry Nation estate"

- CzechOut

It's not actually clear to me that this is parody as opposed to just comedy; that's the sort of thing we usually need threads for, in the absence of clear-cut context (like "a Doctor Who? strip" or "parody" being written on the cover). Personally I'm not sure I'm seeing it. 1960s Daleks had a concept of "fellowship", so them talking about having "brothers" doesn't seem like "breaking the rules".

But either way, there is compelling evidence that as a matter of fact, the Terry Nation Estate did go after copyright-infringing parodies in those days; and additionally, TV Comic was printing Dalek stories in issues immediately before, and immediately after, TVC 798, so it's pretty clear they did have the license to use Daleks in original comics at the time. Even if this were parody, it would still deserve a page just like, well, every other licensed parody in the Parodies and pastiches category.

(The original deletion also quibbled with whether Rule 1 was fulfilled, but I think it's clear the idea that very short, but clearly narrative, works like comic strips fail Rule 1 is an antiquated concept. Besides, Talk:And Introducing... shows that this still doesn't warrant deletion, as do all the things in Category:Non-DWU features.) Scrooge MacDuck ☎  16:35, 9 April 2021 (UTC)