Talk:The Man from MI.5 (TV story)

The Penta Ray Factor
So I thought it was cool that the Daleks were in this story so I decided to take a look. Turns out the "appearance" is actually last page of what is now known as The Penta Ray Factor, which is seen for a fraction of a second shortly after the 3 minute mark. This is a cool reference and all, but does it really constitute an appearance? Furthermore, the appearance of a comic strip does not scream DWU to me. In the same way that The Beano comic in The Rings of Akhaten doesn't set Doctor Who in the Beano universe. The lead of this article seems to be suggesting that the comic strip is an MI5 report of the Dalek invasion seen in that story. This appears highly speculative to me (not to mention that a comic strip seems an odd way for a secret service to report on an event). Also, while some are clearly official, most items in the draw with the comic strip seem to be for entertainment purposes (e.g. magazines), so it seems more likely that this piece is similarly kept for the owner's enjoyment, if there need be an explanation for its inclusion at all. Danochy ☎  08:29, 24 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I understand your confusion, but there is nothing speculative about seeing this as a "report". You are overlooking certain basic facts of the lore of the "shared Gerry Anderson universe" of the 1960s, which gave a unifying origin to everything in TV Century 21. By definition, around that period, Thunderbirds and The Daleks shared a setting; that was a basic fact of those two series, strange as it seems today. So it's altogether unlike the Beano in Akhaten.


 * Furthermore, the whole of every issue of TV Century 21 was formatted under the pretense that it existed in-universe as a top-secret medium for communication between secret agents; the weekly comics about the Thunderbirds, Stingray, and, yes, the Daleks, were printed without fail with a framing device of being "hyper-space visual reports" or something of the kind. It is in fact completely within the lore that a secret agent would have an issue of the in-universe TV21 among his secret files, including the reports on the Daleks. Given the future setting of Thunderbirds it would, besides, make little sense for the magazine to be intended to be the real-world 20th century comic-book, rather than its futuristic in-universe counterpart. Scrooge MacDuck ☎  10:20, 24 July 2021 (UTC)