The Living Wax (short story)

 was the only short story in the 1977 Doctor Who Winter Special. Moreover, it was the only original narrative in the entire publication, and the only one to utilise the Fourth Doctor and Leela — the team featured on the special's cover.

Summary
The Fourth Doctor and Leela arrive in Victorian era London near a waxwork museum.

Characters

 * Fourth Doctor
 * Leela
 * Linktons

Continuity
to be added

Timeline
This story is a conundrum inasmuch as dating is concerned. Leela is depicted as wholly unfamiliar with the Victorian era London surroundings, which she wouldn't be, were this set after The Talons of Weng-Chiang. However, Talons also seems to be her first visit to this time period, which it wouldn't be, if she'd already experienced The Living Wax. It is thus impossible to assert definitively which story came first, making dating essentially impossible.

It's probably better simply to consider this a tale that happens to alternative versions of our heroes — versions who never experienced the events of Talons. On the other hand, one could assert that this story takes place before Talons, but that Leela has her short-term memory wiped in an unrecorded story between the two.