A Switch in Time! (comic story)

A Switch in Time was the Doctor Who back-up strip which appeared in the pages of The Incredible Hulk Presents #6. Like all in the series, it was monochromatic and featured the Seventh Doctor travelling alone at the beginning and ending of the story.

Unusually, most of the events of the story take place in what is a scripted drama on television. Almost everything named in the story doesn't actually exist in the DWU, except as fiction.

Summary
The Seventh Doctor materialises inside of a television programme on a world populated by non-humanoids. The only problem is that no one has given him a script, so he keeps blowing his cues. He escapes before he gets into any real trouble for it. Still, at least two members of the Holo TV viewing audience appreciate his "performance", and are glad they remembered to tape the broadcast.

Characters

 * In "real life":
 * Seventh Doctor, known within the television programme as "the Professor"
 * two audience members watching the television programme
 * In the television programme:
 * The Gherax
 * Thyron
 * a naturalist

Continuity

 * As with several stories in the IHP run, the narrative begins with the Seventh Doctor in the TARDIS console room, tending to a malfunction. This isn't, however, terribly representative of the televised Seventh Doctor, who was only shown to experience one TARDIS malfunction — the one that lead to his "death" in the 1996 tele-film.
 * Like Remembrance of the Daleks, this story features a continuity announcement which appears to be advertising a new series of Doctor Who, but is cut off before the whole name of the series can be completed.

Timeline

 * This story takes place after IHP: Technical Hitch
 * This story takes place before IHP: The Sentinel