Backtime (comic story)

Backtime was a comic adventure of the no-longer-exiled Third Doctor in the pages of Countdown, originally published in 1971.

Summary
The Doctor is in London in 1863 when his TARDIS key is stolen by young pickpocket Charlie Fisher. When a policeman finds a 1970s bank note on the Doctor, he finds himself arrested for forgery but the Doctor and Charlie escape in the TARDIS. They land in Gettysburg, where they meet Abraham Lincoln and rescue the TARDIS from the outlaws George Bamford and Asa Bamford. The Doctor eventually leaves Charlie in Ballarat to start a new life.

Characters

 * Third Doctor
 * Charlie Fisher
 * Abraham Lincoln
 * George Bamford
 * Asa Bamford
 * General Grant
 * Magistrate

Continuity

 * The Doctor claims to have built the TARDIS. (TV: The Chase)
 * Though the Doctor had watched Abraham Lincoln deliver the Gettysburg Address on his Time-Space Visualiser (TV: The Chase), this was the first time the Doctor had met him in his personal timeline. They would meet again on several occasions. (PROSE: Blood and Hope, AUDIO: Assassin in the Limelight)