Coda is a Radio Times comic story featuring the Eighth Doctor, Stacy Townsend and Ssard.
Summary
The Doctor discovers that Stacy has been replaced by a renegade shape shifter. The Doctor traps the four shape shifters in a sonic bubble and returns them to their home planet.
Characters
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Notes
- Writer Gary Russell's planned storyline involving the shape shifters was derailed by the cancellation of the comic feature in Radio Times. Therefore, he had to wrap up the plot quickly, in an abrupt and perfunctory manner.
- The villians were originally to be revealed to be the Zygons. With the cancellation of the strip they were changed to generic shape-shifters.
Continuity
- Stacy and Ssard would later appear in PROSE: Placebo Effect.
- The ending to this story bears a striking resemblance to the end of TV: The Almost People. In both stories, it is revealed that the main female companion (Stacy Townsend in this story's case, Amy Pond in The Almost People) had been replaced with a member of a shape-shifting species. In both cases the Doctor used his technology to revert them to their natural form (shape-shifting organism and flesh, respectively).
External links
- Coda at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
