Emergency Landing! was a Fireball XL5 comic printed in TV Century 21 in 1965.
As well as mentioning the planet Uraniture, which debuted in the Dalek short story Ice Planet Mystery, the main narrative of Emergency Landing! was foreshadowed by both another Dalek story, Fireball Explosion!, and The Daleks comic story Plague of Death.
Summary[]
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Characters[]
- Steve Zodiac
- Matthew Matic
- Venus
- Robert the Robot
- Skeleton
Worldbuilding[]
- Matic believes that the repairs to Fireball XL5 after its explosion will take a couple of days.
- Matic realises the asteroid they have landed on has become a giant magnet when Steve drops a spanner and cannot retrieve it.
- An automated voice announces the serving of meals but nobody comes to eat them and half an hour later their tables sink back into the floor.
- Steve breaks both his legs.
- Matic explains to Steve in the sick bay that the crew of the other spacecraft, which was stuck in a magnetic field, died thousands of years ago and although the people died, the machines continued to work.
Story notes[]
- Like most of TV Century 21's The Daleks comic stories from the same era, this comic serial was not given a title in the pages of TV Century 21 during its original printing; the title instead comes from later reference sources.
- This story was reprinted in the 1971 Countdown Holiday Special, which also included the Third Doctor short story The Thing from Outer Space.
Continuity[]
- Fireball XL5 is returning to Space City from Uraniture. (COMIC: Icemen of Space, PROSE: Ice Planet Mystery)
