Outta Space (comic story)

Outta Space

Main character(s):

Dicky Howett
Tim Quinn

Featuring:

The Doctor's TARDIS

Key crew

Release details

Number of parts:

Printed in:

The Doctor Who Fun Book

Release date:

21 May 1987

Reprinted in:

It's Even Bigger on the Inside

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Outta Space was the last comic story in in Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett's The Doctor Who Fun Book. A metafictional epilogue to the book, it featured Howett and Quinn themselves as characters, after they had already been mentioned as such earlier on in Who Was 'Ere! ^[+]Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett, The Doctor Who Fun Book stories (Target Books, 1987)..

Summary[]

Mr Howett and Mr Quinn have finished writing and illustrating every single page of The Doctor Who Fun Book and they must now reluctantly return to their usual job — working the huge bellows which produces the TARDIS's "Vworp! Vworp!" sound every time it dematerialises!

Characters[]

Worldbuilding[]

The bellows is emblazoned "BBC Sound Effects".

Notes[]

The actual TV series would eventually give its own comedic answer to the origin of the TARDIS's iconic "wheezing, groaning sound" in The Time of Angels ^[+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 5 (BBC One, 2010)., where it is claimed to be the result of the TARDIS brakes being left on.

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