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TV Action! is a Doctor Who Magazine comic story featuring the Eighth Doctor and Izzy Sinclair. The story was created to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of Doctor Who Magazine.
Summary[]
The Eighth Doctor and Izzy have a brief meeting with an old enemy of the Doctor's known as Beep the Meep in a parallel universe, one where the adventures of the Doctor are nothing more than televised programmes and science fiction.
Plot[]
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Characters[]
- Eighth Doctor
- Izzy Sinclair
- Beep the Meep
- Tom Baker
- Krl Vrdrmn
- Peter Gilmore
- Howard Lang
- Todd Carty
- Larry Grayson
- Noel Edmonds
- Rod Hall
- John Cleese
- Prunella Scales
- Andrew Sachs
- Basil Brush
Worldbuilding[]
- Izzy jokes that being chased by zombies is more preferable to a job at Woolworths.
- Tom Baker was once mistaken for Shirley Williams and Gertrude Stein.
Notes[]
- TV Action! marked the twentieth anniversary of Doctor Who Magazine. The story is set on the very day Doctor Who Weekly first saw print and ends with a confused Doctor looking at the first issue.
- The strip's title is a nod to TV Action, which published the Doctor Who comic strip prior to the launch of Doctor Who Magazine.
- The alien reporter Krl Vrdrmn is a reference to Carol Vorderman.
- Tom Baker's rambling lines are taken from actual interviews with Baker:
- "Would you like me to be someone else? I was mistaken for Shirley Williams once-- --or was it Gertrude Stein?" (paraphrased from Who on Earth is Tom Baker?)
- "Here's a thing. I counted four hundred and thirty varicose veins on the way here today, four hundred and thirty, can you believe that? It says a lot about life, doesn't it, when you're reduced to counting varicose veins..." (DWM 179)
- "So you're the monster, are you? I adored the Krynoid -- the giant walking vegetable and I also liked the Wirrrn [sic]. They were both fun. Then there was the giant rat -- I thought that looked rather good..." (DWM 92)
- "...as you know naturalism's not my strong point -- I can't even come through a door convincingly! -- But perhaps one can come through a door interestingly, dare I say amusingl--" (DWM 179)
- Many references are made to 1979 BBC shows, with cameo appearances by actors who refer to themselves by their characters' names: the TARDIS lands in the Blue Peter garden, near the memorial statue to Petra the dog, the first people met are extras in Blake's 7 Federation soldier costumes, brainwashed servants of Meep include actors from The Onedin Line (1971-1980), Grange Hill (1978-2008), Are You Being Served? (1972, 1973-79, 1981-85) and Fawlty Towers (1975, 1979), as well as the puppet character Basil Brush, and BBC Outside Broadcast vans are used to transmit black star energy.
Continuity[]
- The Doctor notes that he has bested Beep twice before. (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Star Beast, Star Beast II)
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