Target Practice was a Third Doctor comic story published in Doctor Who Magazine.
Summary[]
A Soviet operative poses as a UNIT officer and attempts to persuade the Third Doctor to join the Soviets, rather than work for UNIT.
Plot[]
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Characters[]
- Third Doctor
- Jo Grant
- Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
- Colonel Ashe
- Sergeant John Benton
Worldbuilding[]
- Base 43 has "mock ups" of an Axon, a Dalek, an Auton, the Master, a Sea Devil, an early CyberFaction Cyberman, a Robot Yeti, a Silurian, and an Ogron.
- Benton relaxes by reading a comic book.
- As part of his cover story, Ashe claims that he and the Brigadier were at Sandhurst Military School together "nearly thirty years" ago.
- To catch Ashe out on his lies, the Doctor refers to the Auton display as an Ogron.
Notes[]
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Continuity[]
- Jo recalls her frightful encounter with the Axons, (TV: The Claws of Axos) with the Doctor adding how the Ogrons gave them "no end of bother". (TV: Day of the Daleks)
- The Doctor puts sugar in the helicopter's tank in order to stop it, similar to what he did to the Multi-Mobile. (COMIC: The Multi-Mobile)
