The Eternal Present (comic story)

The Eternal Present was a Third Doctor comic story published in TV Action.

Summary Edit

The Doctor has been pursued through time and captured for the "crime" of time travel. Taken to New Britain in 3550, the Doctor is sentenced to trial by combat by Mar-Kom, the ruler of New Britain. The Time Lord allies himself with Theophilus Tolliver, the inventor of Earth's first time machine, to uncover the truth about Mar-Kom.

Characters Edit

• Third Doctor
• Theophilus Tolliver
• Andron
• Mar-Kom
• Technician
• PC Ernest Whitehouse

References Edit

• St. Paul's Cathedral still stands in New London.

Notes Edit

• In a rather unusual bit of intertextuality, Theophilus Tolliver is implied to be the unnamed Traveller from H.G. Wells's The Time Machine.

Continuity Edit

• The Doctor has been placed on trial before for his actions involving time travel, (TV: The War Games) as he would again in the future. (TV: The Trial of a Time Lord)

External links Edit

• The Eternal Present at the Doctor Who Reference Guide