Third Doctor comic stories

The Third Doctor comic stories is a range of offscreen adventures featuring the third incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the hit sc-fi series, Doctor Who.

History

During the early 1970s, the adventures of the Third Doctor in comic mainly ran in two similar formats, TV Comic and Countdown, and as with every incarnation of the Doctor, the Third Doctor featured in Doctor Who Annuals.

Due to the Third Doctor's exile on Earth for most of his tenure, these comics are notable for including UNIT in a large number of stories, in particular, UNIT's founder and the Doctor's sidekick, The Brigadier, with adventures featuring just them as principal characters being set between Inferno and Terror of the Autons.

Following The Three Doctors, which saw the Doctor's exile lifted, the comics were allowed to expand, taking the Doctor on new adventures across time and space.

Comics

TV Comic

# Title Featuring Writer Release Date
1"The Arkwood Experiment"The BrigadierRoger CookJanuary - February 1970
Investigating an attack on a zoo, the Doctor and UNIT are led to Arkwood Private School. But the Doctor is too late to stop crazed child genius, Cedric Matthews, from unleashing a mystery drug that turns his friends into animals. With this drug, he intends to take over Britain and reduce humanity to a raging beast...
2"The Multi-Mobile"The Brigadier and UNITRoger CookFebruary - March 1970
The Doctor and UNIT are called to investigate when three foreign agents hijack an advanced armoured vehicle called ""The Multi-Mobile"" and plan to use it to destroy the British Nuclear Defence Control Centre.
3"Insect"The Brigadier and UNITRoger CookApril - May 1970
A new insectiside creates huge creatures and insects that rampage across Britain, leaving the Doctor racing against time to find antidote before the creatures ravage the whole world.
4"The Metal Eaters"Liz Shaw, the Brigadier and UNITNAMay - June 1970
A meteorite crash lands on Earth, releasing three groups of intelligent creatures who breathe metal. But as the Doctor and UNIT turn their attentions to examining the meteorite, the third group targets a plane transporting a group of schoolchildren abroad.
5"The Fishmen of Carpantha"Liz Shaw, the Brigadier and UNITNAJune - July 1970
After discovering the existence of a underwater race called the Carpanthans, the Doctor and Liz are put on trial by the mysterious new Earth inhabitants for the destruction of their underwater city... UNIT's way of dealing with aliens has finally come back to haunt them.
6"Rocks from Venus"The BrigadierAlan FennellJuly - August 1970
7"The Robot"Professor Carl ReadonAlan FennellSeptember - October 1970
8"Trial By Fire"Tom StreetersAlan Fennell31 October - 12 November 2012
9"The Kingdom Builders"Mr CooperAlan FennellDecember 1970 - February 1971
10"Children of the Evil Eye"ArnoldTBASeptember - October 1973
11"Nova"ArnoldTBAOctober - December 1973
12"The Amateur"ArnoldTBADecember 1973 - January 1974
13"The Desintegrator"UNIT and the DaleksTBAFebruary - March 1974
14"Is Anyone There?"TBAMarch - May 1974
15"Size Control"TBAMay - June 1974
16"The Magician"TBAJuly - August 1974
17"The Metal-Eaters"TBAAugust - October 1974
18"Lords of the Ether"TBAOctober - November 1974
19"The Wanderers"Time LordsTBADecember 1974 - January 1975

TV Comics Holiday Specials

# Title Featuring Writer Release Date
1"Assassin from Space"Roger CookMay 1970
2"Undercover"UNITRoger CookMay 1970
3"Fogbound"The Brigadier and the Master, and UNITTBAMay 1973
4"Secrets of the Tower"The Brigadier and UNITTBAMay 1973
5"Doomcloud"Sarah Jane SmithTBAMay 1974
6"Perils of Paris"Sarah Jane SmithTBAMay 1974
7"Who's who?"Sarah Jane SmithTBAMay 1974

Doctor Who Magazine

# Title Featuring Writer Release Date
1"Change of Mind"Liz Shaw, the Brigadier and UNITJanuary - March 1995Kate Orman
2"Target Practice"Jo Grant, the Brigadier, UNIT and OgronsGareth Roberts17 January 1996

Doctor Who Annuals

# Title Featuring Writer Release Date
1"The Time Thief"Jo Grant and UNITTBA1974
2"Menace of the Molags"Jo Grant and UNITTBA1974
3"Dead on Arrival"Jo GrantTBA1975
4"After the Revolution"Jo GrantTBA1975

See also

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