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[edit]

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.

Polystyle comic strips[edit]

TV Comic[edit]

#	Title	Featuring	Writer	Release Date
1	"The Arkwood Experiments"	The Brigadier	Roger Cook	January - 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 UNIT	Roger Cook	February - 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 UNIT	Roger Cook	April - May 1970
A new insecticide creates huge creatures and insects that rampage across Britain, leaving the Doctor racing against time to find an antidote before the creatures ravage the whole world.
4	"The Metal Eaters"	Liz Shaw, the Brigadier and UNIT	NA	May - 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 UNIT	NA	June - July 1970
After discovering the existence of an 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 Brigadier	Alan Fennell	July - August 1970
7	"The Robot"	Professor Carl Readon	Alan Fennell	September - October 1970
8	"Trial By Fire"	Tom Streeter	Alan Fennell	31 October - 12 December 1970
9	"The Kingdom Builders"	Mr Cooper	Alan Fennell	December 1970 - February 1971
10	"Children of the Evil Eye"	Arnold	TBA	September - October 1973
11	"Nova"	Arnold	TBA	October - December 1973
12	"The Amateur"	Arnold	TBA	December 1973 - January 1974
13	"The Desintegrator"	UNIT and the Daleks	TBA	February - March 1974
14	"Is Anyone There?"	TBA	TBA	March - May 1974
15	"Size Control"	TBA	TBA	May - June 1974
16	"The Magician"	TBA	TBA	July - August 1974
17	"The Metal-Eaters"	TBA	TBA	August - October 1974
18	"Lords of the Ether"	TBA	TBA	October - November 1974
19	"The Wanderers"	Time Lords	TBA	December 1974 - January 1975

Countdown[edit]

Sub-Zero (featuring the Daleks)

TV Comics Holiday Specials[edit]

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

Doctor Who Annuals[edit]

#	Title	Featuring	Writer	Release Date
1	"The Time Thief"	Jo Grant and UNIT	TBA	1974
2	"Menace of the Molags"	Jo Grant and UNIT	TBA	1974
3	"Dead on Arrival"	Jo Grant	TBA	1975
4	"After the Revolution"	Jo Grant	TBA	1975

Doctor Who Magazine comic strips[edit]

Doctor Who Magazine[edit]

#	Title	Featuring	Writer	Release Date
1	"Change of Mind"	Liz Shaw, the Brigadier and UNIT	Kate Orman	January - March 1995
2	"Target Practice"	Jo Grant, the Brigadier, UNIT and Ogrons	Gareth Roberts	17 January 1996

Titan Comics[edit]

#	Title	Featuring	Writer	Release Date
1	"The Heralds of Destruction"	Jo Grant, the Brigadier, the Master, Salamander and UNIT	Paul Cornell	October 2016 - January 2017