Talk:Mission: Impractical

Curious claim
There is an oddity in the placement paragraph. The author stated his intended "gap" where the novel fits. This is an actual gap(unlike many MAs and PDAs). However, someone has added a link from a website claiming that it is impossible for the story to take place in its gap. it uses what we can politely refer to as flawed logic. The problems are that a)the claim is wrong and b)even if we include the statement, the way it is phrase din the article is inaccurate and POV.

Just for the record, the intended timeline was->The Twin Dilemma->Season 22->other Six/Peri stories(eg. The Lost Stories, Slipback)->Season 23->Sixth Doctor drops Mel off->other Sixth Doctor stories(eg. Grant Markham)->The Shape Shifter etc. It was also mentioned in the novelisation of Mindwarp that Peri returned to the 1980's USA after The Trial of a Time Lord. In short, the drwhoguide's claim is wrong, and the wording in this article giving credence to this claim is flawed.

The link states... Featuring the Sixth Doctor and Frobisher - the penguin from the Doctor Who Magazine comic strips - this adventure is set between the TV stories The Trial of a Time Lord and Time and the Rani. However, if we set the original run of Frobisher's stories before The Trial of a Time Lord, it can't be set between the comic strips War-Game and Funhouse as stated by the author.(emphasis mine).

Of course, that's only if "we" set the original run of Frobisher's stories before The Trial of a Time Lord. The Sixth Doctor's behaviour and attitude in the comics is far closer to his Terror of the Vervoids persona than his Season 22/Lost Stories persona.