Changes

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Changes (Comic - 2 parts)
Doctor:		Sixth Doctor
companion:		Frobisher, Peri
Creative staff
writer:		Grant Morrison
artist:		John Ridgway
Publication info
printed in:		[[Doctor Who Magazine 118-119 Grant Morrison's Doctor Who 1 (reprint)]]
publisher:		Marvel Comics
cover date:		November - December 1986
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Contents 1 Summary 2 Characters 3 References 4 Notes 5 Continuity 6 External Links

[edit] Summary

Peri Brown and Frobisher are rummaging through a storage room in the TARDIS and Peri is so much taken aback by the cultural treasures she discovers that doesn't pay attention when the Doctor reports that there is an intruder aboard the TARDIS. Peri and Frobisher decide to explore the TARDIS some more, while the Doctor investigates the intruder. Ultimately, the Doctor learns the intruder is a shape-shifter, and the job of apprehending the creature is made more difficult when it creates duplicates of first himself, and then Peri. Ultimately, it takes the efforts of another shape-shifter -- Frobisher -- to defeat the creature.

[edit] Characters

• The Doctor
• Frobisher
• Peri Brown

• Peri displays a knowledge of art and culture, being able to identify unknown works by Michelangelo and Van Gogh, as well as an unpublished Shakespeare play.

[edit] References

• The Doctor mentions the Mandragora Helix.
• Peri finds a folio of a play called Mischief Night, or As You Please, which she surmises may be a lost play by William Shakespeare. (DW: City of Death, The Shakespeare Code)
• The Doctor possesses portraits of himself by Michelangelo and Vincent Van Gogh. (Which incarnations of the Doctor are featured is left unrevealed, though it is likely the Second, Fifth, or Sixth Doctor. (There is a period in the comic strips when Peri does not travel with the Sixth Doctor, leaving time for him to have the portraits done).
• Other items visible in the TARDIS storage room include a National Geographic magazine, assorted toys, a globe, a map of Barsoom, and a 78 rpm record by Bill Haley.
• When the Doctor and Frobsiher are walking through the TARDIS interior, Bessie is seen stored in a darkened room. Costumes of the Fifth and Fourth Doctors are also depicted on stands in another chamber.
• The TARDIS has a "Memory Vaults" area that recreates places the ship has visited in similar fashion to the holodecks on Star Trek.
• There is also a populated TARDIS Zoo which the Doctor describes as a "way station" where he keeps endangered animals.

[edit] Notes

• This is one of a handful of stories to make an extensive exploration of the interior of the TARDIS. See DW: The Invasion of Time and Castrovalva for other examples.

[edit] Continuity

• Peri has the same hairstyle and similar clothing to what she wears in DW: The Mysterious Planet, placing this story closer to the events of that story than DW: Revelation of the Daleks.
• The TARDIS' state of temporal grace, which renders weapons useless, does not function when the ship is in "normal space". (This is a possible attempt to rectify continuity issues created by several occasions in which weapons are shown being fired within the TARDIS.)
• The Doctor returns to the secondary control room last seen in DW: The Robots of Death. The room includes a tea dispenser.
• The Doctor mentions the Mandragora Helix, which first appeared in DW: The Masque of Mandragora.

[edit] External Links

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