Plastic Millennium

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Plastic Millenium
Series:	Doctor Who Magazine (special issues)- Seventh Doctor comic strip stories
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companions:	Melanie Bush
Enemy:	Nestene, Autons,
Setting:	England, December 31st 1999
Author:	Gareth Roberts
Editor:	Gary Russell
Artist:	Martin Geraghty
Colourist:
Lettering:	Elitta Fell
Published In:	Doctor Who Magazine Summer Special
Publication:	1994
Publisher:	Marvel Comics
Format:	B&W 1 parts / 8 pages
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The Doctor and Mel arrive to join Alisha Hammerson, the Auton head of Hammerson Plastic PLC, at her Millennium Party. Their arrival is not unexpected and the Doctor is not surprised. He has been waiting to discover Alisha’s plans. Alisha having begun to replicate the businessmen in attendance at the party, she reintroduces the Doctor to the Nestene Consciousness. A plastic meteor is the only weak link with the Nestene home world and even though the Doctor does not manage to destroy it with a liquid held in a glass phial, Mel has a spare and uses it. The meteor is destroyed and contact with the Nestene is broken. The Autons, Alisha included, are rendered lifeless.

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DWMS Summer 1994 (8) A tribute issue to writer Robert Holmes

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`millennium` is spelt incorrectly `millenium` throughout on two occassions including the title!
The idea that the Nestene can be destroyed with a liquid made by the Doctor in a test tube is later to be used in the television story Rose featuring the Ninth Doctor.
The simple Autons in this story featured the projection of gas from their hand which rendered people unconscious.

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