The Five Doctors (poem)

The Five Doctors was a poem published in the anthology Now We Are Six Hundred. It was largely a poetic adaptation of the television story of the same name.
== Summary ==
The first five Doctors travel to Gallifrey and then to the Dead Zone. On the way they encounter many threats including dastardly interlocutors, Cybermen, and Yeti. They also knock out and unmask the President's cunning plans, escaping quickly afterwards.
== Worldbuilding ==
* Many references are made to dodging mind probes, reading Old High Gallifreyan and eating dainty pineapple.
* The Death Zone is referred to as the Dead Zone.
* One of the Doctors gets stuck in a temporal fracture.
== Notes ==
* This is the only poem in the anthology to effectively novelise a TV story, although other poems, such as The Galactic Council, also heavily reference the plots of TV stories.
* This poem is based upon Now We Are Sixs The Three Foxes.
Category:Now We Are Six Hundred poems
Category:Multi-Doctor poems
Category:First Doctor poems
Category:Second Doctor poems
Category:Third Doctor poems
Category:Fourth Doctor poems
Category:Fifth Doctor poems
Category:Tremas Master sources
Category:Sources set on Gallifrey
Category:Cyberman sources
Category:Adaptations of television stories