Mystery Message (short story)

Mystery Message was a short story published in Doctor Who Annual 1978. It featured the Fourth Doctor.
== Summary ==
Visiting the planet Penadron, the Fourth Doctor is about to visit the Senate, but a coded message from an anonymous source allows him to realise in time that the Senate are actually malevolent, intending to kill him to extract all his knowledge from his brain.
== Characters ==
* Fourth Doctor
== Worldbuilding ==
* The message is written in code.
== Notes ==
* The illustration depicts a robot-like being, similar to the K1 robot from Robot. It is not clear to which element of the narrative it corresponds; it is possible that it is intended to depict a member of the Penadronian species, which is not physically described in the narrative.
* The coded message was actually written in code and left for readers to decipher themselves, allowing the story to double as a game.
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor's brain holds highly valuable knowledge. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten, Nightmare in Silver)
Category:Fourth Doctor short stories
Category:1978 DWAN short stories