Father Time (comic story)

Father Time was a TV Comic story featuring the Second Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon.
== Summary ==
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== Plot ==
The Doctor's TARDIS arrives at the Time Temple, full of enormous clocks. The Second Doctor and Jamie step out next to a large grandfather clock and then go on to meet Father Time, who is upset when he hears that they are time travellers. He uses the bell on a giant alarm clock to knock them out. When they come round, the Doctor is tied to a pendulum that is swinging him ever nearer to boiling. Jamie is slowly being buried alive in an hourglass.
Father Time leaves them to their deaths, so the Doctor swings his pendulum faster until the bolt flies out and the pendulum smashes the glass imprisoning Jamie. Father Time hears the crash and takes up a clock hand to throw at them, but the Doctor jumps onto a giant cuckoo and is pulled into a clock. Father Time then arms himself with a crossbow and waits for the clock to strike again. As it does, Jamie leaps at him to stop him taking his shot. The Doctor falls from the clock and hurts his ankle.
Jamie's sporran is full of sand and he throws it in Father Time's face so that he can escape with the Doctor. Clock robots are blocking the route to the TARDIS, but Jamie uses Father Time's scythe to fight them off. When one of the robots knocks Father Time over, they take their opportunity to get into the TARDIS.
== Characters ==
* Second Doctor
* Jamie McCrimmon
* Father Time
== Worldbuilding ==
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== Notes ==
* It is unclear as to whether "Father Time" as seen in this story is the actual mythological figure, some sort of alien being resembling and perhaps inspiring the legend, simply an eccentric old man, or something else entirely.
* Father Time uses a weapon he claims can render a human being unconscious, and it works on the Doctor just as well as it does Jamie.
=== Original print details ===
(Publication with page count and closing captions)
* TVC 890 (2 pages) The sands of time are running out for the space travellers! See next week's dramatic episode!
* TVC 891 (2 pages) Is this the end for the Doctor? Don't miss next week's dramatic outcome!
* TVC 892 (2 pages) Next week... The final reckoning with Father Time!
* TVC 893 (2 pages) Dr. Who starts an all-action adventure next week amongst the New York skyscrapers!
== Continuity ==
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Category:Second Doctor TVC comic stories
Category:1969 comic stories
Category:Four part comics