The Universe Marathon

Part-"choose your own adventure" prose story and part-board game, The Universe Marathon was one of the features in Dicky Howett and Tim Quinn's The Doctor Who Fun Book. A multi-Doctor story featuring the first six incarnations of the Doctor, it featured cameos by several other notable elements of the Doctor Who universe, but, due to its non-linear nature, it is not considered a valid source on this Wiki.
== Publisher's summary ==
An exciting DICE GAME for 2-6 PLAYERS as the six DOCTORS compete against each other in a RACE through TIME AND SPACE to the end of the UNIVERSE!
Choose your favourite DOCTOR? grab DICE and COUNTER and… 5… 4… 3… 1… lift off!
The Brigadier's favorite game!
== Characters ==
* First Doctor
* Second Doctor
* Third Doctor
* Fourth Doctor
* Fifth Doctor
* Sixth Doctor
* Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
* Peter Cushing
* Daleks
* Snipes
* K9
* Ogron
* Stephenson
* Leonard Nimoy
* Romans
* Charles II
== Worldbuilding ==
* The word "Finish" in Gallifreyan means "start" and vice-versa.
* The Doctor takes time away from the race to restore Charles II to the throne, to pause as he passes by Mariner 1 in the hope that it will take his picture, to explain the theory of relativity to an Ogron, to teach K9 to "sit", to aid the peasants' revolt of 1381
* The Doctor loses a companion to a cosmic raystorm, catches the plague, gets bitten by a Venus flytrap, accidentally causes the Great Fire of London, and eventually trips over a Cybermat, breaking his neck and regenerating.
* After the Doctor "destroys the Daleks once and for all", he throws a party which is immediately crashed by more Daleks.
* Peter Cushing loses his counter at some point.
== Notes ==
* A footnote refers readers confused about the Snipes to the then-nonexistent Season 33 of Doctor Who, the implication being that the Snipes were a monster from the future of the show. In real life, the denomination of Season 33 is sometimes given to Series 7 of the revival, which did not, as a matter of fact, feature any aliens called the Snipes.
* Peter Cushing is identified by name, and thus appears to be appearing as an in-universe version of himself, not as his Doctor, although he is in costume as said Doctor.
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