A Stitch in Time (TVA comic story)

A Stitch in Time was a Third Doctor comic story published in TV Action.
== Summary ==
After colliding with an exploding galaxy, the TARDIS takes the Doctor to England in the year 5000. There, in the ruins of the British Library, the Doctor meets the last remaining men, or 'norms', on Earth. The TARDIS is carried off by a giant airship piloted by a race of mute supermen known as the 'mutants'. Defeating the leader of the mutants the Doctor saves the TARDIS from destruction. With the norm, Brod, the Doctor travels to New York in 1872. There they seek out Professor Cassells whose biological experiments were the original cause of the Earth's devastation in the future. However, unable to believe the Doctor's incredible story, the Professor refuses to halt his research.
== Characters ==
* Third Doctor
* Brod
* Gleet
* Professor Theodore Cassells
* Barney
== Worldbuilding ==
* Six-legged camels have evolved from camels.
* Cassells calls the TARDIS a "Jules Verne fantasy".
== Notes ==
* This story largely takes place in an alternate timeline in which the Earth was devastated by a nuclear war started by the experiments of Theodore Cassells.
=== Original print details ===
(Publication with page count and closing captions)
* TVA 63 (3 pages) Next week, Doctor Who battles for his life... / ...in a desperate struggle with the beings of a lost time! 
* TVA 64 (3 pages) More dangers for the Doctor next week... / ...when he loses his only means of escape!
* TVA 65 (3 pages) Next week the Doctor is in serious trouble... / ...lost in time on our own planet Earth! 
* TVA 66 (3 pages) Next week the Doctor is posed with a problem... / ...and a struggle for the survival of Earth!
* TVA 67 (3 pages) Trapped in the sky of a lost world... / ...can the Doctor ever set Earth on the right course?
* TVA 68 (3 pages) Next week the Doctor takes a trip... / ...on a mission to alter time itself!
* TVA 69 (3 pages) Next week the time travellers are in trouble... / ...on a ship set for disaster!
* TVA 70 (3 pages) New Doctor Who story next week!
Note: The closing caption for each instalment bar TVA 70 was split over the second and third pages of the strip.
== Continuity ==
* The Doctor once again uses Jupiter as an intensive. (COMIC: The Eternal Present)
* The Doctor is once again involved in the abandoning of the Marie Celeste. (TV: The Chase)
== External links ==
Category:Third Doctor TVA comic stories
Category:Stories set in London
Category:Stories set in 5000
Category:Stories set in New York City
Category:Stories set in 1872
Category:Stories set in alternate timelines
Category:1972 comic stories
Category:Third Doctor comic stories
Category:Eight part comics