The Hungry Planet

"My TARDIS! Get ready to jump... and for heaven's sake don't slip, or you're dead!"

Writer: Jim Baikie 

Format: Comic Strip

Released: 1973

Printed in: TV Action Annual 1974

Featuring: Third Doctor

Synopsis 

The Third Doctor's TARDIS is swallowed by a living planet, so he turns to Harry Trant, a stranded spaceman for help in recovering his soho from the planet's stomach..

Verdict 

The Hungry Planet was a very fun little comic strip adventure! I really loved the idea of the Third Doctor just wondering the TARDIS about in space only to come across a 'new' planet! One that he would learn was alive and had swallowed his TARDIS! The adventurous actions of the Doctor in parachuting out of the TARDIS were magnificent and certainly typical of Pertwee's Doctor's madness. I liked his disappointment at the bareness of the Star Beast planet, the Doctor likes a bit more gravitas, especially in this incarnation after the boredom the Time Lords had put him through! Trant was a good character to give the Doctor somebody to talk to and to ensure that the Doctor wasn't completely mad by talking to himself all the time! The way the Doctor calmly suggested he and Trant willingly be devoured to retrieve the TARDIS was just magnificent! Only the Doctor would willingly climb down the throat of a live planet beast! The TARDIS retrieval was very good and after he returned Trant home, the Doctor was back on his travels. But where next? Overall, a very fun comic strip! 

Rating: 8/10