At first I thought that I had neglected to copy all of the files onto my phone but I soon realized that "Assassin From Space" was indeed only two pages long. Further research shows that this appeared in a special holiday issue of the English equivalent of TV Guide so perhaps they only had room for abbreviated Time Lord Tales in order to get all the jolly Christmas stuff packed in the issue.
Notice how the portrait of the Doctor has lost its warm, avuncular charm and our hero has taken on a rather menacing look, as if he were Ebenezer Scrooge readying Bob Cratchit's corpse for transport to the dog food factory where it would fetch a few quid. Look at those crazy eyes!
The plot here is simple: an alien race seeks to colonize the Earth but understand that they must rid our planet of its Gallifreyan champion first. And so they send what looks to be a mechical ant-like thingy to ambush the Doctor as he strolls through his favorite park in London.
The Doctor is able to fend off the creature with his cane which might be sonic as it can do all manner of things including zapping giant mechanical insects with a laser beam.
No Liz here. The Doctor exclaims, "By the powers!" Is that an English phrase or did the writer just pull it out of his a**? "Great powers!" "By the powers!" Hmm...
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