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An inter-incarnational sequence of adventures stretched from the Fourth Doctor's encounter with the Iron Legion[source needed] to the Eighth Doctor's travels with Destrii, (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Iron Legion [+]Pat Mills and John Wagner, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1979)., The Tides of Time [+]Steve Parkhouse, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1982)., The Shape Shifter [+]Steve Parkhouse, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1984)., A Cold Day in Hell! [+]Simon Furman, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1987-1988)., Endgame [+]Alan Barnes, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics UK, 1996)., The Fallen [+]Scott Gray, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 1998-1999)., etc.) sharing a continuous reality with various standalone adventures of early Doctors, (COMIC: A Life of Matter and Death [+]Alan Barnes, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics UK, 1997)., Ground Zero [+]Scott Gray, DWM Comics (Marvel UK, 1996)., etc.) the lives of aliens around them, (COMIC: A Ship Called Sudden Death [+]Steve Parkhouse, DWM backup comic stories (Marvel Comics, 1982)., The Company of Thieves [+]Scott Gray, DWM Comics (1999)., etc.) and further adventures continuing into the Ninth Doctor's life and beyond. (COMIC: Art Attack [+]Mike Collins, DWM Comics (2005)., Thinktwice [+]Dan McDaid, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 2008)., The Stockbridge Showdown [+]Scott Gray, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 2016)., etc.)
While the majority of sources indicated this reality to be the same as the Doctor's universe as a whole, (PROSE: Deceit [+]Peter Darvill-Evans, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993)., The Scarlet Empress [+]Paul Magrs, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1998)., Prime Time [+]Mike Tucker, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000)., AUDIO: No Place Like Home [+]Iain McLaughlin, Big Finish DWM originals (Big Finish Productions, 2003)., TV: Time Heist [+]Steve Thompson, Doctor Who series 8 (BBC One, 2014)., The Doctor Falls [+]Steven Moffat, Doctor Who series 10 (BBC One, 2017)., COMIC: Vortex Butterflies [+]Nick Abadzis, Doctor Who: The Tenth Doctor (Titan Publishing Group, 2017)., etc.) some, focused on the Sixth to Eighth Doctors, indicated it to be its own reality separate from other strands of the Doctor's life. (AUDIO: Zagreus [+]Alan Barnes and Gary Russell, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2003)., Signs and Wonders [+]Matt Fitton, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2014)., PROSE: Spiral Scratch [+]Gary Russell, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2005)., The Eighth Doctor Part 2 [+]James Goss and Steve Tribe, The Doctor: His Lives and Times (The Doctor: His Lives and Times, 2013)., At Childhood's End [+]Sophie Aldred, Mike Tucker and Steve Cole, BBC New Series Adventures (BBC Books, 2020).) The Eighth Doctor of another world dreamed of his adventures in this universe. (COMIC: The Land of Happy Endings [+]Scott Gray, DWM Comics (2003).)
Fate
By the end of the Eighth Doctor's life, by one account, this strand of reality reconnected with the parallel histories where the Eighth Doctor had travelled with Sam and the Eighth Doctor had travelled with Charley, such that from the perspective of the Last Great Time War and beyond they were all in the Doctor's past. (PROSE: The Eighth Doctor Part 2 [+]James Goss and Steve Tribe, The Doctor: His Lives and Times (The Doctor: His Lives and Times, 2013).)
Among the palimpsest universes before the Infinity Doctor's reality, Omega had seen a universe where Rassilon ruled Gallifrey from the Matrix, (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors [+]Lance Parkin, BBC Books (1998).) as was the case in his role as Matrix Lord throughout this sequence of events from the Fifth Doctor's life to the Eighth's. (COMIC: The Tides of Time [+]Steve Parkhouse, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1982)., The Final Chapter [+]Alan Barnes, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics UK, 1998).)
Relation to other realities
During his multiversal adventure, the Sixth Doctor saw a version of himself who travelled with Frobisher. (PROSE: Spiral Scratch [+]Gary Russell, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2005).)
When Ace was shown her future, she saw "several universes" of possibilities, including one where she was surrounded by giant fleas. (AUDIO: Signs and Wonders [+]Matt Fitton, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2014).) When exposed to anti-time, the Eighth Doctor of the positive-time universe saw himself "on the planet Oblivion facing a race called the Horde". (AUDIO: Zagreus [+]Alan Barnes and Gary Russell, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2003).)
By one account, whilst travelling with the Seventh Doctor, Ace was shown multiple possible futures in her timeline by a Quantum Anvil, which included her death in a Nitro-9 explosion. This incident led her to leave the Doctor. (PROSE: At Childhood's End [+]Sophie Aldred, Mike Tucker and Steve Cole, BBC New Series Adventures (BBC Books, 2020)., COMIC: Ground Zero [+]Scott Gray, DWM Comics (Marvel UK, 1996).)
The detonation of Qqaba which destroyed the original palimpsest universe bore a great resemblance to (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors [+]Lance Parkin, BBC Books (1998).) the account of the soon-to-be-Matrix-Lord Rassilon's detonation of Qqaba. (COMIC: Star Death [+]Alan Moore, DWM backup comic stories (Marvel Comics, 1980).)
The Eighth Doctor of this reality also dreamed of another world featuring a copy of himself haunted by less angst. However, this relationship seemed to go both-ways, as the Doctor's more innocent counterpart also seemed to dream of the angst-filled world. (COMIC: The Land of Happy Endings [+]Scott Gray, DWM Comics (2003).)
Behind the scenes
- Early Big Finish Productions stories featuring Frobisher were branded as Side Steps into "a 2-D universe".
Information from invalid sources
Ken Book interviewed Beep the Meep for Doctor Who Magazine, and after Ken asked if Beep had any plans to appear on television, he responded no, explaining it was a "backwards step" that'd be repeating what had already been done thirty years prior in The Star Beast, and ultimately, he didn't consider Doctor Who on TV to be canonical. He also added he was afraid they'd "do [him] in CGI". (PROSE: Who on Earth is... Beep the Meep)
The Land of Happy Endings
Despite common fan readings of the story, the intention of COMIC: The Land of Happy Endings was that both worlds seen in the story were entirely valid realities. Because of this, while one could say that John and Gillian's world was a dream, the exact same claim could be made about the DWM reality.