Written by Scott Gray. Pencils by Martin Geraghty and inks by Faz Choudhury and David A. Roach.
Doctor Who and his grandchildren John and Gillian arrive on the planet Darbodia, only to find the natives are wandering around in a stupor, unable to dream or imagine...
- All Just a Dream: The main story is a dream of the Doctor's.
- Art Shift: When the Doctor wakes up, the art goes from the TV Comic style to the strip's then-current style.
- Bigger on the Inside: Doctor Who's bag.
- Dedication: Dedicated to Neville Main, artist on the TV Comic strips, who drew the very first TV Comic strip, John and Gillian's introductory story.
- Dream Stealer: Wargonne has imprisoned the Figments, who give the Darbodians their dreams, fearing the danger of ideas; as a result the Darbodians have no dreams and no ideas, wandering around aimlessly.
- Lighter and Softer: Serving as a deliberate contrast to the Doctor's typical adventures. The Doctor dreams of a world where villains are merely naughty, not evil; people never die, promises are never broken, and all endings are happy ones; the kind of world he'd like to live in.
Then we remember everything that's going to happen in his future... - Mythology Gag: Basically one big one to the early TV Comic stories, with the Eighth Doctor in his past selves' place.
- Narrating the Obvious: The captions reiterate what's happening in the story, in keeping with the source material.
- Retcon: Retcons the TV Comic strips as the Doctor's dreams of a better world.
- Retraux: With the intent of recreating the style of the TV Comic strips.
- The X of Y
- Zeerust: Invoked. Darbodia's aesthetics are very much in the style of 1960s sci-fi.
