(i) The Time Patrol and Doctor Who are two time travel series.
(ii) A Time Lord's TARDIS and a Time Patrol timecycle are not only time machines but space-time machines, which is how HG Wells' Time Traveler originally envisaged his Machine. However, a TARDIS has a cosmic range whereas the timecycles are merely Terrestrial.
(iii) The Doctor has visited past and future periods and also spent some time based in the present. Manse Everard of the Patrol, based in the present, visits historical periods and the reader is given minimal information about many future periods. See The Time Patrol Timeline.
(iv) Three time traveling villains are comparable:
Merau Varagan in the Time Patrol series;
Brann in The Corridors Of Time;
the Master, another rebel Time Lord.
(v) HG Wells time traveled in the TARDIS to a period when he heard the word, "Morlock," and, in There Will Be Time, was given free use of the time travel idea by one of the mutant time travelers.
(vi) The Doctor visited Atlantis and Anderson's time travel novels include The Dancer From Atlantis.
(vii) Anderson's diaglossa and mentator are more credible translators than the Doctor's TARDIS.
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