The Cadet Sweets' Cards are consider by most historians to be the first official Doctor Who merchandise ever sold. Cadet Sweets made candy cigarettes and inside each pack came a trading card. These fifty Doctor Who themed collector cards, when read in order, created an ongoing story. Or two stories really....

It starts off on Marinus with the Voords fighting the Daleks. They then call for an uneasy truce when the Daleks discover that the Voord are planning on invading Earth, and they join forces to find a rare mushroom that's supposed to give you physic powers. The Doctor, oh sorry, "Dr. Who" sneaks aboard the Voord ship to sabotage their plans.

Long story, short, the Doctor teams up with the Chief Voord and together they double cross the Daleks by tricking them into eating poisonous mushrooms instead. It's a thin plot but nothing too egregious; it's the second half that gets real weird.

In the second part of the story a lone Dalek allows himself to be captured by Earth forces in order to seek an audience with "Dr. Who". Turns out the Emperor Dalek wants the Doctor's help in defeating a super computer they've built that has gained sentience and is attempting to destroy Sarko. The Doctor agrees to help, but only because a planet blowing up might damage other planets in it's blast radius.

This super computer controls a super nuke and is, for some reason, programed to shoot anything on site that comes near it, including Daleks... even though the Daleks would have no reason to program something that would kill other Daleks.... Even dumber, the Doctor can walk through the lasers without getting hurt because the lasers are built to only harm Daleks... even though Daleks are the ones who built the lasers... What?

Oh and the whole thing ends with the Doctor having a celebratory dinner with his most hated enemies, and him mentioning that he's half human on his mother's side or something.

 You'll also notice that each card comes with illustrations. The artist does a decent enough job at portraying aliens, monsters, landscapes, and spacecrafts, but at no point does the Doctor ever actually look like Hartnell.

The Tardis and various companions are also mysteriously absent. Making this story hard to place within any timeline. Consulting the Tardis Wiki it's suggested that any First Doctor solo stories might take place after the Five Doctors which, according to expanded media, took place shortly after The Dalek Master Plan. The reasoning being that the rose garden seen at the beginning of the special is at some sort of wellness retreat/memorial and Steven is off getting therapy.

I guess that's as good of an explanation as any, hence why I chose to review this story after the Dalek Annual featuring Sara Kingdom.

In conclusion, the Cadet Sweets Cards are an amusing, if bizarre, bit of Who history that doesn't quite fit with the wider lore. But then neither does most of the show proper, so really, what's the harm?