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|alias          = Third Doctor
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|origin     = [[Inferno universe]]
|species        = Time Lord
|job         = President of Great Britain
|origin         = [[Gallifrey]], [[Inferno Earth|parallel universe]]
|actor       = Jack Kine
|job           = President of Great Britain
|first       = Inferno (TV story)
|actor         = Jack Kine
|appearances = {{il|[[PROSE]]: ''[[I, Alastair (novel)|I, Alastair]]''}}
|first mention  = Inferno (TV story)
|only          = I, Alastair (novel)
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In a [[Inferno Earth|parallel universe]], the '''Leader''' was the [[President of Great Britain|President]] of the [[Republic of Great Britain]] and was believed to be an alternate version of the third [[incarnation]] of the [[Time Lord]] known as '''[[the Doctor]]'''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrn: Revelation]]'')
In the "[[Inferno universe]]", "'''the Leader'''" was the dictatorial [[President of Great Britain|President]] of the [[Republic of Great Britain]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Inferno (TV story)}}) Accounts of his origins were conflicted.
 
One account suggested that he was the version of [[the Doctor]] native to this reality; specifically, instead of rejecting all the faces suggested to him at [[the Doctor's trial (The War Games)|the Doctor's trial]] following ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The War Games (TV story)}}) the [[War Chief incident]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|CIA File Extracts (novel)}}) this reality's [[Second Doctor]] had accepted the "thin" face, therefore becoming the Leader instead of [[the Doctor's universe|another reality]]'s more heroic [[Third Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The War Games (TV story)}})
 
However, another account implied that, despite "rumours" about him once being able to extend his life through a "miraculous procedure", the Leader was simply assumed to be a [[human]] tyrant; indeed, by the time of the [[Inferno Project]], age was beginning to catch up with him beyond what he could disguise in his public appearances. Nonetheless, his actual origins remained ambiguous, leaving some uncertainty whether he actually was a human.{{note|In  {{cs|I, Alastair (novel)}}, the species and origins of the Leader are never explicitly confirmed outside of hints and assumptions made by other characters, therefore, it is left to the reader's own interpretation. See the [[#Behind the scenes|behind the scenes section]] for more information.}} ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|I, Alastair (novel)}})


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
This universe's version of the [[Second Doctor (Inferno Earth)|Second Doctor]] selected one of the bodies offered to him by the [[Time Lord]]s after [[the Doctor's trial (The War Games)|his trial]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') Like his counterpart, this version of the Doctor was [[exile on Earth|banished]] to [[Earth]] in the [[20th century]].
=== Origins ===
[[File:Thin Doctor on screen.jpg|thumb|left|One of the faces suggested to the [[Second Doctor]] by [[Court (The War Games)|the Time Lords]] who [[The Doctor's trial (The War Games)|passed judgement on him]], which, in the usually-depicted course of events, the Doctor rejected for being "too thin", ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') resembled a younger version of the Leader. ([[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'')]]
According to one account, the Leader came into being because [[Inferno universe]]'s version of the [[Second Doctor (Inferno Earth)|Second Doctor]] selected one of the bodies offered to him by the [[Time Lord]]s after [[the Doctor's trial (The War Games)|his trial]], before being [[exile on Earth|exiled]] to [[Earth]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'') Indeed, one of the faces rejected by the Second Doctor in the conventional version of event was a thin man ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') with a certain resemblance to the Leader. ([[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'')
 
Another account gave no overt clarification of the Leader's species, leaving it possible he was merely a human politician, while not revealing his civilian name. The Leader had seemingly propaganda-based rumours of him having a supernaturally-long lifespan. [[Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Inferno Earth)|Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] had recounted encountering a Party zealot who believed that the Leader used to have the ability to extend his life through a "miraculous procedure" that had since been taken away from him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[I, Alastair (novel)|I, Alastair]]'')


His [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] materialised in [[1930s]] England, as opposed to the [[1970s]] where his counterpart was sent, where he became an ally of [[Oswald Mosley]]. The two were regulars at the Revolutionary Arms pub in Westminster, and a photo from the era showed the Doctor drawing a beer for one of his colleagues — in public, he projected a kind avuncular personality, covering a cold and ruthless core.
=== Rise to power ===
The Leader first gained prominence in [[1930s]] [[England]] when he became an associate of [[Oswald Mosley]]. The two were regulars at the Revolutionary Arms pub in Westminster, and a photo from the era showed the future Leader drawing a beer for one of his colleagues — in public, he projected a kind avuncular personality, covering a cold and ruthless core.


After Mosley was assassinated while giving a speech at the Free Trade Hall in [[Manchester (city)|Manchester]] in [[1936]], the Doctor became the new leader of the revolutionary movement helping to craft Mosley's legacy as a martyr of the British people, and subsequently claimed Mosley's title of "Leader" for himself. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[I, Alastair (novel)|I, Alastair]]'')
He soon became the new leader of the revolutionary movement, following Mosley's assassination while giving a speech at the Free Trade Hall in [[Manchester (city)|Manchester]] in [[1936]]. The Leader crafted Mosley's legacy as a martyr of the British people and successfully broadened the Party's appeal, turning it into a mass movement capable of threatening the establishment. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[I, Alastair (novel)|I, Alastair]]'')


In [[1943]], the revolution finally arrived, the old [[democracy|democratic]] regime collapsed and numerous executions were carried out on the Leader's orders, ostensibly those who had conspired to assassinate Mosley, including, among others, the [[British Royal Family]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[I, Alastair (novel)|I, Alastair]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'')
In [[1943]], the revolution finally arrived, the old [[democracy|democratic]] regime collapsed and numerous executions were carried out on the Leader's orders, ostensibly those who had conspired to assassinate Mosley, including, among others, the [[British Royal Family]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[I, Alastair (novel)|I, Alastair]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'')


The Leader's bodyguards and physicians were aware of his great age and alien biology, but this was generally dismissed as fanaticism by most Party members. He could no longer [[regenerate]], as the Time Lords had taken this ability from him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[I, Alastair (novel)|I, Alastair]]'')
=== Years in power ===
By 1968, the Leader had become irritable and paranoid, sacking members of his Cabinet for perceived slights and failings, demoting Arthur Fless, Director of Information, to a remote colonial posting in West Africa for failing to locate an illegal radio transmitter interrupting [[BBC (in-universe)|BBC]] broadcasts with anti-Party propaganda in the London area. His health had severely declined and he was visibly elderly as his age caught up with him; he spent two months at his seaside retreat in Bognor Regis to convalesce from a condition afflicting his "hearts" but suffered a stroke soon after, confining him to a wheelchair. The Cabinet had started jockeying for power on assumption the Leader would not survive much longer, but he still retained his intelligence and cunning.


By 1968, the Leader had become irritable and paranoid, sacking members of his Cabinet for perceived slights and failings, demoting Arthur Fless, Director of Information, to a remote colonial posting in West Africa for failing to locate an illegal radio transmitter interrupting [[BBC]] broadcasts with anti-Party propaganda in the London area. His health had severely declined and he was visibly elderly as his age caught up with him; he spent two months at his seaside retreat in Bognor Regis to convalesce from a condition afflicting his hearts but suffered a stroke soon after, confining him to a wheelchair. The Cabinet had started jockeying for power on assumption the Leader would not survive much longer, but he still retained his intelligence and cunning. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[I, Alastair (novel)|I, Alastair]]'')  
Commenting on his health, the Leader refers to his "hearts" in the plural, although this is seemingly dismissed as a slip due to ill health. The Leader also showed a streak of paranoia when Lethbridge-Stewart suggested aliens may have infiltrated the Cabinet. Whatever the case, by [[1968]] the Leader was increasingly frail, despite his official portrait still depicting him as a healthy middle-aged man. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[I, Alastair (novel)|I, Alastair]]'')


=== Death ===
The Leader was killed in 1968 when [[Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Inferno Earth)|Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] opportunistically used his wheelchair as a battering ram during an alien attack on [[Downing Street]]. After his death, the Leader's popularity with the public remained high and years later portraits and posters of him remained omnipresent to cement the legitimacy of President Lethbridge-Stewart's regime. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Night of the Intelligence (novel)|Night of the Intelligence]]'', ''[[I, Alastair (novel)|I, Alastair]]'')  
The Leader was killed in 1968 when [[Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Inferno Earth)|Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]] opportunistically used his wheelchair as a battering ram during an alien attack on [[Downing Street]]. After his death, the Leader's popularity with the public remained high and years later portraits and posters of him remained omnipresent to cement the legitimacy of President Lethbridge-Stewart's regime. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Night of the Intelligence (novel)|Night of the Intelligence]]'', ''[[I, Alastair (novel)|I, Alastair]]'')  


President Lethbridge-Stewart perished during a volcanic catastrophe in the 1970s, when a secret [[Inferno Project|British science project]] conducted at [[Eastchester]], which involved drilling beneath Earth's crust to gain access to pockets of a potential new [[Stahlman's gas|energy source]], went terribly wrong — not only releasing an unidentifiable [[Stahlman's ooze|green, viscous substance]] that transformed humans into savage [[Primord|werewolf-like creatures]] on contact, but also enough energy to devastate the planet beyond recovery. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'')
President Lethbridge-Stewart perished during a volcanic catastrophe in the 1970s, when a secret [[Inferno Project|British science project]] conducted at [[Eastchester]], which involved drilling beneath Earth's crust to gain access to pockets of a potential new [[Stahlman's gas|energy source]], went terribly wrong — not only releasing an unidentifiable [[Stahlman's ooze|green, viscous substance]] that transformed humans into savage [[Primord|werewolf-like creatures]] on contact, but also enough energy to devastate the planet beyond recovery. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Face of the Enemy (novel)|The Face of the Enemy]]'')


=== Legacy ===
During a conversation with the [[Seventh Doctor]], the [[Third Doctor]] recalled the face on the poster in the hut at the [[Inferno Project]], and described its similarity to the one offered to him by the Time Lords, concluding the Leader was an alternative incarnation of his. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'')
During a conversation with the [[Seventh Doctor]], the [[Third Doctor]] recalled the face on the poster in the hut at the [[Inferno Project]], and described its similarity to the one offered to him by the Time Lords, concluding the Leader was an alternative incarnation of his. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
* ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)| Revelation]]'' is not specific about which of the faces offered by the Time Lords in ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'' was chosen. It is likely the third one, rejected by the Second Doctor for being "too thin".
* A black-and-white photograph of the [[BBC]] [[special effects]] designer [[Jack Kine]] were used to depict the Leader on the ''UNITY IS STRENGTH'' poster in the Technical Store, the Doctor's hut on the regular Earth timeline; and the framed picture on the wall of [[Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigade Leader Lethbridge-Stewart]]'s office in ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'' episode three. However, the Leader never appears on-screen in person and there is no on-screen evidence to suggest that the Doctor and the Leader had any connection; this connection was made only in the novels.
* A black-and-white photograph of the [[BBC]] [[special effects]] designer [[Jack Kine]] were used to depict the Leader on the ''UNITY IS STRENGTH'' poster in the Technical Store, the Doctor's hut on the regular Earth timeline; and the framed picture on the wall of [[Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart|Brigade Leader Lethbridge-Stewart]]'s office in ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]''. However, the Leader never appears on-screen in person and there is no on-screen evidence to suggest that the Doctor and the Leader had any connection; this connection was made only in the novels.
* It remains unclear as to whether the Leader who perished in the devastation of Earth following the disastrous events at Eastchester in the 1970s was the alternate Doctor or Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart.
* It remains unclear as to whether the Leader who perished in the devastation of Earth following the disastrous events at Eastchester in the 1970s was the alternate Doctor or Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart.
* [[Robert Mammone]], interviewed in 2021, noted that the Leader's paranoia and tendency to play cabinet members off against each other are based on [[Josef Stalin]]. He also admitted that when writing it, he'd forgotten about Paul Cornell's implication that the Inferno Earth ruler was a version of the Doctor; "in my head, the Leader was just another in a long line of very human tyrants".<ref>Interview in ''Doctor Who - The Mind-Blowing Secret Of This 1970 Photo''.</ref>
* In ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'' it is implied the Leader is an alternate Doctor within the Inferno universe. In ''[[I, Alastair (novel)|I, Alastair]]'', there are two hints that the Leader may not be entirely human and possibly a [[Time Lord]]. When speaking of his heart condition the Leader says that his "hearts are not what they once were" and there is a rumour among the loyal party zealots that he could once extend his life. In addition, when Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart starts referring to alien infiltration, the Leader initially seems about to have him dragged away, which Gordon takes as meaning he's not convincing him. In the novel, these hints are seemingly dismissed as a slip-up by the Leader, or propaganda. As [[Candy Jar Books]] did not have licencing permission to stories involving the Doctor or the Time Lords, legally, they could not explicitly confirm the Leader is either. As such, it remains vague whether the Leader is a human or extra-terrestrial.
* [[Robert Mammone]], interviewed in 2021, noted that the Leader's paranoia and tendency to play cabinet members off against each other are based on [[Joseph Stalin]]. He also admitted that when writing it, he had forgotten about Paul Cornell's implication that the Inferno Earth ruler was a version of the Doctor; "in my head, the Leader was just another in a long line of very human tyrants".<ref>Interview in ''Doctor Who - The Mind-Blowing Secret Of This 1970 Photo''.</ref> In the press release for ''I, Alastair'' Mammone mentioned that [[Andy Frankham-Allen]] had helped him with continuity references he may have missed, saying that; "I had a lot of fun throwing in bits and pieces that call back to events in the ''Doctor Who'' universe. Andy [Frankham-Allen] is as always a font of information about the setting, and was a great sounding board when I found myself lost in the weeds. His work editing [''I, Alastair''] has made it an even better book".<ref>[https://www.candy-jar.co.uk/books/files/I_Alastair_Press_Release.pdf ''I, Alastair'' Press Release]</ref>
 
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In the "Inferno universe", "the Leader" was the dictatorial President of the Republic of Great Britain. (TV: Inferno [+]Loading...["Inferno (TV story)"]) Accounts of his origins were conflicted.

One account suggested that he was the version of the Doctor native to this reality; specifically, instead of rejecting all the faces suggested to him at the Doctor's trial following (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)"], TV: The War Games [+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"]) the War Chief incident, (PROSE: CIA File Extracts [+]Loading...["CIA File Extracts (novel)"]) this reality's Second Doctor had accepted the "thin" face, therefore becoming the Leader instead of another reality's more heroic Third Doctor. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)"], TV: The War Games [+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"])

However, another account implied that, despite "rumours" about him once being able to extend his life through a "miraculous procedure", the Leader was simply assumed to be a human tyrant; indeed, by the time of the Inferno Project, age was beginning to catch up with him beyond what he could disguise in his public appearances. Nonetheless, his actual origins remained ambiguous, leaving some uncertainty whether he actually was a human.[nb 1] (PROSE: I, Alastair [+]Loading...["I, Alastair (novel)"])

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Origins[[edit] | [edit source]]

One of the faces suggested to the Second Doctor by the Time Lords who passed judgement on him, which, in the usually-depicted course of events, the Doctor rejected for being "too thin", (TV: The War Games) resembled a younger version of the Leader. (TV: Inferno, PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation)

According to one account, the Leader came into being because Inferno universe's version of the Second Doctor selected one of the bodies offered to him by the Time Lords after his trial, before being exiled to Earth. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation) Indeed, one of the faces rejected by the Second Doctor in the conventional version of event was a thin man (TV: The War Games) with a certain resemblance to the Leader. (TV: Inferno)

Another account gave no overt clarification of the Leader's species, leaving it possible he was merely a human politician, while not revealing his civilian name. The Leader had seemingly propaganda-based rumours of him having a supernaturally-long lifespan. Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart had recounted encountering a Party zealot who believed that the Leader used to have the ability to extend his life through a "miraculous procedure" that had since been taken away from him. (PROSE: I, Alastair)

Rise to power[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Leader first gained prominence in 1930s England when he became an associate of Oswald Mosley. The two were regulars at the Revolutionary Arms pub in Westminster, and a photo from the era showed the future Leader drawing a beer for one of his colleagues — in public, he projected a kind avuncular personality, covering a cold and ruthless core.

He soon became the new leader of the revolutionary movement, following Mosley's assassination while giving a speech at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester in 1936. The Leader crafted Mosley's legacy as a martyr of the British people and successfully broadened the Party's appeal, turning it into a mass movement capable of threatening the establishment. (PROSE: I, Alastair)

In 1943, the revolution finally arrived, the old democratic regime collapsed and numerous executions were carried out on the Leader's orders, ostensibly those who had conspired to assassinate Mosley, including, among others, the British Royal Family. (PROSE: I, Alastair, TV: Inferno)

Years in power[[edit] | [edit source]]

By 1968, the Leader had become irritable and paranoid, sacking members of his Cabinet for perceived slights and failings, demoting Arthur Fless, Director of Information, to a remote colonial posting in West Africa for failing to locate an illegal radio transmitter interrupting BBC broadcasts with anti-Party propaganda in the London area. His health had severely declined and he was visibly elderly as his age caught up with him; he spent two months at his seaside retreat in Bognor Regis to convalesce from a condition afflicting his "hearts" but suffered a stroke soon after, confining him to a wheelchair. The Cabinet had started jockeying for power on assumption the Leader would not survive much longer, but he still retained his intelligence and cunning.

Commenting on his health, the Leader refers to his "hearts" in the plural, although this is seemingly dismissed as a slip due to ill health. The Leader also showed a streak of paranoia when Lethbridge-Stewart suggested aliens may have infiltrated the Cabinet. Whatever the case, by 1968 the Leader was increasingly frail, despite his official portrait still depicting him as a healthy middle-aged man. (PROSE: I, Alastair)

Death[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Leader was killed in 1968 when Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart opportunistically used his wheelchair as a battering ram during an alien attack on Downing Street. After his death, the Leader's popularity with the public remained high and years later portraits and posters of him remained omnipresent to cement the legitimacy of President Lethbridge-Stewart's regime. (PROSE: Night of the Intelligence, I, Alastair)

President Lethbridge-Stewart perished during a volcanic catastrophe in the 1970s, when a secret British science project conducted at Eastchester, which involved drilling beneath Earth's crust to gain access to pockets of a potential new energy source, went terribly wrong — not only releasing an unidentifiable green, viscous substance that transformed humans into savage werewolf-like creatures on contact, but also enough energy to devastate the planet beyond recovery. (PROSE: The Face of the Enemy)

Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]

During a conversation with the Seventh Doctor, the Third Doctor recalled the face on the poster in the hut at the Inferno Project, and described its similarity to the one offered to him by the Time Lords, concluding the Leader was an alternative incarnation of his. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation, TV: The War Games)

Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  • A black-and-white photograph of the BBC special effects designer Jack Kine were used to depict the Leader on the UNITY IS STRENGTH poster in the Technical Store, the Doctor's hut on the regular Earth timeline; and the framed picture on the wall of Brigade Leader Lethbridge-Stewart's office in Inferno episode three. However, the Leader never appears on-screen in person and there is no on-screen evidence to suggest that the Doctor and the Leader had any connection; this connection was made only in the novels.
  • It remains unclear as to whether the Leader who perished in the devastation of Earth following the disastrous events at Eastchester in the 1970s was the alternate Doctor or Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart.
  • In Timewyrm: Revelation it is implied the Leader is an alternate Doctor within the Inferno universe. In I, Alastair, there are two hints that the Leader may not be entirely human and possibly a Time Lord. When speaking of his heart condition the Leader says that his "hearts are not what they once were" and there is a rumour among the loyal party zealots that he could once extend his life. In addition, when Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart starts referring to alien infiltration, the Leader initially seems about to have him dragged away, which Gordon takes as meaning he's not convincing him. In the novel, these hints are seemingly dismissed as a slip-up by the Leader, or propaganda. As Candy Jar Books did not have licencing permission to stories involving the Doctor or the Time Lords, legally, they could not explicitly confirm the Leader is either. As such, it remains vague whether the Leader is a human or extra-terrestrial.
  • Robert Mammone, interviewed in 2021, noted that the Leader's paranoia and tendency to play cabinet members off against each other are based on Joseph Stalin. He also admitted that when writing it, he had forgotten about Paul Cornell's implication that the Inferno Earth ruler was a version of the Doctor; "in my head, the Leader was just another in a long line of very human tyrants".[1] In the press release for I, Alastair Mammone mentioned that Andy Frankham-Allen had helped him with continuity references he may have missed, saying that; "I had a lot of fun throwing in bits and pieces that call back to events in the Doctor Who universe. Andy [Frankham-Allen] is as always a font of information about the setting, and was a great sounding board when I found myself lost in the weeds. His work editing [I, Alastair] has made it an even better book".[2]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. Interview in Doctor Who - The Mind-Blowing Secret Of This 1970 Photo.
  2. I, Alastair Press Release

Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. In I, Alastair [+]Loading...["I, Alastair (novel)"], the species and origins of the Leader are never explicitly confirmed outside of hints and assumptions made by other characters, therefore, it is left to the reader's own interpretation. See the behind the scenes section for more information.