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{{cleanup|This page needs serious study.  It cannot be that every reference to "the Doctor's mother" means a reference to Penelope Gate.  [[Eoin Colfer]] is not referring to Penelope Gate in his 2013 short story.  Can't be.  We need to look carefully at both this and [[Ulysses]] and probably create '''separate''' pages for [[the Doctor's father]] and [[the Doctor's mother]].}}
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{{Infobox Individual
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|name = Penelope Gate
|species      = Human
|species=Human
|spouse        = Penelope Gate's first husband{{!}}Human husband
|origin = [[Earth]]
|spouse2      = Ulysses
|appearances = [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Room With No Doors]]''<br />[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]''<br>[[PROSE]]: ''[[A Big Hand for the Doctor (short story)|A Big Hand for the Doctor]]'' (hallucination)}}  
|mother        = Penelope Gate's mother{{!}}Mrs Gate
'''Penelope Gate''' was the [[human]] creator of a [[time machine]]. She was also the mother of [[the Doctor]].
|child        = Penelope Gate's first son{{!}}Human son
|child2        = The Doctor
|first mention cs = Doctor Who (TV story)
|first cs      = The Room With No Doors (novel)
|origin       = [[Earth]]
|appearances   = [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)}}
}}
'''Penelope Gate''' was the [[human]] creator of a [[time machine]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Room With No Doors (novel)}}) and the wife of the [[Time Lord]] [[Ulysses]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)}})
 
In at least one telling of [[the Doctor's early life]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)}}) she was [[the Doctor's mother]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Infinity Doctors (novel)}}, {{cs|The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)}}) By other accounts, the Doctor's mother was a [[Time Lord]] ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Comfort of the Good (comic story)}}) or the Doctor didn't have parents at all. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lungbarrow (novel)}})


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
The first time she successfully used her time machine, she used a lightning strike to charge it up. She travelled to [[1996]] where she obtained a mutated [[Tzun]] battery. She used that to power her machine. Penelope met the [[Seventh Doctor]], who took her back to her own time of [[1883]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Room With No Doors]]'')
Penelope Gate lived in [[London]] with her [[Penelope Gate's first husband|husband]]. She felt trapped and suffocated by her domestic life, prompting her to look for some way to escape it altogether; she wished for a [[divorce]], although she did not seem to hate her husband as such. The two had a [[Penelope Gate's first son|son]], but he died when he was a year old.


Later in her life she would meet the [[Time Lord]] [[Ulysses]], whom she married. She moved to [[Gallifrey]]. Unbeknownst to the [[High Council]], they had a son together. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')
The first time she successfully used her time machine, around three years after her son's death, she used a [[lightning]] strike to charge it up. She travelled to [[1996]] where she obtained a mutated [[Tzun]] [[battery]] to power her machine. There she met [[Joel Mintz]], who became her [[companion]], although they became stuck in [[16th century]] [[Japan]]. There Penelope met the [[Seventh Doctor]], who took her back to her own time of [[1883]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Room With No Doors (novel)}})


The Doctor said that his mother used to sing the [[Zagreus]] nursery rhyme to him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Seasons of Fear (audio story)|Seasons of Fear]]'') When the Doctor was just a "small child", Penelope sat by the side of his bed and told him the story of [[Grandfather Paradox]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')
Later in her life she met the Time Lord Ulysses, whom she married. Unbeknownst to the [[High Council]], they had [[The Doctor|a son]] together ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)}}) on the holiday of [[Otherstide]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)}}) The [[Infinity Doctor]] remembered that his mother's name was Penelope. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Infinity Doctors (novel)}}) Penelope and Ulysses became friends with Mr [[Saldaamir]], with whom they frequently went exploring. The trio also associated themselves with Lady [[Larna]], who was from their future. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)}})


When the Doctor was young, Ulysses and Penelope went on a trek in the mountains of Gallifrey with him. Ulysses and Penelope owned a summer house on the other side of [[Kasterborous]] to Gallifrey. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Infinity Doctors]]'')
When the Time Lord [[Marnal]] threatened to expose Penelope's and Ulysses's [[Advanced Research Project|activities]], they used the [[telepathic circuits]] of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] to wipe his memory, and they dumped him on [[Earth]] in [[England]], [[1883]], to board with Penelope's mother. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)}})


Penelope and Ulysses became friends with Mr [[Saldaamir]], whom they frequently went exploring with. Penelope, Saldaamir and Ulysses also associated themselves with Lady [[Larna]], who was from their future.
=== Legacy ===
[[Maris]] found documentation of the Doctor being born to "a human mother and a Time Lord father", but also found four other accounts of the Doctor's birth. All five accounts disagreed with each other. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)}}) Among other of [[the Doctor]]'s secrets, [[Lady]] [[Peinforte]] learned of the Doctor being half-human on his mother's side on the [[TARDIS Wiki]], though she claimed it was "much disregarded". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lady Peinforte (short story)}})


When the Time Lord [[Marnal]] threatened to expose Penelope's and Ulysses's activities, they used the [[telepathic circuits]] of his [[TARDIS]], which would later [[the TARDIS|belong to the Doctor]] to wipe his memory and dumped him on [[Earth]] in [[England]], [[1883]], to board with Penelope's mother. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'')
In the [[27th century]], [[Cheset]] worked to prove the [[Joyce-Gate hypothesis]] about [[Mim]] intelligence. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|All Mimsy Were the Borogoves (short story)}})


: ''It was unknown what happened to Penelope after this point, but she was not with her husband when he became a renegade and went to live on Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History]]'')''
== Appearance ==
Penelope was short ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Room With No Doors (novel)}}) and slightly plump, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Unnatural History (novel)}}, {{cs|The Infinity Doctors (novel)}}) with long red hair. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Room With No Doors (novel)}}, {{cs|Unnatural History (novel)}}, {{cs|The Infinity Doctors (novel)}}, {{cs|The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)}}, {{cs|A Big Hand for the Doctor (short story)}}) She wore round [[glasses|spectacles]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Room With No Doors (novel)}})


== References ==
During her adventures with [[Joel Mintz]], she wore "what looked like a Victorian safari outfit", and her hands were [[glove]]d. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Room With No Doors (novel)}}) At [[the Shoal]], she wore an ankle-length skirt and prim white blouse, with her hair "[hanging] wild to her waist". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)}}) She wore an elaborate gown in a framed print in [[Daniel Joyce]]'s office. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Unnatural History (novel)}}) [[The Doctor (The Infinity Doctors)|The Doctor]] kept a portrait of her and her husband hanging above his fireplace. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Infinity Doctors (novel)}})
* The [[First Doctor]] once had a hallucination of his mother stroking his hair and asking him to tell her about his adventures. He thought to himself that she was a beautiful as ever. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A Big Hand for the Doctor (short story)|A Big Hand for the Doctor]]'')
* The Eighth Doctor said that he couldn't remember if he had a mother or if he was created out of a gene-splicing machine. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Bafflement and Devotion (short story)|Bafflement and Devotion]]'')
* The sentient [[quantum field]] of the planet [[Albert (planet)|Albert]] told the [[Eighth Doctor]] that there was a reality where he knew his mother's voice. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Grimm Reality]]'')


== Behind the Scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
The character of Penelope Gate's [[Time Lord]] husband [[Ulysses]] derives from [[Philip Segal]]'s backstory for a proposed late [[1990s]] revival of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' for which [[Doctor Who (1996)|his television movie]] introducing the [[Eighth Doctor]] served as an unsuccessful pilot. The Doctor's search for his father would have served as a story arc for that series.
* [[Kate Orman]], creator of Penelope Gate, said it was "absolutely clear" in her mind that [[Daniel Joyce]] abandoned Penelope to raise their son on [[Earth]]. This was meant to explain why, in {{cs|Black Orchid (TV story)}}, the [[Fifth Doctor]] said he always wanted to drive a steam [[train]] when he was a boy.<ref>[http://pexlives.libsyn.com/eruditorum-press-doctor-who-series-9-podcast-hell-bent Eruditorum Press Series 9 Podcast]</ref>
* Orman began writing an independent spinoff novel following Penelope Gate's adventures, but by 1999 she had stopped working on it.<ref>[https://groups.google.com/g/rec.arts.drwho/c/rZLlRfb7H5w/m/zTuO2RJb1MEJ Jon Blum on Rec.Arts.DrWho: Joyce and Savar! (SPOILERS)]</ref>


[[Russell T Davies]] has stated that the [[The Woman|unnamed woman]], implied to be a [[Time Lord]], in ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|the End of Time]]'' was meant to be the Doctor's mother. Accepting the television series and [[New Adventures]] and [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]] novels to exist in the same continuity, this would make her Penelope Gate. However, he has also said that who the woman is up to judgment, and she could be someone else.
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Latest revision as of 15:56, 5 June 2024

Penelope Gate was the human creator of a time machine (PROSE: The Room With No Doors [+]Loading...["The Room With No Doors (novel)"]) and the wife of the Time Lord Ulysses. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles [+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"])

In at least one telling of the Doctor's early life, (PROSE: Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir [+]Loading...["Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)"]) she was the Doctor's mother. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors [+]Loading...["The Infinity Doctors (novel)"], The Gallifrey Chronicles [+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"]) By other accounts, the Doctor's mother was a Time Lord (COMIC: The Comfort of the Good [+]Loading...["The Comfort of the Good (comic story)"]) or the Doctor didn't have parents at all. (PROSE: Lungbarrow [+]Loading...["Lungbarrow (novel)"])

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

Penelope Gate lived in London with her husband. She felt trapped and suffocated by her domestic life, prompting her to look for some way to escape it altogether; she wished for a divorce, although she did not seem to hate her husband as such. The two had a son, but he died when he was a year old.

The first time she successfully used her time machine, around three years after her son's death, she used a lightning strike to charge it up. She travelled to 1996 where she obtained a mutated Tzun battery to power her machine. There she met Joel Mintz, who became her companion, although they became stuck in 16th century Japan. There Penelope met the Seventh Doctor, who took her back to her own time of 1883. (PROSE: The Room With No Doors [+]Loading...["The Room With No Doors (novel)"])

Later in her life she met the Time Lord Ulysses, whom she married. Unbeknownst to the High Council, they had a son together (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles [+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"]) on the holiday of Otherstide. (PROSE: Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir [+]Loading...["Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)"]) The Infinity Doctor remembered that his mother's name was Penelope. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors [+]Loading...["The Infinity Doctors (novel)"]) Penelope and Ulysses became friends with Mr Saldaamir, with whom they frequently went exploring. The trio also associated themselves with Lady Larna, who was from their future. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles [+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"])

When the Time Lord Marnal threatened to expose Penelope's and Ulysses's activities, they used the telepathic circuits of his TARDIS to wipe his memory, and they dumped him on Earth in England, 1883, to board with Penelope's mother. (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles [+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"])

Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]

Maris found documentation of the Doctor being born to "a human mother and a Time Lord father", but also found four other accounts of the Doctor's birth. All five accounts disagreed with each other. (PROSE: Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir [+]Loading...["Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)"]) Among other of the Doctor's secrets, Lady Peinforte learned of the Doctor being half-human on his mother's side on the TARDIS Wiki, though she claimed it was "much disregarded". (PROSE: Lady Peinforte [+]Loading...["Lady Peinforte (short story)"])

In the 27th century, Cheset worked to prove the Joyce-Gate hypothesis about Mim intelligence. (PROSE: All Mimsy Were the Borogoves [+]Loading...["All Mimsy Were the Borogoves (short story)"])

Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]

Penelope was short (PROSE: The Room With No Doors [+]Loading...["The Room With No Doors (novel)"]) and slightly plump, (PROSE: Unnatural History [+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"], The Infinity Doctors [+]Loading...["The Infinity Doctors (novel)"]) with long red hair. (PROSE: The Room With No Doors [+]Loading...["The Room With No Doors (novel)"], Unnatural History [+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"], The Infinity Doctors [+]Loading...["The Infinity Doctors (novel)"], The Gallifrey Chronicles [+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"], A Big Hand for the Doctor [+]Loading...["A Big Hand for the Doctor (short story)"]) She wore round spectacles. (PROSE: The Room With No Doors [+]Loading...["The Room With No Doors (novel)"])

During her adventures with Joel Mintz, she wore "what looked like a Victorian safari outfit", and her hands were gloved. (PROSE: The Room With No Doors [+]Loading...["The Room With No Doors (novel)"]) At the Shoal, she wore an ankle-length skirt and prim white blouse, with her hair "[hanging] wild to her waist". (PROSE: The Gallifrey Chronicles [+]Loading...["The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)"]) She wore an elaborate gown in a framed print in Daniel Joyce's office. (PROSE: Unnatural History [+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"]) The Doctor kept a portrait of her and her husband hanging above his fireplace. (PROSE: The Infinity Doctors [+]Loading...["The Infinity Doctors (novel)"])

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

  • Kate Orman, creator of Penelope Gate, said it was "absolutely clear" in her mind that Daniel Joyce abandoned Penelope to raise their son on Earth. This was meant to explain why, in Black Orchid [+]Loading...["Black Orchid (TV story)"], the Fifth Doctor said he always wanted to drive a steam train when he was a boy.[1]
  • Orman began writing an independent spinoff novel following Penelope Gate's adventures, but by 1999 she had stopped working on it.[2]

References[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ Eruditorum Press Series 9 Podcast
  2. ↑ Jon Blum on Rec.Arts.DrWho: Joyce and Savar! (SPOILERS)
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