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'''Coffee''' was a [[Caffeine|caffeinated]] [[beverage]] made from the roasted [[seed]]s of the [[coffee bean|coffee plant]], native to the planet [[Earth]]. According to the [[Third Doctor]], [[Benton]] made the second best cup of coffee in the universe after [[Elisabeth Pepys]]. Benton attributed his success to the temperature of the water he used. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders]]'') Coffees were accessible in [[café]]s, and could also be made in instant [[coffee machine]]s such as the one [[Ian Warne]] and [[Nikolai Hermack]] employed on their ship, [[V-41]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Space Pirates (TV story)|The Space Pirates]]'')
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'''Coffee''' was a [[Caffeine|caffeinated]] [[beverage]] made from the roasted [[seed]]s of the [[coffee bean|coffee plant]], native to [[Africa]].{{fact}} It could restore an individual's energy and make them feel less tired, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Virus (short story)|Virus]]'') and also contained [[toxin]]s. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Plant Life (short story)|Plant Life]]'')


Much like [[tea]], coffee was often served with [[milk]] and [[sugar]]. The [[Ninth Doctor]] took his coffee with "just milk". ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'') Coffee was often served with [[breakfast]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'') [[Amy Pond]] once drank coffee ''for'' breakfast. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Coming of the Terraphiles]]'')
According to the [[Third Doctor]], [[Benton]] made the second best cup of coffee in the universe after [[Elisabeth Pepys]]. Benton attributed his success to the temperature of the water he used. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'') Coffees were accessible in [[café]]s, and could also be made in instant [[coffee machine]]s such as the one [[Ian Warne]] and [[Nikolai Hermack]] employed on their ship, [[V-41]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Space Pirates (TV story)|The Space Pirates]]'')
 
Much like [[tea]], coffee was often served with [[milk]] and [[sugar]]. The [[Ninth Doctor]] took his coffee with "just milk". ([[TV]]: ''[[Rose (TV story)|Rose]]'') Coffee was often served with [[breakfast]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'') [[Amy Pond]] once drank coffee ''for'' breakfast. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Coming of the Terraphiles (novel)|The Coming of the Terraphiles]]'')


[[Clifford Jones]] patronised [[Jo Grant]] when she first met him by telling her to go and make some coffee. Annoyed, she asked him sarcastically and a touch maliciously if a cup of [[arsenic]] would do, but Jones was too absorbed in his work to pay attention to her or catch the jab at his rude attitude. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]'') The [[Third Doctor]] treated [[Sarah Jane Smith]] the same way when they first met, asking her to "make [herself] useful" and make coffee. She informed him that she would not be spending her time fetching coffee and so the Doctor made himself a cup. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'')
[[Clifford Jones]] patronised [[Jo Grant]] when she first met him by telling her to go and make some coffee. Annoyed, she asked him sarcastically and a touch maliciously if a cup of [[arsenic]] would do, but Jones was too absorbed in his work to pay attention to her or catch the jab at his rude attitude. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]'') The [[Third Doctor]] treated [[Sarah Jane Smith]] the same way when they first met, asking her to "make [herself] useful" and make coffee. She informed him that she would not be spending her time fetching coffee and so the Doctor made himself a cup. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'')


The [[Second Doctor]] often preferred coffee to [[tea]]. He once struggled through a cup of [[UNIT]]'s AAFI tea that he called "execrable" and later found an abandoned cup of cold coffee, drinking it with relish. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Invasion (novelisation)|The Invasion]]'') This incarnation was more enthusiastic with coffee than food; he demonstrated a casual need for nourishment but a desire for coffee. When only a coffee pellet was available he accepted on the grounds that it was "better than nothing." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wheel in Space]]'')
The [[Second Doctor]] often preferred coffee to [[tea]]. He once struggled through a cup of [[UNIT]]'s AAFI tea that he called "execrable" and later found an abandoned cup of cold coffee, drinking it with relish. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Invasion (novelisation)|The Invasion]]'') This incarnation was more enthusiastic with coffee than food; he demonstrated a casual need for nourishment but a desire for coffee. When only a coffee pellet was available he accepted on the grounds that it was "better than nothing." ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wheel in Space (TV story)|The Wheel in Space]]'')


The [[TARDIS control console|console]] of the [[Fourteenth Doctor]]'s [[the Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] had a [[coffee machine]] built in. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Star Beast (TV story)}})
== History ==
=== 19th century ===
In [[Mercy, Nevada|Mercy]] in [[1870]], [[Abraham (A Town Called Mercy)|Abraham]] offered the [[Eleventh Doctor]] a cup of fresh coffee. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Town Called Mercy (TV story)|A Town Called Mercy]]'')
In [[Mercy, Nevada|Mercy]] in [[1870]], [[Abraham (A Town Called Mercy)|Abraham]] offered the [[Eleventh Doctor]] a cup of fresh coffee. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Town Called Mercy (TV story)|A Town Called Mercy]]'')


=== 20th century ===
[[File:Tin-Tin offers Jeff coffee.jpg|left|thumb|[[Tin-Tin Kyrano]] offers [[Jeff Tracy]] a [[cup]] of coffee while he [[Waiting|waits]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Man from MI.5 (TV story)|The Man from MI.5]]'')]]
The [[Vortisaur]] [[Ramsay (Storm Warning)|Ramsay]] "objected" to the taste of coffee after the [[Eighth Doctor]] poured some in Ramsay's mouth to free [[Peter Rathbone|Rathbone]] from its grasp on board the ''[[R101]]''. The coffee was served hot by Chief Steward [[Weeks]], and scalded Rathbone's skin. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'')
The [[Vortisaur]] [[Ramsay (Storm Warning)|Ramsay]] "objected" to the taste of coffee after the [[Eighth Doctor]] poured some in Ramsay's mouth to free [[Peter Rathbone|Rathbone]] from its grasp on board the ''[[R101]]''. The coffee was served hot by Chief Steward [[Weeks]], and scalded Rathbone's skin. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Storm Warning (audio story)|Storm Warning]]'')


On the evening of [[30 November]] [[1955]], [[Ryan Sinclair]] served coffee to [[Rosa Parks|Rosa]] and [[Raymond Parks]], [[Fred Gray]], and [[Martin Luther King]] at the Parks' house in [[Montgomery]], [[Alabama]]. ([[TV]]: [[Rosa (TV story)|''Rosa'']])
On the evening of [[30 November]] [[1955]], [[Ryan Sinclair]] served coffee to [[Rosa Parks|Rosa]] and [[Raymond Parks]], [[Fred Gray]], and [[Martin Luther King]] at the Parks' house in [[Montgomery]], [[Alabama]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Rosa (TV story)|Rosa]]'')


[[Ace]] ordered four [[bacon]] [[sandwich]]es and a cup of coffee at a cafe in [[Shoreditch]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
[[Ace]] ordered four [[bacon]] [[sandwich]]es and a cup of coffee at a cafe in [[Shoreditch]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')


Whilst in [[Glasgow]], the [[Twelfth Doctor]] suggested him and his companion [[Clara Oswald]] could grab some [[chips]] and coffee. Although Clara declined to have chips, she agreed on coffee. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'')
In an account dated to [[January]] [[1965]], [[Tin-Tin Kyrano|Tin-Tin]] and [[Kyrano|her father]] thought [[Jeff Tracy]] might feel like some coffee while [[waiting]] for [[news]] on [[Penelope Creighton-Ward|Lady Penelope]]'s rescue, with Tin-Tin carrying some out to him on a tray. He thanked her, and commented that he believed waiting to be the worst part of "these [[operation]]s". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Man from MI.5 (TV story)|The Man from MI.5]]'')
 
[[File:Daemons-1 Coffee Tea machine UNIT HQ.jpeg|thumb|A [[UNIT corporal (The Dæmons)|UNIT corporal]] stands beside a coffee and tea machine. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'')]]
 
In the [[1970s]] UNIT HQ had a coffee and [[tea]] machine. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'')


{{Jacobi|c}} believed that one should never order coffee in [[England]] until at least the mid-[[1980s]]. He was dissatisfied with the coffee served to him in [[1976]] [[Stamford Bridge]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'')
{{Jacobi|c}} believed that one should refrain from ordering coffee in [[England]] until the mid-[[1980s]]. He was dissatisfied with the coffee served to him in [[1976]] [[Stamford Bridge]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Heavenly Paradigm (audio story)|The Heavenly Paradigm]]'')


In the [[West Country Children's Home]] in the mid-[[1990s]], the Twelfth Doctor questioned [[Reg (Listen)|Reg]] on how sometimes when everybody's coffee was put down and they looked around, it wasn't there. When Reg looked around, both the Doctor and the mug of coffee was gone. In fact, the Doctor had taken the coffee to drink it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'')
In the [[West Country Children's Home]] in the mid-[[1990s]], the Twelfth Doctor questioned [[Reg (Listen)|Reg]] on how sometimes when everybody's coffee was put down and they looked around, it wasn't there. When Reg looked around, both the Doctor and the mug of coffee was gone. In fact, the Doctor had taken the coffee to drink it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Listen (TV story)|Listen]]'')
=== 21st century ===
By [[2005]], there was a [[Coffee stall (Dummy Massacre)|coffee stall]] outside [[Bond Street station]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dummy Massacre (short story)|Dummy Massacre]]'') On [[26 March]] 2005, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)|The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre]]'', ''[[Operation Mannequin (short story)|Operation Mannequin]]'') during the [[Dummy Massacre]], [[Max (Dummy Massacre)|Max]] hid behind the [[counter]] of this coffee stall. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dummy Massacre (short story)|Dummy Massacre]]'') Following the Dummy Massacre, [[Emma.Walters]] reported on the conspiracy website [[Who is Doctor Who?]] having seen [[Rose Tyler]] in [[Meadowhall]] at 9:00[[am]], raiding the coffee. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre (short story)|The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre]]'')
[[Ianto Jones]] made coffee as part of his role in [[Torchwood Three]]. He took this responsibility very seriously, and would often remake a [[cappuccino]] if it did not have an "acceptable ''crema''". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Wrong Hands (short story)|The Wrong Hands]]'') On the final [[Thursday]] of each month, he would leave the Hub to pick up more coffee-making supplies. Ianto could also identify coffees from different [[café]]s in [[Cardiff]] by their smell alone, after an incident in the past had forbade any of the Torchwood team from visiting a [[Starbucks]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Virus (short story)|Virus]]'')
[[Soren (Through the Ruins)|Soren]] offered [[Yvonne Hartman]] coffee whilst she was staying at his and Ianto Jones's flat. She said that she took it black, "like [her] sense of humour". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Through the Ruins (audio story)|Through the Ruins]]'')
[[Rachel Allan]] spiked [[Tommy Pierce]]'s coffee with [[alcohol]], getting him drunk and planting [[retcon]] on him so that he would be sacked and she would get his job as [[Head of Alien Acquisitions]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[New Girl (audio story)|New Girl]]'')
During [[the Year That Never Was]], when coffee supplies ran out, many people dealt with horrid [[headache]]s which they felt would never end. Among others, [[Tucker (The Last Diner)|Tucker]] felt guilty for focusing on this small problem, when his own family had just been killed by the [[Toclafane]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Last Diner (audio story)|The Last Diner]]'')
Whilst in [[Glasgow]], the [[Twelfth Doctor]] suggested him and his companion [[Clara Oswald]] could grab some [[chips]] and coffee. Although Clara declined to have chips, she agreed on coffee. ([[TV]]: ''[[Deep Breath (TV story)|Deep Breath]]'')


Coffee was one of two things that made [[Andrea Quill|Miss Quill]]'s life on Earth bearable. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Stone House (novel)|The Stone House]]'')
Coffee was one of two things that made [[Andrea Quill|Miss Quill]]'s life on Earth bearable. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Stone House (novel)|The Stone House]]'')
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While serving as assistant to the Doctor at [[St Luke's University]], [[Nardole]] added a "bit of coffee" to the Doctor's tea to "give it some flavour". ([[TV]]: ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'')
While serving as assistant to the Doctor at [[St Luke's University]], [[Nardole]] added a "bit of coffee" to the Doctor's tea to "give it some flavour". ([[TV]]: ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'')


[[God (Future Pain)|God]] had never tried coffee, content with [[tea]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Thoughts and Prayers (audio story)|Thoughts and Prayers]]'')
[[File:Giles downs coffee.png|thumb|left|[[P.R.O.B.E. director]] [[Giles]] downs a sorely-needed mug of coffee on the morning of [[2 February]] [[2021]]. ([[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|Ichor (home video)}})]][[Giles]] often drank coffee to re-energise himself after a night spent working for [[P.R.O.B.E.]], and liked to repeat the saying that coffee "thicken[ed] the blood". He notably did so on the morning of [[2 February]] [[2021]], having proven unable to record his [[case file]] on location at the cemetery where he'd spent the night in question, slinking back to [[P.R.O.B.E. HQ]] and downing a mug in one gulp before he was able to recount the night's discoveries. ([[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|Ichor (home video)}})
At some point between her marriage to [[Shaun Temple]] in [[2010]] and the invasion of [[Beep the Meep|the Meep]] in late [[2023]], [[Donna Noble]] lost her job after accidentally spilling her coffee on her office [[computer]].
In late 2023, upon returning to his newly-redecorated [[TARDIS control console|console]] in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]], he was impressed that it now included a [[coffee machine]]. However, after serving Donna a [[cup]] and her subsequent spilling of it on the console, a [[fire]] broke out and the TARDIS dematerialised, out of control. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Star Beast (TV story)}})
[[File:Moonbase-4 Tray coffee and mugs.jpeg|thumb|A tray of a coffee jug and mugs on [[Moonbase Laika]] in [[2070]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'')]]
=== 26th century ===
In [[2501]] coffee and [[croissant]]s were served to the warders of [[Detention Centre 6]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Monsters Inside (novel)|The Monsters Inside]]'')
=== Later centuries ===
Coffee still existed in the year [[100000000000000|100 trillion]]. [[Professor]] [[Yana]] hoped that the coffee would be "a little less sour" on [[Utopia (Utopia)|Utopia]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
Coffee still existed in the year [[100000000000000|100 trillion]]. [[Professor]] [[Yana]] hoped that the coffee would be "a little less sour" on [[Utopia (Utopia)|Utopia]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')


== Types of coffee ==
== Types of coffee ==
In his youth, Admiral [[Isaac Summerfield II]] carried a [[cezve]] with him all the time for the purpose of preparing [[Turkish coffee]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Return of the Living Dad]]'')
In his youth, Admiral [[Isaac Summerfield II]] carried a [[cezve]] with him all the time for the purpose of preparing [[Turkish coffee]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Return of the Living Dad (novel)|Return of the Living Dad]]'')


Later in life, Admiral Summerfield ran a coffee shop in England and specialised in [[espresso]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Return of the Living Dad]]'')
Later in life, Admiral Summerfield ran a coffee shop in England and specialised in [[espresso]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Return of the Living Dad (novel)|Return of the Living Dad]]'')


In [[21st century]] [[London]] the [[Eleventh Doctor]] ordered a [[cappuccino]] for himself and [[Clara Oswald]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'')
In [[21st century]] [[London]] the [[Eleventh Doctor]] ordered a [[cappuccino]] for himself and [[Clara Oswald]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'')


[[Bernice Summerfield]] usually drank [[tea]], but did make herself several cups of [[Sumatran coffee]] whilst waiting for the Doctor in [[The Doctor's House|his house in Kent]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days]]'')
[[Bernice Summerfield]] usually drank [[tea]], but did make herself several cups of [[Sumatran coffee]] whilst waiting for the Doctor in [[The Doctor's House|his house in Kent]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Dying Days (novel)|The Dying Days]]'')


[[Caffy]], a caffeinated drink similar to coffee, was drunk by some of the residents of the [[Hope (city)|City of Hope]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Hope (novel)|Hope]]'')
[[Caffy]], a caffeinated drink similar to coffee, was drunk by some of the residents of the [[Hope (city)|City of Hope]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Hope (novel)|Hope]]'')
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== Drugging coffee ==
== Drugging coffee ==
The [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] poisoned the [[sugar]] used in the coffee drunk on the [[Moonbase (The Moonbase)|Moonbase]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase]]'')
The [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] poisoned the [[sugar]] used in the coffee drunk on the [[Moonbase (The Moonbase)|Moonbase]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Moonbase (TV story)|The Moonbase]]'')


On [[Telos]], [[Kaftan]] drugged [[Victoria Waterfield]]'s coffee. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'')
On [[Telos]], [[Kaftan]] drugged [[Victoria Waterfield]]'s coffee. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)|The Tomb of the Cybermen]]'')


[[Lance Bennett]] made [[Donna Noble]]'s coffee with [[water]] laced with [[Huon]] particles. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride]]'')
[[Lance Bennett]] made [[Donna Noble]]'s coffee with [[water]] laced with [[Huon]] particles. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Runaway Bride (TV story)|The Runaway Bride]]'')


[[Doyle (The Reaping)|Doyle]], a cyber controlled [[Policeman|police]] officer, was ordered to kill the [[Sixth Doctor]] with [[cyanide]]-laced coffee. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'')
[[Doyle (The Reaping)|Doyle]], a cyber-controlled [[police]] officer, was ordered to kill the [[Sixth Doctor]] with [[cyanide]]-laced coffee. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Reaping (audio story)|The Reaping]]'')


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Coffee was a caffeinated beverage made from the roasted seeds of the coffee plant, native to Africa.[source needed] It could restore an individual's energy and make them feel less tired, (PROSE: Virus) and also contained toxins. (PROSE: Plant Life)

According to the Third Doctor, Benton made the second best cup of coffee in the universe after Elisabeth Pepys. Benton attributed his success to the temperature of the water he used. (TV: Planet of the Spiders) Coffees were accessible in cafés, and could also be made in instant coffee machines such as the one Ian Warne and Nikolai Hermack employed on their ship, V-41. (TV: The Space Pirates)

Much like tea, coffee was often served with milk and sugar. The Ninth Doctor took his coffee with "just milk". (TV: Rose) Coffee was often served with breakfast. (TV: The Sea Devils) Amy Pond once drank coffee for breakfast. (PROSE: The Coming of the Terraphiles)

Clifford Jones patronised Jo Grant when she first met him by telling her to go and make some coffee. Annoyed, she asked him sarcastically and a touch maliciously if a cup of arsenic would do, but Jones was too absorbed in his work to pay attention to her or catch the jab at his rude attitude. (TV: The Green Death) The Third Doctor treated Sarah Jane Smith the same way when they first met, asking her to "make [herself] useful" and make coffee. She informed him that she would not be spending her time fetching coffee and so the Doctor made himself a cup. (TV: The Time Warrior)

The Second Doctor often preferred coffee to tea. He once struggled through a cup of UNIT's AAFI tea that he called "execrable" and later found an abandoned cup of cold coffee, drinking it with relish. (PROSE: The Invasion) This incarnation was more enthusiastic with coffee than food; he demonstrated a casual need for nourishment but a desire for coffee. When only a coffee pellet was available he accepted on the grounds that it was "better than nothing." (TV: The Wheel in Space)

The console of the Fourteenth Doctor's TARDIS had a coffee machine built in. (TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"])

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

19th century[[edit] | [edit source]]

In Mercy in 1870, Abraham offered the Eleventh Doctor a cup of fresh coffee. (TV: A Town Called Mercy)

20th century[[edit] | [edit source]]

Tin-Tin Kyrano offers Jeff Tracy a cup of coffee while he waits. (TV: The Man from MI.5)

The Vortisaur Ramsay "objected" to the taste of coffee after the Eighth Doctor poured some in Ramsay's mouth to free Rathbone from its grasp on board the R101. The coffee was served hot by Chief Steward Weeks, and scalded Rathbone's skin. (AUDIO: Storm Warning)

On the evening of 30 November 1955, Ryan Sinclair served coffee to Rosa and Raymond Parks, Fred Gray, and Martin Luther King at the Parks' house in Montgomery, Alabama. (TV: Rosa)

Ace ordered four bacon sandwiches and a cup of coffee at a cafe in Shoreditch. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)

In an account dated to January 1965, Tin-Tin and her father thought Jeff Tracy might feel like some coffee while waiting for news on Lady Penelope's rescue, with Tin-Tin carrying some out to him on a tray. He thanked her, and commented that he believed waiting to be the worst part of "these operations". (TV: The Man from MI.5)

A UNIT corporal stands beside a coffee and tea machine. (TV: The Dæmons)

In the 1970s UNIT HQ had a coffee and tea machine. (TV: The Dæmons)

The War Master believed that one should refrain from ordering coffee in England until the mid-1980s. He was dissatisfied with the coffee served to him in 1976 Stamford Bridge. (AUDIO: The Heavenly Paradigm)

In the West Country Children's Home in the mid-1990s, the Twelfth Doctor questioned Reg on how sometimes when everybody's coffee was put down and they looked around, it wasn't there. When Reg looked around, both the Doctor and the mug of coffee was gone. In fact, the Doctor had taken the coffee to drink it. (TV: Listen)

21st century[[edit] | [edit source]]

By 2005, there was a coffee stall outside Bond Street station. (PROSE: Dummy Massacre) On 26 March 2005, (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre, Operation Mannequin) during the Dummy Massacre, Max hid behind the counter of this coffee stall. (PROSE: Dummy Massacre) Following the Dummy Massacre, Emma.Walters reported on the conspiracy website Who is Doctor Who? having seen Rose Tyler in Meadowhall at 9:00am, raiding the coffee. (PROSE: The Doctor Was Involved in the Dummy Massacre)

Ianto Jones made coffee as part of his role in Torchwood Three. He took this responsibility very seriously, and would often remake a cappuccino if it did not have an "acceptable crema". (PROSE: The Wrong Hands) On the final Thursday of each month, he would leave the Hub to pick up more coffee-making supplies. Ianto could also identify coffees from different cafés in Cardiff by their smell alone, after an incident in the past had forbade any of the Torchwood team from visiting a Starbucks. (PROSE: Virus)

Soren offered Yvonne Hartman coffee whilst she was staying at his and Ianto Jones's flat. She said that she took it black, "like [her] sense of humour". (AUDIO: Through the Ruins)

Rachel Allan spiked Tommy Pierce's coffee with alcohol, getting him drunk and planting retcon on him so that he would be sacked and she would get his job as Head of Alien Acquisitions. (AUDIO: New Girl)

During the Year That Never Was, when coffee supplies ran out, many people dealt with horrid headaches which they felt would never end. Among others, Tucker felt guilty for focusing on this small problem, when his own family had just been killed by the Toclafane. (AUDIO: The Last Diner)

Whilst in Glasgow, the Twelfth Doctor suggested him and his companion Clara Oswald could grab some chips and coffee. Although Clara declined to have chips, she agreed on coffee. (TV: Deep Breath)

Coffee was one of two things that made Miss Quill's life on Earth bearable. (PROSE: The Stone House)

While serving as assistant to the Doctor at St Luke's University, Nardole added a "bit of coffee" to the Doctor's tea to "give it some flavour". (TV: Thin Ice)

God had never tried coffee, content with tea. (AUDIO: Thoughts and Prayers)

P.R.O.B.E. director Giles downs a sorely-needed mug of coffee on the morning of 2 February 2021. (HOMEVID: Ichor [+]Loading...["Ichor (home video)"])

Giles often drank coffee to re-energise himself after a night spent working for P.R.O.B.E., and liked to repeat the saying that coffee "thicken[ed] the blood". He notably did so on the morning of 2 February 2021, having proven unable to record his case file on location at the cemetery where he'd spent the night in question, slinking back to P.R.O.B.E. HQ and downing a mug in one gulp before he was able to recount the night's discoveries. (HOMEVID: Ichor [+]Loading...["Ichor (home video)"])

At some point between her marriage to Shaun Temple in 2010 and the invasion of the Meep in late 2023, Donna Noble lost her job after accidentally spilling her coffee on her office computer.

In late 2023, upon returning to his newly-redecorated console in the TARDIS, he was impressed that it now included a coffee machine. However, after serving Donna a cup and her subsequent spilling of it on the console, a fire broke out and the TARDIS dematerialised, out of control. (TV: The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"])

A tray of a coffee jug and mugs on Moonbase Laika in 2070. (TV: The Moonbase)

26th century[[edit] | [edit source]]

In 2501 coffee and croissants were served to the warders of Detention Centre 6. (PROSE: The Monsters Inside)

Later centuries[[edit] | [edit source]]

Coffee still existed in the year 100 trillion. Professor Yana hoped that the coffee would be "a little less sour" on Utopia. (TV: Utopia)

Types of coffee[[edit] | [edit source]]

In his youth, Admiral Isaac Summerfield II carried a cezve with him all the time for the purpose of preparing Turkish coffee. (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad)

Later in life, Admiral Summerfield ran a coffee shop in England and specialised in espresso. (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad)

In 21st century London the Eleventh Doctor ordered a cappuccino for himself and Clara Oswald. (TV: The Bells of Saint John)

Bernice Summerfield usually drank tea, but did make herself several cups of Sumatran coffee whilst waiting for the Doctor in his house in Kent. (PROSE: The Dying Days)

Caffy, a caffeinated drink similar to coffee, was drunk by some of the residents of the City of Hope. (PROSE: Hope)

Tanya Lernov offered the Second Doctor a coffee pellet on Space Station W3. (TV: The Wheel in Space)

The Tenth Doctor thought the coffee on Askenflatt Major was better than at the Warp Hotel on Askenflatt Minor, but not the tea. (PROSE: The Hero Factor)

Drugging coffee[[edit] | [edit source]]

The Cybermen poisoned the sugar used in the coffee drunk on the Moonbase. (TV: The Moonbase)

On Telos, Kaftan drugged Victoria Waterfield's coffee. (TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen)

Lance Bennett made Donna Noble's coffee with water laced with Huon particles. (TV: The Runaway Bride)

Doyle, a cyber-controlled police officer, was ordered to kill the Sixth Doctor with cyanide-laced coffee. (AUDIO: The Reaping)

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