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First Doctor: The First Doctor has been characterised as a crotchety old man but he was so much more, displaying childish delight, great charm, enormous warmth and a wonderful sense of mischief during his many adventures through time and space.

We first met the Doctor in an old junkyard in Totter's Lane, London. He emerged from the shadows but for a while he seemed to remain a part of their darkness - a mysterious, unsympathetic character who had little time for humans and showed no hesitation in placing others in dangers if it meant satisfying his own curiosity. He was possibly over-protective of his granddaughter, Susan, but his caring qualities were encased in a hard shell of petulance and contempt.

Yet despite his aged appearance, this was the Doctor at his youngest and as he became embroiled in more adventures and discovered more about the universe, something striking happened. He softened. He grew fond of Ian and Barbara – the humans who had initially meant so little to him, and the heroic Time Lord that we know today began to develop… When asked whether the mighty Daleks dared tamper with the forces of creation, for instance, his reply was instant and unequivocal: 'Yes, they dare. And we have got to dare to stop them!' The figure of justice was starting to become more recognisable… And what courage! His oldest enemies once told him, 'The Daleks are the masters of Earth!' Without missing a beat he calmly replied, 'Not for long!'

The First Doctor was blessed with an an impish sense of humour. On Xeros, when hooked up - against his will - to a machine that read and visualised his thoughts, he was asked how he had arrived on the planet. To his interrogator's astonishment he was able to mentally cloak the reality of the TARDIS and instead project an image of an old-fashioned bicycle… In the same adventure he hid in the casing of a Dalek and in both instances, he was unable to suppress laughter at his own cleverness.

The First Doctor once observed, 'As we learn about each other so we learn about ourselves.' Perhaps the Doctor was himself surprised by how far he come, in more than ways than one. 'It all started out as a mild curiosity in a junkyard,' he remarked of his own travels to his early companions, adding, 'And now it's turned out to be quite a, quite a great spirit of adventure, don't you think?'

The First Doctor continued to journey across the universe even after Susan had remained on Earth and Ian and Barbara had returned to London. A pattern had been set. This mysterious traveller could arrive at any point in time and space in his battered blue box and two things were certain. He was bound to find injustice and he was sure to fight it! But following his first battle against the Cybermen, the ageing process finally caught up with him and he reflected, '…this old body of mine is wearing a bit thin.' The Doctor was about to regenerate for the very first time. The change signalled the end of the First Doctor, but as he himself noted, 'It's far from being all over...'

Second Doctor: The First Doctor may have had hearts of gold but he often came across as a stubborn and stern old man. The Second Doctor could not have been further from this picture… Overtly playful and eccentric he sometimes appeared to be a likeable but hapless buffoon. And yet his enemies often found out to their cost that this foolish facade concealed the keen mind of a genius!

The First Doctor once described the Second Doctor as 'a clown' and it’s easy to see why. He wore clothes that were too large and like the Eleventh Doctor, showed a penchant for striking and at times comic headwear. Had River Song known the Second Doctor, a stovepipe, a Balmoral bonnet and a tricorn would have been just three of the hats she'd have doubtless snatched from his head, hurled into the air and blasted to smithereens.

But his strange apparel and occasional bumbling disguised an unstoppable force powered by a knowledge of evil and a desire to defeat it. 'There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things... Things which act against everything we believe in,' he once opined, adding, 'They must be fought!' He was happy to take a rebel's view of what might be perceived as the correct way of doing things, once commenting, for example, that, 'Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.' But when the occasion demanded it, the Second Doctor took swift and calculated action and it's not without reason that he modestly told a Martian, 'I'm a genius…'

The Second Doctor continued to roam the universe, encountering more monsters than ever before. He fought the Cybermen on at least four occasions, the Daleks twice and in this incarnation he first crossed swords with the Macra and the chilling Ice Warriors. He was pitted against the evil and powerful Ramón Salamander – a mad tyrant who was his exact double, not to mention mad Time Lords and even the Sontarans!

But there were allies, too. Whilst fighting robots in the London Underground he met Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart for the first time and shortly after, the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce was formed. The Second Doctor was the first to collaborate with the organisation - UNIT for short - when they teamed up to defeat an invasion of Earth launched by the Cybermen.

Eventually the Doctor was forced to contact his own people for help and we at last discovered he was a renegade Time Lord who had transgressed the laws of his society by stealing a TARDIS and interfering in the affairs of other worlds. As a punishment – but also to assist humanity – he was sentenced to exile on Earth and it was decreed that as part of his punishment, he must regenerate. His then companions, Jamie and Zoe, were taken from his side and had most of their memories of him wiped away. As the Time Lord's sentence was about to be passed the Second Doctor remained defiant to the end, shouting loud and indignant complaints… But it was too late. A colourful new era was about to begin…

Third Doctor: The Third Doctor cut a dashing figure. A man of action with a passion for gadgets and thrilling forms of transport, he was exiled to Earth for much of his era, deprived of a functioning TARDIS and the knowledge of time travel by the Time Lords. But he had his work cut out defending our planet from Daleks, Daemons and his cunning, charismatic nemesis - the Master!

The Third Doctor began his era by being unceremoniously dumped on Earth by the Time Lords and whilst still recovering from his regeneration, he was found by UNIT and his old friend, the Brigadier. He soon discovered his people had sabotaged the TARDIS and erased his knowledge of how to repair it… He was trapped! But the Third Doctor would not have time to grow bored, stuck on one planet during a single period in history. Even before he settled into his new body he was plunged into a battle against Autons and the Nestene Consciousness, teaming up with UNIT and Liz Shaw to defeat an invasion.

The collaboration worked well and the Doctor became UNIT's scientific advisor. It was sometimes a rocky relationship with the Brigadier often favouring dynamite over diplomacy, but eventually he learnt from the Doctor and they developed an enduring mutual trust.

He may have been the Third Doctor but his era contained a number of memorable firsts, including his first encounter with the Silurians, Autons, the Master, the Sea Devils and more happily, Jo Grant and Sarah Jane Smith. There was also time for old enemies and he faced the Ice Warriors, Cybermen and fought Daleks right across the cosmos – from England to planet Exxilon.

When the Doctor teamed up with the first two Doctors and defeated the crazed Time Lord, Omega, his people pardoned his 'crimes' and he was once more free to roam throughout time and space. But the Third Doctor had a special bond with the people of Earth and he often returned, helping UNIT repel wave after wave of alien threats. More often than not, the charming miscreant known as the Master was at the centre of the schemes… The Doctor was always able to better his peer, but the Master usually slipped through his adversaries' fingers and remained at large to hatch more diabolical plans…

Whilst foiling the evil spiders of Metebelis 3, the Doctor's body became riddled with deadly radiation. Weak and 'dying', the Third Doctor's final voyage was similar to his first – a trip to Earth followed by collapse… As the Brigadier and Sarah Jane watched over him, he tried to speak words of reassurance and hope, but for the Third Doctor, it was over. He began to regenerate, leaving the Brigadier to exclaim, 'Well, here we go again!'

Fourth Doctor: The Fourth Doctor has been characterised as a clownish adventurer, eager to dish out jokes and jelly babies. It's a notion that neglects so much about this fascinating incarnation – this Doctor's remote, alien nature, his apparent coldness and the fact that his tomfoolery often served to wrong foot his enemies…

The Fourth Doctor once told Sarah Jane Smith, 'I'm not a human being. I walk in eternity,' and his alien nature sometimes made him appear distant and unknowable.

He could take in tragedy without skipping a beat and deliver devastating information as though commenting on the weather. When a well-meaning botanist unwittingly aided an extra-terrestrial menace, he was horrified when the Doctor nonchalantly noted, 'What you have done could result in the total destruction of all life on this planet…'

And when his long-time companion, Leela, announced she had to part company with him, he barely registered a scrap of emotion - even when she said she would miss him, he simply smiled and hurried into the TARDIS. He only replied when the doors of his ship were closed, 'I'll miss you, too...' His farewell to Sarah was another hurried, almost brusque affair and when Harry Sullivan called time on his travels in the TARDIS he didn't make the least effort to dissuade him!

But there was another side to this bohemian Doctor's personality. A beaming playfulness. 'What's the point of being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes?' he asked, not too long after his regeneration – a typical riposte to anyone who tried to curtail his exuberance. He would swagger into any situation with an almost palpable confidence, a whirling Dervish of a man when others were still but a quiet, calculating figure when those around him were flapping. Trapped on a dangerous island besieged by an alien threat, a puzzled human asked, 'Are you in charge here?' and his response was a cheerful, 'No, but I'm full of ideas!'

And that was the Fourth Doctor. Always full of ideas and surprises. Forever striding into the next dangerous situation. This zest for life and adventures made him an engaging character. He enjoyed Paris, playing chess and eating jelly babies. He seemed to relish meeting new people - especially eccentrics - and it was absolutely fitting that he once exclaimed, 'I love a knees up!'

He regenerated after sacrificing himself to save the universe from the Master. In his final moments he lay peacefully on the planet he had saved so often, content to move on. 'It's the end,' he informed his anxious companions, 'but the moment has been prepared for…' The Fifth Doctor was about to make his debut!

Fifth Doctor: The Fifth Doctor was the Time Lord's most youthful incarnation up to that point in his life. As the Tenth Doctor commented when meeting him in the TARDIS, 'Back when I first started at the very beginning, I was always trying to be old and grumpy and important, like you do when you're young. And then I was you. And it was all dashing about and playing cricket and my voice going all squeaky when I shouted…' But there was more to this Doctor than youthful impetuosity…

This was a Doctor who wore his hearts on his sleeve, unafraid to display his every emotion. Absolute delight as he played cricket in the 1920s or complete despair after failing to prevent a bloodbath between humans and Silurians. He initially came across as a young, vibrant adventurer, haring into risky escapades without pausing for breath. He once asked 'Why do I always let my curiosity get the better of me?' but he wasn't about to give up his knack of sniffing out trouble and tearing off towards it.

The Fifth Doctor's openness went hand-in-hand with a sense of vulnerability. Whereas the Fourth Doctor had bid farewell to companions with little more than a throw-away 'cheerio', for example, the Fifth admitted he was depressed when Tegan opted to remain on Earth. 'We were together a long time,' he reflected mournfully. He was even choked when a Terileptil blasted his sonic screwdriver! 'I feel as though you've just killed an old friend,' he remarked, his voice heavy with emotion as he looked down on his frazzled sonic.

But there were flashes of his old arrogance. When it came to being crack shot he claimed, 'I never miss!' and even the Cybermen spotted this quality. When one of his old foes wanted to know which of several figures was the Doctor, the Cyber Leader replied, 'The tall one with fair hair. Even under the threat of death he has the arrogance of a Time Lord.'

The death of his companion, Adric, had a huge impact on the Doctor and when Tegan left him he conceded, 'It seems I must mend my ways.' Perhaps the loss of these two friends caused him to harden. By the time he met Perpugilliam Brown, his final companion, his initial naivety was starting to fade. He was snappier with Peri and had become decidedly less diplomatic. He'd once been keen not to antagonise potential enemies but no longer bothered. When questioned by the odious Trau Morgus about his agenda he snapped, 'I'm not acting for anyone. I was just passing through. I happened to get mixed up in this pathetic little local war!'

But he remained a hero to the end and when he and Peri fell victim to Spectrox toxaemia, he managed to obtain a small amount of the antidote – but not enough to save them both. With only enough for one person, he sacrificed himself by ensuring his companion drank the life-saving fluid. Time was up for this youthful, breezy Doctor and realising this, he prepared himself for what was to come. 'Is this death?' he murmured, before a dramatic regeneration and the explosive Sixth Doctor burst into being!

Sixth Doctor: The Sixth Doctor was a firework of a Time Lord. Loud. Explosive. Impossible to ignore. He had a wildly unstable start and many might claim he never really settled down…

The Doctor's fourth regeneration had been difficult enough but his fifth bordered on catastrophic. This 'new' Doctor was freakishly unpredictable, immediately demonstrating a gigantic ego and a bruising disregard for the feelings of his companion, Peri. Such manifestations of a bumpy regeneration were one thing, but his new persona span completely out of control when he accused her of being evil and even attacked her!

When the Sixth Doctor's mental make-up began to stabilise it became clear that some of those early traits were part of who he was, and not simply a brief by-product of the regeneration. He did, however, reject violence, declaring, 'I have an inbuilt resistance to any form of violence, except in self-defence.' Peri slowly began to trust her old friend again and soon the familiar routine of careering around the cosmos, saving planets and rescuing the oppressed – with the occasional bit of fishing thrown in – was re-established.

But the Sixth Doctor remained pompous and often rude, frequently impatient and about as subtle as his flamboyant clothing. Yet he retained a degree of 'Doctorish' charm. He possessed a keen sense of humour and when he thought Peri had died his utter despair was obvious. Perhaps the Sixth Doctor's over-the-top egocentricity was part of an act to mask his feelings…

He was brave and always fought for justice, even when the odds against him seemed overwhelming. He battled a brutal regime on the planet Varos, the powerful but evil Borad on Karfel – not to mention Daleks, Davros, Cybermen and Sontarans!

The Sixth Doctor's tenure began and finished on board the TARDIS. The Rani – one of his own people whom he had tangled with in 19th century England – used advanced technology to bring down his time machine, forcing it to land on the alien world of Lakertya. When she entered the TARDIS she found the Time Lord was unconscious and therefore instructed her lackey to carry him to her laboratory. But before he could be moved, the Doctor began to regenerate. And then, as the Brigadier once put it, it was a case of, 'Here we go again…'

Seventh Doctor: The Seventh Doctor was an inquisitive explorer, revelling in adventure and investigations into the unknown. He might trick you into thinking he was a buffoon, playing the fool or muddling his words – but these traits belied a sharp intelligence and a shrewd judge of character…

The Seventh Doctor was a complete contrast to the bombastic Sixth Doctor. He could be quiet and sweet and loved introducing people to new experiences, helping them find wonder in the slightest detail. 'Nothing's just rubbish,' he once told his companion, Mel, 'if you have an inquiring mind!' Before landing the TARDIS he once crossed his fingers and declared, 'I intend to explore!' like a schoolboy enthusing about a trip he couldn't wait to embark on… Such exuberance was typical of the Seventh Doctor's spirit of adventure. He would arrive in the middle of an apparently dangerous situation, declare, 'I don't like the look of this!' before promptly continuing into the unknown, simply to find out what was going on.

There was a melancholy side to this Doctor as well. When Mel declared she was leaving, he was reluctant to accept the fact at first, before coming round to her departure and finally saying, 'Think about me when you're living your life one day after another, all in a neat pattern. Think about the homeless traveller and his old police box, with his days like crazy paving…'

His next companion was the teenage tearaway, Ace. The two became good friends and developed a great understanding of each other. The Time Lord knew when she was trying to get one over on him – 'Ace, give me some of that Nitro-9 that you're not carrying!' – and she was aware she could gently tease him about his eccentricities. 'You're just an ageing hippy, Professor,' she once joked.

But a darker side to the Seventh Doctor emerged during his travels with Ace. He lured both the Daleks and the Cybermen into deadly traps, and plans he had set in motion centuries before came to a head in his dealings with the ancient evil of Fenric. And it wasn't just his enemies who wound up as pawns in his games. He would often keep important details from his companion and some of his attempts to help her face and accept her past, although well-intentioned, put poor old Ace through the wringer. On one occasion he took her back to a house that held bad memories for her, but the 'confront-your-fears' exercise took a dangerous turn when it turned out the place was now housing a mad man, a Neanderthal, murderous husks and an alien bent on destroying humanity. Luckily, the Doctor was able to scupper its plans!

The Seventh Doctor finished up traveling alone and his end was swift and brutal, shot down as he stepped out of the TARDIS in San Francisco in 1999. The ensuing regeneration brought to a close the days of a Doctor who played games with the universe, but never tired of its wonder: 'There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream,' he memorably mused. 'People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace, we've got work to do!'

Eighth Doctor: The Eighth Doctor was an effortlessly charming, romantic figure. He was unguarded about his background and equally candid about what the future held for people he came into contact with. It seems ironic that so much about this open Doctor remains a closed book.

When the Seventh Doctor was shot on the streets of San Francisco he didn't immediately regenerate. He was whisked away to a city hospital where – despite his pleas – he was operated on by Doctor Grace Holloway. After a dramatic op, in which his alien physiology confused and complicated the procedure, she thought her attempts to save his life had failed. But later that night in a cold, creepy morgue the Doctor began to change…

It would prove another tricky regeneration. 'I was dead too long, this time,' he told Grace. 'The anaesthetic almost destroyed the regenerative process.' Perhaps because of this complication, the new Doctor initially suffered from amnesia. He could remember things about Leonardo di Vinci and reminisced about Puccini, but he couldn't recall who he was. Most strikingly, he somehow knew extraordinary facts about people around him. As he was happy to share this knowledge it led to several poignant moments. '…it was a childish dream that made you a doctor. You dreamt you could hold back death,' he reminded Grace, before adding, 'Don't be sad... You'll do great things.'

The Eighth Doctor soon regained his memory and unlike previous Doctors seemed at ease when discussing his childhood, bewitching his companion with stories of a youth spent on Gallifrey with his father. Indeed, he came across as being incredibly open about who he was and his entire background, chatting about everything from his two hearts to home planet. He was also a more romantic figure than previous Doctors and kissed Grace as fireworks exploded on New Year's Eve.

Yet just like the Third Doctor he could be a man of action – zipping across the highways of California on a motorbike and using a fire hose to drop down the outside of a building! He also demonstrated a gift for sleight of hand, dexterously stealing a policeman's gun at one point and later removing the ID pass from a man he was chatting to, without him noticing!

Most of the Eighth Doctor's adventures remain a mystery to us. We saw him battle the Master and save the world in 1999 before bidding farewell to Grace. She questioned how she could find him again and he replied 'I'm easy to find! I'm the guy with two hearts, remember?' Moments later, he was gone…

War Doctor: The 'War Doctor' was a choice made by the Eighth Doctor. After crash-landing on Karn he was helped by that planet's mysterious Sisterhood and Ohila allowed him to influence his next regeneration. Who or what did he wish to become? The Doctor made his decision quickly… 'Warrior!'

Following the Eighth Doctor's regeneration on Karn, the Time Lord gazed at his own reflection and declared, 'Doctor, no more!' He then fought in the Time War, seeing death and devastation and finally proclaiming: No more! He took the Moment – a terrifyingly powerful sentient weapon - with the intention of ending the conflict, despite the carnage it would cause…

After he believed he had taken this drastic course of action, he defended his tactics to the Eleventh Doctor. 'What I did, I did without choice,' he explained. '…in the name of peace and sanity.'

Despite his experiences, he could be an appealing and gentle figure. He charmed Clara and despite a bumpy start he ended up getting on rather well with the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors. He seemed surprised by their informality ("Timey wimey?") but he possessed a youthfulness that Clara immediately recognised. After her intervention, the Doctors launched a plan which meant they would not have to use the Moment. Despite this redemption, the War Doctor thought he would not remember taking this new course of action, yet when he bid farewell to his future selves he knew in his hearts he had done the right thing…

Inside his TARDIS the familiar regeneration glow began to appear... Quoting the First Doctor, he murmured that his body was wearing thin… A change was coming…

Ninth Doctor: A northern accent. Big smile. Bouts of melancholy and mixed with manic excitement and an offbeat sense of humour… The Ninth Doctor was the bruised but brilliant 'last of the Time Lords'.

The Time War apparently destroyed almost every Time Lord and nearly wiped out the Daleks. The Ninth Doctor was left with the belief that he was partially responsible for that terrible death toll, so it's no wonder he was a harsh and at times melancholy soul.

Rose Tyler helped him recover from the Time War and showed him the best of humanity. During his travels with her he could be surprisingly severe, showing no regret when Cassandra apparently died and intent on destroying a Dalek that Rose wanted to save. In the end, however, the shop assistant from the Powell Estate brought out the best of 'the last of the Time Lords'. During his final adventure with her, he was given a stark choice – was he a killer or a coward? Rejecting the cold, murderous option he felt he had once been forced to take, he now replied 'Coward. Any day.' Fantastic!

The Ninth Doctor damaged his own body when he drew out the time vortex from Rose Tyler. This sacrifice proved to be his final act and after a brief farewell, he regenerated…

Tenth Doctor: The Tenth Doctor was a fascinating combination of bonhomie and loneliness. He felt the loss of Rose Tyler very keenly but approached all his adventures with a life-affirming gusto!

The Tenth Doctor was a charismatic mixture of apparent opposites… He could show extraordinary kindness and sensitivity, but he himself admitted he was a man who gave no second chances. As Donna Noble pointed out to him, 'I think sometimes you need somebody to stop you.'

But by and large the Tenth Doctor was a happy traveller who found wonder in everything from quirky little words to a rampaging werewolf. He roamed time and space with Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith, Martha Jones and Donna Noble and all of them showed him tremendous loyalty. No wonder Sarah Jane declared, 'You've got the biggest family on Earth!'

When he knew his regeneration was imminent he visited many of the individuals who had shared his adventures. His penultimate trip was to the Powell Estate where he briefly chatted to Rose Tyler, shortly before they were due to meet 'properly' for the first time, prior to their journeys together. With the help of the Ood, he then made it back to the TARDIS, began his final voyage and uttered the words, 'I don't want to go!' Some would claim he always says that…

Eleventh Doctor: The Doctor, in his eleventh incarnation, is an excited explorer of the universe, with a keen intelligence that means he often notices what everyone else has missed.

He can turn in a moment from being interested in the largest of things to being fascinated by the tiniest of things. But his excitement sometimes results in him tripping over himself and walking into things. He enjoys anything that's different and interesting, and as always he has a powerful sense of right and wrong and a determination to do what's right. He gets on well with children. He prefers to call Amy 'Pond'. His dress sense might be a bit... odd. But he knows that bowties are cool.

Twelfth Doctor: The Eleventh Doctor had grown old on Trenzalore and as the Dalek armies gathered to see him finally defeated, Clara persuaded the Time Lords to grant him a new regeneration cycle. After destroying his old enemies he reached the TARDIS, phoned the future and completed his regeneration. The era of the fierce, fiery Twelfth Doctor was beginning…

Clara could scarcely believe that the Twelfth Doctor was the same Time Lord who had introduced her to so many adventures throughout time and space. The genial nature was gone and in its place she found a sharp, impatient and at times insensitive soul who was quick to criticize. 'Look at you!' he once shouted at his friends as they struggled to follow his lightning-fast thought process, ‘Why can't I meet a decent species?’ he added, calling Earth, 'Planet of the pudding brains…' He's equally rude to his opponents, facing a hoard of deadly droids and greeting them with a nonchalant, 'Hello, hello, rubbish robots from the dawn of time…'

The Twelfth Doctor may not be big on hugs but he's still brave, heroic and drawn to danger… But there is a dark side. When Clara light-heartedly called herself his carer he agreed with his companion, adding 'She cares so I don't have to…'

Yet so much of the 'old Doctors' remains intact… He's still funny and able to make jokes in the direst situations. Wandering around Victorian London in a post-regeneration state of befuddlement he couldn’t believe his new face. 'I mean it's alright up to the eyebrows,' he told a random stranger. 'Then it just goes haywire! Look at the eyebrows! These are attack eyebrows. You could take bottle caps off with these!’ And talking of his face, what secret does it hold? 'Why did I choose this face?' he once mused. 'It's like I'm trying to tell myself something…'

Thirteenth Doctor: The Thirteenth Doctor is a live wire, full of energy and fizzing with excitement and wit from the very first moment we meet her!

The Doctor is a charismatic and confident explorer, dedicated to seeing all the wonders of the universe, championing fairness and kindness wherever she can.

After crash-landing to Earth, still a little dazed from her explosive regeneration, the Doctor takes a little time to remember her identity. But that doesn't stop her from jumping into action to save the universe anyway.

This Doctor loves to be surrounded by friends – in fact she treats her travelling companions Yaz, Ryan and Graham more like family, often boosting their confidence by telling them how great they are.

Like her previous incarnations, the Doctor is brave and selfless – a hero who will run towards danger without hesitation. Though she may be a fidget and a wanderer, she’ll always answer a call for aid when she hears it. In her own words, 'When people need help, I never refuse.'

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-<font color=navy blue>'''THE DOCTOR (DOCTOR WHO)'''</font>
+'''First Doctor:''' The First Doctor has been characterised as a crotchety old man but he was so much more, displaying childish delight, great charm, enormous warmth and a wonderful sense of mischief during his many adventures through time and space.
-The Doctor is an alien from Gallifrey. His people are a humanoid species, called Time Lords because they perfected the science of time travel. The Doctor is fond of Earth and visits it often. The Time Lords have a strict nonintervention policy with regard to the rest of the universe. The Doctor dissented from this policy, holding that great power confers great responsibility. For this heresy the Time Lords exiled him from Gallifrey. He has since traveled through space and time to battle evil wherever he finds it. Sometimes the fate of the universe hangs in the balance.
+We first met the Doctor in an old junkyard in Totter's Lane, London. He emerged from the shadows but for a while he seemed to remain a part of their darkness - a mysterious, unsympathetic character who had little time for humans and showed no hesitation in placing others in dangers if it meant satisfying his own curiosity. He was possibly over-protective of his granddaughter, Susan, but his caring qualities were encased in a hard shell of petulance and contempt.
-'''Real name:''' Unknown (38 syllables long) <br>
+Yet despite his aged appearance, this was the Doctor at his youngest and as he became embroiled in more adventures and discovered more about the universe, something striking happened. He softened. He grew fond of Ian and Barbara – the humans who had initially meant so little to him, and the heroic Time Lord that we know today began to develop… When asked whether the mighty Daleks dared tamper with the forces of creation, for instance, his reply was instant and unequivocal: 'Yes, they dare. And we have got to dare to stop them!' The figure of justice was starting to become more recognisable… And what courage! His oldest enemies once told him, 'The Daleks are the masters of Earth!' Without missing a beat he calmly replied, 'Not for long!'
-'''Other aliases:''' Doc, Prof, Theta Sigma <br>
-'''Identity:''' Secret <br>
-'''Occupation:''' Interstellar and Transtemporal Adventurer, Time Lord, occasionally Scientific Advisor to the Unified Intelligence Taskforce <br>
-'''Legal status:''' None <br>
-'''Place of birth:''' Loombanks, House of Lungbarrow, Southern mountains of Gallifrey <br>
-'''Marital status:''' Single <br>
-'''Known relatives:''' Susan "Foreman" (grand-daughter), Miranda "Dawkins" (adopted daughter), Irving Braxiatel (brother), Patience (wife, deceased), Scarlette (wife), Iphegenia (future wife); Almund, Arkhew, Celesia, Chovor, DeRoosifa, Farg, Glospin, Innocet, Jobiska, Luton, Maljamin, Owis, Quences, Rynde, Salpash, Satthralope, Tulgel, 28 unnamed others (Cousins) Penelope (possible mother), Salyavin (possible father), the Other (genetic forebear), Pfifl and Laklis (Hroth foster parents, fifth Doctor on). <br>
-'''Base of operations:''' Type 40 TARDIS, mobile across the known universe <br>
-'''Group affiliation:''' Time Lords, Unified Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT)
-'''History:''' When the universe was in it's infancy, one of the first civilisations arose on the planet Gallifrey. They were exceptionally long lived, naturally sensitive to the flow of time, and highly telepathic. For many long years the Gallifreyans were ruled by a matriarchal cult led by the Pythia, who ruled through superstition and magic. Gradually an opposing faction arose which embraced science, conquering space and establishing a Gallifreyan Empire. Most notably a triumvirate of three young Gallifreyans came to the fore; the scientist Rassilon, the engineer Omega, and a third individual whose name has been lost to history, remembered only as The Other. Together these three pioneered the science of time travel. Foreseeing that her rule was ending, the 508th Pythia committed suicide, but not before using her vast telepathic powers to curse her people with sterility; no more children would be born of the womb on Gallifrey.
+The First Doctor was blessed with an an impish sense of humour. On Xeros, when hooked up - against his will - to a machine that read and visualised his thoughts, he was asked how he had arrived on the planet. To his interrogator's astonishment he was able to mentally cloak the reality of the TARDIS and instead project an image of an old-fashioned bicycle… In the same adventure he hid in the casing of a Dalek and in both instances, he was unable to suppress laughter at his own cleverness.
-Rassilon turned his attention to this problem, and created vast Looms of genetic material, capable of decanting new Gallifreyans from the primordial soup within. His first few prototypes of the new "Loom-born" Gallifreyans would eventually become known as the Special Executive. The later Loom-born had lesser telepathic abilities and shorter life spans than their Womb-born counterparts, but could regenerate their forms. To keep the population under control, Rassilon organised the Gallifreyans into Houses, and decreed that each House could have only 45 "Cousins" at any one time.
+The First Doctor once observed, 'As we learn about each other so we learn about ourselves.' Perhaps the Doctor was himself surprised by how far he come, in more than ways than one. 'It all started out as a mild curiosity in a junkyard,' he remarked of his own travels to his early companions, adding, 'And now it's turned out to be quite a, quite a great spirit of adventure, don't you think?'
-The three friends' experiments into time travel continued, and they came to realise that a very special power source was required to allow development of stable time travel. They would need to capture a black hole. So they developed a stellar manipulator known as the Hand of Omega, able to blow up stars. Unfortunately sabotage by an outside agency meant that Omega's ship was sucked into the newly created void, and he would long be believed dead. But his sacrifice helped make the Gallifreyans Lords of Time.
+The First Doctor continued to journey across the universe even after Susan had remained on Earth and Ian and Barbara had returned to London. A pattern had been set. This mysterious traveller could arrive at any point in time and space in his battered blue box and two things were certain. He was bound to find injustice and he was sure to fight it! But following his first battle against the Cybermen, the ageing process finally caught up with him and he reflected, '…this old body of mine is wearing a bit thin.' The Doctor was about to regenerate for the very first time. The change signalled the end of the First Doctor, but as he himself noted, 'It's far from being all over...'
-Back on Gallifrey Rassilon had become a hero, and de facto ruler of the planet. Some nine years after the death of the Pythia, he ordered a massacre of her remaining followers who were hiding in her temple. Rassilon felt no pity for her acolytes as his wife had miscarried when the Pythia invoked her curse, but the Other could not stomach the new, totalitarian regime he could see taking over his world. He ordered that his sole surviving relative (and the last child who had been born before the curse), his grand-daughter Susan, be taken safely off-world, for he saw trouble in his planet's future, and then he committed suicide by throwing himself into the Looms, mixing his genetic material with what was already there.
+'''Second Doctor:''' The First Doctor may have had hearts of gold but he often came across as a stubborn and stern old man. The Second Doctor could not have been further from this picture… Overtly playful and eccentric he sometimes appeared to be a likeable but hapless buffoon. And yet his enemies often found out to their cost that this foolish facade concealed the keen mind of a genius!
-The Other would be proven right; first Rassilon would lead a campaign against any alien powers he deemed might one day threaten his new Gallifrey, exterminating a number of species such as the Charon and the Great Vampires; where possible they would wipe them from history in what would later be termed the Time Wars. And secondly civil war came again to Gallifrey when the Loom-born, tired of being treated as second class citizens, rose up to exterminate their Womb-born fellows. Although Rassilon himself remained venerated as their "father", the rest of the Womb-born were eventually thought to be wiped out, although in truth a handful of them survived, hiding themselves amongst the rest of the population.
+The First Doctor once described the Second Doctor as 'a clown' and it’s easy to see why. He wore clothes that were too large and like the Eleventh Doctor, showed a penchant for striking and at times comic headwear. Had River Song known the Second Doctor, a stovepipe, a Balmoral bonnet and a tricorn would have been just three of the hats she'd have doubtless snatched from his head, hurled into the air and blasted to smithereens.
-Eventually the Time Lords adopted a policy of non-intervention. Forbidden to travel into their own past or future, a people who prided themselves on observing and recording all history ironically (or conveniently) forgot much of their own. Rassilon's era became known as the Old Time.
+But his strange apparel and occasional bumbling disguised an unstoppable force powered by a knowledge of evil and a desire to defeat it. 'There are some corners of the universe which have bred the most terrible things... Things which act against everything we believe in,' he once opined, adding, 'They must be fought!' He was happy to take a rebel's view of what might be perceived as the correct way of doing things, once commenting, for example, that, 'Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.' But when the occasion demanded it, the Second Doctor took swift and calculated action and it's not without reason that he modestly told a Martian, 'I'm a genius…'
-A little over one thousand years ago a new Cousin was born in the House of Lungbarrow. His true name is all but unpronounceable to anyone who isn't Gallifreyan, and besides, his relatives soon took to calling him by the derisive nicknames "Snail" and "Wormhole" because of the small indentation-like birth mark he had in the lower portion of his chest. Being Loom-borns, none of them recognised what another species would have said was a belly-button. Unknown to all, including the new born, the Other's genetic material had finally been fully restored to a new body. Snail never fitted in and had no real friends amongst his Cousins.
+The Second Doctor continued to roam the universe, encountering more monsters than ever before. He fought the Cybermen on at least four occasions, the Daleks twice and in this incarnation he first crossed swords with the Macra and the chilling Ice Warriors. He was pitted against the evil and powerful Ramón Salamander – a mad tyrant who was his exact double, not to mention mad Time Lords and even the Sontarans!
-As was expected Snail went to the Academy, the graduates of whom would rise above being simple Gallifreyans to the thousand strong Time Lord elite, and there he gained a new name from his classmates: Theta Sigma, or Thete for short. Enrolled in the Prydonian Chapter, whose members were renowned for being devious, he encountered Irving Braxiatel, a kindred spirit a few classes above him, who also yearned for life beyond he stagnant atmosphere on unchanging Gallifrey. He also fell in with a group of the brightest students who called themselves the Deca. Many of this group would later leave Gallifrey and become renegades from their people. And it was while he was one of the Deca that Thete finally chose a name for himself, rather than letting others pick for him; he became known as the Doctor.
+But there were allies, too. Whilst fighting robots in the London Underground he met Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart for the first time and shortly after, the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce was formed. The Second Doctor was the first to collaborate with the organisation - UNIT for short - when they teamed up to defeat an invasion of Earth launched by the Cybermen.
-Knowing that the head of his House, Quences, had ambitions of high office for him, the Doctor deliberately scraped a minimum pass mark at the Academy. Angered, Quences disowned the Doctor, and without waiting for permission to do so, had the family Loom decant a new Cousin to replace him. The Doctor informed the head of the Prydonian Chapter of this breach of the rules, and then decided that the time was right to leave his homeworld. Stealing a TARDIS from the repair bays (as the rest were too well guarded), he departed Gallifrey unaware that his House had been excommunicated for creating a new Cousin, their names struck off all records and all his Cousins buried alive in the House for their crime. They would remain there for hundreds of years.
+Eventually the Doctor was forced to contact his own people for help and we at last discovered he was a renegade Time Lord who had transgressed the laws of his society by stealing a TARDIS and interfering in the affairs of other worlds. As a punishment – but also to assist humanity – he was sentenced to exile on Earth and it was decreed that as part of his punishment, he must regenerate. His then companions, Jamie and Zoe, were taken from his side and had most of their memories of him wiped away. As the Time Lord's sentence was about to be passed the Second Doctor remained defiant to the end, shouting loud and indignant complaints… But it was too late. A colourful new era was about to begin…
-The Doctor soon discovered he had a stowaway in his new TARDIS. The Hand of Omega, which had been in storage for many years since its last use, had recognised in the Doctor the pattern of one of its makers, and followed him on board. It overrode the safeguards that prevented travel into Gallifrey's past, taking the Doctor back to the Old Time. There he soon encountered a young girl living on the streets. Susan, the Other's grand-daughter, had not made it off-planet after all; the instant she and the Doctor met they recognised a connection between them, and when Susan called him "Grandfather" somehow the Doctor knew she was correct no matter how much it defied logic.
+'''Third Doctor:''' The Third Doctor cut a dashing figure. A man of action with a passion for gadgets and thrilling forms of transport, he was exiled to Earth for much of his era, deprived of a functioning TARDIS and the knowledge of time travel by the Time Lords. But he had his work cut out defending our planet from Daleks, Daemons and his cunning, charismatic nemesis - the Master!
-Together they set off on journeys across the breadth of the universe, until Susan decided she wanted to try living as a proper teenager for a while. The two Gallifreyans stopped off in 1963 England, and Susan enrolled in a local school, Coal Hill. But her strange nature soon drew the attention of two of her teachers, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, who followed her home one night to the junkyard where the TARDIS had landed. The Doctor had used the prolonged stay to arrange to hide the Hand of Omega on Earth, and possibly because of this and a fear that the teachers might draw the attention of the authorities to the Hand, he took off with them inside the ship, kidnapping them.
+The Third Doctor began his era by being unceremoniously dumped on Earth by the Time Lords and whilst still recovering from his regeneration, he was found by UNIT and his old friend, the Brigadier. He soon discovered his people had sabotaged the TARDIS and erased his knowledge of how to repair it… He was trapped! But the Third Doctor would not have time to grow bored, stuck on one planet during a single period in history. Even before he settled into his new body he was plunged into a battle against Autons and the Nestene Consciousness, teaming up with UNIT and Liz Shaw to defeat an invasion.
-Time passed. Susan left him, and Ian and Barbara, having long since earned his trust, eventually returned home. Other companions joined him in his travels, and as he saw more of the universe, the Doctor increasingly encountered beings of evil he felt had to be opposed. After a while his body, old when he had left Gallifrey, finally gave in to time, and he experienced his first regeneration.
+The collaboration worked well and the Doctor became UNIT's scientific advisor. It was sometimes a rocky relationship with the Brigadier often favouring dynamite over diplomacy, but eventually he learnt from the Doctor and they developed an enduring mutual trust.
-His new body had a tendency to act the fool while quietly manipulating events behind the scenes. He continued his campaign against evil across the galaxy, and more companions came and went. Finally he faced a problem that he could not deal with alone, and reluctantly called on the help of the Time Lords. They assisted him, but then put him on trial for breaking their laws on non-interference. The Doctor argued that there were some evils that had to be fought. In the end he won a partial victory. The Time Lords exiled him to a single planet and a single era, but it was his favourite world, Earth, and the era had been chosen because it was a period when the planet would face regular threats from alien incursions. They also forced another regeneration on him.
+He may have been the Third Doctor but his era contained a number of memorable firsts, including his first encounter with the Silurians, Autons, the Master, the Sea Devils and more happily, Jo Grant and Sarah Jane Smith. There was also time for old enemies and he faced the Ice Warriors, Cybermen and fought Daleks right across the cosmos – from England to planet Exxilon.
-The new incarnation of the Doctor arrived shortly after man had started to travel into space, drawing the attention of other races. He agreed to help UNIT, a United Nations taskforce whose remit was to combat alien threats, and worked to repair his TARDIS and beat his exile. After a couple of years his opportunity came when Omega returned, angry at the Time Lords for abandoning him. Unable to deal with the threat themselves, the Time Lords brought together all three versions of the Doctor to battle Omega. His success bought him his freedom; the Time Lords restored his ability to travel in time and space.
+When the Doctor teamed up with the first two Doctors and defeated the crazed Time Lord, Omega, his people pardoned his 'crimes' and he was once more free to roam throughout time and space. But the Third Doctor had a special bond with the people of Earth and he often returned, helping UNIT repel wave after wave of alien threats. More often than not, the charming miscreant known as the Master was at the centre of the schemes… The Doctor was always able to better his peer, but the Master usually slipped through his adversaries' fingers and remained at large to hatch more diabolical plans…
-Eventually the third Doctor died too, and a fourth version was born, consumed with a wanderlust that was likely a reaction to his previous self's period of enforced stability. He finally returned home, only to be accused of murdering the President of the High Council. In order to prevent his own execution he utilized a little remembered law and declared his intention to stand for the post himself; until the election was over he was protected by legislation put in place to prevent tyrants from murdering their rivals. But the killer turned out to be the other Presidential candidate, who died while trying to eliminate the Doctor. As the only surviving candidate, the Doctor won by default. Elected to the highest post in Gallifrey, the Doctor did the only thing he could; he ran. But even though he had deserted the post, the title remained his, as the Gallifreyans had no rules to cover this kind of eventuality.
+Whilst foiling the evil spiders of Metebelis 3, the Doctor's body became riddled with deadly radiation. Weak and 'dying', the Third Doctor's final voyage was similar to his first – a trip to Earth followed by collapse… As the Brigadier and Sarah Jane watched over him, he tried to speak words of reassurance and hope, but for the Third Doctor, it was over. He began to regenerate, leaving the Brigadier to exclaim, 'Well, here we go again!'
-Some time later, the Doctor was surprised when the TARDIS materialised without him setting the coordinates. He emerged to discover an unusual looking man who claimed he had summoned the ship with the powers of his mind to help in the hour of Earth's greatest need. They were in the far future, inside the last surviving stronghold of the light against the barbarian forces of Catavolcus. The castle would soon fall to the enemy, but the old man, who was subsequently called Merlin by one of the defenders, wanted to use the Doctor's TARDIS to evacuate the survivors before a nuclear device he had activated destroyed everything. Having armed the weapon, the two fled back to the time ship as Catavolcus' Neutron Knights pierced the castle wall. The Doctor hurried the retreating defenders into his ship, and they departed seconds before the castle and the attackers were vapourised. The Time Lord set the controls to take his passengers to a safe disembarkation spot, and then passed out. He awoke lying outside the TARDIS in some quiet woods, unsure if what he remembered was real or just a dream. But when he entered his ship, he was met by a vision of Merlin, who informed him that they would meet again, "in some distant time, in some other form."
+'''Fourth Doctor:''' The Fourth Doctor has been characterised as a clownish adventurer, eager to dish out jokes and jelly babies. It's a notion that neglects so much about this fascinating incarnation – this Doctor's remote, alien nature, his apparent coldness and the fact that his tomfoolery often served to wrong foot his enemies…
-Shortly after this the fourth Doctor faced his old enemy the Master once more, and was killed when he fell from the top of a radio telescope. He regenerated again, taking on a much younger looking form. Following many adventures the Doctor received a mysterious message from the Time Lords. At their behest, he dropped off his travelling companions, and checked into a bed and breakfast in the little English town of Stockbridge.
+The Fourth Doctor once told Sarah Jane Smith, 'I'm not a human being. I walk in eternity,' and his alien nature sometimes made him appear distant and unknowable.
-The Doctor was taking part in a local cricket match when a wave of temporal distortions started, mixing things from different time periods. The Doctor was about to bat, awaiting the bowler's throw, when the cricket ball was swapped for a grenade from the 1940's, which blew apart the wickets. Gunfire then drew the Doctor, a policeman and the other cricketers to a nearby lane, where a local man had discharged a shotgun to drive off attackers wielding swords. When the constable investigated the adjoining woods, he was attacked by a Roman legionary, who then turned on the Doctor. The Doctor deflected the blow with his cricket bat, and the man with the shotgun fired on the Roman, who vanished. Slipping away, the Doctor headed to the spot where he had hidden the TARDIS to check its instruments. Scanning the news channels confirmed that the effect was not localised, so the Doctor decided to collect his belongings from his lodgings and then try to track down the cause. But as he left the TARDIS he was attacked by a knight on horseback.
+He could take in tragedy without skipping a beat and deliver devastating information as though commenting on the weather. When a well-meaning botanist unwittingly aided an extra-terrestrial menace, he was horrified when the Doctor nonchalantly noted, 'What you have done could result in the total destruction of all life on this planet…'
-The Doctor dodged the charge, and the knight was unhorsed when his lance smashed against the TARDIS. The Doctor brought the unconscious man inside the TARDIS, and was in the process of removing his armour to check for injuries when he revived. The knight introduced himself as Sir Justin, and explained that he was snatched from the middle of a joust only to reappear bearing down on the Doctor. The Time Lord stated he would return Justin to his own time, but first he needed to deal with the cause of the temporal anomalies. Foreseeing a chance to perform great deeds, Justin happily agreed to accompany the Doctor. They travelled back to Gallifrey, were the Doctor still held the position of President. Once there the Doctor connected himself to the Matrix, a gigantic computer network containing the preserved memories of all the dead Time Lords, hoping it would help him deduce what was happening. As he did this, a strange shadow man materialised next to the TARDIS and entered the craft. Meanwhile the Doctor's virtual self found himself confronted by representations of Rassilon and two other great Time Lords. They were holding council with other "High Evolutionaries" from the Althrace system and with Merlin the Wise of Earth.
+And when his long-time companion, Leela, announced she had to part company with him, he barely registered a scrap of emotion - even when she said she would miss him, he simply smiled and hurried into the TARDIS. He only replied when the doors of his ship were closed, 'I'll miss you, too...' His farewell to Sarah was another hurried, almost brusque affair and when Harry Sullivan called time on his travels in the TARDIS he didn't make the least effort to dissuade him!
-Merlin informed the Doctor that the being behind the time distortions was the demon Melanicus, a foe he banished from this plane of existence a thousand years ago. Melanicus had hijacked a device known as the Event Synthesiser which regulated the flow of time. Rassilon charged the Doctor with finding Melanicus and restoring the Synthesiser to its proper function. Returning to the real world, Justin and the Doctor made their way back to the TARDIS to begin their quest. Before they could take off however a beam penetrated Gallifrey's defenses and deposited an assassin inside the ship. As time slowed down for the Doctor and Justin, effectively paralysing them, the shadow man who breached the TARDIS earlier materialised behind the Time Lord and shot the assassin before he could carry out his deadly mission.
+But there was another side to this bohemian Doctor's personality. A beaming playfulness. 'What's the point of being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes?' he asked, not too long after his regeneration – a typical riposte to anyone who tried to curtail his exuberance. He would swagger into any situation with an almost palpable confidence, a whirling Dervish of a man when others were still but a quiet, calculating figure when those around him were flapping. Trapped on a dangerous island besieged by an alien threat, a puzzled human asked, 'Are you in charge here?' and his response was a cheerful, 'No, but I'm full of ideas!'
-Released from the grip of the beam, the TARDIS was sent hurtling into the void by the beings in the Matrix, penetrating the domain of Melanicus. In a place where chaos and insanity reigned they initially found that the ship had materialised floating in a gigantic bathtub alongside a huge toy duck, before it next materialised inside a Hall of Mirrors. The Doctor and Justin emerged into the fairground beyond, where the Doctor spotted someone who looked like his old companion Zoe Herriot. He gave chase, following her into the Ghost Train. Convinced the girl might have an idea as to what was happening in this bizarre world, the Doctor jumped into one of the cars and continued his pursuit, unaware that the shadow man was sitting just behind him. The car proved to be on a rollercoaster track, taking the Doctor rapidly through an entrance marked "Door to Hell". On the other side they were surrounded by flames, and the Doctor realised they were heading straight towards the giant form of the demon Melanicus.
+And that was the Fourth Doctor. Always full of ideas and surprises. Forever striding into the next dangerous situation. This zest for life and adventures made him an engaging character. He enjoyed Paris, playing chess and eating jelly babies. He seemed to relish meeting new people - especially eccentrics - and it was absolutely fitting that he once exclaimed, 'I love a knees up!'
-The Doctor was unsure as to whether or not the image before him was real. Meanwhile, back in the Matrix, the three Time Lords he encountered earlier at the council meeting decided to raise the manifestation level of their other agent. Suddenly the shadow man who had been dogging the Doctor's footsteps made his presence known, explaining that what the Doctor was facing was a vibratory illusion created by the Synthesiser, indistinguishable from the real thing and just as deadly. However the false Melanicus was no match for the shadow man's gun, and with it's destruction the Ghost Train car exited the fake hell. Seconds later it reached the end of the track, dropping the Doctor and his saviour from a great height.
+He regenerated after sacrificing himself to save the universe from the Master. In his final moments he lay peacefully on the planet he had saved so often, content to move on. 'It's the end,' he informed his anxious companions, 'but the moment has been prepared for…' The Fifth Doctor was about to make his debut!
-Sir Justin had experienced his own worries since the Doctor rushed off, being attacked by a number of armoured men. He retreated into the Hall of Mirrors. At the same time the Doctor awakened, having been stunned by his impact on the ground. The shadow man at first appeared to have vanished, but in fact was hiding within the Doctor's own shadow. The Time Lord examined the room he was in, and accidentally knocked into a coffin laid out behind him. This drew the attention of the coffin's resident, a stereotypical vampiric count. Unimpressed by the Doctor's observation that "you represent a strictly mythical figure drawn largely from a work of Victorian fiction", the count advanced threateningly. But Justin spotted the Doctor being threatened through one of the mirrors in the Hall he was in, and smashed his way through to his ally. He drove the vampire off using the hilt of his sword as a cross, and the two friends rushed back into the TARDIS. Aware that he needed to follow the logic of the weird dimension they were in, the Doctor enquired of Justin as to exactly how many mirrors the knight had been forced to break to save him. Informed that it was four, the Doctor calculated as they take off that they were in for twenty-eight years of bad luck.
+'''Fifth Doctor:''' The Fifth Doctor was the Time Lord's most youthful incarnation up to that point in his life. As the Tenth Doctor commented when meeting him in the TARDIS, 'Back when I first started at the very beginning, I was always trying to be old and grumpy and important, like you do when you're young. And then I was you. And it was all dashing about and playing cricket and my voice going all squeaky when I shouted…' But there was more to this Doctor than youthful impetuosity…
-To avoid the bad luck, the Doctor slipped the TARDIS sideways into another dimension. Twenty-four hours passed for those inside, while outside twenty-eight years went by. During this time Melanicus caused over a thousand years of war to erupt across a thousand planets, with time zones mixing combatants wildly: the Millennium Wars. On Gallifrey in the Matrix Merlin consulted with the other High Evolutionaries. As yet Melanicus' limited understanding of the Event Synthesiser had restricted his damage to only a single dimension, but they feared he might discover how to spread the damage across a multitude of dimensions. If the Doctor could not locate the Synthesiser then the entire cosmos was threatened.
+This was a Doctor who wore his hearts on his sleeve, unafraid to display his every emotion. Absolute delight as he played cricket in the 1920s or complete despair after failing to prevent a bloodbath between humans and Silurians. He initially came across as a young, vibrant adventurer, haring into risky escapades without pausing for breath. He once asked 'Why do I always let my curiosity get the better of me?' but he wasn't about to give up his knack of sniffing out trouble and tearing off towards it.
-Back in the TARDIS the Doctor decided they must enter the maelstrom Melanicus had created and land as near to the Synthesiser as possible. The problem was that they had no way of knowing where that was at any given moment. A voice pointed out that it's position should be easy to calculate so long as you tooke into account the size of the Synthesiser and the fact that it didn't move; rather everything else moved in relation to it. The voice proved to be that of the shadow man, who introduced himself as Shayde. He explained that he was a mental construct who served the Matrix lords, and was sent to help the Doctor on his mission. While he explained this, the TARDIS picked up a reading, and when the Doctor checked the scanner he was greeted by an extraordinary sight - a crystalline craft composed of pure energy. The craft proved to belong to the Lords of Althrace, one of the groups of High Evolutionaries, who transported the travellers to Althrace, a set of joined planets spinning in the middle of a White Hole.
+The Fifth Doctor's openness went hand-in-hand with a sense of vulnerability. Whereas the Fourth Doctor had bid farewell to companions with little more than a throw-away 'cheerio', for example, the Fifth admitted he was depressed when Tegan opted to remain on Earth. 'We were together a long time,' he reflected mournfully. He was even choked when a Terileptil blasted his sonic screwdriver! 'I feel as though you've just killed an old friend,' he remarked, his voice heavy with emotion as he looked down on his frazzled sonic.
-There the Lords explained the origins of Melanicus, informing the Doctor that the demon had been a native of Althrace. Fleeing to another dimension after an aborted attempt to conquer his home system, he managed to make contact with Catavolcus, then a third century despot. Catavolcus gave Melanicus access to another dimension, Earth's, and in return was given great power and the ability to traverse time. If Merlin had not intervened they would have conquered the Earth. Merlin banished Melanicus back to the dimension he had been hiding in, although Catavolcus remained free, roaming time and space and pillaging planets for their power...at least until he will one day be killed in the nuclear explosion the fourth Doctor nearly witnessed.
+But there were flashes of his old arrogance. When it came to being crack shot he claimed, 'I never miss!' and even the Cybermen spotted this quality. When one of his old foes wanted to know which of several figures was the Doctor, the Cyber Leader replied, 'The tall one with fair hair. Even under the threat of death he has the arrogance of a Time Lord.'
-According to the Lords of Althrace, Melanicus had turned his full attention to the Earth. The Lords felt responsible, since it was they who first built the Event Synthesiser. Now they planned to unite the wills of all the High Evolutionaries across the galaxies, to stop time and allow the Doctor and Justin to face the villain.
+The death of his companion, Adric, had a huge impact on the Doctor and when Tegan left him he conceded, 'It seems I must mend my ways.' Perhaps the loss of these two friends caused him to harden. By the time he met Perpugilliam Brown, his final companion, his initial naivety was starting to fade. He was snappier with Peri and had become decidedly less diplomatic. He'd once been keen not to antagonise potential enemies but no longer bothered. When questioned by the odious Trau Morgus about his agenda he snapped, 'I'm not acting for anyone. I was just passing through. I happened to get mixed up in this pathetic little local war!'
-With all time stopped the Doctor followed the coordinates he had now been given and landed the TARDIS on a devastated Earth. From the nearby ruins of a church, he and Justin could hear an organ playing. Inside they found the Event Synthesiser, and as the organist continued to play the ground around them erupted. Sir Justin splashed the face of the organist with a hat-full of Holy Water from the font, unmasking him as Melanicus. As the demon turned on his companion, the Doctor faced a fight of his own, when a cadaverous corpse rose from the ground and attempted to throttle him. Justin came to his rescue, but Melanicus had used the diversion to escape. The demon climbed the outside of the bell tower, only to find Shayde waiting for him at the top. The shadow being fired two precise shots, blinding the villain and causing him to plummet downwards. He saved himself by grabbing onto the edge of one of the windows as he fell, unaware that he was now visible to Justin and the Doctor. The young knight drew his sword and charged, smashing through the window to impale the beast on his weapon. A huge explosion of energy knocked the Doctor out, his last sight being the Event Synthesiser being commandeered by its rightful guardian. The Doctor awoke in the church, to find the damaged building whole once more. Justin was gone, and in his place the Doctor was dismayed to find only a statue in memory of his sacrifice. As the Doctor read the epitaph at its base and pondered who could have put it there, he was unaware of the spectre of Merlin standing behind him.
+But he remained a hero to the end and when he and Peri fell victim to Spectrox toxaemia, he managed to obtain a small amount of the antidote – but not enough to save them both. With only enough for one person, he sacrificed himself by ensuring his companion drank the life-saving fluid. Time was up for this youthful, breezy Doctor and realising this, he prepared himself for what was to come. 'Is this death?' he murmured, before a dramatic regeneration and the explosive Sixth Doctor burst into being!
-The Doctor's reverie was disturbed by a man in cricket gear who reminded the Doctor that it was his turn to bat, and he left the church, St Justinians, and returns to his game. His mind reeled from his recent experiences, and he noted that everything appeared the same as when things started, leaving him to wonder how much of it was real, or if it was all just a dream. Watching in the shadows at the edge of the green, Shayde was informed his mission was over, and he could return home to Gallifrey.
+'''Sixth Doctor:''' The Sixth Doctor was a firework of a Time Lord. Loud. Explosive. Impossible to ignore. He had a wildly unstable start and many might claim he never really settled down…
-The Doctor resumed his travels, eventually picking up a new companion in the form of American airman Angus "Gus" Goodman.
+The Doctor's fourth regeneration had been difficult enough but his fifth bordered on catastrophic. This 'new' Doctor was freakishly unpredictable, immediately demonstrating a gigantic ego and a bruising disregard for the feelings of his companion, Peri. Such manifestations of a bumpy regeneration were one thing, but his new persona span completely out of control when he accused her of being evil and even attacked her!
-The TARDIS landed on the planet Celeste. Gus had finally decided to end his travels with the Doctor, who was now trying to get his companion back home. The Doctor told Gus that it might take a while, but he would get them there, and Gus replies that he knew this; he had faith in the TARDIS. As they wandered away from the ship a ragged figure called out a warning to them, telling them to hide or the "Gaunts" would get them. Seconds later they were caught in the spotlight of an airship, and gunfire shattered the ground around them. Armoured men (Gaunts) move towards them, and Gus and the Doctor ran, only for their escape to be blocked by a perimeter wall. Just as the Gaunts were about to gun them down, the earth gave way beneath the travellers, dropping them into a tunnel that someone had been trying to dig under the wall. The Gaunts blocked the tunnel by bulldozing rubble into it, leaving the two friends below only one choice - they had to find the other end if they want to get out.
+When the Sixth Doctor's mental make-up began to stabilise it became clear that some of those early traits were part of who he was, and not simply a brief by-product of the regeneration. He did, however, reject violence, declaring, 'I have an inbuilt resistance to any form of violence, except in self-defence.' Peri slowly began to trust her old friend again and soon the familiar routine of careering around the cosmos, saving planets and rescuing the oppressed – with the occasional bit of fishing thrown in – was re-established.
-Making their way along the tunnel, the Doctor and Gus witnessed Gaunts herding men in chains, the enslaved miners. Heading a different way, they were confronted by a giant war 'droid, the Wrekka, who opened fire on them. This noise provided the chained miners a distraction and they turned on their captors. The Doctor and Gus fled back past the point where the miners had just overpowered the Gaunts, closely followed by the Wrekka. As the robot filled the tunnels with tear gas, the Doctor responded to a miner's call for help by grabbing a dropped pistol and shooting off the man's chains. This slight delay gave the Wrekka time to catch up, and the Doctor was knocked out by a stun grenade. The Wrekka loaded the unconscious Time Lord over it's shoulder, and herded the captive Gus in front of it. The two men were taken to the office of the owner of the mines, Josiah W. Dogbolter, a humanoid frog, where they were interrogated by Hob, Dogbolter's right-hand robot. When the Doctor's answers failed to please Hob, the little robot ordered the Wrekka to behead Gus. Faced with this threat the Doctor admitted they had arrived in a time machine, a revelation that drew the personal interest of Dogbolter.
+But the Sixth Doctor remained pompous and often rude, frequently impatient and about as subtle as his flamboyant clothing. Yet he retained a degree of 'Doctorish' charm. He possessed a keen sense of humour and when he thought Peri had died his utter despair was obvious. Perhaps the Sixth Doctor's over-the-top egocentricity was part of an act to mask his feelings…
-Seeing the business opportunities inherent in time travel, Dogbolter demanded to buy the TARDIS. The Doctor refused, but Hob insisted, stating that Dogbolter would pay whatever price the Doctor wants. Hating to seem inflexible, the Doctor acquiesced: he would sell the TARDIS to Dogbolter in return for half a pound...of frogspawn. Dogbolter's fury began to rise, but before it could erupt the wall of his office was demolished as the rebelling miners smashed a giant bulldozer into the side of the building. In the confusion the Doctor and Gus made good their escape. The TARDIS' departure was witnessed by one of Dogbolter's engineers, who passes on a description to his employer. Dogbolter, not ready to give up, ordered the bounty hunter known as The Moderator to track down the Time Lord.
+He was brave and always fought for justice, even when the odds against him seemed overwhelming. He battled a brutal regime on the planet Varos, the powerful but evil Borad on Karfel – not to mention Daleks, Davros, Cybermen and Sontarans!
-The Moderator caught up with the travellers just as they finally reached Gus' home time on Earth. Gus was making his farewells to his friend when the armoured mercenary raced into sight and opened fire. Gus shoved the Doctor aside, saving his friend's life, but suffered fatal injuries in his stead. He fired his service revolver at their attacker, whose armour, designed to deflect particles from energy weapons, proved completely useless against primitive lead bullets. The Moderator went down, but Gus died at the Doctor's side. The enraged Time Lord picked up Gus' gun, turned to the wounded bounty hunter...and fired two shots into the killer's dislodged headpiece, whose stuck radio had been pouring out a Vera Lynn song throughout. He then took the injured Moderator into the TARDIS and dropped the man off on the nearest planet capable of giving the alien medical treatment.
+The Sixth Doctor's tenure began and finished on board the TARDIS. The Rani – one of his own people whom he had tangled with in 19th century England – used advanced technology to bring down his time machine, forcing it to land on the alien world of Lakertya. When she entered the TARDIS she found the Time Lord was unconscious and therefore instructed her lackey to carry him to her laboratory. But before he could be moved, the Doctor began to regenerate. And then, as the Brigadier once put it, it was a case of, 'Here we go again…'
-The Doctor returned to Stockbridge and collected the travelling companions he left behind when the Time Lords originally asked him to wait there. Unsurprisingly he failed to tell them about just how long he had really been gone, or the fact that he picked up two new travelling companions during that time, both of whom died whilst accompanying him. While other things distracted him from his hunt for the employer of the Moderator, he did not forget his desire to find out who was behind the death of his friend. He merely puts it on hold.
+'''Seventh Doctor:''' The Seventh Doctor was an inquisitive explorer, revelling in adventure and investigations into the unknown. He might trick you into thinking he was a buffoon, playing the fool or muddling his words – but these traits belied a sharp intelligence and a shrewd judge of character…
-The Doctor continued his travels. Eventually he and his companion of the time, Peri, were exposed to a deadly poison. Only managing to get enough antidote for one of them, the Doctor, refusing to lose another friend, administered the cure to Peri, then regenerated. His new form was more brash and bombastic than the previous. After a shaky start he and Peri became firm friends.
+The Seventh Doctor was a complete contrast to the bombastic Sixth Doctor. He could be quiet and sweet and loved introducing people to new experiences, helping them find wonder in the slightest detail. 'Nothing's just rubbish,' he once told his companion, Mel, 'if you have an inquiring mind!' Before landing the TARDIS he once crossed his fingers and declared, 'I intend to explore!' like a schoolboy enthusing about a trip he couldn't wait to embark on… Such exuberance was typical of the Seventh Doctor's spirit of adventure. He would arrive in the middle of an apparently dangerous situation, declare, 'I don't like the look of this!' before promptly continuing into the unknown, simply to find out what was going on.
-Peri decided to take a break from the Doctor, and he returned her to modern day New York. Alone again, he turned his attention to finding out who was behind the Moderator.
+There was a melancholy side to this Doctor as well. When Mel declared she was leaving, he was reluctant to accept the fact at first, before coming round to her departure and finally saying, 'Think about me when you're living your life one day after another, all in a neat pattern. Think about the homeless traveller and his old police box, with his days like crazy paving…'
-The Doctor was on a sleazy alien world tracking down information on the Moderator. Deciding that he finally had enough information to confirm that it was Dogbolter who sent the bounty hunter after him, the Doctor returned to his ship, unaware that he had picked up a tail: a shapeshifting Whifferdill detective named Avan Tarklu was following him, hoping to claim the price on his head. Reaching the TARDIS, the Doctor was attacked by two assassins, also after the money. The Doctor managed to defeat one of them, but the second pulled a gun. Tarklu, unwilling to let someone else get the reward, knocked out the gunman, although in the darkness the Doctor failed to see what happened. Still unaware of the presence of the shapeshifter, the Doctor entered his ship and set the co-ordinates for Dogbolter's base on Venus, only to be caught by surprise when Tarklu revealed himself.
+His next companion was the teenage tearaway, Ace. The two became good friends and developed a great understanding of each other. The Time Lord knew when she was trying to get one over on him – 'Ace, give me some of that Nitro-9 that you're not carrying!' – and she was aware she could gently tease him about his eccentricities. 'You're just an ageing hippy, Professor,' she once joked.
-The Whifferdill demanded to be taken to Venus, which the Doctor pointed out was his destination anyway. But the Time Lord was still astonished to discover that he was to be turned in for the reward money, as Tarklu revealed how much his captive was worth to Dogbolter. A short while later the TARDIS landed on Venus atop Dogbolter's corporate headquarters. A note was dispatched from inside the craft which made it's way to Hob, who read it to his master. The note stated that the bounty-hunter was willing to deliver the Doctor in return for the reward money. Dogbolter agreed, eager for revenge (by this stage, acquiring the TARDIS had become secondary to dealing with its owner). The Doctor was ushered out of the TARDIS by a bizarre figure in a heavy trenchcoat, beard and low brimmed hat. The figure handed over his prisoner and took the money off of Hob. He then departed in the TARDIS, leaving his captive with the Gaunts. Much to the guards surprise the Doctor almost immediately vanished, as he was really the shapeshifter Tarklu (and the man in the concealing clothes was the real Doctor). He and the Doctor had reached a deal whereby both got what they wanted; Tarklu the money and the Doctor a measure of payback against Dogbolter. The Doctor returned to collect his new ally, and was dismayed to find that the Whifferdill has decided to hang around for a while.
+But a darker side to the Seventh Doctor emerged during his travels with Ace. He lured both the Daleks and the Cybermen into deadly traps, and plans he had set in motion centuries before came to a head in his dealings with the ancient evil of Fenric. And it wasn't just his enemies who wound up as pawns in his games. He would often keep important details from his companion and some of his attempts to help her face and accept her past, although well-intentioned, put poor old Ace through the wringer. On one occasion he took her back to a house that held bad memories for her, but the 'confront-your-fears' exercise took a dangerous turn when it turned out the place was now housing a mad man, a Neanderthal, murderous husks and an alien bent on destroying humanity. Luckily, the Doctor was able to scupper its plans!
-The Doctor continued to journey with his new friend (who adopted the name Frobisher), eventually collecting Peri. Time passed and Peri departed the Doctor's company more permanently.
+The Seventh Doctor finished up traveling alone and his end was swift and brutal, shot down as he stepped out of the TARDIS in San Francisco in 1999. The ensuing regeneration brought to a close the days of a Doctor who played games with the universe, but never tired of its wonder: 'There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea's asleep, and the rivers dream,' he memorably mused. 'People made of smoke, and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea's getting cold. Come on, Ace, we've got work to do!'
-The Doctor had dropped Frobisher off at the Whifferdill's request, as the shapeshifter wanted to prove to himself he still had what it took to be a detective. Up to his beak in a case involving a mysterious item and with Dogbolter breathing down his neck, Frobisher repeatedly turned down help from his Time Lord friend, who kept popping back to try and convince his friend to resume their journeys together. Eventually, the case solved and Dogbolter thwarted once more, Frobisher rejoined the TARDIS crew.
+'''Eighth Doctor:''' The Eighth Doctor was an effortlessly charming, romantic figure. He was unguarded about his background and equally candid about what the future held for people he came into contact with. It seems ironic that so much about this open Doctor remains a closed book.
-Frobisher eventually left the Doctor. Much later he regenerated again, taking on his seventh form. This new incarnation at first seemed a clown in many respects, but it soon transpired that he was the most manipulative of all the Time Lord's personae, the one closest to being like the Other.
+When the Seventh Doctor was shot on the streets of San Francisco he didn't immediately regenerate. He was whisked away to a city hospital where – despite his pleas – he was operated on by Doctor Grace Holloway. After a dramatic op, in which his alien physiology confused and complicated the procedure, she thought her attempts to save his life had failed. But later that night in a cold, creepy morgue the Doctor began to change…
-Travelling in the time vortex, the TARDIS collided with a large obstacle in it's path, forcing both to land. The bump attracted the attention of a Time Warden, who fled the second he saw what the TARDIS had hit. It was the giant form of the robot known as Death's Head, who picked up the Time Lord as if he were an insect when he emerged from within the vessel. The bounty hunter felt that the Doctor had gotten in his way, and when someone did that they either had to have something worth bargaining with him or die, yes? As he was about to pulverise the Doctor, the Time Lord located a Tissue Compression Eliminator he took from his old foe the Master. Although it was a nasty device which killed people by shrinking them to a fraction of their size, the Doctor decided that desperate situations called for desperate measures, and fired on Death's Head. The effect wasn't quite what he expected; Death's Head was shrunk down to human size, but not destroyed. As the much reduced robot pursued the fleeing Time Lord, the Time Warden again appeared, but departed once more when Death's Head made it clear that helping the Doctor would get him killed.
+It would prove another tricky regeneration. 'I was dead too long, this time,' he told Grace. 'The anaesthetic almost destroyed the regenerative process.' Perhaps because of this complication, the new Doctor initially suffered from amnesia. He could remember things about Leonardo di Vinci and reminisced about Puccini, but he couldn't recall who he was. Most strikingly, he somehow knew extraordinary facts about people around him. As he was happy to share this knowledge it led to several poignant moments. '…it was a childish dream that made you a doctor. You dreamt you could hold back death,' he reminded Grace, before adding, 'Don't be sad... You'll do great things.'
-Having managed to get far enough ahead to stop for a breather, the Doctor realised he had something he could use to bargain with his mechanoid pursuer. He offered the time displaced robot the TARDIS and a demonstration on how to fly it. Death's Head agreed, but didn't trust the Doctor and insisted he accompanies the cyborg for the first trip. The Doctor programmed the ship for Earth in the year 8162, but when he activated the controls, it was only Death's Head who vanished. The Time Warden popped his head in the TARDIS door to see what happened, and the Doctor explained that he programmed the ship to lock on the nearest mechanical organism and send it through time. As the Time Warden departed, the Doctor wondered what Death's Head will do on Earth.
+The Eighth Doctor soon regained his memory and unlike previous Doctors seemed at ease when discussing his childhood, bewitching his companion with stories of a youth spent on Gallifrey with his father. Indeed, he came across as being incredibly open about who he was and his entire background, chatting about everything from his two hearts to home planet. He was also a more romantic figure than previous Doctors and kissed Grace as fireworks exploded on New Year's Eve.
-The Doctor picked up a distress signal coming from the planet Ryos. He set down to help, and discovered the person who activated the signal, a medic, but was unable to prevent her falling into in the clutches of the hostile natives. Indeed, he himself was spotted by the locals, and forced to flee as they pursued him riding on the backs of their giant steeds.
+Yet just like the Third Doctor he could be a man of action – zipping across the highways of California on a motorbike and using a fire hose to drop down the outside of a building! He also demonstrated a gift for sleight of hand, dexterously stealing a policeman's gun at one point and later removing the ID pass from a man he was chatting to, without him noticing!
-Luckily for the Doctor a space salvage merchant called Keepsake also picked up the signal, and with more profit oriented and less noble aims in mind, had also set down. Keepsake spotted the Doctor running from his pursuers, and took off before the Doctor could get on board. But the Time Lord was close enough to get swept up by one of the salvage ship's landing legs, and managed to hang on until Keepsake (who couldn't gain altitude and exit the atmosphere with someone weighing down the landing strut) landed. Once on the ground again, the Doctor introduced himself and roped the reluctant pilot into his rescue mission. They flew over the alien village and dropped detonators which exploded harmlessly above the huts, distracting the locals. While the Doctor skipped off the ship and rushed inside one of the buildings to find the captive medic, the reluctant Keepsake held off the natives for a few minutes. A little later, having successfully accomplished what he set out to do, the Doctor had Keepsake drop him off by the TARDIS, leaving the salvage man to return the extremely pretty, extremely greatful, female medic to civilisation.
+Most of the Eighth Doctor's adventures remain a mystery to us. We saw him battle the Master and save the world in 1999 before bidding farewell to Grace. She questioned how she could find him again and he replied 'I'm easy to find! I'm the guy with two hearts, remember?' Moments later, he was gone…
-The Doctor was taking part in a seaside pier pantomime playing the part of the jester when Death's Head materialised on the stage behind him. The mechanoid had been hired by Dogbolter to kill the Doctor and was using the ruthless businessman's new prototype time travel pack. Before he could fire on his target, a trap door beneath the robot dropped him into the basement, and the Doctor legged it. As Death's Head hunted through the theatre for his prey, the Doctor escaped disguised as the front end of a pantomime horse. He returnd to his TARDIS and set random co-ordinates, hoping that would lose his pursuer, but before he took off Death's Head materialised inside the ship. His arrival triggered the vessel's Geiger counter, leading the Doctor to conclude that the device on the bounty hunter's back was about to go nuclear. Death's Head realised that Dogbolter had set him up and forced the Doctor at gunpoint to take him back to Dogbolter's headquarters in the 82nd century. Once there he handed his gun over to the Doctor and told him to shoot off the straps that were holding the time pack / bomb to his back. That failed to work, but an attempt by the Doctor to pick the locks on the straps did. Death's Head threw the explosive device out of the TARDIS, and they departed just before it detonated. Dogbolter and Hob were caught in the blast. The Doctor dropped Death's Head off, and the mechanoid warned him they were quits now - next time he might kill the Time Lord. The Doctor, tired of the threats, gave him back his gun and informed DH he would need it, and all his other weapons, because the Doctor would not be easy to kill. Then he added that Death's Head was doomed, because the mechanoid was incapable of change. And with this he departed, leaving the robot wondering where the Doctor had deposited him. Unknown to the bounty hunter, he was atop Four's Freedom Plaza, the home of the Fantastic Four, on Earth-616. The Time Lord had dropped him off in another dimension.
+'''War Doctor:''' The 'War Doctor' was a choice made by the Eighth Doctor. After crash-landing on Karn he was helped by that planet's mysterious Sisterhood and Ohila allowed him to influence his next regeneration. Who or what did he wish to become? The Doctor made his decision quickly… 'Warrior!'
-A short while later the Doctor retrieved his (then) current companion, Ace, whom he had left dinosaur-spotting in the Cretaceous.
+Following the Eighth Doctor's regeneration on Karn, the Time Lord gazed at his own reflection and declared, 'Doctor, no more!' He then fought in the Time War, seeing death and devastation and finally proclaiming: No more! He took the Moment – a terrifyingly powerful sentient weapon - with the intention of ending the conflict, despite the carnage it would cause…
-The Doctor had been trying to make it to Maruthea, a space-port at the centre of the space-time vortex, in order to attend his friend Bonjaxx's birthday party. As he landed another TARDIS was departing, with the Doctor in that craft having just expelled some penguins who were looking for a friend of theirs. The Doctor caught sight of the dematerialising ship, although Ace did not, and he commented to his friend that anything could happen here, and frequently did. They entered Bonjaxx's bar, where the Doctor greeted his old friend. As the Daemon bar owner put the Doctor's gift on a pile of identical ones (probably given by other incarnations of the Time Lord, as they were all identically wrapped), he informed the Doctor that someone was looking for him earlier. The Doctor glanced around the bar, which was filled with a large number of familiar faces (see comments). He and Ace sat down at a table, and the Doctor mused about who would know he was present. Ace suggested it might be Death's Head, who was sitting at a nearby table counting his money. Death's Head raised his glass in acknowledgement of the Doctor. Then Ace wondered if it might be a couple who were approaching where she and the Doctor were sitting. The Doctor turned to look, and after a few seconds, recognition hit him, and he said hello to his future self. Meanwhile Ace introduced herself to the other Doctor's companion, Ria. Before things could progress further an extremely drunk Beep the Meep arrived, looking for revenge. A brawl erupted, dragging almost everyone in bar into it. Everyone except the Doctor, who continued their conversation untouched by the chaos around them. As the fight started to wind down, the Doctor retrieved their companions, thanked Bonjaxx for the party, and walked out. Each Doctor returned to their respective TARDIS, just as the fourth incarnation of the Doctor arrived at the party, materialising his ship amidst the wreckage of the bar.
+After he believed he had taken this drastic course of action, he defended his tactics to the Eleventh Doctor. 'What I did, I did without choice,' he explained. '…in the name of peace and sanity.'
-Unbeknownst to most at the party they were being observed by Hob, now a monstrous behemoth obsessed with finding Dogbolter and getting revenge of Death's Head and the Doctor for exposing him to the nuclear explosion that hurtled him out of time and space. Also watching were Death's Head and his own future (Minion) incarnation, both trapped in a virtual reality. The later Death's Head managed to escape the virtual reality and return to his own body, which was nearby. Now that the (seventh) Doctor had departed Hob attacked the original Death's Head, but the newer Death's Head came to his rescue, and together they managed to destroy Hob. The seventh Doctor returns, wiped the original Death's Head memory of meeting his future counterpart, and explained that it was he who sent the new Death's Head and his partner Tuck to Maruthea, to thwart Hob. The newer Death's Head was annoyed at being manipulated but let it go under the circumstances. The Doctor offered to buy him and Tuck a drink, but the cyborg bounty hunter passed. As he got ready to depart, the Doctor extended an offer to Tuck to look him up if she ever wanted a new partner. The Doctor watched as the two of them left, then helped the original Deaths' Head back up and suggested he attend a party - such as the one in Bonjaxx's bar.
+Despite his experiences, he could be an appealing and gentle figure. He charmed Clara and despite a bumpy start he ended up getting on rather well with the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors. He seemed surprised by their informality ("Timey wimey?") but he possessed a youthfulness that Clara immediately recognised. After her intervention, the Doctors launched a plan which meant they would not have to use the Moment. Despite this redemption, the War Doctor thought he would not remember taking this new course of action, yet when he bid farewell to his future selves he knew in his hearts he had done the right thing…
-The seventh incarnation of the Doctor finally met his end after a long series of adventures, and was reborn as a younger looking, less cynical individual. This eighth incarnation had a turbulent existence, experiencing a number of bouts of amnesia, having his history rewritten by the Faction Paradox, battling Rassilon, the founder of Time Lord society, and even destroying his own homeworld Gallifrey and virtually his entire species retroactively, so that they never existed, though he later reversed this and reinstated them.
+Inside his TARDIS the familiar regeneration glow began to appear... Quoting the First Doctor, he murmured that his body was wearing thin… A change was coming…
-However the Time Lords were subsequently caught up in a temporal war with the Daleks, which ended when the Doctor initiated an attack that burned the Daleks out of time at the cost of his own species wiped out too. Having not expected to survive, the Doctor instead found himself the last Time Lord (and regenerated, likely as a result of this final blow in the war). Though suffering from survivor's guilt, the Doctor continued doing the only thing he knew: saving the universe. A new companion, Rose Tyler, gradually managed to lighten his mood, even after he discovered the Daleks had survived and the loss of his own people had been in vain. He again sacrificed an incarnation, this time to save Rose, regenerating into his current, tenth, form.
+'''Ninth Doctor:''' A northern accent. Big smile. Bouts of melancholy and mixed with manic excitement and an offbeat sense of humour… The Ninth Doctor was the bruised but brilliant 'last of the Time Lords'.
-In his tenth incarnation, his relationship with Rose became more intense, to the point where she admitted having fallen in love with him, though he was unable to express these feelings in return. An encounter with the Daleks and Cybermen in London in the early 21st century resulted in Rose being trapped in a parallel world, supposedly forever separated from the Doctor. Grief-stricken, the Doctor soldiered on, gaining a new companion in medical student Martha Jones who, like Rose, developed romantic feelings for the Doctor which were not reciprocated due to the Doctor still coming to terms with the loss of Rose. After Martha's departure, the Doctor began travelling with a pepetually unemployed temp from Chiswick named Donna Noble and finally began to accept his life and move on from Rose. During his travels with Donna, a genetic clone was created from a cell taken from his hand, the result being a daughter given the name Jenny by Donna; Jenny was subsequently shot and the Doctor believed her to be dead, although unknown to him she underwent a partial regeneration and began her own adventures. The Doctor soon after encountered Prof. River Song, a woman with intimate knowledge of the Doctor in the future -- to the extent that she knew his real name. Later, an attempt by Davros and his creations, the Daleks, to destroy the multiverse resulted in the Doctor being reunited not only with several past companions, but also with Rose Tyler.
+The Time War apparently destroyed almost every Time Lord and nearly wiped out the Daleks. The Ninth Doctor was left with the belief that he was partially responsible for that terrible death toll, so it's no wonder he was a harsh and at times melancholy soul.
-During the ensuing battle against Davros, the Doctor nearly underwent a regeneration after being shot by a Dalek, but managed to stave off the event, although in the process a "clone" was created, but one with only one heart and no regenerative abilities. After the Daleks were destroyed, Rose and the clone Doctor -- at the original Doctor's behest -- returned to Rose's parallel earth and the Doctor returned to his own reality, only to immediately face the loss of Donna Noble. In the course of the battle, she was accidentally made part-Time Lord. The Doctor was forced to remove Donna's Time Lord abilities and her memories of travelling with him, as they would eventually kill her. He returned Donna to her mother and grandfather, and told them that they would have to make sure she never remembered the Doctor.
+Rose Tyler helped him recover from the Time War and showed him the best of humanity. During his travels with her he could be surprisingly severe, showing no regret when Cassandra apparently died and intent on destroying a Dalek that Rose wanted to save. In the end, however, the shop assistant from the Powell Estate brought out the best of 'the last of the Time Lords'. During his final adventure with her, he was given a stark choice – was he a killer or a coward? Rejecting the cold, murderous option he felt he had once been forced to take, he now replied 'Coward. Any day.' Fantastic!
-An unknown length of time after leaving Donna, the Doctor travelled to London, Christmas Eve 1851. The Doctor met a man calling himself 'the Doctor' and at first assumed him to be a future incarnation of himself. In reality, he was a Human man, Jackson Lake, who had the contents of an Infostamp about the Doctor imprinted on his brain. Jackson and his companion Rosita Farisi aided the Doctor in stopping the plot of the Cybermen and their ally, Mercy Hartigan. London was saved, Lake was reunited with his son, and invited the Doctor to share Christmas dinner with his new family (an offer which was at first denied, then accepted by the Doctor).
+The Ninth Doctor damaged his own body when he drew out the time vortex from Rose Tyler. This sacrifice proved to be his final act and after a brief farewell, he regenerated…
-Sometime later, the Doctor travelled to London in 2009 at Easter, investigating strange readings on a bus. While he investigated, the bus was hurtled through a portal and reappeared on San Helios. On the bus he met yet another one-off companion, Christina de Souza, and embarked on a mission with her (and UNIT on the end of a phone) to return the bus and its occupants to Earth and stop the Swarm from invading. At the end of this adventure, just before leaving in the TARDIS, the Doctor rejected Christina's offer of companionship, stating that he has lost anyone who travels with him and he'd swore never again. Carmen, a low level psychic who aided during the adventure told the Doctor these chilling words.
+'''Tenth Doctor:''' The Tenth Doctor was a fascinating combination of bonhomie and loneliness. He felt the loss of Rose Tyler very keenly but approached all his adventures with a life-affirming gusto!
-:''"Your song is ending sir, It is returning. It is returning through the dark, oh but then...He will knock four times."''
+The Tenth Doctor was a charismatic mixture of apparent opposites… He could show extraordinary kindness and sensitivity, but he himself admitted he was a man who gave no second chances. As Donna Noble pointed out to him, 'I think sometimes you need somebody to stop you.'
-When Christina (who was a jewel thief) was arrested, the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to aid her escape in the bus. Finally, when the Doctor was about to be arrested for helping Christina, he entered the "police box" to "arrest himself" and left.
+But by and large the Tenth Doctor was a happy traveller who found wonder in everything from quirky little words to a rampaging werewolf. He roamed time and space with Rose Tyler, Mickey Smith, Martha Jones and Donna Noble and all of them showed him tremendous loyalty. No wonder Sarah Jane declared, 'You've got the biggest family on Earth!'
-At some point when he was travelling alone the Doctor crashed Sarah Jane Smith's wedding. He knew The Trickster, an old enemy of hers, would try and get his revenge on her after she had foiled the Trickster's previous attempts to cause chaos. Just as he got there, she and her future husband Peter Dalton were taken by the Trickster. He was teleported to a nether realm along with Rani, Luke and Clyde, whom he had heard all about from Sarah Jane. He fought the Trickster, who hinted about his next regeneration "The gate is waiting". The TARDIS gave Clyde the power to control Artron energy by mistake, so he could have defeated the Trickster, while the Doctor informed Sarah Jane what needed to be done. Peter, Sarah Jane's fiancé, sacrificed himself to destroy the Trickster, leaving Sarah Jane alone and heartbroken. When the world was put back to normal, the Doctor visited 13 Bannerman Road and let Sarah Jane and her friends look inside TARDIS, after which he said farewell while sincerely asking Sarah Jane to never forget him.
+When he knew his regeneration was imminent he visited many of the individuals who had shared his adventures. His penultimate trip was to the Powell Estate where he briefly chatted to Rose Tyler, shortly before they were due to meet 'properly' for the first time, prior to their journeys together. With the help of the Ood, he then made it back to the TARDIS, began his final voyage and uttered the words, 'I don't want to go!' Some would claim he always says that…
-The Doctor, deciding to go to the planet Mars, met the crew of Bowie Base One, including Adelaide Brooke who served as his companion for a short time. He knew of the crew of Bowie Base, and that everyone would die, as it was one of the most important events in the expansion of Humanity through the universe. He learnt that the crew died due to a water-based sentient viral species, which possessed six of them. Initially unwilling to interfere due to his belief that the event was a fixed point in time, he changed course once he remembered the deaths he had lived through and what it had left him with. He saved Adelaide, Mia and Yuri and took them back to Earth 2059. Adelaide was angry at the Doctor's interference, and scolded him for thinking himself above obeying history's course (her death meant that her granddaughter would be inspired to go explore the stars). Adelaide then walked into her home, apparently having given up trying to defy the Doctor, but committed suicide. The Doctor's memories of the day's events changed to fit in with the new timeline created. Distraught at the impossibility of his task of changing history, he began to ponder his own end when a vision of Ood Sigma appeared before him. As he entered the TARDIS, the Cloister Bell rang. With a defiant "No!" he activated the TARDIS.
+'''Eleventh Doctor:''' The Doctor, in his eleventh incarnation, is an excited explorer of the universe, with a keen intelligence that means he often notices what everyone else has missed.
-At some point after leaving 2059, the Doctor visited America, 1958. While there, he visited a diner, meeting Cassie Rice and Jimmy Stalkingwolf. The Doctor examined a piece of "space junk" from the Roswell Crash eleven years ago. He accidentally activated it, drawing the attention of the android Mister Dread. Escaping, the Doctor, Cassie and Jimmy were then attacked by a Viperox battle drone, which was promptly blown up by the United States military. The three were then taken to Area 51. They encountered Colonel Stark, who dismissed the Doctor's warnings about the Viperox, and attempted to have the Doctor and his companions mind-wiped. The attempt was unsuccessful, and the trio soon escaped, discovering a small grey alien along the way. They escaped to the town of Solitude and took shelter in a deserted building. Jimmy was then kidnapped by the Viperox, forcing the Doctor and Cassie to follow. They found Jimmy in the presence of a Viperox Queen before escaping into the desert, where they were confronted by four members of the Alliance of Shades who are destroyed by Jimmy's father, Night Eagle, who took them to Rivesh Mantilax, the husband of Seruba Velak, the grey alien captive in Area 51. Colonel Stark then captured them all and took them back to Area 51. They Doctor then ran off with the "space junk" - actually a weapon capable of destroying the Viperox. He was cornered on the roof by the Colonel, but convinced him to turn against the Viperox. The Viperox then invaded America but were beaten back by the Doctor. He departed soon after, leaving Cassie and Jimmy with a suggestion to start dating.
+He can turn in a moment from being interested in the largest of things to being fascinated by the tiniest of things. But his excitement sometimes results in him tripping over himself and walking into things. He enjoys anything that's different and interesting, and as always he has a powerful sense of right and wrong and a determination to do what's right. He gets on well with children. He prefers to call Amy 'Pond'. His dress sense might be a bit... odd. But he knows that bowties are cool.
-After meeting with the Ood on their home planet, he learned of the Master's impending resurrection on Earth, and raced to stop it, only to arrive too late. After discovering the the Master living in the wastelands of London, he tried to confront him, only to reunite with the grandfather of Donna Noble, Wilfred Mott, who had found him with the help of the "Sliver Cloak". They then went to a London Cafe, where the Doctor informed Wilf that it had been prophesised that the Doctor would soon die. The Doctor left shorty after seeing Donna, who was engaged to a man named Shaun Temple. At night, the Doctor, tracked down the Master once again, who stunned him with lightning from his hands, and forced him to listen to the "Drums" in the Master's head, which the Doctor realised was real, and not just a symptom of the Master's insanity. Soon after, the Master was abducted by Joshua Naismith's private army. The next morning the Doctor contacted Wilf, who informed him of Naismith and went with him in the TARDIS to the Naismith Mansion. In the mansion's basement, the Doctor used the sonic screwdriver to unveil two Vinvocci, called Addams and Rossiter who inform him of the purpose of the Immortality Gate, alien device Naismith had acquired and forced the Master to repair. Addams and Rossiter revealed that it can "heal" an entire species on a planet using a specific template. The Doctor rushed in to stop the Gate's activation, but was unable to stop the Master turning the entire human race in copies of himself - the "Master Race".
+'''Twelfth Doctor:''' The Eleventh Doctor had grown old on Trenzalore and as the Dalek armies gathered to see him finally defeated, Clara persuaded the Time Lords to grant him a new regeneration cycle. After destroying his old enemies he reached the TARDIS, phoned the future and completed his regeneration. The era of the fierce, fiery Twelfth Doctor was beginning…
-Held captive by the Master, along with Wilf, the Doctor attempted to reason with the Master, who realised that with six billion people now hearing the drums, he could trace it to its source. Wilf and the Doctor, were then rescued by the Vinvocci, who took them to their ship, which the Doctor then took offline to stop the Master finding them. Whilst trying to repair the ship (under the pretense of "fixing the heating"), Wilf tried to give him his gun, which the Doctor initially refused to take but relented when an object appears in space lands on Earth which was identified by the Master as a White Point Star - a diamond found only on Gallifrey. Realising the Master had the means to bring back the Time Lords, he piloted the Vinvocci ship back towards the Naismith Manor, dodging missiles, intent on crashing into the Naismith Mansion. However, he changed his mind, and armed with Wilf's gun, jumped from the ship and crashed through the glass roof. However, he was unable to stop the Master from using the Star and the signal from the drums to create a link to Gallifrey, which allowed Rassilon along with a few other Time Lords to appear in the Immortality Gate.
+Clara could scarcely believe that the Twelfth Doctor was the same Time Lord who had introduced her to so many adventures throughout time and space. The genial nature was gone and in its place she found a sharp, impatient and at times insensitive soul who was quick to criticize. 'Look at you!' he once shouted at his friends as they struggled to follow his lightning-fast thought process, ‘Why can't I meet a decent species?’ he added, calling Earth, 'Planet of the pudding brains…' He's equally rude to his opponents, facing a hoard of deadly droids and greeting them with a nonchalant, 'Hello, hello, rubbish robots from the dawn of time…'
-Rassilon quickly undid the Master's conversion of the Human race and proclaimed him a disease, as Gallifrey appeared next to Earth. The Doctor then revealed exactly why allowing the Time Lords to return was wrong. Opening the "Time Lock" that held them would allow not just the Time Lords to return, but also the Daleks and every other faction in the Time War, turning the universe into a living hell. As well as this, the Time Lords, in their mindsets warped by the war, had devised a plan to destroy the Time Vortex and ascend to a state of pure consciousness as the whole space-time continuum came undone. The Doctor then grabbed the gun and was conflicted over whether to kill the Master - who is part of the link or Rassilon, who created the plan in the first place. Upon seeing a familiar face behind Rassilon, he shot the White Point Star, severing the link, causing Gallifrey and the Time Lords to return to their proper time. Rassilon then tried to kill the Doctor, but the Doctor was saved by the Master, who used his powers to fight Rassilon and sacrificed himself as the Time Lords return to the last day of the Time War.
+The Twelfth Doctor may not be big on hugs but he's still brave, heroic and drawn to danger… But there is a dark side. When Clara light-heartedly called herself his carer he agreed with his companion, adding 'She cares so I don't have to…'
-The Doctor realised he has survived. In the moment he finally felt safe, he heared four knocks (the sound that would foreshadow his death) and it was Wilf, trapped inside a radiation control booth which was about to be flooded with radiation. Despite his own anger and Wilf's pleas to leave him, he released Wilf, and receives a fatal level of radiation, sacrificing himself. Although initially unharmed, the regenerative process began. After dropping Wilf off, the Doctor told him that he'd appear one last time, and left in the TARDIS, to get his "reward": He visited several companions and people had encountered as the tenth Doctor. His final visit was to the Powel Estate, on January 1st of 2005, where he briefly encountered Rose Tyler, before she had met him, and told her that she would have a "really great year". Soon after, the pain of regeneration set in and the Doctor collapsed in the street. Ood Sigma then appeared and told him that while his song was ending, his story never would, and that the universe would sing for him. Reaching the TARDIS, he piloted it into orbit around Earth. At last, the Doctor finally regenerated for the tenth time, taking on his youngest looking form to date.
+Yet so much of the 'old Doctors' remains intact… He's still funny and able to make jokes in the direst situations. Wandering around Victorian London in a post-regeneration state of befuddlement he couldn’t believe his new face. 'I mean it's alright up to the eyebrows,' he told a random stranger. 'Then it just goes haywire! Look at the eyebrows! These are attack eyebrows. You could take bottle caps off with these!’ And talking of his face, what secret does it hold? 'Why did I choose this face?' he once mused. 'It's like I'm trying to tell myself something…'
-A little while later, the Doctor (in his eleventh incarnation) took on a new companion: a human female named Amy Pond. With Amy at his side, the Doctor continues to travel through time and space.
+'''Thirteenth Doctor:''' The Thirteenth Doctor is a live wire, full of energy and fizzing with excitement and wit from the very first moment we meet her!
-'''Height:''' Variable <br>
+The Doctor is a charismatic and confident explorer, dedicated to seeing all the wonders of the universe, championing fairness and kindness wherever she can.
-'''Weight:''' Variable <br>
-'''Eyes:''' Variable <br>
-'''Hair:''' Variable <br>
-'''Other distinguishing features:''' Two hearts, respiratory bypass
-'''Strength level:''' Normal strength of an adult Gallifreyan male who engages in moderate regular exercise.
+After crash-landing to Earth, still a little dazed from her explosive regeneration, the Doctor takes a little time to remember her identity. But that doesn't stop her from jumping into action to save the universe anyway.
-'''Known superhuman powers:''' As with other Gallifreyans, the Doctor is physically superior to normal humans in nearly ever respect, though not generally superhumanly so. He is slightly stronger than his appearance would suggest, has greater stamina and better than average agility. His senses are also slightly keener than a humans, and he is capable of noticing ripples in the patterns of time. He is capable of surviving without oxygen for short periods of time, and can even survive unprotected in the vacuum of space for several minutes. Among the more obvious physical differences between his body and that of a human is that he has two hearts. He is capable of healing most wounds given time, even regrowing severed appendages on occasion (although this can take weeks). If he suffers an injury so severe that he cannot survive then he is able to completely regenerate his body, taking on a entirely new form (based on examples of other Time Lords seen regenerating, even decapitation might not be fatal; severe injury to both hearts, however, would be). Doing so causes near fatal mental strain, and as a result he generally suffers a period of mental instability thereafter, which in the past has manifested as amnesia, mood swings, and even full blown psychotic episodes; in the end his mind settles down again, but in every instance his personality is altered by the experience. Perhaps due to the strain this imposes, Time Lords can only regenerate twelve times, allowing them a total of thirteen bodies.
+This Doctor loves to be surrounded by friends – in fact she treats her travelling companions Yaz, Ryan and Graham more like family, often boosting their confidence by telling them how great they are.
-The Doctor is moderately telepathic, another of his species' gifts. He cannot read minds, but is capable of communicating with other telepathic beings. Boosted by his TARDIS, this telepathy is able to act as an instant translator of virtually all spoken or written languages, a gift which is extended to those who travel with him; it is so effective that those using the gift are generally not even conscious of the fact that they shouldn't be able to understand the alien tongues they are listening to. Time Lords can recognise one another by their telepathic signature even when they have changed their appearances, unless one of them is deliberately masking who they are.
-'''Other abilities:''' The Doctor's greatest ability is his intellect. He is vastly more intelligent than any human, with extensive knowledge of most sciences, and an extremely quick and adaptive mind. He is resistant to forms of mental coercion such as hypnosis, brainwashing, mind control or mind probes. Trips into his mindscape has shown that each of his earlier persona's still survives there, acting as keepers of their portions of his memories and aspects of his personality (the fifth incarnation is generally seen as the conscience of the later Doctors, for example). Future personalities have also seen to form in this mindscape, in preparation for impending regeneration - for example the Doctor's seventh persona is widely believed to have deliberately usurped the body and forced a regeneration after his sixth body suffered a minor head injury. Combined with their telepathic ability, some Time Lords can give these future forms a level of physical presence in the real world separate from their main body; the Doctor himself has demonstrated this ability on two occasions, once when he subconsciously created a poorly defined "Watcher" entity just prior to his fourth regeneration, and once when a distilled composite of all his evil and less noble traits broke loose and became the being known as the Valeyard. All incarnations of the Doctor have been seen to be skilled hypnotists too, and most have displayed a talent for disguise and mimicry.
-The Doctor is a brilliant engineer, well known for his ability to build a device for any circumstances he encounters. If what he needs is not to hand he often jury-rigs temporary equipment to combat the evils he comes across.
-Each version of the Doctor has certain abilities and skills peculiar only to that regeneration. The third was a master of unarmed combat, in particular Venusian Aikido, a talent he achieved without any training. The seventh could disrupt the brain's electrons with a touch, allowing him to render people unconscious. The eighth has the ability to read the patterns of time, allowing him to pull out hints about a person's past or future from their timeline.
-While the Doctor normally disdains physical violence, he has shown himself in the past to be a skilled swordsman (at least from his fourth incarnation on), having been trained by one of Cleopatra's guards. He is an expert with a crossbow (trained with William Tell), and even his first, elderly form was an able fighter, having learned wrestling from the Mountain Mauler of Montana.
-'''Equipment:''' The Doctor's favorite tool is  the sonic screwdriver. This innocent-looking device can be adapted to a number of uses, most commonly to open locked doors of all varieties. It has also been seen to remotely detonate mines and swamp gas, to repel creatures with sensitive hearing, and even to remove screws. Overall, the Doctor can reprogram the sonic screwdriver to manipulate sound and matter in nearly infinite combinations.
-The Type 40 TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space) is a space-time vessel, capable of travelling to any place or time. Its most distinguishing feature is that it's 'dimensionally transcendental' -  bigger on the inside than on the outside, because the interior of the TARDIS is actually an extradimensional space. The craft that materialises when the Doctor's TARDIS 'lands' is actually the portal between the pocket universe that is the TARDIS and the main universe. Because this outer appearance is merely a door to another universe, it is nearly invulnerable under normal circumstances, and the inside of the TARDIS can be disconnected from the exterior to prevent gravity or other outside forces from affecting the interior. The ship travels by dematerialising in one spot, traversing the time vortex, and then rematerialising at its destination; although it is capable of conventional space travel. The TARDIS comes equipped with a Chameleon Circuit, which should disguise the ship as something inconspicuous whenever it lands somewhere new. However the Chameleon Circuit broke just after the Doctor landed in 1960s London, leaving the exterior of the TARDIS in the form of a blue police box.
-The Doctor also stores a variety of useful objects in his pockets, which he has finally admitted have an extra dimension sewn into them, making them much bigger on the inside.
+Like her previous incarnations, the Doctor is brave and selfless – a hero who will run towards danger without hesitation. Though she may be a fidget and a wanderer, she’ll always answer a call for aid when she hears it. In her own words, 'When people need help, I never refuse.'
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