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|image = [[Image:Doctors hand.jpg|300px]]
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|object name = The Doctor's hand
|type       = Severed [[hand]]
|type = The Doctor's severed hand
|origin     = [[Tenth Doctor]]
|origin = [[Tenth Doctor|The Doctor]] (amputated by the Sycorax leader)
|first      = Born Again (TV story)
|appearances = <ul><li>[[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'' (severed)</li><li>[[TW]]:''[[Everything Changes]]''(first seen in [[Torchwood 3]])</li><li>[[TW]]: ''[[Day One]]'' </li><li>[[TW]]: ''[[Random Shoes]]''</li><li>[[TW]]: ''[[End of Days]]''</li><li>[[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]''</li><li>[[DW]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]''/ ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]''</li><li>[[DW]]: ''[[The Poison Sky]]''</li><li>[[DW]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]''</li><li>[[DW]]:''[[The Stolen Earth]]''/''[[Journey's End]](blown up)''</li></ul>
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|clip        = A fighting hand! - Doctor Who - The Christmas Invasion - BBC
|clip2      = The Doctor Arrives in Cardiff End of Days Torchwood
|clip3      = The two Doctors - Doctor Who - BBC
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'''The Doctor's hand''' was the severed right hand of the Doctor which he lost shortly after he [[regeneration|regenerated]] into his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]].
The '''right [[hand]] of the [[Tenth Doctor]]''' was severed by the [[Sycorax leader]] shortly after the Doctor's [[regeneration]]. At some point, Captain [[Jack Harkness]] had acquired it and brought it to the [[Torchwood Three]] hub.


==Profile==
The hand was kept well-preserved on its own and remained alive and somewhat responsive despite getting separated from its original body. It became an organism independent from the Doctor which could flex itself under its own power, and eventually, part of a new [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor|gestalt Doctor]] following a [[Human-Time Lord Meta-Crisis|meta-crisis]].
During a [[sword]] fight with the [[Sycorax leader]] on the deck of [[Fire Trap|their ship]], the leader slashed the Doctor's right hand off and it fell somewhere in [[London]]. Because he was within the first fifteen hours since his regeneration, he was able to regrow the hand. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion]]'')


[[File:Doctors severed hand.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor's Hand in the [[Torchwood Hub]]. ([[TW]]: ''[[Everything Changes]]'']]
== History ==
After Captain [[Jack Harkness]] travelled from [[200,100]] to [[1869]], he eventually found the hand and used it to detect the Doctor whenever he came to the [[Cardiff Rift]] to refuel, hoping to find a version of the Doctor which coincided with his own timeline. ([[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') The precise details of how it detected the presence of the Doctor was not divulged but its apparent glowing ([[TW]]: ''[[End of Days]]'') suggests it is similar to the [[TARDIS key]] glowing when the [[TARDIS]] was approaching ([[DW]]: ''[[Aliens of London]]''), further suggesting that perhaps the hand detected the presence of the TARDIS instead of the Doctor, or else it may've been detected only the presence of the [[Tenth Doctor]] from whom it came, thus allowing [[Jack Harkness|Jack]] to detect a version of [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] who had already met him following his [[regeneration]], records of which he may've found on the [[Torchwood Three|Torchwood]] archives, considering that he recognised the Tenth Doctor on sight, claiming to have been "following him." ([[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') He kept the hand preserved in a jar which he kept on his desk. Despite being severed, it did not decay and continued to move and twitch. ([[TW]]: ''[[Day One]]'')
After the [[Ninth Doctor]] regenerated into his [[Tenth Doctor|tenth incarnation]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'') the [[hand]] was naturally attached to his [[arm]]. The newly-regenerated Doctor noted a "slight weakness in the [[dorsal tubercle]]" around his hand, but this was not mentioned again during the remainder of the time this hand was attached to his body. ([[TV]]: ''[[Born Again (TV story)|Born Again]]'')


When [[Carys Fletcher]] escaped, she broke the jar, distracting Jack enough for her to escape. ([[TW]]: ''[[Day One]]'')
During a [[sword]] fight with the [[Sycorax leader]] on the deck of [[Sycorax spaceship|their ship]], the leader cut the Doctor's right hand off and it fell somewhere in [[London]]. Because he was within the first fifteen hours of his [[regeneration]], he regrew the hand. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'') The excess regeneration energy was siphoned off of the [[Third Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Christmas Inversion (short story)|The Christmas Inversion]]'')


:''However, the container has since been seen to be intact, presumably repaired or replaced by Jack.''
After Captain [[Jack Harkness]] travelled from [[200100|200,100]] to [[1869]], he lived through the 20th century and eventually found the hand. He used it to detect the Doctor whenever he came to the [[Cardiff Rift]] to refuel, hoping to find a version of the Doctor which coincided with his own timeline. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'') Jack kept the hand preserved in a jar which he kept on his desk. Despite being severed, it did not decay and continued to move and twitch. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day One (TV story)|Day One]]'')


When [[Tenth Doctor|the Doctor]] arrived on Cardiff Bay, the hand started to react, glowing and moving.([[TW]]: ''[[End of Days]]'') After the Doctor came to refuel at the Rift, Captain Jack joined the Doctor and brought the severed hand with him. After travelling to the year [[100,000,000,000,000]], the Doctor, [[Martha Jones]], and Jack met Professor [[Yana]], who then became [[the Master]]. He took the Doctor's hand from Jack and escaped in [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] after he regenerated. ([[DW]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')
When [[Carys Fletcher]] escaped, she broke the jar, distracting Jack enough for her to flee. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day One (TV story)|Day One]]'')


The Doctor was able to fix Jack's Vortex Manipulator so they could travel to [[2008]]. When they encountered the Master, he revealed that he put [[Richard Lazarus]]' genetic technology into his [[laser screwdriver]]. By using the Doctor's biological code he gained from the hand, the Master was able to age the Doctor 100 years. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums]]'') What followed were the events of [[The Year That Never Was]], after which the Doctor reclaimed his severed hand and kept it aboard his TARDIS in the control room. ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')
When the Doctor arrived at Cardiff Bay in the [[2000s]],{{note|According to the episode ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'', [[Martha Jones]]' present day during [[Series 3 (Doctor Who 2005)|series 3]] of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' takes place over a six-day period, with {{Simm}} being elected three days after ''Smith and Jones'', and the [[Toclafane]] [[Toclafane invasion|invading Earth]] five days after ''Smith and Jones''. However, [[Aliens of London dating controversy|sources differ on which dates these stories are set]]. According to [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Paradox Moon (short story)|The Paradox Moon]]'', the Toclafane invasion happens on [[23 June]] [[2007]], placing the events of ''Smith and Jones'' on [[18 June]]. According to [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Hysteria (audio story)|Hysteria]]'', ''Smith and Jones'' takes place in [[2008]], with a [[UNIT]] mission log in [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Recruits (audio story)|Recruits]]'' referring to the recovery of moon rocks from [[Royal Hope Hospital]] in [[March]] 2008. A newspaper clipping in [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Secret Lives of Monsters (short story)|The Secret Lives of Monsters]]'' places ''Smith and Jones'' on a [[Sunday]] [[4 June]], thus placing the Toclafane invasion on [[Friday]] [[9 June]]. In the real world, these dates do not fall on a Sunday and Friday in either 2007 or 2008.}} the hand reacted, glowing and moving. ([[TV]]: ''[[End of Days (TV story)|End of Days]]'') Captain Jack joined the Doctor and brought the severed hand with him. After travelling to the year [[100,000,000,000,000]], the Doctor, [[Martha Jones]], and Jack met Professor [[Yana]], who then became {{Jacobi}}. He took the Doctor's hand from Jack and escaped in [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] after he regenerated. ([[TV]]: ''[[Utopia (TV story)|Utopia]]'')


After the [[Sontaran invasion of Earth]], the TARDIS set off by itself to [[Messaline]], with the hand apparently reacting to [[Jenny]]'s later birth. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Poison Sky]]'', ''[[The Doctor's Daughter]]'')
The Doctor fixed Jack's Vortex Manipulator so they could travel to the 2000s. When they encountered {{Simm}}, he revealed that he had put [[Richard Lazarus]]' genetic technology into his [[laser screwdriver]]. Using the Doctor's biological code gained from the hand, the Master aged the Doctor a hundred years. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Sound of Drums (TV story)|The Sound of Drums]]'') [[The Year That Never Was]] followed, after which the Doctor reclaimed his severed hand and kept it aboard his TARDIS in the control room. ([[TV]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords (TV story)|Last of the Time Lords]]'')


The Doctor's hand remained in his TARDIS and was present for the Doctor's apparent regeneration following his being shot by a [[Dalek]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth]]''). After the Doctor had healed from the damage caused by the shot, he channelled the excess regenerative energy that would have changed his appearance into a bio-matching receptacle in the form of his hand, thus leaving him healed while remaining in his tenth incarnation. ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')
The Doctor's hand remained in his TARDIS, bubbling, when it sensed the Doctor's daughter, [[Jenny (The Doctor's Daughter)|Jenny]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor's Daughter (TV story)|The Doctor's Daughter]]'') and was present for the Doctor's regeneration when he was shot by a [[Dalek]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Stolen Earth (TV story)|The Stolen Earth]]'') After the Doctor had healed the damage caused by the shot, however, he channelled the excess [[regeneration energy]] that would have changed his appearance into a bio-matching receptacle, his hand, leaving him healed while remaining in his tenth incarnation, ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'') but still using up a regeneration in his cycle. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'') [[Donna Noble|Donna]] touched the energised hand, which caused a [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor|new version of the Doctor]] to be generated. The new [[Meta-Crisis Doctor]] had the intelligence of the Doctor mixed with Donna's persona and attitude. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')


[[File:The Doctor channeling the excess regenerative energy in his severed Hand.jpg|thumb|The Doctor channelling the excess regenerative energy into his severed hand. ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')]]
== Legacy ==
Shortly after regenerating, the [[Thirteenth Doctor]] recalled having their hand lopped off by the Sycorax leader. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Things She Thought While Falling (short story)|Things She Thought While Falling]]'')


However Donna eventually touched the energised hand which caused a Meta-Crisis from which a [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor|new version of the Doctor]] grew. The new Meta-Crisis Doctor had the intelligence of the original Doctor mixed with Donna's persona and attitude. ([[DW]]: ''[[Journey's End]]'')
== Behind the scenes ==
* [[David Tennant]] provided the cast for the hand during the filming of ''Utopia''. This cast was retained during the remainder of the prop's time on the show.
* In Jack's flashback to [[1999]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Fragments (TV story)|Fragments]]'', the Doctor's hand in the jar can be seen in [[the Hub]] despite the scene taking place years before it would be cut off in [[2006]].
* The hand is never shown in the Tenth Doctor's brief appearance at the end of ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'', making its first appearance in the short [[Children in Need]] special, otherwise known as ''[[Children in Need Special (TV story)|Born Again]]''.


==Behind the scenes==
== Footnotes ==
*[[David Tennant]] did '''not''' provide the cast for the hand. {{fact}}
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*Although ''[[Journey's End]]'' doesn't go into detail, it is possible to speculate based upon the Doctor's statements to Donna, Rose and Jack that he kept the preserved hand in the [[TARDIS]] console room (rather than putting it into storage) for very likely the purpose shown in ''Journey's End'' as a vessel to stave off a regeneration. Speculatively, had the hand not formed the [[Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor]] or actor constraints not forbidden it, the Tenth Doctor may've been able to use the hand to avoid regeneration indefinetely and, arguably, lived forever.
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Latest revision as of 03:55, 22 October 2024

The right hand of the Tenth Doctor was severed by the Sycorax leader shortly after the Doctor's regeneration. At some point, Captain Jack Harkness had acquired it and brought it to the Torchwood Three hub.

The hand was kept well-preserved on its own and remained alive and somewhat responsive despite getting separated from its original body. It became an organism independent from the Doctor which could flex itself under its own power, and eventually, part of a new gestalt Doctor following a meta-crisis.

History[[edit] | [edit source]]

After the Ninth Doctor regenerated into his tenth incarnation, (TV: The Parting of the Ways) the hand was naturally attached to his arm. The newly-regenerated Doctor noted a "slight weakness in the dorsal tubercle" around his hand, but this was not mentioned again during the remainder of the time this hand was attached to his body. (TV: Born Again)

During a sword fight with the Sycorax leader on the deck of their ship, the leader cut the Doctor's right hand off and it fell somewhere in London. Because he was within the first fifteen hours of his regeneration, he regrew the hand. (TV: The Christmas Invasion) The excess regeneration energy was siphoned off of the Third Doctor. (PROSE: The Christmas Inversion)

After Captain Jack Harkness travelled from 200,100 to 1869, he lived through the 20th century and eventually found the hand. He used it to detect the Doctor whenever he came to the Cardiff Rift to refuel, hoping to find a version of the Doctor which coincided with his own timeline. (TV: Utopia) Jack kept the hand preserved in a jar which he kept on his desk. Despite being severed, it did not decay and continued to move and twitch. (TV: Day One)

When Carys Fletcher escaped, she broke the jar, distracting Jack enough for her to flee. (TV: Day One)

When the Doctor arrived at Cardiff Bay in the 2000s,[nb 1] the hand reacted, glowing and moving. (TV: End of Days) Captain Jack joined the Doctor and brought the severed hand with him. After travelling to the year 100,000,000,000,000, the Doctor, Martha Jones, and Jack met Professor Yana, who then became the War Master. He took the Doctor's hand from Jack and escaped in the Doctor's TARDIS after he regenerated. (TV: Utopia)

The Doctor fixed Jack's Vortex Manipulator so they could travel to the 2000s. When they encountered the Saxon Master, he revealed that he had put Richard Lazarus' genetic technology into his laser screwdriver. Using the Doctor's biological code gained from the hand, the Master aged the Doctor a hundred years. (TV: The Sound of Drums) The Year That Never Was followed, after which the Doctor reclaimed his severed hand and kept it aboard his TARDIS in the control room. (TV: Last of the Time Lords)

The Doctor's hand remained in his TARDIS, bubbling, when it sensed the Doctor's daughter, Jenny, (TV: The Doctor's Daughter) and was present for the Doctor's regeneration when he was shot by a Dalek. (TV: The Stolen Earth) After the Doctor had healed the damage caused by the shot, however, he channelled the excess regeneration energy that would have changed his appearance into a bio-matching receptacle, his hand, leaving him healed while remaining in his tenth incarnation, (TV: Journey's End) but still using up a regeneration in his cycle. (TV: The Time of the Doctor) Donna touched the energised hand, which caused a new version of the Doctor to be generated. The new Meta-Crisis Doctor had the intelligence of the Doctor mixed with Donna's persona and attitude. (TV: Journey's End)

Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]

Shortly after regenerating, the Thirteenth Doctor recalled having their hand lopped off by the Sycorax leader. (PROSE: Things She Thought While Falling)

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

  • David Tennant provided the cast for the hand during the filming of Utopia. This cast was retained during the remainder of the prop's time on the show.
  • In Jack's flashback to 1999 in TV: Fragments, the Doctor's hand in the jar can be seen in the Hub despite the scene taking place years before it would be cut off in 2006.
  • The hand is never shown in the Tenth Doctor's brief appearance at the end of The Parting of the Ways, making its first appearance in the short Children in Need special, otherwise known as Born Again.

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ According to the episode The Sound of Drums, Martha Jones' present day during series 3 of Doctor Who takes place over a six-day period, with the Saxon Master being elected three days after Smith and Jones, and the Toclafane invading Earth five days after Smith and Jones. However, sources differ on which dates these stories are set. According to PROSE: The Paradox Moon, the Toclafane invasion happens on 23 June 2007, placing the events of Smith and Jones on 18 June. According to AUDIO: Hysteria, Smith and Jones takes place in 2008, with a UNIT mission log in AUDIO: Recruits referring to the recovery of moon rocks from Royal Hope Hospital in March 2008. A newspaper clipping in PROSE: The Secret Lives of Monsters places Smith and Jones on a Sunday 4 June, thus placing the Toclafane invasion on Friday 9 June. In the real world, these dates do not fall on a Sunday and Friday in either 2007 or 2008.
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