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}}{{nc}}'''The Doctor''' was a future incarnation of [[The Doctor|himself]] first encountered by [[Seventh Doctor|his seventh incarnation]] at [[Bonjaxx]]'s birthday party. A gentlemen, a scientist and an explorer this incarnation of the Doctor had a firm belief in what was right and a very short temper, but, was very enthusiastic about seeing the wonders of the universe.
{{Doctors}}
"'''Fred'''" was the name eventually chosen by a [[time travel]]ler ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cyber-Hunt (novelisation)|Cyber-Hunt]]'') who was a potential future of the [[Seventh Doctor]]. When he met the Seventh Doctor at [[Bonjaxx]]'s birthday party on [[Maruthea]], travelling with [[Ria (Party Animals)|Ria]], he openly called himself '''[[the Doctor]]'''. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Party Animals (comic story)}})


==Biography==
However, the same man ultimately made a deal with a mysterious [[man in black (Cyber-Hunt)|man in black]] to restore [[Gallifrey|his homeworld]] after it was destroyed. The price he paid was to be separated from his past completely, with his former name taken from him and a [[Eighth Doctor|different individual]] being brought into existence to fill the void he'd left. He continued travelling in time and space, now exclusively under the name of Fred, though as a side-effect of the process he was prone to [[amnesia]] about his former life. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cyber-Hunt (novelisation)}})
===Post-Regeneration and Subsequent Adventures===
This incarnation's life began shortly after his previous incarnation's death aboard a deathship at the hands of the sentient computer BABE. Following his previous incarnation's death and regeneration the Nth Doctor went on to battle the Daleks, freeing the enslaved Temperon's from their grasp and subsequently gaining two companions in the forms of Greg Holmes and Nadia.


This new regeneration of the Doctor soon went on to battle alien invaders in the tituar Connection 13 and subsequently lost his new companion Nadia when she electricuted herself to save both the Doctor and Greg. Following these events, the Doctor found himself encountering Conglomerate for the first time, a frighteningly large intergalactic consortium more interested in profits and conquest then people's lives. The Doctor, with the help of Greg, was able to break free of the influence of the Chairman and flee in the TARDIS.
== Biography ==
=== As the Doctor ===
The bald time-traveller was originally an incarnation of [[the Doctor]]. Accompanied by his [[companion]] [[Ria (Party Animals)|Ria]], this version of the Doctor bumped into his [[Seventh Doctor|seventh incarnation]] and [[Ace]] at Maruthea during Bonjaxx's birthday celebration. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Party Animals (comic story)}}) When [[Hob]] viewed over the events of this party, he briefly saw an image of the two Doctors and [[Death's Head]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Incomplete Death's Head (comic story)}}) The two Doctors reminisced over [[the Doctor's graduation party|their graduation party]], involving "[[First Rani|the Rani]] and her [[giant mouse]]". The Seventh Doctor also asked his future self "if [[Time Lord|they]] ever repealed the [[First Law of Time]]", with him answering that they hadn't done so yet, at least in his time. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Party Animals (comic story)}})


A little while later the Doctor and Greg encountered the Psionovores, a race of fearmongering vampirical creatures who thrived on the collective fear and panic of their targets. During this adventure, the Doctor's companion Greg fell in love with one of the Psionovores Rhiannan believing her to be one of the surviving crew and the Doctor finds himself coming to terms with his own mortality after being coaxed into believing that all his lives were lost. The Doctor later destroys the Psionovores with their own reflections, killing Rhannan in the process. Griefstriken, Greg begins to call in question whether he should be travelling with the Doctor at all.
The time traveller who would become "Fred" also travelled with [[Truman Crouch]] for a time.


Arriving on a remote planet, the Doctor encourages the sulking Greg to take a walk to think about his decision when he's attacked by Miranda, the female companion to the stranded Time Lord Askran. The Doctor assists Miranda in fixing Askran's TARDIS only to find out that Greg and Askran have both taken large quantities of Sargol, a highly addictive drug that can destroy even the strongest of Time Lord minds. Following the completion of repairs, Askran shoots Miranda and the Doctor and departs unaware that the antidote Miranda has synthesised for him was in-fact pure Sargol. Askran is flung through the vortex in his decaying TARDIS, but he refuses to die, he believes he cannot die. The Doctor and Greg depart on to more adventures.
Eventually, at a point prior to Fred's deal with the [[man in black (Cyber-Hunt)|man in black]], his [[Gallifrey|homeworld]] was destroyed in traumatic circumstances. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cyber-Hunt (novelisation)}})
===Travels with Ria and Greg===
Still suffering from the effects of Sargol, the Doctor takes Greg to Maenad a hospital where he can rest and recover. While Greg is nursed back to health by Kranten, an old friend of the Doctor's, the Doctor - under the psudenum of a Dr Preston - visits Cal 2, a correctional facility for the criminally insane whereupon he meets Ria and her psychotic father Rayden who have, with the assistance of several of his crew members, overthrown the authority on Cal 2 and have effectively taken over the asylum. Through later investigations, the Doctor is able to determine that Ria is the product of the Pleasure Dome, an artificial construct that her father created to satisfy his desires. Devasated that her "father" lied to her Ria viciously attacks him almost killing him in the process. The Doctor, with the help of a Draconian ambassador, is able to destroy Rayden's base but not before a canister of Sargol is smashed over his head by one of Rayden's henchmen. The Doctor, Ria and the well-rested Greg depart in the TARDIS.


The Doctor, Ria and Greg land on the planet Analyas VII, a planet that has succumbed to the Daleks, who are running the planet behind the scenes. The Doctor was able to find out that the Daleks were using the planets to battle against the Mutant Phase, a deadly Dalek that would destroy the entirety of the Dalek race. It was later revealed that a single Dalek damaged from a recent battle had allowed a single parasitic wasp into it's casing resulting in the Dalek mutant itself to be hidiously affected by the Mutant Phase resulting in the mutant loosing higher brain functions and acting through instinct only. The Doctor was able to stop the Dalek Emperor from causing the Mutant Phase through breaking his time paradox and later departed on his adventures.
=== As Fred ===
The time-traveller made his way to [[Carson's Planet]], where he met with the [[man in black (Cyber-Hunt)|man in black]]. The two brokered an agreement, with the man in black pledging to restore his homeworld if the time-traveller successfully held back the [[Cyberon]]s' technological development. After the man in black left him to his own devices, he met a [[Lewis (Cyber-Hunt)|damaged Cyberon unit]] and made the mistake of repairing him. He managed to evade the creature by hiding in a bomb creature, but did get shot, whereupon the man in black reappeared to put him into a hypnotic sleep to help him recover.


The Doctor would also battle against Cuthbert the head of Conglomerate, the Trilexia, the Gressolin (an ancient enemy of the Time Lords) and later discover that the TARDIS, in it's old age had begun to die. Forced to make a quick jump to Terserus due to the TARDIS' failing systems, the Doctor discovered that the entire planet had succumbed to a deadly plague that had rewritten the genetic structure of all life on the planet and that by landing the TARDIS, the genetic plague had been able to get in. The TARDIS soon began to succumb to the plague, turning into one of the planet's screamers, a disfigured mutated mass of flesh and bone. Forced to weigh the life of his companion, who was suffering from her six month "expiration date" and that of a man who would prevent utter disaster thirty years in the future, the Doctor finds a way to cast the assassin into the vortex and repair the TARDIS, now revitalised from the experience. Ria and the Doctor depart once more to other adventures.
He was found in a half-delirious state by [[Olivia (Cyber-Hunt)|Olivia]], whom he briefly confused for [[Ria (Party Animals)|Ria]], having gained a temporary [[amnesia]] from the trauma of the wound and hypnosis. When he told her that he did not even remember her name, she decided to dub him "Fred", after her [[Fred (goldfish)|old goldfish]] who likewise kept forgetting who he was. Now well enough to walk, Fred joined Olivia and the military group she was following around as "embedded [[journalist]]", [[Halloran (Cyber-Hunt)|Captain Halloran]]'s, in their further explorations of the planet. They found an abandoned Cyberon laboratory where the Cyberons were developing [[nanite]]s that could convert any humanoids by entering any wound in their body, however small, with no need for the cumbersome [[surgery|surgical]] process on which the Cyberons had previously relied to expand their numbers.
===Travels with Ria and Truman===
''To be added.''
===Justyce will be Served===
''To be added.''
===Other Adventures===
Accompanied by his companion, [[Ria]], this version of the Doctor greeted his [[Seventh Doctor|incarnation]] and [[Ace]] at [[Maruthea]] during Bonjaxx's birthday celebration. Though close-mouthed about it, he implied that the [[Time Lord]]s no longer had the power to impose the [[First Law of Time]] over him, so that he could converse with his seventh self with impunity. ([[DWM]]: ''[[Party Animals]]'')
==Appearance==
This Doctor had short, dark hair with a receding hairline.


His style of dress leaned toward 1920s-style formal wear. His neckwear of choice was a bow-tie. He occasionally wore a jumper or waistcoat.
After the group managed to reprogram the nanite cloud to destroy cybernetics instead of converting flesh, thus turning it into a powerful weapon against the Cyberons themselves, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cyber-Hunt (novelisation)}}) which put an effective end to the [[Cyber-War (Flight of the Cyberons)|Cyberon War]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Blue Scream of Death (short story)}}) they escaped the planet in a Cyberon escape pod. Olivia put in a good word for him with [[Galactic Net News]] to give him the opportunity to get a new job as a reporter himself, although he was hesitant to take the offer.  


His outerwear consisted of a dark suit jacket with light-coloured piping along the lapels, and was known to carry a toothbrush in his outer breast pocket for reasons unknown. He occasionally wore [[question mark]] buttons.
After they returned to Carson's Planet to give the original wounded Cyberon, whose human name had been [[Lewis (Cyber-Hunt)|Lewis]], a decent burial, Fred met with the man in black one last time. Acknowledging that Fred had held up his end of the bargain, the man in black used a [[knife]] to sever Fred from his past identity, erasing his timeline in the process and therefore restoring [[Gallifrey|his homeworld]] as promised, while [[Eighth Doctor|a different individual]] filled the void of his [[The Doctor|former identity]]. As a side-effect, Fred's amnesia became permanent, with him only remembering the broadest of details about his former life. Choosing to take this as a chance for a fresh start, he invited Olivia to travel with him in [[Fred's ship|his ship]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cyber-Hunt (novelisation)}})


==Other information==
=== Legacy ===
*This incarnation of the Doctor, traveling alone, may have developed [[amnesia]] and re-named himself Fred. ([[BBV]]: ''[[Cyber-Hunt]]'', ''[[Vital Signs]]'')
[[File:Shayde as the Fred Doctor.jpg|thumb|left|[[Shayde]] poses as the balding Doctor and, allegedly, the [[Eighth Doctor]]'s [[The Doctor's ninth incarnation|successor]], even fooling [[Fey Truscott-Sade|Fey]] and [[Izzy Sinclair|Izzy]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Wormwood (comic story)}})]]After the [[Eighth Doctor]] decided to sacrifice himself to save [[Gallifrey]] by throwing himself into the heart of [[Luther (The Final Chapter)|Luther]]'s Watchtower, [[Fey Truscott-Sade]] and [[Izzy Sinclair]] witnessed him seemingly [[regeneration|regenerating]] into the bald Doctor. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Final Chapter (comic story)}}) However, after keeping up the pretence partway through the subsequent adventure, the "new Doctor" revealed that he was actually the shapeshifting construct [[Shayde]], who had switched place with the real Eighth Doctor at the Doctor's suggestion as part of a plot to defeat the [[Threshold]]. [[The Pariah]] speculated that Shayde pulled a persona imprint from [[The Matrix|the Matrix]] in order to impersonate this Doctor so well. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Wormwood (comic story)}})
*In an alternate timeline, this incarnation of the Doctor may have committed suicide and regenerated into a [[The Doctor (Exile)|woman]] to hide from the [[Time Lord]]s. ([[DWU]]: ''[[Exile]]'')


==Key Life Events==
== Appearance ==
*The Doctor regenerates and battles the Daleks and gains two new companions in the forms of Nadia and Greg Holmes. ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''The Time Ravagers'')
This Doctor had short, dark hair and a receding hairline. His outerwear consisted of a dark suit jacket with light-coloured piping along the lapels, and he carried a toothbrush in his outer breast pocket. He also wore a badge shaped like a [[tea]]pot. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Party Animals (comic story)}}) As "Fred", he wore a business suit with a floral pattern, with a black shirt underneath. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cyber-Hunt (novelisation)}})
*Nadia electrocutes herself during one of his adventures, killing her instantly. ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''Connection 13'')
*Encounters Conglomerate, the multi-galaxy spanning consortium for the first time. ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''Conglomerate'')
*Faces the Psionovores and his own mortality in an energy cloud. The Doctor causes the death of Rhiannon, a psionovore disguised as one of the threatened crew members and as a result he begins to loose touch with Greg who claimed that he loved her. ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''The Cloud of Fear'')
*Encounters Askran, a fellow renegade Time Lord, for the first time and learns of the existance of Sargol, a highly addictive drug that affects the mind. The Doctor sabotages Askran's TARDIS sending him spiralling off into the vortex. ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''Shadow World'')
*Visits Cal-2 and gains a new companion in the form of Ria, an artificial construct created by her criminal "father" Rayden in Cal 2's pleasure dome. The Doctor is viciously assaulted by one of Rayden's henchmen where in the resulting confusion he smashes a canister of sargol over the Doctor's head. Rayden promises that he may have seen the last of him but he hasn't felt the last. ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''Maenad'')
*Re-encounters the Daleks and the Mutant Phase, a deadly virus set to utterly destroy the Dalek race by reducing them to primordial animals. The Doctor is able to reverse the timeline and avert the Mutant Phase. (AV: ''The Mutant Phase'')
*Meets Cuthbert, the man behind Conglomerate whilst investigating Conglomerate's interest in the destruction of a black box recording. ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''The Destructor Contract'')
*Causes a time paradox that causes the human race to cease to exist by sending out a garbled distress call to his earlier self pleading that the interference should not take place in the first instance. This paradox is averted when Ria convinces the Doctor not to send the distress call in the first place, averting the paradox. ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''The Second Solution'')
*Responds to Posidor's pleas for a good cup of tea and arrives on the distant cut-off outpost of Nematoda. He picks up a new companion, Truman Crouch. ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''The Secret of Nematoda'')
*Battles against Cuthbert once more in an Eternal construct built to amuse them in their millenia long boredom. Faced with an illogical dilemma, the Doctor fakes his own death in a Gallifreyan gas chamber and traps Cuthbert and his assistant Stella in the Enclave Irrelative construct of Hell. ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''Enclave Irrelative'')
*Causes the destruction of Majus-17 when he mistakes Majus-17's humanoid avatar as a mad-woman. She later commits suicide because she cannot be with him and as a result the entire planet is reduced to a barren toxic wasteland where no life can grow or survive. The Doctor has begun to experience sargol withdrawl with his mood becoming erratic and uncontrollable. He has lucid moments during each bout allowing him to continue on certain adventures unimpeded. ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: [[More Than a Messiah|''More Than A Messiah'']])
*The Doctor is able to stave off the effects of his sargol withdrawl during his encounter with help from the TARDIS labs. Truman is captured by a strange scanning entity sending out false readings as to the whereabouts of Truman. The Doctor encounters the Cybermen and the Orion War with the Android Hordes as he investigates a way to survive the Cybermen's assault. ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''Sword of Orion'')
*Following the events during the Orion War, Truman is returned to the TARDIS and Ria is captured instead. The Doctor and Truman flee to the Zero Room, but after it's collapse have to resort to the TARDIS' telepathic circuits in order to contact any TARDISes within the local continuum to find Ria. Unable to locate any TARDISes and suffering from a strong bout of sargol withdrawl, the Doctor experiences a death knell, a telepathic scream that echoes across space/time tuned to the sound of dying. The TARDIS' PK circuits are blasted wide open and as a result the Doctor succumbs to his sargol addiction and collapses into a catatonic dream state. ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''Carny'')
*The Doctor battles with the Dalek Empire one final time on his devastated home world of Gallifrey. After being mentally linked to the Emperor of the Daleks, the Doctor is able to thwart the Daleks' plans by crashing the ''Space Rover ''(a ship packed with cobalt explosives) into the Dalek city destroying it totally. The Doctor's companions are revealed to be Dalek replicants with Truman's replicant having piloted the TARDIS to Gallifrey into a trap since the beginning of the Doctor's psychic episode ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''Carny''). The Doctor is shot by a replicant of his (now dead) companion Ria as the ship collides with the Dalek city. ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''Planet of Lies'')
*The Doctor is saved from certain death by a shadowy figure, who scratches the words 'Justyce will be served' on the TARDIS's console. ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''Deadfall'')
*Fionara, would-be companion to the Doctor, is fatally poisoned by a drinks seller. 'Justyce will be served' inscribed on the interior TARDIS doors points to the real culprit. ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''Requiem'')
*The intangible but deadly threat of Justyce is taking its psychological toll on the Doctor. Then Justyce strikes again, murdering the Doctor's Time Lord nemesis, Askran after a traumatic incident with Ronald Turvey's Cuddlesome toys. ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''Cuddlesome'')
*For the first time, the Doctor and Truman both witness the presence of Justyce - a definite presense, but with curiously indistinguishable features. The TARDIS narrowly escapes oblivion and is then stolen, leaving the Doctor and Truman to endure the deadly Antarctic elements and encounter a Silurian colony. When all seems lost, the TARDIS inexplicably returns. Their ordeal behind them, the Doctor and Truman watch grimly as all too familiar words tear into the TARDIS scanner screen... 'Justyce will be served.' ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''Endurance'')
*The Doctor tricks the Necromancer into apparently incinerating a young changeling girl, a person vital to his plans... but the Doctor substituted a replica. Justyce creates a cruel twist, re-substituting the real girl to be killed by the Wyvrn. The Doctor is grief-striken but is able to save Mythos, though it leaves scant consolation. He encourages Truman to abandon him and the TARDIS for fear of Justyce, but Truman refuses to leave him. ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''Mythos'')
*Justyce constructs an elaborate deception, falsifying his identity as Cuthbert, the president of Conglomerate, in the process. It is revealed that Justyce's creation is the result of a time paradox 'accidentally' caused by the Doctor ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''The Second Solution''). The paradox created the possibility of survival for a race - the Solaadons - which would (in the future) be destroyed by Earth's Galactic Empire and their flagship the ''Horatio''. Justyce, apparently the embodiment of the pain and anguish of the Solaadons, subjects the Doctor to an emotional ordeal resulting in the death of Posidor and countless others. Depicting the act of genocide committed against the Solaadons by the human race, Justyce convinces the Doctor that he should sacrifice the violent, destructive human race in favour of the enlightened, peaceful Solaadons. Mentally bludgeoned into submission, the Doctor decides not to create the 1605 time paradox, but instead change history. The Earth's Galactic Empire will never exist... Solaados will survive. Sadistically, Justyce stops the Doctor, telling him it is not possible to change what has happened. The Doctor begs to know what Justyce wants of him. His only reply is... 'Justyce will be served.' ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''Subterfuge'')
*Justyce infiltrates the all-powerful computer MAGOG, and destroys countless lives on Earth by detonating tiny heart implants in the population. The Doctor traps Justyce in the TARDIS. Fearing for Truman's safety, the Doctor leaves his companion on Earth. This is the final battle... and the Doctor must fight it alone... ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''Geopath'')
*The Doctor battles Justyce once final time on the abused once beautiful mining world of Solaados. He spends three years as a miner, after having his TARDIS detained by the Galactic Empire and learns through several media recordings of the construction of the ''Horatio'' the ship which will destroy the Solaadons and the Solaadon's psychic dreams that lead one of their resistance fighters to contact the Doctor. Presented with the discovery that if he stops the peaceful Solaadons' destruction there will be no horrible atrocity, hence, Justyce will no longer exist, the Doctor uses the several clues left by a transdimensional race descended from the Solaadons, to reenable a shield that will protect Mt Solaados from the ''Horatio'''s weaponry, saving the Solaadon people. Justyce is destroyed and the Doctor resolves to depart to a peaceful contemplative life, stating that he is very, very tired. ([[Audio Visuals|AV]]: ''Justyce'')
*Landing on Carson's Planet sometime during the Cyber Wars, the Doctor encounters a single surviving Cyberon assault trooper and through some unforseen circumstances suffers temporary amnesia. The Doctor, discovering that a nearby Tellurian ship are searching for the last remaining Cyberon on a deadly trophy hunt, leads the stranded Tellurian team to a Cyberon research facility containing several samples of a cyber-conversion nanovirus the Cyberons have been developing. The Doctor defeats the Cyberons and departs (with his recently regained memories) in the TARDIS to other adventures. ([[BBV]]: ''[[Cyber-Hunt]]'')
*After the TARDIS is buried in the snowy tundra on Ephestus, the Doctor and his new companion Kevin discover that the Museum of Universal History and Cosmographies has recently come under attack by sentinel wolves: creatures that an artefact known as the Vitalica uses in moments of great threat. The Doctor discovers that the Madam Director of the Museum bonded with the Vitalica upon it's arrival to the Museum. The Vitalica, unable to properly understand her issues and problems, had begun to treat the entire planet as an issue using the wolves as shocktroops. Following the death of the Madam Director and a diciple from the Vitalica's homeworld who had trailed the artefact to the Museum and had begun sabotaging it, the Doctor and Kevin depart to new adventures in the TARDIS. ([[BBV]]: ''[[Vital Signs]]'')


==Behind the Scenes==
== Behind the scenes ==
===[[Audio Visuals]]===
=== Origins ===
This incarnation of the Doctor, played by [[Nicholas Briggs]], first appeared in ''Time Ravagers'', the second of the [[AudioVisuals]] series of fan audio plays. The opening of the story portrayed the previous AudioVisuals version of the Doctor [[regenerating]] into him.
[[file:The Nicholas Briggs Doctor and Ria.jpg|thumb|right|Nicholas Briggs and [[Patricia Merrick]] dressed as the Nth Doctor and [[Ria (Party Animals)|Ria]].]]
"Fred" started out as the so-called "Nth Doctor", an unofficial incarnation of the Doctor portrayed, and modeled after, [[Nicholas Briggs]] in the fan ''[[Audio Visuals (fan work)|Audio Visuals]]'' productions that were more-or-less contemporaneous with {{cs|Party Animals (comic story)}}.<ref name="justyce-briggs" >[http://www.justyce.org/nick-briggs-03-april-2000.html Nick Briggs interview, 3 April 2000]</ref><ref>[http://www.justyce.org/comicav.html Justyce Illustrations]</ref>


During the course of the AudioVisuals story ''Planet of Lies'', the [[Dalek]]s succeed in destroying [[Gallifrey]]. When this version of the Doctor meets the [[Seventh Doctor]], he obliquely hints at this.
Briggs would later portray other unique incarnations of the Doctor in licenced ''Doctor Who'' audios, including in {{cs|Exile (audio story)}} and {{cs|Seven Keys to Doomsday (audio story)}}, with no clear links with this previous character.


In illustrations of this Doctor, this Doctor's physical appearance is modelled on that of Briggs himself. His costume was initially designed by Paul Lunn to resemble "a guy returning from an all-night party in the 1920s." [http://www.justyce.org/nick-briggs-03-april-2000.html]
=== After the Audio Visuals ===
After the ''Audio Visuals'' ceased production, Nicholas Briggs resurrected the character in two commercial audio plays that were part of [[BBV Productions]]' ''[[Audio Adventures in Time & Space]]'', ''Cyber-Hunt'' and ''Vita Signs'' (the former also notable as the introduction of the [[Cyberon]]s). Although Briggs freely discussed in interviews the fact that this was a continuation of the Nth Doctor's adventures, the stories used only the aspects of the character [[List of DWU concepts not owned by the BBC|created and owned]] by Briggs, using an [[amnesia]] plot point to have him go by a different name, "Fred", and unable to recall much of his past history.<ref>[http://www.justyce.org/nick-briggs-03-april-2000.html Nick Briggs interview, 3 April 2000]</ref><ref>[http://www.justyce.org/comicav.html Justyce Illustrations]</ref> The two Fred audios were also sold under the series title of ''The Wanderer'', although he never actually used this as a title within the narratives.<ref>[https://bbvproductions.co.uk/products/The-Wanderer-Vital-Signs-AUDIO-DOWNLOAD-p338642815 ''The Wanderer: Vital Signs'' on BBV Productions]</ref> However, though not ''strictly'' fan fiction, these stories did not use the licenses to any concepts which had debuted in licensed DWU sources, and thus still fall outside the [[T:VALID|scope of this Wiki]].


===Other appearances ===
=== Into the licensed DWU ===
[[Gary Russell]], the writer of the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comics story ''[[Party Animals]]'', had previously worked with Nicholas Briggs on the Audio Visuals series and had his Doctor appear in the story.
On the other hand, the character also appeared in the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic story {{cs|Party Animals (comic story)}}, which confirmed him as an "official" future incarnation of the Doctor, postdating the [[Seventh Doctor|seventh]]. He made a cameo in {{cs|The Incomplete Death's Head (comic story)}} (which showed the events of ''Party Animals'' from another perspective) and was then impersonated, in a multi-part arc, by [[Shayde]] in {{cs|Wormwood (comic story)}}. While ''Wormwood'' was being serialised, and prior to the reveal that the [[Eighth Doctor]] who had regenerated into this Nth Doctor was not the real one, ''Doctor Who Magazine'' briefly acted as though they had indeed perennially regenerated the Eighth Doctor into this official successor incarnation, and would carry on using the Nicholas Briggs Ninth Doctor as their "default" Doctor from now on, as a type of [[hoax]]. Briggs recalled that this had been [[Gary Gillatt]]'s idea.<ref>[https://doctorwhocomicsblog.wordpress.com/2016/05/10/nicholas-briggs/ Nicholas Briggs interview by by Finlay Hamilton-Sardesai and Ben Morton].</ref>


Though not explicitly identified as the same version of the Doctor, Nicholas Briggs also played the Doctor in a flashback sequence in ''[[Exile]]'' as [[The Doctor (Exile)|the current Doctor's]] past incarnation.
[[File:Nicholas Briggs Doctor in Doctor Woah.jpg|thumb|left|The ''Audio Visuals''{{'}} Doctor as seen in {{cs|Doctor Whoah! (DWM 376 comic story)|''Doctor Woah!'' 376}} in [[DWM 376]].]]The ''Audio Visuals'' Doctor made a final licensed appearance in the pages of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' in [[2006 (releases)|2006]], in the {{cs|Doctor Whoah! (DWM 376 comic story)|''Doctor Whoah!'' strip}} printed in [[DWM 376]]. He appeared as part of a congregation of "not-really-the-Doctor Doctors", alongside [[the Valeyard]], [[Dr. Who (Dr. Who and the Daleks)|Peter Cushing's Doctor]], [[Rowan Atkinson]]'s [[Ninth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|Ninth Doctor]], [[Richard Hurndall]]'s [[First Doctor]] as seen in {{cs|The Five Doctors (TV story)}}, and the "[[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|Shalka Doctor]]". Standing next to the Atkinson Ninth Doctor, he complained of the smell as Atkinson's Doctor spoke [[Tersuran]].  


Briggs' Doctor also had a cameo in ''The Dalek Masterplan'', a stage play adaptation of ''[[The Daleks' Master Plan]]'', which starred Nick Scovell as an original incarnation of the Doctor and Briggs as the voice of the [[Dalek]]s. The play concluded with the use of the [[Time Destructor]], which forced the Doctor's regeneration into a new incarnation played by Briggs.
In [[2021 (releases)|2021]], BBV released {{cs|Cyber-Hunt (novelisation)|a novelisation|noital=y}} of ''Cyber-Hunt''. Unlike the audio version, it is covered by this Wiki, as it also made use of the license to the planet [[Aurichall]], which had debuted in a DWU story, ''[[The Blue Scream of Death (short story)|The Blue Scream of Death]]''. Like the original version, the book took pains to avoid using any BBC-copyrighted elements of the character, going so far as to further distinguish them in-universe: the book reveals that Fred becomes "untethered" from his past identity as part of his deal with a mysterious [[Man in black (Cyber-Hunt)|man in black]] to undo the destruction of "his homeworld" (Gallifrey, which, in the ''Audio Visuals'' continuity, was destroyed by the [[Dalek]]s in ''Planet of Lies''). This simultaneously explained how the ''Audio Visuals'' could coexist with mainstream ''Doctor Who'' continuity, and gave an in-universe meaning to the fact that Fred as used in BBV products was "no longer" the same person as the Doctor, but had used to be.


A false incarnation of the Doctor appearing in [[DWM]]: ''[[The Final Chapter]]'' and [[DWM]]: ''[[Wormwood (comic strip)|Wormwood]]'' was modelled upon this Doctor.
== External links ==
* '''{{iw|dwexpanded|Nicholas Briggs Doctor|The Nth Doctor}}''' at {{iw|dwexpanded|Doctor Who Expanded}}


===The Wanderer/Fred===
== Footnotes ==
Nicholas Briggs appeared as "the Wanderer" or "Fred" in the [[BBV]] audio stories ''[[Cyber-Hunt]]'' and ''[[Vital Signs]]''. Implicitly, these continue the adventures of the AudioVisuals Doctor past the concluding story of the productions.
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Fred

"Fred" was the name eventually chosen by a time traveller (PROSE: Cyber-Hunt) who was a potential future of the Seventh Doctor. When he met the Seventh Doctor at Bonjaxx's birthday party on Maruthea, travelling with Ria, he openly called himself the Doctor. (COMIC: Party Animals [+]Loading...["Party Animals (comic story)"])

However, the same man ultimately made a deal with a mysterious man in black to restore his homeworld after it was destroyed. The price he paid was to be separated from his past completely, with his former name taken from him and a different individual being brought into existence to fill the void he'd left. He continued travelling in time and space, now exclusively under the name of Fred, though as a side-effect of the process he was prone to amnesia about his former life. (PROSE: Cyber-Hunt [+]Loading...["Cyber-Hunt (novelisation)"])

Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]

As the Doctor[[edit] | [edit source]]

The bald time-traveller was originally an incarnation of the Doctor. Accompanied by his companion Ria, this version of the Doctor bumped into his seventh incarnation and Ace at Maruthea during Bonjaxx's birthday celebration. (COMIC: Party Animals [+]Loading...["Party Animals (comic story)"]) When Hob viewed over the events of this party, he briefly saw an image of the two Doctors and Death's Head. (COMIC: The Incomplete Death's Head [+]Loading...["The Incomplete Death's Head (comic story)"]) The two Doctors reminisced over their graduation party, involving "the Rani and her giant mouse". The Seventh Doctor also asked his future self "if they ever repealed the First Law of Time", with him answering that they hadn't done so yet, at least in his time. (COMIC: Party Animals [+]Loading...["Party Animals (comic story)"])

The time traveller who would become "Fred" also travelled with Truman Crouch for a time.

Eventually, at a point prior to Fred's deal with the man in black, his homeworld was destroyed in traumatic circumstances. (PROSE: Cyber-Hunt [+]Loading...["Cyber-Hunt (novelisation)"])

As Fred[[edit] | [edit source]]

The time-traveller made his way to Carson's Planet, where he met with the man in black. The two brokered an agreement, with the man in black pledging to restore his homeworld if the time-traveller successfully held back the Cyberons' technological development. After the man in black left him to his own devices, he met a damaged Cyberon unit and made the mistake of repairing him. He managed to evade the creature by hiding in a bomb creature, but did get shot, whereupon the man in black reappeared to put him into a hypnotic sleep to help him recover.

He was found in a half-delirious state by Olivia, whom he briefly confused for Ria, having gained a temporary amnesia from the trauma of the wound and hypnosis. When he told her that he did not even remember her name, she decided to dub him "Fred", after her old goldfish who likewise kept forgetting who he was. Now well enough to walk, Fred joined Olivia and the military group she was following around as "embedded journalist", Captain Halloran's, in their further explorations of the planet. They found an abandoned Cyberon laboratory where the Cyberons were developing nanites that could convert any humanoids by entering any wound in their body, however small, with no need for the cumbersome surgical process on which the Cyberons had previously relied to expand their numbers.

After the group managed to reprogram the nanite cloud to destroy cybernetics instead of converting flesh, thus turning it into a powerful weapon against the Cyberons themselves, (PROSE: Cyber-Hunt [+]Loading...["Cyber-Hunt (novelisation)"]) which put an effective end to the Cyberon War, (PROSE: The Blue Scream of Death [+]Loading...["The Blue Scream of Death (short story)"]) they escaped the planet in a Cyberon escape pod. Olivia put in a good word for him with Galactic Net News to give him the opportunity to get a new job as a reporter himself, although he was hesitant to take the offer.

After they returned to Carson's Planet to give the original wounded Cyberon, whose human name had been Lewis, a decent burial, Fred met with the man in black one last time. Acknowledging that Fred had held up his end of the bargain, the man in black used a knife to sever Fred from his past identity, erasing his timeline in the process and therefore restoring his homeworld as promised, while a different individual filled the void of his former identity. As a side-effect, Fred's amnesia became permanent, with him only remembering the broadest of details about his former life. Choosing to take this as a chance for a fresh start, he invited Olivia to travel with him in his ship. (PROSE: Cyber-Hunt [+]Loading...["Cyber-Hunt (novelisation)"])

Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]

Shayde poses as the balding Doctor and, allegedly, the Eighth Doctor's successor, even fooling Fey and Izzy. (COMIC: Wormwood [+]Loading...["Wormwood (comic story)"])

After the Eighth Doctor decided to sacrifice himself to save Gallifrey by throwing himself into the heart of Luther's Watchtower, Fey Truscott-Sade and Izzy Sinclair witnessed him seemingly regenerating into the bald Doctor. (COMIC: The Final Chapter [+]Loading...["The Final Chapter (comic story)"]) However, after keeping up the pretence partway through the subsequent adventure, the "new Doctor" revealed that he was actually the shapeshifting construct Shayde, who had switched place with the real Eighth Doctor at the Doctor's suggestion as part of a plot to defeat the Threshold. The Pariah speculated that Shayde pulled a persona imprint from the Matrix in order to impersonate this Doctor so well. (COMIC: Wormwood [+]Loading...["Wormwood (comic story)"])

Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]

This Doctor had short, dark hair and a receding hairline. His outerwear consisted of a dark suit jacket with light-coloured piping along the lapels, and he carried a toothbrush in his outer breast pocket. He also wore a badge shaped like a teapot. (COMIC: Party Animals [+]Loading...["Party Animals (comic story)"]) As "Fred", he wore a business suit with a floral pattern, with a black shirt underneath. (PROSE: Cyber-Hunt [+]Loading...["Cyber-Hunt (novelisation)"])

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

Origins[[edit] | [edit source]]

Nicholas Briggs and Patricia Merrick dressed as the Nth Doctor and Ria.

"Fred" started out as the so-called "Nth Doctor", an unofficial incarnation of the Doctor portrayed, and modeled after, Nicholas Briggs in the fan Audio Visuals productions that were more-or-less contemporaneous with Party Animals [+]Loading...["Party Animals (comic story)"].[1][2]

Briggs would later portray other unique incarnations of the Doctor in licenced Doctor Who audios, including in Exile [+]Loading...["Exile (audio story)"] and Seven Keys to Doomsday [+]Loading...["Seven Keys to Doomsday (audio story)"], with no clear links with this previous character.

After the Audio Visuals[[edit] | [edit source]]

After the Audio Visuals ceased production, Nicholas Briggs resurrected the character in two commercial audio plays that were part of BBV Productions' Audio Adventures in Time & Space, Cyber-Hunt and Vita Signs (the former also notable as the introduction of the Cyberons). Although Briggs freely discussed in interviews the fact that this was a continuation of the Nth Doctor's adventures, the stories used only the aspects of the character created and owned by Briggs, using an amnesia plot point to have him go by a different name, "Fred", and unable to recall much of his past history.[3][4] The two Fred audios were also sold under the series title of The Wanderer, although he never actually used this as a title within the narratives.[5] However, though not strictly fan fiction, these stories did not use the licenses to any concepts which had debuted in licensed DWU sources, and thus still fall outside the scope of this Wiki.

Into the licensed DWU[[edit] | [edit source]]

On the other hand, the character also appeared in the Doctor Who Magazine comic story Party Animals [+]Loading...["Party Animals (comic story)"], which confirmed him as an "official" future incarnation of the Doctor, postdating the seventh. He made a cameo in The Incomplete Death's Head [+]Loading...["The Incomplete Death's Head (comic story)"] (which showed the events of Party Animals from another perspective) and was then impersonated, in a multi-part arc, by Shayde in Wormwood [+]Loading...["Wormwood (comic story)"]. While Wormwood was being serialised, and prior to the reveal that the Eighth Doctor who had regenerated into this Nth Doctor was not the real one, Doctor Who Magazine briefly acted as though they had indeed perennially regenerated the Eighth Doctor into this official successor incarnation, and would carry on using the Nicholas Briggs Ninth Doctor as their "default" Doctor from now on, as a type of hoax. Briggs recalled that this had been Gary Gillatt's idea.[6]

The Audio Visuals' Doctor as seen in Doctor Woah! 376 [+]Loading...["Doctor Whoah! (DWM 376 comic story)","''Doctor Woah!'' 376"] in DWM 376.

The Audio Visuals Doctor made a final licensed appearance in the pages of Doctor Who Magazine in 2006, in the Doctor Whoah! strip [+]Loading...["Doctor Whoah! (DWM 376 comic story)","''Doctor Whoah!'' strip"] printed in DWM 376. He appeared as part of a congregation of "not-really-the-Doctor Doctors", alongside the Valeyard, Peter Cushing's Doctor, Rowan Atkinson's Ninth Doctor, Richard Hurndall's First Doctor as seen in The Five Doctors [+]Loading...["The Five Doctors (TV story)"], and the "Shalka Doctor". Standing next to the Atkinson Ninth Doctor, he complained of the smell as Atkinson's Doctor spoke Tersuran.

In 2021, BBV released a novelisation [+]Loading...{"noital":"y","1":"Cyber-Hunt (novelisation)","2":"a novelisation"} of Cyber-Hunt. Unlike the audio version, it is covered by this Wiki, as it also made use of the license to the planet Aurichall, which had debuted in a DWU story, The Blue Scream of Death. Like the original version, the book took pains to avoid using any BBC-copyrighted elements of the character, going so far as to further distinguish them in-universe: the book reveals that Fred becomes "untethered" from his past identity as part of his deal with a mysterious man in black to undo the destruction of "his homeworld" (Gallifrey, which, in the Audio Visuals continuity, was destroyed by the Daleks in Planet of Lies). This simultaneously explained how the Audio Visuals could coexist with mainstream Doctor Who continuity, and gave an in-universe meaning to the fact that Fred as used in BBV products was "no longer" the same person as the Doctor, but had used to be.

External links[[edit] | [edit source]]

Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]

  1. ↑ Nick Briggs interview, 3 April 2000
  2. ↑ Justyce Illustrations
  3. ↑ Nick Briggs interview, 3 April 2000
  4. ↑ Justyce Illustrations
  5. ↑ The Wanderer: Vital Signs on BBV Productions
  6. ↑ Nicholas Briggs interview by by Finlay Hamilton-Sardesai and Ben Morton.
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