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|appearances     = [[DW]]: ''[[Image of the Fendahl]]'' <br /> [[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'' <br /> [[DW]]: ''[[Night Terrors]]'' <br /> [[TW]]: ''[[Immortal Sins]]'' <br />  [[AG]]: ''[[Hornets' Nest]]'' <br /> [[AG]]: ''[[Demon Quest]]'' <br /> [[DWAN]]: ''[[The Monsters from Earth]]'' <br /> [[EDA]]: ''[[Mad Dogs and Englishmen]]'' <br /> [[EDA]]: ''[[Enter Wildthyme]]'' <br /> [[NSA]]: ''[[Sting of the Zygons]]'' <br /> [[DWS]]: ''[[Cats and Dogs]]''
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|origin          = [[Earth]], [[Pete's World]]
|origin          = [[Earth]]
|individuals     = [[Teazel]], [[Butch (The Monsters from Earth)|Butch]], [[Leakey]], [[Rose (Rise of the Cybermen)|Rose]], [[Bernard (Night Terrors)|Bernard]], [[Max (Magic of the Angels)|Max]], [[Brandy (Magic of the Angels)|Brandy]], [[Lady (Magic of the Angels)|Lady]], [[Howzi]], [[Mowki]], [[Kelso]], [[Hercules (The Behemoth)|Hercules]], [[Jake the Dog]]
|mentions        = [[DW]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways]]''
|first mention  = An Unearthly Child (TV story)
|individuals    = [[Leaky]] <br /> [[Butch]] <br \> [[Rose (dog)|Rose]] <br /> [[Bernard (dog)|Bernard]] <br />
|first          = The Monsters from Earth (short story)
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|appearances    = {{appears}}
A '''dog''' was a medium-sized, quadrupedal mammal native to the planet [[Earth]]. Dogs were domesticated by [[human]]s who frequently kept them as [[pet]]s. They came in different breeds of many different sizes.
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A '''dog''' was an animal native to the [[planet]] [[Earth]]. There were many different breeds of dog, lots of which [[human]]s kept as [[pet]]s.
 
[[Jake the Dog]] was an anthropomorphic dog who was capable of [[speech]]. ([[WC]]: {{cs|New Adventures Await! (webcast)}})
 
== On Earth ==
The dismemberment and bleeding of dogs was fundamental to the beliefs of [[Isaac Greatorex]]'s [[Isaac Greatorex's cult|cult]]. ([[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|The Devil of Winterborne (home video)}})
 
The [[Bandogge]] was a type of mongrel dog. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Shakespeare Code (TV story)}})
 
As a child, [[Polly Wright]] had a [[Golden Retriever]] named Belle. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Lost and Found (audio story)}})
 
Mrs [[Cartwright]]'s dog was a [[Collie]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Stone House (novel)}})
 
The Cybus [[Cybermen]] converted dogs into two types of Cybernetic servants, [[Cyber Wolf|Cyber Wolves]] and [[Cybershade]]s. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Enemy Mine (comic story)}}; [[TV]]: {{cs|The Next Doctor (TV story)}}) The [[Cyber Legion]] Cybermen converted dogs in [[19th century]] into [[Cyber Wolf|Cyber Wolves]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Plague of the Cybermen (novel)}})
 
On [[17 October]] [[1814]], a dog ran from the [[London Beer Flood]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Doctor and the Nurse (comic story)}})
 
The dog [[Teazel]], who belonged to [[Edward Lunn]], was captured by [[Zygon]]s in the [[Lake District]] in [[September]] [[1909]]. The warlord [[Brelarn]] used his [[body-print]] to assume Teazel's form, as dogs could go where they liked. He was therefore able to spy on the [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Martha Jones]], and others. The real Teazel was eventually rescued from the Zygon ship. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Sting of the Zygons (novel)}})
 
Wild dogs roamed some places on Earth. They were found on the deserts of [[Iraq]] in [[1930]] ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|A Wing and a Prayer (comic story)}}) and on the streets of [[London]] during [[the Year That Never Was]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Last of the Time Lords (TV story)}})
 
At least one dog travelled in [[the Doctor's TARDIS]]: [[Butch (The Monsters from Earth)|Butch]], the pet bulldog of [[Amy Barker|Amy]] and [[Tony Barker]] in [[1966]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Monsters from Earth (short story)}})
 
A dog was left behind when [[London]] was [[evacuation|evacuated]] due to the appearance of [[dinosaur]]s. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)}})
 
Upon realising that the Doctor had not dropped her off home in the right place, [[Sarah Jane Smith]] playfully told a nearby dog the fact, saying that "the Doctor blew it!" ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Hand of Fear (TV story)}})
 
In [[1977]], [[Adam Colby]] owned a dog named [[Leakey]]. Leakey discovered the body of a [[Hiker (Image of the Fendahl)|hiker]] while Colby was walking him one day. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Image of the Fendahl (TV story)}})
 
A robot went berserk and started attacking a city after its creator banished a dog from his laboratory. The robot was placated when the [[Third Doctor]] reunited the dog with it. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Doctor Who and the Robot (comic story)}})


In [[Pete's World]], [[Rose (dog)|Rose]] was a small female dog that belonged to [[Jackie Tyler (Pete's World)|Jackie]] and [[Pete Tyler (Pete's World)|Pete Tyler]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Rise of the Cybermen]]'')
A guard dog was the victim of {{Ainley}}'s [[TCE]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Mark of the Rani (TV story)}})


The dog [[Teazel]], who belonged to Edward Lunn, was captured by [[Zygon]]s in [[September]] [[1909]]. The warlord [[Brelarn]] used his [[body-print technology|body-print]] to assume Teazel's form, as dogs could go where they liked. He was therefore able to spy on the [[Tenth Doctor]], [[Martha Jones]], and others. The real Teazel was eventually rescued from the Zygon ship. ([[NSA]]: ''[[Sting of the Zygons]]'')
Dogs were used in police searches to sniff out missing people. [[Gordon Galloway]] used police dogs in his search of [[Swallow Woods]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Way Through the Woods (novel)}})


Dogs were integral to [[sheep|shepherding]]. In fact, [[Peri Brown]] once noticed a herd of sheep running down a dog on the [[island]] of [[Dorsill]], which made her think that something was amiss on the island. ([[PDA]]: ''[[Grave Matter]]'')  
Dogs were integral to [[sheep|shepherding]]. In fact, [[Peri Brown]] once noticed a herd of [[sheep]] running down a dog on the island of [[Dorsill]], which made her think that something was amiss on the island. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Grave Matter (novel)}})


The Bandogge was a type of mongrel dog. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Shakespeare Code]]'')
[[Whittaker (The Devil of Winterborne)|Whittaker]] owned a dog called [[Monty (The Devil of Winterborne)|Monty]], upon whom he doted. They were both killed by [[Christian Purcell]], who was possessed by [[Isaac Greatorex]]. ([[HOMEVID]]: {{cs|The Devil of Winterborne (home video)}})


In [[The Year That Never Was]], wild dogs roamed the streets of [[London]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Last of the Time Lords]]'')
[[Sebastian Vaughan]] had a dog that he named [[Blücher]]. After Sebastian's body was possessed by a [[cortex leech]], he killed Blücher. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Vigil (audio story)}})


The [[Cyberman (Pete's World)|Cybus Cybermen]] converted dogs into two types of Cybernetic servants, [[Cyberdog]]s and [[Cybershade]]s. ([[DWBIT]]: ''[[Enemy Mine]]'', [[DW]]: ''[[The Next Doctor]]'')
On [[Pete's World]] in [[2007]], [[Rose (Rise of the Cybermen)|Rose]] was a small female dog that belonged to [[Jackie Tyler (Pete's World)|Jackie]] and [[Pete Tyler (Pete's World)|Pete Tyler]]. [[Rose Tyler]] was annoyed to discover this was her counterpart in that version of the universe. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)}})


[[Prisoner Zero]] took the form of [[Barney Collins]] while the real Barney was in a coma. Barney was dreaming about walking his Rottweiler, so Prisoner Zero's "Barney" form had his dog on a leash. As Prisoner Zero was prone to losing track of which of its stolen form's mouths to use, the "dog's" growling came from "Barney's" mouth. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Eleventh Hour]]'')
[[Mrs Phillips]] kept a [[Highland Terrier]], who in [[2008]] was killed by a [[Colin Acres Junior|shapeshifting creature]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Mrs Acres (short story)}})


During the [[22nd century Dalek invasion]], packs of dogs were mentioned as roaming the woods and were said to [[Hunting|hunt]] travellers. ([[DW]]: ''[[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]'')
After she was sent through the [[Cardiff Space-Time Rift|Cardiff Rift]] more than 50 years from [[1953]], [[Emma-Louise Cowell]] was upset that she would never see her dog again. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Out of Time (TV story)}})


On [[Gemino]], the [[First Doctor]], [[John and Gillian]] discovered a dog in the ruins of [[Gemino City]]. They followed it back to its master, one of the survivors of the war between Gemino and [[Gemina]]. ([[TVC]]: ''[[The Secret of Gemino]]'')
[[File:Prisoner Zero Dog.jpg|thumb|left|[[Prisoner Zero]] posing as a Rottweiler. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Eleventh Hour (TV story)}})]]
[[Prisoner Zero]] took the form of [[Barney Collins]] while the real Barney was in a coma. Barney was dreaming about walking his [[Rottweiler]], so Prisoner Zero's "Barney" form had his dog on a leash. As Prisoner Zero was prone to losing track of which of its stolen form's mouths to use, the "dog's" growling and barking came from "Barney's" mouth. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Eleventh Hour (TV story)}})


[[Jim Purcell]] owned a dog named [[Bernard (Night Terrors)|Bernard]] who watched as he was absorbed by the carpet into the doll's house. ([[DW]]: ''[[Night Terrors]]'')
In [[2011]], [[Jim Purcell]] owned a dog named [[Bernard (Night Terrors)|Bernard]], who watched as his owner was absorbed by the carpet into the doll's house. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Night Terrors (TV story)}})


The [[Eleventh Doctor]] played with a toy robot dog while briefly working in a shop in [[2011]]. ([[DW]]: ''[[Closing Time (TV story)|Closing Time]]'')
The [[Eleventh Doctor]] played with a [[Yappy|toy robot dog named Yappy]] while briefly working as a sales assistant in [[Sanderson & Grainger]] in [[Colchester]] in [[2011]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Closing Time (TV story)}})
 
In [[2012]], a [[dog (The Long Game)|dog]] was living at [[Adam Mitchell]]'s [[Adam Mitchell's home|home]] with his [[parent]]s [[Sandra Mitchell|Sandra]] and [[Geoff Mitchell|Geoff]]. The house also featured numerous items depicting dogs of different breeds. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Long Game (TV story)}})
 
According to the [[Eleventh Doctor]], an influx of "talking dogs" began appearing mid-way through 2012, after one predicted, in [[April]], that the world would end in [[May]]. While this prediction did not come to pass, the arrival of a [[Dalek]] fleet on [[11 June]], which ended with a [[black hole]] swallowing up said fleet, as well as half of [[France]], prompted one dog to say "told you so". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Doctor's Guide to 2012 (short story)}})
 
[[File:Dog Hop textless.png|thumb|right|[[Andy Davidson]] and several dogs ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Dog Hop (audio story)}})]]
In the [[summer]] of [[2015]], a dog was seen running from the devastation caused by the [[Windermere incident]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Hyperion Empire (comic story)}})
 
There was once a controversy when dog [[meat]] had crept into the supermarket chain [[Harrison's]], and its owner, [[Harrison Mandeville]], went to lengths to dissociate himself from the error and explain that dog meat wasn't actually bad. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dismemberment (short story)}})
 
In [[2066]], shortly after [[Herbert Bittle]] [[retired]] from being a [[postman]], he [[bite|bit]] [[dog (Solar Streak A.O.K.)|a dog]] as [[revenge]] for the [[year]]s of being bitten by dogs. Bittle was to appear in [[court]] roughly a [[week]] later [[criminal charge|charge]]d with [[cruelty to animals]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Solar Streak A.O.K. (short story)}})
 
During the [[2150s Dalek invasion of Earth]], packs of dogs were mentioned as roaming the woods and were said to [[Hunting|hunt]] travellers. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)}})
 
[[Robotic Dog (species)|Robotic Dogs]], also known as Robodogs, were a hazard during the [[Dalek]] [[23rd century Dalek invasion|invasion]] of [[Earth]] in the [[year]] [[2254]], menacing the [[Seventh Doctor]] and [[Ace]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Dalek Attack (video game)}})
 
== Elsewhere ==
[[File:Mechanus dogs.jpg|thumb|A pair of dogs fall prey to the Fungoids on Mechanus. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The World That Waits (comic story)}})]]
Dogs appeared on the [[planet]] [[Mechanus]] in the [[27th century]], where they were [[prey]] to the [[Fungoid]]s. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The World That Waits (comic story)}})
 
A dog was heard barking on [[Vulcan (The Power of the Daleks)|Vulcan]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Power of the Daleks (TV story)}})
 
On [[Gemino]], the [[First Doctor]], [[John Who|John]] and [[Gillian Who|Gillian]] discovered a dog in the ruins of [[Gemino City]]. They followed it back to its master, one of the survivors of the war between Gemino and [[Gemina]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Secret of Gemino (comic story)}})
 
The form of the [[robot]] [[K9]] was based on that of a dog. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Invisible Enemy (TV story)}}) Professor [[Frederick Marius]] had a [[German Shepherd]] dog called [[Kelso]]. He could not take Kelso to his new work place, so he built [[K9 Mark I]], a robot dog that was able to leave Earth along with Marius. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|One Man and His Dog (short story)}})
 
A unique breed of dog existed on [[Trenzalore]] that was seven feet long and five feet tall, with double thick coats that enabled them to withstand anything from the planet's typical frigid temperatures to its worst winters. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Strangers in the Outland (short story)}})
 
Dogs were known on [[Iceworld]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}})
 
The planet [[Barcelona (planet)|Barcelona]] reportedly had [[Barcelonian dog|dogs with no noses]], as stated by the [[Ninth Doctor]] shortly before he underwent [[regeneration]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Parting of the Ways (TV story)}})


== Behind the scenes ==
== Behind the scenes ==
*During the filming of ''[[The Ribos Operation]]'', [[Tom Baker]] was bitten by [[Paul Seed]]'s Jack Russell terrier when he tried to have it perform a trick Seed himself had done. This left Baker with a deep cut to his upper lip. As a result, publicity stills for ''The Ribos Operation'' saw him wearing a sticking plaster on his face, and for the remainder of filming Tom Baker required a heavy and uncomfortable makeup application to cover the wound. To lessen the necessary makeup coverage and explain the healing wound on-screen, a scene was added to the beginning of the following story (''[[The Pirate Planet]]'') wherein the Doctor struck his lip on the TARDIS console. The scar remained visible for much of [[Season 16]]. ([[DCOM]]: ''[[The Pirate Planet]]'')
* During the filming of ''[[The Ribos Operation (TV story)|The Ribos Operation]]'', [[Tom Baker]] was bitten by [[Paul Seed]]'s Jack Russell terrier when he tried to have it perform a trick Seed himself had done. This left Baker with a deep cut to his upper lip. As a result, publicity stills for ''The Ribos Operation'' saw him wearing a sticking plaster on his face, and for the remainder of filming Tom Baker required a heavy and uncomfortable makeup application to cover the wound. To lessen the necessary makeup coverage and explain the healing wound on-screen, a scene was added to the beginning of the following story (''[[The Pirate Planet (TV story)|The Pirate Planet]]'') wherein the Doctor strikes his face on the [[TARDIS console]] and cuts his lip. The scar remained visible for much of [[Season 16 (Doctor Who 1963)|Season 16]]. ([[DCOM]]: ''[[The Pirate Planet (TV story)|The Pirate Planet]]'')
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Latest revision as of 16:46, 21 October 2024

Dog

A dog was an animal native to the planet Earth. There were many different breeds of dog, lots of which humans kept as pets.

Jake the Dog was an anthropomorphic dog who was capable of speech. (WC: New Adventures Await! [+]Loading...["New Adventures Await! (webcast)"])

On Earth[[edit] | [edit source]]

The dismemberment and bleeding of dogs was fundamental to the beliefs of Isaac Greatorex's cult. (HOMEVID: The Devil of Winterborne [+]Loading...["The Devil of Winterborne (home video)"])

The Bandogge was a type of mongrel dog. (TV: The Shakespeare Code [+]Loading...["The Shakespeare Code (TV story)"])

As a child, Polly Wright had a Golden Retriever named Belle. (AUDIO: Lost and Found [+]Loading...["Lost and Found (audio story)"])

Mrs Cartwright's dog was a Collie. (PROSE: The Stone House [+]Loading...["The Stone House (novel)"])

The Cybus Cybermen converted dogs into two types of Cybernetic servants, Cyber Wolves and Cybershades. (COMIC: Enemy Mine [+]Loading...["Enemy Mine (comic story)"]; TV: The Next Doctor [+]Loading...["The Next Doctor (TV story)"]) The Cyber Legion Cybermen converted dogs in 19th century into Cyber Wolves. (PROSE: Plague of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Plague of the Cybermen (novel)"])

On 17 October 1814, a dog ran from the London Beer Flood. (COMIC: The Doctor and the Nurse [+]Loading...["The Doctor and the Nurse (comic story)"])

The dog Teazel, who belonged to Edward Lunn, was captured by Zygons in the Lake District in September 1909. The warlord Brelarn used his body-print to assume Teazel's form, as dogs could go where they liked. He was therefore able to spy on the Tenth Doctor, Martha Jones, and others. The real Teazel was eventually rescued from the Zygon ship. (PROSE: Sting of the Zygons [+]Loading...["Sting of the Zygons (novel)"])

Wild dogs roamed some places on Earth. They were found on the deserts of Iraq in 1930 (COMIC: A Wing and a Prayer [+]Loading...["A Wing and a Prayer (comic story)"]) and on the streets of London during the Year That Never Was. (TV: Last of the Time Lords [+]Loading...["Last of the Time Lords (TV story)"])

At least one dog travelled in the Doctor's TARDIS: Butch, the pet bulldog of Amy and Tony Barker in 1966. (PROSE: The Monsters from Earth [+]Loading...["The Monsters from Earth (short story)"])

A dog was left behind when London was evacuated due to the appearance of dinosaurs. (TV: Invasion of the Dinosaurs [+]Loading...["Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)"])

Upon realising that the Doctor had not dropped her off home in the right place, Sarah Jane Smith playfully told a nearby dog the fact, saying that "the Doctor blew it!" (TV: The Hand of Fear [+]Loading...["The Hand of Fear (TV story)"])

In 1977, Adam Colby owned a dog named Leakey. Leakey discovered the body of a hiker while Colby was walking him one day. (TV: Image of the Fendahl [+]Loading...["Image of the Fendahl (TV story)"])

A robot went berserk and started attacking a city after its creator banished a dog from his laboratory. The robot was placated when the Third Doctor reunited the dog with it. (COMIC: Doctor Who and the Robot [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Robot (comic story)"])

A guard dog was the victim of the Tremas Master's TCE. (TV: The Mark of the Rani [+]Loading...["The Mark of the Rani (TV story)"])

Dogs were used in police searches to sniff out missing people. Gordon Galloway used police dogs in his search of Swallow Woods. (PROSE: The Way Through the Woods [+]Loading...["The Way Through the Woods (novel)"])

Dogs were integral to shepherding. In fact, Peri Brown once noticed a herd of sheep running down a dog on the island of Dorsill, which made her think that something was amiss on the island. (PROSE: Grave Matter [+]Loading...["Grave Matter (novel)"])

Whittaker owned a dog called Monty, upon whom he doted. They were both killed by Christian Purcell, who was possessed by Isaac Greatorex. (HOMEVID: The Devil of Winterborne [+]Loading...["The Devil of Winterborne (home video)"])

Sebastian Vaughan had a dog that he named Blücher. After Sebastian's body was possessed by a cortex leech, he killed Blücher. (AUDIO: The Vigil [+]Loading...["The Vigil (audio story)"])

On Pete's World in 2007, Rose was a small female dog that belonged to Jackie and Pete Tyler. Rose Tyler was annoyed to discover this was her counterpart in that version of the universe. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Rise of the Cybermen (TV story)"])

Mrs Phillips kept a Highland Terrier, who in 2008 was killed by a shapeshifting creature. (PROSE: Mrs Acres [+]Loading...["Mrs Acres (short story)"])

After she was sent through the Cardiff Rift more than 50 years from 1953, Emma-Louise Cowell was upset that she would never see her dog again. (TV: Out of Time [+]Loading...["Out of Time (TV story)"])

Prisoner Zero posing as a Rottweiler. (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"])

Prisoner Zero took the form of Barney Collins while the real Barney was in a coma. Barney was dreaming about walking his Rottweiler, so Prisoner Zero's "Barney" form had his dog on a leash. As Prisoner Zero was prone to losing track of which of its stolen form's mouths to use, the "dog's" growling and barking came from "Barney's" mouth. (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"])

In 2011, Jim Purcell owned a dog named Bernard, who watched as his owner was absorbed by the carpet into the doll's house. (TV: Night Terrors [+]Loading...["Night Terrors (TV story)"])

The Eleventh Doctor played with a toy robot dog named Yappy while briefly working as a sales assistant in Sanderson & Grainger in Colchester in 2011. (TV: Closing Time [+]Loading...["Closing Time (TV story)"])

In 2012, a dog was living at Adam Mitchell's home with his parents Sandra and Geoff. The house also featured numerous items depicting dogs of different breeds. (TV: The Long Game [+]Loading...["The Long Game (TV story)"])

According to the Eleventh Doctor, an influx of "talking dogs" began appearing mid-way through 2012, after one predicted, in April, that the world would end in May. While this prediction did not come to pass, the arrival of a Dalek fleet on 11 June, which ended with a black hole swallowing up said fleet, as well as half of France, prompted one dog to say "told you so". (PROSE: The Doctor's Guide to 2012 [+]Loading...["The Doctor's Guide to 2012 (short story)"])

Andy Davidson and several dogs (AUDIO: Dog Hop [+]Loading...["Dog Hop (audio story)"])

In the summer of 2015, a dog was seen running from the devastation caused by the Windermere incident. (COMIC: The Hyperion Empire [+]Loading...["The Hyperion Empire (comic story)"])

There was once a controversy when dog meat had crept into the supermarket chain Harrison's, and its owner, Harrison Mandeville, went to lengths to dissociate himself from the error and explain that dog meat wasn't actually bad. (PROSE: Dismemberment [+]Loading...["Dismemberment (short story)"])

In 2066, shortly after Herbert Bittle retired from being a postman, he bit a dog as revenge for the years of being bitten by dogs. Bittle was to appear in court roughly a week later charged with cruelty to animals. (PROSE: Solar Streak A.O.K. [+]Loading...["Solar Streak A.O.K. (short story)"])

During the 2150s Dalek invasion of Earth, packs of dogs were mentioned as roaming the woods and were said to hunt travellers. (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth [+]Loading...["The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)"])

Robotic Dogs, also known as Robodogs, were a hazard during the Dalek invasion of Earth in the year 2254, menacing the Seventh Doctor and Ace. (GAME: Dalek Attack [+]Loading...["Dalek Attack (video game)"])

Elsewhere[[edit] | [edit source]]

A pair of dogs fall prey to the Fungoids on Mechanus. (COMIC: The World That Waits [+]Loading...["The World That Waits (comic story)"])

Dogs appeared on the planet Mechanus in the 27th century, where they were prey to the Fungoids. (COMIC: The World That Waits [+]Loading...["The World That Waits (comic story)"])

A dog was heard barking on Vulcan. (TV: The Power of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The Power of the Daleks (TV story)"])

On Gemino, the First Doctor, John and Gillian discovered a dog in the ruins of Gemino City. They followed it back to its master, one of the survivors of the war between Gemino and Gemina. (COMIC: The Secret of Gemino [+]Loading...["The Secret of Gemino (comic story)"])

The form of the robot K9 was based on that of a dog. (TV: The Invisible Enemy [+]Loading...["The Invisible Enemy (TV story)"]) Professor Frederick Marius had a German Shepherd dog called Kelso. He could not take Kelso to his new work place, so he built K9 Mark I, a robot dog that was able to leave Earth along with Marius. (PROSE: One Man and His Dog [+]Loading...["One Man and His Dog (short story)"])

A unique breed of dog existed on Trenzalore that was seven feet long and five feet tall, with double thick coats that enabled them to withstand anything from the planet's typical frigid temperatures to its worst winters. (PROSE: Strangers in the Outland [+]Loading...["Strangers in the Outland (short story)"])

Dogs were known on Iceworld. (TV: Dragonfire [+]Loading...["Dragonfire (TV story)"])

The planet Barcelona reportedly had dogs with no noses, as stated by the Ninth Doctor shortly before he underwent regeneration. (TV: The Parting of the Ways [+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"])

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

  • During the filming of The Ribos Operation, Tom Baker was bitten by Paul Seed's Jack Russell terrier when he tried to have it perform a trick Seed himself had done. This left Baker with a deep cut to his upper lip. As a result, publicity stills for The Ribos Operation saw him wearing a sticking plaster on his face, and for the remainder of filming Tom Baker required a heavy and uncomfortable makeup application to cover the wound. To lessen the necessary makeup coverage and explain the healing wound on-screen, a scene was added to the beginning of the following story (The Pirate Planet) wherein the Doctor strikes his face on the TARDIS console and cuts his lip. The scar remained visible for much of Season 16. (DCOM: The Pirate Planet)