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{{merge|Second Time Lord (The War Games)|''The Legacy of Gallifrey'' identifies the First Time Lord in ''TWG'' as [[Goth]] and the Third Time Lord as [[Socra]], the latter being explicitly a different person from the messenger in ''Terror of the Autons''. By process of elimination, if he was also part of the Trial, this makes the Messenger the Second Time Lord (a page which, also on the faith of ''Legacy of Gallifrey'', should be retitled [[Adelphi]]).}}{{Infobox_Individual
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|image       = Time Lord messenger.jpg
|main alias        =
|species     = Time Lord
|image             = Time Lord 2 (The War Games).jpg
|affiliation2 = High Council
|species           = Time Lord
|job              = Councillor
|affiliation  = Celestial Intervention Agency
|affiliation  = Celestial Intervention Agency
|affiliation2 = High Council
|origin     = [[Gallifrey]]
|origin           = [[Gallifrey]]
|first       = The War Games (TV story)
|first             = The War Games (TV story)
|appearances = {{il|[[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoners of the Sun (short story)|Prisoners of the Sun]]''|[[PROSE]]: ''[[An Overture Too Early (short story)|An Overture Too Early]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[Shadow of the Past (audio story)|Shadow of the Past]]''|[[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Man Who Wasn't There (audio story)|The Man Who Wasn't There]]''}}
|appearances       = [[Adelphi - list of appearances|'''''see list''''']]
|actor      = David Garth
|main actor        = Trevor Martin
|other actor      = David Garth
}}
}}
'''Adelphi''' of the [[Arcalian Chapter]] was a councillor on [[Pandad IV]]'s [[High Council]] of the [[Time Lord]]s ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') and a member of the tribunal that sentenced the [[War Lord]] and the [[Second Doctor]] during their own separate trials ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') alongside [[Socra]] and [[Goth]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'') He later came to [[Earth]] on several occasions to give the Doctor with warnings. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[An Overture Too Early (short story)|An Overture Too Early]]'', etc.) On one such occasion, he warned the exiled [[Third Doctor]] that {{Delgado}}, a [[renegade Time Lord]] and old friend of the Doctor, was on Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'')
A '''[[Time Lord]] messenger''' came to [[Earth]] to warn the newly [[Exile on Earth|exiled]] [[Third Doctor]] about events.  


== Biography ==
== Biography ==
Adelphi, along with the [[Time Lord]]s [[Socra]] and [[Goth]], had captured the War Lord. The he explained what the War Lord and his people had done. He said that the War Lord's plans were "an utterly callous disregard for the lives of the [[human]]s involved, and for the liberties of all the other species in [[Mutter's Spiral|the galaxy]]." When he asked the War Lord if he had anything to say in his defence, the War Lord refused to say anything. Adelphi used some of his power to cause intense pain for the War Lord, thus he spoke, saying that the Doctor collaborated with the [[War Chief]] and that if he was guilty then the Doctor was guilty too.
He was a member of the tribunal who sentenced the [[Second Doctor]] to exile on Earth, ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons]]'') and also was a member of the [[High Council]]. He had been sent to the tribunal on orders of [[Lord President]] [[Pandad IV]] as a direct result of [[Rassilon]]'s agent, [[Socra]], being asked by his [[Matrix Lord]] masters to keep an eye on the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'')


Adelphi sentenced the War Lord to dematerialisation, wiping him out of existence after his verdict of guilty was reached. The second Time Lord listened to the Doctor's defence when his own trial came up and listened as the Doctor passionately addressed the Time Lord's own non-intervention policy and saying they should be helping those in need much like he did. The Time Lord later witnessed the Doctor refuse every new appearance offered to him when he and Goth announced he would be exiled to Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'')
He first encountered the [[Third Doctor]] when he appeared in [[the TARDIS|his TARDIS]] while the Doctor was with his [[companion]] [[Liz Shaw]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Shadow of the Past (audio story)|Shadow of the Past]]'')


Adelphi was a member of the [[High Council]], in addition to serving on the tribunal that sentenced the Doctor. [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons]]'') He had been sent to the tribunal on orders of [[Lord President]] [[Pandad IV]] as a direct result of [[Rassilon]]'s agent, [[Socra]], being asked by his [[Matrix Lord]] masters to keep an eye on the Doctor. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'')
After the Doctor's defeat of [[Helios (Prisoners of the Sun)|Helios]], the messenger spoke to the wardens of [[Shada (prison)|Shada]], requesting that they release {{Delgado}} and keep the Doctor busy on Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoners of the Sun (short story)|Prisoners of the Sun]]'') He then travelled to Earth to warn the Doctor of the Master's arrival and of an impending trap that the Master had set for the Doctor. When the Doctor asked for assistance in dealing with the trap, however, the messenger simply disappeared. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'')


[[File:Time Lord messenger.jpg|thumb|left|Another incarnation of Adelphi ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'')]]
He was sent to see the Doctor again in order to persuade the Doctor not to travel with a [[William (Gone Fishing)|future companion]] whom the Doctor had not yet taken on board the TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[An Overture Too Early (short story)|An Overture Too Early]]'')
He later served as a messenger to the Doctor in another incarnation. In this capacity, he first encountered the [[Third Doctor]] when he appeared in [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] while the Doctor was with his [[companion]] [[Liz Shaw]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Shadow of the Past (audio story)|Shadow of the Past]]'') After the Doctor's defeat of [[Helios (Prisoners of the Sun)|Helios]], the messenger spoke to the wardens of [[Shada (prison)|Shada]], requesting that they release {{Delgado}} and keep the Doctor busy on Earth. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoners of the Sun (short story)|Prisoners of the Sun]]'') He then travelled to Earth to warn the Doctor of the Master's arrival and of an impending trap that the Master had set for the Doctor. When the Doctor asked for assistance in dealing with the trap, however, the messenger simply disappeared. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'') He was sent to see the Doctor again in order to persuade the Doctor not to travel with a [[William (Gone Fishing)|future companion]] whom the Doctor had not yet taken on board the TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[An Overture Too Early (short story)|An Overture Too Early]]'')


== Behind the scenes ==
== Appearance ==
* Adelphi first appeared in the [[1969 (releases)|1969]] serial ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'' as an unnamed Time Lord Councillor played by [[Trevor Martin]], who was credited as "Time Lord 2". He appeared again in [[1971 (releases)|1971's]] ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'' as a Time Lord messenger played by [[David Garth]]. [[Terrance Dicks]]' [[Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons (novelisation)|novelisation]] of ''Terror of the Autons'' revealed that the messenger had been part of the tribunal that sentenced the Doctor in ''The War Games''. The character finally received a name in ''[[The Legacy of Gallifrey (short story)|The Legacy of Gallifrey]]'' by [[Gary Russell]], a [[1975 (releases)|1975]] short story in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 100|100]] that provided an in-universe history of Gallifrey and the Time Lords. ''The Legacy of Gallifrey'' named the three members of the tribunal as [[Goth]], [[Socra]] and Adelphi. Because it explicitly established both Goth and Socra as separate from the Time Lord messenger, ''The Legacy of Gallifrey'' confirmed that Adelphi and the messenger were the same individual.
He was dressed as an [[England|English]] businessman, complete with [[bowler hat]] and [[umbrella]]. He compared his appearance to that of the Doctor's, stating that some Time Lords chose to remain inconspicuous. His disguise was somewhat compromised, however, by his first being seen to [[flying|hover in mid-air]], due to his co-ordinates having "slipped". ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'')
* Some time after he played Adelphi, [[Trevor Martin]] played another, much more illustrious [[Time Lord]] off-screen: [[the Doctor]] himself in [[The Doctor (Seven Keys to Doomsday)|a new incarnation]], first debuted in the play ''[[Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday]]'' and reprised in its audio drama adaptation ''[[Seven Keys to Doomsday (audio story)|Seven Keys to Doomsday]]''. The play was first performed in a theatre venue called the ''Adelphi'', hence the name given to Martin's earlier ''Doctor Who'' character by [[Gary Russell]].
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Revision as of 13:44, 14 June 2020

This page should be merged.

It should be relocated at Second Time Lord (The War Games) because The Legacy of Gallifrey identifies the First Time Lord in TWG as Goth and the Third Time Lord as Socra, the latter being explicitly a different person from the messenger in Terror of the Autons. By process of elimination, if he was also part of the Trial, this makes the Messenger the Second Time Lord (a page which, also on the faith of Legacy of Gallifrey, should be retitled Adelphi).
Talk about it here or check the revision history for additional comments.

A Time Lord messenger came to Earth to warn the newly exiled Third Doctor about events.

Biography

He was a member of the tribunal who sentenced the Second Doctor to exile on Earth, (TV: The War Games; PROSE: Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons) and also was a member of the High Council. He had been sent to the tribunal on orders of Lord President Pandad IV as a direct result of Rassilon's agent, Socra, being asked by his Matrix Lord masters to keep an eye on the Doctor. (PROSE: The Legacy of Gallifrey)

He first encountered the Third Doctor when he appeared in his TARDIS while the Doctor was with his companion Liz Shaw. (AUDIO: Shadow of the Past)

After the Doctor's defeat of Helios, the messenger spoke to the wardens of Shada, requesting that they release the Master and keep the Doctor busy on Earth. (PROSE: Prisoners of the Sun) He then travelled to Earth to warn the Doctor of the Master's arrival and of an impending trap that the Master had set for the Doctor. When the Doctor asked for assistance in dealing with the trap, however, the messenger simply disappeared. (TV: Terror of the Autons)

He was sent to see the Doctor again in order to persuade the Doctor not to travel with a future companion whom the Doctor had not yet taken on board the TARDIS. (PROSE: An Overture Too Early)

Appearance

He was dressed as an English businessman, complete with bowler hat and umbrella. He compared his appearance to that of the Doctor's, stating that some Time Lords chose to remain inconspicuous. His disguise was somewhat compromised, however, by his first being seen to hover in mid-air, due to his co-ordinates having "slipped". (TV: Terror of the Autons)

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