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|alias       = The Typhonian Beast, Set, Sadok, [[Satan]], Ssethissi, the Red God, the Jackal, the Pale God, the [[Abomination]]
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|image       = <gallery>Sutekh 2.jpg|Masked
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|first mention     = The Giggle (TV story)
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|species     = Osiran
|affiliation = The Pantheon
|origin      = [[Phaester Osiris]]
|brother    = Osiris
|brother2    = Horus
|father      = Geb (Ozymandias)
|spouse      = Nephthys
|sister      = Nephthys
|sister2    = Isis
|child      = Anubis
|first      = Pyramids of Mars (TV story)
|appearances = {{appears}}
|actor      = Gabriel Woolf
|clip        = TRANSMISSION FROM MARS
|clip2      = SUTEKH THE HERETIC - trailer for the new Gods and Monsters comic series from Cutaway Comics
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'''The One Who Waits''' was an individual active in [[the Doctor's universe]], with whom the Doctor was unfamiliar.  
'''Sutekh''', also known as '''Sutekh the Destroyer''', '''Setekh''', '''Set''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Set Piece (novel)|Set Piece]]'') '''Seth''' ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sands of Time (novel)|The Sands of Time]]'') or '''the Jackal''', ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Going Once, Going Twice (short story)|Going Once, Going Twice]]'') was an [[Osiran]] who planned to destroy all life in the [[universe]].
 
He feared all forms of life which might one day challenge his hegemony, and so became the destroyer of all living things. Beyond that, he believed his acts of destruction freed those he killed from the tyranny of hope and choice, instead delivering them with the certainty of death. He was imprisoned, trapped inside a forcefield that paralysed him.
 
==History==
===Origins===
Like in the [[Egypt]]ian myths on [[Earth]], Sutekh was the son of [[Geb (Ozymandias)|Geb]], ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ozymandias (audio story)|Ozymandias]]'') having been bred alongside [[Osiris]] (later reincarnated as [[Horus]]) to channel the power of [[Ra]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ship of a Billion Years (audio story)|The Ship of a Billion Years]]'') He was the husband of [[Nephthys]], who was also his and Horus's sister. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Sands of Time (novel)|The Sands of Time]]'')
 
Sutekh became "head of security" for the [[Osirian Court]], being its most fearsome and powerful warrior, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Judgment of Sutekh (audio story)|The Judgment of Sutekh]]'') the second and greatest of the "Three Divine Shields" who protected the sentient sun [[Ra]] ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ship of a Billion Years (audio story)|The Ship of a Billion Years]]'') from such threats as the [[serpent]]s created by the [[Great House]]s, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Coming to Dust (audio story)|Coming to Dust]]'') such as [[Apep]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Going Once, Going Twice (short story)|Going Once, Going Twice]]'') He eventually intimidated the Great Houses into making peace with the Osirians by releasing a [[Vampire|vampiric]] army of [[Mal'akh]]s on the medieval [[Mediterranean Sea|Mediterranean basin]], making a credible claim to the ability to upset the [[Web of Time|structure of History]] in a major way. After they had served their purpose, he left his Mal'akh army behind. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Coming to Dust (audio story)|Coming to Dust]]'')
 
===At war with the universe===
Jealous that [[Osiris]]' accomplishments civilising 660 worlds were being celebrated more than his own, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Coming to Dust (audio story)|Coming to Dust]]'') Sutekh killed him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ship of a Billion Years (audio story)|The Ship of a Billion Years]]'') Believing that he deserved to take over the throne of the Osirian Court, since it owed its survival to him, he made himself even more powerful than his fellow Osirians, taming the forces of the [[Outer Desert]], of which even Ra was afraid, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ship of a Billion Years (audio story)|The Ship of a Billion Years]]'') and making a bargain with the [[Kotturuh]], who allowed him to carry their "Gift of [[Death]]" himself. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Guide to the Dark Times (short story)|The Guide to the Dark Times]]'')
 
After Osiris was resurrected as [[Horus]] in the body of [[Cousin (rank)|Cousin]] [[Christine Summerfield|Eliza]], Sutekh declared a [[time war]] against Horus for the Osirian throne. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Ozymandias (audio story)|Ozymandias]]'') As recalled by the [[Fourth Doctor]], Sutekh destroyed his home [[planet]] [[Phaester Osiris]] and subsequently left a "trail of havoc across half the galaxy". During this time, he was called many names on every civilised world, including the Typhonian Beast, Set, Sadok, and [[Satan]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'') Among the planets where Sutekh and the [[Osiran]]s fought was [[Youkali]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Return of the Living Dad (novel)|Return of the Living Dad]]'') The two armies fought a great battle in [[Egypt]]; at the end, Sutekh found his traitorous wife Nephthys and a heavily-wounded Horus in the [[Temple of Geb]]. Horus (in reality, just Eliza pretending to be Horus) begged Sutekh to finish the battle, complaining about being tired of fighting and Sutekh's boringness. Angered, Sutekh ripped out Horus' heart.
 
Elated at killing his opponent and winning the contest, Sutekh told Nephthys that he planned to erase Horus' name from the universe. However, she claimed that Faction Paradox would always remember and resist Sutekh's claim to the throne. Though Cousin [[Justine McManus|Justine]] had gone into hiding, Sutekh read from Nephthys' mind that the Faction had allies in the [[18th century]].
 
On [[16 October]], [[1764]], Sutekh forced [[John Pennerton]] to direct the [[Society of Sigismondo di Rimini]] to declare war on Faction Paradox and seek out its members. Though the society had found no trace of Justine by [[8 November]], Sutekh felt an "intrusion" in [[Volanto]]. There he found [[Abelard Finton]], who he tortured ruthlessly until he divulged that the [[TARDIS|timeship]] was in the [[Mediterranean Sea]] and Justine had returned to the Osirian Court. Sutekh then brought Finton to Pennerton and released them both from his control; Finton died shortly thereafter.
 
Going to the Mediterranean, Sutekh found not Justine's timeship but the [[barge]] of Geb, who was investigating [[Corwyn Marne]]'s claim that Sutekh had left for Earth. When confronted, Geb said that he'd found Sutekh's body on [[Mars]], barely alive, and buried him in a [[pyramid]] while a proper prison was built. Angry and outraged, Sutekh attacked Geb and dumped him in the Temple of Geb, just in time to watch an earlier version of Sutekh kill Horus.
 
Above the Osirian Court, Sutekh confronted the simulacrum copy of Justine, accompanied by an earlier version of Finton, in the [[Ship of a Billion Years]]. This simulacrum had been trained to resist Sutekh's mind control, and when he opened a direct channel between their minds during his attack, she lashed out with her [[shadow-weapon]], revealing herself to be the real Justine, hidden behind a bio-screen built by [[Anubis]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Judgment of Sutekh (audio story)|The Judgment of Sutekh]]'') The ensuing duel saw the two "wrestling in the oxidised dirt" of [[Mars]], knocking the very world from its temporal foundations, making it "uncertain"; this caused the existence of [[Ice Warrior|the native species of Martians]], who had been worshipping the Osirians as gods, to be reduced to a state of flux forever after; they "existed one moment, and did not the next," as [[Gustav (Hark! The Herald Angels Sing)|Gustav]] explained. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Going Once, Going Twice (short story)|Going Once, Going Twice]]'')
 
Ultimately, Horus succeeded in severing some of Sutekh's neural connections, dumped him on Mars, and called Geb to tell him to look there. At Sutekh's funeral, almost the entire Osirian Court came to pay its respects. Justine and Horus agreed to tell the Court that Sutekh had been cornered on [[Earth]] by Horus' seven-hundred-and-some fellow warriors. This version of events was repeated in the official records and legends of Earth and throughout the galaxy. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Judgment of Sutekh (audio story)|The Judgment of Sutekh]]'')
 
===Imprisonment===
The Fourth Doctor repeated this claim to [[Sarah Jane Smith]], saying that 740 Osirans led by Horus had cornered and defeated Sutekh on Earth. Sarah recognised the name from the 740 gods recorded in the tomb of [[Thutmose III]].
 
As both the Doctor and Professor [[Marcus Scarman]] would later discover, Sutekh was entombed but alive in a pyramid in [[Saqqara]] in Egypt. The Doctor claimed that Horus left Sutekh in the tomb for seven thousand years by [[1911]]. The [[Eye of Horus]] on Mars beamed a signal to suppress Sutekh's powers and hold him prisoner. The tales of the Osirans were remembered in Egyptian mythology. Sutekh still retained a [[cult]] of followers, such as [[Ibrahim Namin]]; ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'') after his imprisonment, he had taken on the name of "the Red God" and was recognised, though reviled, in the cults of ancient Egypt as a god of evil. [[The Legend of Sutekh]], passed down through generations of worshippers of [[Horus]], claimed that Sutekh's worshippers were invariably "dissolute of heart" and that they could be recognised by the reddening of the whites of their eyes. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Background (DWPM 8 short story)|Background]]'')
 
In [[1903]], after receiving a wealth of information from the future, [[Grigori Rasputin]] foresaw, among other things, the coming of this Egyptian god. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Wanderer (audio story)|The Wanderer]]'')
===Freed by Scarman===
In 1911, the archaeologist Professor [[Marcus Scarman]] excavated the inner chamber of the pyramid beneath which Sutekh was imprisoned, discovering Sutekh and thereby accidentally allowing him a chance of escape. Sutekh controlled Scarman's corpse, using it and [[Osiran service robot]]s to construct an [[Osiran war missile]] in an [[England|English]] priory aimed at the Eye of Horus on Mars. The Fourth Doctor and Sarah were able to destroy the missile, but the Doctor fell under the psychic control of Sutekh's will as a result. He was made to take Scarman and the robots to Mars in [[the Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]].
 
Despite the Doctor's attempt to stop them after surviving an attempt on his life by one of Sutekh's robots, Scarman destroyed the Eye and freed Sutekh. Hurrying back to Earth, the Doctor defeated Sutekh by delaying his trip in a [[time tunnel|time corridor]] to the priory by moving the corridor's threshold to the far future, thus effectively ageing him to death; the Doctor thought he had lived for seven thousand years before succumbing. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'')
===Imprisoned in the Eternals' Void===
[[File:Anubekh confers with Sutekh.jpg|left|thumb|[[Anubekh]] contacts the original Sutekh, still trapped in the Void. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Old Girl (comic story)|Old Girl]]'')]]
However, Sutekh survived by "stepping sideways" at the last moment, remaining trapped in a sort of [[limbo]] state in [[the Void]], alive and unaging, but once more unable to move, let alone leave. However, a [[Anubekh|fragment of Sutekh's mind]] whom he had planted in the [[biodata]] of his son [[Anubis]] before his imprisonment managed to take over Anubis's body and put into motion a plan to free Sutekh and remerge with him to recover his original body. While in the Void, Sutekh struck reluctant bargains with many of the other horrors banished there to have them follow him into [[N-Space|the universe]], to which, being a native of it, he was still more tethered than they. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Old Girl (comic story)|Old Girl]]'')
===Escape & return to power===
[[File:Sutekh battling gods.jpg|thumb|right|Sutekh expends his newfound power battling other gods. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Old Girl (comic story)|Old Girl]]'')]]
After emerging back into the universe through the [[Circle of Transcendence]], Sutekh spent some time hunting down two the abominations which whom he had bargained: he destroyed the [[King Nocturne]] altogether and cast [[the Destroyer]] back into the Circle. In truth, expecting the [[Tenth Doctor]], who was present on the ''[[Shining Horizon]]'' when Sutekh reemerged, to try and reverse the dimensional conduits to suck Sutekh back into the Void, Sutekh had deliberately "plugged" the Circle with the biomass of [[the Destroyer]]. Hence, when the Doctor tried to spring his trap, Sutekh redirected the energy towards himself, using it to rejuvenate his physical form. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Old Girl (comic story)|Old Girl]]'')
 
===A war of gods===
Draining some of [[Anubis]]'s psyche to stabilise the result, Sutekh merged back with [[Anubekh]] and returned to his full power. However, before he could destroy the Doctor, the Time Lord addressed the other released gods (who included one of the [[Gods of Ragnarok]] and the [[Dragon (The Infinite Corridor)|Dragon]]). He pointed out how Sutekh had already betrayed two of the deities he had bargained with in the Void, also noting that so long as they existed in the physical realm, the gods counted as "[[life]]", and were thus the natural enemies of Sutekh. In the end, [[Dorothy Bell]] herself revealed her identity as the mortal incarnation of his own [[Hand of Sutekh]] to him. She used her abilities as the Hand to partially merge with Sutekh, trapping him in her embrace, and then pulled him back into the Void with her, giving up her own freedom for the universe and to save [[the Doctor]] from making this sacrifice in her place. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Old Girl (comic story)|Old Girl]]'')
 
===Later confrontations with the Doctor===
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Only the body of Sutekh was defeated by the Doctor. Years later, his [[consciousness]] found a way into a new body created for him using an Osirian flesh loom. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Pyramid of Sutekh (audio story)|The Pyramid of Sutekh]]'') He escaped from Mars and travelled back in time to the reign of [[Hatshepsut]], in order to coerce [[Tutmosis]] to usurp his mother's throne and start his reign of terror on the world. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Eye of Horus (audio story)|The Eye of Horus]]'')
 
He thought he had destroyed the world by the time of the [[21st century]] which surprised [[Russell Courtland]] who had predicted it. He went across the Earth devouring in his wake but left his worshippers till last. The [[Seventh Doctor]] tricked him by showing him the solar flare ravaged Earth in the [[29th century]]. He went back in time to start over again, and this created an [[ouroboros loop]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Tears of Isis (audio story)|The Tears of Isis]]'')
 
Sutekh later encountered the [[Fourth Doctor]] and [[Leela]] on the planet [[Drummond]]. Sutekh was using the Rene.net to control the populace to "Kill the Doctor!" and to transform Drummond into the new home of the Osirans. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Kill the Doctor! (audio story)|Kill the Doctor!]]'', ''[[The Age of Sutekh (audio story)|The Age of Sutekh]]'')
 
===Other references===
When the [[Skith Leader]] scanned the [[Tenth Doctor]]'s mind, Sutekh was among the alien creatures shown to him. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The First (comic story)|The First]]'')
 
In the course of his [[astral projection|astral travels]], [[William Burroughs]] once found himself in "an Egyptian court torn apart by the conflict between Horus and Sutekh". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ugly Spirit (short story)|The Ugly Spirit]]'')
 
==Personality==
{{Simplequote|Evil? Your evil is my good. I am Sutekh the Destroyer. Where I tread I leave nothing but dust and darkness. I find that good.|Sutekh|Pyramids of Mars (TV story)}}
Sutekh was somewhat paranoid, fearing that all lifeforms might potentially rise up against him. This paranoia led to his decision to destroy all life wherever he found it, with his name being known and abominated on all civilised worlds throughout the universe. Despite this, he was extremely intelligent and patient. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'')
 
Even the [[Mal'akh]] he had enslaved, whose will he broke until they told him that they loved him, were but a means to an end for Sutekh, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Coming to Dust (audio story)|Coming to Dust]]'') as they were to [[Upuat]] after he freed them from Suteh's control. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ship of a Billion Years (audio story)|The Ship of a Billion Years]]'')
 
When speaking to the [[Tenth Doctor]] on the reasons for all his actions, Sutekh justifies himself by claiming that [[evil]] and cruelty are inevitable in [[life]], so he was merely taking everything to its logical end of becoming dust and [[darkness]]. He further claimed that he was liberating all life from having the terror of choice and the tyranny of [[hope]] to give them the certainty of [[death]] instead, therefore in his mind he was being [[good]] by ending suffering throughout the universe, a logic that the Doctor noted was wrong in the end. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Old Girl (comic story)|Old Girl]]'')
 
==Powers and abilities==
Sutekh possessed immense power: he could change the course of history and destroy entire star systems. The [[Fourth Doctor]] once took [[Sarah Jane Smith]] to an [[Alternate Earth|alternate]] [[1980]], where the [[Earth]] had become a ruined and abandoned wasteland orbiting a dead star due to the destruction Sutekh caused. According to the Doctor, not even the [[Time Lord]]s could stop Sutekh when he was in possession of his full powers. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'') [[Lolita]] said that if he became king of the Osirian Court, he would become the single greatest threat to life in the universe. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Judgment of Sutekh (audio story)|The Judgment of Sutekh]]'')
 
Even when he was trapped and his powers limited, he was able to contain the explosive force of [[gelignite]] from miles away, although this was difficult and could be easily disrupted by a simple distraction. He had telekinesis, enabling him to levitate the [[TARDIS key]]. He boasted that he could keep his victims alive for centuries in excruciating pain, and his mental abilities allowed him to easily dominate others, making them puppets to his will. He also appeared to be able to telepathically read other beings, even those established to have psychic defenses, ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Judgment of Sutekh (audio story)|The Judgment of Sutekh]]'') and he could monitor progress several thousand miles away with the aid of Osiran computer technology. This included reanimating corpses for servants, as he did with [[Marcus Scarman]]. He could focus his power through these servants, enabling them to burn people to death with a touch, and was able to destroy the [[Eye of Horus]] on [[Mars]] from Earth when Scarman was within a few metres of it. Whenever he used his powers, his eyes glowed green. He could project a mental image of himself anywhere, easily breaking through the defensive mechanisms of [[the Doctor's TARDIS]] to do so. ([[TV]]: ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'')


After emerging back into the universe and before his original body was completely recovered, Sutekh was still capable of obliterating a whole planet with merely a hand gesture. He was powerful enough to easily destroy [[King Nocturne]], a [[Conceptual entity|conceptual being]], and demonstrated his skills as a warrior by overpowering a group of other god-like abominations from [[the Void]] itself. He had the ability to blast beams of green energy from his eyes and hands to kill or disintegrate his enemies into dust. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Old Girl (comic story)|Old Girl]]'')
== Biography ==
Once [[the Toymaker]] managed to escape into the universe, he found the One Who Waits "hiding". Whilst the Toymaker had bested the [[Guardian of Time|Guardians of Time and Space]], the dying [[Spy Master]] and "[[God (mythology)|God]]", he opted to flee rather than challenge the One Who Waits to a game. He later told the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] of his decision to flee from the One Who Waits, with whom the Doctor was not familiar, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}}) something the Toymaker found "hilarious". The Toymaker thus decided not to spoil the surprise, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Giggle (novelisation)}}) instead cryptically telling the Doctor it was "someone else's game". ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Giggle (TV story)}})


Despite other Osirians needing a barge to handle the heat of the [[star]] [[Ra]], Sutekh could safely stand next to Ra without any protection. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Ship of a Billion Years (audio story)|The Ship of a Billion Years]]'') He was also able to stop and reverse the materialisation of [[Mortega]]'s [[TARDIS|timeship]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Body Politic (audio story)|Body Politic]]'')
As they were banished out of the universe, the Toymaker's child [[Maestro]] snarled a warning to the [[Fifteenth Doctor]] that the One Who Waits was "almost here". They had previously mentioned yet another member of [[the Pantheon]] to which they and the Toymaker belonged as [[the Oldest One]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Devil's Chord (TV story)}})


Sutekh was extremely intelligent, with an immense knowledge of Osiran technology, time-travel, and other alien sciences. He was very charismatic and manipulative when he wants to, capable of creating a long and complex plan of recovering his original body, have revenge on the Doctor, and tricking other god-like beings to ally with him before betraying them. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Old Girl (comic story)|Old Girl]]'')
== References ==
In [[The Giggle (in-universe novelisation)|his novelisation]] of his battle with the Doctor, the Toymaker promised the Doctor's inevitable encounter with The One Who Waits would be novelised as ''[[Doctor Who and the I'm Not Going to Tell You]]''. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Giggle (novelisation)}})


==Behind the scenes==
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[[File:Oh Mummy 1.jpg|thumb|Sutekh in the pseudo-documentary ''[[Oh Mummy! (home video)|Oh Mummy!]]'']]
*In real-life ancient Egyptian mythology, Sutekh is one of the many names for Set, the god of the deserts.
*When ''[[Pyramids of Mars (TV story)|Pyramids of Mars]]'' came out on DVD, included in it was a pseudo documentary called "''[[Oh Mummy! (home video)|Oh Mummy!]]''", which told the fictional account of how Sutekh landed the role in the story and his life afterwards.
*At [[Jon Culshaw]]'s suggestion, ''[[The Box of Terrors (audio story)|The Box of Terrors]]'' was originally to feature Sutekh, alongside [[Omega]], as a cataclysmic villain for the Doctors to face. However, Sutekh did not make it into the story, with Culshaw citing rights issues. [[The Six]] was used instead. ([[BFX]]: ''[[The Box of Terrors (audio story)|The Box of Terrors]]'')


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Revision as of 02:22, 15 June 2024

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The One Who Waits was an individual active in the Doctor's universe, with whom the Doctor was unfamiliar.

Biography

Once the Toymaker managed to escape into the universe, he found the One Who Waits "hiding". Whilst the Toymaker had bested the Guardians of Time and Space, the dying Spy Master and "God", he opted to flee rather than challenge the One Who Waits to a game. He later told the Fourteenth Doctor of his decision to flee from the One Who Waits, with whom the Doctor was not familiar, (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) something the Toymaker found "hilarious". The Toymaker thus decided not to spoil the surprise, (PROSE: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (novelisation)"]) instead cryptically telling the Doctor it was "someone else's game". (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])

As they were banished out of the universe, the Toymaker's child Maestro snarled a warning to the Fifteenth Doctor that the One Who Waits was "almost here". They had previously mentioned yet another member of the Pantheon to which they and the Toymaker belonged as the Oldest One. (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])

References

In his novelisation of his battle with the Doctor, the Toymaker promised the Doctor's inevitable encounter with The One Who Waits would be novelised as Doctor Who and the I'm Not Going to Tell You. (PROSE: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (novelisation)"])