Fred

Fred
Place of origin:	Gallifrey
Appearances:	DWM: Party Animals BBV: Cyber-Hunt BBV: Vital Signs
Main actor:	[[actor::Nicholas Briggs|Nicholas Briggs]]

Template:NcThe Doctor was a future incarnation of himself first encountered by 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.

Biography

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Travels with Ria and Truman

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Justyce will be Served

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Other Adventures

Accompanied by his companion, Ria, this version of the Doctor greeted his incarnation and Ace at Maruthea during Bonjaxx's birthday celebration. Though close-mouthed about it, he implied that the Time Lords 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.

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.

Other information

• This incarnation of the Doctor, traveling alone, may have developed amnesia and re-named himself Fred. (BBV: Cyber-Hunt, Vital Signs)
• In an alternate timeline, this incarnation of the Doctor may have committed suicide and regenerated into a woman to hide from the Time Lords. (DWU: Exile)

Key Life Events

• The Doctor regenerates and battles the Daleks and gains two new companions in the forms of Nadia and Greg Holmes. (AV: The Time Ravagers)
• Nadia electrocutes herself during one of his adventures, killing her instantly. (AV: Connection 13)
• Encounters Conglomerate, the multi-galaxy spanning consortium for the first time. (AV: Conglomerate)
• Faces the Psionovores and his own mortality. (AV: The Cloud of Fear)
• Encounters Askran for the first time and learns of the existance of Sargol, a highly addictive drug that affects the mind. (AV: Shadow World)
• Visits Cal 2 and gains a new companion in the form of Ria, an artificial construct created by Cal 2's pleasure dome. He is viciously assaulted by one of Rayden's henchmen where in the resulting confusion he smashes a canister of sargol over his head. The Doctor will begin to feel the effects of the sargol withdrawl. (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. (AV: The Mutant Phase)
• Meets Cuthbert the man behind Conglomerate. (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. (AV: The Second Solution)
• Visits Nematoda and picks up a new companion, Truman Crouch. (AV: The Secret of Nematoda)
• Battles against Cuthbert once more in an Eternal construct built to amuse them in their millenia long boredom. (AV: Enclave Irrelative)
• Causes the destruction of Majus-7 when he refuses to be with the planet's avatar despite her pleas otherwise. He has started to succumb to his Sargol withdrawl. (AV: The Time Ravagers)
• Battles against the Cybermen for the first time and encounters an android from the Orion War. Truman is captured by forces unknown and the TARDIS is set to dematerialise far from the Doctor's location. (AV: Sword of Orion)
• Following AV: Sword of Orion, Truman is returned to the TARDIS and Ria is captured instead. The Doctor attempts to locate Ria through use of the TARDIS' telepathic circuits to communicate with other TARDISes in the local continuum. Unable to do so, the Doctor succumbs to his Sargol addiction and is forced into a nightmare world built out of his own warped fears, emotions and memories. (AV: Carny)
• Battles the Daleks once last time and discovers Gallifrey has been utterly devastated by an unknown cataclysmic effect. The Daleks are scavenging the remnants of Time Lord technology to become the new masters of time. The Doctor is surgically operated on, his mind mentally linked with the Emperor of the Daleks, and his companions replaced with Dalek replicants. Ria and her estranged sister are both exterminated by the Daleks with the Doctor apparently surging to his death in the bomb-laden Star Rover. (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. (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. (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. (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. 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.' (AV: Endurance)
• Tricks the Necromancer into apparently incinerating a young changeling girl... but the Doctor substituted a replica. Justyce creates a cruel twist, re-substituting the real girl. The Doctor is grief-striken. (AV: Mythos)
• Justyce constructs an elaborate deception, falsifying his identity in the process. It is revealed that Justyce's creation is the result of a Time Paradox 'accidentally' caused by the Doctor (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. Justyce, apparently the embodiment of the pain and anguish of the Solaadons, subjects the Doctor to an emotional ordeal. 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.' (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... (AV: Geopath)
• The Doctor battles Justyce once final time, discovering that if he stops the peaceful Solaadons' destruction there will be no horrible atrocity, hence, Justyce will no longer exist. Justyce is destroyed and the Doctor resolves to depart to a peaceful life elsewhere. (AV: Justyce)
• Landing on Carson's Planet sometime during the Cyber Wars, the Doctor encounters a single surviving Cyberon assault trooper and suffers amnesia. Discovering a Cyber-research facility, where nanites are being constructed to cybernetically convert targets from the inside out, the Doctor destroys the Cybermen's command ship and later regains his memory. He departs in the TARDIS to other adventures. (BBV: Cyber-Hunt)
• After having the TARDIS buried in the snowy tundra, the Doctor and his new companion Kevin discover that the museum he has come to visit has been recently attacked by artificial wolves attributed to the Vitalica, an ancient artefact that should never have left it's native homeworld. Following the death of the Director of the museum, the Doctor, with his new companion Kevin depart to new adventures in the TARDIS. (BBV: Vital Signs)

Behind the Scenes

Audio Visuals

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.

During the course of the AudioVisuals story Planet of Lies, the Daleks succeed in destroying Gallifrey. When this version of the Doctor meets the Seventh Doctor, he obliquely hints at this.

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." [1]

Other appearances

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.

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 current Doctor's past incarnation.

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 Daleks. The play concluded with the use of the Time Destructor, which forced the Doctor's regeneration into a new incarnation played by Briggs.

A false incarnation of the Doctor appearing in DWM: The Final Chapter and DWM: Wormwood was modelled upon this Doctor.

The Wanderer/Fred

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.