Fred

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

The Doctor was a future incarnation of himself first encountered by his seventh incarnation at Bonjaxx's birthday party.

Biography

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 was also known to wear a badge shaped like a teapot. (DWM: Party Animals)

While traveling alone, the Doctor developed amnesia and re-named himself Fred. (BBV: Cyber-Hunt, Vital Signs)

Other information

• 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)

Behind the scenes

Audio Visuals

This incarnation of the Doctor, played by Nicholas Briggs, first appeared in The 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.

External links

• The Doctor at Doctor Who Expanded