List of multi-Doctor stories
A multi-Doctor story is a story featuring two or more different incarnations of the Doctor. There are several different ways a "multi-Doctor story" can be defined; here, stories are sorted according to several different definitions. This list includes stories with flashbacks, but excludes stories featuring only pictures or archive footage of other incarnations.
Note: Some stories fall into multiple categories. For instance, though the War, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and alternate Twelfth Doctors appear in COMIC: Four Doctors, the Tenth, Eleventh, Twelfth, and alternate Twelfth Doctors interact directly; the War Doctor appears only in a flashback separate from the rest; and while the Ninth Doctor is in the same location as his three successors, he does not notice them. For the purposes of this list, Four Doctors is listed three times.
In series 10, The Doctor Falls acted as both a multi-Doctor story with a brief appearance by the First Doctor at the end and a multi-Master story as it featured the Harold Saxon incarnation of the Master and the Missy incarnation.
Direct encounters
In these stories, multiple incarnations of the Doctor encounter each other directly, either in person, through a screen, through a phone, through a psychic link, etc. Italicisation means that the relevant Doctor did not directly encounter another Doctor in the story.
Separate narratives
In these stories, multiple incarnations of the Doctor appear in the same story, but at least one does not encounter other incarnation(s) as they are in separate times and/or places. This includes flashbacks and audio/video recordings of a separate incarnation.
Close proximity
In these stories, multiple incarnations of the Doctor are in the same time and place, but do not encounter each other. This includes scenarios where one incarnation sees another incarnation without the latter incarnation's knowledge.
Manifestation
In these stories, multiple incarnations of the Doctor are in the same story, but some are manifestations inside the Doctor's mind, in a dream, created by the Matrix, in a video game, etc.
(Bold denotes the real incarnations in the story.)
Regeneration
In these stories, the Doctor regenerates or bi-generates into their next incarnation.
Retro-regeneration
In these stories, the Doctor temporarily retro-regenerates (i.e. is de-aged) into past incarnation(s).
| Year | Story | F | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | W | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | COMIC: Timeslip | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | ||||||||||||||
| 1985 | COMIC: Funhouse | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 1991 | PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys | 3 | 7 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1994 | PROSE: State of Change | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||||
| 2015 | COMIC: The Fountains of Forever | 9 | 10 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | COMIC: The Then and the Now [8] | 1 | W | 11 | The Curator | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | COMIC: Outrun | W | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||||||||||||||
| 2016 | COMIC: Running to Stay Still | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | |||||||||
| 2017 | AUDIO: The Lost Magic | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | W | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | |||||
| 2023 | AUDIO: Past Lives | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |||||||||||
| 2023 | AUDIO: The Artist at the End of Time | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 7 | ||||||||||||
| 2023 | AUDIO: A Genius For War | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | AUDIO: Two's Company | 3 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | AUDIO: The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50 | 1 | 3 | 10 | |||||||||||||||
| 2023 | AUDIO: The Union | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | W | 10 | 11 | 12 |
Same incarnation
In these stories, two or more of the same incarnation of the Doctor appear.
| Year | Story | F | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | W | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | TV: The Space Museum | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1972 | TV: Day of the Daleks | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1974 | COMIC: Who's Who? | 3 | Alternate Third Doctor | ||||||||||||||||
| 2004 | AUDIO: Caerdroia | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2005 | TV: Father's Day | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | AUDIO: Mary's Story | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2009 | AUDIO: The Eternal Summer | 5 | Lord of the Manor | ||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | TV: Flesh and Stone | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | TV: The Big Bang | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | AUDIO: A Death in the Family | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | TV: Time | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | HOMEVID: Last Night | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | AUDIO: The Wrong Doctors | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | TV: Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | TV: Before the Flood | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | TV: Heaven Sent | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | TV: Hell Bent | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | AUDIO: Vortex Ice | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | PROSE: The Veil | 12 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | AUDIO: Harry Houdini's War | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | TV: The Vanquishers | 13 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | AUDIO: The Lost | 10 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | AUDIO: Girl, Deconstructed | 9 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | AUDIO: The Firstborn | 6 |
Duplicates
In these stories, the Doctor meets a duplicated version of themself.
Lookalikes
In these stories, the Doctor encounters people who physically resemble them. At least on one occasion, he claimed to have unintentionally "chosen the face" of a person whom he met in the past, as "a reminder". (TV: The Girl Who Died)
| Year | Story | F | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | W | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1966 | TV: The Massacre | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1967 1968 |
TV: The Enemy of the World | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1983 | TV: Arc of Infinity | 5 | 6 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1995 | PROSE: The Empire of Glass | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | COMIC: TV Action! | 4 | 8 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2005 | AUDIO: Other Lives | 8 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | TV: The Fires of Pompeii | 10 | 12 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | AUDIO: Tsar Wars | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | COMIC: The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | AUDIO: My Dinner with Andrew | 5 |
Imposters
In these stories, the Doctor encounters people, who alter their appearance to look like them or just claim to be another of their incarnations.
Memory
In these stories, one or more Doctors appear through the memory of a Doctor (either seen inside their own mind or projected through their mind).
(Bold represents the Doctor who is experiencing the memories)
| Year | Story | F | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | W | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | TV: Day of the Daleks | 1 | 2 | 3 | |||||||||||||||
| 1976 | TV: The Brain of Morbius | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | Morbius Doctors | |||||||||||||
| 2010 | TV: The Eleventh Hour | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | |||||||
| 2010 | TV: The Lodger | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | ||||||||||
| 2015 | COMIC: Weapons of Past Destruction | 8 | W | 9 | |||||||||||||||
| 2015 | TV: The Girl Who Died | 10 | 12 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2020 | TV: The Timeless Children | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | W | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | Morbius Doctors | |||
| 2021 | TV: Once, Upon Time | F | 13 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2022 | AUDIO: Salvation | 10 | 13 | ||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | TV: The Giggle | 1 | 14 |
Parodies
Doctor Who parodies commonly featured sardonic use of "multi-Doctor" and regeneration stories.
Footnotes
- ↑ Many alternate versions of the Doctor.
- ↑ The First and Twelfth Doctor regenerate into their respective successors, who do not meet another incarnation.
- ↑ In this story, the Fugitive Doctor appears in a memory, or rather a re-enactment, but also interacts directly with the Thirteenth Doctor in her reflection.
- ↑ A Doctor described as a "small, dishevelled man with an air of sadness." This may be the Second or Seventh Doctor.
- ↑ It is unclear what incarnation of the Doctor has materialised in the TARDIS in front of the copy of Sara Kingdom.
- ↑ The Twelfth Doctor does not encounter any other incarnations.
- ↑ The War Doctor does not encounter any other incarnations.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 A time distortion causes the First Doctor and the Curator appear around the Eleventh Doctor. The War Doctor does not encounter any other incarnations.
- ↑ The Thirteenth Doctor on the cliff.
- ↑ One of the first four incarnations.
- ↑ The Ninth Doctor is in the same room as his next three successors, but he does not see them.
- ↑ Alternate Doctor talks to the vision of her previous incarnation.
- ↑ Seen as possible future incarnations in the Tomorrow Window.
- ↑ The First through Eleventh Doctor appear at the end looking at Gallifrey from a cloud.
- ↑ Appears as a form of holo-me.
- ↑ This story, originally written before Russell T Davies learned of Steven Moffat's plans for The Day of the Doctor, depicts the Eighth Doctor regenerating directly into a Ninth Doctor of ambiguous identity, though implied to be Christopher Eccleston's televised incarnation..
- ↑ Resembles the Doctor (Party Animals) and the Doctor (Exile)
- ↑ Not played by Sylvester McCoy.
- ↑ Pretended to be a new incarnation of the Doctor.
