Sixth Doctor
As loud in clothing as he was in voice, the Sixth Doctor would often browbeat others into submission with his savage wit and grammarian's interest in language. Passionate, warm and virtuous, this incarnation of the Doctor held a thunderous and turbulent exterior that initially manifested as righteous indignation or smug self-satisfaction, but, as he acquired a larger entourage of companions, he mellowed out of his faults and became a man of genuine zest and charm.
He was profoundly difficult with his first companion, Peri Brown, even strangling her out of sheer paranoia mere hours after his regeneration. While their relationship remained vitriolic during their adventures on Telos and Varos, the Doctor's affirmation on Peri's importance to him during their battle against the First Rani and the Tremas Master at Killingworth proved that he was someone she could rely upon, even if he indulged in more extreme solutions, such as killing the Androgum Shockeye in an act of pure self-preservation. While taking some solo adventures to mellow out of his violent tendencies, the Doctor faced Davros again and also briefly reunited with Tegan Jovanka, with him and Peri later meeting H. G. Wells during an adventure on Karfel and stopping Davros' schemes at Tranquil Repose.
Further adventures to the likes of Blackpool and Magnus improved their bond to the point that Peri looked to the Doctor for strength after her mother's death, which also untethered her from Earth and allowed her to devote herself to traveling in the TARDIS. Though they were duped by temporary companion Joe Carnaby into reviving his Were Lord brethren, the pair had a better relationship with their next companion, the Whifferdill Frobisher, whom the Doctor met while Peri was staying in 1985 New York City, though he chose to leave the TARDIS sometime after they saw Jamie McCrimmon die fighting the Cybermen.
The Doctor and Peri continued to travel together until they were separated shortly after their trip to Ravolox, when the Doctor was forced to stand trial against the Time Lords in an impartial inquiry on his character, where his prosecutor, the Valeyard, showed him Peri being killed Thoros Beta. The Doctor tried to explain he would improve in the future by showing an adventure he would had with Mel Bush on the Hyperion III, only to then be charged with genocide against the Vervoids. However, the arrival of the Master showed the trial to be a farce orchestrated by the Timer Lords to discredit the Doctor, and also revealed the Valeyard to be a future personification of the Doctor himself, using the trial for his own agenda. After he managed to defeat the Valeyard, the Doctor was told that Peri was still alive, the reports on her death having been falsified.
Although he left the trial happy in the knowledge that Peri had married, the revelation that the Valeyard's dubious existence was tied to his own left the Doctor to fall into a depression and try to live reclusively, even when taking on companions such as Grant Markham and Mathew Sharpe, until the Fates reassured him that becoming the Valeyard was but one of many possible timeline restored him from his funk. Now seeking out Peri, the Doctor learnt that the Time Lords' manipulations on Thoros Beta had spawned multiple versions of her. He also spent time stranded in 1890s London, where he became reacquainted with Henry Gordon Jago and Professor George Litefoot, even taking them on a quick trip after retrieving his TARDIS.
During a visit to Sheffield Hallam University, the Doctor found himself being forced to take on history lecturer Evelyn Smythe as a companion, with her verbal dexterity being on par with his own. While being troubled again by Thomas Brewster led them to meeting Flip Jackson and Patricia Menzies, it was their battles with Nimrod and the Forge that saw the Doctor learn true humility from Evelyn when she confronted him on his flippant attitude towards death. Now reassured that the life he thought would be "short, but sweet", could progressed further, the Doctor continued to travel with Evelyn until she chose to settle down on Világ.
The Doctor's following adventures saw him reunite with Frobisher, befriend Jason, Crystal and Zog, briefly travel with UNIT operatives Will Hoffman and Emily Chaudhry, try to unravel the mystery of Charley Pollard until she was erased from his memory, and return to the Land of Fiction to help Zoe Heriot fend of the Cybermen with a fictional construct of Jamie.
As he was slowly manipulated by the Valeyard across different moments of his life, the Doctor found himself reuniting with Flip while stopping Davros from altering the Battle of Waterloo, and she joined him as a companion until she left to marry Jared Ramon just before the Doctor was rejoined in his travels by one of the versions of Peri. While traveling alone, the Doctor took on Bletchley Park WREN Constance Clarke as a companion, and they were swiftly joined by Flip when they found her in 1948 Vienna, with the trio forming the "TARDIS Gang".
Eventually, the Doctor found himself meeting Mel Bush at Pease Pottage during an Auton invasion, and invited her to join him as a companion, fulfilling the future he had seen at his trial. Although he was annoyed by Mel's insistence on making him exercise and maintain a diet, the pair came to form a close friendship as they voyaged to planets like Generios 1, Lethe and Oxyveguramosa. Their travels saw the Doctor reunite with Evelyn, and later be joined by one of her old students, Hebe Harrison.
Accounts vary on just how the Sixth Doctor regenerated, though they all agree that his final flight saw him and Mel drawn to Lakertya by the Rani. While one account depicted him suffering a fatal head blow when his TARDIS was suddenly ensnared in a tractor beam before he could activate the defences, two differing accounts would elaborate that the Doctor was manipulated into ensuring his own demise in the attack by the unborn Seventh Doctor and Fenric. A second account attributed his inability to survive the attack as being from fatigue after sacrificing his chronon energy to stop Monica Lamprey destroying the multiverse. A third account showed the Doctor having to arrange his own demise to prevent the Valeyard's plan to replace every Time Lord in existence by sending a message back down his timeline and coercing his younger self into entering the Lakertyan System and regenerating after being exposed to focused radiation beams that were fatal to Time Lords. Whatever the reasons, all accounts agreed that the Sixth Doctor regenerated into his successor once his TARDIS was forced onto Lakertya by the Rani.
Biography
A day to come
The First Doctor would occasionally have premonitions of his future incarnations, (PROSE: A Big Hand for the Doctor [+]Loading...["A Big Hand for the Doctor (short story)"]) and there was a rumour that he was able to glimpse his first seven regenerations during a game of Eighth Man Bound. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet [+]Loading...["Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)"], Lungbarrow [+]Loading...["Lungbarrow (novel)"])
When the First Doctor learned that he was diverted from the South Pole by "forces from the future" to stop him from becoming an incarnation that would play a key role in a future conflict, he was informed by the Player that he would have "lots of new faces" before he regenerated into the incarnation involved in the conflict. (AUDIO: The Plague of Dreams [+]Loading...["The Plague of Dreams (audio story)"]) Shortly before his regeneration, the First Doctor was told of "a few false starts" before he became the Twelfth Doctor. (TV: Twice Upon a Time [+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"])
While meeting a future incarnation, the Fourth Doctor considered the implications that this future incarnation represented all the lives he'd live before reaching this point. (AUDIO: Out of Time [+]Loading...["Out of Time (audio story)"])
The Seventh Doctor told his fifth incarnation of a time "all thirteen of [them] teamed up to save Gallifrey", with the Fifth Doctor also showing signs of remembering the incident. (AUDIO: Cold Fusion [+]Loading...["Cold Fusion (audio story)"]) When the Fifth Doctor was under the influence of the Dark, he saw a nightmare image of himself regenerating on a blood soaked altar. (PROSE: Fear of the Dark [+]Loading...["Fear of the Dark (novel)"])
Mawdryn attempted to force the Fifth Doctor to use up his eight remaining regenerations to end his follower's cycle of perpetual rebirth, but this was rendered unnecessary when Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart made physical contact with his younger self and a discharge of temporal energy was released that allowed Mawdryn and his followers to die. (TV: Mawdryn Undead [+]Loading...["Mawdryn Undead (TV story)"]) The Sixth Doctor was described as "the rhetorician" by the Doctor's first TARDIS to the Fifth Doctor. (AUDIO: Prisoners of Fate [+]Loading...["Prisoners of Fate (audio story)"]) In an attempt to humiliate the Fifth Doctor, the Master suggested he was getting old and that he should soon regenerate. (TV: The King's Demons [+]Loading...["The King's Demons (TV story)"])
When the Fifth Doctor was paralysed from the waist down after a spaceship crash, he expressed concern that he would regenerate if he passed out while being transported, but he made it back to the TARDIS without regenerating, and was able to find healing nanites that could repair his back. (AUDIO: Devil in the Mist [+]Loading...["Devil in the Mist (audio story)"]) After losing his body to the Time Lords, the Tremas Master made a failed attempt to steal the regenerations of the Fifth Doctor. (PROSE: The Velvet Dark [+]Loading...["The Velvet Dark (short story)"]) The Fifth Doctor was told by Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart that he had worked with eight other incarnations of the Doctor by 1999, including four of his future incarnations. (PROSE: The King of Terror [+]Loading...["The King of Terror (novel)"])
When the TARDIS detected unusual energy signatures which appeared throughout Earth history, including 1984 and 2006, the Fifth Doctor picked a television transmission which indicated that a future incarnation was already investigating 1984, so he went to Brisbane, Australia in 2006 instead. There he met Katherine Chambers who had encountered his future self in 1984 and he used System to send the number "8687" to 1984 as a reminder to his future self about the future he'd encountered in Brisbane. (AUDIO: The Gathering [+]Loading...["The Gathering (audio story)"])
Post-regeneration
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Whilst on Androzani Minor, both the Fifth Doctor and Peri Brown contracted a fatal condition called spectrox toxaemia. The Doctor gave Peri the only antidote available, saving her at the cost of his own life. He expressed uncertainty as to whether he would regenerate or not, as it felt "different this time". However, he managed to regenerate (TV: The Caves of Androzani [+]Loading...["The Caves of Androzani (TV story)"]) after Nyssa prevented the Tremas Master's interference. (AUDIO: Winter [+]Loading...["Winter (audio story)"])
The Doctor expressed joy at the change, seeing his sixth incarnation as an improvement over the Fifth Doctor, who he considered unbecoming. Despite having stabilised physically, he suffered initial personality and mental issues that caused him to lapse into extreme paranoia and violence, even trying to strangle Peri. After regaining his senses, the horror of his actions caused him to exile himself on Titan III as punishment until he had attained appropriate humility. On Titan III, he met another Time Lord, his old tutor Azmael. Instead of a self-imposed exile, the Doctor soon became involved with stopping the Gastropod Mestor from launching his eggs into space, which would cause death and destruction on every world they landed on. These efforts cost Azmael his life, as he sacrificed himself to trap Mestor in his own mind to prevent him having the chance to assault the Doctor's still-fragile new persona, but left the Doctor affirmed in his new identity. (TV: The Twin Dilemma [+]Loading...["The Twin Dilemma (TV story)"])
Dark beginnings
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The Doctor set out to fix everything wrong with his ageing TARDIS, even succeeding in partially repairing its broken chameleon circuit. Picking up an extraterrestrial signal, he and Peri were drawn into an adventure involving an attempt by the CyberNeomorphs to destroy the Earth with Halley's Comet. (TV: Attack of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Attack of the Cybermen (TV story)"]) The Doctor later disconnected the chameleon circuit (PROSE: Hall of Mirrors [+]Loading...["Hall of Mirrors (short story)"]) after the TARDIS continued to shift between an array of problematic disguises, (PROSE: Quick Change [+]Loading...["Quick Change (comic story)"]) causing the TARDIS to resume using its police box exterior. (TV: Vengeance on Varos [+]Loading...["Vengeance on Varos (TV story)"])
Discovering that the TARDIS was running low on vital Zeiton-7 crystals, the Doctor travelled to their source on the planet Varos. While searching for the crystals, the Doctor was nearly forced to participate in deadly "games" when he attempted to free those trapped in the Punishment Dome. Stopping Sil, the greedy Mentor who had caused this devolution, the Doctor obtained the required Zeiton-7, restoring the TARDIS' supply of it. (TV: Vengeance on Varos [+]Loading...["Vengeance on Varos (TV story)"])
The Doctor discovered that aliens were selling stories of his life to the rich of the universe. They offered to stop doing so if he promised to take over their story-telling machine when the current operator died. The Doctor, faced with no other choice, agreed, before visiting Laurence, a man trapped in time due to the aliens' interference. Explaining to him what had happened, he promised to someday find a way to help him. (PROSE: Telling Tales [+]Loading...["Telling Tales (short story)"])
Visiting the Dorsill islands, the Doctor discovered that the British government was conducting experiments with alien genetic material dubbed "Denarian". Intending to find an end to injury and disease, their tests were instead threatening to transform humanity through the material's collective consciousness. The Doctor created a solution which cured everyone under Denarian control. (PROSE: Grave Matter [+]Loading...["Grave Matter (novel)"]) In an attempt to recalibrate his TARDIS, the Doctor visited Earth in the far future, where he helped stop the Pararachnids from consuming the few surviving humans, and received aid from the microscopic Wibliwee. (PROSE: Moon Graffiti [+]Loading...["Moon Graffiti (short story)"]) He then visited Reef Station One in the 101st century, where he prevented the Nestene Consciousness from conquering the New Earth Republic. (PROSE: Synthespians™ [+]Loading...["Synthespians™ (novel)"])
The Doctor and Peri foiled the invasion attempt of the telepathic worms. (PROSE: Old Boys [+]Loading...["Old Boys (short story)"])
The Doctor and Peri visited what seemed to be a house inhabited by old men and women who still saw themselves as children. They investigated and discovered that they were in an underground shelter on the colony world Eldair, which had been wiped out in a nuclear war. When the house's mad artificial intelligence began killing its inhabitants, the Doctor and Peri tried to save the two survivors, Roger and Carl, but they refused to leave the only home they'd ever known. (PROSE: House [+]Loading...["House (short story)"])
The Doctor visited the Habitat of Dramos in 3174, where he discovered that the Node of Titania had been inadvertently responsible for causing the unrest there by its attempts at communication. (PROSE: Burning Heart [+]Loading...["Burning Heart (novel)"])
Tracing a time distortion to 19th century England, the Doctor discovered that the Tremas Master had teamed up with another renegade Time Lord, the Rani, to aid her experiments in the extraction of the chemical responsible for inducing sleep from human miners. Sabotaging the Rani's TARDIS, the Doctor sent the pair flying through the Time Vortex while he took back the chemical and cured the miners. (TV: The Mark of the Rani [+]Loading...["The Mark of the Rani (TV story)"])
When Peri was arrested for the apparent murder of quantum flux technology Professor Mis'Kin Karac, the Doctor represented her in her trial. After hearing the testimony of Karac's assistant, the Doctor deduced that the assistant had assassinated Karac with a quantum flux bullet in a gun tagged with Karac's genetic signature, and was able to bluff the assistant into a confession, clearing Peri's name. (COMIC: The Forgotten [+]Loading...["The Forgotten (comic story)"])
After an unpleasant experience on the planet Rigel IV, the Doctor tried to take Peri to a party in London 1899, but ended up arriving in Africa instead, becoming caught up in the Boer Wars, where they narrowly saved Winston Churchill from an assassin. After spending time in a Boer prison, the Doctor and Peri were able to escape to the TARDIS on the same night as Churchill escaped from the prison. After telling Peri about his last meeting with Churchill in his second incarnation in 1915, the Doctor took Peri to London in 1936 to conduct a follow-up investigation into the apparent temporal interference.
Infiltrating the court using old documentation identifying himself as the Honorary Consul to Santa Esmerelda, the Doctor and Peri reunited with Churchill, posing as their own descendants, hiring former P.I. Tom Dekker as their chauffeur and bodyguard. In the course of their time in London, the Doctor discovered that Edward VIII intended to dismiss the government that would not let him marry Wallis Simpson rather than his official plans to abdicate the throne to be with her. After Peri acquired a list of Nazi sympathisers in Britain, Churchill's allies were able to trap the sympathisers while the Doctor and Churchill merely recorded Edward's announcement, ordering him to abdicate or he would be arrested and charged with treason.
As the Doctor and Peri departed, they were confronted by the Count and Countess, who revealed their true nature as the time-manipulating Players and tried to kill the Doctor, only for the Countess to accidentally shot the Count in the subsequent struggle. She offered to make the Doctor a new Player, but the Doctor rejected her offer. (PROSE: Players [+]Loading...["Players (novel)"])
The Doctor visited Kowloon, Hong Kong in December 1974, where he dealt with the Platinum Dragon with the aid of Hu Cheung, a monk he had saved from a Triad gang. (PROSE: Exclave [+]Loading...["Exclave (short story)"])
For Peri's birthday, the Doctor took her to Las Vegas in 1971 to meet Elvis Presley, only for him and Elvis to be kidnapped by alien traders called the Mongarians. Stopping them from making several clones of Elvis to sell throughout the 20th century, the Doctor ensured that Elvis was returned just in time for his performance at the Hilton. (PROSE: Priceless Junk [+]Loading...["Priceless Junk (short story)"])
After the Doctor and Peri went on a fishing trip, the Doctor felt a time slip in his subconscious where he saw his second incarnation get executed. Upon Peri's suggestion to see a doctor, he went to Space Station Camera to see Joinson Dastari, only for them to find that a massacre had occurred there, with no signs of life. In the service ducts, they found Jamie McCrimmon, who claimed that the Second Doctor had been executed by the Sontarans during a battle on board the space station. After letting Jamie rest, the Sixth Doctor deduced that the Second Doctor's supposed death was an illusion created by the Sontarans. The Sixth Doctor used telepathy to track the Second Doctor to a hacienda near Seville, where he was being held captive while Dastari tried to isolate the symbiotic nuclei in his cells so that the Sontarans could be given the secret to time travel. While Peri distracted the hacienda's occupants, a local woman called Anita helped the Sixth Doctor and Jamie find a secret passageway into the cellars.
The Sixth Doctor sabotaged a TARDIS copy that was being developed on the space station, and lied to Jamie about its workings while he knew the Sontaran Group Marshal Stike was listening in on them. Jamie wounded Stike, and the two of them escaped. Knowing there was another Time Lord present, the augmented Androgum Chessene changed the plan into having Dastari alter the Second Doctor into Chessene's Androgum consort. Chessene also betrayed the Sontarans. The effect on the Second Doctor was not permanent, however, as the condition was not stabilised. The Sixth Doctor, Peri, and Jamie followed the Second Doctor to Las Cadenas restaurant in Seville. Dastari and Chessene had the Doctors and their companions brought back to the hacienda. The Sixth Doctor saved Jamie from being butchered and eaten by the Androgum Shockeye. Dastari then freed the Second Doctor upon realising his mistake in augmenting a primitive Androgum, and was shot by Chessene for betraying her. With Peri's help, the Sixth Doctor deceived Chessene into using the faulty prototype TARDIS, and Chessene was killed by molecular disintegration. (TV: The Two Doctors [+]Loading...["The Two Doctors (TV story)"])
The Doctor took Peri back in time to kill a baby destined to grow up into a dictator who would doom the Earth. However, he was unable to go through with the act, and left. (PROSE: Categorical Imperative [+]Loading...["Categorical Imperative (short story)"])
After witnessing the vampire Saric Warder kill Sacha Mary Palmer, the Doctor pursued him into an office building. There, he succeeded in killing him, but not before Warder killed many innocent bystanders in a lift, causing the Doctor to blame himself for their deaths. (PROSE: Trapped! [+]Loading...["Trapped! (ST short story)"])
Mellowing out
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On Stella Stora, the Doctor met an investigator named Hallett, (TV: Terror of the Vervoids [+]Loading...["Terror of the Vervoids (TV story)"]) and a reporter called Willis. (AUDIO: Davros [+]Loading...["Davros (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Peri visited Bob Dovie at 59A Barnsfield Crescent in Totton, Hampshire on 23 November 1963. (AUDIO: The Light at the End [+]Loading...["The Light at the End (audio story)"])
The Doctor dropped Peri off at a botany symposium, while he responded to a call from Willis, travelling to a planet owned by TransAllied, Inc. Investigating the landing of a mysterious craft, he was forced to work with Davros by the owner of TAI, Arnold Baynes. Unable to trust Davros, the Doctor investigated the dome they were situated inside in order to discover what Davros's ulterior motives were. Discovering that Davros had found a formula by which he could pervert Earth's economy into a twisted militaristic dictatorship, the Doctor defeated him, causing the rocket he planned to escape in to crash into the planet with him inside. (AUDIO: Davros [+]Loading...["Davros (audio story)"])
The Doctor accidentally activated the matter transporter in the TARDIS that brought Tegan to him after learning that two Sontarans of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Brigade plotted to destroy the TARDIS with a Vitrox bomb, and in turn, Tegan accidentally brought a young human Boy called Gareth Jenkins to the TARDIS with the same device; together, they killed the Sontarans after laying a trap for them. Shortly after, the trio encountered the rest of the Tenth Sontaran Battle Brigade. (HOMEVID: A Fix with Sontarans [+]Loading...["A Fix with Sontarans (home video)"]) Tegan and the Doctor later had a meaningful conversation about this adventure and their lives after they separated. (PROSE: Fixing a Hole [+]Loading...["Fixing a Hole (short story)"])
The Doctor went to the moon of Grey-Eye to give Celestial Intervention Agency agent Persisalevatolla a sonic shield to help her defeat Queen Manussa of the Manussan Empire. (PROSE: The Terrible Manussa [+]Loading...["The Terrible Manussa (short story)"])
The Doctor took Peri to Koturia to attend the wedding of Lord Evris Makshi's son, Jonos. However, the wedding was a front for the Rani's experiments, and the Doctor had to prevent the wedding to foil her plans. (PROSE: Something Borrowed [+]Loading...["Something Borrowed (short story)"])
When the TARDIS became caught in a time corridor oriented from the planet Karfel, the Doctor discovered that Megelen, a human who had become mutated into a half-Morlox hybrid, now ruled the planet. Calling himself the Borad, Megelen was using a device known as the Timelash to banish his disobedient subjects through time. The Doctor found the amulet that powered the Timelash, preventing Megelen from mutating Peri into a hideous mutant like himself in order to mate with her and sent Megelen through his own device. (TV: Timelash [+]Loading...["Timelash (TV story)"])
In 1812, the Doctor and Peri pursued a creature that had been stealing the potential energy of its victims and transferring it to other people that they named "the Potentialiser". After unveiling the creature at Lord Roderick's regency manor, they discovered that the Potentialiser had been acting out of altruism, her "victims" having died from natural causes after it siphoned their energies to help others realise their untapped talents. (PROSE: Potential Energy [+]Loading...["Potential Energy (short story)"])
The Doctor and Peri wanted a reading week but whilst in Ostend, 1913 they encountered Toby the Sapient Pig, who behaved like an English gentleman. (AUDIO: Year of the Pig [+]Loading...["Year of the Pig (audio story)"])
Using the HADS to land in the TARDIS in the Forest of Arden, the Doctor and Peri became separated from the ship and had to search for it. (PROSE: As You Like It [+]Loading...["As You Like It (short story)"])
While aiding Stena refugees in escaping the Haxeen, the Doctor realised that the Haxeen were hunting the Stena due to them feeding off of their unique binary signal. Successfully fending off the Haxeen with a binary substitute, the Doctor and Peri agreed to find the Stena a new home. (COMIC: Virtually Indestructible [+]Loading...["Virtually Indestructible (comic story)"])
The Doctor went to Necros to pay his respects to his old friend Arthur Stengos at Tranquil Repose, but discovered that Davros had falsified the news of Stengos' death to lure him to the planet. Discreetly seeking to aid an assassin, Orcini, who was seeking to kill Davros, the Doctor learned that Davros had created a new breed of Imperial Daleks, loyal to him alone. Orcini was killed however the situation was resolved with the arrival of the Renegade Daleks who sought to take Davros to Skaro for trial. They left the Doctor untouched as they failed to recognise him, to Davros' fury. (TV: Revelation of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)"]) The Doctor then began looking for the Grand Order of Oberon to give them Orcini's cross, but was unable to find them. (PROSE: Lucifer Rising [+]Loading...["Lucifer Rising (novel)"])
Amicable travels with Peri
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Arriving in 1980s Blackpool, the Doctor and Peri encountered the Celestial Toymaker and foiled a plot involving video games. (PROSE: The Nightmare Fair [+]Loading...["The Nightmare Fair (novelisation)"], AUDIO: The Nightmare Fair [+]Loading...["The Nightmare Fair (audio story)"])
The Doctor visited the planet Tranquella to see how well they were doing after a truce. However, when he arrived he found it was amidst great anarchy caused by the Machiavellian Dwarf Mordant. Mordant was using a ray gun that controlled emotions to spread hatred across the planet. The Doctor was able to thwart Mordant. (PROSE: The Ultimate Evil [+]Loading...["The Ultimate Evil (novel)"], AUDIO: The Ultimate Evil [+]Loading...["The Ultimate Evil (audio story)"])
Shortly afterwards, the Doctor encountered Anzor, a Time Lord who had bullied him at the Academy, who used his Type 60 TARDIS to force the Doctor's TARDIS into a locked orbit above the planet Magnus. Anzor had been summoned to Magnus because the natives wanted to learn the secret of time travel for an advantage over their foes, and tortured him after his refusal to cooperate. (AUDIO: Mission to Magnus [+]Loading...["Mission to Magnus (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Peri arrived in a medieval kingdom where a cybernetic created creature called the Herne was terrorising the villagers into accepting their fates when their "time" came. Investigating, they discovered that the entire kingdom was an artificially created environment stored on a gigantic space ship. (AUDIO: Leviathan [+]Loading...["Leviathan (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Peri visited a place called Hollowdean sometime in the 1980s, where the Doctor met an old adversary of his, "Professor Stream". "Stream" had planned to become space and time itself, but the Doctor was able to thwart his plans. (AUDIO: The Hollows of Time [+]Loading...["The Hollows of Time (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Peri visited a place called Paradise 5, where they got caught in a war between the humans and the Cherubs. After an unsuccessful attempt to end the war, the Doctor eventually decided to let them get on with it. (AUDIO: Paradise 5 [+]Loading...["Paradise 5 (audio story)"])
After nearly colliding with an asteroid, the Doctor and Peri landed in 16th century London and encountered Christopher Marlowe. He was involved with Lorenzo Velez who wanted to bring together an alien artefact. The Doctor traced this and realised a connection with the asteroid they had nearly collided with. (AUDIO: Point of Entry [+]Loading...["Point of Entry (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Peri arrive on SS Orcus after saving Megaptera - a Star whale which was hunted by the crew of this ship. The Doctor pretends to be an eco-activist for the investigation. After some events the Doctor and Peri discover a hundred living people inside of the whale who are surviving there for thousands of years. (AUDIO: The Song of Megaptera [+]Loading...["The Song of Megaptera (audio story)"])
Upon landing in the Museum of Aural Antiquities, the Doctor and Peri were drawn into the mystery surrounding Visteen Krane's death. They discovered that Krane had managed to turn himself into a sound creature, and that Beth Pernell was manipulating the recordings of him so that she could win the election. (AUDIO: Whispers of Terror [+]Loading...["Whispers of Terror (audio story)"])
At a conference of lexicographers, the Doctor was asked to investigate the death of an old friend, Osefa de Palabra Hftzbrn. He uncovered the fact that Warren was trying to get the Ish into existence. (AUDIO: ...ish [+]Loading...["...ish (audio story)"])
The Doctor took Peri on a cruise in 1900 on the steamboat Lankester. On board, the Doctor seemingly became the prime suspect in a murder, but this turned out to be a ruse by Captain Callany to convince the Doctor to help him find the real criminal. A conman named Jacques De Requin, acting as chief mate and second-in-command, had smuggled a mermaid, Amphitrite, and her daughter on board, and was planning to sell them when they reached New Orleans. The Doctor handed the criminal to the Mermen to exact justice for the murder of one of their kind, resulting in him being incarcerated at the bottom of the sea. (AUDIO: Cryptobiosis [+]Loading...["Cryptobiosis (audio story)"])
After leaving Egypt, the Doctor and Peri arrived on the planet Esselven Minor. The Doctor and Peri were separated and the Doctor gained a friend in one of the robotic gardeners, Green-7. The Doctor and Green-7 (along with Peri, several holograms, and a young "scavenger" named Kel) discovered the secret of Esselven Minor, encountered Dexel Dynes again, and stopped the machinations of tyrant Glavis Judd. (PROSE: Palace of the Red Sun [+]Loading...["Palace of the Red Sun (novel)"])
Arriving on the Blue Planet, the Doctor and Peri found that the Rani had hypnotised the locals and damaged the Time Continuum. Enraged by the Rani's actions, the Doctor's anger was able to shock the locals out of the Rani's hypnotism, and she was forced to flee. As she retreated, the Doctor fixed the Time Continuum. (PROSE: Dr. Sixth [+]Loading...["Dr. Sixth (novel)"])
The Doctor and Peri were present in London during the coronation of Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953, where they stayed in a hotel room with a robot next door to them that was subdued by Eva De Ville. (COMIC: Where's the Doctor? [+]Loading...["Where's the Doctor? (comic story)"])
A tour through history
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Continued travels with Peri
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Travelling to the Gogglebox in search of a book he left behind on a previous trip, Peri learned of the death of a family friend, Anthony Chambers, and the Doctor rushed her back to Earth in 1984, where he met Peri's mother, Janine Foster, and her best friend, Katherine Chambers. He also learned that the Cybermen were converting the deceased, such as Anthony, and the Doctor was captured by the Cyber-Leader, who informed him that he had travelled back in time to lay a trap for the Doctor to force him to travel them back to Earth's early history and create a new timeline for the Cybermen.
The Doctor, however, managed to trick the Cyber-Leader by taking him to 1984 Mondas. He left and found that Nate, Katherine's brother, had been brutally attacked and paralysed by Anthony. Peri, feeling the weight of all the deaths and unwilling to abandon her mother again, decided to leave the Doctor after a tearful goodbye. Saddened, the Doctor returned to the Gogglebox and decided to check how Peri was doing, only to learn of an explosion in Peri's house. Rushing back to Earth, the Doctor arrived too late to save Peri's mother, and Peri, with no family left on Earth, returned to the TARDIS. (AUDIO: The Reaping [+]Loading...["The Reaping (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Peri travelled to the court of Henry VIII, were the king wanted to marry Peri. The Doctor realised that Henry was using a piece of alien technology to rewrite time to his will and the Doctor had to prevent this from happening. (AUDIO: Recorded Time [+]Loading...["Recorded Time (audio story)"])
After hearing a distress signal from the planet Sendos with Peri's voice, they decided to investigate. Having learnt that Inquisa wanted to break into a vault full of weapons, they were forced to take her back in time before the planet's population vanish. The Doctor and Peri realised that this was the action which caused all the problems in the first place. (AUDIO: Paradoxicide [+]Loading...["Paradoxicide (audio story)"])
Shortly afterwards, the Doctor and Peri visited a galactic fair and took part in a virtual immersion experience that played out as a fantasy. Peri became trapped, while the Doctor tried to convince her virtual self of the danger. An alien parasite using the name Mr. Darcy asked Peri to marry him, knowing that if she accepted, he'd be able to take over her mind. The Doctor intervened, but fell prey to Darcy, who had planned on taking him over from the very start. Peri woke up in the immersion room and supplied the system administrator with her own story to feed into the fantasy before returning to help the Doctor and defeat Darcy. (AUDIO: A Most Excellent Match [+]Loading...["A Most Excellent Match (audio story)"])
Having supposedly lost his memory in a catastrophe, the Doctor had to learn what had happened fairly quickly as the ship they were on was crashing and they had to escape. However, this had already happened as the Doctor had already worked out how to do it and the people left being were echoes from the transmat system. (AUDIO: Question Marks [+]Loading...["Question Marks (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Peri landed near the Baikonur Cosmodrome after there was a malfunction in the TARDIS. They encountered a set of dead bodies and the Doctor assisted the Soviets when their Cosmonaut Marinka Talanov went missing. He then travelled to the Moon to find out what had happened to Talanov and to investigate a mysterious building on the Moon. He discovered that the Americans had built a base on the moon, which contained an alien entity who came to Earth to help but saw what had happened to Laika and decided to punish them. On returning to Earth in a stolen American rocket, the Americans fired a nuclear weapon at them, but John F. Kennedy was assassinated before he could give the abort command. The Doctor used the TARDIS to take the augmented animals Laika had created to the alien creature to give them a new home, and used the rocket Laika had launched to destroy the moonbase. (AUDIO: 1963: The Space Race [+]Loading...["1963: The Space Race (audio story)"])
Having landed in an ornate garden, the Doctor and Peri encountered Safira Valtris and discovered that they were on her prison transport ship. They ended up being caught in her escape attempt, which Peri persuaded her to stop. (AUDIO: Breaking Bubbles [+]Loading...["Breaking Bubbles (audio story)"]) The Doctor and Peri were caught in a temporal disaster caused by the detonation of a chronon bomb. The detonation caused Chronological infection in the Doctor's timeline, which looped him back and forth through his recent timeline. He managed to deduce the chain of events and prevent the detonation. (AUDIO: Of Chaos Time The [+]Loading...["Of Chaos Time The (audio story)"]) They tracked alien event to St Ursula's College in 1939, and feared that something might change the course of history. Peri was mistaken for a local author and invited to investigate a series of poison-pen letters. They discovered that Maria Backhouse was the cause of the letters to Ruth Horwitz as she was trying to acquire an alien eye Ruth owned for the Nazis. When Maria disappeared the Doctor set off in pursuit, but quickly realised she'd never actually left the College and turned back, returning in time to help Peri confront Maria. (AUDIO: An Eye For Murder [+]Loading...["An Eye For Murder (audio story)"]) The Doctor tracked Llangragen to the garden of Michael Jennings and helped him to understand that his father was dead. (AUDIO: The Curious Incident of the Doctor in the Night-Time [+]Loading...["The Curious Incident of the Doctor in the Night-Time (audio story)"])
The Doctor received an invite from Varish to visit the memory farm he worked at. He learnt that Naras and her colleagues were trying to obtain whether Garius Moro was the instigator of an atrocity or not. He later helped in the assassination attempt. He apparently confessed to being Altrius, who had killed billions of people, and believed this himself until his true memories bled through. He then went back to space station after Peri got Naras to free him. (AUDIO: Memories of a Tyrant [+]Loading...["Memories of a Tyrant (audio story)"])
Temporary association with Joe
The Doctor took Peri to a recording of Top of the Pops where she encountered Joe Carnaby, who Peri became enamoured with. He took the couple to Naxios where the Doctor and Peri found a group of religious people whose religions were based on works from ancient Earth, a set of Shakespeareans Cordelia and Iago who oppressed the Earth Animals (who worshipped the Wind in the Willows). He had to fake being Father Christmas to avoid being flogged and learnt from Mole about the religious persecution. He discovered from Rudolph that the original Santa's were killed in order to change the balance of religions. He tricked Iago to shoot him but using the Historical setting which led him back to the TARDIS where he got two new Shakespeare plays to stop the religions. (AUDIO: Blood on Santa's Claw [+]Loading...["Blood on Santa's Claw (audio story)"])
Learning about the Ishtar institute from Shreela he went there to discover the truth. He placed Peri and Joe in the system to find out what happened to the discarded embryos. He tried to comfort Peri when her children were still at large on the planet. (AUDIO: The Baby Awakes [+]Loading...["The Baby Awakes (audio story)"])
The Doctor landed at a party in the 59th century and was reluctant to visit until Peri noticed that people weren't looking at the TARDIS. He started to investigate but the TARDIS was taken away. He discovered that the party was in fact a prison and helped Lycaon to escape it. He learnt from the President that he had be tricked into releasing the Were Lords. (AUDIO: I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day [+]Loading...["I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day (audio story)"]) Lycaon told the Doctor that his recent actions were how they could escape. Because the Doctor was bitten by Lycaon, his scent changed and which allowed him to escape. He learnt that Joe was the reason he was able to be manipulated. With Shreela and Peri's childrens help he managed to defeat them by causing Lycaon to go through their whole regeneration cycle and his fellow were lords. (AUDIO: Brightly Shone The Moon That Night [+]Loading...["Brightly Shone The Moon That Night (audio story)"])
Travelling alone
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Peri soon became homesick for 1980s America, (PROSE: CHAOS [+]Loading...["CHAOS (short story)"]) so she parted company with the Doctor for a short time to travel to New York City. (COMIC: Kane's Story [+]Loading...["Kane's Story (comic story)"]) Travelling alone, the Doctor visited Zazz and met the Lorduke. (COMIC: The Gift [+]Loading...["The Gift (comic story)"])
After the Tremas Master obtained a Time Instant Replay Unit, a device with the ability to chop and splice time, the Doctor was sent to Rijar with a highly sophisticated robot cat called Splinx to retrieve the device. (GAME: Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Mines of Terror (video game)"])
The Doctor disguised himself as a wax figure in the New Calamino Waxworks Museum in an attempt to stop an Auton plan, the Tiny Twin doll. Whilst disguised, assassin Doom found him when she was trying to get her target Minister Scarling. They both stormed the Auton hideout and defeated the Autons. When Doom pressed him about the events of New Venice, he said he couldn't give her any information. (COMIC: The Plastic Population [+]Loading...["The Plastic Population (comic story)"])
The Sixth Doctor was taken out of his timezone by the Father of Time to partake in "the Final Test". He was brought to a TARDIS control console room from his future alongside his second, third, fourth and fifth incarnations, and told that Time had disassembled the control console and set the TARDIS on a course for the heart of the sun, with the Doctors' only hope being to reassemble the control console. Unable to achieve the task due to their bickering, the Doctors were saved when the First Doctor united them in reversing time itself with their pooled temporal powers. As the TARDIS escaped the sun, the Father of Time congratulated the Doctor and sent them back to their own times. (COMIC: The Test of Time [+]Loading...["The Test of Time (comic story)"])
The Doctor visited Maruthea at the heart of the Time Vortex, and was besieged by penguins as he left, confused as to why they thought "a friend of [theirs]" was in his TARDIS. (COMIC: Party Animals [+]Loading...["Party Animals (comic story)"])
The Doctor was trapped in the Determinant by the Master, along with his five previous incarnations and his successor. He was saved when the Graak defeated the Master, sacrificing its life force to free the trapped Doctors. (GAME: Destiny of the Doctors [+]Loading...["Destiny of the Doctors (video game)"])
The Doctor visited Clio on her birthday to give her cloth cat as a present, (PROSE: The Glass Princess [+]Loading...["The Glass Princess (short story)"]) and also attended a private Christmas party hosted by the First Doctor. (PROSE: The Feast of Seven... Eight and Nine [+]Loading...["The Feast of Seven... Eight and Nine (short story)"])
Upon visiting an old friend, Professor Threadstone, the Doctor found out that he and other renowned scientists had gone missing, after having a project funded by the Dominus Institute. Suspecting the Master's involvement, the Doctor travelled to the Institute with Threadstone's daughter, Heather. His suspicions were proven true: the Master, in a new body, had forced a Carmentine Mind Leech to empty the scientists' minds to feed herself, and set up a trap to lure the Doctor in, so he could empty his mind to fill in gaps in his own memory. The Doctor struck a deal with the Leach, allowing her to feed on his short-time memory to sustain herself, while draining the Master's mind afterwards; while this ruined the Master's plan overall, he gave him enough energy to escape in his TARDIS. As a result of the leach feeding, the Doctor lost his memories regarding this adventure, including the new appearance of the Master. (AUDIO: Vampire of the Mind [+]Loading...["Vampire of the Mind (audio story)"])
Meeting Frobisher
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Investigating events that he had left unresolved in his previous incarnation, the Doctor met a Whifferdill who called himself "Avan Tarklu." Tarklu had planned to kidnap the Doctor, as a bounty had been put on the Time Lord's head by Josiah W. Dogbolter, but had a change of heart, and took on the form of the Doctor before giving himself up to Dogbolter. He and the Doctor escaped, and Tarklu decided to stay with the Doctor, (COMIC: The Shape Shifter [+]Loading...["The Shape Shifter (comic story)"]) changing his name to Frobisher, in deference to the Doctor's love of all things English, and his shape to that of a large penguin. (COMIC: Voyager [+]Loading...["Voyager (comic story)"])
Soon afterwards, the Doctor was forced by the cosmic being known as Voyager to engage in a quest to find Astrolabus, a renegade Time Lord who had stolen important star-charts. (COMIC: Voyager [+]Loading...["Voyager (comic story)"]) During this mission, he was reunited with his old friend Dr. Ivan Asimoff. (COMIC: Polly the Glot [+]Loading...["Polly the Glot (comic story)"])
While fishing with Frobisher beside a river, the Sixth Doctor was approached by the Seventh Doctor, who was hunting the Key to Time to prevent the Black Guardian from preventing their first incarnation from leaving Gallifrey. While at first apprehensive due to not believing things would be as dangerous if they hadn't left Gallifrey, the Sixth Doctor was convinced to hand over his cat brooch, and the Seventh Doctor left his predecessor to his fishing. (COMIC: Time & Time Again [+]Loading...["Time & Time Again (comic story)"])
The Doctor defeated Plink, whom he had encountered before, in battle. After the Doctor referred to their encounter as their "peripatetic perigrinations", Frobisher asked for a dictionary. (COMIC: Death to the Doctor! [+]Loading...["Death to the Doctor! (comic story)"])
The return of Peri
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After Peri rejoined the Doctor on his travels, the trio travelled together for some time. (COMIC: Kane's Story [+]Loading...["Kane's Story (comic story)"])
While taking Peri and Frobisher to see penguins in 7214, the Doctor was captured by the Tremas Master and locked in an asylum overtaken by Autons. As he made his escape, the Doctor ran into Peri, and she helped him to destroy the Autons. Before he could try and find the human staff of the asylum, the Doctor saw Peri being kidnapped by Adam Mitchell, and quickly remembered how Adam had kidnapped his companions in the past and that "Peri" was actually Frobisher in disguise. (COMIC: Façades [+]Loading...["Façades (comic story)"]) However, Adam eventually caught Peri as well. (COMIC: The Choice [+]Loading...["The Choice (comic story)"])
Following a chronal trail left by the Eleventh Doctor as the Tenth Doctor merged their TARDISes together, the Sixth Doctor joined his other incarnations as they stormed Adam's fortress in Limbo to save their friends from Adam and the Master. Though the Master attacked them with Autons, Frobisher was able to free the captured companions, and they helped the Doctors fight off the Autons, as Adam had a change of heart when the Master revealed he intended to use the chronal energies he had stolen across the Doctor's timelines to destroy the universe. After the Master killed Adam as he foiled his plans, the eleven Doctors honoured Adam as a "true companion". (COMIC: Endgame [+]Loading...["Endgame (POT comic story)"])
Tracking a distress signal to Marinus, the Doctor, Peri and Frobisher found a dying Time Lord trying to inform them of "Planet 14". Seeking out Jamie McCrimmon in the hope of him recalling where he had heard the name before, the Doctor was reminded by Jamie that they had first heard of Planet 14 during the Cybermen's invasion of London. Returning to Marinus, the Doctor discovered that the planet had been rapid-evolved by a machine known as a Worldshaper.
Realising that Marinus was Planet 14, the Doctor discovered that the native Voord had evolved into Cybermen, prompting him to track down the Worldshaper in the hope of destroying it. However, he discovered that the machine was being guarded by the Cybermen, and was unable to prevent Jamie from sacrificing his life to destroy the Worldshaper. Hurrying back to the TARDIS, the Doctor narrowly escaped a wave of accelerated time, and was greeted by a party of Time Lords. Despite the Doctor's arguments, the Time Lords told him to leave the situation to them, and he dematerialised in disgust. (COMIC: The World Shapers [+]Loading...["The World Shapers (comic story)"]) Shortly afterwards, Frobisher left the TARDIS to resume working as a private detective. (AUDIO: The Maltese Penguin [+]Loading...["The Maltese Penguin (audio story)"])
Final travels with Peri
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After being warned in a dream about time experiments, the Doctor brought Peri to a spaceship called the Vipod Mor and became separated from her after she fell through a ventilation shaft. The Doctor discovered that the ship's computer was planning to cause the Big Bang and avert man's creation in order to prevent their development into a violent race. Before he could intervene, a Time Lord drew him, Peri and his TARDIS away and informed him that this event was always destined to occur. Angry at almost averting the existence of the universe, the Doctor took off to find a library and study up on his history. (AUDIO: Slipback [+]Loading...["Slipback (audio story)"])
Working with his next incarnation, the Doctor and Peri rescued Davros from his trial before the Dalek Emperor on Skaro, using a computer virus to overcome the Daleks guarding him. (COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks! [+]Loading...["Emperor of the Daleks! (comic story)"]) Onboard the TARDIS, the Doctor spoke with Davros and told him he knew where there was an army of Daleks which he would take Davros to if he promised to programme them with pity and compassion. (COMIC: Up Above the Gods [+]Loading...["Up Above the Gods (comic story)"]) The Doctor dropped Davros off on Spiridon, as part of his future self's plan, and then went to Existentialist's Bar where he met his future self. They toasted to "the future". (COMIC: Emperor of the Daleks! [+]Loading...["Emperor of the Daleks! (comic story)"])
After a series of stressful adventures, the Doctor decided to take Peri to the planet Ravolox to relax. Soon discovering that Ravolox was Earth, moved thousands of light years from its original position, they encountered the primitive descendants of humanity, and prevented L3 robot Drathro from allowing a black light explosion. The Doctor also met conman Sabalom Glitz, who explained that "Ravolox" had been moved to protect the secrets of a "higher species" from the Andromedan "Sleepers". (TV: The Mysterious Planet [+]Loading...["The Mysterious Planet (TV story)"])
The Sixth Doctor was summoned by his first incarnation, who required the aid of one of his future incarnations to escape a castle in medieval England, where he had been entrapped by knights thinking he was holding Lady Mary hostage in his TARDIS. After the Fifth Doctor lost the game that chose who would face the knights, he explained the situation to them and the Doctors were permitted to leave, but not before Peri bumped into the Fifth Doctor. (PROSE: Five Card Draw [+]Loading...["Five Card Draw (short story)"])
The Doctor and Peri witnessed Primus Cyberman 9.9P-VIV being destroyed when it overheated to the point of combustion while "raging at the final vestiges of its own humanity". (PROSE: Ghost in the Machine [+]Loading...["Ghost in the Machine (short story)"])
The Doctor took Peri to Omnia as it was a remote planet. After learning of an invasion he started to investigate what had happened to the planet. Aldo Rega told him about the war. He was captured by the watchers and interrogated by Carmen Rega. He learnt about the Daleks' plans and that they were mining Vitanium on the planet. The Doctor encountered a Special Weapons Dalek in the mine and realised it was a new type of Dalek. He found a weakness in the type of Vitanium which contained a radiation lethal to the Daleks and used this to defeat them. (AUDIO: Emissary of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Emissary of the Daleks (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Peri encountered Percy Blakeney who thought him to be the Scarlet Pimpernel. Whilst Blakeney was ill the Dcotor continued his work. He was interested on who caused this illness which was anachronistic. He was also concerned as Blakeney was a fictional being. He asked her to also retrieve a gadget he left in France to work out either way. He grew bored on the servants constantly asking about the upcoming ball. He learnt that Blakeney was a time traveller from the future. Percy told him that the Z22 caused the genocide of his race, but he learnt from Tyrax that the android was created to serve justice on Percy for the genocide he caused. He felt betrayed because of this. After Donat almost killed him, the Doctor helped him back to health and put him in a coma on the TARDIS. He took him to his prison cell to serve his sentence for genocide. (AUDIO: Plight of the Pimpernel [+]Loading...["Plight of the Pimpernel (audio story)"])
On the planet Thoros Beta, the Doctor encountered Sil, and discovered that he and his fellow Mentors were trying to make deals with a savage king named Yrcanos through manipulating his mind. After a failed attempt to probe his mind to see if the Time Lords had sent him to intervene on their behalf, the Doctor pretended to be on the Mentors' side and helped a scientist named Crozier transplant the mind of Kiv, the Mentor leader, to a deceased Mentor. Though the process was successful, Kiv's mind was unable to adjust to new body, and so Crozier made plans to have Peri's mind overwritten with Kiv's consciousness, which would kill her in the process. Rushing to her rescue, the Doctor was suddenly influenced by the Time Lords, who put him under their control and forced him to board his TARDIS (TV: Mindwarp [+]Loading...["Mindwarp (TV story)"]) and travel to a Time Lord space station. (TV: The Mysterious Planet [+]Loading...["The Mysterious Planet (TV story)"])
Trial
Upon arriving at a courtroom on the CIA's Space Station Zenobia, (PROSE: The Eight Doctors [+]Loading...["The Eight Doctors (novel)"]) the Doctor initially tried to use his status as Lord President to avoid a trial, but was informed by the Inquisitor that he had long since been removed from office due to his perpetual absence. Alerted to the fact that he was the defendant, the Doctor chose to represented himself in the trial, during which he and his prosecutor, the Valeyard, would present events from his life via the Matrix as evidence. The Valeyard proceeded to display his recent adventures on Ravolox (TV: The Mysterious Planet [+]Loading...["The Mysterious Planet (TV story)"]) and Thoros Beta. (TV: Mindwarp [+]Loading...["Mindwarp (TV story)"]) Having been under the effects of partial amnesia due to being taken out of time, the Doctor was unable to defend his actions properly, (TV: The Mysterious Planet [+]Loading...["The Mysterious Planet (TV story)"]) and also suffered an emotional blow when he witnessed what seemed to be Peri's death. (TV: Mindwarp [+]Loading...["Mindwarp (TV story)"])
The Doctor was allowed to access the Matrix to find evidence for his defence, being assisted by Anosia. Unknown to him, the Valeyard ensured the evidence was tampered with to undermine his case. (PROSE: Interstitial Insecurity [+]Loading...["Interstitial Insecurity (short story)"]) The Doctor presented the case for his defence, offering an adventure from his future, featuring an Earth woman named Melanie Bush as his companion, where he was forced to destroy an artificial race known as the Vervoids. However, the Valeyard seized on this to charge the Doctor for the genocide of the Vervoids, prohibited by Article 7 of the Constitution. (TV: Terror of the Vervoids [+]Loading...["Terror of the Vervoids (TV story)"]) The Doctor tried to point out the hole in the Valeyard's claim of genocide; the Vervoids were artificial in nature and never truly alive to begin with.
When the Inquisitor pressed the Doctor to provide evidence against the Valeyard's claims, the Doctor was surprised at the arrival of both Mel and Glitz, who were brought to act as witnesses. Furthering his shock, the Doctor learned that the Tremas Master had supplied this aid from inside the Matrix, and that the Valeyard was in fact a manifestation of the Doctor's own inner darkness created "between [his] twelfth and final regeneration". Taking advantage of the confusion, the Valeyard fled into the Matrix. The Doctor and Glitz followed and entered a battle of wits with the Valeyard. However, the Master intervened with this and tried using the Doctor as bait for his own plots. The Doctor overcame this and proceeded to find out that the Valeyard had prepared a weapon to kill all the Time Lords in the court room.
The Doctor defeated him and learned that the Valeyard falsified some of the evidence with the aid of the High Council in a plot to steal the Doctor's remaining regenerations. To his surprise and immense relief, he learned Peri had not died, but was now wed to Yrcanos as his queen. As the populace of Gallifrey reacted to news of the dishonesty of their High Council, the Doctor left in his TARDIS with Mel. (TV: The Ultimate Foe [+]Loading...["The Ultimate Foe (TV story)"])
Following an encounter with an older version of himself and a younger Mel in a pocket of cauterised time, (AUDIO: The Wrong Doctors [+]Loading...["The Wrong Doctors (audio story)"]) the Doctor returned Mel to Oxyveguramosa, her original point in time, (PROSE: The Ultimate Foe [+]Loading...["The Ultimate Foe (novelisation)"]) after which the Time Lords wiped his memory of much of his trial, on the grounds that it is dangerous for him to know his own future. (PROSE: Time of Your Life [+]Loading...["Time of Your Life (novel)"])
Pessimistic about his future
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The Doctor travelled to Torrok to become a recluse in order to ensure that he would not become the Valeyard. However, the Time Lords manipulated the Doctor into coming out of seclusion to save Earth in 2191 from Krllxk. During this adventure, the Doctor met Grant Markham, who subsequently joined him on his travels. (PROSE: Time of Your Life [+]Loading...["Time of Your Life (novel)"])
On their first adventure in the TARDIS, the Doctor and Grant arrived on Agora in the year 2191, when it was being invaded by the Cybermen. While Grant helped the human colony on Agora defeat the Cybermen, the Doctor was imprisoned and tortured on a Selachian warcraft. After they left Agora, the Doctor spent weeks in the TARDIS recovering from radiation poisoning sustained on board the craft. (PROSE: Killing Ground [+]Loading...["Killing Ground (novel)"])
When the Fourth Doctor used his TARDIS tuner to begin a temporal meta-collision with his other incarnations, the Sixth Doctor decided to let them argue amongst themselves to distract the pandimensional entity that was trying to use the TARDIS to invade the Earth. He found the locations the entity was going to invade first and sent encoded location vectors via cat photos for his other selves to stop the invasion before it started, and then travelled to his first incarnation's TARDIS to install a button on the console that would expel the entity from the Fourth Doctor's TARDIS, ending the crisis. (WC: Doctors Assemble! [+]Loading...["Doctors Assemble! (webcast)"])
On BBC3, the Sixth Doctor introduced an episode of Roland Rat: The Series with disdain. After the episode concluded, he cheerfully recommended the viewers to switch over to BBC1 to watch Doctor Who, however Reggie Rat insulted the series, causing the Doctor to attempt to kill him in retaliation. (TV: Untitled [+]Loading...["Untitled (1986 TV story)"])
Still tormented by the idea of the Valeyard, (PROSE: The Hard Stair [+]Loading...["The Hard Stair (short story)"]) the Doctor travelled to a bar named Bianca's, and discovered that it was built on the remains of an old TARDIS. There, he fell in love with the bar's star singer, Bianca, who he later learned was an evil future distillation of one of Iris Wildthyme's regenerations who had a similar plan to that of the Valeyard involving stealing the remainder of Iris' lives. After confirming his love for Bianca, almost shooting Iris and causing a time ram, the Doctor and Iris managed to defeat Bianca and her army of shadows and psychic worms. (AUDIO: The Wormery [+]Loading...["The Wormery (audio story)"])
The TARDIS landed in a museum in the city of Excelis on the planet Artaris. The Doctor attempted to free a thief from the security system, but was forced to hide in his TARDIS while the wardens searched the building. He was arrested shortly afterwards on a suspicion of thieving, but succeeded in convincing the officers of his innocence, immediately before he met Reeve Maupassant, who he recognised as Grayvorn. The Doctor discovered that, after his fifth incarnation saw the Mother Superior and Grayvorn fell from the convent bell tower, the Relic merged Grayvorn and the Mother Superior's minds into one, making Grayvorn immortal at the cost of ever being able to sleep.
Realising that Grayvorn was behind the raid, the Doctor reasoned that he had intended to use a failed theft of the Relic as an excuse to claim it for himself under the guise of protecting evidence. However, just as Grayvorn tried to open the Relic to transfer the second soul into a new host, he was distracted by Danby, an Inquisitor who had been helping the Doctor's enquiries, giving the Doctor the chance to open the Relic on Grayvorn and dispel him from his physical form, whilst simultaneously absorbing the Mother Superior into it. (AUDIO: Excelis Rising [+]Loading...["Excelis Rising (audio story)"])
After another reclusive period, the Doctor travelled to ancient Greece where he met Plato and had an adventure with the Spindle of Necessity and an alien race called the Fates. After being told that becoming the Valeyard was but one possible future, the Doctor was heartened to continue his travels. (PROSE: The Spindle of Necessity [+]Loading...["The Spindle of Necessity (short story)"])
He planned to visit the planet Lucidus Silvara during one of it's brief periods of dusk. He was attacked by a Weeping Angel and sent back 300 years encountering the Tenth Doctor. This created seven new angels. He was displaced again with his future self creating more angels. He worked with Estra and Padilla to get their temporally displaced people to create the walls of the city to defend them against the angel. (AUDIO: Wink [+]Loading...["Wink (audio story)"])
Optimistic travels
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While travelling alone, the Doctor was drawn back to the Halloween party at the old house he had visited in his first incarnation, and was made to believe that the First Doctor had never left the house and his experiences ever since had been fabricated by the Celestial Toymaker. Though doubting his own existence, the Doctor challenged the Toymaker to a game of "two truths and one lie", which revealed that the Toymaker was lying. Creating a no-win situation in the game that prevented the Toymaker from giving an answer, the Doctor escaped in his TARDIS, and left the Toymaker trapped in his domain. (PROSE: Trick or Treat [+]Loading...["Trick or Treat (short story)"])
The Doctor investigated a series of murders committed by a shapeshifting Logovore in Hogarth City, (PROSE: Death Sentences [+]Loading...["Death Sentences (short story)"]) walked past a splinter of Clara Oswald in a corridor that resembled his TARDIS, (TV: The Name of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Name of the Doctor (TV story)"]) saved a busload of semi-comatose people, (PROSE: Pass It On [+]Loading...["Pass It On (short story)"]) and defeated the Krotons. (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Loading...["Alien Bodies (novel)"]) Visiting the planet of the Kuskaroo, the Doctor repelled an invasion by the Galyari, adopting the title of "the Sandman" in an attempt to scare them off. When all else failed, he resorted to destroying their Shushkubra, inadvertently imprinting himself onto the Galyari consciousness. (AUDIO: The Sandman [+]Loading...["The Sandman (audio story)"])
Aided by his other incarnations and their companions, the Sixth Doctor helped Dan Dare to fight off the Mekon and his army of Treens, Daleks, Ice Warriors, Cybermen, Sontarans and Draconians in 1991. (COMIC: Comic Relief Comic [+]Loading...["Comic Relief Comic (comic story)"])
Arriving in Birmingham in the 1980s, the Doctor was horrified to witness a witch trial in progress and sought to end it, only for the accused witches to reveal themselves as Carrionites. The Carrionites rampaged, teasing the Doctor about his future as the Valeyard which he retorted was just a possibility. The Doctor worked with Katy Bell and her father Douglas to stop the Carrionites, aided by information in a book written by George Litefoot, and they succeeded at the cost of Katy's life. (AUDIO: The Carrionite Curse [+]Loading...["The Carrionite Curse (audio story)"])
Along with seven other incarnations, the Sixth Doctor became trapped in the Void when it began to attack and devour the universe. He and the others were able to form a dimensional bridge to allow the Eighth Doctor to escape, and were then joined by the War Doctor, followed shortly by the ninth, tenth and twelfth incarnations, who ventured into the Type 1 TARDIS responsible for the disturbance. Forming a plan with the trapped Eleventh Doctor, the Doctors joined their TARDISes to pacify the Type 1 into a peaceful state and return the universe to normal. (COMIC: The Lost Dimension [+]Loading...["The Lost Dimension (comic story)"])
The Doctor visited a bed and breakfast surrounded by an impenetrable fog, and discovered that the owners, Chloe and Arthur, were killed by versions of themselves every night, only to wake in their beds the next morning, and now he was destined to share in this fate. After over a month of trying, the Doctor managed to persuade the couple to escape the loop by refusing to go outside and be killed. (PROSE: The Death of Me [+]Loading...["The Death of Me (short story)"])
Unravelling Peri's fate
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Attempting to brew a pot of tea, the Doctor was interrupted by turbulence caused by the TARDIS becoming caught in another vessel's wake. Crash landing on a barren planet, the Doctor was attacked, only to be awakened by Peri, who revealed that they were on a planet called Refiloe, where she had become stranded after fleeing her unhappy marriage. The two discovered the Doctor's TARDIS was emitting a dangerous form of temporal energy that was ageing the people of the planet into dust. While investigating, Peri contracted a deadly disease and died. Furious, the Doctor set about to uncover the plot he was being tangled in, and discovered that everything that had happened after his arrival had been a hallucination and that he was hooked up to a dream machine, with the demises of Peri and his TARDIS being used to lure the Doctor into committing suicide. (AUDIO: Her Final Flight [+]Loading...["Her Final Flight (audio story)"])
The Doctor searched for Peri in her hometown. (PROSE: Have You Seen...? [+]Loading...["Have You Seen...? (short story)"])
Recalling an adventure he had had in his fifth incarnation, the Doctor travelled to Los Angeles, 2009 to meet a version of Peri who was transported to Earth, with all her memories of travelling in the TARDIS wiped. During an adventure involving the Piscons, the Doctor and Peri discovered that due to the manipulations of the Time Lords, five alternate Peris existed simultaneously in the universe. After this encounter, the Doctor offered Peri the chance to return to the TARDIS, but she declined. (AUDIO: Peri and the Piscon Paradox [+]Loading...["Peri and the Piscon Paradox (audio story)"])
The Doctor arrived during the middle of a war on Cawdor, and discovered a plot by a figure called "Tenebris" to use a secret weapon called the Acheron Pulse. However, discovering that Tenebris was an old acquaintance, Kylo Sorsha, the Doctor foiled his plan and gave him a second chance. (AUDIO: The Acheron Pulse [+]Loading...["The Acheron Pulse (audio story)"])
Travelling with a historian
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Tracking a nexus point distortion, the Doctor encountered university lecturer and historian Evelyn Smythe. Realising her importance to the timelines, the Doctor allowed her to come with him back in time to stabilise the nexus point and save her life. Upon doing so, Evelyn insisted on joining the Doctor on his travels, as she did not want to pass up the opportunity to explore history first-hand. (AUDIO: The Marian Conspiracy [+]Loading...["The Marian Conspiracy (audio story)"])
Arriving in Lanyon Moor, the Doctor once again met his old friend Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart and uncovered a slew of unsolved mysteries that centred around the malevolent work of a stranded Tregannan named Sancreda. Sancreda had been trapped on Earth for many millennia, and, upon awakening, tortured and destroyed several humans with his psionic powers. During this adventure, Evelyn also showed her skill as the Doctor's verbal equal by persuading him to apolgise to Professor Morgan after the Doctor snapped at him. Discovering that he had not been abandoned as he had believed, and that instead he had caused his brother's accidental death, Sancreda threatened to destroy the Earth in a fit of rage, prompting the Brigadier to trick him into causing his own demise before he enacted his wrath on the entire planet. (AUDIO: The Spectre of Lanyon Moor [+]Loading...["The Spectre of Lanyon Moor (audio story)"])
While Evelyn was trapped in the TARDIS, (PROSE: Instruments of Darkness [+]Loading...["Instruments of Darkness (novel)"]) the Doctor was dragged into the Kurgon system, where he encountered a time distortion that killed everyone but himself, a waitress named Ellie and the android pilot Azimendah. After the Doctor realised that the mythical Temperon was connected to the time distortion, Azimendah was killed by Ellie, who revealed herself to be of the Sirens of Time, and the Doctor was trapped in his TARDIS after accidentally freeing the Knights of Velyshaa, but saved by the Temperon, who took him to Gallifrey to meet with his fifth and seventh incarnations. The Doctors were almost tricked into undoing their altercations to history, but they instead released the Temperon from the Knights of Velyshaa so that it could trap the Sirens of Time in an eternal struggle. With the Sirens of Time's manipulations to history averted, the Sixth Doctor was returned to his proper place in time by the Seventh Doctor. (AUDIO: The Sirens of Time [+]Loading...["The Sirens of Time (audio story)"])
Caught in a temporal wake, the TARDIS brought the Doctor and Evelyn to Archetryx where a conference between numerous temporal powers was being held. He met with the Time Lord delegation, consisting of the Acting President and Vansell, who informed him that President Romana had disappeared whilst investigating Etra Prime twenty years ago. Marking the start of the Etra Prime incident, the Daleks attacked the conference, during which the Doctor deduced the temporal wake was Etra Prime itself on a collision course with Archetryx. As he tried to raise the defences, he was reunited with Romana, who had escaped from Etra Prime after tweny years as a Dalek slave. Just before Etra Prime collided with Archetryx, he escaped in the TARDIS with Evelyn and Romana. He hurriedly took Romana back to Gallifrey and upon arriving in the TARDIS cradles they discovered Daleks had landed on Gallifrey.
Upon seeing that the Daleks were invading and massacring the ceremonial guards, the Doctor and company made their way to the security centre, where the Doctor altered Gallifrey's security so Evelyn's retinal pattern was needed to open the doors. As he, Romana and the Acting President planned their next mind they were contacted by a Black Dalek, which revealed the Daleks had developed the Apocalypse Element and were primed to unleash it in the Seriphia Galaxy. The Doctor and the President called its bluff, believing no lifeform would dare unleash such a thing, but were horrified when the Dalek followed through with its threat. The Doctor and Romana attempted to use the Eye of Harmony to contain the effect, but it proved insufficient.
After this failure, the Doctor lost his temper with Evelyn for a moment, proclaiming she could not possibly understand the scale of the destruction unfolding. The Acting President allowed the Dalek spearhead access to the Eye after they offered help and to the Doctor's surprise they did help contain the devastation in a separate continuum to burn out safely, at the cost of their lives. Afterwards, the dying Black Dalek revealed to him this was their plan all along, as Seriphia had now been reborn into thousands of virgin worlds which the Daleks were primed to seize. The Doctor and Evelyn quietly departed the recovering Gallifrey. (AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element [+]Loading...["The Apocalypse Element (audio story)"])
Visiting the Galápagos Islands as a treat for Evelyn, the Doctor teamed up with Charles Darwin and two residents named Greta and Emilio Rodrigues, working together to defeat an insane Silurian scientist named Tulok, whose experiments had provided the evolutionary leap from ape to man. (AUDIO: Bloodtide [+]Loading...["Bloodtide (audio story)"])
Stopping for food in the south of England, the Doctor and Evelyn met Amelia Doory and Reggie Mead, a couple apparently experimenting with finding a cure to their contamination with vampire DNA. On their trail was a vampire named Nimrod, head of a secret Black Ops organisation called the Forge, who managed to hunt the pair down in an effort to correct the failed experiment he had conducted decades earlier, code-named Project: Twilight. Evelyn befriended a young mother named Cassie Schofield, while the Doctor helped Amelia perfect a cure to stop their mutation, only for Amelia to betray the Doctor and turn the cure into a superior virus, first infecting Cassie, before fleeing to infect the rest of the world. Nimrod teamed up with the Doctor to stop Amelia, blowing up Amelia's blood bank, while the Doctor pursued her, knocking the virus into the water of the River Thames, prompting her to dive for it and drown. The Doctor took Cassie to Norway to live in secret while he developed a cure for her condition. (AUDIO: Project: Twilight [+]Loading...["Project Twilight (audio story)","Project: Twilight"])
After attending a funeral, (AUDIO: Real Time [+]Loading...["Real Time (audio story)"]) the Doctor and Evelyn joined an expedition group investigating an ancient Mayan temple on the planet Chronos after being informed of a distress call mentioning Cybermen. The Doctor met a young doctor named Reece Goddard, who turned out to be a hybrid Cyberman from an alternate timeline, and came under attack by partially converted Cybermen. After nearly causing a paradox involving 20th century Earth and the late 33rd century, the Doctor was able to defeat the Cyber-Controller. (WC: Real Time [+]Loading...["Real Time (webcast)"])
The Doctor returned to the Clutch to scare the Galyari into submission, and learned of mysterious deaths blamed on his actions. Upon investigating, he came under attack by a Galyari seeking to end his terror, but the Doctor managed to convince him that another force was using his reputation against them. After dealing with the looming threat, the Doctor made peace with the Galyari. (AUDIO: The Sandman [+]Loading...["The Sandman (audio story)"])
After suffering from a psychic shock, the Doctor and Evelyn landed on a Lorannan-Ycole Corporation gas dredger in Jupiter's atmosphere in 2553. When the ship became endangered by a faulty navigation buoy, the Doctor helped the crew evacuate. He learned that the Corporation was attempting to destroy a telepathic gestalt entity which attacked anything that came near it. Instead, the dredger's telepathic captain sacrificed herself to merge with the entity, which had previously absorbed her husband's consciousness, ending the threat. (PROSE: Jupiter [+]Loading...["Jupiter (short story)"])
Having received a weird transmission, the Doctor and Evelyn arrived in London 2003 but in an alternative timeline in which England, now the English Empire, was the central political power in the world after the Great Dalek War of 1903. They managed to avert this timeline after an encounter with a surviving Dalek. (AUDIO: Jubilee [+]Loading...["Jubilee (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Evelyn found themselves in the 18th century on a ship boarded by pirates in the Caribbean Sea. They accompanied the crew to the Ruby Islands with little help from Captain Swan. Evelyn was greatly saddened when the cruel captain Red Jasper beat a cabin boy to death. She was taken home to find a suicide letter from one of her students, Sally. The Doctor, after being persuaded by Evelyn, travelled with Evelyn back to the day before the letter was sent to spend time with Sally and prevent the suicide telling her their story with the pirates. (AUDIO: Doctor Who and the Pirates [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Pirates (audio story)"])
After finding a cure for the Twilight virus, the Doctor and Evelyn returned to find Cassie, only to discover that Cassie was now an agent of the Forge. The Doctor was captured by Nimrod, who attempted to force him into undergoing regeneration so that he could study it, while Evelyn tried to restore memories of Cassie's that had been suppressed by Nimrod. Evelyn was successful, and Cassie was freed from Nimrod's influence and rescued the Doctor, only to be killed by Nimrod before she could escape. (AUDIO: Project: Lazarus [+]Loading...["Project Lazarus (audio story)","Project: Lazarus"])
The Doctor took Evelyn to Világ to recover from Cassie's death, though she was still furious with him and went off alone. The Doctor inadvertently altered history by giving relationship advice to Princess Krisztina's lover, Corporal Reid, endangering the arranged marriage the princess was due to make to unite the warring power blocs in time to thwart an upcoming Killoran invasion. In a frantic effort to keep history on track, the Doctor became the couple's confidante and tried to help keep their relationship secret, however it was exposed by the machinations of Suskind, ending the arranged marriage, and thus the fragile peace, and leading to the Doctor's incarceration. He was freed by Krisztina just as the Killorans invaded. The Doctor managed to help the rival power blocs come together again to fight the Killorans, however Reid and Krisztina were killed in the effort. Infuriated by the death his actions had inadvertently caused, he sought to travel back in time to avert his first meeting with Reid but was stopped from changing history by Evelyn who had returned to his side. (AUDIO: Arrangements for War [+]Loading...["Arrangements for War (audio story)"])
The TARDIS fell through a time barrier to 1828 Edinburgh, where Robert Knox, a time travelling showman, was manipulating the timeline of the William Burke and Billy Hare murders to profit from a viewing audience of alien businessmen while ostensibly finding a cure for an alien race which was dying from flu at the same time. The Doctor brought one of the murder victims, Daft Jamie, who was infected with the virus, out of the barrier to January 1829, and tricked him into infecting Knox, who had no resistance and was unable to reset time to undo the infection, forcing Knox to escape in his own TARDIS. Putting time back on track, the Doctor brought Jamie back into his TARDIS, and dropped him off a few yards away from where Burke and Hare would murder him. (AUDIO: Medicinal Purposes [+]Loading...["Medicinal Purposes (audio story)"])
With Evelyn by his side, (PROSE: Instruments of Darkness [+]Loading...["Instruments of Darkness (novel)"]) the Doctor met Captain Travers, (TV: Terror of the Vervoids [+]Loading...["Terror of the Vervoids (TV story)"]) who proposed to Evelyn. (PROSE: Instruments of Darkness [+]Loading...["Instruments of Darkness (novel)"]) The Doctor and Evelyn then travelled to Mortlake in 1568 and met Dr John Dee, (PROSE: Mortlake [+]Loading...["Mortlake (short story)"]) and prevented Edward Grainger from being falsely convicted of treason. (PROSE: Old Boys [+]Loading...["Old Boys (short story)"]) The Doctor and Evelyn visited Gernica in the 64th century. (AUDIO: Death Will Not Part Us [+]Loading...["Death Will Not Part Us (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Evelyn landed on the Valiant where members of the crew hear an ancient bell ringing, there is a mysterious door and Evelyn hears the words "Time's End". They travel to 1952 to find the source of the noises. (AUDIO: The Nowhere Place [+]Loading...["The Nowhere Place (audio story)"]) The Doctor and Evelyn celebrated Morzart's 100th birthday and considered this the norm but ended up changing history so that he died a young man in 1791. (AUDIO: My Own Private Wolfgang [+]Loading...["My Own Private Wolfgang (audio story)"])
They arrived in Rome around October 101 BC and met Aurelia and her husband. The Doctor was convinced that they had accidentally prevented the birth of Julius Caesar. Evelyn tried to persuade the Doctor that the world would be better with Julia Caesar rather than Julius but the Doctor wanted to protect history, They realised that history was not changed as they had miscalculated when Julius was conceived. Julia was always the elder sister of Julius. (AUDIO: 100 BC [+]Loading...["100 BC (audio story)"])
The Doctor took Evelyn to pay her condolences to her former-student Jacob Williams who had recently lost his Father, Frank. Jacob explained how everytime a son was born in their family, the grandparents were killed. Later, Jacob's Mother, Mary, died after drinking a tea Evelyn prepared, the Doctor examined her and discovered she was just frozen and ordered they dig up Frank who had been buried alive. The Doctor deducts that Evelyn was a shapeshifter who had poisoned the grandparents whilst the real Evelyn was frozen in time in a field. (AUDIO: Bedtime Story [+]Loading...["Bedtime Story (audio story)"])
The Doctor came under the influence of an external force that informed him that they had sent an assassin to inject him with a lethal virus that would kill him in a hundred days. Together with Evelyn, he narrowed down the planets and went to investigate, witnessing his previous incarnation, Peri and Erimem attending a party, his next incarnation being held at gunpoint before being rescued by Ace and Hex, and two versions of his eighth incarnation playing poker in a bar. Spending days flying a kite on an archaeological expedition with Bernice Summerfield, he finally tracked down the assassin and tricked him supplying the antidote. (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The 100 Days of the Doctor (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Evelyn landed in Washington DC shortly before the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. They discovered that Robert Knox wasn't dead and wanted to manipulate time to stop the assassination, and that he had made a deal with the Indo to stop his own death. (AUDIO: Assassin in the Limelight [+]Loading...["Assassin in the Limelight (audio story)"])
Landing on a train which went to Fortune, the Doctor and Evelyn met Rachel-Ann Donovan who told them both that she was going there to find her father's murderer. He heard his description being said over the phone which led the Doctor to think that he was wanted by the Sheriff for murder. They came along a gold mine on their way to the town, and talked to the people who worked there. The Doctor was captured and arrested for murder but, knowing that he was not guilty, Rachel-Ann helped him escape. Unfortunately he was recaptured by the Mayor's men and left to be trapped in a mine explosion. Evelyn untied him and redirected the explosion to uncover and redirect the underground river to irrigate the land. (AUDIO: A Town Called Fortune [+]Loading...["A Town Called Fortune (audio story)"])
On a visit to 2010, the Doctor and Evelyn encountered Thomas Brewster, who was trying to return to his own time when he was contacted by Symbios, a sentient planet, who was being invaded by the Terravore. Brewster provided Symbios with hosts who were riding the tube. After the Doctor defeated the Terravores with aid from Brewster, Flip Jackson and DI Patricia Menzies, Brewster stole the TARDIS key, hid aboard and held the Doctor and Evelyn at gunpoint, demanding they return him to his own time. (AUDIO: The Crimes of Thomas Brewster [+]Loading...["The Crimes of Thomas Brewster (audio story)"])
While they were travelling in the Time Vortex, the Doctor and Evelyn managed to disarm Brewster, and change course before they arrived at their destination. The Doctor justified his actions by saying that if Brewster returned to his own time, then using his future knowledge would cause chaos and anarchy. The Doctor, Evelyn and Brewster materialised on the Axos spaceship that the Third Doctor had trapped in a time loop on 20th century Earth. (AUDIO: The Feast of Axos [+]Loading...["The Feast of Axos (audio story)"])
Accepting Brewster's wishes after an adventure in Victorian Lancashire, the Doctor left Brewster behind in his own time after he killed the creature that caused the chaos. (AUDIO: Industrial Evolution [+]Loading...["Industrial Evolution (audio story)"])
According to one account, on a return trip to Világ, Evelyn left the Doctor to marry Rossiter. The Doctor reacted badly and refused to say goodbye properly. (AUDIO: Thicker Than Water [+]Loading...["Thicker Than Water (audio story)"]) However, another account suggested that it was the Doctor who decided to leave Evelyn behind, on Earth in 1988, to "keep an eye out for any old enemies", such as the Irish Twins. According to this account, both the Doctor and Evelyn parted on bad terms. (PROSE: Instruments of Darkness [+]Loading...["Instruments of Darkness (novel)"])
Old acquaintances
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Saddened by Evelyn's absence, the Doctor travelled to 1987 Pease Pottage to officially meet Melanie Bush. However, an earlier version of himself arrived with the older Mel from after his trial, causing confusion while battling Stapleton Petherbridge. It soon became clear that Petherbridge was an alien who had created a fake Pease Pottage and isolated it outside of time, in an attempt to trap the Doctor.
The two Doctors and the two Mels defeated Petherbridge, resulting in the younger Mel's death. Noticing a discrepancy in the timeline, the Doctor used Petherbridge's technology to alter events, putting her back in the real Pease Pottage in 1987, while his younger self decided to deposit the older Mel on Oxyveguramosa, where she was taken from by the Time Lords during the trial. Resigning himself to the fact history must run its natural course, the Doctor decided to continue travelling alone. (AUDIO: The Wrong Doctors [+]Loading...["The Wrong Doctors (audio story)"])
Summoned by the Space-time telegraph, the Doctor became involved in an adventure in 2001 with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, where they attempted to solve a mystery involving Adolf Hitler and prevent the rise of the Fourth Reich. Travelling back to the Second World War in Germany and infiltrating the German government by befriending Hitler, the pair were forced to investigate the connection between a Neo-Nazi society and a conspiracy involving an alien spaceship that had crashed on the southern coast of England during the 1940s. After this, the Doctor once again parted company with the Brigadier. (PROSE: The Shadow in the Glass [+]Loading...["The Shadow in the Glass (novel)"])
The Doctor was summoned by Inquisitor Darkel to act as the Valeyard's defence after he was arrested on the moon of Etarho. However, the trial had been fixed to ensure the Valeyard's execution, and the Doctor was powerless to prevent it. Going to investigate the Valeyard's activities on Etarho, the Doctor found what appeared to be him in his final incarnation, only for Darkel to arrive and frighten the man into a mud hole, where he drowned. Darkel then demanded the Doctor to open the Valeyard's Black Scrolls, but he refused. The Valeyard, who had been the "future Doctor" all along, then emerged from the mud hole and revealed that he had planned the entire trial to lure the Doctor and Darkel into a death trap. Powerless to prevent his escape, the Doctor and the other Time Lords fled the planet moments before it was destroyed. (AUDIO: Trial of the Valeyard [+]Loading...["Trial of the Valeyard (audio story)"])
The Doctor reunited with Frobisher in the 82nd century, where he had resumed his job as a private detective, and was investigating mysteries. After solving a case involving Josiah W. Dogbolter, Frobisher was encouraged by his ex-wife to travel with the Doctor again. (AUDIO: The Maltese Penguin [+]Loading...["The Maltese Penguin (audio story)"])
When the Doctor and Frobisher landed in a Medieval castle after the crowning of Pepin VI, they were dubbed as angels. They meet Eugene Tacitus who had recorded all events and glamorised them in a Bible. The Doctor realised that the castle and its inhabitants were part of a fictional reality as a means of self-torturing escapism after Eugene had murdered his sleeping son. (AUDIO: The Holy Terror [+]Loading...["The Holy Terror (audio story)"])
During their adventures, the Doctor and Frobisher met Sabalom Glitz whilst on the run from bounty hunters, (PROSE: Mission: Impractical [+]Loading...["Mission: Impractical (novel)"]) granted Stuart Mallory his wish to see an emperor penguin, (PROSE: The Last Emperor [+]Loading...["The Last Emperor (short story)"]) and encountered the descendants of a Peri that married Yrcanos and defeated a Nahrung which had possessed a regent named Farlig. (COMIC: The Age of Chaos [+]Loading...["The Age of Chaos (comic story)"])
The Doctor stopped Beep the Meep when he took over Roger Lowell to gain a massive viewing audience and hypnotise them with subliminal messages on Audience Shares and command to kill on Beep and Friends. The Doctor claimed he had already disabled the subliminal messages. When Beep then tried to kill Lucy and Todd, the contestants on Audience Shares, he discovered that the Doctor had only disabled his laser pistol. The subliminal message went out when it looked like Beep was murdering the contestants, turning the audience against him. (AUDIO: The Ratings War [+]Loading...["The Ratings War (audio story)"])
The Doctor was arrested and faced execution on the planet Baspral by an Inquisitor due to the fact that he had saved a young boy's life on his last visit, allowing him to become a vicious dictator who caused billions of deaths, something the Inquisitor held the Doctor responsible for. However, the Doctor showed him that the slaughter the population had suffered strengthened the people of Baspral, who went on to defeat a Dalek attack force, saving the whole universe. After this, the Inquisitor released the Doctor, and the Doctor saved the Inquisitor from execution in return. (PROSE: The Inquisitor's Story [+]Loading...["The Inquisitor's Story (short story)"])
New friends
The Doctor set up a quarantine for Horlak and his Silurian scholars when they became infected with Raldoma Syndrome, (COMIC: The Lost Dimension [+]Loading...["The Lost Dimension (comic story)"]) and lost a fight with a Logovore, resulting in his memories of Edward Grainger being taken. (PROSE: Death Sentences [+]Loading...["Death Sentences (short story)"])
The Doctor went on the trail of a parasite known as "the Darkness", and arrived on Earth, where he was saved from a mugging by UNIT officers Will Hoffman and Emily Chaudhry. Aided by Will, Emily and UNIT, the Doctor stopped the Darkness from influencing the human population into murdering their loved ones. (PROSE: The Terror of the Darkness [+]Loading...["The Terror of the Darkness (short story)"])
Planning to take Emily and Will home in the TARDIS, the Doctor got sidetracked by a distress signal, leading him to an army base in World War II and a reunion with Edward Grainger. The two old friends worked to return a Mim back to its home world. After this, the Doctor witnessed the birth of Edward's son, John. Preparing to take Emily and Will home, the Doctor received a mission to travel to 1957 to investigate discrepancies in the UNIT archive. (PROSE: Incongruous Details [+]Loading...["Incongruous Details (short story)"])
Arriving in 1957, the Doctor discovered his whole history of defending the Earth had been wiped off the record at the Ministry of Defence by a British government agent called Ronnie Tillyard. After this, the Doctor finally returned Emily and Will home. (PROSE: Defining Patterns [+]Loading...["Defining Patterns (short story)"])
Arriving during the French Revolution in 1789, the Doctor rescued a man named Jason from death by the guillotine, and allowed him to become his new companion. (AUDIO: The Ultimate Adventure [+]Loading...["The Ultimate Adventure (audio story)"]) The Doctor took Jason to Metebelis III in the Acteon Galaxy, (AUDIO: Beyond the Ultimate Adventure [+]Loading...["Beyond the Ultimate Adventure (audio story)"]) before receiving a summons from Margaret Thatcher in 1988. The Doctor and Jason defeated a plot by the Daleks and the Neomorph Cybermen to kill the Doctor and destroy the TARDIS. This led them to arrive in Bar Galactica, meet Madame Delilah and Karl the Dalek mercenary, and to return to the French Revolution. During this adventure, they were helped by Crystal and Zog, whom the Doctor invited to join them on their travels. (AUDIO: The Ultimate Adventure [+]Loading...["The Ultimate Adventure (audio story)"])
The Doctor, with Jason, Crystal and Zog visited Leisureworld on the living planet, Krennos, where they uncovered a plot by the Chameleons. (PROSE: Face Value [+]Loading...["Face Value (short story)"])
After Zog left the TARDIS crew, the Doctor, Jason and Crystal were summoned by Karl to Bar Galactica to attend Madame Delilah's funeral. After this, Karl sent the TARDIS crew on a quest for treasure on the icy world of Ultima Thule in an obscure dimension, where they met a being who called itself the Eidolon. The Doctor managed to convince the Eidolon that he would do its bidding, but tricked it into entering the TARDIS, which he had set up to go straight to Gallifrey, where the creature could be dealt with. (AUDIO: Beyond the Ultimate Adventure [+]Loading...["Beyond the Ultimate Adventure (audio story)"])
The companion from the future
Info from The Avenues of Possibility [+]Loading...["The Avenues of Possibility (audio story)"], Prequel - The Legacy of Time [+]Loading...["Prequel (The Legacy of Time)","Prequel - The Legacy of Time"] & These Stolen Hours [+]Loading...["These Stolen Hours (audio story)"] needs to be added
While travelling alone, the Doctor picked up a distress signal from a desert island in the year 500002. (AUDIO: The Condemned [+]Loading...["The Condemned (audio story)"]) There, he rescued a young girl named Charley Pollard. (AUDIO: The Girl Who Never Was [+]Loading...["The Girl Who Never Was (audio story)"]) Together they landed in a hotel room on 29 February 2008 and found a dead body. While trying to investigate the death, the Doctor and Charley encountered DI Patricia Menzies prior to their earlier meeting. She believed that the Doctor was the murderer, but he managed to convince her that he was a time traveller, prompting the pair to team up. Investigating further, they realised that an alien named Robert Slater had let slip a case full of a strange new toxin that bonded its victims to the building itself, and that it had infected a man named Sam. The Doctor was too late to save Slater from Sam's wrath and reluctantly took Charley on as his companion. (AUDIO: The Condemned [+]Loading...["The Condemned (audio story)"])
After Charley accidentally alerted the Library of Alexandria to an overdue book in the Doctor's possession, the duo landed in the family tomb of the Doomwood family. There, they learned of a mysterious curse that loomed over the family and before long, one of its members died. Charley became influenced into thinking that she was the bride of a nobleman before turning into Gypsy Charlotte, a highway robber partnered with Dick Turpin, a character in the novel they were planning on returning. The Doctor followed on horseback and realised that Charley had the Doomwood curse. He followed Charley and Dick to York where he learned that the particles that were making up the fiction were spreading and that before long, everyone would become possessed by fiction. Realising that the only way to save Charley was to surrender to fiction, the Doctor took on the personality of a fictional character and met up with Charley, who snapped out of her trance and freed him too. (AUDIO: The Doomwood Curse [+]Loading...["The Doomwood Curse (audio story)"])
After landing on an unnamed planet which looked like a manor house with servant cottages, Charley and the Doctor were chased by werewolves. When Charley fell into a pit trap, he went to find a branch to get her out of it. However, he was found by Lina and Arin and taken to their leader. Lina and Arin took him to a party where he watched the partygoers turn from werewolves to proto-humanoids, which he found interesting as it was opposite to all the tales he had heard throughout his travels. When the police came, he tricked them into walking into the light to help his new friend's escape. Ugo explained to the Doctor the history of his species and how the humans on the mainland wanted to stop the werewolf condition. He then organised a way to stop Paignton. When the containment protocol was launched, he wanted to save all of the islanders from a nuclear bomb. However, because of the Valeyard's intervention, the bomb exploded out at sea, and the Doctor suggested that all of the islanders set sail for another place so that the humans would think that they were destroyed. (AUDIO: The Red House [+]Loading...["The Red House (audio story)"])
After apparently landing on Spiridon, the Doctor and Charley encountered a group of Thaleks, Thals who thought they were Daleks. He discovered that this was an experiment that Murgat was doing with the Thals and the Kyropites. (AUDIO: Brotherhood of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Brotherhood of the Daleks (audio story)"])
After preventing the resurrection of a Kroton army on the colony world Onyakis, (AUDIO: Return of the Krotons [+]Loading...["Return of the Krotons (audio story)"]) the Doctor and Charley travelled to 2008, where they once again encountered DI Menzies. Investigating a pound coin from 2012 that had appeared in a coin-operated vending machine four years too early, the duo discovered a secret gambling operation and were caught in the middle of a war between the Cyrox and the Tabbalac, two races who were using Earth as their battleground. After the war was ended, Menzies asked the Doctor if she could travel with him. The Doctor politely refused; citing the growing mystery surrounding Charley's true identity, but indicated that one day he might take her up on the offer. (AUDIO: The Raincloud Man [+]Loading...["The Raincloud Man (audio story)"])
The Doctor became suspicious of Charley's secretiveness and eventually confronted her, only for her to collapse in the TARDIS and fall into a long-lasting coma. Placing her in the Zero Room to recover, the Doctor discovered that Charley had been infected with a virus and spent several years trying to cure her.
After tracing the virus to the Amethyst Viral Containment Station, the Doctor became caught in the crossfire of a battle between an invading force of Daleks and the mysterious creators of the facility, the Viyrans. The Daleks were trying to find Patient Zero. Charley woke up in the TARDIS and confronted a strange woman that seemed to have a large amount of knowledge about the Doctor. This person identified herself as Patient Zero and confessed that she had infected Charley with the virus. The virus was created to turn infected people into copies of whoever infected them. Patient Zero had been experimented on by the Daleks and infected with the virus.
She snuck abroad the TARDIS while the Doctor was being chased by them and had remained in the TARDIS ever since. While the Doctor took care of the Daleks, Charley discovered that Patient Zero, whose true name was Mila, was transforming into a copy of her, as she infected Charley. Mila had planned to take over Charley's life by transforming into a replica of her. Unable to stop her, Charley faded out of existence while Mila took her place. (AUDIO: Patient Zero [+]Loading...["Patient Zero (audio story)"])
The Doctor received a summons from an old deceased friend and travelled to Draconia. There he discovered a conspiracy involving the new crown prince of Draconia, his mother and an army of paper soldiers that were used by the previous kings of Draconia to amuse themselves while they drifted in their tombs in space. (AUDIO: Paper Cuts [+]Loading...["Paper Cuts (audio story)"])
After travelling for several months, the Doctor and Mila landed in an alternate timeline created by the Viyrans' attempt to remove a virus from Earth's population. Here, the Doctor discovered that Mila wasn't the real Charley, and Charley had been found and cured by the Viyrans, whom she helped for several millennia in their quest to expunge all the viruses which had escaped from the Amethyst station. After Mila sacrificed herself to save the Doctor and the Earth, Charley revealed her identity to the Doctor, and pleaded with him to allow her to restore the Web of Time. To make him want to forget his travels with her, she told him of the truth of her situation, and her belief that she knew how he would die. He accepted, and she used the Viyrans' memory-altering technology to replace the Doctor's memories of their travels together with fabricated ones of Mila in their place. (AUDIO: Blue Forgotten Planet [+]Loading...["Blue Forgotten Planet (audio story)"])
The Land of Fiction
Arriving in what appeared to be Scotland, the Doctor was seemingly reunited with an apparently amnesiac Jamie McCrimmon who had no memories of his travels with the Doctor. The Doctor and Jamie tried to discover why there was Oil Pump Jacks in Scotland in a century where they shouldn't exist, and discovered that the Red Cap's master was trying to exploit the "Black Water" for his own ends. After this adventure, Jamie accepted the Doctor's offer to travel with him. (AUDIO: City of Spires [+]Loading...["City of Spires (audio story)"])
Making their way back to where they had left the TARDIS, the Doctor and Jamie discovered that it had been dragged somewhere else. Following the tracks, they had to cross a set of quick sands and encountered the Kelpie who tried to drag them under. They were rescued by Merodach who gave them hospitality, but later accused the Doctor of Witchcraft. The Doctor was then tortured as Merodach wanted the secrets of the TARDIS. Jamie rescued him but then Janet, Merodach's servant, set the TARDIS alight. However, the Doctor was able to use the Kelpie to help put out the unnatural flames. (AUDIO: Night's Black Agents [+]Loading...["Night's Black Agents (audio story)"])
They later apparently landed aboard the RMS Titanic. When the Doctor noticed that there was something wrong, such as the song that played during its sinking, the ship became the Titan, which soon hit the iceberg. The Doctor was stranded on the iceberg, but was rescued by the Nautilus by Captain Nemo who was hunting a squid that produced the "Black Water". Nemo later drove the Nautilus into a whirlpool the Doctor and Jamie were left in a white void. (AUDIO: The Wreck of the Titan [+]Loading...["The Wreck of the Titan (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Jamie soon discovered that they had been in the Land of Fiction all along, and that Jamie was a fictional character created by Zoe Heriot, the new Master of the Land, as a mystery for the Doctor to solve. Discovering that they were being used by Zoe to combat an invasion by the Cybermen, the duo managed to defeat them. After their adventure, Jamie decided to remain in the Land, telling the Doctor to seek out the real Jamie if he ever found himself in the Scottish Highlands again. The Doctor returned Zoe to the Wheel, saddened at the fact that she would once again fall under the Time Lords' conditioning and lose all memories of him. (AUDIO: Legend of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Legend of the Cybermen (audio story)"])
Stranded in Victorian London
The Doctor crash landed in Victorian London during the 1890s due to the temporal experiments performed by Professor Elliot Payne, which caused him to become stranded. Using the alias "Professor Claudius Dark", the Doctor attempted to investigate Payne and his experiments, (AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers [+]Loading...["The Hourglass Killers (audio story)"]) locating and attempting to convince Johnny Skipton of Payne's intentions. (AUDIO: Dead Men's Tales [+]Loading...["Dead Men's Tales (audio story)"]) However, the Doctor discovered that Henry Gordon Jago, George Litefoot and Leela were already investigating the incidents, (AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers [+]Loading...["The Hourglass Killers (audio story)"]) and tried to contact them. (AUDIO: The Man at the End of the Garden [+]Loading...["The Man at the End of the Garden (audio story)"]) Unsuccessful, he resolved to work on the TARDIS, (AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers [+]Loading...["The Hourglass Killers (audio story)"]) employing the services of an electric supplier. (AUDIO: Chronoclasm [+]Loading...["Chronoclasm (audio story)"])
After Jago, Litefoot and Leela successfully stopped Payne and his temporal experiments, the Doctor found he was still trapped on Earth, and discovered that he was now stuck due to the interventions of Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick, who had also crashed on Earth due to Payne's experiments. The pair was set on stealing the TARDIS in order to gain access to more advanced time travel equipment, prompting him to sink the TARDIS into the Thames embankment to avoid its location. (AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers [+]Loading...["The Hourglass Killers (audio story)"])
Inviting Jago and Litefoot to meet him and help him investigate Kempston and Hardwick, the Doctor chose not to reveal his identity, raising Jago and Litefoot's suspicion. (AUDIO: Chronoclasm [+]Loading...["Chronoclasm (audio story)"]) Warning them of the approaching Sandmen, they fled, but he was recognised by Leela, prompting him to make the suggestion that she recommend they all go to Brighton. (AUDIO: Jago in Love [+]Loading...["Jago in Love (audio story)"]) However, this failed to work out, necessitating the Doctor to give them all tickets to Oscar Wilde's new play, A Woman of No Importance, where they had an adventure with Wilde. (AUDIO: Beautiful Things [+]Loading...["Beautiful Things (audio story)"])
The Doctor arrived in time to save Jago and Litefoot from a train trapped in a time loop caused by Kempston and Hardwick, where he revealed his true identity to them. (AUDIO: The Lonely Clock [+]Loading...["The Lonely Clock (audio story)"]) With their help and Leela, the Doctor discovered that Kempston and Hardwick were members of the crew of a crashed Temparon vessel. But Kempston and Hardwick had predicted this and created a trap in Bedfordshire to capture him so that he couldn't stop their plan. Returning to London, the Doctor devised a way to defeat them. After retrieving his TARDIS and seeing Leela off, the Doctor offered Jago and Litefoot the chance to travel with him in the TARDIS, which they accepted. (AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers [+]Loading...["The Hourglass Killers (audio story)"])
Voyages with Jago and Litefoot
On their first trip through space and time, the Doctor took Jago and Litefoot to Venus in the far future, where they discovered the corrupt Venusian Queen Vulpina was enslaving the young of the Cytherians, the native Venusian race, which they called the Thraskins. Together, they defeated Vulpina and freed the young Cytherians, resulting in a peaceful treaty between the Cytherians and Venusians, before departing. (AUDIO: Voyage to Venus [+]Loading...["Voyage to Venus (audio story)"])
Intending to return to London, the TARDIS instead arrived on 1590 Roanoke Island, where the Doctor, Jago and Litefoot were held hostage by a local tribe of Native Americans. They discovered that the tribe were being terrorised by a group of ethereal children, who had been present for four hundred years. Whenever they kidnapped natives, they would leave behind the word "Croatoan" inscribed in the place where they once were. The trio discovered that Croatoan was an island, which they planned to explore, and were galvanised into action when Jago disappeared.
Arriving on Croatoan Island, they found Jago and discovered the TARDIS, which had been on Croatoan for four hundred years. Discovering Jago's captor, he revealed himself to be Sir Walter Raleigh, who had discovered the TARDIS while the Doctor and Litefoot were venturing to Croatoan. After tampering with the controls, Raleigh travelled back four hundred years, and encountered a group of alien beings, who would later become the children who had terrorised the tribe. He taught them how to live and hunt and, in return, they extended his life. However, the Doctor managed to communicate with the Native American Wanchese in the TARDIS, four hundred years prior, who prevented Raleigh from travelling in the TARDIS and restored the timeline. After the aliens disappeared, the Doctor encouraged the now paradoxical Raleigh to step outside and see the true fate of the settlers before he ceased to exist, and dematerialised. Finally managing to return to the Red Tavern, the Doctor bid his farewells to Jago and Litefoot, and set out to discover what had caused the disturbances in the Vortex. (AUDIO: Voyage to the New World [+]Loading...["Voyage to the New World (audio story)"])
Travelling with Flip Jackson
Tracking Davros and the Daleks to 18 June 1815, the Doctor learned that they were plotting to change history by helping Napoléon Bonaparte win the Battle of Waterloo. He used Davros' mind exchange machine to switch bodies with him to try and attempted to reform the Daleks, but Davros escaped and reunited with one of the Doctor's former associates, Flip Jackson, and her boyfriend Jared. Convincing Flip that the Doctor she had been accompanying was an impostor, the Doctor managed to gain her aid, while Davros convinced the Daleks of his identity. Together, the Doctor and Flip tricked the Daleks into thinking that he was Davros and showed Napoleon their true nature, prompting him to surrender. Afterwards, Flip asked the Doctor to allow her join him, something he accepted. (AUDIO: The Curse of Davros [+]Loading...["The Curse of Davros (audio story)"])
Sitting down to watch cricket on his Time-Space Visualiser, the Doctor and Flip encountered a disturbance which trapped Flip in another dimension. The Doctor tracked the signal to the planetoid Transmission, where he found Porcians attempting to steal a new television station's Reality Generator, a device that could project recordings into reality. Flip was caught in the movie dimension, but, due to sabotage, the dimension's villain, Lord Kran, escaped into reality and started to invade it. The Doctor used the Reality Generator to create a bomb that would destroy any fictional aspects, but leave anything that belongs in reality alone. (AUDIO: The Fourth Wall [+]Loading...["The Fourth Wall (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Flip transmatted to Earth in 16127 to see how the planet was getting on. Arriving in Scotland, they befriended a family, only for the Transmat system to become inactive. Detecting the presence of the Wirrn, the Doctor arranged for Flip to hang-glide to the nearest city to warn them. She crashed, prompting the Doctor to go and look for her. The Wirrn awoke and began attacking, but the Doctor used the Transmat system to freeze them under the surface of Loch Lomond. (AUDIO: Wirrn Isle [+]Loading...["Wirrn Isle (audio story)"])
The Doctor took Flip to see the New Regency Theatre, but when they found it was closed, he instead brought her to meet Henry Gordon Jago and George Litefoot in the Red Tavern. Litefoot showed him some of the bodies of aspiring actors who only recently had gone missing, but looked as if they had been dead for many years. At the mortuary, the Doctor saw the clothes they were wearing looked like clothes which Adric, Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka wore at the time of his fourth regeneration, and discovered that the Valeyard had rented out the theatre as was he re-enacting his previous regenerations. He went back to the Theatre, where he managed to stop the Valeyard from killing Jago and Ellie Higson. The Valeyard then used the anger and fear in the Doctor's mind to rejuvenate himself. Flip successfully saved the Doctor and in turn overcame her stage fright by performing nursery rhymes onstage. (AUDIO: Stage Fright [+]Loading...["Stage Fright (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Flip landed in a mine in Chihuahua, Mexico, 2010s after detecting some strange particles which contained Artron energy. There they discovered that the another version of themselves were the source of the signal, being frozen in time. Thinking that these were a future version of them, the Doctor realised that the other Doctor had trapped the cyborg. The Doctor then realised that the other Flip was actually a past version of her. The past version of the Doctor came to save the day to stop the cyborg. He lost his short term memory by being splashed by the Vortex Ice. (AUDIO: Vortex Ice [+]Loading...["Vortex Ice (audio story)"])
The Doctor decided to take Flip to Festin to see the auroras there. After seeing the fire at Khoralia, he went to find help but Halus thought he had caused it. After learning from Halus that the air car tracks went into the ionosphere of the planet, he thought that the Cortex was deliberately wanting to kill its people when the shock of the nearby stars nova reached the planet. Flip managed to bust him out prison to help stop the airways. Learning about the Urge from Dakeem, the Doctor tried to negotiate with it and discovered it came from an alternative dimension, and that it wanted to destroy the planet to allow it to become a physical being again. Whilst Flip was disrupting the traffic, the Doctor used the TARDIS to blot out the sun, as the Urge was using its energy to carry out its plan. (AUDIO: Cortex Fire [+]Loading...["Cortex Fire (audio story)"])
While resting on Tranquility, the Doctor and Flip received a distress signal from another TARDIS, which the Doctor traced to Earth in the 24th century. However, this signal was a trap arranged by Sil using Anzor's TARDIS, as Sil wanted access to a Time Lord to try and copy their remarkable ability to cope with disease as part of a plan to reduce Earth's population to a more manageable level via a series of plagues. Despite the involvement of Cordelia Crozier, who blamed the Doctor for the death of her father, and the involvement of the Velandari, a race of sentient diseases, the Doctor was able to turn the tables on Sil and force him to flee Earth while Cordelia destroyed Sil's allies. (AUDIO: Antidote to Oblivion [+]Loading...["Antidote to Oblivion (audio story)"])
The Doctor landed near Erys to calibrate the TARDIS' controls. Shortly afterwards, the TARDIS was attacked by the Drachee, who Flip allowed onboard, greatly annoying the Doctor. He was incapacitated as Flip was kidnapped. He later rescued Sarra Vanser from her collapsing space yacht. After making his way to Erys, the Doctor discovered it was a sentient moon and learnt that it could read minds and wanted to know of their stories. He discovered that Renval was created by Erys which were created from the integrated people. The Doctor then played with Erys' brain to stop it attacking him and his friends. (AUDIO: The Brood of Erys [+]Loading...["The Brood of Erys (audio story)"])
The Doctor brought Flip to the Nelson Mandela International Space Station, where Salvage 2 collided with the station, separating the pair. The Doctor went to mission control to find a way to save Jyoti Cutler and Flip by manipulating a set of satellites to move them back to the Mandela. Instead, he woke up the Scavenger, which started to move about. When he wanted to rescue Flip, he learned that she was in the Scavenger. Realising that Scavenger was intelligent enough to provide air for Flip, the Doctor talked to Flip and learnt that Anarkali was still on board. He tried to distract Flip when missiles were aimed at the ship, and got Scavenger to move away to find Atlantis. He tried to stop Flip from accessing the Transmat but he failed and she transmatted back to her original location. He asked Jyoti to locate Flip in orbit, however, she wasn't there. (AUDIO: Scavenger [+]Loading...["Scavenger (audio story)"]) The Doctor bent space and time with the TARDIS to slow Flip's descent, and then returned her to Jared. He later received an invitation to their wedding. (AUDIO: The Widow's Assassin [+]Loading...["The Widow's Assassin (audio story)"])
Reunited with Peri
After leaving Flip in 2012, the Doctor found a version of Peri who married Yrcarnos, and was imprisoned by her as retribution for leaving her on Thoros Beta. After Yrcarnos died from poisoning, the Doctor declined to investigate, as Peri had not asked him too, but looked into the matter in private, and discovered that Peri had poisoned Yrcarnos, leading the Doctor to believe that Lord Kiv had successfully transferred himself into Peri's body.
After five years in prison, the Doctor was finally pardoned and made Peri's royal adviser. Accompanying her on a royal visit, the Doctor was accused of murdering Peri when she collapsed from a poisoning, but he was able to keep her alive. Following a second murder, and after switching minds with Peri, the Doctor discovered it wasn't Kiv in Peri's body, but Mandrake, his childhood imaginary friend. The Doctor defeated Mandrake inside Peri's mind, while Peri, in the Doctor's body, managed to get him back to the TARDIS and trigger the antidote to cure her body. The Doctor then offered her the chance to travel with him again. (AUDIO: The Widow's Assassin [+]Loading...["The Widow's Assassin (audio story)","The Widow's Assassin"])
On their first trip in the TARDIS together, the Doctor and Peri arrived in Scotland during the 22nd century Dalek invasion. He had to rescue Peri when she was taken as a slave worker and stole Kyle Inskip's bike to do so. Helping Moira Brody and Peri to escape, they made their way to the Orkneys. He became worried when Peri became infected with a Varga plant. Eventually he was recaptured and disovered that Moira was a Roboman Elite but he had to destroy that research to maintain the timelines. (AUDIO: Masters of Earth [+]Loading...["Masters of Earth (audio story)","Masters of Earth"])
The Doctor and Peri then visited the College of Advanced Galactic Education so that the Doctor could receive an honorary degree in moral philosophy. He was worried about why he was sent one and decided to investigate. They ran afoul of the Rani in a new regeneration, who wanted the Doctor to be part of her machine which contained the most intelligent students that she wanted to use to re-engineer Chaos theory. (AUDIO: The Rani Elite [+]Loading...["The Rani Elite (audio story)","The Rani Elite"])
The Doctor tried to escape a signal that was causing disruption to the TARDIS, eventually shutting down the TARDIS to find the source. They landed in a jungle near the Congo in Africa. They found the camp that Amanda Latimer's expedition was using. He wondered if the B'lemyae that Admanda talked about were related to the signal that he was tracking. He was captured by the locals. After being released and searching for the kidnapped Peri and Siyanda with Amanda, he discovered the source to be crashed spaceship. He learnt that the B'lemyae were enslaved. He took their archive from the ship and planned to take it to a library so their race can be remembered. (AUDIO: The Headless Ones [+]Loading...["The Headless Ones (audio story)"])
He was contacted by Sandis-Fernis to help him negotiate their landing on Rusina. He was arrested for not having a computer chip implanted into him. The Doctor and Peri both had a chip forcibly implanted in them and released into the custody of Christie. He went to see Crompton but wasn't allowed to visit without having 50000 subs. Peri showed his video Crompton. Crompton manipulated the video to discredit him. Marconi helped him escape the dislike train. After learning more about the system from its creator Hoffman, he worked out a way to sway public opinion. (AUDIO: Like [+]Loading...["Like (audio story)"])
Aiming for Metebelis IV, the Doctor and Peri landed on a TV set encountering Myrna Kendal who had met them before. Peri got him to change into a different outfit for going round the film set so changed into an outfit that he wore in his Third Incarnation. He saved her from a falling studio light. He theorised that Jimmy Garfield's technical problems came from a time distortion. This caused him to be flung into the future. Thinking it was Karp's machine that was causing the problems, Peri corrected him by realised that Myrna and Carolyn May Sue were alternate versions of each other. He took Myrna and Jimmy to the future to stop a scandal. He then told Peri that if she ever wanted to stop travelling with him he would understand. (AUDIO: The Vanity Trap [+]Loading...["The Vanity Trap (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Peri went to Freudian Institute to undertake some therapy and were both assigned a Sigmund Freud to care for them. He was worried about Peri's craving for danger and her need for it. He thought that she was becoming mentally unstable. He told them about the adventure with the Complex. He tried to dismiss the concidence that the librarian called shared the same name with one of his previous companions Dodo Chaplet. He didn't want to leave Peri in Baltimore when she requested it, as it would mean that Peri would die, he wanted to keep her safe. He reluctantly agreed to have therapy. He was lying to his psychoanalyst to stop their plan with the Complex, using truths based on previous adventures. He allowed Peri to be taken so that she would cure them. (AUDIO: Conflict Theory [+]Loading...["Conflict Theory (audio story)"])
Companionless travels
Info from Wish You Were Here [+]Loading...["Wish You Were Here (ST short story)"] & Second Sight [+]Loading...["Second Sight (audio story)"] needs to be added
The Doctor tracked Ulrik to the site of an early Dalek battle between Ulrik's ancestors and the Daleks. He convinced Ulrik to trust him, turn a Roboman under his control and meet him on the roof of the building. There, the Doctor used his TARDIS to transport the Dalek Prime and Ulrik backwards in time. The Doctor joined his fifth, seventh and eighth incarnations briefly before being returned to his own timeline. (AUDIO: The Four Doctors [+]Loading...["The Four Doctors (audio story)"])
Attempting to help a pair of renegades from a race of otherwise xenophobic shapeshifters escape from Mykloz, an assassin sent by their rulers, the Doctor's efforts were briefly complicated by the presence of his first incarnation, as Mykloz attempted to frame the First Doctor as an impostor, but the Sixth Doctor was eventually able to escape and help the fugitives escape while expelling Mykloz into a dimensional rupture. (PROSE: The Golden Door [+]Loading...["The Golden Door (short story)"])
The Sixth Doctor teamed up with all of his other incarnations to save Gallifrey from destruction at the end of the Last Great Time War, (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"]) even joining them on the surface of the planet to save people from natural disasters that were occurring as a result of their attempt to shift it into another dimension. Shortly after meeting for tea with his other incarnations to celebrate in the Under Gallery, (PROSE: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (novelisation)"]) the Sixth Doctor lost all memory of the events due to the timelines not being synchronised. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])
The Doctor tried to save a young girl from a book printed on psychic paper. However, his attempts at communication only made the girl feel uncomfortable about him until the book claimed her. (PROSE: Academic Notes [+]Loading...["Academic Notes (short story)"])
As part of a plan by the the Monk to take the Doctor's place in history, (AUDIO: The Secret History [+]Loading...["The Secret History (audio story)"]) the Sixth Doctor swapped places with the Second Doctor just as the Second Doctor had discovered a long-lost Cyber-Tomb, prompting the Sixth Doctor to remain and investigate when the Second Doctor would have left. Although his actions nearly gave the Cybermen the chance to alter the outcome of the last Cyber-War, prompting the Sixth Doctor to contemplate calling the Time Lords for help despite the risks, Zoe Heriot was able to help him realise what the Second Doctor would have done and take action to stop the Cybermen, simply trapping them in a loop while he returned to his own place in time. (AUDIO: Last of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Last of the Cybermen (audio story)"])
While fighting the Sontarans, the Doctor was attacked by time flies. (COMIC: A Stitch in Time [+]Loading...["A Stitch in Time (CC comic story)"])
Upon coming back to his Baker Street residence in the 1890s, the Doctor found a letter from Jago and Litefoot, asking for his help against a mysterious sensation of tiredness they had been having for some time. From that description, the Doctor suspected the involvement of the Master in his decayed form; he then went back in time to when they started experiencing such feeling and disguised himself as Mr. Nocturne, assistant to Madame Sosostris, a hypnotist working at Jago's theatre. He was present when Jago and Litefoot accused her of hypnotising Inspector Quick and commanding him to mount the mirrors which were taking away their life force. He persuaded them to have Sosostris hypnotise Quick and remember everything the Master had ordered him to do. While Jago, Litefoot and Sosostris went to confront the Master, the Doctor together with Quick and Ellie Higson went to dismantle the mirrors and switched them with their counterparts in the Master's laboratory; he then tricked the Master, with Quick's help, by using the device to kill Jago and Litefoot by absorbing all their life force. Due to the mirrors being switched, the Master instead gave them back the energy that had been taken from them, and was left weak and frail, albeit with enough strength to retrieve his TARDIS and run away. (AUDIO: Masterpiece [+]Loading...["Masterpiece (audio story)"])
The Doctor wanted Harry Houdini's help and took him from a show in 1917. They followed a clue found in the pocket of Reynolds, who was apparently was working for Helga Schmidt and the German Army. The Doctor was concerned with the German army having alien technology. Helga eventually wanted his TARDIS for the war effort. After stopping Oberst Brandt's plans, the Doctor helped Peri return to her people. (AUDIO: Harry Houdini's War [+]Loading...["Harry Houdini's War (audio story)"])
Early adventures with Mrs. Constance Clarke
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The Doctor met Constance Clarke, one of the WRENs stationed at Bletchley Park and the pair worked together to defeat the extraterrestrial Waveform and a triple agent named Robbie Flint. (AUDIO: Criss-Cross [+]Loading...["Criss-Cross (audio story)"]) She joined him on his travels. Constance found an email in the TARDIS inbox for Second Rani's parole hearing. The Doctor then followed the Rani to Miasimia Goria where she took Constance and discovered what had happened there. (AUDIO: Planet of the Rani [+]Loading...["Planet of the Rani (audio story)"]) They later travelled to Arizona in 2029 after colliding with something in the vortex. He discovered a Viking burial mound there. They then found something strange in the snow and realised that the shield was a transmat relay. He combatted the Talessh there but wanted to release them from the transmat station and return them to his people. (AUDIO: Shield of the Jötunn [+]Loading...["Shield of the Jötunn (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Constance investigated a dimensional nexus made out of a train station with ever-increasing platforms and people, appearing multiple times, who were dead. A trainspotter, Keith Potter, revealed himself as an avatar of the Master and was killed by Tim Hope, who without the Doctor realising, was the Valeyard in disguise. (AUDIO: The End of the Line [+]Loading...["The End of the Line (audio story)"])
Responding to a distress call, the Doctor and Constance landed on Triketha. He found the way the Toxarians collected data about them, and could hear them telepathically. He learnt that the Toxarians were not native to this planet and went to find the spaceship that took them their. He discovered that the ship contained a set of rare and endangered species. He defrosted Tarlos from his cryochamber, and learnt more about the venom. He realised that Tarlos was a former travelling companion during his second incarnation. He managed to stop the insects and rescued Constance, Tarlos and Edwin from the explosion. He vowed to try and regain his memories of Tarlos. (AUDIO: Colony of Fear [+]Loading...["Colony of Fear (audio story)"])
Landing on a primitive planet, the Doctor and Constance were forced to join forces with agents of the Galactic Census to investigate an anomalous signal from the planet. Tracking the signal to the monastery of the Order of the Black Petal, the Doctor and Constance learned that the Order had been infiltrated by a team of crashed Daleks, who had used their latent psychokinetic abilities to infiltrate the Order's psychic network. Working with members of the Order, the Doctor was able to destroy the Daleks and end their threat. (AUDIO: Order of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Order of the Daleks (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Constance arrived on the planet Teymah in the middle of an expedition conducted by Lyam Yce to discover why the native species became extinct. The expedition released an ancient alien intelligence called the Ninexie, which the Doctor and Constance were able to stop by trapping it in the TARDIS. (AUDIO: Absolute Power [+]Loading...["Absolute Power (audio story)"])
Rejoined by Flip
On returning to Bletchley, the Doctor and Constance discovered a telegram informing Constance of the disappearance of her husband, Henry Clarke. Wanting to do right by Constance, the Doctor secretly investigated the assignment Henry was working when he disappeared, Operation: Quicksilver, and discovered a war happening between two races, the Vilal and the Zerith, in Vienna. Evoking his Time Lord authority with a giant psychic projection of himself, he ended their war on Earth. Afterwards, he left in the TARDIS with Constance to return Flip, who had been snatched away from her wedding in 2012 by the Zerith as leverage against the Doctor, home. (AUDIO: Quicksilver [+]Loading...["Quicksilver (audio story)"])
The Doctor took Flip and Constance to Bath, England in 1756 where he planned to take them to the famous baths. He helped rescue Theodosia Middlemint's dog. He took Theodosia to a coffee house for hot chocolate and learnt about her brother's, business. He went after Titus Craven when he kidnapped Flip and followed them to Bristol. He helped the slaves escape and encouraged them to blow up the brass works. He piloted the TARDIS to rescue Flip and Clara from the sinking ship. (AUDIO: The Behemoth [+]Loading...["The Behemoth (audio story)"])
The TARDIS landed on Formicia, where Flip planned to celebrate Constance's birthday. The population saw the Doctor as something odd and a coward as he was old. When the system realised his age he was sent the End, where he learnt from Roman that the elderly was used as an army. At an audience against the Middleman, he protested against the war and the Middleman threatened Flip with execution. Janaiya told him about how the Kronvos invasion caused the change of the society so that the Elderly became the army not the youth. The Doctor found out that there was no Kronvos army. (AUDIO: The Middle [+]Loading...["The Middle (audio story)"])
The Doctor brought Constance and Flip to Abbey Marston, in 1980, after tracing some strange temporal anomalies there. He met Percy Till, who had met him before, though the Doctor had not experienced that meeting yet. The Doctor became intrigued when Joanna Nash heard her dead sister Susannah Nash who later came back from the dead. He decided to go back to 1940 to find out why the army was interested in this place. He learnt from Hardwick that they resurrected pilots that went missing in action. He learnt that Percy was one of the people who had died. He discovered the Shams and learnt how they were involved in bringing the people back to life. He discovered this was part of the Static's plan to invade. He saw Constance die but brought her back to life as part of the defeat of the Static. (AUDIO: Static [+]Loading...["Static (audio story)"])
The Doctor made multiple attempts to get to Bletchley Park, but Constance asked to stay a bit more. After some trouble with the TARDIS, he made an emergency landing on Cygia-Rema meeting the Vultriss. Being taken to the main city, he found out from Skye that there was going be an alien ambassador coming to the planet and learnt that it was a set of Ice Warriors. He was accused of being a spy. He learnt of ancient Time Lord technology on the planet which was there to stabilise a temporal rip. He learnt from the Martian ambassador Exazril what Vextyr was planning with the crystals. After stopping Vextyr, he stayed on the planet for three months to help rebuild. (AUDIO: Cry of the Vultriss [+]Loading...["Cry of the Vultriss (audio story)"])
Landing in France in 1944, he wanted to leave immediately to protect Constance as it was her immediate future. He learnt about a strange forest fire that happened near the village. When Flip tried to stop the lynching of Clementine, he had to intervene to stop it happening to her. He discovered a strange fire that was attacking the German soldiers, which he thought was strange. He later rescued Flip and Clementine from a burning flat. After the Furio was sent after the Doctor and his friends, he sent it to Berlin naively. He chased after it in a plane and asked Lucien to persuade it that the war is over, suggesting it to go to Skaro. (AUDIO: Scorched Earth [+]Loading...["Scorched Earth (audio story)"])
The Doctor encountered Calypso Jonze who asked him to help find the Somnifax, and they tracked it to 1937 America. The Doctor wanted to destroy the creature but Calypso wanted to capture it for its bounty. The Doctor went into H. P. Lovecraft's mind to extract the Sominfax with Flip. He made his way through the Lovecraftian world and discovered that the Somnifax wanted to summon Cthulhu. He used the logic of the Lovecraft Mythos to defeat the Somnifax. The Doctor then lectured Lovecraft about his racist views after he suggested that he and the Doctor were equals. (AUDIO: The Lovecraft Invasion [+]Loading...["The Lovecraft Invasion (audio story)"])
After taking Flip to a hospital to recover, the Doctor and Constance explored the surrounding city when it came under attack from the Freebooters. He wanted to end them to protect Flip, and contacted Calypso Jonze for help. They took the Doctor and Constance to the Freebooter's section of space. He was contacted by Vakrass but couldn't remember fully the last time he met him. He demanded to El Zeddo to stop their attacks on Titan. His negotiations failed. He found a Time Lord data crystal in El Zeddo's memory and reset him to factory settings. He then programmed Jonze's ship to one of the Freebooter's treasure hauls to repay them. The Doctor and Constance were then abducted by Vakrass before they could return to Flip. He took him and Constance to his base of operations near the fabled location of the lost moon of Botoya. The Doctor encountered his Fifth and Eighth incarnations. On Vakrass' request, the Doctors travelled to the lost moon of Gallifrey, via a portal formed by the medallions each Doctor had found, to find Gostak. The Doctors learned that the moon was a complex temporal manipulation device that Gostak intended to use to undo the last few thousand millennia to re-establish the Time Lords as a vast empire. The Doctors refused to help his plans, with Gostak's efforts to force their aid being cut short as the Doctors turned the moon's power against itself, aided by the arrival of the Seventh Doctor with a control rod for the moon's system. He then planned to go back and collect Flip and go on a new adventure. (AUDIO: The End of the Beginning [+]Loading...["The End of the Beginning (audio story)"])
Temporary companions
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The Doctor was contacted by Bernice Summerfield, and told that the Sirens of Time had hijacked the first Gallifreyan experiment of time travel, turning it into a time paradox that was splitting the universe apart. While the experiment had already been stopped, the Time Lords were in danger of not discovering time travel. Along with his third, fourth, fifth, seventh and eighth incarnations, the Sixth Doctor was brought to the planet Henlen to serve as one of the six pilots needed to handle the TARDIS prototype, while his first, second and tenth incarnations stayed behind to deal with the possible backlash. The experiment was successful, restoring the correct timeline and the Sixth Doctor was taken back to his own time by Benny. (AUDIO: Collision Course [+]Loading...["Collision Course (audio story)"])
Arriving in the 1970s, the Doctor encountered his ballroom dancing instructor Becky as a teenager. He taught her the steps she would teach him in the future, but realised too late that his efforts to reform Becky's future husband had been poorly planned. (PROSE: Teach Yourself Ballroom Dancing [+]Loading...["Teach Yourself Ballroom Dancing (short story)"])
The Doctor rescued Mathew Sharpe from his ship in 2715 and took him on several adventures, such as meeting the Quarks. On his way to take him home, he received a distress signal from a ship and explored it with Mathew. He encountered Esther Brak who stunned him and the later the Geist Willoway. He worked out this ship was the Nomad because of the artron energy crystals. He opened the time bubble and discovered Juniper Hartigan. He learnt that Mathew was a Myriad and had manipulated him to get Hartigan. (AUDIO: The Lure of the Nomad [+]Loading...["The Lure of the Nomad (audio story)"])
The Doctor landed in the Thames tunnel built by Marc Brunel and encountered Isambard Kingdom Brunel in it. He learnt from the workmen about a ghost in the tunnel and he offered to help to dispel this rumour. He discovered something strange living in the tunnel. He learnt from Tan about a strange city under the Thames and about the tributes. He was attacked by Alayna. Rispa showed him about the windows into London and how they made their tributes. He discovered that the Luceat was from a parallel universe and became connected when a transmat experiment went wrong. (AUDIO: Iron Bright [+]Loading...["Iron Bright (audio story)"])
UNIT called the Doctor back to London in 1992. Lewis Price told him about the unnatural drought which was only affecting Britain. He traced a signal to a ship on the other side of Mars and discovered that the Veridians were there, and went back to the source of the signal. Shortly after arriving, he discovered that the Cybermen were active on Earth. He investigated the Cybership learning that it was under a UNIT facility. He later theorised that there must be a Cyber Agent in UNIT. After discovering that cyber technology was in the UNIT satellites, he traced their control signals to a cyber fleet under the Atlantic Ocean. He realised that Daniel Hopkins was a cyber agent as he knew of Veridian biology. He was taken to cyber control. He tampered with controls to the satellites and destroy the cyber fleet. He recommended that Hopkins be placed in confinement. (AUDIO: Hour of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Hour of the Cybermen (audio story)"])
The Doctor once discovered a dead body with a frozen face in Iceland and encountered Yrsa Kristjansdottir, who was investigating it. He helped in her investigation and discovered an alien was working in Iceland and keeping hunting trophies. The Doctor followed the Hunter to another planet, Valin, were he encountered the Marficks. He learnt from them about the Hellion. He stopped the Hunter by melting the ice below him. The Doctor offered to take Yrsa with him on his travels. (AUDIO: The Hunting Ground [+]Loading...["The Hunting Ground (audio story)"])
Golden Futures, River Song and his future
Curious about the strange "blip" in human history that was Golden Futures, the Doctor went to investigate and purchased 51% of Golden Futures, becoming the Managing Director. Unbeknowst to him, the Speravores (the real owners of the company) kept him trapped there, feeding on his wasted potential and using the time he gave them to bring to fruition their greatest plan, "Project Elysium". The extent of this plan was revealed to the Doctory by River Song, when she infiltrated the company as an office temp placement: she discovered that the Speravores wanted to destroy Earth and replace with Elysium, officially to sell it as real estate, but in reality to use it as bait for rich customers to feed on. Together the two devised a plan to stop them by diverting on Elysium the cancellation wave meant to destroy Earth, but in order to do so the Doctor suggested letting one of the Speravore larvae feed on him - which would cause him to suffer great harm and possibly regenerate. River couldn't allow that, and diverted the larvae onto other subjects, but the resulting energy was not enough, and different alternatives Earth started competing for existence. To spare the Doctor the guilt, River used her amnesia lipstick on him so that he would have no memory of their encounter. (AUDIO: World Enough and Time [+]Loading...["World Enough and Time (audio story)"])
The Doctor woke up in the Isop Galaxy with no idea how it got there; when he discovered what was happening to Earth, he traced the origin of the disturbance to London, 1703, and detected traces of Chronon energy around a couple of lovers, Isaac George and Sarah Dean. He became acquainted with the former, giving him romantic advice, only for River to barge in and tried to convince him not to pursue his investigation. The Doctor took her for a CIA agent, and stubbornly refused; when he knew she had been imprisoned for theft, he visited her only to retrieve her vortex manipulator so she couldn't interfere. During the Great Storm, he helped Isaac reach Sarah to save her, only for his next incarnation to crash in and tried to stop them. The two Doctors and River were captured by the Speravores immediately after. Now remembering everything, the Sixth Doctor elected to sacrifice himself, staying behind for the Queen Speravore to devour his potential as the archaelogist and the Seventh Doctor went on to stop them. Weak and almost on the edge of regeneration, he was once again brought to his TARDIS by River and sent on his way. (AUDIO: The Eye of the Storm [+]Loading...["The Eye of the Storm (audio story)"])
History takes its course
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After foiling a plot by the Master and a Usurian to take over the stock market, (PROSE: Millennial Rites [+]Loading...["Millennial Rites (novel)"]) the Doctor finally became acquainted with Mel on a beach in Brighton in 1989, before they were forced to defeat the Nestene Consciousness together with the Brigadier. After the situation was resolved, Mel elected to travel with the Doctor. (PROSE: Business Unusual [+]Loading...["Business Unusual (novel)"])
With Mel by his side, (PROSE: Millennial Rites [+]Loading...["Millennial Rites (novel)"]) the Doctor was involved in a battle with the Terrible Zodin that involved multiple incarnations of himself, though he lost his memory of the adventure after Zodin used "mind rubbers" on him and his other incarnations. (PROSE: Cold Fusion [+]Loading...["Cold Fusion (novel)"])
While playing a game of Monopoly, the Doctor's TARDIS answered a distress signal from the Vulgar End of Time, a point in the far future where everything had already been discovered. Arriving on the planet Generios 1, the Doctor and Mel encountered a scam artist named Banto Zame, who, together with his assistant, Sally-Anne Stubbins, were claiming to be the Doctor and his companion and were creating fake dangers to con the people into paying them to help. However, a real threat appeared in the skies and offered to let the people live if they handed over the three greatest treasures of the Generios system. The Doctor and Mel teamed up with their pretenders and underwent a quest to find the treasures. Convincing Sally of her own worth, the Doctor managed to defeat the Cylinder, tricking it into taking Zame instead of himself. (AUDIO: The One Doctor [+]Loading...["The One Doctor (audio story)"])
Briefly separated from Mel when the spaceship they were on was attacked, the Doctor was "rescued" by the Daleks, while Mel ended up working as part of a scientific research team led by a disguised Davros. Learning that Davros was modifying salvaged Mechonoids into the new Juggernauts, the Doctor and Mel were shaken when they learned that the Juggernauts used human tissue in their construction. Mel utilised a back door she had installed in their programming to turn them against Davros and the colony was destroyed in the resulting battle while Mel's new friends escaped. (AUDIO: The Juggernauts [+]Loading...["The Juggernauts (audio story)"])
While visiting Mel's uncle, John Hallam, in 2003, Mel was transported to 1782 where she awoke with amnesia. The Doctor and Hallam travelled there and learned that she had been taken in by a local aristocrat. Mel had mistakenly been drugged by one of the village doctors, not knowing it was partly because of the medicine that her memory stayed distorted. The Doctor realised that Mel had become one of her own ancestors and struggled with trying to maintain the timeline, but found a way around it in order to save Mel. (AUDIO: Catch-1782 [+]Loading...["Catch-1782 (audio story)"])
Having heard of her, Mel requested that they visit Evelyn Smythe. The Doctor worked with Evelyn's stepdaughter, Dr Sofia Rossiter, to rescue Evelyn and Mel who were kidnapped to become political prisoners. When Evelyn was injected with Killoran DNA, the Doctor saved her and they made peace at the renewing of Evelyn and Rossiter's vows. (AUDIO: Thicker Than Water [+]Loading...["Thicker Than Water (audio story)"])
In 1957, the Doctor and Mel investigated UFO sightings in the proximity of Hammerston, Louisiana and became involved in the production of the film Swamp of Horrors after attacking an actor in a rubber alien suit whom they mistook for a genuine alien. The Doctor and Mel were assumed to be uncredited actors playing fictional characters by film critics. (PROSE: Swamp of Horrors (1957) - Viewing Notes [+]Loading...["Swamp of Horrors (1957) - Viewing Notes (short story)","Swamp of Horrors (1957) - Viewing Notes"])
After arriving on a hospital spaceship crewed by the Sisters of Plenitude, the Doctor and Mel explained a miscommunication between the children and the Catkind that had led to the children mistakenly believing the Catkind were going to eat them, when the cat nuns were actually synthesising an antihistamine to combat allergies to cats, and held a Christmas celebration with them. (PROSE: Fairy Tale of New New York [+]Loading...["Fairy Tale of New New York (short story)"])
Hearing a distress call from a strange asteroid, the Doctor and Mel discovered two stranded humans, Maria and Eliza Applewhite, who lived in fear of the Wishing Beast. Realising what it was, the Doctor stopped his power. (AUDIO: The Wishing Beast [+]Loading...["The Wishing Beast (audio story)"]) Later landing in Salford in 1965, the Doctor was intrigued by the local hairdresser Mr Coiffure who could make his clients younger. The Doctor realised this was an earlier version of the Wishing Beast. (AUDIO: The Vanity Box [+]Loading...["The Vanity Box (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Mel then travelled to Tantane Spaceport, where the Doctor discovered two warring tribes of humans who had been stranded there by a group Wailers. (AUDIO: Spaceport Fear [+]Loading...["Spaceport Fear (audio story)"])
Mel convinced the Doctor to install an answering machine in the TARDIS; as he did so, he also took the chance of admonishing River Song to stop pestering about reaching her to the Apocalypse Vault. (AUDIO: Expiry Dating [+]Loading...["Expiry Dating (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Mel arrived on Peladon and were caught in a mine collapse caused by an explosive. The Doctor was rescued by nearby villagers led by Helais and discovered their drinking water was contaminated. When Queen Minaris came to see the site of the disaster he was relieved to discover Mel was with her but infuriated that he couldn't convince the Queen to take action to help the people. As Helais led an insurrection against the monarch, the Doctor fruitlessly tried to stop the escalation but managed to halt Helais in the throne room. They discovered the disaster and insurrection had been formented by Princess Isabelda, who wanted to abandon Peladon. After Isabelda seemingly fell to her death in a failed escape attempt, the Doctor devised a compromise with Minaris for Helais to be appointed Chancellor. (AUDIO: The Death of Peladon [+]Loading...["The Death of Peladon (audio story)"])
Travelling with Peri and Mel
According to an account where the Doctor travelled with both Peri and Mel, they forced him to skip as a form of exercise, though his skipping got so extreme that his clothes were flung off. (PROSE: Skipping Song [+]Loading...["Skipping Song (short story)"])
Joined by Hebe
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After picking up a SOS from a rig in the North Sea, the Doctor and Mel met surviving crew members including marine biologist Hebe Harrison, who had sent the SOS thanks to a button on her mobile phone provided to her by her old tutor, the Doctor's former companion Evelyn Smythe. After discovering that the hostile behaviour of wildlife around the rig was because of the contaminated water supply and learning Hebe's connection to Evelyn, the Doctor allowed Hebe to join the TARDIS crew alongside Mel. (AUDIO: The Rotting Deep [+]Loading...["The Rotting Deep (audio story)"])
For Hebe's first trip, they arrived on the Moon in prehistoric times when it was covered by an ocean. There they discovered a native species, the Gilleans, and helped them come to terms with their nightly transformations into monsters, brought on by Earth's gravity which was also threatening the existence of the Moon's oceans. The trio subsequently aided the Gilleans in leaving the Moon by awakening their sentient city. (AUDIO: The Tides of the Moon [+]Loading...["The Tides of the Moon (audio story)"])
The trio travelled to Zoda-Kappa where they encountered the Holomorph and helped scientists devise a psionic transmitter with which they could cure a condition which had trapped half the Human Empire's population in sleep, (AUDIO: The Dream Nexus [+]Loading...["The Dream Nexus (audio story)"]) and then to the flooded world of Veludia where they found a group of survivors who survived by rotating three bodies as hosts for their minds. (AUDIO: Maelstrom [+]Loading...["Maelstrom (audio story)"])
Following an identical distress signal from Hebe's friend Elise, the trio travelled to Sheffield where they worked with Patricia McBride to investigate the Mindless Facility, which had been brainwashing people in guise of well-being treatments, with the Doctor briefly succumbing to the treatment himself. They interfered with the treatments just in time to stop the process being applied to the Home Secretary, after which the Doctor notified his friends at UNIT to clear up after the retreating aliens. (AUDIO: The Mindless Ones [+]Loading...["The Mindless Ones (audio story)"])
The Doctor, Mel and Hebe infiltrated the Emit Institute after Patricia called them upon discovering Killian Holm had recreated Neanderthals there. He discovered Holm was exploiting a repair field from a crashed Soloch spaceship, which began using temporal reversal to repair itself and resurrect the pilot, causing chaos in the facility. The Doctor lured the Soloch away so Mel and Hebe could evacuate everyone to the TARDIS and reached the ship himself amid the time storm resulting from the temporal distortions. Afterwards he offered Patricia a lift home to Sheffield, though she requested a trip to the future first. (AUDIO: Reverse Engineering [+]Loading...["Reverse Engineering (audio story)"])
The Doctor took the TARDIS to Sheffield in 2596 however Patricia quickly asked to leave. On their return journey to 21st century, the TARDIS encountered two individuals battling in the Time Vortex, with the Doctor rescuing one, Tannus Vallon, before the ship crash landed at its destination. As Vallon slowly recovered at Elise's flat, the Doctor learnt he was a Chronomancer from Drornid in pursuit of a criminal possessing an Oubliette, Khavûl. He picked up on Patricia's behaviour whilst he investigated and eventually confronted her over her true views on tolerance, angrily telling her leave. Once Vallon recovered they went to the Oubliette, which they deduced was being exhibited as an artefact, but found Khavûl already there with Patricia. In the confrontation Vallon was killed and the Doctor disposed of the Oubliette before it could detonate. Returning to the TARDIS with Mel and Hebe, the Doctor was horrified when Hebe suddenly disappeared and the TARDIS records showed no sign of her ever having existed. (AUDIO: Chronomancer [+]Loading...["Chronomancer (audio story)"])
The final adventures
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Arriving on Earth in 1999, the Doctor visited his old friend, Dame Anne Travers, while Mel became unwittingly caught up in Ashley Chapel's attempt to summon the powerful entity Saraquazel to Earth, a resulting disruption of reality as Chapel tried to summon Saraquazel and Anne, misinterpreting Chapel's plans as an attempt to summon the Great Intelligence, tried to banish the Intelligence, turning Chapel, Anne and Mel into the three rulers of three great kingdoms, each adhering to a different law of physics. The Doctor was nearly mutated into the Valeyard by the resulting disruption of reality, but he was able to resist the influence long enough to undo the damage and restore Mel and the others to normal. (PROSE: Millennial Rites [+]Loading...["Millennial Rites (novel)"])
The Doctor was called to a spaceship to be used as a scapegoat to drive out hijackers. However, this plan turned sour when a genetically engineered species known as the Vervoids emerged from their pods in storage and killed many of the passengers, simultaneously causing several others to mutate into new members of their own kind. With the Vervoids attempting to convert all of humanity, the Doctor was forced to destroy them by fast-forwarding their lifecycle, as he knew that just one Vervoid making it to Earth would allow this to happen. (TV: Terror of the Vervoids [+]Loading...["Terror of the Vervoids (TV story)"]) The Doctor did however set up a herbarium containing Vervoid seeds genetically altered to remove genocidal tendencies which insured their benign future. (PROSE: Interstitial Insecurity [+]Loading...["Interstitial Insecurity (short story)"])
The Doctor and Mel took a trip to Oxyveguramosa, where Mel was taken by the Tremas Master to give testament at the Doctor's trial, (PROSE: The Ultimate Foe [+]Loading...["The Ultimate Foe (novelisation)"]) and later returned by the past Doctor after a brief stop at Pease Pottage. (AUDIO: The Wrong Doctors [+]Loading...["The Wrong Doctors (audio story)"])
After the Doctor's attempt to stop a minor conflict on the planet Maradnias accidentally escalated that conflict into a nuclear apocalypse, Mel contemplated leaving the TARDIS, but these plans were interrupted when the Doctor detected a trace of temporal technology on Earth. Tracking the source, the Doctor discovered Stuart Hyde had helped his new protégé, Paul Kairos, adapt TOMTIT's technology into the TITAN Array that would allow humanity to perceive the higher dimensions, just as the Tremas Master appeared to try and adapt TITAN for his own purposes. The Master's actions resulted in the creation of the Quantum Archangel, an entity composed on the human consciousness of Anjeliqua Whitefriar, the power of the Lux Aeterna, and the quantum processing power of the Mad Mind of Bophemeral, who sought to make reality "better" for all despite the risks of attracting the attention of the Chronovores.
Learning that this whole plan had been manipulated by Kronos as his attempt for revenge on the Chronovores for condemning him due to being a Chronovore/Eternal hybrid, the Doctor took on the dregs of power left from Lux Aeterna to delay the Quantum Archangel until Kronos could destroy the Mad Mind, prompting Anjeliqua to forsake her power. As thanks for his help in this crisis, the Eternals and the Chronovores erased both the Doctor's trip to Maradnias and the conflict he had originally travelled there to stop. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel [+]Loading...["The Quantum Archangel (novel)"])
The Doctor and Mel arrived on Earth in the year 1993, where they encountered Evelyn. The Doctor chastised Evelyn for using her knowledge of the future to make money. The Doctor, Mel, and Evelyn then encountered Cellian and Ciara, who had rebelled against their Nestene control, and stopped a plan by two Cylox criminals to take over Earth. After the two Cyloxes were killed by their jailer, and Cellian and Ciara were killed in battle, Evelyn decided to join the Doctor and Mel on their travels. (PROSE: Instruments of Darkness [+]Loading...["Instruments of Darkness (novel)"])
Deciding to take Mel to the Great Tower of Kalsos, the Doctor arrived around 80 years too late, as it was to be destroyed to mark the end of the war against The Eminence. After being taken to Ridius IV he encountered and learnt from Helgert Teveler about the problems with the seeds because of the war and devised a plan to get uncontaminated seeds from the seed bank on Earth. The Eminence which had infected the Doctor in his fourth incarnation planned to contaminate these seeds to defeat the humans by starvation, but the Doctor tricked them. (AUDIO: The Seeds of War [+]Loading...["The Seeds of War (audio story)"])
Preparing for the end
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Shortly after being given a glimpse of his future, (PROSE: Curtain Call [+]Loading...["Curtain Call (short story)"]) the Doctor assisted a group of revolutionaries fight against the repressive regime of their planet, but was captured and taken to House Osmo, a palatial structure that contained books that predicted the events of someone's life. Reading his own book, the Doctor learned he was nearing his death. (PROSE: The Book of My Life [+]Loading...["The Book of My Life (short story)"])
The Doctor decided to prepare for his demise by returning to the dawn of time and carving "The Doctor was here" on the first inhabitable planet, and then travelled to Germany to play guitar with the Beatles. He observed the birth of Ludwig van Beethoven and gave his mother enough money to ensure that she would be able to keep the child her husband didn't want. He then visited his old mentor at the time of his death, to bid him thanks and farewell. (PROSE: Gone Too Soon [+]Loading...["Gone Too Soon (short story)"])
Death
Manipulations
According to one account, just after almost becoming the Valeyard and nearly killing Mel on 1 January 2000, the Doctor was influenced by his next incarnation into killing himself. The Seventh Doctor did this out of fear of becoming the Valeyard (PROSE: Head Games [+]Loading...["Head Games (novel)"]) and because he felt he needed to be "born". According to Death's version of events, the Doctor joyfully piloted his TARDIS towards the Rani's tractor beam, (PROSE: Love and War [+]Loading...["Love and War (novel)"]) though Mel witnessed him attempting to activate the HADS. (PROSE: Time and the Rani [+]Loading...["Time and the Rani (novelisation)"]) Another account explained that it was in fact Fenric who manipulated the events of the Doctor's sixth regeneration. (PROSE: The Runes of Fenric [+]Loading...["The Runes of Fenric (short story)"])
The Rani's attack buffeted the TARDIS out of flight, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Loading...["Time and the Rani (TV story)"]) and caused the Doctor's head to collide with the TARDIS console, (PROSE: Time and the Rani [+]Loading...["Time and the Rani (novelisation)"]) forcing him to regenerate (PROSE: Head Games [+]Loading...["Head Games (novel)"]) as the TARDIS was pulled on to Lakertya. (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Loading...["Time and the Rani (TV story)"])
Fighting the Lamprey
According to a second account, the Doctor's adventures eventually led him to the Library of Carsus, after encountering his future self in the TARDIS, where he worked with an old Time Lord friend, Professor Rummas, and many alternative versions of himself from different universes to stop the Lamprey, a pan-dimensional being, from destroying creation with the power of the Spiral Chamber, a powerful Time Lord artefact that acted as a portal into the nexus of the Time Vortex. However, the Doctor was forced to sacrifice much of his chronal energy to trap the Lamprey inside the Chamber. The toll of the Lamprey's imprisonment drained the vitality out of the Doctor as time-sensitive chronon particles, which helped sustain his life force, were stripped away from his body.
Dying, the Doctor materialised the TARDIS in deep space to take one last look at the universe. Satisfied with the life he had led, the Doctor told Mel not to feel cheated by his demise, before he drifted into a half-conscious haze and slumped over. (PROSE: Spiral Scratch [+]Loading...["Spiral Scratch (novel)"]) However, the TARDIS became under attack from the Rani and was lured into a tractor beam and forced to land on the planet Lakertya. (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Loading...["Time and the Rani (TV story)"]) The attack on his TARDIS knocked him into the TARDIS console, where he struck his head. As the Doctor was already dying from chronal starvation, (PROSE: Spiral Scratch [+]Loading...["Spiral Scratch (novel)"]) the head injury became a killing blow. (PROSE: Head Games [+]Loading...["Head Games (novel)"]; AUDIO: Zagreus [+]Loading...["Zagreus (audio story)"])
Attack from Lakertya
According to another account, the Doctor tried to travel to the Lakertyan System, but discovered there was deadly radiation nearby. Before he could divert the TARDIS away, he received a signal from a future version of his current incarnation and froze up for a moment. For reasons he couldn't explain, the Doctor was now compelled to visit Lakertya despite the danger, and continued his present course. His TARDIS was soon caught in a barrage of laser fire made of focused radiation beams. As the ship was struck and jolted repeatedly, the radiation caused Mel to lose consciousness, but the Doctor feared that he would fare far worse.
Unable to tell Mel before she passed out, the Doctor revealed that the radiation was fatal to Time Lords, and fell over onto the floor. Weakened by the attack, the Doctor made peace with the idea his time had come, fearing that he might fail to regenerate. However, as he lay dying, a figure appeared to him and told him it was "far from being all over." The Doctor wondered who it was as regenerative energy began to flow out of him, (AUDIO: The Brink of Death [+]Loading...["The Brink of Death (audio story)"]) and the TARDIS was snared by a tractor beam and forced to land on Lakertya. (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Loading...["Time and the Rani (TV story)"])
Falling off an exercise bike
Another account suggested that the Sixth Doctor fell off his exercise bike during flight and had to regenerate from the fall, though the Twelfth Doctor admitted he could not fully remember the exact circumstances. (PROSE: The Complete History of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Complete History of the Doctor (short story)"])
Regeneration
- Main article: Sixth Doctor's regeneration
As the Doctor lay unconscious on the floor of his TARDIS after the TARDIS landed on Lakertya, the Rani and her Tetrap servant, Urak, invaded the TARDIS, and Urak was ordered to leave Mel behind and take the Doctor to the Rani's laboratory. As Urak rolled the Doctor onto his back in preparation to take him away, the final stages of his regeneration commenced, and he transformed into his seventh incarnation. (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Loading...["Time and the Rani (TV story)"])
Post-mortem
Due to his innate hubris and pre-inclination towards violence, the Seventh Doctor feared that his predecessor was a darker incarnation than his other selves, a fact which caused his memory of the Sixth Doctor to become increasingly twisted, to the point that the memories of the other five Doctors kept the sixth incarnation imprisoned deep in the Doctor's mind for fear of him becoming the Valeyard. (PROSE: Head Games [+]Loading...["Head Games (novel)"]) However, after he was shot by an arrow and woke up in his own grave, the Seventh Doctor accepted that nobody deserved to be locked up forever, recognising the need to forgive himself and remove the guilt that would have corrupted the Sixth Doctor's memory into becoming the Valeyard. (PROSE: The Room With No Doors [+]Loading...["The Room With No Doors (novel)"])
When the Eighth Doctor and the TARDIS were contaminated by anti-time, the TARDIS created various historical projections of past encounters with the mysterious "Divergence" to consider its options, with the TARDIS's "good" side using images of the Doctor's past selves and companions to represent key players in these projections. The image of the Sixth Doctor was used for the vampire Lord Tepesh, granting the Tepesh projection some of the Doctor's knowledge and experience of events that the original Tepesh could not have known. Although Rassilon "killed" the projection, when Charley stabbed the Eighth Doctor he was greeted by his immediate three predecessors in his mind, the previous Doctors working with the Eighth Doctor to allow Zagreus to take control and heal their injury. (AUDIO: Zagreus [+]Loading...["Zagreus (audio story)"])
Whilst degenerating after being affected by a weapon in Time War, (AUDIO: Past Lives [+]Loading...["Past Lives (audio story)"]) the Doctor became the Sixth Doctor again whilst meeting Harry Sullivan in 2006. He discovered Harry was being tricked by the Two into opening a time portal to 1963 so he could destroy the TARDIS there and prevent the Doctor foiling him in the future, and worked with Jackie Tyler and Christina de Souza who had been positioned to help him by a mysterious ally, to reach the portal so he could follow the Two and stop him. (AUDIO: Two's Company [+]Loading...["Two's Company (audio story)"])
When the Tenth Doctor was confronted by Es'Cartrss within the TARDIS' Matrix, he summoned the Sixth Doctor, among his other past incarnations, to use their united memories and willpower to take back control of the Matrix. (COMIC: The Forgotten [+]Loading...["The Forgotten (comic story)"])
During many failed attempts to duplicate the Tenth Doctor, defective copies of all his past incarnations, including the Sixth Doctor, were created instead. (COMIC: Breakfast at Tyranny's [+]Loading...["Breakfast at Tyranny's (comic story)"])
After the Eleventh Doctor was accused of committing deadly crimes against the Overcast, he brooded in the TARDIS for two days, imagining all his previous numbered incarnations, including the Sixth Doctor, interrogating him over the crimes. When he offered the rationale that he always left things better than he found them, they all turned and left him in disgust and disgrace. (COMIC: Pull to Open [+]Loading...["Pull to Open (comic story)"])
When the Eleventh Doctor entered into the T'keyn Nexus in order to defend himself, Matrix projections of his previous incarnations, including the Sixth Doctor, appeared inside it to defend themselves as well. When auditor Sondrah accused the Doctor of being a meddler, the Sixth Doctor protested the description, denying that he had ever meddled in the ways of the Earth, only for the Seventh Doctor to admit to having meddled "just a little". When the Eleventh Doctor began to deduce Sondrah's true identity, the past Doctors faded away as Oscar Wilde interfered with the Nexus. (COMIC: Dead Man's Hand [+]Loading...["Dead Man's Hand (comic story)"])
When Clara Oswald entered the Doctor's time stream, she saw the sixth incarnation among the Doctors that ran past her, with the Eleventh Doctor claiming them to be his "ghosts". (TV: The Name of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Name of the Doctor (TV story)"])
After saving Gallifrey from the Moment at the conclusion of the Last Great Time War, the Eleventh Doctor dreamed of himself standing with all his past incarnation, including the Sixth Doctor, as he thought about his search for Gallifrey. (TV: The Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Day of the Doctor (TV story)"])
When he was exposed to energy from a time storm, the Twelfth Doctor degenerated through all of his previous incarnations, including the Sixth Doctor. (AUDIO: The Lost Magic [+]Loading...["The Lost Magic (audio story)"])
During the Master's Dalek Plan, the Sixth Doctor appeared as one of the "Guardians of the Edge" who urged the Thirteenth Doctor to resist the Spy Master's attempt to take possession of her body and identity by forced regeneration. (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"])
Undated events
- The Sixth Doctor attended the funeral of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, (PROSE: The Gift [+]Loading...["The Gift (ST short story)"]) where he comforted Jo Jones during the burial. (PROSE: Shroud of Sorrow [+]Loading...["Shroud of Sorrow (novel)"])
- River Song met the Sixth Doctor, but did not care for him, comparing him to "a clown put through a woodchipper". She had his memory wiped with mnemosine recall-wipe vapour so the timeline would remain intact. (GAME: The Eternity Clock [+]Loading...["The Eternity Clock (video game)"])
- On a Thursday in the summer of 1966, the Sixth Doctor visited Andy Warhol to have his face added to a portrait of eleven incarnations of the Doctor. (PROSE: The War of Art [+]Loading...["The War of Art (WEB short story)"]; COMIC: The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who [+]Loading...["The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who (comic story)"])
- The Sixth Doctor once went on a pub crawl across London with Clive Dunn. (PROSE: Twice Upon a Time [+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (novelisation)"])
Alternate timelines
In an alternate timeline, the Doctor became President of the Time Lords, and, in his sixth incarnation, led a battle in the war with the Daleks. With the assistance of the Master, the Daleks began winning the war. Rather than letting them take control of the universe, the Doctor activated the Armageddon Sapphire, destroying the entire universe. (PROSE: The Quantum Archangel [+]Loading...["The Quantum Archangel (novel)"])
In one alternate timeline, the Doctor had his throat slit by Shockeye. In another, he saved Oscar Botcherby's life by arriving thirty seconds before Oscar was killed by Shockeye, instead of thirty seconds afterwards. (PROSE: So Vile a Sin [+]Loading...["So Vile a Sin (novel)"])
In a negated timeline, the Doctor and Peri were almost forced to land at the Big Bang due to mysterious coordinates being sent to the TARDIS. Escaping the explosion, the Doctor and Peri arrived at a Vess warehouse, and learnt the full magnitude of the situation with the Seventh Doctor and Ace. Contacted by CIA agent Straxus as Peri vanished, the Sixth Doctor discovered that the Decayed Master had blackmailed the CIA into giving him a conceptual bomb, which he then set off inside the mind of Bob Dovie when he entered the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS; Davie's refusal to accept its existence caused the TARDIS to explode in its own timeline until it never existed. The Sixth Doctor then expanded the dimensional stabiliser on Straxus' TARDIS and was able to summon his other seven incarnations to help stop the Master. The Fifth Doctor went to 1962, and showed Dovie the TARDIS then, so that he would not be dumbfounded by the TARDIS's interior and therefore preventing the bomb's detonation. The Sixth Doctor then joined his other seven incarnations in preparing to time ram the Master's TARDIS. However, rather than kill the Master, the First Doctor instead turned off the automatic distress actions, which had brought all of the Doctors to the pocket dimension and triggered the TARDIS' destruction, making it so none of that had happened. (AUDIO: The Light at the End [+]Loading...["The Light at the End (audio story)"])
When the Eighth Doctor arrived at the Sixth Doctor's trial, the Valeyard was able to force an alternate timeline where a guilty verdict was delivered against the Sixth Doctor on genocide charges. Rescued from execution by his eighth incarnation, the alternate Sixth Doctor created by the Valeyard's actions accompanied him to Gallifrey. The two set up a Presidential Inquiry into their current trial. The Sixth Doctor managing to deliver his own testimony before the timeline that created him ceased, leaving the Eighth Doctor to continue the investigation into the trial, to the point of bringing in Borusa to stabilise the situation. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors [+]Loading...["The Eight Doctors (novel)"])
When the Cybermen allied with Rassilon to take over history, (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)"]) the Doctor found that the Cybermen had taken over the Matrix during his battle with the Valeyard, (COMIC: Prologue: The Sixth Doctor [+]Loading...["Prologue: The Sixth Doctor (comic story)"]) and he and Mel were captured by the Cybermen. This timeline was eventually unwritten by Rassilon and the Twelfth Doctor. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)"])
In a timeline where a Dalek invasion of Earth in 1903 was thwarted by the Doctor and Evelyn, the British Government trapped the Doctor in the Tower of London along with the two surviving Daleks to keep him as a symbol of their victory, cutting off his legs in order to keep him trapped. Driven insane over the years, the Doctor sometimes spoke to hallucinations of Evelyn after she died of old age, not even fully aware when a younger Evelyn came to see him in the Tower. He was eventually exterminated by the last surviving Dalek when it came to ask him for orders as it didn't know what else to do with itself. (AUDIO: Jubilee [+]Loading...["Jubilee (audio story)"])
During the fight with the Lamprey, several alternate Doctors were travelling with different companions, such as Evelyn Smythe, a half cyber-converted Evelyn Smythe, Frobisher, a human/Silurian hybrid Melanie Baal, and Peri Brown. One Doctor, hailing from a timeline where Rome never fell, lost his left eye in the events that led to the death of his companion Perpugilliam of the Brown, keeping the injury as a reminder of his shame. (PROSE: Spiral Scratch [+]Loading...["Spiral Scratch (novel)"])
In the Warrior's universe, a aberrant version of the Sixth Doctor similar to the Doctor of the N-Space was created among the millions of timelines generated by the Warrior's interference with the creation of the Daleks. The Doctor found himself pursued by time bullets and attempted to find his own future corpse at a tomb on Aridius to evade them. He found no corpse and discovered the bullets had been fired by Miss Brown, a counterpart of Peri, on the Warrior's instructions. He was finally killed by the time bullets, which Narvin reported to the Warrior who did not care. (AUDIO: Dust Devil [+]Loading...["Dust Devil (audio story)"])
Adventures that were wiped from history
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Before meeting Frobisher, the Doctor travelled with William. (PROSE: Gone Fishing [+]Loading...["Gone Fishing (short story)"], Walkin' City Blues [+]Loading...["Walkin' City Blues (short story)"], Certificate of Destruction [+]Loading...["Certificate of Destruction (short story)"], The Earwig Archipelago [+]Loading...["The Earwig Archipelago (short story)"]) These events were undone by the Eighth Doctor in order to stop Flora Millrace embarking on her murder spree. (PROSE: DS Al Fine [+]Loading...["DS Al Fine (short story)"])
Facing the final curtain
The Doctor tried to travel to the Lakertyan System, but discovered there was deadly radiation nearby and quickly fled, attempting to take Mel to Zastros 8, but instead ending up on Zastros 9, a totalitarian state, and becoming caught up in another situation they only narrowly escaped from when the planet's denizens set chase after them. Back on board his TARDIS, the Doctor found the underside of the TARDIS console smoking. As he went to examine the problem, his consciousness was suddenly transported to the Matrix, and the Valeyard took over his body. Inside the Matrix, the Doctor met a Gallifreyan technician named Genesta, who warned him he was dying. He eventually discovered her to be the Valeyard in disguise.
Throughout their climactic encounter, the Valeyard taunted the Doctor, informing him that he had effectively used creatures called Nathemus to replace the entire Time Lord civilisation with his consciousness and implanted them inside the symbiotic nuclei of the TARDIS. Since the Nathemus fed off telepathic energy, they gained access to its telepathic link, and by extension, the Doctor's mind when he interacted with his ship symbiotically, which let them feed until they were able to gain access to the Matrix, giving the Valeyard a means to take it over and alter history. Because of this, both the Doctor and his TARDIS were now empowering the Nathemus and subject to their influence.
Having been completely defeated in the present, the Doctor realised the only way to break the parasitic hold the Nathemus had on him would be to put a halt to the Valeyard's master scheme in the past. He sent himself a psychic signal via a telepathic impulse from his own TARDIS to go to Lakertya regardless of the danger and experience the deadly radiation, believing he would die if he did so. Suddenly put in a threatened position, the Valeyard tried to convince the Doctor not to go with his plan, but the Doctor carried on, readying himself for the end by reminiscing of all the companions he had during his lifetime. The Valeyard challenged him with the fact that if he didn't die, but regenerated, the Nathemus would still survive. However, the Doctor knew through the process of regeneration, all the cells in his body would be replaced anew, including those of his mind. The Nathemus were linked to the unique mind he had in his present state, but with his mind reshaped, the Nathemus would no longer have any connection with him to feed on it or subsequently manipulate the TARDIS, starving them to death.
After sending his past self the message, therefore undoing all the damage the Valeyard managed to inflict on history, the Valeyard found himself reduced to a powerless form in the Matrix, cut off from the universe and left to shrivel up and die, though it also meant the end for the Sixth Doctor as well. His consciousness began to wane in the wake of time being rewritten, and he sensed the change occurring. (AUDIO: The Brink of Death [+]Loading...["The Brink of Death (audio story)"])
Reunion in the Memory TARDIS
Possibly coming from an alternate time stream, (TV: The Curse of Fenric [+]Loading...["The Curse of Fenric (TotT TV story)"]) in which he managed to avoid regenerating, an older version of the Sixth Doctor materialised in a remembered TARDIS, where he was reunited with Peri. After recounting their adventure on Varos, and commenting how it shaped Peri's future as a Warrior Queen, the Doctor and Peri resumed their travels together, returning to Krontep once a year so that Peri can pay tribute to her late husband, Yrcanos. (TV: Vengeance on Varos [+]Loading...["Vengeance on Varos (TotT TV story)"]) During one of these visits, Peri was seen by Rex, a young palace guard, who recognised the former queen and asked for explanations. When Peri revealed that she was once more travelling the universe, the guard confessed that he wished he could do the same; Peri invited him aboard the TARDIS. (WC: The Eternal Mystery [+]Loading...["The Eternal Mystery (webcast)"])
Behind the scenes
Casting
- Future Seventh Doctor actor, Sylvester McCoy, had put his name forward in consideration for role of the Sixth Doctor[1] before the part went to Colin Baker. However, McCoy would play the role during the regeneration sequence at the start of Time and the Rani.
Costume influences
- According to an interview with Colin Baker in DWM 118, the Sixth Doctor's coat was created because John Nathan-Turner had the idea that it should be in "very bad taste" to show the Doctor's alien nature. Baker himself had wanted to wear black to display the Doctor's darker side, likening the costume worn by Christopher Eccleston's Ninth Doctor as what he had envisioned. (DOC: Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide)
- Colin Baker related the character of the Doctor to a quote from Rudyard Kipling; "I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me." This made him decide to wear a different cat badge on his costume in each story. He subsequently received a lot more cat badges from fans in the mail. When he played the Doctor on stage for The Ultimate Adventure, these gifts gave him the opportunity to wear a different badge in every single performance.
Regeneration
- Colin Baker declined an invitation to film the regeneration sequence at the start of Time and the Rani due to the circumstances of his dismissal from the role. Wishing to play the Doctor for the whole of Season 24, he was instead offered one last full story to reappear and regenerate. Baker declined, reasoning that he did not want to make the audience think he was still the de facto Doctor for a sliver of 1987 when he had been removed from the series. His successor, Sylvester McCoy, donned a blonde wig and briefly appeared on-screen as the unconscious Sixth Doctor. McCoy's face was obscured from camera view, first by the TARDIS console and then by the regeneration FX, before the final reveal of the Seventh Doctor. McCoy thus became the first actor to play more than one incarnation of the Doctor. Paul McGann would later play both the Eighth Doctor and the War Doctor in the final moments of The Night of the Doctor (again with his face obscured by the camera placement).[2] Also, Tom Baker has played both the Fourth Doctor and the Curator, and David Tennant portrayed both the Tenth and Fourteenth Doctors.
- Colin Baker would not personally enjoy an official regeneration story until 2015, when he was approached to perform one in audio format, The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure, making Baker, along with Eighth Doctor actor Paul McGann, one of two actors who played the Doctor to receive belated regeneration stories.
The "bang on the head" myth
- Due to lack of any information as to what caused the Sixth Doctor to regenerate, viewers were left to draw their own conclusions. At some point, it became the subject of ridicule that the Sixth Doctor had regenerated because he hit his head in some manner, an idea which some writers ran with, while others teased it. Some fans even joked it was because he fell off the exercise bike Mel had been forcing him to use. When the subject was brought before Colin Baker himself, as evidenced by a YouTube video entitled "Colin Baker Reacts to his Regeneration (50th Anniversary Convention)" by MrTARDISreviews, he found it disappointing.
- Gary Russell's book Spiral Scratch gives a "revisionist" account of the circumstances behind the Sixth Doctor's regeneration, explaining that it had not happened simply because he had hit his head, but because he was drained of the time-based life force that sustained him. Paul Cornell's book Love and War offered a different explanation, indicating the Seventh Doctor had willed himself into existence by influencing the Sixth Doctor's demise.
- In Nicholas Briggs's audio story The Brink of Death, a radiation lethal to Time Lords is the reason behind the Sixth Doctor's end. However, it did not appear to factor in the infamous "bang on the head" as an event coinciding with the Doctor's regeneration in any explicit way due to the fact it is not mentioned through dialogue nor possible to tell if the Doctor hit his head because there is no visual indicator of such a thing happening in the story. However, the Doctor is heard screaming in agony after being buffeted from a strong burst of radiation while a violent crashing sound is audible, proving he suffered some kind of physical trauma. Furthermore, though the Doctor soon afterwards collapses to the floor, there is no evidence of him hitting his head on the way down.
Other matters
- The prose version of the Sixth Doctor is one of few incarnations besides the Eighth Doctor who has technically crossed with the mythology of Faction Paradox and the War in Heaven.
- In The Quantum Archangel, the Faction Paradox is mentioned and the Doctor experiences a timeline similar to the War. Craig Hinton's original notes for the novel, eventually published in the charity publication Shelf Life, asserted the War was negatively affecting the Six-Fold Realm of the Guardians. Hinton and Chris McKeon's Time's Champion utilised those notes and asserted the Sixth Doctor's regeneration, as well as the Seventh Doctor's role as Time's Champion, was due to the coming War.
- Lawrence Burton's The Time Wrestlers, published in Obverse Books' A Target for Tommy, has the Doctor, Peri and Señor 105 face War-time agents of the Great Houses. This story loosely connects to Burton's novel Against Nature. The biodata virus from Interference - Book Two is mentioned.
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