Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)
Biography
Like the Eighth Doctor to the Ninth Doctor, it is assumed that the Eighth Doctor regenerated into this Doctor as a result of the Time War. In Scream of the Shalka he met his new assistant, barmaid Alison Cheney, and also rescued the Earth from the Shalka.
Aside from a short story, The Feast of the Stone, on the BBC website, no other 'canonical' appearances have been made by this Doctor.
Characteristics
This Doctor was serious, and often angry, but wasn't averse to the odd bit of fun. He kept an android of the Master in his TARDIS with him as his only companion.
Habits and Quirks
Mysteries and Discrepancies
Quotes
"Do you lot use the Euro yet?"
- The Doctor, considering what to donate to Mathilda Pierce, an elderly homeless woman.
- Prime: "We understand the workings of your ship."
- Doctor: "Really? Could you explain it to me?"
- Alison: "What are you?"
- Doctor: Mildly annoyed!
Real World
Canonicity
Just after the new 2005 series was announced with the official Ninth Doctor, the BBC webcast starring the "new" Doctor, Scream of the Shalka, was released onto the BBC website. This caused this Doctor to be shunted into "unofficial" status. Lance Parkin in his AHistory reasons that since this incarnation of the Doctor never literally specified himself as the ninth (but only heavily implied it) that this version of the Doctor could still one day exist in the Tenth Doctor's future.
Possible appearance in The Cabinet of Light
Some fans have noted the coincidental similarity between the unspecified incarnation of the Doctor seen in the Telos Novella The Cabinet of Light by Daniel O'Mahony and the Shalka version.
