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A potential origin of the Doctor among many due to shifting timelines and alterations to biodata meant that it was a possibility that the Doctor originally came from an unnamed planet in the 49th century.
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References
According to one account, the the Doctor told Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright that he and Susan were wanderers who were cut off from their planet and separated from it by millions upon millions of years. (PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks) According to another account, it was Susan who told Ian and Barbara of her and the Doctor's origins, albeit less specific: "I was born in another time, another world". (TV: An Unearthly Child)
After the Eighth Doctor made a deal with a boy of Faction Paradox, a memory for a memory, so that the Doctor could locate Griffin, he realised that the boy had not only taken a memory, but altered his biodata.
The boy, along with various versions of himself from the relative future by his side, mocked the Doctor by mentioning his shifting past; one of the versions of the boy mentioned that "maybe you originally came from some planet in the forty-ninth century. Fleeing from the Enemy who’d overrun your home –". (PROSE: Unnatural History)
After the Eighth Doctor was stripped of his memories of the Time Lords and Gallifrey, he theorised that he may have been an exile from the century. (PROSE: Escape Velocity)
Other universes
In a parallel universe, Martin Bannister was uncertain whether or not to make it explicit that Doctor Who and Susan Who came from Venus in the 49th century. (AUDIO: Deadline)
Behind the scenes
The unnamed planet in the 49th century, the home of Dr. Who and Susan, was first mentioned in The Pilot Episode, where it was explicitly mentioned as the origin of the characters; in the the televised story, this line is removed and made more ambiguous, although it should be noted that some of the dialogue still reflects the origin, even though it was never spoken about in so many words.
- info to be added about The Pilot Episode
- info to be added about Journey into Time (audio story)
Category:Planets visited by the Doctor Category:Homes of the Doctor