First Doctor
A mischievous anti-authoritarian at his core, the First Doctor matured from someone prone to criticising those he felt were primitive compared to his intellect to a more welcoming presence as he began to acquire an entourage of companions to accompany him throughout the wonders of the fourth dimension, learning to be a caregiver and mentor with compassion, warmth and wit that made up for his egocentric nature, as well a sense of justice in a universe afflicted by evils. He was reluctant to discuss his past and even kept his real name a secret, causing most to call him either the Doctor or Dr. Who.
Beginning after he fled his home world in a stolen TARDIS with his granddaughter Susan Foreman, the Doctor's travels through time and space were mostly random due to faulty components in a TARDIS that required six pilots and which he barely knew how to fly. After a period of hiding at 76 Totter's Lane on Earth in 1963, the Doctor was forced to abruptly depart when Susan's teachers from Coal Hill School, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, followed her back to Totter's Lane to investigate their unusual pupil, kidnapping them to stop them alerting others to his presence or sharing the secrets of the TARDIS. However, despite the hostile start, he came to form a strong friendship with Ian and Barbara, teaching them about the wonders of the universe while learning how to better himself from their example. It was during one of their early adventures that the Doctor first came into conflict with the Daleks, a species that would quickly become one of his greatest enemies.
Eventually, the Doctor bade Susan farewell to allow her to live a happier life with a man with whom she had fallen in love with, and then invited an orphaned girl named Vicki to join him, Ian and Barbara in the TARDIS after they found her on the planet Dido, seeing her a surrogate to fill Susan's spot in his travels. During a confrontation with the Daleks, the Doctor used one of the Dalek time machines to return Ian and Barbara to their proper time, only to quickly find their place in the TARDIS taken by stowaway Steven Taylor, with whom the Doctor had a relatively uneasy relationship.
Vicki eventually left the Doctor's company after falling in love with a man she met in Ancient Troy, with her place in the TARDIS being occupied by handmaid Katarina, though her travels proved brief due to her being killed early in the Time Destructor Incident that saw the Doctor stopping the Daleks' master plan to use a Time Destructor to conqueror Earth's solar system, though his victory came at the cost of Sara Kingdom, another of his brief companions. Steven was bitter towards the Doctor for the deaths of Katarina and Sara, and even briefly walked out the TARDIS after another falling out, but returned when Dodo Chaplet forced her way in the TARDIS. Ultimately, Steven decided to stay to help a civilisation they had encountered, while Dodo was later injured in an adventure and decided to remain home in her own time, with the Doctor finding himself inadvertently joined by Ben Jackson and Polly Wright when the TARDIS dematerlised with them still inside.
The First Doctor met his end after his battle with the Mondasian Cybermen in 1986 Antarctica caused him to lose the strength needed to maintain his body, due to the planet Mondas draining a large portion of his life force. Initially, he refused to go through with the change until an encounter with a future incarnation also refusing to regenerate caused the Doctor to witness the type of person he would soon become. As a result, his fear of the change was turned to reassurance for his future, causing him to accept his regeneration into his next body.
Biography
Life on Gallifrey
- Main article: The Doctor's early life
Due to the various alterations the Doctor made to their timeline while travelling through time, what really transpired to the Doctor during his time on Gallifrey was hard to decipher.
According to reports found by Maris, the Doctor was involved in a riot, and become wanted by the Celestial Intervention Agency for "interfering in non-time-travel-capable species' development". He left Gallifrey two days afterwards. Other accounts found by Maris implied this riot had not happened, however. (PROSE: Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir [+]Loading...["Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)"])
Leaving Gallifrey
- Main article: The Doctor and Susan's escape from Gallifrey
For many pressing reasons, (TV: Twice Upon a Time [+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"]) the Doctor stole a TARDIS (TV: The War Games [+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"]) and fled his home planet with his granddaughter, Susan Foreman. Though he intended for he and Susan to someday return, (TV: An Unearthly Child [+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"]) the Doctor knew that they could not. (TV: The Massacre [+]Loading...["The Massacre (TV story)"]) Immediately after their escape from Gallifrey, the Doctor and Susan encountered Humans, either on Iwa (PROSE: Frayed [+]Loading...["Frayed (novel)"]) or the Earth's Moon. (AUDIO: The Beginning [+]Loading...["The Beginning (audio story)"]) The Doctor was drawn to Earth and humanity because he retained unconscious memories of people he met there while working for the Division as the Fugitive Doctor. (COMIC: Untitled [+]Loading...["Untitled (FCBD2022 comic story)"])
Wanderers in the fourth dimension
Sometime after their first meeting with humans, the Doctor and Susan began to study Earth and humans more closely, with their first visit to Earth being a trip to the French Revolution (PROSE: Just War [+]Loading...["Just War (novel)"]) in 1791. During this trip, the Doctor and Susan had several conversations with Robespierre's disguised agents. After some hours in Paris, the Doctor and Susan escaped from a Parisian military post using explosives from an artillery shell that had "accidentally" been left in a dark corner of the building. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet [+]Loading...["Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)"]) Sometime after visiting the French Revolution, the Doctor met Iris Wildthyme, another renegade time traveller. (PROSE: The Scarlet Empress [+]Loading...["The Scarlet Empress (novel)"]) Stealing her diary, he and Susan were "inspired". (PROSE: First Meetings [+]Loading...["First Meetings (short story)"])
On one of his earliest trips after leaving Gallifrey, the Doctor heard the story of Nightjar at the bazaar on Garazone. Susan bought him a model of the spaceship, which he put up in the TARDIS. (AUDIO: Pursuit of the Nightjar [+]Loading...["Pursuit of the Nightjar (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Susan then went to ancient Rome, Mexico, Antioch, Jerusalem, and visited planets such as Mondas, (PROSE: Byzantium! [+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"]) Dido, (TV: The Rescue [+]Loading...["The Rescue (TV story)"]) Venus, (TV: "The Singing Sands" [+]Part of Marco Polo, Loading...{"namedep":"The Singing Sands (2)","1":"Marco Polo (TV story)"}) Esto, (TV: "The Unwilling Warriors" [+]Part of The Sensorites, Loading...{"namedep":"The Unwilling Warriors (2)","1":"The Sensorites (TV story)"}) and Akhaten. (TV: The Rings of Akhaten [+]Loading...["The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)"])
On further adventures, they encountered a Vortex rupture, (PROSE: GodEngine [+]Loading...["GodEngine (novel)"]) sailed around the Caribbean on board a pirate galleon, (PROSE: Byzantium! [+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"]) saw the Relief of Mafeking, (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan [+]Loading...["The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)"]) witnessed the assassination of US President William McKinley, and travelled to Cassuragi. (PROSE: Byzantium! [+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"]) The Doctor took a holiday to Lake Rhonda, where he was eaten and regurgitated twice by a blarph whale. (PROSE: A Big Hand for the Doctor [+]Loading...["A Big Hand for the Doctor (short story)"])
The Doctor and Susan met Noël Coward, (AUDIO: The Sleeping City [+]Loading...["The Sleeping City (audio story)"]) Pyrrho, (TV: "The Keys of Marinus" [+]Part of The Keys of Marinus, Loading...{"namedep":"The Keys of Marinus (6)","1":"The Keys of Marinus (TV story)"}) and Hans Christian Andersen. (TV: "Conspiracy" [+]Part of The Romans, Loading...{"namedep":"Conspiracy (3)","1":"The Romans (TV story)"}) The Doctor also befriended Thomas Huxley, (COMIC: Unnatural Selection [+]Loading...["Unnatural Selection (comic story)"]) helped James Watt develop steam power, (TV: The Space Museum [+]Loading...["The Space Museum (TV story)"]) and received fashion advice from Beau Brummell. (TV: "Kidnap" [+]Part of The Sensorites, Loading...{"namedep":"Kidnap (5)","1":"The Sensorites (TV story)"})
Needing to retrieve the TARDIS from the Tower of London, the Doctor argued with Henry VIII and was sent to the Tower, where he could escape in the TARDIS. (TV: "Strangers in Space" [+]Part of The Sensorites, Loading...{"namedep":"Strangers in Space (1)","1":"The Sensorites (TV story)"}) Visiting India during the Indian Mutiny, the Doctor became David Warblington's guardian after having his life saved by David's father. (PROSE: The Duke's Folly [+]Loading...["The Duke's Folly (short story)"]) The Doctor, with his other incarnation, also attended the funeral of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. (PROSE: The Gift [+]Loading...["The Gift (ST short story)"])
The Doctor and Susan visited London during the Blitz in 1941, (AUDIO: The Alchemists [+]Loading...["The Alchemists (audio story)"]) and also visited Lemaria, where they thwarted a Megrati invasion. (PROSE: The Constant Doctor [+]Loading...["The Constant Doctor (short story)"])
The Doctor and Susan visited Peking during the Boxer Rebellion and used smoke bombs to escape, (AUDIO: The Flames of Cadiz [+]Loading...["The Flames of Cadiz (audio story)"]) observed a Zeppelin air raid during World War I, (TV: Planet of Giants [+]Loading...["Planet of Giants (TV story)"]) and visited Rome during the time of Augustus. (AUDIO: The Alchemists [+]Loading...["The Alchemists (audio story)"])
When visiting a planet with two suns, the Doctor cut himself with a strange plant and fell ill as a result of the infection that followed. Susan had to venture outside, in an abandoned research centre on Rua to find some cure; she managed to do so and was able to cure the Doctor. When he recovered, he noticed Susan crying over a video, and asked her what had happened; she then told him about her encounter with the terrorist known as the Butcher, about the part she played in his demise and how she then found out what his real motives were. The Doctor comforted her by saying she did her best by saving his life, and nothing else mattered, even more so because they must not interfere in other people's business. When Susan pointed out he didn't used to think this way, the Doctor replied that now they were travelling, and couldn't use their abilities to manipulate others, especially as it could not end in a good way. Susan, however, could see he wasn't really sure on the matter. (AUDIO: The Sleeping Blood [+]Loading...["The Sleeping Blood (audio story)"])
After being given an Ulster coat by Gilbert and Sullivan, (TV: "The Brink of Disaster" [+]Part of The Edge of Destruction, Loading...{"namedep":"The Brink of Disaster (2)","1":"The Edge of Destruction (TV story)"}) the Doctor was taken by the Entity and tested to open a door, but the Doctor outsmarted it. (AUDIO: Seven to One [+]Loading...["Seven to One (audio story)"]) During a meeting with the Xing surgeon Aldridge, the Doctor was forced to part with of litres of TL-positive blood to build up plasma for the "Inscrutable Doppelganger fiasco". (PROSE: A Big Hand for the Doctor [+]Loading...["A Big Hand for the Doctor (short story)"])
The Doctor accepted an invitation to be a guest speaker at a Time Conference on Refkeet Nine and raged against the local authorities when he discovered he had been lured into a trap so that they could use an abused Nuppino horse to attack him. (COMIC: Time Trick [+]Loading...["Time Trick (comic story)"])
The Doctor and Susan arrived on an unnamed jungle planet, where they discovered a crashed colony spaceship with a row of graves, one of which was freshly dug. They then met Bethan Finch, a salvage operative waiting for her partner Tino Driscoll. After some searching, the group found Tino, who had been reduced to a primitive state due to the planet's ecology. The Doctor and Susan quickly made their departure after saying goodbye. (PROSE: The Arboreals [+]Loading...["The Arboreals (short story)"])
The Doctor was forced to land the TARDIS on Earth in the 1960s to make some repairs. After fixing the TARDIS, he went to look for Susan, who had gone exploring, and encountered the Cybermen. After finding Susan, the Doctor defeated the Cybermen by blasting them with sound waves of music. (PROSE: Dr. First [+]Loading...["Dr. First (novel)"])
The Doctor and Susan visited a restaurant owned by a man named Rowson, (PROSE: Indian Summer [+]Loading...["Indian Summer (short story)"]) fought "homicidal earthworms" that excreted laughing gas with Aldridge, (PROSE: A Big Hand for the Doctor [+]Loading...["A Big Hand for the Doctor (short story)"]) and visited Jabalhabad, India, in 1843, whilst they were touring India by elephant. They met Siger Holmes, father of Sherlock Holmes. (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire [+]Loading...["All-Consuming Fire (novel)"]) The Doctor and Susan visited the planet Olleril, where the Doctor helped cure the radiation poisoning that had been blighting the residents and their crops. Before leaving, the Doctor took a red glass, believing it to have caused all the trouble. (PROSE: Tragedy Day [+]Loading...["Tragedy Day (novel)"])
Aided by his other incarnations and their companions, the First Doctor and Susan helped Dan Dare to fight off the Mekon and his army of Treens, Daleks, Ice Warriors, Cybermen, Sontarans and Draconians in 1991. After the Mekon was subdued by a barrage of Red Noses, the First Doctor helped collect donations from the defeated army. (COMIC: The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic [+]Loading...["The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic (comic story)"])
Visiting Earth again in 1979, the dematerialisation circuit was fried while the TARDIS was orbiting Earth. The TARDIS was taken on board a Slarvian transport, and the Doctor and Susan learned that the snail-like species planned to conquer Earth by hatching their eggs all over the planet. Their plan failed because the Slarvian ship crashed into the English Channel, making the threat localised to England. With the help of the humans Linda Grainger and her grandfather, Edward Grainger, the Doctor and Susan stopped the Slarvian eggs from hatching. (PROSE: Childhood Living [+]Loading...["Childhood Living (short story)"])
After discovering the tyranny of a dictator, the Doctor travelled back in time to kill the dictator as a baby. However, whilst waiting in the queue to see the baby at their christening, he accidentally dropped the silver knife he planned to use to kill them. Grumbling at his clumsiness, the Doctor left with Susan. (PROSE: Categorical Imperative [+]Loading...["Categorical Imperative (short story)"])
Arriving at central Europe in the 16th century, Susan noticed what looked like a meteorite and tossed it out, thinking it unimportant, but soon came to realise that it was a part of a Liciax ship. When she tried to find what she had carelessly discarded, it was gone. With the help of a man named Lovey, she and the Doctor traced it to Prague, where they found it had been shaped into a golem that had developed sentience and was also on a murderous rampage. The Doctor and Susan trapped it in the attic of a Jewish synagogue, placing it under a security system, to which only they knew the access codes. (PROSE: Life from Lifelessness [+]Loading...["Life from Lifelessness (short story)"])
After landing in Germany in the 16th century, the Doctor and Susan teamed up with magistrate Rudolf von Slesinger and an inquisitor, Johann Eck, to protect Martin Luther from two assassins ahead of his trial. Instantly suspicious of Slesinger's odd behaviour, the Doctor sent Susan undercover as a servant girl and discovered that Slesinger had deployed the assassins in a plot to kill Luther in secret. Before he could kill anyone, Slesinger was apprehended by Eck. Afterwards, the Doctor and Susan decided to remain in Germany for the trial of Martin Luther. (PROSE: The Price of Conviction [+]Loading...["The Price of Conviction (short story)"])
The Doctor encountered Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart at Christmas when he and his wife, Doris, saved Susan from drowning. The Doctor told Doris that he knew how his future friend would die and that he and his succeeding incarnations had already attended his funeral. (PROSE: The Gift [+]Loading...["The Gift (ST short story)"])
The Doctor began pursuing the Soul Pirates after they stole his hand in a sword fight. Whilst following them, he and Susan arrived in 1900 London, where Susan and a group of children were kidnapped by the Soul Pirates to harvest their body parts for profit. However, the Doctor foiled their plan, rescued Susan and the children, and received a brand new hand, indistinguishable from the original, from Aldridge. (PROSE: A Big Hand for the Doctor [+]Loading...["A Big Hand for the Doctor (short story)"])
Vacationing at a bed and breakfast called "Bide-a-Wee" in the British coastal town of Keelmouth in 1933, the Doctor discovered that another guest was a time traveller, named Prentice. He had used his technology to displace Keelmouth in time; the village was in 1933, but the surrounding world was in 1999. The Doctor and Susan had to convince Prentice to reverse the effect, because his retirement fantasy wasn't fair to the people he had trapped alongside him. (PROSE: Bide-a-Wee [+]Loading...["Bide-a-Wee (short story)"])
Not long afterwards, the Doctor and Susan accidentally landed at the BBC's Paris studios in 1955, because transmissions there had disabled their dematerialisation circuit. They met a radio comedian named Max Wheeler, whose recordings were plagued by a distinctive background "hum" caused by ghostly aliens recruited into the French resistance in World War II known as the Shakers, unaware that the war had ended and unable to clearly understand who their enemies were. Though he and Susan tried to explain the current reality to them, the Shakers continued to kill indiscriminately, with the only course of action left being for the Doctor to alter the harmonics of canned laughter and kill them with it. (PROSE: Losing the Audience [+]Loading...["Losing the Audience (short story)"])
The Doctor and Susan were present in London during the coronation of Elizabeth II on 2 June 1953, where they were pursued by a creature with lasers spewing out of its one eye. They were saved when the creature was subdued by Eva De Ville. (COMIC: Where's the Doctor? [+]Loading...["Where's the Doctor? (comic story)"])
Searching for a new home
The Doctor and Susan travelled to Bridgetown on the planet Quinnis in the fourth universe. They nearly lost the TARDIS when it was washed away during a severe flood. They recovered it with the assistance of a huntsman named Evalihi Parch IV, who possessed an ornithopter. (AUDIO: Quinnis [+]Loading...["Quinnis (audio story)"]) Whilst on Quinnis, the Doctor was trained to be a ninja. (PROSE: The Devil Goblins from Neptune [+]Loading...["The Devil Goblins from Neptune (novel)"])
The Doctor and Susan unwittingly travelled to Paris in the 22nd century, where they became embroiled in political intrigue in the run-up to an election in the city of Urrozdinee. (PROSE: Urrozdinee [+]Loading...["Urrozdinee (short story)"]) Around this time, the Doctor realised that he and Susan had been losing their memory since they began travelling in the TARDIS due to the telepathic circuits attacking their minds. This prompted their search for somewhere to take residence and recover from the memory loss. (PROSE: Echoes of Future Past [+]Loading...["Echoes of Future Past (short story)"])
When the TARDIS landed in Berlin in November 1932, the Doctor decided to go and visit a convention of scientists at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, wanting especially to meet the director of the Institute, Fritz Haber. However, he made the mistake of exchanging Ancient Roman gold coins for banknotes at a local jewellery shop. This brought suspicions on him and Susan because Haber was believed to be studying a way to extract gold from seawater. As a consequence, he was apprehended for interrogation by German secret service, together with Haber, and kept in an unused lab in the Institute. He was eventually freed when Susan tricked Pollitt, a British agent, into showing him the secret of their gold. (AUDIO: The Alchemists [+]Loading...["The Alchemists (audio story)"])
The Doctor took a brief trip to St Albans on 17 December 1997 to ensure that the United Kingdom would remain safe during the 1960s, and had a near-miss encounter with the Fourth Doctor, Romana II and K9. (PROSE: The Little Things [+]Loading...["The Little Things (short story)"])
Settling in Totter's Lane
According to one account, while the TARDIS was in flight in deep space during 1963, the Father of Time materialised inside the TARDIS control room, having resolved to test the Doctor. He forced the TARDIS to land on a radioactive planet that had begun to be torn apart from the inside, with the "Test of Time" being to escape from the apocalypse. The Doctor and Susan took refuge down a mineshaft, and "rode out the storm" safe at the very heart of the planet. Satisfied with their quick thinking, the Father of Time transported them back into the TARDIS, which he deposited at 76 Totter's Lane, London in the 1960s, foretelling that they would find "a new life" there. (COMIC: The Test of Time [+]Loading...["The Test of Time (comic story)"])
According to another account, while making a short trip to the planet Tacunda, the Doctor and Susan uncovered a "Blessing Star", a crystal that altered the laws of probability around the holder, essentially making their dreams come true. The Doctor tried the device, wishing that he could pilot the TARDIS to 20th century Earth. He was successful at piloting the ship, though it completely fried the navigational system, stranding the Doctor and Susan in I.M. Foreman's junkyard in Totter's Lane, London in 1963. (PROSE: The Rag & Bone Man's Story [+]Loading...["The Rag & Bone Man's Story (short story)"])
Upon their arrival, Susan questioned whether her grandfather had truly intended to land there, or if the TARDIS had made another mistake. The Doctor confirmed it was no mistake, believing that it would be a "fine place to keep the TARDIS hidden from prying eyes". When Susan questioned what made Earth so special, the Doctor told her that he just had a "good feeling". (COMIC: Untitled [+]Loading...["Untitled (FCBD2022 comic story)"])
According to yet another account, the TARDIS landed on Barnes Common. (PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks [+]Loading...["Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)"])
Hiding on Earth
The Doctor and Susan took up residence in a Totter's Lane junkyard in Shoreditch, London to allow Susan to complete her education, and so the Doctor could affect repairs and build missing components for the TARDIS. According to this account, Susan's admission to Coal Hill School was in late March. (PROSE: Time and Relative [+]Loading...["Time and Relative (novel)"]) According to another account, Susan and the Doctor arrived in Shoreditch in June 1963. (AUDIO: Hunters of Earth [+]Loading...["Hunters of Earth (audio story)"]) While the Third Doctor claimed that Susan gave herself the surname "Foreman" from I.M. Foreman, (PROSE: Interference - Book Two [+]Loading...["Interference - Book Two (novel)"]) Susan recalled that it was the Doctor who gave her the surname "Foreman". (PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Legacy of the Daleks (novel)"]) After arriving in 20th century England, the Doctor spent months stealing parts to repair his TARDIS, even though he had access to the appropriate currency, (AUDIO: Hunters of Earth [+]Loading...["Hunters of Earth (audio story)"]) and sold a few "harmless" alien artefacts to Fyodor, a frightening alien disguised as an old man, in order to pay for Susan's school lunches. (AUDIO: The Shoreditch Intervention [+]Loading...["The Shoreditch Intervention (audio story)"])
According to another account, Susan took on the surname "English" and the Doctor had Barbara Wright tutor her in history at twenty pounds a week while he busied himself with research. (PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks [+]Loading...["Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)"])
Although the Doctor did not venture out very often, (TV: An Unearthly Child [+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"]) he had visited a library, (TV: The Vampires of Venice [+]Loading...["The Vampires of Venice (TV story)"]) was familiar with the owner of the local café, (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)"]) and spent many "happy hours" taking the Hand of Omega for "walks". (PROSE: Alien Bodies [+]Loading...["Alien Bodies (novel)"]) The Doctor first encountered River Song when he caught her sneaking around the junkyard where his TARDIS was located, but he was unaware of her identity. River fled when she heard Susan calling for the Doctor. (GAME: The Eternity Clock [+]Loading...["The Eternity Clock (video game)"]) Mrs Smith, an usherette, saw the Doctor and his granddaughter in the Ritz Theatre on Totter's Lane, but told them to leave after the Doctor continually and rudely pointed out inaccuracies in a film about the fall of Rome. In early 2005, Mrs Smith wrote about her encounter on whoisdoctorwho.co.uk. (PROSE: Have You Seen This Man? [+]Loading...["Have You Seen This Man? (short story)"])
According to one account, the Doctor did not have the Hand of Omega when he left Gallifrey. While walking one evening to pick up Susan from school, he encountered his seventh incarnation lurking in a dark street. The Seventh Doctor revealed that he had brought the Hand of Omega, and, claiming that the Hand knew what to do, left without revealing any details of his life to his bewildered younger self. (PROSE: Echoes of Future Past [+]Loading...["Echoes of Future Past (short story)"])
On one cold evening, the Doctor and Susan watched a film at a theatre in Shoreditch. Afterwards, the Doctor and Susan got lost in the dense fog, eventually meeting a girl named Joan Calder and sheltered at her home, where they met her mother and grandfather. During the visit, the house burst into flames and, on the Doctor's instruction, Susan broke a mirror in the house. The elder Calder crumbled into ash and the fire abated. Although the Doctor never was able to adequately explain the event, it was related to the fact that the house had in fact been levelled during the London Blitz two decades earlier. The Doctor postulated that Susan's action likely freed Joan and her mother from their "nightmarish existence", but he wasn't sure. (PROSE: Ash [+]Loading...["Ash (short story)"])
On 1 and 2 April 1963 while Susan was attending Coal Hill School, London was consumed by winter weather in the middle of spring, as a result of an extra-dimensional called the Cold awakening. After being coerced by Susan, the Doctor reluctantly decided to interfere in events, and defeated the Cold by depositing it on Pluto in the far future, taking five trips to get there. He then embarked on his journey back to Susan in 1963. (PROSE: Time and Relative [+]Loading...["Time and Relative (novel)"])
The Doctor arrived on Wengrol in the Crab Nebula, the furthest the TARDIS had ever travelled at that point. He was captured by Yend scientists looking for a way to stabilise their constant shapeshifting. Fomal, the Chief Yend, asked him to take a case of unmutated Yend embryos to a new system, but when the Doctor took the case into the TARDIS, he discovered that the embryos were all dead. (PROSE: The Sons of the Crab [+]Loading...["The Sons of the Crab (short story)"])
Landing on Vortis, the Doctor was captured by the Menoptera, who believed that he was a member of the race attacking them. He escaped, only to encounter a group of Atlanteans whose spacecraft had crashed on Vortis a year earlier. The Atlanteans mistook the Doctor for a human scientist and asked for his help in repairing their ship. The Doctor, claiming that the necessary parts were in his ship, returned to the TARDIS, where he watched as the Atlanteans were caught in a battle between the Menoptera and the Zarbi and killed. (PROSE: The Lost Ones [+]Loading...["The Lost Ones (short story)"])
The Doctor landed on Earth in 1966. While leaving the TARDIS unattended, two children, Tony and Amy Barker, and their dog, Butch, entered the ship and accidentally locked themselves inside. When the Doctor returned, he dematerialised the TARDIS and arrived on the Sense Sphere, where he was forced to kill a Zilgan to save his life. The Sensorites captured him and planned to execute him for his crime, but he was rescued by Tony and Amy. The three made their way back to the TARDIS and the Doctor returned the children to their own time. (PROSE: The Monsters from Earth [+]Loading...["The Monsters from Earth (short story)"])
The Doctor landed in London during the Great Fire of 1666, where he reluctantly rescued the Mortimer family: farmer George, his wife Helen and their children, Ida and Alan. Much to his annoyance, they believed he was a warlock and the TARDIS was powered by magic. The TARDIS arrived on a spacecraft leading an Andromedan armada, where they encountered androids called Aalas and met the One, the intelligence controlling the ship. When the Doctor refused to help the One invade the Milky Way, this disobedience caused it to malfunction, and it self-destructed when Ida threw a bowl at one of its screens. The Doctor and the Mortimers departed, leaving the armada drifting aimlessly in space. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Invasion from Space (novel)"])
The Doctor eventually arrived back in 1963 at the exact instant he had departed. He claimed to have had an eventful trip, but upon inspecting the TARDIS logs, Susan noted that he'd taken five trips to reach Pluto, and more than a dozen to get back to Foreman's Yard. On his return, the Doctor told Susan that the TARDIS had been damaged taking the Cold to Pluto, but he insisted that he'd "have it fixed in no time". (PROSE: Time and Relative [+]Loading...["Time and Relative (novel)"])
Out for a walk while thinking of where to hide the Hand of Omega, the Doctor's seventh incarnation appeared in his past self's life on a mission from the White Guardian to steal the TARDIS Instruction Manual. Unbeknownst to the First Doctor, the Seventh Doctor saved him from an Imperial Dalek and made off with the instruction manual in the confusion. (COMIC: Time & Time Again [+]Loading...["Time & Time Again (comic story)"]) On 7 August 1963, (AUDIO: The Shoreditch Intervention [+]Loading...["The Shoreditch Intervention (audio story)"]) the Doctor hid the Hand of Omega at an undertaker's. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)"])
The Doctor was placed on trial for murder after he killed the werewolf Roberta Sampson with a silver bullet in self-defence, but was acquitted by the jury, which was made up partly of his second, third, fifth and eighth incarnations. (PROSE: The Juror's Story [+]Loading...["The Juror's Story (short story)"])
After witnessing a man explode into a protoplasmic mass at a beat poetry reading, the Doctor and Susan traced the unusual death to a British government project, Operation Proteus. They discovered the project was being run by an alien named Raldonn, who was mutating humans to turn one into his own species so that he would have a co-pilot to help him fly his ship back home. Unfortunately, his efforts relied on a lethal virus that threatened all London. After reversing the effects of the virus, the Doctor and Susan returned to the TARDIS in Totter's Lane. (COMIC: Operation Proteus [+]Loading...["Operation Proteus (comic story)"])
In October 1963, after legally purchasing parts to repair the TARDIS from Magpie Electricals, the Doctor was threatened by a group of teenagers, before they stopped and apologised. When the Doctor arrived at a warehouse to collect the parts, Colonel Rook revealed that he had tricked the Doctor into meeting him, as Rook wanted the Doctor to fight in a war and Susan to help in Britain's ESP experiments. When Susan and Cedric Chivers arrived after being chased by gangs chanting "aliens out", the Doctor deduced they were being influenced by a hypersonic weapon transmitted over radio waves that made young people attack anyone who was "alien", or different, including the Doctor and Susan. The Doctor devised a means of using Susan's radio and other pieces in the warehouse to transmit a blocking signal that negated the effect of the weapon. After his life was saved, Rook decided against coercing the Doctor and Susan to fight in the war and told them that their "secret" would be safe. (AUDIO: Hunters of Earth [+]Loading...["Hunters of Earth (audio story)"])
When Susan was accompanied back to the 76 Totter's Lane by her new history teacher, Dr. River Song, the Doctor dismissed her quite brusquely, inviting her to "mind [her] own business". (AUDIO: An Unearthly Woman [+]Loading...["An Unearthly Woman (audio story)"])
When a thick fog engulfed Shoreditch, the Doctor decided to pick Susan up from Coal Hill personally, but, when he arrived, the school came under attack from humanoid figures with blood covered faces. With the aid of Shivani Bajwa, the Doctor was able to figure out that the wolf-like figures were aliens and that the fog was turning humans into Space wolves. After Shivani was transformed into a wolf, the Doctor restored her and, using his signet ring, he transmitted a message through the fog to get the wolves to retreat. However, his manipulations to the fog caused Shivani's flower garden to die out, so he promised to deliver roses to help the garden regrow. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Horror of Coal Hill [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Horror of Coal Hill (short story)"])
Meeting Ian and Barbara
After investigating an alien insect that he planned to return home, (PROSE: Those Left Behind [+]Loading...["Those Left Behind (short story)"]) the Doctor returned to the junkyard to find that two of Susan's teachers, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, had followed her home. The Doctor tried to encourage them to leave, but they confronted him and forced themselves into the TARDIS. Against Susan's wishes, he launched the TARDIS, kidnapping them so they couldn't tell anyone about them. (TV: An Unearthly Child [+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"]) Most accounts agreed this was how the Doctor met his first human companions, (TV: An Unearthly Child [+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"], The Sensorites [+]Loading...["The Sensorites (TV story)"], et. al) with the War Doctor indeed only remembering the event this way. (AUDIO: The Horror [+]Loading...["The Horror (audio story)"])
However, according to a differing account, the Doctor first met them when they were involved with a car crash on Barnes Common in which Susan was injured. He took Susan back to the TARDIS, but had to return to the crash site to retrieve her TARDIS key. When they followed him to the TARDIS and forced themselves in, the Doctor launched the TARDIS, kidnapping them so they couldn't tell anyone about him. (PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks [+]Loading...["Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)"]) When the War Doctor was told this account of history by the Barber-Surgeon during the Last Great Time War, he declared it was incorrect, as he remembered meeting them in Totter's Lane. However, the Barber-Surgeon explained he had met a "version" of the Doctor who had experienced the events in Barnes Common and remarked "everything's happened somewhere" as his answer to the War Doctor declaring it was untrue. (AUDIO: The Horror [+]Loading...["The Horror (audio story)"])
They travelled to prehistoric times, (TV: An Unearthly Child [+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"], AUDIO: To the Death [+]Loading...["To the Death (audio story)"]) although the alternate account claimed that they went straight to Skaro. (PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks [+]Loading...["Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)"]) Kidnapped by a tribesman named Kal, the Doctor was brought to the Tribe of Gum. Susan, Ian and Barbara followed to save him, but Za caught them and placed them all in the Cave of Skulls.
The group was freed by Old Mother, to which the Doctor thanked her, but he grew miserable whilst trekking through the Forest of Fear. When a pursuing Za was wounded by a tiger, the Doctor initially refused to help him. He picked up a rock and was prepared to kill Za, until Ian stopped him, (TV: An Unearthly Child [+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"]) and a meeting with his eighth incarnation in a time bubble convinced him not to continue his murderous plan. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors [+]Loading...["The Eight Doctors (novel)"]) Recaptured and placed back in the cave, the Doctor tricked Kal into revealing he had killed the Old Mother. Ian and Susan later had the idea to set fire to skulls to distract the Tribe and allow them to escape. (TV: An Unearthly Child [+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"]) As preparations for this were made, Barbara told the Doctor the story of Godfather Death by the Brothers Grimm, a story that would stick with him for many incarnations. (PROSE: The Knight, The Fool and The Dead [+]Loading...["The Knight, The Fool and The Dead (novel)"]) When the Tribe was distracted, the travellers fled back to the TARDIS, with the Doctor quickly taking off.
When the TARDIS landed on Skaro (TV: An Unearthly Child [+]Loading...["An Unearthly Child (TV story)"]) in early 2064, (PROSE: Peaceful Thals Ambushed! [+]Loading...["Peaceful Thals Ambushed! (short story)"]) the Doctor claimed that the fluid link needed more mercury, despite there being nothing wrong, so that he could explore a nearby city despite his companion' concerns. In the city, the Doctor and his friends were captured by the Daleks. Having escaped, they assisted the Dalek's enemy, the Thals, in an attack on the Daleks city. The Daleks died and their plans to flood the atmosphere with radiation failed. (TV: The Daleks [+]Loading...["The Daleks (TV story)"]) However, the events of this adventure made a strong impression on the Doctor, as he was appalled and disgusted by the evil and callousness of the Daleks, and he thus made it his mission in life to combat threats similar to them. (TV: Into the Dalek [+]Loading...["Into the Dalek (TV story)"])
The Doctor left Skaro for Earth, using the fast return switch. The spring in the switch was damaged, causing it to be stuck. The TARDIS was sent to the beginning of a solar system and everyone was knocked out on the trip. The TARDIS tried warning the crew about the atoms forming around them when they came to, but the Doctor assumed that this was Ian and Barbara sabotaging the ship. Once Barbara figured out what was going on, the Doctor fixed the spring, ending the fault, and humbly apologised to his companions. (TV: The Edge of Destruction [+]Loading...["The Edge of Destruction (TV story)"]) After this incident, the Doctor's relationship with Ian and Barbara became warmer, and he began to learn about and respect their humanity. (COMIC: Hunters of the Burning Stone [+]Loading...["Hunters of the Burning Stone (comic story)"])
The great spirit of adventure
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Still heavily damaged and malfunctioning, the TARDIS found its way to Earth, but did not make it to 1963. Instead, it landed in the Plain of Pamir in 1289. There, the Doctor and his companions met Marco Polo. Polo took the TARDIS and its keys on his caravan to the breadth of Cathay to hand to Kublai Khan as part of a bargain for his return to Venice. Along the way, the Mongol warlord, Tegana, also part of Polo's caravan, tried to take the TARDIS for Nogai as part of his plan to assassinate Kublai. In the chaos of Tegana and Polo's duel in Peking, the Doctor and his companions escaped in the repaired TARDIS. (TV: Marco Polo [+]Loading...["Marco Polo (TV story)"])
Finding themselves in what appeared to be an English forest, the TARDIS crew discovered a medieval camp, a crashed spaceship, and were attacked by a dragon before being rescued by a knight. Taken to a nearby castle, they learned of a current conflict against the sorcerer Marton Dhal, who sought further power by acquiring Merlin's old artefacts. Participating in a quest to gain Merlin's Helm, the Doctor and Ian learned that the "magic" was the result of a complex nanobot network that allowed those skilled in its use to manipulate the world around them. With tutoring from the leprechaun Kilvenny Odoyle, the Doctor was able to learn how to use the world's magic himself, joining Odoyle and witch Anni Glassfeather in a final duel against Gramling, Dahl's former master, who had manipulated Dahl in the name of his own dreams of power. With Dahl defeated, the Doctor was able to arrange for the nanobot network to be disabled, leaving the people to learn how to cope without magic. (PROSE: The Sorcerer's Apprentice [+]Loading...["The Sorcerer's Apprentice (novel)"])
The Doctor arrived in Greenland in 1002 due to a leak in the TARDIS' plutonium battery. He enlisted the aid of Eric the Red and his Viking crew to take him and his companions to Newfoundland to get the materials he needed for his ship. They were nearly left behind in Nova Scotia, but the Doctor convinced the Vikings to take them back. (PROSE: Who Discovered America? [+]Loading...["Who Discovered America? (short story)"])
Arriving inside the tomb of Menkaure in Egypt in 26th century BC, the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara were arrested and taken to the palace. Itennu planned to assassinate Pharaoh Menkaure with a poison dart and then blame the travellers. However, the Doctor inadvertently foiled the attempt with his walking stick and, when a more open attack began, the TARDIS crew fled back to the TARDIS. (COMIC: The Forgotten [+]Loading...["The Forgotten (comic story)"])
When the Fourth Doctor used his TARDIS tuner to begin a temporal meta-collision with his other incarnations, the First Doctor received the call from his TARDIS food machine. However, he was unaware to what was happening, instead thinking that the food machine was broken. Before he could try to fix it, the Sixth Doctor arrived in his TARDIS and installed a button on the console to expel a pandimensional entity from the Fourth Doctor's TARDIS. (WC: Doctors Assemble! [+]Loading...["Doctors Assemble! (webcast)"])
On a "night" in the TARDIS, the Doctor led his human friends on a tour of his ship before he went to bed. (COMIC: In-Between Times [+]Loading...["In-Between Times (comic story)"]) Landing on an unnamed planet, the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara found a path of skulls laid to honour the dead. (COMIC: The Path of Skulls [+]Loading...["The Path of Skulls (comic story)"])
The TARDIS landed on an island on Marinus, where Arbitan asked the Doctor and his friends to search for the keys to the reprogrammed Conscience of Marinus to regain control over the Voord, as all of his other followers and family members failed to retrieve them. When the Doctor refused his aid, Arbitan trapped the TARDIS in a forcefield, preventing the Doctor and his companions' escape. They used Arbitan's travel dials to reach Morphoton. Barbara released Arbitan's daughter, Sabetha, and the rest of the city from the Morpho's mind control, and retrieved the first key.
The Doctor jumped ahead to Millennius, the location of the final key, to find Eprin. Once Ian had found two more keys, he was knocked out and framed for Eprin's murder. The Doctor stood as defence at Ian's trial, but Ian was sentenced to death. The Doctor learnt that one of the conspirators in the murder, the prosecutor, Eyesen, was ready to collect one of the keys and Ian was spared execution. The guards captured Eyesen and the last key was found in the mace that killed Eprin. The Doctor and his companions returned to Arbitan's island, where Arbitan had been murdered. Ian handed the Voord leader, Yartek, a fake key, which destroyed the Conscience, along with the Voord. (TV: The Keys of Marinus [+]Loading...["The Keys of Marinus (TV story)"])
The Doctor and his companions arrived in an Aztec temple in Mexico. They went through a one-way passage that prevented access to the TARDIS. Barbara posed as the Aztec god, Yetaxa, with the others as her servants, to find a way back. Barbara tried and failed to change the Aztecs' history of human sacrifice for the better, which the Doctor strongly advised her against. Susan was to be punished for denying marriage to the Perfect Victim of the Aztecs' sacrifice and Ian to be executed when he was framed by the High Priest of Sacrifice, Tlotoxl, for attacking the High Priest of Knowledge, Autloc. Autloc's faith in Yetaxa was shattered, and he left for the wilderness. The Doctor and Ian distracted Ian and Susan's guard to escape. They worked on a pulley system to open the doorway back to the TARDIS. (TV: The Aztecs [+]Loading...["The Aztecs (TV story)"])
Arriving in Afghanistan in 1842 during the First Afghan War, the Doctor lost Ian when he was kidnapped by a brutal Gilzia chieftain called Gul Zaheer. Unable to track them down, the Doctor spent a month gathering Afghan allies to help him rescue Ian and another British prisoner, Symonds. But he was too late to stop Zaheer killing Symonds, so an enraged Ian killed Zaheer by throwing him into a pit. (PROSE: Mire and Clay [+]Loading...["Mire and Clay (short story)"])
During a visit to Chicago in 2006, the Doctor lost the TARDIS in a bet with a businessman named Buchanan, who intended to auction off the time machine. Hiring a 60s Oldsmobile 88, the Doctor and his friends travelled to Arizona, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Missouri, and the Doctor finally won the TARDIS back in Santa Monica. (PROSE: The Mother Road [+]Loading...["The Mother Road (short story)"])
The Doctor next travelled to London during World War II and discovered the Bansharai, alien shapeshifters who survived on emotions, had been posing as dead people to make the wishes of their loved ones come true. (PROSE: Tell Me You Love Me [+]Loading...["Tell Me You Love Me (short story)"])
The Doctor and his friends next arrived inside a spaceship in the 28th century, where two crewmembers were suspended in a state resembling death and another, John, had had his mind opened and turned insane, following an attack on their minds by the Sensorites. The Sense Sphere, which the ship had been trapped around, had its aqueducts' water supply poisoned with atropine by survivors of a previous human expedition whose ship had been destroyed. The TARDIS' lock was taken by the Sensorites, leaving the Doctor and his companions trapped on the spaceship.
After the Doctor and his companions resisted the Sensorites, the Doctor, Ian and Susan agreed to go down to the Sense Sphere, where the Doctor worked out the cure for this "disease", which had also afflicted Ian, while the Sensorite scientists treated John. The Doctor and Ian, followed by Barbara, went to the aqueducts where Atropa belladonna had been growing. They found the human expedition and pretended to be a welcoming party for them and that the "war" against the Sensorites was won. The expedition was taken into custody on Maitland's ship. Maitland's ship was free to leave and the TARDIS crew regained their lock. (TV: The Sensorites [+]Loading...["The Sensorites (TV story)"])
Greatly agitated by Ian and Barbara's remarks on his piloting, the Doctor landed the TARDIS on board the Endeavour sailing ship in 1770. There, he and Ian met Captain James Cook, but, before Susan and Barbara could exit the ship, it was tossed overboard in a violent storm. Greatly saddened by the loss of the girls, the Doctor and Ian continued on the Endeavour's voyage for several months towards Australia observing the transit of Venus along the way. Their time on the Endeavour ended when they discovered Susan had managed to swim out and attach a line to the sailing ship from the TARDIS and so be pulled along behind it. The travellers' joy at being reunited was short lived when the Doctor became disgruntled again because the TARDIS floor was now covered in patches of water. (AUDIO: The Transit of Venus [+]Loading...["The Transit of Venus (audio story)"])
The TARDIS then landed in France in July 1794 in the middle of their revolution. They were immediately caught in the depth of the war, and Ian, Barbara and Susan were all sentenced to death. The Doctor helped find an English spy named James Stirling who could help them to escape. Escaping their jail cells, they made their way through the French and back to the TARDIS, where they made a narrow escape. (TV: The Reign of Terror [+]Loading...["The Reign of Terror (TV story)"])
After escaping from France, the Doctor wanted to relax, but found himself on a planet with a fast time rate, and discovered that the entire civilisation of the planet had been based around him, Ian, and the TARDIS. He and Ian then watched the rise and fall of the civilisation in a matter of minutes. (AUDIO: Rise and Fall [+]Loading...["Rise and Fall (audio story)"])
After the TARDIS sustained some damage, the crew stayed on the planet Fragrance for a while, with the particular atmosphere of the planet caused them to create a strong friendship with a family of locals, to the degree that the Doctor gave the parents of the family, Iamb and Rhyme, a guided tour of the TARDIS when it was repaired. However, when Barbara refused to requite the love of their eldest son, Rhythm, and condemned him to death in doing so according to the usages of the planet, the Doctor sided with Ian and stopped Barbara from changing her mind. He then watched with the others as the young man went across the yellow arc of the planet, walking towards his fate. (AUDIO: The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance [+]Loading...["The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance (audio story)"])
After leaving Fragrance, the TARDIS landed in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon in 323 BC, where the crew were welcomed by Alexander the Great to his court. They watched as the closest friends of Alexander died as victims of a plot to eventually kill Alexander himself. In the end, when Alexander was poisoned and started to grow weak, the Doctor offered to keep him alive through a rudimentary artificial lung. However, Alexander refused and accepted his fate, but not before asking the Doctor what his legacy would be. The Doctor told him that, though his empire was not to survive without him, Alexander's fame would live forever. (AUDIO: Farewell, Great Macedon [+]Loading...["Farewell, Great Macedon (audio story)"])
Shortly afterwards, the Doctor announced to Ian and Barbara that he had found a way to take them home. However, as he was about to do so, the TARDIS was drawn to a nearby dying planet, landing near a giant crystal pyramid. The crew were greeted by the robots living in the pyramid and brought to their leader, the Perfect One, a robot infused with an extraordinary similarity to human brain, to the point that he wished to actually become one. The Perfect One thought that the TARDIS crew belonged to the race of its creators, the Masters of Luxor, and required them to help him become human. When the Doctor claimed that that was impossible, the Perfect One decided to imprison them, but the Doctor and Ian managed to escape. In a nearby canyon under the ground, they found a crypt where Luxor, the creator of the robot, froze himself in a cybercoma. The Doctor and Ian woke him up and brought him back to the pyramid, with the intention of having him confront the Perfect One and prove to him he was just a machine. This resulted in the Perfect One losing control and destroying the pyramid and the other robots out of rage and despair. The TARDIS crew managed to escape in the mayhem. (AUDIO: The Masters of Luxor [+]Loading...["The Masters of Luxor (audio story)"])
The Doctor stopped a suicidal crew leader, Provost Rowd, from wiping out the last remnants of the dying Metraxis, and he later assisted a new leader, Egrabil, to find a new home for the Metraxi. (AUDIO: A Star is Born [+]Loading...["A Star is Born (audio story)"])
Arriving in 20th century Russia in pursuit of an alien artefact, the TARDIS crew met Grigori Rasputin and learnt that the artefact had driven some hunters from a nearby village mad. As they progressed to the hut where the object was kept, the influence of the artefact affected both the Doctor, who grew weaker to the point of almost dying, and Susan, who seemingly was driven mad and fled into the forest. The Doctor got better when Rasputin grabbed the object and absorbed its knowledge of the future. With Ian's help, the Doctor was able to drain almost all knowledge out of Rasputin's mind, only leaving some traces of it. (AUDIO: The Wanderer [+]Loading...["The Wanderer (audio story)"])
The TARDIS crew decided to spend some time on holiday in 5th Century Alexandria around the time where the famous Library would be destroyed. The Doctor greatly enjoyed reading the books contained in the rich collection of the place, but was greatly displeased when Ian started forming a close relationship with the philosopher Hypatia, because he feared that would lead her to discover their secret. He then decided to depart, but stopped when Ian brought him a book, which the Doctor immediately recognised as belonging to the Mims and containing a detailed plan of invasion for Earth. He wanted to take it away, but Hypatia stopped him, moments before the Mims attack the Library to retrieve the book. In the following confrontation, the book was destroyed, and the Doctor, using a rudimentary megaphone, was able to talk to the Mims and persuade them they had nothing to fear anymore. The crew then departed, but not before the Doctor managed to sneak onboard some books he saved from the destruction of the Library. (AUDIO: The Library of Alexandria [+]Loading...["The Library of Alexandria (audio story)"])
The TARDIS landed in Seville, where the Doctor asked Barbara to show him around, as she had once been there on holiday. He pretended to be a cardinal from Rome with Susan in order to try and release Ian from the Spanish Inquisition, but he was found out and sentenced to death before Susan and Barbara saved him. When he heard from Barbara that Ian went to Cadiz to help Esteban Aribi on his mission, the Doctor thought he was trying to change history, so attempted to stop him. But quickly found out that Ian was part of history and his intervention would not change anything. (AUDIO: The Flames of Cadiz [+]Loading...["The Flames of Cadiz (audio story)"])
The TARDIS landed on Destination, where the Doctor encountered the Master for the first time since leaving Gallifrey. The Doctor was at first willing to sit and watch the city people and the Dalmari resolve their war before deciding that, as a member of the Master's race, it was his responsibility to do all he could. Spending two years ruling the planet, the Doctor brought peace to Destination before Ian and Barbara, having overpowered the Master, returned with the TARDIS whereupon the Doctor locked the Master away, saying that one day he might come back. (AUDIO: The Destination Wars [+]Loading...["The Destination Wars (audio story)"])
The TARDIS then landed in New York City in the year 1888, shortly before the Great White Hurricane where they were caught in a gang scuffle. While Ian was injured and taken to hospital, Susan had been taken away by Patrick Ellis with the Doctor's outrage at the police over this resulting in him being arrested for a night. Befriending Patrick's brother, Daniel Ellis, the Doctor found himself caught in the gang war between the Alley Dogs and the Wild Boars as he tried to reunite with Susan, brokering a temporary peace between the gangs and the police to rescue her and Patrick from the ice. Upon returning to the TARDIS, the Doctor attempted to use a temporal slingshot to return Ian and Barbara to their time. (AUDIO: The Great White Hurricane [+]Loading...["The Great White Hurricane (audio story)"])
The slingshot took them to the planet Ashtallah, home of the Ashtallans, an immortal race with prodigious healing abilities. After witnessing their cells quickly healing Barbara, the Doctor discussed many scientific concepts with Brenna before a mysterious plague began killing the aliens. After the Doctor had helped Brenna create a method via which the Ashtallans could reproduce, Susan found that Sharlan had been killing their people, via a sample of Barbara's blood. Once the spread had been halted, the group left the planet, pondering the impact they'd had on the Ashtallans. (AUDIO: The Invention of Death [+]Loading...["The Invention of Death (audio story)"])
When the TARDIS landed in 19th century Japan before it was opened to Westerners, the Doctor and Barbara were taken prisoner at the orders of the daimyo Takagi Mamoru, while Ian and Susan managed to escape, as Mamoru suspected the two of being spies from England, sent to spy on his preparation for a revolt against the Emperor, who was about to open the country to strangers. The Doctor and Barbara tried to escape, but ended up being involved, together with Ian and Susan, in a battle between Mamoru's samurais and the Emperor's forces. As a defeated Mamoru sat in sadness, the Doctor comforted him, telling him that it would not be the end for Japan, and sharing in their common feeling of loneliness due to old age. The crew then departed after Susan retrieved the TARDIS from a nearby swap, where it had fallen into the water. (AUDIO: The Barbarians and the Samurai [+]Loading...["The Barbarians and the Samurai (audio story)"])
Soon afterwards, the TARDIS landed in Tyre, where they won the favour of Princess Elissa and the ire of King Pygmalion. The group attempted to flee on the king's prized ship but the Doctor failed to board in time. Left behind, the Doctor was imprisoned before he befriended Aiyaruc who freed him and brought him to the site of the future Carthage. Reunited with his friends, the Doctor helped defeat Pygmalion's invasion fleet, before using the TARDIS to paint him and his friends as emissaries of the gods, allowing them to go free. Shortly after take off however, the TARDIS wound up in a hostile region of space-time, crash landing on a temporally unstable planet. (AUDIO: The Phoenicians [+]Loading...["The Phoenicians (audio story)"])
Thrown clear of the crash, the Doctor mourned for the loss of his ship, snapping at his companions, especially when Susan claimed that the planet was inhabited by Xesto. When the group had met Horl and Katta, the Doctor theorised about the planet's unusual properties before the group was taken to see Nocta, who'd survived so long by hiding in a Zero Cabinet. When exploring the ship that held the Cabinet however, the Doctor was devoured by a Xesto. The nature of death on this world left him trapped outside of time with alternate versions of himself and a mysterious woman. Though the woman showed him how to reach out to Susan, he quickly butted heads with her over his treatment of Susan before realising that she was a future version of his granddaughter. When both Susans met, the Doctor encouraged them to touch and exploit the Blinovitch Limitation Effect. Thrown back to the moment of the crash, the elder Susan encouraged the Doctor to listen to Susan's plan to redirect power from the TARDIS force field, allowing him to avert the crash. (AUDIO: Tick-Tock World [+]Loading...["Tick-Tock World (audio story)"])
A later attempt to use the fast return switch to get Ian and Barbara home, resulted in the group's return to Skaro, fifty cycles after their last visit. Brought to the Thal City, the Doctor was introduced to Tryana before the two, along with Ian, returned to the Dalek City to find the missing Susan and Jyden. Finding that power still thrummed in the city, the Doctor grew increasingly suspicious of Tryana before they reunited with the children and Tryana revealed herself to be in league with the Dalek Supreme who claimed to want peace. Remaining to validate this claim, the Doctor found a secret tunnel leading out of the City and was quickly taken prisoner as Ian escaped and Tryana was killed. Kept alive for the secret of the TARDIS, the Doctor was marched back to the Thal City where he was rescued. Free, the Doctor reprogrammed the ionising towers to attack the Daleks, after which Ian overloaded the power to the Dalek City, before the group left Skaro again. (AUDIO: Return to Skaro [+]Loading...["Return to Skaro (audio story)"])
The TARDIS then landed in Ekaterinburg, shortly before the Russian Civil War, where Ian and the Doctor were quickly taken prisoner, befriending Makerenkov, a fellow prisoner. After the Doctor had confirmed the health of Nicholas II, Yakov Yurovsky took him to a forest where the Romanovs would be buried after their execution where the Doctor realised Makenrenkov to be part of the conspiracy. Racing back to the house, the Doctor gathered his companions only for Nicholas II to have already accepted death, urging the travellers to flee. Racing back to the TARDIS before they could be executed, the Doctor pondered the Laws of Time and whether or not he had a moral imperative to intervene, even with a fixed point in time. Before he could muse further, the TARDIS unexpectedly lost all power. (AUDIO: Last of the Romanovs [+]Loading...["Last of the Romanovs (audio story)"])
Following the TARDIS suddenly losing power, Susan helped her grandfather force a system reboot that forced the ship to land in a sewer in the human settlement of Urth. Given the humans' xenophobia, the travellers were forced to submit to a genetic scan. Having only time to program one false reading into the machine, the Doctor insisted Susan go first, intending for Ian and Barbara to look after her, only for the genetic drift of humanity making Susan the only one of the four who actually read as human. Thrown into a cell, the Doctor befriended the gestalt being Brooskin whom he engaged in a medical and scientific discussion before Susan, in the good graces of Mummy Martial managed to free him and Brooskin. Freed, the Doctor liberated the settlement from Daddy Dominus before representatives from the larger group of human colonies arrived. Convinced that the problems would sort themselves, the Doctor led his companions back to the updated TARDIS and took off again, annoyed to find that his ship was still not working properly. (AUDIO: For the Glory of Urth [+]Loading...["For the Glory of Urth (audio story)"])
When Susan pulled a Golithan Spiney Back Beetle out of the console, the Doctor was convinced that she'd reparied the TARDIS and made another attempt to return Ian and Barbara to their time only to wind up in 1601. When the four sought to see a play by William Shakespeare, they found the Globe Theatre shuttered and a volatile political climate. Rescued by Judith Shakespeare, the four were brought to Shakespeare's home. When Susan and Judith ran off, becoming involved in Lady Penelope Rich's plot to dethrone Elizabeth I, the Doctor confronted his granddaughter at the Globe but she refused to listen. After this had resulted in Shakespeare's arrest, Susan and the Doctor attempted to free him only for the Doctor to be arrested upon identifying himself. Speaking with Shakespeare again, the Doctor was soon freed by Queen Elizabeth, who had befriended Susan and brought a quick end to the conflict. When the time came to leave, Susan, Barbara and Ian expressed a desire to stay and see a play before an outside source activated the TARDIS and sent it flying away from England. (AUDIO: The Hollow Crown [+]Loading...["The Hollow Crown (audio story)"])
Soon after, the Doctor rescued Joseph Rennigan, the sole survivor of an American space mission that crashed on Mars, (PROSE: Rennigan's Record [+]Loading...["Rennigan's Record (short story)"]) and visited a dying world, where Barbara was infected by an alien parasite which distorted her memories. (PROSE: Nothing at the End of the Lane [+]Loading...["Nothing at the End of the Lane (short story)"])
When the TARDIS was drawn out of the vortex by a mysterious noise, the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara landed on EBV Nevermore. Here they encountered the ship's captain, Rostrum, who was a plant. The Doctor was appalled that Earth was making holes in the universe for navigational purposes but they ended up being navigational hazards. Susan told her grandfather about the First Mate and they both worked out that this was why Rostrum's leaves were dying as he was sabotaging the ship to save his universe. (AUDIO: Here There Be Monsters [+]Loading...["Here There Be Monsters (audio story)"]
The Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara also 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)"]) Shortly after, the Doctor and Ian stopped a Blue plague in 2908 Prague. (PROSE: Room for Improvement [+]Loading...["Room for Improvement (short story)"])
When the TARDIS landed on Hydra, the crew became caught in the war between the refugees and the Voord, and the Doctor and Barbara first risked drowning and then were captured by the Voord. The Doctor healed himself thanks to a self-induced coma, but the Voord thought he was dead and disposed of him. The Doctor became the leader of Hydra resistance, and was eventually able to think of a plan to destroy the Voord's main central power station. The Voord leader, Nebrin, attempted to stop him by threatening Susan's life, but she was saved by another Voord, Tarlak, and the attack was eventally a success. Hydra was thus released, and the travellers could depart once again. (AUDIO: Domain of the Voord [+]Loading...["Domain of the Voord (audio story)"])
On the ship Endurance, the TARDIS crew were caught in the middle of a fight between the Last Borns, led by the scientist Myla, and their enemies, the Shifts, a lizard-like species also created by the scientist Myla. The Doctor and Ian were captured by the Shift's leader, Arran, and from him learned the whole story. Later, they were freed by the intervention of Myla and other soldiers and brought to the other ship of the Last Borns, the Resistance, but the Doctor was severely injured in the process and brought to the infirmary. As he laid there, the ship was attacked and the infirmary was cut off from the rest of the ship, trapping inside the Doctor and a young physician, Olivan. By that time the Doctor had recovered, and together he and Olivan escaped and contacted the main deck, so that the Doctor was able to join the others for the final fight against Arran. When all was ended, he gave precious advice to the new leaders of the Last Borns before departing. (AUDIO: The Age of Endurance [+]Loading...["The Age of Endurance (audio story)"])
In an attempt to make Ian and Barbara happier, the Doctor spent days searching for a tea plant so he could make the food machine produce tea, though kept them in the dark as to what he was looking for. He eventually found one on a planet that had once been a human colony, though the TARDIS crew had to escape a tribe devoted to guarding the plant. (AUDIO: A Small Semblance of Home [+]Loading...["A Small Semblance of Home (audio story)"])
On the planet Malkus, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara got separated from Susan following an accident. Searching, they found her at the ruins of an empty military facility outside the city, where she and another man, Virgil Winters, had destroyed an evil plan of exploiting "gifted" people as weapons, as Susan's latent telepathic powers had been ignited by the atmosphere of Malkus. (AUDIO: E is for... [+]Loading...["E is for... (audio story)"])
Arriving on the planet Sarath in the city of Arkhaven, facing destruction as its moon descended towards the planet, the TARDIS crew were separated when a meteor strike hit the building the ship had landed on, resulting in the Doctor and Ian being taken to an NC2 camp while Susan was sent to hospital and Barbara was lost in the sewers. Although he lost his key to the TARDIS during a fight in the camp, the Doctor was able to tell his story to Captain Benadik Lant, who passed it on to Mayor Brantus Draad, who asked the Doctor to help them complete work on the ship that would take the survivors to Mirath in exchange for the facilities to build a new key. During his time working on the Ship, the Doctor realised it was a monstrous deception, but despite being distracted by the twisted actions of Monitor, the city's supervisory A.I., who had created android duplicates of Susan and several others, the Doctor was able to help the citizens of Arkhaven leave their dying world in a landing module upgraded with a life capsule from the TARDIS, giving the ship more interior space without increasing its mass. (PROSE: City at World's End [+]Loading...["City at World's End (novel)"])
In another attempt to return Ian and Barbara home, the TARDIS malfunctioned, and they landed in a place filled with giant bugs and long, winding paths. Ian and Susan found a gigantic matchbox, while the Doctor and Barbara found a worm. Ian was trapped in the matchbox, which was taken by a man named Farrow, just as the Doctor realised that they were on Earth, but they had been shrunk down to the size of an inch.
Farrow met with Forester to tell him that his insecticide had been rejected, and was killed by Forester. The crew, looking for Ian, heard the gunshot and ran to the scene, where they were menaced by a cat. Entering the house, Barbara began to die when she touched the insecticide. She proceeded to contact someone through a telephone and reached Hilda Rowse and her husband Bert. They managed to grow back to size and Barbara recovered. Forester and his accomplice, Smithers, were handed over to the police. (TV: Planet of Giants [+]Loading...["Planet of Giants (TV story)"])
Leaving Susan behind
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With their size restored, the group arrived in the ruined 22nd century London. Splitting up to discover the cause of the devastation, Ian and the Doctor found that the Daleks had invaded. After learning about the invasion, the Doctor and Ian were rescued from the Dalek Earthforce and brought to the resistance. Heading south to Bedfordshire, the resistance discovered that Daleks intended to turn Earth into a warship. Turning this plan against the Daleks, the Doctor triggered a volcanic eruption that defeated them. Recognising that Susan had fallen in love with resistance fighter David Campbell and that (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth [+]Loading...["The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)"]) she "needed to make [her] own way", (COMIC: The Forgotten [+]Loading...["The Forgotten (comic story)"]) the Doctor reluctantly left her behind, promising to return, (TV: The Dalek Invasion of Earth [+]Loading...["The Dalek Invasion of Earth (TV story)"]) though he did not until his eighth (PROSE: Legacy of the Daleks [+]Loading...["Legacy of the Daleks (novel)"], AUDIO: An Earthly Child [+]Loading...["An Earthly Child (audio story)"]) or thirteenth incarnation. (PROSE: Fellow Traveller [+]Loading...["Fellow Traveller (short story)"]) He continued to question his decision for centuries to come, (COMIC: The Forgotten [+]Loading...["The Forgotten (comic story)"]) and even slept through a materialisation because of his sorrow. (TV: The Rescue [+]Loading...["The Rescue (TV story)"])
Ian believed that locking Susan out of the TARDIS was the bravest thing that he ever saw the Doctor do. (AUDIO: The Revenants [+]Loading...["The Revenants (audio story)"]) Shortly after leaving Susan in the 22nd century, the Doctor travelled to Venus to attend the funeral of Dharkhig, an old friend of his. There, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara became embroiled in the Venusians' conflict with their would-be saviours, the Sou(ou)shi. (PROSE: Venusian Lullaby [+]Loading...["Venusian Lullaby (novel)"])
Intending to give Susan a wedding ring, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara visited the mines of Alexandria. However, Ian was separated from the Doctor and Barbara, and Barbara accidentally created an alternative timeline after being sent nine years into the past. In the alternate world, King Ptolemy and his warriors went to war with the alien Rhakotis, and Barbara soon fell in love with Ptolemy and married him, becoming Queen. After nine years of war, the Doctor used a book from Gallifrey to repair time, erasing the alternative history and costing Barbara her husband. (PROSE: The Book of Shadows [+]Loading...["The Book of Shadows (short story)"])
Returning to the planet Vortis, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara saved a pair of Menoptera from the Zarbi and their larvae gun by arrival of the TARDIS. (COMIC: On the Planet Vortis [+]Loading...["On the Planet Vortis (comic story)"]) The travellers were then confronted by the Zarbi, who captured the Doctor for his knowledge. However, the Doctor was saved when Ian and Barbara found Animus and killed the brain. Having saved the grateful Menoptera from the Zarbi menace, the three took their leave. (COMIC: The Zarbi Are Destroyed [+]Loading...["The Zarbi Are Destroyed (comic story)"])
The TARDIS landed in a giant spider's web. The Doctor rescued Barbara when she became caught in it, and dematerialised just as the spider approached them. (COMIC: Dr. Who in the Spider's Web [+]Loading...["Dr. Who in the Spider's Web (comic story)"])
The Doctor and his friends visited the Aqua planet, where they became caught in the oceanpheric current and deposited in a patch of invisible liquid. Barbara was nearly eaten by an Aquamonster before the oceanphere moved, dropping the three back to dry land. (COMIC: Dr. Who on the Aqua Planet [+]Loading...["Dr. Who on the Aqua Planet (comic story)"])
The Doctor arrived on Earth during the Ice Age, causing the TARDIS' controls to freeze. A monster picked up the TARDIS in its jaws, but its hot breath thawed the controls, allowing them to leave. (COMIC: The Ice-Age Monster [+]Loading...["The Ice-Age Monster (comic story)"])
The Doctor and his companions encountered Watermen from Q20, whose spaceship had broken down. The Doctor repaired the fault, allowing them to return home. (COMIC: Dr. Who Meets the Watermen [+]Loading...["Dr. Who Meets the Watermen (comic story)"])
The Doctor, Ian and Barbara returned to Skaro, where they were attacked by intelligent insects called Zomites. A group of Daleks arrived, killed the Zomites and allowed the Doctor and his companions to leave, warning them to never return to their planet again. (COMIC: The Daleks Destroy the Zomites [+]Loading...["The Daleks Destroy the Zomites (comic story)"])
The Doctor landed the TARDIS inside an air pocket at the bottom of the ocean. An Aquafein grabbed Barbara, but Ian shot it with a ray gun, causing it to release her. The arrival of more Aquafeins prompted their departure. (COMIC: Escape from the Aquafien [+]Loading...["Escape from the Aquafien (comic story)"])
The Doctor visited a planet where Ian discovered dozens of huge diamonds. The Doctor told him that there were so many that they were worthless, and that if they carried any into the TARDIS they would disappear. (COMIC: Where Diamonds Are Worthless [+]Loading...["Where Diamonds Are Worthless (comic story)"])
The Doctor visited Earth during prehistoric times. A creature entered the TARDIS, but vanished when the Doctor moved the ship into a time when its species was extinct. (COMIC: The Prehistoric Monster [+]Loading...["The Prehistoric Monster (comic story)"])
The Doctor was paralysed by the Daleks' Nerve Machine. Ian used the telepathic helmet to reach the Doctor, who explained the situation. The Doctor was freed when Ian discovered the Machine and disabled it. (COMIC: Dr. Who and the Nerve Machine [+]Loading...["Dr. Who and the Nerve Machine (comic story)"])
When asked by Barbara, the Doctor explained to her and Ian exactly how the TARDIS' large interior could fit inside its smaller exterior. (COMIC: The Secrets of the Tardis [+]Loading...["The Secrets of the Tardis (comic story)"])
The Doctor and his companions hid from a group of Daleks that were searching for them. The Daleks tried to find them with their new Earthmen Detector, but instead they only discovered a cat and left. (COMIC: The Daleks Are Foiled [+]Loading...["The Daleks Are Foiled (comic story)"]) The Doctor and Ian rescued a scientist who had been captured by the Daleks and took him aboard the TARDIS. (COMIC: Rescued from the Daleks [+]Loading...["Rescued from the Daleks (comic story)"]) On one planet, the Doctor watched Ian use a ray gun to destroy a Dalek, which caused the remaining Daleks to leave for home, but wondered if they would return. (COMIC: The Defeat of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The Defeat of the Daleks (comic story)"])
The Doctor landed in the Orkney isles in 1956 thinking he could get Barbara and Ian back home. He didn't land fully when Ian and Barbara exited the TARDIS and he travelled further back in time. He waited for Ian and Barbara to catch up with him. (AUDIO: The Revenants [+]Loading...["The Revenants (audio story)"])
The Doctor almost lost Ian and Barbara as companions when they considered settling down in 1950s Shoreditch, and he spent four months investigating the Stone of Scone in Scotland. Shortly after this, Ian and Barbara decided life in the 1950s would be too difficult and rejoined the Doctor aboard the TARDIS. (PROSE: Set in Stone [+]Loading...["Set in Stone (short story)"])
The Doctor went on the trail of an energy being known as the Vrij and followed it to 1553 England, where he, Ian and Barbara met Queen of England, Jane Grey. Defeating the Vril, who had possessed the Duke of Northumberland, the Doctor resisted the urge to alter Jane's fate and instead stayed by her side as she died. (PROSE: The Nine-Day Queen [+]Loading...["The Nine-Day Queen (short story)"])
The Doctor had another encounter with River Song during his travels with Ian and Barbara. Because he spent his time "hanging out with the two teachers", River considered the First Doctor to be "boring". River wiped his memory with mnemosine recall-wipe vapour so the timeline would remain intact. (GAME: The Eternity Clock [+]Loading...["The Eternity Clock (video game)"])
Joined by Vicki
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Still struggling to adapt to life without Susan, the Doctor, Ian and Barbara ended up on Dido, where they met two survivors of a crashed spaceship, Vicki Pallister and Bennett, and learnt a being called Koquillion had embarked on a reign of terror, leaving those who survived his wraith greatly fearful of him. However, the Doctor soon discovered Bennett was actually Koquillion after he caused the crash when he was unmasked as a killer to prevent the crew from radioing back to Earth. He killed the crew, many Dido natives, but spared Vicki so she would back up his story when the rescue crew came to collect them. Just as Bennett prepared to kill the Doctor, two Dido natives saved him and forced Bennett to his death. With all of her associates dead, Vicki joined the Doctor in the TARDIS, providing him with a new youngster to care for as had been the case with Susan. (TV: The Rescue [+]Loading...["The Rescue (TV story)"])
Immediately following their departure from Dido, the TARDIS landed in 64 AD in the area just beyond the great metropolis Byzantium. Despite the Doctor's resignation from visiting the Roman Empire, the group made their way to the city. After a week in Byzantium, the group prepared to go back to the TARDIS, but were instead caught up in a large Jewish revolt in the market-square, separating them. At least two weeks passed before the group was brought together again, but then the TARDIS was missing, and the group joined a travelling caravan moving towards Rome, in hopes of finding the TARDIS along the way. (PROSE: Byzantium! [+]Loading...["Byzantium! (novel)"])
Arriving near Rome, the Doctor and Vicki came across a Roman villa, where they found the caretaker, Lucius, wounded after being attacked by a lion. Shortly before his death, Lucius allowed them to stay in the villa in his master's absence, where they managed to kill the lion that attacked Lucius. (PROSE: Romans Cutaway [+]Loading...["Romans Cutaway (short story)"]) Having found the TARDIS and spent several weeks relaxing at the villa, the Doctor and Vicki decided to visit Rome. However, on the way, the Doctor was mistaken for famous lyre player Maximus Pettulian and was taken to meet Emperor Nero. While at the palace, the Doctor discovered that prior to his death, Maximus was involved in a conspiracy to kill Nero, but was assassinated by Ascaris. After bluffing his way through a performance on the lyre, the Doctor inadvertently gave Nero the idea to start the Great Fire of Rome when the light reflected through his glasses caused some maps of Nero's plans for a new Rome the Senate rejected to catch fire. (TV: The Romans [+]Loading...["The Romans (TV story)"])
After a quick visit to early 20th Century Earth, the Doctor helped on a world where the Waneshi invaded. (AUDIO: Starborn [+]Loading...["Starborn (audio story)"])
In 19th century China, the Doctor and his friends discovered general unrest being put down by the ten tigers of Canton in the city of Guangzhou, and also met Bill Chesterton, one of Ian's ancestors, who had been stationed there by the army. Together with the Tigers and the British militia, they foiled the plans of alien invaders, before once again leaving in the TARDIS. (PROSE: The Eleventh Tiger [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Tiger (novel)"])
The TARDIS made a forced landing on Vortis in the Isop Galaxy. Having explored the planet and initially thought his TARDIS had disappeared, the Doctor and Ian encountered the Zarbi and were taken to the Carsinome city where they met the Animus. Having escaped the city, the Doctor helped Barbara and a group of Menoptera defeat the Animus and free the mind controlled Zarbi. Having reunited, the travellers left with the inhabitants promising they would always sing songs about their great deeds in saving their planet. (TV: The Web Planet [+]Loading...["The Web Planet (TV story)"])
The Doctor helped a set of slaves to revolt but came under fire and had to escape quickly with Ian, Vicki, Barbara and their new travelling companion Jospa. They landed on the Arunde homeworld and became interested in the composition of the planet and the Arunde. Whilst trying to escape the more hostile Arunde, the Doctor fell into a river and was washed downstream. Gaining the trust of Sharna, he helped her defeat Jospa's influence over them. (AUDIO: The Fifth Traveller [+]Loading...["The Fifth Traveller (audio story)"]
The Doctor finally returned Ian and Barbara to London in 1963, but upon finding the city frozen in time, he realised the TARDIS had landed on a single static point in time. After fixing his ship, the Doctor whisked the schoolteachers away once more. (AUDIO: 1963 [+]Loading...["1963 (audio story)"]
The TARDIS brought the travellers on Platform Five, a floating city above the planet Jobis, where they had a holiday for a time. Whilst the Doctor was helping a group of scientists attempting to communicate with the local giant rays, the Rocket Men, led by Ashman, attacked Platform Five. The Doctor helped the scientists fashion a force field to repel the Rocket Men's weaponry and succeeded in communicating with the rays, persuading them to attack the Rocket Men. (AUDIO: The Rocket Men [+]Loading...["The Rocket Men (audio story)"])
Landing on Hisk, the Doctor and his friends helped to investigate a set of mysterious deaths in the dreaming. (AUDIO: The Sleeping City [+]Loading...["The Sleeping City (audio story)"]) After the TARDIS was impounded he helped to uncover that the government was trying to erase a mistake from their civilisation's past. (AUDIO: The Unwinding World [+]Loading...["The Unwinding World (audio story)"])
The Doctor, Ian, Barbara, and Vicki then travelled to 1868, where they attended a lecture by Thomas Huxley. After the lecture, they joined Huxley to help find a group of missing students in the London Underground and discovered the Zarbi. Taken prisoner by the Zarbi, the Doctor, Ian and Huxley found the Animus, who had reformed itself and had moved to Earth to take revenge on the human race. Ian was able to kill the Animus by driving a train into it. The Doctor and his companions prepared to leave, but the Doctor discovered that his companions were missing, having been pulled out of time by Adam Mitchell. (COMIC: Unnatural Selection [+]Loading...["Unnatural Selection (comic story)"])
Following a chronal trail left by the Eleventh Doctor as the Tenth Doctor merged their TARDISes together, the First Doctor joined his ten future incarnations as they stormed Adam's fortress in Limbo to save their friends from Adam and the Tremas 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)"])
After a trip to Kenya resulted in him suffering from a fever, the Doctor found himself being nursed back to health by Vicki. (PROSE: White Man's Burden [+]Loading...["White Man's Burden (short story)"]
The Doctor and his companions arrived on a planet in the early days of the universe. There, they discovered a huge shining crystalline city. It soon became apparent that there were two species on this planet, beings of Light and beings of Dark, and their only desire was to see the total destruction of the other. (AUDIO: The Dark Planet [+]Loading...["The Dark Planet (audio story)"])
The TARDIS arrived in the holy land in the 12th century. Just as the travellers exited the ship, a scuffle took place between a group of Saracens and a group including Richard the Lionheart. During this scuffle, Barbara was kidnapped, and the remaining TARDIS crew helped the injured William de Tornebu back to meet the King at his castle in Jaffa. With Ian sent to search for Barbara, the Doctor discovered the King wished to marry his sister, Joanna, to his enemy's brother, Saphadin. However, Joanna was told of this arrangement and, after an argument with her brother, he accused the Doctor of revealing the secret. However, it was the Earl of Leicester who was indiscrete and, having left Jaffa and reunited with their friends in the forest, the Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki made their escape before the Earl could arrest them under suspicion of witchcraft. (TV: The Crusade [+]Loading...["The Crusade (TV story)"])
The Doctor and his companions landed on Xeros, only to find their future selves exhibits in display cases. While they began trying to avoid this version of the future, the Doctor was taken by the Moroks to be prepared for the exhibit, though Ian saved him. They were recaptured, but the Xerons rebelled and freed them, preventing the future the Doctor had seen. (TV: The Space Museum [+]Loading...["The Space Museum (TV story)"])
While Barbara and Vicki were asleep in the TARDIS, the Doctor and Ian went to explore Seetar, where they saved a local tribe from a giant worm-like creature and were soon after worshiped as gods. However, when the tribe prepared a human sacrifice in their honour, Ian intervened to stop it, and he and the Doctor were forced to flee. (COMIC: A Religious Experience [+]Loading...["A Religious Experience (comic story)"])
Their next adventure took the group to 1605 London, mere days away from the Gunpowder Plot. After encouraging Barbara and Ian to enjoy a showing of Shakespeare's plays at the Theatre, the Doctor took Vicki to the court of King James I, disguised as a priest of York, with Vicki as his young male ward. Following the Doctor's unravelling of the true mastermind of the plot, a young member of a secret society plotting for England to fall into darkness, the group left once more in the TARDIS, which was undergoing a lengthy exorcism, believed to be a temple of Satan. (PROSE: The Plotters [+]Loading...["The Plotters (novel)"])
After the TARDIS landed on Unitaria, the single country of 23rd century Earth, the travellers were caught by a group of rebels led by Markus, who Vicki recognised as the historical assassin of the Iron Judge, who's death lead to a revolt that put an end to Unitaria. Using her knowledge of Unitaria future history, Vicki saved her friends from execution by claiming to know the rebels' plans, and allied herself with Jensen, whom Vicki knew would betray the rebels, but they discovered by the police of Unitaria and Jensen was shot and Vicki captured. After a long interrogation with the Iron Judge, it was Vicki who actually betrayed the rebels, revealing their hideout so that history could keep its course. In the following fight, the travellers left in the TARDIS. (AUDIO: Daybreak [+]Loading...["Daybreak (audio story)"])
While collecting minerals for the Doctor's latest invention, Ian and Barbara told Vicki of their past Christmases, and she used the Doctor's newly built machine to give them a nice Christmas in a shared-dream. However, due to Vicki's misconceptions of Christmas and the machine not being fully operational, the dream ultimately crashed, but Ian and Barbara still enjoyed their experience. (PROSE: All I Want for Christmas [+]Loading...["All I Want for Christmas (short story)"])
When the Doctor and his friends arrived in 1400, he caught a cold. He decided to visit Sonning Palace under the guise of being a pilgrimage. At the Epiphany feast, the Doctor pretended to be the Lord of Misrule and entertained the people. He later went on a pilgrimage with Barbara to Canterbury. Whilst in London, he suggested to Geoffrey Chaucer that he should flee. The Doctor was later imprisoned with Ian and Chaucer on Thomas Arundel's whim. He pretended to have plague to escape the guards. (AUDIO: The Doctor's Tale [+]Loading...["The Doctor's Tale (audio story)"])
The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Vicki became trapped in a time loop, forcing them to relive Christmas Day in 2004 for two weeks with the Smythe family, which had been set by George Smythe as he couldn't bear to lose his children and his wife Patricia, who was leaving him for another man. After George killed Patricia, the Doctor convinced him to break the loop after it reset and she was restored. (PROSE: Every Day [+]Loading...["Every Day (short story)"])
On Aridius, the Doctor discovered via the Time-Space Visualiser that the Daleks were on his trail to kill him and take the TARDIS, and that they were already on Aridius as the visualisation was in the past. After saving Ian and Vicki from a Mire Beast, the Doctor and his companions escaped Aridius as the Daleks began slaughtering the Aridians workforce. With the Daleks in hot pursuit in their time vessel, the Doctor went to many different times and places to shake them off, including the Empire State Building in 1966 and the sailing ship Mary Celeste. They accidentally left Vicki behind at the Festival of Ghana in 1996, but she stowed away on the Daleks' time ship and followed the TARDIS to Mechanus.
There, the Daleks created an android version of the Doctor, which Ian believed to be the Doctor and ended up fighting the real Doctor as he thought he was the fake until the Dalek-controlled Doctor addressed Vicki as Susan. The next day, the Doctor and his friends were captured by the Mechonoids and imprisoned in the city with Steven Taylor, a stranded Earth astronaut. The Doctor escaped, leaving the Daleks and Mechanoids to destroy themselves in a pitched battle for supremacy of the city. Steven got lost in the battle and was presumed dead by the travellers, (TV: The Chase [+]Loading...["The Chase (TV story)"]) but he had in fact stowed away in the TARDIS. (TV: The Time Meddler [+]Loading...["The Time Meddler (TV story)"]) Preparing to leave, the Doctor was wary when Ian and Barbara asked him to help them use the Daleks time machine to finally return to 1963. Although he was sorry to bid farewell to them, he did as they asked. A while later, he and Vicki observed them back in 1965 Shoreditch on the Visualiser. (TV: The Chase [+]Loading...["The Chase (TV story)"])
Travels with Steven and Vicki
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Shortly after bidding farewell to Ian and Barbara, the Doctor and Vicki were shocked to find Steven aboard the TARDIS as the ship landed in 1066 Northumbria. To his great dismay, the Doctor discovered another member of his race, the First Monk, was scheming to alter history by luring and destroying a Viking fleet with an atomic cannon, which would result in King Harold Godwinson winning the Battle of Hastings. After the Monk was driven out of his monastery by Saxons, the Doctor infiltrated the Monk's TARDIS and stole the dimensional control. When the Monk tried to take off after his plans failed, the interior of his TARDIS began to shrink beyond use, trapping him in 1066. (TV: The Time Meddler [+]Loading...["The Time Meddler (TV story)"])
The TARDIS crew met Xenith, a city-sized sentient computer. (COMIC: Are You Listening? [+]Loading...["Are You Listening? (comic story)"]) From there, they arrived in England during the struggles of the Suffragettes in 1912, where an alien skull created havoc in its conquest to kill all males. Vicki and Steven became telepathically linked with the alien, and through this bond, she was defeated. (AUDIO: The Suffering [+]Loading...["The Suffering (audio story)"])
The TARDIS travellers went to London in 1814, during the last Frost Fair, where they met Jane Austen and, with her assistance, tried to prevent a Phoenix's egg from hatching; if it did, the creature would absorb all the heat on Earth, condemning it to extinction. The Phoenix possessed Lady Georgiana, the wife of the Deputy Warden of the Royal Mint Sir Joseph Mallard, and with her help tried to enter the building, hoping that the heat of the furnace would be enough to hatch the egg. After tracing the egg, the Doctor offered the Phoenix to take it somewhere else, on a planet yet to be born, so that it could still live without endangering anyone. When the Phoenix refused, the Doctor and his companions stopped the furnace from working and let its fire die so that the Phoenix could die too. (AUDIO: Frostfire [+]Loading...["Frostfire (audio story)"])
The Doctor attempted to increase the inhabitable space of the TARDIS using the dimensional control he stole from the Monk, but the experiment went wrong and he had to abandon the TARDIS. Whilst in a base on Ceres, the Doctor was attacked by a robot. He became unconscious after being exposed to the elements, but was revived using the base's cryogenics pods. Whilst in the pods, he heard a voice that wanted to kill him. The Doctor worked out using the data Vicki had collected for him that Thorn was behind the mysterious happenings on Ceres. (AUDIO: The Bounty of Ceres [+]Loading...["The Bounty of Ceres (audio story)"])
The Doctor once landed the TARDIS in the attic of 10 Downing Street and encountered a Time fungus who wanted to take over the human race. (AUDIO: Upstairs [+]Loading...["Upstairs (audio story)"]) Attempting to take Steven and Vicki to the 2784 Olympics, the Doctor landed in 16th century Florence and encountered Pope Leo X. He had to expose a conspiracy to murder the pope in order to free Steven. (AUDIO: The Ravelli Conspiracy [+]Loading...["The Ravelli Conspiracy (audio story)"]) Landing once again during the French Revolution, the Doctor discovered that villages of a small town in east France were attempting to terrorise the revolutionary army. (AUDIO: Fields of Terror [+]Loading...["Fields of Terror (audio story)"]) He helped to overthrow a Dalek occupation and used its technology to trace Steven when he had been taken offworld as a slave. (AUDIO: Across the Darkened City [+]Loading...["Across the Darkened City (audio story)"]) Locked out of the TARDIS he used the help of Benjamin Franklin to help get back in and thought that there was a time agent at play trying to change history. (AUDIO: The Founding Fathers [+]Loading...["The Founding Fathers (audio story)"]
Landing in the city of Winter, the Doctor became intrigued about how they grew fruits and vegetables on a planet where it was constantly winter. He watched a graduation ceremony and thought something was wrong. He learnt that the citizens were working with the Daleks and constructing them. With Steven's and Amala Vost's help, he started the defeat of the Daleks, but was forced off the planet before their final destruction. (AUDIO: The Dalek Occupation of Winter [+]Loading...["The Dalek Occupation of Winter (audio story)"]
Immediately after leaving Winter, the crew visited T19. The Doctor theorised that something was wrong with the planet as he couldn't see traces of any large life. He got lost during a terraforming storm with Vicki and became ill. Steven, with help from Heathcote, worked out how to cure him. (AUDIO: An Ideal World [+]Loading...["An Ideal World (audio story)"])
Distracted during whilst piloting the TARDIS, the Doctor managed to land in Cambridge, 1937. He pretended to be a visiting professor to avoid being thrown out of Sedgwick College. He became worried about what the proctors were doing, and thought that there was alien technology in the College. He learnt that Isaiah Hardy, Linus Woolf and Charles Lewis were aliens observing human developments, and eventually stopped their plans. Upon leaving Cambridge, something went wrong with the TARDIS and Vicki disappeared, (AUDIO: Entanglement [+]Loading...["Entanglement (audio story)"]) having travelled into her own personal timeline. The Doctor sent Steven after her to stop her from changing her past. (AUDIO: The Crash of the UK-201 [+]Loading...["The Crash of the UK-201 (audio story)"])
The First Doctor was pulled out of his time by the Time Lords, who wanted his help in getting the Second Doctor and the Third Doctor to work together to stop Omega, but he became trapped in a time eddy and had to advise his succeeding incarnations from afar, though he succeeded in getting them to cooperate. Once his successors solved the crisis, the First Doctor was returned to his proper place in time, (TV: The Three Doctors [+]Loading...["The Three Doctors (TV story)"]) with his memories wiped to preserve the timeline. After discovering a curious invitation on his person, the Doctor brought Vicki and Steven to Venice in 1606, where he met Galileo Galilei, as well as his brother, Irving Braxiatel. (PROSE: The Empire of Glass [+]Loading...["The Empire of Glass (novel)"])
The Doctor and his friends encountered a "ghost" in the TARDIS. (AUDIO: The Light at the End [+]Loading...["The Light at the End (audio story)"])
The Doctor, Vicki and Steven went to Prague in 2348, participating in the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Charles University and prevented scientist Jane Childress from erasing human evolution, (PROSE: The Long Step Backward [+]Loading...["The Long Step Backward (short story)"]) and defeated a toy snowman that had become animated due to contact with an alien bacteria in New York City at Christmas in 2007. (PROSE: Snowman in Manhattan [+]Loading...["Snowman in Manhattan (short story)"])
The Doctor, Vicki and Steven stopped off at the lunar station on Phobos, a moon of Mars, where they got caught in a sandstorm on the planet's surface with a Jarnian rescue crew, (PROSE: Mars [+]Loading...["Mars (ST short story)"]) and visited Ca-Mon Green, where they ended a war between humanity and the Kel-T over the mining rights of a mysterious blue liquid. (PROSE: The Power Supply [+]Loading...["The Power Supply (short story)"])
The Doctor waited for Vicki and Steven when they ran from the Antoim who were shooting at them. However, his fifth incarnation took his place and was forced to act as the First Doctor would have to protect the timeline when they visited Ravenna, Italy, 540. The Monk had been behind the displacement in the Doctor's timeline. The Monk located Sophia, a time-sensitive Human/Hetrodon hybrid in ancient Greece and used her abilities to create a hole in space-time, which the Monk planned to use to take the Doctor's place in history after being deeply affected by the death of Tamsin Drew. The Doctor brought a group of Antoim warriors to Earth in order to blackmail the Monk into restoring the Doctor's timeline. (AUDIO: The Secret History [+]Loading...["The Secret History (audio story)"])
The Doctor and his friends arrived on a doomed planet, where they met the beautiful Drahvins and the hideous Rills, who had crashed on the planet after a confrontation in space. They discovered the Drahvin matriarch, Maaga, had secretly terrorised the Drahvin to instigate a battle between Drahvin and Rills. She tried to convince the Doctor to kill the Rills so she could escape the disintegrating planet. However, the Doctor allowed the Rills to refuel their ship via the TARDIS' power and escape, leaving the Drahvins to their doomed fate. (TV: Galaxy 4 [+]Loading...["Galaxy 4 (TV story)"])
The Doctor helped a stranded Lapino, a member of a species that fed on emotions, to gather enough emotional energy to send a message to his home planet. (PROSE: Planet of the Bunnoids [+]Loading...["Planet of the Bunnoids (short story)"])
In 1200 BC Troy, the Doctor was mistaken for Zeus and taken to a Greek camp, where he was held prisoner by Odysseus and offered his freedom on the condition he help them fight against the Trojans. With his friends caught up in the battle, the Doctor helped the Greeks to infiltrate the city and stopped Cassandra from burning the TARDIS. With the help of Cassandra's handmaiden, Katarina, the Doctor rescued an injured Steven from his fights with Trojan soldiers. Vicki fell in love with Cassandra's brother, Troilus, and remained in Troy with the Doctor's blessing, whilst he gained a new companion in Katarina. (TV: The Myth Makers [+]Loading...["The Myth Makers (TV story)"])
Temporary travels with Katarina
The Doctor visited the Lakhotha tribe to seek Healing Song's help to treat the injured Steven, but the Conduit violently transformed the whole tribe into plant and animal life. As he had to save Steven from his severe injuries, the Doctor did not have time to deal with the Conduit. (PROSE: Scribbles in Chalk [+]Loading...["Scribbles in Chalk (short story)"])
Fighting the Daleks
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The Doctor landed the TARDIS on the planet Kembel in the hopes of finding medicine for Steven's blood poisoning, leaving Steven in the TARDIS with Katarina. There, he encountered Bret Vyon, a Space Security Agent who wanted to steal the Doctor's ship, and was knocked out and had his keys stolen. As Bret tried to get Katarina to pilot the TARDIS, Steven knocked him out and let the Doctor in. After securing Bret to a chair, the Doctor went outside again, where he heard a spaceship landing, and decided to head towards it in search of the needed medicine, only to learn that it was a Dalek saucer.
After moving away from the Daleks unseen, the Doctor discovered a magnetic tape in the jungle undergrowth. He rejoined his friends who escaped from the TARDIS with Bret's help. Bret, however, informed the Doctor that the Daleks had started to burn down the jungle. With the Doctor resolved to find out what the Daleks were doing on Kembel and stop them, he and the others discovered a large landing bay with ships from the many outer galaxies and the Spar ship Bret recognised as belonging to Mavic Chen, the Guardian of the Solar System.
After capturing one of the delegates, Zephon, the Doctor used his cloak as a disguise and infiltrated the meeting. There, Mavic Chen presented the Daleks with the Taranium Core, the power source for the Daleks' Time Destructor. However, the Doctor stole the Taranium and ran off before the meeting was concluded. Having only just managed to get aboard the Spar in time before Bret and the others blasted off, the Doctor learned of the Daleks' plans by listening to a tape he had retrieved with a message from Marc Cory, another SSS Agent and associate of Bret's.
The Doctor and Bret agreed to head back to Earth and warn the authorities of the Dalek threat. However, the Daleks seized control of the Spar and forced it to crash-land on the planet Desperus, where convicted criminals were sent. With Steven and Bret having fixed the Spar and the Doctor having used his ingenuity to prevent some prisoners getting on board, the ship took off again. However, another prisoner, Kirksen, had snuck on board and took Katarina hostage inside the airlock. Despite Steven and the Doctor's protests, Bret was forced to turn the ship back towards Kembel. However, Katarina opened the outer door of the ship, sending Kirksen and herself to their deaths in the vacuum of space. Shaken, the Doctor lamented that, while Katarina couldn't have understood what she was doing, he would always remember her as "one of the daughters of the gods".
After landing on Earth, the Doctor, Steven and Bret went to see Daxtar, a friend of Bret's who he thought would believe their story, at a nearby research complex. Daxtar proved to be untrustworthy when he let slip he knew about the Taranium. Suspecting him to be in league with Chen, Bret shot him. Believing they would be caught any moment, the Doctor and Steven escaped just as another SSS Agent, Sara Kingdom, arrived. Showing no mercy, she killed Bret before he had a chance to explain himself.
Evading capture, the Doctor and Steven were pursued by Sara into an empty chamber were they all fell victim to a molecular dissemination experiment and were transmitted to the swampy planet Mira. A small Dalek task force soon arrived on Mira to apprehend the travellers and regain the Taranium. After the Doctor found Steven and Sara, they travelled to a nearby cave for shelter and tried to persuade Sara about the Daleks' plot with Mavic Chen, with Steven also furious with Sara for killing Bret, who Sara admitted was her brother. Suddenly, the invisible inhabitants of Mira, the Visians, surrounded the cave, but a Dalek appeared and shot one of them dead, causing the other Visians to begin attacking the Daleks and, in the confusion, the travellers evaded capture, stole the Daleks' spaceship and escaped Mira. Upon their return to Kembel, the Doctor gave the Daleks a copy of the Taranium Core he had made on the way, and returned to the TARDIS.
The Doctor landed outside a police station on 25 December 1965, where he was arrested. After being rescued by Steven, they visited a Hollywood film studio in the 1920s, though they did not know where they had landed and thought they were in an insane asylum. The Doctor was mistaken for an expert on Arab customs and had an encounter with Bing Crosby. Back on board the TARDIS, the time travellers toasted a Happy Christmas to themselves and "incidentally to all of you at home". (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan [+]Loading...["The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)"]) Iris Wildthyme, who had been with the the group since the police station, then escaped through the Fourth Wall. (PROSE: From Wildthyme with Love [+]Loading...["From Wildthyme with Love (novel)"])
Resuming their travels, the Doctor found that the TARDIS was locked onto the signal of another time machine, which was travelling to several different Christmases throughout Earth's history. Eventually, Sara realised that the other time machine belonged to Robert, who had become trapped in the machine after the death of his twin brother and unintentionally trapped it in a loop where it would perpetually visit different Christmases trying to fulfil Robert's wish to go back to before his brother died of leukaemia. When the now-adult Robert touched the Taranium Core and reverted to his original age, the Doctor used the unique circumstances of the current situation to subtly change history, using the fast return switch to take Robert back to the last Christmas so that he could take the place of his brother, the TARDIS crew then taking him to Mars so that he could see something incredible before his death. (PROSE: The Little Drummer Boy [+]Loading...["The Little Drummer Boy (short story)"])
While dreaming, the Doctor travelled to the Underworld to guide Katarina through the Afterlife. (PROSE: Katarina in the Underworld [+]Loading...["Katarina in the Underworld (short story)"])
When the TARDIS was dragged inside the Great Clock, the Doctor was intrigued by its functioning, and insisted on going to explore. He, Steven and Sara saw the old men toiling inside the Clock, but, as they were trying to figure out what they were doing, they were captured by Space Security Service agents. The agents recognised Sara as one of their own, and took her to meet a superior officer for questioning. The Doctor and Steven managed to escape from their cell, and found a deserted monitor, which they used to search for information about their whereabouts. They discovered that they had landed in 3999, one year before their meeting with Sara, that Bret Vyon was the officer Sara had been brought to, and that Mavic Chen was there too. Steven proposed to go looking for Sara, but the Doctor stopped him, as them being spotted by Chen and Bret could have disastrous consequences for the future. Instead, they went back to the Clock to sabotage it and escape in the confusion. However, they ended up being trapped inside it, since the machine fed on the hope of escape of its prisoners and their efforts to find a weak link in its construction. They were freed by Sara when she managed to destroy the Clock. (AUDIO: The Guardian of the Solar System [+]Loading...["The Guardian of the Solar System (audio story)"])
On their travels, the TARDIS landed on a planet covered in water, where they found a set of miners in a collapsed mine. They were attacked by a tentacled creature, but Sara and the Doctor were able to reason with it. (AUDIO: The Drowned World [+]Loading...["The Drowned World (audio story)"]) The Doctor, Steven and Sara then landed in Ely in a house which had a secret. He theorised that the house could sense what you desired. Exploring the house, they found dead bodies. The Doctor wanted to investigate, but Steven got annoyed when he couldn't find a way to get out of the house. (AUDIO: Home Truths [+]Loading...["Home Truths (audio story)"])
The TARDIS later crashlanded in 1950s London, as a result of the psychic attack by a race of anemone changelings. Because of his bond with the ship, the Doctor fell into a coma as Steven and Sara brought him out, moments before the TARDIS locked itself as a defence mechanism, though he was conscious and aware of his surroundings. Steven and Sara were given shelter by Joseph Roberts, a Jamaican immigrant, and his nephews, Michael and Audrey Newman, but Michael was actually a changeling duplicate, and kidnapped the Doctor and the TARDIS. The changelings intended to use the TARDIS as a source of psychic energy for their morphing abilities, but deemed the Doctor unimportant their plans. As he gathered information about them during his imprisonment the Doctor finally awakened after two-weeks in his coma and, by Steven's intervention, reached Sara, explaining to her how to stop the changelings and shielded her presence so that she could reach their hideout undisturbed. (AUDIO: An Ordinary Life [+]Loading...["An Ordinary Life (audio story)"])
Attempting to rest on an asteroid, the TARDIS crew were caught in a conflict between members of the Space Security Services and a Sontaran platoon, the SSS forces seeking to take control of a Sontaran space cannon that would allow them to destroy any human ships passing through the only safe path through the asteroid belt. This crisis was made more complicated as Sara knew of this event from history. Despite the Sontarans infiltrating the SSS team using a stolen Rutan device to transform one of their own into a human, as well as the Sontarans managing to capture and interrogate Steven after a cave-in separated him from the rest of the team, the TARDIS crew and the SSS team leader were able to reach the cannon and destroy it with the aid of the asteroid's native population. Although the cannon was no longer a threat, Sara's knowledge of the future revealed that the asteroid would be found deserted around a year from then, suggesting that the Sontarans would kill them in revenge for this action, although the natives decided to hope for the best. With this example in mind, the Doctor, Steven and Sara decided that it was time to return to the battle with the Daleks. (AUDIO: The Sontarans [+]Loading...["The Sontarans (audio story)"])
The Doctor discovered that another time machine was on the same flight path as the TARDIS, and thought it might be the Daleks pursuing them. After briefly materialising in the Oval during a cricket match, the TARDIS landed on Tigus, where the Monk, seeking revenge for being stranded in 1066, sabotaged the TARDIS lock, stranding the Doctor and his companions. However, the Doctor quickly fixed the problem and departed, with the Monk following close behind.
After briefly materialising in Trafalgar Square during the New Year's Eve night of 1966, the TARDIS landed near a pyramid in ancient Egypt. Not only was the Monk there, but so were the Daleks, who had discovered that their Taranium Core was a fake. After stealing the directional unit from the Monk's TARDIS and changing its shape to a police box, the Doctor was forced to hand over the real Taranium Core to the Daleks, who had taken Steven and Sara hostage. The Doctor used the directional unit to take the TARDIS back to Kembel. The Doctor activated the Daleks' Time Destructor, which destroyed them, transformed Kembel into a desert, but rapidly aged Sara to death. (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan [+]Loading...["The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)"])
Joined by Oliver Harper
When the TARDIS materialised in 1966 London, the Doctor and Steven encountered the Fulgurites, who were involved in the trafficking of humans across the galaxy for slave labour with the full knowledge of the British government. The duo put an end to the Fulgurites' activities with the assistance of a young homosexual city trader named Oliver Harper, who joined them in the TARDIS to escape being arrested for his sexuality. (AUDIO: The Perpetual Bond [+]Loading...["The Perpetual Bond (audio story)"])
The Doctor took Steven and Oliver to a satellite which was near a meteor field, but the Calleons chucked the TARDIS off the satellite when they saw no value in it, annoying the Doctor. However, when a girl entered the TARDIS, he realised that she had accidentally caused the satellite to fall out of orbit, resulting in the satellite being fractured when it struck a piece of space debris, the Doctor and the Calleons in one part of the satellite while Oliver and Steven were in another. After Steven was able to perform some complex flight calculations to nudge his fragment back to the Doctor's, the Doctor worked with Oliver and the Calleons to draw up new contracts that would help the humans benefit from the Calleons' work while Steven recovered. (AUDIO: The Cold Equations [+]Loading...["The Cold Equations (audio story)"])
The Doctor took Oliver and Steven to Grace Alone after found their names on criminal records on a database in the future. He tried to hide his thoughts from the Vardans to stop them from learning knowledge about the TARDIS, going so far as to fake his death and trick his companions so that he could take the Vardans by surprise later. Oliver would later meet his death at the hands of the Vardans while saving his friends' lives, disrupting the last Vardan in a final attack. (AUDIO: The First Wave [+]Loading...["The First Wave (audio story)"])
The Game of Rassilon
Knowing he was nearing his first regeneration, (PROSE: The Five Doctors [+]Loading...["The Five Doctors (novelisation)"]) the Doctor visited his rose garden for some peace and contemplation, while Steven rested in the TARDIS. As he tried to look for ways of rectifying his relationship with Steven, (PROSE: Roses [+]Loading...["Roses (short story)"]) the Doctor was taken by a Time scoop to the Death Zone, where he was reunited with Susan in a tower. After dealing with a Dalek, the First Doctor and Susan found the TARDIS of the Fifth Doctor, who was inside with his companions Tegan Jovanka and Vislor Turlough. Heading to the Tower of Rassilon with Tegan, the First Doctor met a future incarnation of the Tremas Master, who slaughtered the Cybermen keeping him prisoner, as he and the Doctor manoeuvred around the tower's traps, (TV: The Five Doctors [+]Loading...["The Five Doctors (TV story)"]) with the Doctor contemplating on the "evil" he felt in the Tower. (PROSE: A Simple Truth [+]Loading...["A Simple Truth (short story)"])
Reaching the Tomb of Rassilon, the First Doctor joined with his second and third incarnations to study the writing on Rassilon's tomb, and open the teleportation systems. The Fifth Doctor arrived, under the control of Lord Borusa, who had brought the Doctors there to help him retrieve immortality from Rassilon. The combined concentration of the three Doctors, however, was enough to break Borusa's control over their future incarnation. When Borusa spoke to Rassilon and took his offer of immortality, the First Doctor realised the true meaning of the inscriptions related to the immortality offered by Rassilon and triggered Borusa's eternal imprisonment within a sarcophagus. The Doctor then left with Susan as he was returned to his time zone by Rassilon. (TV: The Five Doctors [+]Loading...["The Five Doctors (TV story)"])
Time alone
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After returning Susan to her new home, the Doctor began travelling on his own with the ability to pilot the TARDIS effectively, as a favour granted to him by Rassilon as he was approaching his first regeneration, allowing him to tie up some of the loose ends he had left. He took this opportunity to show Rebecca Nurse how her death would be perceived in the future, (PROSE: The Witch Hunters [+]Loading...["The Witch Hunters (novel)"]) and perform the prologue for William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida. (PROSE: Troilus and Cressida [+]Loading...["Troilus and Cressida (short story)"]) He also visited Birr and met Phlege the leader of the Verdants. (COMIC: Mission for Duh [+]Loading...["Mission for Duh (comic story)"])
The Doctor gave assistance to the Xeraphin when the Vardon-Kosnax War approached their solar system, advising them to transform themselves into pure energy and combine into a gestalt life form that would be secured inside a protective sarcophagus. (PROSE: The Vardon Horse [+]Loading...["The Vardon Horse (short story)"])
Along with seven of his other incarnations, the First 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 Vortis again, at a time in which the Zarbi Supremo had moved the planet to the solar system. With the aid of Gordon Hamilton, he freed the crew of the Solar Queen from the Supremo's control, allowing them to turn on and kill the Zarbi leader. (PROSE: The Lair of Zarbi Supremo [+]Loading...["The Lair of Zarbi Supremo (short story)"])
After an incident with the Daleks on Skaro, the Doctor landed on Mechanistria and met the Korad named Drako. After a narrow escape from the Mechanistrians, the Doctor took Drake back in time ten million years, where Drako hoped to prevent his world from becoming overly mechanised. (PROSE: Peril in Mechanistria [+]Loading...["Peril in Mechanistria (short story)"]) The Doctor then visited Kandalinga, where he freed the Fishmen from the clutches of the Voord and stopped their leader from stealing his TARDIS. (PROSE: The Fishmen of Kandalinga [+]Loading...["The Fishmen of Kandalinga (short story)"])
The First 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 First 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 was trapped in the Determinant by the Tremas Master, along with his six succeeding incarnations. He was saved after the Graak defeated the Master and sacrificed its life force to free the trapped Doctors. (GAME: Destiny of the Doctors [+]Loading...["Destiny of the Doctors (video game)"])
The Doctor attempted to form a band with his second, third and fourth incarnations, but creative differences, and the fact that they all wanted to play the drums, broke them up. (COMIC: Day of the Tune [+]Loading...["Day of the Tune (comic story)"])
After stopping off on Earth in 2067, the Doctor arrived on the homeworld of the Ethereals and was captured by living clouds. He learned that they were Ethereals, who had been turned into clouds by their former servants, the Baggolts. The Doctor restored their original bodies and helped them put an end to the Baggolt rebellion. (PROSE: The Cloud Exiles [+]Loading...["The Cloud Exiles (short story)"])
The Doctor arrived on a planet ruled by the sons of Grekk, who liked to imprison the native lifeforms. He helped the prisoners turn the tables on the captors and imprisoned them instead, hoping that this would improve their attitudes. (PROSE: The Sons of Grekk [+]Loading...["The Sons of Grekk (short story)"]) The Doctor returned to the planet Tiro, where he was reunited with Argon and helped him defeat Klarimo once more, (PROSE: Terror on Tiro [+]Loading...["Terror on Tiro (short story)"]) and then returned to the planet Birr, where he was caught in a trap and forced to fix a spaceship of aliens who had taken the inhabitants prisoner. (COMIC: Mission for Duh [+]Loading...["Mission for Duh (comic story)"])
The Doctor arrived on Corbo, where he rescued the crew of an Earth-Mars expedition, who were being held prisoner by the natives, and took them aboard the TARDIS. (PROSE: The Devil-Birds of Corbo [+]Loading...["The Devil-Birds of Corbo (short story)"]) The Doctor and his new friends landed on Rhoos, which was being terrorised by a Cyclops named Fo. The giant carried off the TARDIS, but with the help of the native Kaarks, the Doctor led a mission to Fo's lair and slew him by opening a black box. (PROSE: The Playthings of Fo [+]Loading...["The Playthings of Fo (short story)"])
Travelling alone once more, the Doctor arrived on Bruhl, home of the Glacians, which had been taken over by the tyrant Rraprro. The Doctor aided the rebels by discovering the location of the friendly Zilgor, but had to leave before he could witness their rescue. (PROSE: Justice of the Glacians [+]Loading...["Justice of the Glacians (short story)"]) The Doctor landed on the bottom of a sea, where he was captured by pirates. They forced him to accompany an attack on the land-dwellers, but he escaped and returned to the TARDIS. (PROSE: Ten Fathom Pirates [+]Loading...["Ten Fathom Pirates (short story)"])
The Doctor travelled to the Institute of Time at the end of the universe, only to find that everyone there had committed suicide due to the psychological effect the end of everything was having on them. He was soon joined by the Eighth Doctor, and he renewed his future self's diminishing interest in travel by reminding him that, even though the universe was finite, there was still enough of it to travel in. (PROSE: The End [+]Loading...["The End (short story)"])
After helping an astronaut on the planet Zactus, (COMIC: Dr. Who on the Planet Zactus [+]Loading...["Dr. Who on the Planet Zactus (comic story)"]) the Doctor landed on Marinus, and discovered a conflict between the Voord and the Daleks. The two species eventually forged a treaty, and both headed to Earth to locate the Great Power, taking the Doctor with them. He attempted to sabotage their ship, but was overpowered by the Voord, who launched him into space, although he was saved by the Daleks. He was able to warn the Earth of the fleet and told the Voord of the Daleks' plan to destroy them once finding the Great Power. The Voord and the Daleks began fighting again in Earth's atmosphere, as the Doctor landed in South America in an escape pod.
In the pod, he was attacked by the Chief Voord, but gained his trust after saving his life. The two then learned that the Great Power was a mushroom whose juice would expand minds to exponential amounts. The Daleks were looking for the mushroom in the wilderness, and the pair hatched a scheme for the Chief Voord to lead them to the mushrooms. At first, the Daleks grew extremely intelligent due to the juice, but they all soon perished due to its poisonous nature. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Daleks [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Daleks (short story)"])
Shortly afterwards, the Doctor came to the assistance of the Daleks when their own creation, the machine brain, turned against them. He deactivated the machine, and the Daleks held a banquet in his honour. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Daleks [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Daleks (short story)"])
John and Gillian
Going by the name "Dr. Who", the Doctor once more landed the TARDIS in an empty yard in 1960s England, where it was found by his grandchildren, John and Gillian Who, who had been looking for their grandfather. They did not know him personally, but had been told he was "an inventor of some sort". The children entered the timeship, but, when John began fiddling with the ship's controls, he accidentally caused it to be transported to the 30th century. There, the Doctor and his grandchildren saved the peaceful Thains from being enslaved by the Kleptons. Declining the offer to stay a little longer with the Thains, the Doctor set about trying to return his grandchildren home. (COMIC: The Klepton Parasites [+]Loading...["The Klepton Parasites (comic story)"])
Trying to return them home, the Doctor crashed the TARDIS on an alien planet, where he and his grandchildren met Grig and accompanied him on a quest to find a cure for a disease that had crippled the Theros population. After battling the Great Ixa, the Doctor and Grig found the cure, saving the Theros civilisation. (COMIC: The Therovian Quest [+]Loading...["The Therovian Quest (comic story)"])
Investigating the disappearance of seven Earth spaceships in 2075, the Doctor and his grandchildren were taken prisoner by Captain Anastas Thrax and his pirates, who had been drawing ships off course and selling their cargo. Alongside a band of prisoners, the Doctor overpowered Anasta's ship and had him arrested. (COMIC: The Hijackers of Thrax [+]Loading...["The Hijackers of Thrax (comic story)"])
Taking his grandchildren to Vortis, the Doctor was attacked by the Zarbi and saved by the Menoptera, who asked him to investigate the Zarbi's strange new powers. They discovered a crashed spaceship and a slave camp of Menoptera in the mountains. After being ambushed by Zarbi, the Doctor was held hostage and discovered the alien Skirkons were impersonating the Zarbi and using Galvinium X, the rarest mineral in the universe, to build bombs to engulf the universe. The Doctor was rescued by John and Gillian, and destroyed the Galvinium X machine, freeing the Menoptra slaves and defeating the Skirkons. (COMIC: On the Web Planet [+]Loading...["On the Web Planet (comic story)"])
The Doctor fought with a police officer who would not allow him entrance into a police box which he was guarding. If this box was actually the TARDIS was unclear. (COMIC: Untitled [+]Loading...["Untitled (TVC 696 comic story)"])
Visiting the planet Gyros, Gillian was kidnapped by the sphere-like Gyros. The Doctor tried to save her, but he and John were forced to retreat into the TARDIS, which was attacked and crashed underground. Aided by a group of tribesmen living in fear of the Gyros, the Doctor chased the Gyros to the Valley of Flames and stopped them from burning his granddaughter alive. Afterwards, he left the population to deal with the Gyros and whisked his grandchildren off to safety. (COMIC: The Gyros Injustice [+]Loading...["The Gyros Injustice (comic story)"])
The Doctor and his grandchildren visited the planet Spekra, where they found that the crew of an Earth spaceship had been imprisoned by order of Gritog, the ruler of the planet. They helped the prisoners escape with the aid of a dinosaur-like creature. (COMIC: Prisoners of Gritog [+]Loading...["Prisoners of Gritog (comic story)"])
In the town of Hamelin, the Doctor, John and Gillian offered to save the children population from the Pied Piper. After fighting off a dragon and spending the night trapped in the castle, the Doctor confronted the Piper. The Piper told him that, if he wanted to save the children, he would have to pass three tests. The Doctor used his wit and gadgetry to best the Piper, and afterwards, the Pied Piper's castle vanished. (COMIC: Challenge of the Piper [+]Loading...["Challenge of the Piper (comic story)"])
The Doctor parked the TARDIS in Earth orbit on 20 July 1970, so that he and his grandchildren could watch the first manned flight to the moon. When the astronauts fell through a crack in the moon's crust into a deep chasm, the Doctor ventured onto the moon and used a blackboard to communicate with the astronauts in the vacuum. He told them to use the moon's reduced gravity to jump out of the chasm, which resulted in them being freed. (COMIC: Moon Landing [+]Loading...["Moon Landing (comic story)"])
After landing on an island, the Doctor and his grandchildren lost the TARDIS in the sea. Rescued by a tribe and forced to join their camp, they discovered that time was going backwards due to a fault in the TARDIS. The Doctor was astonished when the TARDIS returned itself to him by attaching itself to a cliff, fixed the fault in time and left with John and Gillian. (COMIC: Time in Reverse [+]Loading...["Time in Reverse (comic story)"]) On a visit to another alien planet, the Doctor once again lost the TARDIS when it was taken by a giant lizard, but he retrieved it by hypnotising the lizards to sleep. (COMIC: Lizardworld [+]Loading...["Lizardworld (comic story)"])
The Doctor re-encountered the Kleptons when he and his grandchildren stumbled across the crashed Earth ship, Zero One Twenty. The Kleptons begged the Doctor to assist them in their plans to invade Earth as their own planet had been increasingly hot, but he refused and thwarted their plans. (COMIC: Prisoners of the Kleptons [+]Loading...["Prisoners of the Kleptons (comic story)"])
The Doctor visited a jungle on Earth in 2035, where he was captured by Caterpillar Men and held prisoner in their base with other scientists. He was freed when World Pest Control, whom John and Gillian went to for help, sent a helicopter which sprayed the base with deadly pesticides. (COMIC: The Caterpillar Men [+]Loading...["The Caterpillar Men (comic story)"])
The Doctor was invited to a banquet in the palace on Demeter, but the event was ruined when Demeter came under attack from robots on the neighbouring planet, Bellus. The Doctor helped evacuate the palace by taking everyone into the TARDIS, where he activated the tremulator, which deflected the destructive waves from Bellus back to that planet, destroying it. In gratitude, the leader of Demeter presented the Doctor with a large, ancient jewel. (COMIC: The Ordeals of Demeter [+]Loading...["The Ordeals of Demeter (comic story)"])
On the planet Go-Ray, the Doctor, John and Gillian were accused by the inhabitants of depleting their nuclear pile's supply of cardium. But, with a little ingenuity, the Doctor was able to restore their power and was granted freedom in return. (COMIC: Enter: The Go-Ray [+]Loading...["Enter: The Go-Ray (comic story)"])
The Doctor, John and Gillian next encountered a bat and a large crab, as well as helping a race of intelligent frogs catch a shark. Later, the travellers met the Ancient Mariner, a shipwrecked and homeless sailor whose cave was destroyed by the TARDIS after it crashed through it. The Doctor helped the ageing sailor build a new home. (COMIC: Shark Bait [+]Loading...["Shark Bait (TVC comic story)"])
At Christmas, the Doctor took his grandchildren to meet Santa Claus at his relocated workshop on an alien planet and helped him defeat the Demon Magician, an entity who was intent on ruining Christmas by halting work at the toy shop. The Doctor ended up trapping it in a toy rocket. As a sign of his gratitude, Santa lit up the sky with a huge message whilst on his rounds - "HAPPY JOURNEY TO TARDIS". (COMIC: A Christmas Story [+]Loading...["A Christmas Story (comic story)"])
The Doctor was on Earth and approached what he believed to be his TARDIS. When a police officer exited the box, he realised that he had the wrong police box and apologised. (COMIC: Untitled [+]Loading...["Untitled (TVC 740 comic story)"])
Visiting a zoo, the Doctor, John and Gillian decided to track down a missing didus that was believed to be extinct. John was kidnapped by savages and nearly burned to death, but the Doctor saved him by scaring them with magnesium. After an encounter with a crocodile, snake and a cobra, he and his two young companions tricked the savages into trading the Didus for a "bird of paradise" and returned the Didus to the zoo. (COMIC: The Didus Expedition [+]Loading...["The Didus Expedition (comic story)"])
The TARDIS landed on Space Station Z-7, which had been seized by rebel forces. The Doctor was taken before the rebel leader and refused to co-operate in creating a doomsday device, even when the rebels threatened John and Gillian's lives. After surviving a truth machine interrogation, the Doctor and his grandchildren managed to send a distress call to other ships. The panicked rebels departed, but the Doctor used a rifle to shoot the insulator and activate the magnetic minefield around Z-7, destroying the rebels' ship just as they escaped. (COMIC: Space Station Z-7 [+]Loading...["Space Station Z-7 (comic story)"])
On a planet suffering from a terrible drought, the Doctor helped the owner of a plantation fight off a swarm of black scorpi which threatened to eat all the crops. (COMIC: Plague of the Black Scorpi [+]Loading...["Plague of the Black Scorpi (comic story)"]) The Doctor then visited the human colony on the planet Trodos in the year 2066, only to find that it had been taken over by the robotic Trods. He deactivated the Trods and freed the enslaved colonists. (COMIC: The Trodos Tyranny [+]Loading...["The Trodos Tyranny (comic story)"]) Visiting a South Seas island, the Doctor and his grandchildren were knocked out of the way of a volcanic eruption. They discovered that the wave had been sent by King Neptune, and became guests at his feast. (COMIC: Guests of King Neptune [+]Loading...["Guests of King Neptune (comic story)"])
The Doctor and his grandchildren visited the planet Zeno, where they found that its inhabitants had been turned to stone by the Gorgon. The Doctor tricked the Gorgon into looking at its own reflection, turning the creature itself into stone. (COMIC: The Gaze of the Gorgon [+]Loading...["The Gaze of the Gorgon (comic story)"]) On the planet Gemino, which had been devastated in a war, the Doctor aided the starving survivors by unlocking the Vault of Plenty, in which all of that world's culture, knowledge and food reserves had been stored. (COMIC: The Secret of Gemino [+]Loading...["The Secret of Gemino (comic story)"])
The Doctor landed on the Haunted Planet, a world he knew of by reputation and had always feared that he would one day visit. Deciding to explore anyway, he and his grandchildren discovered the home of Zentor, a scientist plotting to threaten the universe with a deadly gas of his creation and hold them to ransom. The Doctor tricked him by pretending to have been killed and come back as a ghost to haunt Zentor, who fled outside into a swamp, where he drowned. (COMIC: The Haunted Planet [+]Loading...["The Haunted Planet (comic story)"])
On the planet Zerox, the Doctor made John and Gillian stay in the TARDIS, thinking it would be too dangerous for them. He was almost immediately captured by natives and forced to fight a beast for their Emperor. The Doctor escaped, but was hunted by the natives and eventually cornered on a cliff, where he was rescued by John and Gillian on jetpacks. (COMIC: The Hunters of Zerox [+]Loading...["The Hunters of Zerox (comic story)"])
The Doctor landed on the bottom of a deep ocean, where he and his grandchildren were taken aboard a giant walking robot used by criminals to plunder cargo ships of their wealth. The Doctor defeated the criminals and freed the slaves forced to operate the robot. (COMIC: The Underwater Robot [+]Loading...["The Underwater Robot (comic story)"])
The Doctor landed on a boat on the planet Int. He discovered that it was carrying a bomb and tried to leave, but interference from the boat's force field prevented the TARDIS from dematerialising. The Doctor cut down one of the boat's masts and used it as an oar to steer the boat onto a course back to the coast. The force field was deactivated so that the boat could be destroyed, and the Doctor departed. (COMIC: Deadly Vessel [+]Loading...["Deadly Vessel (comic story)"]) On a green planet, a giant bird captured John and Gillian and imprisoned them in a cage, but the Doctor freed them by getting a cat-like animal to chew through the cage. (COMIC: Kingdom of the Animals [+]Loading...["Kingdom of the Animals (comic story)"])
The Doctor and his grandchildren again encountered the Trods, this time under the control of a new Master and seeking revenge against the time-travellers for their earlier defeat. The Doctor escaped from the trap and defeated the Master of the Trods, then ordered all the Trods to enter a furnace room, destroying them. (COMIC: Return of the Trods [+]Loading...["Return of the Trods (comic story)"])
On a planet hosting the Galaxy Games, the Doctor entered John in a running event as Earth's representative against a Klondite athlete. He went on to defeat the Klondites' plans to prevent John from competing in the final race, which John won. (COMIC: The Galaxy Games [+]Loading...["The Galaxy Games (comic story)"])
On a visit to another alien planet, the Doctor, John and Gillian were captured by members of a so-called Master Race attempting to develop space flight. They decided to use the time-travellers as live test subjects in an experimental rocket, but they escaped and returned to the TARDIS. (COMIC: The Experimenters [+]Loading...["The Experimenters (comic story)"])
Resumed travels with Steven
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The Doctor and Steven stopped an alien invader on a nearby beach with the help of Greenaway, who lost his legs and part of his skull in the incident, and ended up in a coma. The Doctor made telepathic contact with Greenaway to try to prompt him out of his coma, but Greenaway declined to do so. (PROSE: Greenaway [+]Loading...["Greenaway (short story)"])
The Doctor and Steven used a helicopter to fight a giant mosquito, with the Doctor destroying the creature with washing up liquid. (PROSE: Do You Smell Carrots? [+]Loading...["Do You Smell Carrots? (short story)"])
Arriving in a forest on Christmas Eve, the Doctor and Steven discovered a family forced for generations to care for alien trees. Learning the trees had taken one member of the family who hadn’t believed his father’s warnings, the Doctor berated the trees for taking advantage of the family, convincing them to release him. With a more amicable relationship between the family and trees established, the Doctor and Steven left to celebrate Christmas themselves. (AUDIO: O Tannenbaum [+]Loading...["O Tannenbaum (audio story)"])
Steven and the Doctor once again met the Vardans in the connection between Earth and the Mediosphere when they came up with the idea of using comedy television to spread a virus that would kill humans with laughter after studying radio frequencies from Earth in order to conquer the planet. However, a comedian, Teddy Baxter, and his straight man, Stan, perceived them while observing the stars. The Vardans managed to pull Stan into the Mediosphere, but were unable to do the same with Teddy.
While the Doctor and the TARDIS were absorbed into the Mediosphere, Steven was stranded in 1950s London. When the Vardans brought Steven and Teddy to their spaceship, they tried to absorb Teddy as well, but made the mistake of showing Teddy a possible future. This made it impossible for them to kill him, since, as the Doctor explained, once the future had been made real, it became a fixed point in time, and if the Vardans killed Teddy, this would trap them into a time bubble. Steven and the Doctor then helped Teddy to defeat the Vardans, chasing them from Earth, before bringing him back to Earth in the TARDIS. (AUDIO: The Vardan Invasion of Mirth [+]Loading...["The Vardan Invasion of Mirth (audio story)"])
Meeting Dodo
The Doctor and Steven arrived in Paris in 1572, where the Doctor decided to visit Charles Preslin, leaving Steven to sightsee. After reuniting with Steven, the Doctor realised that the St Bartholomew's Day massacre was about to begin and departed in the TARDIS. Steven was very angry that the Doctor had left Anne Chaplet, the French girl he had befriended, to her probable death, and disregarded the Doctor's plea that he couldn't rewrite history. He decided to leave the TARDIS when it landed in Wimbledon Common in 1966, leaving the Doctor alone to reminisce over all of the companions who had left him. He briefly wondered if he should return to his own planet, but decided that he could not. However, Steven returned when a young girl named Dodo Chaplet forced her way into the TARDIS, which then departed. (TV: The Massacre [+]Loading...["The Massacre (TV story)"])
The TARDIS took them to New York City in 1965, where a cult had formed around six self-proclaimed "gods", who performed miracles on their followers. The Doctor's suspicion proved true when the gods turned out to be alien lifeforms, who existed by belief and gained power equal to the faith the humans held in them. Recognising the danger such creatures posed, the Doctor worked with the US military to weaken the faith of the gods' worshippers, and subsequently driving the gods away by dropping a dud bomb that everyone watching believed would harm the gods. The Doctor and Steven subsequently accepted their differences and departed in the TARDIS, taking Dodo as their new companion. (PROSE: Salvation [+]Loading...["Salvation (novel)"])
Travels with Steven and Dodo
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Together, the TARDIS crew encountered humans and Monoids from the far future, which were fleeing the doomed planet Earth to Refusis II on a spaceship which Dodo nicknamed the Ark. The Doctor aided the crew against an outbreak of the common cold, but upon returning to the Ark seven hundred years later, he discovered that the Monoids had taken over and were planning to kill the humans. With the aid of a Refusian, the Doctor saved the humans. (TV: The Ark [+]Loading...["The Ark (TV story)"])
The TARDIS was then captured by the Toymaker, who turned the Doctor invisible and forced him to play the Trilogic game, while Steven and Dodo were forced to play against the Toymaker's pawns. The Doctor's companions won their games, while the Doctor himself outwitted the Toymaker again and escaped. Celebrating their victory, the Doctor hurt his tooth while eating a sweet. (TV: The Celestial Toymaker [+]Loading...["The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)"]) In search of a dentist, the TARDIS arrived at Tombstone, Arizona in 1881, where the Doctor received treatment from Doc Holliday. The Doctor was mistaken for Holliday by the gunfighter's enemies, Ike Clanton and his brothers Billy and Phineas. The Doctor and his companions witnessed the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and then departed. (TV: The Gunfighters [+]Loading...["The Gunfighters (TV story)"])
When the TARDIS brought the crew to an old house holding a Halloween party, the Doctor discovered that the Toymaker had set a trap for him, but was able to escape in the confusion of a game of statues. (PROSE: Murder in the Dark [+]Loading...["Murder in the Dark (short story)"])
The Doctor, Steven and Dodo settled down in 1812 Russia for a while, where the Doctor became the tutor for a local gentry's children, though he still wished to leave the country before Napoléon Bonaparte invaded. Before Napoléon arrived, however, the Doctor was attacked by a shape thief who took his form, but he caused the thief's downfall by convincing him that Napoléon was going to win and tricked him into taking Napoléon's form. (AUDIO: Mother Russia [+]Loading...["Mother Russia (audio story)"])
Landing on Ulysses 519, the Doctor, Steven and Dodo discovered a group of colonists being raided by a crew of Rocket Men led by Van Cleef. After they kidnapped Dodo and a number of other colonists, the Doctor let Steven go rescue them using a dead Rocket Man's equipment and hatched his own plan, using the colonists' communications equipment to fool the Rocket Men's sensors a nearby moon was a Galactic Heritage vessel so they would retreat. (AUDIO: Return of the Rocket Men [+]Loading...["Return of the Rocket Men (audio story)"])
On Bukol, the First Doctor got caught up in his sixth incarnation's attempt to protect shape-shifters Orsa and Alëza from the assassin Mykloz, with the First Doctor being arrested due to Orsa and Alëza taking on Steven and Dodo's forms and labelling him an impostor, but he was able to clear his name with the aid of his old friend Anu-Ak. (PROSE: The Golden Door [+]Loading...["The Golden Door (short story)"])
In 1909, the Doctor befriended an English aristocrat by the name of Geoffrey Greystone, with Steven posing as the Doctor's chauffeur and Dodo being sent to act as a servant at Greystone's residence, 64 Carlysle Street. The reason for this trip was that the three of them had been following a criminal called Roztoq from the planet Quinnis, in the Fourth Universe, who had arrived on Earth by riding the TARDIS's coattails after the Doctor's own visit there and had been spending time with Greystone's daughter Annabel. The Doctor exposed Roztoq and assisted Annabel in driving out the infection Roztoq had placed in her, before Steven knocked him unconscious and the three departed to take him back where he belonged. (PROSE: 64 Carlysle Street [+]Loading...["64 Carlysle Street (short story)"])
The Doctor, Steven and Dodo met Questor in the living jungle of Tropicalus, whom the Doctor defeated in a battle of wits, (COMIC: Death to the Doctor! [+]Loading...["Death to the Doctor! (comic story)"]) and investigated a crashed spaceship at the Battle of Spion Kop during the Boer Wars, where they witnessed Tommy Watkins apparently destroy Kali Carash, but the Doctor remained unconvinced of Kali Carash's defeat. (AUDIO: Tales from the Vault [+]Loading...["Tales from the Vault (audio story)"]) On Vortis, the Doctor became separated from Steven and Dodo and saved a platoon of Sontarans from a Rutan infiltrator. (PROSE: The Dream [+]Loading...["The Dream (short story)"])
In 1630, (PROSE: Night of the Intelligence [+]Loading...["Night of the Intelligence (novel)"]) the Doctor, Dodo and Steven landed in the Tibetan Himalayas. The Doctor accompanied Oddiyāna on one of his pilgrimages. When he and Dodo encountered some Yeti on the planes, the Doctor found Dodo's love of them endearing. He encountered a relic with writing that could not be translated. Whilst helping the monks at the Det-Sen Monastery fight off a bandit attack, the Doctor was entrusted with the monks' ghanta by the High Lama, Padmasambhava. (AUDIO: The Secrets of Det-Sen [+]Loading...["The Secrets of Det-Sen (audio story)"]) But he left the monastery before the battle concluded. (TV: The Abominable Snowmen [+]Loading...["The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)"])
On the planet Comfort, the TARDIS arrived in the middle of a war. The Doctor realised that the inhabitants were brainwashed into boldly following orders. The locals took him to their leader when they realised he wasn't local. He was able to use his status as an outsider to end the staged conflict that was part of the system on Comfort by identifying himself as the leader of the enemy forces, despite the fact that the "enemy" were the same population wearing different uniforms, and end the war by declaring his "surrender". (AUDIO: The War To End All Wars [+]Loading...["The War To End All Wars (audio story)"])
The Doctor, Steven and Dodo arrived on a planet shared by two very different peoples; the Elders and the Savages. The Elders led a civilised lifestyle, but their intelligence was gained by draining the life energy from the Savages. The Doctor stopped this practice with the aid of a group of Savages by destroying the laboratory and equipment that transferred energy from the Savages and left Steven behind to keep the peace between the two groups for the future. (TV: The Savages [+]Loading...["The Savages (TV story)"])
Exploits with Dodo
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The Doctor and Dodo visited Scrabster Harbour in 1947, (AUDIO: Masters of Earth [+]Loading...["Masters of Earth (audio story)"]) travelled aboard the Golden Hind, (AUDIO: Maker of Demons [+]Loading...["Maker of Demons (audio story)"]) and visited New Houston, where they were helped by Meg Carvossa in stopping an alien invasion. The Doctor invited Carvossa to join them, but she ran away in terror upon seeing the inside of the TARDIS. (AUDIO: The Yes Men [+]Loading...["The Yes Men (audio story)"])
The TARDIS landed in what appeared to be Paris just after the French Revolution, but history had been perversely warped. Dodo and the Doctor became separated, with Dodo being taken in by a travelling troupe of actors, and the Doctor being held prisoner in the Bastille. They discovered that the history in which they had landed was an altered history, made by aliens whose curiosity made them rewrite history to the designs of a depressed Marquis de Sade. After correcting history, Dodo and the Doctor left the alternate France behind. By this point, the Doctor's physical strength was beginning to leave him as his first regeneration approached. (PROSE: The Man in the Velvet Mask [+]Loading...["The Man in the Velvet Mask (novel)"]) However, he resisted the process and held back the change. (PROSE: Twice Upon a Time [+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (novelisation)"])
Landing in the 13th century, the Doctor and Dodo encountered the remnants of an outlaw attack. He had to defend against William of Berkshire who tried to rob them. They were invited to Lincoln castle for protection. He was imprisoned after Dodo misremembered history. After being released, he encountered the Monk but initially didn't recognise him. After discovering his plans, he was caught in the French attack. He helped to attend the wounded and saving Hugh de Courtney's life. He warned Nicholaa de la Haye not to trust the Monk, but convinced her not execute him, leaving him to be thrown in a dungeon. He sabotaged the Monk's TARDIS before leaving. (AUDIO: The Outlaws [+]Loading...["The Outlaws (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Dodo landed in Coulton Salt Mine. He identified it as a Zechstein mine. Mick Huff told him about the missing monuments and people. He became affected by the shell in the mine and became more agitated after the TARDIS disappeared. Encountering the Miniaturist, he learnt that she was an interdimensional creature and that she was in pain. He convinced her not to play with people and asked Medra to be the creature's custodian. (AUDIO: The Miniaturist [+]Loading...["The Miniaturist (audio story)"])
The Doctor and Dodo visited Camden in the 2020s, which excited Dodo. He got distracted by a strange tune shortly after Dodo disappeared. He encountered Archana Pawar who was looking for her missing boyfriend Paul Carter. Daniel De'ath told him about the demon song with siren properties. He theorised that the people[which?] were musically trained as both Paul and Dodo were pianists. After learning that the Camden Community Self-Help Singers were singing the song, he helped to deprogramme them. After Archana led them to the demon, he learnt that it came from a different dimension. When Daniel caused another set of demons to appear, he used the combined organ playing of Paul and the singers to boost the song to help both sets of demons return home. (AUDIO: The Demon Song [+]Loading...["The Demon Song (audio story)"])
Dodo and the Doctor arrived near Incherton-on-Sea in 1947 after Sanderson's spaceship forced the Doctor to land the TARDIS. This caused the TARDIS circuitry to explode. He started to investigate the local area after seeing some strange fires. They encountered Virginia Hancock whilst she was trying to sneak into the exclusion zone. This got them caught in the crossfire with the local soldiers. He got angry after Dodo got shot and Virginia wouldn't go back after her. He eventually made his way back to the base to discover that Dodo was alive. He worked out that the government wanted Sanderson's ship so they could create a form of unlimited energy. Sanderson was sent to arrest the Doctor because of his future actions. He planned to hand himself in but realised that Sanderson would double cross them. After Sanderson was killed by residual blowback energy, the Doctor faded away whilst inside the TARDIS, leaving Dodo alone. (AUDIO: The Incherton Incident [+]Loading...["The Incherton Incident (audio story)"])
Sometime later, the Doctor managed to return Dodo to London in her own time. There, the Doctor noticed the new Post Office Tower and felt compelled to investigate the building. Inside, he discovered a new supercomputer called WOTAN, which had become sentient. It gained mental control of its creator and several others, including Dodo, and forced them to create mobile War Machines to take over London. Having almost been taken over himself, the Doctor discovered Dodo's true motives and put her to sleep with hypnotism. With the Army being called in by Sir Charles Summer, there was an unsuccessful raid on a Covent Garden warehouse and the War Machines attacked. However, the Doctor managed to stare down the machine and it backed down. The Doctor was then able to reprogram the machine to attack and destroy WOTAN, which it duly did. (TV: The War Machines [+]Loading...["The War Machines (TV story)"])
Alone again
The Doctor met Winston Churchill in 1911 when he stepped out of the TARDIS. The Doctor told Churchill it was an honour to meet him, but was informed that they had met before, with the Doctor chuckling about this being "the trouble with time travel". (PROSE: The Lost Diaries of Winston Spencer Churchill [+]Loading...["The Lost Diaries of Winston Spencer Churchill (short story)"])
While travelling alone, the Doctor was found by the Time Lords, and placed into a "celestial retirement", during which he was scolded for meddling in history during his visit to Paris in August 1572. (PROSE: The Massacre [+]Loading...["The Massacre (novelisation)"]) His retirement was eventually ended. (PROSE: The Meeting [+]Loading...["The Meeting (short story)"])
While visiting a planet, the Doctor witnessed the poisoning of Princess Clio on her fifth birthday, and had her placed in a stasis bed to keep her alive, though comatosed. Because the bed required a lot of power to activate and deactivate, it was decided to only awaken Clio briefly for her birthday each year, with the Doctor giving her a brooch as a gift. (PROSE: The Glass Princess [+]Loading...["The Glass Princess (short story)"])
The First Doctor hosted a Christmas dinner with his seven successors. (PROSE: The Feast of Seven... Eight and Nine [+]Loading...["The Feast of Seven... Eight and Nine (poem)"])
The First Doctor was taken out of time by the Tenth Doctor, who brought him and the Second Doctor to the planet Henlen, where their third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth incarnations were trying to correct the temporal paradox caused by the Sirens of Time when they sabotaged the first Gallifreyan experiment for time travel. While the others piloted the TARDIS prototype used in the experiment, the First Doctor remained with his second and tenth incarnations to make sure the backlash from their operation did not aggravate things. (AUDIO: Collision Course [+]Loading...["Collision Course (audio story)"])
The Doctor shared a couple of glasses of Médoc with John Lucarotti at the Auberge du Pont Romain, and suggested that Lucarotti have a vacation to Samarkand. (PROSE: The Meeting [+]Loading...["The Meeting (short story)"])
Nearing the end
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After he inadvertently picked up Polly Wright and Ben Jackson as companions when they entered the TARDIS as it took off, (TV: The War Machines [+]Loading...["The War Machines (TV story)"]) the Doctor and his new friends got caught up with a band of smugglers led by Captain Samuel Pike as he searched for a lost treasure. Although the Doctor was forced to help Pike trace a series of clues to the location of the treasure in a local graveyard, the smugglers were eventually captured by the local revenue men and Pike was killed.
After they left in the TARDIS, the Doctor assumed that they had landed "at the coldest place on Earth", (TV: The Smugglers [+]Loading...["The Smugglers (TV story)"]) but it was soon revealed that they had actually landed in Lewes in the 1950s, where they became caught up in a series of local riots. (AUDIO: The Bonfires of the Vanities [+]Loading...["The Bonfires of the Vanities (audio story)"]) When Ben and Polly first went exploring in the TARDIS, the Doctor found himself coming to their rescue when they got lost. (PROSE: Something at the Door [+]Loading...["Something at the Door (short story)"])
The Doctor, Ben and Polly arrived in New York City in the 1890s where four Ovids had become trapped. Their presence caused people's dreams and nightmares to manifest in reality. The time travellers were able to free the Ovids with the assistance of Harry Houdini. (AUDIO: Smoke and Mirrors [+]Loading...["Smoke and Mirrors (audio story)"]) They also visited an uninhabited planet, where the Doctor collected some plants and rocks. (PROSE: Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet [+]Loading...["Doctor Who and the Tenth Planet (novelisation)"])
Attempting to take Ben and Polly to the coronation of Queen Victoria, the Doctor landed on Mars instead. They set up a camp and a tent and began roasting marshmallows. However, a fault with the TARDIS forced them to leave in a hurry before the time machine took off without them. The tent and the Doctor's pipe were among the items left behind. (PROSE: Please Shut the Gate [+]Loading...["Please Shut the Gate (short story)"])
While his companions were sleeping in the TARDIS, the Doctor met Professor Chronotis at Cambridge University. (PROSE: Cambridge Previsited [+]Loading...["Cambridge Previsited (short story)"])
While Ben and Polly were visiting an old friend, the Doctor was gifted a golden bow by the Emperor of Gallutia for convincing his enemies into a surrender. Travelling to medieval England to have some archery practice, the Doctor saved Lady Mary from bandits and brought her into the TARDIS, but was prevented from entering himself by knights in armour, who mistook him for a kidnapper and a wizard. Afraid of his powers, the knights tried to kill the Doctor, but he escaped to a castle and locked himself inside as the knights and their reinforcements arrived. With his arm injured, the Doctor summoned his second, third, fifth and sixth incarnations to rescue him. 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 when he also gave them the golden bow as a peace offering. (PROSE: Five Card Draw [+]Loading...["Five Card Draw (short story)"])
During a confrontation with the Schirr terrorists known as the Ten-Strong, the Doctor put himself under great strain to hold back a paralysing pulse capable of immobilising eight people with his own mind. He was able to disrupt the cyber-telepathic link the Ten-Strong were trying to use by making contact with the consciousness of Shel, an android who had been physically destroyed earlier but whose consciousness remained active in the network. As he and his companions departed, the Doctor began to reflect that he would soon feel a whole new person. (PROSE: Ten Little Aliens [+]Loading...["Ten Little Aliens (novel)"])
The TARDIS was involved in an accident which knocked out the Doctor and injured Polly. His injuries were severe according to Continuity, who later swapped the Doctor's mind into Polly's as part of the "cure". The Doctor learned the computer was maliciously killing every patient as it thought they were damaging the universe. He realised that the time skips where caused by the destruction of the hospital and made it happen as it was predetermined to do. (AUDIO: The Crumbling Magician [+]Loading...["The Crumbling Magician (audio story)"])
While dealing with a telepathic plague in the 16th century, the Doctor and his companions were assisted in curing the plague by another Time Lord, the Player. Once the initial virus had been dealt with, the Doctor had Polly confront the Player about his presence, and the Player explained that "a force from the future" had been interfering with the Doctor's timeline to prevent his regeneration into an incarnation that would be needed in "a great conflict". Although the Player revealed that the Doctor would not become this incarnation for some time, the Doctor accepted the need to fulfil his destiny and go to the South Pole so that history could unfold as it should. (AUDIO: The Plague of Dreams [+]Loading...["The Plague of Dreams (audio story)"])
Suffering from nightmares about his father, the Doctor awoke to find the TARDIS had been drawn to Gallifrey on the night he absconded with Susan. Roaming the deserted mountains, he encountered his old mentor, the Hermit, and was offered a chance to return to his life on Gallifrey before his departure, which would rewrite his own past and erasing his travels in time and space. Resisting temptation, the Doctor ran from Gallifrey once again, aware that his next destination would be his last. (PROSE: The Three Paths [+]Loading...["The Three Paths (short story)"])
After Ben and Polly awoke, the TARDIS fell out of the vortex, caught in the descent of an Angel falling through reality. Landing on an unnamed planet, the Doctor, Ben, and Polly spoke to the Angel, who told them all beings were always falling and to let go. When the Angel faded away, the time travellers departed. (AUDIO: Falling [+]Loading...["Falling (audio story)"])
Last stand at Snowcap base
The Doctor, Ben and Polly arrived at the Snowcap base in 1986 Antarctica, where they were treated with hostility by General Cutler. When the pilots of Zeus IV discovered a new planet between Mars and Venus, the Doctor, having predicted this, tried to convince the crew that Earth had a twin planet millions of years ago called Mondas, but Cutler refused to listen and sent his men to claim the TARDIS. However, the station came under attack from the Cybermen. (TV: The Tenth Planet [+]Loading...["The Tenth Planet (TV story)"]) Knowing the Cyberman invasion would ultimately be resolved through his reading of historical accounts, the Doctor was content to be an observer, though remained ready to intervene should the situation call for it. (PROSE: Twice Upon a Time [+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (novelisation)"]) In truth, the interference of the Doctor and his companions did prevent the Cybermen from taking control of the Arctic. (PROSE: The Time Travellers [+]Loading...["The Time Travellers (novel)"])
The Doctor collapsed when Mondas began draining Earth's energies, (TV: The Tenth Planet [+]Loading...["The Tenth Planet (TV story)"]) due to his regeneration process starting, (PROSE: Interference - Book Two [+]Loading...["Interference - Book Two (novel)"]) and Mondas syphoning off his ability to resist regenerating any longer. (PROSE: Twice Upon a Time [+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (novelisation)"]) While unconscious during the crisis at Snowcap base, the Doctor was contacted by Steven and arrived to help stop the Vardan woman from Grace Alone getting revenge on him and Steven. The Doctor tried to contain the Vardan woman, but she escaped, only to be foiled by Steven's granddaughter, Sida, using the copy of the Doctor. Steven then sent the Doctor back to his body on Earth in order for him to get back to the TARDIS, sending the copy along with the Doctor to improve his chances of surviving the trip. (AUDIO: The Locked Room [+]Loading...["The Locked Room (audio story)"])
Having found a second wind, the Doctor confronted the Cybermen when they intended to take humanity to Mondas to turn them into their kind, but his attempt at negotiation resulted in him and Polly being taken hostage aboard the Cyber-ship. Held prisoner, the Doctor comforted Polly while Ben helped delay the Cyberman until Mondas was destroyed by overloading on Earth's energies. While emerging from his sleep, the Doctor overheard Ben claim that it was "all over now," and became weary. (TV: The Tenth Planet [+]Loading...["The Tenth Planet (TV story)"]) Having started his first regeneration, (TV: Twice Upon a Time [+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"]) the Doctor left without Ben or Polly. (TV: The Tenth Planet [+]Loading...["The Tenth Planet (TV story)"])
Walking in the snow, the Doctor caught a fading image of Oliver Harper, (AUDIO: The First Wave [+]Loading...["The First Wave (audio story)"]) as he insisted to himself that he would not change and that the entire idea was "ridiculous." He was soon called out by a kneeling figure, who claimed to be "the Doctor". (TV: The Doctor Falls [+]Loading...["The Doctor Falls (TV story)"]) However, the Doctor, believing the TARDIS before him to be his own, instead thought that the man was another Time Lord come to reclaim it, only for time to freeze around them, and a World War I Captain to appear. Taking the Captain into the TARDIS to protect him from his pursuers, the Doctor saw that it was from his future and was convinced of the Twelfth Doctor's identity, shortly before the TARDIS was pulled into a hovering spaceship. Sent out as a distraction, the Doctor was addressed as "the Doctor of War" by a glass avatar of the Testimony Foundation, who offered to trade the Captain for the Twelfth Doctor's deceased companion, Bill Potts. Now joined by his future self, the Doctor examined the interior of the spaceship, and realised that the glass avatar was based off of a real person due to being too asymmetrical. Managing to escape as the Twelfth Doctor's TARDIS was taken by the Testimony, the two Doctors, the Captain and Bill retreated to the First Doctor's TARDIS, where the Twelfth Doctor decided to visit "an old friend" to figure out what the Testimony was.
Arriving at Villengard, the Captain was attacked by a familiar creature, and left inside the TARDIS with Bill as the two Doctors journeyed towards a tower, briefly stopping to discuss their shared refusal to regenerate. When the Twelfth Doctor entered the tower alone, the First Doctor examined the wreckage and found the remnants of Dalek shells as he was joined by Bill, who revealed herself to be a glass avatar. Despite the initial shock of there being "a spy in the camp", the First Doctor was told the true purpose of Testimony and its benevolent agenda, just as the Twelfth Doctor learned the same from the Dalek Pathweb. When the Doctors agreed that the Captain had to die at his allotted point in time, the Twelfth Doctor requested, much to the First Doctor's surprise, that they take him back, which was allowed by the Testimony.
Returning the Captain to 1914, the Doctor expressed his regret that "the universe generally fail[ed] to be a fairy tale," and promised to "make it [his] business" to look in on the Captain's family, the Lethbridge-Stewarts, as a favour. Hidden by a perception filter, the two Doctors watched as the Captain, now with no memory of having ever met them, prepared to meet his fate. Suddenly, Christmas carolling started up on both sides of the battlefield, and the Twelfth Doctor explained that he had adjusted the time frame by a couple of hours so that when time resumed for the Captain and his opponent, it would be the beginning of the Christmas Armistice. As the Twelfth Doctor explained the Armistice to the First Doctor, the Captain called for aid for his wounded opponent and the First Doctor realised that his future self maneuverered events to save both men's lives, and that that was "what it [meant] to be a Doctor of War." After watching the Armistice for a few hours, the First Doctor admitted that he felt ready to regenerate, but questioned his future self on his decision, with the Twelfth Doctor only answering that the First Doctor would have to find out "the long way round" before the First Doctor departed to his TARDIS. (TV: Twice Upon a Time [+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"])
Death
- Main article: First Doctor's renewal
Now inside the TARDIS and glowing with more regeneration energy, the Doctor managed to set the coordinates to return it to Antarctica in 1986 (TV: Twice Upon a Time [+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (TV story)"]) using the fast return switch. (PROSE: Twice Upon a Time [+]Loading...["Twice Upon a Time (novelisation)"]) As the TARDIS' controls continued to operate on their own, the Doctor opened the doors for Ben and Polly before collapsing unconscious to the floor, having lost the energy needed to keep his old body going. Before the astonished eyes of his friends, the Doctor transformed into a much younger man, (TV: The Tenth Planet [+]Loading...["The Tenth Planet (TV story)"]) at the age of 900 (PROSE: The Phoenix in the Tardis [+]Loading...{"page":"20","1":"The Phoenix in the Tardis (feature)"}) or 450-years-old. (PROSE: Iceberg [+]Loading...["Iceberg (novel)"])
Post-mortem
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Because of a trick in his Gallifreyan optics, (AUDIO: The Power of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The Power of the Daleks (audio story)"]) the Second Doctor saw his first incarnation in his reflection while still adjusting to his new body shortly after his first regeneration. (TV: The Power of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The Power of the Daleks (TV story)"])
When under attack by a space amoeba, the Fourth Doctor briefly turned back into his first incarnation. (COMIC: Timeslip [+]Loading...["Timeslip (comic story)"])
In a dream, the Fourth Doctor encountered the First Doctor in a heavenly garden also occupied by his other previous incarnations, which made him aware that his own regeneration was on the horizon. (PROSE: Into the Silent Land [+]Loading...["Into the Silent Land (short story)"])
When trapped in a dimensionally-unstable pocket universe controlled by Iam and the Rani, the Sixth Doctor's morphic print was destabilised, causing him to unwillingly regress back through his previous incarnations as his body sought a stable morphic print. He eventually "settled" into his first body, which remained stable long enough for him to return to the TARDIS and return to his current self. (PROSE: State of Change [+]Loading...["State of Change (novel)"])
In a bid to detach the Funhouse from the TARDIS in the time vortex, the Sixth Doctor binded the switch that protected the TARDIS' passengers from the changing time fields outside with a string, allowing him to pull it remotely from the limited protection of the Zero Room. As a result, the Doctor immediately began to regress back through his first five incarnations as he made his way back to the console room where, as the First Doctor, he flipped the switch back, restoring himself while trapping the Funhouse in the vortex. (COMIC: Funhouse [+]Loading...["Funhouse (comic story)"])
When the Timewyrm sent Ace into the Seventh Doctor's mind, she encountered the First Doctor as an elderly librarian. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation [+]Loading...["Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)"])
During the Last Great Time War, the War Doctor (AUDIO: The Union [+]Loading...["The Union (audio story)"]) was affected by a degeneration weapon and began rapidly degenerating through incarnations including the First Doctor, who attempted to resist the process but was unable to stop himself changing again. (AUDIO: Past Lives [+]Loading...["Past Lives (audio story)"]) The Doctor again became the First Doctor shortly after being captured by the Time Lords, only to change again soon afterwards. (AUDIO: A Genius for War [+]Loading...["A Genius for War (audio story)"]) The Doctor had become the First Doctor again by the time he landed at Planetoid 50, which he was confused to discover appeared to be Victorian London under the occupation of Martians. As he investigated, he was struck by a beam engineered by Missy to help stabilise him, causing him to jump forward to a future incarnation; the Tenth Doctor. (AUDIO: The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50 [+]Loading...["The Martian Invasion of Planetoid 50 (audio story)"])
When the Tenth Doctor was confronted by Es'Cartrss within the TARDIS' Matrix, he summoned the First 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 First 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 First 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 First Doctor, appeared inside it to defend themselves as well. Standing with his latest incarnation, the First Doctor debunked auditor Sondrah's accusations of him being a pestilence on the Earth. 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 First Doctor walk past her when the Eleventh Doctor claimed that "everything around [her] was [him]". (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 incarnations, including the First 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 First Doctor, who appeared in the form of "a frail young boy." (AUDIO: The Lost Magic [+]Loading...["The Lost Magic (audio story)"])
During the Master's Dalek Plan, the First 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 adventures
- At some point, the Doctor was pulled out of time by the Rani as part of her time trap. He appeared in her TARDIS as a floating head, and was ultimately freed through the work of his future incarnations. (TV: Dimensions in Time [+]Loading...["Dimensions in Time (TV story)"])
- The First Doctor appeared on television in the 1960s. Three children came to the studio to get his audience, and accidentally took his TARDIS back to the Stone Age before returning it. (COMIC: TV Terrors [+]Loading...["TV Terrors (TVC 709 comic story)"])
- The First Doctor allowed Susan to borrow the TARDIS for a trip to Venus, but she instead landed on Skaro, where she had an encounter with the Daleks. (COMIC: The Message of Mystery [+]Loading...["The Message of Mystery (comic story)"])
- The First Doctor went to Dastari's inauguration. (TV: The Two Doctors [+]Loading...["The Two Doctors (TV story)"])
- The First Doctor spent "quite a lot of time" in the 1990s. His eighth incarnation would recall this period of his first life as "not a happy time". (PROSE: Interference - Book One [+]Loading...["Interference - Book One (novel)"])
- When the TARDIS landed in 2040 for the first time, the First Doctor was convinced to run a general diagnostic on the TARDIS' systems by Susan. (PROSE: Outsourcing [+]Loading...["Outsourcing (short story)"])
- On a Thursday in the summer of 1966, the First 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: Template:CS)
- Alongside the Master, the First Doctor played a part in the Cloister Wars. (TV: The Magician's Apprentice [+]Loading...["The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)"])
- At some point before travelling with Ian and Barbara, the First Doctor and Susan met Hieronymus Bosch. Despite his granddaughter considering him "a bit of a grump", the Doctor found him to be a "lovely fellow". (AUDIO: Tick-Tock World [+]Loading...["Tick-Tock World (audio story)"])
- Before meeting Ian and Barbara, the Doctor also met a young Christopher Columbus. (PROSE: Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks [+]Loading...["Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)"])
- Before meeting Dodo, the Doctor had visited the planets Venessia and Enlandia, and before meeting Steven had visited Sava. (PROSE: The Ark [+]Loading...["The Ark (novelisation)"])
Other realities
Alternate timelines
When the Cyberiad allied with Rassilon to take over history, (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)"]) the First Doctor was ambushed by three CyberMondans outside his TARDIS in 76 Totter's Lane on the day he was supposed to leave Earth with Susan Foreman, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright. When Susan entered the junkyard, the Doctor told her to run. (COMIC: Prologue: The First Doctor [+]Loading...["Prologue: The First Doctor (comic story)"]) This timeline was eventually unwritten by Rassilon and the Twelfth Doctor. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)"])
When Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot reattached the time path indicator in the Second Doctor's TARDIS, they overloaded its systems, causing a temporal collision with the First Doctor's ship, disabling its dematerialisation circuit and causing it to crash on Urbinia. The Doctor spent the next three months repairing the circuit. When he finished, the Dalek Empire invaded the planet, able to complete the Time Destructor without the Doctor's interference. With the chancellor fleeing, the Doctor took charge of the planet, trying to coordinate an evacuation before he was approached by his succeeding incarnation who explained how the timeline had been altered and what the correct path should be. Though the First Doctor was initially amenable, he protested when he learned that Katarina would die. After escaping a Dalek landing force, the Doctors reunited with their companions in the spaceport where the Second Doctor explained to Katarina what would happen. When the Daleks turned the Time Destructor on the planet, Katarina agreed to the Second Doctor's plan, the First Doctor giving his successor the repaired dematerialisation circuit. Unsure if the timeline would be reset, the First Doctor stayed behind in the spaceport, defying the Daleks before the timeline was ultimately reset. (AUDIO: Daughter of the Gods [+]Loading...["Daughter of the Gods (audio story)"])
Parallel universes
In a parallel universe where the Second Doctor escaped his trial, the First Doctor went to the Academy with a Time Lord who found him to be an eternal bore. (AUDIO: Exile [+]Loading...["Exile (audio story)"])
In a universe where the Time War started early, a temporal "aberration" of the Sixth Doctor reflected on his first visit to Aridius shortly after arriving on the planet. (AUDIO: Dust Devil [+]Loading...["Dust Devil (audio story)"])
Mysteries and discrepancies
- When he, Ian, Barbara and Vicki were being chased by the Daleks through time in TV: The Chase [+]Loading...["The Chase (TV story)"], the Doctor claimed to have built his TARDIS, contrasting later accounts that showed him having stolen the ship from a workshop, as well as a statement from TV: The Impossible Planet [+]Loading...["The Impossible Planet (TV story)"] that described TARDISes as being "grown" rather than built. PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5 [+]Loading...["The Taking of Planet 5 (novel)"] would try to rectify the statement by explaining that the Doctor had added various components to the TARDIS console to prevent himself forming a complete mental link to the ship that would have made it easier for the Time Lords to find him.
- The matter of the Doctor's age and how long he lived in his first incarnation is unclear, the Second Doctor stated that he was around 450-years-old in TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen [+]Loading...["The Tomb of the Cybermen (TV story)"]. In AUDIO: Here There Be Monsters [+]Loading...["Here There Be Monsters (audio story)"], Susan compares him to an adolescent by Time Lord standards.
Behind the scenes
Casting
Actors considered for the role of "Doctor Who", as he was then known, included Geoffrey Bayldon [1], Cyril Cusack[2], Hugh David[3] and Leslie French.[4] Bayldon would later play an alternate version of the First Doctor in two Unbound adventures for Big Finish Productions: NOTVALID: Auld Mortality and NOTVALID: A Storm of Angels. William Hartnell had, up until that point, mainly played small-time thugs and other unsympathetic parts in crime films and humourless military men in comedies. Producer Verity Lambert was inspired to ask him to accept the role after seeing him in his well-known role in This Sporting Life, which convinced her that he could play a tough, yet shaded and sympathetic character.
Other actors in the role
During the First Doctor's tenure, other actors occasionally stood in for Hartnell, either for demanding scenes or due to Hartnell being ill or otherwise unavailable, such as Albert Ward, who served as a hand double for Hartnell during The Romans, (DWM 251) The Celestial Toymaker, (DWM 196) and The Smugglers. (DWM 321)
Brian Proudfoot stood in for Hartnell during location filming of the Doctor roaming the French countryside on foot in long shots for The Reign of Terror, being photographed from the back. (DWM 204) He later doubled for Hartnell again during The Space Museum. (DWM 316)
Edmund Warwick stood in for Hartnell in the third episode of The Dalek Invasion of Earth after Hartnell suffered an on-set injury. (DWM 280) Warwick later played the Doctor in some scenes of The Chase when Hartnell was playing the Robot Doctor.
Gordon Craig doubled for Hartnell during The Smugglers, (DWM 321) and then again during The Tenth Planet, first acting as a body double during the snowstorm scenes in the first episode, and then replacing Hartnell for all of the third episode after he was taken ill. (DWM 214)
When the time came for the First Doctor to appear in the 1983 Children in Need anniversary special TV: The Five Doctors, actor Richard Hurndall was hired to play the role, standing in for William Hartnell, who had died in the mid-1970s. A clip of Hartnell as the Doctor from The Dalek Invasion of Earth preceded the opening titles, and Hartnell's name appeared amongst those of his fellow Doctors in the end credits.
During the 50th anniversary year in 2013, Hartnell appeared in TV: The Name of the Doctor by way of manipulated stock footage and audio, allowing the actor to posthumously share dialogue with a Clara Oswald splinter on Gallifrey. Later in the same episode, the First Doctor is seen walking past the real Clara within the Doctor's time stream, with body double Kevin Legg [5] made up to emulate the appearance of Richard Hurndall. Later in 2013, Hartnell was again represented via stock footage in TV: The Day of the Doctor, but with John Guilor providing newly recorded dialogue, and Legg once again serving as a body double. (DWMSE 38)
David Bradley played Hartnell himself, playing the First Doctor, in the 2013 docu-drama An Adventure in Space and Time. In 2017, Bradley was brought to the show proper, to play the First Doctor himself at the end of TV: The Doctor Falls as a lead in to the 2017 Christmas special, TV: Twice Upon a Time. Bradley also voiced the First Doctor in the Big Finish audio series The First Doctor Adventures.
In audio, William Russell officially voiced the First Doctor for Big Finish's The Light at the End, having previously voiced him in narration form during all the Companion Chronicles audios that featured his own character Ian. Russell would then reprise the role when required in The Early Adventures, while Peter Purves portrays him in the audios that feature Steven. After his casting, Elliot Chapman also began playing the Doctor in narration form in audios that feature Ben.
Other matters
- When introduced in the script for An Unearthly Child, the First Doctor was physically described with the statement, "His clothes are bizarre."
- Author Marc Platt's description of the First Doctor's portrait in the novel Lungbarrow was inspired by a 1930s picture of William Hartnell that he found in the BBC reference library. (REF: Lungbarrow ebook) The portrait was depicted by Daryl Joyce in an illustration for DWM 305.
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Geoffrey Bayldon: Pop goes the Weazle. Total Sci-Fi Online (2010).
- ↑ The Changing Face of Doctor Who | How to regenerate a Time Lord. BBC Archive, Nearly Who, page 2.
- ↑ The Changing Face of Doctor Who | How to regenerate a Time Lord. BBC Archive, Nearly Who, page 1.
- ↑ Silver Nemesis. Doctor Who Classic Episode Guide. BBC (2003).
- ↑ https://guide.doctorwhonews.net/person.php?code=8514
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