Second Doctor
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The Second Doctor was the second incarnation of the Time Lord known as The Doctor.
Biography
New life
This incarnation began its life when its predecessor fell victim to old age and regenerated for the first time. (DW: The Tenth Planet)
The Doctor found himself suspected as an impostor by his companion Ben Jackson, although his other companion Polly seemed more ready to believe that he was in fact still the Doctor. They were thrown into a battle with the Doctor's old enemy the Daleks, at the Earth colony on the planet Vulcan. The fact that the Daleks recognized the Doctor as their enemy convinced Ben of his credentials and by the end of this adventure, the Doctor had won over his trust. (DW: The Power of the Daleks)
New companions
Shortly, the trio met Jamie McCrimmon, in 1746 Scotland and let him come along on their travels. (DW: The Highlanders)
Together, on the Moon, they would fight a new, more machine-like form of Cyberman. (DW: The Moonbase)
Ben and Polly decided to stop off together on 1966 (DW: The Faceless Ones). The Doctor and Jamie found themselves transported back to 1867. Two 19th century Human scientists, Edward Waterfield and Theodore Maxtible, trying to isolate the Human Factor. Jamie and the Doctor befriended Waterfield's daughter, Victoria. Waterfield now having died and the introduction of the Human Factor having instigated a war on Skaro, the Doctor and Jamie left with Victoria. The Doctor believed at the time that the Daleks had truly destroyed each other, forever. (DW: The Evil of the Daleks)
Cybermen, Yeti and Ice Warriors
With Jamie and Victoria alongside him, the Doctor forced the Cybermen back to their ice tombs on Telos and first encountered the Cybermats (DW: The Tomb of the Cybermen). On Earth had their first known encounters with the Yeti and the Great Intelligence (DW: The Abominable Snowmen) and the Ice Warriors (DW: The Ice Warriors).
During a second battle with the Great Intelligence and the Yeti, the Doctor met, for the first time, then-Colonel Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (DW: The Web of Fear).
- Lethbridge-Stewart would later found UNIT and play a significant role in some of the Doctor’s greatest adventures.
The Menoptera, the Veltrochni and Koschei
The TARDIS landed once more on Vortis (MA: Twilight of the Gods) where the Doctor met, once again, Near Darkheart. They encountered the war-like Veltrochni and Koschei, an old friend from Gallifrey, possibly sent by the Time Lords to retrieve him. (MA: The Dark Path).
Craving peace and quiet, Victoria left the TARDIS crew to live with the Harris family. (DW: Fury from the Deep).
Cybermen, Quarks and Ice Warriors
The Doctor and Jamie discovered a Cyberman plot involving a space station and picked up one of the space station's crew, Zoe Heriot. To make sure that she really wanted to come with them, the Doctor showed her a mental projection of his last adventure with the Daleks in the year 1966. (DW: The Wheel in Space)
On the planet Dulkis, the Doctor, Zoe and Jamie first fought the Quarks. (DW: The Dominators). Shortly after an adventure in the Land of Fiction (DW: The Mind Robber) the travelers landed on Earth where they learned that Lethbridge-Stewart, now a Brigadier, headed a new alien defense organisation named UNIT. Alongside UNIT, they defeated Tobias Vaughn and the Cybermen (DW: The Invasion)
Later they once more battled the Ice Warriors. (DW: The Seeds of Death)
Trial and its Aftermath
The Doctor discovered a former friend, whom the War Lords referred to as the War Chief. He had given spacetime vessel technology to the War Lords, a race planning to use Human soldiers as an army to conquer the galaxy. The Doctor was forced to betray his location to the Time Lords in order to return the many soldiers kidnapped from various periods of Earth history. (DW: The War Games)
The Doctor was captured and placed on trial for violating the cardinal rule of the Time Lords, never to interfere. His sentence would consist of exile on Earth in the 20th century and a forced regeneration. (DW: The War Games)
The Celestial Intervention Agency had stepped in, secretly, to intercede and prevent the Time Lords from executing the Doctor. (DW: The Deadly Assassin) Reluctantly, the Doctor then worked for them. (DW: The Two Doctors, PDA: World Game)
- At an unknown later time, the Doctor did regenerate and the Doctor's exile commenced. According to at least one source, the exile on Earth occurred prior to his enforced regeneration, allowing the Second Doctor to enjoy considerable luxury and fame on Earth. (TVC: Action in Exile)
- For a list of Second Doctor stories in the order in which he experienced them, see Second Doctor - Timeline.
Unrecorded Adventures
- The at some point before meeting the Brigadear mentioned an adventure where he and the Brigadear (in his future) met the Terrible Zodin. (DW: The Five Doctors)
- The Doctor and Jamie probably had least one other adventure together before the Doctor regenerated.
- Not exactly an unrecorded adventure, a future incarnation of the Doctor, along with an older Jamie, fought the Cybermen on Marinus. (DWM: The World Shapers) Later (from the Cyber-Planner's point of view), the Cyber-Planner would refer to this. (DW: The Invasion)
- Strangely, the Doctor later recalled the Cyber-Planner saying this even though he could not possibly have heard. (DWM: The World Shapers)
Characteristics
Appearance
The Doctor dressed similarly to his earlier self, though in far less natty fashion, the trousers now clownishly large and the cravat replaced with a bow tie. He quickly abandoned the blue signet ring as it no longer fit him. In his first adventure on Vulcan he possessed a tall stovepipe hat. (DW: The Power of the Daleks). Later, Bernice Summerfield, posing as a Dr. Seuss-like "famous hat collector", would take this hat, still in the Doctor's pocket, in the Land of Fiction, to complete the second Key to Time (DWM: Time & Time Again). In (DW: The Five Doctors) he is also pictured wearing an over-sized fur coat. The Eleventh Doctor's outfit (specifically the bow tie) is probably based on the Second Doctor's outfit.
