The Tenth Doctor was the tenth incarnation of the renegade Time Lord known as the Doctor. Unlike his immediate predecessor, who was plagued by melancholy due to his actions during the Last Great Time War, this incarnation was outgoing, lively and genial, a demeanour that hid the "survivor's guilt" that had plagued him since the war. Late in his life, however, the weight became much more pronounced.
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Unlike his predecessors, he tried to have a romantic relationship with Joan Redfern as John Smith, and Rose Tyler. He was haunted by companions lost, enemies believed long-dead and events that threatened to destroy time itself. He met his end after he absorbed a huge quantity of nuclear radiation whilst saving the life of his friend, and Donna Noble's grandfather, Wilfred Mott, leading to his regeneration into his next incarnation.
Biography
A changed man
When the Ninth Doctor absorbed the Time Vortex from his companion Rose Tyler and transferred it back into the Heart of the TARDIS, the forces began to destroy every cell in his body. He started to regenerate for the ninth time. (TV: The Parting of the Ways)
Before regenerating, the Doctor had dematerialised the TARDIS from Satellite 5 (TV: The Parting of the Ways), leaving Jack Harkness behind because of his status as a living fixed point. (TV: Utopia) He still intended to fulfil his promise to take Rose to the planet Barcelona. With Rose suffering an emotional crisis over his sudden change, he instead decided to bring her home to the Powell Estate in London. En route, he convinced her of his identity by reminding her of the first thing he said to her: "Run". Before he could complete the landing, he began to suffer adverse effects from his regeneration. Experiencing manic hyperactivity, he accelerated the TARDIS faster and faster. (TV: Children in Need Special)
Crash-landing the TARDIS on Christmas Eve, the Doctor staggered out. He dazedly wished Jackie and Mickey a merry Christmas, then fell into a coma. He snapped out of it briefly to save Mickey and the Tylers from a killer Christmas tree, but the stress of waking up too soon made matters worse and he collapsed again. When the TARDIS was taken aboard a Sycorax spaceship on Christmas morning, he awoke with the help of some tea that seeped into a component of the TARDIS, producing steam, to stop the Sycorax leader's blood control of one third of humanity. The Doctor challenged the leader over the fate of Earth. In a sword fight, the Sycorax leader chopped off the Doctor's hand. However, because he was still in the first fifteen hours of his regeneration cycle, he grew a new hand and went on to defeat the Sycorax.
As the Sycorax fled, Prime Minister Harriet Jones ordered Torchwood to destroy the ship. The angry Doctor spoke some words into her aide's ear, "Don't you think she looks tired", to bring about Jones' premature downfall. After choosing his new outfit, the Doctor had Christmas dinner with Mickey and the Tylers. (TV: The Christmas Invasion)
New adventures with Rose
Embarking on more adventures through time and space with Rose, the Doctor went to New Earth and was summoned to the New New York Hospital by the Face of Boe, who told the Doctor that he would reveal his greatest secret to him on a final encounter. While there, he stopped the Sisters of Plenitude, who were creating human clones and infecting them with every disease to develop cures for other patients. The Doctor was possessed by an old enemy, Cassandra, who had also possessed Rose. Cassandra was trying to extend her life. She allowed the clones to rampage across the hospital, killing many humans. The Doctor found a way to cure all of the clones and released Rose, and he finally convinced Cassandra to "end it". He later took her back in time to die in the arms of her younger self. (TV: New Earth)
The Doctor unsuccessfully tried to save Elton Pope's mother from an Elemental Shade from the Howling Halls. (TV: Love & Monsters)
Trying to prove to Rose that he was a "TARDIS expert", the Doctor accidentally reduced them to the size of flies. (COMIC: Which Switch?)
Visiting an alien castle, the Doctor stopped the Mirrorlings from escaping from their dimension by replacing people from this dimension and entrapping them inside the Mirrors, one of the victims being Rose. He managed to free everyone the Mirrorlings had trapped, before destroying the mirrors, trapping the Mirrorlings in their own dimension. (COMIC: Mirror Image)
The Doctor next stopped the Chalderans from stealing Earth's lava, which would have reduced the planet to a dead world. In stopping them, he destroyed two-thirds of Krakatoa, instigating its eruption. (COMIC: Under the Volcano)
The Doctor travelled to a space-station orbiting Jupiter and stopped the Disinfectodroids from turning a peaceful alien planet into the Solar System's planet-sized rubbish dump. (COMIC: The Germ War)
The Doctor and Rose later visited Belgium in 1914 and became caught in a battle between a German platoon, led by the brutal captain Rotmund, and the alien Warfreekz machine. Rose stopped the war by singing "Angels", a song by Robbie Williams, which forced both parties to withdrawn as they thought she was the "Angel of Death". (COMIC: Warfreekz!)
Taking Rose for a steak, the Doctor accidentally transported them to Phijax IV, where they were forced to fight as entertainment for the Glutonoid, who threatened to eat Rose if they didn't. The Doctor injected the Glutonoid with TARDIS pills, which destroyed it. With the Glutonoid dead, the Doctor closed his "fight club". (COMIC: The Glutonoid Menace)
They took an accidental trip to 1879 Scotland, where the Doctor protected Queen Victoria from an assassination attempt; the Brethren had taken over Torchwood House, planning to use the bite of the wolf to put the Lupine Wavelength Haemovariform on the British throne. Using Prince Albert's Koh-i-Noor diamond with the light chamber designed by Sir George MacLeish, the house's former owner, the Doctor destroyed the werewolf host, before it bit the Queen.
As a reward, the Doctor was knighted "Sir Doctor of TARDIS" However, he and Rose were also banished from the British Empire because their blasé attitude to danger unnerved the Queen. The Doctor inadvertently inspired Queen Victoria to found the Torchwood Institute, dedicated to defending Britain from alien threats, particularly, and ironically, him. (TV: Tooth and Claw)
Visiting a museum with Jackie and Mickey, the Doctor discovered a statue of Rose herself was housed in the museum. Travelling to Rome in 120 to investigate, the Doctor found a sentient machine called GENIE; it could grant the wishes of anyone who used it. He then discovered Rose had accidentally wished herself into the mysterious statue. Reversing his companion's wish, the Doctor wished the GENIE could have its freedom and allowed it to live its life in peace. (PROSE: The Stone Rose)
The Doctor and Rose returned to London a year after the Sycorax invasion. During this adventure, the Doctor had to stop aliens known as the Waterhive from drowning multiple Navy soldiers and their loved ones to serve as incubators for their larvae. To succeed, the Doctor had to atomise the aliens. (PROSE: The Feast of the Drowned)
Separated from Rose after an intended trip to the Moon failed, the Doctor met archaeologist Frank Openshaw and discovered yet another Dalek had survived the Last Great Time War. He foiled the Daleks' plot to transform every human throughout Earth's history into Dalek form. After this, the Dalek tried to trick the Doctor into finding it a new home so that it could secretly rebuild the Dalek Empire. However, the Doctor had manipulated the situation by giving the Dalek a self-destructive Time Ring, which he later used on the Dalek after its true intentions were revealed. (PROSE: I am a Dalek)
In 2007, the Doctor and Rose were lured to Deffry Vale High School by Mickey, which had had suspiciously high exam results and UFO sightings. The Doctor went undercover as physics teacher John Smith. He was reunited with a companion from long ago, Sarah Jane Smith, who was also investigating the school; although trying to keep his identity secret, Sarah eventually discovered he was the Doctor. After repairing K9 Mark III, whom Sarah still kept in the boot of her car, he learned that the oil used to boost the children's intelligence was Krillitane oil.
The Krillitanes were using the children's minds to solve the Skasis Paradigm, a computation that could rebuild the fabric of the universe. The Doctor resisted the temptation of the paradigm and to form an alliance with Krillitane leader and headmaster, Mr Finch, and K9 sacrificed himself to blow up the Krillitanes with their toxic oil. On Sarah Jane's suggestion, the Doctor allowed Mickey to accompany him and Rose on their travels, as he was finally ready to see the universe. He also built a new K9 as parting gift for Sarah Jane, giving it all the memories of the previous model. (TV: School Reunion)
The Doctor and his two companions went to the SS Madame de Pompadour in the 51st century, where they found the crew's organs were used as "parts" by the repair droids after the ship had been damaged. The droids created time windows to find the ship's namesake, Madame de Pompadour, nicknamed Reinette, when she was what they considered "complete", to be used as the final "part". While investigating this, the Doctor travelled throughout Reinette's life via these time windows, fighting the droids throughout 18th century France. As he did so, the Doctor began falling in love with Reinette, as did she with him.
When the droids found the "complete" Madame de Pompadour, the Doctor broke through a time window to the court of Versailles in 1758, shattering the connection to the ship and stranding the droids - and the Doctor himself. Without purpose, they shut down. Reinette had taken a fireplace which, because it was disconnected, retained its link to the SS Madame de Pompadour. The Doctor tried going back through the fireplace so that he could take Reinette to see the universe, but the loose connection to the time window meant she had already died when he returned six years later from her perspective, leaving the Doctor devastated. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace)
Rose became infected with an essence-eating lagnon grub. Knowing that only her jealously could drive the creature out of her body, the Doctor sent Rose into a dream where he dated her mother and Mickey had an Amazonian girlfriend, which made her insanely jealous. (COMIC: The Green-Eyed Monster)
While travelling, the Doctor, Rose and Mickey fell through a crack in time, ending up on a parallel Earth more technologically advanced; the TARDIS had no power from the correct universe to get back. However, the Doctor managed to power a surviving piece of the TARDIS, althought it meant giving up ten years of his life. When Rose found her father Pete Tyler was alive in this world, the Doctor cautioned her against making contact, as he wasn't actually her father. Giving in to Rose's request to attend the birthday party of her parallel mother, the Doctor was horrified to discover the Cybermen had been reborn and could only watch at they "crashed the party". (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)
Escaping, the Doctor allied himself with the Preachers, a gang of outlaws led by Ricky Smith, that universe's Mickey. They broke into Cybus Industries to confront the creator of these new Cybermen, John Lumic, only to see he had been forcibly converted into the Cyber-Controller. The Doctor bought time by trading philosophical ideas with him while Mickey shut off the emotional inhibitors. The Cybermen began exploding, along with Cybus Industries; Ricky died during the strike. When it came time to leave, Mickey chose to stay behind, even though the Doctor would seal the crack to prevent further travelling to his own world. The Doctor and Rose honoured Mickey's wishes. (TV: The Age of Steel)
After leaving Mickey, the Doctor and Rose were sent into the body of Queen Svelne to destroy an alien infection that was destroying her blood cells. After this, the Doctor used her gratitude to end a two-century long war. (COMIC: A Delicate Operation)
The Doctor and Rose befriended the dying Galathos and agreed to hunt down the Dramos as it's healing blood was the only thing that would save the Galathon. However, the Doctor discovered the Dramos were friendly creatures, and helped to form an alliance between The Dramos and Galathon. (COMIC: Blood and Tears)
The Doctor later took Rose to Terry's Cafe, where they encountered the Gastronauts, Russian-like dolls, and stopped a bad tempered TV chef called Rammzi from taking over at the cafe. (COMIC: Fried Death)
Taking Rose home, the Doctor discovered the population of Earth had been trapped in ice by a group of alien entities. The Doctor destroyed the ice machine, raising the temperature and releasing humanity. (COMIC: Bizarre Zero)
Soon after, the Doctor and Rose rescued human colonists from Wumba's World of Wild, an alien safari park in the 41st century. (COMIC: Save the Humans!)
The Doctor and Rose planned to see an Elvis concert. However, they ended up in England, on 2 June, 1953, where the Wire was planning to steal the essences and faces of everyone watching the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II on television. When Rose fell victim to the Wire, the Doctor joined forces with DI Bishop and local boy Tommy Connolly to trap the Wire in a video cassette, restoring everyone she had trapped, including Rose and Tommy's grandmother. (TV: The Idiot's Lantern)
While in 2007 Wales, the Doctor encountered the Cynrog, who were trying to bring back their god, Balor, by sacrificing the humans. Its consciousness was spread with the power of children's bad dreams. After the alien was brought back, it was soon destroyed. (PROSE: The Nightmare of Black Island)
Arriving in Africa in the 22nd century, the Doctor met the Wurms, who were seeking to destroy the art works of their enemies, the Valnaxi. The Valnaxi themselves accidentally took the forms of humans due to an archaeologist accidentally finding a booby-trapped treasure trove. The Doctor got rid of both species before they could do any more damage to Earth. (PROSE: The Art of Destruction)
In Laylora, the Doctor put a stop to the Witiku, who were trying to drive aliens off the planet. (PROSE: The Price of Paradise)
After defeating Professor Janus in Victorian London, the Doctor and Rose, posing as detectives, uncovered a cult of vampires led by Count Dracula of Wallachia. Racing against time to save the vampire's victims, the Doctor met Oscar Wilde, who was in prison suffering from an alien disease. The Doctor staged a prison break, cured Oscar and destroyed the vampires. (COMIC: Bat Attack!)
Proving to Rose that his adventures were not completely dangerous, the Doctor re-installed a randomiser into the TARDIS, which transported him and Rose to the thirteenth Moon of the thirteenth planet in the thirteenth galaxy, on the thirteenth day of the thirteenth year in the 13th century, They met the Triskaidekaphobes, the unluckiest species in creation. The Doctor discovered Bob Kreesus had been kidnapping Triskaidekaphobes and stealing their fortune. After returning the Triskaidekaphobes luck, the Doctor confronted Bob on a cliff, where Bob accidentally fell to his death. (COMIC: Triskaidekaphobia)
After narrowly escaping the Erewon Armada, the Doctor accidentally landed the faulty TARDIS inside a giant pinball machine which was used to trap game-addictive people. With Rose forced to play for her life, the Doctor took control of the game, and took a strike at the TARDIS, which saved his ship and freed him and Rose. (COMIC: Pinball Wizard)
The Doctor and Rose were in a chase with a Hoix, where the Doctor briefly met Elton Pope, who he had encountered when he was a child. Elton had been tracking down the Doctor alongside LINDA. But ran away as he and Rose left in the TARDIS. (TV: Love & Monsters)
The Doctor and Rose journeyed to Krop Tor, an impossible planet inhabited by Sanctuary Base 6 that orbited the black hole K37 Gem 5; the TARDIS fell below the plant's surface. The humans of Sanctuary Base 6 had come to Krop Tor to discover the source of power emanating from the planet's core, which allowed the planet to orbit the black hole. They refused to divert their drill to collect the TARDIS. In the base, the Beast had been terrorising the explorers and possessing their servants, the Ood. The Doctor and a crew member of Sanctuary Base 6, Ida Scott, descended into the core of the planet and discovered a pit which had started opening. (TV: The Impossible Planet)
With the transport tube back to the surface rendered unusable by the Beast, the Doctor decided to descend into the pit alone. Inside, he came face-to-face with the Beast and tried conversing, though its consciousness had already escaped to Toby Zed, the expedition's archaeologist. Realising the Beast's jailers thought of the Beast's escape, the Doctor shattered the vase keeping the planet orbiting the black hole. At the same time, the Beast's mind was ejected from the Sanctuary Base 6 rocket by Rose. Though willing to "go along for the ride", the Doctor discovered the TARDIS by accident; he saved Ida Scott, but didn't have enough time to rescue the Ood. Towing the rocket safely away from the black hole, the Doctor "swapped passengers" and continued his journeys with Rose. (TV: The Satan Pit)
The Doctor treated Rose to a visit to Paris. However, they later discovered that they had become trapped in the Facade, a computer that enhanced people's perception of "Perfect Paris". Alongside resistance fighters, the Doctor and Rose destroyed the Facade with the use of a computer virus. (COMIC: A Date to Remember)
When Elton Pope upset Jackie, the Doctor tracked him down on Rose's behalf to teach him a lesson. He, however, managed to turn the tables on the Abzorbaloff chasing Elton by breaking the limitation field in its cane that prevented it from over-absorbing. He brought the consciousness of Ursula Blake, who had been absorbed by the alien, back, but stuck as a face on piece of concrete. He then told Elton the truth about his mother's death, which was why Elton had been chasing the Doctor for so long. (TV: Love & Monsters)
The Doctor and Rose visited a rocky, barren planet and watched a giant creatures, similar to manta rays in appearance, fly past, where they swore that they would be together forever. (TV: Army of Ghosts)
The Doctor and Rose went to 2012 to see the Olympics. He met a girl named Chloe Webber who had been possessed by a lone Isolus. Chloe trapped other children from her street in drawings to make the Isolus feel less lonely. Despite trying to help the Isolus, the Doctor was trapped in a drawing, along with the TARDIS. Once Rose tossed the Isolus' pod into the Olympic flame to recharge it with warmth and love, the Doctor was freed from the drawing. He then took the place of the winded runner, lighting the Olympic flame himself. Reuniting with Rose, the Doctor warned her that he felt a "storm" coming when she said that no-one would ever seperate them. (TV: Fear Her)
Battle of Canary Wharf and losing Rose
When the Doctor and Rose returned to 2007 Earth, they found the entire planet was being visited by beings believed to be ghosts. The Doctor tracked the signal to Torchwood Tower in London and was taken prisoner by Yvonne Hartman, leader of the Torchwood Institute. He strongly opposed their use of "ghost shifts" for a power source, as it was ripping a hole between parallel worlds which increased in size with every iteration. The original tear was caused by "the Sphere", an object the Doctor identified as a void ship. Two computer technicians, secretly under the control of Cybermen, restarted the ghost shift. The ghosts, who were actually Cybermen, came from the parallel world where the Doctor and Rose had left Mickey. As the Cyberman invasion of Earth began, the void ship opened, revealing the Cult of Skaro, a group of Daleks with a Genesis Ark. (TV: Army of Ghosts) The Genesis Ark was Time Lord technology, a prison ship containing millions of Daleks captured by the Time Lords.
To save both dimensions from annihilation and defeat the Daleks and Cybermen, the Doctor opened the Void. This would suck anything covered in "Void stuff" into it. Realising that Rose was also covered in Void stuff, the Doctor sent an unwilling Rose, along with Mickey, Pete Tyler and Jackie, to Pete's World, where they would be safe from the Void. Rose refused to leave the Doctor. Knowing she would never see her family again, she returned. Together, they opened the Void and the Daleks and Cybermen were sucked in. The plan initially went smoothly until Rose's lever malfunctioned, threatening to halt the operation. Rose secured the lever, but couldn't hold on and was almost sucked into the Void.
She was saved at the last second by her parallel father and taken back across to the other universe, separating her from the Doctor forever. The Doctor and Rose met one last time on Dårlig Ulv Stranden in Norway; he was projecting a hologram of himself through the last crack in the universe leading to where Rose was. He had parked the TARDIS in orbit around a supernova for enough power to say goodbye. Rose spoke of her love for the Doctor to him, but his reply was cut off. The Doctor was left crying, just as Rose was. (TV: Doomsday)
A Noble encounter
Whilst he was grieving over Rose, Donna Noble appeared inside the TARDIS during her wedding to Lance Bennett. (TV: Doomsday, The Runaway Bride) Returning her to the ceremony on Christmas Eve, 2007, the Doctor found Lance wasn't marrying Donna out of love; he was working for the Empress of the Racnoss. They were using Donna as an incubator for Huon particles needed to revive other Racnoss in stasis at the Earth's core; she appeared in the TARDIS because of magnet-like pull of the Huon particles in it. Lance had been force-fed Huon particles in Donna's place and was fed to the Racnoss offspring through a hole dug by Torchwood, waking them.
After the Empress failed to take his offer to leave Earth, the Doctor's darker side took him over. He drowned the Racnoss offspring with all of the River Thames by flooding the Torchwood base on top of the hole.
When the Empress tried attacking London with her Webstar, the British military destroyed her along with it. The Doctor took Donna back home to her worrying family, having the offer to join him in his adventures denied because of his darker side. Declining Christmas dinner, the Doctor was told by Donna to "find someone" to help him control his dark side. (TV: The Runaway Bride)
Voyaging alone
Unable to fill the void left by Rose, the Doctor began travelling alone.
On his first journey without Rose, the Doctor nearly fell off a cliff on the planet Hondran. But he was saved by Kara McGravy. After finding Hondran overrun by human hunters, the Untra, the Doctor managed to lure them to the edge of a cliff, and once again descending to his dark side, he allowed carnivorous snake-like plants to eat them. (COMIC: The Hunters)
The Doctor next visited Croxton Hall and, alongside a waitress called Daisy White, battled the ghosts of Lord and Lady Tubbs and their houseguests. He used the Ancient Horologe, a timepiece used to measure the passage of time across the dimensions, to transform all the ghosts into humans. After the house was restored to normal, the Doctor attended the Tubbs wedding anniversary. (COMIC: 13 O'Clock)
Attempting to see central London's Christmas lights, the Doctor accidentally landed the TARDIS in Daniel Francis Thompson's bedroom. Daniel made his way into the TARDIS and meddled with the controls, transporting the time machine to Belgium in 1914, where they witnessed a German and British football match. After visiting various Christmas periods in Earth's history, the Doctor returned Daniel home. (PROSE: Deep and Dreamless Sleep)
Soon after, the Doctor took part in a polar expedition on Grothender. (COMIC: Wormhole)
Cybermen on Centuria
The Doctor took a break from his adventures on the Earth colony world, Centuria. His holiday was cut short when he discovered an army of Cybermen had escaped the Battle of Canary Wharf. Taken prisoner and unable to stop the Cybermen's takeover of Centuria, the Doctor met Jayne Kadett, an investigator. He and Jayne managed to destroy the Cybermen at the heart of the Centuria invasion. But they discovered the Cybermen had been rebuilding their army across the universe, so the Doctor took Jayne with him to track them down and destroy them. (COMIC: The Power of the Cybermen)
Following the Cybermen's signal, the Doctor flew an airship across the continents of Azlon, which had now become a gigantic Cyber-conversion factory. The Doctor and Jayde destroyed the factory and found a map that brought them closer to finding out why the Cybermen had targeted Centuria. (COMIC: Drones of Doom)
Taken prisoner below the arctic lands of Centuria, the Doctor and Jayne met Homaj, a half-cybernised drone. After battling the Ice Snakes and cyber-dogs, The Doctor and Jayne used explosives to destroy the Cybermen's base. Homaj sacrificed himself, and the Doctor and Jayne discovered the key to stopping the Cybermen was by destroying Centuria Central. (COMIC: Enemy Mine)
When Jayne became frozen in time, the Doctor set off to Centuria Central alone, becoming a fugitive. He infiltrated the base and destroyed the stasis machine, which had a mental link to the Cybermen. As a result, Cybermen across the galaxy were destroyed. With the galaxy protected, the Doctor asked Jayne to travel with him, but she declined. (COMIC: Time of the Cybermen)
Leaving Centuria, the Doctor arrived in a village in 12th century England, at the time of the Black Death. He discovered the Zeerover virus had turned the villagers into zombies. Making a deal with the Zeerovers, the Doctor cured the villagers and treated many Black Death victims. (COMIC: Plague Panic)
The Doctor discovered the Floof, a species with the ability to hide in plain sight, had been stalking an ordinary man called Tom. Befriending Tom, the Doctor realised the Floof had developed a psychic link with Tom and was unwilling to let him go, killing Tom's wife. Enraged, the Doctor punished the Floof by separating it from Tom, condemning it to eternal loneliness. (PROSE: Corner of the Eye)
Arriving on newly-constructed Space Station Alpha in the 36th century, the Doctor met a snag finder called Jimmy and his Welding Bot X-5, who went by the name of "Bert". The Doctor discovered the Klytode, whom he had battled before, had scrambled Bert circuits and was intending to launch a cobalt bomb on the station, so that the station would crash to Earth and destroy it. The Doctor saved Bert, tricked the Klytode into destroying his own planet, and had him arrested. (COMIC: The Snag Finders)
A very special friend
The Doctor arrived on the Slough of the Disjointed Planets, a space populated by warlike races renowned for their brutal conflicts. There he encountered the dying War Keeper, the ancient controller of the population of the Disjointed Planets. To find a worthy successor, the War Keeper scanned the Doctor's mind for the identity and location of the greatest leader of the cosmos. He chose Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. The Doctor's very old friend, now retired and in his late seventies, found himself transported to the Slough to receive the position, but refused to accept.
As an alternative, the War Keeper chose Mike Yates, but accidentally summoned another, far less capable man with the same name. Rivals of the dying War Keeper infiltrated his helpers before his death and passed onto the other Mike Yates the Keeper's control device, the Warkeeper's Crown. With the weak-minded, wrong Yates under the control of the Crown, and with the wrong Yates in turn in control of the many forces of the Disjointed Planets, the deceased War Keeper's rivals planned to control the conflicts. The controlled Yates transported himself back to Earth, along with many Orcs, Hawks and other creatures. The Doctor and the Brigadier, with an army of Brigadier-clones the Doctor created with technology at the Slough, returned to the Earth to defeat the demon hordes and free Yates from the Crown's control. At this time, the Mike Yates whom the Doctor and the Brigadier knew of old witnessed the conflict. With the danger passed, the Doctor and the Brigadier, still and ever the best of friends, re-lived their old glories and said their goodbyes, although the Brigadier expected to see his old friend again. (COMIC: The Warkeeper's Crown)
Smith and Jones
While investigating a set of plasma coils, the Doctor checked himself into Royal Hope Hospital in 2008, where he met medical student Martha Jones. The hospital was H2O scooped onto the Moon by the Judoon, who were hunting the Plasmavore murderer Florence Finnegan. Pretending to be human, the Doctor tricked Finnegan into drinking some of his blood, which she assimilated into her system. The Judoon killed her after identifying her as an alien. Martha revived the blood-starved Doctor, and he unplugged Finnegan's overloaded MRI machine, set to kill half of humanity. The hospital was returned to Earth, and he tracked down Martha at a family gathering to offer her one trip in time as a way of saying "thanks". (TV: Smith and Jones)
They arrived in London in 1599 to meet William Shakespeare, another of his favourite authors. Learning the lost play, Love's Labour's Won, was to be performed, the Doctor decided to investigate why it vanished. It turned out Carrionites had the Globe Theatre constructed to their design in order to use a hidden incantation in the script to free the rest of their kind from the Deep Darkness. Despite succeeding, their incantation was reversed by one improvised by Shakespeare, trapping them and all copies of the play in the Darkness. As it risked freeing them, the Doctor advised Will not to rewrite the play. He also gave him, according to himself, 10% of the words or phases he would use in his future plays. After the performance, Queen Elizabeth I arrived and ordered her men to kill her sworn enemy, even though the Doctor hadn't met her yet. (TV: The Shakespeare Code)
Despite saying that Martha would go on only one trip, the Doctor stretched the definition to a trip to both the past and future. (TV: Gridlock)
In 5,000,000,053, the Doctor searched for Martha, who had been kidnapped by a couple wishing to use the New New York Motorway's fast lane. Novice Hame took the Doctor to what was left of the Senate to help the Face of Boe open the Motorway, freeing Martha from the Macra, who lived in the filthy air below the cars. After the Face of Boe sacrificed his own life to power the doors keeping the motorway shut, he finally uttered his final words to the Doctor: "You are not alone", hinting that there was another Time Lord in the universe. (TV: Gridlock)
Again, the Doctor decided to extend Martha's trip, making a "detour" prior to returning her home; by this time, he had grown accustomed to having her as a companion. (TV: Daleks in Manhattan)
In 1930 New York City, the Doctor and Martha investigated kidnappings from Hooverville, befriending their leader, Solomon. Investigating the sewers, the Doctor discovered strange pig-like creatures that worked for the Cult of Skaro, who were kidnapping humans with high intellegence for their Final Experiment; the pig slaves were created from those of low intelect. The Doctor discover that the Daleks were trying to evolve into new forms in order to survive; the Cult of Skaro's leader, Dalek Sec, transformed himself into the first human-Dalek hybrid as part of this plan. (TV: Daleks in Manhattan)
To the Doctor's surprise, Sec grew compassionate thanks to his new humanity, wishing to no longer conquer Earth; he wanted the Doctor to take the new human-Dalek race to a new world with his TARDIS. A coup occurred, and Sec was overthrown; the other Daleks continued their original plan to conquer Earth, filling the captive humans with pure Dalek DNA. The Doctor climbed to the top of the Empire State Building and got in the way of the solar flare that powered the experiment; he added Time Lord morality to the hybrids. The Daleks fought the hybrids; Daleks Sec, Jast and Thay and the hybrids all died and Caan performed an emergency temporal shift, leaving the Doctor fearful that he had not seen the last of his oldest enemies. (TV: Evolution of the Daleks)
The Doctor brought Martha back home exactly 12 hours after they left, planning to leave and continue his travels alone. However, he decided to stay to discover what Professor Richard Lazarus was up to after hearing that he was going to "change what it meant to be human". Attending Lazarus' demonstration, the Doctor met Martha's family, including her mother, Francine, who took an immediate dislike to him. He discovered Lazarus had created a machine to restore youth. However, the machine backfired, mutating Lazarus into a monster that fed of the life-force of others. Following Lazarus into a cathedral, the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to enhance a pipe-organ to reverse the machine's effect and revert Lazarus to his original self, dead. Per Martha's request, the Doctor took her on as an official travelling companion. (TV: The Lazarus Experiment)
The Doctor later reunited with a younger version of the Moxx of Balhoon, who he had watched die on Platform One in his ninth incarnation. He discovered the Moxx was a solicitor for the Slitheen, who wanted to sue the Doctor for abducting their offsprings. However, the Doctor proved that the Slitheen children had stowed away aboard the TARDIS, foiling another Slitheen money-making scam. (COMIC: Who Ate All the Biscuits?)
After upgrading Martha's phone in mid-travel, the Doctor locked onto the distress called sent out by the SS Pentallian. He soon discovered that the ship was plummeting into the Torajii sun, but was unable to evacuate anyone because the TARDIS was trapped in the boiler room, which was growing inhumanely hotter by the minute. A malevolent force possessed one of the crew and began reducing them to cinders. Eventually, the Doctor discovered that Torajii was sentient and seeking revenge on the crew for scooping out some of it to use as fuel; it possessed him next after its previous host was stopped. Holding off possession long enough, the Doctor told Martha how to get rid of the fuel to appease Torajii. He also gave Martha a TARDIS key. (TV: 42)
A trip to 1909 led to the Doctor meeting his old foes, the Zygons, once again. However, because they were suffering from starvation, he managed to easily repel them from Earth when they tried invading. (PROSE: Sting of the Zygons)
Visting the Museum of the Last Ones, the Doctor was nearly forced to be a living exhibit in the Gallifreyian section by Eve, the android curator. (PROSE: The Last Dodo)
The Doctor next took Martha to Maught, a planet resembling the American Wild West, where he stopped three criminals, Tu, Blontt and Angelo, from stealing water of gold. (COMIC: The Green, the Bad and the Ugly)
After watching the Beatles in 1960s Liverpool, Martha was kidnapped. Intrigued, the Doctor traced her to Gelezen, a planet that was isolated from the rest of the universe thousands of years ago. Breaking the time field around Gelezen, the Doctor stopped the Gelezen's from taking Martha's human DNA to survive, instead giving them his own genes to ensure they had a long future. (COMIC: Signs of Life)
The Doctor and Martha next visited the Great Solar Shields, which was used to take the heat off 21st century Earth to ease the effect of global warming. Aboard, the Doctor encountered the Silhouettes, mythical creatures when they began murdering the crew. He stopped them from unleashing a swarm onto Earth, which caused the Shield to break up. (COMIC Sun Screen)
The Doctor hid from the Family of Blood, aliens who wanted his Time Lord body. He used a Chameleon Arch to transform himself into a human school teacher named John Smith in 1913 England, completely hiding his Time Lord self. His alter ego had no recollection of the Doctor. John Smith fell in love (to Martha's chagrin) with the matron of the school, Joan Redfern. (TV: Human Nature) The Doctor retook his Time Lord body to save the Earth from destruction and found suitable punishment for the Family of Blood. Regretfully, the Doctor respected Joan's wishes to not travel with him and left her behind because of the death and destruction his actions brought. (TV: The Family of Blood)
Intending to take Martha to the Medusa Cascade, the Doctor found himself trapped in an abandoned mansion, where he faced illusions of his past. However, he managed to overcome his worst fears and saved Martha from hers. (COMIC: Mind Shadows)
While in Blackwood Falls, the Doctor encountered the Hervoken, old enemies of the Carrionites. He prevented them from using the energy of the townspeople to launch their ship. (PROSE: Forever Autumn)
The Doctor next chased a Voracious Craw off Tiermann's World in the 35th century by using a copy of the alien's species to scare it off the planet before it could finish consuming it. (PROSE: Sick Building)
On another trip, the Doctor stopped a Swamp Monster from attacking a Sundayan colony by tricking it into possessing him. Using a new protein-RNA mix, the Doctor destroyed the creature. (PROSE: Wetworld)
He met Sally Sparrow while on an adventure to stop "four things and a lizard" during a "migration", who gave him a folder of infomation that would be vital to him in the future. (TV: Blink)
The Doctor next visited Antarctica in 1915 and foiled the Skith Leaders plot to transform Earth into Skith-self, assisted by an expedition led by Ernest Shackelton. (COMIC: The First)
With the TARDIS materlisation field damaged, the Doctor and Martha became trapped on a Seamancer on Earth in 2008 for a few days whilst the TARDIS recalibrated, where they met Captain Ketly and his crew. Before they could leave, they and the crew were transported to the oceanworld of Surobos, where they were sentenced to death by the Suroban. Making a deal with a friendly Suroban, the Doctor ventured into the ocean to retrieve his TARDIS and returned the Seamancer crew to Earth. (COMIC: Shipwreck!)
Arriving in Creighton Mere, the Doctor discovered a Vurosis. To prevent it from doing any more harm to the populace, the Doctor forced its mutategenic powers back on it, killing the alien. (PROSE: Wishing Well)
In the 40th century, the Doctor encountered space pirates, and he tried to make them give up their ways. They killed him, but thanks to an incomplete time loop, the Doctor was revived without the need for regeneration. Using the TARDIS to complete the loop, the Doctor allowed the pirates to party on the Brilliant forever. (PROSE: The Pirate Loop)
In 1880, the Doctor found (literal) living weapons known as the Clade, which were causing trouble. After getting one to heal Martha from an injury with the promise of being a new host, the Doctor proved stronger in a battle of wills and forced the original programming to come back on before trapping them in a cave, which collapsed, trapping them for good. (PROSE: Peacemaker)
Another trip brought the Doctor to Snowglobe 7 in 2099. There, he was forced to commit genocide by destroying the Gappa race to keep humanity safe from them. (PROSE: Snowglobe 7)
The Doctor and Martha went to 2007 to investigate strange disappearances at Wester Drumlins. They were transported back in time to 1969 by the Weeping Angels, an alien race who took the form of stone angels when observed. The Angels fed off their potential energy. Using information given to him by Sally Sparrow before the incident, he left messages for Sally in the future to bring the TARDIS back to 1969. (TV: Blink)
The Doctor landed aboard a research base in deep space, which had been populated by alien beings whom he had defeated in his past nine lives. They had all joined forces to kill him. However, their hatred of him eventually led to their demise when they began turning on each other. (COMIC: Death to the Doctor!)
The Doctor received a distress signal which led him and Martha back to New Earth, which had been invaded by Cybermen and Judoon, now in an alliance. Assisted by Novice Hame and Thomas Brannigan, the Doctor defeated the two armies. (COMIC: In-Flight Entertainment)
The return of the Master
In Cardiff, the Doctor "refuelled" the TARDIS at the Cardiff Space-Time Rift. his old companion, Jack Harkness, jumped onto and clung to the exterior of the TARDIS, hitching a ride to the planet Malcassairo at the end of the universe itself. The Doctor discovered the last survivors of the universe itself had planned to take a trip to Utopia, which led him to meet Professor Yana, who was actually his arch-enemy, the War Master, just as the Face of Boe had foreseen. He had been made human by another Chameleon Arch, but when Martha asked about his old fob watch, he opened it and became the Master. After being shot by Yana's assistant, Chantho, and facing imminent regeneration, the Master locked himself inside the Doctor's TARDIS, hijacked the ship and escaped, leaving the Doctor, Jack and Martha to die at the hands of the Futurekind. (TV: Utopia)
The Doctor fixed Jack's decades-broken vortex manipulator, and used it to bring them back to 2008, just after the election. The Doctor discovered the Saxon Master, under the human name of Harold Saxon, was now Great Britain's new Prime Minister, forcing the Doctor and his allies to go on the run as the Master had captured Martha's family, who were falsly working with him to entrap the Doctor. On board the UNIT aircraft carrier Valiant, the Doctor discovered his TARDIS had been turned into a paradox machine. the Master invited the Toclafane, whom he ordered to assassinate US President Arthur Coleman Winters and attack the Earth. The Doctor was aged into an old man by the Master's laser screwdriver. (TV: The Sound of Drums) As the Toclafane began slaughtering one tenth of the human population, the Doctor sent Martha away with Jack's manipulator after whispering his plan against the Master. But he himself could only watch as the human race fell to his arch-enemy. (TV: The Sound of Drums, Last of the Time Lords)
Being kept prisoner for a year, the Doctor slowly began to realise that the Toclafane were the humans he had encountered at the end of the universe. He was once more aged by the Master, this time into a diminutive little creature. Using the Archangel Network, the Doctor harnessed the psychic energy of humanity's hope following Martha spreading the word about him. The Doctor regained his young appearance. He then inflicted the worse blow to the Master's ego ever: he forgave him for everything he did. Jack destroyed the paradox machine keeping the Toclafane in the present, undoing the entire year; time resumed for everyone else right after the president was killed, but those on the Valiant retained their memories due to being at the "eye of the storm".
However, while the Doctor planned to keep the Master his prisoner, his human wife, Lucy Saxon, shot him; the Master refused to regenerate and died in the Doctor's arms. Because they were the last two Time Lords, this dealt the Doctor another devastating emotional blow, due to losing his "brother". Burning his body, the Doctor offered Jack the chance to rejoin him on the TARDIS, but Jack declined, saying that his Torchwood team needed him. Before parting company with Jack, the Doctor was astonished to learn that his immmortal friend may live to become the Face of Boe. Preparing to depart with Martha, the Doctor found she also wished to stay behind. Martha explained she loved him, but knew he'd never return her feelings. However, she gave him her upgraded mobile so that she could call him if there was any trouble. (TV: Last of the Time Lords)
When Doctors cross paths
Immediately after Martha left, the Doctor crashed his TARDIS into that of his fifth incarnation, which put the universe in danger of being sucked into a Belgium-sized black hole. However, the Doctor used his memory of the event from his fifth incarnation's viewpoint to create a supernova at the exact same moment the black hole appeared. After giving a heart-felt speech of appreciation to his past self, the Doctors' TARDISes separated. Before he could turn the TARDIS' shields back on, the spaceship Titanic crashed through the walls. (TV: Time Crash)
A Titanic adventure
After fixing the damage to his TARDIS, the Doctor transported it inside the Titanic on Christmas Eve, 2008, where he decided to join the party. He quickly made a new friend, Astrid Peth, on board. During a brief trip to Earth with a few passengers, the Doctor met Wilfred Mott, Donna Noble's granddad. When the ship's owner, Max Capricorn, had a meteor shower purposely crash into the Titanic, the Doctor attempted to save the passengers. He could only save Astrid by transforming her into a being of light, dealing him another personal blow as he had wanted to take Astrid travelling with him. He managed to save three other people. The Doctor stopped the Titanic from crashing into Buckingham Palace. Additionally, he refused to allow Mr Copper to travel with him, though Mr Copper had accidentally had more than enough credit to get by for the first time in his life. Following the incident, the Doctor set out on his own once again. (TV: Voyage of the Damned)
Meeting Majenta and travels alone
The Doctor stumbled onto Majenta Pryce's operation in the Hotel Historia, a chain of time-travelling hotels that had been destroyed in the Time War, while confronting the Graxnix in 41st century London and used the faulty tech to travel back to the hotel. The Graxnix followed the Doctor and started to kill people at the hotel. Majenta quickly decided to leave with her bills unpaid, but the Doctor prevented her escape. He used her time travel tech to imprison the Graxnix outside time, then ensured she was taken to debtors' jail. (COMIC: Hotel Historia)
The Doctor went on the trail of the Extron, a galactic criminal, after the alien parasite kidnapped 9-year-old girl, Violet Hopely. He located the Extron to the desolated planet, Onla-toch in the 957-Dogron system, which the Extron devastated years previously. After re-capturing the Extron, the Doctor returned Violet to her parents on Earth. (COMIC: The Monster Upstairs)
After dealing with the Extron, the Doctor intended to brush up on his language skills. However, his lesson was cut short when he became trapped in the News Factory, a virtual world of crystalline matrix populated by journalists, including married couple, Ray and Boudica Royce, whom the Doctor allied with to destroy the aggressive SubEds and the News Factory itself by distrupting the crystalline matrix. (COMIC: Hot Metal)
On Earth, the Doctor discovered Max Capricorn's henchmen had kidnapped Jack Harkness after mistaking him for Max. Joining forces with Martha, the Doctor travelled to Penhaxico Two and rescued Jack. (COMIC: Escape to Penhaxico)
After burning toast in the TARDIS, the Doctor was forced to land in a purple alien jungle, where he met Mason Burns, an archeologist searching for the final resting place of the Old Kings of Skarab. The Doctor joined him on his quest. After battling giant scorpians and escaping various traps, the Doctor discovered a group of humans had been turned into gorilla's by the kings centuries ago. Finding and sealing the kings tomb, the Doctor leaves Mason to lead a revolution on Skarab. (COMIC: The Old Kings of Skarab)
In Switzerland in 1816, the Doctor found a giant creatured called Zzazik was responsible for a storm and trapped it in sparks of electric. After this, the Doctor re-encountered a face from his past: Mary Shelley, companion of his eighth incarnation who had been knocked unconscious by the sparks of electricity. However, he left without revealing his identity, inspiring her to write Frankenstein. (COMIC: The Creative Spark)
Tracking a Sea-Rah creature that had fallen throught a hole in time, the Doctor arrived on a beach in England, where he saved a young boy called Lewis from the Sea-Rah. Unable to return the Sea-Rah home, the Doctor relocated it to Kenru Za in Galaxy 29 and returns Lewis to Earth afterwards. (COMIC: Sea-Rah)
Visiting the Vienna State Opera, the Doctor discovered the great tenor, Anton Mordillo, was actually a member of the Thieves' Guild of Kardol, a group of alien con-artists wanted in seven star systems. (COMIC: The Great Mordillo)
A Noble reunion
While investigating Adipose Industries, the Doctor was reunited with Donna Noble, who had spent months searching for him. With the help of Donna, he used two Adipose Industries pendants to prevent a million Londoners from being killed and their organs and skeletons converted into Adipose. The Doctor tried to save the life of Matron Cofelia, the foster mother to the few thousand Adipose that made it through before the birthing stopped, but the Adipose First Family's ship dropped her as it took aboard the incomplete harvest of Adipose.
Deciding to travel together, the Doctor and Donna were both quick to rule out the possibility of a romantic involvement, making their companionship dynamically different from those of Rose and Martha. This was something the Doctor had been wishing for: just a friend, no romance. He flew the TARDIS to where her grandfather Wilfred was looking at the stars through his telescope, waving to him along with Donna before heading off into the stars. (TV: Partners in Crime)
The Doctor and Donna travelled to 79, where he thought he landed in Rome. Discovering instead that they had landed one day before "Volcano Day" in Pompeii, the Doctor tried rushing Donna back to the TARDIS. However, he was constantly pestered by her to try saving the citizens. He then took interest in how the Sibylline Sisterhood were able to accurately foretell the future, learning they were turning to stone. The Doctor discovered Pyroviles were attempting to take over the Earth after losing their own world by converting humans into their own kind. Having the choice between the death of the entire world or of the thousands in Pompeii, the Doctor made Vesuvius erupt and destroyed the Pyroviles. Per Donna's request, he saved a single family, admitting she was right; he did need someone to help him resist his darker side. (TV: The Fires of Pompeii)
The Doctor was next forced to arrive at Planet 1, where he was hunted for sport by Sebastiene and the rest of his sadistic society. However, the Doctor escaped. (PROSE: The Doctor Trap)
They then encountered the Cult of Shining Darkness, who loathed robots. The Doctor managed to prevent them from carrying out their plans, but at the cost of the cultists being caught in an explosion. (PROSE: Shining Darkness)
Their next trip brought them to Calcutta, where they were forced to stop Darac-7, a Jal Karath, from kidnapping all humans to turn into Gelem warriors to be sold to the Hive Council. With the help of Mohandas Gandhi, they destroyed Darc-7 and his ship. (PROSE: Ghosts of India)
In 4126, the Doctor learned that the Ood of the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire were actually slaves instead of servants and helped free them by opening the field blocking the Ood Brain, the "third element" of Oodkind's minds. The vile owner of Ood Operations, Mr Halpen, was also turned into a Ood himself as punishment for how cruel he was to them. After this, Ood Sigma foretold that the Doctor's song would end soon. (TV: Planet of the Ood)
Martha phoned to the Doctor to call him back to UNIT in 2009 to investigate 52 simultaneous ATMOS-related deaths across the Earth. He discovered the Sontarans were working with Luke Rattigan to create ATMOS; they also replaced Martha with a clone, to keep them updated on the movements of the Doctor and UNIT. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem) The sezerfine gas was emitted from ATMOS-equipped cars across the Earth to be used to breed more Sontarans for the war against the Rutans. After finding and freeing the real Martha (he immediately knew she was replaced), the Doctor used an atmospheric converter, built by the students at Luke's school for gifted children, to ignite the atmosphere, destroying the gas. The Sontarans' next plan was to simply conquer Earth. Rattigan, having been betrayed by the Sontarans, sacrificed his life, swapping places with the Doctor at the last minute to destroy the flagship with the converter. (TV: The Poison Sky)
Directly following this, the TARDIS unexpectedly transported the Doctor, Donna and an unwilling Martha to the planet Messaline in the year 6012. There, DNA was stolen and replicated to produce Jenny, his biological "daughter". Paradoxically, it was Jenny's creation which brought the TARDIS to Messaline to begin with. Initially critical of the girl due to her predilection for violence and haunted by the loss of his other children, the Doctor came to feel for his daughter. The Doctor activated the Source, a terraforming device that had become a subject of mythology. Messaline became inhabitable and the war between humans and Hath on the planet ended. Before the Doctor could take Jenny aboard the TARDIS, she was shot by General Cobb, stepping in to save the Doctor's life. the heartbroken Doctor overcame his desire for revenge however, in order to help found a new society on the planet. Martha returned to her fiancé Tom Milligan, as she had been taken there by mistake. The Doctor travelled on with the burden of another lost loved one, unaware that his daughter had actually survived and was travelling across the universe, just like him. (TV: The Doctor's Daughter)
The Doctor next foiled the Slitheen's plot to take control of the human race by using TV broadcasting. During this adventure, the Doctor's actions led him to the attention of BBC News, which made him and Donna celebrities. (COMIC: Just Another Thursday)
The Doctor was part of a murder mystery in Eddison Manor in 1926. Working with yet another of his favourite authors, Agatha Christie, the Doctor discovered Arnold Golightly, a half Vespiform - half human, was turned into a murderer when the Firestone mentally connected him to Agatha. The Firestone gave him the wrong template on how the world worked, and he imitated the murder methods in Agatha's books. When Donna threw the gem into a lake, with Golighty going after it, the connection caused temporary amnesia in Christie, and the Doctor dropped her off in the Harrogate Hotel. He also showed Donna that Agatha's work would be read for a long time by showing her a volume he got in 5,000,000,000. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp)
The Doctor received a message on his psychic paper from Professor River Song, a woman from his future. She called him to the Library in the 51st century to help a team of archaeologists representing the Felman Lux Corporation to investigate the planet, which had been sealed off a century earlier with the message "4022 saved. No survivors." However, she called him at a point where he had no idea who she was. The group discovered the Library infested by Vashta Nerada. The Doctor teleported Donna back to the TARDIS with the shop's teleporters, but she failed to make it. (TV: Silence in the Library) She was "saved" inside the Library's core. River gained the Doctor's trust by revealing to him that she knew his real name. The Doctor realised that the 4022 people being "saved" meant they were inside the core.
Angered by them devouring Anita, the Doctor asked the Vashta Nerada to look him up. The swarm backed down for a day to give the Doctor time to save the people in the Core before the Library detonated. River knocked out the Doctor and handcuffed him, sacrificing herself to boost the Library's memory, which devastated the Doctor as he began to realise how important she would be to him in the future. This returned the 4000 people who were saved in the Library's core, including Donna.
The Doctor, inspired by her faith in him, saved River Song by preserving her data ghost, saved in the sonic screwdriver by his future self, into the core's virtual reality, and travelled on with Donna to find the "next chapter" in his long life. (TV: Forest of the Dead)
The Doctor met an old foe from his fourth incarnation, the Mandragora Helix. He managed to prevent it from spreading influence through the internet. He then sent it out into space, confused and with memories missing, leaving it harmless for the time being. (PROSE: Beautiful Chaos)
At Donna's request, the Doctor next took her to Hollywood in 2012. But they discovered Amelia Hubble, a creature capable of sucking thoughts and ideas out of the brain, had brought the deserted town to it's knees. After falling under Amelia's control himself, the Doctor stopped her from destroying the last talent in the city, Alan Crawford and allowed her to draw creative plasma energy from the internet, saving the celebrities she has already claimed and restoring Hollywood. The Doctor and Donna returned to Hollywood a year later to find that Amelia and Alan had got married. (COMIC: Nightmare on the Boulevard)
Soon after, the Doctor and Donna visited a dairy farm in 1970 and defeated turbine-shaped plant creatures. (COMIC: Windswept)
Arriving on the International Space Station in 2058, the Doctor formed an alliance with researcher Truman Truss to battle space insects called the Mange Mites. During this adventure, he inspired mankind to go deeper into space than they had ever been before. (COMIC: Attack of the Mange Mites!)
On a visit to the Myolthen galaxy, the Doctor and Donna lost the TARDIS when it was swept away by a waterfall. Caught up in a raging waterfall themselves, the Doctor and Donna were saved by Jeb, a fisherman from Zentos 3. He, along with a group of intelligent bears, helped the Doctor to locate the TARDIS. (COMIC: Washed Away!)
Taking Donna to the ancient Acropolis of Xentha in Galaxy 12, the Doctor encountered the Titanoleum Army and foiled their plot to convert holidaymakers into Teglatrons, reverting the people they had previously converted to their true form. (COMIC: Titanoleum Tourists)
During this time, the Doctor and Donna watched the courtship of the Zygolt, battled intelligent dogs in a flying house, watched the Beatles perform in 1963, prevented time from being meddled with in the 17th century and joined forces with a survey team to escape a living swamp. (COMIC: The Time of My Life)
The Doctor and Donna later visited the leisure planet Midnight. Donna stayed at the leisure palace whilst the Doctor took a four-hour ride on the Crusader 50 bus to the Sapphire Waterfall. The bus was attacked by an unknown entity which possessed one of the passengers, Sky Silvestry, and eventually appeared to pass into the Doctor, inciting mass hysteria among the other passengers. Before the creature could trick the passengers into throwing out the Doctor, Sky was dragged out into the Xtonic sunlight by the bus' hostess, who realised that Sky was stealing the Doctor's voice, and the creature departed, its plans defeated. (TV: Midnight)
Visiting a garden centre at Christmas, the Doctor and Donna ran into a living snowman who was actually a Snowdemon creature, and they helped the Pixees to put it on trial for its crimes. (COMIC: Frosty the Snowdemon)
The Doctor and Donna visited the Chinese-influenced planet of Shan Shen. While Donna had her fortune told, a member of the Trickster's Brigade created an alternate universe around her, one in which Donna never met the Doctor. In this alternate universe she met Rose Tyler, who told her two words to tell the Doctor. After Donna corrected the universe, she was able to tell the Doctor, "Bad Wolf" - it meant the end of the universe. (TV: Turn Left)
War of the Medusa Cascade
The Doctor rushed back to Earth. He found that everything was normal, but when they re-entered the TARDIS, the planet was gone. Finding no clue as to its location he went to the Shadow Proclamation and learned twenty-seven planets had been stolen. With the cooperation of Harriet Jones, Jack Harkness and his Torchwood team, Sarah Jane Smith, Luke Smith, Martha Jones, Mr Smith and Rose Tyler, his Children of Time, he was contacted. He locked onto the location of the Earth by following the trail of the Tandocca Scale left by the missing Earth as well as the Children of Time's signal. After talking with his friends and Davros, who had been saved by Dalek Caan from the Last Great Time War, he landed on Earth. While talking to Donna, she pointed out Rose was behind him. The two began to run towards each other. A Dalek emerged from the shadows and fired at him before being destroyed by a teleporting Jack Harkness. It was only a glancing blow, but was enough to mortally wound him. The Doctor was taken back into the TARDIS, where he began to regenerate. (TV: The Stolen Earth)
Using his nearby severed hand, the Doctor used the regeneration to heal himself, but not to regenerate into a new form. The TARDIS was taken on board the Dalek Crucible where the Doctor, Rose and Jack were captured. Donna was locked inside the TARDIS, which was sent to be destroyed. As a result of this, a new Doctor was born from his severed hand when Donna touched it. The meta-crisis made Donna part-Time Lord, becoming the DoctorDonna of the Ood prophecy. As the Children of Time gathered on the Crucible, Davros forced the Doctor to remember everyone who had died in his name, unveiling his soul. DoctorDonna disabled the planet powered reality bomb to stop Davros from destroying the entire universe and then the three Doctors sent the planets, apart from Earth back to their original time and place. The Doctor was horrified by the actions of the new Doctor, who had wiped out the last remaining members of the Dalek race knowing they had the numbers to take the universe by force.
As the Doctor's companions fled to safety in the TARDIS, the Doctor offered to save Davros and Caan. Davros refused, hatefully denouncing the Doctor as "the Destroyer of worlds", while Caan predicted that one of the Doctor's companions would perish. The Children of Time used the TARDIS to tow Earth back to its original point in time and space. The Doctor said his goodbyes to Sarah Jane, Martha, Jack and Mickey before he left the new Doctor in a parallel world, hoping Rose and he would be able to help each other. The new Doctor whispered what the Doctor was going to say the last time they were separated and Rose and the new Doctor kissed. Upon returning to his own universe, the Doctor was forced to remove all of Donna's Time Lord abilities and memories of travelling with him, as they would have killed her because her human body couldn't handle it. He returned Donna to her mother and grandfather, and told them they would have to make sure she never remembered him. The Doctor was then left to travel on, alone and saddened at the number of companions he had lost. (TV: Journey's End)
Not long after, the Doctor discovered Donna, knowing that one day she would be forced to leave him, had recorded a message on Emergency Programme One to say a proper goodbye to him. She told him never to give up on his travels and to find someone else, which he did not. (COMIC: The Time of My Life)
The Doctor caused a change in a timeline that resulted in a friend named Carla disappearing. Per Carla's request, the Doctor spent "years" searching for what became of Carla in the new timeline, eventually locating her. (PROSE: The Haldenmor Fugue)
Invasion of the mind
Es'Cartrss of the Tactire, an inhabitant of Callufrax Minor, had been stuck on the Dalek Crucible and was unable to return home before the Doctors returned the planets. He escaped to the TARDIS where he attempted to take over the Doctor's mind, but the Doctor's link with the TARDIS forced them both into the Matrix, where the Doctor lost all memory of his previous nine lives. Assisted by a TARDIS impersonation of Martha Jones, The Doctor had the stronger mind and began recalling past adventures, eventually gaining control of his memories. The Doctor and his TARDIS, which was now impersonating all of the Doctor's companions from his ten incarnations, fought Auton, Metabilis Spiders and Clockwork droids. The Doctor had the strong mind, killing Es'Cartrss. As the TARDIS had saved his past and future, the Doctor began to appreciate his faithful ship more, knowning that "she" would always be there for him. Before returning to reality, the Doctor asked the TARDIS to impersonate a special face from his past: his granddaughter Susan. After an emotional goodbye to his granddaughter, the Doctor planned to visit the place he had wanted to visit ever since his regeneration - Barcelona. (COMIC: The Forgotten)
Alone again
the Doctor travelled to London on Christmas Eve, 1851. Whilst there, the Doctor met a man calling himself "the Doctor" and at first assumed him to be his future incarnation. In reality, he was a human, Jackson Lake, who had the contents of an infostamp about the Doctor imprinted on his brain. Jackson and his companion, Rosita Farisi, aided the Doctor in stopping the plot of the Cybermen and their ally, Mercy Hartigan. London was saved. Lake was reunited with his son, Frederick and invited the Doctor to share Christmas dinner with his new family, an offer which was at first declined, then accepted by the Doctor as it became an order. (TV: The Next Doctor)
Soon after, the Doctor discovered Earth had been accidentally "sold" to the peace-loving Nin Confederacy by a human called Robbie, who had gained posession of the mobile of intergalactic estate agent Fliant Wormbleeder. Before he could save humanity from being exiled from their homeworld, the Doctor discovered two other, hostile, alien species, the Ssraarl and the Hoolox had also bought Earth. He failed to reason with them, but allied with the Nin to stop them from firing missiles at Earth. He stopped a war from breaking out by finding a new homeworld for the three species. (COMIC: The Day the Earth Was Sold/The King of Earth)
Heather and Wolfie
Travelling alone, the Doctor met Heather McCrimmon, a 19-year-old history student at Edinburgh University and a descendant of his old friend, Jamie McCrimmon. After she helped him defeat the Mozhtratta, who had plotted to go back in time to murder the McCrimmon's of the 19th century, the Doctor invited Heather aboard the TARDIS, considering it as a way of furthering her education. (COMIC: The Chromosome Connection)
On their first adventure together, the Doctor and Heather went swimming in the pacific ocean and discovered an underwater city populated by the Spaeron. The Doctor later transported them to Kerun Za, since their planet had been destroyed by the Daleks. (COMIC: The Aquarius Condition)
The Doctor next took Heather to Podworld, where they worked with former model and businesswomen, Maya De La Gratzka to restore the Podworld residents. (COMIC: Glum Culture)
Returning Heather to Edinburgh, the Doctor stopped the Cran Movement from stealing Earth's clouds, and imprisoned them at the Shadow Proclamation when they refused to leave Earth. (COMIC: The Great Rain Robbery)
Visiting Delquis, a place of radiant beauty, the Doctor and Heather united two kingdoms, the Parrians and the Shell's, by convincing the Parrian prince to declare his love for the Shell Judge. (COMIC: The Parrian Proposal)
Leaving Delquis, the Doctor and Heather met Hiram Bingham in Peru in 1911 and worked alongside him to close a number of time holes that had been unleashing the Incasaurs, creatures from another dimension, onto Earth. (COMIC: Hitching Point)
The Doctor next took Heather to Waltox Worldstor, the largest supermarket in the galaxy which orbited around Earth, where they prevented faulty robots from crushing all life on Earth, as they believed that humanity was the store's competition. (COMIC: Store Wars)
The Doctor and Heather became stranded on a sinking German U-boat in 1944, led by Captain Otto Lehmann. With no other option, the Doctor helped saved Otto's crew, even though he was opposed by an aggressive soldier called Krigge, who believed he was a spy. During this adventure, the Doctor helped Heather to overcome her grief and revenge for her grandfather, who had died in a U-Boat attack in 1944. (COMIC: The Submariners)
Taking Heather to a musical in New York in 2018, the Doctor discovered the Gavulav, alien computer hackers, had infiltrated the NYPD so that they could fleece Earth's economy. The Doctor used a Gallifreyan counter virus to stop their schemes. (COMIC: The Greed of the Gavulav)
Attempting to make repairs to the TARDIS, the Doctor stopped off at an empty nebula. However, he was accidentally knocked into a coma and Heather was taken by an angry alien who intended to conquer the Human Empire of Wrap. Whilst trying to save her, the Doctor accidentally made himself gigantic. (COMIC: The Secret Army)
Intending to visit Professor Vexor on planet Flexella, the Doctor and Heather took a train through the Fluxos desert, where they encountered a Flexellan Octopod. (COMIC The Silver Bullet)
After escaping the Mohagan Horde on Mohaga, Heather became invisible, so the Doctor took her to InFECT, which specialised in intergalactic medicine. The Doctor allied with Professor Aldrin Strykt to find a cure. When everyone on the InFECT spacestation became infected by Heather's invisible virus, the Doctor went on a mission to Mohaga, where he once again battled the Mohagan Horde and found the organic protein that saved Heather and everyone aboard InFECT. (COMIC: The Invisibles)
Visiting an OAP's home in deep space, the Doctor helped the residents to retrieve their stolen spaceship from space pirates. However, his plan failed when the residents took up a life of piracy and the pirates, who had stolen their ship, decided to retire. (COMIC: Good Old Days)
On a trip to an alien mountain, the Doctor and Heather were challenged to the Abomination Game, where contestants undertook dangerous tests. After completing the game, the Doctor closed down the game's computer, allowing all of the population to be winners. (COMIC: The Abomination Game)
The Doctor became curious about the disappearance of USS Cyclops in 1918 and arrived aboard the ship hours before it sailed into the Bermuda Triangle and vanished. There, he and Heather were captured by Captain Worley and defeated an Octopod, a Rutan weapon. Even though he saved the crew from the Octopod, the Doctor never discovered why the Cyclops disappeared and was unable to avert it, as it was a fixed point in history. He also learnt that some mysteries would never be uncovered, not even by him. (COMIC: Cyclops)
The Doctor and Heather visited the Crystal Palace in 1854, only to find the palace deserted. Investigating, the Doctor re-encountered Victumas, queen of the dominion sisterhood whom he trapped in an antimatter realm years previously. He foiled her plot to dominate the galaxy, killing her and burning down the Crystal Palace in the process. (COMIC: The Crystal Palace)
The Doctor and Heather took a trip to the tomb of Ashgar, the most feared demon of Kroul, and encountered his spirit. (COMIC: The Spirit of Ashgar)
Soon after, the Doctor became a judge for Monster Idol, a competition to be crowned the bodyguards of the King and Queen of Meritoria. Working behind-the-scenes, Heather discovered an alien couple had been impersonating the King and Queen, and had planted a bomb inside the camera's with the aim of killing all contestants. (COMIC: Monster Idol)
In 1969 London, the Doctor and Heather stopped a SlakkenKind hunter from hunting and killing Slakken cats, taking him to Slakken afterwards to free all the cats he had imprisoned. (COMIC: The Slakken Cat)
After losing his sonic screwdriver, the Doctor located it to Jubilee Court on Earth, where he and Heather discovered his sonic had been broadcasting a bubble of silence across the world, cancelling out any sound waves. They saved Agnes Hardcastle from a silent creature responsible and broke the silence, destroying the creature. (COMIC: Hear No Evil)
When the TARDIS encountered an anomaly in the vortex and received time sickness, it caused interior of the ship to change, including the console room. Exploring the depths of his ship to fix things, the Doctor battled giant chicks and stumbled across a high-tech console room with a jacuzzi and plasma TV. After becoming infected by the time sickness, the Doctor used the sonic screwdriver to form a connection to the "real TARDIS", which returned his beloved ship to normal. (COMIC: Terror in the TARDIS)
Returning Heather home, the Doctor escorted her to the Edinburgh University summer ball. The eyeless Kulgaris ambushed the party. He discovered they had been lured their by the ball singer, who was actually a Gumpii. Foiling their plot of conquest, the Doctor destroyed the Kulgaris and put the Gumpii in chains. (COMIC: The Ball and Chain Gang)
The Doctor and Heather were later joined by 16-year old Wolfgang Ryter. (COMIC: Flight of the Giurgeax) The trio visited many planets around the Universe, including Lurbos 3, (COMIC: Sweet Dreams) the forests of Yellan, (COMIC: Copycat) Earth in 1967 (COMIC: Shadow of the Vaipid) and the misty land of Salzburg. (COMIC: The Curse of Vladula) When Wolfgang was almost killed in a battle to save the world, the Doctor returned him home, fearing that he was putting his life in danger. (COMIC: Bad Wolfie)
After many other adventures in time and space, the Doctor's journeys with Heather came to an end when she was infected by the Mozhatta's deadly machine. The Doctor discovered that if Heather travelled in time, she would be ripped apart by time radiation, and he was forced to leave her behind, even though he was deeply heartbroken by this. (COMIC: Dead-line)
He watched a solar eclipse in the Arctic (COMIC: Arctic Eclipse), foiled the Klytode's plot to become President of Earth in the 41st century (COMIC: Return of the Klytode), saved a space frontier town called Dustville from a beast (COMIC: Mudshock), and prevented the Chukwa Fel interrogators from stealing a weapon that could destroy Earth. (COMIC: Project UFO)
A lonely god
After his travels with Heather, the Doctor travelled to London in 2009 at Easter, investigating strange readings on a bus. While he investigated, the bus hurtled through a wormhole to reappear on San Helios. On the bus, he met Christina de Souza, and cooperated with her, along with UNIT, to return the bus and its occupants to Earth and stop the Swarm from invading. Before leaving in the TARDIS, the Doctor rejected Christina's offer of companionship, stating that he had lost everyone who travelled with him and he had sworn never again. Carmen, a low level psychic who aided the Doctor, offered a prophecy. She told him, "Your song is ending sir, It is returning. It is returning through the dark, oh but then... he will knock four times". Christina was arrested for multiple thefts, but the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to aid her escape in the bus. When the Doctor was about to be arrested for helping Christina, he entered the "police box" to "arrest himself" and left. (TV: Planet of the Dead)
Soon after, the Doctor began visiting Douglas Henderson throughout his life without ever having contact with him because he was secretly a doomsday weapon created during the Last Great Time War. However, when Douglas was middle-aged, the Doctor was forced to take Douglas aboard the TARDIS as a group of aliens had began hunting him so that they could use him as a weapon. But the Doctor used Douglas to drain the aliens powers, and soon after, he reset Douglas and allowed him to spend the rest of his life on Earth. (COMIC: The Big, Blue Box)
The Doctor arrived on Arcopolis to destroy a weapon that was left behind after a war. An alien force called the Eyeless attempted to steal the weapon themselves. But the Doctor destroyed the weapon and defeated the Eyeless. (PROSE: The Eyeless)
After arriving in New Memphis in 2487, the Doctor tried to stop a contagion called the Invisible Assassin, with the help a Nikki Jupiter and a Judoon called Rok Ma. (PROSE: Judgement of the Judoon)
Arriving in 1500 BC Greece, the Doctor thwarted a Slitheen plan to travel back in time and exchange food during a famine, for champions to fight for them in the Platonic War. (PROSE: The Slitheen Excursion)
When the TARDIS jumped a time track, the Doctor found himself on the planet Hurala during the Second Dalek War, where he encountered the crew of the bounty spaceship, the Wayfarer. The Doctor discovered that the Dalek empire had tried to exploit the Arkheon Threshold on the planet Arkheon, so they could have time travel. While on Arkheon, the Doctor encountered Dalek X and his flagship, the Exterminator. However, the Doctor destroyed Dalek X, the Exterminator and sealed the Arkheon Threshold. (PROSE: Prisoner of the Daleks)
During the 26th century, the Doctor arrived to investigate the appearance of Sontarans and Rutans on the planet, Chelsea 426 during the Chelsea Flower Show. He was assisted by Jake Carstairs, Vienna Carstairs, Wallace Fitch. (PROSE: The Taking of Chelsea 426)
In 2013, the Doctor foiled an Auton invasion in the Hyperville shopping complex, with the help of Kate Maguire, who had met the Doctor previously in 2009 (from her perspective). (PROSE: Autonomy)
He once again encountered the Krillitane in Worcester in 1140. He found them half-way to the stage he saw them in when he met Sarah Jane Smith during his investigation. Once again, the Doctor defeated them with the help of their own oil. (PROSE: The Krillitane Storm)
The Doctor was brought back into Sarah Jane Smith's world when he crashed her wedding. He knew the Trickster, her arch-enemy, would try to get his revenge on her since his previous attempts to get rid of her failed. As he arrived, Sarah Jane and her fiancé Peter Dalton were taken by the Trickster. He was teleported to a nether realm along with K9, Rani Chandra and Clyde Langer, Sarah Jane's younge companions, and her son Luke, who he had met in the Medusa Cascade battle. He fought the Trickster, who hinted about his death, stating, "The gate is waiting". The TARDIS gave Clyde the power to control artron energy by mistake. Clyde defeated the Trickster with this energy, while the Doctor informed Sarah Jane what needed to be done. Peter sacrificed himself to destroy the Trickster, leaving Sarah Jane alone and heartbroken. When the world was restored, the Doctor visited 13 Bannerman Road and let Sarah Jane and her friends look inside TARDIS, after which he said farewell while sincerely asking Sarah Jane to never forget him, still haunted by the loss of Donna Noble. (TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith)
Majenta and the Crimson Hand
The Doctor was brought back into Majenta Pryce's world when he went undercover as a medical doctor at the Thinktwice Orbital Penitentiary, where she had been imprisoned thanks to his meddling in her "Hotel Historia" business. However, the harsh regime and crude psychological methods of the prison left Majenta with little or no memory of the Doctor or her life before their first meeting. The Doctor restored Majenta's memory of him, but could not restore anything else. Together, they uncovered the truth behind Thinktwice; it was being used by the Memeovax, who fed on the prisoners' memories. When one of the Memeovax tried to invade Majenta's mind, she unleashed a blast of power that destroyed all the Memeovax in Thinktwice Prison. Afterwards, in the TARDIS, Majenta quickly co-opted the Doctor into helping her resolve her memory issues. (COMIC: Thinktwice)
Returning to Stockbridge, the Doctor was reunited with Maxwell Edison and saved his old friend and Stockbridge village from the Lokhus of the Zytragupten. After this, the Doctor once again asked Maxwell to travel with him. But he declined, instead opting to protect Stockbridge from aliens. (COMIC: The Stockbridge Child)
The Doctor and Majenta arrived at an apparently abandoned house on the edge of the Proxima System. The Doctor discovered a holographic party run by a digitised avatar of Wesley Sparks, founder of Sparktech. As events from decades before replayed in holographic form, the Doctor was astonished to learn Majenta had been a guest at the party as Wesley's best friend, business partner and fiancée. the real Majenta explored the house. She came upon the real Wesley Sparks, now a desiccated cyborg who had gone insane as he preserved himself with bionic parts, waiting for Majenta to return from "pressing business". He attempted to force Majenta into marrying him, but she was saved by the Doctor and Wesley's avatar, still the dignified host and gentleman he had been. Damaged in battle saving Majenta, the avatar begged Majenta to remember their lives together. Majenta tearfully broke down and embraced the avatar as it died. (COMIC: Mortal Beloved)
Still trying to take Majenta to Panacea — a healing world, where the Doctor planned to solve Majenta's memory problems — they got sidetracked and landed in Sydney, where they were taken into custody by UNIT's Australian branch. The Doctor was surprised to find the UNIT officer was Majenta's old confidante, Fanson, disguised by a perception filter. Fanson was now in the thrall of the Doctor's previous foe, the Skith Leader, who was secretly helping Fanson infiltrate the UNIT operation. Majenta was captured by the Skith General's rival forces, who were surprised to find themselves unable to access her mind. The Skith elected her as the perfect pilot for the prototype timeship (or SKARDIS), a replica of the Doctor's TARDIS, and converted her into a Skith Queen. While she was in this form, the Doctor convinced her to turn on the Skith and help UNIT destroy their ship. As the Skithship fell, Fanson revealed that he was responsible for erasing her memory to spare her agony. Fanson died from injuries sustained at the hands of the Skith General, and the Doctor and Majenta fled, finally beginning to warm to each other. (COMIC: The Age of Ice)
The Doctor and Majenta next visited New Old Detroit, a planet in the Proxima System. There, they solved the final case of low-life private eye JJohnny Seaview and wrested control of the World Bomb from a corrupt Alpha Centaurean. The Doctor triggered the World Bomb, transforming the slums of New Old Detroit into a world mapped on his memories of England. (COMIC: The Deep Hereafter)
The Doctor next took Majenta to Graveworld 909, where they stopped Prespero, the guardian of the planet who had taken away the population's speech following a galactic war. (COMIC: Onomatopoeia)
After that, the Doctor took Majenta to see the play The Mousetrap. In the London Underground they found "ghosts" saved by a being known as Mnemosyne. After they defeated Mnemosyne and after receiving another prophecy about his approaching demise, the Doctor decided to stick to his "no companions" rule and intended to take Majenta to Panacea. Before he could take her there, a fleet of ships surronded Earth, having finally tracked down him and Majenta. (COMIC: Ghosts of the Northern Line)
Majenta and the Doctor tried to escape in the TARDIS, but this failed as Intersol launched a tractor beam, sending Majenta onto Intersol's ship. She was mind-probed by Intersol's computer, Justice, and then attacked by her old cellmate, Zed. However, the four remaining members of the Crimson Hand arrived, having followed her around the universe. They killed most of Intersol's staff and took Majenta over again. As she was taken over, she teleported the Doctor and his TARDIS in a pocket dimension, making her Crimson Hand friends believe the Doctor was turned into ashes.
After the Crimson Hand members seized control of the whole universe, Majenta restored Vessica. It had been a planet of immense poverty; this changed when she used the Crimson Hand to make the planet rich again. The population rebelled against her and she brought back the Doctor. After resisting the urge to use its power to bring back everyone he had lost, the Doctor and Majenta finally destroyed the Crimson Hand at the cost of Majenta's own life. The Doctor resurrected her and placed her in the restored New Old Detroit. As long as the Doctor remembered her, she would stay alive. After this, he was once again left to travel alone. (COMIC: The Crimson Hand)
Making new friends and enemies
In 1926 Hollywood, the Doctor was at a celebrity party under the guise of many celebrities, where he met Archie Maplin, a young actress called Emily Winter and a runner called Matthew Finnegan. He drew the attention of Maximilian Love and Mr Leo Millar, two Terranites, who planned to transfer the hopes and dreams from young actors, such as Maplin and transplant them into themselves, because they were actors on Terron V. Maplin was about to be drained by Millar and Love, but the Doctor offered himself for Maplin’s safety.
The Doctor’s memories proved almost too much for them, and inadvertently set fire to the building. The Doctor got them all safely out the building before it exploded. Outside they saw Miller escaping, but was eventually arrested by the police. As the Doctor headed back to the TARDIS, Matthew and Emily asked if they could join him, but he refused. However, as he was about to enter his ship, a temporal vortex opened up. From it emerged Judoon and a Shadow Architect, who arrested the Doctor for interfering in fixed points in times. (COMIC: Silver Scream)
Placed on trial by the Shadow Proclamation for transgressing the Laws of Time and saving Emily’s life when she should have died when the building was on fire. Mr Finch was the Doctor's prosecutor and the Advocate was defence, but the Advocate was later killed. The Doctor was sentenced to imprisonment on Volag-Noc, and during the journey met a Draconian, a Sontaran and an Ogron. The Doctor’s party took control of the ship. After this, the Doctor learned that his trial was set up to uncover Finch's plot, but he also found out that Finch was from a shapeshifting race called the Gizou, in disguise. The Doctor returned to 1926 Hollywood to collect the Terronite Transference machine, used to extract memories from the Doctor's mind. While there, he invited Matthew Finnegan and Emily Winter to travel with him, unaware that the Advocate had survived by unknown means and was on the hunt for the Terronite machine in the Doctor's posessions. (COMIC: Fugitive)
The TARDIS was invaded by aliens called the Acari led by the Advocate, and were intent on killing the Doctor. The breach of the TARDIS by the Acari spaceship forced the TARDIS interior to rearrange itself, displacing the console room, and risking implosion. Since the Doctor was psychically linked to the TARDIS, the trauma of having the Acari ship aboard caused the Doctor to undergo mental instability and his past selves began to bleed through. The Advocate placed doubt into Matthew’s mind about the Doctor's morality by urging him to read the secret diary previously belonging to Turlough. A being called the Tef’Aree appeared to Emily in the TARDIS. Emily helped the Doctor save the ship, and the Acari ship separated from the TARDIS, but not before the Advocate stole the Terranite technology. (COMIC: Tesseract)
The Doctor was summoned to Greenwich Park by Martha Jones and Captain Magambo working on behalf of UNIT, and claimed that the trees were attacking people. The tree trunks were marked with Enochian symbols, a language invented by mathematician and magician John Dee to converse with angels. The Doctor realised these ‘angels’ were trapped beneath the observatory, but emerged through the trees in the park. The Doctor headed into the passages beneath the park to communicate with the ‘angels’. In actuality, the aliens were waiting in suspended animation for the Doctor to free them. Believing the Enochia’s story, the Doctor set them free, but it was a trick. John Dee trapped them, but they became free to take over all of the trees and conquer the Earth.
The Enochia realised the Doctor didn't remove the forcefield trapping it, so they threatened Emily. The Doctor and Emily escaped, but plunged down a hidden shaft into an ancient cavern where they discovered a stripped down colony ship containing thousands of Enochians in stasis. But the Advocate arrived and opened the stasis pods, releasing the Enochia. The Enochia trapped Central London in a forcefield. The Advocate appeared to Martha and proposed a way of ending the crisis, by striking at the Enochian ship and planting a bomb in it. Martha found Emily and the Doctor, and they confronted the Advocate, but Magambo refused to allow him time to develop an alternative solution to the Enochia threat and insisted on following the Advocate’s plan. When he resisted this option, she arrested the Doctor.
Martha and Emily rescued the Doctor. The Doctor arrived and launched the Enochia ship into space, which drew all the Enochian up with it, and removing the forcefield. The Advocate’s bomb was no longer needed, but the countdown was accidentally started and the ship would explode, leaving a gardener called Mr Crane trapped inside, but the Doctor could do nothing to save him. The Advocate used Crane’s death to finally destroy Matthew’s faith in the Doctor and Matthew elected to leave the Doctor, and travel with the Advocate instead. After solving the crisis, the Doctor and Emily departed from London. (COMIC: Don't Step on the Grass)
After several adventures in the TARDIS, the Doctor and Emily arrived at the Shady Grove Rest Home in the 21st century where an old man named Barnaby Edwards celebrated his birthday. Although the Doctor didn’t recognise him, Barnaby insisted he travelled with the Doctor when he was a young man. The Doctor gave Barnaby an envelope and told him to guard it with his life. He returned it to the Doctor before dying, contented. The Doctor wasn’t upset - he knew he'd have the pleasure of meeting Barnaby as a young man sometime in his own future. Inside the envelope was the charred remains of Turlough’s diary and a warning that Matthew Finnegan was in danger. The Doctor and Emily headed off to find him and to stop the Advocate’s plans. (COMIC: Old Friend)
While exploring a war-torn planet, the Doctor and Emily encountered Robert Lewis and his colleagues: Eliza Cooper, Professor Alexander Hugh and Annabella Primavera from Oxford University in 1906. They were working for Torchwood, and were testing a time machine created from cannibalised alien technology, which inadvertantly transferred them through time and space to this planet. They were group was captured by inhabitants of the planet, called the Soul Free, who had been fighting with other inhabitants called Terror Farmers for thousands of years. The party, led by the Soul Free were led to a temple called Kol'Ne Wah, by the Gizou who impersonated Mr Finch during the Doctor's trial by the Shadow Proclamation, (COMIC: Fugitive) whose real name was Lau'Tan, and had been working against the Advocate since the trial.
They were attacked by the Terror Farmers, causing Annabella's death. Lau'Tan disguised himself as the Doctor and captured with Emily. The Doctor led the remaining group to the temple, where he discovered a lost expedition, who made contact with the Tef’Aree, who Emily had encountered in the TARDIS during the Acari incursion, (COMIC: Tesseract) and were in fact humans given a terraforming device with which they hoped to make the colony planet self-sufficient. After this discovery, the Doctor realised that the name "Terror Farmers" was a corruption of Terra Firma, likewise with the "Soul Free" (Sol Three). The Doctor discovered that the Advocate planned to use Matthew’s human DNA to reactivate the terraforming device which would wipe out the whole planet. Matthew and the Advocate teleported up to the orbiting terraforming device and the Doctor followed in the TARDIS. As the Advocate tried to get Matthew to activate the terraforming device, he finally revealed his true allegiance to Lau’Tan. She shot him Matthew, and used his palm to activate the device. The conflict on the ground between the Terror Farmers and the Soul Free was brought to an instant end as the device began to destroy everything on the planet.
Robert Lewis was destroyed by the terraforming beam, while Emily was saved from the blast by Turlough’s diary. The force field around the colony ship couldn't be repaired, but Lau’Tan realised it could be replaced. He transformed himself into a device to replace the damaged component and restart the shields while Emily got everyone safely inside. Matthew distracted the Doctor, grabbed the Advocate and deactivated the terraforming controls, but it backfired and both Matthew and the Advocate died instantly. But both their minds merged together into a fifth-dimensional being called Tef’Aree. The Tef'Aree previously gave the Earth colonists the terraforming technology, revived the Advocate and had generally manipulated events surrounding the Doctor, so that he could bring about his own creation. When the Doctor tried to scold the Tef'Aree, it vanished. Before deactivation, the terraforming beam destroyed the forcefield equipment, in turn, destroying Lau'Tan. However, many of the Soul Free and Terror Farmers were saved by his action, being protected by the forcefield. Eliza elected to remain and help to rebuild the planet, and build diplomatic relations between both factions. Upon discovering that the planet was called Terron V, he realised that both groups would unite, and eventually become the Terranites, who the Doctor fought in the form of Maximilian Love and Mr Leo Millar in Hollywood in 1926. (COMIC: Silver Scream) The Doctor took Professor Hugh and Emily back to 1906 Oxford in the TARDIS. There he explained that Annabella Primavera, like Emily, was a fixed point in time, but while Emily was supposed to have died, Annabella was supposed to have lived. Therefore, Emily had to live on Earth, and take her place to mend the web of time. Before she departed, Emily gave him Turlough's diary, which had saved her life, and the Doctor left for a trip to Mars. (COMIC: Final Sacrifice)
The prophecy unfolds
The Doctor, deciding to go to the planet Mars, met the crew of Bowie Base One, including Adelaide Brooke. He knew the crew of Bowie Base would die, as it was one of the most important events in the expansion of humanity through the universe. He learned that the crew died due to the Flood, which possessed six of them. Initially unwilling to interfere due to his belief that the event was a fixed point in time (Adelaide's death causing her grand daughter to be inspired and explore the stars), he changed course once he remembered the deaths he had lived through and what it had left him with. He saved Adelaide, Mia and Yuri and took them back to 2059 Earth. Adelaide was angry at the Doctor's interference and scolded him for thinking himself above obeying history's course. Adelaide then entered her home, apparently having given up trying to defy the Doctor, but committed suicide. The Doctor's memories of the day's events changed to fit in with the new timeline created. Distraught at the impossibility of his task of changing history, he began to ponder his own end when a vision of Ood Sigma appeared before him. It was this that made the Doctor realise that he had gone too far. As he entered the TARDIS, the Cloister Bell rang. With a defiant "No!", he activated the TARDIS. (TV: The Waters of Mars)
Delaying the inevitable
The Doctor spent an unknown amount of time avoiding answering the Ood's summons, during which the Doctor saved a planet from the Red Carnivorous Maw, named a galaxy, "Alison", and married Queen Elizabeth I, and then became her enemy. (TV: The End of Time, The Shakespeare Code)
The Doctor attended the funeral of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. (PROSE: The Gift)
The Doctor visited America in 1958. While there, he visited a diner, meeting Cassie Rice and Jimmy Stalkingwolf. The Doctor examined a piece of "space junk" from a UFO crash. He accidentally activated it, drawing the attention of the android, Mister Dread. Escaping, the Doctor, Cassie and Jimmy were attacked by a Viperox battle drone, which was promptly blown up by the United States military. The three were taken to Area 51. They encountered Colonel Stark, who dismissed the Doctor's warnings about the Viperox, and attempted to have the Doctor and his companions mind-wiped. The attempt was unsuccessful, and the trio soon escaped, discovering a small grey alien along the way. They fled to the town of Solitude and took shelter in a deserted building. Jimmy was kidnapped by the Viperox, forcing the Doctor and Cassie to follow. They found Jimmy in the presence of a Viperox Queen before escaping into the desert, where they were confronted by four members of the Alliance of Shades who were destroyed by Jimmy's father, Night Eagle. Night Eagle took them to Rivesh Mantilax, the husband of Seruba Velak, the grey alien captive in Area 51. Colonel Stark captured them all and took them back to Area 51. They Doctor ran off with the "space junk", which was actually a weapon capable of destroying the Viperox. He was cornered on the roof by the Colonel, but convinced him to turn against the Viperox. The Viperox invaded America but were beaten back by the Doctor. Before they retreated, the Viperox commander Lord Azlok snarled, "Your day will come, Doctor!", reminding the Doctor of his ever-approaching fate. He departed soon after, leaving Cassie and Jimmy with a suggestion to start dating. (TV: Dreamland)
After being shrunk to the size of a doll and helping the Ulian Empire's robots find Princess Cilia, the Doctor decided to rendezvous with the Ood. (PROSE: The Doctor on My Shoulder)
The Time Lords return
After meeting with the Ood on their home planet, the Doctor was told that a shadow was falling across creation, which was somehow connected to his former companion, Donna Noble and Wilfred Mott. He also learned of the Master's resurrection on Earth, and raced to stop it, only to arrive too late. The Doctor discovered the Master living in the wastelands of London. He tried to confront him, only to be reunited with Wilf. That night, the Doctor tracked down the Master once again, only for the Master to be abducted by Joshua Naismith's private army, and when the Doctor attempted to stop them, he was shot down.
After he recovered, the Doctor contacted Wilf, who informed him of Naismith and went with him in the TARDIS to the Naismith Manor. In the Manor's basement, the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to unveil two Vinvocci, Addams and Rossiter, who informed him of the Immortality Gate's true purpose. The Doctor rushed to stop the Gate's activation, but was unable to, and the Master turned the entire human race into copies of himself.
Wilf and the Doctor were then rescued by the Vinvocci, who took them to their ship, which the Doctor took offline to stop the Master finding them. Realising that the Master had the means to bring back the Time Lords using the White-Point Star he found, the Doctor took the gun he initially refused from Wilf and piloted the Vinvocci ship back towards the Naismith Manor, where he crashed through the manor's glass roof. However, he was unable to stop the Master from using the Star and the signal from the drums to create a link to Gallifrey, which allowed Rassilon and other Time Lords to appear.
Rassilon undid the Master's conversion of the human race, as Gallifrey appeared in the Earth's sky and began tearing open the time vortex. Torn between killing the Master or Rassilon in cold blood, The Doctor, upon seeing a familiar face behind Lord President Rassilon as he stepped out of the Immortality Gate, targeted the White-Point Star, severing the link, causing Gallifrey and the Time Lords to return to their proper time. Rassilon tried to kill the Doctor, but was saved by the Master attacking Rassilon with his energy blasts.
With the Time Lords, including the Master, gone, the Doctor realised he had survived, but then he heard four knocks. Wilf was trapped inside a radiation control booth which was about to be flooded with radiation. Despite his own anger and Wilf's pleas to leave him, he released Wilf and took his place, receiving a fatal level of radiation. The Doctor's regenerative process had started. Unlike previous occasions, however, the actual regeneration did not immediately occur, and the Doctor was able to not only return Wilf to his home, but spend an unknown length of time travelling through time and space revisiting his past companions, an act he referred to as his "reward".
The Doctor visited Martha Jones and Mickey Smith, now freelance alien fighters and married, saving them from a Sontaran. He went to 13 Bannerman Road where he prevented Luke Smith from being run over by a car and waved goodbye to Sarah Jane Smith. He travelled to a bar on the planet Zog, where Captain Jack Harkness was drowning his sorrows in a drink. He passed a note to Jack reading, "His name is Alonso". Jack turned to see Midshipman Alonso Frame, who the Doctor had worked with aboard the starship Titanic, and the Doctor departed as the two began flirting. The Doctor entered a bookstore where Verity Newman, a descendant of Joan Redfern, was signing copies of her book, A Journal of Impossible Things, (TV: The End of Time) which was based on the journal the Doctor had written during his time as John Smith. (TV: Human Nature) The Doctor had Verity sign his copy, and she realised he was the same Doctor. The Doctor asked Verity if Joan had been happy in the end which she confirmed, but he refused to answer her question of if he was. He then encountered Geoff Noble at some point before the man's death, and borrowed a pound from him. He then went to the future and used that pound to purchase a winning lottery ticket. He arrived at the wedding of Donna Noble and Shaun Temple, and asked Sylvia Noble and Wilf to give Donna the triple rollover-winning ticket as a wedding gift. (TV: The End of Time) The Doctor also visited Heather McCrimmon and Wolfgang Ryter, four years after they had left him (COMIC: Lucky Heather) The Doctor watched Jo Grant sail down the Yangtze River in a tea chest and watched over her large family, consisting of 7 children and 13 grandchildren. He visited all of his former companions from all of his ten incarnations, seeing how they got on. (TV: Death of the Doctor)
After finishing his long "reward", he travelled to the Powell Estate, on 1 January, 2005, where he observed Rose Tyler and her mother, Jackie Tyler, months before Rose first met him. Although he kept to the shadows, a sudden spasm of pain caught Rose's attention and the two exchanged New Year's greetings, with the Doctor telling Rose that she would have a "really great year" with tears in his eyes as he spoke. (TV: The End of Time)
Regeneration
After his final meeting with Rose, the pain of regeneration overwhelmed him and the Doctor collapsed on the Powell estate, where his current incarnation's life officially began. Ood Sigma then appeared and told him that while his song was ending, his ancient story never would, and that the universe would sing him to his sleep. Reaching the TARDIS, he piloted it into orbit around Earth, stated, "I don't want to go", and then regenerated into his eleventh incarnation. This time the energy released during the regeneration was enough to cause massive damage to the TARDIS. (TV: The End of Time)
Undated/unchronicled events
- The Doctor once commented that he, Rose Tyler, and an Arcturan had an interesting experience in a cellar. (AUDIO: The Day of the Troll)
- The Tenth Doctor and Martha Jones searched for the Infinite, a spaceship also sought by Baltazar. (TV: The Infinite Quest)
- The Doctor rescued Charlemagne from an insane computer. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp, PROSE: The Lonely Computer)
Alternate timelines
Donna's World
- In the parallel timeline in which Donna Noble never met the Doctor, this incarnation of the Doctor was the last, as he was killed before he had a chance to regenerate as a result of his defeating the Empress of the Racnoss without being stopped. His former companion, Rose Tyler, along with the alternate timeline version of Donna, eventually restored the original timeline. (TV: Turn Left)
Psychological profile
Personality
This incarnation was very cheerful, charismatic and enthusiastic, often at inappropriate times even in danger, much like his next incarnation. (TV: Tooth and Claw) While previous incarnations intentionally flouted social conventions, the tenth incarnation was genuinely shocked when he realised that he was being rude or uncouth. He frequently got into trouble because of his vast sense of superiority. (TV: Midnight) He regularly used his name as a threat, which only rarely worked, despite his apparent expectations. (TV: New Earth)
The tenth incarnation retained and even exceeded his last incarnation's capacity for righteous anger, particularly when Rose was threatened or at risk. (TV: The Idiot's Lantern) When driven by anger or justice, he would act without hesitation to strike down those who opposed him, causing the downfall of Harriet Jones for, as he saw it, mass murder. (TV: The Christmas Invasion) There was an undeniable shadow cast over his jollity at these times, and a ruthless, almost arrogant personality would emerge which was almost eerie to behold.
While he seemed to have resolved much of the survivor's guilt felt previously, the Doctor had begun to feel his age. Beneath his youthful veneer and outward playfulness was a very old man who had seen many terrible things. He felt a deep loneliness. (TV: The Lazarus Experiment) His keen sense of loss led him to empathise with those who had also suffered. Sarah Jane Smith tried to comfort him by saying that although he acted like a lonely man he had the biggest family in the world. She was referring to the many companions the Doctor had picked up on his travels. (TV: Journey's End)
This incarnation had a very forgiving nature. He offered to help Dalek Caan even though he had committed genocide. (TV: Evolution of the Daleks) He also forgave the Saxon Master for all the atrocities he committed while ruling the Earth. These acts included turning his TARDIS into a paradox machine, torturing his companions for pleasure, killing at least one tenth of the human race and turning him into an incredibly ancient man. (TV: Last of the Time Lords). However when his patience reached its limit or they were duplicitous, his enemies got no second chance, as he said shortly after defeating the leader of the Sycorax. (TV: The Christmas Invasion). When he ran from the Family of Blood, he was showing them mercy, saving them from his rage. When they continued to hunt him, killing innocent people and separating him from his love interest, Joan Redfern, the Doctor lost his temper and gave each member of the Family of Blood an eternal punishment, fulfilling their wish for immortality in a twisted way. (TV: The Family of Blood) Donna later linked this mercy to his travelling with Martha. The Doctor agreed with this assessment.
The Doctor had a very hard time accepting defeat or failure. When he failed to save Astrid, he kicked a teleport, screaming. (TV: Voyage of the Damned) Having seen so much destruction and death he felt driven to prevent it where possible. River Song thought that if he lost this trait, the universe would become a darker place. (TV: Forest of the Dead)
On their first meeting, Donna Noble noted the reason the Doctor required so many companions was to keep him from succumbing to his darker urges. (TV: The Runaway Bride) After losing Donna to a meta-crisis, the Doctor chose to no longer take on companions to avoid getting his heart broken again. This time spent alone ultimately resulted in his succumbing to those darker urges and breaking the laws of time to satisfy his ego. (TV: The Waters of Mars)
The tenth incarnation engaged in romantic situations far more frequently than his predecessors. Like his ninth incarnation, the Tenth Doctor was in love with Rose Tyler and was heartbroken by her loss. (TV: Doomsday) However he never actually stated his feelings for Rose. (TV: The Satan Pit, Doomsday). In the end it was the Meta-Crisis Tenth Doctor that revealed the Doctor's feelings for her and since the Meta-Crisis Doctor was almost identical to the original Doctor, albeit a bit more violent and with some of Donna Noble's personality traits, as well as the fact that he possessed all of the original Doctor's memories, it is almost certain that the original Doctor felt the same way. Others tried to engage him romantically, including Madame de Pompadour, Joan Redfern, Martha Jones, Astrid Peth, River Song and Christina de Souza. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace, Human Nature/The Family of Blood, Voyage of the Damned, Silence in the Library/Forest of the Dead, Planet of the Dead) The Doctor reciprocated all of those except Martha, Christina and River, whose relationship was supposedly unknown to him.
This incarnation refused to take up a weapon against an enemy. While previous incarnations had, the tenth incarnation would not, repeatedly refusing even when offered one by UNIT while attacking the Sontarans. (TV: The Poison Sky) Davros mentioned his refusal to take up a gun, but pointed out that he turned his companions into weapons. (TV: Journey's End) After refusing several times to take up Wilfred Mott's pistol to save himself and humanity from the Saxon Master, the Doctor took it without thinking when he heard that Rassilon and the Time Lords were returning. (TV: The End of Time)
This incarnation always attempted to solve a situation without violence. He tried to settle a dispute with the Sycorax without killing the leader, until the leader betrayed his promise. He banished the Sycorax from Earth with the message that it was defended. He was angered when Torchwood destroyed the ship afterwards. (TV: The Christmas Invasion) The Doctor also tried to help the Dalek survivors in New York find a new world for themselves rather than fight to the death. He almost succeeded until the Daleks turned against Dalek Sec. Even when only Dalek Caan was left, he tried to find a peaceful solution. (TV: Evolution of the Daleks) He also tried to get the Sontarans to leave peacefully after their plan was foiled, but they refused. Luke Rattigan killed them in place of the Doctor. (TV: The Poison Sky) Later, the Doctor tried to find a way to solve the Master Race crisis without killing the Master. When the Time Lords returned, he took a gun into the situation and felt forced to choose between killing Rassilon or the Master. He found another way, using the gun to destroy the White-Point Star diamond, breaking the link allowing the escape of the Time Lords from the time lock. Ultimately, his choice to shatter the link, ending the chance to bring them back, shows that in the time since, even through his pain at that loss, the Tenth Doctor still feels that he has done the right thing with his actions in ending the Last Great Time War. (TV: The End of Time)
This incarnation had a great respect for humanity, as well as a great desire to protect it, often noting their importance. Some of this may have been due to the influence of his companions. When Wilfred Mott said that humanity must look like insects to the Doctor, the Doctor responded that they looked like giants. He respected Wilfred, thinking of him as a kindred spirit for being old yet energetic and unwilling to kill others. The Doctor also felt honoured to know Wilfred would be proud to have actually been his father.
Towards the end of his life, this incarnation was terrified of his predicted death, going on all sorts of adventures to circumvent or delay it, but ended up choosing to sacrifice himself to save his friend, Wilfred Mott. (TV: The End of Time)
The Tenth Doctor considered his sixth incarnation to be chubby, showing that he was only deluding himself into thinking he wasn't during that life. (PROSE: The Krillitane Storm)
Habits and quirks
The Doctor made frequent reference to twentieth century pop culture, including the Ghostbusters theme, (TV: Army of Ghosts) the song "Circle of Life" from The Lion King, (TV: The Christmas Invasion) and one of Kylie Minogue's songs, "Never Too Late". (TV: The Idiot's Lantern) He had also read the Harry Potter books, noting that he cried after reading the seventh book. (TV: The Shakespeare Code) Even though he knew so much of pop culture, he did not understand certain remarks, such as being called a "science geek". (TV: The Lazarus Experiment) He was fond of rock and roll, trying to take Rose to see concerts by both Ian Dury and Elvis Presley. (TV: Tooth and Claw, The Idiot's Lantern)
He often remarked that exotic technology or life was "beautiful" or "brilliant" and was genuinely enthralled by such discoveries, sometimes to the extent that he placed himself or his companions in danger. (TV: Midnight) When this incarnation was faced with an occurrence that dumbfounded him he would repeatedly say, "What?", looking increasingly astonished with each repetition. (TV: Doomsday, Last of the Time Lords) While attempting to explain something he would often interrupt himself with a "Well..." and further elaborate what it was he was talking about. (TV: Blink, et al) The Doctor also made use of the phrase, "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry", mainly talking to persons he knew were about to die and whom he could not save. (TV: Army of Ghosts) Other favoured phrases were "Allons-y!" (TV: Army of Ghosts) and "Molto bene." (TV: Voyage of the Damned) Like his seventh incarnation, he also often responded, "I'm always all right", even when all evidence pointed to the contrary. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace, Forest of the Dead) [additional sources needed]
He also demonstrated an ability of his fifth incarnation, which was being able to determine the properties of an object by taste. (TV: The Christmas Invasion, The Idiot's Lantern, Tooth and Claw, Utopia, The Fires of Pompeii, The Sontaran Stratagem, The Unicorn and the Wasp, Planet of the Dead) He also possessed a heightened sense of smell, which could be used to track other Time Lords, such as the Saxon Master. (TV: The End of Time)
Until they left his life, he continued his previous incarnation's habit of mildly mocking both Mickey and Jackie, though generally in a more obviously playful fashion. (TV: The Christmas Invasion, Rise of the Cybermen, Army of Ghosts). The Doctor also prodded at Jack after they reunited, resuming his habit of telling Jack to "stop it" whenever he said hello to someone, which was his telltale way of flirting with them. Jack later told the Doctor he had become "cheeky" with this new regeneration. (TV: Utopia)
The tenth incarnation of the Doctor had a fondness for bananas like his predecessor. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace) and expressed a fondness for tea. (TV: The Christmas Invasion)
The Doctor had a stated fondness for "little shops", the gift stores usually found in hospitals and other public places, though he retained a great dislike for hospitals, understandably. Not only had his seventh incarnation been killed at one by accident, this incarnation had a very close call in another. (TV: New Earth, Silence in the Library)
This incarnation of the Doctor relied heavily upon his sonic screwdriver, pushing it to limits not seen in previous incarnations and even chiding his fifth incarnation for going "hands free". (TV: Time Crash) He also continued to heavily use the psychic paper. (TV New Earth, The Idiot's Lantern, The Unicorn and the Wasp) Like previous selves, he appeared to have the ability to carry a large and diverse number of objects in his pockets, stating once that they were bigger on the inside. (TV: The Runaway Bride, The Shakespeare Code, The Doctor's Daughter)
He also revived the occasional use of a stethoscope, like his second incarnation in mostly non-medical situations, such as the diagnosis of electronic or mechanical faults. (TV: Fury from the Deep, Rise of the Cybermen, The Stolen Earth) He used his hammer many times during this incarnation, to knock out Sontarans and even pilot the TARDIS. (TV: The Runaway Bride, The End of Time)
As in some prior incarnations, he disliked being called "Doc". He told Jimmy Stalkingwolf, "Are you gonna stop calling me Doc? I'm the Doctor, alright, and you're not Bugs Bunny." (TV: Dreamland)
He had been given a mobile phone by Martha, when she left him as his companion, that he carried with him in his travels. (TV: Last of the Time Lords) At some point he upgraded it to a Superphone, as the number was later used to contact him anywhere in space and time. (TV: The Sontaran Stratagem, The Stolen Earth) As his previous incarnation had with Rose Tyler's phone, this incarnation also upgraded the mobile phones of his later companions in order to facilitate communication with their families and with the Doctor. Both Martha Jones and Donna Noble's phones were modified and, like Rose's mother, their close relatives were able to communicate through time and space as a result. (TV: The Stolen Earth)
He also followed the trend of his immediate predecessors in displaying increasing skill for using the TARDIS, on several occasions even using it in the form of a standard spaceship rather than simply dematerialising it every time. (TV: The Runaway Bride, Partners in Crime) He was told by a future companion, River Song, that he would one day be able to command the TARDIS door to open with a snap of his fingers. Initially, he believed this to be nonsense, but later found that he did possess such abilities. (TV: Forest of the Dead)
The Doctor often did math calculations in his head very quickly. This included making an estimate, waiting for those around him to respond, then giving a very exact answer. (TV: Voyage of the Damned) For food, he hated pears and (like his sixth life) carrots. [source needed]
Other information
Skills and abilities
Although the Doctor disliked violence, he was skilled with a sword, managing to defeat the Sycorax leader when the Sycorax invaded Earth. Although he tried to avoid using one, the Doctor was also an extremely good shot with a gun, being able to shoot the White Point Star, which was a very small target, in order to close the Time Lock that surrounded the Time War. (TV: The Christmas Invasion, The End of Time)
The Doctor was also incredibly resilient and showed an amazing resistance to physical pain, being unfazed when the Sycorax leader sliced off his hand (although this was partly because he was still regenerating at the time) and enduring the burning pain of having a living star possessing him, in addition to surviving when Martha Jones attempted to freeze the star out of him. (TV: 42) He also took a powerful blast of electricity from the Saxon Master and was able to get to his feet (albeit with some difficulty) after jumping out of a ship and falling through a skylight. Surviving the fall without activating regeneration is especially notable since his fourth incarnation regenerated after a considerably shorter fall, showing that the Tenth Doctor really did have exceptional physical endurance. He also refused to allow the pain of his regeneration to overwhelm him until he was back in the TARDIS after visiting his companions. (TV: Logopolis, The End of Time)
Given his height and build, it was not surprising the Doctor was extremely nimble and quick on his feet, and loved running. (TV: The Doctor's Daughter)
Like all his other incarnations, the Doctor was exceptionally intelligent, being able to figure out solutions to problems even when they were created by a person who had an equal amount of intelligence such as the Master. (TV: Last of the Time Lords) He also demonstrated an ability of his fifth incarnation, which was being able to determine the properties of an object by taste. (TV: The Christmas Invasion, The Idiot's Lantern, Tooth and Claw, Utopia, The Fires of Pompeii, The Sontaran Stratagem, The Unicorn and the Wasp, Planet of the Dead) He also possessed a heightened sense of smell, which could be used to track other Time Lords, such as the Master. (TV: The End of Time) He was skilled at mechanics and built K9 Mark IV, ensuring that it possessed all the memories it had as K9 Mark III. By using a Chameleon Arch, he rewrote his biology, storing Non-human characteristics in a fob watch and turning himself into a human. He also locked the coordinates of the TARDIS with his sonic screwdriver so that it could only travel to two places in time and space; the end of the universe and 2008. (TV: School Reunion, Human Nature, The Family of Blood, Utopia, The Sound of Drums).
The Doctor also showed an impressive amount of control over his regeneration ability, more so than previous incarnations. He was able to heal himself after being shot by a Dalek and then stop himself from changing his form by channelling the regeneration energy into his severed hand. (TV: Journey's End) He was also able to resist regenerating long enough to visit all the friends he had made in that incarnation and at least some of the friends he had made in other incarnations. When he finally did regenerate however, he did it so violently that the TARDIS was badly damaged and had to repair herself. This was because he had held the regeneration energy at bay for so long that it all exploded out of him in one go, causing it to be more devastating the usual. (TV: The End of Time)
The Doctor was also a skilled telepath, being able to use it to wipe Donna Noble's memories of him. He had enough skill with telepathy to hide his true name from anyone who could read minds. When the Master used telepathy on him, the Doctor was also able to hear the drumming inside his head, having previously thought that the Master was just imagining it due to his insanity. (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace, The Shakespeare Code, Journey's End, The End of Time)
The Doctor was able to channel radiation through a body part into his own clothing, although the radiated body part was described by him as being "itchy." However he could only do this with a small amount of radiation and the radiation he absorbed to save Wilfred Mott was too much for him and forced him to regenerate. (TV: Smith and Jones, The End of Time)
After his adventure with River Song in the Library, the Doctor showed the ability to open and close the TARDIS simply by clicking his fingers, which he had previously thought was impossible. (TV: Forest of the Dead)
Appearance
The Tenth Doctor was a handsome man with a tall, slim frame, finely boned hands and face, dark brown hair, pale skin and dark brown eyes. (TV: Children in Need Special) While he was possessed by Cassandra at New New York Hospital, Cassandra stated that he was "slim and a little bit foxy." (TV: New Earth)
Grooming and hair
The tenth incarnation was happy to have sideburns and to have more hair than his previous incarnation, whose hair was very close-cut. (TV: Children in Need Special) Though he initially seemed disappointed at not being ginger, he came to take great pride in his dark brown hair, wearing it in various ways throughout his adventures. He would wear it un-styled, (TV: The Christmas Invasion) in a fifties-style quiff, (TV: The Idiot's Lantern) or flattened forwards. (TV: The Runaway Bride) Like his previous incarnations, he went clean-shaven.
He had the habit of running his hands through the mane whenever being at odds and ends or particularly frustrated with a situation (TV: Human Nature etc.)
Clothes
For the early minutes of his life, the Doctor continued to wear the clothes his previous incarnation had on at the time of his regeneration. After arriving in London and collapsing, he was placed in a set of pyjamas and a dressing gown, which he kept until he chose a new outfit at the end of his first adventure. (TV: Children in Need Special, The Christmas Invasion)
This incarnation had several variations of dress. He had two main suits, a dark brown suit with blue pinstripes and a blue suit with red pinstripes. On rare occasions, he would also don a bow tie and tuxedo. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen, The Age of Steel, The Lazarus Experiment, Voyage of the Damned)
Under his suits he usually wore a shirt and a tie, or wore an open-necked shirt with a t-shirt underneath. He had a red-hued t-shirt, a brown t-shirt or a purple t-shirt. Both brown and blue suits were often accompanied by a light brown Duster-type overcoat, which the Doctor claimed had been given to him by Janis Joplin. (TV: Gridlock)
The Meta-Crisis Doctor wore the Doctor's blue suit after his creation, and was wearing it when the walls of the universe sealed him in a parallel world. (TV: Journey's End) Nevertheless, the Doctor subsequently wore a blue suit afterwards, implying he had more than one. (TV: The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, TV: The Waters of Mars)
His footwear choices were trainers, more specifically, Converse All Stars (TV: The Family of Blood). He varied the colours from cream white to go with his brown suit, black for wearing with black tie and on a few occasion with his brown suit, or red to go with the blue suit.
Another part of the Doctor's attire was a pair of dark tortoise-shell rectangular frame glasses, which he called "brainy specs". Although he wore them on numerous occasions, he later pointed out to an earlier incarnation they didn't need them and simply used them because they made him look clever. (TV: Time Crash) At one time, the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to darken the lenses to effectively turn them into sunglasses. (TV: Planet of the Dead)
His favourite variation of dress seemed to be his brown suit with blue pinstripes, a light blue shirt, a tie and cream ankle-high Converse All Star shoes.
Lifespan
- Main article: The Doctor's age
The Ninth Doctor stated that he was 900 year old at some point after beginning his travels with Rose. (TV: Aliens of London) The Tenth Doctor stated his age at 903 shortly after Martha left. (TV: Voyage of the Damned]) Given his stated age of 906 just prior to his regeneration in (TV: The End of Time), this incarnation lived for less than 7 years. His next incarnation gave his age as 907 early in his adventures. (TV: Flesh and Stone) However, there are some accounts that suggest his stated tally may not be correct. (TV: The Infinite Quest)
Behind the scenes
Costuming
David Tennant described his costume "geek chic." According to an interview on Parkinson, Tennant and Russell T Davies got the idea for the tenth incarnation's costume from an outfit Jamie Oliver had worn on Parkinson just after Tennant had taken the role of the Doctor.
According to costume designer Louise Page, there were only four sets of the brown suit in existence, as they were pieced together from many copies of a pin-striped pair of trousers that Tennant picked out during the initial costuming process. His overcoat was made from sofa covering and there was one version that had five inches from the bottom cut off then sewn back on, as Davies and Phil Collinson had different ideas about how long it should be.
After he wrapped on the series, David Tennant kept his costume for possible future use, stating that he would gladly return for a multi-Doctor special should he ever be asked to participate in one. (DCOM: The End of Time)
The Brilliant Book
According to the non-narrative source REF: The Brilliant Book 2011, the Doctor was searching for Sontaran grenades in 1895. During his search, he came across his old friend Winston Churchill.
