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ID cards, (PROSE: Operation London [+]Loading...["Operation London (short story)"], Silver-Tongued Liars [+]Loading...["Silver-Tongued Liars (short story)"], A Worthy Successor [+]Loading...["A Worthy Successor (short story)"], etc.) also known as identity cards (PROSE: Top Secret [+]Loading...["Top Secret (feature)"]) or identification cards, (PROSE: We're Recruiting... [+]Loading...["We're Recruiting... (feature)"]) were a form of identification.
UNIT's ID cards were known as UNIT IDs. (AUDIO: The Blue Tooth [+]Loading...["The Blue Tooth (audio story)"]) There also existed "UNIT passes". (GAME: Lost in Time [+]Loading...["Lost in Time (video game)"])
Fake IDs were available. (TV: The Long Game [+]Loading...["The Long Game (TV story)"], PROSE: The Party in Room Four [+]Loading...["The Party in Room Four (short story)"])
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Alien experts from UNIT and other groups wore ID cards which were electrified by Jocrassa Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen. Though the electricity was deadly to humans, the Ninth Doctor, being a Gallifreyan, survived and attached his ID card to a Slitheen, resulting in the pain being shared amongst the family. (TV: World War Three [+]Loading...["World War Three (TV story)"], Revenge of the Slitheen [+]Loading...["Revenge of the Slitheen (TV story)"]) Just prior to this, Staff Sergeant Annie Frederick remarked on how quickly Number Ten had created the Ninth Doctor's pass. (PROSE: Operation London [+]Loading...["Operation London (short story)"])
By the time Martha Jones was training at Royal Hope Hospital in 2008, (TV: Smith and Jones [+]Loading...["Smith and Jones (TV story)"]) Martha had an ID card. According to one account, her ID card stated that her Authority was "RH0495" that her Number was 0/39. (PROSE: ID Cards [+]Loading...["ID Cards (feature)"]) An alternative account instead stated that her Authority was "RH0776" and that her Number was 0/75. (PROSE: "Planet Earth" [+]Part of The Time Lord Letters, Loading...{"namedep":"Planet Earth","1":"The Time Lord Letters (novel)"}) A blank Royal Hope Hospital ID had a barcode which read "VOTE SAXON 2306801B" when decoded. (PROSE: ID Cards [+]Loading...["ID Cards (feature)"])
P.R.O.B.E. operatives carried ID cards: Louise Bayliss showed hers to Brittany Mordley in 2008, (PROSE: Silver-Tongued Liars [+]Loading...["Silver-Tongued Liars (short story)"]) and Giles and Archie MacTavish showed theirs to the security guard of the Vault, Donovan, in 2011. (PROSE: A Worthy Successor [+]Loading...["A Worthy Successor (short story)"])
The Fifteenth Doctor's UNIT identification card described him as a "civilian" with clearance level 1. His ID no. was either 3183198320M or 30139013990, and his badge ID no. was 3219034. (PROSE: We're Recruiting... [+]Loading...["We're Recruiting... (feature)"])