A shield, also known as shielding, (TV: Sleep No More [+]Loading...["Sleep No More (TV story)"]) was used to protect people and places (TV: The Daleks' Master Plan [+]Loading...["The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)"], Planet of the Spiders [+]Loading...["Planet of the Spiders (TV story)"], et al.) from danger (TV: The Mind Robber [+]Loading...["The Mind Robber (TV story)"]). They could be used to keep people safe (TV: Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror [+]Loading...["Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror (TV story)"]) or prevent scanning or detection (TV: The Poison Sky [+]Loading...["The Poison Sky (TV story)"]).
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Types of shields[[edit] | [edit source]]
Types of shields included:
- Anti-magnetic shields, (TV: The Wheel in Space [+]Loading...["The Wheel in Space (TV story)"])
- Meson shields, (TV: The Wheel in Space [+]Loading...["The Wheel in Space (TV story)"])
- Polished shields, (TV: The Mind Robber [+]Loading...["The Mind Robber (TV story)"])
- Heat shields, (TV: Inferno [+]Loading...["Inferno (TV story)"] et al.)
- Innocence, (TV: Planet of the Spiders [+]Loading...["Planet of the Spiders (TV story)"])
- Security shields, (TV: The Invasion of Time [+]Loading...["The Invasion of Time (TV story)"])
- Hyperspatial force shields, (TV: The Pirate Planet [+]Loading...["The Pirate Planet (TV story)"])
- Defence shields, (TV: The Horns of Nimon [+]Loading...["The Horns of Nimon (TV story)"])
- Vortex shields, (TV: Shada [+]Loading...["Shada (TV story)"])
- Baryon and anti-baryon shields, (TV: The Leisure Hive [+]Loading...["The Leisure Hive (TV story)"])
- Magnetic shields, (TV: Four to Doomsday [+]Loading...["Four to Doomsday (TV story)"] et al.)
- Bulkhead shields, (TV: Earthshock [+]Loading...["Earthshock (TV story)"])
- Vacuum shields, (TV: Enlightenment [+]Loading...["Enlightenment (TV story)"])
- Deflector shields, (TV: Timelash [+]Loading...["Timelash (TV story)"])
- Emergency shields, (TV: The Satan Pit [+]Loading...["The Satan Pit (TV story)"])
- Oxygen shields, (TV: Voyage of the Damned [+]Loading...["Voyage of the Damned (TV story)"])
- Outer shields, (TV: The Impossible Astronaut [+]Loading...["The Impossible Astronaut (TV story)"])
- Trees, (TV: In the Forest of the Night [+]Loading...["In the Forest of the Night (TV story)"])
- Gravity shields, (TV: Sleep No More [+]Loading...["Sleep No More (TV story)"])
- Planetary shields, (TV: The Vanquishers [+]Loading...["The Vanquishers (TV story)"])
- Cloaking shields, (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"]) and
- Consciousness shields. (TV: The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"])
Other things that could be used as shields included humans such as Claire Clairmont. (TV: The Haunting of Villa Diodati [+]Loading...["The Haunting of Villa Diodati (TV story)"])
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
The mythical Perseus escaped Medusa by looking at her reflection in his polished shield. (TV: The Mind Robber [+]Loading...["The Mind Robber (TV story)"])
Shields were used by Sontarans, including General Ignatius Antias Salutio and Commander Caecilius Crassus Procullus, who thought they were Romans in Ireland in 55 BC. (AUDIO: The Battle of Giant's Causeway [+]Loading...["The Battle of Giant's Causeway (audio story)"])
The Eighth Doctor used a knightly shield. (AUDIO: The Crowd [+]Loading...["The Crowd (audio story)"])