The Doctor: His Lives and Times (also released as The Doctor's Lives and Times in North America) was a reference book by James Goss and Steve Tribe. Covering each Doctor from the First Doctor to the Eleventh Doctor, it alternated between fictional segments - which gave an overview of each Doctor's televised adventures in the form of various records, letters, journals and tabloids - followed by a reference chapter consisting of insights and commentary from cast, crew and others related to the production of Doctor Who. It contained fictional elements contributed by Andrew Smith, Marc Platt, Russell T Davies, Paul Cornell, and Neil Gaiman.
The artwork for Doctor Who and the Time War was also to be included, before it was removed due to the production of The Night of the Doctor.[1]
Publisher's summary
"I'm the Doctor. I'm a Time Lord. I'm from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous. And I'm the man who's going to save your life."
He's made a mark on almost every era of history, and he's touched millions of lives across space and time. In these pages you'll find just some of the stories behind those brief encounters, each of them addressing the question that must never, ever be answered: 'Doctor Who?'
This is the story of an impossible life — of a man who borrowed a spaceship, travelled through time and continually saved the universe — as told by the Doctor's friends, by his enemies, and by the man himself. Letters, journals, trial records, secret government files and the occasional bit of tabloid journalism reveal the never-before-told story of Gallifrey's last Time Lord.
Contents
Introduction
| # | Title | Type | Featuring |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1 | Know Your Enemy | Memorandum | Kovarian, River Song |
| A memo from Kovarian. | |||
| 0.2 | Report on Term's Work | School report | The Doctor, Borusa |
| A report from the Doctor's time at the Academy. | |||
The First Doctor
By James Goss & Steve Tribe
| # | Title | Type | Featuring |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | Susan's Diary | Diary extract | Susan, First Doctor, Ian, Barbara, Daleks, Thals, Marco Polo, Kublai Khan, Arbitan, Voord, Sensorites |
| Susan documents her adventures with the First Doctor in his 500-Year Diary which she bought him from a bookstall on Tiaanamaat. She mentions sailing the metal seas of Venus, singing with the thought plants of Esto, getting lost on Quinnis and winning an election on the planet Dido. Regarding adventures on Earth, she mentions having been locked up in the Tower of London and meeting several kings. She goes on to document her adventures with Ian and Barbara, before the Doctor takes over writing in the diary when she leaves the TARDIS. Includes various photos of her adventures and a map: The Travels of Marco Polo. | |||
| 1.2 | Missing Person Report | Missing person report | Susan |
| A confidential missing person report from Shoreditch Police Station on Susan Foreman. Listed as case number U-91 and dated 20 November 1963, the report is based on information taken by PC Oswald. The report gives Susan's home address as 76 Totters Lane, Shoreditch, London E1. It lists her age as 15, her gender as female and her height as 5' 2". | |||
| 1.3 | A Letter to the Reverend | Letter | |
| A letter to the Reverend regarding an unoccupied grave at Shoreditch Cemetery from November 1963. A Mr Stewart has been asking whether he should fill it in again. | |||
| 1.4 | The Doctor's Letter to Kublai Khan | Letter | First Doctor, Kublai Khan |
| A letter from the Doctor to Kublai Khan. | |||
| 1.5 | Yartek's Tablet | Tablet | Yartek, Arbitan, Voord |
| To be added | |||
| 1.6 | Cameca's Diary | Diary extract | Cameca, First Doctor |
| Includes a wedding invitation. | |||
| 1.7 | Intergalactic Mining Company Report | Report | |
| To be added | |||
| 1.8 | Daleks Offer You Life | Propaganda | Daleks |
| To be added | |||
| 1.9 | Astra Flight 201 Flight Log | Log | |
| To be added | |||
| 1.10 | Villa Flavius Guiscard Menu | Menu | |
| To be added | |||
| 1.11 | Ian Chesterton's Letter to the Doctor | Letter | Ian, First Doctor, Susan, Barbara, Vicki, "Koquillion", Daleks, Mechanoids, Richard the Lionheart |
| To be added | |||
| 1.12 | King Richard's Letter to Saladin | Letter | Richard I of England, Saladin, Saphadin, Joanna |
| To be added | |||
| 1.13 | Hail Our Robot Explorers! | Advertisement | Mechonoids |
| To be added | |||
| 1.14 | The Doctor's First Letter to the Monk | Letter | First Doctor, The Monk |
| To be added | |||
| 1.15 | The Monk's Diary | Diary | The Monk, Leonardo da Vinci, King Harold, First Doctor, Osirans, Daleks |
| To be added | |||
| 1.16 | Cressida the Vickiad | Poem | Vicki, Troilus |
| To be added | |||
| 1.17 | The Doctor's Second Letter to the Monk | Letter | First Doctor, The Monk |
| To be added | |||
| 1.18 | The Traveller From Beyond Time | Prophecy | First Doctor, The Monk, Dodo, Celestial Toymaker, Steven, Mondasians, |
| To be added | |||
| 1.19 | WOTAN - The Super Computer! | Newspaper clipping | WOTAN, Brett, Dodo |
| Two connected articles: "WOTAN- The Super Computer!" and "Missing girl found in home of 'prominent figure'". | |||
| 1.20 | The Ballad of Captain Avery | Ballad | Henry Avery |
| To be added | |||
| 1.21 | The Mondas Crystals | Fax | Cybermen |
| To be added | |||
The Second Doctor
By James Goss & Steve Tribe
| # | Title | Type | Featuring |
|---|---|---|---|
| # | The Second Doctor's Diary | Diary | Second Doctor, Lesterson, Ben, Polly, Daleks, Jamie, Cybermen, Macra |
| To be added | |||
| # | Notice to All Residents of Vulcan | Poster | Daleks |
| To be added | |||
| # | Zaroff Vanishes! | Newspaper clipping | Zaroff |
| To be added | |||
| # | Examine Everything! | Note | |
| To be added | |||
| # | Chameleon Tours Postcards | Postcards | Sam, Brian |
| To be added | |||
| # | Victoria Waterfield's Letters to Her Father | Letters | Victoria, Edward, Keith, Edith, Second Doctor, Jamie, Daleks, Cybermen, Mary Shelley, Yeti, Travers, Great Intelligence, Padmasambhava, Ice Warriors, Maggie, Frank, Maxtible, Weed creature |
| Including Waterfield's Antiquities business card. | |||
| # | Logical Archaeology: In Pursuit of the Ancient Thought Processes of the Cybermen | Thesis | Eric, Cybermen, Kaftan |
| To be added | |||
| # | The Royal Geographical Society Minutes | Meeting minutes | Simeon, Travers, Walters |
| To be added | |||
| # | Britannicus Base Europe | Fax | Second Doctor |
| To be added | |||
| # | Vote Salamander | Poster | Salamander |
| To be added | |||
| # | UNIT Internal Memorandum: Underground Clearance | Memo | Kizlet |
| A short memo reporting on the tidying of the London Underground and the disappearance of Rosemary Kizlet from Russell Square station. Includes a map of the London Underground network from the time of the London Event. | |||
The Tenth Doctor
By James Goss & Steve Tribe with pieces by Russell T Davies & Paul Cornell
| # | Title | Type | Featuring |
|---|---|---|---|
| # | Judge, Jury and Executioner: Part Two | Interview | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | Harriet Jones: A modern Thatcher | Newspaper article | Harriet Jones, Vivien Rook |
| To be added | |||
| # | Multiple arrests at New New York Hospital | Memo | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | Skylab re-entry | Memo | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | Sycorax-English Vocab | Translations | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | Balmoral Castle | Letter | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | Mystery Bug Strikes School | Newspaper article | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | Ambrose Hall | Webpage | Nina Jones |
| To be added | |||
| # | Salvage Report | Report | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | Magpie's Marvellous Tellies! | Poster | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | Final Report of Sanctuary Base 6 | Report | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | Email from Yvonne | To be added | |
| To be added | |||
| # | Well Done, Harry! | Newspaper article | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | Judge, Jury and Executioner: Part Two | Interview | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | The History and Present Status of Electricity | Book page | Benjamin Franklin, The Doctor |
| A page from a book - The History and Present Status of Electricity - detailing the experiments of Benjamin Franklin and an unnamed Doctor. | |||
| # | Eyewitness Report | Newspaper article | Oliver Morgenstern |
| To be added | |||
| # | On Queen Elizabeth I | Report | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | The Face of Boe | Obituary | Face of Boe |
| An obituary from the New New York Times on the Face of Boe. | |||
| # | Pig Slaves in Manhattan | Review | Tallulah, Laszlo, Frank, Daleks, Pig slaves, H.G. Wells, Eugene O'Neill |
| A review from 10 January 1931 of a recent performance at the Laurenzi Theater. | |||
| # | Re: Jones Plan - Update | Memo | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | Extract from 'A Journal of Impossible Things' | Memo | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | Larry Nightingale's transcript | Transcript | Tenth Doctor, Martha Jones |
| A transcript by Larry Nightingale of the Doctor's DVD extra. | |||
| # | The Last Will and Testament of the Human Race | To be added | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | Harriet's Back | Newspaper article | Harriet Jones, Vivien Rook, Churchill, Harold Saxon |
| An interview with Harriet Jones by Vivien Rook, following her removal from office. Harriet talks about her renewed campaign for cottage hospitals and what she makes of the current Prime Minster - Harold Saxon. | |||
| # | Dear Captain Harkness | Letter | Elizabeth II, Jack Harkness, The Doctor, Rose Tyler, Torchwood Cardiff |
| Elizabth II writes to Captain Jack thanking him for his letter regarding the action of the Doctor in averting the crash of the Titanic. She satest that she has rescinded Queen Victoria's sentence of exile on the Doctor and Rose. Elizabeth II then thanks Jack and his "fellow officers" for their service at Torchwood Cardiff. | |||
| # | Judge, Jury and Executioner: Part Four | Interview | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | Cambridge Latin Course | Textbook | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | The Ood | Poster | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | A Letter from Jenny | Letter | Jenny |
| Jenny has left a message in a bottle for the Doctor following her resurrection. | |||
| # | Agatha Christie's Letter to Sir Godfrey Collins | Letter | Agatha Christie |
| Agatha Christie writes to Sir Godfrey Collins of William Collins, Sons & Co Ltd following her trip to Harrogate. She details "new ideas" including a murder at a vicarage and a harmless little old lady called "Miss (Donna? Jane?) Marple". | |||
| # | Take a letter, Miss Evangelista | Letter | Evangelista, River Song, Candy |
| A letter dictated to Miss Evangelista, presumably from Strackman Lux, to Professor River Song requesting her presence at the Library. River has left a post-it note: "Professor Candy - I'm not reading this. Spoilers!" | |||
| # | The Stars Are Out Tonight | Article | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | Letter from Robert Newman | Letter | To be added |
| To be added | |||
| # | UNIT Internal Memorandum: Gladwell Road tunnel incident | Memo | Magambo, Mace, Tenth Doctor, Malcolm |
| A short memo from Captain Erisa Magambo to Colonel Alan Mace detailing UNITs activities during the Gladwell Road tunnel incident. | |||