Jewel (planet)
By one account, Jewel was the name of the homeworld of the Time Lords.
The planet's surface was mostly barren with few visible buildings. One of these buildings was a tower from which the President of the Council operated. (COMIC: Return of the Daleks) The Superiors were also known as "the Lords of Jewel". (PROSE: A Bright White Crack)
The vast majority of accounts indicated that the Time Lords' homeplanet was named not Jewel but Gallifrey. (TV: The Time Warrior, Pyramids of Mars, The Deadly Assassin, The Invasion of Time, et al.)
History
After the Second Doctor attracted the attention of the Time Lords so they would deal with the War Lords, he was taken to their planet and put on trial. The trial resulted in the Doctor's exile on Earth. (TV: The War Games)
After the Third Doctor had been exiled on Earth for some time, Omega used a black hole to drain the power from the Time Lords' base. The Time Lords were forced to assemble together the first three incarnations of the Doctor on their planet to stop Omega. After Omega was defeated and power was restored, the Time Lords lifted the Third Doctor's exile (TV: The Three Doctors) but still kept watch of his TARDIS' time thread.
When the Daleks and Shazar stole the Fourth Doctor's TARDIS with plans to replicate it and take over the universe, the Time Lords became suspicious at its sudden disappearance and their inability to trace it. After some searching, the Time Lords found Shazar while he was gathering TARDIS materials and brought him back to Jewel. Under the Time Lord Council's demand, Shazar returned to the Daleks with cirenium that would sabotage their TARDISes.
After the Daleks and their TARDIS fleet were destroyed, the Time Lords summoned Shazar back to Jewel along with the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith. The Doctor and Sarah were then sent on a mission to deposit Shazar on a primitive planet where he couldn't do any harm. (COMIC: Return of the Daleks)
Behind the scenes
- When Return of the Daleks was published in TV Comic in 1975, the home planet of the Time Lords had appeared three times on television: in The War Games, The Three Doctors, and The Time Warrior. In the first two of these, the planet was not named, while in the third, it was called "Gallifrey" only briefly. In 1976, The Deadly Assassin more prominently reaffirmed Gallifrey as the planet's name, and this has been universally used in the franchise since.
- In the fourth episode of the first season the 2019 television series Good Omens, during the scene where Crowley considers fleeing to another planet, his Extremely Big Book of Astronomy includes a page on Gallifrey. The caption beneath it reads "Jewel, the Shining World". This title had not been used for Gallifrey in any previous story; rather, it originated in the infobox of this wiki's Gallifrey article, whose list of alternative names began "Jewel, the Shining World of the Seven Systems", concatenating titles given for the planet in the Return of the Daleks comic and The Sound of Drums.
