Geoff Noble
Geoffrey "Geoff" Noble was Donna Noble's father.
Biography
Geoff married Sylvia Mott circa 1970 (PROSE: Beautiful Chaos) and had one child named Donna. When he came home from a football match, he said "veni, vidi, vici" (TV: The Fires of Pompeii) and once lent £1 to the Tenth Doctor for a lottery ticket. The Doctor gave the ticket to Donna as a wedding present in 2010, securing her and Shaun Temple's financial future as it had the winning numbers in a triple roll-over draw. (TV: The End of Time)
On 24 December, 2007, Geoff walked Donna down the aisle during her wedding to Lance Bennett when she disappeared in a burst of golden light due to huon particles. As baffled as anyone else, he took charge of seeing to the injured in the wake of the Robot Santas' attack on the wedding reception. (TV: The Runaway Bride) He ultimately had to pay for the damage done to the venue. (PROSE: Judge, Jury and Executioner)
Geoff died on 15 May, at some point in the 2000s, in a filling station, having been ill for several months. The following year, Sylvia told her daughter that she had had a tough year "with [her] Dad". Geoff and Sylvia had been married for thirty-eight years. (PROSE: Beautiful Chaos)
Parallel world
In a parallel world in which the Tenth Doctor died aboard the Webstar, Sylvia told Donna that Geoff would have loved the place they were staying in. (TV: Turn Left)
Behind the scenes
Howard Attfield was due to reprise his role as Geoff Noble in Series 4, but he died in October 2007. His scenes were refilmed with Bernard Cribbins playing the character of Wilfred Mott, who had already been filmed for the Christmas special, Voyage of the Damned, and was subsequently changed to be Donna's grandfather. Attfield's scenes were later included on the DVD release of Series 4.
The setting of the present day of Donna Noble's family in series 4 of Doctor Who, around a year after Geoff's death according to the novel Beautiful Chaos, is inconsistent, and their later appearance in the Christmas Special and New Year Special The End of Time is not dated at all. In the television story The Fires of Pompeii, Donna mentions the Doctor saving her in 2008. In Beautiful Chaos, set between the television stories The Poison Sky and The Stolen Earth, a newspaper at a newsagent gives the date as Friday 15 May 2009. During an in-universe episode of The Blue Box Files in the audio story SOS, Abby McPhail describes the events of the television story Partners in Crime as taking place in 2008.
