Sandra Mitchell
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Sandra Mitchell (PROSE: "Welcome Home" [+]Part of The Time Lord Letters, Loading...{"page":"90","namedep":"Welcome Home","1":"The Time Lord Letters (novel)"}) was the wife of Geoff and the mother of Adam Mitchell. (TV: The Long Game [+]Loading...["The Long Game (TV story)"])
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
Sandra Mitchell (PROSE: "Welcome Home" [+]Part of The Time Lord Letters, Loading...{"page":"90","namedep":"Welcome Home","1":"The Time Lord Letters (novel)"}) had Adam in circa 1992-93. (PROSE: Essay Competition [+]Loading...["Essay Competition (short story)"], Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (novelisation)"]) She, Adam, and her husband Geoff lived together along with the family dog in their home, which was, according to some accounts, located in Manchester, (PROSE: The Time Traveller's Almanac [+]Loading...{"chaptname":"Everything Changes","page":"151","chaptnum":"3","1":"The Time Traveller's Almanac (reference book)"}, "Welcome Home" [+]Part of The Time Lord Letters, Loading...{"page":"90","namedep":"Welcome Home","1":"The Time Lord Letters (novel)"}) or by another account, Nottingham, (PROSE: Essay Competition [+]Loading...["Essay Competition (short story)"]) or by one other, Milton Keynes. (PROSE: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (novelisation)"])
When Adam was seven years old, he spent a year refusing to speak as an experiment. Despite the anger and pleading of his parents, and numerous therapy sessions as doctors and psychologists tried to understand why he was refusing to speak, he maintained it for the entire year and only decided not to continue as it would not provide any new data. He spoke again for the first time on his eighth birthday. (PROSE: Dalek [+]Loading...["Dalek (novelisation)"])
By early 2006, her husband had arthritis, however she thought he had gout. After Adam won an essay competition hosted by the website Who is Doctor Who?, she told Mickey that Adam was a "star" with computers, though Adam wished he hadn't spoken to his mum. (PROSE: Essay Competition [+]Loading...["Essay Competition (short story)"])
When Adam went to travel in the Doctor's TARDIS in 2012, she believed he was still working at Henry van Statten's museum.
After Adam had an implant in his head from the year 200,000 (which, at the click of fingers, would open a small circle on his head, exposing his brain) and tried to send information from the future to the past, the Ninth Doctor abandoned Adam back at his house in 2012. Sandra returned, saying time flies "just like that", clicking her fingers, then watching in horror as her son's head opened up. (TV: The Long Game [+]Loading...["The Long Game (TV story)"]) The Doctor left a letter to Adam's parents, asking them to knock some sense into him. (PROSE: "Welcome Home" [+]Part of The Time Lord Letters, Loading...{"page":"90","namedep":"Welcome Home","1":"The Time Lord Letters (novel)"})
She died of a brain embolism shortly after Adam was returned to the 21st century. Adam blamed her death on the Doctor, who had erased the information that he had gathered from the future that could have saved her, and began planning an elaborate plot to get revenge on him. (COMIC: Mystery Date [+]Loading...["Mystery Date (comic story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Actress Judy Holt previously played Sandra Mitchell in the British television show Children's Ward in the early 1990s while it was produced by Russell T Davies. Davies has elsewhere commented, "I think every show I've ever written fits into one big world."[1]
- However, many sources featuring Sandra Mitchell don't align too well with the implied shared universe of Children's Ward, giving different details about Sandra's life.
