Disappearance
A disappearance was when someone vanished leaving little traces behind. (TV: Countrycide [+]Loading...["Countrycide (TV story)"]) It could also refer to something that was expected (such as radiation on Dulkis) not being present. (TV: The Dominators [+]Loading...["The Dominators (TV story)"])
In the 1800s several young women were reported to have disappeared in and around London, the Fourth Doctor discovered this was due to Magnus Greel using a Catalytic extraction chamber to prolong his life. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang [+]Loading...["The Talons of Weng-Chiang (TV story)"])
When on the 8 December 1926 the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble met Agatha Christie it was within a period when she had supposedly disappeared, losing her memory in the process. (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp [+]Loading...["The Unicorn and the Wasp (TV story)"])
In 1930, reports of disappearances from New York City's Hooverville flooded in, the result of the Cult of Skaro abducting residents to convert them into either Dalek-Humans or pig slaves. (TV: Daleks in Manhattan [+]Loading...["Daleks in Manhattan (TV story)"])
Susan Foreman, the Doctor's granddaughter, (TV: "An Unearthly Child" [+]Part of An Unearthly Child, Loading...{"namedep":"An Unearthly Child (1)","1":"An Unearthly Child (TV story)"}) was considered to have disappeared (PROSE: Rose sighting confirmed [+]Loading...["Rose sighting confirmed (short story)"]) in 1963 after she departed London in the TARDIS with the First Doctor and teachers Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton, who were abducted by the Doctor so they couldn't reveal the existence of the TARDIS. (TV: "An Unearthly Child" [+]Part of An Unearthly Child, Loading...{"namedep":"An Unearthly Child (1)","1":"An Unearthly Child (TV story)"}) Susan's disappearance led her to eventually be placed on Coal Hill School's Roll of Honours Board. (TV: For Tonight We Might Die [+]Loading...["For Tonight We Might Die (TV story)"]) In 2005, rewboss, a reader of whoisdoctorwho.co.uk, a conspiracy website which occasionally tracked the Doctor's appearances on Earth, ridiculed a suggestion that the Doctor was a time traveller before suggesting the webmaster wanted to tie him in with Susan's disappearance. (PROSE: Rose sighting confirmed [+]Loading...["Rose sighting confirmed (short story)"])
In the 1970s in trying to explain where the Third Doctor had gone Liz Shaw and Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart told Professor Eric Stahlman that he had disappeared. (TV: Inferno [+]Loading...["Inferno (TV story)"])
In 1982 Concorde Golf Victor Foxtrot seemingly disappeared, it in fact travelled down a time corridor to the distant past. (TV: Time-Flight [+]Loading...["Time-Flight (TV story)"])
As a teenager in the early 2000s Jonah Bevan disappeared; he was taken by the Cardiff rift. (TV: Adrift [+]Loading...["Adrift (TV story)"])
In the mid-2000s Torchwood Three became aware of at least 17 disappearances around the Brecon Beacons, these were linked to cannibals in Brynblaidd. (TV: Countrycide [+]Loading...["Countrycide (TV story)"])
Other companions of the Doctor would also be considered to have disappeared; Rose Tyler left 2005 with the Ninth Doctor (TV: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"], PROSE: Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (novelisation)"]) and was accidentally returned home one year later, during which time a missing persons case had been opened and her boyfriend Mickey Smith was suspected of her murder. (TV: Aliens of London [+]Loading...["Aliens of London (TV story)"])
Around the 2010s people around Bristol began disappearing, it was discovered by Clara Oswald and the Twelfth Doctor to be the result of beings from a two dimensional universe. (TV: Flatline [+]Loading...["Flatline (TV story)"])
The Fifteenth Doctor disappeared in 2024 after stepping on and breaking a fairy circle on the Welsh coast. As a result, his companion Ruby Sunday, was forced to live out her life alone, perpetually followed by a woman shrouded in a perception filter who had the effect of scaring away anyone who interacted with her from Ruby. The timeline was negated and the Doctor's disappearance prevented when an elderly Ruby was, upon her death, sent back in time to manifest as the woman, and was able to nudge her younger self to prevent the circle from being broken. (TV: 73 Yards [+]Loading...["73 Yards (TV story)"])
In 2050s New Britain it was noticed that William Shakespeare had started to disappear from history. This was due to him being extracted from his time zone in 1572 by Viola Learman, creating a paradox that made people begin to forget him and therefore disappear from history. (AUDIO: The Time of the Daleks [+]Loading...["The Time of the Daleks (audio story)"])
In 2070 Jack Hobson was incredulous when told by Ben Jackson that Ralph Adebayo had disappeared from Moonbase Laika, exclaiming that there were only 19 of them present. (TV: The Moonbase [+]Loading...["The Moonbase (TV story)"])
In the 24th century, Helen A had at least 499,987 "Routine Disappearance" videos produced for her eyes only. (TV: The Happiness Patrol [+]Loading...["The Happiness Patrol (TV story)"])
Marc Cory was reported as having disappeared near Kembel in 4000. (TV: Mission to the Unknown [+]Loading...["Mission to the Unknown (TV story)"])
On Frontios in the far future, bodies left on the surface would disappear into the ground due to the Tractators below the surface. (TV: Frontios [+]Loading...["Frontios (TV story)"])
In the far future, neurosurgeon Mehendri Solon disappeared, joining the cult of Morbius, and eventually went to Karn. (TV: The Brain of Morbius [+]Loading...["The Brain of Morbius (TV story)"])
The Black Dalek claimed that the Daleks were responsible for the disappearance of Etra Prime. (AUDIO: The Apocalypse Element [+]Loading...["The Apocalypse Element (audio story)"])
In 200,100, Rodrick skeptically noted that the Daleks had all supposedly disappeared thousands of years prior when Captain Jack Harkness warned of the imminent Dalek invasion. Jack was aware that the Daleks vanished out of time and space at a point when they were the greatest threat in the universe, the Ninth Doctor explaining that they had gone to fight the Time War, (TV: The Parting of the Ways [+]Loading...["The Parting of the Ways (TV story)"]) which followed the Tenth Dalek Occupation. (PROSE: Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia [+]Loading...["Doctor Who: The Encyclopedia (reference book)"])
