Doctor X
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Doctor X was a science-fiction television series created in the 1950s.
History[[edit] | [edit source]]
The series, produced by a company called BBV, (WC: Doctor X [+]Loading...["Doctor X (webcast)"]) had plots involving the Queen being an alien and monsters invading Westminster Abbey. (PROSE: In Search of Doctor X [+]Loading...["In Search of Doctor X (short story)"]) Another noteworthy episode was Doctor X and the Caverns of Andostar.
Rumour had it that the company broadcasting the series "ran out of money", causing bailiffs to turn "their entire film archive" into a landfill. The only episodes which survived did so thanks to the diligence of enterprising fans rescuing the film reels from the landfill, but a number of them remained missing. (WC: Doctor X [+]Loading...["Doctor X (webcast)"])
A Cyberon was once described as being something futuristic "like one of the monsters from Doctor X". (PROSE: Cyberon [+]Loading...["Cyberon (novelisation)"])
Matt Hansen was a huge fan of the show and liked to watch old episodes on YouTube. Andy Hansen and Erimem travelled back to 1964 to track down the first book ever published about the series, Doctor X in an Amazing Adventure in Space. The book was incredibly rare and occasionally sold for around 400 quid on eBay in 2015. (PROSE: In Search of Doctor X [+]Loading...["In Search of Doctor X (short story)"])
In May 2019, when a misused Artari Time Projector caused the audience of the London Palladium to have several "visions" of a ghostly Victorian woman on the stage, one of the text messages whose interception alerted P.R.O.B.E. to the sightings likened it to something from Doctor X. (WC: Shadow People [+]Loading...["Shadow People (webcast)"]) By 1 June 2019, Giles owned a VHS of Doctor X; the spine bore a PG certificate and the BBV logo. (WC: Varunastra [+]Loading...["Varunastra (webcast)"])
On 23 November 2020, Giles, who had been looking for missing episodes for some time, believed he had found perhaps the only surviving copy of Doctor X and the Caverns of Andostar, and he purchased it from a vendor on eBay When it arrived, he began recording an unboxing of the episode for his YouTube channel, but he quickly discovered that it wasn't a film reel but a DVD, which differed from the item description. Regardless, Giles opened the case, and all the technology in P.R.O.B.E.'s headquarters went down due to a curse placed on the DVD, so that it took Maxie Masters two days to fix everything. In the meantime, Giles traced the seller's IP address to a caravan site in Bedfordshire, which was a ruse to get Giles away from P.R.O.B.E. so that the deceitful seller could steal a Nolvox control node from the Dr Smith shelf. (WC: Doctor X [+]Loading...["Doctor X (webcast)"]) The title card for Giles's case file on Doctor X, which recounted this incident, was subsequently included in a short trailer for his case files which Giles recorded at some later point. (WC: P.R.O.B.E. CASE FILES - TRAILER [+]Loading...["P.R.O.B.E. CASE FILES - TRAILER (webcast)"])
Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]
In an altered timeline, Doctor X still existed and had a spinoff about the doctor's female sidekick, Madame X. (PROSE: Republica [+]Loading...["Republica (novelisation)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
Like Professor X before it, Doctor X serves as an in-universe analogue to Doctor Who, however, unlike the analogues that came before it, stories featuring Doctor X established clear differences, such as the premiere of the series being around a decade before 1963 and the cause of missing episodes to be entirely unrelated to the BBC's old junking system. This theoretically means that it could co-exist with other in-universe series such as Doctor Who and Professor X.
The storyline involving monsters invading Westminster Abbey is a reference to the climax of the 1953 science fiction serial The Quatermass Experiment. Doctor X in an Amazing Adventure in Space is a transparent reference to Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks. Meanwhile, Doctor X and the Caverns of Andostar has a title reminiscent of the Fifth Doctor's final episode, The Caves of Androzani.
