Joseph Wagg

Joseph Wagg
Species:	Human
Job:	Scientist
Affiliated with:	Institute for Technological Advancement and Research
Place of origin:	Earth
Children:	Sophie Wagg
First appearance:	Doctor Who [+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"]
Appearances:	PROSE: The Novel of the Film [+]Loading...["The Novel of the Film (novelisation)"] PROSE: The TV Movie [+]Loading...["The TV Movie (novelisation)"] PROSE: Loose Ends 8: The Eighth Doctor [+]Loading...["Loose Ends 8: The Eighth Doctor (short story)"]
Main actor:	Dave Hurtubise

Professor Joseph Wagg, also known as Joe, was a scientist employed at the Institute for Technological Advancement and Research in San Francisco. He was "about sixty" in 1999. (PROSE: The Novel of the Film ^[+]Loading...["The Novel of the Film (novelisation)"])

He designed an atomic clock for the countdown to the year 2000 and the new millennium. The Eighth Doctor stole his ID at the party for the countdown and used it to steal the beryllium chip in his clock, stopping the clock. (TV: Doctor Who ^[+]Loading...["Doctor Who (TV story)"]) According to one account, Wagg was given a new beryllium chip by Daniel Joyce. (PROSE: Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"]) According to another, the Doctor returned the chip and explained that he had persuaded Dionysius Exiguus to begin the millennium in 2001 instead. (PROSE: Loose Ends 8: The Eighth Doctor ^[+]Loading...["Loose Ends 8: The Eighth Doctor (short story)"])