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A [[Time Lord]] who called himself '''the Doctor''' travelled in [[the TARDIS]] with his [[companion]] [[Emma (The Curse of Fatal Death)|Emma]]. After an encounter with his old enemies, the [[Dalek]]s and {{Pryce}}, he [[regenerated]] four times in quick succession, ultimately transforming into [[Thirteenth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|a female body]].

When the [[Eighth Doctor]] looked into the [[Tomorrow Window]], he saw [[the Doctor's ninth incarnation|several possible ninth incarnations]], one of whom was "a listless-looking man [who] sat on a sofa beside a girl in a red dress in an unconvincing medieval dungeon". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tomorrow Windows (novel)|The Tomorrow Windows]]'')

At some point, the Doctor began travelling with the "glamorous" [[Emma (The Curse of Fatal Death)|Emma]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who's After Your Cash (short story)|Who's After Your Cash]]'') in whom, "without even knowing [he] was looking", he found "a woman to [[love]]". The two developed a romantic relationship, with the Doctor's [[Tenth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|next incarnation]] later indicating that the two had had [[sex]] at least once. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]'')

Coming back to [[Earth]] for the first time in many [[year]]s, the Doctor became aware of a [[charity]] event centred around a "[[Comic Relief spectacular|TV spectacular]]" which, among other things, contained a depiction of his and Emma's adventures battling the [[Dalek]]s and {{Pryce}}. He wrote a rambling latter to ''[[The Mirror]]'' endorsing the production and insisting that readers give what they could to those in need. In this letter, he described himself as "over [[800]] years [[The Doctor's age|old]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who's After Your Cash (short story)|Who's After Your Cash]]'')

The Doctor wanted to settle down in domestic bliss with his companion [[Emma (The Curse of Fatal Death)|Emma]], and he invited {{Pryce}} to meet him on the planet [[Tersurus]] to inform him of his [[retirement]]. On Tersurus, both Time Lords had travelled back in time to bribe the castle architect to plant, then negate, various traps, ending in the Master's 900 year imprisonment in the sewers of Tersurus. However, the Master ultimately recruited the [[Dalek]]s to assist him.

The Doctor, realising that the Daleks planned to exterminate the Master once his usefulness was at an end, warned the Master of the danger through smells in the language of [[Tersuran]]. This was detected with the Daleks, and the Doctor was then killed by a Dalek energy beam. Emma was horrified until the Master said that the Doctor was in his ninth incarnation and would soon regenerate; sure enough, the Doctor then regenerated into his [[Tenth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|next body]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]'')

* After the credits rolled during the original broadcast of [[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)|The Curse of Fatal Death]]'', a roughly ten second long appeal by Rowan Atkinson, still in-character as the Ninth Doctor, aired. The short "narrative" showed the Ninth Doctor on Tersurus asking the audience to donate money by using the phone number shown on the screen.

* In [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'', there is a passing reference to the Doctor having "three [[The Doctor's ninth incarnation|ninth incarnation]]s", which was intended to refer to:

*# The [[Ninth Doctor]] played by [[Christopher Eccleston]] in the [[BBC Wales]] ''[[Doctor Who]]'' series;

*# This Ninth Doctor, played by [[Rowan Atkinson]]; and

*# The [[Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)|Ninth Doctor]] played by [[Richard E Grant]] in the ''[[Scream of the Shalka (webcast)|Scream of the Shalka]]'' webcast.

* In the Instagram release of [[Russell T Davies]]' short story ''[[Doctor Who and the Time War (short story)|Doctor Who and the Time War]]'', he liked a comment suggesting that, as the [[Ninth Doctor (Doctor Who and the Time War)|Ninth Doctor]] in that story was not explicitly identified, it could be any of the Doctor's ninth incarnations, including Rowan Atkinson's.

* In the short story ''Iris Explains'' in the [[2001 (releases)|2001]] [[Charity publication|charity anthology]] ''[[Missing Pieces (anthology)|Missing Pieces]]'', [[Lance Parkin]] had [[Iris Wildthyme]] suggest that "that new you", implicitly Rowan Atkinson's Doctor (then the latest incarnation of [[the Doctor]] to have debuted on television), was the version of the Doctor whom the [[Eighth Doctor]] would regenerate into if [[Gallifrey]] was ever restored following the events of ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]''. A lasting restoration of Gallifrey would later be presented in ''[[The Tomorrow Windows (novel)|The Tomorrow Windows]]'' and ''[[The Gallifrey Chronicles (novel)|The Gallifrey Chronicles]]'' as one of the possible endpoints of the [[post-War universe]]; alternatives included the Doctor becoming [[the Emperor]] of [[the Needle]] or simply remaining the [[Last of the Time Lords]].  

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