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For many pressing reasons, ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Nightshade (audio story)|Nightshade]]'') the Doctor stole [[The Doctor's TARDIS|a TARDIS]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') and fled his home planet with his granddaughter, [[Susan Foreman]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') While | For many pressing reasons, ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Nightshade (audio story)|Nightshade]]'') the Doctor stole [[The Doctor's TARDIS|a TARDIS]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'') and fled his home planet with his granddaughter, [[Susan Foreman]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') | ||
While some accounts suggested the Doctor and Susan were [[human]]s, with [[Planet (An Unearthly Child)|the planet]] they escaped from existing in the [[49th century]], ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'', ''[[The Sensorites (TV story)|The Sensorites]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks (novelisation)|Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks]]'', ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'', et al.) the most commonly accepted version of the the Doctor and Susan's escape from their [[homeworld]] was from [[Gallifrey]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]], ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'', etc.) | |||
== History == | == History == | ||
=== The escape === | === The escape === | ||
==== Reasons ==== | ==== Reasons ==== | ||
Although the [[First Doctor]] initially told [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]] that he and Susan were "[[exile]]s" from their home planet, ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'') most accounts suggested that this was a figure of speech and they had left of their own accord, albeit possibly as a way of escaping from dangerous circumstances. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'', [[AUDIO]]: ''[[Disassembled (audio story)|Disassembled]]'', etc.) | |||
A [[Boy (Unnatural History)|boy]] from [[Faction Paradox]] told the [[Eighth Doctor]] that the Doctor started out as a [[49th century]] [[human]], who had to leave their home planet to escape from [[the Enemy]]. The Enemy subsequently kept rewriting their past until they remembered having been a [[Time Lord]] from [[Gallifrey]], instead. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Unnatural History (novel)|Unnatural History]]'') | |||
[[The Doctor]]'s most common explanation as to why they left [[Gallifrey]] was that "[he] was bored". However, many accounts suggested this was a lie, or at least not the whole truth, ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'', ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') with the Doctor's arch-nemesis, [[Davros]], once confronting the [[Twelfth Doctor]] about this, stating that "no one runs the way you have run for so small a reason". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') Indeed, the [[First Doctor]] did admit to [[Bill Potts]] that there were "many pressing reasons" for his departure from Gallifrey. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') | [[The Doctor]]'s most common explanation as to why they left [[Gallifrey]] was that "[he] was bored". However, many accounts suggested this was a lie, or at least not the whole truth, ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'', ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') with the Doctor's arch-nemesis, [[Davros]], once confronting the [[Twelfth Doctor]] about this, stating that "no one runs the way you have run for so small a reason". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Magician's Apprentice (TV story)|The Magician's Apprentice]]'', ''[[The Witch's Familiar (TV story)|The Witch's Familiar]]'') Indeed, the [[First Doctor]] did admit to [[Bill Potts]] that there were "many pressing reasons" for his departure from Gallifrey. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') | ||
According to [[Ashildr]], when he was "barely more than a child", the Doctor learned of a prophesied warrior called "[[the Hybrid]]" from the [[Cloister Wraith]]s and the story made him "so scared" ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') that he eventually left Gallifrey out of fear. ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') Another reason he left to see the universe was that he was curious ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Return of the Daleks (TVC comic story)|Return of the Daleks]]'') of why "good prevail[ed]" over "evil" in the universe; ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stones of Venice (audio story)|The Stones of Venice]]'') according to the Doctor, uncovering this explanation was not | According to [[Ashildr]], when he was "barely more than a child", the Doctor learned of a prophesied warrior called "[[the Hybrid]]" from the [[Cloister Wraith]]s and the story made him "so scared" ([[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') that he eventually left Gallifrey out of fear. ([[TV]]: ''[[Heaven Sent (TV story)|Heaven Sent]]'') Another reason he left to see the universe was that he was curious ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Return of the Daleks (TVC comic story)|Return of the Daleks]]'') of why "good prevail[ed]" over "evil" in the universe; ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]''; [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Stones of Venice (audio story)|The Stones of Venice]]'') according to the Doctor, uncovering this explanation was not the only reason they ''ran from'' the planet, but it was what they were running ''to''. ([[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') Another account also stated the Doctor had left during "dark times when [their] world tottered on the edge of ruin, where the impotence of [their] own people had driven him to leave". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Roses (short story)|Roses]]'') | ||
As the [[Fifth Doctor]] told [[Tegan Jovanka]], his travels all started when he "deliberately [chose] to go on the run from [his] own people in a rackety old TARDIS". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') The Fifth Doctor also claimed to have left Gallifrey to find "the ideal society", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') with the [[Eighth Doctor]] claiming to have left his planet because he "disagreed with the philosophy of its Masters", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beltempest (novel)|Beltempest]]'') and the [[Second Doctor]] admitting to leaving due to "the deviousness and corruption of Time Lord politics". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') [[Gideon Crane]], a [[human]] temporarily fused with the Eighth Doctor's memories, stated that the Doctor left Gallifrey due to "some misplaced revolutionary fervor". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Minuet in Hell (audio story)|Minuet in Hell]]'') | As the [[Fifth Doctor]] told [[Tegan Jovanka]], his travels all started when he "deliberately [chose] to go on the run from [his] own people in a rackety old TARDIS". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') The Fifth Doctor also claimed to have left Gallifrey to find "the ideal society", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') with the [[Eighth Doctor]] claiming to have left his planet because he "disagreed with the philosophy of its Masters", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Beltempest (novel)|Beltempest]]'') and the [[Second Doctor]] admitting to leaving due to "the deviousness and corruption of Time Lord politics". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') [[Gideon Crane]], a [[human]] temporarily fused with the Eighth Doctor's memories, stated that the Doctor left Gallifrey due to "some misplaced revolutionary fervor". ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Minuet in Hell (audio story)|Minuet in Hell]]'') | ||
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Susan once stated that the Doctor had never explained to her why they needed to leave, simply that they had needed to flee. Still, she reflected that she was no longer comfortable with calling Gallifrey her home at this point. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'') | Susan once stated that the Doctor had never explained to her why they needed to leave, simply that they had needed to flee. Still, she reflected that she was no longer comfortable with calling Gallifrey her home at this point. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'') | ||
According to at least one account, the Doctor, after so much travel, may have already forgotten their original purpose in setting out on their journey as early as in their [[First Doctor|first incarnation]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Who is Dr Who? (short story)|Who is Dr Who?]]'') | |||
==== Conflicting stories ==== | ==== Conflicting stories ==== | ||
