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[[Patience (The Tides of Time)|Patience]] reminded the Doctor of several lifetimes he spent as [[Patience's husband|her husband]]. A renowned explorer, the Doctor was a [[pioneer]] and lived in the [[House of Blyledge]]. The Doctor had thirteen children across several incarnations and multiple grandchildren, although most of his family was killed in a government culling of the [[womb]]-born. The First Doctor traveled back to this period, rescued his past-self's newborn granddaughter [[Susan]], and met with Patience in order to rescue her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') | [[Patience (The Tides of Time)|Patience]] reminded the Doctor of several lifetimes he spent as [[Patience's husband|her husband]]. A renowned explorer, the Doctor was a [[pioneer]] and lived in the [[House of Blyledge]]. The Doctor had thirteen children across several incarnations and multiple grandchildren, although most of his family was killed in a government culling of the [[womb]]-born. The First Doctor traveled back to this period, rescued his past-self's newborn granddaughter [[Susan]], and met with Patience in order to rescue her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') | ||
While the First Doctor was able to remember being a pioneer amongst his people, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'') the Fifth Doctor and the [[Sixth Doctor]] had only vague memories of their life from before what they remembered to be their second regeneration, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'') with great chunks were missing further back. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') | While the First Doctor was able to remember being a pioneer amongst his people, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'') the Fifth Doctor and the [[Sixth Doctor]] had only vague memories of their life from before what they remembered to be their second regeneration, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[The World Shapers (comic story)|The World Shapers]]'') with great chunks were missing further back. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (novel)|Cold Fusion]]'') According to one account, these memories of the Doctor's earliest lives were wiped by [[the Divison]], explaining why the Doctor had assumed they only regenerated thirteen times because they were made into a child once more. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Timeless Children (TV story)|The Timeless Children]]'') | ||
During the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s [[mindbending]] contest with [[Morbius]], as many as [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|eight previous faces]] were shown before the First Doctor's. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius]]'') The Fourth Doctor later told Romana that "Time Lords have ninety lives", and that he himself had already gone through "about a hundred and thirty". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Creature from the Pit (TV story)|The Creature from the Pit]]'') [[Xoanon]], a computer copy of the Doctor's brain, spoke with not just the Fourth Doctor's voice ([[TV]]: ''[[The Face of Evil (TV story)|The Face of Evil]]'') but also voices resembling [[Chub]]'s, [[Toos]]', ([[TV]]: ''[[The Face of Evil (TV story)|The Face of Evil]]'', ''[[The Robots of Death (TV story)|The Robots of Death]]'') and [[Parsons (The Invisible Enemy)|Parsons]]'. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Face of Evil (TV story)|The Face of Evil]]'', ''[[The Invisible Enemy (TV story)|The Invisible Enemy]]'') | During the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s [[mindbending]] contest with [[Morbius]], as many as [[The Doctor (The Brain of Morbius)|eight previous faces]] were shown before the First Doctor's. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Brain of Morbius (TV story)|The Brain of Morbius]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius (novelisation)|Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius]]'') The Fourth Doctor later told Romana that "Time Lords have ninety lives", and that he himself had already gone through "about a hundred and thirty". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Creature from the Pit (TV story)|The Creature from the Pit]]'') [[Xoanon]], a computer copy of the Doctor's brain, spoke with not just the Fourth Doctor's voice ([[TV]]: ''[[The Face of Evil (TV story)|The Face of Evil]]'') but also voices resembling [[Chub]]'s, [[Toos]]', ([[TV]]: ''[[The Face of Evil (TV story)|The Face of Evil]]'', ''[[The Robots of Death (TV story)|The Robots of Death]]'') and [[Parsons (The Invisible Enemy)|Parsons]]'. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Face of Evil (TV story)|The Face of Evil]]'', ''[[The Invisible Enemy (TV story)|The Invisible Enemy]]'') | ||
