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For many pressing reasons, ([[ | For many pressing reasons, ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Nightshade (audio story)|Nightshade]]''; [[TV]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (TV story)|Twice Upon a Time]]'') the Doctor took [[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]]: ''[[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]]'', | 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]]: ''[[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]]'', etc.) the most commonly accepted version of the Doctor and Susan's escape was that their [[homeworld]] was [[Gallifrey]] and that they flew off in a stolen [[Type 40]] [[TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]'', ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'', etc.) | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
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One account showed the Doctor enter the TARDIS by himself and, after admiring the interior, found that the ship had no owner. He then took the TARDIS from Gallifrey to explore the universe. ([[POEM]]: ''[[Something Borrowed, Something Blue (poem)|Something Borrowed, Something Blue]]'') | One account showed the Doctor enter the TARDIS by himself and, after admiring the interior, found that the ship had no owner. He then took the TARDIS from Gallifrey to explore the universe. ([[POEM]]: ''[[Something Borrowed, Something Blue (poem)|Something Borrowed, Something Blue]]'') | ||
The ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'' suggested that the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] had coerced the Doctor into taking the Hand of Omega with him when he left Gallifrey. The Doctor placed the Hand on [[Earth]] in the [[20th century]], aware that the [[Dalek]]s would one day come to steal it in the hope of harnessing its great power. Accordingly, he pre-programmed the Hand to act against Dalek interests. Ultimately, the Doctor's scheme was delayed when he unexpectedly left the planet Earth, and a [[memory bomb]] concealed in his [[TARDIS control console]] wiped his mind of knowledge of both the Daleks and the Hand of Omega as insurance against his plan being discovered. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual ( | The ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'' suggested that the [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] had coerced the Doctor into taking the Hand of Omega with him when he left Gallifrey. The Doctor placed the Hand on [[Earth]] in the [[20th century]], aware that the [[Dalek]]s would one day come to steal it in the hope of harnessing its great power. Accordingly, he pre-programmed the Hand to act against Dalek interests. Ultimately, the Doctor's scheme was delayed when he unexpectedly left the planet Earth, and a [[memory bomb]] concealed in his [[TARDIS control console]] wiped his mind of knowledge of both the Daleks and the Hand of Omega as insurance against his plan being discovered. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') As a result, the Doctor was unfamiliar with the Daleks until he [[Thal-Dalek battle|encountered]] them on [[Skaro]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Daleks (TV story)|The Daleks]]'') | ||
The Doctor's memory of the plan itself would not resurface until his [[seventh incarnation]], who would return to Earth to [[Shoreditch Incident|execute it]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual ( | The Doctor's memory of the plan itself would not resurface until his [[seventh incarnation]], who would return to Earth to [[Shoreditch Incident|execute it]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek Combat Training Manual (reference book)|Dalek Combat Training Manual]]'') Other accounts held that the Doctor truthfully was completely unaware of the Daleks until meeting them on Skaro, ([[TV]]: ''[[Into the Dalek (TV story)|Into the Dalek]]'', et. al) meaning he would have had to hide the Hand for other reasons. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', et. al) [[The Master]] and [[First Rani|the Rani]] also said the Celestial Intervention Agency had no idea who the Doctor was. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'') Nonetheless, by his seventh incarnation, the Doctor indeed had realised the Daleks would seek the Hand. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', et. al) | ||
=== First flight === | === First flight === | ||
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According to one account, the first flight of the TARDIS involved the Doctor pulling a lever which turned the TARDIS into a time-travelling machine. During early flights, he would have test instruments connected to the ship to calibrate the controls. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Timeslip (comic story)|Timeslip]]'') | According to one account, the first flight of the TARDIS involved the Doctor pulling a lever which turned the TARDIS into a time-travelling machine. During early flights, he would have test instruments connected to the ship to calibrate the controls. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Timeslip (comic story)|Timeslip]]'') | ||
According to another account, immediately after leaving Gallifrey, the Doctor rested in the TARDIS console room, while Susan explored their new home. She found a full-length mirror and saw a pale-skinned fanged figure | According to another account, immediately after leaving Gallifrey, the Doctor rested in the TARDIS console room, while Susan explored their new home. She found a full-length mirror and saw a pale-skinned fanged figure that vanished after telling her that she was not "[[Ace|the one]]". The Doctor theorised that, since they were now travelling through time, Susan had encountered a brief echo of either the future or the past. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Exiles (short story)|The Exiles]]'') | ||
According to a third account, Susan collapsed in the TARDIS shortly after the engines were stabilised. The Doctor tended to Susan as she slept, and used his jacket as a makeshift pillow for her before she reawakened. Susan then explored the TARDIS as the Doctor tended to the ship's controls. She tripped over a rigger's work case and brought it back to the Doctor when the TARDIS had run out of power. Inside the work case, the Doctor found an [[artron cell]] and attached it to the drive system to power an emergency landing. After finding a nearby world, the TARDIS appeared to take over and brought them to [[the Moon]] of [[Earth]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'') | According to a third account, Susan collapsed in the TARDIS shortly after the engines were stabilised. The Doctor tended to Susan as she slept, and used his jacket as a makeshift pillow for her before she reawakened. Susan then explored the TARDIS as the Doctor tended to the ship's controls. She tripped over a rigger's work case and brought it back to the Doctor when the TARDIS had run out of power. Inside the work case, the Doctor found an [[artron cell]] and attached it to the drive system to power an emergency landing. After finding a nearby world, the TARDIS appeared to take over and brought them to [[the Moon]] of [[Earth]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning (audio story)|The Beginning]]'') | ||
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== Aftermath on Gallifrey == | == Aftermath on Gallifrey == | ||
Angry, [[TARDIS (Prisoners of Fate)|the Doctor's original TARDIS]] hired a [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] agent named [[Maris]] to locate the Doctor. Meanwhile, [[the Master]] and [[First Rani|the Rani]] learned of the Doctor's escape and became desperate to figure out where he had gone. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'') | Angry, [[TARDIS (Prisoners of Fate)|the Doctor's original TARDIS]] hired a [[Celestial Intervention Agency]] agent named [[Maris]] to locate the Doctor. Meanwhile, [[the Master]] and [[First Rani|the Rani]] learned of the Doctor's escape and became desperate to figure out where he had gone. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)|Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir]]'') | ||
In one account of the [[Second Doctor]]'s [[The Doctor's trial (The War Games)|trial]], the [[First Time Lord (The War Games)|President of the Court]] told the Doctor that his prolonged and temporal interference drew attention to the very existence of the Time Lords and that the safety of their race had lain in [[silence]] and [[secrecy]] for many [[year]]s. He went to surmise that offences of this nature were [[Death sentence|capital crimes]], in comparison to which his theft of the TARDIS was a relatively minor offence, before reluctantly sentencing him to death. The charges were commuted to a period of exile after the Doctor struck a deal with [[Sardon]] and agreed to work for the [[CIA]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') | In one account of the [[Second Doctor]]'s [[The Doctor's trial (The War Games)|trial]], the [[First Time Lord (The War Games)|President of the Court]] told the Doctor that his prolonged and temporal interference drew attention to the very existence of the Time Lords and that the safety of their race had lain in [[silence]] and [[secrecy]] for many [[year]]s. He went to surmise that offences of this nature were [[Death sentence|capital crimes]], in comparison to which his theft of the TARDIS was a relatively minor offence, before reluctantly sentencing him to death. The charges were commuted to a period of exile after the Doctor struck a deal with [[Sardon]] and agreed to work for the [[Celestial Intervention Agency|CIA]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[World Game (novel)|World Game]]'') | ||
== Legacy == | |||
[[Human]] [[historian]]s who studied the [[Dalek]]s in the [[post-Time War universe]] understood that the Doctor had stole a TARDIS, lost [[Gallifrey's moon|the moon]] and [[Thal-Dalek battle|travelled]] to [[Skaro]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe (short story)|Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe]]'') | |||
After being embroiled in the [[Game of Rassilon (The Five Doctors)|Game of Rassilon]] with his previous [[incarnation]]s, the [[Fifth Doctor]] found himself appointed as [[Lord President]] by [[Chancellor]] [[Flavia]] following the disqualification of Lord President [[Borusa (The Five Doctors)|Borusa]]. However, the Doctor chose instead chose to leave Gallifrey once more, acknowledging that the Time Lords would be furious. When [[Tegan Jovanka]] observed that he was deliberately choosing to go on the one from his own people in a "rackety old TARDIS", the Doctor reflected "Why not? After all, that's how it all started." ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Five Doctors (TV story)}}) | |||
Following the [[Time War]], the [[Twelfth Doctor]], having [[Coup against Rassilon|banished]] [[Rassilon (Hell Bent)|Rassilon]] in retaliation for his aggressive pursuit of [[the Hybrid]] of [[legend]], which resulted in the [[death]] of [[Clara Oswald]], was addressed as Lord President by the [[Eleventh General]], only to nearly unravel the [[Web of Time]] by [[extraction|extracting]] Clara. A [[Boy (Heaven Sent)|Time Lord author]] later reflected that the Doctor then "stole [[The Doctor's TARDIS|a faulty time-travel capsule]], fled Gallifrey, and started careering around the cosmos, righting wrongs, defeating [[monster]]s, and [[abduction|abducting]] [[human]]s." ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|A Brief History of Time Lords (novel)}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|Hell Bent (TV story)}}) | |||
When the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] concluded telling the [[bedtime story]] ''[[The Way Back Home]]'' on [[Planet Bedtime Stories]], he began to tell a story about "[[The Doctor|someone]] who went to space and [[The Doctor (title)|started to help people]]", but cut himself off when he realised he didn't have enough [[time]] to tell it, but promised to save it for another bedtime story. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story (TV story)|timestamp=00:04:08}}) | |||
== Other realities == | == Other realities == | ||
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=== Information from invalid sources === | === Information from invalid sources === | ||
In the short story [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[TARDIS Stolen! (short story)|TARDIS Stolen!]]'', the ''[[Gallifrey Gazette]]'' investigated the circumstances of the Doctor's theft of [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] and flight from Gallifrey. | In the short story [[NOTVALID]]: ''[[TARDIS Stolen! (short story)|TARDIS Stolen!]]'', the ''[[Gallifrey Gazette]]'' investigated the circumstances of the Doctor's theft of [[the Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] and flight from Gallifrey. | ||
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