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The technological limits of the time period, and the constraints of his exile, often made this [[incarnation]] of '''[[the Doctor]]''' frustrated and bitter. However, he retained his endearing compassion toward his [[human]] [[companion]]s, and he finally began to gain some mastery over [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] as he dissected its inner workings while it was rendered inoperable, as the approximately three years of time he spent in exile gave him the opportunity to learn more about his ship than he had ever known before, since he was no longer constantly on the move from his people. At the same time, he continued trying to regain his freedom.

The Doctor eventually [[Regeneration|regenerated]] into a [[Fourth Doctor|younger body]] after being exposed to large amounts of [[radiation]] during his efforts to stop the [[Eight Legs]] of [[Metebelis III]], the price he paid for correcting a mistake he had committed in the past.

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After being shot through the head, and injured during the subsequent fall off a walkway, the [[Second Doctor]] began to regenerate, but the process was halted by the [[Shiner]] tissue injected into him by the [[SILOET]] doctors, causing him to enter a six month coma to heal his body without regenerating. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Indestructible Man (novel)|The Indestructible Man]]'') After teaming up with his third incarnation against [[Omega]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'') the Second Doctor recalled how he "[met] [him]self with another face," ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Goodbyes (short story)|Goodbyes]]'') and how his "replacement" was "unpromising," ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') as well as that he had promised to replace [[The Doctor's recorder|his recorder]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[Doctors Assemble! (webcast)|Doctors Assemble!]]'')

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[[File:Third Doctor's exile begins.jpg|thumb|left|The Third Doctor stumbles out of [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] after an imposed second regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'')]]

Despite these accommodations, the Doctor harboured great resentment at the Time Lords for having triggered his regeneration, bitterly suspecting that he had been forced to change so that he would grow to like his cage. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Heralds of Destruction (comic story)|The Heralds of Destruction]]'')

[[File:Arkwood Parrots.jpg|thumb|left|Enraged [[parrot]]s loose at a [[Zoo (The Arkwood Experiments)|zoo]] swoop around the Brigadier and the Doctor. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Arkwood Experiments (comic story)|The Arkwood Experiments]]'')]]

The Brigadier took the Doctor to an investigation on an oddly situated [[Zoo (The Arkwood Experiments)|zoo]], where they were informed and shown that the more dangerous of the animals were acting docile and domesticated while the animals known to be personable and friendly were acting violent and rambunctious. Discovering that these symptoms had started during a school field trip to the park, the Doctor deduced that one of the students at [[Arkwood Private School]] had to be behind this. Travelling to the school, the Doctor and the Brigadier discovered that [[Thompson (The Arkwood Experiments)|at least one student]] had already suffered the same symptoms. Soon, the entire school had been contaminated and the students prepared to attack the local town. While the Brigadier and the school's Headmasters tried and failed to stop the students at the school entrance, the Doctor formulated a chemical antidote and cured the students, as [[Cedric Mathews|the student behind the incident]] was sent to a detention centre. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Arkwood Experiments (comic story)|The Arkwood Experiments]]'')

The Doctor and Liz went to [[Stegmoor]] when [[Daniel Gregson]] saw a [[Voord spaceship]] crash, but, because of its camouflage, the Doctor was unable to find the ship. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Beachhead (audio story)|Beachhead]]'')

Summoned by the Brigadier to an underground research centre on [[Wenley Moor]], the Doctor and Liz met [[Silurian]]s, a species who had gone into hibernation millions of years earlier, revived by power from the research centre. The Doctor strove for peace between the reptiles and humans and gained the trust of the [[Okdel L'da|Silurian leader]]. However, a rebellious and intolerant [[Morka|young Silurian]] killed his leader and released a deadly [[Silurian virus|virus]] that threatened to wipe out humanity.

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[[File:Ambassador approaches Doctor while he examines Quinlan.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor is too focused on autopsying [[James Quinlan|Quinlan]] to notice the [[Alien Ambassador's species|murderer]] behind him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ambassadors of Death (TV story)|The Ambassadors of Death]]'')]]

The Doctor helped Liz to create the [[Hotspur]] network. Trying to demonstrate part of the TARDIS to [[Nicola Attah]], he activated her conditioning as an enemy agent. He knew that the technology used by [[Cherilyn Dankworth]] was alien, and had heard of the [[Unzal]]. he worked out that the Unzal were only invading Great Britain not the Earth. [[Harper (The Unzal Incursion)|Harper]] tried to condition him but this destroyed the web. He wondered if the Unazl had help. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Unzal Incursion (audio story)|The Unzal Incursion]]'')

During one of his attempts to repair the TARDIS, it sent the Doctor and Liz to [[1539]] where they met [[Henry VIII]]. With [[The Doctor's sonic screwdriver|his sonic screwdriver]], the Doctor cured Henry of his [[cataract]]s, whilst Liz cured him of [[hiccup]]s. After this, Henry invited the pair to [[Hampton Court]], but they declined. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Hiccup in Time (short story)|Hiccup in Time]]'')

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[[File:Castaway.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor and the Brigadier have their vacation interrupted by a [[giant squid]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Castaway (comic story)|Castaway]]'')]]

While on vacation in the [[Caribbean]] with the Brigadier, the Doctor had [[Fredric Simba]] arrested for attacking them with a giant squid. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Castaway (comic story)|Castaway]]'') The Doctor later got around to reading his copy of ''[[Levitation Universal Edition]]'' and from it learned how to [[levitation|levitate]]. He used this ability to save a criminal from falling off a building. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Levitation (comic story)|Levitation]]'')

While battling the [[Waro]], the Doctor worked with Liz again, having missed her. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Devil Goblins from Neptune (novel)|The Devil Goblins from Neptune]]'') While he and the Brigadier were at the Cabinet Security meeting, Liz was visited by {{Delgado}}, which made her want to return to Cambridge permanently. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Reconnaissance (short story)|Reconnaissance]]'')

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[[File:Daffodil Nestene Autojet.jpg|thumb|right|The Doctor and Jo examine a daffodil. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'')]]

The Doctor's new assistant at UNIT after Liz left was [[Jo Grant]]. After being warned about {{Delgado}} coming to Earth, the Doctor convinced the Master to stop his alliance with the [[Nestene]]s, after providing them with a bridge-head allowing the aliens to return to Earth and creating weapons and tactics, as the Nestenes would not distinguish between the Master and anyone else in their takeover, and the two worked together to fling the Nestenes back into space by "chang[ing] the polarity" whilst the transfer shift of the [[radio telescope]] that summoned the Nestene invasion force was still open. The Doctor had also stranded the Master on Earth after stealing the [[dematerialisation circuit]] of [[the Master's TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'')

The Doctor tried to stop the Master, posing as a rural vicar, from summoning [[Azal]], the last of the [[Dæmon]]s, at [[Devil's End]]. Azal decided to give his power to the Master, and fired energy at the Doctor to kill him, until Jo stepped in front of the Doctor, asking Azal to kill her instead. This act of self-sacrifice did not make sense to Azal and the confusion destroyed him. The Master tried to escape in Bessie, but the Doctor's remote control brought the car back and the Master was finally captured by UNIT. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'')

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When a Mileu spaceship was sighted near East Anglia, the Doctor was reluctant to take action as he believed they were likely peaceful and was more intrigued by a device which had appeared in his TARDIS. He was visited at UNIT HQ by [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]] [[Jeremy Thorpe]] who was determined to persuade him to take action. The Doctor initially brushed him off however when a listlessness field began affecting the UK he hurried in Bessie to confront the Mileu with Jeremy alongside him. After they arrived at the coast near the spaceship, the Mileu teleported the pair aboard and revealed they were not responsible for the field, but were hunting the alien fugitive who was. Having deduced its purpose, the Doctor threatened to use the device to strengthen the field to affect the Mileu, promptong them to retreat. Afterwards Jeremy confessed he’d spoken to the alien fugitive when he’d called the Damascus project earlier in the day. Furious the project was still operating despite his objections, the Doctor abandoned the Prime Minister on the beach. From this incident Jeremy decided that the Doctor's morality was dangerous and recorded a message stating that the Doctor must be stopped. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Damascus (audio story)|Damascus]]'')

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[[File:Day of the Daleks Special Edition Mind Analysis.jpg|thumb|Daleks subject the Doctor to mind analysis. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]'')]]

Freedom fighters from an alternate [[22nd century]] tried to thwart a Dalek invasion by coming to the 20th century to assassinate a delegate, [[Reginald Styles]], at the second [[World Peace Conference]] in [[Auderly House]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]'') Whilst investigating the [[ghost]]s Styles had seen, the Doctor met [[Ace]], who possessed a [[sword]], and exchanged in a sword fight in which he emerged the victor, only for Ace to disappear when she grabbed his blade. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]'') After following the guerrillas back to the 22nd century, the Doctor realised that Styles' actions had instead been performed by [[Shura]], one of the fighters, in a misguided attempt to fulfil his mission, creating a [[temporal paradox]]. After travelling to the 20th century, the Doctor returned to ensure the evacuations of the delegates, having the Brigadier order his men to fall back and allow the Daleks to pass. The Daleks and [[Ogron]]s arrived in pursuit of the Doctor, but both were destroyed when Shura detonated his bomb. This intervention broke the paradox so the Dalek invasion never took place. ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]'')

The Doctor discovered that the Master had constructed a device known as [[TOMTIT]] and commissioned scientists, [[Ruth Ingram]] and [[Stuart Hyde]], to further its work at the [[Newton Institute]]. The device let the Master pluck various objects from history out of their proper setting and slow down time, though the Master's true goal was to summon the [[Chronovore]] [[Kronos]] and use its incredible might for conquest. Pursuing him in the Time Vortex, the Doctor accidentally materialised his TARDIS inside the Master's, locking both in a [[space loop]]. After much arguing between him and the Doctor, the Master forcibly separated their TARDISes, but launched the Doctor into the [[Time Vortex]]. Fortunately, the Doctor used his [[binary cardiovascular system]] and the [[telepathic circuit]]s of his TARDIS to communicate with Jo and instruct her to materialise him back in his TARDIS by using an emergency switch on the console.

Whilst at UNIT with [[Tom Osgood]], the Doctor noticed he could only communicate using the vowel "o" and "y". The Doctor and Osgood headed for the Doctor's hut to work on a device that would block the invaders named the [[Kobold]]s' signals. However, the Doctor became frustrated with Osgood and stormed into the TARDIS, where he learned he could speak normally. The Kobolds broke in and attacked the Doctor, and, after they seemingly overpowered him, they headed inside the TARDIS, although this was part of the Doctor's plan. When [[Forty (Morphology)|Forty]] noticed the [[roundel]]s in the TARDIS, he was distracted long enough for the Doctor to take him back to his planet, [[Procyon Two]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Morphology (short story)|Morphology]]'')

The Doctor and Jo were brought to a new training base, [[Base 43]], where dummies of old adversaries were kept. There they met Colonel [[Ashe]], who revealed himself a [[Russian]] spy sent to recruit the Doctor. The Doctor pretended to agree, only to knock the Colonel out just as the Brigadier and Sergeant Benton walked in. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Target Practice (comic story)|Target Practice]]'')

The Doctor also met [[Iris Wildthyme]], who helped him encounter robot sheep, aliens who looked like book characters and an alien named [[Verdigris (chemistry)|Verdigris]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Verdigris (novel)|Verdigris]]'')

[[File:Doctors 2 %26 3.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor with his [[Second Doctor|previous incarnation]], both listening to their [[First Doctor|first incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'')]]

A superluminal signal was sent to Earth, carrying with it an unusual energy blob that seemed intent on capturing the Doctor. On [[Gallifrey]], the Time Lords broke the first law of time to bring the Second Doctor to help him. When the two proved too different to work together, the Time Lords summoned the [[First Doctor]] to lead them, but he was trapped in a time eddy and unable to fully materialise, only communicating with them via the TARDIS scanner.

Now that he was able, he promised that he would take [[Jo Grant]] to see [[Metebelis III]] and its [[Metebelis crystal|blue crystals]], although she suspected they'd get side-tracked from any simple destination the Doctor tried to pick out. However, this had to be delayed because he had to travel to [[Geneva]] with [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]], as the [[United Nations]] wanted to discreetly grant him an award for helping to save the [[World Peace Conference]]. In his absence, the [[Thirteenth Doctor]]'s TARDIS made a brief [[emergency landing]] in his UNIT lab, with [[Yasmin Khan]] taking note of the frilly shirts on the coat-rack and even finding the Doctor's [[UNIT pass]]. ([[GAME]]: ''[[Lost in Time (video game)|Lost in Time]]'')

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The Doctor visited Ronald in Whitby again and took him back in time to witness the disaster that had led to him losing his captaincy, confirming Ronald’s belief it was an alien. Despite the Doctor’s intent, this actually distressed Ronald considerably. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Landbound (audio story)|Landbound]]'')

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[[File:The time theif.jpg|left|thumb|The Doctor gets an idea from Jo. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Time Thief (comic story)|The Time Thief]]'')]]

Aliens landed on Earth and began draining energy from it. The Doctor confronted them, and they turned out to be peaceful, only wanting to stop the spread of [[Molag seed]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Menace of the Molags (comic story)|Menace of the Molags]]'')

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[[File:Carnival ep2.JPG|thumb|The Doctor and Jo try to escape a [[miniscope]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters (TV story)|Carnival of Monsters]]'')]]

The Doctor and Jo wound up on the ''[[SS Bernice]]'', a cargo ship crossing the Indian Ocean. A monster appeared in the sea, events repeated themselves, and a giant hand stole the TARDIS. Investigation revealed that they were inside a [[miniscope]], an alien peepshow sporting numerous miniaturised environments, which showman [[Vorg (Carnival of Monsters)|Vorg]] and his assistant, [[Shirna]], had brought to amuse the populace of the planet [[Inter Minor]]. After leaving the miniscope, the Doctor returned the creatures to their homes and destroyed the machine, allowing him to return to normal size. ([[TV]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters (TV story)|Carnival of Monsters]]'') While working on the miniscope, he encountered [[River Song]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Peepshow (audio story)|Peepshow]]'')

Jo and the Doctor then went to a desert planet, where two sisters, [[Sophia (Once upon a Time Machine)|Sophia]] and [[Alice (Once upon a Time Machine)|Alice]], were competing to become queen. The final task was to guess the three objects in a sealed temple. Sophia, who had cheated by looking, guessed a crown, a sceptre and a mace, but Alice predicted that it was a [[yo-yo]], an [[umbrella]], and a [[Jelly baby|bag of sweets]]. Alice was correct, and was crowned queen. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Once upon a Time Machine (short story)|Once upon a Time Machine]]'')

[[File:Draconian Emperor allows expedition.jpg|thumb|left|The Draconian Emperor permits the Doctor to mount an expedition to the Ogron planet. ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'')]]

Upon arriving on an Earth freighter, the Doctor and Jo were caught up in the escalating tension between planets [[Earth]] and [[Draconia]]. The Doctor landed his ship in an Earth cargo ship to avoid a collision, but could not properly speak to the crew, as Ogrons boarded it, making off with the TARDIS. Unfortunately, a strange noise caused the human crew to see the Ogrons as though they were Draconians, and they believed the Doctor and Jo had led them onto the ship as spies for Draconia. The two of them were imprisoned on Earth and were unable to convince their captors that they were innocent.

After the Doctor regained consciousness, he wanted to find Jo to show her he was now healthy. However, Jo had left him to find help and was presumed deceased by a group of [[Thal]]s she found. He eventually found Jo alive and safe, learning that the Spiridons were a peaceful race forced into violence and experimentation by the Daleks. The group discovered a base with more than ten-thousand Daleks hibernating and buried deep in the ground, and the Doctor figured out they were vulnerable to extreme cold after noticing they slowed down during the nightfall that brought temperatures below freezing on Spiridon. The Daleks were eliminated by using the natural eruptions of liquid ice on Spiridon against them, liberating the Thals, the captive Spiridons, and removing the danger the Dalek army posed to other neighbouring races in the galaxy. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Daleks (TV story)|Planet of the Daleks]]'')

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[[File:Third Painting.jpg|thumb|left|A painting of the Third Doctor done on [[Karfel]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Timelash (TV story)|Timelash]]'')]]

Sidetracked to the planet [[Nooma]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Speed of Flight (novel)|Speed of Flight]]'') the Doctor and Jo visited the planet [[Karfel]] and encountered the [[Borad]] and the grandfather of [[Katz]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Timelash (TV story)|Timelash]]'')

He got annoyed when the Brigadier offered a pension scheme to him. Shortly afterwards the Doctor and Jo were taken to [[Draconia]] and were to be executed by the Lady [[Zinn]]. [[Ruji]] had them become agents of the Draconian Secret Service. He powerglided to an Asteroid with [[Emerald Lindstrom]] to find information about a pink colbalt asteroid and then tortured him to get information about how to catalyse pink Colbalt. He reversed the polarity on the Lindstrom's platform to mean that it was attracted to the magnatoid. Using the [[Grand Widow]]'s recall device he call the TARDIS to escape and pick up Jo. The Time Lords wouldn't let the TARDIS return to Draconia to say goodbye to Ruji on Jo's request. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Conspiracy in Space (audio story)|Conspiracy in Space]]'')

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[[File:Greendeath4.JPG|left|thumb|The Doctor undercover. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]'')]]

The Doctor returned to Earth and joined the Brigadier and Jo at Llanfairfach, where UNIT was investigating Global Chemicals, which was responsible for the pollution, having been directed by the computer [[BOSS]]. BOSS used mind control on key company staff, and Mike Yates, and planned on controlling the world based on its initial programming. The Doctor broke BOSS's control using the blue crystal. Once freed, company boss [[Stevens]] destroyed BOSS before it could link with computers over the world.

Jo and [[Clifford Jones]], a scientist working at [[Wholeweal]], had developed a quick romance in the few days since they had met, and Cliff asked for her hand in marriage, with Jo accepting his proposal. The Doctor, struggling to hide his devastation, offered his blessing and gave Jo the blue crystal he had retrieved from Metebelis III as a wedding present. Alone, he discreetly and sadly left the celebration as the Brigadier made a toast to the happy couple, driving away in Bessie, once more alone. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]'')

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[[File:Abe Lincoln.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor and [[Abraham Lincoln]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Backtime (comic story)|Backtime]]'')]]

The Doctor had his pocket picked in [[1867]] by [[Charlie Fisher]] and, to give the boy a new start, the Doctor took him in the TARDIS to America, but he forgot about the [[American Civil War]] and they landed in [[Gettysburg]], where the TARDIS was stolen by the Confederate army. The Doctor escaped the southern side in a weather balloon, and was able to give [[Abraham Lincoln]] help winning the war. He dropped Charlie off in [[Ballarat]], just twelve years after the gold rush. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Backtime (comic story)|Backtime]]'')

[[The Doctor's TARDIS]] travelled through the [[30th century]] and encountered a planet that was not supposed to be there. [[Star Beast|The planet was alive]] and swallowed the TARDIS. The Doctor met [[Harry Trant]], also stranded, and they worked together to get eaten by a parasitic amoeba on the planet's surface, which in turn was eaten by the planet. They reached the TARDIS in the stomach, and the Doctor materialised at the heart, telling Harry to shoot it. He did so hesitantly and the planet screamed as it died. The Doctor told him that, though killing was not a pleasant duty, the planet needed to be killed because of its size, and then took him to his home planet. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Hungry Planet (comic story)|The Hungry Planet]]'')

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[[File:GoodbyeArnoldAmateur.jpg|thumb|The Doctor gives his farewell to Arnold. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Amateur (comic story)|The Amateur]]'')]]

After Tom left his side, the Doctor travelled to the [[32nd century]], where he discovered children ruled the planet and the adults were slaves. He was able to cause a revolt, and gained a new companion, [[Arnold (Children of the Evil Eye)|Arnold]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Children of the Evil Eye (comic story)|Children of the Evil Eye]]'')

Arnold and the Doctor later encountered [[Spidron]]s and [[dinosaur]]s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Nova (TVC comic story)|Nova]]'') Afterwards, the Doctor returned Arnold to his own time. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Amateur (comic story)|The Amateur]]'')

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During a visit to the [[River Nile]] in [[1898]], the Doctor argued with [[Winston Churchill]] about the best self-defence, but the two became friendlier after a duel. Afterwards, the Doctor and Winston encountered [[Osiran service robot]]s and the "last of the [[Osirian]]s". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Lost Diaries of Winston Spencer Churchill (short story)|The Lost Diaries of Winston Spencer Churchill]]'')

The Doctor frequently visited the [[Diogenes Club]], where he met [[Mycroft Holmes]], but was thrown out when his [[seventh incarnation]] showed him the answer to the [[crossword]] he was doing, causing the Doctor to shout at his older self, breaking the rules of silence. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[All-Consuming Fire (novel)|All-Consuming Fire]]'')

While tinkering with Bessie, the Doctor was contacted by [[Bernice Summerfield]], and told that the [[Sirens of Time]] had hijacked the first Gallifreyan experiment of time travel, turning it into a [[time paradox]] that was splitting the universe apart. While the experiment had already been stopped, the Time Lords were in danger of not discovering time travel. Along with his next five incarnations, the Third Doctor was brought to the planet [[Henlen]] to serve as one of the six pilots needed to handle the TARDIS prototype, while his two previous incarnations and the [[Tenth Doctor]] stayed behind to deal with the possible backlash. The experiment was successful, restoring the correct timeline and the Third Doctor was taken back to his own time by Benny. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Collision Course (audio story)|Collision Course]]'')

[[File:Timewarrior ep4.JPG|thumb|left|The new TARDIS team. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'')]]

Journalist [[Sarah Jane Smith]] impersonated her aunt, virologist [[Lavinia Smith]], to gain access to a UNIT research centre. Top scientists were being held there in protective custody while the Doctor investigated the disappearances of their colleagues.

The Doctor, Sarah, [[Jeremy Fitzoliver]] and the Brigadier went to [[Space World]], a new amusement park, to investigate a death that had occurred nearby. The park was run by [[Naglon]]s disguised as humans, who wanted to hypnotise the humans to do their bidding. The aliens left Earth, but not before they captured Sarah and Jeremy. The Doctor and the Brigadier travelled to [[Parakon]] to retrieve them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Paradise of Death (audio story)|The Paradise of Death]]'')

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[[File:Third Doctor Taking Aim.jpg|thumb|The Doctor aims his [[Dinosaur stun gun|stun gun]] at an [[apatosaurus]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'')]]

The Doctor and Sarah arrived in [[1970s]] London to find that it had been evacuated because of [[dinosaur]]s. The dinosaurs were being brought to London through [[time eddy]]s in a plan to revert Earth to a pre-technological level. The masterminds behind the [[Operation Golden Age]] scheme, [[Whitaker (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)|Whitaker]] and [[Charles Grover]], were accidentally transported to pre-historic Earth. ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'')

The Doctor and Sarah then travelled to the planet [[Hezrah]], where the people worshipped the [[Eternal Machine]], which would send chosen citizens to the stars. The Doctor revealed that the machine was actually an alien that would slowly touch and kill the citizens, in order to gain power. The creature's followers grew angry at the creature and set it ablaze, killing it. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Discourse of Flies (short story)|The Discourse of Flies]]'')

[[File:Third Doctor w older Sarah.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor and an older Sarah. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')]]

While taking a ride in the country in [[Bessie]], the Doctor was saved from the [[Great Intelligence]] by [[Clara Oswald]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'') and was then captured by a [[Time Scoop]] and taken to the [[Death Zone]] on [[Gallifrey]]. There, he encountered an older Sarah Jane Smith, who at first was confused by the sight of him as she had witnessed his regeneration and had already parted company with his [[Fourth Doctor|next incarnation]]. They travelled to the [[Tomb of Rassilon]], where the winner of the [[Game of Rassilon (The Five Doctors)|Game of Rassilon]] would be given immortality. On the way, the Doctor met {{Ainley|n=a future rendition of the Master}}, who claimed to have been sent by the [[Time Lord]]s to help him, a claim the Doctor did not believe, confiscating the [[Seal of Rassilon|Seal of the High Council]] from him, under the assumption that it was stolen, and believing instead that the Master was behind everything, a claim he felt was confirmed when thunderbolts suddenly rained down on them, one of them hitting Bessie and forcing he and Sarah to walk. The Doctor and Sarah also encountered a group of [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] and a [[Raston Warrior Robot]]; fortunately, the two of them were able to sneak past while they did battle, the Cybermen quickly getting slaughtered.

Using stolen climbing utensils from the Raston Warrior Robot, the Doctor and Sarah climbed to the top entrance to the tower. Inside the tower, the Doctor encountered illusions of [[Liz Shaw]] and [[Mike Yates]], and eventually reached the tomb, where the Doctor joined with his [[First Doctor|first]] and [[Second Doctor|second incarnations]] to study the writing by [[Rassilon]]'s tomb, and open the teleportation systems. The [[Fifth Doctor]] arrived, under the control of Lord [[Borusa]], who had brought the Doctors there to help him retrieve immortality from Rassilon. The combined concentration of the three Doctors, however, was enough to break Borusa's control over their future incarnation. When Borusa spoke to Rassilon and took his offer of immortality, he was turned to stone and became trapped within a sarcophagus. The Doctor was soon after returned to his time zone with Sarah Jane by Rassilon. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')

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The Third Doctor was summoned by his [[first incarnation]], who required the aid of one of his future incarnations to escape a castle in medieval England, where he had been entrapped by knights thinking he was holding Lady [[Mary (Five Card Draw)|Mary]] hostage in his TARDIS. After the [[Fifth Doctor]] lost the game that chose who would face the knights, he explained the situation to them and the Doctors were permitted to leave. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Five Card Draw (short story)|Five Card Draw]]'')

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[[File:Doctor Peladon Ice Warriors.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor surmises [[Azaxyr]] will spare him until the [[Ice Warrior]]s no longer require his services. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Monster of Peladon (TV story)|The Monster of Peladon]]'')]]

The Doctor returned to Peladon with the intent of reuniting with King Peladon, but accidentally jumped fifty years ahead of his last visit. By then, Peladon had died, with his daughter, [[Thalira|Queen Thalira]], ruling under a period of dissent, and an ongoing labour dispute between Pel nobility and the Pel miners worsened when apparitions of [[Aggedor]] attacked and killed several miners. Following an uprising by the oppressed miners, and distrust from the queen's chancellor, [[Ortron]], regarding who the Doctor and Sarah had sided with, the two were sent to face the judgement of the [[Aggedor (The Curse of Peladon)|Aggedor]], whom the Doctor calmed with a Venusian lullaby. By Peladonian law, he and his companion were exonerated of any charges placed against them. With the situation worsening, Alpha Centauri summoned for assistance from the Federation, and they sent in [[Ice Warrior]]s to ensure production. The Ice Warriors' commander, [[Azaxyr]], threatened to kill hostages if the miners refused to work, and the Doctor brought the miners and ruling class together to fight the Ice Warriors.

The Doctor and Sarah then met a man named [[William (Gone Fishing)|Isaac]], a composer and future companion of the Doctor's. He was stalked by two grey figures, and eventually committed suicide. The Doctor attempted to investigate, but was stopped by the [[Adelphi|Time Lord messenger]], who informed him that he had to wait until he encountered the events himself. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[An Overture Too Early (short story)|An Overture Too Early]]'')

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[[File:Doctor and K'ampo face a possesed Sarah.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor and [[K'anpo Rimpoche|his mentor]] witness Sarah under control by an [[Eight Legs]] who covets the Metebelis crystal. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'')]]

The Doctor took the Brigadier to see a travelling performance show, where he observed a powerful clairvoyant, Professor [[Herbert Clegg]]. He arranged for the professor to meet him in UNIT HQ, where he looked into the source of Clegg's abilities. Before his experiment could begin, he was presented with a package; Jo had sent her Metebelis crystal back to him after a group of Indian porters cited it would bring them bad luck and refused any further association with her and Cliff unless she discarded the crystal. However, Clegg looked into it, causing his psychic abilities to increase and show him a frightful image of [[Eight Legs|extraterrestrial spiders]], which gave him a fatal heart attack.

The Doctor was stuck wandering around the [[Time Vortex]] for ten years, the radiation slowly eating away at his body. The effects became so severe that he could not even reach the [[TARDIS console]], and was doomed to simply wait until [[the TARDIS]] landed of its own accord. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'') During this time, he was taken prisoner by a corrupt being called Tremayne in East Berlin. Even though he was enduring a painful death, the Doctor worked alongside [[Edward Grainger]] and stopped Tremayne and the Logos from rewriting the history of the whole cosmos. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Ancient Whispers (short story)|Ancient Whispers]]'')

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[[File:Third-doctor-regenerates.jpg|thumb|right|The Doctor [[regeneration|regenerates]] into his [[Fourth Doctor|fourth incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'')]]

When the TARDIS finally deposited the dying Doctor back on Earth, he promptly collapsed in his UNIT lab next to Sarah Jane and the Brigadier. Looking at Sarah Jane, he tried comforting her, telling her, ''"While there's life, there's..."'', but expired before he could finish his dying words.

[[K'anpo Rimpoche]]'s psychic projection reappeared before Sarah Jane and the Brigadier, and promised the two that the Doctor would be all right, deciding to give the Doctor "a little push" to help his cells begin a regeneration, then vanished and told Sarah Jane and the Brigadier to "look after him". The Doctor then started breathing again and regenerated into his [[Fourth Doctor|next incarnation]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'')

Several regenerations and hundreds of years later, the Doctor's [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]] was imprisoned and brutally tortured in [[Saudi Arabia]] while investigating the activities of the [[Remote]]. In a delirious state, the Doctor created a [[time equation]] with his own [[blood]]. Due to the interference of [[Faction Paradox]], this connected the Eighth Doctor to the Third Doctor's TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book One (novel)|Interference: Shock Tactic]]'')

However, the TARDIS took the infection and fragments of the original [[timeline]] into itself, preserving the essence of the Third Doctor who didn't die on Dust. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') Even after the TARDIS' near-destruction on [[Avalon (The Shadows of Avalon)|Avalon]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Shadows of Avalon (novel)|The Shadows of Avalon]]'') and subsequent corruption into the [[Edifice (TARDIS)|Edifice]], the dust [[ghost]] of this original Third Doctor retained a degree of control over the ship's defences. Over his five millennia in the ship, he trained its [[spider]]s to be his scouts and lookouts. Finally, with the Edifice hanging over [[Romana III's Gallifrey|Gallifrey]] during the [[Faction Paradox invasion of Gallifrey|Faction Paradox invasion]], the Third Doctor confronted [[Grandfather Paradox]] and guided the Eighth Doctor to use the TARDIS' defence systems to destroy Gallifrey and [[Kasterborous]], forcing the universe to choose one of the two timelines.

Nevertheless, the Eighth Doctor later saw that Gallifrey could one day be restored to the universe. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Tomorrow Windows (novel)|The Tomorrow Windows]]'') At some point following the [[Last Great Time War]], waged between the Daleks and Time Lords, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Night of the Doctor]]'', ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') at least one [[Book (The Whoniverse)|history of the universe]] recounted that the Third Doctor had regenerated after the battle with the [[Eight Legs]] and [[The Great One (Planet of the Spiders)|the Great One]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Whoniverse (novel)|The Whoniverse]]'') implying that the Eighth Doctor had indeed been successful during the War in Heaven in restoring that if nothing else. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Ancestor Cell (novel)|The Ancestor Cell]]'') Indeed, the [[Tenth Doctor]] remembered how to defeat the Eight Legs. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'')

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On another occasion, the [[Seventh Doctor]] used the TARDIS [[telepathic circuit]]s to bring forth the memory of his third incarnation when he felt that the Third Doctor's technical expertise would be useful to disarm a dangerous bomb. The Doctor described his third persona as vain and suggested he wouldn't have liked being trapped in the seventh incarnation's body. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)|Timewyrm: Genesys]]'') However, this allowed the [[Timewyrm]] to infiltrate the Doctor's mind, and set up [[Anthony Rupert Hemmings]] in the portion of the Doctor's subconscious occupied by the Third Doctor's persona. The Doctor offered little resistance, distracted by the discovery that the [[The Leader|dictator]] of the [[Inferno universe]]'s [[Republic of Great Britain|Great Britain]] was his direct counterpart. When the Seventh Doctor and Ace entered the Doctor's mind, the Seventh Doctor was able to help the Third Doctor gather the strength needed to expel Hemmings from their mind. No longer a prisoner of his own making, the Third Doctor began to rebuild the Doctor's subconscious mind. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'')

[[File:FourEightThreeForgotten.jpg|thumb|The Third Doctor helps face [[Es'Cartrss]] . ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'')]]

When the [[Tenth Doctor]] was confronted by [[Es'Cartrss]] within the TARDIS' Matrix, he summoned the Third Doctor, among his other past incarnations, to use their united memories and willpower to take back control of the Matrix. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Forgotten (comic story)|The Forgotten]]'')

When he was exposed to energy from a [[time storm]], the [[Twelfth Doctor]] degenerated through all of his previous incarnations, including the Third Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Lost Magic (audio story)|The Lost Magic]]'')

[[File:Third Doctor in Roman Britain.png|thumb|right|The Doctor in [[Roman Empire|Roman]] [[Great Britain|Britain]] in the [[1st century]]. ([[GAME]]: {{cite source|The Legions of Death (game)}})]]

[[File:Three in time distortion.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor in the midst of a time distortion. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Third Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Third Doctor]]'')]]

In an alternate timeline created by the [[Discordia]], the Doctor had a passionate romantic relationship with [[River Song]] that began in his [[first incarnation]], having married her by his [[fourth incarnation]]. Without the Brigadier's knowledge, the Doctor and River would meet up to practice one-legged [[Venusian aikido]] while blindfolded on a tightrope. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Someone I Once Knew (audio story)|Someone I Once Knew]]'')

In a [[Parallel universe (He Jests at Scars...)|parallel universe]], [[the Valeyard (He Jests at Scars...)|the Valeyard]] undertook various corrections of [[history]] after he stole the [[Doomsday Weapon]] and used it on [[Gallifrey]]. He told [[Melanie Bush (He Jests at Scars...)|Mel]] that he unintentionally destroyed possibilities in which the Doctor existed. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[He Jests at Scars... (audio story)|He Jests at Scars...]]'')

When the [[Cyberman|Cybermen]] allied with [[Rassilon]] to take over history, ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'') the Doctor encountered a [[time distortion]] during a battle with {{Delgado}} that ended with the Master being [[cyber-converted]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Prologue: The Third Doctor (comic story)|Prologue: The Third Doctor]]'') This timeline was eventually unwritten by Rassilon and the [[Twelfth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)|Supremacy of the Cybermen]]'')

In a negated timeline, the TARDIS was attacked on [[23 November]] [[1963]] by a [[conceptual bomb]] bought by {{Pratt}} and began to be erased from time. The Third Doctor, along with his [[First Doctor|first]] and [[second incarnation]]s, became trapped in another dimension, and tried to warn their other incarnations by reducing the explosion to a blinking light on the TARDIS with the coordinates of the explosion. However, when their four successors followed the warning, the Master took direct action in attacking them, until the [[Sixth Doctor]] managed to bring them together to formulate a plan. After the [[Fifth Doctor]] ensured that the TARDIS would not explode, the Doctors prepared to [[time ram]] [[the Master's TARDIS]]. However, rather than kill the Master, the First Doctor instead turned off the automatic distress actions, making it so none of the Doctors followed it into the explosion and undoing the events of the day. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Light at the End (audio story)|The Light at the End]]'')

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In an [[alternate timeline|alternative timeline]] where his exile never ended, the Doctor remained in Britain for forty years, forming a working relationship with PM [[Melanie Bush]] for over twenty years. However, he eventually betrayed the [[United Kingdom]] when it was invaded by the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] in [[2010]] as he felt that Britain's best efforts against the Cybermen were destined to be useless. The Cybermen partly converted the Doctor and restored his ability to travel in time. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Quantum Archangel (novel)|The Quantum Archangel]]'')

Travelling through the [[cave]]s of the [[Death Zone]] to save [[Borusa]] from the [[Dark Tower]], the [[War Doctor]] and [[Cinder]] found various [[cave painting]]s which the Doctor speculated were depictions of himself throughout his lives, some of which he failed to recognise. One of the paintings depicted a figure "with bouffant white hair and a cape being chased by a [[Raston Warrior Robot (The Five Doctors)|silver robot]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'')

[[File:Unhappy Doctor.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor expresses his outrage at orders taking priority over democracy. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]'')]]

A champion for peace and justice, ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'') who "hardly ever" lied, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'') the Third Doctor valued his freedom, ([[TV]]: ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'') believing "the collection of the simplest animal lifeforms [to be] a dubious enough pursuit in itself", but that "the collection of civilised [and] intelligent beings [was] a positive crime", ([[TV]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters (TV story)|Carnival of Monsters]]'') sympathising with such caged creatures due to his experience as an exile on Earth. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Walls of Confinement]]'') He was also more of a show-off than his predecessors, often putting himself at the centre of attention when his plans and contraptions worked accordingly. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'') [[Liz Shaw]] believed he only really required an assistant to "pass [him] [his] test tubes and to tell [him] how brilliant [he was]." ([[TV]]: ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'')

After confronting [[The Great One (Planet of the Spiders)|the Great One]] on [[Metebelis III]] to redeem himself for causing her incursion on Earth after stealing a [[Metebelis crystal]], the Doctor returned to his UNIT lab on Earth, claiming to Sarah Jane that "the TARDIS [had] brought [him] home". Telling a saddened Sarah that facing his fears was more important than "just going on living", he wiped away her tears and tried to comfort her as he succumbed to the radiation poisoning of the crystal. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'')

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The Third Doctor developed a habit of uttering, ''"good grief"'', when he was annoyed, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Ambassadors of Death (TV story)|The Ambassadors of Death]]'', ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'', ''[[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)|The Curse of Peladon]]'', ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') surprised ([[TV]]: ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'', ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'', ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'') or alarmed. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'', ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]'', ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'') When tampering with machinery, he would find himself having to "[[Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow|reverse the polarity]]" to achieve his objectives. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'', ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'', ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'', ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'', ''[[Planet of the Daleks (TV story)|Planet of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'')

When making a statement, the Doctor would say, "look", before elaborating on his statement. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'', ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'', ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Claws of Axos (TV story)|The Claws of Axos]]'', ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'', ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'', ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Sea Devils (TV story)|The Sea Devils]]'', ''[[The Mutants (TV story)|The Mutants]]'', ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', ''[[Frontier in Space (TV story)|Frontier in Space]]'', ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'')

He also had a habit of saying "[[Jehoshaphat]]", ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]''; [[COMIC]]: ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]''; [[PROSE]]: ''[[Interference - Book Two (novel)|Interference: The Hour of the Geek]]'', ''[[Verdigris (novel)|Verdigris]]'') or "Jumping Jehoshaphat", ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors]]'', ''[[The Wages of Sin (novel)|The Wages of Sin]]'') and singing when tinkering on things or driving Bessie. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'', ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'', ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[Death to the Daleks (TV story)|Death to the Daleks]]'')  

The Doctor made use of an [[eye loupe]] [[magnifying glass]] for examining materials. ([[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'', ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'', ''[[The Curse of Peladon (TV story)|The Curse of Peladon]]'', ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]'', ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'')

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[[File:Boxing.jpg|thumb|The Doctor boxes with [[John Andrews (Carnival of Monsters)|John Andrews]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters (TV story)|Carnival of Monsters]]'')]]

With a reaction time "ten times faster" than a human's, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'') the Third Doctor was a man of action, joining the fray whenever needed with his mastery of [[Venusian aikido]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'') [[boxing]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Carnival of Monsters (TV story)|Carnival of Monsters]]'') [[Saturnian kung-fu]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Devil Goblins from Neptune (novel)|The Devil Goblins from Neptune]]'') [[Martian karate]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Inferno (novelisation)|Inferno]]'') and [[Mercurian kung fu]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Heralds of Destruction (comic story)|Heralds of Destruction]]'') The Third Doctor's skill at combat was so exceptional that the [[Sixth Doctor]] considered him to be the best hand-to-hand combatant of his previous five incarnations. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[State of Change (novel)|State of Change]]'')

When his body underwent too much strain, or he was exceptionally injured, the Doctor could force himself into a [[coma]] to allow himself to heal. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'', ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'', ''[[Planet of the Daleks (TV story)|Planet of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Monster of Peladon (TV story)|The Monster of Peladon]]'')

[[File:Number 5 reception centre.jpg|thumb|The Doctor sarcastically poses for his mug shot. ([[TV]]: ''[[Invasion of the Dinosaurs (TV story)|Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]'')]]

The Third Doctor looked like a tall man in his fifties, with a shock of [[white]] [[hair]], [[blue]] [[eye]]s, a pronounced [[chin]] and a big, pointy [[nose]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'') By his own account, he had "slim, artistic [[hand]]s". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Independence Day (novel)|Independence Day]]'') The Doctor sported [[Convict tattoo|a tattoo]] of a [[snake]] coiled into the shape of a [[question mark]] on his right [[forearm]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'', ''[[Doctor Who and the Silurians (TV story)|Doctor Who and the Silurians]]'') which was a mark made by the Time Lords to signify that he was in [[exile]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)|Christmas on a Rational Planet]]'')

When [[Affinity]] took on the Third Doctor's appearance, the [[Twelfth Doctor]] noted that his third incarnation had "[a] rather impressive [[height]], [with] an impressive bouffant of white hair." The manifestation appeared in a "ruffled shirt, purple velvet smoking [[jacket]], and scarlet-lined [[cape]]." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Silhouette (novel)|Silhouette]]'')

Shortly after his regeneration, the Third Doctor possessed a flat, inconspicuous short-cut [[hairstyle]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'') but this gradually evolved into a voluminous and exuberant [[bouffant]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Inferno (TV story)|Inferno]]'', ''[[Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons]]'', ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'', ''[[Day of the Daleks (TV story)|Day of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Time Monster (TV story)|The Time Monster]]'', ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', ''[[The Green Death (TV story)|The Green Death]]'', ''[[The Time Warrior (TV story)|The Time Warrior]]'', ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]]'')

When [[Ace]] encountered the Third Doctor in the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s mind, she noticed that he had "a shock of white hair." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)|Timewyrm: Revelation]]'') [[River Song]] believed that the Third Doctor's hair made him look "like a [[lion]]", ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock (video game)|The Eternity Clock]]'') while [[Winstanley]] mistook it for a [[wig]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Dæmons (TV story)|The Dæmons]]'')

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Following his [[regeneration]], the Doctor kept wearing a [[TARDIS homing watch]] on his left wrist and a flat metal chain bracelet on his right. After he stole [[cloth]]es from [[Ashbridge Cottage Hospital]], his outfit consisted of a [[white]] [[frill]]ed [[shirt]], a [[Navy (colour)|navy]] [[blue]] [[velvet]] [[suit]], [[black]] [[trouser]]s with [[suspender]]s, black dress [[shoe]]s, an [[Ebony (colour)|ebony]] black [[cravat]] and Dr. [[Beavis]]' black Inverness [[cape]] with red innings and his black [[fedora]] hat. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'') The Doctor had chosen these clothes to help him cultivate his chosen persona, but he eventually decided that the Fedora hat had been a mistake. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Prisoners of the Sun (short story)|Prisoners of the Sun]]'') He returned them after being recruited by UNIT, since one of his requests for his employment was identical clothing to call his own. ([[TV]]: ''[[Spearhead from Space (TV story)|Spearhead from Space]]'') His choice of clothes would change with a variety of colours and designs that were kept in a wardrobe by the TARDIS control console. ([[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Daleks (TV story)|Planet of the Daleks]]'')

Because of his more frilled and flamboyant fashion, his [[first incarnation]] sneeringly called him a "dandy," ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'') while his [[second incarnation]] labelled him "fancy pants". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') Upon first seeing him, [[Morgan (Colony in Space)|Morgan]] thought that the Doctor was wearing "fancy dress". ([[TV]]: ''[[Colony in Space (TV story)|Colony in Space]]'')

:''See [[The Doctor's age|separate article]].''

[[File:Devious.jpg|thumb|Pertwee in the ''Devious'' regeneration scene]]

In 1995, Pertwee reprised his role as the Doctor for the fan film ''[[Devious (home video)|Devious]]'', filming a regeneration scene to transition between the film's "Second-and-a-Doctor" and the Third Doctor. Audio from Pertwee's scene was later used for ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'', and parts of the film (including the regeneration scene) were included in the form of a [[Devious|trailer of sorts]] on the DVD release of ''[[The War Games (TV story)|The War Games]]''. However, this wiki deems ''Devious'' to be invalid, partially under the factor of it being fan-made, and additionally for being unreleased in full.

In early 1996, Pertwee reprised the role again for a [[Vodafone advertisement]], in which an unnamed government agent (played by Kyle MacLachlan) travels to [[Liverpool]] to prevent the construction of a dangerous time machine. When this device turns out to be an elaborate karaoke machine, the agent leaves – not realising that an actual alien time traveller, the Doctor, is coincidentally working in a garage two doors down. Pertwee died the following May.

[[Ron Moody]] was approached by the producers after his success in "Oliver" but he turned down the role. He stated in interviews that turning down the role of the Third Doctor was the worst thing he ever did professionally.

In the story of ''[[Legacy (video game)|Doctor Who: Legacy]]'', the Third Doctor joins his other selves and their [[companion]]s as they travel through time to stop and fix the damage caused by the [[Sontaran]]s' attacks throughout [[history]], facing [[Vade]] the Defiant.

[[File:Third_Doctor_Illustration_in_DWM_122.jpg|thumb|right|Illustration of the Third Doctor in ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' [[DWM 122|122]], by [[Philip Cottrell]].]]

{{Quote|A green and scarlet cobra was squirming itself into a question mark on my forearm. In the middle was a small letter C, which I could only assume stood for Carlotta. On the other hand perhaps the choice of subject had been taken from a child's spelling book and the C stood for cobra.|Moon Boots and Dinner Suits, by Jon Pertwee}}

*The Third Doctor was the first incarnation seen wearing his predecessor's clothing following the Second Doctor's regeneration, the Second Doctor himself having emerged from his regeneration wearing a completely different set of clothing from what the First Doctor used to wear. A new incarnation of the Doctor being seen wearing their predecessor's clothes following their regeneration would become the norm from the Third Doctor onwards, with the only exceptions to this being the [[Eighth Doctor]] waking up nude in a morgue and the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] emerging from his regeneration wearing different clothes much like the Second Doctor.  

*The Third Doctor is thus far the only incarnation of the Doctor to have been exiled by the Time Lords, and the only incarnation to have had most of his stories take place on Earth for half of his tenue due to the exile before it was lifted, along with all knowledge of how to operate his TARDIS returned to him, at the end of ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]''.   

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