The Doctor's Prison Diary (short story)
The Doctor's Prison Diary was the first short story in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2022 which, as the title indicates, is presented as an in-universe diary entry kept by the Thirteenth Doctor during her time in the Judoon prison. It also serves as an introduction to the annual as a whole.
Summary[[edit] | [edit source]]
Formatted as a diary entry written telepathically by the Doctor via her psychic paper, the Doctor introduces herself before chronicling her current situation as a prisoner of the Judoon. She talks about her ability to regenerate, admitting that it is going to make her life sentence much longer, before describing the interior of her prison cell and her day-to-day life in incarceration.
She ends the entry by remarking on her recent discovery that she is not the person she thought she was, and how she intends to head off and find the answers once help comes.
Characters[[edit] | [edit source]]
Worldbuilding[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The diary entry is dated "day 6935".
- The Doctor cannot tell if it is morning, afternoon, or evening.
- The Doctor is serving a life sentence.
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The non-narrative portion of the story includes the Doctor's criminal record.
Continuity[[edit] | [edit source]]
- The Doctor has been imprisoned in a Judoon prison and has been separated from Yaz, Ryan, and Graham. (TV: The Timeless Children)
- The Doctor's previous regenerations have been caused by getting old, (TV: The Tenth Planet, The Day of the Doctor, The Time of the Doctor, Twice Upon a Time) being blown up, (TV: The Doctor Falls, PROSE: Doctor Who and the Time War) and being blasted by radiation. (TV: Planet of the Spiders, The End of Time, AUDIO: The Brink of Death)
- The Doctor gets food beamed into her cell, and there are holograms in place of guards. (TV: Revolution of the Daleks)
- The Doctor has recently discovered that she is not the person she thought she was. (TV: The Timeless Children)
- The Doctor is keeping a diary from her prison cell. (PROSE: Ascension of the Cybermen and the Timeless Children)
