The Doctor's giddy aunt
The Seventh Doctor thought he might have once had a giddy aunt, but he mused that she was "probably metaphorical". (AUDIO: Forever Fallen [+]Loading...["Forever Fallen (audio story)"])
Indeed, "Oh, my giddy aunt" was a favourite phrase of the Second Doctor's. This was a common exclamation of surprise for him. (TV: The Krotons [+]Loading...["The Krotons (TV story)"], The Three Doctors [+]Loading...["The Three Doctors (TV story)"], The Two Doctors [+]Loading...["The Two Doctors (TV story)"], COMIC: The Forgotten [+]Loading...["The Forgotten (comic story)"], et al.)
Whereabouts[[edit] | [edit source]]
By one account, High Chancellor Flavia was the Doctor's aunt. (AUDIO: Blue Boxes [+]Loading...["Blue Boxes (audio story)"]) Later on, however, the Eleventh Doctor claimed that he didn't even have an aunt, in conversation with Amelia Pond. (TV: The Eleventh Hour [+]Loading...["The Eleventh Hour (TV story)"])
In fact, the Thirteenth Doctor noted she no longer had any family at all; (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth [+]Loading...["The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)"]) something the Fifteenth Doctor was much less sure about, (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"]) though he worried, deep down, that they might all be gone. (TV: Space Babies [+]Loading...["Space Babies (TV story)"], The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])
Flavia once published Tales from the Matrix - True Stories from TARDIS Logs Retold for Time Tots under the name "Loom Auntie Flavia". (PROSE: Apocrypha Bipedium [+]Loading...["Apocrypha Bipedium (short story)"])
Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]
In the Daft Dimension, the Doctor did indeed an aunt whom he referred to as his "giddy aunt", after having been on a waltzer that left her dizzy. (COMIC: The Daft Dimension 509 [+]Loading...["The Daft Dimension (DWM 509 comic story)"])
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
Flavia may be the Doctor's loom aunt, by some accounts, but The Five Doctors novelisation [+]Loading...["The Five Doctors (novelisation)","''The Five Doctors'' novelisation"] refers to her as "shrewd", intelligent and strong-willed; hardly giddy. The Eight Doctors [+]Loading...["The Eight Doctors (novel)"] even notes that she dislikes ceremony.
However, this is somewhat at odds with her characterisation in Apocrypha Bipedium [+]Loading...["Apocrypha Bipedium (short story)"])
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