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The Doctor

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About the Doctor

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Though the Doctor's early life was contradictory and a matter of contention, (PROSE: Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir ^[+]Loading...["Celestial Intervention - A Gallifreyan Noir (short story)"]) and the varying accounts were all equally true, (PROSE: Unnatural History ^[+]Loading...["Unnatural History (novel)"]) the majority of sources concurred that he was a Time Lord (TV: The War Games ^[+]Loading...["The War Games (TV story)"], etc.) from the planet Gallifrey. (TV: The Time Warrior ^[+]Loading...["The Time Warrior (TV story)"] etc.) In this version of history, (TV: Listen ^[+]Loading...["Listen (TV story)"])

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Development

The very first memo sent to Sydney Newman from C. E. Webber on 29 March 1963 about the character of the Doctor, when the idea of Doctor Who was still in its earliest stages, and the name Doctor Who had not yet been thought up, was that of a "maturer man" with "some character twist" in a firm of three scientific consultants. He, along with the character who would eventually become Ian Chesterton, would have been a "specialist" in a certain field, and "acutely conscious of the social and human implications of any case", though sometimes "becom[ing] pure scientist and forget[ting the social and human implications], the woman [would] always reminds them that […] they [were] dealing with human beings".

The next memo from Webber to Newman was much closer to the show that would become Doctor Who, and gave the following notes on the character, now named "Dr. Who":

"A frail old man lost in space and time. They give him this name ["Dr. Who"] because they do not know who he is. He seems not to remember where he has come from; he is suspicious and capable of sudden malignance; he seems to have some undefined enemy; he is searching for something as well as fleeing from something."C. E. Webber