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Aliens of London dating controversy

Towards the end of the Davies era of Doctor Who, no on-screen date is given for the 2009 Easter Special Planet of the Dead, nor The End of Time, which comprises the 2009 Christmas Special and the 2010 New Year's Day Special, though Planet of the Dead alludes to the real-world liquidation of major Icelandic banks in 2008. Early into Steven Moffat's run as executive producer of Doctor Who, Flesh and Stone (2010) directly describes Amy Pond's home time as 2010, synchronising Doctor Who's present-day Earth stories with their date of broadcast.

The other of Davies' spin-offs, The Sarah Jane Adventures, makes several references to then-current Doctor Who stories, but rarely gives an on-screen date beyond Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? (2007) being approximately 40 years after 1964. It thus does not make it clear when it was written to be a year ahead and when it was not, particularly in the first two series. In 2009, the third series story The Mad Woman in the Attic has a 15-year-old character, Samuel Lloyd born in June 1994, heavily implying a non year ahead setting. Two notable contradictions both take place during SJA's fourth series from 2010, when Doctor Who was executive produced by Steven Moffat but Davies still ran SJA. In Death of the Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith tells Jo Jones that her first reunion with the Doctor happened "four years ago", referring to the 2006 Doctor Who story School Reunion, the latter ostensibly being set in 2007. In Lost in Time, however, a newspaper dates the modern-day setting of that story to 23 November 2010.

The Sarah Jane Adventures

• In the 2010 SJA story Death of the Doctor, Sarah Jane tells Jo Jones that she first encountered the Doctor again "four years ago", referring to the events of the 2006 Doctor Who story School Reunion, and apparently putting Death of the Doctor in 2011.
• In Lost in Time (2010), a newspaper is dated 23 November 2010.

2000s

There were few precise accounts as to when the early adventures of Sarah Jane Smith, Maria Jackson, Luke Smith, Clyde Langer, and Rani Chandra in which they fought aliens on Earth took place. However, what was known was that these took place in the 21st century (TV: Eye of the Gorgon, The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith) and approximately 40 years after Andrea Yates' death in 1964, (TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?) placing them in the 2000s.

The exact placement of the eras in which Martha Jones and Donna Noble first travelled in time and space with the Tenth Doctor on a regular basis and made trips home was inconsistent. However, as they took place after the Sycorax invasion of Earth, (COMIC: The Widow's Curse) Harriet Jones being deposed as Prime Minister, (TV: The Sound of Drums, The Stolen Earth) and the Battle of Canary Wharf, (TV: Smith and Jones) and 1930 was "nearly 80 years ago" according to Martha, (TV: Daleks in Manhattan) this would place their adventures in or around the late 2000s, after Rose Tyler's disappearance on 6 March 2005. (TV: Aliens of London)

The exact placement of the era in which Donna Noble first travelled in time and space with the Tenth Doctor on a regular basis and made trips home was inconsistent. However, as this took place after the Sycorax invasion of Earth, (COMIC: The Widow's Curse) Harriet Jones being deposed as Prime Minister, and Rose Tyler being trapped on a parallel world, (TV: The Stolen Earth) this would place her adventures in or around the late 2000s, after a separate disappearance of Rose on 6 March 2005. (TV: Aliens of London)

While travelling on his own, the Tenth Doctor continued to make trips to this era at some point (relative to Earth) after Earth was transported across space. (TV: Planet of the Dead, The End of Time)

Donna Noble

The setting of Donna's present day in series 4 of Doctor Who is inconsistent, and her later appearance in the Christmas Special and New Year Special The End of Time is not dated at all. In the television story The Fires of Pompeii, Donna mentions the Doctor saving her in 2008. In the novel Beautiful Chaos, set between the television stories Forest of the Dead and Midnight, a newspaper at a newsagent gives the date as Friday 15 May 2009. During an in-universe episode of The Blue Box Files in the audio story SOS, Abby McPhail describes the events of the television story Partners in Crime as taking place in 2008.

The setting of the present day of Donna Noble's family in series 4 of Doctor Who is inconsistent, and their later appearance in the Christmas Special and New Year Special The End of Time is not dated at all. In the television story The Fires of Pompeii, Donna mentions the Doctor saving her in 2008. In the novel Beautiful Chaos, set between the television stories The Poison Sky and The Stolen Earth, a newspaper at a newsagent gives the date as Friday 15 May 2009. During an in-universe episode of The Blue Box Files in the audio story SOS, Abby McPhail describes the events of the television story Partners in Crime as taking place in 2008.

DWM comic stories

In the 1990s DWM temporarily ran a series of comic strips featuring past Doctors in lieu of the then-current Seventh Doctor, but from 1996 it once again nearly exclusively featured the current Doctor; the Eighth Doctor was current in DWM's comic strip from 1996-2005, followed by the Ninth Doctor in 2005; the Tenth Doctor from 2006-10; the Eleventh Doctor from 2010-14; and the Twelfth Doctor beginning in 2014.

The Eighth Doctor's companions during his DWM tenure were all original to the magazine, and included Izzy Sinclair, a friend of a character from the 1982 comic story Stars Fell on Stockbridge called Maxwell Edison, and Kroton, who was originally a character from the backup strips in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Maxwell himself made further guest appearances in the 2000s and 2010s.

From 2005, the magazine also more regularly featured the Doctor travelling with their contemporary companions on TV with the likenesses of their respective actors. The comic adventures of Rose Tyler in the pages of DWM were published from 2005-06; Martha Jones from 2007-08; Donna Noble in 2008; Amy Pond from 2010-12; Rory Williams from 2011-12; Clara Oswald from 2013-16; and Bill Potts from 2017-18.

The "modern" Doctors also occasionally reunited with past companions from the 1963 version of Doctor Who in the DWM comic strip. Two such examples were the 2007 story The Warkeeper's Crown, where the Tenth Doctor had an adventure with Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, and the 2013 story Hunters of the Burning Stone, where the Eleventh Doctor met Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright.

The Doctor also occasionally had comics-exclusive companions in DWM during periods in the late 2000s and 2010s when the show was off air longer than usual, and the regular companion on TV had also left Doctor Who. Majenta Pryce travelled with the Tenth Doctor in the DWM comic strip from 2008-10 after Donna's departure in the 2008 episode Journey's End, while following Clara's departure in the late 2015 episode Hell Bent, the Twelfth Doctor appeared in a series of comics from 2016-17 where he lived with Jess Collins' family on 1970s Earth until the TARDIS could repair itself.

In issue 455 in 2012, the sole comic strip other than the three-panel Doctor Whoah! was a Doctor-less story (apart from a doll with the Eleventh Doctor's likeness) called Imaginary Enemies. This story featured a pre-TARDIS travel Amy and Rory, along with their time-travelling daughter Mels, and was set during a twelve-year narrative gap in the 2010 episode The Eleventh Hour. It was published after the final comic story in the magazine where Amy and Rory were travelling with the Eleventh Doctor, and before Hunters of the Burning Stone. Over issues 475 and 476 in 2014, the sole comic strip other than Doctor Whoah! in issue 475 was a Doctor-less story called The Crystal Throne. This comic story was published after the Eleventh Doctor's final comic strip in the magazine and before the Twelfth Doctor's DWM debut, and instead featured Vastra, Jenny Flint and Strax, who appeared in several episodes of the Doctor Who TV series between 2011 and 2014.

Known staff

Staff of Torchwood One included Eliza Cooper, Robert Lewis, Yvonne Hartman, Rajesh Singh, Adeola Oshodi, Gareth Evans, Matt Crane, Sebastian, (TV: Army of Ghosts) Lisa Hallett, Ianto Jones, (TV: Cyberwoman) Rupert Howarth and Carlie Roberts, (AUDIO: Submission) while Archie staffed Torchwood Two.

Ianto Jones moved to Torchwood Three after the fall of Torchwood One, (TV: Cyberwoman) which was also staffed in its history by Captain Jack Harkness, Gwen Cooper, Suzie Costello, Owen Harper, Toshiko Sato, (TV: Everything Changes) Alice Guppy, Emily Holroyd, Alex Hopkins, (TV: Fragments) Charles Gaskell, Gerald Carter, Harriet Derbyshire, (TV: To the Last Man) Douglas Caldwell, Lydia Childs, Charles Quinn, Tilda Brennan, Llinos King, Greg Bishop, Rhydian, Kenneth Valentine, Lucia Moretti (TV: Children of Earth: Day Three) and Charles Cromwell.

Staff at Torchwood India included Eleanor, Duchess of Melrose, George Gissing, Das and Mahajan. (AUDIO: Golden Age)

Stevie worked at a parallel Torchwood on Pete's World, (TV: Rise of the Cybermen) as did Rose Tyler. (TV: Doomsday) In an alternate universe, Eric Lawson worked at Torchwood Three.

The Master

...was a renegade Time Lord and "one of the oldest and deadliest" of the Doctor's "enemies". (TV: Survival)

, "an evil genius" by the Seventh Doctor, (TV: Survival)

Male and female Time Lords

References to gender

TV: "Flashpoint"

First Doctor: During all the years I've been taking care of you, you, in return, have been taking care of me.

Susan: Oh, grandfather, I belong with you.

First Doctor: Not any longer, Susan. You're still my grandchild, and always will be, but now, you're a woman, too. I want you to belong somewhere, to have roots of your own. With David, you'll be able to find those roots, and live normally like any woman should do. Believe me, my dear, your future lies with David, and not with a silly old buffer like me. One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs, and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine. Goodbye, Susan. Goodbye, my dear.

TV: The Time Monster

Third Doctor: Well, when I was a little boy, we used to live in a house that was perched halfway up the top of a mountain.

TV: Black Orchid

Adric: So what is a railway station?

Fifth Doctor: Well, a place where one embarks and disembarks from compartments on wheels, drawn along these rails by a steam engine. Rarely on time.

Nyssa: What a very silly activity.

Fifth Doctor: You think so? As a boy I always wanted to drive one.

TV: The Girl in the Fireplace

Reinette: Oh, Doctor. So lonely. So very, very alone.

Tenth Doctor: What do you mean, alone? You've never been alone in your life. When did you start calling me "Doctor"?

Reinette: Such a lonely little boy. Lonely then and lonelier now. How can you bear it?

TV: The End of Time

Wilf: But I keep thinking, Doctor, there's one thing you never told me. That woman. Who was she?

TV: The Night of the Doctor

Eighth Doctor: Hang on. Is it you? Am I back on Karn? You're the Sisterhood of Karn, keepers of the Flame of Utter Boredom.

Ohila: Eternal Life.

Eighth Doctor: That's the one.

Ohila: Mock us if you will, but our elixir can trigger your regeneration, bring you back. Time Lord science is elevated here on Karn. The change doesn't have to be random. Fat or thin, young or old, man or woman.

COMIC: The Eye of Torment

Rudy: Wait, who the heck are you?! Y-you're a guy!

Twelfth Doctor: And you clearly have massive powers of observation, congratualations!

The Umbra: Sad little boy. All the lives you failed. All the loves you lost. All the roads not taken. Now you are ours.

TV: Listen

Man: Well, he's not going to the Academy, is he, that boy?

TV: In the Forest of the Night

Twelfth Doctor: You're pursuing a little lost girl through the forest. The path has disappeared. You find yourself with a strangely compelling masculine figure.

TV: Death in Heaven

Osgood: Who is she?

Twelfth Doctor: You'll never believe me if I told you.

Osgood: Because I thought she might be the Master, regenerated into female form.

Like humans, Time Lords could be male or female. The First Doctor was referred to as a "boy", both during his childhood by one man, (TV: Listen) and also according to people who looked back on the Doctor's childhood, such as the Third (TV: The Time Monster) and Fifth Doctor, (TV: Black Orchid) Reinette (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace) and the Umbra. (COMIC: The Eye of Torment) The Twelfth Doctor once implied to Clara Oswald that he was a "strangely compelling masculine figure". (TV: In the Forest of the Night) The Twelfth Doctor also congratulated Rudy Zoom on his "massive powers of observation" when Rudy identified the Doctor as "a guy". (COMIC: The Eye of Torment) While saying his goodbyes to Susan Foreman, the First Doctor told Susan that she was "still [his] grandchild and always [would] be", but she was "a woman, too". (TV: "Flashpoint") Wilfred Mott described one Time Lord that had communicated with Wilf as "that woman". (TV: The End of Time) Osgood correctly guessed that Missy was "the Master, regenerated into female form". (TV: Death in Heaven) Ohila claimed that the manner in which the Sisterhood of Karn's elixir could trigger regeneration meant that the physical change in a Time Lord's regenerative process "[didn't] have to be random", and the Eighth Doctor could choose to become become a "man or [a] woman". (TV: The Night of the Doctor)

Females called Time Lord or Time Lady?

TV: Dark Water

Twelfth Doctor: How did you get ahold of Time Lord technology? Who are you?

Missy: You know who I am. I told you. You felt it. Surely you did.

Twelfth Doctor: Two hearts?

Missy: And both of them yours.

Twelfth Doctor: You're a Time Lord?

Missy: Time Lady, please. I'm old-fashioned.

Twelfth Doctor: Which Time Lady?

Missy: Well, the one you abandoned, Doctor. The one you left for dead. Didn't you ever think I'd find my way back?

Creation of the Daleks

Although one account described the Daleks as descendants of mutations from a neutronic war, (TV: The Daleks) and another described the travel machines as the creation of the humanoid Dalek Yarvelling, (COMIC: Genesis of Evil) the majority of accounts described the Kaled scientist Davros as the creator of the Daleks. (TV: Genesis of the Daleks, Destiny of the Daleks, The Stolen Earth, The Magician's Apprentice, The Witch's Familiar)

Lord Barset

Lord Barset was a hereditary title on Earth. It was given to at least two human explorers involved in Antarctic expeditions in the 20th and 21st centuries; they were respectively a grandfather and his grandson.

The grandfather

In 1929, Lord Barset unearthed a city of intelligent "lizard men" with superior technology beneath the Antarctic ice. He wrote about this in his diary. All but one of the expedition died in the encounter; the expedition's ship, the Rochester, having been lost. This crewmember was discovered holding Lord Barset's diary; he was seemingly driven insane and died just a few days afterwards. (AUDIO: Frozen Time)

The grandson

The diary of Lord Barset was secretly passed down to his grandson, another Lord Barset. Lord Barset was granted a licence to go on an Antarctic expedition to both find the remains of his grandfather's expedition the lizard men's city. He wanted to control the technology he thought was buried there for himself without brand executives getting in his way and selling it off into "a million competing franchises".

Lord Barset arrived in Antarctica in the Fortitude in 2012. When his people failed to make radio contact after six days, he and several others from the Fortitude arrived to the dig site with arms. There, instead of the city his grandfather found, he discovered the remains of an Ice Warrior maximum security prison, where the Seventh Doctor was thawed.

In a "quest for knowledge", he had the Ice Warrior war criminals, led by Lord Arakssor, thawed. Lord Barset and Captain Harman were trapped inside the prison, while the Doctor, Geni and Mac left in Aristo One. Barset and Harman tried to escape to the Fortitude, but Harman was killed by an Ice Warrior's sonic weapon, and Lord Barset was injured and presumed dead. Discovering the Doctor and Geni had returned, he worked with them to stop the Ice Warriors altering the structure of Earth's greenhouse gases to cool down the planet and make it into Arakssor's "fortress".

As the process started, Lord Barset was knocked out by giant falling hail. The Doctor and Geni put him in a small chamber for him to recover. When he woke, he shot at Lord Arakssor, allowing the Doctor to boost the signal to get the attention of the warship of Red 0089. Arakssor then killed him. (AUDIO: Frozen Time)

Behind the scenes

The grandson Lord Barset was a vocal role voiced by Anthony Calf in Frozen Time. The grandfather, who died decades before Frozen Time's main setting, did not appear in a flashback and had no performer in the story. Category:Titles and offices

Views on the Doctor

In the words of Madame Vastra, the Doctor was "kind", "a hero" and "the saviour of worlds". (TV: The Snowmen) Clara Oswald didn't know if he was a good man, but believed that he tried to be and thought "that's probably the point". (TV: Into the Dalek) Rose Tyler said that the way of living one's life the Doctor showed her was that "you don't just give up. You don't just let things happen. You make a stand. You say no. You have the guts to do what's right when everyone else just runs away". (TV: The Parting of the Ways) When Ohila mentioned to the Eighth Doctor that calling himself "the Doctor" was "the same thing in [his] mind" as calling himself "the good man", the Doctor responded, "I'd like to think so." (TV: The Night of the Doctor)

Others were less willing to describe the Doctor in such benign terms, including the Doctor himself; instead describing him as someone to fear or dread or otherwise being filled with cruel tendencies.

The Doctor was referred to in "the ancient legends of the Dalek homeworld" (TV: The Parting of the Ways) and by the Tenth Doctor (TV: The Day of the Doctor) as "the Oncoming Storm". The Tenth Doctor referred to himself as "the Bringer of Darkness". (TV: The Day of the Doctor) The Metaltron inside Henry van Statten's Vault declared the Doctor an "enemy" of the Daleks who "must be destroyed". (TV: Dalek) The Eleventh Doctor described himself as the Daleks' "enemy" and the Daleks as his and noted that they hated him and wanted to kill him. (TV: Victory of the Daleks) The Dalek Rusty, after looking into the Doctor's "soul", saw "hatred". (TV: Into the Dalek) Both Rose Tyler (TV: Doomsday) and Oswin Oswald (TV: Asylum of the Daleks) noted that the Daleks feared the Doctor. The Dalek Emperor mockingly hailed the Doctor as "the Great Exterminator" and also named him "the Heathen". (TV: The Parting of the Ways) In the words of the Great Intelligence, the Doctor was "the cruel tyrant", "the Slaughterer of the Ten Billion" and "blood soaked". (TV: The Name of the Doctor) Davros named the Doctor as "the Destroyer of Worlds". (TV: Journey's End)

When the Eleventh Doctor asked Madame Vastra why a Time Lord would be a weapon, Vastra mentioned that the Silence had seen him. (TV: A Good Man Goes to War) Both the Seventh (PROSE: Love and War, AUDIO: Love and War) and the Tenth Doctor (TV: The Girl in the Fireplace) proclaimed themselves to be what "monsters" had nightmares about. The Twelfth Doctor claimed that the Doctor's role to play was that of "[t]he man that stop[ped] the monsters." (TV: Flatline) The Twelfth Doctor told Clara Oswald that he lived for over 2,000 years, "not all of them were good" and that he "made many mistakes". (TV: Deep Breath)

Victor Kennedy said he read up on the Doctor and how he was "so passionate" and "so sweet". The Tenth Doctor responded that he may have been these things, but warned Victor not to mistake these traits for "nice". (TV: Love & Monsters)

Humanian Era

The Humanian Era was a period of Earth history which encompassed at least 29-31 December 1999. (TV: Doctor Who)