Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Alan]

G ~ Graske - The Graske are a humanoid species from the planet Griffoth. They're known for a being a troublesome species. The Graske were small compared to humans and had pebbly brown skin and three tentacle-like features on their heads. They had difficulty speaking other languages, having odd grammar and curt sentences.

The Graske were conquerors, though unlike other species they did not take a planet by force. They would instead use their changelings to systematically replace the inhabitants of the planet.

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H ~ Haemovore - Haemovores appeared in the Seventh Doctor story 'The Curse of Fenric' (1989).

Vampiric creatures that fed on blood, they were the end result of human evolution in a possible far future, caused by millennia of pollution. As part of his final game against the Doctor, the entity known as Fenric transported the most powerful Haemovore (called the "Ancient One") through time to Viking Age Northumbria. There it waited, trapped beneath the North Sea for centuries, occasionally drawing victims into the water and transforming them into Haemovores.

[Alan]

I ~ Iceworld - Iceworld (later the Nosferatu II) was a trading colony for space travelers that was located on the dark side of the planet Svartos and was, in truth, a vast spacecraft. Honeycombed with warrens and high chambers of ice, some with walkways, the spires of Iceworld reached far above the surface of the planet. It had a control room. Iceworld was a tourist attraction mecca and home of the Dragon, a bio-mechanoid who guarded the dragonfire. In reality, was Iceworld had been a vast spacecraft which had taken Kane, a criminal, from his homeworld of Proamon to Svartos.

Iceworld was also home of Ace once a time storm had transported her from Perivale on Earth in 1987 to the year 2,000,000. She worked there as a waitress at a café. Iceworld was the stopping-point of the small-time criminal, Sabalom Glitz. At that time, Kane controlled, and had built a small private army in Iceworld.

With the dragonfire acquired and Iceworld revealed as a ship, Iceworld lift off on Savartos. Kane was confronted by the Doctor about the futility of his plans of vengeance against his (now-extinct) people. After Kane committed suicide and his original ship, the Nosferatu already destroyed by Kane, Glitz took possession of it and renamed it the Nosferatu II, along with Melanie Bush, the Doctor's former companion who decided to stay with him to help manage Glitz's affairs and to keep his honest.

Iceworld featured in the 1987 story Dragonfire.

[Guest]

J ~ Janis thorn - A poisonous weapon of the Sevateem, used by Leela much to the Fourth Doctor's disapproval. Seen in 'The Face of Evil' and 'The Talons of Weng-Chiang', and mentioned (but not seen) in 'The Pirate Planet'.

[Alan]

K ~ Keeper of Traken, The - 1981 story starring Tom Baker as "The Doctor" and Matthew Waterhouse as "Adric".

Introducing Sarah Sutton as "Nyssa".

Synopsis
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The empire of Traken has lived in total harmony for over a thousand years, governed by the sacred Keeper and his loyal consuls. Until now. Fading fast, the Keeper calls the Doctor and Adric to Traken, fearing the impending disintegration of his world and the onset of a terrible evil. For the malignant presence of the Melkur lurks close by, growing stronger, plotting to replace the Keeper upon his death.

The Doctor must stop it before it gains control of the Source - the energy that sustains the very life of the planet. But just who is controlling the Melkur? The Doctor smells a rat of the very oldest kind...

Trivia
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• This story is the first of the loose trilogy of stories featuring the Master which continues with Logopolis and concludes with Castrovalva.

[Guest]

L ~ Laser spanner - A device which was owned by the Doctor until it was stolen by Emmeline Pankhurst, whom the Doctor referred to as a "cheeky woman". Martha Jones initially believed she had coined the term as a joke upon being introduced to the sonic screwdriver.

[Alan]

M ~ Midnight - 2008 story starring David Tennant as "The Doctor" and Catherine Tate as "Donna Noble".

Featuring a cameo appearance from Billie Piper as "Rose Tyler".

Synopsis
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The Doctor is trapped, alone, powerless and terrified, on the planet Midnight. Soon, the knocking on the wall begins. Only a woman called Sky seems to know the truth – but as paranoia turns into a witch-hunt, Sky turns the Doctor's greatest strengths against him, and a sacrifice must be made...

[Guest]

N ~ Nova Device - The Movellans failed to destroy the Daleks' homeworld of Skaro with this device in the serial 'Destiny of the Daleks'.

[Alan]

O ~ Ood Sphere - The Ood Sphere was the ice-covered homeworld of the Ood.

It was covered in mountains and high cliffs and was in the same solar system as the Sense Sphere, home to the Sensorites, located in the Horsehead Nebula. The world was home to the central export facilities of Ood operation.

The Ood evolved and survived on the snowy planet in peace until the Second Great and Bountiful Human Empire arrived on the planet in the 3800s and enslaved the race. The Ood were kept within the presence of Ood Operations on the planet, including the Ood Brain which was found underneath the Northern Glacier of the planet.

In the year 4126, after a battle and the intervention of the Doctor, Donna Noble and the Friends of the Ood, the Ood were freed and left to roam the planet, in peace once more.

[Guest]

P ~ Peladon - The setting of the Third Doctor serials 'The Curse of Peladon' and 'The Monster of Peladon'.

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'The Curse of Peladon'

The Doctor and Jo make a test flight in the TARDIS and arrive on the planet Peladon. Seeking shelter, they enter the citadel of the soon-to-be-crowned King Peladon, where the Doctor is mistaken for a human dignitary summoned to act as Chairman of a committee assessing an application by the planet to join the Galactic Federation.

The other committee members - Alpha Centauri, Arcturus and the Martian Lord Izlyr and his Warrior subordinate Ssorg - have already arrived, but are disconcerted by the death of one of the King's advisors, Chancellor Torbis. High Priest Hepesh, who opposes the union with the Federation, attributes Torbis's death to the Curse of Aggedor, the sacred beast of Peladon. Other incidents occur and the Doctor concludes that a saboteur is at work.

Spoiler:

At first he suspects the Ice Warriors, but the guilty parties are eventually revealed to be Hepesh and Arcturus. Arcturus has convinced Hepesh that the Federation would only exploit Peladon for its mineral riches, whereas this is in fact his own race's intention. Arcturus is destroyed with a blast from Ssorg's sonic gun, but Hepesh escapes into a network of tunnels beneath the citadel, where he foments rebellion amongst the guards. The rebels storm the citadel and take the King prisoner.

Hepesh then orders Aggedor - a real beast he has been using for his own ends - to kill the Doctor. The Doctor, however, has tamed Aggedor, and it is Hepesh who dies.

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'The Monster of Peladon'

The TARDIS returns to Peladon some fifty years after the Doctor's last visit. The planet is now ruled by Queen Thalira - daughter of the late King Peladon - with advice from Chancellor Ortron. The Doctor and Sarah are arrested by Ortron for trespassing on sacred ground but their names are cleared by Alpha Centauri, now Galactic Federation ambassador to Peladon.

Spoiler:

A ghost-like image of Aggedor has been responsible for some deaths in the planet's trisilicate mines, heightening unrest amongst the miners. The Doctor discovers that the apparitions are really the result of the use of a matter projector and a directional heat ray by a human engineer, Eckersley.

Eckersley is in league with a group of renegade Martian warriors, led by Commander Azaxyr, in a plot to seize the trisilicate deposits for Galaxy 5, a power bloc at war with the Federation. Azaxyr mounts an attack on the throne room and kills Ortron.

The Doctor however turns the heat ray on some of the Martians, while others are dispatched by the miners. Eckersley flees, taking the Queen hostage, but the Doctor uses the real Aggedor to track him down. Eckersley is killed, but Aggedor also dies in the skirmish.

Its plans thwarted, Galaxy 5 surrenders to the Federation. The Doctor is invited by Thalira to take over as Chancellor but he declines, suggesting the miners' leader Gebek would make a better candidate.

[Alan]

Q ~ Quantum Transducer - The Quantum transducer or ("Ghost Machine") allowed Humans a form of mental time travel. It featured in the Series 1 Torchwood episode Ghost Machine.

Ed Morgan acquired the machine (perhaps by finding it, perhaps by obtaining it off somebody else) and then Bernie Harris, a small-time fence in grey market alien artefacts filched it out of a biscuit tin found in a lockup owned by Ed Morgan pressumably.

Torchwood 3 acquired the machine by tracing alien energy signals from the device while still in Harries' possession. After a chase that led her to a train station, Gwen Cooper ended up with Harries' hoody, which contained in its pocket the machine. There she mentally time-slipped back in time and saw a ghost from World War II, not a phantom in the conventional sense, but a quantum echo of the long-ago emotional state of a living person, Tom Flanagan. The other half of the machine, also at Bernie's, snapped in neatly with the first and picked up visions of the future.

The Transducer eventually was put away with other dangerous alien artefacts in Torchwood 3.

[Guest]

R ~ Rutan Host - The Rutan Host, or Rutans have been at war with the Sontaran Empire for more than 50,000 years, this war dominates both cultures to the exclusion of all else. The Rutans only appeared in the serial 'Horror of Fang Rock', in which a single Rutan is encountered, though they are mentioned in some serials featuring Sontarans ('The Time Warrior', 'The Sontaran Experiment', 'The Two Doctors' and 'The Poison Sky').

[Alan]

S ~ Stolen Earth, The - 2008 story starring David Tennant as "The Doctor" and Catherine Tate in her last regular appearance as "Donna Noble".

Guest starring Freema Agyeman as "Martha Jones", John Barrowman as "Captain Jack Harkness", Elisabeth Sladen as "Sarah Jane Smith", Billie Piper as "Rose Tyler", Noel Clarke as "Mickey Smith", Eve Myles as "Gwen Cooper", Gareth David-Lloyd as "Ianto Jones", Thomas Knight as "Luke Smith", with John Leeson as the voice of "K-9 Mk. IV", and Alexander Armstrong as the voice of "Mr. Smith".

Synopsis
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When the Earth is stolen from its orbit and placed in another galaxy with 26 other stolen planets, the Doctor's secret army of allies comes together to defend the Earth from the New Dalek Empire. With battles raging on the streets and in the sky, the Doctor and Donna confront the Shadow Proclamation to find the truth; however, a fearsome old enemy waits in the shadows.

Trivia
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• Crossover story with Doctor Who sister series Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.
  
  
• Davros returns. He was last seen in the 1988 story Remembrance of the Daleks.

[Guest]

T ~ Traken - Traken in the Metulla Orionsis system was the densely forested homeworld to a race of pacifists and the centre of the Traken Union. It was first seen in 'The Keeper of Traken' and destroyed by a wave of entropy in 'Logopolis'. The Doctor's companion, Nyssa, was a native of Traken.

[Alan]

U ~ Utopia - 2007 story starring David Tennant as "The Doctor" and Freema Agyeman as "Martha Jones".

Guest starring John Barrowman as "Captain Jack Harkness".

Synopsis
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As Captain Jack stows his way back into the Doctor's life, the TARDIS lands at the end of the universe. But as the last of the human race sets out to their dream homeland, will the vicious Futurekind scuttle the rocket?

Trivia
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• Captain Jack Harkness returns. He was last seen in Doctor Who in the 2005 story Bad Wolf. Prior to his reappearance here, he was seen in sister series Torchwood leading Torchwood Three in Cardiff.
  
  
• The Master returns. He was last seen in the 1996 TV movie Enemy Within.