Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Guest]

D ~ Dominators, The - The Second Doctor and his companions Jamie and Zoe arrive on the planet Dulkis for a holiday, only to encounter the invading Dominators and their robotic servants, the Quarks.

[Alan]

E ~ Edge of Destruction, The - 1964 story starring William Hartnell as "The Doctor", Carole Ann Ford as "Susan Foreman", Jacqueline Hill as "Barbara Wright", and William Russell as "Ian Chesterton".

After the Doctor's failed efforts to regain control of the TARDIS's faulty control system result in an explosion causing everyone to black out, the Doctor and his companions find themselves trapped in the craft. Strange occurrences cause them to suspect the TARDIS has been infiltrated or worse — that one of the crew members has sabotaged the TARDIS.

[Guest]

F ~ Face of Evil, The - The TARDIS arrives on a planet where a savage tribe called the Sevateem worship a god called Xoanon. The Doctor discovers that Xoanon is in fact a spaceship computer that he tried to repair at some point in his past and inadvertently drove mad by giving it a multiple personality.

It is tended to by another tribe of humanoids, the ascetic Tesh. These are the descendants of the ship's original technicians, while the Sevateem are the descendants of the original survey team. The Doctor, with the help of a Sevateem girl called Leela, manages to gain access to the ship and wipe the additional personalities from the computer, leaving it sane and in proper control once more.

Leela, deciding that she no longer wants to stay on her own planet, pushes her way on board the TARDIS. The Doctor has gained another companion.

[Alan]

G ~ Galaxy 4 - Story which launched the 1965 - '66 series of Doctor Who. This story starred William Hartnell as "The Doctor", Maureen O'Brien as "Vicki Pallister", & Peter Purves as "Steven Taylor".

The TARDIS materialises on an unknown planet which will soon die on which the hideous Rills with their Chumbley robots, and the Drahvins had crash-landed. The Drahvins try to enlist the Doctor's help to destroy the "evil" Rills, but who are the real villains?

[Guest]

H ~ Hand of Fear, The - When the TARDIS lands on Earth in a quarry, the Doctor and Sarah are caught in a mining explosion. She is found clutching what appears to be a fossilised hand, buried in 150 million-year-old stratum. Analysis shows the hand to be silicon-based and inert, but when Sarah begins to act as if possessed, the Doctor suspects that it may still be alive...

[Alan]

I ~ Idiot's Lantern, The - 2006 story starring David Tennant as "The Doctor" & Billie Piper as "Rose Tyler".

In 1953 London, the police are abducting people from their homes. The people of Britain gather around their new-fangled "tele-vision" sets to celebrate the new Queen's coronation — but something strange is affecting the signal.

[Billz]

J ~ Judoon
The Judoon are a race of mercenary police featured in the episode "Smith and Jones" (2007). They are basically humanoid in form, have heads that look like that of a rhino, and wear black, bulky armour with heavy boots.

They serve the role of galactic police. Brutal in their application of the law, they are highly logical in their battle tactics. However they are not very intelligent and as a result can be tricked by a more intelligent individual. They have no jurisdiction on Earth and no authority to deal with human crime, so when a fugitive alien hid out in an Earth hospital they transported the building to the moon. The Judoon carry energy weapons which can easily incinerate humans. In the hospital the Squad Leader is the only one seen to remove his helmet.

During the episode the Doctor demonstrates considerable knowledge of their intelligence and methods and says that, whilst their behaviour is (on the surface) that of a military police force, they are little more than "interplanetary thugs". Also, according to The Doctor, the Judoon have a "great big lung reserve" meaning either that their lungs are large or that they have huge secondary lungs for storing air.

In a later interview David Tennant commented that the name Judoon and the fact that the episode they appear in is set on the moon is an in-joke from the scriptwriters. As Tennant naturally has a Scottish accent one of the harder sounds to pronounce with an English accent is the 'oon' sound at the end of both words, including the line "a judoon platoon upon the moon".

[Alan]

K ~ Knight, Tommy - Actor. Tommy Knight is one of the stars of The Sarah Jane Adventures. He plays the character of "Luke Smith".

[Guest]

L ~ Lumic, John - owner of Cybus Industries, who is presently failing to gain approval from the Ethics Committee of Great Britain for his "ultimate upgrade": a method of sustaining the human brain indefinitely within a cradle of copyrighted chemicals and allowing its impulses to be bonded onto a metal exoskeleton. Lumic secretly has been capturing homeless people and putting them to work in his Battersea Power Station factory using the EarBuds as methods to control the homeless. Being rejected by the President of Great Britain, Lumic tells his right-hand man Mr Crane to begin the upgrade process; Crane drives an International Electromatics lorry and collects more homeless people, but instead of just fitting them with EarPods, they are subjected to a room filled with cutting and other machinery that transforms them into the new prototypes.

Character from the new series of Doctor Who, appeared in the two part episode - "Rise of the Cybermen" and it's concluding ep "The Age of Steel".

[Alan]

M ~ Marter, Ian (Actor. Ian Marter played the 4th Doctor's companion, "Harry Sullivan". In 1971, Ian had originally auditioned for the role of UNIT Captain Mike Yates but lost out to Richard Franklin. Ian was remembered by the Producers and was brought in to guest star the 1973 story Carnival of Monsters in which he played a man named "Lt. John Andrews".

Ian was again remembered after this and this time he made his first appearance as regular character "Harry Sullivan" in the 1974 story Robot. Ian made his last regular appearance in the 1975 story Terror of the Zygons. He returned to made a guest appearance in the 1976 story The Android Invasion. Although he had left TV Doctor Who, Ian novelised several TV stories.

Ian Marter passed away in 1986, aged 42.

[Guest]

N ~ Necros - Planet that 'Revelations of the Daleks' is set on... (6th Doctor/Colin Baker era).

The Doctor and Peri arrive on the planet Necros where, in a facility called Tranquil Repose presided over by Mr Jobel and his assistant Tasambeker, the wealthy can have their newly-deceased bodies cryogenically frozen until such time as medical science can cure whatever killed them.

The Doctor wishes to pay his last respects to his friend Professor Arthur Stengos, and also to assuage some nagging suspicions about the man's death. His suspicions prove justified, as it turns out that this is just a ruse to lure him into a trap.

The Great Healer masterminding Tranquil Repose is Davros, who is using the organic material in the cryogenic storage units both as the raw material for the synthetic food that is Necros's biggest export and also to create a whole new army of Daleks with which to take control of the universe.

Davros's plans are foiled when Daleks loyal to the Dalek Supreme arrive on Necros and take him prisoner. The Doctor suggests to the planet's inhabitants a new basis for their economy.

[Alan]

O ~ Original Sin - 1995 book of the New Adventures range featuring the 7th Doctor and Professor Bernice Summerfield. This book marked the first appearance of new companions Roslyn 'Roz' Forrester and Christopher 'Chris' Cwej who are both Adjudicators from the year 2975. This book also saw the return of Tobias Vaughn who had last been seen being killed by Cybermen in 1968 in the TV story The Invasion.

[Guest]

P ~ Planet of Giants - The Doctor, Ian, Barbara and Susan land in a strange world where insects grow to enormous size and die mysterious deaths. When Ian discovers a giant matchbox, they realise that they have arrived on Earth but have shrunk in size to mere inches.

[Alan]

Q ~ Queens Arcade - Shopping mall in South London. Jackie Tyler was shopping here when the Autons (shop window mannequins) sprung to life and began attacking people in the 2005 story Rose.

[Guest]

R ~ Racnoss - The Racnoss appeared in the Tenth Doctor story "The Runaway Bride" in 2006.

The Racnoss were an ancient race of aliens from the Dark Times of the universe. Half-humanoid, half-arachnid in appearance, they were an invasion force who consumed everything on the planets they conquered (they were always insatiably hungry, even at the moment of birth). Their race was wiped out by the Fledgeling Empires, including (and judging by the Empress's anger and fear at the mention of Gallifrey, in particular) the Time Lords, over 4.6 billion years ago. Nearly all of the survivors of the race escaped in their ship to where the Earth would later form, serving in place of a planetesimal as its core, hibernating for billions of years, with the exception of their Empress. She would later come to Earth in her ship, the Webstar, seeking to use the Huon particles which had been recreated by the Torchwood Institute as a means of resurrecting her "children" before feasting on the human population of Earth. The last Racnoss were presumed wiped out when the Doctor drained the waters of the Thames down the shaft leading to their ship; the Empress was killed when her own ship was destroyed by the army at the order of Mr. Saxon.