Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Alan]

T ~ Two Doctors, The - 1985 story starring Colin Baker as "The Doctor" and Nicola Bryant as "Peri Brown".

Guest starring Patrick Troughton as "The Doctor" and Frazer Hines as "Jamie McCrimmon".

Synopsis
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When the Doctor lands on a space station in the Third Zone, he suspects he's been there before and when he discovers his old assistant - Jamie - he's certain.

Accompanied by Jamie and his present assistant Peri, the Doctor follows himself (in his second incarnation) to 20th Century Seville. There he discovers his old enemies, the Sontarans, about to dissect him in a genetic operation.

But just why are they operating on the Doctor? And how will their findings aid their enslavement of the universe? Deadly questions to which the Doctors must find answers in order to escape their own excruciating death...

Trivia
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• The 2nd Doctor and Jamie McCrimmon return. They both last appeared in the 1983 TV movie The Five Doctors although the Jamie seen in that was an illusion.
  
  
• From the points of view of the 2nd Doctor and Jamie, the events of this story takes place at a point between the 1969 story The War Games and the 1970 story Spearhead from Space.
  
  
• The Sontarans return. They'd last been seen in the 1978 story The Invasion of Time.

[Guest]

U ~ Usurian - The Usurians from the planet Usurius are a species that abandoned military conquest in favour of economic conquest. They enslaved humanity after their engineers made Mars suitable for human habitation, humans having depleted the Earth's resources. Once humanity had depleted Mars's resources as well, the Usurians engineered Pluto so that humans could inhabit it. They created six artificial "Suns" around it and installed the Collector, seen in 'The Sun Makers', to oversee the collection of taxes from their human workforce. They intended to abandon Pluto and leave humanity to become extinct once the humans had exhausted its resources, there being no economically viable planet to relocate humanity to once more. The humans on Pluto revolted against the Collector and seized control of Pluto. The revolutionaries intended to relocate to Earth as the Doctor assured them it would have regenerated in their absence.

The Usurians have knowledge of the Time Lords, graded as "Grade 3" in their "latest market survey", considering it to be of low commercial value. Usurians can adopt a humanoid form but in their natural state they resemble seaweed. Shock can force them to revert to their natural form. According to the Doctor, Usurians are listed in a "flora and fauna" of the universe written by a Professor Thripthead under poisonous fungi.

[Alan]

V ~ Void Ship - A Void Ship is a spacecraft designed to explore the Void that exists between dimensions. It appears as a solid gold sphere with no lines until it is opened, at which point its sides fold down to reveal the occupants. There is no sign that the ship can touch ground.

When travelling through the Void, it is removed from time and space and until it is activated, it has no detectable mass, heat or radiation, though it is visible. An invisible barrier prevents anything from touching the ship.

It was thought to be impossible, but it does exist. In the 2006 story Army of Ghosts, the only known Void Ship was used by the Daleks of the Cult of Skaro to escape the Time War with the Genesis Ark. It is unknown if they built it themselves.

[Guest]

W ~ 'Warrior's Gate' - First broadcast in four weekly parts from January 3 to January 24, 1981. The serial is the last of three loosely connected serials known as the E-Space trilogy and the last to feature Romana and K-9 as companions.

Plot - The TARDIS is hijacked in the vortex by a time sensitive Tharil named Biroc, and brought to a strange white void. Biroc wants to free the others of his race who are being transported in a slave ship, captained by Rorvik, which is also trapped in the void. The only other thing present in the void is an ancient gateway leading to a decrepit banqueting hall.

This is the domain of the Tharils, who in a previous time were cruel masters to their human slaves but have now repented. The humans built the Gundan robots to kill the Tharils, and this led to the latter race's downfall.

Rorvik tries to break through the gateway, and thereby gain access to N-Space, by blasting it with his engines. The blast is simply reflected back, however, destroying the ship and freeing its prisoners.

Romana and K9 elect to remain in E-Space to help liberate the remainder of the Tharil race, while the TARDIS - now occupied only by the Doctor and Adric - is able to return to N-Space.

[Alan]

X ~ Xenon - Home world of the shape-shifting race known as Whifferdills. The 6th Doctor's companion Frobisher came from this planet in the 82nd century. Xenon can be found in Mutter's Spiral.

[Guest]

Y ~ Yana, Professor - Professor Yana appeared to be a Human scientist, who was in reality an incarnation of the renegade Time Lord known as the Master.

During the Last Great Time War, the Master was resurrected by the Time Lords and was assigned to protecting the Cruciform from the Daleks. He failed his task and became scared, so scared that he ran from the war to the end of the universe and used a chameleon arch to become human.

Just as John Smith had false memories concerning his early life, Yana might have false memories created when Yana came to existence. It can be said with some degree of certainty that at least seventeen years of Yana's memories prior to meeting the Doctor were real, as that is how long he had been with Chantho.

Physically Human, Yana was an orphan found on the coast of the Silver Devastation with only a "heirloom" fob watch. He could never keep time and was always late for things. He spent his life moving from one refugee ship to another and all his life he heard the sound of drums every waking hour as if they were getting closer.

[Alan]

Z ~ Z-Bomb - The Z-Bomb was a doomsday weapon of which by 1986 two or three were available at strategic positions around the Earth. One of them was in the hands of the International Space Command, and their secretary general had the authority to order it used. This particular Z-bomb was located at Snowcap base in Antarctica.

When activated, it caused a nuclear explosion that was said to be powerful enough to split an Earth-sized planet in half.

In the 1966 story The Tenth Planet, when Cybermen ships were heading for Earth, General Cutler wanted to use the bomb to destroy Mondas, despite concerns that the radiation effects might kill everyone on the side of the Earth facing the explosion, and that the planet targeted might even turn in a supernova. Cutler considered this an acceptable risk, but his personnel sabotaged the missile.

However, once the Cybermen took control of the base, they planed to use the bomb to blow up the Earth, thus saving their own planet from the effects of the energy transfer between the two worlds. They failed and Mondas was destroyed.

[Cold Fuzz]

A ~ Alonso Frame

Alonso Frame was a midshipman aboard the starliner Titanic from the planet Sto. He turned down an opportunity to have a drink with the crew members when Captain Hardaker told them to go and have one. He noticed meteors heading toward the ship, and that the shields were down, meaning that they would destroy the ship. He asked Hardaker why they were down, and he was then shot by the Captain. Despite a serious gunshot wound to his right side, Frame survived. The meteors then smashed into the ship, killing the captain and many other people onboard. Midshipman Frame then assisted the Doctor in preventing the Titanic from crashing into the Earth. He was one of a handful of survivors.

[Alan]

B ~ Brown, Perpugilliam - Perpugilliam 'Peri' Brown is an American Botany Student and originated from the year 1984. She travelled with the Doctor and witnessed his 5th regeneration.

Whilst holidaying on Lanzarote she encountered the Doctor, Vislor Turlough, and Kamelion on Lanzarote. Kamelion fell under the control of the Master at the time and forced him to shape-change into the form of Peri's step-father, Professor Howard Foster, and later that of the Master himself, before seizing control of the TARDIS to take her to the planet Sarn to meet the real Master. After the destruction of Kamelion and the defeat of the Master, Turlough decided to return to his homeworld, Trion, and Peri joined the Doctor on his travels.

On the planet Thoros Beta, home of the capitalists known as the Mentors, Peri was separated from the Doctor. She met the warrior king Yrcanos from the primitive planet Krontep, who took a liking to her. Kiv, a Mentor, had Peri taken to his laboratory. The Doctor and the TARDIS were removed from Thoros Beta by the Time Lords to stand trial on the Space Station Zenobia to stand trial for his interference in the affairs of other worlds. The Doctor watched from his trial as Kiv transplanted his consciousness into Peri's body, whereupon Yrcanos burst in and destroyed her body as a form of mercy-killing. Despite the Doctor's horror at learning this, the destruction of Peri's mind and her death had never actually happened. It was revealed that Peri and Yrcanos fell in love and she became his queen.

Several years later Peri met the Doctor again, now in his 7th incarnation, and she blamed him for abandoning her. Her marriage to Ycarnos had failed so the Doctor took her back to late-20th century Earth. Eventually Peri made peace with the Doctor and they went their separate ways.

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Peri's first appearance was in the 1984 story Planet of Fire. She witnessed the Doctor's 5th regeneration in The Caves of Androzani. Her last on-screen appearance was in the 1986 story The Trial of a Time Lord in the section known as Mindwarp. Her reunion with the Doctor and return to Earth took place in the book Bad Therapy.

[Cold Fuzz]

C ~ Cult of Skaro

The Cult of Skaro was a secret group of four Daleks: Sec, Caan, Jast, and Thay. In authority, they were apparently above even the Dalek Emperor. The Cult's primary mission was to use their imagination to create new methods of destroying their enemies.

[Alan]

D ~ Dragonfire - 1987 story starring Sylvester McCoy as "The Doctor" and Bonnie Langford in her last appearance as "Mel Bush".

Introducing Sophie Aldred as "Ace".

Synopsis
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Iceworld. An intergalactic trading post, ruled by the power-hungry Kane. Now his dream of total power is near to realisation with his acquisation of a band of mercenaries from the infamous Glitz in part payment of his debts. For "Cryosleep" will render the men utterly in his power. Meanwhile, Glitz still owes the balance of the debt and looks to Iceworld's mythical dragon and the Dragonfire - the treasure it reputedly guards - to solve his problems at last.

Intrigued by the legend of the Dragonfire, the Doctor, Mel and young Earth girl, Ace, accompany Glitz - unaware that they are being followed by Kane's mercenaries. For the psychotic ruler believes that with the Dragonfire in his possession he can avenge the rulers of his home-planet who banished his long-dead partner 3,000 years ago.

And so it seems that beneath Iceworld's superficial civility lies a frozen core of corruption and the Doctor has embarked on something far more sinister than a mere treasure hunt...

Trivia
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• Last appearance of Bonnie Langford as "Melanie 'Mel' Bush".

• First appearance of Sophie Aldred as "Ace".

• Last appearance of Tony Selby as "Sabalom Glitz".

[Spimman]

E - Eternals, as seen in Enlightenment (1983), are beings who live in the "trackless wastes of eternity", as opposed to the likes of the Doctor and his companions who are "Ephemerals". Eternals use Ephemerals for their thoughts and ideas. The Eternals have lived for so long that they are unable to think for themselves and need human minds to give them existence, and entertainment; as such, they use human crews on their ships. Eternals seek out "Enlightenment", the wisdom to know everything. They are aware of the Void, calling it "the Howling" ("Army of Ghosts" (2006)) and were responsible for banishing the Carrionites ("The Shakespeare Code" (2007)).

An article by Russell T Davies in the Doctor Who Annual 2006 states that during the Time War between the Time Lords and the Daleks, the Eternals, one of the Higher Species who were aware of the war's presence and its outcomes, fled the Doctor's reality in despair, never to be seen again.

A group of Eternals who had taken the role of gods to the ancient Gallifreyans were recurring characters in the Virgin New Adventures. The most notable were Time, Death and Pain, and the Seventh Doctor was "Time's Champion".

[Fenrir Foxz]

F ~ Fenric - Fenric a.k.a. Hastur the Unspeakable was an immensely powerful sentient force, at least as old as the universe itself and an intelligence of pure evil. Appeared in the serial 'The Curse of Fenric'.

The being known as Fenric was one of two forces, one good, one evil, which were present at the Dawn of Time. Some sources state that Fenric originated not in the beginnings of this universe but, like the other Old Ones, in a universe before this one. These accounts state that Fenric bore (and still bears) the name of Hastur the Unspeakable. The name Fenric came from a mythic figure in Norse mythology. The myths described a monstrous wolf which would, during the final battle between gods and beasts, destroy the world at the end of time.

[Alan]

G ~ Grant, Josephine "Jo" - Jo Grant was a UNIT agent assigned to assist their scientific advisor, the Doctor. In 1971, Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart assigned Jo to work with the Doctor when his previous assistant Liz Shaw returned to Cambridge. Although the Doctor was exiled to Earth, Jo did travel with him for a few trips in the TARDIS. In 1973, after the Doctor's exile was lifted after stopping the long-thought dead Gallifreyan legend Omega, Jo accompanied the Doctor during his test flights in the TARDIS but she eventually asked to be returned to Earth.

In 1973, Jo resigned her UNIT commission and said goodbye to the Doctor after falling in love with Professor Clifford Jones

Jo first appeared in the story Terror of the Autons. To date, her last appearance was in The Green Death.

[Fenrir Foxz]

H ~ Hakol - A probe from this planet features in the Fifth Doctor serial 'The Awakening'. The people of Harkol can harness psychic energy, and use tinclavic metal acquired from Raaga.