Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Spimman]

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.

[Fenrir Foxz]

M ~ Malcassairo - Malcassairo is a planet featured in the Tenth Doctor episode 'Utopia'. It is the home of Chantho's people, the Malmooth, in their city (conglomeration). By the end of the universe it is home to a human refugee camp/space program, and the hostile Futurekind with almost all of the Malmooth wiped out.

[Spimman]

N - Nitro-9, An explosive substance created and used by the Seventh Doctor's companion Ace, often carried in her backpack in aerosol spray cans, despite the Doctor's warnings.

[Fenrir Foxz]

O ~ Ogros - Ogros a planet of Tau Ceti notable for its amino acid swamps. The Ogri originate from Ogros. Mentioned though not seen in 'The Stones of Blood'.

[Alan]

P ~ Planet of Fire - 1984 story starring Peter Davison as "The Doctor", Mark Strickson as "Vislor Turlough", Gerald Flood as "Kamelion", and Nicola Bryant as "Peri Brown".

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A strange signal from Earth draws the TARDIS to the island of Lanzarote. While the Doctor tries to track the source of the signal, his companion Turlough rescues a young American girl, Peri, from drowning. She is holding an artefact made from platinum bearing a strange symbol - the same symbol that Turlough himself carries on his arm, branded into the flesh...

It is the artefact that is emitting the signal, leading them all to the planet Sarn, a world ravaged by volcanoes and yet holding the secret of eternal life. But an old foe of the Doctor's is desperate for this elixir, and will stop at nothing to gain it.

What is Turlough's link to the artefact? What is the nature of Sarn's mythical god, Logar, and how is it linked to the ruined spaceship crashed on a mountainside? As age-old systems of belief begin to break down, will anyone escape from the planet of fire with their life?

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• Vislor Turlough makes his last appearance.
  
  
• Kamelion makes his last appearance.
  
  
• Peri Brown makes her first appearance.

[Fenrir Foxz]

Q ~ Quark - The Quarks appeared in the Second Doctor serial 'The Dominators' (1969).

The Quarks were used on Dulkis by the Dominators to enslave and terrorise the indigenous Dulcian population to ensure the drilling of bore holes through the planet's crust. The Dominators planned to use their technology to fire seeds down the holes which would force the core to erupt, thus providing a new fuel source for their fleet.

The Quarks were rectangular in shape, with four arms: one pair which folded into the body, the other pair being retractable. On the end of each arm was a solitary claw. The legs extended out below the Quark body. The spherical head was visibly divided into octants; the upper four octants formed the sensory hemisphere, which detected changes in light, heat and motion. At five of the corners of the octants were directional crystal beam transmitters (the sixth corner joined with the robot's extremely short neck). Quarks communicated by means of high-pitched sound waves. Their major weakness was a tendency to run out of energy rather quickly.

[Alan]

R ~ Revenge of the Cybermen - 1975 story starring Tom Baker as "The Doctor", Elisabeth Sladen as "Sarah Jane Smith", & Ian Marter as "Harry Sullivan".

Synopsis
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Arriving on the Nerva Beacon, hoping to find the TARDIS waiting for them, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry find the space station in the grip of a deadly plague that has wiped out most of its crew. But the Doctor soon comes to suspect that the ‘plague’ is no natural illness - and that some of his oldest and most fearsome foes are behind it...

The beacon has been set up to warn space traffic of a new satellite orbiting Jupiter, but one craft is taking no notice of the order to stay clear - a Cybership. The satellite is Voga, Planet of Gold, home to the seemingly harmless Vogans - but why are the Cybermen so determined to destroy it?

Without the TARDIS, the Doctor is unable to return Sarah and Harry to the 20th Century. But then Sarah falls victim to the mystery virus, and unless the Doctor can find a cure - quickly - she will never make it home at all...

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• The Cybermen return after an absence of 7-years. They'd last been seen in the 1968 story The Invasion (although a Cyberman was briefly seen in the 1973 story Carnival of Monsters).
  
  
• First appearance of a Cyber Leader.
  
  
• Last appearance of the Cybermats.
  
  
• Space Station Nerva in this story acts as a beacon to warn spacecraft about the planetoid Voga which in turn orbited the planet Jupiter. This station would later be moved in to Earth's orbit and act as a cryogenic storage facility to preserve the best of humanity from Solar Flares which devastate the surface of the Earth as revealed in a previous story, The Ark in Space.

[Spimman]

S - Scarf, The Fourth Doctor's long, multicolour-striped scarf, which he claimed was knitted for him by Madame Nostradamus (described by the Doctor as "a witty little knitter"), is one of the images people generally associate with the character. He had more than one in similar designs and during the time he travelled with Romana, he could be seen wearing one while another was hanging on the Console Room hatstand. The scarf the Doctor wore during his regeneration at the end of Logopolis was unravelled by the Fifth Doctor in the beginning of Castrovalva. A Fourth Doctor-style scarf was seen hanging in the TARDIS Wardrobe Room in the Tenth Doctor special "The Christmas Invasion". The Seventh Doctor wore a smaller paisley scarf. Romana wore a white version of the scarf during Destiny of the Daleks.

[Alan]

T ~ Trial of a Time Lord, The - 1986 story starring Colin Baker as "The Doctor", Nicola Bryant as "Peri Brown", Bonnie Langford as "Mel Bush", Michael Jayston as "The Valeyard", and Lynda Bellingham as "The Inquisitor".

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The TARDIS has been taken out of time and the Doctor has been brought before a court of his fellow Time Lords. There the sinister Valeyard accuses the Doctor of breaking Gallifrey’s most important law and interfering in the affairs of other planets.

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• The Trial of a Time Lord is the umbrella title used for the 1986 series of Doctor Who. Parts 1 to 4 form Chapter One and are known as The Mysterious Planet. Parts 5 to 8 form Chapter Two and known as Mindwarp. Parts 9 to 12 form Chapter Three and known as Terror of the Vervoids. Parts 13 to 14 form the fourth and final chapter and known as The Ultimate Foe.
  
  
• The Doctor's sixth incarnation makes his last appearance (although his unconscious body is seen in the opening moments of the next story Time and the Rani shortly before regenerating). His last words are "Carrot juice, carrot juice, carrot juice".
  
  
• Last appearance of Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown.
  
  
• First appearance of Melanie "Mel" Bush.
  
  
• First appearance of Sabalom Glitz. He would return in the 1987 story Dragonfire.

[Spimman]

Unicorn, The - 'The Unicorn' is the titular pseudonym of a jewel thief in "The Unicorn and the Wasp", who masqueraded as an invited guest, Robina Redmond, in order to steal the Firestone from Lady Clemency Eddison.

[Alan]

V ~ Victory of the Daleks - 2010 story starring Matt Smith as "The Doctor" and Karen Gillan as "Amy Pond".

Synopsis
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The Doctor and Amy are called to London during World War II by an old friend of the Doctor: Winston Churchill. To the Doctor's horror he finds the Daleks posing as a man-made "secret weapon" that Churchill calls "ironsides" and hopes will win him the war.

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• This story marks the last appearance of the "half-human" Daleks created by the Emperor from the cells of humans captured from the games on Game Station as revealed in the 2005 story Bad Wolf.
  
  
• A new, pure breed of Daleks is created. Presumably their DNA is closer to how it was when they were first created and is untainted by the experiments Davros and the Emperor later carried out on the Daleks.
  
  
• The Daleks escape using a Time Corridor. The Time Corridor had been previously been used in the 1984 story Resurrection of the Daleks and mentioned in the 1988 story Remembrance of the Daleks.

[Spimman]

W - White Point Star - A White Point star is a perfect uncut diamond found only on Gallifrey and is used by Lord President in "The End Of Time" to bridge the gap between the end of the Time War and present day Earth. The Master uses this to summon the remaining Time Lords from the Time War. The Doctor then destroys it by shooting it with Wilfred Mott's gun.

[Alan]

X ~ X-Ray - X-rays (or Röntgen radiation) were a type of electromagnetic radiation. They were used in medical examinations because they penetrated soft tissue allowing a non-invasive exam of the internal anatomy; they could also be used to examine the interiors of sealed objects using the same method. High levels of X-ray radiation could be harmful to many forms of life. When focused into a coherent beam or laser, X-rays could be used as an offensive weapon.

In the 1970 story Spearhead from Space, an X-Ray revealed the two hearts of the Doctor's Time Lord physiology.

In the 1996 TV movie Enemy Within, X-Rays were taken of the injured Doctor after the medics believed he had heart problems. Being told the X-Rays were no good and unprepared for his alien body, cardiologist Dr. Grace Holloway performed heart surgery on the Doctor which apparently kills him on the operating table.

In the 2005 story Dalek, the Doctor was examined by a very advanced but extremely painful X-Ray machine.

In the 2007 story Smith and Jones, the Doctor used a highly powered X-Ray machine to destroy a Slab.

[Spimman]

Y - Yeti of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, although resembling the cryptozoological creatures also called the Yeti, are in actuality alien robots. Their external appearance, that of a huge hairy biped, disguises a small spherical mechanism that provides its motive power. The Yeti serve the Great Intelligence, a disembodied entity from another dimension, which tried to form a physical body in order to conquer the Earth. The Yeti are initially a ruse to scare off curiosity seekers, and later form an army serving the Great Intelligence.

The Great Intelligence and its Yeti minions were thwarted twice by the Doctor's second incarnation, played by Patrick Troughton, in the serials The Abominable Snowmen and The Web of Fear. A Yeti was also one of the creatures in the Death Zone featured in The Five Doctors.

[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, Cybermen ships were heading for Earth, Snowcap base commander 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, along with help from the Doctor's companion Ben Jackson, 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.