Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Fenrir Foxz]

P ~ Proamon - Proamon was the homeworld of Kane, the icy ruler of Iceworld in the Seventh Doctor story 'Dragonfire'. It was destroyed a thousand years after his exile.

[Alan]

Q ~ Quantum Archangel, The - Novel of the Past Doctor Adventures range of books featuring the 6th Doctor and Mel Bush.

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Five thousand years ago, the Priest-Kings of Atlantis attempted to enslave Kronos, greatest of the Chronivores. They failed, with catastrophic results. Thirty years ago, The Master sought to do the same, and barely escaped with his life.

London, 2003: torn apart by tragedy, The Doctor and Mel have gone their separate ways, only to find their paths crossing once more. While The Doctor tries to stop an old friend from making a terrible mistake, Mel is horrified to learn that her best friend has fallen under the influence of The Master.

As The Master desperately tries to defend himself against the power of Kronos, The Doctor and Mel must overcome their differences. If they don’t, the Quantum Archangel will be triumphant. And if she is, nothing in the Universe will ever be the same again.

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• This book acts as a sequel to the 1972 TV story The Time Monster and as such sees the return of several elements unique that story -

1. Scientist Stuart Hyde.
   
   
2. The Chronovore known as Kronos.
   
   
3. The technology called TOMTIT (Transmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time).

[Spimman]

R - Reality Bomb, A device created by Davros and the Daleks which they prepared to use in "Journey's End". It was meant to disrupt the electrical bond between all atoms in every form of matter, using Z-neutrino energy compressed into a single string by an alignment of 27 planets, therefore destroying the whole of the universe and all other universes via a rift at the heart of the Medusa Cascade. It was, however, disabled by Donna.

[Alan]

S ~ Stolen Earth, The - 2008 story starring David Tennant as "The Doctor" and Catherine Tate 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", John Leeson as "K-9", and Alexander Armstrong as "Mr. Smith", with Bernard Cribbins as "Wilfred Mott".

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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.

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• This story is a crossover with spin-off shows Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures.
  
  
• Captain Jack Harkness returns. He was last seen in the 2007 story The Sound of Drums.
  
  
• Martha Jones returns. She was last been seen in the 2008 story The Doctor's Daughter.
  
  
• Sarah Jane Smith returns. She was last seen in the 2006 story School Reunion.
  
  
• Rose Tyler appears. She was last seen in Turn Left.
  
  
• Mickey Smith returns. He was last seen in the 2006 story Army of Ghosts.
  
  
• K-9 returns. He was last seen in the 2006 story School Reunion.
  
  
• Wilfred Mott returns. He was last seen in the story The Sontaran Stratagem although an alternate timeline version appeared in Turn Left.
  
  
• The Daleks return. They last appeared in the 2007 story Daleks in Manhatten.
  
  
• Davros returns. He was last seen in the 1988 story Remembrance of the Daleks.
  
  
• Dalek Caan, the last surviving member of the Cult of Skaro, returns. He was last seen in the 2007 story Daleks in Manhattan.
  
  
• UNIT returns. It last was seen in the 2008 story The Sontaran Stratagem but an alternate timeline version featured in the story Turn Left.
  
  
• Sarah Jane Smith had previously met Davros in the 1975 story Genesis of the Daleks.
  
  
• Harriet Jones, former British Prime Minister, returns. She was last seen in the 2005 TV movie The Christmas Invasion.
  
  
• The UNIT aircraft carrier Valiant is destroyed in this story. It had last been seen in the 2008 story The Sontaran Stratagem.

[Spimman]

T - TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimensions In Space) is a spaceship invented by the Time Lords that can travel through space and time. The Doctor travels in a Type 40 TARDIS. A TARDIS can travel to any time and place in the universe, except to events that are Time-Locked, such as the Time War. In The Next Doctor, Jackson Lake made a typical hot-air balloon, which he called his TARDIS (Tethered Air Release Developed In Style). The TARDIS is bigger on the inside than the outside.

[Alan]

U ~ UNIT - UNIT (UNified Intelligence Taskforce, formerly the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce) is a worldwide military organisation formed in 1967 following the Dalek threat in 1963, the robotic Yeti in the sewers of London in 1965, and the computer system WOTAN trying to build machines to wipe out mankind in 1966.

UNIT operates under the auspices of the United Nations. Its purpose was to investigate and combat paranormal and extraterrestrial threats to the Earth. UNIT was not the only alien defence organisation, but it was the one with which the Doctor has historically had the closest personal involvement.

From 1967 to 1976, the UK branch of UNIT was commanded by Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart. Under his command UNIT-UK successfully lead the defence against the Cybermen when they attempted to invade Earth in 1969.

[Spimman]

V - Validium, A living metal created on Gallifrey that has the power of life and death. It appears in the serial Silver Nemesis.

[Alan]

W ~ Warriors of the Deep - 1984 story starring Peter Davison as "The Doctor", Janet Fielding as "Tegan Jovanka", and Mark Stickson as "Vislor Turlough".

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The year is 2084, and two power-blocs are poised on the brink of war. Using a series of undersea complexes and deep-space satellites, each bloc carefully monitors the other's movements, slowly edging towards the moment when one will launch an all-out nuclear attack on the other.

Arriving on Sea Base Four, the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough are rapidly drawn into the web of intrigue which enmeshes this era's paranoid political manoeuvrings. Not everyone on board the base is working for the same team, and the officer directly responsible for implementing the base's nuclear capability has died in mysterious circumstances.

Amid this already tenses atmosphere, the crew of Sea Base Four faces an even greater threat to mankind. The Silurians and Sea Devils, prehistoric reptiles who went into hibernation millions of years before, have re-awoken and intend to launch another attempt to reclaim the Earth from humanity.

The Doctor must tackle enemy sabotage and face the Myrka, a giant marine monster - but can he prevent the Silurians from implementing their 'final solution' - launching the missiles to start a war that threatens to wipe out the human race?

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• The Silurians return. They had last appeared in the 1970 story The Silurians.
  
  
• The Sea Devils return. They had last appeared in the 1972 story The Sea Devils.

[Fenrir Foxz]

X ~ Xeraphin - The Xeraphin were an ancient species encountered by the Fifth Doctor in the story 'TimeFlight'. Originating from the planet Xeriphas, they possessed immense psychokinetic and scientific powers. The Doctor believed the race to have been wiped out during the crossfire during the Vardon/Kosnax war. Instead, the entire race fled to Earth in an escaping spacecraft. The ship crashed near present day Heathrow some 140 million years ago. When the Xeraphin emerged they built a Citadel to mark their new home but the Xeraphin were so plagued with radiation that they abandoned their original humanoid bodies and transformed into a single bioplasmic gestalt intelligence within a sarcophagus at the heart of the Citadel.

The arrival of the Master coincided with their emergence from the gestalt state when the radiation effects had subsided, and his influence caused the emergence of a split personality of good and evil, each side competing for their tremendous power while yearning to become a proper species once again. The Master, who was stranded on Earth at the time too, succeeded in capturing the Xeraphin as a new power source for his TARDIS. However, the Doctor's intervention meant his nemesis' TARDIS was sent to Xeriphas where events became out of his control.

[Alan]

Y ~ Year That Never Was, The - The Year That Never Was was a year which, due to the destruction of the Paradox Machine, never occurred for a majority of the population of Earth but was remembered by a few people on the UNIT ship Valiant. During this time, beginning in approximately Spring 2008 to 2009 and lasting exactly a year, the Master, with the assistance of the Toclafane, ruled over Earth in the story The Sound of Drums.

[Fenrir Foxz]

Z ~ Zarbi - The Zarbi appeared in 'The Web Planet' and are an (ant-like) insectoid species, with some characteristics associated with beetles, from the planet Vortis, which were controlled by the power of the Animus. They are roughly eight feet long, and the Menoptra claim, perhaps a little callously, that they are "little more than cattle".

They possess little intelligence but were not at all aggressive until the Animus arrived. They were enslaved to the alien consciousness and considered the butterfly-like Menoptra (with which they once lived peacefully) their mortal enemies. Only they could control the woodlouse-like venom grubs (also known as larvae guns).

They returned to their normal ways after the Animus was defeated by the First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Vicki. It is presumed that the various species on Vortis are now living peacefully together.

[Alan]

A ~ Android Invasion, The - 1975 story starring Tom Baker as "The Doctor" and Elisabeth Sladen as "Sarah Jane Smith".

Guest starring Ian Marter as "Harry Sullivan".

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When the TARDIS materialises just outside a sleepy English village, it appears the Doctor and Sarah Jane are nearly "home" at last. But all is not as it seems in rural paradise. White-suited, gun-wielding guards stalk the countryside, while the village itself is eerily deserted. As the Doctor and Sarah look on, a UNIT member leaps over a cliff to his death and, as the clock strikes twelve, the local pub is suddenly filled with strange robotic villagers. The UNIT member is amongst them, very much alive. What exactly is happening here?

The Doctor is mystified, setting off for UNIT HQ in search of answers. There, with the Brigadier away, Senior Defence Astronaut Guy Crayford holds court. But just who is his shadowy master, the Thraal, Styggron? Indeed, who are the Thraals and what have they got in store for the Earth? Why has the TARDIS dematerialised seemingly of its own accord?

The Doctor must move quickly to find the truth, for the very future of mankind hangs in the balance...

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• Last appearance of Harry Sullivan.
  
  
• Last appearance of Warrant Officer John Benton.

[Spimman]

B - Butterfly People, A translucent humanoid who possessed the body of a 19th century prostitute named Mary was encountered in the episode "Greeks Bearing Gifts". She was a member of a race which communicated exclusively via telepathic pendants, and claimed to be a political exile, sent to Earth by a teleporter now in Torchwood's possession. At one point, "Mary" calls herself Philoctetes, in reference to his exile on Lemnos. She gave her telepathic necklace to Toshiko, and seduced her into letting her into Torchwood to regain the teleporter.

On arriving on Earth in 1812, the alien killed her guard and possessed Mary. In this form she needed to consume human hearts to maintain the host's youth, taking one a year. "Mary" threatened Tosh in order to regain the teleporter and Jack exchanged it for Tosh. However, Jack had reprogrammed the coordinates, sending "Mary" into the center of the Sun instead of back to her homeworld.

In The Sarah Jane Adventures episode "Invasion of the Bane", Sarah Jane Smith helps an alien of the same race to find its way home. It is later revealed that this alien was a "star poet", from Arcateen V, who gave Sarah Jane a device via which she promised to help her with her poetry whenever she needs it. Mr Smith's Alien Files on the official The Sarah Jane Adventures website described her race as Butterfly People. The Butterfly People are also referenced in the novel Something in the Water (published March 2008) where they are called "Arcateenians". Like all Torchwood spin-off media, its canonicity in relation to the television series remains unclear.

"Mary" possessed strength large enough to shatter human bones in a manner resembling a gunshot and could move at superhuman speeds, also possessing acute senses able to notice that there was something different about Jack. The poet alien in The Sarah Jane Adventures was able to fly home with some assistance from Sarah Jane Smith. "Mary's" opinions of her human form seemed to be mixed: she disliked watching people talk using conventional speech; which was considered archaic on her home world, but she said she liked the body which she found "so soft, so wicked". She also expressed a dim view of human nature, considering humans to be a race who inherently desired to invade others.

[Alan]

C ~ Caves of Androzani, The - 1984 story starring Peter Davison as "The Doctor" and Nicola Bryant as "Peri Brown".

Special cameo appearances from Janet Fielding as "Tegan Jovanka", Mark Strickson as "Vislor Turlough", Gerald Flood as "Kamelion", Sarah Sutton as "Nyssa", and Matthew Waterhouse as "Adric".

Introducing Colin Baker as "The Doctor".

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Arriving on the barren world of Androzani, the Doctor and Peri find themselves embroiled in a long-running underground war.

Military troops mount an armed blockade whilst gunrunners bring in weapons for the sinister, masked renegade, Sharaz Jek. Meanwhile, lethal androids guard the caves, a deadly creature lurks in the shadows, killing all in its path. At the heart of the conflict is a substance called Spectrox — the most valuable item in the universe... and the deadliest!

The very presence of the Doctor and Peri on Androzani sets in motion a chain of events that will have dramatic consequences for everyone involved. As the situation gets even more desperate, the Doctor realises time is running out - both for Peri and himself.

Will the Doctor make the ultimate sacrifice to save his young friends life..?

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• Last regular appearance of the Doctor's fifth incarnation. His last word is "Adric?". He would appear again in the 2007 mini-story Time Crash and encounters his tenth incarnation.
  
  
• The Doctor's fifth regeneration is brought about after he is poisoned by the deadly Spectrox Toxaemia.
  
  
• First appearance of the Doctor's sixth incarnation. His first words are "You were expecting someone else?".
  
  
• The reason for the Doctor wearing a stick of celery on his coat lapel is finally revealed in this story - the Doctor's fifth incarnation has an allergy of certain gases within the praxis range of the spectrum and the celery detects these gases by turning purple thereby warning him of their presence.
  
  
• The Doctor reveals that on Gallifrey the very smell of celery is a powerful restorative on Gallifrey but it isn't very effective on humans apparently due to them having far more feebler olfactory senses.
  
  
• During his regeneration, the Doctor has visions of his former companions Tegan Jovanka, Vislor Turlough, Kamelion, Nyssa, and Adric and his arch enemy the Master.
  
  
• Whilst taking the gunrunners ship back to Androzani Minor, the Doctor has a brief forewarning vision of his impending regeneration. The Doctor had previously been forewarned about his fourth regeneration in the 1981 story Logopolis and about his tenth regeneration by the Ood in the 2008 story Planet of the Ood.

[Spimman]

D - Dogon, are an extraterrestrial species referred to in "Random Shoes". They are a reptilian race with thirteen eyes, each of which grants them especially enhanced perceptions in various respects; the sixth of which is swallowed by Eugene Jones in Random Shoes and after being fatally hit by a car he is able to return as a ghost to look over his life with a fresh perspective. A few years prior to these events a Dogon ship crashed in the Humber and Dogons were subsequently dissected and investigated by Dr. Rajesh Singh under director Yvonne Hartman.

A Dogon Eye was mentioned as having been purchased by Henry Parker in "A Day in the Death".