Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Alan]

M ~ Macra Terror, The - 1967 story starring Patrick Troughton as "The Doctor", Anneke Wills as "Polly Wright", Michael Craze as "Ben Jackson", and "Frazer Hines" as "Jamie McCrimmon".

Synopsis
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When the TARDIS crew visit a human colony in the year 2366 that appears to be one big holiday camp, they think they have come across a truly happy place. But a shadowy presence soon makes them realise that the surface contentment is carefully controlled.

The colony's inhabitants have been brainwashed by giant crab-like creatures - the Macra. Insidious propaganda, broadcast by the Controller, forces the humans to mine a gas that is essential for the Macra to survive - but fatal to them.

The colony must be saved - but how? The Doctor and his team are up against it, particularly when Ben falls under the influence of the Macra. Can he be rescued from their evil clutches? Can the gas pumping equipment be destroyed, getting rid of the Macra for good?

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• First story to use the Doctor's face in the opening title sequence. This would remain a common feature of the title sequence until the 1996 TV movie The Enemy Within when the casts names would be used instead.
  
  
• First appearance of the Macra. They would return in the 2007 story Gridlock.

[Alan]

N ~ Nightmare Man, The - 2010 story from Series 4 of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Starring Elisabeth Sladen as "Sarah Jane Smith", Daniel Anthony as "Clyde Langer", Anjli Mohindra as "Rani Chandra", and Alexander Armstrong as the voice of "Mr. Smith".

Guest starring Tommy Knight as "Luke Smith" and John Leeson as the voice of "K-9 Mk. IV".

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Luke faces life-changing events, and Bannerman Road will never be the same again. But when Sarah Jane’s son has his first nightmare, he’s haunted by a dark figure from his dreams; The Nightmare Man. A strange entity is reaching out to our world through Luke, with terrible consequences for the whole Human race. With Luke, Clyde and Rani trapped in a bizarre dreamscape, Sarah Jane must fight alone! As the Nightmare Man grows stronger, only K-9 might hold the key. But can Luke summon the courage to face his adult life before the whole world is trapped in an endless nightmare?

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• Last regular appearance of Luke Smith.
  
  
• Last regular appearance of K-9 Mk. IV.
  
  
• A Raxacoricofallapatorian briefly appears.

[Alan]

O ~ Only Good Dalek, The - 2010 graphic novel featuring "The Doctor" and "Amy Pond" as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan.

Synopsis
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Top-secret Station 7 is where the Earth Forces send all the equipment captured in their unceasing war against the Daleks. It's where Dalek technology is analysed and examined. It's where the Doctor and Amy have just arrived. But somehow the Daleks have found out about Station 7 - and there's something there that they want back. With the Doctor increasingly worried about the direction the Station's research is taking, the commander of Station 7 knows he has only one possible, desperate, defence. Because the last terrible secret of Station 7 is that they don't only store captured Dalek technology. It's also a prison. And the only thing that might stop a Dalek is another Dalek.

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• An army of Daleks as they were last seen in Victory of the Daleks, appear. Whilst the Scientist, Strategist, and Drone Daleks feature, the Supreme and Eternal Daleks do not.
  
  
• The Space Security Service, last seen in the 1966 story The Daleks' Master Plan, appear which places the setting for this story as being at some point in the 41st century.
  
  
• A Slyther, last seen in the 1964 story The Dalek Invasion of Earth, appears.
  
  
• Robomen appear. They too were last seen in The Dalek Invasion of Earth.
  
  
• Ogrons appear. They were last seen in the 1973 story Frontier in Space.
  
  
• Varga plants, last seen in The Daleks' Master Plan, appear.
  
  
• A Magnedon appears. One had last been seen in the 1963 story, The Daleks.

[Cold Fuzz]

P ~ Pandorica

The Pandorica was a prison box, hidden under Stonehenge. It was constructed to ensure the safety of the Alliance and to hold the most feared organism in the history of the Universe, which turned out to be the Doctor.

The Pandorica turned out to be a prison, built by the Alliance for the Doctor to stop him from destroying all the universes. Their conclusions held that the Doctor would be responsible for the destruction of existence itself, and thus used the lure of the Pandorica in order to entrap him. There were many layers of security in the Pandorica including deadlocks, time stops and matter lines. It even had a restoration field to stop the Doctor from dying, which the Alliance believed to be a form of escape.

It was used to help save Amy Pond and she was locked inside it for 1894 years, until she was saved by her younger self, whose DNA provided the Pandorica with the material it needed to fully revive the near-death adult Amy. During this time, it was moved several times:

118 A.D - Taken back to Rome under armed guard.
420 A.D. - Raided by the Franks.
1120 - Prized possession of the Knights Templar.
1231 - Donated to the Vatican.
Post 1231 - Sold by Marco Polo.

At an undisclosed time it was put into storage in a London warehouse, which was destroyed by the Blitz in 1941. The box was found a short distance away, unscathed.

[Alan]

Q ~ Quantum Archangel, The - Past Doctor Adventure book featuring "The Doctor" and "Mel Bush" as played by Colin Baker and Bonnie Langford.

Synopsis
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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.

Trivia
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• This book acts as a sequel to the 1972 TV story The Time Monster.
  
  
• The Master returns.
  
  
• The Chronovores return.
  
  
• Stuart Hyde returns.

[Alan]

R ~ Regeneration - First episode of spin-off series K-9 that began airing in 2009. This is the third spin-off from Doctor Who.

Starring John Leeson as the voice of "K-9 Mk. I", Keegan Joyce as "Starkey", Philippa Coulthard as "Jorji Turner", Daniel Webber as "Darius Pike", and Robert Moloney as "Professor Alistair Gryffen".

Synopsis
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In 2050, London is under the governance of a totalitarian regime. Two rebellious teenagers, Starkey and Jorjie, find themselves on the run from police and make their way into Professor Gryffen's lab building. Once there, they are witness to K-9's arrival.

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• K-9 Mk. I (the model that was introduced in the 1977 story The Invisible Enemy and then left the TARDIS along with Leela to remain on Gallifrey in the 1978 story The Invasion of Time) is revealed to have escaped the destruction of Gallifrey following the Time Lords' war with the Daleks.
  
  
• Time Lord technology built-in to K-9 gives him the ability to regenerate after he is forced to self-destruct but as a side-effect he loses all memory of everything before appearing on Earth in 2050. Presumably the Time Lords gave him the technology so he could fight in the Time War.
  
  
• First appearances of Starkey, Jorjie Turner, Darius Pike, and Professor Alistair Gryffen.
  
  
• First appearance of the Department and its operating head June Turner.
  
  
• First appearance of the Jixen.

[Alan]

S ~ Small Worlds - Episode from Series 1 of Torchwood.

Starring John Barrowman as "Captain Jack Harkness", Eve Myles as "Gwen Cooper", Burn Gorman as "Owen Harper", Naoko Mori as "Toshiko Sato", and Gareth David-Lloyd as "Ianto Jones".

Synopsis
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Supernatural forces stalk the suburbs of Cardiff: but are they friendly or malevolent? And what do they want with the seemingly normal Pierce family? As nightmares of his past haunt Jack, can Jack's old friend Estelle Cole help him prevent the tragedy brewing in a suburban household?

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• Captain Jack Harkness wonders if the Fairies are part-Mara. The Doctor encountered a creature called the Mara in the Doctor Who stories Kinda and Snakedance.

[Alan]

T ~ Time of Angels, The - 2010 story starring Matt Smith as "The Doctor" and Karen Gillan as "Amy Pond".

Synopsis
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The enigmatic River Song hurtles back into the Doctor's life but she's not the only familiar face returning... The Weeping Angels are back! The Doctor is recruited by Father Octavian to track the last of the Angels, that have escaped from the Byzantium starliner, through the terrifying Maze of the Dead.

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• River Song returns. She was last seen in the 2008 story Silence in the Library.
  
  
• The Weeping Angels return. They last appeared in the 2007 story Blink.
  
  
• The Crack in time and space is seen again. It first appeared in The Eleventh Hour and has manifested itself in every story since.

[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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Jack's back! As Captain Jack comes storming into the Doctor's life again, the TARDIS is thrown to the end of the universe itself. As the last remnants of humanity struggle to reach 'Utopia', unknown to all, the Doctor's greatest enemy is about to rise again...

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• Captain Jack Harkness returns. In Doctor Who he was last seen in the 2005 story Bad Wolf but had been appearing in the spin-off show Torchwood in which he leads the Cardiff crew and at the end of its first series disappeared upon hearing the TARDIS materialise. For Jack, this story directly follows on from Torchwood's Series 1 finale episode.
  
  
• Jack learns the reason for his immortality and why the Doctor left him behind on Satellite 5 in Bad Wolf.
  
  
• The Master returns. He last appeared in the 1996 TV movie The Enemy Within.
  
  
• Professor Yana complains about the constant sound of drums in his head. This drum sound would continue for the Master in The Sound of Drums and be resolved in the 2010 TV Movie The End of Time, Part Two.
  
  
• The hand the Doctor lost in the 2005 TV movie The Christmas Invasion returns. In the spin-off show Torchwood, Captain Jack Harkness had it kept in the Torchwood's Cardiff branch. In Torchwood's series 1 finale, it was the hand that first made Jack aware of the Doctor's return. It would later play a pivotal role in the 2007 story The Sound of Drums and the 2008 stories The Doctor's Daughter and The Stolen Earth.
  
  
• The Chameleon Arch appears again. It was last seen in the 2007 story Human Nature.

[Alan]

V ~ Vault of Secrets, The - Story from Series 4 of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Starring Elisabeth Sladen as "Sarah Jane Smith", Daniel Anthony as "Clyde Langer", Anjli Mohindra as "Rani Chandra", and Alexander Armstrong as the voice of "Mr. Smith".

Guest starring Tommy Knight as "Luke Smith".

Synopsis
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When an old enemy, Androvax the Veil, returns to Earth asking for help, the gang face a dilemma – should they trust him? Or does the legendary Vault hold an even greater terror? But a second threat arises, when android guardians threaten to destroy anyone who uncovers their secrets. As the battle between Sarah Jane, Androvax and the androids reaches its climax, Rani has to save her own mother from being caught in the crossfire. But as the Vault opens the destiny of the entire Veil species is at stake. Is it too late to save them?

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• Androvax returns. He was last seen in the Series 3 story Prisoner of the Judoon.
  
  
• The Alliance of Shades return. They were last seen in the 2009 Doctor Who animated story Dreamland.
  
  
• Mr. Smith blocks a NASA probe on Mars from discovering a pyramid. Its the same pyramid that Sarah Jane and the Doctor visited and contains the powers of an ancient species called Osirians as seen in the 1975 Doctor Who story Pyramids of Mars.

[Alan]

W ~ War Lord, The - The War Lord appeared in the 1969 story The War Games. He was the leader of an war-like alien race that entered in to a deal with a renegade Time Lord who named himself the War Chief and using short-lived TARDISes they captured human soldiers from various wars fought on Earth throughout its history and placed them on an alien planet to continue fighting for their manipulation and amusement. The Doctor and his friends Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot thwarted their plans and called in the Time Lords to return the soldiers back to Earth. The Time Lords placed the War Lord's home planet in a Time Loop and the War Lord himself was dematerialised from existence.

[Alan]

X ~ Xenon - Xenon was the native planet of the metamorphic Whifferdills. The Doctor's former companion Frobisher was born on Xenon in the 82nd century. It was located in Mutter's Spiral.

[Alan]

Y ~ Yartek - Yartek appeared in the 1964 story The Keys of Marinus. He is a member of the Voord species and the leader of his people. Yartek discovered how to resist the Conscience of Marinus. Invading the building where the conscience was kept, Yartek and his followers killed Arbitan. Yartek then posed as Arbitan to get the keys to the Conscience from Ian Chesterton. He was killed in the destruction of the Conscience when he placed a false key in the machine resulting in an explosion.

[Alan]

Z ~ Zygons - The Zygons were a race of war-like metamorphic humanoids that originated from the planet Zygor. Their home world was destroyed during their war against another alien species called the Xaranti. The Zygons are currently a nomadic species.

Their technology is more organic than machine in nature.

They have the ability to imitate people and creatures but to do so they must keep the originals alive. Having such unwieldy bodies, Zygons tend to assume the shape of warrior people and ferocious creatures of various species in order to have ritual combat

In the 2010 story The Pandorica Opens, a group of Zygons were amongst many races that travelled to Earth in the year 102 A.D. and were present when the Doctor was imprisoned inside the Pandorica.

In the 1997 novel The Bodysnatchers, the Doctor and Samantha Jones foiled an attempt by Zygons in 1894 to take over Earth.

In the 2007 novel Sting of the Zygons, the Doctor and Martha Jones arrived on Earth in 1909 and discovered and defeated a group of Zygons on Earth attempting to take over the planet.

In 1975, in the story Terror of the Zygons, a group of Zygons that had been on Earth in Scotland since the 12th century attempted to take over the planet but were prevented from doing so due to the intervention of the Doctor, Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan, and UNIT.

[Alan]

A ~ Awakening, The - 1984 story starring Peter Davison as "The Doctor", Janet Fielding as "Tegan Jovanka", and Mark Strickson as "Vislor Turlough".

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The TARDIS has brought the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough to the picture postcard English village of Little Hodcombe. Tegan has come to visit her grandfather - well known local historian Andrew Verney - but he seems to be missing. The residents of Little Hodcombe, led by the obsessive Sir George Hutchinson, are playing a vicious war game - an exact recreation of a battle of the English Civil War fought there in 1643.

As each of the TARDIS crew witnesses a terrifying apparition from the past, the Doctor realises that he faces a far greater menace than the unstable Hutchinson. An ancient and alien force for evil is at work - one which will glory in the slaughter of them all...