Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Fenrir Foxz]

• In The Sarah Jane Adventures series 4 story The Vault of Secrets, Sarah Jane Smith stops a NASA probe from discovering the Pyramid containing the power of the Osirians.

That sounds like it could be an interesting episode.


Q ~ Quantum Crystaliser - A device featured in the audio drama 'Human Resources' used by the Celestial Intervention Agency to control time over a small area. It uses branching timelines to explore various possible futures and select the one it likes. Exposure to two Crystallisers causes dangerous instability, potentially leading to death.

[Alan]

That sounds like it could be an interesting episode.

The Vault of Secrets is a story that revolved around something else altogether. The scene in it with the NASA probe discovering the Mars pyramid only occurs within the first few moments of the story. Its just wee tip of the hat to Pyramids of Mars.

R ~ Revenge of the Cybermen - 1975 story starring Tom Baker as "The Doctor", Elisabeth Sladen as "Sarah Jane Smith", and 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 Jane 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...

Trivia
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• Last regular appearance of Harry Sullivan. From the next story Terror of the Zygons he becomes a recurring character.
  
  
• The Cybermen return. They'd last been seen in the 1968 story The Invasion although one Cyberman made a brief appearance in the 1969 story The War Games and another in the 1973 story Carnival of Monsters.
  
  
• A head of this type of Cyberman is seen in Henry Van Statten's museum in the 2005 story Dalek.
  
  
• To date, this is the last appearance of the Cybermats. Prior to this they'd last been seen in the 1968 story The Wheel in Space.
  
  
• Gold is revealed to be a weakness of the Cybermen.
  
  
• Nerva Beacon, first seen in the story The Ark in Space, is seen again, albeit at an earlier point in history.

[Alan]

S ~ Smith, Sarah Jane - Sarah Jane Smith is an investigative journalist and the friend and former companion of the Doctor. She was born in 1951 to parents Eddie and Barbara Smith. She currently works from her house in Ealing where she investigates and defends Earth against alien threats.

Sarah Jane made her first appearance in the 1973 story The Time Warrior. She pretended to be her scientist auntie Lavina Smith in order to investigate the disappearances of several research scientists and whilst doing so she met the Doctor. She stowed away on-board the TARDIS and was taken to the 12th century where she helped the Doctor stop a Sontaran from interfering with Earth's past and return the captured scientists back to the 20th century. Following this she joined the Doctor in his travels.

In the story Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Sarah Jane met and befriended Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, Captain Mike Yates, and Sergeant John Benton.

In the story Death to the Daleks, Sarah Jane had her first encounter with the Daleks.

In the 1974 story Planet of the Spiders, Sarah Jane was called in to investigate mysterious goings-on at a monastery the events of which led to the Doctor's third regeneration which she witnessed.

In the following story, Robot, Sarah Jane helped the newly regenerated Doctor through his transition, met and befriended UNIT Medical Officer Harry Sullivan, and continued travelling with the Doctor.

In the 1975 story Genesis of the Daleks she met the Daleks' creator Davros.

In the 1976 story The Hand of Fear, following many travels through space and time, Sarah Jane was forced to leave the TARDIS after the Doctor was recalled back to Gallifrey.

In the 1981 TV movie spin-off K-9 and Company: A Girl's Best Friend, Sarah Jane was given a present by the Doctor to help her with her investigations - robotic computer dog K-9 Mk. III.

In the 1983 TV movie The Five Doctors, Sarah Jane was time scooped and taken to Gallifrey and encountered the Doctor again albeit still in his third incarnation. Together they travelled to the Tomb of Rassilon, encountered the Doctor's first, second, and fifth incarnations and their companions, and they were all returned home once the secret of immortality was made safe.

In the 2006 story School Reunion, Sarah Jane met the Doctor, now in his tenth incarnation. Together, along with K-9 Mk. III and the Doctor's current companions Rose Tyler and Mickey Smith, they stopped an alien race called the Krillitane's from unlocking a code that would have given them the ability to shape space and time as they wished. K-9 Mk. III was destroyed but the Doctor gave Sarah Jane the replacement of K-9 Mk. IV as well as the gifts of a Sonic Lipstick and a Scanner Watch.

In the TV pilot movie of spin-off show The Sarah Jane Adventures, Invasion of the Bane, Sarah Jane was living at 13 Bannerman Road in Ealing and had built an alien computer named Mr. Smith in her attic whilst K-9 Mk. IV was holding back a black hole from swallowing the Earth. After stopping an alien race from taking over the human race, Sarah Jane adopted a genetically engineered boy whom she named Luke and befriended neighbour Maria Jackson.

In the first story of Series 1 of The Sarah Jane Adventures, after stopping Raxacoricofallapatorians from destroying Earth, Sarah Jane made a new friend - Clyde Langer and he joined her, Luke, and Maria in their investigations.

In the 2008 story The Stolen Earth, the Daleks returned and took the Earth and several other planets to the Medusa Cascade as part of Davros' plot to create a Reality Bomb. Sarah Jane was brought together with the Doctor's friends and former companions Captain Jack Harkness of Torchwood and Martha Jones of UNIT to contact the Doctor and transmit their location to him. They defeated Davros and returned all the stolen planets back to their correct spatial coordinates.

In the first story of Series 2 The Last Sontaran, Sarah Jane said goodbye to Maria when she moved to Washington but in the following story The Day of the Clown, she befriended new neighbour Rani Chandra and she joined her, Luke, and Clyde in their investigations.

In the Series 2 finale story Enemy of the Bane, Sarah Jane called on her friend Brigadier Sir Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart to help her access UNIT's Black Archive. With his help they stopped a renegade member of the alien Bane species from gaining access to a power that would have given them god-like powers.

In the Series 3 story The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, Sarah Jane was placed in a time trap by an entity called the Trickster. With help from the Doctor, she was able to escape it.

In the Series 4 story Death of the Doctor, Sarah Jane was taken to a UNIT base to attend a funeral for the Doctor. During the funeral, Sarah Jane met her predecessor in the TARDIS, Josephine Jones (formerly Grant). They were captured by the alien species called the Shansheeth and they wanted to use their memories of the Doctor to create a key in order to access the TARDIS. The Doctor, now in his eleventh incarnation, called on Sarah Jane and Jo to access all of their memories of their time with him and after him in order to overload the machine creating a copy of the TARDIS key.

In the Series 4 story Goodbye, Sarah Jane Smith, an alien species inflicted Sarah Jane with an illness that made her feel like she was unable to go on defending Earth. Sarah Jane's friends Rani, Clyde and Mr. Smith, later joined by Luke and K-9 Mk. IV, discovered the cause of Sarah Jane's illness and she was restored to full health. She returned to her life - defending the Earth from her house at 13 Bannerman Road.

[Alan]

T ~ Terror of the Zygons - 1975 story starring Tom Baker as "The Doctor" and Elisabeth Sladen as "Sarah Jane Smith".

Guest starring Ian Marter as "Harry Sullivan" and Nicholas Courtney as "Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart".

Synopsis
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When the Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry arrive in Scotland, having received an urgent request for assistance from the Brigadier, they discover that the mysterious force which has destroyed three oil rigs has left giant teeth marks on the wreckage.

The mystery deepens leading them to the shores of Loch Ness where they find that the legendary monster really does exist - and it's the murderous tool of the Zygons, aliens intent on overpowering the planet. The Doctor and his companions must find a way to defeat the deadly Loch Ness Monster and its controllers, but the Zygons have the terrifying power to change shape and the Doctor is in grave danger when he finds that his friends and allies are not always what they seem...

Trivia
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• Harry Sullivan leaves the TARDIS and returns to his duties at UNIT.
  
  
• Last appearance of Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart until the 1983 story Mawdryn Undead.

[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 Harkness 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...

Trivia
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• Captain Jack Harkness returns. He was last seen in Doctor Who in the 2005 story Bad Wolf but had been appearing in spin-off show Torchwood and was last seen in its Series 1 finale episode End of Days.
  
  
• Jack learns the reason for his immortality in this story.
  
  
• The Face of Boe's message to the Doctor in the story Gridlock - "You Are Not Alone" - is finally understood in this story.
  
  
• The Master returns. He was last seen in the 1996 TV movie The Enemy Within.
  
  
• Another fob watch, part of a TARDISes Chameleon Arch, is seen again. A similar fob watch was last seen in the story Human Nature.
  
  
• The hand the Doctor lost in the 2005 TV movie The Christmas Invasion returns. At some point it had been recovered by Captain Jack Harkness and it was seen being kept in the Hub in spin-off show Torchwood. In the Series 1 finale episode of Torchwood, the hand alerted Jack to the Doctor's return.
  
  
• The Doctor takes the TARDIS to the Cardiff rift to refuel. He last did this in the 2005 story Boom Town.

[Alan]

V ~ Vampires of Venice, The - 2010 story starring Matt Smith as "The Doctor", Karen Gillan as "Amy Pond", and Arthur Darvill as "Rory Williams".

Synopsis
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Dessicated corpses, terror in the canal and a visit to the sinister House of Calvierri – the Doctor takes Amy and Rory for a romantic mini-break, as the TARDIS touches down once again.

But 16th-century Venice is not as it should be. The city has been sealed to protect it from the Plague, although Rosanna Calvierri may have other plans...

Trivia
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• First regular appearance of Rory Williams. He'd first appeared in The Eleventh Hour. In this story he joins the Doctor and Amy in their travels on-board the TARDIS.
  
  
• The Silence are mentioned again. They were first mentioned in the The Eleventh Hour.

[Alan]

W ~ Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith, The - 2009 story from Series 3 of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Starring Elisabeth Sladen as "Sarah Jane Smith", Tommy Knight as "Luke Smith", Daniel Anthony as "Clyde Langer", Anjli Mohindra as "Rani Chandra", Alexander Armstrong as the voice of "Mr. Smith", & John Leeson as the voice of "K-9 Mk. IV".

Guest starring David Tennant as "The Doctor".

Synopsis
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After Sarah Jane starts acting suspiciously, Luke, Clyde, Rani and K9 investigate and find that Sarah Jane has a boyfriend, Peter Dalton, and they are going to get married. Clyde suspects Peter may be an alien. At the wedding the Trickster returns and holds the church in a prison. Can the Doctor save Sarah Jane and the entire planet Earth?

Trivia
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• This story marks the first time the Doctor has appeared in spin-off media. He'd return to The Sarah Jane Adventures in the Series 4 story Death of the Doctor.
  
  
• Luke Smith and the Doctor had previously encountered each other in the 2008 Doctor Who story The Stolen Earth.
  
  
• The Trickster returns. He'd last been seen in The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 2 story The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith.
  
  
• The Trickster mentions the Key to Time. The Doctor has been assigned to look for the six segments that made up the Key on three separate occasions - The six stories of Doctor Who's 16th season, three Big Finish audio stories, and the Doctor Who Magazine 30th anniversary comic strip Time & Time Again
  
  
• The Trickster mentions the Immortality Gate. It would eventually be seen in the Doctor Who 2009 and 2010 TV movies The End of Time, Part One and The End of Time, Part Two.
  
  
• The Doctor and Sarah Jane's final scene together in this story mirrors that of their final scene together in the 1976 story The Hand of Fear.
  
  
• Clyde Langer absorbs Artron Energy given off from the TARDIS and this would later play a pivotal role in the story Death of the Doctor. Artron Energy was first mentioned in the 1976 Doctor Who story The Deadly Assassin.

[Alan]

X ~ Xylok - The Xylok are a crystalline race. Sarah Jane Smith's computer, Mr. Smith, incorporates elements from a Xylok.

Approx. 6 Million B.C., a Xylok meteorite or spaceship crash-landed on Earth and became buried deep below the planets surface near to the crust. When Krakatoa had a volcanic eruption in 1883, a piece of Xylok crystal was freed. The crystal was passed between Geologists who were unable to comprehend what it was. In 2007, Sarah Jane Smith eventually gained possession of it and discovered the crystal was sentient. It communicated with her and instructed her in the building of a computer for it to reside in which eventually became known as Mr. Smith and it helped Sarah Jane with her investigations.

In 2008, the Xylok within Mr. Smith attempted to destroy Earth with help from the Raxacoricofallipatorian Slitheen family. Sarah Jane and her friends managed to restore the Xylok to his default settings and reminded him of his primary mission was to protect Earth and the planet was saved.

[Alan]

Y ~ Yana - Yana was a human scientist working on the Utopia Project in the year 100,000,000,000,000 AD. Yana, in actuality, was a human alias created by a Chameleon Arch for the renegade Time Lord known as the Master who had escaped the Last Great Time War. Yana ceased to exist after he opened up the Fob Watch component of the Chameleon Arch and the Master's personality and memories were restored.

[Alan]

Z ~ Z-Neutrino Energy - Z-Neutrino Energy was the power source at the heart of the Dalek Crucible and also an essential part of the Daleks' Reality Bomb. Its also the only energy source that can destroy a TARDIS.

In the 2008 story The Stolen Earth, the Daleks attempted to destroy the Doctor's TARDIS by dropping it in to the Z-Neutrino Energy but the ship was saved by the half-human clone of the Doctor's tenth incarnation.

[Alan]

A ~ Abominable Snowmen, The - 1967 story starring Patrick Troughton as "The Doctor", Frazer Hines as "Jamie McCrimmon", and Deborah Watling as "Victoria Waterfield".

Synopsis
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Mysterious forces are at work in 1930s Tibet. The once gentle Yeti have turned savage and have besieged a Buddhist monastery. The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive expecting a friendly welcome from the abbot, but soon become ensnared in the plans of the extradimensional being known as the Great Intelligence.

Trivia
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• First appearance of Professor Edward Travers. He would return in the 1968 story The Web of Fear and the 1995 straight-to-video spin-off movie Downtime.
  
  
• First appearance of the Yeti and the Great Intelligence. They also returned in the 1968 story The Web of Fear and the 1995 straight-to-video spin-off movie Downtime.

[Alan]

B ~ Bessie - Canary-Yellow roadster driven by the Doctor during his exile on Earth from 1970 to 1974. Its licence place read as WHO 1 and later WHO 7.

Bessie first appeared in the 1970 story The Silurians. The Doctor made several adaptations to Bessie which included an anti-theft forcefield, a remote control drive, and a minimal inertia hyperdrive which allowed Bessie to travel at far faster speeds.

In the 1974 story Robot, the Doctor left Earth and UNIT put Bessie into storage.

In the 1989 story Battlefield, UNIT became aware of the Doctor being back on Earth and, at the request of Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart, Bessie was brought out of storage for the Doctor's use. Following what became known as the "Carbury Incident", the Doctor left Earth again and UNIT put Bessie away in to storage again ready for when the Doctor might need it again.

[Alan]

C ~ Countrycide - 2006 episode from Series 1 of spin-off series 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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Concerned that the space-time rift is spreading, Torchwood investigate a series of gruesome deaths in the Brecon Beacons village of Brynblaidd. What sort of creature could cause such shocking injuries? Stranded without communications or equipment and isolated from one another, the team confront a terrifying enemy.

Trivia
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• This is the first Whoniverse story to feature no science-fiction or supernatural elements since the 1982 Doctor Who story Black Orchid.
  
  
• Gwen Cooper and Owen Harper begin having an affair.

[Alan]

D ~ Dragonfire - 1987 story starring Sylvester McCoy as "The Doctor" and Bonnie Langford as "Melanie '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 Sabalom 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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• First appearance of Ace (real name Dorothy McShane).
  
  
• Last appearance of Melanie 'Mel' Bush.
  
  
• Sabalom Glitz, last seen in the final chapter of The Trial of a Time Lord - The Ultimate Foe, returns.
  
  
• The reason for Ace's temporal transfer from 1987 Earth to Iceworld in the year 2,000,000 AD would later be revealed in the 1989 story The Curse of Fenric.

[Alan]

E ~ Emperor Dalek - The Emperor Dalek is the highest rank of Dalek.

The first Emperor Dalek was seen in the 1967 story The Evil of the Daleks. It was much larger than regular Daleks and was immobile due to the fact it was plugged directly into the Dalek City on Skaro. This Emperor appeared to be destroyed during the Dalek civil war.

Another Emperor Dalek featured in the 1989 comic story Nemesis of the Daleks and the 1993 comic story Emperor of the Daleks. Unlike the previous Emperor, this one was fully mobile and was distinguishable from other Daleks by the fact that its casing was gold and had a bulbous dome with more than two talking lights. This Emperor was destroyed when Davros returned to Skaro with his Imperial Dalek faction to take over.

Another Emperor Dalek was seen leading the Imperial Dalek faction in the 1988 story Remembrance of the Daleks during their attempt to gain possession of the Time Lord device known as the Hand of Omega. This Emperor was fully mobile and distinguishable from other Daleks by the fact that it had a bulbous dome, no eye stalk, no weapon and no manipulator arm. The front of the bulbous dome could retract back and reveal Davros inside.

The next Emperor Dalek was that leading the Daleks during their Time War against the Time Lords of Gallifrey. This Emperor was much larger than its predecessors and was plugged directly in to the Dalek Flagship. In the 2005 story Bad Wolf, this Emperor seemed to meet its end after the Doctor's companion at the time, Rose Tyler, used the power of the space/time vortex to destroy it.

Another Emperor Dalek, seen in the 2010 PC game story City of the Daleks. It was exactly the same configuration as that destroyed in Bad Wolf except it was blue in colour and plugged in to the Dalek city on Skaro. This Emperor may or may not exist as time was altered by the Daleks using the Eye of Time and the Doctor restored the timeline back to normal so whether this Emperor was or ever will be built is yet to be seen.