Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Guest]

W - Warrior's Gate - 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 ~ X-Ray - In the 2005 story Dalek, the 9th Doctor was subjected to a device with advanced X-Ray abilities which allowed American Millionaire Henry Van Statten to see the Doctor's binary vascular system.

[Guest]

Y ~ Yeti - The Yeti 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 planet, 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 ~ Zaroff - Professor Zaroff was a mad scientist who planned to destroy the world. He appeared in the 1967 story The Underwater Menace.

[Guest]

A ~ Axons - Appeared in the third Doctor's serial 'The Claws of Axos'.

The Axons land on Earth, desperately in need of fuel. They propose to exchange the miracle substance they call Axonite for some much needed energy. Axonite is a "thinking" molecule that can replicate any substance... or so they claim. As it turns out, the ship is a single organism called Axos whose purpose is to feed itself by draining all energy through the Axonite (which is just a part of itself), including the energy of every life form on Earth. The deception about the Axonite's beneficial properties was to facilitate the distribution of Axonite across the globe.

Meanwhile, the Master, who was captured by Axos and used his knowledge of Earth as a bargaining chip for his life and freedom, escapes Axos and makes his way to the Doctor's TARDIS — his own having been seized by Axos. He plans to repair it to escape from Earth.

Axos itself becomes interested in the Doctor's knowledge of time travel. It now plans to broaden its feeding base by travelling through time as well as space. The Doctor, realising this, plans to trick Axos into linking up its drive unit to his TARDIS so that he can send Axos into a perpetual time loop. After tricking the Master into completing the repairs on his TARDIS, the Doctor does just that. This results in every part of Axos dematerialising from Earth, including the Axon automatons and the Axonite.

At the end, with the Master having escaped in his own TARDIS during the confusion aboard Axos, the Doctor returns to Earth, but not of his own volition. Apparently, the Time Lords have programmed the TARDIS to always return to Earth, like some "galactic yo-yo".

[Alan]

B ~ Baker, Tom - Actor. Tom Baker played the 4th incarnation of "The Doctor" from 1974 until 1981. He still holds the title of longest running actor to play the part on TV.

[Billz]

C ~ Cardiff
Where Jack Harkness currently resides as leader of Torchwood Three. This branch of the Torchwood Organization was set up in Cardiff to monitor activity relating to the space/time rift which currently runs though the center of the city. The rift was first created in 1869 during which, the Doctor and Rose Tyler was visiting that period of history.

[Alan]

D ~ Day of the Daleks - 1972 story starring Jon Pertwee as "The Doctor", Katy Manning as "Jo Grant", Nicholas Courtney as "Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart", John Levene as "Sergeant John Benton", and Richard Franklin as "Captain Mike Yates". This story marked the return of the Daleks for the first time since the 1967 story The Evil of the Daleks. This story was the first time the 3rd Doctor encountered the Daleks. First appearance of the Daleks' ape-like servents, the Ogrons.

Rebels from a future Earth conquered by the Daleks travel to the 20th Century to prevent that from happening. But will their actions prevent that future, or make it inevitable?

[Guest]

E ~ Earthshock - The TARDIS arrives on Earth in the 26th Century in a cave system containing numerous dinosaur fossils. The Doctor's party comes under suspicion from a military force, led by Lieutenant Scott, who are investigating the disappearance of a group of palaeontologists and geologists. They are all then attacked by androids - the true culprits - under the control of the Cybermen.

The Doctor manages to deactivate a bomb intended by the Cybermen to destroy an imminent peace conference. He then follows the bomb's activating signal to an approaching space freighter, commanded by Captain Briggs, on board which it transpires that an army of Cybermen are concealed.

An attempt by Adric to thwart the Cybermen's plans result in the freighter being inadvertently sent millions of years into the past, where it explodes and causes the extinction of the dinosaurs - and also the death of Adric. The Doctor destroys the Cyber Leader by forcing into its chest unit some gold fragments from a badge previously worn by Adric.

[Alan]

F ~ Fifth Doctor, The - The 5th Doctor came into existence after the 4th Doctor sacrificed his life to save the universe from the Master at the conclusion of the 1981 story Logopolis. The 5th Doctor found he had an appreciation for the sport called Cricket and decided to wear clothing based around it. He discovered that he was allergic to certain gasses within the Praxis range of the spectrum and so wore a stick of Celery on the lapel of his coat to warn him when the gasses were present. The 5th Doctor also wore glasses but the 10th Doctor said that like himself he didn't really need to wear them as he simply wore them to look intelligent.

The 5th Doctor encountered his 1st, 2nd, and 3rd incarnations in the 1983 story The Five Doctors and his 10th incarnation in the 2007 mini-story Time Crash.

In the 1984 story The Caves of Androzani, the 5th Doctor and his companion Peri Brown both contracted the deadly disease known as Spectrox Toxemia. He eventually got a cure for it but gave it all to Peri, saving her life but dooming his in the process and causing him to regenerate into the 6th Doctor.

The 5th Doctor was played by Peter Davison.

[Guest]

G ~ Genesis of the Daleks - The Time Lords intercept the transmat beam taking the Doctor, Sarah and Harry back to Nerva and deposit them instead on the planet Skaro at an early point in its history. There a Time Lord gives the Doctor both a mission to prevent or alter the Daleks' development so that they become less of a threat to the universe and a time ring that will enable him and his companions to return to the TARDIS once this is done.

Skaro is currently in the grip of a long war of attrition between its two humanoid powers, the Kaleds and the Thals. The Kaleds' chief scientist, Davros, has been experimenting to discover the final form into which his race will mutate - the weapons used in the war have already produced genetically scarred 'mutos', who have been consigned to the wastelands - and has devised a protective casing in which they can continue to survive. This is instantly recognised by the Doctor and Sarah as a Dalek.

Escaping from the bunker where Davros and his Elite, led by the sadistic Nyder, are based, the Doctor and Harry persuade the Kaled leaders to put the Dalek experiments on hold. Davros retaliates by conspiring with the Thals to destroy the Kaled city with a rocket. He then activates the Daleks and orders them to wipe out the Thals.

Some members of the Elite revolt, protesting at the genetic alterations that Davros has made to the Daleks, and they too are exterminated. The Daleks then seize control, killing the remainder of the Elite and ultimately Davros himself. Thal survivors detonate explosives at the entrance to the bunker, sealing the Daleks inside.

Having earlier passed up an opportunity to destroy the Dalek mutants at birth, the Doctor estimates that his intervention will have delayed their development by about a thousand years.

[Alan]

H ~ Harkness, Jack - Captain Jack Harkness originally comes from the 51st century and was a member of the Time Agency until he woke up one morning and realised two years of his memories had been erased. He went rogue and become a con man. Jack then went on to become a companion to the 9th Doctor and then the 10th Doctor. He is currently the leader of Torchwood Three in Cardiff. Captain Jack made his first appearance in the 2005 Doctor Who story The Empty Child and joined the 9th Doctor and Rose Tyler aboard the TARDIS. Jack travelled with them for sometime until the story Bad Wolf in which he helped defend the station Satellite 5 to give the Doctor the time he needed to set up a weapon to defeat the Daleks but was exterminated in the process. Jack was later brought back to life by the Bad Wolf-possessed Rose and the Doctor then left him. Jack used his Vortex Manipulator and travelled back in time to Earth in the 21st century to find the Doctor but ended up in the year 1869 instead.

Over a period of time, Jack realised he was immortal. He came to the attention of the Torchwood Institute. At some point between 1892 and 1900 he was recruited to work at one of their bases in Cardiff. Jack eventually became the Torchwood leader in 2000. In the 2007 story Utopia Jack met with the Doctor again (now in his 10th incarnation) and discovered the reasons for his abandonment and his ability not to die. After helping the Doctor and his companion Martha Jones defeat the renegade Time Lord known as the Master, Jack decided to return to Cardiff and resume his place as Torchwood Three leader in the story The Sound of Drums.

[Guest]

I ~ Ice Warrior - The race originated on Mars, and first appeared in the 1967 serial 'The Ice Warriors' where they encountered the Second Doctor and his companions Jamie and Victoria. The name Ice Warrior is not the name of their species, but was applied to them by an Earth scientific team in the Martians' first on-screen appearance.

The Ice Warriors are reptilian humanoids, their scaly skin and features usually hidden under heavy armour. They have large, claw-like hands on which are mounted sonic weaponry, and their voices are a highly sibilant whisper due to the different composition of Earth's atmosphere. Two types of Ice Warrior are seen in the series, the rank and file Warriors, and an officer class, which fan lore has christened Ice Lords (with at least one being referred to as a "Lord" on screen). The main difference between the two is the design of their armour, with the Ice Lords wearing a lighter, more flexible version than those of the Warriors.

[Alan]

J ~ Jackson, Maria - A main character in The Sarah Jane Adventures. Maria is 13-years old and the daughter of Alan and Chrissie Jackson. She first appeared in the 2007 TV movie Invasion of the Bane in which she Sarah Jane Smith and helped her investigate the Bubbleshock Factory and defeat the Bane. Following that incident, Maria has helped Sarah and her adopted son Luke with their investigations into the unknown. Maria Jackson is played by Yasmin Paige.

[Guest]

K ~ Krillitane - The Krillitanes are an alien race that first appeared in the 2006 episode "School Reunion". They had infiltrated the Deffry Vale comprehensive school on present day Earth, increasing the intelligence of the pupils with Krillitane oil. Using the children as part of a giant computer programme, they hoped to crack the secrets of the Skasis Paradigm, the Universal Theory that would give them control over the basic forces of the universe and turn them into gods. Their scheme was foiled by the Tenth Doctor and his companions, though not before they attempted to ask the Doctor to join them in remaking the universe. This conversation showed that the Krillitanes were aware of the Time War, of the Time Lords and of their fate.

The Krillitanes are a composite race who pick and choose physical traits they find useful from the species they conquer, incorporating them into their own bodies. When the Doctor last encountered them they looked like humans with very long necks, but by the time of "School Reunion", they possessed a bat-like form which they obtained from the conquest of Bessan ten generations prior. However, they were able to maintain a morphic illusion of human form, which could be discarded if needed.