Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Alan]

D ~ Doctor, The - The Doctor (real name unknown) is the last of the Time Lords of the planet Gallifrey. He is over 1,200 years old and currently in his 10th incarnation. The Doctor has a granddaughter named Susan Foreman. The Daleks know him as the "Ka Faraq Gatri" which, roughly translated can mean either "Bringer of Darkness" or "Destroyer of Worlds".

Since 2005, the Doctor is currently played by David Tennant. In the past he was played by William Hartnell (1963 - 1966, 1973), Patrick Troughton (1966 - 1969, 1973, 1983, 1985), Jon Pertwee (1970 - 1974, 1983), Tom Baker (1974 - 1981, 1983), Peter Davison (1981 - 1984, 2007), Colin Baker (1984 - 1986), Sylvester McCoy (1987 - 1996), Paul McGann (1996 - 2005), & Christopher Eccleston (2005).

[Kidwizz]

E ~ EXTERMINATE! - no explanation needed

[Alan]

F ~ Face of Evil, The - 1976 story starring Tom Baker as "The Doctor" and introducing Louise Jameson as new companion "Leela".

The Doctor arrives on a planet where two tribes, the savage Sevateem and the technically brilliant Tesh, are at war. He meets Leela, an exile from the Sevateem, and discovers that their god of evil is apparently himself.

[Kidwizz]

G ~ Gorgon - Based on the mythological Gorgon, three members of this species visited Earth through a portal that was opened by a specific talisman. Once there, they remained on the planet for three thousand years due to the talisman being lost. In order to remain hidden, they formed a sisterhood of nuns that protected them from the Human world. Two members of their kind were slain, one by a Greek hero and another by Professor Edgar Nelson-Stanley along with his wife, Bea. Only a single Gorgon remained in Eye of the Gorgon to look for the talisman which was given to Luke Smith by Bea who in turn gave it to his adoptive mother Sarah Jane Smith.

The Gorgons are a parasitic race that resemble ethereal snakes that fly through the air. They inhabit other species and move from host to host as each grows weak and dies in order for them to survive. Their defensive mechanism of being able to petrify people does not actually turn the target to stone, rather the process actually resembles a super quick fossilisation.

[Guest]

H ~ Haemovore - Haemovores appeared in the Seventh Doctor story 'The Curse of Fenric' (1989). Vampiric creatures that fed on blood, they were the end result of human evolution in a possible far future, caused by millennia of pollution. As part of his final game against the Doctor, the entity known as Fenric transported the most powerful Haemovore (called the "Ancient One") through time to Viking Age Northumbria. There it waited, trapped beneath the North Sea for centuries, occasionally drawing victims into the water and transforming them into Haemovores.

Soon after the transformation, victims appeared much as they did in life, except for elongated fingernails and a corpse-like pallor. Later they became deformed blue-grey humanoids covered in octopus-like suckers. The Ancient One was the least human in appearance; in its own time, it was the last living thing on Earth.

During World War II, Fenric released the Ancient One. Fenric's plan was that the Ancient One was to release the toxin which would pollute the world and thus create its own future.

The Haemovores had the ability to hypnotically paralyse their victims so they could feed and drain them of blood. Not all of their victims were turned into Haemovores, although the selection process was never explained. The Haemovores were impervious to most forms of attack, surviving being shot at close range by a sub-machine gun at one point. They could be destroyed in the traditional vampire-killing fashion of driving a stake through their chests. They could also be repelled by their victim's faith, which formed a psychic barrier, like the Doctor's faith in his companions, Ace's faith in the Doctor, Captain Sorin's faith in the Communist Revolution, and even the Reverend Wainwright's failing faith in God.

Ultimately, the Seventh Doctor convinced the Ancient One to turn against Fenric, and it released the toxin within a sealed chamber, destroying itself and Fenric's host. Whether this means that the future the Ancient One came from was averted is not clear, although the Doctor seemed to think so.

[Alan]

I ~ Internet - In the 2005 story Rose, future 9th Doctor companion Rose Tyler used the internet to search for information on the Doctor. She came across this website: http://whoisdoctorwho.co.uk/

[Guest]

J ~ Jagaroth - The Jagaroth are an ancient and extinct race of aliens introduced in the Fourth Doctor serial 'City of Death'. The Doctor remarked that the Jagaroth were “a vicious, callous, warlike race whom the universe won't miss.” The story reveals that life on earth moved from being amino acids in a primordial soup to functioning cells because a Jagaroth space ship exploded on earth 400 million years ago. (Due to an error by production, it should have been 4,000 million years, or 4 billion years ago.)

The sole surviving Jagaroth, Scaroth, manipulated human civilization to advance the species technologically, in an effort to eventually create a time machine which he could use to prevent the initial explosion.

[Alan]

K ~ K1 - In the 1974 Doctor Who story Robot, K1 was a robot designed in the 1970's by Professor Kettlewell to replace Humans in dangerous environments, but was subverted by a group of intellectuals known as the Scientific Reform Society who wanted to take power for themselves through the use of threatening to launch nuclear missiles. The group was defeated and the K1 robot was eventually destroyed by the 4th Doctor who used a metal eating virus on it.

In the Big Finish produced audio adventure The Relics of Jegg-Sau which is part of the Professor Bernice Summerfield series of spin-off audio stories from Doctor Who, Professor Kettlewell's robot design was resurrected in the 26th century and a whole army was built. They quickly went insane again but were eventually destroyed.

In both Robot and The Relics of Jegg-Sau, actor Michael Kilgarriff both played and voiced K1.

[Guest]

L ~ Lalla Ward - appeared in ten televised Doctor Who serials as Romana (second regeneration) - 'Destiny of the Daleks', 'City of Death', 'The Creature from the Pit', 'Nightmare of Eden', 'The Horns of Nimon', 'The Leisure Hive', 'Meglos', 'Full Circle', 'State of Decay' and 'Warriors' Gate'. She also appeared uncredited in 'Logopolis' and 'Resurrection of the Daleks' during flashback sequences.

One story that she worked on, 'Shada' was not completed due to a strike, and was never televised.

[Alan]

M ~ Moonbase, The - 1967 story starring Patrick Troughton as "The Doctor", Anneke Wills as "Polly Wright", Michael Craze as "Ben Jackson", & Frazer Hines as "Jamie McCrimmon". This story is the second appearance of the Cybermen and is the first of four encounters that the 2nd Doctor has with them.

In the year 2070, a mysterious virus is wrecking havoc among the crew of the Earth's weather control station on the moon. While investigations into the strange disease are in progress, International Space Headquarters Earth puts the entire Moonbase into strict quarantine - the Doctor, Ben, Polly and Jamie included!

To take matters worse, the personnel of the Moonbase inexplicably vanish, and vital weather control equipment is sabotaged. Who is responsible? The Director of the base suspects the time-travellers. But the Doctor fears a ruthless enemy from his own past responsible... that the evil Cybermen have returned...

[Guest]

N ~ 'Nightmare of Eden' - The TARDIS lands at the site of a hyperspatial collision between two spacecraft - as a result of which, neither ship is dimensionally stable, risking the lives of all those aboard. The Doctor, K-9 and Romana offer to help out. When a crewmember is found dead, his face lacerated by huge claws, it seems something deadly has been released by the accident. But how is the death linked to the discovery that the killer drug Vraxoin has been smuggled aboard? The answer could be the savage Mandrels, hideous swamp-creatures from the planet Eden, which soon tear through the corridors of the helpless spaceships...

[Alan]

O ~ Organ - Keyboard musical instrument which is usually played using both the hands and the feet. In the 1985 story Attack of the Cybermen, the Doctor repaired his TARDIS's Chameleon Circuit. Unfortunately it was very erratic (the Doctor claiming it was because "she was out of practice") and when the TARDIS materialised at a garage it was in the shape of a very conspicuous, fully functional Organ.

[Guest]

P ~ 'Planet of the Daleks' - The TARDIS materialises in a hostile jungle on the planet Spiridon. Jo sets out alone to find help for the Doctor, who has fallen into a coma. She meets a party of Thals and is left in hiding aboard their crashed spaceship while they go to the Doctor's aid. The Time Lord, now recovered, learns of their mission to destroy a party of Daleks sent here to discover the native Spiridons' secret of invisibility.

Another Thal spaceship crash-lands in the jungle, and the survivors bring news that somewhere on Spiridon there is an army of ten thousand Daleks. Jo meanwhile meets a friendly Spiridon named Wester, who cures a deadly fungus disease that she has contracted.

It transpires that the Daleks' army is frozen in suspended animation in a cavern below their base. The Doctor, with the help of the Thals, explodes a bomb in the cavern wall and thereby causes one of the planet's natural ice volcanoes to erupt, entombing the army in a torrent of liquid ice.

The newly-arrived Dalek Supreme and his aides are left stranded on Spiridon as the Thals steal their ship and the Doctor and Jo depart in the TARDIS.

[Alan]

Q ~ Question Marks - The 4th, 5th, and 6th Doctor's displayed Question Marks on their shirt collars. The 5th and 6th Doctor also wore them on their trouser braces. The 7th Doctor displayed them on his pullover and his umbrella's handle was also in the shape of a Question Mark.

The Question Marks made their first appearance on shirt collars in the 1980 story The Leisure Hive. The Question Mark braces first appeared in the 1984 story Planet of Fire. The 7th Doctor's Question Mark pullover first appeared in the 1987 story Time and the Rani and his Question Mark handled umbrella first appeared in the story Delta and the Bannermen.

OT: Oh, look at that! This post number of 1,981 is also my birth year.

[Guest]

R ~ 'Remembrance of the Daleks' - The TARDIS arrives in London in November 1963, where the Doctor and Ace discover that two rival factions of Daleks - one loyal to the Dalek Emperor and one to the Dalek Supreme - are seeking the Hand of Omega, a powerful Time Lord device that the first Doctor hid there during an earlier sojourn on Earth.

The Daleks are focusing their search around Coal Hill School - the school that the Doctor's grand-daughter Susan attended - while a military unit led by Group Captain Gilmore is attempting to resist their incursions.

The Doctor tries to keep Gilmore and his team out of harm's way while the two Dalek factions battle each other for control of the Hand. The imperial Daleks eventually overpower those led by the Dalek Supreme and capture the device.

The Dalek Emperor is revealed to be Davros, now with only the last vestiges of his humanoid form remaining. The Doctor begs him not to use the Hand, but is ignored. However, this is just the final ruse in a complex trap laid by the Time Lord to defeat his old adversaries.

The Hand vaporises the Dalek's home planet, Skaro, by turning its sun into a supernova, and then returns to destroy their forces orbiting Earth. The Doctor confronts the Dalek Supreme and causes it to self-destruct by convincing it that it is the sole surviving member of its race.