Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Guest]

G ~ Great Fire of London, The - Historical event that took place in 1666. In the 1982 story 'The Visitation', it was revealed that the start of the fire was caused by the accidental activation of the self-destruct sequence of a weapon carried by an alien race called the Terileptils.

[Alan]

H ~ Hartnell, William - Actor. William Hartnell played the 1st incarnation of "The Doctor". He was in the role from 1963 until 1966 but returned to guest star in the 1973 story The Three Doctors in which he appeared alongside his successors Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee.

[Guest]

I ~ Ian Chesterton - (Played by William Russell).

Ian Chesterton Travelled with the Doctor between 'An Unearthly Child' and 'The Chase'.

A teacher at Coal Hill School, Ian encountered the Doctor when he visited the home of one of his pupils, Susan Foreman, with his colleague, Barbara Wright. Fearing that the teachers would reveal his secret, Susan's "Grandfather" the Doctor kidnapped them, beginning a series of exciting adventures.

Ian's speciality was science, but his skills as a diplomat were also useful. He was often called upon to play peacemaker, and many times saved the lives of his fellow travellers. His often stormy relationship with the cantankerous Time Lord ended when he and Barbara finally returned to Earth in an abandoned Dalek time capsule.

[Alan]

J ~ Jovanka, Tegan - Tegan Jovanka originally came from the year 1981. She was an Australian airline stewardess and a native of Brisbane who was a companion of the 4th and 5th Doctors.

Tegan first appears in the 1981 story, Logopolis. On her way to Heathrow Airport to start her new job with Air Australia, her car suffers a flat tire. She enters a roadside police box to seek help, not knowing that it is actually the Doctor's disguised TARDIS. She is present when the 4th Doctor falls from the Pharos Project radio telescope and regenerates into his fifth incarnation, and continues to journey with the Doctor and his other companions.

After being left behind in Heathrow due to a misunderstanding at the end of the 1982 story Time-Flight she returns to the TARDIS in the subsequent story Arc of Infinity.

Eventually, the carnage surrounding the events of the story Resurrection of the Daleks prove too much and she bids an emotional good-bye to the Doctor and Vislor Turlough in 1984 London.

In the Big Finish Audio Adventure, The Gathering, Tegan meets the 5th Doctor again some 22-years after leaving him and she is terminally ill. She says she has no regrets about her time with the Doctor and is now going to live however much of her life she has left to the fullest extent possible.

Tegan Jovanka was played by Janet Fielding.

[Guest]

K ~ K-9 - Dog shaped robot/mobile computer that originated in the year 5000 which was created by Professor Marius and went on to become companion to the 4th Doctor and companion to Sarah Jane Smith. The first K-9 model first appeared in 'The Invisible Enemy' and joined the Doctor and his companion Leela on-board the TARDIS. K-9 Mk. I left the TARDIS to remain on Gallifrey to look after Leela who had decided to stay behind after falling in love in 'The Invasion of Time'.

The Doctor built a second K-9 and he first appeared in the following story, 'The Ribos Operation'. K-9 Mk. II was badly damaged by Time Winds and was forced to stay in E-Space with Romana in 'Warriors' Gate' where he could be restored to full functioning order.

[Alan]

L ~ Langford, Bonnie - Actress. Bonnie Langford played companion "Melanie 'Mel' Bush" alongside Colin Baker's 6th Doctor and later alongside Sylvester McCoy's 7th Doctor. She made her first appearance on Doctor Who in 1986 in the section of The Trial of a Time Lord season called Terror of the Vervoids (Parts 9 - 12).

She departed the program in the 1987 story Dragonfire but in 1999 she returned to voice "'Mel' Bush" in Big Finishes Doctor Who Audio Adventures in which she has been reunited with either Colin Baker or Sylvester McCoy.

[Guest]

M ~ Macra - The Macra first appear in the 1967 Second Doctor story 'The Macra Terror'. They are an intelligent, giant crab-like species from an unnamed planet colonised by humanity in the future. The Macra invade the control centre of the colony and seize the levers of power without the colonists — including their Pilot — knowing what had happened. Thereafter the Macra only appear at night, when the humans are in their quarters, observing a curfew. They have strong hypnotic powers which alter human perception.

The Second Doctor effects a revolution on the Macra planet and helps engineer an explosion in the control centre, destroying the Macra in charge.

The Macra also feature in the 2007 episode 'Gridlock', becoming the only one-off opponent of the Doctor in the classic series to appear in the revived series so far. In the episode, some Macra are found to be alive below New New York, a city of New Earth.

[Alan]

N ~ Nyssa - Nyssa is an aristocratic native of Traken, the daughter of Tremas (a consul of the Traken Union) and stepdaughter of Kassia. She first appeared in the 1981 story The Keeper of Traken in which she aids the 4th Doctor in defeating the renegade Time Lord known as the Master who briefly wrests control of the Keepership by first manipulating and then murdering her stepmother. Following his defeat the Master kills and takes control of her father's body to renew his decaying body.

In the following story Logopolis, Nyssa is taken to the planet Logopolis by a mysterious white figure known as the Watcher to search for her missing father. She witnesses Traken's destruction following the Master's tampering with the Logopolitan's formulae leaving her as the sole survivor of her race. Following the Master's defeat again, Nyssa subsequently joins Adric and Tegan Jovanka as a companion and member of the TARDIS crew, and witnesses the 4th Doctor's regeneration into the 5th Doctor.

Nyssa made her last appearance in the 1983 story Terminus. She decides to remain on the space station Terminus in order to help free the enslaved guards and turn the station into a real hospital.

Nyssa was played by Sarah Sutton.

[Guest]

O ~ Ogron - First appeared in 'Day of the Daleks' and were also featured in the serials 'Carnival of Monsters' and 'Frontier in Space'. Ogrons are low-intelligence, ape-like hominids who live in scattered communities on an unnamed planet on the outer fringes of the Milky Way, far from the central spaceways. The dominant lifeform on their home planet is a giant slug-like lizard named the Eater, and the Ogrons both pray to and are preyed on by it.

Ogrons are hired mercenaries. Those who have employed their services include the Master and the Daleks. On some human planets, Ogrons are employed as police officers, usually led by a mentally augmented leader.

[Alan]

P ~ Pallister, Vicki - Vicki Pallister was companion to the 1st Doctor. She was born in the year 2474 in the city of New London, on Earth.

Vicki made her first appearance in the 1964 story The Rescue. In the year 2493, she and one other member of a spaceship crew were the sole survivors of a crash on the planet Dido. The Doctor allowed her to travel with him, Barbara, and Ian as part of the TARDIS crew.

Vicki left the TARDIS in the 1965 story The Myth Makers. Vicki falls in love with a man named Troilus and so decides to leave the TARDIS to remain in the year 1184 BC, take the name Cressida and help rebuild Troy.

Vicki Pallister was played by Maureen O'Brien.

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Q ~ Quarshie, Hugh - Hugh Quarshie (born 1954) played Solomon in 'Daleks in Manhattan' and 'Evolution of the Daleks'. Outside of Doctor Who, he is perhaps best known for playing Captain Panaka in 'Star Wars: The Phantom Menace'.

[Kidwizz]

R ~ Rani, The - The Rani is a renegade Time Lady, an evil scientific genius whose villainy comes not from the usual variety of lust for power and suchlike, but from a mindset that treats everything (including morality) as secondary to her research; she has been known to enslave entire planets such as Miasimia Goria in order to have a ready supply of experimental subjects and a place to carry out her experiments uninterrupted. Her major interest is in tinkering with other species' biochemistry — she was exiled from Gallifrey after some of her lab mice, as a result of an experiment, grew to enormous size and ate the President's pet cat. A past relationship between the Rani and the Doctor is hinted at, but never elaborated upon. It is established they are the same age.

[Billz]

S ~ Sontarans
The Sontarans made their first appearance in 1973 in the serial The Time Warrior by Robert Holmes. There, it was explained that they are a race that reproduces by means of cloning rather than by means of sexual reproduction. They live in a militaristic society obsessed by war. Sontarans are humanoid, with a squat build and distinctive dome-shaped head. They come from a high-gravity world named Sontar in the "southern spiral arm of the galaxy", and are far stronger than humans.

[Guest]

T ~ Time Lords - The Time Lords are a group of humanoids, originating on the planet Gallifrey. The female members of this group, such as Romana, are sometimes called Time Ladies. Time Lords are so called because they are able to travel in and manipulate time through technology to a far greater degree than any other civilization.

[Kidwizz]

U ~ Unearthly Child, An - An Unearthly Child was the first televised story of Doctor Who. It premiered on Saturday, 23 November, 1963 and first introduced viewers to the Doctor, played by William Hartnell, and his fantastic machine, the TARDIS.