Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Guest]

V ~ Vampire - The Fourth Doctor encounters vampires whilst travelling in E-Space in the serial 'State of Decay' (1980). On a nameless planet, the Doctor, Romana, Adric and K-9 encounters three vampires, Aukon, Camilla and Zargo. It is revealed that the three are servants of the giant King Vampire, a member of the Great Vampires who once fought a great war against the Time Lords but were eventually defeated. By escaping to E-Space, the King Vampire was the sole surviving member of its race. The Doctor defeats the King Vampire by launching the lesser vampires' tower — actually the command module of the ship piloted by the originally human trio — and using it as a stake to pierce the giant vampire's heart. The three servant vampires perish along with their king.

[Kidwizz]

W ~ Whovien - A fan of Doctor Who and its spin-offs.

[Guest]

X ~ Xeraphin - The Xeraphin were an ancient species encountered by the Fifth Doctor in the story 'Time-Flight'. Originating from the planet Xeriphas, they possessed immense psychokinetic and scientific powers. The Doctor believed the race to have been wiped out during the crossfire during the Vardon/Kosnax war. Instead, the entire race fled to Earth in an escaping spacecraft. The ship crashed near present day Heathrow some 140 million years ago. When the Xeraphin emerged they built a Citadel to mark their new home but the Xeraphin were so plagued with radiation that they abandoned their original humanoid bodies and transformed into a single bioplasmic gestalt intelligence within a sarcophagus at the heart of the Citadel.

The arrival of the Master coincided with their emergence from the gestalt state when the radiation effects had subsided, and his influence caused the emergence of a split personality of good and evil, each side competing for their tremendous power while yearning to become a proper species once again. The Master, who was stranded on Earth at the time too, succeeded in capturing the Xeraphin as a new power source for his TARDIS. However, the Doctor's intervention meant his nemesis' TARDIS was sent to Xeriphas where events became out of his control.

Before fleeing Xeriphas and the Xeraphin, the Master took with him Kamelion, a Xeraphin war weapon with advanced shape-changing abilities dependent on the will of its controller. Kamelion was freed from the Master and joined the Doctor's TARDIS crew in "The King's Demons".

[Kidwizz]

Y ~ Yahoomer was an alien who was imprisoned on Justice Prime. He looked like an orange woolly mammoth with 4 trunks. He helped in foiling the Blathereen plan to use the Justicia system as a massive flame-thrower.

[Guest]

Z ~ Zarbi - appeared in the 1965 First Doctor story 'The Web Planet', and are an (ant-like) insectoid species, with some characteristics associated with beetles, from the planet Vortis, which were controlled by the power of the Animus. They are roughly eight feet long, and the Menoptra claim, perhaps a little callously, that they are "little more than cattle".

They possess little intelligence but were not at all aggressive until the Animus arrived. They were enslaved to the alien consciousness and considered the butterfly-like Menoptra (with which they once lived peacefully) their mortal enemies. Only they could control the woodlouse-like venom grubs (also known as larvae guns).

They returned to their normal ways after the Animus was defeated by the First Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Vicki. It is presumed that the various species on Vortis are now living peacefully together.

[Kidwizz]

A ~ Ark, The - The Ark was the sixth story of Season 3 of Doctor Who, and was first to take place in humanity's far future.

The Doctor and his companions Steven Taylor and Dodo Chaplet arrive some ten million years into the future, on board a generation starship which is carrying the last of humanity away from an Earth that is about to fall into the Sun. However, the cold that Dodo has could prove devastating to these future humans and their servants, the Monoids.

[Alan]

B ~ Benton, John - Military non-comissioned officer assigned to the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce. Benton first appeared as a Corporal in the 1968 story The Invasion. He next appeared in the 1970 story The Ambassadors of Death in which it is shown that he has been promoted to Sergeant.

Following the dismissal of UNIT's 2iC, Mike Yates, Benton was promoted to Warrant Officer Class 1 and given the position of 2iC and Regimental Sergeant Major in the 1974 story Robot. Benton's last appearance was in the 1975 story The Android Invasion. In the 1983 story Mawdryn Undead, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart revealed that Benton had left the military in 1976 and ran a second-hand car shop.

In the prologue of the novelization of the 1966 story, The Power of the Daleks (set during the concluding moments of the previous story The Tenth Planet), Benton had returned to the military and UNIT sometime prior to 1986 as he is a Commissioned Officer holding the rank of Lieutenant. Benton leads a team to Antarctica to clear up the mess left in the wake of the Cybermen's failed attempt to drain Earth of its energy.

John Benton was played by John Levene.

[The_Carpenter]

The Cruciform - Mentioned by the Master in The Sound of Drums as being a vital element of the timewar

[Kidwizz]

D ~ Dalek - The Daleks were an extraterrestrial race, primarily of mutated Kaleds from the planet Skaro. They travelled around in tank-like mechanical casings, a ruthless race bent on universal conquest and domination, utterly without pity, compassion or remorse. They were also, collectively, the greatest alien adversaries of the Time Lord known as the Doctor. Their most infamous catchphrase was "EX-TER-MIN-ATE!", with each syllable individually screeched in a frantic electronic voice. Other common utterances included "I (or WE) OBEY!" to any command given by a superior.

[Alan]

E ~ Eighth Doctor, The - His first and only on-screen appearance to date was the 1996 TV movie, Enemy Within. The 8th Doctor came into existence after the 7th Doctor was badly injured by bullets and an unnecessary medical operation which forced him to fake his death to escape from surgery and regenerate into his 8th incarnation to heal his injuries in the privacy of a morgue.

He was a Byronesque figure and is arguably the most human and romantic of all of his incarnations, and encouraged those around him to seize life instead of withdrawing from it. The 8th Doctor had the ability to see a person's destiny line and was able to give them advice to set their lives in the right direction.

Following the defeat of the Master in on Earth in San Francisco in 1999, the 8th Doctor began his travels through time and space. His adventures continued in book form and he travelled with many companions. They included Samantha "Sam" Jones, Stacy Townsend, Ssard (an Ice Warrior), Fitzgerald "Fitz" Kreiner, Compassion, Anji Kapoor, Beatrix "Trix" MacMillan, and Lucie Miller

In the book The Ancestor Cell, the 8th Doctor was forced to destroy Gallifrey to stop the planet and its technology from falling into the hands of a time travelling cult known as Faction Paradox. The Doctor's memory was erased as a result he was left on Earth in 1889 by his companions in the book The Burning. In the book, Escape Velocity, after over 100-years in exile, the 8th Doctor recovered and rejoined his companions (who had travelled forwards in time to meet up with him).

The 8th Doctor was able to restore Gallifrey and its inhabitants at some point after the final 8th Doctor Adventure book The Gallifrey Chronicles.

It is unknown how the 8th Doctor met his end and regenerated into the 9th Doctor but it is possible that it was during the Time Lords' Time War with the Daleks.

The 8th Doctor was played by Paul McGann. McGann continues to voice the character in Big Finishes' Audio Doctor Who adventures.

[The_Carpenter]

Futurekind The Futurekind are a barbaric humanoid race with pointed teeth and primitive language skills, who appear in the 2007 episode "Utopia", set in the year 100 trillion when the universe is coming to an end. The human survivors describe the Futurekind as what they may become if they do not reach 'Utopia'. The Futurekind are seen to be aggressive towards normal humans, hunting any they find.

[Guest]

G ~ Grant, Josephine - Josephine Grant (or Jo for short) was a member of UNIT and companion to the 3rd Doctor. She made her first appearance in the 1971 story Terror of the Autons. In the 1973 story The Three Doctors, Jo met the 2nd and 1st Doctor's. Jo made her last appearance several stories later in The Green Death in which she agreed to marry a scientist named Professor Clifford Jones and travel with him to the Amazon. Jo Grant was played by Katy Manning.

[Alan]

H ~ Holloway, Grace - Grace Holloway comes from the year 1999 and is a doctor who worked as a Cardiologist at a hospital in San Francisco. She made her first and only appearance in the 1996 TV movie, Enemy Within.

After the 7th Doctor was gunned down and taken to hospital, Grace was called in to work on what her colleagues believed to be a problem with his heart. Unaware of his alien physiology, Grace accidentally the Doctor when she attempts to operate. He subsequently regenerates into the 8th Doctor, and involves Grace in his fight to prevent the Master from opening the Eye of Harmony and destroying the Earth at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Day, 2000. At the end, the Doctor offers to take Grace along with him in the TARDIS, but Grace declines, preferring to stay behind and apply the lessons she has learned from him.

Grace Holloway was played by Daphne Ashbrook.

[Billz]

I ~ Ianto Jones
Ianto Jones acts as Torchwood Three's "general support officer". His job entails manning the reception desk in the Information Centre that acts as a cover, administering the computer systems, serving coffee and tea, receiving reports and cleaning up loose ends – such as covering up deaths and destroying information that could trigger "retconned" memories. While he primarily functions as an administrator for the team's headquarters, Ianto does, and is fully able to, accompany the team on investigations.

[Kidwizz]

J ~ Jianto - The word givin to the jack/ianto slash.