Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Guest]

K ~ Keeper of Traken, The - The Fourth Doctor and Adric visit the peaceful and tranquil planet of Traken which is disrupted by the arrival of a Melkur. With the death of the current Keeper, the Doctor must prevent the powers falling into the hands of an old enemy.

[Kidwizz]

L ~ Love's Labour's Won - Love's labour's Won was a sequel to Love's Labour's Lost, written by William Shakespeare under the influence of the Carrionites. The words of the play designed to free the Carrionites from their prison. Most evidence of the play was lost. (The Shakespeare Code)

[Alan]

M ~ Mind Robber, The - 1968 story starring Patrick Troughton as "The Doctor", Frazer Hines as "Jamie McCrimmon", and Wendy Padbury as "Zoe Heriot".

The Doctor and his companions Jamie and Zoe are taken out of normal time and space and transported via a white void where the TARDIS is seemingly destroyed, to the Land of Fiction, where literary characters come alive.

[Guest]

N ~ Nitro-9 - An explosive substance created and used by Ace ...often carried around in her backpack in aerosol spray cans, despite the Doctor's warnings.

[Alan]

O ~ Opera Glasses - These are a small set of binoculars that the Doctor carries with him in the 2005 story The Empty Child, as well as in the novel The Nightmare of Black Island. In the latter, he uses them to gain a closer view of Ynis Du's lighthouse. The actual origin of the glasses are unknown; however, the fact that they are described as having "computer-enhanced lenses" suggests that they are a product of some future time.

[Guest]

P ~ Paradox Machine - Designed by the Master in "The Sound of Drums", the device is constructed from the Doctor's TARDIS, centred around the main console with several large pipes leading into it, installed on the airborne aircraft carrier Valiant. The paradox machine uses the power of the TARDIS to prevent the universe from collapsing under the inherent logical contradiction of a grandfather paradox when the Toclafane kill their ancestors, modern day humans. When destroyed, it has the effect of reversing time up to the point immediately before it was originally activated. However, those in proximity to the device are immune to this effect by virtue of being in the "eye of the storm", the radius of which is at least sufficient to encompass the Valiant. It is destroyed by Jack Harkness who shoots it with a machine gun.

[Alan]

Q ~ Quinnis - Quinnis is a planet that the 1st Doctor and his granddaughter Susan Foreman visited. The planet was mentioned by Susan in the 1964 story The Edge of Destruction.

[Kidwizz]

Q ~ Quarks - Quarks were originally the robot servants of the Dominators. The Doctor and his companions encountered some of them on Dulkis

[Billz]

R ~ Raxacoricofallapatorius
First mentioned in "World War Three", is the home planet of the Raxacoricofallapatorians, including the criminal Slitheen and Blathereen families, aliens made of living calcium. Other family of the planet are the Hosdraseen Family and the Hostrotheen Family. According to the book Monsters and Villains, Raxacoricofallapatorius is a paradise with burgundy seas and four polar regions. It is filled with several indigenous species. A creature native to the planet, known as a Barladootkaliumpetekshus Beast, is said to be an extinct species of native giant squirrel that roamed free and lived on the great plains of the planet. It became extinct after the natives hunted and killed them for food centuries ago. The Slitheen and Blathereen notwithstanding, the native species, the Raxacoricofallapatorians, are a generally peaceful race. They are governed by a High Council and a Senate. Raxacoricofallapatorians have limited technology, albeit highly advanced by Earth standards. Its sister planet is Clom. Interestingly, the subtitles for every DVD in which it is mentioned contains the spelling "Rexicoricophallivatorius." The name, while pronounced effortlessly by the Doctor, gives the other characters in the episodes where it is mentioned enormous trouble to say.

[Alan]

S ~ Sato, Toshiko "Tosh" - Toshiko Sato made her first appearance in the 2005 Doctor Who story Aliens of London (set in the year 2006) in which she conducts a study of an alien space pig. It was later revealed in the Torchwood Series 2 finale episode Exit Wounds, that Tosh was actually undercover for Torchwood (plus covering for her colleague Dr. Owen Harper).

Tosh's next appearance was in the Torchwood Series 1 première episode Everything Changes in which it is shown she works at Torchwood Three in Cardiff as the Technical Specialist.

In the Series 2 penultimate episode Fragments, it was shown that Tosh used to work for the Ministry of Defence. In 2004, Tosh was forced to steal the design plans for a sonic modulator, trading the finished design and prototype to an unnamed terrorist organisation in exchange for the freedom of her kidnapped mother. Tosh was captured by UNIT and imprisoned with an indefinite sentence and suspended human rights. She is later given a chance to escape captivity by Captain Jack Harkness, in exchange for working for him as part of Torchwood Three for a minimum period of five years.

In the Series 2 finale episode Exit Wounds, Toshiko Sato was shot and killed by Jack's younger brother Gray whilst helping Owen shut down a nuclear reactor before going critical.

By initiating the final log-off procedure for her account on the Torchwood computer system, Ianto Jones activates a pre-recorded message from Toshiko, in which she thanks Jack for saving her. She tells him that she is grateful for the opportunity to work in Torchwood and see all the wonders she'd seen, and that she loves them all.

[Chris3123]

T ~ Terror of the Autons - The Nestene energy sphere left over from the earlier Auton invasion is stolen, and the Third Doctor is warned that the Master has arrived on Earth. The Master has allied himself with the Nestene Consciousness in its latest bid for world conquest.

[Alan]

U ~ Unquiet Dead, The - 2005 story starring Christopher Eccleston as "The Doctor" and Billie Piper as "Rose Tyler". This story marks the first appearance of the Cardiff Rift. The Rift would reappear in the story Boom Town and the 2007 story Utopia, and is a direct or indirect element in many of the alien encounters in the spin-off series Torchwood, set in Cardiff.

The Doctor and Rose arrive in Cardiff on Christmas Eve, 1869 and discover that something is making the dead come back to life. The time travellers team up with a world-weary Charles Dickens to investigate Gabriel Sneed, the local undertaker and his servant girl Gwyneth — and come face to face with the ghostly Gelth.

[Guest]

V ~ Virtual reality helmets - These are interface devices capable of digital entry into a computer system. Owen Harper used one of these in the novel 'Another Life' to enter the MMOG game "Second Reality".

[Alan]

W ~ Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane? - Penultimate story of Series 1 of the Doctor Who spin-off series, The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Maria Jackson wakes up one morning to find that seemingly no one has heard of Sarah Jane Smith or her adopted son, Luke.

[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.