Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Alan]

I ~ Ice Warriors - Name given to the intelligent humanoid alien reptiles from the planet Mars.

They first appeared in the 1967 story The Ice Warriors (Featuring the 2nd Doctor). Subsequently they went on to appear in the 1969 story The Seeds of Death (Also featuring the 2nd Doctor), the 1972 story The Curse of Peladon (Featuring the 3rd Doctor) and it's direct sequel The Monster of Peladon (Also featuring the 3rd Doctor) in 1974.

The 8th Doctor's companion Ssard was an Ice Warrior. He featured in the comic strip adventures that featured in the Radio Times.

Ice Warriors have also appeared in several novels:

• Mission to Magnus (Featuring the 6th Doctor)
  
• Legacy (Featuring the 7th Doctor)
  
• GodEngine (Featuring the 7th Doctor)
  
• The Dying Days (Featuring the 8th Doctor)

And in audio adventures:

• Red Dawn (Featuring the 5th Doctor)
  
• The Bride of Peladon (Featuring the 5th Doctor)
  
• Frozen Time (Featuring the 7th Doctor)
  
• The Dance of the Dead (Featuring Professor Bernice Summerfield)

[Guest]

J ~ Jethrik - An extremely valuable mineral. A small piece can power an entire fleet of battleships. One of the pieces of The Key to Time was disguised as a lump of Jethrik in 'The Ribos Operation'.

[Alan]

K ~ K-9 - Android roughly looking like a Dog. K-9 was a product of 51st century and was built by Professor Marius. K-9 went on to join the 4th Doctor and Leela aboard the TARDIS at the conclusion of the 1977 story, The Invisible Enemy. K-9 later left the TARDIS to remain on Gallifrey to look after Leela at the conclusion of the 1978 story The Invasion of Time.

The 4th Doctor constructed K-9 Mk. II and this unit first appeared in the 1978 story The Ribos Operation. The Doctor left K-9 Mk. II in E-Space with his companion Romana so as to be restored to full functioning order after being damaged by Time Winds in the 1980 story Warriors' Gate. K-9 Mk. II later returned to Gallifrey with Romana.

The 4th Doctor then constructed K-9 Mk. III. He travelled with the Doctor and his companion Adric for a period between The Keeper of Traken and Logopolis. In the 1981 one-off special K-9 and Company, the Doctor gave K-9 Mk. III as a present to his former companion, Sarah Jane Smith and he helped her with her investigations. K-9 Mk. III next appeared in the 1983 TV movie The Five Doctors in which he tried to warn Sarah Jane not to go out due to danger involving the Doctor. K-9 Mk. III then appeared in the 2006 story School Reunion in which he was initially shutdown before being restored by the 10th Doctor. K-9 Mk. III sacrificed himself to stop the Krilitane and their attempts to crack a code that would have enabled them to shape the universe anyway they wanted to.

Following the loss of K-9 Mk. III, the Doctor built K-9 Mk. IV and once again left him as a present for Sarah. K-9 Mk. IV next appeared in The Sarah Jane Adventures' 2007 New Year's Day TV movie Invasion of the Bane in which he was attempting to seal a Black Hole. His last appearance to date was in The Sarah Jane Adventures Series 1 finale The Lost Boy in which Sarah called upon him to fight and defeat her turned bad computer, Mr. Smith. K-9 Mk. III won the battle and returned to sealing the Black Hole.

A new model of K-9 is due to appear in the new spin-off series K-9 which is currently in pre-production. No air date has been announced as yet.

K-9 was voiced by John Leeson and briefly by the late-David Brierley.

[Kidwizz]

L ~ Limbo - Limbo was like a white Void. The Trickster and his Graske had access to Limbo, and could materialize and dematerialize in and out at will.

The Trickster had sent Sarah Jane Smith to Limbo when she was removed from time. Maria Jackson was also sent here. SJA: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?

[Alan]

M~Monk, The - The Monk is a renegade Time Lord and possessor of a Mark IV TARDIS (a more advanced version of the Doctor's Type 40). Other than the Doctor and Susan, the Monk was the first member of the Doctor's race to appear, and the second villain (after the Daleks) to make a return appearance.

The 1st Doctor first encountered the Monk in the year 1066 in which he was attempting to alter a pivotal moment in British history. The Doctor and his companions Vicki Pallister and Steven Taylor defeated the Monk's plans. The Doctor also sabotaged the Monk's TARDIS and left him stranded in the 11th century (DW: The Time Meddler (1965)).

The Monk managed to repair his TARDIS and set after the Doctor. They both met again first on the planet Tigus and then straight after back on Earth in Ancient Egypt. The Monk allied himself with the Daleks who were also after the Doctor and his companions Steven Taylor and Sara Kingdom after they stole the core of their new weapon, the Time Destructor. The Doctor evaded both the Monk and the Daleks and left Ancient Egypt...but not before sabotaging the Monk's TARDIS again by first altering his Chameleon Circuit to change it into a Police Box to trick the Daleks and then stealing his directional unit. The Monk was last seen in an cold, icy wilderness (DW: The Daleks' Master Plan (1966)).

The Monk hasn't been seen again since but it is highly possible that he was recruited by the Time Lords to fight in the Time War with the Daleks and was killed when Gallifrey was destroyed.

The Monk was played by the late Peter Butterworth.

[Guest]

N ~ Nestene - The Nestenes are among the oldest beings in the Doctor Who universe, described as creatures which existed in the "Dark Times", along with the Racnoss, Great Vampires and Carrionites. Eventually, they sought to invade the Earth, 'Spearhead from Space', using more human-looking Autons to replace key government figures, although these plans were thwarted by UNIT with the help of the Doctor, who also destroyed their invasion form, a multi-tentacled cephalopod.

The Nestenes subsequently returned in the first serial of Pertwee's second year as the Doctor, 'Terror of the Autons', which also featured the introduction of the Master. In this attempt, the Nestenes also made use of more mundane objects, animating plastic toys, inflatable chairs and artificial flowers in addition to their Auton servants. The Doctor convinced the Master that the Nestenes were too dangerous to be reliable allies, and they reversed the radio beam the invasion force was coming in on, sending it back into space.

In 'Rose', it was revealed that the Nestenes lost their food supply in a war when their protein planets rotted. Their intent was to overthrow and destroy the human race, as Earth was ideal for their consumption needs, being filled with smoke, oil and various pollutants. The Doctor eventually defeated them when a vial of his "anti-plastic" solution spilled into the vat of molten plastic which housed the main bulk of the Consciousness, causing it to explode.

'Rose' also featured an Auton facsimile that could change the shape of its features and limbs, and established that the Nestenes animate the Autons by means of telepathic projection. When duplicated, the originals are kept alive to maintain the copy. It is not yet clear if the war mentioned was also the motivation behind their earlier invasions or a recent development, but it is likely to be the same war as the Time War that is mentioned in subsequent episodes of the new series.

[Alan]

O ~ Out of Time - Tenth episode from the 1st series of Torchwood.

Synopsis
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When a plane from 1953 makes an unexpected landing in present-day Cardiff, its three passengers are shocked to learn that they can never go back to their own time. Torchwood help them settle in contemporary society, but this simple task has painful emotional consequences.

[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.

[Billz]

Q ~ Quillam
Character from the Colin Baker story "Vengeance on Varos" (1985), awarded Doctor Who's campest line - "I want to hear you scream until I'm deaf with pleasure!" Hurrah!

[Guest]

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.

[Alan]

S ~ Sontaran Stratagem, The - 2008 story starring David Tennant as "The Doctor", Catherine Tate as "Donna Noble", & Freema Agyeman as "Dr. Martha Jones".

The story features the return of former companion Martha Jones, as well as the return of the alien Sontarans to the series. This is the Sontarans' first appearance since the 1985 story The Two Doctors.

Synopsis
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Just as the Doctor's getting to know his new companion, Donna, old friend Martha summons him to Earth. Following her adventures with Torchwood, she's back with UNIT, who are facing a threat from one of the Doctor's old enemies. What exactly are the devices being manufactured at the mysterious ATMOS factory? Can Donna save her family from the danger they face? And how will she get on with Martha…?

[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.

[Alan]

U ~ Utopia - 2007 story starring David Tennant as "The Doctor", Freema Agyeman as "Martha Jones", & John Barrowman as "Captain Jack Harkness".

This story serves as the prologue to the 2-part finale that followed. It marks the return of former companion Captain Jack Harkness and the return of the renegade Time Lord, the Master. This is the Master's first appearance since the 1996 TV movie, Enemy Within.

Synopsis
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As Captain Jack stows his way back into the Doctor's life, the TARDIS lands at the end of the universe where an ailing Professor works to save his people. But as the last of the human race sets out to their dream homeland, the vicious Futurekind threaten to scuttle the rocket and a great evil is revealed.

[Kidwizz]

V ~ Vitex

Vitex was a health drink developed by Pete Tyler. Though nothing came from it in the main Universe, in a parallel world it became extremely successful and made Pete a millionaire.

I bring it back alive once again! haha

[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.