Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Alan]

L ~ Logopolis - 1981 story starring Tom Baker as "The Doctor", Matthew Waterhouse as "Adric", Sarah Sutton as "Nyssa", Janet Fielding as "Tegan Jovanka", and introducing Peter Davison as "The Doctor".

Synopsis
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The Doctor goes to Logopolis to repair the TARDIS's Chameleon Circuit, but his old enemy the Master has plans of his own for the planet of mathematicians, a plan that could spell doom for the universe.

[Lilith]

M~Myfanwy: the name given by the cast and crew to the Pterodactyl that lives in the Torchwood Hub, tho she is never called that on screen

[Alan]

N ~ Nanogenes - Nanogenes are small, microscopic robots that are used as a medical tool. In the 2005 story The Empty Child, Captain Jack Harkness opened up a Chula Warship on Earth in 1941 and unknowingly unleashed Nanogenes. They came across the body of a dead boy and with no knowledge of human anatomy, repaired him but with the Gas Mask as the actual face. Believing this was how all humans were supposed to be, the Nanogenes began "repairing" all humans. Luckily the Doctor, Captain Jack, and Rose were able to stop the Nanogenes and restore all the Gas Masked people to their normal state.

[Guest]

O ~ Opera Glasses - These are a small set of binoculars that the Doctor carries with him in '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.

[Alan]

P ~ Planet of the Daleks - 1973 story starring Jon Pertwee as "The Doctor" and Katy Manning as "Jo Grant".

Synopsis
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The Doctor brings the TARDIS to the planet Spiridon, which hides deadly secrets: carnivorous plants, a planetary core of molten ice, invisible inhabitants, and most frightening of all, an army of Daleks, ready to sweep across the galaxy.

[Guest]

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'.

[Alan]

R ~ Rise of the Cybermen - 2006 story starring David Tennant as "The Doctor", Billie Piper as "Rose Tyler", and Noel Clarke as "Mickey Smith / Ricky Smith".

Synopsis
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After the TARDIS makes a crash landing on the Earth of another universe, Rose discovers her father is alive and rich, Mickey encounters his alternative self, and the Doctor learns one of his oldest and deadliest foes is about to be reborn.

[Guest]

S ~ S'rax - The S'rax were Morgaine's forces, for she was their Battlequeen. They were knights with advanced, technological weapons. Guided by Morgaine's powers, they were also able to travel form their home dimension, the Thirteen Worlds, to ours, appeared in 'Battlefield'.

[Alan]

T ~ Trial of a Time Lord, The - 1986 story starring Colin Baker as "The Doctor", with Nicola Bryant as "Peri Brown", and Bonnie Langford as "Mel Bush".

Synopsis
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The TARDIS has been taken out of time and the Doctor has been brought before a court of his fellow Time Lords. There the sinister Valeyard accuses the Doctor of breaking Gallifrey’s most important law and interfering in the affairs of other planets.

If the Valeyard can prove him guilty, the Doctor must sacrifice his remaining regenerations.

[Alan]

*Bump* This game seems to have fallen to the wayside. Is anyone bothered about continuing this starting from U (the post above this is T)?

[Guest]

U ~ 'Unquiet Dead, The' - 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.

[Alan]

V ~ Valeyard, The - (The Valeyard appeared in all four stories the 1986 season of Doctor Who, collectively known as The Trial of a Time Lord. The Valeyard was an entity created between the Doctor's "twelfth and final regenerations", perhaps the essence of the Doctor's dark side from that time.

The Valeyard served as the prosecutor during the trial of the Doctor. He presented extracts from the Matrix depicting past events in the Doctor's life as evidence of the Doctor violating the non-interference policy of the Time Lords. Later in the trial he added a charge of genocide against the Vervoids. The Valeyard had secretly tampered with the Matrix extracts to show the Doctor in the worst possible light and steer the trial to a guilty verdict. The Valeyard was acting on behalf of the High Council to cover up the Ravolox affair. As payment, the Valeyard was to have received the Doctor's remaining regenerations. It was The Master who stepped in and revealed the Valeyard's true origins.

The Valeyard escaped into the Matrix via the Seventh Door, which he opens using a copy of the Key of Rassilon. He is pursued and finally defeated by the Doctor when an explosion the Valeyard had intended to destroy the court is fed back into the Matrix due to the Doctor's tampering. However, as the Inquisitor dismissed the trial and the Doctor and his companion departed, the Valeyard was also present, disguised as the Keeper of the Matrix.)

[Guest]

W ~ 'Web Planet, The' - 1965 story starring William Hartnell as "The Doctor".

The TARDIS is pulled off course by a mysterious force and trapped on the barren, desolate low-oxygen world of Vortis in the Isop galaxy. The Doctor, Barbara, Ian and Vicki are soon swept up in the struggles of the butterfly-like Menoptra, the original denizens of Vortis who were forced to flee the planet for the moon Pictos to escape the encroaching web of the Animus and its mind-controlled minions, the ant-like Zarbi and their living weapons, the Venom Grubs. With assistance from the caterpillar-like Optera, the devolved descendants of the planet's original inhabitants, the TARDIS crew and the Menoptra are able to destroy the Animus at the center of its web complex with the secret Menoptra weapon, the isotope-powered living cell destructor.

[Alan]

X ~ X-Ray - (In the 1970 story, Spearhead from Space, an X-Ray scan of the newly regenerated 3rd Doctor revealed the alien physiology of a Gallifreyan in the form of a binary vascular system (i.e. two hearts). In the 1996 tv movie Enemy Within, the injured 7th Doctor was X-Rayed but the medics believed the them to be wrong and performed unnecessary heart surgery on him which led to his "death". In the 2005 story Dalek, the 9th Doctor was subjected to an alien X-Ray type of device by Henry Van Statten which also proved to be very painful. In the 2007 story Smith and Jones, the 10th Doctor modified an X-Ray machine using his Sonic Screwdriver to destroy a Slab (servant to a Plasmavore hiding on Earth by the name of Florence Finnegan).)

[Guest]

Y ~ Yeti - The Yeti although resembling the cryptozoological creatures also called the Yeti, are in actuality alien robots. Their external appearance, that of a huge hairy biped, disguises a small spherical mechanism that provides its motive power. The Yeti serve the Great Intelligence, a disembodied entity from another planet, which tried to form a physical body in order to conquer the Earth. The Yeti are initially a ruse to scare off curiosity seekers, and later form an army serving the Great Intelligence.

The Great Intelligence and its Yeti minions were thwarted twice by the Doctor's second incarnation, played by Patrick Troughton, in the serials 'The Abominable Snowmen' and 'The Web of Fear'. A Yeti was also one of the creatures in the Death Zone featured in 'The Five Doctors'.