Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Guest]

M ~ Melkur - In 'The Keeper of Traken', Melkurs are evil beings turned into statues when they arrive on the planet Traken. The statue featured in the serial is revealed to be The Master's TARDIS.

[Alan]

N ~ Nightmare of Eden - 1979 story starring Tom Baker as "The Doctor", Lalla Ward as "Romana", and David Brierly as "K-9".

Synopsis
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The TARDIS lands at the site of a hyperspatial collision between two spacecraft, the Empress and the Hecate. As a result, neither ship is dimensionally stable, risking the lives of all those aboard. The Doctor, K-9, and Romana offer to help out.

When a crewmember is found dead, his face lacerated by huge claws, it seems something deadly has been released by the accident. But how is the death linked to the discovery that the killer drug Vraxoin has been smuggled aboard - and where has the supply come from?

The Doctor soon realises that the aliens stored in a projection machine may hold the answers - and that the cages holding these specimens are anything but secure as the savage Mandrels, hideous swamp-creatures from the planet Eden, tear through the corridors of the helpless spaceships...

[Guest]

O ~ Om-Com - A communications system used by Jack Harkness and the revived Jamie in 'The Empty Child' / 'The Doctor Dances'. It allows anyone to communicate with anything that possesses a speaker grille, even if the device being used is inoperable, or not even capable for such a function (such as phone in TARDIS or a talking toy).

[Alan]

P ~ Professor - Professor was the nickname given to the 7th Doctor by his companion Ace.

[Guest]

Q ~ Quantum Accelerator - A TARDIS component, one of the items exchanged between the Master and the Doctor in 'Time Flight'.

[Alan]

R ~ Randomiser - Device the Doctor fitted to the TARDIS Console after defeating the Black Guardian after the Key to Time quest was completed in the 1979 story The Armageddon Factor. The Randomiser made navigating the TARDIS difficult if not impossible. More often than not the Doctor did not know where he was going to be landing and, more importantly, the Black Guardian did not know where the Doctor would be either. In the 1980 story The Leisure Hive, events led to the Doctor removing the Randomiser and he decided to leave it on the planet Argolis.

[Guest]

S ~ Sash of Rassilon - A control device for the Eye of Harmony, it is used to protect the wearer from the Eye's gravitational and energy forces.

[Alan]

T ~ Time Crash - 2007 mini-story starring David Tennant as "The Doctor". Guest starring Peter Davison as "The Doctor".

Synopsis
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The 10th Doctor accidentally pilots his TARDIS into the path of the 5th Doctor's TARDIS--which threatens to rip a hole in space and time the size of Belgium!

[Alan]

Is this game dead again? Shall we call it quits?

[Guest]

U ~ Untempered Schism - A gap in the fabric of reality, the Untempered Schism allows one to look directly into the Time Vortex. It is depicted as a stonework portal through which one sees the Time Vortex unaided. Gallifreyan children are taken to the Schism at the age of eight and made to face the Schism as a form of initiation into the Time Lord Academy. According to Tenth Doctor, Gallifreyan children who look into the time vortex through the Untempered Schism were either inspired, ran away, or went mad. In a flashback during 'The Sound of Drums', the Master is seen looking into the Schism as a child, an event that Tenth Doctor describes as the moment the Master went mad. The Doctor says he himself was one of those who "ran away, and never stopped".

[Alan]

V ~ Vengeance on Varos - 1985 story starring Colin Baker as "The Doctor" and Nicola Bryant as "Peri Brown".

Synopsis
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After the TARDIS depletes its supply of Zeiton-7 ore, the Doctor and Peri are forced to land on the planet of Varos in search of more. But the colony is a former prison and the current society lives off entertainment from torture and execution. And the Doctor might be next on the listings...

[Guest]

W ~ Warpstar - A small crystalline device carried by Sarah Jane Smith in 'Journey's End' that looks like a necklace, but is in fact a highly explosive device (a "Warp-fold conjugation") inside a carbonised shell. According to Sarah Jane, it was given to her by a Verran soothsayer to be used at "the end of days". Jack Harkness wires it into the Dalek Crucible's mainframe and threatens to use it; however, he does not get the opportunity as the Daleks swiftly transmat Jack, Sarah Jane, and their companions away.

[Alan]

X ~ Xenon - Xenon is the home planet of the shapeshifting Whifferdills, of whom Frobisher, the 6th Doctor's companion, is an example.

[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'.

[Alan]

Z ~ Zygons - The Zygons first appeared in the 1975 story Terror of the Zygons, where it was revealed that centuries ago, the Zygon homeworld was destroyed in a stellar explosion. A craft escaped and somehow made it to Earth, where it then crashed into Loch Ness. When the Doctor encountered the Zygons, they were led by a warlord named Broton. Broton wished to conquer the world to allow a refugee fleet of Zygons to colonize Earth.

The Zygons have shape-shifting abilities, allowing them to replicate the appearance of another being, but they must keep the subject alive in order to use its body print. This skill was vital in their concealment and in their scheme to seize power despite their small numbers. The Zygons were also accompanied by an armoured cyborg creature called the Skarasen, the lactic fluid of which was necessary for them to feed. Broton planned to unleash the Skarasen (or Loch Ness Monster as it was known) as part of a bid to conquer the Earth. The plan was foiled and both he and his crew were killed due to the intervention of the Fourth Doctor and the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (UNIT). Zygon technology is biological in nature: in essence their ships and equipment are actually alive.

Zygons have appeared in the novels The Bodysnatchers in which they were encountered by the 8th Doctor, and Sting of the Zygons in which they were encountered by the 10th Doctor.