Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Alan]

X ~ Xenon - Xenon was the home planet of the shape shifting species known as Whifferdills. The 6th Doctor's companion Frobisher came from this planet. It is in Mutter's Spiral.

[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 ~ Z-Bomb - The Z-Bomb was a doomsday weapon of which by 1986 two or three were available at strategic positions around the Earth. One of them was in the hands of the International Space Command, and their secretary general had the authority to order it used. This particular Z-bomb was located at Snowcap base in Antarctica.

When activated, it caused a nuclear explosion that was said to be powerful enough to split an Earth-sized planet in half.

In the 1966 story The Tenth Planet, when Cybermen ships were heading for Earth, General Cutler wanted to use the bomb to destroy their home planet of Mondas, despite concerns that the radiation effects might kill everyone on the side of the Earth facing the explosion, and that the planet targeted might even turn in a supernova. Cutler considered this an acceptable risk, but his personnel sabotaged the missile.

However, once the Cybermen took control of the base, they planed to use the bomb to blow up the Earth, thus saving their own planet from the effects of the energy transfer between the two worlds. They failed and Mondas was destroyed.

[Guest]

A ~ 'Axos, The Claws Of' - The Axons land on Earth, desperately in need of fuel. They propose to exchange the miracle substance they call Axonite for some much needed energy. Axonite is a "thinking" molecule that can replicate any substance... or so they claim. As it turns out, the ship is a single organism called Axos whose purpose is to feed itself by draining all energy through the Axonite (which is just a part of itself), including the energy of every life form on Earth. The deception about the Axonite's beneficial properties was to facilitate the distribution of Axonite across the globe.

Meanwhile, the Master, who was captured by Axos and used his knowledge of Earth as a bargaining chip for his life and freedom, escapes Axos and makes his way to the Doctor's TARDIS — his own having been seized by Axos. He plans to repair it to escape from Earth.

[Alan]

B ~ Bush, Melanie 'Mel' - Melanie Bush, or simply Mel, was a computer programmer from 1989 and a companion of the 6th and 7th Doctors.

Mel came from the village of Pease Pottage in West Sussex, England. She had an eidetic memory, and a cheery, almost perky personality. She greeted most situations with a warm smile and good humour, and was an optimist whose views extended to believing the best of people's natures, but could also scream with the best of them. She was a health enthusiast and a vegetarian, often encouraging the slightly portly 6th Doctor to exercise more. She was present (albeit unconscious at the time) when the 6th Doctor regenerated into his seventh incarnation, and continued to travel with him.

In the 1987 story Dragonfire, she decided to leave the TARDIS to remain in the distant future on Iceworld with the galactic confidence trickster, Sabalom Glitz, leaving the 7th Doctor to travel on with his new companion, Ace.

In the novel Head Games, which was part of the New Adventures line of books, Mel left Glitz and she became stranded on a planet. Soon after she encountered the 7th Doctor and he revealed to her that he manipulated her to depart his company on Iceworld because he knew what was coming (as Time's Champion) and couldn't have her as a companion. Disgusted by the Doctor's actions and no longer recognising him, she left him once more. Mel was taken back to 1989 by Ace via her Time Hopper.

[Guest]

C ~ Crystal of Kronos - From the Third Doctor serial 'The Time Monster', this is used by the Master to power his TOMTIT machine, but turns out to be something much more powerful.

[Alan]

D ~ Doctor, The - The Doctor is a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey who, as a renegade, fought injustice where he found it; he only occasionally carried out missions for the Time Lords. Later, he was believed (or he believed himself) to be the only Time Lord to survive the Last Great Time War with the Daleks. Throughout his life, he had a particular association and affinity with the planet Earth and its Humans.

The Doctor left Gallifrey and became a hero who fought evil and injustice across the universe in violation fo the Time Lords' Non-interference policy with his many companions, first Susan Foreman, who also came from Gallifrey and then others.

Eventually, he was held to account for his crimes against the Time Lords during his second incarnation. The punishment was a forced regeneration and exile to Earth, as well as loss of the knowledge of how to control the TARDIS. This knowledge was restored to him after he helped to defeat Omega and he resumed his travels through time and space.

The Doctor fought for the Time Lords in the Last Great Time War against the Daleks. He was ultimately responsible for ending the war, an act which resulted in the obliteration of Gallifrey, as well as the supposed extinction of both races, apart from the Doctor himself.

He continues to travel throughout time and space to discover its many delights and fight its many evils.

The Doctor is currently in his tenth incarnation.

[Guest]

E ~ Eternals - Eternals are beings who live in the "trackless wastes of eternity", as opposed to the likes of the Doctor and his companions who are "Ephemerals". Eternals use Ephemerals for their thoughts and ideas. The Eternals have lived for so long that they are unable to think for themselves and need human minds to give them existence, and entertainment; as such, they use human crews on their ships. Eternals seek out "Enlightenment", the wisdom to know everything.

[Alan]

F ~ Full Circle - 1980 story and first chapter of the loose E-Space Trilogy. Starring Tom Baker as "The Doctor", Lalla Ward as "Romana", with John Leeson as the voice of "K-9", and introducing Matthew Waterhouse as "Adric".

Synopsis
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The Doctor discovers the TARDIS has fallen into E-Space, an alternate universe, and landed on the planet Alzarius. The Doctor and Romana find its only inhabitants are living on a vast, crashed spaceship they have been repairing for generations to return to their home planet, Terradon. But Mistfall, a mythical time of terror, is coming again to Alzarius, and an eerie menace is rising out of the misty marshes.

But why have huge poisonous spiders begun to appear in the Alzarian food supply? And what is the secret of the strange marshmen? The Doctor and Romana must solves these riddles and more if they are to have any chance of returning to their own universe.

[Guest]

G ~ Genesis Ark - A Dalek-shaped prison ship created by the Time Lords to store millions of captured Daleks, introduced in 'Doomsday'. Like the TARDIS, it is bigger on the inside, containing millions of prisoners yet being only large enough to release one Dalek at a time. It is sucked into the Void after the Doctor opens the breach.

[Alan]

H ~ Hyperion III - Hyperion III was a passenger and cargo transport spaceship. It was under the command of Commodore Travers in the year 2986 when the ship was carrying pods of the Vervoids to Earth. This ship featured in the third chapter of the 1986 story The Trial of a Time Lord - Terror of the Vervoids.

[Guest]

I ~ Ice gun - A fire extinguisher used by the Tenth Doctor to immobilise the Clockwork Droids in 'The Girl in the Fireplace'. The name "ice gun" was suggested by Mickey Smith. The Doctor called it a fire extinguisher.

[Alan]

J ~ Jones, Martha - Martha Jones was a companion to the 10th Doctor and later a member of UNIT.

She made her first appearance in the 2007 story Smith and Jones. Her last regular appearance was in Chapter 2 of The Sound of Drums - Last of the Time Lords. Her next appearance was in three episodes of Series 2 of spin-off series Torchwood and then reappeared in Doctor Who as a recurring character in the 2008 stories The Sontaran Stratagem, The Doctor's Daughter, and The Stolen Earth.

[Guest]

K ~ Key to Time, The - A figure presenting himself as the White Guardian commissions the Doctor, Romana and K-9 to find all six segments of the Key to Time, a cosmic artifact resembling a perfect cube that maintains the equilibrium of the universe. Too powerful for any single being to possess, it has been split into six different segments and scattered across space and time, disguised by the raw elemental power within them into any shape or size. However, the Guardian claims that the forces balancing the universe are so upset that the segments of the Key must be found and assembled, to stop the universe so that he can restore the balance.

The first segment is disguised as a lump of Jethryk on the planet Ribos. The second is actually the planet Callufrax, but that planet has been shrunk by the space-hopping pirate planet Zanak. The third is the Great Seal of Diplos, having been stolen by a criminal of that planet. The fourth is part of a statue on the planet Tara. The fifth has been consumed by the monster squid Kroll, causing it to grow to gigantic proportions. The final segment is in fact a female humanoid — Princess Astra.

In the final episode, the purported White Guardian attempts to take the Key from the Doctor. The Doctor sees through the figure's charade, however, reveals him as the Black Guardian in disguise, and once again scatters the segments of the Key across time and space.

[Alan]

L ~ Lethbridge-Stewart, Alistair Gordon - Brigadier Sir Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (commonly nicknamed The Brigadier) was one of the founders of UNIT and commander of its UK operations from 1968 until his retirement in 1976. He was briefly recalled to active duty in 1997 during what would later become known as "The Carbury Incident". He continues to work for UNIT as their Special Envoy.

His first appearance was in the 1967 Doctor Who story The Web of Fear. He was next seen as the commander of UNIT's UK branch in the 1968 story The Invasion. He became a regular character from the 1970 story Spearhead from Space. His last regular appearance was in the 1974 story Planet of Spiders. He then became a recurring character from the following story Robot and went on to appear in the 1975 story Terror of the Zygons, the 1983 story Mawdryn Undead, the TV movie The Five Doctors, and the 1989 story Battlefield. His most recent appearance was in the 2008 story Enemy of the Bane which was the series 2 finale story of the spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures.