Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Alan]

B ~ Bad Wolf - 2005 story starring Christopher Eccleston in his final appearance as "The Doctor", Billie Piper as "Rose Tyler", John Barrowman in his last regular appearance as "Captain Jack Harkness", and introducing David Tennant as "The Doctor".

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The Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack have to fight for their lives on board the Game Station. But a far more dangerous threat is lurking, just out of sight. The Doctor realises that the entire human race has been blinded to the threat on its doorstep, and Armageddon is fast approaching.

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C ~ Carrionite - The Carrionites, as seen in 'The Shakespeare Code' (2007), are a race of witch-like beings. The species originates from the Fourteen Stars of the Rexel Planetary Configuration. They use advanced science which appears much like magic and voodoo. Unlike humans, who use numbers, maths and science to advance and split the atom, the Carrionites use words to manipulate the universe and defy physics. The Carrionites appear to be possess some unknown ability to discover a person's true name; although Lilith was in the room when the Doctor and Martha Jones introduce themselves to Shakespeare she later remarks "there is no name" when trying to name the Doctor but being there when the Doctor introduces himself does not explain that Lilith named Rose. In the "old" times of the universe, they were banished through powerful words by the Eternals.

The three Carrionites shown in 'The Shakespeare Code' were Lilith, Mother Doomfinger and Mother Bloodtide. They are defeated by Willam Shakespeare with the help of the Doctor and Martha who helped him find the right words to defeat the Carronites, ending with 'expeliamus." The Carronites were re-trapped in a crystal ball by this. According to Lilith, apparently Shakespeare accidentally released Doomfinger, Bloodtide and Lilith while he was distraught over his son Hamnet's death from the Black Plague.

[Alan]

D ~ Daleks - The Daleks are a race descended from mutant Kaleds from the planet Skaro and encased in mobile shells. The Daleks fought the Last Great Time War with the Time Lords and regarded the Doctor as their greatest single enemy. They are hated and feared throughout time and space, and widely considered the most dangerous and evil creatures in the universe.

The creatures inside their "travel machines" were most frequently Kaled mutants, which the Doctor once described as "little green blobs in bonded polycarbide armour", although mutated members of other species, mainly Humans, also occupied the casings on occasion.

Externally, Daleks resembled human-sized peppershakers, with a single mechanical eyestalk in a rotating dome, a gunstick and a manipulator arm. The casings were made of bonded polycarbide armour, a material that was also called Dalekanium.

The Daleks first appeared in the 1963 story The Daleks. Their last appearance to date was in the 2008 story The Stolen Earth.

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E ~ Eternal - Eternals, as seen in 'Enlightenment' (1983), 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. They are aware of the Void, calling it "the Howling" ('Army of Ghosts' (2006)) and were responsible for banishing the Carrionites ('The Shakespeare Code' (2007)).

[Alan]

F ~ Frontios - 1984 story starring Peter Davison as "The Doctor", Janet Fielding as "Tegan Jovanka", and Mark Strickson as "Vislor Turlough".

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In the far reaches of the future, the Doctor's TARDIS crash-lands on the planet Frontios in the Veruna system, where the last remnants of humanity have fled the collision of Earth with the sun. Gruesome tales of a hungry earth stalk the struggling settlement, and a bombardment of meteors from an unseen enemy hold the future of humanity in a precarious balance. At a crucial point in history, with the future still unknown, the Doctor is unable to intervene for fear of violating the laws of Time itself. But when the TARDIS is destroyed in an attack on the colony, he may have no choice.

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G ~ Gelth - The Gelth appeared in the Ninth Doctor episode 'The Unquiet Dead'. They were a new race of alien villains that the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler encountered in the 2005 series. They were also the first element of the new series that attracted attention for being "too scary". Following complaints (many of which were made by Mediawatch UK), the BBC stated that in future, episodes of that nature would be forewarned by a statement of "may not be suitable for under 8s".

The Gelth were intelligent gaseous life-forms, blue and spectral in nature, who claimed to have lost their corporeal forms as a consequence of the Time War. They arrived on Earth via the spacetime rift at an undertaker's house in 1869 Cardiff and proceeded to take possession of recently deceased corpses. Their forms could not be maintained for long in Earth's atmosphere and they required a gaseous medium to sustain them — gas from decomposing bodies or coal gas in the gas pipes common to Victorian era households.

Claiming to be on the verge of extinction, the Gelth convinced the Doctor to aid their entrance into our plane of existence via Gwyneth, the undertaker's servant girl who had developed psychic powers due to growing up near the rift. The Gelth proved instead to number in the billions and intended to take the Earth by force and murder its population to provide vessels for themselves. Ultimately, the Gelth were thwarted when Gwyneth sacrificed herself, blowing up the building and sealing the rift. Whether all the Gelth that had entered our world perished as well is unclear.

[Alan]

H ~ Harper, Owen - Owen Harper performed medical and dissection duties for the Torchwood 3 team. Moody and forthright, Harper wasn't slow to show his dissatisfaction with Captain Jack Harkness' decisions.

In his early twenties and already a doctor, Owen was engaged to Katie Russell, who unknown to both them had an alien parasite in her brain. Though Owen did not understand this, both knew that she had a degenerative neurological condition. Before Jack Harkness arrived on the scene, the alien inside had killed the surgical team which had removed the top of her skull in surgery. Jack Harkness appeared, explained and left the scene with Katie's body, then, after which time Owen had told a disbelieved story about aliens, re-appeared and offered him a job with Torchwood 3. Owen reluctantly accepted.

Owen was shot and killed. Prior to his autopsy, he was returned to a state of partial life by a second resurrection gauntlet, which was found by Jack. He also brought back with him an old entity known as "Durac", which Owen vanquished. Owen coped with his self-pity and managed to pull himself together enough to go back to work and to carry on.

Owen was finally killed whilst stopping a nuclear meltdown but an unanticipated lockdown meant that he was trapped when the waste was vented in and it decomposed his body. Because he was "dead" he could not feel the pain.

His first appearance was in the 2006 Torchwood episode Everything Changes. His final appearance was in the 2008 episode Exit Wounds.

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I ~ Isolus - The Isolus are an alien species, tiny spore-like creatures traveling through space, first appearing in the episode 'Fear Her'. In that episode, one of them was separated from the swarm and the creature wound up on Earth, inhabiting a young English girl named Chloe Webber. The Isolus was confused by Chloe's fears of her father and, acting through her, trapped neighborhood children in Chloe's crayon drawings. The Isolus released Chloe when the Doctor showed it the love the human race could produce in the events just before the 2012 Summer Olympics. An Isolus is a creature of intense emotion and it is sheer need to be together that keeps them alive.

[Alan]

J ~ Jackson, Maria - Maria Jackson was a young neighbour and ally of Sarah Jane Smith.

When Maria was thirteen, her parents Alan and Chrissie Jackson divorced. Alan and Maria moved to 12 Bannerman Road in Ealing. That night Maria made the life-changing discovery of a neighbour, Sarah Jane Smith, conversing with a glowing winged alien. The very next day, she and a new friend from the neighourhood went to the Bubble Shock! factory, encountered other, unfriendly aliens and with Sarah, Kelsey and a young artificial Human, Luke (at that time known only as "the Archetype"), banded together to defeat the Bane invasion. One week later the now fourteen year old Maria met the "cool" Clyde Langer at school, who joined with the others.

When Alan got a new job offer in America, Maria and Alan made the decision that he should accept the offer. They then moved to Washington, D.C. She still stayed in contact with Luke via email.

Maria Jackson first appeared in The Sarah Jane Adventures 2007 TV movie Invasion of the Bane. Her last regular appearance was in the 2008 episode The Last Sontaran. She made a guest appearance in the episode The Mark of the Berserker.

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K ~ Krynoid - The Krynoids appeared in the 1976 Fourth Doctor serial 'The Seeds of Doom'. They are a highly dangerous, sentient form of plant life which are renowned amongst galactic botanists. They spread via seed pods which travel in pairs and are violently hurled through space by frequent volcanic eruptions on their unnamed home planet. The pods when opened are attracted to flesh and are able to infect and mingle their DNA with that of the host, taking over their body and slowly transforming them into a Krynoid. The species can also exert a form of telepathic control over other plant life in the surrounding area, making it suddenly dangerous and deadly to animal-kind. In the later stages of development the Krynoid can also control the vocal cords of its victims and can make itself telepathically sympathetic to humans. Fully grown Krynoids are many meters high and can then release hordes of seed pairs for further colonisation.

Two pods arrived on Earth at the South Pole during the prehistoric Pleistocene era and remained dormant in Antarctica until discovered at the end of the twentieth century. One of them hatched after being exposed to ultra-violet light, and took control of a nearby human scientist. The Fourth Doctor intervened in the nick of time and ensured the Krynoid was destroyed in a bomb, but the second pod was stolen and taken to the home of millionaire botanist Harrison Chase in England. Chase ensured the germination of the second pod, which overtook his scientific adviser Arnold Keeler, and transformed its subject over time into a virtually full-sized Krynoid. Unable to destroy the creature by other means and with the danger of a seed release imminent from the massive plant, the Doctor orchestrated an RAF bombing raid to destroy the creature before it could germinate.

[Alan]

L ~ Last Sontaran, The - 2008 première story for the second series of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

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Reports of strange lights around the Tycho Project's radio telescope lead Sarah Jane, Luke, Clyde, and Maria into a terrifying forest encounter, where Sarah Jane comes face-to-face with her oldest enemy.

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• Last regular appearance of Yasmin Paige as "Maria Jackson".
  
  
• This is the third time that Sarah Jane Smith has fought a Sontaran. Her first encounters with the species were in the Doctor Who stories The Time Warrior and The Sontaran Experiment.
  
  
• This story acts as a sequel to the 2008 Doctor Who story The Sontaran Stratagem.

[Guest]

M ~ Midnight creature - An unnamed and unseen creature, found on the surface of the planet Midnight, an environment supposedly inimical to all life. Described briefly as a "shadow" glimpsed running across the landscape, it was encountered in Shuttle Bus 50 in 'Midnight'. It violently boarded and took over the body and mind of Sky Silvestry, repeating the speech patterns of the passengers, influencing them, and then consuming the Doctor's voice. The shuttle's hostess ultimately sacrificed herself by opening a door and sucking them both out of the bus, where Silvestry's body was presumably vaporised by the deadly Xtonic sunlight. Though its hold on the Doctor and the other passengers was broken, the nature and fate of the creature itself remains uncertain. Disturbingly, even the Doctor has no idea of what the creature is.

[Alan]

N ~ Nyssa - Nyssa, was a native of the planet Traken, the homeworld of the Traken Union and daughter of the respected Consul Tremas. When Tremas was killed, his body taken over by the Master, and she had nowhere to go, so she travelled with the 4th and then the 5th incarnations of the Doctor.

With fellow companion Tegan Jovanka, she gave crucial assistance to the the newly-regenerated 5th Doctor, effectively representing his scientific side while he went through his troubled regeneration. Having no home any more, Nyssa joined the crew of the TARDIS.

Nyssa faced the challenges of her adventures with the Doctor with both determination and the serenity of her Trakenite birthright, turning her sadness in being the last of her people into a desire to help others. It was appropriate, therefore, that she left the TARDIS to help the crew of Terminus to find a permanent cure for Lazar's Disease.

Nyssa's introduction was in the 1981 story The Keeper of Traken. She made another guest appearance in the following story Logopolis and became a regular from the story following that - Castrovalva. She made her last regular appearance in the 1983 story Terminus. A vision of Nyssa appeared to the 5th Doctor in the 1984 story The Caves of Androzani.

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O ~ Osiran - The Osirans are a powerful alien race who are equal to the Time Lords and appeared in the serial 'Pyramids of Mars'. Sutekh, a renegade who became evil, was one of them. He was pursued across the galaxy by his brother Horus and was finally defeated on Earth by the combined might of 740 Osirans. Sutekh was trapped in a pyramid on Mars.

[Alan]

P ~ Planet of Fire - 1984 story starring Peter Davison as "The Doctor", Mark Strickson in his final appearance as "Vislor Turlough", Gerald Flood in his final appearance as "Kamelion", and introducing Nicola Bryant as "Peri Brown"

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A strange signal from Earth draws the TARDIS to the island of Lanzarote. While the Doctor tries to track the source of the signal, his companion Turlough rescues a young American girl, Peri, from drowning. She is holding an artefact made from platinum bearing a strange symbol - the same symbol that Turlough himself carries on his arm, branded into the flesh...

It is the artefact that is emitting the signal, leading them all to the planet Sarn, a world ravaged by volcanoes and yet holding the secret of eternal life. But an old foe of the Doctor's is desperate for this elixir, and will stop at nothing to gain it.

What is Turlough's link to the artefact? What is the nature of Sarn's mythical god, Logar, and how is it linked to the ruined spaceship crashed on a mountainside? As age-old systems of belief begin to break down, will anyone escape from the planet of fire with their life?