Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Alan]

N ~ New Earth - New Earth was a planet located in the M87 galaxy. It was especially colonized because it had had similar orbit, size and atmosphere and above all else a similar terrain to Earth. New Earth has at least two large moons or planet in its vicinity, visible in the sky. Apple-grass can be found on the planet.

Landmarks of New Earth include New New York (which is actually the 15th New York) and the New New York Hospital (a hospital run by the Sisters of Plenitude). There is also a New Atlantic somewhere on the planet.

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

This story acts as a sequel to the immediate preceding story, Frontier in Space.

Synopsis
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Injured after a shoot-out between his old nemesis the Master and the Ogrons, slaves to the evil Daleks, the Doctor sends a message to the Time Lords, asking them to pilot his TARDIS and follow the Daleks to their new base. After he slips into a coma, it falls to his assistant Jo Grant to explore the planet where the TARDIS finally materialises.

Not only must the Doctor contend with the Daleks' new stratagem, but he must try to stop them unleashing a plague that will exterminate all organic life. When a rescue ship of Thals arrive, they bring with them darker news still - somewhere on Spiridon 12,000 Daleks are waiting to emerge and take what they believe is their rightful place as the Universe's supreme beings!

[Guest]

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

[Alan]

R ~ Remembrance of the Daleks - 1988 story starring Sylvester McCoy as "The Doctor" and Sophie Aldred as "Ace".

Synopsis
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The Doctor and Ace battle two Dalek factions in 1963, London, both of them seeking the Hand of Omega, a Gallifreyan Superweapon. But will this be the end for the Daleks?

[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 ~ TARDIS, The - The Doctor's TARDIS is an obsolete Mark I Type 40 TARDIS used by the Doctor as his primary means of transport. Capable, like all TARDIS', travelling through space and time, the Doctor has travelled in his vessel from the beginning of time itself prior to the Big Bang to the year 100,000,000,000,000 and the end of time itself.

Almost all TARDIS' should be able to blend in with their surroundings thanks to a Chameleon Circuit which allows a TARDIS to change its form to fit in with its surroundings. The Chameleon Circuit of the Doctor's TARDIS did not help it blend in particularly well when it resided in Totter's Yard in the year 1963. It had assumed the shape of a police box, a common sight in 1960s England, but not in a junk yard. To the Doctor's unease, it still remained as a police box when it travelled back in time and remained in that shape thereafter. Susan Foreman stated that the TARDIS had previously appeared as a sedan chair and an ionic column.

[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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Seeking the rare mineral Zeiton-7 to repair his TARDIS, the Doctor arrives on Varos, a world where political prisoners and their guards are both subjected to sadistic tortures and executions which the colony's inhabitants view and vote on through interactive television. Accused of being alien infiltrators helping the colony's rebel factions, the Doctor and Peri find themselves the latest unwilling subjects in this most extreme form of reality TV.

[Guest]

W ~ Wirrn - The Wirrn are an insectoid race that made their debut in the 1975 Fourth Doctor story 'The Ark in Space'. The name is sometimes spelled Wirrrn, which is a spelling originating from the novelisation of the story.

The Wirrn claim to have originated from Andromeda (whether they meant the galaxy, the constellation, or even a planet named "Andromeda" is unclear), but were driven into space by human settlers. They are slightly larger than humans, dark green and wasp-like in appearance, and live mostly in space, although their breeding colonies are terrestrial. Their bodies are a self-contained system, their lungs being able to recycle waste carbon dioxide and only needing to touch down occasionally on planetary bodies for food and oxygen. The Wirrn's life cycle involves laying their eggs in living hosts; the larvae emerge to consume the host, absorbing its memories and knowledge. A Wirrn larva is a green slug-like creature, varying in size from a few inches to 1 or 2 metres across. It can "infect" another organism through contact with a substance it excretes, mutating them into an adult Wirrn and connecting their consciousness to the hive mind.

In 'The Ark in Space', the Wirrn found Space Station Nerva in orbit around an Earth devastated centuries before by solar flares. The survivors had lain in suspended animation waiting for the planet to recover, but had overslept by several millennia. The Wirrn intended to use the sleepers as a food source and claim the empty Earth for their own, as both a means of survival and an act of revenge against the human race for taking their former territories. In the course of their plan, Noah, leader of Nerva, was infected and converted to their kind. However, Noah still retained "more than a vestige of human spirit", probably thanks to the encouragements of the Doctor, and led the Wirrn into Nerva's transport ship even though he knew it was rigged to explode. It did so, ending the Wirrn threat.

The Wirrn have also appeared in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel 'Placebo Effect' by Gary Russell, and in the audio play 'Wirrn: Race Memory', produced by BBV and the Big Finish audio story 'Wirrn Dawn' by Nicholas Briggs. A dead Wirrn appears briefly in 'The Stones of Blood'.

[Alan]

X ~ Xanxia - Queen Xanxia was the evil queen of Zanak, she was practically frozen at extreme age in time dams and watched over by the Pirate Captain. At some point she created a hologram of herself, pretending to be the Captain's nurse and persuaded him to continually jump Zanak plundering planets for rare minerals to feed the time dams, with the aim of creating a permanently youthful viable body. She was defeated by the Doctor when Zanak was prevented from materialising around Earth, the time dams and the mountain they were enclosed within were finally destroyed by the Mentiads.

Xanxia appeared in the 1978 Doctor Who story The Pirate Planet.

[Guest]

Y ~ Yates, Captain Mike - Yates first appeared in the Third Doctor serial 'Terror of the Autons', the latest in a line of Captains assisting Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. He proved more durable than his predecessors, appearing semi-regularly in the programme from 1971 to 1974 alongside the Brigadier and Sergeant Benton. Together with the Doctor and his companions, Yates fought off alien invasions, the machinations of the renegade Timelord known as the Master, rogue computers and mutated maggots.

[Alan]

Z ~ Zero Room - The Zero Room was an important room in the Doctor's TARDIS (and presumably of other models of TARDIS).

Zero Rooms were used by the Time Lords in times of difficult regeneration. It was cut off from the influences of the rest of the universe. It had a calming, restful atmosphere. As the Doctor demonstrated to his companions, some physical laws had not as much influence here as in the rest of the universe. For instance, he could levitate here at will.

The Zero Room was used by the Doctor following his fourth regeneration. The destruction of the Zero Room came about when the TARDIS needed to eject part of its structure in burn to generate power in order to break free of Event One. Nyssa, however, used tools to cut the walls of the room and from them, construct the Zero Cabinet which had the same properties. Nyssa and Tegan found the cabinet light enough to carry, in part because the Doctor used levitation to negate his own weight.

[Guest]

A ~ Anti-Plastic - A blue-coloured liquid that the Ninth Doctor carries as a weapon against the living plastic body of the Nestene Consciousness in 'Rose'. It appears to break down plastics chemically, similar to a highly potent acid, without any effect on other materials.

[Alan]

B ~ Berserker - Berserkers were a warrior race who used pendants to control people. They visited Earth at some point during the Viking age, where they were mistaken for Human warriors wearing animal skins as armour that could, when angry, enter a berserk rage either naturally or with the aid of drugs. They left behind at least one Berserker Pendant, which fell into the hands of Jacob, and later, Paul Langer.

A Berserker appeared in the The Sarah Jane Adventures 2008 story The Mark of the Berserker.