Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

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O = Overcity

The upper echelons of New New York. Ruled by the Senate, everyone there was killed by a virus when a mutated Mood Patch called Bliss infected the air of New New York. (as seen in episode 3.3, Gridlock)

[Guest]

P ~ Paradox Machine - Designed by the Master in 'The Sound of Drums', the device is constructed from the Doctor's TARDIS, centred around the main console with several large pipes leading into it, installed on the airborne aircraft carrier Valiant. The paradox machine uses the power of the TARDIS to prevent the universe from collapsing under the inherent logical contradiction of a grandfather paradox when the Toclafane kill their ancestors, modern day humans. When destroyed, it has the effect of reversing time up to the point immediately before it was originally activated. However, those in proximity to the device are immune to this effect by virtue of being in the "eye of the storm", the radius of which is at least sufficient to encompass the Valiant. The paradox machine was destroyed by Jack Harkness who shot at it with a machine gun.

[Alan]

Q ~ Quantum Archangel, The - Novel featuring the 6th Doctor and Mel Bush.

This book is a sequel to the 1972 story The Time Monster.

Synopsis
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Five thousand years ago, the Priest-Kings of Atlantis attempted to enslave Kronos, greatest of the Chronivores. They failed, with catastrophic results. In 1972, the Master sought to do the same, and barely escaped with his life.

London, 2003: torn apart by tragedy, the Doctor and Mel have gone their separate ways, only to find their paths crossing once more. While the Doctor tries to stop an old friend from making a terrible mistake, Mel is horrified to learn that her best friend has fallen under the influence of the Master.

As the Master desperately tries to defend himself against the power of Kronos, the Doctor and Mel must overcome their differences. If they don’t, the Quantum Archangel will be triumphant. And if she is, nothing in the Universe will ever be the same again.

[Guest]

R ~ Recorder - The Second Doctor was often seen playing a recorder. It played a pivotal role in the serial 'The Three Doctors' as well as often being used by the Second Doctor to distract and confuse his enemies.

[Alan]

S ~ Stolen Earth, The - 2008 finale story starring David Tennant as "The Doctor" & Catherine Tate in her last regular appearance as "Donna Noble".

Guest starring Freema Agyeman as "Martha Jones", John Barrowman as "Captain Jack Harkness", Elisabeth Sladen as "Sarah Jane Smith", Billie Piper as "Rose Tyler", Noel Clarke as "Mickey Smith", Eve Myles as "Gwen Cooper", Gareth David-Lloyd as "Ianto Jones", Tommy Knight as "Luke Smith", John Leeson as "K-9 Mk. IV", & Alexander Armstrong as the voice of "Mr. Smith".

Synopsis
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When the Earth is stolen from its orbit and placed in another galaxy with 26 other stolen planets, the Doctor's secret army of allies comes together to defend the Earth from the New Dalek Empire. With battles raging on the streets and in the sky, the Doctor and Donna confront the Shadow Proclamation to find the truth; however, a fearsome old enemy waits in the shadows.

[Guest]

T ~ Time Ring - Given to the Fourth Doctor in the serial 'Genesis of the Daleks' by the Time Lords so that he could escape Skaro on successful completion of his mission to avert the creation of the Daleks. The Doctor, Harry Sullivan, and Sarah Jane Smith use the Time Ring at the end of the adventure and are taken to the Nerva station where they go on to participate in the events of 'Revenge of the Cybermen'.

[Alan]

U ~ Utopia - 2007 story starring David Tennant as "The Doctor" & Freema Agyeman as "Martha Jones".

Guest starring John Barrowman as "Captain Jack Harkness".

Synopsis
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As Captain Jack stows his way back into the Doctor's life, the TARDIS lands at the end of the universe. But as the last of the human race sets out to their dream homeland, will the vicious Futurekind scuttle the rocket?

[Guest]

V ~ Validium - A living metal created on Gallifrey that has the power of life and death. It appears in the serial 'Silver Nemesis'.

[Alan]

W ~ Warriors of the Deep - 1984 story starring Peter Davison as "The Doctor", Janet Fielding as "Tegan Jovanka", & Mark Strickson as "Vislor Turlough".

Synopsis
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The year is 2084, and two power-blocs are poised on the brink of war. Using a series of undersea complexes and deep-space satellites, each bloc carefully monitors the other's movements, slowly edging towards the moment when one will launch an all-out nuclear attack on the other.

Arriving on Sea Base Four, the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough are rapidly drawn into the web of intrigue which enmeshes this era's paranoid political manoeuvrings. Not everyone on board the base is working for the same team, and the officer directly responsible for implemementing the base's nuclear capability has died in mysterious circumstances.

Amid this already tenses atmosphere, the crew of Sea Base Four faces an even greater threat to mankind. The Silurians and Sea Devils, prehistoric reptiles who went into hibernation millions of years before, have reawoken and intend to launch another attempt to reclaim the Earth from humanity.

The Doctor must tackle enemy sabotage and face the Myrka, a giant marine monster - but can he prevent the Silurians from implementing their 'final solution' - launching the missiles to start a war that threatens to wipe out the human race?

[Guest]

X ~ Xeraphin - The Xeraphin were an ancient species encountered by the Fifth Doctor in the story 'TimeFlight' by Peter Grimwade. Originating from the planet Xeriphas, they possessed immense psychokinetic and scientific powers. The Doctor believed the race to have been wiped out during the crossfire during the Vardon/Kosnax war. Instead, the entire race fled to Earth in an escaping spacecraft. The ship crashed near present day Heathrow some 140 million years ago. When the Xeraphin emerged they built a Citadel to mark their new home but the Xeraphin were so plagued with radiation that they abandoned their original humanoid bodies and transformed into a single bioplasmic gestalt intelligence within a sarcophagus at the heart of the Citadel.

The arrival of the Master coincided with their emergence from the gestalt state when the radiation effects had subsided, and his influence caused the emergence of a split personality of good and evil, each side competing for their tremendous power while yearning to become a proper species once again. The Master, who was stranded on Earth at the time too, succeeded in capturing the Xeraphin as a new power source for his TARDIS. However, the Doctor's intervention meant his nemesis' TARDIS was sent to Xeriphas where events became out of his control.

[Alan]

Y ~ Yo-Yo - A yo-yo was a round toy which shot up and down on a string. The Doctor sometimes kept one on his person. He largely used it in his second and fourth personas to test local gravity. However, his fourth self may have gotten so used to using it scientifically, that he actually began to simply find it fun to play with. Indeed, his skill with the yo-yo appeared to increase over time.

[Guest]

Z ~ Zygon - The Zygons appeared in the Fourth Doctor serial '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.

[Alan]

A ~ Android Invasion, The - 1975 story starring Tom Baker as "The Doctor" & Elisabeth Sladen as "Sarah Jane Smith".

Guest starring Ian Marter as "Harry Sullivan".

Synopsis
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When the TARDIS materialises just outside a sleepy English village, it appears the Doctor and Sarah Jane are nearly "home" at last. But all is not as it seems in rural paradise. White-suited, gun-wielding guards stalk the countryside, while the village itself is eerily deserted. As the Doctor and Sarah look on, a UNIT member leaps over a cliff to his death and, as the clock strikes twelve, the local pub is suddenly filled with strange robotic villagers. The UNIT member is amongst them, very much alive. What exactly is happening here?

The Doctor is mystified, setting off for UNIT HQ in search of answers. There, with the Brigadier away, Senior Defence Astronaut Guy Crayford holds court. But just who is his shadowy master, the Thraal, Styggron? Indeed, who are the Thraals and what have they got in store for the Earth? Why has the TARDIS dematerialised seemingly of its own accord?

The Doctor must move quickly to find the truth, for the very future of mankind hangs in the balance...

[Guest]

B ~ Blue crystal - In 'The Green Death', the Third Doctor takes a perfect blue crystal from the planet Metebelis Three, which has the ability to focus and amplify thoughts. He gives it to Jo Grant as a wedding present, but she sends it back to him in 'Planet of the Spiders', setting in motion a series of events that end with the Doctor's regeneration.

[Alan]

C ~ Chang Lee - Chang Lee was a young Chinese man living in San Francisco in 1999. Lee and his friends were fleeing from a rival gang when the TARDIS suddenly appeared and the Doctor emerged being caught in the crossfire between the two gangs and shot. Lee managed to get an ambulance for the Doctor and get him to a hospital, where he "died" and regenerated into his next incarnation.

Later Lee met and became enthralled by the Master, who convinced the young man that the Doctor was evil. Only too late did Lee learn the truth, just before the Master killed him. Fortunately the Doctor was able to reverse time and resurrect Lee and Grace Holloway, whom the Master had also killed. After the Master's defeat the Doctor bade Lee farewell, warning him that he shouldn't be in San Francisco next Christmas