Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Alan]

X ~ Xeraphin - The Xeraphin were highly psychic beings, able to wield psychokinetic energy, possess people in order to communicate, exert a hypnotic influence over people, and telepathically project components of their gestalt - such as people who have been absorbed into it - into other locations, even the interior of a TARDIS.

The power of the Xeraphin was controlled by two aspects, good and evil, of the same personality. The Master was able to access the Xeraphin power to perform what seemed to be conjuring tricks, as well as to create mass hallucinations, but the schism within the Xeraphin meant that the power was unstable - sometimes it worked for him, but sometimes it worked against him.

[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 the Doctor's TARDIS (and presumably of other modes 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 ~ Archangel Network - An earthwide mobile phone satellite network (made up of 15 satellites overall) seen in 'The Sound of Drums', the Archangel network creates a low-level, worldwide telepathic field which allows the Master to subtly influence the behaviour of the entire planet, first by convincing a substantial number of the British public to vote for his Mr. Saxon persona and later to keep most of the human race afraid of him. It also masks his Time Lord nature from the Doctor. In 'The Last of the Time Lords', the Doctor uses the network to channel the combined psychic energy of the entire human race, Martha having convinced them to think of the Doctor by name at the same moment.

It affected 98% of the British population by hypnotising them to Vote Saxon. Characters not affected included Clive Jones and Vivian Rook.

[Spimman]

B ~ Bazoolium A metal that Rose Tyler gives to her mother in "Army of Ghosts". It can be used to predict the weather, warming up when it will be hot and cooling down when it is about to rain.

[Guest]

C ~ Chameleon Arch - The Tenth Doctor uses this in 'Human Nature' to "rewrite" every cell in his body, enabling him to hide from the Family of Blood in 1913. It causes extreme pain as it makes him whatever species the user wants but mostly just fully human, and gives him a set of TARDIS-created false memories in place of his own, creating the persona of 'John Smith'. He retains a small amount of "residual awareness", resulting in dreams about life before the change. The chameleon arch stores the Doctor's Time Lord self in a fob watch that slots into the device as it is operated. In 'Utopia', Martha discovers that the Master used the same process, generating "Professor Yana" as his persona.

[Spimman]

D ~ Decadron Crucible As seen in Pyramids of Mars, a decadron crucible is a temporary containment device that materializes around an unsuspecting person. It looks like a large, acrylic glass cylinder with air vents for the victim. The device has two switches on the front - both shut the device off, but only one does so without killing the occupant.

[Guest]

E ~ EMP unit - A cylindrical device used in 'Voyage of the Damned', taken from Bannakaffalatta's cyborg body as their only effective weapon against the Host. It produces a electromagnetic pulse which neutralises the robots, but has to be recharged after it has been used a certain number of times. A similar device, albeit built as a grenade instead of a reusable unit, appears in the episode 'The Age of Steel', where it serves to neutralise a Cyberman. The EMP inadvertently disables the Cyberman's emotional inhibitor, allowing the brain to remember who it was. This led the Tenth Doctor to deactivate the robot body and kill the victim with the sonic screwdriver.

[Alan]

F ~ Frontier in Space - 1973 story starring Jon Pertwee as "The Doctor" and Katy Manning as "Jo Grant".

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The Doctor and Jo are caught up in the escalating tension between planets Earth and Draconia, and discover that the Master is secretly working to provoke the two sides into all-out war.

[Spimman]

F ~ Firestone A necklace from "The Unicorn and the Wasp", it is connected to the Vespiform, and was used to kill it by Donna Noble by throwing it into a lake. An additional "monster file" on the BBC's Doctor Who website revealed the firestone was found in the lake, and sold at auction to a gentleman in a greatcoat.

[Guest]

G ~ Gas Mask - A regular gas mask from 'The Empty Child'. The "empty" child wore a gas mask. The nanogenes, the cause of the entire problem, grew gas masks on the people affected.

[Spimman]

H ~ Hop Pyleen Brothers from the exalted clifftops of Rex Vox Jax who invented and are copyright holders of Hyposlip Travel Systems. They were guests aboard Platform One to see the Earthdeath spectacle.

[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.

[Spimman]

J ~ Jagrafess was a large, slimy, creature that attached itself to the ceiling of floor 500 on Satellite Five. It wanted to control the Earth through the use of a news station. The Jagrafess could not survive in extreme heat and was killed after one of the reporters purposely channeled the heat towards floor 500. As with many Doctor Who villains, it had a human servant called the Editor (played by Simon Pegg), who called it Max after its full title: the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe.

[Guest]

K ~ Koh-i-Noor Diamond - Revealed to be an element for a telescopic device designed to focus a beam of moonlight to trap and eventually destroy the physical form of a werewolf in 'Tooth and Claw'.