Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

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K ~ Kylie Minogue Portrayed Astrid in the 2007 Christmas Special titled, Voyage of the Damned. She is more well known as a singer and has had hits all over the world including here in the US with Locomotion. She did a nice job in VoftheD. I've seen it already.


I do cut and paste sometimes it's just trying to find the pertinent info takes a bit and if someone is on that can do it faster, leads to my not posting quick enough. It's fine I just know to wait till no one is around that knows more than me. LOL

[Guest]

L ~ Logopolis - It was Tom Baker's last story as the Doctor and marks the first appearance of Peter Davison in the role. Nyssa, played by Sarah Sutton and seen in the previous serial 'The Keeper of Traken', joins the Doctor as a companion. This serial is also the first appearance of Janet Fielding as new companion Tegan Jovanka.

The Fourth Doctor goes to Logopolis to repair the TARDIS's chameleon circuit, but his old enemy the Master has plans of his own for the planet of mathematicians, a plan that could spell doom for the universe.

[Alan]

M ~ Monk, The - The Monk is a renegade Time Lord. He first appeared in the story, The Time Meddler. His last appearance to date was in The Daleks' Master Plan. Other than the Doctor and Susan Foreman, the Monk was the first member of the Doctor's race to appear in Doctor Who, and the second villain (after the Daleks) to make a return appearance. The Monk was played by Peter Butterworth.

[Guest]

N ~ Nestene - The Nestenes are among the oldest beings in the Doctor Who universe, described as creatures which existed in the "Dark Times", along with the Racnoss, Great Vampires and Carrionites. Eventually, they sought to invade the Earth, 'Spearhead from Space', using more human-looking Autons to replace key government figures, although these plans were thwarted by UNIT with the help of the Doctor, who also destroyed their invasion form, a multi-tentacled cephalopod.

The Nestenes subsequently returned in the first serial of Pertwee's second year as the Doctor, 'Terror of the Autons', which also featured the introduction of the Master. In this attempt, the Nestenes also made use of more mundane objects, animating plastic toys, inflatable chairs and artificial flowers in addition to their Auton servants. The Doctor convinced the Master that the Nestenes were too dangerous to be reliable allies, and they reversed the radio beam the invasion force was coming in on, sending it back into space.

[Alan]

O ~ O'Mara, Kate (Actress. Kate O'Mara played the renegade Time Lady, the Rani. She guest starred in the 1985 story The Mark of the Rani and the 1987 story Time and the Rani.

[Guest]

P ~ Plasmavore - Race of shape-changing aliens who lived off the richest veins of haemoglobin they could find. They absorb blood from their victims, which in turn changes their own blood makeup to that of the victim's blood, thereby being able to mimic other species when medically scanned. A plasmavore was hiding in the Royal Hope Hospital on Earth, disguised as Florence Finnegan.

[Alan]

Q ~ Quantum Archangel, The - A novel of the Past Doctor range of books. The Quantum Archangel was written by the late Craig Hinton. It features the 6th Doctor and Melanie 'Mel' Bush and takes place between the TV stories The Trial of a Time Lord and Time and the Rani. It serves as a sequel to the 1972 story The Time Monster.

[Guest]

R ~ Reaper - Reapers appeared in the Ninth Doctor episode "Father's Day".

Reapers are multi-limbed, flying reptiles similar to pterosaurs, with a large wingspan, sharp teeth both in the form of a beak and a secondary mouth in their torsos, coupled with a rapacious attitude. The Reapers are apparently extradimensional, materialising and dematerialising out of the spacetime vortex. They are attracted to temporal paradoxes that damage time, like bacteria swarming around a wound. They then proceed to "sterilise" the wound by consuming everyone in sight.

Once in this dimension, however, they can be blocked by material barriers. The older the barriers, the more effective they are, but even the oldest of barriers cannot stop them forever. Paradoxes can also allow them to directly materialise at the spot of the paradox. If the timeline is restored, they vanish, with their actions reversed as if they had never happened.

[Alan]

S ~ Smith, Mickey - Acquaintance of the 9th Doctor and companion to the 10th Doctor. He first appeared in the 2005 story Rose. Mickey became a companion to the Doctor in the 2006 story School Reunion but left in the 2-part story Rise of the Cybermen to remain on an alternate universe Earth to help bring down the Cybermen's Conversion factories. He returned for one last appearance in the 2-part story Army of Ghosts to help defeat the Cybermen that had crossed over into our universe and the Daleks that had remain trapped in the Void between Time and Space and unleashed a Dalek army from a Time Lord prison. Mickey Smith was played by Noel Clarke.

[Guest]

T ~ Terileptil - The Terileptils appeared in the Fifth Doctor serial 'The Visitation'. They are a reptilian humanoid species, they cannot survive long without breathing soliton gas, which is highly combustible when combined with oxygen. As an advanced society, they enjoy a heightened appreciation of both aesthetics and warfare, and have been known to employ bejeweled androids. Criminal punishment in Terileptil society includes life imprisonment working in tinclavic mines on the planet Raaga, often with sub-standard medical care.

In 1666, a group of Terileptil prison escapees hidden near London attempted to use a genetically enhanced version of the Black Plague to destroy humanity. The destruction of their lab in Pudding Lane - with a little help from the Doctor - causes the Great Fire of London.

The Terileptils destroyed the Sonic Screwdriver which did not appear again until the Doctor Who TV Movie and it is now used regularly in the new series.

[Alan]

U ~ Underworld - 1978 story starring Tom Baker as "The Doctor, Louise Jameson as "Leela", and John Leeson as the voice of "K-9".

[Guest]

V ~ Vampire - The Fourth Doctor encounters vampires whilst travelling in E-Space in the serial 'State of Decay' (1980). On a nameless planet, the Doctor, Romana, Adric and K-9 encounters three vampires, Aukon, Camilla and Zargo. It is revealed that the three are servants of the giant King Vampire, a member of the Great Vampires who once fought a great war against the Time Lords but were eventually defeated. By escaping to E-Space, the King Vampire was the sole surviving member of its race. The Doctor defeats the King Vampire by launching the lesser vampires' tower — actually the command module of the ship piloted by the originally human trio — and using it as a stake to pierce the giant vampire's heart. The three servant vampires perish along with their king.

[Alan]

W ~ Warriors' Gate - 1980 story starring Tom Baker as "The Doctor, Lalla Ward as "Romana", Matthew Waterhouse as "Adric", & John Leeson as the voice of "K-9". Warriors' Gate was the last story of the E-Space trilogy which started with Full Circle and continued with State of Decay. This story marked the last regular appearances of Lalla Ward as "Romana" and John Leeson as the voice of "K-9".

[Guest]

X ~ Xeraphin - The Xeraphin were an ancient species encountered by the Fifth Doctor in the story 'Time-Flight'. 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.

Before fleeing Xeriphas and the Xeraphin, the Master took with him Kamelion, a Xeraphin war weapon with advanced shape-changing abilities dependent on the will of its controller. Kamelion was freed from the Master and joined the Doctor's TARDIS crew in "The King's Demons".

[Alan]

Y ~ Yo-Yo - A toy enjoyed by the 4th Doctor. In the 1975 story The Ark in Space, the Doctor used his Yo-Yo to test the gravity and managed to determine that the TARDIS had materialised on board a space station.