Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Spimman]

F ~ Fob watch engraved with Gallifreyan symbols, used to store the memories and biology of a Time Lord who uses the Chameleon Arch. The watch uses a perception filter to prevent the transformed Time Lord from noticing it. Those with telepathic abilities are apparently immune to the filter, as are those already aware of the watch's nature. The Family of Blood can also smell the Time Lord stored within. When opened by the Time Lord, it restores their original physiology. Anyone else opening it gets flashes of the memories stored within. In the 2008 Christmas Special, "The Next Doctor" (David Morrissey) is discovered to own a fob watch, which the Doctor suspected to be a Time Lord watch. Although it is soon revealed to be a normal fob watch, it helped to identify Morrisey's character as Jackson Lake, a normal human.

[Guest]

G ~ Great Vampire - The Great Vampire is one of the many Vampire lords. It is the last of its kind, the rest of them having been killed by being shot with large metal spears launched by spacegoing warships known as 'bowships'. The Doctor killed the last with one of the scoutships from the lords tower, actually a grounded space vessel in the serial 'State of Decay'.

[Alan]

H ~ Harkness, Jack - Captain Jack Harkness (sometimes simply "Captain Jack" to those close to him, or as the Doctor refers to him "Captain"), was the name adopted by a con man from the 51st century and an associate of the Doctor. His original identity remains a mystery, whenever asked he refuses to answer. Reluctantly immortal and stranded on early 21st century Earth, he currently leads Torchwood 3.

[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.

[Alan]

J ~ Jones, Martha - Martha Jones was a companion to the Doctor and later a member of UNIT.

In 2008, Martha was working at the Royal Hope Hospital on the day it was transported to the Moon by the Judoon. Remaining calm while those around her panicked, Martha worked alongside the the Doctor to track down the Plasmavore, "Florence Finnegan", that the Judoon were searching for. As the oxygen in the hospital ran out, Martha gave her last breaths to resuscitate the unconscious Doctor, who prevented Florence's plan while the Judoon returned the hospital to Earth. Later that evening, a recovered Martha was approached by the Doctor, who revealed that he was a Time Lord and invited her to join him for a single trip through time and space in the TARDIS. She accepted.

The Doctor's nemesis the Master took over Earth, capturing both the Doctor and fellow companion Captain Jack Harkness, Martha is left alone to save the world as the Doctor and Jack are captured but she managed to escape by teleporting away. On the run from the Master, she spends a year travelling the world in a plan which restores the incapacitated Doctor and reverses time, undoing the Master's actions. Able to remember the events during the Master's reign, Martha then leaves the TARDIS of her own accord, telling the Doctor that she can't waste her life pining for someone when the relationship cannot happen, but promises that she will see him again.

Martha qualified as a medical doctor and was recruited to UNIT (Unified Intelligence Taskforce) after the Doctor's recommendation. She was then temporarily drafted to Torchwood Three in Cardiff by Captain Jack, requiring a medical expert on alien life. Martha briefly joins Torchwood as its medical officer following the death of Owen Harper, but later leaves.

She meets the Doctor's new companion Donna Noble; a more assertive and engaged Martha summons the Doctor to Earth to help uncover a plot by the Sontarans. Martha was later promoted to a US division of UNIT and is working on a top secret teleportation project based on Sontaran technology. She rallies alongside fellow companions Jack and Sarah Jane Smith in an effort to face the threat of Davros' plot to destroy reality. In facing Davros, Martha threatens to set off nuclear warheads which will destroy the Earth in order to spare human suffering and curtail his plans, but is stopped. Martha leaves with Jack and former companion Mickey Smith, with Jack saying to her "I'm not sure about UNIT these days... maybe there's something else you could be doing."

[Guest]

K ~ Key of Rassilon - A Gallifreyan artefact that allows access to the Matrix, the repository of all Time Lord knowledge. It is kept by the Keeper of the Matrix, and should not be confused with the Great Key of Rassilon or the Rod of Rassilon.

[Alan]

L ~ Library, The -

"It's a world. Literally; a world. The whole core of the planet is the index computer; biggest hard-drive ever, and up here, every book ever written. Whole continents of Jeffrey Archer, Bridget Jones, Monty Python's Big Red Book. Brand new editions, specially printed."

The Library was a huge library that was built during the 50th century. It contained every book ever written and spanned a whole planet. Within its core was the largest hard drive ever, serving as an index computer. The planet has one moon, which is known as Doctor Moon.

The Library was commissioned by Felman Lux and was managed by a head librarian. Visitors to the Library used courtesy nodes: sculpted computer terminals containing real faces made from donated flesh. The security cameras were levitating wooden spheres. Visitors were advised to switch off their mobile comm units.

Paper editions of every book ever written were made specially for the Library. Unfortunately, the forests cut down to make the books were home to Vashta Nerada, which then hatched from the books and infested the library. The computer managed to "save" all 4022 visitors to its hard drive, where they could dream an imperfect virtual existence. The computer sealed off the planet, and it would be 100 years before the Lux family could arrange an archaeological expedition led by Professor River Song.

[Guest]

M ~ Mara - The Mara is a being of pure hatred, anger and greed, and requires the fear of its victims to survive. It exists in the minds of its victims and can transmit itself telepathically, although it can also physically manifest as a giant snake. It is so evil that it cannot bear the sight of its own reflection. In the Dark Places of the Inside, it manifests as phantoms such as Dukkha, Anatta, and Annica.

The Mara was created on the planet Manussa in the Scrampus system, turning the Manussan empire into the Sumaran empire. Eventually the Mara was defeated and driven out by a Manussan (the ancestor of the future Manussan Federator) and cast into the "dark places beyond". However, it survived.

It was on the planet Deva Loka that the Fifth Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Adric encountered the Mara. When Tegan fell asleep near the wind chimes on Deva Loka, she became possessed by the Mara. It soon left her and possessed a native Kinda named Aris. The possessed Aris then began to stir up the normally peaceful Kinda against an expedition of human colonists who were also present on Deva Loka. The Doctor was able to prevent the humans detonating a bomb which would have destroyed their dome and killed many Kinda, and managed to trap the Mara in a circle of mirrors. As the Mara could not bear to see its own reflection, it was driven out to a place known as the Dark Places of the Inside.

Sometime later, Tegan became possessed by the Mara once again. She then navigated the TARDIS to Manussa, where a ceremony was to be held to mark the 500th anniversary of the banishment of the Mara. Using Tegan and a young Manussan named Lon, the Mara tried to obtain the "great crystal" with which it hoped to restore its corporeal existence. The Doctor was guided by an old mystic named Dojjen who showed him how to find the "still point". When the Mara tried to make its return at the ceremony, the Doctor concentrated his thought with a small replica of the great crystal, and by finding the still point was able to repel the Mara. Then by grabbing the great crystal, the Doctor broke the Mara's hold over its controlled victims, and destroyed its new snake body. This time, the Mara had apparently been completely destroyed, for good.

In the Torchwood episode 'Small Worlds', Jack speculates that "fairies" may be "part Mara". However, his noting of "Mara" as the origin of the word "nightmare" and their ability to steal the breath from their victims suggests that he is referring to the Mara of Germanic/Scandinavian mythology rather than the Manussan Mara. Christopher Bailey, writer of 'Snakedance' and 'Kinda', was a practising Buddhist and named Doctor Who's Mara after the Buddhist demon Mara.

[Alan]

N ~ Next Doctor, The - 2008 TV movie starring David Tennant as "The Doctor" & David Morrissey as "'The Next Doctor'".

Synopsis
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It's Christmas Eve in 1851 and Cybermen stalk the snow of Victorian London. The Doctor arrives and starts to investigate a spate of mysterious deaths. He's surprised to meet another Doctor. The 'other' Doctor has his own sonic screwdriver, a TARDIS... and his own companion, Rosita. But how is this even possible?

[Guest]

O ~ Opera Glasses - These are a small set of binoculars that the Doctor carries with him in 'The Empty Child', as well as in the novel 'The Nightmare of Black Island'. In the latter, he uses them to gain a closer view of Ynis Du's lighthouse. The actual origin of the glasses are unknown; however, the fact that they are described as having "computer-enhanced lenses" suggests that they are a product of some future time.

[Alan]

P ~ Price, Marion - Marion Price is a UNIT officer in the early 21st century. She appeared in the 2008 story The Sontaran Stratagem.

Price holds the rank of Captain and serves as second in command to Colonel Alan Mace and is a senior technical officer. She was charged with coordinating between different countries such as the US, UK, France, Pakistan, India, China and North Korea for a nuclear attack against the Sontaran ship. She also coordinated the attack on the ATMOS factory when Colonel Mace led the attack.

[Guest]

Q ~ Quark - The Quarks appeared in the Second Doctor serial 'The Dominators' (1969).

The Quarks were used on Dulkis by the Dominators to enslave and terrorise the indigenous Dulcian population to ensure the drilling of bore holes through the planet's crust. The Dominators planned to use their technology to fire seeds down the holes which would force the core to erupt, thus providing a new fuel source for their fleet.

The Quarks were rectangular in shape, with four arms: one pair which folded into the body, the other pair being retractable. On the end of each arm was a solitary claw. The legs extended out below the Quark body. The spherical head was visibly divided into octants; the upper four octants formed the sensory hemisphere, which detected changes in light, heat and motion. At five of the corners of the octants were directional crystal beam transmitters (the sixth corner joined with the robot's extremely short neck). Quarks communicated by means of high-pitched sound waves. Their major weakness was a tendency to run out of energy rather quickly.

[Spimman]

R ~ Raak was a sea monster experimented on by Crozier in Mindwarp

[Alan]

R ~ Regeneration - Regeneration is the process by which the Time Lords (and a few other life-forms) could renew themselves physically by changing themselves if worn out by age or has suffered some life-threatening injury or infection or even at will.

The Doctor has regenerated 9 times for the following reasons -

• The 1st Regeneration - Brought on due to natural causes (as seen in the 1966 story The Tenth Planet).
  
  
• The 2nd Regeneration - Enforced by Time Lords (as seen in the 1969 story The War Games).
  
  
• The 3rd Regeneration - Brought on by bodily cell damage caused by powerful radiation from Metebelis Crystal (as seen in the 1974 story Planet of the Spiders).
  
  
• The 4th Regeneration - Brought on after being severely injured following fall from approx. 300ft. (as seen in the 1981 story Logopolis).
  
  
• The 5th Regeneration - Brought on after being poisoned by deadly Spectrox Toxaemia (as seen in the 1984 story The Caves of Androzani).
  
  
• The 6th Regeneration - Brought on after receiving severe head wound whilst TARDIS is attacked (as seen in the 1987 story Time and the Rani).
  
  
• The 7th Regeneration - Brought on after being shot by gang members and undergoing unnecessary heart surgery (as seen in the 1996 TV movie Enemy Within).
  
  
• The 8th Regeneration - Unknown. Possibly brought about during or at the conclusion of the Last Great Time War with the Daleks.
  
  
• The 9th Regeneration - Brought on after bodily cell damage caused by Vortex Energy (as seen in the 2005 story Bad Wolf).

[Guest]

S ~ Sutekh - Sutekh, a member of an alien race called the Osirans, was encountered by the Fourth Doctor in the 1975 story 'Pyramids of Mars'. The Osirans were an ancient and incredibly powerful but now extinct race. The renegade Sutekh was a crazed super-being who feared all forms of life might one day challenge his hegemony and so became Sutekh the Destroyer, the destroyer of all living things. This included his home planet Phaester Osiris and ancient Mars.

Sutekh's brother Horus and the remaining 740 Osirans tracked Sutekh down to Ancient Egypt and used their powers to restrain and imprison him in a pyramid on the planet Earth. He was placed in a remote location with the Eye of Horus beaming a signal from Mars to suppress Sutekh's powers and hold him an immovable prisoner. The tales of the Osirans were remembered in Egyptian mythology — Sutekh as the god Set, brother of Horus; and in the designations Sados and Satan.

In the year 1911, the archaeologist Professor Marcus Scarman broke into the inner chamber of the Pyramid of Horus on Earth, discovering Sutekh and allowing him a chance of escape. Scarman's cadaver was used to construct Osiran service robots and a rocket aimed at the controlling Eye of Horus on Mars. The Doctor was successful in destroying the rocket, but then taken over by Sutekh and made to take Scarman and the Robots to Mars, where they succeeded in destroying the Eye and freeing Sutekh. The Doctor was eventually able to defeat the freed Sutekh by trapping him in a time tunnel for thousands of years — Longer even than the extended life span of an Osiran.