Doctor Who & Spin-Offs A-Z Game

[Alan]

C ~ Captain Jack Harkness - Penultimate episode of the first series of Torchwood.

Synopsis
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Investigating reports of ghostly music, Jack and Toshiko find themselves stranded in a packed dance hall - in 1941. As Gwen, Owen and Ianto work to rescue their colleagues, Jack and Toshiko meet a handsome young American squadron leader by the name of... Captain Jack Harkness.

[Guest]

D ~ 'Destiny of the Daleks' - First broadcast in four weekly parts from September 1 to September 22, 1979. The story introduces Lalla Ward as the newly-regenerated Romana.

Synopsis:

The TARDIS lands the Fourth Doctor and Romana on a strangely familiar planet. There, they meet the android Movellans, who are locked in a war with the Daleks. The planet is Skaro, and in a bunker sits an enemy long thought dead — Davros, creator of the Daleks.

[Alan]

E ~ Enemy of the Bane - Final story of the second series of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Guest starring Nicholas Courtney as "Brigadier Sir Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart".

Synopsis
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Sarah Jane encounters an unwelcome face from the past. Mrs Wormwood is being hunted by the Bane, and she needs Sarah Jane's help stop them using an ancient alien power to take over the galaxy. Meanwhile, Gita has vanished, and Sarah Jane seeks help of her own - from the Brigadier.

[Guest]

F ~ 'Frontios' - First broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from January 26 to February 3, 1984.

Synopsis:

The planet Frontios is mankind’s last colony, (its inhabitants having fled a dying Earth) and the location of hidden dangers.

[Spimman]

G ~ Genesis Ark A Dalek-shaped prison ship created by the Time Lords to store millions of captured Daleks, introduced in "Doomsday". Like the TARDIS, it is bigger on the inside, containing millions of prisoners yet being only large enough to release one Dalek at a time. It is sucked into the Void after the Doctor opens the breach.

[Guest]

H ~ Haemovore - Haemovores appeared in the Seventh Doctor story 'The Curse of Fenric' (1989).

Vampiric creatures that fed on blood, they were the end result of human evolution in a possible far future, caused by millennia of pollution. As part of his final game against the Doctor, the entity known as Fenric transported the most powerful Haemovore (called the "Ancient One") through time to Viking Age Northumbria. There it waited, trapped beneath the North Sea for centuries, occasionally drawing victims into the water and transforming them into Haemovores.

[Alan]

I ~ Ice Warriors, The - 1967 story starring Patrick Troughton as "The Doctor", Frazer Hines as "Jamie McCrimmon", and Deborah Watling as "Victoria Waterfield".

Synopsis
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The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria arrive on Earth in the far future to find that the planet is in the grip of a second ice age. Scientific outposts are scattered across the globe, fighting desperately against advancing glaciers that threaten to send the world back into prehistory.

When a huge armoured figure is discovered buried in the ice, a force more deadly than the ice floes is unleashed - Varga, a Martian Warrior, whose craft crash-landed centuries ago. Reviving his crew, he aims to conquer Earth in the name of Mars.

With power at the outpost sinking to dangerously low levels, it falls to the Doctor to try to save humanity - not only from the warmongering Ice Warriors, but from the barely checked powers of the relentless glaciers.

Trivia
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First appearance of the Ice Warriors.

[Guest]

J ~Jelly Babies are a confectionery favoured by the Second, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh, and Eighth Doctors and the sixth seen incarnation of the Master.

[Alan]

K ~ Keeper of the Matrix, The - The Keeper of the Matrix was the Time Lord who watched over the Matrix and was in full charge of it. The Keeper kept the Key of Rassilon, the only key to the Matrix, on his person at all time. The Keeper was to keep the Matrix in good repair and make any necessary adjustments.

At the conclusion of the 6th Doctor's trial, the Keeper had been taken over by the Valeyard. Possibly the real Keeper never left Gallifrey.

[Guest]

L ~ Leela - Leela first appears in the 1977 serial, 'The Face of Evil', where she was a warrior of the savage Sevateem tribe, who were the descendants of the crew of an Earth ship that crash landed on an unnamed planet in the far future. The name of her tribe, "Sevateem", was a corruption of "survey team". Although the Doctor at this point was content to travel alone, Leela barges into the TARDIS and continues to accompany the Doctor on his journeys.

Although Leela is a primitive, she was also highly intelligent, grasping advanced concepts easily and translating them into terms she could cope with. Despite the Doctor's attempts at "civilizing" her, however, Leela is strong-willed enough to continue in her savage ways. She usually dresses in animal skins, armed with a knife or a set of poisonous Janis thorns which she does not hesitate to use on people who threatened her, much to the Doctor's disapproval.

Although Jameson's eyes are naturally blue, as Leela she initially wore red contact lenses to make them brown. However, the contact lenses severely limited her vision, and producer Graham Williams promised her she could stop wearing them. To explain the change in-story, writer Terrance Dicks wrote a scene in the 1977 serial 'Horror of Fang Rock' where Leela's eyes suffer "pigment dispersal" and turn blue after viewing the explosion of the Rutan ship.

In her travels with the Doctor, Leela faces killer robots, murderous homunculi, the Rutan Host, and the Sontaran invasion of the Doctor's home planet of Gallifrey. It is during this final adventure, 'The Invasion of Time', that she meets and falls in love with Andred, a native Gallifreyan, and decides to stay behind to be with him. The first K-9 remains with her.

[Alan]

M ~ Mark of Mandragora, The - Comic strip story featuring the 7th Doctor and Ace, with Brigadier Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart.

This story acts as a sequel to the 1976 TV story The Masque of Mandragora.

Synopsis
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At the end of the Twentieth Century, the Mandragora Helix returns to Earth to be re-born. And there's nothing the Doctor, Ace or UNIT can do to prevent it.

[Guest]

N ~ Nestene conciousness - The Nestene was a being of pure psychic energy, somewhat cephalopod-like in appearance ('Terror of the Autons'). The Nestene had the ability to possess plastic, shunting some of its consciousness into the plastic and allowing it to control it. Over the course of its invasions it possessed the autons ('Spearhead from Space'), inflatable chairs, dolls, telephone cords, plastic daffodils, ('Terror of the Autons') and garbage bins ('Rose'). The Nestene could transport sections of its mind through radio waves. ('Terror of the Autons') It could also create a body out of the plastic for itself, allowing it to manipulate its surroundings ('Spearhead from Space').

The body created by the Nestene out of plastic was generally similar to its real appearance, being somewhat like a giant octopus. After the stresses of the Last Great Time War, it manifested as a more liquid form, which had a humanoid face.

[Alan]

O ~ Other, The - The Other, with Rassilon and Omega, was one of three founders of Time Lord society. The birth and origin of the Other would remain a mystery for later Time Lords.

The Other was influential the Dark Times on Gallifrey after the cult of Pythia had ended. The Other married Patience, Omega's former bride. Because the Pythia's curse, which made Gallifreyans sterile, had not yet come into effect, he had children. He and the Hand of Omega had something of a bond. As Rassilon's rule moved closer to despotism and Gallifrey's borders were sealed, the Other attempted to escape the planet by hurling himself into the Looms to await his eventual reconstitution.

[Guest]

P ~ 'Peladon, The Curse of' - First broadcast in four weekly parts from 29 January to 19 February 1972.

Synopsis:

The Third Doctor and Jo land on the planet Peladon, where they become embroiled in the politics of its admission to the Galactic Federation, and have to contend with an ancient royal curse.

[Alan]

Q ~ Quarks - Quarks were the robot slaves of the Dominators' galactic empire also known to have conquered worlds on their own.

Quarks were originally the robot servants of the Near-Human Dominators. The Doctor and his companions Zoe and Jamie first encountered them on Dulkis. Among other tasks, they operated drills for the Dominators. Other accounts show the Quarks working alone, without reference to the Dominators.