THE DOCTOR

Real Name: Unrevealed

Identity/Class: Extradimensional (Earth-Who) extra temporal (Time Lord) extraterrestrial (Gallifreyan).

Occupation: Interstellar interfering busybody, Time Lord;

(intermittently) Scientific Advisor to the United Nations International Taskforce / Unified Intelligence Taskforce

(formerly) Scrutionary Archivist, Lord High President of Gallifrey, Restaurateur (fifth Doctor only), hermit (sixth Doctor and Muldwych incarnations only), Speakeasy owner (seventh Doctor only), Secondary school science teacher (tenth Doctor only), school caretaker, President of Earth, Professor of Science at St. Luke's University (twelfth Doctor only), museum curator (unspecified future regeneration only)

Group Membership: Paternoster Gang (Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint, Strax), the Deca (Koschei [a.k.a. the Master, Missy], Ushas [a.k.a. the Rani], Drax, Mortimus [a.k.a the Monk, Meddling Monk, Time Meddler], Magnus [a.k.a. the War Chief], the Doctor, Vansell, Rallon, Millennia, Jelpax), the Diogenes Club, the Time Lords of Gallifrey;

formerly U.N.I.T. (United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, later Unified Intelligence Taskforce: Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Brigadier Winifred Bambera, Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, Captain Michael "Mike" Yates, Captain Muriel Frost, Corporal Carol Bell, Dr. Elizabeth Klein, Dr. Martha Jones, Petronella Osgood, Sergeant Major John Benton, Surgeon-Lieutenant Harry Sullivan, others)

Affiliations: Traveling companions: (former) Abigail Pettigrew, Abslom Daak, Adam Mitchell, Adric, Alan Mortimer, Alayna, Alex Yow, Ali, Alice Obiefune, Amy (Abby), Amy Barker, Amy Pond, Andric, Angela Jennings, Angie Maitland, Angus "Gus" Goodman, Anji Kapoor, Ann Kelso, Antranak, ARC (Autonomous Reasoning Center), Arnold ?, Artie Maitland, Avan "Frobisher" Tarklu, Ayfai, Barbara Wright, Bazima, Ben Jackson, Bev Tarrant, Bill Potts, Billy Wilkins, Bliss, Brandon Yow, Brod, Brooke, Canton Delaware III, "Captain" Jack Harkness, Captain Michael "Mike" Yates, Catherine "Cat" Broome, Chantir, Charlie Fisher, Charlotte "Charley" Pollard, Chertzog, Chris Cwej, Cinder, Cindy Wu, Clara Oswald, Claudia ?, Compassion, Constance Clarke, C'Rizz, Crystal ?, Daphne ?, Debbie Castle, Deborah ?, Decky Flamboon, Delilah, Destrii, Devina Collins, Doctor Elizabeth "Liz" Shaw, Doctor Evelyn Smythe, Donna Noble, Dorothea "Dodo" Chaplet, Dorothy "Ace" McShane, Dot Strong, Ediphis, Edward Fyne, Elizabeth Klein, Emily Chaudhry, Emily Winter, Erimemushinteperem "Erimem", Evelyn Chan, Fenella Wibbsey, Fey "Feyde" Truscott-Sade, Finny, Fitz Kreiner (Father Kreiner), Fitz Kreiner (Kode), Flora Millrace, Frank ?, Gabby Gonzalez, Gemma Griffin, George Mortimer, Gertie ?, the Ghost (Grant Gordon), Gisella, Grace Holloway, Grant Markham, Grayla, Handles, Hannah Batholemew, Haroll Strong, Hattie Munroe, Heather McCrimmon, Heather Threadstone, Helen Mortimer, Helen Sinclair, Heleyna, Henry Gordon Jago, Hill, Ian Chesterton, Ida Mortimer, Isabelle "Izzy" Sinclair, Jack Strong, James Robert "Jamie" McCrimmon, Jane Hampden, Jason ?, Jata, Jemima ?, Jemima-Katy, Jenny, Jeremy Fitzoliver, Jessica "Jess" Collins, Josephine "Jo" Grant, Josie Day, Joshua Douglas, June?, Kalan, Kamelion, Katarina, Kazran Sardik, Kevin, K-9 Mark 1, K-9 Mark 2, K-9 Mark 3, K-9 Mark 4, Kroton, Leela, Liv Chenka, Lloyd Collins, Lorenzo Smitt, Lucie Miller, Lucy Fletcher, Ly-Chee, Lysandra Aristedes, Mai Kondo, Marmaduke, Martha Jones, Mary Shelley, Matthew Finnegan, Maxwell "Max" Collins, Melanie "Mel" Bush, Mickey Smith, Mila, Milena, Molly O'Sullivan, Nardole, Nick Willard, Nina, Nyssa of Traken, Oliver Day, Oliver Harper, Olla, Ollistra, Perpigillium "Peri" Brown, Petrella, Philippa "Flip" Jackson, Polly Wright, Professor Bernice "Benny" Summerfield, Professor George Litefoot, Professor Lammers, Rachel Cooper, Raine Creevy, Ray Stobbs, Rejoice, Rita ?, Robert McIntosh, Robert "Bobby" Zierath, Romanadvoratrelundar, Roslyn "Roz" Forester, Rose (cat), Rose Tyler, Sally Morgan, Samantha "Sam" Jones, Samson Griffin, the Sapling, Sarah Jane Smith, Sara Kingdom, Serenadellatrovella "Serena", Sharon Davies Allen, Sheena ? (a.k.a. Emma, a.k.a Louise), Shelly, Sir Justin, Sonny Robinson, Splinx, the Squire, Ssard, Stacy Townsend, Steven Taylor, Surgeon-Lieutenant Harry Sullivan, Susan Foreman, Tamsin Drew, Tara Mishra, Tegan Jovanka, Thomas Brewster, Thomas Hector "Hex" Schofield, Tiger Maratha, Todd ?, Tony Barker, Trix MacMillan, Val Kent, Vicki Pallister, Victoria Waterfield, Vislor Turlough, Will Arrowsmith, Will Chandler, Will Hoffman, William Shakespeare, William ?, Wolfgang "Wolfie" Ryter, Wolsey, ? Young, Zeleekha, Zoe Herriot, Zog, unidentified businesswoman, unidentified tramp

(current) Graham O'Brien, Ryan Sinclair, Yasmin Khan;

(future) Anna ?, Emily Blandish, Guinevere Winchester, Iphegenia, Ria Rayden;

(sideways - companions of alternate universe Doctors) Arnold ?, Alison Cheney, Antimony, Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Ellie Martin, Emma ?, John, Gillian, Larna, the Master, Ruth Vollmer

(intermittently) Scientific Advisor to U.N.I.T.

ally of Actis, Albert Fitzwilliam Digby, Ancelyn, Bret Vyon, Brill, Chang Lee, the Corsair, Craig Owens, Dan Dare, Danny Pink, Death's Head (Freelance Peacekeeping Agent), Death's Head (Minion), Dr Grace Holloway, Dorium Maldovar, the Freefall Warriors (Big Cat, Bruce, Cool Breeze, Machinehead), Garshak, God (of the People), Guy de Carnac, Henry Avery, Honoré Lechasseur, the Hulk (Bruce Banner), I.M. Foreman, the Intrusion Counter Measures Group (Dr. Alison Williams, Group Captain Ian "Chunky" Gilmore, Professor Rachel Jensen, Toby Kinsella, others), Iris Wildthyme, Irving Braxiatel, Ivan Asimoff, Jackie Tyler, Jackson Lake, Jason Kane, Jenny, Jerry Cornelius, John Riddell, Kadaitu Lethbridge-Stewart, Kalendorf, Keepsake, Kopyion Liall a Mahajetsu, Lady Christina de Souza, Maxwell Edison, Merlin, Missy, Nefertiti, River Song, Robert McIntosh, Robin Hood, Ruby Duvall, Sabalom Glitz, Shayde, Star Tigers (Abslom Daak, Harma, Vol Mercurius, Salander), Wilfred Mott, Winston Churchill; Reality-616's Reed Richards, Alistaire Stewart, Dr. Stephen Strange (possibly; see comments); the crew of the Federation starship Enterprise NCC-1701 (Captain James T. Kirk, Spock, Dr. Leonard McCoy, others), the crew of the Federation starship Enterprise NCC-1701 E (Captain Jean-Luc Picard, William Ryker, Mr. Data, others), the crew of the U.S.S. Swinetrek (Captain Link Hogthrob, First Mate Piggy, Dr. Julius Strangepork); library card holder for the Library of St John the Beheaded;

(former) agent of the Eternal / God of Gallifrey known as Time, student of K'Anpo Rinpoche, owner of Pimms Shipping Company, head of the Tao Te Lung Hong Kong Triad.

(as the Other) former partner of Omega and Rassilon

Enemies: (Only major foes or ones who have interacted with the Marvel Universe) Beep the Meep, Berakka Dogbolter, Catavolcus, Chelonians, Cybermen, Daleks, Faction Paradox, Fenric, the Feratu, Gaunts, Gods of Ragnarok, Gol Clutha, the Great Intelligence, Gwanzulum, Hob, Ice Warriors, Josiah W. Dogbolter, the Master, the Mekon, Melanicus, the Moderator, Morbius, Mortimus, Nazis, Nimrod, the Rani, Rassilon, Sabbath, the Silence, Silurians and Sea Devils, Sontarans, Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross, the Timewyrm, Torchwood, the Valeyard, Weeping Angels, the Wrekka;

(former/on occasion) Death's Head

Known Relatives: Susan "Foreman" (grand-daughter), Miranda "Dawkins" (adopted daughter, deceased), Jenny (kind-of-clone, "daughter"), Zezanne (grand-daughter via Miranda), Alex Campbell (great-grandson via Susan, deceased), Barbara, Ian and David Campbell (adoptive great-grandchildren via Susan), Irving Braxiatel (brother), Patience (Other's wife, deceased), Scarlette (eighth Doctor's wife), Queen Elizabeth I (tenth Doctor's wife), River Song (eleventh Doctor's wife), Iphegenia (future incarnations' wife), Marilyn Monroe (eleventh Doctor's alleged wife); Almund, Arkhew, Celesia, Chovor, DeRoosifa, Farg, Glospin, Innocet, Jobiska, Luton, Maljamin, Owis, Quences, Rynde, Salpash, Satthralope, Tulgel, 28 unnamed others (Cousins); unidentified sisters, Granny One through Seven (grandmothers), Penelope (possible mother), Salyavin (possible father), Amy Pond (mother-in-law), Rory Williams (father-in-law), Anthony Brian Williams (brother-in-law), Brian Williams (paternal grandfather-in-law), the Other (genetic forebear), Pfifl and Laklis (Hroth foster parents, fifth Doctor on)

Aliases: (Used often or for prolonged periods of his life) d3sigma x2, the Doctor, Doctor John Smith, Doctor Walters, Claudius Dark, the Curator, Merlin, Muldwych, the Ripper, the Sandman, Theta Sigma, the Valeyard, the War Doctor;

(applied to him by others) Bringer of Darkness, the Dark One, Doctor Mysterio, Doctor Who, Eighth Man Bound, the Evergreen Man, the Evil One, He Whose Name Dare Not Be Mentioned, the Ka Faraq Gatri (Destroyer of Worlds), the Oncoming Storm, the Other, the Relic, the Renegade, the Saviour, Sir Doctor of TARDIS (not strictly an alias, as he was genuinely knighted by Queen Victoria), Snail, Thete, Time's Champion, Wormhole; by the Chinese he is sometimes known as "Hu", "the tiger", for his courage, sometimes as "Hu", "the fox", for his cunning, but most commonly "xue" (pronounced hu), "he who tends to the sick."

(mistaken for, and didn't bother correcting) the Abbot of Amboise, Commander John Ballard, Doc Holliday, Doctor Friedlander, the Examiner, Maximillian Petullian, Meglos, Salamander, Sir Reginald Styles, Zeus;

(occasional / once off) Albert Einstein, Captain Grumpy, Doctor Bowman, Doctor Caligari, Doctor Galloway, Doctor Grigori Kalashnikov, Doctor James McCrimmon, Doctor / Major General Johann Schmidt, Doctor Jonas Smythe, Doctor Vaughn Sutton, Doctor von Wer, Doc Gallifrey, Doktor of Tardis, Gracie Witherspoon, the Great Wizard Qui Quae Quod, Gaius Iunius Faber, James Alistair Bowman, Jean Forgeron, John Rutherford, johnsmith8, Lung Tau (the Dragon's Head), Mr Ashcroft, Mr Pendragon, Perdix, Richard A. Fells, the Savant, Sir Doctor Peter Pollard, the Supremo, "Sweety," Zagreus

Base of Operations: the TARDIS

(previously) the House of Lungbarrow, Southern Gallifrey; the Capitol, Gallifrey; I.M. Foreman's Junkyard, 76 Totter's Lane, Shoreditch, London, Earth-Who, 1963; England, Earth-Who, 1970s/1980s (third incarnation, period of exile); Tempis Fugit Restaurant, planet Pella Satyrnis, c.63rd Century (fifth incarnation, stranded five years), Oliver Bainbridge Functional Stabilisation Centre, planet Ha'olam, late 22nd century (eighth incarnation, prisoner, 3 years); England, Earth-Who, 20th century (eighth incarnation, 100 year period of amnesia)

(intermittently) the House on Allen Street, Adisham, Kent, Earth-Who, various years; Stockbridge, England, Earth-Who, various years

(in the future) Mount Kukoeuk, Ant'kyhon (a.k.a Earth-Who c.21,000 A.D.-22,000 A.D.), (Muldwych incarnation, 1,000 year long exile).

First Appearance: (Television) "An Unearthly Child," BBC1 (23rd November 1963);

(comics) "The Klepton Parasites," TV Comic#674 (14th November 1964);

(Marvel UK) "The Iron Legion," Doctor Who Weekly#1 (17th October 1979)

(Marvel US) "The Iron Legion," Marvel Premiere#57 (December 1980)

(first on-panel appearance alongside Marvel Multiverse character [Merlin]) "The Neutron Knights," Doctor Who Monthly#60 (January 1982)

(first on-panel visit to Reality-616) "Time Bomb!", Death's Head#8 (July 1989)

(first on-panel appearance alongside probably Earth-616 characters) "Party Animals," Doctor Who Magazine#173 (May 1991)

Powers/Abilities: As with other Gallifreyans, the Doctor is physically superior to normal humans in nearly every respect, though not generally superhumanly so. He is slightly stronger than his appearance would suggest, has greater stamina and better than average agility. His senses are also slightly keener than a human's, and he is capable of noticing ripples in the patterns of time. He can survive without oxygen for short periods of time, and can even survive unprotected in the vacuum of space for several minutes. Among the more obvious physical differences between his body and that of a human is that he has two hearts. He is capable of healing most wounds given time, even regrowing severed appendages on occasion (although this can take weeks). If he suffers an injury so severe that he cannot survive then he is able to completely regenerate his body, taking on a entirely new form (based on examples of other Time Lords seen regenerating, even decapitation might not be fatal; severe injury to both hearts, however, would be). Doing so causes near fatal mental strain, and as a result he generally suffers a period of mental instability thereafter, which in the past has manifested as amnesia, mood swings, and even full blown psychotic episodes; in the end his mind settles down again, but in every instance his personality is altered by the experience. Perhaps due to the strain this imposes, Time Lords can only regenerate twelve times, allowing them a total of thirteen bodies. During the first 15 hours after a regeneration, a Time Lord possesses enough residual regenerative energy to regrow lost limbs in seconds if they are severed; conversely, the severed appendage also retains some residual life, and can continue moving to some degree for at least a year afterwards.

The Doctor is moderately telepathic, another of his species' gifts. He cannot read minds, but is capable of communicating with other telepathic beings. Boosted by his TARDIS, this telepathy is able to act as an instant translator of virtually all spoken or written languages, a gift which is extended to those who travel with him; it is so effective that those using the gift are generally not even conscious of the fact that they shouldn't be able to understand nor speak the alien tongues they are encountering. Time Lords can recognize one another by their telepathic signature even when they have changed their appearances, unless one of them is deliberately masking who they are.

The Doctor's greatest ability is his intellect. He is vastly more intelligent than any human, with extensive knowledge of most sciences, and an extremely quick and adaptive mind. He is resistant to forms of mental coercion such as hypnosis, brainwashing, mind control or mind probes. Trips into his mindscape have shown that each of his earlier personae still survive there, acting as keepers of their portions of his memories and aspects of his personality (the fifth incarnation is generally seen as the conscience of the later Doctors, for example). Future personalities have also been seen to form in this mindscape, in preparation for impending regeneration - for example the Doctor's seventh persona is widely believed to have deliberately usurped the body and forced a regeneration after his sixth body suffered a minor head injury. Combined with their telepathic ability, some Time Lords can give these future forms a level of physical presence in the real world separate from their main body; the Doctor himself has demonstrated this ability on two occasions, once when he subconsciously created a poorly defined "Watcher" entity just prior to his fourth regeneration, and once when a distilled composite of all his evil and less noble traits broke loose and became the being known as the Valeyard. All incarnations of the Doctor have been seen to be skilled hypnotists too, and most have displayed a talent for disguise and mimicry.

The Doctor is a brilliant engineer, well known for his ability to build a device for any circumstances he encounters. If what he needs is not to hand he often jury-rigs temporary equipment to combat the evils he comes across. His most common tool (other than his TARDIS) is the sonic screwdriver, which can be adapted to a number of uses, most commonly to open locked doors of all varieties. It has also been seen to remotely detonate mines and swamp gas, to repel creatures with sensitive hearing, and even to remove screws. Later incarnations carry psychic paper; those with especially strong wills or genius intellects, or those specifically trained to resist, are able to see that the paper is actually blank, but most people see appropriate forms of official ID that allow the Doctor access to restricted areas or place him in a position of authority. The Doctor also stores a variety of other useful objects in his pockets, which he has finally admitted have an extra dimension sewn into them, making them much bigger on the inside.

Each version of the Doctor has certain abilities and skills peculiar only to that regeneration. The third was a master of unarmed combat, in particular Venusian Aikido, a talent he achieved without any training. The seventh could disrupt the brain's electrons with a touch, allowing him to render people unconscious. The eighth had the ability to read the patterns of time, allowing him to pull out hints about a person's past or future from their timeline.

While the Doctor normally disdains physical violence, he has shown himself in the past to be a skilled swordsman (at least from his fourth incarnation on), having been trained by one of Cleopatra's guards; the twelfth Doctor was able to outfight a skilled opponent (Robin Hood) who was armed with a sword while the Doctor was only armed with a spoon. He is an expert with a crossbow (trained with William Tell), and even his first, elderly form was an able fighter, having learned wrestling from the Mountain Mauler of Montana.

History:

the Other...

(TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) -When the universe was in its infancy, one of the first civilizations arose on the planet Gallifrey. They were exceptionally long lived, naturally sensitive to the flow of time, and highly telepathic. For many long years the Gallifreyans were ruled by a matriarchal cult led by the Pythia, who ruled through superstition and magic. Gradually an opposing faction arose which embraced science, conquering space and establishing a Gallifreyan Empire. Most notably a triumvirate of three young Gallifreyans came to the fore; the scientist Rassilon, the engineer Omega, and a third individual whose name has been lost to history, remembered only as the Other. Together these three pioneered the science of time travel. Foreseeing that her rule was ending, the 508th Pythia committed suicide, but not before using her vast telepathic powers to curse her people with sterility; no more children would be born of the womb on Gallifrey.

Rassilon turned his attention to this problem, and created vast Looms of genetic material, capable of decanting new Gallifreyans from the primordial soup within. His first few prototypes of the new "Loom-born" Gallifreyans would eventually become known as the Special Executive. The later Loom-born had lesser telepathic abilities and shorter life spans than their Womb-born counterparts, but could regenerate their forms. To keep the population under control, Rassilon organised the Gallifreyans into Houses, and decreed that each House could have only 45 "Cousins" at any one time.

The three friends' experiments into time travel continued, and they came to realize that a very special power source was required to allow development of stable time travel. They would need to capture a black hole. So they developed a stellar manipulator known as the Hand of Omega, able to blow up stars. Unfortunately sabotage by an outside agency meant that Omega's ship was sucked into the newly created void, and he would long be believed dead. But his sacrifice helped make the Gallifreyans Lords of Time.

Back on Gallifrey Rassilon had become a hero, and de facto ruler of the planet. Some nine years after the death of the Pythia, he ordered a massacre of her remaining followers who were hiding in her temple. Rassilon felt no pity for her acolytes as his wife had miscarried when the Pythia invoked her curse, but the Other could not stomach the new totalitarian regime he could see taking over his world. He ordered that his sole surviving relative (and the last child who had been born before the curse), his grand-daughter Susan, be taken safely off-world, for he saw trouble in his planet's future, and then he committed suicide by throwing himself into the Looms, mixing his genetic material with what was already there.

The Other would be proven right; first Rassilon would lead a campaign against any alien powers he deemed might one day threaten his new Gallifrey, exterminating a number of species such as the Charon and the Great Vampires; where possible they would wipe them from history in what would later be termed the Time Wars. And secondly civil war came again to Gallifrey when the Loom-born, tired of being treated as second class citizens, rose up to exterminate their Womb-born fellows. Although Rassilon himself remained venerated as their "father," the rest of the Womb-born were eventually thought to be wiped out, although in truth a handful of them survived, hiding themselves amongst the rest of the population. Some of them survive to this day, millennia later.

Eventually the Time Lords adopted a policy of non-intervention. Forbidden to travel into their own past or future, a people who prided themselves on observing and recording all history ironically (or conveniently) forgot much of their own. Rassilon's era became known as the Old Time.

Theta Sigma/the first Doctor...

A few thousand years ago a new Cousin was born in the House of Lungbarrow. His true name was all but unpronounceable to anyone who wasn't Gallifreyan, and besides, his relatives soon took to calling him by the derisive nicknames "Snail" and "Wormhole" because of the small indentation-like birth mark he had in the lower portion of his chest. Being Loom-borns, none of them recognized what another species would have said was an umbilicus (or "belly-button"). Unknown to all, including the new born, the Other's genetic material had finally been fully restored to a new body. Snail never fitted in and had no real friends amongst his Cousins.

As was expected Snail went to the Academy, the graduates of whom would rise above being simple Gallifreyans to the thousand strong Time Lord elite, and there he gained a new name from his classmates: Theta Sigma, or Thete for short. Enrolled in the Prydonian Chapter, whose members were renowned for being devious, he encountered Irving Braxiatel, a kindred spirit a few classes above him, who also yearned for life beyond the stagnant atmosphere on unchanging Gallifrey. Thete fell in with a group of the brightest students who called themselves the Deca, many of whom would later leave Gallifrey and become renegades from their people. And it was while he was one of the Deca that Thete finally chose a name for himself, rather than letting others pick for him; he became known as the Doctor. He viewed this name he chose as a promise to the universe and to himself: "Never cruel or cowardly. Never give up, never give in."

Knowing that the head of his House, Quences, had ambitions of high office for him, the Doctor deliberately scraped a minimum pass mark at the Academy. Angered, Quences disowned the Doctor, and without waiting for permission to do so, had the family Loom decant a new Cousin to replace him. The Doctor informed the head of the Prydonian Chapter of this breach of the rules, and then decided that the time was right to leave his homeworld. Stealing a TARDIS from the repair bays (as the rest were too well guarded), he departed Gallifrey unaware that his House had been excommunicated for creating a new Cousin, their names struck off all records and all his Cousins buried alive in the House for their crime. They would remain there for hundreds of years.

The Doctor soon discovered he had a stowaway in his new TARDIS. The Hand of Omega, which had been in storage for many years since its last use, had recognized in the Doctor the pattern of one of its makers, and followed him on board. It overrode the safeguards that prevented travel into Gallifrey's past, taking the Doctor back to the Old Time. There he soon encountered a young girl living on the streets. Susan, the Other's grand-daughter, had not made it off-planet after all; the instant she and the Doctor met they recognized a connection between them, and when Susan called him "Grandfather" somehow the Doctor knew she was correct no matter how much it defied logic. Together they set off on journeys across the breadth of the universe.

(The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic) - In an unspecified alternate reality (perhaps Earth-Crossover - see comments), Britain celebrated Red Nose Day, a bi-annual charity fundraising event. Dan Dare and his friend Albert Digby visited a Treen colony hoping to convince the Mekon, the "stingiest, most hard-boiled egghead in the galaxy," to donate to the telethon, but the tyrant refused, and was backed up by several alien species who would become frequent foes of the Doctor, including Martian Ice Warriors, Cybermen, Draconians, Daleks and Sontarans. The TARDIS materialized and the first Doctor and Susan exited to assist, as did his six later incarnations and their companions Victoria Waterfield, Leela, K-9, Tegan Jovanka and Ace. Together they used a large cannon-like device loaded with red noses "filled with the yoghourt (sic) of human kindness," to transform the attitudes of the alien meanies, making them (semi-)willing contributors. The aliens then queued up to hand their donations to Dare, Digby and the Doctors.

(TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - Eventually Susan decided she wanted to try living as a proper teenager for a while. The two Gallifreyans stopped off in 1963 London, England, and Susan enrolled in a local school, Coal Hill, under the alias Susan Foreman, taking the surname from the sign at the front of the junkyard the TARDIS had landed in, I.M. Foreman. But her strange nature soon drew the attention of two of her teachers, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, who followed her home one night to the junkyard. The Doctor had used the prolonged stay to arrange to hide the Hand of Omega on Earth, and possibly because of this and a fear that the teachers might draw the attention of the authorities to the Hand, he took off with them inside the ship, kidnapping them.

Time passed. When Susan fell in love on 22nd century Earth, a world recently freed from Dalek invaders, the Doctor locked her out of the TARDIS and left her behind because he knew she would otherwise sacrifice her own happiness out of a sense of duty to remain with him. Later, Ian and Barbara, having long since earned his trust, eventually returned home. Other companions joined him in his travels, and as he saw more of the universe, the Doctor increasingly encountered beings of evil he felt had to be opposed. After a while his body, old when he had left Gallifrey, finally gave in to time, and he experienced his first regeneration.

the second Doctor... His new body had a tendency to act the fool while quietly manipulating events behind the scenes. He continued his campaign against evil across the galaxy, and more companions came and went. (The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic) - In an unspecified alternate reality (perhaps Earth-Crossover), Britain celebrated Red Nose Day, a bi-annual charity fundraising event. Dan Dare and his friend Albert Digby visited a Treen colony hoping to convince the Mekon, the "stingiest, most hard-boiled egghead in the galaxy," to donate to the telethon, but the tyrant refused, and was backed up by several alien species who would become frequent foes of the Doctor, including Martian Ice Warriors, Cybermen, Draconians, Daleks and Sontarans. The TARDIS materialized and the second Doctor and his companion Victoria Waterfield exited to assist, as did his prior and next five incarnations and their companions Susan, Leela, K-9, Tegan Jovanka and Ace. Together they used a large cannon-like device , loaded with red noses "filled with the yoghourt (sic) of human kindness," to transform the attitudes of the alien meanies, making them (semi-)willing contributors. The aliens then queued up to hand their donations to Dare, Digby and the Doctors. (TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - Finally he faced a problem that he could not deal with alone, and reluctantly called on the help of the Time Lords. They assisted him, but then put him on trial for breaking their laws on non-interference. The Doctor argued that there were some evils that had to be fought. In the end he won a partial victory. The Time Lords exiled him to a single planet and a single era, but it was his favourite world, Earth, and the era had been chosen because it was a period when the planet would face regular threats from alien incursions. They also ordered that his face be changed again. He had a brief respite during which he secretly carried out missions for the Time Lords, before sentence was finally carried out, and he was forcibly regenerated. the third Doctor... The new incarnation of the Doctor arrived shortly after man had started to travel into space, drawing the attention of other races. He agreed to help UNIT, a United Nations taskforce whose remit was to combat alien threats, and worked to repair his TARDIS and beat his exile. After a couple of years his opportunity came when Omega returned, angry at the Time Lords for abandoning him. Unable to deal with the threat themselves, the Time Lords brought together all three versions of the Doctor to battle Omega. His success bought him his freedom; the Time Lords restored his ability to travel in time and space. (The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic) - In an unspecified alternate reality (perhaps Earth-Crossover), Britain celebrated Red Nose Day, a bi-annual charity fundraising event. Dan Dare and his friend Albert Digby visited a Treen colony hoping to convince the Mekon, the "stingiest, most hard-boiled egghead in the galaxy," to donate to the telethon, but the tyrant refused, and was backed up by several alien species who would become frequent foes of the Doctor, including Martian Ice Warriors, Cybermen, Draconians, Daleks and Sontarans. The TARDIS materialized and the third Doctor exited to assist, as did his two prior and next four incarnations and their companions Susan, Victoria Waterfield, Leela, K-9, Tegan Jovanka and Ace. Together they used a large cannon-like device loaded it with red noses "filled with the yoghourt (sic) of human kindness," to transform the attitudes of the alien meanies, making them (semi-)willing contributors. The aliens then queued up to hand their donations to Dare, Digby and the Doctors. (TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - Eventually the third Doctor died too, this time suffering from a massive dose of radiation poisoning, and a fourth version was born, consumed with a wanderlust that was likely a reaction to his previous self's period of enforced stability.

the fourth Doctor...

After many adventures in his latest body, the Doctor finally returned home to Gallifrey, only to be accused of murdering the President of the High Council. In order to prevent his own execution he utilized a little remembered law and declared his intention to stand for the post himself; until the election was over he was protected by legislation put in place to prevent tyrants from murdering their rivals. But the killer turned out to be the other Presidential candidate, Goth, who died while trying to eliminate the Doctor. As the only surviving candidate, the Doctor won by default. Elected to the highest post in Gallifrey, the Doctor did the only thing he could; he ran. But even though he had deserted the post, the title remained his, as the Gallifreyans had no rules to cover this kind of eventuality.

(The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic) - In an unspecified alternate reality (perhaps Earth-Crossover), Britain celebrated Red Nose Day, a bi-annual charity fundraising event. Dan Dare and his friend Albert Digby visited a Treen colony hoping to convince the Mekon, the "stingiest, most hard-boiled egghead in the galaxy," to donate to the telethon, but the tyrant refused, and was backed up by several alien species who would become frequent foes of the Doctor, including Martian Ice Warriors, Cybermen, Draconians, Daleks and Sontarans. The TARDIS materialized and the fourth Doctor and his companions Leela and K-9 exited to assist, as did his three prior and next three incarnations and their companions Susan, Tegan Jovanka and Ace. Together they used a large cannon-like device loaded it with red noses "filled with the yoghourt (sic) of human kindness," to transform the attitudes of the alien meanies, making them (semi-)willing contributors. The aliens then queued up to hand their donations to Dare, Digby and the Doctors.

It was during this long lived fourth incarnation's time that the Doctor had his first confirmed and recorded encounter with someone from Reality-616.

(Soulman Inc. Sketch Book) - Blaming the Hulk for the death of his daughter Betty, General Thaddeus "Thunderbolt" Ross reached out via less-than-honorable sources and hired the Freelance Peacekeeping Agent Death's Head to go back in time and kill the green goliath years before Betty's life had been endangered. Death's Head confronted the Hulk in a desert in the American mid-west where the Hulk was mourning the recent death of his beloved Jarella, and the pair fought. Learning of this and concerned that a time anomaly might be created with the potential to destroy time and space, the fourth Doctor materialized his TARDIS near the battling behemoths and emerged grinning, asking them to keep the noise down. Nonplussed, the pair halted their fight, and a confused Death's Head asked the new arrival if they had met, noting that he seemed strangely familiar. The Doctor admitted Death's Head had met him before, but not yet, only confusing the mechanoid more, until he spotted the TARDIS (with K-9 emerging) and realization dawned, swiftly followed by dismay. He accused the newcomer of being the Doctor and having come to interfere with his plans again, both of which the grinning Doctor cheerfully acknowledged. While Death's Head screamed in rage at the heavens, the Doctor approached the Hulk and offered him a jelly baby, but the gamma-powered brute declined, angrily pointing out that he didn't eat babies.

Death's Head stormed over, declaring that he wouldn't let the Doctor interfere, but the Time Lord insisted he had no choice, explaining the danger to the space-time continuum. Death's Head refused to believe this, insisting the Doctor just couldn't help interfering in his business. The Doctor responded by telling the mechanoid that he needed to return to his own time, but Death's Head taunted the Doctor to try and make him, adding that he wouldn't be tricked into entering the TARDIS again like last time (for Death's Head, though for the Doctor this encounter had yet to happen). Agreeing that Death's Head had learned from that mistake, the Doctor enquired if he was correct in identifying a T.V.A. (Time Variance Authority) portable time displacement device on Death's Head's belt, and Death's Head glanced down at the device in sudden dread as suspicion began to grow as to what the Doctor was planning. The Doctor continued to explain that he was an authority when it came to time travel and that if K-9 were to transmit the co-ordinates the Doctor had given him earlier that day to the device...

The Doctor's sentence tailed off as K-9 did just what his master had been suggesting, and to Death's Head's chagrin, the mechanoid began to disappear; in desperation he begged the Hulk to do something to stop the Doctor, either hitting him or jumping on K-9, but the confused Hulk just watched as his attacker disappeared. The Doctor congratulated K-9, noting that Death's Head should now have been sent back to his own era, or near enough anyway (in truth, Death's Head ended up in the Savage Land where he was confronted by the Dinobots). The Hulk, still on edge because of Jarella's demise, was unimpressed by the Time Lord's help, insisting he would have smashed "horn face" anyway; declaring he just wanted to be left alone, and that he would smash anyone who bothered him again, the Hulk bounded away. Watching his depart, the Doctor wished him good luck.

Skipping forward in time, the Doctor left a note in Thunderbolt Ross' office on Gamma Base, explaining "Dear General, mission failed, yes? Yours sincerely, the Doctor. P.S. Have a jelly baby instead..."

(X-Men: Chaos Engine Book 3) - The fourth Doctor briefly took over being Chief Physician for Roma on Otherworld from his seventh incarnation.

(2000A.D.#2083 Survival Geeks "Geek Con" part 2) - The fourth Doctor was a guest at Warp Con XXIV, a pan-dimensional event for fans of interdimensional travellers, and hung out in the green room with the eleventh Doctor, watching with bemusement as fellow guests Jace Darkmatter and Countess Eternity (who may have been their respective realities' versions of the Doctor) traded insults; elsewhere in the green room sociopathic mega-genius dimension hopper Rick Sanchez pointed out to his grandson Morty Smith that time travellers Doc. Emmett Brown and Marty McFly had apparently just realized they were late for something, while on the other side of the room William "Bill" S. Preston Esq., Theodore "Ted" Logan and their pal the Grim Reaper chilled with Philip J. Fry and robot Bender Bending Rodriguez.

(TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - The fourth Doctor had numerous other adventures, both picking up and saying goodbye to new companions along the way. Towards the end of this incarnation's life, while briefly travelling alone, the Doctor encountered someone else from the Marvel multiverse...

(Doctor Who Monthly#60) - Using his vast mental powers, the wizard Merlin summoned the TARDIS to Earth's distant future, surprising the Doctor when the TARDIS materialised without him setting the co-ordinates. He emerged to encounter Merlin, who (deliberately) failed to introduce himself, but who intrigued the Doctor by claiming he had summoned the ship with the powers of his mind to help in the hour of Earth's greatest need. The wizard explained that they were in the far future, inside the last surviving stronghold of the light against the barbarian forces of Catavolcus. The castle would soon fall to the enemy, but the old man, who was subsequently called Merlin by one of the defenders, wanted to use the Doctor's TARDIS to evacuate the survivors before a nuclear device he had activated destroyed everything. Having armed the weapon, the two fled back to the time ship as Catavolcus' Neutron Knights pierced the castle wall. The Doctor hurried the retreating defenders into his ship, and they departed seconds before the castle and the attackers were vaporised. The Time Lord set the controls to take his passengers to a safe disembarkation spot, and then passed out. He awoke lying outside the TARDIS in some quiet woods, unsure if what he remembered was real or just a dream. But when he entered his ship, he was met by a vision of Merlin, who informed him that they would meet again, "in some distant time, in some other form."

(TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - Shortly after this the fourth Doctor faced his old enemy the Master once more, and was killed when he fell from the top of a radio telescope. He regenerated again, taking on his youngest looking form to date.

the fifth Doctor...

(Doctor Who Monthly#61 (fb) - BTS) - Following many adventures the Doctor received a mysterious message from the Time Lords. At their behest, he dropped off his travelling companions, and checked into a bed and breakfast in the little English town of Stockbridge.

(Doctor Who Monthly#61) - The Doctor was taking part in a local cricket match when a wave of temporal distortions started, mixing things from different time periods. The Doctor was about to bat, awaiting the bowler's throw, when the cricket ball was swapped for a grenade from the 1940's, which blew apart the wickets. Gunfire then drew the Doctor, a policeman and the other cricketers to a nearby lane, where a local man had discharged a shotgun to drive off attackers wielding swords. When the constable investigated the adjoining woods, he was attacked by a Roman legionary, who then turned on the Doctor. The Doctor deflected the blow with his cricket bat, and the man with the shotgun fired on the Roman, who vanished. Slipping away, the Doctor headed to the spot where he had hidden the TARDIS to check its instruments. Scanning the news channels confirmed that the effect was not localized, so the Doctor decided to collect his belongings from his lodgings and then try to track down the cause. But as he left the TARDIS he was attacked by a knight on horseback.

(Doctor Who Monthly#62) - The Doctor dodged the charge, and the knight was unhorsed when his lance smashed against the TARDIS. The Doctor brought the unconscious man inside the TARDIS, and was in the process of removing his armour to check for injuries when he revived. The knight introduced himself as Sir Justin, and explained that he was snatched from the middle of a joust only to reappear bearing down on the Doctor. The Time Lord stated he would return Justin to his own time, but first he needed to deal with the cause of the temporal anomalies. Foreseeing a chance to perform great deeds, Justin happily agreed to accompany the Doctor. They travelled back to Gallifrey, were the Doctor still held the position of President. Once there the Doctor connected himself to the Matrix, a gigantic computer network containing the preserved memories of all the dead Time Lords, hoping it would help him deduce what was happening. As he did this, Shayde, an insubstantial agent generated by the Matrix, materialised next to the TARDIS and entered the craft. Meanwhile the Doctor's virtual self found himself confronted by representations of Rassilon and two other great Time Lords. They were holding council with other "High Evolutionaries" from the Althrace system and with Merlin the Wise of Earth.

(Doctor Who Monthly#63) - Merlin informed the Doctor that the being behind the time distortions was the demon Melanicus, a foe he banished from this plane of existence a thousand years ago. Melanicus had hijacked a device known as the Event Synthesiser which regulated the flow of time. Rassilon charged the Doctor with finding Melanicus and restoring the Synthesiser to its proper function. Returning to the real world, Justin and the Doctor made their way back to the TARDIS to begin their quest. Before they could take off, however, a beam penetrated Gallifrey's defenses and deposited an assassin inside the ship. As time slowed down for the Doctor and Justin, effectively paralyzing them, Shayde materialized behind the Time Lord and shot the assassin before he could carry out his deadly mission.

Released from the grip of the beam, the TARDIS was sent hurtling into the void by the beings in the Matrix, penetrating the domain of Melanicus. In a place where chaos and insanity reigned they initially found that the ship had materialized floating in a gigantic bathtub alongside a huge toy duck, before it next materialised inside a Hall of Mirrors. The Doctor and Justin emerged into the fairground beyond, where the Doctor spotted someone who looked like his old companion Zoe Herriot. He gave chase, following her into the Ghost Train. Convinced the girl might have an idea as to what was happening in this bizarre world, the Doctor jumped into one of the cars and continued his pursuit, unaware that the shadow man was sitting just behind him. The car proved to be on a rollercoaster track, taking the Doctor rapidly through an entrance marked "Door to Hell". On the other side they were surrounded by flames, and the Doctor realized they were heading straight towards the giant form of the demon Melanicus.

(Doctor Who Monthly#64) - The Doctor was unsure as to whether or not the image before him was real. Meanwhile, back in the Matrix, the three Time Lords he encountered earlier at the council meeting decided to raise the manifestation level of their other agent; having been shadowing the Doctor, Shayde made his presence known, explaining that what the Doctor was facing was a vibratory illusion created by the Synthesiser, indistinguishable from the real thing and just as deadly. However the false Melanicus was no match for the shadow man's gun, and with its destruction the Ghost Train car exited the fake hell. Seconds later it reached the end of the track, dropping the Doctor and his savior from a great height.

Sir Justin had experienced his own worries since the Doctor rushed off, being attacked by a number of armoured men. He retreated into the Hall of Mirrors. At the same time the Doctor awakened, having been stunned by his impact on the ground. Shayde appeared to have vanished, but in fact was hiding within the Doctor's own shadow. The Time Lord examined the room he was in, and accidentally knocked into a coffin laid out behind him. This drew the attention of the coffin's resident, a stereotypical vampiric count. Unimpressed by the Doctor's observation that "you represent a strictly mythical figure drawn largely from a work of Victorian fiction", the count advanced threateningly. But Justin spotted the Doctor being threatened through one of the mirrors in the Hall he was in, and smashed his way through to his ally. He drove the vampire off using the hilt of his sword as a cross, and the two friends rushed back into the TARDIS. Aware that he needed to follow the logic of the weird dimension they were in, the Doctor enquired of Justin as to exactly how many mirrors the knight had been forced to break to save him. Informed that it was four, the Doctor calculated as they take off that they were in for twenty-eight years of bad luck.

(Doctor Who Monthly#65) - To avoid the bad luck, the Doctor slipped the TARDIS sideways into another dimension. Twenty-four hours passed for those inside, while outside twenty-eight years went by. During this time Melanicus caused over a thousand years of war to erupt across a thousand planets, with time zones mixing combatants wildly: the Millennium Wars. On Gallifrey in the Matrix, Merlin consulted with the other High Evolutionaries. As yet Melanicus' limited understanding of the Event Synthesiser had restricted his damage to only a single dimension, but they feared he might discover how to spread the damage across a multitude of dimensions. If the Doctor could not locate the Synthesiser then the entire cosmos was threatened.

Back in the TARDIS the Doctor decided they needed to enter the maelstrom Melanicus had created and land as near to the Synthesiser as possible. The problem was that they had no way of knowing where that was at any given moment. A voice pointed out that its position should be easy to calculate so long as you took into account the size of the Synthesiser and the fact that it didn't move; rather everything else moved in relation to it. The voice proved to be that of Shayde, who finally introduced himself to the Doctor. He explained that he was a mental construct who served the Matrix lords, and was sent to help the Doctor on his mission. While he explained this, the TARDIS picked up a reading, and when the Doctor checked the scanner he was greeted by an extraordinary sight - a crystalline craft composed of pure energy. The craft proved to belong to the Lords of Althrace, one of the groups of High Evolutionaries, who transported the travelers to Althrace, a set of joined planets spinning in the middle of a White Hole.

(Doctor Who Monthly#66) - There the Lords explained the origins of Melanicus, informing the Doctor that the demon had been a native of Althrace. Fleeing to another dimension after an aborted attempt to conquer his home system, he managed to make contact with Catavolcus, then a third century despot. Catavolcus gave Melanicus access to another dimension, Earth's, and in return was given great power and the ability to traverse time. If Merlin had not intervened they would have conquered the Earth. Merlin banished Melanicus back to the dimension he had been hiding in, although Catavolcus remained free, roaming time and space and pillaging planets for their power...at least until he will one day be killed in the nuclear explosion the fourth Doctor nearly witnessed.

According to the Lords of Althrace, Melanicus had turned his full attention to the Earth. The Lords felt responsible, since it was they who first built the Event Synthesiser. Now they planned to unite the wills of all the High Evolutionaries across the galaxies, to stop time and allow the Doctor and Justin to face the villain.

(Doctor Who Monthly#67) - With all time stopped the Doctor followed the co-ordinates he had now been given and landed the TARDIS on a devastated Earth. From the nearby ruins of a church, he and Justin could hear an organ playing. Inside they found the Event Synthesiser, and as the organist continued to play the ground around them erupted. Sir Justin splashed the face of the organist with a hat-full of Holy Water from the font, unmasking him as Melanicus. As the demon turned on his companion, the Doctor faced a fight of his own, when a cadaverous corpse rose from the ground and attempted to throttle him. Justin came to his rescue, but Melanicus had used the diversion to escape. The demon climbed the outside of the bell tower, only to find Shayde waiting for him at the top. The shadow being fired two precise shots, blinding the villain and causing him to plummet downwards. He saved himself by grabbing onto the edge of one of the windows as he fell, unaware that he was now visible to Justin and the Doctor. The young knight drew his sword and charged, smashing through the window to impale the beast on his weapon. A huge explosion of energy knocked the Doctor out, his last sight being the Event Synthesiser being commandeered by its rightful guardian. The Doctor awoke in the church, to find the damaged building whole once more. Justin was gone, and in his place the Doctor was dismayed to find only a statue in memory of his sacrifice. As the Doctor read the epitaph at its base and pondered who could have put it there, he was unaware of the specter of Merlin standing behind him.

The Doctor's reverie was disturbed by a man in cricket gear who reminded the Doctor that it was his turn to bat, and he left the church, St Justinian's, and returns to his game. His mind reeled from his recent experiences, and he noted that everything appeared the same as when things started, leaving him to wonder how much of it was real, or if it was all just a dream. Watching in the shadows at the edge of the green, Shayde was informed his mission was over, and he could return home to Gallifrey.

(comic strips) - The Doctor resumed his travels, eventually picking up a new companion in the form of American fighter pilot Angus "Gus" Goodman.

(Doctor Who Monthly#84) - The TARDIS landed on the planet Celeste. Gus had finally decided to end his travels with the Doctor, who was now trying to get his companion back home. The Doctor told Gus that it might take a while, but he would get them there, and Gus replied that he knew this; he had faith in the TARDIS. As they wandered away from the ship a ragged figure called out a warning to them, telling them to hide or the "Gaunts" would get them. Seconds later they were caught in the spotlight of an airship, and gunfire shattered the ground around them. Armored men (Gaunts) moved towards them, and Gus and the Doctor ran, only for their escape to be blocked by a perimeter wall. Just as the Gaunts were about to gun them down, the earth gave way beneath the travelers, dropping them into a tunnel that someone had been trying to dig under the wall. The Gaunts blocked the tunnel by bulldozing rubble into it, leaving the two friends below only one choice - they had to find the other end if they want to get out.

(Doctor Who Magazine#86) - Making their way along the tunnel, the Doctor and Gus witnessed Gaunts herding men in chains, the enslaved miners. Heading a different way, they were confronted by a giant war 'droid, the Wrekka, who opened fire on them. This noise provided the chained miners a distraction and they turned on their captors. The Doctor and Gus fled back past the point where the miners had just overpowered the Gaunts, closely followed by the Wrekka. As the robot filled the tunnels with tear gas, the Doctor responded to a miner's call for help by grabbing a dropped pistol and shooting off the man's chains. This slight delay gave the Wrekka time to catch up, and the Doctor was knocked out by a stun grenade. The Wrekka loaded the unconscious Time Lord over its shoulder, and herded the captive Gus in front of it. The two men were taken to the office of the owner of the mines, Josiah W. Dogbolter, a humanoid frog, where they were interrogated by Hob, Dogbolter's right-hand robot. When the Doctor's answers failed to please Hob, the little robot ordered the Wrekka to behead Gus. Faced with this threat the Doctor admitted they had arrived in a time machine, a revelation that drew the personal interest of Dogbolter.

(Doctor Who Magazine#87) - Seeing the business opportunities inherent in time travel, Dogbolter demanded to buy the TARDIS. The Doctor refused, but Hob insisted, stating that Dogbolter would pay whatever price the Doctor wanted. Hating to seem inflexible, the Doctor acquiesced: he would sell the TARDIS to Dogbolter in return for half a pound...of frogspawn. Dogbolter's fury began to rise, but before it could erupt the wall of his office was demolished as the rebelling miners smashed a giant bulldozer into the side of the building. In the confusion the Doctor and Gus made good their escape. The TARDIS' departure was witnessed by one of Dogbolter's engineerd, who passes on a description to his employer. Dogbolter, not ready to give up, ordered the bounty hunter known as the Moderator to track down the Time Lord.

The Moderator caught up with the travelers just as they finally reached Gus' home time on Earth. Gus was making his farewells to his friend when the armored mercenary raced into sight and opened fire. Gus shoved the Doctor aside, saving his friend's life, but suffered fatal injuries in his stead. He fired his service revolver at their attacker, whose armor, designed to deflect particles from energy weapons, proved completely useless against primitive lead bullets. The Moderator went down, but Gus died at the Doctor's side. The enraged Time Lord picked up Gus' gun, turned to the wounded bounty hunter...and fired two shots into the killer's dislodged headpiece, whose stuck radio had been pouring out a Vera Lynn song throughout. He then took the injured Moderator into the TARDIS and dropped the man off on the nearest planet capable of giving the alien medical treatment.

(comic strips - BTS) - The Doctor returned to Stockbridge and collected the traveling companions he left behind when the Time Lords originally asked him to wait there. Unsurprisingly he failed to tell them about just how long he had really been gone, or the fact that he picked up two new traveling companions during that time, both of whom died whilst accompanying him. While other things distracted him from his hunt for the employer of the Moderator, he did not forget his desire to find out who was behind the death of his friend. He merely put it on hold.

(The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic) - In an unspecified alternate reality (perhaps Earth-Crossover), Britain celebrated Red Nose Day, a bi-annual charity fundraising event. Dan Dare and his friend Albert Digby visited a Treen colony hoping to convince the Mekon, the "stingiest, most hard-boiled egghead in the galaxy," to donate to the telethon, but the tyrant refused, and was backed up by several alien species who would become frequent foes of the Doctor, including Martian Ice Warriors, Cybermen, Draconians, Daleks and Sontarans. The TARDIS materialized and the fifth Doctor and his companion Tegan Jovanka exited to assist, as did his four prior and next two incarnations and their companions Susan, Leela, K-9 and Ace. Together they used a large cannon-like device loaded it with red noses "filled with the yoghourt (sic) of human kindness," to transform the attitudes of the alien meanies, making them (semi-)willing contributors. The aliens then queued up to hand their donations to Dare, Digby and the Doctors.

(2000A.D.#2083 Survival Geeks "Geek Con" part 2 - BTS) - The fifth Doctor may have attended Warp Con XXIV, a pan-dimensional event for fans of interdimensional travelers, as his traveling companion Kamelion was present (see comments).

(TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - The Doctor continued his travels. Eventually he and his companion of the time, Peri, were exposed to a deadly poison. Only managing to get enough antidote for one of them, the Doctor, refusing to lose another friend, administered the cure to Peri, then regenerated. His new form was more brash and bombastic than the previous, but after a shaky start he and Peri became firm friends.

the sixth Doctor...

(comics - BTS) - Peri decided to take a break from the Doctor, and he returned her to modern day New York. Alone again, he turned his attention to finding out who was behind the Moderator.

(Doctor Who Magazine#88) - The Doctor was on a sleazy alien world tracking down information on the Moderator. Deciding that he finally had enough information to confirm that it was Dogbolter who sent the bounty hunter after him, the Doctor returned to his ship, unaware that he had picked up a tail: a shapeshifting Whifferdill detective named Avan Tarklu was following him, hoping to claim the price on his head. Reaching the TARDIS, the Doctor was attacked by two assassins, also after the money. The Doctor managed to defeat one of them, but the second pulled a gun. Tarklu, unwilling to let someone else get the reward, knocked out the gunman, although in the darkness the Doctor failed to see what happened. Still unaware of the presence of the shapeshifter, the Doctor entered his ship and set the co-ordinates for Dogbolter's base on Venus, only to be caught by surprise when Tarklu revealed himself.

(Doctor Who Magazine#89) - The Whifferdill demanded to be taken to Venus, which the Doctor pointed out was his destination anyway. But the Time Lord was still astonished to discover that he was to be turned in for the reward money, as Tarklu revealed how much his captive was worth to Dogbolter. However, the Doctor convinced Tarklu that by working together to trick Dogbolter they could both get what they wanted; Tarklu the money and the Doctor a measure of payback against Dogbolter. When the TARDIS arrived on Venus a short while later, materializing atop Dogbolter's corporate headquarters, they threw a note out the doors which soon made its way to Hob, who read it to his master. The note stated that the bounty-hunter was willing to deliver the Doctor in return for the reward money. Dogbolter agreed, eager for revenge (by this stage, acquiring the TARDIS had become secondary to dealing with its owner). Having shapeshifted to look like the Doctor, Tarklu was ushered out of the TARDIS by a disguised Doctor, unrecognisable beneath a heavy trenchcoat, beard and low brimmed hat. The "bounty hunter" handed over his prisoner and took the money off of Hob. He then departed in the TARDIS, leaving his captive with the Gaunts. Much to the guards surprise the "Doctor"almost immediately vanished via a quick bit of shapeshifting. The Doctor returned to collect his new ally, and was dismayed to find that the Whifferdill had decided to hang around for a while.

(TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - The Doctor continued to journey with Tarklu, who adopted the name Frobisher. Despite his original misgivings about the Whifferdill, the Doctor soon became good friends with him. After a while the Doctor collected Peri from New York City.

(The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic) - In an unspecified alternate reality (perhaps Earth-Crossover), Britain celebrated Red Nose Day, a bi-annual charity fundraising event. Dan Dare and his friend Albert Digby visited a Treen colony hoping to convince the Mekon, the "stingiest, most hard-boiled egghead in the galaxy," to donate to the telethon, but the tyrant refused, and was backed up by several alien species who would become frequent foes of the Doctor, including Martian Ice Warriors, Cybermen, Draconians, Daleks and Sontarans. The TARDIS materialized and the sixth Doctor and Peri exited to assist, as did his five prior and next incarnation and their companions Susan, Leela, K-9 and Ace. Together they used a large cannon-like device loaded it with red noses "filled with the yoghourt (sic) of human kindness," to transform the attitudes of the alien meanies, making them (semi-)willing contributors. The aliens then queued up to hand their donations to Dare, Digby and the Doctors.

(TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - Time passed and Peri departed the Doctor's company more permanently.

(The Maltese Penguin audio play) - The Doctor had dropped Frobisher off at the Whifferdill's request, as the shapeshifter wanted to prove to himself he still had what it took to be a detective. Up to his beak in a case involving a mysterious item and with Dogbolter breathing down his neck, Frobisher repeatedly turned down help from his Time Lord friend, who kept popping back to try and convince his friend to resume their journeys together. Eventually, the case solved and Dogbolter thwarted once more, Frobisher rejoined the TARDIS crew.

(TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - Frobisher eventually left the Doctor. Much later the Time Lord regenerated again, taking on his seventh form. This new incarnation at first seemed a clown in many respects, but it soon transpired that he was the most manipulative of all the Time Lord's personae, the one closest to being like the Other.

the seventh Doctor...

(Incomplete Death's Head#12 (fb) - BTS) - Recalling Death's Head (who he had apparently had other encounters with - see comments), the Doctor concluded that while he had many bad points, he also had some good ones, and decided to make some "editorial alterations to [his] career," "shaping" some of his adventures to make him a better person. He began by capturing him early in his bounty hunting career when the mechanoid was residing on the planet Scarvix, then transported him through a warp gate to Reality-120185, a universe where two warring factions of Transformers had brought their conflict to Earth.

(Doctor Who Magazine#135) - Traveling in the time vortex, the TARDIS collided with a large obstacle in its path, the giant robot known as Death's Head, forcing both to land. The bump attracted the attention of a Time Warden, who fled the second he saw what the TARDIS had hit. When the Doctor emerged from within the vessel, Death's Head picked up the Time Lord as if he were an insect. The bounty hunter felt that the Doctor had gotten in his way, and when someone did that they either had to have something worth bargaining with him or die, yes? As he was about to pulverize the Doctor, the Time Lord located a Tissue Compression Eliminator he had previously taken from his old foe the Master. Although it was a nasty device which killed people by shrinking them to a fraction of their size, the Doctor decided that desperate situations called for desperate measures, and fired on Death's Head. The effect wasn't quite what he expected; Death's Head was shrunk down to human size, but not destroyed. As the much reduced robot pursued the fleeing Time Lord, the Time Warden again appeared, but departed once more when Death's Head made it clear that helping the Doctor would get him killed.

Having managed to get far enough ahead to stop for a breather, the Doctor realized he had something he could use to bargain with his mechanoid pursuer. He offered the time displaced robot the TARDIS and a demonstration on how to fly it. Death's Head agreed, but didn't trust the Doctor and insisted he accompanied the robot for the first trip. The Doctor programmed the ship, telling Death's Head he was piloting the vessel to Earth in the year 8162, but instead he covertly ordered the ship to lock on the nearest mechanical organism and send it through time solo. When the Doctor activated the controls, Death's Head vanished, his departure lasting just long enough for the robot to realize he had been duped and voice his annoyance. The Time Warden popped his head in the TARDIS door to see what happened, and the Doctor explained his deception. As the Time Warden departed, the Doctor wondered what Death's Head would do on Earth.

(Doctor Who Magazine#140 - BTS) The Doctor picked up a distress signal coming from the planet Ryos. He set down to help, and discovered the person who activated the signal, a medic, but was unable to prevent her falling into in the clutches of the hostile natives. Indeed, he himself was spotted by the locals, and forced to flee as they pursued him riding on the backs of their giant steeds.

(Doctor Who Magazine#140) - Luckily for the Doctor a space salvage merchant called Keepsake also picked up the signal, and with more profit oriented and less noble aims in mind, had also set down. Keepsake spotted the Doctor running from his pursuers, and took off before the Doctor could get on board. But the Time Lord was close enough to get swept up by one of the salvage ship's landing legs, and managed to hang on until Keepsake (who couldn't gain altitude and exit the atmosphere with someone weighing down the landing strut) landed. Once on the ground again, the Doctor introduced himself and roped the reluctant pilot into his rescue mission. They flew over the alien village and dropped detonators which exploded harmlessly above the huts, distracting the locals. While the Doctor skipped off the ship and rushed inside one of the buildings to find the captive medic, the reluctant Keepsake held off the natives for a few minutes. A little later, having successfully accomplished what he set out to do, the Doctor had Keepsake drop him off by the TARDIS, leaving the salvage man to return the extremely pretty, extremely grateful, female medic to civilization.

(Doctor Who Magazine #141) - The Doctor landed on the planet Adeki, unaware he was secretly being watched by shapeshifting Gwanzulum as he found his way to an underground city. Investigating, he discovered some Adekians' corpses, so old they turned to dust when he touched them. The Gwanzulum read his mind and assumed the forms of past companions of the Doctor who had died while traveling with him, hoping to exploit his feelings of guilt and trick the Time Lord into taking them to a new world in his TARDIS, but, presumably fearing he could only take a small number of people in his seemingly tiny vessel, began arguing with one another over who deserved to go. Trying to play on his feelings, one Gwanzulum, having taken the form of the Greek handmaid Katarina, accused the Doctor of having celebrated their deaths, and he responded in anguish that he had never wanted anyone to die, prompting another Gwanzulum, wearing the face of companion Peri Brown, to retort that they had died anyway. However, this set off alarms in the Doctor's mind, because though he had believed Peri dead when she left his company, he had subsequently learned of her survival. Picking up on this, a Gwanzulum disguised as Space Security Agent Sara Kingdom angrily pointed out the mistake and struck "Peri," triggering a fight between the Gwanzulum. Guilt still clouding his thoughts, the Doctor remained confused at the presence of his dead friends, but was prompted by a new arrival, a Gwanzulum posing as his Whifferdill friend Frobisher, to intervene. Realizing their original plan had fallen apart, the arguing Gwanzulum turned on the Doctor, abandoning their disguises to menace him.

(Doctor Who Magazine #142) - While some of the Gwanzulum chased the Doctor through the tunnels, other took the forms of his earlier incarnations, and intervened to "rescue" him. Now claiming that a temporal disruption had caused them all to come to the same point in time and space, breaking the laws of time, the "Doctors" explained that the "companions" had been Gwanzulum, telepathic shapeshifters, and advised that they should all depart via the TARDIS immediately in order to get back to their own timestreams. Still reeling from his experience, the real Doctor overlooked one fake acting out of character by dismissing the idea of exploring the city further as "boring," and they tried to hurry the Doctor when he discovered the Adeki's wall paintings as they headed back to the surface, though one Gwanzulum couldn't resist boastfully clarifying that the Gwanzulum were not just shapeshifters, but the original shapeshifters. On the surface, two Gwanzulum unsuccessfully tried to blast their way into the TARDIS with a laser, the explosive sound causing the others to rush to the surface, fearing their compatriots had damaged the vessel, and so leaving the Doctor alone to uncover part of the paintings the Gwanzulum had tried to cover over, the segment that identified the Gwanzulum's parasitic nature. He rushed to warn "himself," but moments after he reached the TARDIS, a handful of Gwanzulum in their natural forms emerged from the tunnels and encircled the "Doctors," hoping this would pressure the real Doctor into letting the others into the ship. However, needing the Doctor to unlock the vessel, they hung back, thereby raising his suspicions. When the "fourth Doctor" noted that a field laser could easily take out the Gwanzulum while they were out in the open like this, the uncharacteristic suggestion of using gratuitous violence as a means to an end alerted the real Doctor to the deception. Confirming his suspicions by suggesting they enter the TARDIS in age order, youngest first, an offer the "first Doctor" naturally declined, the real Doctor falsely informed the "other Doctors" that only one of them could enter at a time due to the ship's defences, and told the others to wait outside while he went in and disarmed them. The Gwanzulum let the Doctor enter his TARDIS alone, and he swiftly shut the doors and initiated its dematerialization, informing the protesting Gwanzulum via the TARDIS monitor of how he had seen through their trick, and that he would not take them to another world to drain dry. Blaming one another for their failure, the Gwanzulum began fighting, with one bewailing that they would never get off Adeki, but another chastised him; sooner or later there would be other travelers to fool.

(Doctor Who Magazine#148 (fb) - BTS) - The seventh incarnation of the Doctor decided to visit Maruthea to attend his friend Bonjaxx's birthday party.

(Doctor Who Magazine#143 - BTS) - Attempting to visit Maruthea, the Doctor instead landed inside a prefabricated building on an alien world. Recognizing that he was in the place, he decided he needed to get his bearings if he wanted to reach Maruthea, and set off to find out where he was; it would turn out to be small human colony on the planet Mekrom.

(Doctor Who Magazine#144 - BTS) - After helping a Foreign Hazard Duty team resolve a situation in the colony, the Doctor prepared to set off for Maruthea again now that he had his starting location.

(Doctor Who Magazine#145 - BTS) - Trying again to reach Maruthea, the Doctor landed on the planet Tojana, a world where the last remaining land was about to be swallowed by the oceans.

(Doctor Who Magazine#148 - BTS) - Trying yet again to reach Maruthea the Doctor instead arrived at London, Earth, circa 1992, during the middle of an invasion by the Gantacs. He burst out of the TARDIS carrying Bonjaxx's present and singing "Happy Birthday" before realizing his mistake. Gantac security swooped in before he could leave, demanding to know who he was, then electroshocked him for giving an unsatisfactory answer, causing him to drop the present. The falling box opened, releasing the intended gift, a cute, tiny, furry juvenile Kar-Parian Ohmodom. One of the Gantacs sadistically decided to execute the creature, ignoring the Doctor's warnings that exposing it to a large electrical discharge was a bad idea. The energy caused the Ohmodom to instantly jolt into its adult phase, a far less cute and much larger creature with vicious fangs, claws and horns. As it chased the Gantacs off, the Doctor noted that this had totally ruined his friend's birthday surprise.

(Doctor Who Magazine#150 - BTS) - After seeing off the Gantac invasion, the Doctor collected the still adult but surprisingly friendly Ohmodom, and said his goodbye to a friend who had assisted him, explaining that he couldn't stay around for the liberation celebrations as he was already a day late for Bonjaxx's party.

(Doctor Who Magazine#151 - BTS) - Still trying to reach Bonjaxx's party on Maruthea, the Doctor instead landed on the planet Archimedes, where the Doctor got dragged into helping a reporter solve a mystery before continuing on his way to the party.

(Doctor Who Magazine#152 - BTS) - STILL trying to reach Bonjaxx's party on Maruthea, the Doctor instead landed on the planet Hell, recently conquered by the Daleks, and teamed with with Dalek-Killer Abslom Daak.

(Death's Head#8) - The Doctor was taking part in a seaside pier pantomime playing the part of the jester when Death's Head materialised on the stage behind him. The mechanoid had been hired by Dogbolter to kill the Doctor and was using the ruthless businessman's new prototype time travel pack. Before he could fire on his target, a trap door beneath the robot dropped him into the basement, and the Doctor legged it. As Death's Head hunted through the theatre for his prey, the Doctor escaped disguised as the front end of a pantomime horse. He returned to his TARDIS and set random co-ordinates, hoping that would lose his pursuer, but before he took off Death's Head materialised inside the ship. His arrival triggered the vessel's Geiger counter, leading the Doctor to conclude that the device on the bounty hunter's back was about to go nuclear. Death's Head realized that Dogbolter had set him up and forced the Doctor at gunpoint to take him back to Dogbolter's headquarters in the 82nd century. Once there he handed his gun over to the Doctor and told him to shoot off the straps that were holding the time pack / bomb to his back. That failed to work, but an attempt by the Doctor to pick the locks on the straps succeeded. Death's Head threw the explosive device out of the TARDIS, and they departed just before it detonated; however, Dogbolter and Hob were caught in the blast. The Doctor materialized the ship so Death's Head could depart, failing to mention to the robot that as well as traversing time and space he had also piloted the TARDIS across realities to Earth-616. Before he stepped outside, the mechanoid warned him they were quits now - next time they met he might kill the Time Lord. The Doctor, tired of the threats, gave him back his gun and informed DH he would need it, and all his other weapons, because the Doctor would not be easy to kill. Then he added that Death's Head was doomed, because the mechanoid was incapable of change. And with this he departed, leaving the robot wondering where the Doctor had deposited him, unaware (for the moment at least) that he was atop Four's Freedom Plaza, the home of the Fantastic Four.

(Excalibur#25 (fb) - BTS) - The Doctor encountered Reality-616's Alistaire Stuart, the Scientific Advisor of W.H.O. (Weird Happenings Organisation), during a period when the latter was skipping between realities with Reality-616's Excalibur superhero team. They got into a discussion of trans-temporal relativity dynamics. This discussion somehow resulted in Alistaire possessing a device which generated trans-temporal anomalies with resulting energy fractures, though whether the Doctor gave Alistaire the device, helped him identify a device he'd already found, or was connected to the device in some other manner remains unrevealed.

(TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - A short while later the Doctor retrieved his (then) current companion, Ace, whom he had left dinosaur-spotting in the Cretaceous.

(Doctor Who Magazine#173) - The Doctor had been trying to make it to Maruthea, a space-port at the centre of the space-time vortex, in order to attend his friend Bonjaxx's birthday party. As he landed another TARDIS was departing, with the Doctor in that craft having just expelled some penguins who were looking for a friend of theirs. The Doctor caught sight of the dematerializing ship, although Ace did not, and he commented to his friend that anything could happen here, and frequently did. They entered Bonjaxx's bar, where the Doctor greeted his old friend. As the Daemon bar owner put the Doctor's gift on a pile of identical ones (probably given by other incarnations of the Time Lord, as they were all identically wrapped), he informed the Doctor that someone was looking for him earlier. The Doctor glanced around the bar, which was filled with a large number of familiar faces (see comments). He and Ace sat down at a table, and the Doctor mused aloud, wondering who would know he was attending the festivities. Ace suggested it might be Death's Head, who was sitting at a nearby table counting his money. Death's Head raised his glass in acknowledgement of the Doctor. Then Ace wondered if it might be a couple who were approaching where she and the Doctor were sitting. The Doctor turned to look, and after a few seconds, recognition hit him, and he said hello to his future self. Meanwhile Ace introduced herself to the other Doctor's companion, Ria. Before things could progress further an extremely drunk Beep the Meep arrived, looking for revenge. A brawl erupted, dragging almost everyone in bar into it. Everyone except the Doctor, who continued their conversation untouched by the chaos around them. As the fight started to wind down, the Doctor retrieved their companions, thanked Bonjaxx for the party, and walked out. Each Doctor returned to their respective TARDIS, just as the fourth incarnation of the Doctor arrived at the party, materialising his ship amidst the wreckage of the bar.

(Incomplete Death's Head#12 (fb) - BTS/Incomplete Death's Head#1 - BTS) - Later learning that Hob, now a monstrous behemoth obsessed with finding Dogbolter and getting revenge of Death's Head and the Doctor for exposing him to the nuclear explosion that hurtled him out of time and space, had been at Maruthea covertly observing the party, and that the drunken Death's Head he had seen in Bonjaxx's was thus in mortal danger, the Doctor manipulated a future incarnation of the bounty hunter, Death's Head (Minion), and Minion's partner, Tuck, transmatting them to Maruthea some hours prior to the party so the pair could back up the younger Death's Head against Hob and prevent the younger Death's Head from paradoxically dying before his time. Death's Head (Minion) found Hob's virtual reality re-run of his original body's life, which Hob was using to search for clues to the long-lost Dogbolter's whereabouts.

(Incomplete Death's Head#12) - After the (early seventh) Doctor had departed Hob attacked the original Death's Head, but the newer Death's Head came to his rescue, and together they managed to destroy Hob. The (later seventh) Doctor returned, wiped the original Death's Head memory of meeting his future counterpart, and explained that it was he who sent the new Death's Head and his partner Tuck to Maruthea, to thwart Hob. The newer Death's Head was annoyed at being manipulated but let it go under the circumstances. The Doctor offered to buy him and Tuck a drink, but the cyborg bounty hunter passed. As he got ready to depart, the Doctor extended an offer to Tuck to look him up if she ever wanted a new partner. The Doctor watched as the two of them left, then helped the original Deaths' Head back up and suggested he attend a party - such as the one in Bonjaxx's bar.

(The Totally Stonking, Surprisingly Educational And Utterly Mindboggling Comic Relief Comic) - In an unspecified alternate reality (perhaps Earth-Crossover), Britain celebrated Red Nose Day, a bi-annual charity fundraising event. Dan Dare and his friend Albert Digby visited a Treen colony hoping to convince the Mekon, the "stingiest, most hard-boiled egghead in the galaxy," to donate to the telethon, but the tyrant refused, and was backed up by several alien species who would become frequent foes of the Doctor, including Martian Ice Warriors, Cybermen, Draconians, Daleks and Sontarans. The TARDIS materialized and the seventh Doctor and Ace exited to assist, as did his six prior incarnations and their companions Susan, Leela, K-9 and Tegan Jovanka. Together they used a large cannon-like device loaded it with red noses "filled with the yoghourt (sic) of human kindness," to transform the attitudes of the alien meanies, making them (semi-)willing contributors. The aliens then queued up to hand their donations to Dare, Digby and the Doctors.

(proposed but ultimately unproduced comic strip) - The seventh Doctor and Ace encountered Doctor Strange.

(X-Men: Chaos Engine Book Two) - The seventh Doctor briefly served as Chief Physician for Roma on Otherworld, before departing and letting a younger incarnation take over.

(The Quantum Possibility Engine audio play) - Having become President of the Solar System by simply promising the electorate everything they wanted (with no intention of delivering), Dogbolter used threats of assassinating both herself and her friends to coerce the Doctor's companion Melanie Bush into knocking out the Doctor and Ace, stealing the TARDIS and delivering them to him, along with the TARDIS operating manual. Dogbolter then went back in time and gave his earlier self the time vessel, allowing his scientists to spend years analyzing it and construct a Quantum Possibility Engine, able to alter history within the solar system at will; whenever anything happened that he didn't like, he rolled back time and changed the events. The temporal disruption was detected by the Time Lords, so Co-ordinator Narvin of the Gallifreyan C.I.A. (Celestial Intervention Agency) broke the Doctor and Ace out of Dogbolter's prison, but when Hob discovered them investigating the Engine, he used it to change their timelines so they were no longer dangers to his master. However, adding the three time travelers, two of them Time Lords, to the system and trying to assimilate them began overloading the Engine's ability to rewrite events. At the same time the warlike Krasi invaded the solar system, confident the Engine wasn't powerful enough to overwrite so major an event. However, Mel redeemed herself, hacking the Engine to gain sufficient control to fully restore the Doctor, Ace and Narvin's true memories; himself once more, the Doctor exploited the Krasi's obsession with appearing positively to the wider universe to force them to withdraw. They stopped on the space station Dogbolter housed the Engine on, intending to steal it, but Dogbolter blew it up remotely, destroying both them, the Engine, and all of Dogbolter's copies of the technology, though not before Mel stole back the TARDIS and reunited with her friends.

(TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - After a long series of adventures the seventh incarnation of the Doctor finally met his end in San Francisco, and was reborn as a younger-looking, less cynical individual.

the eighth Doctor...

This eighth incarnation had a turbulent existence, experiencing a number of bouts of amnesia and having his history rewritten by the Faction Paradox, including causing the paradoxical demise of many of his travelling companions who should have lived, though he was later able to undo most of these assassinations.

(Doctor Who Magazine#262) - When the Doctor was poisoned and rendered catatonic, his companions Izzy Sinclair and Fey Truscott-Sade returned him to Gallifrey for treatment. Hooked him into the Matrix, the Doctor once more encountered the High Evolutionaries: Rassilon, Bedevere, Morvane, Dakon Theka and the Thane of Kordar, but was surprised to find Merlin's place on the assemblage taken by Demonsella Drin, a representative of the Order of the Black Sun, an organization that had fought a Time War with Gallifrey back in Rassilon's day.

(TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - He battled Rassilon, the founder of Time Lord society, and even destroying his own homeworld Gallifrey and virtually his entire species retroactively, so that they never existed, though he later reversed this and reinstated them.

(Doctor Who Magazine#292) - The Doctor sought to stop the Master from usurping control of the Glory, a device at the focal point of the Omniversal Spectrum which kept the structure of the Omniverse whole. The Glory's current but dying Keeper of the Omniversal Spectrum, Esterath the Gatherer, explained to the Doctor that while he had crossed dimensional planes in the past, he had always remained confined within his own multiversal realm (a disputable assertion, unless the Marvel multiverse and the Doctor's are one and the same or heavily overlap). Esterath further clarified that the time/space vortex the Doctor normally travelled through was merely a tributary, and in comparison the Omniversal Spectrum was the "ocean of reality." To prove his point, Esterath showed the Doctor glimpses of other realities, including Reality-616, where Spider-Man was battling Doctor Octopus (as depicted in Amazing Spider-Man I#12).

(Fantastic Four III#9 (fb) - BTS) - The Doctor provided his Earth-616 friend Reed Richards with second-hand dimensionally transcendental technology to create a warehouse to store his discoveries and inventions; the entrance was disguised as a British public telephone box (see comments).

(new TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - However the Time Lords were subsequently caught up in a temporal war with the Daleks, in what became known as the Last Great Time War. The early history of the Time Lords was rewritten, though whether by the Daleks in an attempt to eliminate their foes, or the Time Lords themselves as a way of strengthening themselves, remains unclear. The womb-born Gallifreyans were restored, with many Loom-borns retroactively becoming womb-born instead; Susan became the Doctor's granddaughter rather than the Other's.

Though the Doctor tried to avoid becoming involved in the war, he was eventually forced to do so in the hopes of ending the conflict, as countless innocent worlds were being caught in the crossfire. Dying, the eighth Doctor regenerated into a new body with a persona more willing to use violence and whatever means necessary to get the job done; having given up on the promise behind his chosen name, his new body's declared himself "Doctor no more."

the "War Doctor"...

(new TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - Despite his first words post-regeneration, for a short time the new incarnation continued to call himself the Doctor. He recruited his old travellng companion Feyde to help fight the Daleks, battling alongside her and the Sisterhood of Karn in the Dorian Nexus against the Dalek's ally, the Morlontoa of the Seventh Sky, but it proved to be, by his own description, "the words day of the Time War." To defend a Quantum Intrinsic Field Projector intended to stop the Morlontoa and protect the Nexus, Feyde was forced to slay innocents transformed into monsters by their foe, only to see the device fail anyway. The Morlontoa generated an unreality wave that wiped the planet and its inhabitants out of existence; the Doctor and the Sisterhood narrowly escaped, but Feyde was not so lucky, and with her seeming demise, the Doctor abandoned his title, feeling himself no longer worthy of it. He maintained no consistent alias through the rest of the conflict, though others retroactively described him as the "War Doctor."

After many, many centuries of fighting, sufficient for even a slow-aging Gallifreyan to grow old, the War Doctor came to the conclusion that the Time Lords, having unleashed all their previously forbidden and destructive weapons against the Daleks regardless of collateral damage, and now under the leadership of the returned Rassilon, had become as bad as the Daleks, and that the war could only be ended by utterly destroying both sides. With the Dalek's last, massive space armada besieging Gallifrey, the War Doctor stole the last, most forbidden of Gallifreyan weapons, the Moment, which had gone unused only because the sentient weapon had developed a conscience, and prepared to burn the entire region to cinders.

The Moment sensed the War Doctor's reluctance to undertake this drastic action, and offered to help him choose whether to go through with it or not; though time locks had been set up by both sides to prevent anyone time traveling in or out of the war era (in each case to prevent the opposing side wiping out their enemy by taking them out during their species' infancy), the Moment easily breached these and sent the War Doctor forward down his own timeline to meet two of his future incarnations. Though they had reclaimed the name Doctor, both recalled deploying the Moment and destroying Gallifrey with shame and regret, burying their memory of having been the War Doctor and pretending, even to themselves, that he didn't exist. However, the War Doctor also learned that the regret over destroying Gallifrey had made his future selves better people, willing to do anything to find more peaceful solutions rather than be forced to become destroyers again.

Feeling his decision confirmed, the War Doctor returned to his own time to detonate the device, but the Moment let the two future incarnations follow him back through the time locks. Initially they merely intended to lend their earlier self moral support in his decision - they acknowledged that their feeling he was unworthy of using the name of the Doctor was unfair, stating that he had been the Doctor, but on "the day it was impossible to get it right." However, Clara, the companion to the Doctor furthest into the future, recognizing the guilt her Doctor carried every day, prompted the three incarnations to look for another solution. Though a single Doctor had no other options, the trio realized that multiple incarnations being present provided them with a different route. The Moment allowed the Doctor to breach his own personal timeline, so that thirteen incarnations (the eight prior to the War Doctor and four who would succeed him) could work in unison to try to move Gallifrey out of time entirely and into a pocket dimension, frozen in a single moment; though they could not be sure whether their actions successfully preserved Gallifrey or merely destroyed it, the Doctors' actions removed the planet from their dimension. The Daleks, whose fleet englobed the planet firing planet-busting weapons down upon it, suddenly found themselves firing upon one another, and their forces were decimated. The earlier incarnations of the Doctor returned to their own time periods; their timelines out of synch, none of them bar the latest incarnation (the thirteenth body, but "eleventh" Doctor) would recall what happened. Despite knowing that he would soon only recall his decision to destroy his own people, and not that he had tried to save them, the War Doctor thanked the two incarnations he had met for letting him finally be the Doctor again, and departed. Moments after leaving his later selves, he regenerated; ironically, a Doctor whose life had been nothing but constant war became the first incarnation since the original to succumb to old age.

the ninth Doctor...

The newly regenerated Doctor believed himself to be the last of his people, and their destroyer, and suffered from Survivor's Guilt. However, he continued doing the only thing he knew, saving the universe. A new companion, Rose Tyler, gradually managed to lighten his mood, even after he discovered the Daleks had survived and the "loss" of his own people had been in vain.

(Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man#8 (fb) - BTS/Avenging Spider-Man#8 (fb) - BTS) - The ninth Doctor and Rose visited Earth-616's Manhattan at least once, possibly twice (see comments).

(The Parting of the Ways TV story) - When the Daleks attacked the Earth in 200,100 A.D., Rose temporarily gained vast temporal powers and, from the orbiting Bad Wolf Corporation's Game Station, used them to destroy all the Daleks. After this, she sent the words "Bad Wolf" back through her own personal timeline, appearing variously as place names, passing comments and graffiti, subtle clues to lead her to this point. Knowing the energies coursing through her body would soon kill her if not swiftly removed, the Doctor drained them into himself, sacrificing himself to save her. He regenerated into his next form, a thin and lanky incarnation slightly less burdened by the guilt.

the tenth Doctor...

(new TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - The tenth Doctor was generally much more cheerful than his predecessor, but by his own admission, gave "no second chances"; many would-be marauders and invaders across the universe learned the hard way that he was not a man to cross. Eventually he was shot by a Dalek, and regenerated, but managed for once to retain his existing appearance and personality (his next incarnation later stated "Number ten once regenerated and kept the same face. I had vanity issues at the time.") Still considered the tenth Doctor, but now in his penultimate form with only one regeneration left to him, this incarnation was one of those who subsequently encountered the War Doctor and helped save Gallifrey during the Time War.

the eleventh Doctor...

In time he too regenerated, transforming into an even younger-looking man with a pronounced chin.

(2000A.D.#2083 Survival Geeks "Geek Con" part 2) - The eleventh Doctor was a guest at Warp Con XXIV, a pan-dimensional event for fans of interdimensional travellers. Before heading up to the green room, he walked through the crowds in the main hall, rubbing shoulders with TV weatherman Phil Connors, Captain Kirk, Mr. Spock and Nyota Uhura of the Terran Empire's ISS Enterprise, South Park's evil Stan Marsh, Kyle Broflovski and Eric Cartman, Planetary Express' Philip J. Fry and Turanga Leela, time travellers Marty McFly and Doc Emmett Brown, dimension hoppers Rick Sanchez and Morty Smith, two different dimensional variants of Marvin the Paranoid Android, Samurai Jack, TEC officer Max Walker, pooka Frank the rabbit, Booster Gold, Austin Powers, William "Bill" S. Preston Esq. and Theodore "Ted" Logan, Trimaxion Drone Ship Navigator David Freeman, Spock and Sulu from the Klingon Bird of Prey Bounty, monsters Mike Wazowski and James P. "Sully" Sullivan, Gabe Law, escaped mental patient Jeffrey Goines, Earth-30's comrade of steel Superman, Ashley J. "Ash" Williams, time-leaping girl Makoto Konno, and time-looping technicians Aaron and Abe. After witnessing the convention crowds going wild for new arrivals the Survival Geeks of Earth-3964, the Doctor headed up to the green room, where he hung out with his fourth incarnation, watching the other convention guests interact.

(new TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - The eleventh Doctor later joined his previous incarnation in meeting the War Doctor and saving Gallifrey. As the senior incarnation present through most of that encounter, he retained his memories of their meeting, and so was finally aware that Gallifrey might still stand, a hope bolstered by an encounter by another, apparently far future incarnation, the Curator, who looked like an aged version of the fourth Doctor. The Curator hinted that the Doctor's gambit to to save his homeworld had been successful, and, with renewed hope, the Doctor dedicated himself to a new goal - finding Gallifrey.

"My journey is the same as yours, the same as anyone's. It's taken me so many years, so many lifetimes, but at last I know where I'm going. Where I've always been going. Home. The long way round."

With no regenerations left, this should have been the Doctor's final life, but eventually on the planet Trenzalore he discovered a crack in space-time created by the Time Lords, literally calling out to him. Having survived in their pocket universe, the Gallifreyans were uncertain that they had found their home reality again and that it was safe to emerge, and so were broadcasting signal setting a question only the Doctor could answer - asking him to state his true name. Fearing the Time Lords nearly as much as the Daleks, and that their return might reignite the Time War, many species tried first to slay the Doctor and then later threatened to destroy Trenzalore itself. Hesitant to bring back Gallifrey for fear of what his people might do to the universe, but unwilling to let the planet's innocent populace be slain, the Doctor spent centuries trapped on Trenzalore protecting them, slowly aging into infirmity. Finally believing the Doctor too weak to defend the world, the Daleks attacked Trenzalore, but the Doctor's companion Clara Oswald made an appeal via the crack to the Time Lords for help. The Doctor's people remotely granted him a new regeneration cycle, and he used the massive energy discharge as his body began to change once more to destroy the Dalek fleet.

the twelfth Doctor...

The Doctor's first body of his new regeneration cycle was an older-looking man with a Scottish accent, angry eyebrows, and a tendency towards insulting friends and foes alike, the former unintentionally (probably), the latter deliberately.

(Doctor Who Magazine#500) - Deciding it was finally time to bring Dogbolter to justice for the murder of his friend Gus Goodman, the Doctor enlisted the aid of several former companions for a complicated sting operation.

Despite having been very close to the exploding bomb he had planted on Death's Head with the intention of killing the Doctor, Dogbolter had somehow survived, and continued to run Intra-Venus with his customary ruthless pursuit of profit, still assisted by Hob (presumably either retrieved post-Maruthea and rebuilt, or recreated using back-up copies of his pre-bomb memories).

Knowing Dogbolter still coveted the TARDIS, the Doctor first froze the people of early 21st century Stockbridge in time (to keep them safe, and provide a visible reason for his presence), bar his old ally Maxwell Edison. Keeping Max in the dark so his reactions would be visibly genuine, the Doctor then travelled to Stockbridge and informed Max that he was there to "investigate" the temporal anomaly, though Max was disappointed as he had initially hoped the Doctor had come to celebrate Max's birthday with him. Their activities were covertly recorded by flying cameras provided by the fourth Doctor's former companion Sharon Davies, now Sharon Allen of the Galactic Broadcasting Corporation.

Meanwhile, in the far future Intra-Venus Inc. was holding a massive public party to celebrate Dogbolter's 500th birthday, an event being broadcast across the known universe by the GBC. Posing as the Doctor's time-manipulating foe Chiyoko, the shapeshifting Frobisher, companion to the sixth and seventh Doctors, contacted Dogbolter and inform