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By Matthew J Elliott Contents Acknowledgments...... vii Foreword, by Alan Barnes...... ix Introduction, by Matthew J Elliott ...... xi

Life on ...... 1 The ...... 27 The ...... 61 The ...... 91 The ...... 121 The ...... 169 The ...... 181 The ...... 193 The ...... 205 The ...... 213 The ...... 219 The Tenth Doctor ...... 235 The ...... 265 The Future?...... 295

Appendix I: The Also-Rans...... 299 Appendix II: Traversing the Whoniverse ...... 323

About the Author… ...... 337

v First Doctor - 27 Prior to

An Unearthly Child

(Portrayed by , 1963-1966) Hartnell, William by (Portrayed ation, simply throws the ring away as it no longer longer as it no the ring away throws the Doctor simply ation, demanded enough to have valuable fits (despite his deeming it By the time ). Planet Web in The the Menoptra from its return or he it is, where knows he no longer incarnation, of his third experiences again once TARDIS the when it used have would in Death to the . drain a power

In his original incarnation, the Doctor wears this ring at all this ring at all the Doctor wears In his original incarnation, indi- first The Gallifrey. from come fact in may it and times, Planet , comes in The Web unusual way any it is in cation that after the ship doors TARDIS the it to operate he uses when a docile Zarbi. control to and elsewhere of power, is drained the to override it is able Plan , in ’ Later, regener first his after Immediately sabotage. Meddler’s Time the first doctor the first The First Doctor acquires a ring that possesses unspecified but remarkable remarkable but unspecified possesses that ring a acquires Doctor First The properties . First Doctor favourite periodofEarth’s how helearns tocookatthattime, history—and They witnesstheFrench Revolution—which theDoctor considershis The two visitBritainsometimeafterFebruary 14,1971. emit apsychicscreechwhen anyone standsbetween them. afoulofthetelepathicplantsonplanetEsto,whichHe andSusanfall Susan arenotpursuedby hisfellow Time Lords. installs a Time Path Detector onthe console inorder to ensure that he and fromhis ownOn the run people inarackety old TARDIS, the Doctor will go decimal, which itdidonFebruary 15, 1971. Child.An Unearthly Susancorrectly predicts thatthe country TomorrowThe Windows, by . Sensorites. EstoisalsomentionedintheEighthDoctornovel eventually identifies the planet by name in episode two of The screeching suggests itwas quiteearly onintheirtravels. She The fact that she doesn’t know where heard the she first Susan recalls thepsychicjungleinTheKeys ofMarinus. : ExodusandTheDark Path. before. The device appears inthenovels Timewyrm:, Genesis noticed the . CompanionsIan, Barbara and have never Time Path Detectorbecauseithasnever activated • • • • 28 First Doctor - 29 • • • • • • , it’s revealed that there are male and male and are that there revealed it’s , - Revolu French the her schoolbook about Susan considers and An Unearthly in inaccurate Child, tion to be historically for fondness of her grandfather’s and Ian Barbara informs Lance . Terror one of The Reign of that period (!) in episode the claims that this was War Just Doctor novel Seventh Parkin’s His culinary baptism to Earth. visit first Doctor and Susan’s . is mentioned in The steam train incident is mentioned in An Unearthly incident The steam train Child . In TARDIS. in the West American female clothes suited to the He the name Clanton in episode two. The Doctor recognises at shootout famous the of details the know doesn’t evidently at the climax of episode four, since, however, Corral, the O.K. it. he attempts to prevent . food machine TARDIS’ on the to rely though he still prefers Circa 1881, they are with a Native American when he sees his first steam he sees his first when American are with a Native Circa 1881, they The brothers . notorious Clanton the of hear of the activities they and train, the period—which the to appropriate acquire costumes Doctor and Susan consid causes nevertheless presence absurd—but their considers Doctor that to travel should he if that decides Lord Time the and comment, erable use an alias . he’ll period again, the form takes of an ionic TARDIS the Landing in ancient Greece (where the acquaintance of sceptic philosopher column), he and Susan make see indications of the Daemons’ They Pyrrho and sculptor Praxiteles . history in human learn and of their home planet Damos, involvement First Doctor 60,000 light-years away He becomesaskilledbackgammon player andSullivanGilbert . On atrip to Victorian England, he is given an improbably large Ulster by extraordinarily highstakes inepisodeseven. . The Doctor plays against for era. the Victorian Daleks, the Second Doctor is able to identify furniture from The Edge ofDestruction. Inepisodetwo ofTheEvilthe is missing. “Great Olympus!” upon discovering that his granddaughter columns. Inepisodefive ofMarco Polo , theFirst Doctorcries episode three ofTheInvisible Enemy—is filledwithionic that theFourth Doctor’s unconsciousmind—asrevealed in ’s Greek barge is historically accurate. It’s interesting In one of Praxiteles’ students in episode one of . Marinus. The FifthDoctoridentifiesa kouros asthe work of recalls meetingPyrrhointhefinalinstalmentofTheKeys of of originandpresence inancientGreece. The First Doctor Daemons, the Third Doctormentionsthatalienspecies’ planet TARDIS oncedisguiseditselfasanionic column. InThe In An Unearthly Enlightenment, henotesthateverything onCritasthe . • • ,

Susan tells Ian and Barbara that the 30 .

Fourth Doctor

121 Prior to

The Ark in Space

Genesis of the Daleks (Portrayed by , 1974-1981) Baker, Tom by (Portrayed The Experiment

. The Fourth Doctor is scolding Harry as as Doctor is scolding Harry The Fourth in Space. Ark The clumsiness may ’s His materialises. TARDIS the as the Helmic appears, serious than it first been more have and Crash during Time damaged Regulator becomes badly Doctor. the Eleventh for concern is the cause of considerable the in further problems creates component unreliable The . of Beauty Fifth Doctor audio Creatures the fourth doctor the fourth The Fourth Doctor’s proposed trip to Earth’s moon is scuppered by Harry moon is scuppered by proposed trip to Earth’s Doctor’s The Fourth . TARDIS in the the Helmic Regulator insistence on twisting Sullivan’s Fourth Doctor Captain Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition of 1912 ofLawrence “Titus” ofthesacrifice OatesduringHe hearsthestory cool .Hepicksupacompass Highlanders, hefinally getshishandsonone.Like fezzes,they arenot Bismarck .Having expressed hisadmirationforthetam-o’-shanterinThe battleshipIn 1941,theDoctorwitnessessinkingofGerman way backtoNerva . The Fourth make Doctor, at least one other stop on their Sarah and Harry Harrogate (dateunknown), hepurchasesatinoftoffees . o’-shanter andusingthecompasswhen hefirst appears. Terror oftheZygons. The Fourth Doctoriswearing thetam- of Death. incident is described in ’ novel A Device there beingnoapparent gap between stories. Just suchan and Revenge of the Cybermen, despite The Fourth Doctor’s overcoat disappears somewhere between says,going “I’m of some time.” Hisfifthself gives the quoteinthefirst episode Oates’ famousdeclaration, “I’m going outnow, andImay be Farrah’s OriginalHarrogate Toffee. Planet ofEvil. The Fourth Doctorcarriesatinlabelled and, ofNightmare inthefinalpart ofEden , Revenge of the Cybermen the of Revenge inside now, and Imay berather alongtime.” Prior to • • 122 In episodefour, herepeats . In the town of about the author

Matthew J Elliott is the author of Sherlock Holmes on the Air (2012), Sherlock Holmes in Pursuit (2013), The Immortals: An Unauthorized Guide to Sherlock and Elementary (2013) and The Throne Eternal (2014) . His articles, fiction and reviews have appeared in the magazines Scarlet Street, Total DVD, SHERLOCK, and Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine .

Matthew has also contributed to the collections ’s Afoot, Curious Incidents 2 and Gaslight Grimoire . His short story Art in the Blood appeared in The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 8 in the UK, and The Mammoth Book of Best British Crime 8 in the US . He is the editor of the collections The Whisperer in Darkness, The Horror in the Museum, The Haunter of the Dark and The Lurking Fear by H P Lovecraft, The Right Hand of Doom and The Haunter of the Ring by Robert E Howard, and A Charlie Chan Omnibus by Earl Derr Biggers .

For radio, he has scripted episodes of The Twilight Zone, Vincent Price Presents, Wrath of the Titans, Logan’s Run: Aftermath, Fangoria’s Dreadtime Stories, The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Classic Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, Jeeves and Wooster, The Perry Mason Radio Dramas, Raffles the Gentleman Thief, The Father Brown Mysteries, Kincaid the Strangeseeker, The Adventures of Harry Nile, The Thinking Machine, Fantom House of Horrors, Allan Quatermain, The Prince and the Pauper and the Audie Award-nominated The War of the Worlds and The New Adventures of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer . He is the creator of The Hilary Caine Mysteries, which first aired in 2005 .

His stage play An Evening With Jeeves and Wooster was performed at the Palace Theatre, in Grapevine, Texas, in 2007 .

Matthew is probably best-known (if at all) as a writer and performer on RiffTrax .com, the online comedy experience from the creators of cult sci-fi TV series Mystery Science Theater 3000 (MST3K to the initiated) . He also writes comic books for Bluewater Productions .

He lives in the North-West of England with his wife and daughter .

337 Few television series have remained in production for decades. Fewer still have come back from cancellation—and even fewer have continued to thrive following the loss of their lead actor.

Doctor Who can proudly boast all three claims.

The British program, produced by the BBC, depicts the adventures of an extraterrestrial known as the Doctor, who explores the universe with an ever-changing lineup of companions in his TARDIS (Time and Relative Dimension in Space), a time-travelling spaceship resembling a blue police call box. The series aired an astounding 26 seasons during its first incarnation, from 1963 to 1989, with seven actors in the title role, each differing from his predecessor as much in appearance as in personality. And yet the show not only thrived, but actually increased in acclaim and popularity, spawning thousands of related novels, comics, audios and more, as well as several spinoff television shows.

Doctor Who has come back from the grave twice, first in a 1996 TV movie, and then as a much- renowned revival series that has run from 2005 to date. The show is a significant part of British popular culture, and has evolved into a cult favorite in the United States and worldwide as well.

The series has changed radically over the years, with thirteen actors portraying the Doctor so far, and with more than 50 companions joining him on his adventures. But the televised episodes are just the tip of the , as the Doctor has referenced countless encounters never expanded upon onscreen. Matthew J Elliott has accepted the Herculean task of chronicling those “stories between the stories.”

After five decades of time-travelling adventures, you might imagine you knew all there was to know about the greatest hero in all of time and space, but it turns out he was living another life entirely while we weren’t looking. This is the story of that life.

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