(TV series) - When the universe was in its infancy, one of the first civilizations arose on the planet Gallifrey. The natives, known to themselves as the Shobogans, were exceptionally long lived, naturally sensitive to the flow of time, and highly telepathic. Their first space pioneer was Tecteun, who discovered a young child of an undisclosed species by a temporal anomaly on another world. Tecteun adopted the girl and took her back to Gallifrey, but when the child suffered what should have been a fatal fall, instead of dying she regenerated. Intrigued, Tecteun killed this Timeless Child child several more times as she sought to learn how the child's regeneration worked, eventually figuring out how to duplicate the process and pass it on to her own people, though unlike the Child, who could apparently regenerate endlessly, the Gallifreyans had a limit of twelve regenerations (and so thirteen lives) under normal circumstances.

the Other...

(TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - For many long years the Gallifreyans had been 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 who seemingly was the Timeless Child, now grown to adulthood; Tecteun was still around, but seemingly chose to work behind the scenes running the Division, a covert black ops agency. 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 though later changes to Gallifreyan history might have reversed this - time, even for the Gallifreyans, is not set in stone.

    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 organized 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 - or maybe this suicide and death was faked, and as the Timeless Child he simply regenerated again, and began working covertly for the Division.

    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 among the rest of the population. Some of them survive to this day, millennia later.

the Fugitive Doctor

(TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) -  Working for Tecteun's Division the Timeless Child allegedly adopted the name the Doctor (see Comments) and carried out many missions for the Time Lords before rebelling and going on the run. To hide from her pursuers, the Doctor used a Chameleon Arch to become fully human, wiping even her own memories as part of the ruse and posing as Ruth Clayton on 2010s Earth. Eventually she was tracked down at the same time as a future incarnation (considered the fourteenth, though obviously the numbers are beyond inaccurate thanks to these unnumbered hidden / retcon incarnations) stumbled across her. Recovering her memories, the Doctor evaded capture and resumed her travels.

   or perhaps this all happened later in the Doctor's life, perhaps between the (official) second and third incarnations, or after the original ninth incarnation - see Comments

the "Morbius" Doctors

(TV series, novels) -  The Doctor continued to regenerate, going through a number of subsequent bodies, some of whom were later subconsciously recalled by the fourth Doctor when he fought a mental battle with rival Time Lord Morbius (or perhaps, if the Timeless Child tale is a falsehood, these were incarnations of the Other - see Comments).

Theta Sigma/the first Doctor...

   A few thousand years ago a new Cousin was born in the House of Lungbarrow - or the memory wiped Doctor/Timeless Child was placed there. 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. The Doctor ran into one of his old friends from the Deca, Mortimus, now also a renegade who sought to alter history to "improve" it, and known variously as the Monk (based on his chosen disguise in medieval England), the Time Meddler (based on his chosen activities) or Meddling Monk. He also encountered the Toymaker, a celestial entity not bound by the normal laws of reality, who instead lived to play, and only abided by, the rules of games. After a while the Doctor's 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 Fugitive Doctor???

Given that the Doctor was in the Time Lords' power and forced to work for them for an unspecified time, maybe this was when the Doctor worked for the Division - see Comments

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.   

(Ninja High School's Indie Wars) - The Doctor visited the Time Travelers and Dimension Hoppers Flea Market being held on the Rock of Eternity in the center of Chrono Space, parking his TARDIS next to Doc Brown's DeLorean, the Victorian-era Time Traveler's Time Machine (1960 movie version), and Wilbur Robinson's Time Machine. Also attending the Market were Mister Fantastic (Reed Richards), who was listening intently to Doc Brown discuss McDonald's Szechuan sauce with Rick Sanchez; Howard the Duck hanging out with Phineas Bogg and Jeffrey Jones; the Enigma Force manifestation known as the Time-Traveler watching Bill S Preston and Ted Logan check out some comics and the Time Bandits trying to sell their time portal map to the Legion of Super-Heroes Superboy; Doctor Doom, who was offering for sale a slightly used time platform; simian time astronaut Cornelius; Buckaroo Banzai and his Hong Kong Cavalier colleague New Jersey; U.S.S. Enterprise Captain James Kirk and his science officer Spock; and Besalik diner owner Dexter Jettster running a snack stand. Apparently leaving his TARDIS behind temporarily, the Doctor departed through a Stargate just as Quagmire High's mad scientist Professor Steamhead (Johann Steamhein) and his students Jeremy Feeple, ninja Ichikun Ichinohei and extraterrestrial (Salusian) princess Asrial arrived.

(Doctor Who Weekly#19-26) - The Doctor encountered alien tyrant Beep the Meep, a deceptively cute looking despot on the run from pursuing Wrarth Warriors working for the Star Council to apprehend the fugitive. This would be only the first of many such encounters.

(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."

("Contributors" short story, Burning in Optimism's Flames anthology) - Under unrevealed circumstances the journalist and mangaka Jay Eales teamed up with the X-Man Nightcrawler to fight four incarnations of the Doctor (see Comments). 

(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.

(Logopolis TV story - BTS/The Quantum Archangel novel (fb) - BTS) - During the aforementioned encounter the Master destroyed Logopolis, a world that was holding back the heat death of the universe, unleashing an entropy wave. Prior to his fatal fall the Doctor stopped the entropy wave but not before the wave destroyed huge portions of the universe, including the planet Oa and fully one third of the Shi'ar Empire.

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).

("Contributors" short story, Burning in Optimism's Flames anthology) - Under unrevealed circumstances the journalist and mangaka Jay Eales teamed up with the X-Man Nightcrawler to fight four incarnations of the Doctor (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.

(Vworp Vworp#2) - The sixth Doctor, Peri and Frobisher attended the wedding of Sheila Cranna, alongside other guests the Dinobot Sludge, Snailman, Captain Wally, the Decepticon leader Megatron, Spider-Man, Autobot leader Optimus Prime, and Star Wars Weekly's editor droid CYRIL (see Comments).

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

("Contributors" short story, Burning in Optimism's Flames anthology) - Under unrevealed circumstances the journalist and mangaka Jay Eales teamed up with the X-Man Nightcrawler to fight four incarnations of the Doctor (see Comments).

(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, to be replaced by computer programmer Melanie "Mel" Bush."

(Millennial Rites novel) - On New Year's Eve 1999 in London the sixth Doctor and Mel were present when both the Great Intelligence (a.k.a. Yog-Sothoth) and Saraquazel, respectively beings from the universe prior to and subsequent to the current one, were summoned via quantum mnemonics. Since each came from realities with different laws of physics, their combined presence reintroduced magic into the world. This was sensed by a levitating Doctor Strange in his New York brownstone, and he cocked his head to one side as he attempted to interpret the warnings the spirits were screaming at him; drinking in a Dublin bar, John Constantine also sensed the disturbance, but dismissed the sensations as a result of the previous fifteen pints of Guinness he had just downed.

(The Quantum Archangel) - The Doctor again fought the Master, whose Tissue Compression Eliminator at this juncture (and perhaps always) used a modulated beam of gravitons and Pym Particles to fatally reduce targets to the size of dolls.

(TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - 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)) - The seventh incarnation of the Doctor decided to visit Maruthea to attend his friend Bonjaxx's birthday party. 

(Doctor Who Magazine#143) - 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) - 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) - 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#147) - Seeking to track down his old opponent the Monk and have some choice words with him over his meddling with time, the Doctor tracked down the Monk. Intending to prevent the re-election of President Sinatra, the Monk landed on a highway on Earth-89547, but materialized in the path of private investigators the Sleeze Brothers's car, causing a crash. Confronted by the angry P.I.s (el Ape and Deadbeat) and witnessing the Doctor's vessel appearing moments later the Monk hastily dematerialized his TARDIS, but the irate Brothers forced the Doctor to take them in hot pursuit across time and space, during which el Ape caused the Tunguska Blast of 1908 through his careless deployment of a mini-nuke, then rammed the Titanic into the Monk's TARDIS when it was disguised as an iceberg, damaging it so that it subsequently imploded in the Bermuda Triangle in 1945, resulting in the disappearance of the Flight 19 bomber squadron. With the Monk captured, the Doctor returned the Sleeze Brothers to their home time and reality and kicked them out his TARDIS, annoyed at the destruction their temporal rampage had brought about.

(Doctor Who Magazine#148) - 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) - 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) - 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) - 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.

("Contributors" short story, Burning in Optimism's Flames anthology) - Under unrevealed circumstances the journalist and mangaka Jay Eales teamed up with the X-Man Nightcrawler to fight four incarnations of the Doctor (see Comments).

(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, She-Hulk, the Silver Surfer and Iron Man to take on a rock band that had made a deal with a demon to ensure their success.

(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).  

the ninth "Shalka" Doctor...

(new TV series, webcast/audio play, novel, short story) - The Doctor regenerated under undisclosed circumstances to become a more aristocratic, melancholic individual. He retired home to Gallifrey, until it was destroyed by an unidentified hostile alien race (see Comments); the Doctor and the Master successfully defeated the aliens, though the Master's body was destroyed. The Doctor built a new android form for the Master's consciousness, while the Time Lords lived on within the Matrix, a virtual reality where their memories and personalities had been recorded. Despite their new status, the Time Lords continued to send the Doctor on occasional missions, with the Master, now restricted to living in the Doctor's TARDIS, forced to accompany him.

the Fugitive Doctor???

(new TV series, webcast/audio play, novel) - Perhaps the ninth Doctor regenerated into the fugitive incarnation here, after the Time Lords were restored to their physical forms.

the eighth Doctor again...

(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; the Master regained his non-android body, and the Doctor's personal timeline unwound so that his most recent regeneration was undone, though he retained at least a subconscious recollection of it (see Comments).

    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."

  As part of the Time War (or thanks to secret meddling from the Toymaker), parts of the Doctor's own personal timeline were apparently rewritten; one of these changes was that all the Doctor's past encounters with Beep the Meep no longer occurred (see Comments).

    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, wandering the universe and saving it. 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.

(Beano Annual 2009 - BTS) - Daleks, Cybermen and Slitheen attended a gathering of villains arranged by gangster Baby-Face Finlayson, alongside Bully Beef, Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, the Joker, Judge Death, Doctor Doom and the Red Skull, where Finlayson was intending to feed two individuals who had crossed him, Roger "the Dodger" Dawson and Walter "the Softy" Brown to his pet piranhas. When Roger's associates, Frederick "Fatty" Brown (no relation to Walter), Hermione "Minnie the Minx" Makepeace and speedster Billy Whizz attempted the rescue, the villains captured them too, but the heroes ultimately managed to free themselves and unleash the carnivorous fish on the assembled villains, forcing them to flee. The Doctor himself was not present (see Comments).

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 a 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.

(The Return of Doctor Mysterio TV story) - While in New York City in the 1990s trying to fix some recent temporal problems that had arisen there, the Doctor encountered a young comic fan, Grant Gordon, and flipped through some of his comics. While Grant was out the room the Doctor deduced that Superman's secret identity was Clark Kent, and proudly revealed this revelation to Grant upon the boy's return, proving it by showing him a panel in one of Grant's Superman comics (Superman II#19 from 1988) where the Doctor had drawn glasses on Superman's face. Grant informed him that everyone knew this, but the Doctor retorted the Lois Lane didn't, despite being a reporter.

   As the pair walked up to the roof the Doctor read one of Grant's Spider-Man comics (not clearly enough displayed to identify), and asked the child why the hero was called Spider-Man: "Don't they like him?"

   Grant replied "He was bitten by a radioactive spider, and guess what happened?"

   "Radiation poisoning, I should think." responded the Time Lord.

   "No, he got special powers."

   "What, vomiting, hair loss and death? Fat lot of use."

   Distracted while working to complete a "time distortion equalizer thingy" the Doctor accidentally gave young Grant superhuman powers, which the comic fan naturally used to later become a superhero, the Ghost.

(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 informed the batrachian that "she" had frozen Stockbridge to lure the Doctor there. Dogbolter sent temporal mercenaries led by the reptilian Gol Clutha to capture the Doctor and Max and bring them to St. Justinian's Church (named for the fifth Doctor's late companion, Sir Justin) where Dogbolter, Hob and "Chiyoko" were waiting.

    In Dogbolter's absence, the tenth Doctor's former companion Majenta Pryce, a marginally less ruthless but no less cunning businesswoman than Dogbolter, called an emergency meeting of Intra-Venus' major shareholders, and blackmailed them with evidence of various crimes they had committed intending to force them to sell their shares, valued at 12 billion credits each, for an infinitesimal fraction of their actual value. When Dogbolter's daughter, Berakka, tried to kill Majenta to prevent this, Majenta's back-up, the eighth Doctor's former companion Destrii, intervened and easily disarmed Berakka. With no further opposition, Majenta reduced her offer even further, buying out the shareholders for five credits per share, and installed herself as Intra-Venus' new C.E.O.

    Back at St. Justinian's, the Doctor let the gloating Dogbolter boast how he planned to use the TARDIS to eliminate competitors before they were born and cheat on the stock market, unaware his words were being broadcast live galaxywide back in his own time. The Doctor then asked if Dogbolter remembered hiring the assassin who killed Gus, but Dogbolter retorted that he couldn't: "You know how many nobodies I've killed to get where I am today? Anybody gets in my way, they die, or wish they had." Dogbolter then ordered Gol Clutha to kill the Doctor, prompting "Chiyoko" to try and talk him into delaying this; hearing "Chiyoko's" speech patterns slip out of character, Dogbolter realized his ally was not who "she" seemed, so Frobisher dropped the disguise and assumed a form strong enough to knock out all the mercenaries. Since Frobisher had once cost Dogbolter a considerable sum of money, Dogbolter did remember him, and had prepared for another encounter, instructing Hob to activate a null-beam that locked Frobisher back into his most common, and least combat-worthy, penguin form. Dogbolter then attacked the Doctor directly, pulling a blaster, but Max tackled him, and before Dogbolter could recover he was knocked out by a parcel (Max's birthday present) thrown by the newly arrived Izzy Sinclair, former companion to the eighth Doctor.

    When Dogbolter regained consciousness to find himself bound, he threatened to kill all of the Doctor's friends, but Sharon revealed her presence and informed him that his confession to mass murder had been widely broadcast. Dogbolter confidently retorted that his lawyers would make the courts believe it had all been faked, only for the Doctor to counter by telling him that thanks to Majenta he would be suffering from a severe cash flow problem, and wouldn't be able to afford a good legal team.

    Dogbolter was returned to his own time to be arrested by Intersol, while the Doctor took Max and all the former companions who had helped bring the crooked frog down to celebrate Max's sixtieth birthday party on the planet Cornucopia. 

(Doctor Who Magazine#504) - With the TARDIS temporarily out of commission in the London of 1972 A.D., the Doctor moved in with the family of his new friend Jess Collins while the ship repaired itself. While there, Jess' younger brother Maxwell asked the Doctor who would win in a fight between Batman and Captain America. Without hesitation the Doctor opined that Captain America would obviously win, and when Max queried why, the Doctor cited the villains they both fought, asking Max who was tougher: The Red Skull or some idiot in clown make-up? Max refused to accept this reasoning, citing all the cool gadgets Batman had, but the Doctor pointed out that Cap only needed his shield and his wits. When Max insisted Batman might have no powers but could beat anyone the Doctor responded that Bruce Wayne was a bored millionaire with too much time on his hands. Max retorted that Batman was avenging his parents and protecting Gotham City, but the Doctor declared that Cap was a skinny little guy who became a hero, thus proving it could happen to anyone. Changing tack, Max announced that it didn't really matter, since the Hulk would just smash both of them into the ground, but the Doctor waved this away dismissively, insisting that the first rule of the universe was that brains always beat brawn. When Max expressed skepticism, the Doctor stuck to his guns, insisting this was true every single time, but Max laughed at this, thinking the Doctor had unwittingly lost the debate, and stated that Batman was smarter than Captain America and so would win. Without a moment's hesitation the Doctor asked Max why he thought Batman was smarter, to which Max responded that Batman was the world's greatest detective, but the Doctor wasn't thrown, declaring that detectives weren't clever, since it didn't take brains to solve crimes after they had happened. "Ooh, look at my amazing powers of hindsight!" Feeling conciliatory, the Doctor suggested that they say the two heroes were evenly matched, in which case it would always be an x-factor, an unexpected element, that would decide the fight, and told Max that if he had access to his TARDIS he'd show him the comics room, packed to the rafters with the greatest stories in the universe.

(Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor Year 2#1) - Allegedly to help sooth a sore throat, the Doctor visited Milo, a starliner barman who made the best Pan-Galactic Gargle Blasters in time and space. While enjoying his drink, he was accosted by Lucifer van Volk, captain of the pirate Steel Reivers. Trying to place the name, the Doctor recalled meeting a Van Dyne, saying he had needed a magnifying glass to see her, and a von Doom, a humorless tin-pot of a guy (see Comments).

(new TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - Fatally injured while fighting two incarnations of the Master and the Cybermen, the Doctor again regenerated, changing sex to become a younger blonde woman.

the thirteenth Doctor...

(new TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - Now younger-looking and less cynical, taking more visible joy from exploring, the Doctor picked up new friends on Earth and continued to travel the universe.

(Doctor Who Magazine#531) - The Doctor and her friends Yasmin Khan, Ryan Sinclair and Graham O'Brien visited the city of Radiant Stone on the planet Gatan, but found it in ruins, and were caught up in a battle between two bio-mechanical soldiers, Tumat and Kraytos.

(Doctor Who Magazine#532) - Evading the pair, the Doctor learned that the devastation was solely down to the prolonged battle between the two soldiers, and learned that their fight was being televised and monetized by the Freedom Thoughtcast Network, run by Berakka Dogbolter. 

(Doctor Who Magazine#533) - Berakka admitted to the Doctor that she had initially wanted revenge for the Time Lord engineering her father's downfall, but was now grateful as it had forced her to forge her own financial empire via the FTN. However, as soon as the Doctor made it clear that she intended to put a stop to the battle, and thus to Berakka making money off of it, Berakka decided to kill the Doctor, and attacked her with a sword.

(Doctor Who Magazine#534) - With the timely help of her trio of friends, the Doctor disarmed and overpowered Berakka, then used a teleporter to merge the two combatants, ending the conflict. To ensure Berakka could not simply monetize another war, the Doctor then used Berakka's own thought-casting equipment to broadcast the grief being experienced by a child orphaned during the fight directly into the minds of the viewers; feeling the pain of someone whose life had been devastated by the conflict ensured none of them would again be able to enjoy watching bloodshed like this. Shutting down Berakka's broadcast, the Doctor vowed to keep an eye on the younger Dogbolter in future.

(Doctor Who Magazine#539) - The Doctor learned of the Catastrophia, a realm with no physical laws, no space-time and no causality, which was linked to the normal universe by various holes scattered around the universe. These holes had been sealed by the Knights of the Solitary Sword, who used local thinkers - scientists, mathematicians, astronomers, etc. - because logical thought itself was anathema to the Catastrophia and could bind it. No one from the regular reality had ever survived visiting the Catastrophia, and if any native of the Catastrophia managed to emerge in the regular universe their simple presence would spread the unreality of that realm wherever they went, resulting in chaos and death. Unfortunately an insane cult, the Children of Chaos, had arisen dedicated to the triumph of the Catastrophia, and succeeded in unleashing the Catastrophia's Herald of Madness on Earth, in Bohemia in 1601A.D. To operate in the regular universe the Herald had to take on a semi-coherent form, and seemingly chose that of the oft-chaotic Doctor, but using her as a template also forged a bond between them, allowing the Doctor to injure the Herald with a bolt of pure logic, then helped the representatives of the Knights and their scientists they had assembled bind her in a logic web and throw her back through the portal, sealing it behind the Herald.

(Doctor Who Magazine#543 (fb) - BTS) - Seeking revenge against the Doctor, Berraka used the Freedom Thoughtcast Network to spread propaganda defaming the Doctor; since the Time Lord often showed up at disasters, the FTN portrayed her as deliberately causing these catastrophes, rather than seeking to avert them.  

(Doctor Who Magazine#543) - When the Mahuika Power Station on Segonus IV was in the middle of a meltdown, the Doctor intervened. She managed to stop the meltdown, but discovered one worker, Harold Wyntoia, trapped on a high walkway that was about to collapse. Realizing his only hope was for him to jump across to her location, the Doctor called to him, but as soon as he saw her he seemed to recognize her and recoiled in terror, declaring her a monster and assuming she had engineered the meltdown. Before she could convince him otherwise, the walkway collapsed and Harold fell to his death. Disturbed by this, and determined to discover why Harold had been so scared of her, the Doctor landed the TARDIS in Segonus IV's biggest city, where she and her companions soon witnessed FTN decrying her as a terrorist who had triggered the meltdown and blamed her for Harold's demise, and then Berakka herself proclaiming the Doctor a being who delighted in creating havoc. Angered not so much at having her name dragged through the mud, but rather that a man had died because of this, the Doctor told her friends that Berakka was going to see what an angry Doctor really looks like.

(Doctor Who Magazine#544) - The Doctor confronted Berakka in the latter's office at FTN headquarters on Venus, and offered her one last chance to end things peacefully, but Berakka was unrepentant, confident she knew the Doctor's code meant that she would not carry out her threats and promising to continue to rewrite the Doctor's public perception to destroy her reputation and make money out of doing so. Just then Berakka's android assistant Sandola Dell entered, bringing Berakka some reports; noticing the Doctor, Sandola announced she would alert security, prompting the Doctor to swiftly disable the machine with her sonic screwdriver. It turned out Sandola was apparently the one being Berakka truly cared for, as seeing the android collapse lifeless left Berakka struggling to speak, and the Doctor warned the businesswoman that she intended to take away everything Berakka cared for since she had caused Harold's death, and noting ominously that Berakka only thought she knew the Doctor. They were interrupted by the unexpected arrival of Krizanthia Kalos and her two henchmen, bizarrely dressed individuals Berakka identified as psychotic killers who the Doctor had inadvertently let into the building by disabling Sandola. One of the Children of Chaos, Krizanthia revealed herself to be a fan of the Doctor (or at least the version Berakka had publicized) who had been waiting for her to attack FTN, anticipating the Doctor would go there after the news reports. She asked the Doctor's permission to execute Berakka, but the quick-thinking Doctor declined, citing that she needed Berakka to continue to spread the word about her deeds. Witnessing all this from a hiding spot nearby, Ryan used a loud alarm on his cell phone to cause a distraction, which Berakka used to attack Krizanthia. The psycho fought back, and when the Doctor tried to stop the fight Berakka through Krizanthia into her. As Graham rushed forward to help the Doctor, Krizanthia activated a teleportation device that transported her, the Doctor and the nearby Berakka and Graham to a cavern on the other side of Venus, where she opened a well leading to the Catastrophia. Tentacles emerged to grab all of them and pull them in.

(Doctor Who Magazine#546) - The Doctor informed Graham that the Herald was apparently her future self, turned into a monster after being trapped in the Catastrophia. As she tried to disable the energy pylons restraining the Herald they were attacked by beings (Logic-Forms) trying to stop her. While Berakka and Graham fought them, the Doctor continued her attempts to release the Herald, until another, hooded figure intervened, pushing her away. Dropping her hood, the newcomer was revealed to be another semi-doppelganger of the Doctor, this time blue, angular and computer-like, who announced herself to be the Sanity.

(Doctor Who Magazine#547) - The Doctor realized that thanks to the Catastrophia twisting temporal laws, both the Herald and the Sanity were future versions of herself, one from a timeline where she stayed inside the Logic Cube and became the emotionless and relentlessly logical Sanity, and the other where she left it and was twisted into the insane, chaos-spreading Herald. The Doctor talked to the Sanity, trying to remind her who she had once been, but the Sanity dismissed her as irrelevant, and began torturing the Herald to harvest its energies, stating they were unique because they bridged the boundaries between rationality and chaos. The Doctor pointed out that this was because the Herald didn't originate in the Catastrophia, trying to make the Sanity realize how similar she was to her captive, but the Sanity denied this connection. Berakka then moved in, and demanded that the Sanity return her to the real world, attempting to use force when the Sanity declined, but she immediately learned that the Sanity was far stronger than she was, casually lifting her aloft and throwing her across the chamber with a warning to cease her obstructions if she wished to continue existing. As the Doctor checked to make sure Berakka wasn't badly injured, the businesswoman derisively congratulated her, claiming only the Doctor could become two monsters at the same time. The Doctor again approached the Sanity, asking her what her plan was. Calmly the Sanity explained that it intended to open every gateway between the Catastrophia and the rational universe simultaneously, unleashing chaotic entities across the cosmos to consume all matter in their paths. Confused at her motives, the Doctor queried who a creature of logic would let chaos claim the universe, and the Sanity explained that her calculations confirmed that the outrush of chaos would eventually be reversed, ultimately letting the rational universe flood into the Catastrophia and destroy it, a satisfactory result that would take less than three hundred thousand years. Horrified, the Doctor protested that trillions would be killed, but the Sanity dismissed this concern, noting that it was the nature of all life to conclude, and that this way order would ultimately prevail. With that she completed her preparations and began to open the millions of gateways around the universe, about to literally unleash chaos.

(Doctor Who Magazine#548) - Unwilling to be dissuaded, and with only moments left until the Herald's energies opened the gateways, the Sanity used its mind to raise a floating platform into the air so it could witness the effect uninterrupted. Reasoning that if the Sanity could manipulate the Cube with her mind then so could she, the Doctor concentrated and the ground beneath her began rising up. She asked Berakka to accompany and assist her, convincing the reluctant businesswoman by pointing out that this was to save everything she had spent her life building. As their flying platform approached the Sanity's, the Doctor called out to the entity and asked why the Sanity hadn't already killed her, since the Doctor was clearly a threat to her plans. The Sanity claimed this was because the Doctor was unimportant, but the Doctor insisted this was a lie, and that some small part of the Sanity recognized that the Doctor was her past and killing her might prevent the Sanity coming into existence. When the Sanity denied this, the Doctor leapt from the platform and fell towards the ground far below, until the Sanity stopped the potentially fatal plunge by catching the Doctor with another platform. Rebutting the Sanity's claim it had only done this because the Doctor was affecting the Logic Cube constructs, the Doctor leapt across the Sanity's platform and grappled with her, with Berakka swiftly joining the attack. At the Doctor's command, Berakka kicked at the Sanity's legs, knocking her off balance and allowing the Doctor to push her future self off the platform. The Doctor and the Sanity plummeted down together and landed on the Herald; the Doctor had expected that having the same person from three different time periods make physical contact would kill all of them, but instead the energy released by the time differential fused them all together, allowing the Doctor to absorb both her future versions, whose opposing natures cancelled one another out. This also caused all the portals that had begun to open to slam shut again, preventing the chaos of the Catastrophia from spilling forth to engulf the rational universe. Just then a door of energy opened, as their allies back in the rational universe used the TARDIS to open a temporary portal back to the rational universe. Berakka immediately leapt through, but the Doctor told Graham she would have to stay because she created a temporal loop - she had to stay to become both the Herald and the Sanity to ensure events followed the path where her earlier self would merge with them. However Graham reminded her that by her own words, there were no rules in the Catastrophia, convincing her she could risk leaving, and the pair jumped through the portal and into the TARDIS.

   Back in the rational universe Berakka informed the Doctor that she fully intended to continue portraying the Time Lord as a monster, citing the Sanity's plan as proof, then strode off. The Doctor was downcast, feeling she had failed, until her companion Yaz mentioned she'd been surfing other news networks, and showed her one where former companion Sharon Allen interviewed countless beings telling how the Doctor had saved lives, countering Berakka's false narrative.

(new TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - The Master informed the Doctor that she was not truly a Gallifreyan, but another, unidentified species, and was the Timeless Child from whom the gift of regeneration had been stolen. This seemed to be backed up by files hidden within the Matrix, and by a subsequent encounter with Tecteun (see Comments); the Doctor also learned of her fugitive incarnation, apparently a past life of which she had no recollection.

   Eventually the Master tried to steal the Doctor's very body, and though he succeeded in usurping it for a brief period and forcing a temporary regeneration, she was able to reverse the process. Badly injured to the point of needing to regenerate, the Master fatally wounded the Doctor in turn, forcing her to regenerate.

the fourteenth Doctor...

(new TV series, comics, novels) - To the Doctor's surprise, his new form was actually an old one, identical (barring being slightly older looking) to his tenth body. Returning to Earth he ran into Donna Noble, who had traveled with him in that body, but whose memory he had been forced to wipe to save her life; the Doctor suspected that his running into this unfinished business so soon after inexplicably regaining the old face connected to that business was no coincidence. He also encountered Beep the Meep for the first time again, reliving a version of the encounter his fourth incarnation had once had with the alien despot, during which he also managed to safely restore Donna's memories. Soon after the Toymaker made his presence felt, revealing he had been meddling with the Doctor's life for some time, turning his history into "crazy paving," suggesting he might have been responsible for some of the apparent alterations to the Doctor's history. During this encounter the Toymaker blasted the Doctor with a laser, intending to force a regeneration; instead, perhaps because the Toymaker's presence was warping the laws of reality to make myths become real, the Doctor bi-generated (something Time Lords had previously believed was only a legend), splitting into a healed fourteenth incarnation and a new fifteenth incarnation. Together they defeated the Toymaker. The fourteenth semi-retired, staying on Earth to recuperate, while the fifteenth returned to his travels; though the Toymaker was gone, the effect his presence had to loosen the laws of reality lingered for a short time, allowing the Doctors to split the TARDIS into two, one for each incarnation.

the fifteenth Doctor...

(new TV series, comics, novels) -  With a renewed joy for life, the new Doctor continues his travels, eager to see what the future holds.

(new TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - Further regenerations would eventually follow, including

(Battlefield TV story (fb) - BTS/various novels) - a red-haired man who impersonated Merlin,...

(Rose novelization of TV story) - a bald headed black woman with a flaming sword, and a youth in a high-tech wheelchair. 

the nth Doctor...

(Doctor Who Magazine#173) - An unspecified future incarnation of the Doctor attended Bonjaxx's party at Maruthea with his companion Ria. While there he met his seventh incarnation and Ace.

the Valeyard...

(new TV series, comics, novels, audio plays) - Somewhere between his twelfth and final incarnations an evil version of the Doctor arose, though whether this was truly the Doctor or some part of him that had split off on its own remains unclear. Posing as a Gallifreyan court official titled the Valeyard, he served as the prosecutor when his sixth incarnation was put on trial on falsified charges, as part of a scheme to steal his younger incarnation's remaining regenerations. Though he failed, the Valeyard would continue to target his earlier incarnations.

the Curator...

(Day of the Doctor TV story, comics, audio plays) - At some point many incarnations in the future the Doctor retired to run the secret Under Gallery of the National Gallery in London. In this incarnation he was able to shift his appearance without regenerating, and chose to appear as elderly versions of his favorite past incarnations, including his fourth, sixth and eighth bodies. 

   The Doctor has appeared on the stage in several plays, and this in turn has produced a number of new Doctors. Some of these could be considered amateur productions, but since they got BBC approval I'm still going to count those. The plays and new Doctors include:

• Curse of the Daleks - 1965 at the Wydnham Theatre in London. The Doctor doesn't actually appear in this story, so no new incarnations, but I'm mentioning it because otherwise someone will inevitably write in to say I overlooked it.
• Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday - 1974 at the Adelphi Theatre in London, with Trevor Martin as an alternate fourth Doctor, a role he later reprised in a Big Finish audio adaptation of this play.
  
• The Inheritors of Time - 1984 at Chicago's TARDIS 21 convention, with Patrick Troughton reprising his role of the second Doctor in a full read through of a play written by future comics legend John Ostrander.
• Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday - 1984 at the Porirua Little Theatre in Porirua, New Zealand, a new staging of the play done in London in the 1970s, now with Michael Sagar in the lead role.
• Recall UNIT: The Great T-Bag Mystery - Moray House Theatre, Edinburgh. A play put on at the Edinburgh Fringe festival by former Doctor Who cast members Richard Franklin and John Levene, who had respectively played UNIT soldiers Captain Yates and Sergeant Benton on the show. Jon Pertwee was supposed to reprise his role as the third Doctor for one performance, on 24th August, but had to pull out after being double-booked; his part was replaced by the Supreme Dalek, so no version of the Doctor actually appeared.
  
• The Inheritors of Time - 1985 at Chicago's TARDIS 21 convention, with actor Roger Mueller as the Doctor, at a full cast sneak preview of the play which was intended to then run at the Pickwick Theater, Illinois before going on a national tour. Unfortunately the backers funding the project pulled out only a couple of weeks before the first official performance, but since Mueller did play the role at the convention, he still counts in my book.
• Doctor Who on Ice - 1986 in Blackpool, U.K., with David McGrouther as the sixth Doctor. Sure, it was an ice-skating performance, but there was a storyline included, complete with monsters from the TV version, so I'm counting it.
  
• The Ultimate Adventure - 1989 in a U.K. national tour; TV Doctors Jon Pertwee and then Colin Baker reprised the role for most performances, but Pertwee's understudy David Banks took over for two performances when Pertwee fell ill.
• The Empress of Othernow - 1994 in Huntingdon, U.K., with Bob Pugh as an alternate eighth Doctor.
  
• Hellblossom - 2000 in Portsmouth, U.K., with Mark Wright as an alternate ninth Doctor in a play put on by the Battered Suitcase Company
• The Web of Fear - 2000 in Portsmouth, U.K. with Nick Scovell in an adaptation of the lost second Doctor story. Scovell had played the Doctor in an earlier play, 1996's Planet of Storms, but afaik that one hadn't been licensed by the BBC.
• Vox Dei - 2001 in Portsmouth, U.K. with David Huntingdon as the Doctor in another Battered Suitcase Company play.
• Fury from the Deep - 2002 in Portsmouth, with Nick Scovell again playing the Doctor
• Warsmith - 2002 in Portsmouth, with Mike O'Doherty as the Doctor in Battered Suitcase Company's third and last play.
• Albert Einstein Meets Doctor Who - 2005 in Dublin, with Declan Brennan in a play put on for the The Young Scientist Exhibition held in the Royal Dublin Society
• Evil of the Daleks - 2006 in Portsmouth, with Nick Scovell once again
• The Dalek Masterplan - 2007 in Portsmouth, once more with Nick Scovell.
• The Monsters are Coming - 2010 on tour across the U.K. An alien showman showcases monsters that have fought the Doctor; the eleventh Doctor appears through new video footage recorded for the show.
  
• The Crash of the Elysium - 2011 in Manchester and then Ipswich. An interactive experience where the attendees took part in the story, ostensibly helping the Doctor retrieve his TARDIS from a damaged spaceship full of escaped monsters. The then-incumbent eleventh Doctor appeared on pre-recorded video to instruct the attendees taking part and congratulate them upon a successful completion of the mission. Except for the last performance, where Matt Smith decided to be there in character, unpaid and without any prior warning to the fans who were in attendance.
• Time Fracture - 2021-2022 in London. An immersive experience where attendees take part in the show, set initially at a time fracture being monitored by UNIT. Various incarnations of the Doctor are involved, three (first, thirteenth and fugitive) via pre-recorded video of the actors who portray them on TV, the others via audio recorded using either the actual TV actor or the same soundalikes Big Finish has employed. No new incarnations of the Doctor show up.
  

The Doctor as Merlin

   According to the TV story Battlefield, the Doctor will in a future incarnation become known as Merlin. We even know which incarnation, thanks to the novel Birthright (it's the one who also calls himself Muldwych), and have a picture of him from the cover of the novel Happy Endings. At first described as having red hair, by the time we encounter Muldwych he has spent 1000 years exiled on a barren future Earth, and is now white haired and balding. The Merlin the fourth and fifth incarnations of the Doctor met in Doctor Who Magazine bears no real resemblance to Muldwych; he does however look exactly like one of the forms taken on by the Merlyn who gave Captain Britain his powers when that character shapeshifts in Daredevils#1. It should be noted however that this isn't a guarantee that the Doctor has met that Merlyn. While unlikely, it's conceivable that the Merlin of the Neutron Knights story might be another incarnation of the Doctor. The story which first tells us the Doctor will become Merlin also implies that he will regenerate while using this name. The Merlin of Neutron Knights could be the first incarnation of the Doctor to use the name, and Muldwych the second. Captain Britain's Merlyn could very easily copy his appearance if he so desired. Confused? That's what you get when you have two extremely manipulative individuals who change names and appearances on a regular basis and aren't beyond pinching other people's identities when it suits them. For my money though, the Merlin the fourth and fifth Doctor's met is probably the Marvel Universe's Merlyn.

    Just to confuse things further - the Doctor discovered in Battlefield that he would one day become Merlin on an alternate Earth (though not necessarily the one he ran into in Tides of Time and Neutron Knights).

     Perhaps the "Merlin" role he took there was in homage to the actual Merlin? - Changeling.  It's entirely possible that he pinched the name of the real Merlin, either in homage, or, upon arriving and finding out that the real Merlin had been around a few years back and was still remembered, by claiming that he was Merlin returned. Particularly easy if the locals knew Merlin could alter his appearance.

The Winning Designs Doctor

    This is somewhat of a Marvel Doctor Who alternate Doctor, as he came about in issues of Doctor Who Magazine while Marvel was publishing it. In DWM#108 (January 1986) a competition was launched asking readers who would they choose to play the Doctor, his companion, and his foe, in a film, with no person who had already appeared in the series allowed as a suggestion. DWM#113 (June 1986) announced the winning picks, suggested by American fan Scott Sauber: Brian Blessed as the Doctor (a few months later Blessed wouldn't have been a viable choice, as he appeared in the series later that year, and he's since gone on to play the renegade Time Lord founder Omega in audio), with Meryl Streep as the companion and John Hurt as the villain (long before he became the War Doctor in the revived show). This wouldn't have counted for my "other Doctors" list in this profile however, except that the competition proved so popular that it spawned a sequel, with readers encouraged to design the costumes for the three choices, with the winner to have their designs then sketched by a professional costume designer. These designs appeared in Doctor Who Magazine#131 (December 1987), put together by another pair of American fans, Wanda Sue Morain and Mike Acord. Their designs designated the Doctor's companion to be Maggie, a fortune teller at an amusement park, and Hurt's villain to be a new incarnation of the Master.

   Adding to the semi-canonical nature of this incarnation was in Doctor Who Magazine Winter Special 1991, where an in-universe expose newspaper article included photos of all the mysterious Doctor John Smiths that had worked with UNIT; among the photos of the various actors who had played the Doctor on the show to that date was one of Brian Blessed. You might ask, if he was seen identified as the Doctor in an in-universe article, doesn't that make him a Doctor Who Magazine future Doctor as legitimate as the nth Doctor, and if so why isn't he up in the main timeline like the nth Doctor? The answer is because that article only stated he was identified as working with UNIT under the name Doctor John Smith. However, (again, in-universe) the article writer might have erred and Brian Blessed wasn't actually one of UNIT's "John Smiths", or UNIT itself might have been wrong to believe him the Doctor - in the Big Finish audios a new incarnation of the Master pulled this trick off, fooling for a time both UNIT and the seventh Doctor.

The "original" Eighth Doctor

    Another Marvel Doctor Who alternate Doctor depicted in DWM during Marvel's tenure. With Doctor Who having been off air for around a decade, Doctor Who Magazine#255 (August 1997) took a look at what might have happened had the show not been put on "hiatus" by the BBC, basing its speculation on information provided by the production team at the time the show ended regarding what had been considered for future seasons had the show continued. So the magazine put together speculative new seasons featuring stories that had been proposed or in development (some of which had ended up becoming Doctor Who novels), and cast Richard Griffiths, who had been considered for the part previously, as the Doctor, alongside companion Kate Tollinger (who in this speculation was played by Julia Sawalha, who two years after this faux article actually did play the Doctor's companion in The Curse of Fatal Death). Artist Phil Bevan provided illustrations of this Doctor and companion for the article.

The Infinity Doctor

     The novel The Infinity Doctors, set in what appeared to be an alternate reality or perhaps the distant past or future of the Doctor, included yet another new incarnation. Though physically resembling McGann's eighth Doctor, he was now a high ranking official on Gallifrey. An article in Doctor Who Magazine#354, released shortly before the revival series began, said goodbye to McGann's tenure (which while short on TV had been very lengthy in the expanded media) with looks at different variations of his character across all the varied media, and as part of this artist Martin Geraghty provided illustrations of the different versions, including (right) the Doctor from The Infinity Doctors.

Japanese Doctor

    This one is official, but arguably not a new Doctor. When the first Japanese printings of Doctor Who novelizations of TV stories were being prepared in 1980, artist Michiaki Sato was enlisted to provide illustrations for them. Unfortunately, no one thought to provide him with any visual references as to what the characters looked like, so he was forced to go with the often sparse descriptions given in the books, filtered through a translation into his native tongue. Thus the Doctor had a decidedly different appearance, the TARDIS was now a bright red telephone booth, and the Daleks were much smoother and rounded.

    What makes this more intriguing is that there was another Japanese Doctor Who prior to these novelizations. In the movie King Kong Escapes, a spin-off of the Toho Godzilla movies, the villainous scientist antagonist of the movie is called Doctor Who. Though he is not meant to be any version of the BBC character, and only shares a name, when you compare his appearance to the Michiaki Sato illustrations, it seems very likely that the movie character influenced them.

    From the outset the Doctor has had family, as we not only met his granddaughter in the very first episode, but the story was named after her: The Unearthly Child. Through most of the show since then we've only ever really had hints and snippets about his other relatives, and usually without many specifics - he's been married a couple of times, though never what you'd call a conventional marriage, and he gained a clonish sort-of-daughter (more on whom below). However, the expanded universe has added a lot more. The novel Lungbarrow revealed that Time Lords of the modern era are arranged into houses with 45 Cousins in each, and that the Doctor's house was the titular Lungbarrow, and other tales, often contradicting one another, have mentioned parents.

   Of the relatives introduced, four have gone on to make significant appearances in stories without the Doctor. The first is Susan herself. The second was Irving Braxiatel, initially introduced in the novels, but later appearing in multiple audio plays portrayed by Miles Richardson. (And before anyone rushes in to correct me, I know that his Braxiatel Collection was first mentioned in the original show, but that was a throwaway line at the time, not meant to reference anyone tied to the Doctor - the novel writers loved to expand on stuff like that and make it more significant). Irving is described as the Doctor's brother. How can this be? Brax isn't one of the Cousins, as all of them are accounted for in Lungbarrow. It could just be a term of affection, but the way it comes across, that doesn't seem right. More likely is that Braxiatel also shares some of the Other's genetic heritage (or has the genetic heritage of the Other's brother), and in the same way Susan and the Doctor recognised each other when they first met, so too did Braxiatel and the Doctor.

   The third was Miranda Dawkins, who the eighth Doctor adopted while stuck on Earth and amnesiac in the novel Father Time, and who went on to have a short-lived comic from Comeuppance Comics.

   The last (to date) is Jenny, created in the TV story The Doctor's Daughter using a device that used the Doctor's DNA to decant a female not-quite-clone; she's since appeared in comics and her own spin-off audios. Amusingly, she's played by Georgia Tennant, nee Moffat, real life daughter to former fifth Doctor Peter Davison, and went on to marry David Tennant, the tenth Doctor.

    In the T.V. Comic's strips from 1966, the First Doctor had two grandchildren, other than Susan Foreman, John and Gillian, last name unknown, the author is also unknown, but the artist was John Canning. I don't know if the strip is considered canon, but they were reprinted in Doctor Who Classic Comics magazine by Marvel UK. - Darc_Light

The Two Doctors

   In 1991 former Doctor Who script editor pitched the idea to Doctor Who Magazine's then-editor John Freeman for a Doctor Who/Doctor Strange crossover. Freeman approved of the idea, and artist Lee Sullivan did a couple of promotional posters for the crossover. Then Marvel Editor-in-Chief Tom DeFalco liked the idea, but felt that with Doctor Who then off the air that there was no advantage proceeding with the crossover, so the story was pulled.

   Both of Sullivan's posters were eventually published however. The one on the left appeared in the UKCAC 91 (U.K. Comic Art Convention) convention book, while the one on the left was printed in the books and comics chapter of the behind-the-scenes book Ace! The Inside Story of An Era. Interestingly, this second image also showed that some other Marvel characters were due to also show up in the story. The image in Ace! is pretty tiny - the copy on this page is blown up from that - so the additional characters were really hard to definitively identify until I took a photo of just that section of the image from my copy of the book using my phone at maximum close-up. The result, below, isn't perfect, but the characters are at least clear enough to identify as She-Hulk, Silver Surfer and Iron Man.

    Speaking of Alistaire, Colin Hicks wrote in to ask about the resemblance between Brigadier Alysande Stuart (Alistaire's sister) of W.H.O. and Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart of U.N.I.T. Well spotted. Chris Claremont is a fan of Doctor Who, and one of the Doctor's most frequent allies is the latter Brigadier. The two met back during the Doctor's second incarnation, when LS was only a Colonel, and the Doctor aided the British army in repelling an invasion of robotic Yeti who had occupied the London underground. Following this encounter, and with the assistance of (former Group Captain) Gilmore, who years earlier had repelled another alien invasion (the Daleks, with the help of the seventh incarnation of the Doctor) he successfully lobbied Parliament to set up a special army force dedicated to protecting humanity from such incursions. This force, which operated under UN mandate rather than UK, was the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, or UNIT, and Colonel Lethbridge-Stewart was promoted to Brigadier and put in charge of the British arm of it. The Doctor would long be associated with UNIT, working with them through many of his incarnations, and the Brigadier would become one of the Doctor's closest friends. (All from the TV series, except for the bit about GC Gilmore - he'd appeared in the TV series, but his involvement in the creation of UNIT comes from the novels)

     When he had been a Lieutenant, LS fathered a son by an African girl, Mariatu. This son, who took his father's surname (it's unclear whether LS married the girl, but they lived together for some 8 years, so it is likely), would be the first in a line of warriors which culminated in Brigadier Yembe Lethbridge-Stewart about a century from now. There was one more member of this line, Kadaitu Lethbridge-Stewart, who was brought up by Yembe as his daughter (though the exact family relationship is slightly more complex, as she was actually a genetically modified test-tube baby altered to be a supersoldier - her basic DNA came from Yembe though, so she is a Lethbridge-Stewart). Kadaitu would eventually become a time-traveller in her own right. (Transit novel). The original Lethbridge-Stewart married after Mariatu left him, to Fiona. They had a daughter, Kate, but then they divorced, partially because he could not tell her what he really did for the army. Kate would in turn have a child out of wedlock, and named him Gordon after his grandfather. (Downtime novel and video drama). Lethbridge-Stewart would eventually leave UNIT and remarry, this time to Doris (TV series, Battlefield story). An old man, he was rejuvenated / regenerated during another encounter with the Doctor (novel, Happy Endings). Sadly Doris died in a boating accident a few years later (novel, Shadows of Avalon), the Brig rejoined UNIT, and eventually became military ambassador to the extradimensional court of Avalon and consort to its queen (same novel). The Brigadier was eventually reported to have died (perhaps a cover up for his departure to Avalon), and Kate took over running the British branch of UNIT, shortening her surname to Stewart, hoping to make it less obvious who her father was and hence to reduce the (unfounded) implication that her appointment was a form of nepotism (TV series, The Power of Three & The Day of the Doctor).

   In Uncanny X-Men I#218 we see British soldiers clearing up after a battle between some of that mutant team and the Juggernaut. They wear UNIT patches (iirc) and refer to the Brigadier - a small in joke. But later, when Claremont set up Excalibur, he followed this idea up. He couldn't use UNIT again (copyright I would think) so it became WHO - the Weird Happenings Organisation (continuing the joke), with Brigadier Alysande Stuart. If the surname had been spelt differently there might have been a case to make that this was the child of the Earth-616 counterpart to the character in the Doctor Who universe, but since it isn't, we have to put it down to a nice in-joke / tribute.

   Beano Annual 2009, published by D.C. Thomson, adds another connection between the Doctor and Marvel, throwing in DC Comics, Judge Dredd and IPC/Fleetway/Rebellion in general - basically tying all the major British comic publishers to the big two American ones. The Doctor himself doesn't appear, but given the connections I've still listed it in his history, in the tenth Doctor's era since the story was published while he was the incumbent. Early in the story there are background cameos of Robot Archie and Brian's Brain, two Fleetway/IPC characters, but it is at Finlayson's gathering that we get the main cameos, the ones that show Doctor Who characters alongside Marvel and DC ones, as well as Judge Death from 2000A.D.'s Judge Dredd.

     The fourth and eleventh Doctors made unofficial cameos in 2000A.D.'s Survival Geeks, appearing as part of a ridiculous number of recognizable but not officially sanctioned guest stars both on the cover of Prog#2083 and inside the comic. Strictly speaking, despite so many cameos (including at least one from DC), there was no direct Marvel link among them, but Bill and Ted were present, and since Marvel once published a Bill and Ted comic I've used that as my excuse for including the appearance in the main entry's history above. It was simply too cool a set of cameos for me not to list it!

   There was also the above-mentioned crossover between Doctor Who and Star Trek in the pages of IDW's Assimilation series, which saw the fourth Doctor meet Kirk's crew on the Enterprise NCC-1701, and the eleventh meet Picard's crew on the Enterprise NCC-1701D.

    Another, more tangential comic crossover for the Doctor's universe: Via the shared threat of the villainous Gwanzulum, the Doctor's universe has been linked to that of the Ghostbusters and Thundercats.

   The Time Travelers and Dimension Hoppers Flea Market being held on the Rock of Eternity in the center of Chrono Space in Ninja High School: Indie Wars that is mentioned in the fourth Doctor's history had several more cameos than listed there; I only noted the ones seen in the presence of the fourth Doctor or a Marvel (and Marvel-adjacent) characters. The others seen at the market not previously listed are: Tony Newman and Doug Philips from the Time Tunnel, Blendin Blandin from Gravity Falls, Biggles from Biggles: Adventures in Time; Lightning Boy, Saturn Girl, Proty and Superboy from the Legion of Super-Heroes; Rip Hunter; Herbie Popnecker; Mister Peabody and Sherman chatting to Stewie Griffin and Brian from Family Guy; H.G. Wells from Time After Time chatting to Booster Gold; Rusty Venture, Dr. Billy Quizboy and Pete White from Venture Bros; the Sword of Omens from Thundercats; and Max Walker from Timecop.

   Jay Eales teaming up with Nightcrawler to battle four incarnations of the Doctor comes from comes from the supposedly in-universe bios of the writers for the anthology Burning With Optimism's Flame; this is a Faction Paradox book, so it's a Doctor Who spin-off. Since it doesn't state which four Doctors I've very arbitrarily placed it with four through seven, the four Doctors incumbent during the early run of Doctor Who Magazine, when the Doctor was "closest" to Marvel.

Crossing the (time)streams

   It's not just in comics that the Doctor has crossed over with other mileaus. On television the BBC has shown him interacting with the characters from long-running soap operas Eastenders and Coronation Street and drama Call the Midwife; all were for comedy sketches, but featured the actual actors playing their clearly identified usual characters, so as far as I'm concerned, that counts. In the actual show there have been references confirming the Doctor shares a universe with scientist Bernard Quatermass (from the Quatermass trilogy of series and their film remakes), Dark Season, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (the Doctor lets slip he's met Arthur Dent). Less officially, the Doctor turned up in the first episode of the sitcom Chelmsford 123, set in ancient Britain during the Roman occupation, when his TARDIS materialized in the background of the scene unnoticed by the show's characters; the TARDIS also appeared in the background of the science fiction sitcom Red Dwarf (thanks to both shows sharing the same special effects people), and the fourth Doctor in particular has made several cameo appearances on The Simpsons.

   On stage the Doctor met the crew of the Swinetrek from the Muppet's Pigs in Space, with David Tennant and Peter Davison reprising their respective Doctors in a fully authorized, if comedic, crossover. Audio plays have conclusively confirmed that the other BBC science fiction show of the 1970s, Blake 7, is part of Doctor Who's universe, while Doctor Who novels have had cameos from Buffy the Vampire Slayer's Spike, Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, Lord John Roxton from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, Dracula, and Lady Penelope from Thunderbirds.

   Comments from the Doctor in the novels also confirm unseen meetings with Tarzan and Mary Poppins, and that the Doctor's universe has versions of scientist Bernard Quatermass, secret agent James Bond, Larry Niven's Kzinti aliens and the Lion Men of Mongo (Flash Gordon). The novels have had full on crossovers with Sherlock Holmes, Michael Moorcock's Jerry Cornelius and H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, and there was a crossover planned with Judge Dredd during the period when Virgin Books was publishing both Judge Dredd novels and Doctor Who New Adventures; the abject failure of the 1995 Judge Dredd movie killed this, and the novel in question, Burning Heart, came out with the Doctor meeting Adjudicator Joseph Craator instead of Judge Joe Dredd.

   Meanwhile at the movies, the Daleks have turned up in Looney Tunes: Back in Action and The Lego Movie.  

The Doctor's comic debut in TV Comic#674, recolored for Marvel's Doctor Who Classic Comics#2. John and Gillian were new companions created for the comic as they didn't have the rights to use the TV companions.

Comic spin-offs

Sharon Davies Allen

A teenage school girl growing up in Blackcastle in England, Sharon Davies' mundane life changed forever when her school friend Colin "Fudge" Higgins convinced her to join him in hunting for a UFO several witnesses claimed to have seen crash in the city. The pair stumbled across the seemingly harmless and peaceful alien Beep the Meep, not realizing that despite his cuddly appearance he was a ruthless interstellar conqueror on the run from pursuing law enforcers, the Wrarth Warriors. The Doctor also stumbled into the situation, and with Sharon's help saved Blackcastle from being destroyed by Beep and ensured his arrest.

    Having been transported up to the Wrarth's orbiting ship during the adventure, Sharon was offered a lift home by the Doctor, but the ever-unreliable TARDIS steering instead saw her join the Doctor in visiting the New Earth system in 2430 just as the Daleks and their Werelox lackeys were invading, then transported the pair to the pocket dimension controlled by Brimo "the Time Witch"; escaping that realm inadvertently aged both the Doctor and Sharon four years in an instant, a minor change for the long lived Time Lord but a major transition for the now adult Sharon. Despite knowing it would be tricky to explain what had happened to Sharon's family, the Doctor continued to try and return her to Blackcastle, but instead took her to early 16th century China, where the travellers ran into stranded Sontarans. The Doctor's next attempt finally got Sharon home, but before he could drop Sharon off, they and the TARDIS were teleported aboard a spaceship collecting samples of life from across the galaxy. The TARDIS' next journey delivered the Doctor and Sharon to the an Earth colony on Unicepter IV centuries in Sharon's future; falling in love with a local, Vernon Allen, Sharon decided to forge a new life instead of returning home, and left the Doctor.

    Years later for Sharon (and perhaps centuries later, as the Doctor may have relocated her in time temporarily to facilitate his plans), she worked as a reporter for the Galactic Broadcasting Corporation, a position she used to help the Doctor expose ruthless businessman Josiah Dogbolter as a mass murderer. When Josiah's daughter Berakka tried using her media empire to vilify the Doctor, Sharon thwarted this by broadcasting interviews with the many people the Doctor had saved. 

- Doctor Who Weekly#19 (Doctor Who Weekly#20-42, Doctor Who Monthly#44-48, Doctor Who Magazine#500, 548

Destrii

    Inhabited by humanoid aliens, an unidentified planet's ruling houses warred for dominance and glory until one of them unleashed a deadly sickness, the Oblivion Plague, which mutated the mind and destroyed memory, bringing madness and coma, presumably with death to inevitably follow. As it swiftly spread across the world, the capital city sealed itself off, with only the royal elite and their most valued servants within, intending to quarantine themselves until the plague died out with the last of its victims. The royals expected to have to wait a year at most, and, uncaring of the fate of the rest of the populace, six months in they held a ball at the palace, with everyone in attendance wearing animal masks. Unfortunately for them, the plague victims had not died, but instead emerged transformed, their minds expanded and joined together to become "the Horde," granting them vast psychokinetic powers. Playful and childlike, they revealed their survival to the royals by transforming all the attendees into whatever creature their mask represented, then demanded to be entertained via gladiatorial battles. The Horde manipulated the temporal fields around the planet, erasing the memory of the planet from the universe, so that even to the inhabitants its original name was lost; the Horde desired it be called Oblivion, and so that became its name. 

    Born after the transformation, Destriianatos was the Primatrix, daughter of the fishlike amphibian Scalamanthia, the Matriax of Oblivion whose word still held sway with the capricious Horde. A brutal mother, she raised Destrii harshly, giving her a pet and waiting until she came to love it before ordering her to kill it, raising her to fight in the arena with her first gladiatorial fight and kill when she was only ten, and punishing Destrii harshly (to the point of torture) for any breaking of the Matriax's many rules. However, Destrii's favorite uncle, the feline Jodafra, had been working on a way to open a hole in the space-time vortex and so escape Oblivion. When he eventually managed to create a breach large enough to send a small object through, Destrii insisted on being his test subject, desperate to escape her joyless life.

    Destrii was transported to a gigantic snake-like spaceship Ophidius, where she soon became a fugitive, seeking to avoid the Mobox who lived within the vessel. When the eighth Doctor and his companion Izzy Sinclair landed inside Ophidius, Destrii befriended them, then tricked Izzy into a mind-swapping device, stealing Izzy's body in the hopes of thus evading the Mobox. Despite this ploy, the Mobox still caught up with her and disintegrated her, leaving Izzy believing she had lost her original body forever. However, the Mobox also had the power to reintegrate their victims and later reconstituted Destrii (in Izzy's form), who soon escaped them. Meanwhile the Horde tracked down Izzy (in Destrii's form) for Scalamanthia and abducted her from the TARDIS, returning her to Oblivion to be forcibly married. Seeking to track Izzy, the Doctor's instruments instead led him to Destrii, and she somewhat reluctantly accompanied him as he continued his mission, this time correctly tracking her to Oblivion. Discovering the body swap, the Horde switched the pair back, causing them to briefly share one another's memories. When Destrii made it clear she had not intention of being married, the Matriax reverted to her customarily brutal disciplinary methods, and an enraged Destrii killed her. Despite the provocation, Destrii felt guilty for her actions, having only ever wanted a mother who loved her, and offered herself to the Horde for punishment, but it turned out that the Horde had demanded the gladiatorial fights not for pleasure, but to select a leader. Though immensely powerful, the Oblivion Plague had left them without any intelligent direction, like an insect colony without a queen, hence why they had continued to mostly obey Scalamanthia. However, the Matriax had not measured up to the standard they truly wanted; by slaying her, Destrii had, and so the Horde transformed her into one of them. Destrii nearly destroyed Oblivion with the vast power now at her command, until Izzy, armed with a unique insight into Destrii's mind, reminded her that what she most wanted was her freedom, which she could not have as part of the Horde's group mind. Destrii transferred the Horde's energies into a chronon capsule, the latest stage in Jodafra's efforts to escape Oblivion, destroying them and reverting herself to her amphibious form. She and Jodafra then used the capsule to depart their homeworld and roam time and space together.

    The pair ran into the Doctor again, now travelling alone, in 1875 North America. When Destrii learned her uncle had struck a deal with the Windigo entity to feed it Lakota Sioux children in return for it assisting him in navigating the time stream, Destrii destroyed a device he was using to keep the Lakota warriors frozen in time; free to move again, they destroyed the Windigo with fire. Though she begged her uncle to forgive her for ruining his plans, Jodafra angrily beat Destrii within an inch of her life, and left her to die. Finding her clinging to life, the Doctor took her to Hippocrates Base space station hospital, where the surgeons managed to save her. When she then helped him stop a Zeronite attack on the hospital, the Doctor decided that despite her obvious flaws, Destrii was underneath it all a good person, and offered to let her travel with him so long as she obeyed his rules. Destrii readily agreed.

    Utilizing a holographic disguise to pass for human, Destrii accompanied the Doctor to Earth, where she assisted in repelling a Cyberman invasion, and on other, unrecorded adventures, before eventually leaving his company. Years later, the twelfth Doctor recruited her assistance in taking down the ruthless businessbatrachian Dogbolter, having Destrii put her gladiatorial experience to good use defending another former companion, Majenta Pryce, from Dogbolter's daughter, Berakka.         

- Doctor Who Magazine#300 (Doctor Who Magazine#301-303, 320-328, 339-353, 500