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ContentsAcknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .viiForeword, by Alan Barnes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ixIntroduction, by Matthew J Elliott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Life on Gallifrey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 The First Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27The Second Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61The Third Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91The Fourth Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121The Fifth Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169The Sixth Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181The Seventh Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193The Eighth Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205The War Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213The Ninth Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219The Tenth Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235The Eleventh Doctor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265The Future? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 Appendix I: The Also-Rans . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299Appendix II: Traversing the Whoniverse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 About the Author… . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337

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Prior toAn Unearthly Child

The First Doctor acquires a ring that possesses unspecified but remarkable

properties .

In his original incarnation, the Doctor wears this ring at all

times, and it may in fact come from Gallifrey. The first indi-

cation that it is in any way unusual comes in The Web Planet,

when he uses it to operate the TARDIS doors after the ship

is drained of power, and elsewhere to control a docile Zarbi.

Later, in The Daleks’ Master Plan, it is able to override the

Time Meddler’s sabotage. Immediately after his first regener-

ation, the Doctor simply throws the ring away as it no longer

fits (despite his deeming it valuable enough to have demanded

its return from the Menoptra in The Web Planet). By the time

of his third incarnation, he no longer knows where it is, or he

would have used it when the TARDIS once again experiences

a power drain in Death to the Daleks.

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On the run from his own people in a rackety old TARDIS, the Doctor

installs a Time Path Detector on the console in order to ensure that he and

Susan are not pursued by his fellow Time Lords .

The Chase. Companions Ian, Barbara and Vicki have never

noticed the Time Path Detector because it has never activated

before. The device appears in the novels Timewyrm: Genesis,

Timewyrm: Exodus and The Dark Path.

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He and Susan fall afoul of the telepathic plants on the planet Esto, which

emit a psychic screech when anyone stands between them .

Susan recalls the psychic jungle in The Keys of Marinus.

The fact that she doesn’t know where she first heard the

screeching suggests it was quite early on in their travels. She

eventually identifies the planet by name in episode two of The

Sensorites. Esto is also mentioned in the Eighth Doctor novel

The Tomorrow Windows, by Jonathan Morris.

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The two visit Britain sometime after February 14, 1971 .

An Unearthly Child. Susan correctly predicts that the country

will go decimal, which it did on February 15, 1971.

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They witness the French Revolution—which the Doctor considers his

favourite period of Earth’s history—and he learns how to cook at that time,

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though he still prefers to rely on the TARDIS’ food machine .

Susan considers her schoolbook about the French Revolu-

tion to be historically inaccurate in An Unearthly Child, and

informs Barbara and Ian of her grandfather’s fondness for

that period (!) in episode one of The Reign of Terror. Lance

Parkin’s Seventh Doctor novel Just War claims that this was the

Doctor and Susan’s first visit to Earth. His culinary baptism

is mentioned in The Lodger.

• • •

Circa 1881, they are with a Native American when he sees his first steam

train, and they hear of the activities of the notorious Clanton brothers . The

Doctor and Susan acquire costumes appropriate to the period—which the

Doctor considers absurd—but their presence nevertheless causes consid-

erable comment, and the Time Lord decides that if he should travel to that

period again, he’ll use an alias .

The steam train incident is mentioned in An Unearthly Child.

In The Gunfighters, it’s revealed that there are male and

female clothes suited to the American West in the TARDIS.

The Doctor recognises the name Clanton in episode two. He

evidently doesn’t know the details of the famous shootout at

the O.K. Corral, however, since, at the climax of episode four,

he attempts to prevent it.

• • •

Landing in ancient Greece (where the TARDIS takes the form of an ionic

column), he and Susan make the acquaintance of sceptic philosopher

Pyrrho and sculptor Praxiteles . They see indications of the Daemons’

involvement in human history and learn of their home planet Damos,

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60,000 light-years away .

In An Unearthly Child, Susan tells Ian and Barbara that the

TARDIS once disguised itself as an ionic column. In The

Daemons, the Third Doctor mentions that alien species’ planet

of origin and presence in ancient Greece. The First Doctor

recalls meeting Pyrrho in the final instalment of The Keys of

Marinus. The Fifth Doctor identifies a kouros as the work of

one of Praxiteles’ students in episode one of Planet of Fire.

In Enlightenment, he notes that everything on Critas the

Eternal’s Greek barge is historically accurate. It’s interesting

that the Fourth Doctor’s unconscious mind—as revealed in

episode three of The Invisible Enemy—is filled with ionic

columns. In episode five of Marco Polo, the First Doctor cries

“Great Olympus!” upon discovering that his granddaughter

is missing.

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On a trip to Victorian England, he is given an improbably large Ulster by

Gilbert and Sullivan .

The Edge of Destruction. In episode two of The Evil of the

Daleks, the Second Doctor is able to identify furniture from

the Victorian era.

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He becomes a skilled backgammon player .

Marco Polo. The Doctor plays against Kublai Khan for

extraordinarily high stakes in episode seven.

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The Ark in Space

The Fourth Doctor’s proposed trip to Earth’s moon is scuppered by Harry

Sullivan’s insistence on twisting the Helmic Regulator in the TARDIS .

The Ark in Space. The Fourth Doctor is scolding Harry as

the TARDIS materialises. His companion’s clumsiness may

have been more serious than it first appears, as the Helmic

Regulator becomes badly damaged during Time Crash and

is the cause of considerable concern for the Eleventh Doctor.

The unreliable component creates further problems in the

Fifth Doctor audio Creatures of Beauty.

The Sontaran Experiment

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Revenge of the Cybermen

The Fourth Doctor, Sarah and Harry make at least one other stop on their

way back to Nerva .

The Fourth Doctor’s overcoat disappears somewhere between

Genesis of the Daleks and Revenge of the Cybermen, despite

there being no apparent gap between stories. Just such an

incident is described in Christopher Bulis’ novel A Device

of Death.

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In 1941, the Doctor witnesses the sinking of the German battleship

Bismarck . Having expressed his admiration for the tam-o’-shanter in The

Highlanders, he finally gets his hands on one . Like fezzes, they are not

cool . He picks up a compass .

Terror of the Zygons. The Fourth Doctor is wearing the tam-

o’-shanter and using the compass when he first appears.

• • •

He hears the story of the sacrifice of Lawrence “Titus” Oates during

Captain Scott’s ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition of 1912 . In the town of

Harrogate (date unknown), he purchases a tin of toffees .

Planet of Evil. The Fourth Doctor carries a tin labelled

Farrah’s Original Harrogate Toffee. In episode four, he repeats

Oates’ famous declaration, “I’m going out now, and I may be

some time.” His fifth self gives the quote in the first episode

of Earthshock and, in the final part of Nightmare of Eden,

says, “I’m going inside now, and I may be rather a long time.”

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

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

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

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

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

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

about the author

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

Doctor Who can proudly boast all three claims.

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

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

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

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

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