B00DPX9ST8 EBOK (350 page)

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The Deadly Assassin, The Invasion of Time.

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Scaredy Cat

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The Deadly Assassin.
Fans and recent writers have rationalised away the Time Lords’ stated “non-intervention” and the clear evidence that they have intervened by assuming that it’s the secret (and in some stories highly sinister) “Celestial Intervention Agency” who are behind the interventions. This builds quite a lot on the one reference in the TV series.

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The Kingmaker

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The Well-Mannered War

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The Deadly Assassin

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Damaged Goods

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Lungbarrow

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Shada

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The Ancestor Cell

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Shada

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Gallifrey: Disassembled

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Omega

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Gallifrey: Lies

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The Deadly Assassin

Time Lord Presidents

The Ancestor Cell
says the Doctor was the 407th and 409th President of Gallifrey.
The Gallifrey Chronicles
says that Romana is the 413th. From this, we can extrapolate that the 405th President was the one killed in
The Deadly Assassin
(and almost certainly, in a previous incarnation, the one seen in
The Three Doctors
); the 406th was Greyjan the Sane (
The Ancestor Cell
); the 407th was the Doctor (he was “inducted” in
The Invasion of Time
); the 408th was Borusa (the President is referred to by the Doctor in
The Ribos Operation
, but not named as Borusa until
Arc of Infinity
. Borusa regenerates once more and his reign ends in
The Five Doctors
); the 409th is the Doctor; the 410th is Flavia, the 411th is Niroc, who’s corrupt and deposed with the help of the Doctor and Rassilon in
The Eight Doctors
; the 412th is Flavia again, according to
Happy Endings
, which is set soon after Romana is installed as the 413th.

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Spiral Scratch

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] Savar is first mentioned in
Seeing I
, but these events take place “a thousand years” before
The Infinity Doctors
, as far as Savar is concerned
.
There was a Time Lord called Savar in
The Invasion of Time.

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] The term “Type 40” was first used in
The Deadly Assassin
. The
Teselecta
’s records in
Let’s Kill Hitler
list the Doctor’s TARDIS as a “Type 40, Mark 3” - in accordance with the Doctor being amazed at the modernity of the Monk’s TARDIS, a “Mark 4”, in
The Time Meddler
.

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Shada

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The Pirate Planet

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The Creature from the Pit

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A Good Man Goes to War
. The circumstances of the cot being in the TARDIS becomes more perplexing the more one thinks about it. The cot’s presence might suggest that the TARDIS was some sort of family heirloom, but
The Doctor’s Wife
says that the Doctor picked the TARDIS because its door was open. If so, did he pack his childhood cot before leaving Gallifrey in such a rush? Did his family keep multiple TARDISes, and he just happened to select the one with his cot in it? Or did he just reclaim the cot during a stopover on Gallifrey? Or is he simply lying to say it’s his cot - did it actually belong to a child of his?

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] In
Time and the Rani
, the Doctor deduces the combination to the Rani’s lock is 953, “my age ... and the Rani’s”.

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Lungbarrow
, with
The One Doctor
confirming the “Snail” nickname.

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SLEEPY
(p204).

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Closing Time

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The Wedding of River Song

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Doctor Who - The Movie

Half Human on His Mother’s Side

The eighth Doctor’s airing of his “secret” to Professor Wagg in
Doctor Who - The Movie
- that he is “half human on his mother’s side” - has long been a source of debate in fandom, if for no other reason that it seems to go against all manner of stories where the Doctor biologically is no different from a purebred Time Lord. It’s insufficient to claim that the Doctor is just joking with Wagg, because the Master concludes that the Doctor is half-human by looking into a projection of the eighth Doctor’s iris. The “half-human” claim is chiefly limited to just
Doctor Who - The Movie
, although
The Gallifrey Chronicles
furthered this by hinting that the Time Lord named Ulysses / Daniel Joyce and the human time traveller Penelope Gate are the Doctor’s parents.

The more likely explanation, however, is that Time Lords can hybridise with other species upon regeneration - the eighth Doctor claims as much in
Doctor Who - The Movie
(Grace: “Why don’t you have the ability to transform yourself into another species?” The Doctor: “Well, I do, you see, but only when I ‘die’ [i.e. regenerate]”. Some have taken this to mean - owing to the atypical manner of his regeneration (the dulling influence of the anaesthetic, his “changing” in a morgue full of human corpses) - that the eighth Doctor is “half-human” whereas all the other Doctors are full-blooded Time Lords. The notion that Time Lords can hybridise with other species is substantiated in the works of Paul Cornell: a regenerated Time Lord becomes part-Silurian in
The Shadows of Avalon
, and another becomes part-birdperson in
Circular Time
: “Spring”.

The IDW mini-series “The Forgotten” tries to reconcile the “half-human” problem by saying that the eighth Doctor once used a half-broken Chameleon Arch (
Utopia
, the TV version of
Human Nature
) to convince the Master that he was half-human. There isn’t a particularly good reason in
Doctor Who - The Movie
as to why this would be helpful, however; in fact, as a means of helping the Master to realise that human eyes can open the Eye of Harmony in the TARDIS, it’s a fairly counter-productive thing to do.

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] The more descriptive name used for the mysterious woman seen throughout
The End of Time
(TV), credited on screen as just “the Woman”. Russell T Davies confirmed in his memoir,
The Writer’s Tale
, that the Woman was intended as the Doctor’s mother, but has acknowledged that other interpretations of the character are fair game.

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The Tomb of the Cybermen
, further implied in
The Curse of Fenric
and confirmed in
Father’s Day
.

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Vincent and the Doctor

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Time and the Rani
. He says, possibly facetiously, “you should see my uncle”.

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The Eleventh Hour

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Planet of Fire
. The sentence isn’t complete, but the next word could well spell out a family relationship (fan speculation over the years has suggested a number of things, usually “brother” and less usually “husband”).

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] Braxiatel first appears in the NA
Theatre of War
, and becomes an ongoing character in the Bernice Summerfield range. The
Gallifrey
audios detail much of his early history. Justin Richards, who created the character, first implied that Braxiatel was the Doctor’s brother in
Benny: The Tears of the Oracle
(p166-167). The notion was later reinforced by wordplay in
Gallifrey: Disassembled
(Romana tells Brax concerning an alt-Doctor: “I thought you’d be pleased to see your—”; Brax, as the alt-Doctor strangles him: “Surely, you wouldn’t do this to your own—”), and also in Brax’s description of “an old man and his granddaughter” (presumably the first Doctor and Susan) as “family”.

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Smith and Jones
, and possibly a reference to Irving Braxiatel.

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Planet of the Spiders

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Lungbarrow

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The Scarlet Empress

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] See The Doctor’s Age sidebar.

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Doctor Who - The Movie

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The Infinity Doctors

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Cold Fusion

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The Gallifrey Chronicles
. Penelope Gate first appeared in
The Room with No Doors
.

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] “Voyager”

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The Quantum Archangel

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The Infinity Doctors

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The Infinity Doctors, The Taking of Planet 5, The Gallifrey Chronicles.

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The Gallifrey Chronicles
. The prophecy paraphrases one from an abandoned American pilot script from the nineties. The book shows the Doctor fulfilling the prophecy - assuming the “lost scrolls of Rassilon” are the Matrix files in his mind. He had already made Last Contact in
The Daleks
, when he made contact with the race that would eventually destroy the Time Lords in the Last Great Time War, as revealled in
Dalek
.

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Smith and Jones

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The Eight Doctors

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Unnatural History

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The Ghosts of N-Space

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The Girl in the Fireplace