Gallifrey

From space, Gallifrey is seen as a yellow-orange planet. The Doctor's granddaughter Susan described it as having bright, silver-leafed trees and a burnt orange sky. This casts an amber tint on anything outside the city, as seen in The Invasion of Time (1978), although Gallifrey's sky appeared blue and Earth-like in The Five Doctors (1983). It is close enough to central space lanes for spacecraft to require clearance from Gallifreyan Space Traffic Control as they pass through its system. The planet was also seen for a few seconds on the TARDIS display in the 1 ...

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Gallifrey, Gallifrey - Geography, Gallifrey - History, Gallifrey - Gallifrey audio series

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Laura Tobin was born on Earth in the 26th century; her name was first mentioned by her sister Alison in the Bernice Summerfield novel Ship of Fools by Dave Stone set in 2593, although Laura did not appear herself. She became one of the members of a Remote colony established by Faction Paradox on the planet Ordifica in 2594. When the Time Lords attacked Ordifica two years later, the survivors were evacuated by ...

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Compassion Doctor Who, Compassion Doctor Who - Character history, Compassion Doctor Who - Other appearances

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In Greek mythology, Zagreus was identified with the god Dionysus and was worshipped by followers of Orphism. According to the followers of Orphism, Zeus had laid with either Demeter or Persephone in the form of a snake. The result of their union was Zagreus. Zeus had intended Zagreus to be his heir, but a jealous Hera persuaded the Titans to kill the child. The Titans distracted Zagreus with toys, then carried him away and tore Zagreus to pieces. When the Titans were finished, nothing was left but Zagreus' heart, which A ...

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Compassion (or Laura Tobin) is a fictional character in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novels based upon the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. Compassion was originally from a people known as the Remote, a splinter group of the time travelling voodoo cult Faction Paradox. The Eighth Doctor met her in the novel Interference, Book One by Lawrence Miles, and she went on to become one of his companions. The canonicity of the no ...

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• Compassion Doctor Who - Character history
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Zagreus is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was presented on three Compact discs, as opposed to the usual two. Zagreus Doctor Who audio - Plot. Zagreus sits inside your head, Zagreus lives among the dead, Zagreus sees you in your bed and eats you when you're sleeping... - old Gallifreyan nursery rhyme. Following on directly f ...

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Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays released straight to compact disc, based on British cult science fiction properties. They are best known for their Doctor Who line; other properties include 2000 AD characters Judge Dredd and Strontium Dog; The Tomorrow People; Sapphire & Steel; Dalek Empire and The Adventures of Luther Arkwright. The Managing Director of the company is Jason Haigh-Ellery, with ...

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Terry Molloy has reprised his role as Davros in the spin-off audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions, mostly notably Davros (taking place during the Sixth Doctor's era), which explored the scientist's life prior to his crippling accident. Terror Firma picks up Davros's story after the events of Remembrance, and ends with his personality being subsumed completely into that of the Emperor. This seemed to contradict the events of the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel War of the Daleks by John Peel, where a ...

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Davros, Davros - Other appearances, Davros - External link

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This episode begins roughly 4 billion years ago, where the Jagoroth race are attempting to take off in their spaceship. However, the Jagoroth Scaroth tries to take off too soon, and the ship lifts off and then explodes, seemingly killing everyone on board... Paris, 1979. The Fourth Doctor and Romana are at the top of the Eiffel Tower, admiring the view. It is then that the Doctor decides to take his companion to lunch at a particularly fine Parisian restaurant, and they decide to take the lift (after briefly contemplating flying). They take the Paris Metro and cross several streets, in oreder to get to a place which the Doctor ...

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City of Death, City of Death - Synopsis, City of Death - Plot, City of Death - Cast, City of Death - Notes

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On the planet Skaro, the renegade Time Lord known as the Master is put on trial by the Daleks, and executed. His last wish is for his remains to be returned to Gallifrey by his greatest enemy, the Doctor. In the TARDIS, the Seventh Doctor stows the urn containing the Master's remains in a container, locking it with his sonic screwdriver, then settles in for the trip back to the Time Lords' planet. As he relaxes, however, he does not see the container shake and shatter. A gelatinous slug-like creature oozes out of the container and ent ...

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Doctor Who 1996, Doctor Who 1996 - Synopsis, Doctor Who 1996 - Plot, Doctor Who 1996 - Notes, Doctor Who 1996 - Controversy, Doctor Who 1996 - Novelisation

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Supported by his companions, the newly regenerated Doctor is escorted back to the TARDIS while all around them in the radio telescope base alarms are going off. Security guards rush towards them, and when the Doctor falls over the group is caught. An ambulance arrives, and one of the guards starts to frisk Tegan, Nyssa and Adric whilst the ambulance men fetch a stretcher to pick up the Doctor's prone body. The guards find no weapons, but as the Doctor is being put into the back of the ambulance, Tegan spots the keys to ambulance have been le ...

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Castrovalva, Castrovalva - Synopsis, Castrovalva - Plot, Castrovalva - Cast, Castrovalva - Notes

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The Eighth Doctor made his first (and to date, only) television appearance in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie, the first time the Doctor had returned to television screens since the end of the original series in 1989. Intended to be a back-door pilot for a new television series, the television movie did not perform well, ratings-wise, in the United States, where it was poorly marketed and advertised by the FOX Network. However, it was received well in the UK, attracting over 9 milli ...

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Eighth Doctor, Eighth Doctor - Overview, Eighth Doctor - Biography, Eighth Doctor - Personality, Eighth Doctor - Other appearances, Eighth Doctor - Novels, Eighth Doctor - Audio dramas

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Outside of the television programme, the Fourth Doctor and Romana II also appeared in Australian-filmed television advertisements for PR1ME Computers in 1980, which played in a tongue-in-cheek way with the idea that the two characters shared a romantic relationship. [1] Both Romanas have made appearances in the spin-off novels published by Virgin Publishing and BBC Books, and in Doctor Who audio plays produced by Big Finish. The canonicity of these spin-offs is unclear.See also:

Romana, Romana - Romana I, Romana - Romana II, Romana - Other appearances, Romana - Novels, Romana - Audio plays, Romana - Romana's regeneration

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Doctor Who first appeared on BBC television at 5:15 p.m. (GMT) on November 23, 1963. The programme was born out of discussions and plans that had been going on for a year. Head of Drama, Sydney Newman was mainly responsible for developing it, with contributions by the Head of the Script Department (later Head of Serials) Donald Wilson, staff writer C. E. 'Bunny' Webber, writer Anthony Coburn, story editor David Whitaker and initial producer Verity Lambert. The series' distinctive and haunting title theme was composed by Ron Grainer an ...

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Doctor Who, Doctor Who - History, Doctor Who - Format, Doctor Who - The Doctor, Doctor Who - Companions, Doctor Who - Adversaries, Doctor Who - Music, Doctor Who - Viewership, Doctor Who - Missing episodes, Doctor Who - Adaptations and other appearances, Doctor Who - Charity episodes, Doctor Who - Other programmes, Doctor Who - Awards

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Doctor Who first appeared on BBC television at 5:15 p.m. (GMT) on November 23, 1963. The programme was born out of discussions and plans that had been going on for a year. The Head of Drama, Sydney Newman, was mainly responsible for developing it, with contributions by the Head of the Script Department (later Head of Serials), Donald Wilson, staff writer C. E. 'Bunny' Webber, writer Anthony Coburn, story editor David Whitaker and initial producer, Verity Lambert. The serie ...

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Doctor Who, Doctor Who - History, Doctor Who - Format, Doctor Who - The Doctor, Doctor Who - Companions, Doctor Who - Adversaries, Doctor Who - Music, Doctor Who - Viewership, Doctor Who - Missing episodes, Doctor Who - Adaptations and other appearances, Doctor Who - Charity episodes, Doctor Who - Other programmes, Doctor Who - Awards

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Following from Rose, the Doctor asks Rose where she would like to go on her first trip in the TARDIS, and she selects the future. The Doctor takes her to the year 5.5/Apple/26 — five billion years in her future — on a space station named Platform One orbiting the Earth. In the eons since Rose's time, the Earth has emptied, mankind having left it long ago and the planet taken over by the National Trust. Although the expansion of the Sun takes millions of years, gravity satellites held the effects back, and the trust also mai ...

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The End of the World Doctor Who, The End of the World Doctor Who - Synopsis, The End of the World Doctor Who - Plot, The End of the World Doctor Who - Cast, The End of the World Doctor Who - Notes

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The Time War was first alluded to in the first episode of the 2005 series, Rose. There, the Ninth Doctor explained to his latest companion, Rose Tyler, that the reason behind the Nestene Consciousness' invasion of Earth was because its food planets were destroyed in a war. Later in the episode, the Doctor stated that he fought in the war, but he was unable to save the Nestenes' planet. In the following episode, The End of the World, set five billion years in the future, Jabe of the Forest of Cheem expressed amazement tha ...

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Time War Doctor Who, Time War Doctor Who - The television series, Time War Doctor Who - Doctor Who Annual 2006, Time War Doctor Who - Other time wars in Doctor Who, Time War Doctor Who - Eighth Doctor Adventures, Time War Doctor Who - Doctor Who comic strip

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Following on directly from the events of NeverLand, the casket of anti-time which was destined for Gallifrey had exploded within the confines of the TARDIS. It seems that the Eighth Doctor and Charley have saved Gallifrey, and that the paradox of Charley's existence had been resolved, but the Doctor begins behaving strangely — he has been taken over by Zagreus. The Doctor/Zagreus rages through the TARDIS and strikes Charley, but there is a loud explosion, and when they recover the Doctor/Zagreus is alone in the TARDIS. Charle ...

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Zagreus Doctor Who audio, Zagreus Doctor Who audio - Plot, Zagreus Doctor Who audio - Cast, Zagreus Doctor Who audio - Production, Zagreus Doctor Who audio - Notes

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Authors have created thousands of fictional planets. Most of them are nearly indistinguishable from Earth, which is why Brian M. Stableford calls them "Earth-Clones". In these, differences with Earth life are mostly social (like Barrayar in the science fiction of Lois McMaster Bujold). More physically unusual planets have been depicted in hard science fiction books. For the Star Trek universe, a detailed planetary classification system has been devised.

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Planets in science fiction, Planets in science fiction - Fictional planets, Planets in science fiction - Unusual social environment, Planets in science fiction - Unusual physical environment, Planets in science fiction - Living/sentient planets, Planets in science fiction - Other, Planets in science fiction - Books

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Time Lord - On screen. Details of the Time Lords' history within the show are sketchy and as is usual for Doctor Who continuity, fraught with supposition and contradiction. What little has actually been established on screen, arranged roughly in chronological order, is as follows. The Time Lords became the masters of time travel when one of their number, the scientist Omega created an energy source to power their experiments in time (The Three Doctors). To this end, Omega used a stellar manip ...

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Time Lord, Time Lord - Overview, Time Lord - Physical characteristics, Time Lord - Culture and society, Time Lord - Technology, Time Lord - History within the show, Time Lord - On screen, Time Lord - Spin-off media, Time Lord - Recent history, Time Lord - Partial list of Time Lords appearing in Doctor Who, Time Lord - The Doctor, Time Lord - Time Lords in the television series, Time Lord - Time Lords from spin-off media

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The Fifth Doctor, Tegan and Turlough are taking a break on the Eye of Orion, one of the most tranquil spots in the universe, when the Fifth Doctor suddenly collapses. Tegan and Turlough bring the Fifth Doctor back into the TARDIS, where they discover to their distress that he is literally fading away. The Fifth Doctor manages to set the TARDIS controls for a destination and the ship dematerializes. In a hidden chamber, a dark figure is manipulating the controls of a time scoop and kidnapping the Doctor's previous incarnations out of t ...

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The Five Doctors, The Five Doctors - Synopsis, The Five Doctors - Plot, The Five Doctors - Cast, The Five Doctors - Notes

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