Races, groups and individuals in the Doctor Who universe
This list describes the major nations, groups and individuals from the British science fiction - television series Doctor Who .
Timelords
The Timelords (also Time Lords , in the series partly as Zeitwanderer, in the film from 1996 translated as Technotes and Lords of Time ) are a caste of a humanoid species and are among the most powerful and oldest beings in the universe. The doctor , the main character of the series, belongs to her. Their home planet is Gallifrey , which is characterized by a deep orange sky with two suns, the red color of the grass and the silver leaves of the trees. There is at least one continent there, the Wild Endeavor Continent, which is home to the Mountains of Solace and Solitude and the Citadel of the Timelords . In the distant past, one of the ancestors of the Timelords, Omega , managed to ignite a supernova and together with Rassilon gain power over time. The supernova created a black hole , the “eye of harmony”, whose high energy density made time travel possible. Omega was trapped in the Eye of Harmony after the sun exploded. At the age of eight, the young Timelords are subjected to an initiation rite, during which they look into the eye of harmony and are in most cases severely traumatized by this experience. Those who survive the rite choose a new name and visit the academy to learn the rules of time travel. One of the most important rules is not to interfere in the past and future, which the doctor repeatedly ignores. This is fatal for the second doctor , and the third doctor is sent into exile on earth. Another task of the Timelords is to repair paradoxes ( cracks in time ) that arise when a Timelord encounters his ego from another timeline. Every Timelord is able to regenerate up to twelve times after actually fatal injuries, in doing so they change their appearance and usually their personality. But it is possible for him to control his regeneration in such a way that more regenerations are possible. For example, the master has occurred in at least 15 regenerations; how he does this is still unknown. In the 1996 film , it is shown that the master, as a disembodied being, tries to take possession of the doctor's body in order to live longer. It remains to be seen whether and how he succeeded or how it was possible for the master to endure further regeneration. According to the film, an existence as a disembodied being after the 13th regeneration is not guaranteed for every Timelord. Even the doctor has already exceeded the apparent maximum of twelve regenerations.
In the last Eternal War (original: The Last Great Time War ) between Daleks and Timelords, both species were almost completely wiped out, only the doctor seems to have survived this war. He is now forced to supply his TARDIS with energy independently of his home planet. In the course of the series it turns out that in order to prevent the Timelords from destroying the universe, the Doctor has locked the entire Eternal War in a time lock. In episode N 7.15 Doctor's Day , however, the true events of the last day of the eternal war become known. The Doctor of War can be convinced by his tenth and eleventh incarnations not to destroy Gallifrey. Instead, they manage to freeze Gallifrey while the Dalek fleet self-destructs over the planet. However, due to the overlapping timelines of his various incarnations, the two younger doctors lose their memories and therefore wrongly assume that Gallifrey was destroyed by their hands. Only the eleventh doctor can remember the actual events. Sometime after the events of N 7.16, The Time of the Doctor , the Timelords succeeded in bringing Gallifrey out of the frozen moment back into the universe. As explained in N 9.12 In Teufels Küche , the planet was set at the temporal end of the universe in order to prevent a renewed outbreak of the Eternal War.
The doctor
The master
The master (in some episodes with an older translation also called the master ) is a time lord and constant adversary of the doctor, who, however, likes to cooperate with the doctor out of self-interest and to save himself. It is known that the master has already brought at least 15 regenerations behind him, of which only five incarnations through regeneration and two occupations by humanoid beings are shown in the series. These were embodied by a total of nine actors.
Alongside the Daleks and Cybermen, the Master is the doctor's most frequently recurring opponent. Since his first appearance in 1971 - and thus during the time of the third doctorate - only the ninth and eleventh doctor have not experienced a confrontation with the master's degree.
First incarnation
The first incarnation of the Master as an eight-year-old boy (played by: William Hughes) can be seen both in the three-part series at the end of the third season of the new edition, and in The End of Time in a flashback to the childhood of the Master.
Roger Delgado as a master
Roger Delgado played the master in an unknown incarnation. The master appears for the first time in the episode 8.01-8.04 Terror Autons in which he brings the Nestene consciousness back to life. Delgado played the role in eight episodes of the series until shortly before his sudden death. His last appearance was on 9/10/10/14 Frontier in Space .
13. Incarnation and takeover of a body
The 13th incarnation, clearly labeled as this, appears for the first time in episode 14.9-14.12 The Deadly Assassin and is played by Peter Pratt . The master has already used up the possible regenerations in this incarnation and has therefore aged a lot over the years and only has an emaciated shell. With the help of the Eye of Harmony he tries to restore himself, but this is ultimately prevented by the doctor. The same incarnation, played by Geoffrey Beevers , appears in episode 18.21-18.24 The Keeper of Traken. As later in Doctor Who - The Film , he takes possession of the body of a stranger (played by Anthony Ainley ) and tries to preserve his life and to be able to regenerate. In this incarnation, the master appears again and again in the further course of the classic series until its end.
The Master in Doctor Who - The Film
In the 1996 film, it is explicitly stated that this is not a new incarnation, as he has still had all 13 lives behind him. But the doctor smugly notes that the master has never been particularly interested in the rules of the time lords. After the Master is executed by the Daleks, the disembodied being of the Master takes possession of a human (played by Eric Roberts ). Since a human body cannot endure the presence of a Timelord for long, it tries to preserve the doctor's body. The meeting of the two ends with the Master being swallowed by the TARDIS Eye of Harmony. Despite the previous events, however, the master must have managed to escape the black hole and acquire a new Timelord body, because many years later a new incarnation appears:
Professor Yana
In the episode N 3.11 Utopia another incarnation appears, played by Derek Jacobi . The master is shown here as an old human professor who, due to a protective mechanism, can no longer remember his life as a Timelord: His Timelord DNA was completely overwritten by human DNA and the resulting human received a pseudo-existence that included his entire consciousness and his replaced personal memories with new, human ones. Through this perfect deception he was able to avoid the destruction of the Timelords in the last great time war. For decades, the good-natured old scientist has been working on paving the way for the last survivors with a self-constructed spaceship into the legendary Utopia in order to save them from certain death at the end of the universe. Only in his nightly dreams is he occasionally reminded of his life as a Timelord. His Timelord consciousness, which was split off from his body, he preserved in a container disguised as an old pocket watch. Only by opening the apparently broken relic could he get his memories back. For example, he leads the life of an inconspicuous Professor Yana a year 3 billion, until Martha recognizes the camouflage mechanism in his old pocket watch (decorated with Gallifreyan characters) that the doctor himself had already used in her presence (episodes N 3.08-3.09 The nature of People / blood ties ). Once his attention has been drawn to the old clock, various terms mentioned by Martha, Captain Jack and the Doctor arouse his curiosity and fill gaps in his memory. When he finally opens the pocket watch at the end of the episode, he immediately reverts to his actual identity and tries to kill the doctor and his companions. While trying, he is stopped by his loyal assistant Chanto with a gunshot wound. The master then takes himself to safety with the doctor's TARDIS and regenerates for his next incarnation. Utopia turns out to be a lie, the people entrusted to the professor are doomed and will be transformed by the master, as it turns out in later episodes, into murderous Toclafane .
Harold Saxon
After his regeneration in the previous episode, the Master is represented by John Simm below. With the Doctor's TARDIS, the Master flees to London today in episode N 3.12 The sound of the drums from the year 3 billion. There he takes on the identity of Harold Saxon . With the help of a satellite network, he manipulates the British population and is elected Prime Minister. With the help of earthly atomic warheads and the Toclafane , he wants to wipe out humanity, build a gigantic paradox and start his war against the rest of the universe. The master appears under his incognito Harold Saxon already in episode N 3.06 Der Preis der Jugend , in which he persuades Martha Jones' mother that the doctor is a danger to her. During the entire third season and the Torchwood season, which was broadcast in parallel , the election campaign (including election posters hung up across the country) was a seemingly irrelevant subplot. The doctor and his companion returned to the present about 18 months after graduation, firmly of that convinced that the master must be present, but he cannot sense the presence of another Timelord. With the aforementioned satellite network, the master can deceive the doctor and disguise his presence. With the help of Torchwood III technology and amplification with the sonic screwdriver, the doctor can still reveal the manipulative drum rhythm.
After the doctor managed to prevent the master's plans in episode N 3.13 The Last Timelord , he decides to lock him up in the TARDIS. When the master is fatally wounded, however, he refuses to regenerate because he does not want to live locked in the TARDIS forever. After his death the doctor burns him, true to Gallifreyan customs, on a stake and disappears. A short time later you see the master's ring falling to the floor, a woman picks it up. In the double sequence N 4.17 / 4.18 The End of Time one learns that the master had conserved part of his consciousness in this ring and can revive him with the help of samples of the DNA of his last incarnation. However, the side effect of this process is, in addition to superhuman jumping power and the ability to fire energy beams from your hands, an excessive hunger to keep your metabolism going. The master transforms in the wake everyone in likenesses of himself, the master species (Engl. Master Race, which literally translates really master race means is thus an allusion to the Third Reich). At the end of the episode, after using his radiation power, he disappears along with the High Council of the Timelords and the planet Gallifrey, which he had conjured up.
Although his female successor incarnation Missy has appeared since the eighth season, the master played by John Simm has another appearance at the end of the tenth season and also meets his subsequent regeneration. After he was cured of the side effects of his resurrection on Gallifrey, he was expelled from there at the same time and ended up with a defective TARDIS on a colony ship belonging to the inhabitants of the planet Mondas. Here he later meets Missy, the doctor and his companions and - after some confusion, since Missy disagrees on whose side she is on - is stabbed by her. It is noticeable that he feels romantically attracted to his later - female - incarnation (he asks her to kiss him twice), which even elicits a laconic comment from the doctor.
Missy
In the episode N 8.11 Dark Water , a female incarnation of the master appears who calls herself Missy or The Misstress . She is played by Michelle Gomez . Although Missy continues the socio- and psychopathic traits of her predecessors, her actions allow new insights into the character of the Master. After various short appearances over the course of the eighth season, her identity is only revealed in the two-part season finale Dunkles Wasser / Tod im Himmel . Her plan is to first digitally preserve the consciousness of deceased people (which presents itself to the deceased as a kind of life after death) in order to later "download" them back into the bodies that have meanwhile been converted to cybermen. If this plan does not differ at first from previous attempts of the master to conquer the earth, Missy goes a step further and gives the doctor the command of the army thus created to Cybermen. Your plan to morally corrupt the doctor by using the army for his originally good goals, however, fails because of the moral superiority of the doctor. At the beginning of the ninth season she also tries to get the doctor to kill a Dalek, in whose shell - taking advantage of the doctor's ignorance - but his companion Clara Oswald is.
In contrast to these plans, however, there are character traits that suggest that the doctor for Missy / the master over the years has become the closest thing one could call a "friend". As a result 8:01 deep breath , Missy's first cameo , she called the doctor as their "friend" ( English boyfriend , Fester friend ' ). When the doctor first discovers that Missy has two hearts - a characteristic of a Timelord - she replies that they both belong to him. At the beginning of the ninth season it is also revealed that the doctor has entrusted Missy with his will, which according to Timelord tradition is only granted to her closest confidants. The objection raised several times by Clara that Missy or the master and the doctor have been antagonists for centuries is not interpreted by Missy herself as a contradiction, while the doctor merely evades this question to Clara.
The tenth season is finally marked by the fact that the doctor prevents the execution of Missy and in return undertakes to watch over her for a thousand years and try to convert her for good. After initial successes, however, Missy encounters her previous incarnation of the master, portrayed by John Simm, in an adventure in which she is supposed to take on the role of the doctor to prove her "progress". In the following she changes the fronts several times between her old self and the doctor, only to finally poison her previous incarnation (albeit with enough delay that it can regenerate to her) to finally be on the side of the doctor. However, since the master cannot understand this change of heart, he shoots Missy with his laser screwdriver with such a high energy charge that Missy - supposedly - can no longer regenerate.
Agent O
Although Missy's ability to regenerate is said to have been blocked by the Harold Saxon master before his regeneration, a new incarnation appears at the beginning of the twelfth season, played by Sacha Dhawan . The master kills - equipped with his weapon most frequently used in the classic series, which not only kills living beings but also shrinks them to a few centimeters in size - an agent of the British secret service who the doctor has already met under the code name O and takes over his identity in order to be able to surprise the thirteenth doctor in an ambush. The moral change that his previous incarnation went through has disappeared. The new incarnation of the Master appears as an overt psychopath who does not shy away from carelessly killing civilians in order to get the doctor's attention. At the same time, his first appearance at the beginning of the twelfth season takes on a tragic note, as he admits, for unspecified but dangerous reasons, to have just restored Gallifrey - the home planet of the Time Lords and thus his place of birth - to rubble and ashes.
omega
Omega was a Timelord and a member of the high council. By igniting a supernova, he created a black hole, the eye of harmony, and thus enabled the Timelords to travel through time. He was pronounced dead after the sun exploded and disappeared. In episode 10.1-10.4 The Three Doctors it turns out that he was caught in the eye of harmony. Because he blames the Timelords for his imprisonment in the black hole, from now on he is out for revenge and will be a recurring opponent of the doctor in the further series. In the episode 20.01-20.04 The Arc of Infinity , Omega's body is destroyed.
The Rani
The Rani is a female Timelord and opponent of the Doctor. In contrast to the master's degree, she is not evil and domineering, but rather obsessed with an unscrupulous urge to research. It lacks any empathy and morality, and when it comes to advancing your own experiments, it is ready to destroy animate planets as well. In order to get the doctor out of the way, she temporarily allies herself with the master (episode 22.05-22.06 The Revenge of the Master ), but pursues her own goals. In addition, she forced the doctor to regenerate by attacking his Tardis (episode 24.01-24.04 Terror on Lakertia ).
Romana
Romana is a female Timelord and, besides Susan Foreman, the only person from Gallifrey who was the doctor's companion. In her first incarnation in the series, she is portrayed by Mary Tamm . From episode 16.01–16.04 The Ribos Operation she travels with the Fourth Doctor , with whom she slowly becomes friends, but later learns to appreciate his experience and takes pleasure in the adventures they experience together. In the episode 17.01-17.04 Destiny of the Daleks , she regenerates and has since been played by Lalla Ward . In the episode 18.17-18.20 Warrior's Gate she leaves the doctor and lives on together with K-9 in a parallel universe.
Salyavin / Professor Chronotis
Salyavin is a Timelord who once developed telepathic skills. The Timelords feared Salyavin's powers and locked him up on the prison planetoid Shada, where the greatest criminals in the universe were to be locked away for all eternity. But Salyavin managed to telepathically influence his guards and flee. In order to hide his escape, he erased the knowledge of Shada from the collective memory of the Timelords and, after his last regeneration, settled on Earth in Cambridge as a professor under the name Chronotis . Professor Chronotis is a good friend of the doctor, who keeps his secret after his exposure (episodes 17.21-17.26 Shada ).
Susan Foreman
Susan Foreman is the doctor's granddaughter. She appears from episode 1.01–1.04 The Unearthly Child to episode 2.09 Flashpoint as the first companion. She has another guest appearance in the anniversary episode 20:23 The Five Doctors and experienced her last adventure with the doctor there. Whether Susan is a Timelord is a matter of dispute. Various books suggest that she cannot be a Timelord. The canonical nature of these books is also controversial.
Jenny
Jenny is the artificially created daughter of the doctor's tenth incarnation . She is played by Georgia Moffett (daughter of the fifth doctor Peter Davison , later wife of the tenth doctor David Tennant ). In episode N 4.06 The Doctoral Supervisor , she will be created from the doctor's DNA as a full-grown woman and fully trained soldier. After a difficult start, the doctor accepts her as his daughter, but she is killed in the same episode. The doctor leaves the planet sadly and misses the resuscitation of Jennys, whereupon she escapes with a space shuttle and goes in search of him. Her goodbye dialogue also suggests that she wants to follow in her father's footsteps on her way through the universe. This sparked speculation about a possible offshoot series and Jenny's eventual return to the doctorate, but this has never been officially confirmed and has not yet been implemented.
Obesity
The Adipose are composed of fat living species from the planet Adipose 3 comes. They are able to absorb the fat of other beings. When the breeding planet of obesity disappears, the obese nanny Cofelia is tasked with breeding a new generation of obesity on Earth with the help of human fat. Obesity occurs in the series N 4.01 Long live the fat and N 4.11 Travel backwards .
Autons
Autons are androids made of very hard plastic and controlled by the Nestene consciousness . There are different types. The normal species looks very much like mannequins, has a robotic gait, and cannot speak. A further developed species looks much more like a human being and can also visually represent an almost exact copy of a living human being, which can only be distinguished from the original by its stiffer appearance and monotonous voice. A third type looks very similar to its real existing model, has its memories and feelings and differs only in that - like all Auton types - it has a radiation weapon that is hidden in the hand and activated by folding down the fingers becomes. The latter are also man-made cars, Rose's friend Mickey was kidnapped by Nestene consciousness and copied, but he himself remained unharmed. Autons appear in episodes 7.01-7.04 Spearhead from Space , 8.01-8.04 Terror of the Autons , N 1.01 Rose and N 5.12 / 5.13 Die Pandorica / The big bang .
Cybermen
The Cybermen (original German name: Kybermänner) are hybrid beings of man and machine, who come from the planet Mondas, the sister planet of the earth. Originally they tried to ensure their survival by exchanging body parts for machine parts. Eventually, this change made them lose their humanity. They are immune to most weapons, even a vacuum cannot harm them, they are only allergic to gold. Cybermen's brains are synchronized. Your only goal is to conquer new worlds and enslave the residents there and convert them into cybermen yourself. The various explanations for the origin of the Cyberman (or the Cybusmen, see below) are explained by the twelfth doctor in The Doctor Falls as an inevitable parallel evolution: Wherever people (-like species) develop technologically, it inevitably becomes the ultimate Cybermen By-product of this development. The Cybermen appear in the following episodes:
- The Tenth Planet (4.05-4.08)
- The Moonbase (4.23-4.26)
- The Cybermen's Tomb (5.01–5.04)
- The Wheel in Space (5.35-5.40)
- The Invasion (6/11/6/18)
- Revenge of the Cybermen (12.17-12.20)
- Quake (19:19 to 19:22)
- The five doctors (8:23 pm)
- Attack of the cybermen (Jan 22-22)
- Legacy of Nemesis (08/25-25/10)
- The Resurrection of the Cybermen / The Era of Steel (N 2.05–2.06)
- The army of spirits / end of the world (N 2.12–2.13)
- The Pandorica (N 5.12)
- Demons Run (N 6.07)
- Time to go (N 6.12)
- Nightmare in silver (N 7.12)
- Dark water (N 8.11)
- Death in heaven (N 8.12)
- Masks of damnation (N 10.11)
- The doctor falls (N 10.12)
Cybusms
The cybusms are a subspecies of the cybermen that originate from the earth of a parallel universe. In contrast to the Cybermen, who made themselves what they are, the Cybusman were created by a mad, paraplegic scientist to cure his illness and become immortal. The cybusmen appear in the episodes N 2.05 / 2.06 The Resurrection of the Cybermen / The Era of Steel , N 2.12 / 2.13 The Army of Spirits / End of the World , N 4.14 The Other Doctor and N 5.12 The Pandorica .
Cybermats
Cybermats are cyborg insects that, like cybermen, come from the planet Mondas. They have a segmented body and resemble a silverfish . In episodes 5.01–5.04 The Tomb of the Cybermen they are used by the cyber controller to track down a team of archaeologists on the planet Telos who were looking for remnants of cyber culture there. In episode N 6.12 Time to Go , Cybermats show up at a department store in Colchester to spy and tap electricity for the Cybermen.
Daleks
Judoon
The Judoon are a humanoid species of unknown origin. It looks like a rhinoceros . The Judoon are neither friend nor foe, but the executive authority of the intergalactic police, the shadow proclamation . Your demeanor is extremely brutal and bureaucratic. To catch lawbreakers, they don't shy away from killing bystanders. The Judoon are involved in the episodes N 3.01 Once Moon and Back , N 4.12 The Stolen Earth , N 4.18 The End of Time (2) and N 5.12 Die Pandorica .
Cat creatures
The cat beings (English Catkind) are a humanoid species. They are human in stature and walk upright, but look like cats. In the episode N 2.01 The New Earth , the Order of the Sisters of Perfection , consisting of cat beings, operates a hospital on the planet New Earth in the year 5,000,000,023. In order to research drugs and healing possibilities, they keep humanoid beings as guinea pigs, which they infect with all conceivable diseases. 30 years later, also on New Earth, the tenth doctor encounters cat creatures again in episode N 3.03 Stuck .
Boneless
The boneless are a people that originally existed only in two-dimensional space. The third dimension, which we know and take for granted, is just as difficult for them to understand as it is for us to understand an existence that gets by with only two dimensions. In their two-dimensional shape, they resemble fluted worms that crawl over walls, floors and ceilings. At the first meeting with the doctor (8.09 “Behind the walls”), at which the doctor gave them their name, the boneless tried to expand their two-dimensional existence by the third dimension. To do this, they withdrew their three-dimensionality from their human victims in order to dissect them in two-dimensional space and thus understand the third dimension. Since the boneless have understood the third dimension, it has been possible for you to add a third dimension to yourself as well as people and objects, or to withdraw it from them. The intention with which they wanted to switch to the third dimension has not yet been clarified and after they were chased away by the doctor, they did not show up again.
Martians
The Martians , also known as Ice Warriors , are a humanoid species that once populated Mars. Before the temperature on Mars dropped life-threateningly, the reptilian-looking Martians created metal armor and thus survived. Over time, they evolved into biomechanical beings. Their primary goal was to take over the earth. When in the episode 5.11-5.16 The Ice Warriors their spaceship, hidden under the ice cover of the earth, is found by the people, they begin to take military action against the people. In episode 6.23-6.28 The Seeds of Death they try to exterminate humanity with fungal spores that destroy the earth's oxygen and transform the atmosphere into a viable one for the Martians. The Martian attitudes develop over time from a hostile to a neutral one, and in individual cases they ally themselves with the doctor (episodes 9.05-9.08 The Curse of Peladon and 11.15-11.20 The Monster of Peladon ). In the new edition of the series Martians appear in episodes N 7.09 Cold War and N 10.09 The Empress of Mars .
People
The people are a species from the planet Earth that are visually indistinguishable from the Time Lords. However, it is wrong to assume that the Timelords look like humans. According to the doctor's statements (e.g. in episode 4.15 Planet of the Death or 5.02 The Beast Below ) people look like Timelords because the Timelords came first. The Doctor Who radio plays from Big Finish are helpful as an attempt to explain how this happens . According to them, Timelord DNA was distributed throughout the universe to make it easier for the Timelords to camouflage themselves. From this DNA humans and other humanoid life forms could have arisen. However, it is controversial whether the Big Finish radio plays belong to the official Doctor Who canon. The radio play company is an official partner of the Doctor Who creator company BBC ; the audio books and radio plays are usually read by the television actors . Contrary to popular belief, humans are not the first high-tech species on earth, but the Silurians .
Organizations of the people
Various organizations have been founded on Earth to deal with extraterrestrial beings, which will be described in more detail below.
UNIT
UNIT , the Un ified I ntelligence T askforce (originally: U nited N ations I ntelligence T askforce; the UN later asked delineation of the real union) is a military secret organization and was probably the late 60s with significant participation of Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart founded (see: Episodes 5.23-5.28 The Web of Fear ), who later became their commander. UNIT was first used in episode 6.11–6.18 The Invasion in the 1970s. Lethbridge-Stewart quickly sees the Doctor as his greatest ally. Although the doctor detests military organizations and permanently refuses to salute or accept the salute of others, he agrees to cooperate and over time is seen as an external advisor, employee, employee and sometimes as commander in chief of the secret organization. In the new series, through UNIT brokerage, he is named “ World President ” in times of crisis and is forced to exercise this office several times in the following years. Several of the Doctor's former companions, including Martha Jones , worked as consultants for UNIT for some time after their trip with the TARDIS. Usually it is UNIT that calls the doctor for help, but in the Easter Special 2009 Planet of the Dead the doctor reports to the organization of his own accord and asks for support. The current commanding officer is Kate Stewart , the daughter of Lethbridge-Stewart. She is a scientist and is closer to the doctor than the soldiers, who make up the majority of the workforce at UNIT.
Torchwood
Torchwood is a civilian secret organization that was founded by Queen Victoria in 1879 after the events of episode N 2.02 With Teeth and Claws . The name Torchwood goes back to the property of the same name that Queen Victoria visited in the episode mentioned. ( Torchwood is also an anagram of Doctor Who and was used as a code word for the secrecy of the scripts and casting before it was first mentioned in the new series.) The institute is used for the detection and defense of aliens, including the doctor. Well into the 21st century, Torchwood has succeeded in finding and collecting various alien weapons and artifacts, and using them against any threat to the United Kingdom if necessary. Torchwood was directly under the orders of the Prime Minister. After all employees of the Indian Torchwood base were murdered, the department in Glasgow (Torchwood II) dissolved and the headquarters in London (Torchwood I) destroyed in an attack by the Daleks and Cybermen, only the Welsh department Torchwood III, based in Cardiff, remained . From the turn of the millennium, it was under the direction of the doctor's former companion, Captain Jack Harkness , who built a completely new team, actively distanced himself from the methods of the London headquarters and, after the destruction of Torchwood I, reorganized the whole organization in memory of the doctor aligned. Since then, the organization has no longer fought off alien attackers without considering losses. Your employees no longer carry out brutal experiments on stranded life forms, but respect and protect - like the doctor - extraterrestrial life forms as long as they come to earth peacefully and / or involuntarily. With their technical methods, which are very advanced by human standards, they rushed to the doctor's aid several times and finally managed to reconcile the tenth doctor with Torchwood. In the wake of the affair surrounding the envoy of the alien species called 456 , who asked 10% of the world's children to sell their body's hormones as drugs, the British government tried to wipe out Torchwood III. With that, Torchwood officially ceased to exist. However, the surviving members - Captain Jack Harkness, Gwen Williams (née Cooper) and her husband Rhys Williams - saved Earth one more time during Miracle Day , when mankind stopped dying and became itself the greatest enemy. For this, Torchwood cooperated with two CIA agents.
The man in the future
In the course of the series you learn about the possible future of people. They found civilizations on different planets and over time merge with other living beings. They change their shape again and again, partly due to evolution, partly due to technical reasons. In the meantime, for example, they had mutated completely into technical beings (downloads). According to the doctor, however, the human species shows a very special stamina in a universal comparison and always returned to its original form. At the end of the universe, she is one of the last surviving species.
By the 51st century, the human species had already spread across half the galaxy and colonized several planets. She has come into contact with innumerable extraterrestrial life forms and leads with these trade, love and warlike relationships. You've explored the vortex and developed an understanding of space-time coordinates at least similar to the Doctor's. Various technical developments enable people to communicate in the form of holograms and to teleport through the time vortex and in this way to travel alone or in groups through time and space. During this time, these three aspects are summarized in the form of a bracelet, the vortex manipulator , and are, for example, used by Captain Jack Harkness , Dr. River Song and Captain John Hart worn and used. Harkness and Hart received their vortex manipulators while working for the human time travel agency founded in the 50th or 51st century, a seedy organization with military features. K-9 , an intelligent computer in the shape of a small metal dog, was built by a scientist on a space mission in 5000 and later given to the doctor. Over many centuries it became its loyal companion (with interruptions and in the form of several replicas).
In episodes N 1.02 The End of the World and N 2.01 The New Earth one learns from Cassandra O'Brien that in the year 5,000,000,000 she is supposed to be the last remaining pure-bred person, with which she associates a certain majesty above the rest of humanity. The rest of humanity has now evolved in many different directions and brought in their development completely new species which live side by side next to each other (eg. As the Cats beings which New 14 New York populate). Indeed, Cassandra is genetically human, but visually she looks anything but human. Due to hundreds of cosmetic surgeries, it now consists only of smooth skin - only the lips are reminiscent of a person - and must be constantly moistened. Shortly before her death, the doctor and Rose bring her back to her youth for the last happy moment in her memory, which also shows her in human form for the first time.
Also at the beginning of the sixth billion-year period, the doctor repeatedly encounters the Face of Boe ( → detailed section on the face of Boe ), which is considered the oldest being in the universe. In the course of the series it turns out that he is probably the very aged Captain Jack Harkness, a person who only became immortal (for the time being) through a side effect of the healing power of the TARDIS.
The Toclafane are people whose heads were put into battle spheres by the master around three billion (at the temporal and spatial end of the universe) and are supposed to contribute to the end of the earth in the 21st century ( N 3.11 - N 3.13 ). Before the Master's intervention, the humans were the last survivors of the collapsing universe, who had set out on a refugee ship on a journey towards a mythological utopia in the hope of escaping certain death. It turns out that the myth of Utopia itself was an invention of the Master .
Ood
The Ood are a humanoid species originating from the planet Ood Sphere . There are many tentacles in place of the mouth. They carry part of their brain outside of their body in a ball and are collectively telepathically connected to a cerebrum. The Ood behave very cautiously due to their abnormal appearance, although they can communicate well, so they are easy prey of human slavery in the 39th century. Two hundred years later, the Tenth Doctor freed her from captivity in the episode N 4.03 Always at Service . The Ood also appear in episodes N 2.08 The Impossible Planet and N 2.09 The Hellmouth , as well as in episodes N 4.17 / 18 The End of Time and N 6.04 The Doctor's Wife . In addition, the so-called "roach syndrome" often occurs in Ood, in which, as the name explains, the eyes of the Ood turn red. This can be for several reasons such as: B. Anger or Telepathic Connections among the Ood.
Racnoss
The Racnoss are an ancient, spider-like species, their upper body is humanoid. It has six eyes and 10 legs, two of which are used as arms. A Racnoss ship is of decisive importance for the creation of the earth and rests at its center until episode N 3.10 The dissolved bride . The only survivor of the species is the Racnoss Empress ( Sarah Parish ). The doctor prevents the empress from subjugating the earth with new offspring.
Raxacoricofallapatorians
The Raxacoricofallapatorians are a species that originated from the planet Raxacoricofallapatorius . They have the ability to compress their large bodies and then force themselves into the skin of previously killed people to camouflage themselves. They are easy to recognize for those who are knowledgeable because of the resulting gas, which they get rid of with flatulence-like noises, and the resulting smell. Raxacoricofallapatorians are allergic to acetic acid , if they come into contact with it, they burst.
The Raxacoricofallapatorians appearing in the Doctor Who universe are the Slitheen family , a nefarious, violent group who, in episodes N 1.04 Aliens of London and N 1.05 The Third World War , set out to unleash the Third World War to destroy the earth and to make a profit from their ruins, which are of great value on their home planet. It is for this reason that the Slitheen infiltrate the British government. In episode N 1.11 The Rift, a Slitheen returns to Earth and settles near the space-time rift in Cardiff, hoping to escape the death penalty on her home planet. In episode 1.02 Revenge of the Slitheen of the spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures , the Slitheen appear again.
Sisterhood of Karn
The Sisterhood of Karn is an order that guards the sacred flame on the planet Karn. This has the property of producing a magical elixir that is able to heal fatal injuries. Since the flame attracts soldiers of fortune from all over the universe, the sisters, immortal due to the elixir itself, made sure that passing spaceships crash-land on the planet. When the doctor and Sarah Jane land on Karn with the Tardis in the episode 13.17-13.20 The Brain of Morbius , the flame becomes weaker and weaker and threatens to go out, which would have meant the end of the sisterhood. The doctor and Sarah are lured into the temple by the shady surgeon Solon, who needs the doctor's head for his experiment, whereupon they are to be captured by the sisterhood and sacrificed to the dying flame. The doctor determines that the problem is a blockage in the fuel supply from inside the planet and solves it with a blasting device that blows the blockage free. In a fight with Morbius, a deathly sentenced Timelord who was resuscitated by Solon, the Doctor is fatally injured and ultimately saved by the elixir.
In The Night of the Doctor , the 8th Doctor crashes over Karn during the Eternal War and is kept alive by the sisterhood; he then regenerated to become a war doctor. The sisterhood also appears in the season finale N 9.12 In the Devil's Kitchen , when the doctor returns to Gallifrey after two billion years in his torture chamber.
Silurians
The Silurians , also known as Homo reptilia , represent a humanoid species from planet Earth and the first high-tech species on the planet. They are outwardly similar to reptiles and are divided into different looking subspecies. With a life expectancy of up to 300 years, they first appeared on earth around 400 million years ago. Silurian astronomers predicted the devastation of the earth's surface after a collision with a smaller celestial body, whereupon they built underground dwellings and, with the exception of a few researchers and guards who stayed awake, put themselves into a cold sleep. In retrospect, it turned out that the small heavenly body that was supposed to devastate the earth was the moon that the earth had captured (see also: capture theory ). The Silurians have an extremely high technological standard. They are masters of biological warfare, have raised mutant dinosaurs to protect them from extinction in an ark , and have a method of transportation that uses geothermal currents and gravitational bubbles to connect their underground dwellings to the surface of the earth. The Silurians appear in episodes 7.05-7.11 Doctor Who and the Silurians , 21.01-21.04 Warriors of the Deep and in N 5.08-5.09 Hungry Earth / Cold Blood . The ark of the Silurians is the setting for episode N 7.03 Dinos in Space .
Sontarans
The Sontarans are a humanoid, warlike species that originated from the planet Sontar . They always wear their armor and their round, shoulder-width heads are usually covered by a protective helmet. The Sontarans are generally hostile to the doctor. Individual Sontarans allied themselves with the doctor in only two episodes, but in both cases not unselfishly. In episode 22.07-22.09 androids in Sivillia , the Sontaraner Marshall Stike teams up with the doctor in order to discover the secret of the Timelords. In episode N 6.07 Demon's Run , the doctor is looking for allies to free his companion Amy Pond and her baby. The Sontaraner Strax joins him in order to escape his penal service as a “fully functional, milk-producing nurse”. In addition to the episodes mentioned, Sontaraner appear in 11.10-11.04 The Time Warrior , 12.09-12.10 The Sontaran Experiment and 15.21-15.26 Invasion of Time . In the new edition there were appearances in N 4.05 / 4.06 Thick Air / Murderous Sky , N 4.18 The End of Time (2) and in N 5.12 Die Pandorica . Sontaraner also appear in various episodes of the spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures .
silence
The Silence is an order of the New Church and was founded to prevent the Doctor from answering the question , namely the question of his name. In doing so, they want to prevent the eternal war from breaking out again. Members of the order are monks of silence also called "confessor", a humanoid species of unknown origin, which is also briefly referred to as silence. Their heads are visually similar to the head of the person in the painting The Scream by Edvard Munch , which the make-up artists used as a model. Already in the fifth season it is pointed out in several episodes with the quote used there: "The silence will come!" In episode N 6.01 / 6.02 The Astronaut Who Never Was / Day of the Moon , the Monks of Silence appear for the first time and you learn that the world has been controlled by them for many years. It does this by influencing people. If you see a monk of silence, you will instantly forget him if you turn away from him. With a ruse the doctor succeeds in freeing the earth from the infiltration of the monks of silence. He records one of the monks on a video tape and plays it on the live broadcast of the moon landing with the request to kill them if you see them.
Vashta Nerada
The Vashta Nerada ("shadows that melt flesh") are a microscopic form of life that occurs in swarms and is thus indistinguishable from a shadow. With a sufficient swarm size, they have the ability to immediately decompose even large organisms down to the bone. Vashta Nerada are omnipresent in the universe, on every planet they are present as dust in sunlight, but in this low density they feed exclusively on carrion . In episodes N 4.08 / 4.09 Deadly Silence / Forest of the Dead there is an unusually high concentration of the Vashta Nerada in The Library , as the paper for the books and the furniture come from their home forest , in which they mainly stay. This killed all the library staff. In such a high concentration Vashta Nerada can communicate and are invincible, so that only a quick escape can save from certain death.
Weeping angels
The weeping angels appear for the first time in episode N 3.10 Don't blink . According to the doctor, they are almost as old as the universe. Once viewed, they turn to stone and look like stone figures, preferably angel statues. As soon as they are no longer looked at, just a blink of an eye is enough, they can move freely and quickly. When touched, the victim is transported any time into the past, while the Weeping Angels feed on the time that the victim would have left in the present. If someone succeeds in getting the Weeping Angels to look at each other, they will forever remain in their stone appearance. Therefore, the angels hold their hands in front of their eyes so as not to accidentally look at each other, which in turn looks like they are crying. In addition to those mentioned, the angels are to be seen in the episodes N 5.05 The time of angels , N 5.06 Heart of stone , N 7.05 Power of the word and N 7.16 The time of the doctor as the main opponent. They also appear in episode 1.08, The Lost of the offshoot Class .
Important individuals
Companions of the doctor
The doctor usually does not travel through time and space alone, but is accompanied by various companions . He usually has long-term support. Occasionally other people travel with you for a short time or he is accompanied by someone on individual adventures in the period between separating from a permanent companion and finding the next.
Susan Foreman
Susan Foreman ( Carole Ann Ford ) is from the very first episode 1.01 An Unearthly Child of the first season to episode 2.09 Flashpoint of the second season, the first permanent companion of the doctor and his granddaughter . Later she experienced in the 1983 anniversary special following season 20 in episode 602 The Five Doctors (English title: The Five Doctors ) yet another and so far last adventure with the doctor. In total, she experienced adventure with the doctor in 52 episodes (1.01–1.42, 2.01–2.09 and anniversary special, episode 602).
Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton
Barbara Wright ( Jacqueline Hill ) and Ian Chesterton ( William Russel ), as Susan's teacher, have also been accompanying the doctor on his adventures since the first episode. Often it is the two who solve the problems into which the doctor's stubbornness turns the group. Barbara can shine with her knowledge as a history teacher in the so-called historicals , while Ian answers scientific questions and comes into play when physical exertion is necessary, e.g. B. in duels. Both will remain in the series until episode 2.35 The Planet of Decision .
Vicky
Vicky ( Maureen O'Brien ) is a girl from the 29th century and next to the injured Bennett the only survivor of a failed expedition to the planet Dido. While waiting for a rescue ship to arrive, the Doctor finds out that Bennett murdered the rest of the crew and the locals to hide his crimes. After Bennett is killed and the spaceship's distress signal destroyed, the Doctor takes Vicky aboard the Tardis. She leaves him in the episode Horse of Destruction because she falls (under the name Cressida) in love with Troilus , the youngest son of King Priam of Troy, and stays with him.
Steven Taylor
Steven Taylor ( Peter Purves ) is an astronaut who crash-landed on the planet Mechanus and is trapped by the mechonoids. After the doctor and his companions meet him on their escape from the Daleks, they free him from his prison and he becomes the companion of the first doctor. Steven is an energetic young man who often stands up to the doctor and often questions his statements. He stays with the doctor until the episode The Savages . He leaves the doctor and Dodo to keep order on a distant planet.
Katarina
Katarina ( Adrienne Hill ) comes from ancient Troy. She sacrifices herself in The Dalek's Master Plan for the Doctor and Steven, making her the first companion to die on his journey.
Sara Kingdom
Sara Kingdom ( Jean Marsh OBE ) only appears in The Daleks' master plan storyline . She is an agent of the space security and has the assignment to kill the doctor, because it is supposed to cooperate with the Daleks . In the course of the plot, she is eventually convinced that the keeper of the solar system she works for is a traitor and that the Doctor is fighting the Daleks. Then she helps the doctor and Steven. She dies aging unnaturally quickly from the use of the Daleks' weapon.
Dorothea "Dodo" chaplet
Dorothea "Dodo" Chaplet ( Jackie Lane ) comes from Wimbledon in 1966 and is of Huguenot descent, presumably the descendant of a girl whom the doctor abandoned shortly before on the eve of Bartholomew's Night in Paris, for which he heard serious allegations from Steven got to. To ease his conscience, he takes Dodo with him as a companion. She leaves the first doctor in London in 1966 in the episode The War Machines .
Polly and Ben Jackson
Polly ( Anneke Wills ) and Ben Jackson ( Michael Craze ) are a secretary and seaman dating from 1966 and ended up in the First Doctor's TARDIS through a misunderstanding. They witness the first regeneration and separate from the second doctor in the episode The Faceless Ones .
Jamie McCrimmon
James Robert "Jamie" McCrimmon ( Frazer Hines , temporarily Hamish Wilson ) is a companion of the second doctor. Hailing from the Scottish highlands in the 18th century, he has his own interpretations of the TARDIS technique. During his time with the doctor, Jamie proves to be a rather direct, combative character. He is forced by the Timelords at the end of the episode The War Games to return to his time, and his memories of the doctor are erased except for their first adventure together. A few years later in The Two Doctors, however, he travels with him again. With 116 episodes, Jamie is by far the companion who has traveled the longest with an incarnation of the Doctor.
Victoria Waterfield
Victoria Waterfield ( Deborah Watling ) is the beautiful daughter of a Victorian-era scientist who was killed by the Daleks . Detached from her roots, she travels with the doctor for a while before getting tired of the dangers to which travelers are constantly exposed. At the end of the Fury from the Deep storyline, she decides to live with the Harris family in the 21st century.
Zoe Heriot
Zoe Heriot ( Wendy Padbury ) is a future scientist working on a space station when she meets the second doctor. She is very smart, extremely competent and, among other things, has an eidetic memory. Just like with Jamie, the Timelords erase their memories of the Doctor except for their first adventure.
Liz Shaw
Elizabeth "Liz" Shaw ( Caroline John ), a graduate of Cambridge University, is hired by the Brigadier as a UNIT scientific advisor just before the freshly regenerated third PhD begins his exile on Earth. But the doctor soon pushes her out of this role and she becomes his assistant. Permanently disappointed with this job, she quits her job and returns to Cambridge, as in her opinion the doctor doesn't need a competent assistant, just someone who can hand him test tubes and tell him how brilliant he is.
Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart
Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart ( Nicholas Courtney ),Sergeant John Benton ( John Levene ) and Captain Mike Yates ( Richard Franklin ) work with the Doctor at UNIT and are also often listed as companions because they have many adventures with the Doctor. The BBC also describes them as such. Their listing as companions is controversial among fans, as they do not accompany the doctor for a long time in his TARDIS. However, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Sergeant Benton travel at least for a short time in the TARDIS.
Jo Grant
Josephine "Jo" Grant ( Katy Manning ) helps the third doctor; she works for UNIT and subsequently marries the researcher Professor Jones in The Green Death . In a double episode of the Sarah Jane Adventures ( The Death of the Doctor , episodes 4.05 and 4.06), an offshoot of Doctor Who , she meets the doctor again in his eleventh incarnation. In the serial you learn that she had 7 children and 12 grandchildren (a thirteenth is on the way).
Sarah Jane Smith
Sarah Jane Smith ( Elisabeth Sladen , 1946–2011) is a reporter and accompanied third ( Jon Pertwee ) and fourth ( Tom Baker ) doctorates in the 1970s and 1980s . In 2007 she meets the tenth doctor ( David Tennant ) in episode 2.04 School Reunion (English title: class reunion ). This encounter then led as a backdoor pilot to the offshoot series The Sarah Jane Adventures (2007-2011), in which both meet again in episodes 3.05 / 3.06 The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith . In the final two-part of the fourth season 4.12 / 4.13 of Doctor Who she experiences another adventure with the tenth doctor, but sees him again briefly at the end of episode 4.18 The End of Time (part 2) before the doctor enters his eleventh incarnation ( Matt Smith ) regenerated. In the double episode 4.05 / 4.06 The Death of the Doctor by Sarah Jane Adventures , she finally meets the eleventh incarnation of the Doctor again (then together with Jo Grant [now Jo Jones]). Elisabeth Sladen played the role of Sarah Jane until immediately before her death on April 19, 2011. The fifth season of the Sarah Jane Adventures was shortened after Sladen was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in February 2011; the premature end was rounded off with a look back at Sarah Jane's development from the lonely journalist to the mother of two and loyal friend and the final sentence: "And the story goes on ... forever."
Harry Sullivan
Harry Sullivan ( Ian Marter ) is a medical officer in the service of UNIT and the brigadier's job is to look after the newly regenerated doctor. He invites him to look at the TARDIS from the inside, but Harry accidentally adjusts the fittings, which is why he accompanies the doctor and Sarah Jane for 24 episodes (12.01–12.20 and 13.01–13.04) and proves to be an extremely powerful companion.
Leela
Leela ( Louise Jameson ) is a warrior from a barbaric tribe from the distant future. All of the people there are descendants of those who took part in a failed planetary exploration mission, who over the generations have reverted to a primitive tribal system. The doctor manages to break Leela's superstitions in shamanism and magic and to convince her of the scientific way of thinking. This leads to Leela - initially against his will - joining as a companion. She accompanies the doctor in 40 episodes (14.13-14.26, 15.01-15.26) and finally leaves him in the episode The Invasion of Time to stay on Gallifrey.
K-9
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K-9 (voice: John Leeson ) is a robot dog. The name K-9 is an onomatopoeic spelling of the English term canine (in German: "dog-like", "doggy"). K-9 dates back to 5000 and was originally developed for Professor Marius, who couldn't take his dog with him to his space station. After learning that he is returning to Earth, he places K-9 in the care of the Doctor and Leela. In the original, K-9 addresses several protagonists as “Master” or “Mistress”, which is close to the German “Herrchen” or “Mistress” and is also synchronized that way. Since he can only think logically and has no feelings or imagination, there are many very hilarious dialogues between him and other characters. In the course of the series there were four K-9 models:
- K-9 Mark I: The original K-9, a present to the Doctor and Leela after an invasion was averted. He decides to stay on Gallifrey with Leela when she marries a Timelord.
- K-9 Mark II: An identical K-9 that the Doctor is already stocking in the TARDIS. He stays behind with Romana # 2 in E-Space because he is badly damaged by the Timewinds and would not survive a transition to N-Space.
- K-9 Mark III: A Christmas present from the Doctor to Sarah Jane. However, it breaks after a while and can only be repaired by the tenth doctor in episode 2.03 School Reunion (English title: class reunion ). In the same episode, he blows himself up and a school to stop an invasion of the Krilitanes.
- K-9 Mark IV: To the end of the episode 2:03 School Reunion (dt Title:. Klassentreffen ) gives the tenth Doctor Sarah Jane after the heroic death of K-9 Mark III goodbye this intact new K-9 who accompanies henceforth ( Spin -off The Sarah Jane Adventures ). In the meantime, however, he has to guard a black hole and is busy for some time. In the Doctor Who double episode The Stolen Earth (4.12, dt. The stolen earth ) / Journey's End (4.13, dt. The end of the journey ) - a crossover with Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures - he helps the tenth Doctor, his assembled companions , the Torchwood team and Sarah Jane's intelligent computer Mr. Smith, to pull Earth back into the solar system after defeating the Daleks from the Medusa Cascade.
Romana
Romanadvoratrelundar , Romana for short , is a Timelady (female Timelord) who, besides Susan, is the only person of her own race who travels with the Doctor. Over two incarnations (usually referred to as Romana I ( Mary Tamm ) and Romana II ( Lalla Ward )) she experienced adventures with the doctor in 72 episodes (16.01–16.26, 17.01–17.20 / 26 and 18.01–18.20) and will be in three further episodes in flashbacks or similar. shown (episode 602 The Five Doctors [German title: The five doctors ], 18.29 and 21.11, .12, .13. or 14 [only one of the latter episodes]) (see also Romana in the list of races and individuals from Doctor Who ).
Adric
Adric ( Matthew Waterhouse ) is a non-terrestrial teenage math genius. He dies in the episode Earthshock while trying to prevent a spaceship from crashing to Earth.
Nyssa from Traken
Nyssa von Traken ( Sarah Sutton ) is an alien young woman from the planet Traken, where she received an excellent education as a noblewoman. She is particularly well versed in bio-electronics and cybernetics. In dangerous situations she stands out for her determined behavior. After the master has taken over her father's body, she accompanies the doctor in the TARDIS. She becomes infected with a leprosy-like illness when she lands with the doctor on the Terminus space station, where patients suffering from the disease are treated under inhumane conditions. After her healing, she decides to stay on Terminus and help turn the ward into a functioning hospital.
Tegan Jovanka
Tegan Jovanka ( Janet Fielding ) is a headstrong Australian stewardess. Due to her brisk manner, she often clashes with the doctor and other companions, but still has close relationships with them. She is particularly close friends with Nyssa until she leaves the TARDIS, and Adric's death is also visibly close to her. She's been accompanying the doctor since she accidentally went to the TARDIS, assuming it was a police cell . In the meantime, the doctor leaves her at Heathrow airport, but meets him again in Amsterdam. Tegan is temporarily possessed by an alien entity called Mara. After seeing the deaths of many people during an encounter with the Daleks, she decides to quit the doctor because she can no longer cope with his way of life.
Vislor Turlough
Vislor Turlough ( Mark Strickson ) comes from the planet Trion. As a result of a civil war, he was banished to earth, where he met the doctor. Shortly before, he was contacted by the Black Guardian who promises to take him to his home planet if he kills the Doctor. Turlough is torn at first, but eventually decides to stay with the Doctor. Turlough has a strong instinct for self-preservation; in dangerous situations he often tends to be selfish and reckless. Ultimately, however, you can rely on him. He is very knowledgeable about technology and is able to control and maintain the TARDIS. When he learns that the political situation on his home planet has changed and that his exile has been lifted, he returns to his homeland.
Camelion
Kamelion (voice of Gerald Flood ) is a humanoid robot that can change shape. Kamelion is intelligent, but has a very weak will and is very easy to influence. He meets the doctor when he foils a plan by the master for which he has used Camelion. The doctor then takes him to the TARDIS, where he lives for a while without interacting much with the other residents. When the master succeeds in regaining control of Kamelion, he finally begs the doctor to destroy him, which he then does.
Peri Brown
Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown ( Nicola Bryant ) is an American botany student. She meets the doctor in Lanzarote , where her stepfather is carrying out archaeological excavations. There Turlough saves her from drowning and takes her to the TARDIS, in which she travels with the doctor from now on. She is not a fan of dangerous situations and often complains to the doctor when the two end up in one. After his regeneration in the sixth doctor, Peri is - especially at the beginning - often very frustrated with him and often makes derogatory remarks about him. Still, she likes traveling with the doctor in the TARDIS; She declines offers to bring her home. On the planet Thoros Beta, the two are separated when the Doctor is led away by the Timelords on charges of violating the Timelords' laws. The Doctor later learns that Peri Yrcanos, the king of Thoros Alpha, married, whom she and the Doctor met on Thoros Beta.
Mel Bush
Melanie "Mel" Bush ( Bonnie Langford ) is a 20th century England programmer with a photographic memory . She takes great care of her health and often urges the slightly overweight sixth doctor to eat healthier and do more exercise. The doctor first met Mel when she testified in his favor during a court hearing. This Mel has already traveled with his future self for some time. After the trial he takes Mel in his TARDIS, presumably to drop her off somewhere and then meet her younger self for the first time. This first meeting was never shown in the series. Mel leaves the doctor to travel with the crook Sabalom Glitz.
Ace
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Ace ( Sophie Aldred ) is a 16 year old girl from Perivale in the 80s who got caught in a time storm through an experiment and ends up on the ice planet Svartos in the future. There she works as a waitress before she meets the seventh doctor and accompanies him. She often calls the doctor “professor” and seldom follows his instructions, which he plans. Ace always carries explosives; for this reason she has got herself expelled from school several times in the past. Her outfit is slightly based on the punk style of the 1980s. Her background should gain even more depth in the course of the Cartmel master plan in the 27th season, but this was no longer implemented due to the temporary suspension of the series.
Grace Holloway
Dr. Grace Holloway ( Daphne Ashbrook ) is a cardiologist in the 1996 television film , who helps the eighth doctor on an adventure on earth in the fight against the master and then goes on a short trip with the doctor in the TARDIS. The doctor then offers her to continue traveling with her, but she refuses.
Rose Tyler
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Rose Tyler ( Billie Piper ) comes from the British working class and initially works as a saleswoman in a department store in London. When she meets the doctor there and helps him out of a life-threatening situation, she then becomes the doctor's first permanent companion in the first two seasons of the new series (episodes 1.01 to 2.13). She accompanies both the 9th (season 1) and the 10th (season 2) doctor. In the final two-part series of the first season, you, the doctor and Captain Jack Harkness are attacked by an army of Dalek in the year 200,100 . To protect her, the doctor ships her home against her will in the TARDIS. Since she cannot simply fly the TARDIS back, she and Mickey Smith open the heart of the TARDIS, which previously came into action in episode 1.11 Boom Town (English title: The Gap ). So she succeeds in getting the TARDIS to save the doctor. The TARDIS brings you back to the year 200,100 for the Dalek attack and temporarily connects your heart with Rose, which makes her an overpowering being for a short time. She destroys the Daleks and their war fleet and revives Captain Jack Harkness, who has meanwhile sacrificed himself in the fight against the Daleks to give the doctor more time to implement his defense plan. Later one learns (see episode 3.11) that because she could not control the power properly, she revived Captain Jack Harkness forever, he became a fixed point in time and Rose is responsible for his immortality. Not even the doctor can reverse this (see episode 3.13). At the end of the second season, Rose is separated from the doctor in a parallel universe, to which the doctor can not return with his TARDIS . With her last words she confesses her love to the doctor, but before he can answer, the connection between the worlds is finally broken. Martha Jones takes her place in the third season. At the end of the fourth season, however, Rose meets the doctor again. Before that, she appeared briefly at the end of episode 4.01 Partners in Crime , without meeting the doctor personally. Before she finally meets the doctor again in episode 4.11 Turn Left , she can be seen in episodes 4.05 The Poison Sky and 4.10 Midnight for fractions of a second on a computer screen calling (without sound) for the doctor. However, the doctor misses this brief moment both times. So far she has had adventures with the doctor in a total of 30 episodes (1.01–2.13 and 4.11–4.13) and can be seen briefly in three other episodes (4.01, 4.05 and 4.10). In episode 4.18 The End of Time (Part 2) she appears again as a person (the tenth doctor travels back to the time immediately before her first meeting with the ninth doctor). She can be seen for the last time in the Special Doctor's Day . However, here it is the holographic interface of an intelligent weapon.
Adam Mitchell
Adam Mitchell ( Bruno Langley ) travels in the middle of the first season in episode 1.07 The Long Game (English title: Long-term strategy ) with the ninth doctor and Rose Tyler. However, he betrays the doctor and is dropped off at home at the end of the episode.
Captain Jack Harkness
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Captain Jack Harkness ( John Barrowman MBE ) is a 51st-century con artist and former agent for the human time travel agency who meets the 9th Doctor and Rose Tyler during the London Blitz . The role of Captain Jack is rather comic at the beginning. From his very first scene on, he flirts with everyone and everything and is not strict about laws and morals. Rose succumbs to his charm immediately and arouses something like jealousy and a certain competitive spirit in the doctor for the first time. However, Barrowman's character develops depth very quickly, Harkness becomes part of the team, and in the course of this first meeting he shows himself ready to sacrifice his life for his new friends and intercepts a detonated Nazi bomb with his shuttle. Ultimately, he is saved by the Doctor and Rose by bringing him to the TARDIS just before the detonation. He then travels with the two of them in the last five episodes (1.09–1.13) of the first season. In the last episode he sacrifices himself in the fight against the Daleks and this time actually dies, but is resurrected by Rose when she becomes an overpowering being for a short time due to the temporary connection with the heart of the TARDIS . Since then he has been immortal, a “fixed point in time and space”. Since this is against the laws of nature and the sight of it initially inflicts physical pain on the doctor, he leaves him at the place where it happened in the year 200,100. With the time travel device from his time as an agent of the time travel agency, he wants to travel back to the 21st century, assuming that he will be able to meet the doctor there again. However, he misses the 21st century and lands in 1869 with damage to his time travel device. He settles in Cardiff, knowing full well that the gap in the space-time structure there would sooner or later be used by the doctor to charge his TARDIS. There he joins the Torchwood subsidiary Torchwood 3, involuntarily becomes its head at the turn of the millennium and thus after the destruction of Torchwood 1 (Canary Warf, London) at the end of the second Who season (episodes 2.12 and 2.13) and the closure of Torchwood 2 (Glasgow) as head of the entire Torchwood Institute. The first season of the Who offshoot Torchwood is located between the second Who season and episode 3.11 . In the final episode, Harkness hears the sound of the TARDIS materializing and leaves the Torchwood base and his team for the doctor, whom he accompanies in the final three-part episode of the third Who season (episode 3.11-3.13). With the offshoot series Torchwood (adult target audience as opposed to Doctor Who and the Sarah Jane Adventures ), Harkness becomes a more serious, almost dark character. Between his last meeting with the 9th Doctor and the beginning of the first season, he has already spent 140 years on earth, fought in many wars, lost friends and family and is now responsible for a small team with gigantic potential power and corresponding temptation . His wards are constantly in mortal danger, and it is up to him again and again to make difficult or impossible decisions about the life and death of others. All of this weighs on him and makes him a bitter, broken man as the series progresses. However, his reunion with the tenth doctor and his encounter with his new companion Martha let him breathe a sigh of relief, he quickly finds his place and - apart from the circumstances in the fight against the master's degree - can spend a relatively good time with them. The journey takes about one and a half years, of which, however, a whole year is set back by the destruction of a paradox machine. Jack decides that he wants to return to Earth and his team and rejects an offer from the doctor to accompany him permanently. As a farewell (3.13 Last of the Time Lords ) he tells the doctor and Martha an anecdote from his childhood, which shows that the immortal but slowly aging Harkness could become the face of Boe over the course of the millennia . So far, he has had adventures with the doctor and his companion in 10 episodes (1.09–1.13, 3.11–3.13 and 4.12–4.13) and at the end of the New Year's special The End of Time (Part 2) he meets the tenth again briefly in a bar Incarnation. In 2020 he returned after a 10-year break in the episode Fugitive of the Judoon ( 05/12 ). He would like to deliver a warning to the now 13th incarnation of the doctor, but only meets the current companions Graham, Ryan and Yasmin.
See also: Captain Jack Harkness in the Torchwood article
Martha Jones
(Dr.) Martha Jones ( Freema Agyeman ) is a medical student who will be the second permanent companion of the Doctor in the new series after Rose Tyler and will travel with him in the third season (3.01 to 3.13). However, she leaves him again at the end of the third season. In the fourth season, as a doctor of medicine and UNIT agent , she experiences another adventure with the doctor and his current companion Donna Noble in episodes 4.04 The Sontaran Stratagem , 4.05 The Poison Sky and 4.06 The Doctor's Daughter . The British media referred to her as the Doctor's first black companion, although Rose's dark-skinned friend Mickey Smith has traveled with the Doctor several times in the first two seasons. Since it is not precisely specified what makes a travel companion a “companion”, this point is controversial. The current Doctor Who website of the BBC program lists Mickey Smith as a "companion". Martha Jones has had adventures with the doctor in 18 episodes (3.01–3.13, 4.04–4.06 and 4.12–4.13). In addition, at the end of the New Year's special The End of Time (Part 2), she briefly meets the doctor before he regenerates. In the course of this performance, you learn that she is now married to Mickey Smith, who had returned from Rose's parallel universe in the previous season finale (4.12 The Stolen Earth / 4.13 Journey's End ) . In the double episode 4.04 / 4.05 she was still engaged to the doctor Tom Milligan ( Médecins Sans Frontières ), whom she had previously met in the three-part series 3.11-3.13.
Astrid Peth
Astrid Peth , played by guest star Kylie Minogue , supports the 10th doctor in the 2007 Christmas special Voyage of the Damned (ep. 4.00). Astrid had already agreed with the doctor to accompany him in the future, but at the end of the episode she sacrifices herself to save the earth.
Donna Noble
Donna Noble ( Catherine Tate ) is the Doctor's third permanent companion in the new series, after Rose Tyler and Martha Jones. She first meets the 10th doctor in the 2006 Christmas special The Runaway Bride (episode 3.00) and successfully fights the Racnoss with him. Since he has lost Rose Tyler, he offers her at the end of the episode to accompany him on his travels. However, she refuses (initially) because life with the doctor seems too dangerous to her. Since her Christmas adventure with the doctor, however, she has seen the world with different eyes and pursues unusual events on her own in the hope of meeting the doctor again and still accompanying him on his travels. So she meets him again at the beginning of the fourth season in episode 4.01 Partners in Crime in the fight against the obese. Since his companion, Martha Jones, had previously left him to take care of her family, he is now taking Donna with him on trips. At the end of the season, however, after a mutual human-timelord meta-crisis (see also the section on the doctor's family in the article The Doctor ), for her own protection, the Doctor has to erase her memories of him and the shared adventures from her memory and open them up leave the earth behind. She experienced adventures with the doctor in 14 episodes (3.00 and 4.01–4.13). Her grandfather is Wilfred Mott ( Bernard Cribbins OBE ). In the Christmas / New Years special The End of Time (4.17 / 4.18), in which Mott accompanies the doctor, she then appears for the last time so far.
River Song
(Prof. Dr.) River Song ( Alex Kingston ) is a future companion and wife of the doctor. Eventually she becomes so familiar with him that he even confides his real name to her. As the daughter of Rory Williams and Amy Pond , she was conceived in the TARDIS and is half Timelord, half human due to this fact. She originally got the name Melody Pond from Amy, but since her regeneration into the incarnation in which the doctor met her, she has called herself River Song (back translation of her birth name from a language of a foreign planet). Shortly after her birth, she is kidnapped by the organization Die Stille and trained to kill the doctor, which she finally apparently succeeds in. As the silence made the doctor's murder a fixed point in space and time, River was forced to complete her predetermined deed - her desperate attempt to evade this fate meanwhile leads to a dangerous collapse of Earth Time. The doctor sacrifices himself in order to save the timeline and the universe one last time, but with the help of old friends he can actually only fake his death. River is arrested for the murder, and the trauma causes her to forget the reason for her arrest. The prison walls are not a big obstacle for her, however, she leaves her cell regularly to have adventures with the doctor, but always returns promptly, so that the guards come to terms with this game. Since both River and the Doctor are time travelers (and they often don't travel together), their timelines are not parallel. Nevertheless, the two always manage - sometimes with very extravagant means - to get in touch. After her first (and last) regeneration, the doctor gives River a blue diary that looks like the TARDIS, in which she records all her adventures with the doctor from now on. The doctor must not see it, however, so that he does not learn too much about his personal future. In the meantime, the doctor keeps a similar diary about the course of their encounters over time. River dies the first time he meets the Doctor (in his timeline) to save his life. But since an older version of the doctor is naturally aware of this event, the last time they met River as a married couple he gave River a modified sonic screwdriver with a consciousness link in which her consciousness reverberated for a short time after her death, so that his younger self River's consciousness can be uploaded to a computer, where it then continues to exist in a virtual reality . As such, she can actually still contact the doctor at a later point in time, but he is usually the only one who can still see her mind. So far River Song has appeared in 14 episodes (4.08–4.09, 5.04–5.05, 5.12–5.13, 6.01–6.02, 6.07–6.08, 6.13, 7.05, 7.13 and 9.13), and like some other companions before her, she also received her own Radio play series by BBC partner Big Finish Productions .
Jackson Lake
Jackson Lake ( David Morrissey ) is in the Christmas special 2008 The Next Doctor (ep.4.14) a man in Victorian England who inadvertently got some information about the doctor implanted in his head by the Cybermen. He thinks this information is memories, so he thinks he is the doctor. Even the doctor himself believes at times that he has met a future incarnation of himself until he discovers the truth. Lake built his own "TARDIS" in the form of a hot air balloon ("Tethered Aerial Release Developed in Style"; in German dubbing, "safe, aerodynamic space vehicle that I thought of myself") and found a loyal companion in Rosita ( Velile Tshabalala ) who with him in this episode is also the tenth doctor in the fight against cyberking (formerly Miss Hartigan, Dervla Kirwan ) to the side. Ultimately, they both stay in London, Lake hires Rosita as a permanent nanny for his rescued son.
Lady Christina de Souza and Malcolm Taylor
Lady Christina de Souza ( Michelle Ryan ) accompanies the doctor in the Easter special 2009 Planet of the Dead (episode 4.15). From the earth they also receive support from the scientific advisor of the United Intelligence Taskforce , Dr. Malcolm Taylor ( Lee Evans ). At the end of the episode, she would like to travel with him, which the doctor refuses to do in memory of all the farewells from his previous companions. Instead, he frees the thief (she stole Athelstan's goblet worth 18 million pounds from the International Gallery London at the beginning ) from her handcuffs with his sonic screwdriver, gives her the still airworthy bus 200, distracts the police and enables her so the escape.
Adelaide Brooke
Adelaide Brooke ( Lindsay Duncan ) is the doctor's companion in The Waters of Mars , the fall 2009 special. He saves her from the Mars station, although it is predetermined that she should die there. In order not to change the future any further, she takes her own life after safely returning to earth.
Wilfred Mott
Wilfred Mott ( Bernard Cribbins OBE ), the grandfather of Donna Noble , accompanies the doctor in the Christmas and New Year's special 2009 The End of Time (4.17 / 4.18) in the fight against the time lords Der Master ( John Simm ) and Rassilon ( Timothy Dalton ). He had previously come into contact with the doctor in the Christmas special 2007 ( Voyage of the Damned , 4.00) and the episodes 4.01 Partners in Crime , 4.04 The Sontaran , 4.05 The Poison Sky and 4.13 Journey's End . Cribbins was also part of the cast in episodes 4.11 Turn Left and 4.12 The Stolen Earth without meeting the doctor. At the end of The End of Time , both men are ready to sacrifice their lives for the other, which ultimately leads to regeneration from the tenth to the eleventh doctor.
Amy Pond
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Amy Pond ( Karen Gillan ), full name Amelia Jessica Pond, is from the fifth season the fourth permanent companion of the (now 11th) Doctor in the new series. The doctor first meets her seven-year-old self. When he has to check on his damaged TARDIS, he promises to be back in five minutes. Still a bit disoriented from the recent regeneration, he only reappears after twelve years. Amy is now apparently a police officer and arrests the doctor in her apartment. In the following conversation she notices that it is the same man who had left her that night twelve years earlier. Also, it turns out that the police uniform is just a costume. Then the doctor has an adventure on earth with Amy. The doctor uses the TARDIS again. When two more years have passed, he comes back and offers her to accompany him on his travels. However, she insists on being dropped off the morning after she leaves. Already in the first episode it becomes clear that they left on the eve of their wedding with Rory Williams and Amy therefore wants to be back on the following day for their wedding. However, she feels increasingly drawn to the doctor and finally kisses him in episode 5.05 Flesh and Stone , which he does not want to go into. Instead, he tries in the following episodes to re-establish her relationship with her fiancé Rory, for which he takes him with him in the TARDIS. At the end of the fifth season, Amy and Rory will be married in episode 5.13 The Big Bang . At the end of episode 6.01 The Impossible Astronaut , Amy tells the doctor that she is pregnant. At the end of episode 6.02, Day of the Moon , the doctor scans Amy; however, the result does not make it clear whether Amy is actually pregnant. So far, Amy has traveled with the doctor in 27 episodes. In episode 6.06, Amy gets her child Melody, who is kidnapped in the following episode. It turns out that Dr. River Song is the adult daughter of Amy and Rory. In episode 7.01 The Asylum of the Daleks , she separates from Rory because she assumes that Rory really wants to have children, but after what happened to her daughter Melody (Dr. River Song), she no longer gets involved is able to. When the Daleks send her, along with the Doctor and Rory, to a planet with Daleks gone mad, they become a couple again. In episode 7.05 The Angels take Manhattan , Amy and Rory are caught in the past by a crying angel . Amy surrenders voluntarily to the angel, as Rory was recently sent into the past - where he died after a long life at the age of 82 - and she does not want to live without Rory. She herself died at the age of 87. The doctor can never see them again afterwards, as Rory's death is a fixed point.
Rory Williams
Rory Williams ( Arthur Darvill ) is a nurse and the fiancé of Amy Pond, who is the doctor's fourth permanent companion from season five. He traveled in 25 episodes (5.06−5.09, 5.12-5.13, 6.01−7.05 [death] and in the Christmas special 2011) with the doctor and Amy and previously appeared in episode 5.01 The Eleventh Hour . In episode 5.09 Cold Blood , however, he is killed and absorbed by a time rift that completely erases his existence from time. However, as time-traveling anomalies, the doctor and, to some extent, Amy also keep their memories of him. He reappears as Auton in episode 5.12 The Pandorica Opens . The “reset” of the universe in ep. 5.13 The Big Bang ultimately also restores its human existence. So it finally comes to the wedding between him and Amy Pond. The doctor then referred to him as "Rory Pond". Since episode 6.06 he has a child with Amy named Melody Pond (Dr. River Song). In episode 7:05 The Angels take Manhattan , Rory dies in the past after a long life at the age of 82; As his death is a fixed point, Amy also joins Rory's life in the past, as she cannot stand life without him. Both die after a long life of over 80 years (Rory 82, Amy 87) and rest together in a cemetery as Rory Arthur Williams and his beloved wife Amelia Williams.
Clara Oswald
Clara Oswald ( Jenna Coleman ), full name Clara Oswin Oswald, meets the doctor in episode 7.01. She has apparently been living in her crashed spaceship on the planet that the Daleks have appointed as their insane asylum for almost a year. From there, she helps the Doctor, Amy, and Rory by hacking into the Dalek system. It later turns out that she was transformed into a Dalek herself and is only in her imagination in her spaceship. So the doctor has to leave her behind. In the Christmas special 2012 the doctor meets Clara again, but this time in 1892. Clara is a governess who helps the doctor to solve the mystery about the snow. At the end of the episode, however, she is thrown to her death by the woman from ice. Only now does the doctor find out what her name is and start looking for the mysterious woman Clara. In the episode The Bells Of Saint John (7.07) he finds what he is looking for and this time he manages to save her from death. From now on she accompanies the doctor on his travels. In the episode The Name of the Doctor , Clara decides to step into the doctor's timestream in his grave on Trenzalore in order to prevent the Great Intelligence from undoing all of the doctor's successes. This also explains her previous meetings with the doctor. The doctor then saves them from his stream of time, where they previously met the incarnation of the doctor who broke the promise he made by choosing the name "doctor". In the 50-year-special, it is then also Clara who speaks to the doctor and his earlier incarnations and prevents him from destroying his home planet.
Clara experienced the regeneration of the 11th doctor in the 12th on Trenzalore (Christmas special 2013 The Time of the Doctor ), but then had great problems getting used to the new incarnation, on the one hand because of his aged appearance, on the other hand because of his new, rougher way of solving problems and his sometimes inconsiderate decisions. In Kill the Moon , for example, he leaves Clara alone on the moon with the choice of killing a sentient creature or risking the lives of all people on earth by releasing it. Situations like this mean that Clara even turns away from the doctor. She now works as a teacher at Coal Hill High School (the same school Susan once went to) and falls in love with her colleague Danny Pink, who soon afterwards discovers the secret of her travels with the doctor, but tolerates them anyway, although the relationship sometimes suffers. At the beginning of the episode Dark Water , Danny dies in a car accident, whereupon Clara goes so far as to blackmail the doctor so that he can change the past. Finally, like all the dead, Danny returns to earth as a cyberman when the master, who appears in the form of "Missy", resurrects an army from human graves. It also turns out that it was Missy who brought Clara together with the 11th doctor (she gave her his phone number disguised as a service helpline) so that she could take care of him. Since Danny cannot return to his old life, Clara helps him to deactivate his emotions, whereupon he saves the earth and destroys himself with control over all cybermen ( Death in Heaven ). At the end of the episode, Clara lies to the doctor that Danny is still alive and she wants to stay with him now, whereupon she says goodbye to him at the door of the TARDIS. At the end of the following Christmas special and another encounter with Danny, who tells her to live, Clara reunites with the doctor. She has more adventures with him until she dies in the episode Face the raven through her own compassion and her increased desire to be like the doctor. It transmits the countdown of an alleged murderer to his execution, without knowing that this process cannot be reversed. Since neither the doctor nor "Me" (a Viking girl made immortal by the doctor, formerly Ashildr) can intervene, Clara accepts her fate and is killed by a raven-shaped shadow. But after his return to Gallifrey in Hell bent , the doctor, with the help of the Timelords, can save Clara from the last second of her life and let her go on living, but without a pulse or breath. Instead of bringing her back to the time of her death as agreed, they both escape with a stolen TARDIS. But the price for Clara's life is that the doctor has to erase his memory of her. That's why he doesn't recognize her when they last met in a restaurant in Nevada, which is actually the second TARDIS to be camouflaged. While the doctor is returning to his ship, Clara and "Me" go on their own adventure with their TARDIS.
Hirni
Hirni (English handles ) is a Cyberman head that the doctor acquired on the Maldovarian market. By removing the humanoid parts, the doctor uses the Cyberman's logical thinking as an interactive database. A connector enables him to put his head on the control panel of the TARDIS . Hirni is able to decode radio signals and use a TARDIS teleporter.
The paternoster passage
The Paternostergang is a detective trio mostly investigating in Victorian London, consisting of the Silurian (also Homo Reptilia) Madame Vastra (Neve McIntosh), her human wife Jenny (Catrin Stewart) and the Sontaraner Strax (Dan Starkey). Despite the enmity between Silurians, Sontarans and the doctor, the characters owe him due to past events. They appear for the first time in the episode A good man goes to war at Amy's rescue from Demons Run and then settle in 19th century London, where they mostly solve cases on their own. They support the 11th Doctor in the episodes The Snowmen , The Crimson Horror and The Name of the Doctor and the 12th for the first time in Deep Breath . Like a medium, the mostly veiled vastra possesses profound mental faculties; she and Jenny are especially experienced in handling the sword, while Strax tends to play the clumsy part of the group, as he acts both as the wooden butler of the house when visiting and as a military strategist who loves violence and shoots around.
Nardole
Nardole ( Matt Lucas ) comes from the 54th century from the earth colony Mendorax Dellora. He meets the doctor for the first time in the 2015 Christmas special Visit to River Song . He initially works as Rivers' assistant before his head is transplanted onto the robot body of King Hydroflax. After his death, he gains control of the same and spends the 24-year night on Darillium together with the doctor and River. After this time he receives a new robot body that corresponds to his old, human body. Before Rivers set off for the library, where she met the 10th doctor before her death, he was instructed by her to stay at the side of the (12th) doctor and to watch over him. He also received her diary. He also supports the doctor in his exile on earth, where he watches over Missy's dungeon, in which she is to be locked up for 1000 years after her unsuccessful execution. It is he who vehemently rejects the fact that the doctor now and then leaves the earth with Bill to travel through space and time. Often he is taken on some of their adventures - often against his will. He leaves the doctor at the end of the tenth season to protect a group of people who live on a spaceship from the cybermen who are also there. While his relationship with the doctor seemed ambivalent so far, his indispensable loyalty only becomes apparent at the moment of parting, as Nardole leaves him with a heavy heart to stop the cybermen alone.
Bill Potts
Bill Potts ( Pearl Mackie ) will be the second permanent companion of the doctor alongside Nardole from ep.10.01. She works in the university cafeteria, where the doctor works as a teacher during his exile. She attends his lectures regularly, which is what makes the doctor aware of her. He begins to give her private lessons, in the course of which he reveals himself to her as a Timelord. He offers her to go on further trips together, which Nardole initially displeases because he fears that he will lose sight of his oath to watch over Missy. During a space walk, the doctor saves her life, which, however, makes him blind. When the monks, a species of world conquerors, attempt to rule the earth, it is Bill who gives them permission to do so if they restore the doctor's eyesight. After several months under the rule of the monks, during which the doctor had joined the monks as camouflage, she managed to get in touch with Nardole, to meet the doctor again and, with the help of the mere imagination of her mother, who she had never met herself, from the earth. When the Doctor tries to get Missy back on track, she is badly wounded and transformed into a Mondasian cyberman. The “pilot”, a water creature that Bill met on her first adventure with the doctor, frees her from her armor and transforms her into one of her own kind. Together they begin to wander the universe. Bill is the first openly homosexual companion in Doctor Who history .
Graham O'Brien
Graham O'Brien ( Bradley Walsh ) first appears in episode 11.01, where he meets the newly regenerated thirteenth doctor. He is a bus driver in Sheffield , where he lives with his wife Grace and their grandson Ryan Sinclair. His relationship with Ryan is strained because the latter does not want to accept him as his grandfather, which is quite a burden for Graham. After his wife is killed in the fight against the alien manhunter Tim Shaw, he joins the doctor on their travels with Ryan and his old school friend Yasmin Khan.
Ryan Sinclair
Ryan Sinclair ( Tosin Cole ) first appears in episode 11:01. Ryan lives in Sheffield with his grandmother Grace and her husband Graham O'Brien. He suffers from dyspraxia , which means that he still has problems with cycling even at a later age. When Graham tries to teach him this, he discovers an alien pod in the forest, which leads him, his grandparents and his old school friend Yasmin Khan into contact with the newly regenerated thirteenth doctor and an alien manhunter named Tim Shaw. After his grandmother dies fighting Shaw, he, Graham and Yasmin join the doctor's travels.
Yaz Khan
Yasmin "Yaz" Khan ( Mandip Gill ) had her first appearance in episode 11.01. She works for the Sheffield Police Department and meets her old school friend Ryan Sinclair after a long time on duty when he discovers an alien pod. This belongs to an alien human hunter named Tim Shaw. Through this event she meets the newly regenerated Thirteenth Doctor, whose travels she joins after Ryan's grandmother Grace is killed in the fight against Shaw. On a trip she meets her grandmother as a young woman the day before her wedding.
Davros
Davros , the creator of the Daleks , is a scientist from the planet Skaro and belongs to the Kaled human race. Davros is severely disabled and relies on his life support chair, which looks like the lower half of a Dalek, without which he would die instantly. He has a third eye on the forehead, which is similar to the end of the Dalek's stem eye. Even without this eye he can see, but he almost always keeps his scarred human eyes tightly closed, opening them causes him great pain. He is the creator of the Daleks, which are nothing more than a mutated form of a Kaled (Dalek is an anagram to Kaled), who, together with a technical tank, has been symbiotic to a new living being. Davros appears in the episodes 12.11-12.16 Genesis of the Daleks , 17.01-17.04 Destiny of the Daleks , 21.11-21.12 Resurrection of the Daleks , 23.12-23-13 Planet of the Dead , 25.01-25.04 The Hand of Omega , N 4.12-4.14 The stolen earth / the end of the journey as well as in N 9.01-9.02 The sorcerer's apprentice / witchcraft .
Face of Boe
The face of Boe is a very long-lived individual being that first appeared in the year 5 billion as a gigantic head living in a glass container (N 1.02, The End of the World ). It is said to be the last survivor of its species (so far not seen in an episode), the Boekind , and according to legends, with many millions, maybe billions of years, one of the oldest beings in the universe. The face of Boe can be seen again in episode N 2.01 ( The New Earth ). A newscast in episode N 1.07 ( Long Term Strategy ) reports that Boe's face is pregnant. A quiz question is dedicated to him in N 1.12 ( Bad Wolf ).
In episode N 3.13 ( The Last Time Lord ), Captain Jack Harkness (a person from the 51st century ) mentions that he comes from the Boeshane Peninsula and was previously called "Face of Boe". The doctor and Martha conclude from this that they are both the same person. Whether Captain Jack is really identical to the face of Boe of the future is deliberately left open by the producers of the series, but it is at least plausible: Since Jack Harkness in episode N 1.13 Separate Ways through a side effect of the healing power of the TARDIS from the dead When raised from the dead, he is practically immortal (“a fixed point in time and space”) and can even survive decapitation and the total destruction of his body. Outwardly, Boe's face no longer has anything in common with today's people, it is a huge head with tentacles that can now communicate through telepathy and draws its life energy from a liquid that surrounds it via the tentacles. Since Captain Jack ages slowly but, unlike Ashildr, does not forget, there is the theory that his human body has slowly adapted to a steadily growing brain over the course of millions of years, so it is basically a continuation of the evolutionary at the expense other parts of the human skull . Five billion years in the future, it could have aged so much that it could have developed into the gigantic face that lives in a glass container. Since the face of Boe is the only person with such a long and unique life span, this evolutionary continuation could not be transferred to the rest of humanity, which in the year 5,000,000,000 still has a skull proportion similar to that of today's humans (the development of a larger brain was in human evolution always limited by the narrowness of the birth canal and the necessity of the mother's survival; only with the internal evolution of the Captain Jack this factor would finally be eliminated).
As a result of N 3:03 ( Stuck ), in the year 5000000053, eventually dies, the Face of Boe of old age after his remaining life force to save the citizens of New 14 New York expended. With his last breath it reveals to the doctor, as prophesied, his greatest secret: "You are not alone" (YANA). The link with the storyline of the master in the form of Professor Yana (N 3.11, Utopia ) also strengthens the thesis that Boe's face is the aged Captain Jack Harkness, because only he and Martha Jones were present at the revelation of this incarnation of the master. If the theory of the personal union is correct, Harkness / the face of Boe would be over 4.99 billion years old at the time of his death and in fact the last of his people. None of the many theories about the evolution of Boe's face have so far been officially confirmed by the BBC.
Nestene awareness
The Nestene consciousness is a being that has completely given up its physical body in order to be able to better use its enormous energy. Originally, the Nestene resembled an octopus with its tentacles and eye. Nestene's home planet was destroyed during the Eternal War, and since then it has blamed the Doctor. The Nestene consciousness has an affinity for plastic and allows the so-called autons to be produced, which both look like simple mannequins and can be confusingly similar to real people. This Autons controls the otherwise disembodied nesting in order to achieve its goals. The Doctor meets the Nestene Consciousness for the first time in episode 7.01-7.04 Spearhead from Space . In 8.01-8.04 Terror of the Autons it is brought back to life by the master , but he was persuaded by the doctor to go against the Nestene consciousness in order to prevent an invasion of the Autons. In N 1.01 Rose it returns to earth and tries to take over the earth again, which the doctor and Rose Tyler can prevent. In the double sequence N 5.12 / 5.13 Die Pandorica / The big bang the Nestene consciousness is mentioned, but does not appear personally, but only in the form of autons.
literature
- Justin Richard: Doctor Who. Creatures and Demons. BBC Books London 2007, ISBN 978-0-563-48641-1 .
Web links
- Official FOX Channel page , accessed August 14, 2014
- BBC Official Site (current episodes) , accessed August 14, 2014
- BBC Official Site (previous episodes) , accessed August 14, 2014
- BBC Official Site (Classic Series) , accessed August 14, 2014
- English-language wiki of the series and its offshoots , accessed on August 14, 2014
- German wiki of the series and its offshoots , accessed on August 14, 2014
References and comments
- ↑ a b N 3.12 The sound of the drums
- ↑ 10.01-10.04 The Three Doctors
- ↑ This was introduced by the authors in order not to endanger the continuity of the series by changing actors.
- ↑ N 4.17 / 4.18 The end of time
- ↑ To make it easier to distinguish, references to episodes of the new edition of the series are accompanied by an "N" in front of the episode number.
- ↑ a b N 3.11 Utopia
- ↑ N 5.12 / 13 The Pandorica / The big bang
- ↑ N 4.15 Planet of the Dead
- ^ N 7.15 The day of the doctor
- ^ Companions. BBC, accessed March 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Episode 3.11, new series: Utopia [Ger. Title: Utopia ]
- ↑ BBC - Doctor Who - Mickey Smith - Character Guide. In: co.uk. Retrieved March 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Doctor Who: Jenna-Louise Coleman on her role as a companion + 2 teasers. In: moviejones.de. Moviejones.de, accessed on March 13, 2016 .
- ↑ Hirni - Doctor Who Torchwood Wiki - FANDOM powered by Wikia. In: Doctor Who Torchwood Wiki. Retrieved December 2, 2018 .
- ^ N 1.01 Rose