Origin
Little is known about the Doctor’s early life. He was born and raised on the planet Gallifrey, a member of the Prydonian Chapter of Time Lords. He attended school on Gallifrey, and at the age of eight was exposed to the Untempered Schism, a rift in time and space from which he fled in fear. His family life on Gallifrey is unclear. It is possible he had at least one sibling; his parentage is similarly mysterious. He was childhood friends with the Master. At some point in his life, he stole a TARDIS and left Gallifrey as a renegade Time Lord, beginning centuries of adventure and travel through time and space, which often brought him to Earth.
Creation
The Doctor was created by Sydney Newman and C.E. Webber, making his first appearance in the 1963 television serial “An Unearthly Child”, written by Anthony Coburn. He made his first appearance in comics in 1964’s TV Comics #674, illustrated by Nigel Main and written by an unknown author.
Character Evolution
The Doctor, and his species, are capable of undergoing a process called “regeneration” in the event of mortal injury or extreme old age. A complete transformation of the body, regeneration results in a new “incarnation” with a distinct physical appearance, along with a distinctive personality, but with most prior memories and knowledge intact. To date there have been thirteen distinct incarnations (the incumbent is referred to as the Twelfth Doctor due to one incarnation choosing to reject the name Doctor; this incarnation is referred to in onscreen credits as the War Doctor). Each incarnation possesses similar characteristics, such as high intelligence and heroism, but each also displays unique traits, such as Four’s eccentricity or Eleven’s enthusiasm. Doctors also vary in their apparent physical age. Numbering only occurs in publicity/fan circles; on screen he is only ever referred to as the Doctor.
Major Story Arcs
The First Trial
The Time Lords apprehend the Second incarnation of the Doctor and place him on trial for breaking the laws of time. The Doctor brings his various victories against the Daleks and the Yeti to light, however this is not enough as the Time Lords strip his mind of the knowledge necessary to operate the TARDIS and exile him to Earth as well as forcing him to regenerate into a new form.
The Master
While in exile on Earth, The Doctor is warned that the Master, a criminal Time Lord and old enemy from Gallifrey, has escaped the planet and may be seeking revenge. This is proven true, and the pair have a number of encounters, during which the Doctor strands the Master on 20th century Earth for some time. Though the Master manages to escape, he is later captured by UNIT.
The Key to Time
At the request of a transcendent being called the White Guardian, the Doctor and two companions (a female Time Lord named Romana and a robotic dog named K-9) spend the course of an entire season searching for the six parts of the Key to Time which have been scattered across time and space. They succeed, but break the key into its constituent parts and scatter them again due to the actions of the villainous Black Guardian. The Key is later destroyed due to the pieces causing dimensional decay in the areas they are located.
The Black Guardian
An alien named Turlough was exiled on Earth with no hope of escape until an offer by the Black Guardian to kill the Doctor (now in his fifth incarnation); in exchange he would return him home. The Doctor, accompanied by companions Tegan and Nyssa, arrived on Earth and were eventually joined by Turlough, who was determined to follow through on his plan, however the more time he spent with the Doctor and the TARDIS crew he grew to see the Black Guardian for what he was, becoming conflicted about what action he should take. Eventually the White Guardian offered a warning to the Doctor, who had become embroiled in a game being played by the god-like beings called the Eternals in the solar system, the prize of which was Enlightenment. It would be here that Turlough would make his final choice.
The Trial of a Time Lord
The Doctor, now in his sixth life, is once again put on trial by the Time Lords for his alleged transgressions against the laws of Gallifrey, specifically his contravention of non-intervention laws and, later, genocide. His past and future deeds were provided as evidence in this trial. During the trial, he notices that the evidence from the past and future appear to have been censored or tampered with. it is eventually revealed that this is due to the fact that the Doctor was a mere scapegoat, and evidence against him had been falsified by the Valeyard, who is revealed to be a future incarnation of the Doctor and an amalgam of his negative personality traits, and the Master. The Doctor defeats them and is later acquitted.
The Last Great Time War
Between the events original series and its revival, a massive war was fought between the Daleks and the Time Lords. The Doctor, after countless years of fighting, brought an end to the war by destroying both the Daleks and the Time Lords, an act for which he felt intense remorse for many years. The incarnation that did the act is referred to in credits as the War Doctor, however he chose to reject the name Doctor, due to his actions.
It was not until his eleventh life that the Doctor learned the truth. See “The Day of the Doctor”, below.
Bad Wolf
The phrase “Bad Wolf” began appearing in various forms around the Doctor and his companion, Rose Tyler. This later culminates with Rose absorbing the time vortex into herself and becoming an almost omnipotent/omniscient god-like being in an effort to defeat the Daleks. She gains reality-warping abilities as well as knowledge and control over space and time, but containing the time vortex within herself will prove ultimately fatal if left unchecked. The Doctor saves her by absorbing the vortex himself, which forces him to regenerate into the Tenth Doctor.
Torchwood
After the Doctor’s encounter with Queen Victoria, she creates a shady governmental organization, going by the name “Torchwood”, to track him and protect Britain from alien threats. This culminates at modern-day Canary Wharf, where Torchwood are involved in accidentally facilitating a parallel universe Cybermen invasion of the main universe’s Earth, as well as help indirectly start a war between the Daleks and the Cybermen. The Doctor is able to trap both warring parties in the Void. This has the unintended consequence of trapping his companion, Rose, on the parallel Earth.
Mr. Saxon
In the power vacuum left behind in Britain after the Doctor contributed to the fall of the government of Harriet Jones, a new candidate called Harold Saxon arises. Meanwhile, the Doctor travels to the distant future where his ship is stolen by the Master, who had fled there after being revived during the Time War. The Master is later revealed to be Saxon, who seizes control of the entire world after being elected, and begins to construct a means to wage war against the rest of the universe, brutally oppressing the population of Earth for an entire year in the process. He traps the Doctor for an entire year before he is freed by collective psychic energy created by the hopes of the entire human race. The Doctor is able to avert the war and rewind time so that the Master`s reign never happened, but the Master soon dies in his arms, having been shot by his wife and refusing to regenerate.
The Medusa Cascade
It becomes clear that, for some reason, the bees have begun disappearing from all across Earth. At the same time, numerous planets and astronomical bodies have gone missing across the universe, with disappearances stretching far into the past. In the end the Earth itself is stolen by Davros, who intends to use it and the twenty-six other stolen planets to create a compression field to power a superweapon called the Reality Bomb that will destroy the entirety of reality.
Aided by most of his recent companions, he is able to defeat Davros’ plan. However, in the process he is mortally wounded and almost forced to regenerate, which he prevents by channeling the energy into his own severed hand, which forms into a half-human clone of himself. He is also forced to abandon his latest companion, Donna, because she accidentally absorbs his Time Lord knowledge, which is slowly killing her. He is able to save her life, but only if she loses all memory of him and never meets him again.
He Will Knock Four Times
The Doctor begins to encounter reminders of his own mortality, as well as numerous mysterious references to the return of something. This something is eventually revealed to be twofold: The Master is resurrected, and Gallifrey, which the Doctor had trapped in time just before its own destruction. The corrupt Time Lords trapped there are revealed to have been responsible for the Master’s madness, and attempt to use him to draw themselves back into the timeline, although their actions threatened to destroy all of creation. They nearly succeed, but the Master attacks in revenge and destroys all of them, himself included. The Doctor is then forced to sacrifice himself for Wilf, Donna’s grandfather, who has become trapped in a radiation chamber. The Doctor receives a massive dose of radiation which spurs a protracted and painful death, resulting in his regeneration.
Cracks in the Universe
The Doctor begins to encounter cracks in the skin of the universe throughout his travels, as well as repeated warnings about the Pandorica and the Silence. Eventually he discovers the Pandorica is a trap designed by his enemies to prevent him from damaging the time stream. However, this damage is not directly caused by the Doctor, but by his own exploding TARDIS, which explodes and causes almost all of the universe to be erased from existence. The Doctor is able to escape the Pandorica, and uses it and the exploding TARDIS to remake the universe.
The Death of the Doctor
The Doctor’s companions, Rory and Amy, witness the death of a version of him from 200 years in the future. Disturbed, they do not tell him, though eventually he learns of it, and finds it is tied to the mystery of the Silence. He learns that the Silence is an order that wants to prevent him from answering a question that will cause silence to fall across the universe. The Doctor fakes his own death, as the death witnessed by Rory and Amy was a fixed point of time that could not be avoided, and returns to adventuring. The question that he must not answer, “Doctor who?”, continues to plague him.
The Name of the Doctor
The Doctor’s associates, the Paternoster Gang, come under attack and are taken by the mysterious Whisper Men to Trenzalore. This planet has been the subject of ominous prophecy as the place that will witness the “fall of the Eleventh,” as well as the place where a question will be asked that must not be answered. Despite this, and the TARDIS’ resistance, the Doctor forces a crash-landing onto the planet, which is revealed to house his grave. There, Clara is guided by the recording of River Song, and together they lead the Doctor to a confrontation with the Great Intelligence, who leaps into the scar tissue left behind by the Doctor’s travels in order to destroy his life. Clara, sacrificing herself, similarly leaps into the schism in time, becoming the Impossible Girl who rescues and aids the Doctor across all his lives. The Doctor also enters the scar tissue, causing it to begin to collapse in on itself. He pulls Clara out, but not before they witness a previously unknown incarnation, the War Doctor.
The Day of the Doctor
During a strange incident in modern-day London involving figures in paintings seeming to have come to life and then vanishing, the Doctor leaps through a rent in time, landing in Elizabethan England and meets his Tenth incarnation. They are soon joined by their unacknowledged predecessor, the War Doctor, who has come forward from a point in their past just before they chose to use the Moment, a super weapon of mass destruction that they used to end the Time War. The trio are locked in the Tower of London where they discuss their shared past, which is the War Doctor’s future. Managing to escape and defeat an alien invasion of London occurring in the present day, the War Doctor returns to the Moment convinced that he must detonate it. The Tenth and Eleventh join him, similarly convinced that this act of destruction is for the greater good. They are talked down by Clara, and form a plan to freeze Gallifrey in time in an alternate universe. Recruiting all currently known incarnations, including the yet-to-be-introduced Twelfth, the Doctors do so, though they do not know if the succeeded. The trio returns to the Gallery where the War Doctor realizes that both he and Ten will lose their memories of this action and still believe themselves to have been guilty of the genocide of their people. They depart, leaving the Eleventh to speak with a mysterious man who resembles his Fourth incarnation. He concludes that they must have been successful, and vows to find Gallifrey again.
The Time of the Doctor
Receiving an unknown but ominous message, the Doctor travels to a mysterious planet where he is amongst thousands of aliens who have arrived to investigate. Readings suggest the planet is Gallifrey, which is impossible. The Doctor manages to sneak onto the planet’s surface, where he discovers that he is on Trenzalore, and that Gallifrey is attempting to come through the crack in the universe by asking the question that must never be answered. If the Doctor answers with his name, the Time Lords will reemerge and bring with them the endless devastation of the Time War, as all the races that hover around the planet seek to destroy them. The Doctor cannot leave without sacrificing Trenzalore and his own people, and nor can he be removed for fear he will speak his name and bring Gallifrey forth. He remains to defend the planet, expending centuries of his life protecting the village of Christmas from the attacks of various enemies. Aware that he has expended all twelve regenerations, the Doctor prepares himself for death. Trenzalore soon becomes consumed in a war that lasts centuries, until only the Doctor, the Church of Silence (with whom he allies), and the Daleks remain. The Doctor makes one final stand whilst, unbeknownst to him, Clara pleads with the Time Lords through the cracks in the universe to aid him. The crack vanishes from the wall and appears in the sky above the Doctor, showering him with regeneration energy and allowing him to destroy the remaining Dalek attackers. Returning to the TARDIS, the weakened and aged Doctor regenerates into the Twelfth Doctor.
Powers and Abilities
The Doctor is a Time Lord, and so possesses all the traits inherent to his race. He has two hearts, and internally does not much resemble a human, though his exterior form, to date, always does. His strength and speed are at the peak of human standards, and his durability have been shown to be superhuman. He has an extremely long lifespan that has been implied to theoretically last forever, and though his exact age has always been unclear due to his nature as a time traveler, the Twelfth Doctor has claimed to be more than 2,000 years old. He, like other Time Lords, is capable of regeneration: when faced with a mortal wound or other fatal ailment he can regenerate his whole body, restoring himself to perfect health. This has a side effect of altering his physical appearance and personality, though he maintains a general continuity of identity.
The Doctor appears to possess increased stamina, and has been shown to withstand extreme external damage, such as electricity and some types of radiation and chemicals, that would kill a human. He possesses telepathic and psychic abilities that allow for the sharing of memories and some mental communication, particularly with other Time Lords, as well as having a limited ability to perform mental attacks. He is very immune to many forms of telepathy, including mind control, and is shown to be resistant to physical possession. He has the ability to perceive time, and can tell when he is able to alter the flow of events and when they must be allowed to occur, as well as a limited ability to see the past, present and future. The Doctor, as with most Time Lords, has the limited ability to see all potential future timelines of what could happen, although he cannot tell what is actually going to happen.
The Doctor’s most prominent ability is that he is incredibly intelligent to a point literally beyond human comprehension, and has displayed a facility for science, medicine, and history, among many other areas. He is also skilled at physical pursuits such as football, cricket, boxing, and martial arts. He is capable of speaking some five billion languages, though that number might be enhanced by the translation circuits of the TARDIS which communicate with him telepathically. He can also read a number of these languages, including Old High Gallifreyan, which is a rare ability even among Time Lords. He is a quick talker and an exceptionally skilled strategist, though this ability has waxed and waned across various regenerations. Although he prefers to outsmart his enemies and disapproves of most weaponry, especially guns, he has shown himself capable of using weapons successfully when the need arises.
Equipment and Weapons
The Doctor is in possession of a number of items of Gallifreyan technology that aid him. Notable among these are his TARDIS (Time And Relative Dimension[s] In Space), a highly indestructible space-time vehicle that he uses to travel through time, and also to teleport or fly from place to place. He possesses a Type-40 TARDIS, which he stole, and which was quite obsolete by the time the Time War destroyed Gallifrey.
Its malfunctioning chameleon circuit means that it is stuck as a 1950s-era British police box, though if it were working correctly it would be able to assume any shape that would help it blend in with the time period. Regardless, it tends to shift the attention of observers away from itself using a technology called a perception filter. It is bigger on the inside than it is on the outside; the exterior tends to be quite small, while the inside is gigantic, and contains an unknown number of rooms. It is also sentient and intelligent to some degree. It has various defensive mechanisms including a “siege mode” during which no one may enter and it is seemingly impervious to damage.
He has a sonic screwdriver, which is a multi-purpose sonic tool that performs numerous functions including triangulation, self-defense, multipurpose cutting and reattachment, and the operation of numerous kinds of machinery, among other capabilities. He also has often used psychic paper when going undercover or disguising himself. The psychic paper is a blank, white card that had special properties that induces people to see whatever the paper’s user wishes them to see printed on it. The Doctor is known to often invent his own equipment and gadgets to use in situations.
Other Media
Film
Dalek Films
A different version of the character, one who is human and actually named Dr. Who, appears in the films Dr Who and the Daleks and Daleks’ Invasion Earth: 2150 AD. He is played by Peter Cushing. The two films are retellings of two TV serials. As such, and due to the fact the character himself is significantly changed, the films are not considered part of the TV continuity.
Literature and Audio
The Doctor’s adventures have appeared in hundreds of novels, ranging from adaptations of TV episodes (all but a handful of storylines from 1963-1996 have been adapted), to original novels. Since 1999 there have also been hundreds of officially licensed audio dramas and audio books produced, featuring virtually all surviving past cast members. The BBC’s lack of a canon policy means there is no ruling one way or another how the books, audios, and comics fit in with the show; however, in 2013 the BBC broadcast the mini-episode “The Night of the Doctor,” which established elements of the audio dramas as canon.
For a detailed list, see Novels.
Spoofs and Charity Productions
There have been numerous spoofs of Doctor Who, as well as several charity productions that feature the character. They have appeared on television, radio, film, print media, music, and stage.
Stage
Seven Keys to Doomsday
The Doctor must stop the Daleks from taking over the universe. He is played by Trevor Martin.
Doctor Who- The Ultimate Adventure
The Doctor must rescue an American envoy from the Daleks and the Cybermen, who have kidnapped him.
Doctor Who Live
A live, semi-interactive arena show featuring numerous characters from throughout Doctor Who’s history, and featuring Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor.
Television
Doctor Who
Originally created for the British television series Doctor Who, the Doctor has appeared on TV from 1963 to the present, with a break between 1989 and 2005. He has, to date, been portrayed by a total of thirteen actors. In canon order, these are William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, John Hurt, Christoper Eccleston, David Tennant, Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi, and Jodie Whittaker.
The Sarah Jane Adventures
This was a spin-off series created by Russell T Davies and featuring Elisabeth Sladen as Sarah Jane Smith, a character she had previously played on Doctor Who in the mid-1970s. The Doctor appeared on the series several times in flashback, and twice in person: the Tenth Doctor appears in the two part episode the “Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith”; the Eleventh Doctor appears in the two-part series 4 episode “Death of the Doctor”.
Video Games
The Doctor has appeared in a number of video game incarnations.
Novels
Eleventh Doctor
Doctor Who: Apollo 23
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‘For a few moments this afternoon, it rained on the moon…’ An astronaut in full spacesuit appears out of thin air in a busy shopping centre. Maybe it’s a publicity stunt. A photo shows a well-dressed woman in a red coat lying dead at the edge of a crater on the dark side of the moon – beside her beloved dog ‘Poochie’. Maybe it’s a hoax. But as the Doctor and Amy find out, these are just minor events in a sinister plan to take over every human being on earth. The plot centres on a secret military base on the moon – that’s where Amy and the TARDIS are. The Doctor is back on Earth, and without the TARDIS there’s no way he can get to the moon to save Amy and defeat the aliens. Or is there? The Doctor discovers one last great secret that could save humanity: Apollo 23. A thrilling, all new adventure featuring the Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television
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Doctor Who: Night of the Humans
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‘This is the Gyre – the most hostile environment in the galaxy…’ 250,000 years’ worth of junk floating in deep space, home to the shipwrecked Sittuun, the carnivorous Sollogs, and worst of all – the Humans. The Doctor and Amy arrive on this terrifying world in the middle of an all-out frontier war between Sittuun and Humans, and the countdown has already started. There’s a comet in the sky, and it’s on a collision course with the Gyre… When the Doctor is kidnapped, it’s up to Amy and “galaxy-famous swashbuckler” Dirk Slipstream to save the day. But who is Slipstream, exactly? And what is he really doing here? A thrilling, time travel adventure featuring the Eleventh Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television
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Doctor Who: The Forgotten Army
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‘Let me tell you a story. Long ago, in the frozen Arctic wastes, an alien army landed. Only now, 10,000 years later, it isn’t a story. And the army is ready to attack.’ New York – one of the greatest cities on 21st century Earth… But what’s going on in the Museum? And is that really a Woolly Mammoth rampaging down Broadway? An ordinary day becomes a time of terror, as the Doctor and Amy meet a new and deadly enemy. The vicious Army of the Vykoid are armed to the teeth and determined to enslave the human race. Even though they’re only seven centimetres high. With the Vykoid army swarming across Manhattan and sealing it from the world with a powerful alien force field, Amy has just 24 hours to find the Doctor and save the city. If she doesn’t, the people of Manhattan will be taken to work in the doomed asteroid mines of the Vykoid home planet. But as time starts to run out, who can she trust? And how far will she have to go to free New York from the Forgotten Army? A thrilling, science fiction adventure featuring the Eleventh Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television
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Doctor Who: The Glamour Chase
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‘Why are you here? I mean – who are you, exactly?’ An archaeological dig in 1936 unearths relics of another time… And – as the Doctor, Amy and Rory realise – another place. Another planet. But if Enola Porter, noted adventuress, has really found evidence of an alien civilisation, how come she isn’t famous? Why has Rory never heard of her? Added to that, since Amy’s been travelling with him for a while now, why does she now think the Doctor is from Mars? As the ancient spaceship reactivates, the Doctor discovers that nothing and no one can be trusted. The things that seem most real could actually be literal fabrications – and very deadly indeed. Who can the Doctor believe when no one is what they seem? And how can he defeat an enemy who can bend matter itself to their will? For the Doctor, Amy and Rory – and all of humanity – the buried secrets of the past are very much a threat to the present… A thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.
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Doctor Who: Nuclear Time
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‘My watch is running backwards.’ Colorado, 1981. The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in Appletown – an idyllic village in the remote American desert where the townsfolk go peacefully about their suburban routines. But when two more strangers arrive, things begin to change. The first is a mad scientist – whose warnings are cut short by an untimely and brutal death. The second is the Doctor… As death falls from the sky, the Doctor is trapped. The TARDIS is damaged, and the Doctor finds he is living backwards through time. With Amy and Rory being hunted through the suburban streets of the Doctor’s own future and getting farther away with every passing second, he must unravel the secrets of Appletown before time runs out… A thrilling, all-new time travel adventure featuring the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television.
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Doctor Who: The King’s Dragon
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‘They called it Enamour. It turned minds, sold merchandise, and swayed elections. And it did its job far too well…’ In the city-state of Geath, the King lives in a golden hall, and the people want for nothing. Everyone is happy and everyone is rich. Or so it seems. When the Doctor, Amy and Rory look beneath the surface, they discover a city of secrets. In dark corners, strange creatures are stirring. At the heart of the hall, a great metal dragon oozes gold. Then the Herald appears, demanding the return of her treasure… And next come the gunships. The battle for possession of the treasure has begun, and only the Doctor and his friends can save the people of the city from being destroyed in the crossfire of an ancient civil war. But will the King surrender his new-found wealth? Or will he fight to keep it…? A thrilling fantasy adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television.
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Doctor Who: The Coming of the Terraphiles
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‘There are dark tides runing through the universe…’ Miggea – a star on the very edge of reality. The cusp between this universe and the next. A point where space-time has worn thin, and is in danger of collapsing… And the venue for the grand finals of the competition to win the fabled Arrow of Law. The Doctor and Amy have joined the Terraphiles – a group obsessed with all aspects of Earth’s history, and dedicated to re-enacting ancient sporting events. They are determined to win the Arrow. But just getting to Miggea proves tricky. Reality is collapsing, ships are disappearing, and Captain Cornelius and his pirates are looking for easy pickings. Even when they arrive, the Doctor and Amy’s troubles won’t be over. They have to find out who is so desperate to get the Arrow of Law that they will kill for it. And uncover the traitor on their own team. And win the contest fair and square. And, of course, they need to save the universe from total destruction. A thrilling adventure featuring the Eleventh Doctor and Amy, as played by Matt Smith and Karen Gillan in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television written by the acclaimed science fiction and fantasy author Michael Moorcock.
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Doctor Who: Hunter’s Moon
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‘There’s no end to the horror in this place – it’s like Hell, and there are devils round every corner.’ On Leisure Platform 9 gamblers and villains mix with socialites and celebrities. It’s a place where you won’t want to win the wrong game. With Rory kidnapped by a brutal crime lord, the Doctor and Amy infiltrate a deadly contest where fugitives become the hunted. But how long before they realise the Doctor isn’t a vicious mercenary and discover what Amy is up to? It’s a game that can only end in death, and time for everyone is running out. A thrilling, all-new Doctor Who adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.
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Doctor Who: The Way Through the Woods
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‘As long as people have lived here, they’ve gone out of their way to avoid the woods…’ Two teenage girls disappear into an ancient wood, a foreboding and malevolent presence both now and in the past. The modern motorway bends to avoid it, as did the old Roman road. In 1917 the Doctor and Amy are desperate to find out what’s happened to Rory, who’s vanished too. But something is waiting for them in the woods. Something that’s been there for thousands of years. Something that is now waking up. A thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television.
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Doctor Who: Dead of Winter
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‘The Dead are not alone. There is something in the mist and it talks to them.’ In a remote clinic in 18th-century Italy, a lonely girl writes to her mother. She tells of pale English aristocrats and mysterious Russian nobles. She tells of intrigues and secrets, and strange faceless figures that rise from the sea. And she tells about the enigmatic Mrs Pond, who arrives with her husband and her physician. What she doesn’t tell her mother is the truth that everyone knows and no one says – that the only people who come here do so to die. A thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television.
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Doctor Who: Touched by an Angel
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‘The past is like a foreign country. Nice to visit, but you really wouldn’t want to live there.’ In 2003, Rebecca Whitaker died in a road accident. Her husband Mark is still grieving. He receives a battered envelope, posted eight years ago, containing a set of instructions with a simple message: “You can save her.” As Mark is given the chance to save Rebecca, it’s up to the Doctor, Amy and Rory to save the whole world. Because this time the Weeping Angels are using history itself as a weapon. A thrilling all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.
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Doctor Who: Paradox Lost
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‘The Squall feed on psychic energy. They spread like a plague and if they are not stopped they will strip the Earth clean…’ London 1910: an unsuspecting thief finds himself confronted by grey-skinned creatures that are waiting to devour his mind. London 2789: the remains of an ancient android are dredged from the Thames. When reactivated it has a warning that can only be delivered to a man named ‘the Doctor’. The Doctor and his friends must solve a mystery that has spanned over a thousand years. If they fail, the deadly alien Squall will devour the world. A thrilling all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television.
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Doctor Who: Borrowed Time
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‘You want more time Mr Brown, of course you do. We all want more time. Let me make you an offer…’ Andrew Brown never has enough time. No time to call his sister, or to prepare for that important presentation at the bank where he works. The train’s late, the lift jams. If only he’d had just a little more time. And time is the business of Mr Symington and Mr Blenkinsop. They’ll lend him some – at a very reasonable rate of interest. Detecting a problem, the Doctor, Amy and Rory go undercover at the bank. But they have to move fast to stop Symington and Blenkinsop before they cash in their investments. A thrilling all-new adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television.
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Doctor Who: The Silent Stars Go By
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For centuries the Morphans have worked. With no help from other worlds, they subsist on the food they can grow and that’s little enough. But their purpose, their whole life is to maintain the machines that will one day make their world as habitable as old Earth. Life used to be hard. Now as their crops fail, livestock sickens, and the temperature drops, it’s becoming impossible. This year’s winter festival won’t be the usual celebration. It’s not a time for optimism or hope – and it’s not a time to welcome unexpected guests. The Doctor, Amy and Rory find a society breaking apart under the strain. Tensions are mounting, old rivalries are coming to the fore, people are dying… And then the Doctor’s old enemies the Ice Warriors make their move. With the cold-hearted threat of invasion, the real battle for survival begins. Or does it? The Doctor begins to suspect that behind everything lies a deadlier, and even more chilling danger… A thrilling, sci-fi adventure featuring the Doctor, Amy and Rory, as played by Matt Smith, Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill in the spectacular hit Doctor Who series from BBC Television.
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Doctor Who: Dark Horizons
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“We need to reach out. We need to continue the line…” On a windswept northern shore, the islanders believe the worst they have to fear is a Viking attack. Then the burning comes. Water will not stop it. It consumes everything in its path – yet the burned still speak. The Doctor encounters a people under attack from a power they cannot possibly understand. They have no weapons, no strategy and no protection against a fire sent to engulf them all. The islanders must take on a ruthless alien force in a world without technology; but at least they have the Doctor on their side… Don’t they? A thrilling adventure starring the Doctor, as played by Matt Smith.
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Doctor Who: Plague of the Cybermen
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When the Doctor arrives in the 19th-century village of Klimtenburg, he discovers the residents suffering from some kind of plague â a âwasting disease’. The victims face a horrible death â but what’s worse, the dead seem to be leaving their graves. The Plague Warriors have returned⦠The Doctor is confident he knows what’s really happening; he understands where the dead go, and he’s sure the Plague Warriors are just a myth. But as some of the Doctor’s oldest and most terrible enemies start to awaken he realises that maybe â just maybe â he’s misjudged the situation. A thrilling, all-new adventure as played by Matt Smith in the spectacular hit series from BBC television. Written by: Justin Richards |
Doctor Who: The Dalek Generation
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Sunlight 349 is one of countless Dalek Foundation worlds, planets created to house billions suffering from economic hardship. The Doctor arrives at Sunlight 349, suspicious of any world where the Daleks are apparently a force for good â and determined to find out the truth. The Doctor knows they have a far more sinister plan â but how can he convince those who have lived under the benevolence of the Daleks for a generation? But convince them he must, and soon. For on another Foundation planet, archaeologists have unearthed the most dangerous technology in the universe… A thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor as played by Matt Smith in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television.
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Doctor Who: Shroud of Sorrow
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It is the day after John F. Kennedy’s assassination and the faces of the dead are everywhere. PC Reg Cranfield sees his deceased father in the mists along Totter’s Lane. Reporter Mae Callon sees her late grandmother in a coffee stain on her desk. FBI Special Agent Warren Skeet finds his long-dead partner staring back at him from raindrops on a window pane. Then the faces begin to talk, and scream… and push through into our world. As the alien Shroud begins to feast on the grief of a world in mourning, can the Doctor dig deep enough into his own sorrow to save mankind? are trademarks of the BBC. A thrilling, all-new adventure featuring the Doctor and Clara as played by Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman in the spectacular hit series from BBC Television
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Doctor Who: Death Riders/Heart of Stone
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Introducing exciting, action-packed, original fiction for younger Doctor Who fans, each containing two fast-paced, fun-filled adventures! Monsters made from moon rock are attacking an Earth farm in Heart of Stone. Everything they touch turns to stone â even people. Can the Doctor, Amy, and Rory find out what the creatures want before it’s too late? In Death Riders, the Galactic Fair has arrived on the mining planet of Stanalan and the Death Ride roller coaster is really drawing in the crowds. But there’s something sinister going on behind all the fun of the fair. Join the Doctor, Amy, and Rory as they investigate…
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Doctor Who: System Wipe/ The Good,the Bad and the Alien
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Aliens have crash-landed in the Wild West and they’re ready for a showdown in The Good, the Bad and the Alien! Can the Doctor, Rory, and Amy work out which are the good guys and which are the bad? The Doctor finds himself trapped in a virtual world in System Wipe. As he tries to save the characters of the virtual world from being destroyed by a deadly virus, Amy and Rory must fight to keep the Doctor’s body in the real world safe from the mysterious entity known as Legacy.
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Doctor Who: Alien Adventures
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On the planet Xirrinda, terrible tiny creatures swarm down from the sky in Rain of Terror. Can the Doctor, Amy, and Rory help the colonists escape from the alien infestation? The Doctor, Rory, and Amy take a trip to the 1966 World Cup in Extra Time. Rory ends up playing a crucial part in this historic football match, while the Doctor and Amy discover that the Doctor isn’t the only alien visiting Wembley…
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Doctor Who: Sightseeing in Space
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The Doctor, Amy, and Rory join an undersea exploration ship on the planet Hos in The Underwater War. When a virus infects the crew, they discover the ship is hiding a dangerous secret! In Terminal of Despair, the TARDIS crew find themselves trapped in a quarantined spaceport where the waiting passengers have lost all hope of ever getting home. Can the Doctor save them?
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Doctor Who: The Blood Cell
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“Release the Doctor â or the killing will start.” An asteroid in the furthest reaches of space â the most secure prison for the most dangerous of criminals. The Governor is responsible for the cruellest murderers so he’s not impressed by the arrival of the man they’re calling the most dangerous criminal in the quadrant. Or, as he prefers to be known, the Doctor. But when the new prisoner immediately sets about trying to escape, and keeps trying, the Governor sets out to find out why. Who is the Doctor and what’s he really doing here? And who is the young woman who comes every day to visit him, only to be turned away by the guards? When the killing finally starts, the Governor begins to get his answersâ¦
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Doctor Who: Silhouette
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“Vastra and Strax and Jenny? Oh no, we don’t need to bother them. Trust me.” Marlowe Hapworth is found dead in his locked study, killed by an unknown assailant. This is a case for the Great Detective, Madame Vastra. Rick Bellamy, bare-knuckle boxer, has the life drawn out of him by a figure dressed as an undertaker. This angers Strax the Sontaran. The Carnival of Curiosities, a collection of bizarre and fascinating sideshows and performers. This is where Jenny Flint looks for answers. How are these things connected? And what does Orestes Milton, rich industrialist, have to do with it all? As the Doctor and Clara joint the hunt for thr truth they find themselves thrust into a world where nothing and no one are what they seem.
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Doctor Who: The Crawling Terror
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“Well, I doubt you’ll ever see a bigger insect.” Gabby Nichols is putting her son to bed when she hears her daughter cry out. âMummy there’s a daddy longlegs in my room!’ Then the screaming starts⦠Kevin Alperton is on his way to school when he is attacked by a mosquito. A big one. Then things get dangerous. But it isn’t the dead man cocooned inside a huge mass of web that worries the Doctor. It isn’t the swarming, mutated insects that make him nervous. With the village cut off from the outside world, and the insects becoming more and more dangerous, the Doctor knows that unless he can decode the strange symbols engraved on an ancient stone circle, and unravel a mystery dating back to the Second World War, no one is safe.
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Doctor Who: Royal Blood
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“The Grail is a story, a myth! It didn’t exist on your world! It can’t exist here!” The city-state of Varuz is failing. Duke Aurelian is the last of his line, his capital is crumbling, and the armies of his enemy, Duke Conrad, are poised beyond the mountains to invade. Aurelian is preparing to gamble everything on one last battle. So when a holy man, the Doctor, comes to Varuz from beyond the mountains, Aurelian asks for his blessing in the war. But all is not what it seems in Varuz. The city-guard have lasers for swords, and the halls are lit by electric candlelight. Aurelian’s beloved wife, Guena, and his most trusted knight, Bernhardt, seem to be plotting to overthrow their Duke, and Clara finds herself drawn into their intrigue… Will the Doctor stop Aurelian from going to war? Will Clara’s involvement in the plot against the Duke be discovered? Why is Conrad’s ambassador so nervous? And who are the ancient and weary knights who arrive in Varuz claiming to be on a quest for the Holy Grailâ¦?
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Doctor Who: Big Bang Generation
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“I’m an archaeologist, but probably not the one you were expecting.” Christmas 2015, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Imagine everyone’s surprise when a time portal opens up in Sydney Cove. Imagine their shock as a massive pyramid now sits beside the Harbour Bridge, inconveniently blocking Port Jackson and glowing with energy. Imagine their fear as Cyrrus “the mobster” Globb, Professor Horace Jaanson and an alien assassin called Kik arrive to claim the glowing pyramid. Finally imagine everyone’s dismay when they are followed by a bunch of con artists out to spring their greatest grift yet. This gang consists of Legs (the sexy comedian), Dog Boy (providing protection and firepower), Shortie (handling logistics), Da Trowel (in charge of excavation and history) and their leader, Doc (busy making sure the universe isn’t destroyed in an explosion that makes the Big Bang look like a damp squib). And when someone accidentally reawakens The Ancients of the Universe – which, Doc reckons, wasn’t the wisest or best-judged of actions â things get a whole lot more complicatedâ¦
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Doctor Who: Deep Time
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âI do hope you’re all ready to be terrified!’ The Phaeron disappeared from the universe over a million years ago. They travelled among the stars using roads made from time and space, but left only relics behind. But what actually happened to the Phaeron? Some believe they were they eradicated by a superior force⦠Others claim they destroyed themselves. Or were they in fact the victims of an even more hideous fate? In the far future, humans discover the location of the last Phaeron road â and the Doctor and Clara join the mission to see where the road leads. Each member of the research team knows exactly what they’re looking for â but only the Doctor knows exactly what they’ll find. Because only the Doctor knows the true secret of the Phaeron: a monstrous secret so terrible and powerful that it must be buried in the deepest grave imaginableâ¦
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Doctor Who: The Shining Man
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“Being scared is the least of your worries.” The Shining Men are everywhere. You spot them out of the corner of your eye. Abnormally tall, with long lank hair, blank faces and blazing eyes. If they catch you, they’ll drag you away to who knows where. No one is safe. They’re on every street corner. Waiting. Watching. Shining bright. Of course it’s a hoax. It has to be, right? It started as a joke, a prank for Halloween. Then it went viral. Idiots dressing up as monsters. Giving folk a scare. Silly masks and fright wigs. No one gets hurt. Because bogeymen aren’t real. Until people start going missing and lights burn in the darkness. Burning like eyes. But help is on its way, in the form of a strange man called the Doctor and his friend, Bill. The Doctor will keep us safe. The Doctor will stop the monsters. Unless the monsters stop the Doctor first⦠An original novel featuring the Twelfth Doctor and Bill as played by Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie.
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Doctor Who: Diamond Dogs
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“Here on Saturn, it literally rains diamonds.” For over fifteen years the crew of Kollo-Zarnista Mining Facility 27 has been extracting diamonds from deep within the atmosphere of Saturn, diamonds that help to fund the ever-expanding Human Empire. But when a mining operation goes wrong, a rescue mission must be launched to save a worker lost overboard, a worker who claims that he has seen something amongst the swirling clouds. Something that can’t possibly exist. When the Doctor and Bill arrive, they immediately find themselves caught between hostile miners, suspicious security guards and corrupt company officials as they face accusations of sabotage and diamond theft. And below them, in the crushing atmosphere of the gas giant, something is starting to rise. An original novel featuring the Twelfth Doctor and Bill as played by Peter Capaldi and Pearl Mackie.
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Doctor Who: Plague City
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“We should leave. We definitely should leave. But… chatty ghosts!” The year is 1645, and Edinburgh is in the grip of the worst plague in its history. Nobody knows who will be the next to succumb â nobody except the Night Doctor, a masked figure that stalks the streets, seeking out those who will not live to see another day. But death is not the end. The Doctor, Bill and Nardole discover that the living are being haunted by the recently departed â by ghosts that do not know they are dead. And there are other creatures lurking in the shadows, slithering, creeping creatures filled with an insatiable hunger. The Doctor and his friends must face the terrifying secret of the Street of Sorrows â that something which has lain dormant for two hundred million years is due to destroy the entire city… An original novel featuring the Twelfth Doctor, Bill and Nardole as played by Peter Capaldi, Pearl Mackie and Matt Lucas.
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Doctor Who: Dr. Twelfth
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The greatest mash-up in the entire Whoniverse is here! Doctor Who meets Roger Hargreaves’ Mr Men in this new series of stories, written and illustrated by Adam Hargreaves. In Dr. Twelfth, join the Twelfth Doctor and Missy on an amazing new adventure through time and space . . . Written by: Adam Hargreaves |
Doctor Who: The Day of the Doctor
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Meet the new Doctor Who classics. When the entire universe is at stake, three different Doctors will unite to save it. The Tenth Doctor is hunting shape-shifting Zygons in Elizabethan England. The Eleventh is investigating a rift in space-time in the present day. And one other â the man they used to be but never speak of â is fighting the Daleks in the darkest days of the Time War. Driven by demons and despair, this battle-scarred Doctor is set to take a devastating decision that will threaten the survival of the entire universe… a decision that not even a Time Lord can take alone. On this day, the Doctor’s different incarnations will come together to save the Earth… to save the universe… and to save his soul.
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Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time
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Still reeling from his encounter with the Cybermen, the First Doctor stumbles through the bitter Antarctic wind, resisting the approaching regeneration with all his strength. But as he fights his way through the snowdrifts, he comes across the familiar shape of a blue police box, and a mysterious figure who introduces himself as the Doctor. Thrown together at their most vulnerable moments, the two Doctors must discover why the snowflakes are suspended in the sky, why a First World War Captain has been lifted from his time stream moments before his death, and who is the mysterious Glass Woman who knows their true name. The Doctor is reunited with Bill, but is she all she seems? And can he hold out against the coming regeneration?
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Doctor Who: The Good Doctor
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For a Good Doctor there’s only one rule: first do no harm. On the planet of Lobos, the Doctor halts a violent war between the native Loba and human colonists. Job done, the TARDIS crew departs â only for Ryan to discover he’s left his phone behind. Again. Upon returning, the Doctor finds that the TARDIS has slipped hundreds of years into the future â and that something has gone badly wrong. The Loba are now slaves, serving human zealots who worship a godlike figure known as The Good Doctor. It’s time for the Doctor to face up to the consequences of her last visit. With Lobos on the brink of catastrophe, will she be able to make things right? Featuring the Thirteenth Doctor, Yasmin, Ryan and Graham, as played by Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, Tosin Cole and Bradley Walsh.
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Doctor Who: Molten Heart
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Don’t dig too deep. You never know what you’ll find beneath the surface. Deep below the surface of the planet Adamantine lies a crystalline wonder world of lava seas and volcanic islands, home to living rock-people. But when the Doctor and her friends arrive on Adamantine they find it under threat. The seas are shrinking, the magma is cooling, and mysterious, fatal seething pools are spreading fast. Something has come to Adamantine â but what does it want? Fearing an invasion is underway, the Doctor must lead an expedition to the surface of the world to save its molten heart⦠Featuring the Thirteenth Doctor, Yasmin, Ryan and Graham, as played by Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, Tosin Cole and Bradley Walsh.
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Doctor Who: Combat Magicks
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How do you win a battle when the dead fight on? The TARDIS arrives in Gaul in 451AD, on the eve of battle between the forces of Attila the Hun and those of the crumbling Roman Empire. But the Doctor soon finds that both sides are being helped by sinister, supernatural creatures. While Graham makes allies in the Roman camp and Ryan is pursued by the enigmatic Legion of Smoke, the Doctor and Yasmin are pressed into service as Attila’s personal sorcerers. But the Doctor knows there is science behind the combat magicks â and that the true war will pit all humanity against a ruthless alien threat. Featuring the Thirteenth Doctor, Yasmin, Ryan and Graham, as played by Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, Tosin Cole and Bradley Walsh.
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Doctor Who: Dr. Thirteenth
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An all new Doctor Who adventure featuring the Thirteenth – and first female! – Doctor reimagined in the style of Roger Hargreaves. The Doctor, Graham, and Ryan try and come up with a fabulous surprise for Yaz on her birthday. And what an explosive surprise it is . . .
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