Benefitting from the rehab his preceding incarnation had undertaken, the Fifteenth Doctor was freed from the emotional baggage and deteriorating mental state of his predecessors, and journeyed the universe with invigorated optimism following a fabled bi-generation that saw him help the Fourteenth Doctor defeat the Toymaker, though not without the threat of the Toymaker's legions "coming". Charismatic, suave and adventurous, this incarnation of the Doctor would eagerly anticipate this new chapter in his life, even while knowing of the threats ahead.
Soon after bi-generation, the Doctor became acquainted with Ruby Sunday, and together they defeated the Goblins that were abducting and eating children, before she joined him on his further adventures. These adventures saw them facing many dangers, ranging from the Bogeyman to "powers beyond the universe" such as Maestro, a member of the Pantheon and the child of the Toymaker, and Sutekh, the king of this Pantheon. Throughout their travels, a mystery involving Ruby's origins before she was abandoned at the church on Ruby Road began to unfold. This manifested as visions of the night of Ruby's abandonment, as well as a snowstorm that followed Ruby throughout space and time. After helping Ruby make contact with her birth mother, the Doctor left her so she could come to terms with things and travelled on alone.
The Doctor subsequently travelled with Belinda Chandra after being told to seek her out and rescuing her from Missbelindachandra One. He was mainly focused on returning her home to 2025 but was disturbed to find the TARDIS was unable to land there. He created a piece of technology called the Vindicator which required travelling to different times and places to prime it and take Belinda home. This meant more adventures with the duo, in which they saw off more Gods such as Lux, the return of the Midnight Entity and helped the Barber overcome his vengeance. Upon finding out about Earth's destruction following the events of the Interstellar Song Contest, he eventually made his way to the 24th of May, 2025, but fell into Conrad Clark's "Wish World" instead where to took the identity of Wish World and had a baby, Poppy Smith with Belinda. This was a trap by two Rani's to use his doubt to rip open the universe and find Omega to bring back the Time Lords in her image. With the help of Anita Benn, he was restored as the Doctor and defeated the Ranis and Omega, but restoration of the universe made his daughter disappear.
The Doctor self-induced a regeneration, so as to use regeneration energy to shift reality and bring Poppy Chandra back into existence, effectively sacrificing himself for her sake. This action caused him to turn into his successor.
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
A day to come[[edit] | [edit source]]
When the Thirteenth Doctor encountered Time, Time restored the Doctor from being scattered across three bodies at once, declaring that she would be "reunified", but then questioned "how long" the Doctor would remain "unified." (TV: The Vanquishers [+]Loading...["The Vanquishers (TV story)"])
After they teamed up in a game against the Toymaker, the Fourteenth Doctor was told by his fifteenth incarnation that he would only find peace after settling down to heal from his traumas, quipping that they were "doing rehab out of order" by having the Fourteenth Doctor see how well adjusted his next incarnation was. The Fifteenth Doctor was also recognised by Donna Noble as being older than the fourteenth incarnation due to being from the future. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])
Post-bi-generation[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Fourteenth Doctor's bi-generation
Atop the helipad attached to UNIT HQ in the City of London in late 2023, the Toymaker shot the Fourteenth Doctor with UNIT's Galvanic beam, due to his desire to play their next game with "the next Doctor", initiating a regeneration. However, as Donna Noble and Melanie Bush rushed to his side, the Doctor felt that he wasn't regenerating as he typically would and asked them to pull on his arms, causing the Fifteenth Doctor to split out of the Fourteenth Doctor in a bi-generation, a process previously believed to be a myth. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) Making him wonder what other surprises might be in store for him. (PROSE: Bi-Generation [+]Loading...["Bi-Generation (feature)"]) Despite coming into being while the Fourteenth Doctor still existed, the Fifteenth Doctor was still older than his preceding incarnation, with Donna commenting it was "because [he] came after him", (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) and the Fifteenth Doctor also had knowledge of events yet to come for the Fourteenth Doctor. As shown when he would later manifest memories of the Fourteenth Doctor's rehab whilst overloading a story engine. (TV: The Story & the Engine [+]Loading...["The Story & the Engine (TV story)","The Story & the Engine"])
After the Fifteenth Doctor cracked his new neck, and flirted with Mel, the Toymaker interrupted him, wanting to continue forcing the Doctors to bi-generate, but the two Doctors instead challenged him to a game of catch, and the Toymaker relented to accept the challenge. The game was then played, with the Fifteenth Doctor ultimately playing the winning throw after the Toymaker failed to catch the ball. As his prize, the Fourteenth Doctor chose to banish the Toymaker from existence, but he warned the Doctors that his legions were still "coming". The Fifteenth Doctor and Donna consoled the Fourteenth Doctor over the deaths caused by the Toymaker, with the Fifteenth Doctor giving his predecessor a reassuring hug, before walking back into the UNIT HQ, (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) after an inevitable win. (PROSE: The Doctor's Busiest Day [+]Loading...["The Doctor's Busiest Day (short story)"], The Toymaker [+]Loading...["The Toymaker (feature)"])
A fresh start[[edit] | [edit source]]
As he was given a tour of their TARDIS, the Fifteenth Doctor told the Fourteenth Doctor that he needed a break, with Donna agreeing that he was "running on fumes." As he convinced his fourteenth incarnation to settle down by listing their traumas, the Fourteenth Doctor confided that he couldn't leave the TARDIS behind while living on Earth, so the Fifteenth Doctor, realising he hadn't claimed his prize for winning the game, used the lingering powers of the Toymaker's domain to summon a second TARDIS out of the first. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) The second TARDIS would later describe the first TARDIS as 'the old [her]'. (PROSE: I, TARDIS [+]Loading...["I, TARDIS (novel)","I, TARDIS"]) The Fifteenth Doctor entered the second TARDIS, with the Fourteenth Doctor and Donna following him in to say goodbye after he tried sneaking off. Giving them a fond farewell, the Fifteenth Doctor then left to travel the universe. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])
Deciding that the attire of his previous incarnation "wo[uld]n't do" anymore, the Doctor[nb 1] chose his new clothing in the TARDIS, selecting sturdy boots and a new hat. (POEM: Contents [+]Loading...{"page":"16","1":"Contents (poem)"}) The Doctor then thought on how a new chapter in his life was beginning, as he had friends to make and adventures to go on, with new threats and enemies to face with "no idea what [they'd] let themselves in for." (PROSE: "Heroes of Time" [+]Part of Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse, Loading...{"namedpart":"Heroes of Time","1":"Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)"}) At some point he gained a new sonic screwdriver. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) Not wanting to spend all his time unlocking doors, doing complicated medical scans, waving his phone around to get signal and having his pockets full of loads of different tech. (PROSE: Sonic Screwdriver [+]Loading...["Sonic Screwdriver (feature)"])
First adventures[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Eleventh Doctor secured the Fifteenth Doctor's help to free Nora Wicker from the Time Bubble placed around her home on 16 December 2033 as the younger Doctor had miscalculated the size of the bubble when he erected it to contain the seed of the World Tree that had landed in her garden. From outside the bubble, the Fifteenth Doctor was ready to use his sonic screwdriver at the same time as the Eleventh Doctor to produce a precise frequency to create a crack in the bubble, however, at the last possible moment, Nora confided to the Eleventh Doctor that she wanted to remain in the bubble to look after the tree, distracting the younger Doctor and causing the sync to fail. The Fifteenth Doctor lowered his screwdriver and returned to the TARDIS, planning to return the next day, but ultimately did not to respect Nora's wishes. (AUDIO: The World Tree [+]Loading...["The World Tree (audio story)"])
At some point before 5 March 2005, the Fifteenth Doctor was photographed on Earth, with the photo eventually ending up in the possession of Clive Finch. (PROSE: Rose [+]Loading...{"ed":"2023 Illustrated Edition","1":"Rose (novelisation)"})
The Doctor appeared on Match of the Day with a cyborg Gary Lineker and a holographic Ian Wright, seemingly commenting on a football match. He remarked that a goalkeeper's cybernetically extendable arms created a difficult atmosphere, which Wright agreed with. (TV: Match of the Who [+]Loading...["Match of the Who (TV story)"]) He later provided continuity announcements for BBC One, introducing EastEnders, Pointless, and The One Show. (TV: Untitled [+]Loading...{"noital":"1","1":"Untitled 1 (May 2024 TV story)","2":"Untitled"})
The Doctor invented Intelligent gloves after being fed up of hanging off things. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"], PROSE: Defying Mavity [+]Loading...["Defying Mavity (feature)"])
Meeting Ruby[[edit] | [edit source]]
After travelling alone for a while, (PROSE: Space Babies [+]Loading...["Space Babies (novelisation)"]) the Doctor was investigating a group of Goblins trying to stop them in one attempt landing his TARDIS in the Goblin ship during a Goblin feast. (GRAPHIC: Greedy Goblins [+]Loading...["Greedy Goblins (illustration)"]) On 22 December 2023, the Doctor found himself watching a band perform a gig at a pub in London, but their performance was stopped when the keyboardist, Ruby Sunday, had her keyboard unplugged by a Goblin. The next day, the Doctor was enjoying himself at a nightclub, (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) where he danced in pure joy like everybody was watching, (PROSE: Who's the Doctor? [+]Loading...["Who's the Doctor? (short story)"]) then he bumped into Ruby again, and realised she was being victimised by the Goblins after saving her drink from being spilled, and later interfered in the Goblins' attempt to drop an inflatable snowman on her taxi ride, after which he told the responding policeman that his girlfriend was bound to accept his marriage proposal.
On Christmas Eve, the Doctor caught up to Ruby while she was trying to save Lulubelle from being taken to the Goblin ship, and joined her in rescuing Lulubelle from being fed to the Goblin King whilst participating in the Goblins' song, (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"], PROSE: Rock it, Janis! [+]Loading...["Rock it, Janis! (feature)"]) by the end of the song becoming fully fluent in rope, (PROSE: The Goblin King [+]Loading...["The Goblin King (feature)"]) he and Ruby escaped back to the Sundays' home using his intelligent gloves, where he met Ruby's adopted grandmother, Cherry, and then her adopted mother, Carla. While listening to Carla gush over Ruby to cheer her up after being told that Davina McCall was unable the find her biological family, the Doctor opened up to them about being a foundling himself, (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) having felt emboldened by the Sundays' openness to be open himself. (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...{"chaptnum":"Fifteen","page":"110","1":"The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"})
However, his commentary accidently invoked a set of a coincidences and allowed the Goblins to crack the timeline by stealing Ruby as a baby. The Doctor then went back in time to the day she was abandoned at the church on Ruby Road in 2004 to stop the Goblins from stealing her at first trying to pull the ladder with his bare hands to no prevail, (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) he would not give into defeat, (PROSE: The Goblin King [+]Loading...["The Goblin King (feature)"]) by using his intelligent gloves to force the Goblin ship into the church spire, killing the Goblin King and causing the ship to disappear, (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) as though the Goblins had been erased from existence or pulled back into another world. (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...{"chaptnum":"Eighteen","page":"137","1":"The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"}) The Doctor then returned to 2023 to make sure Ruby had been restored and, after a brief side-track to save Davina from a falling Christmas tree, waited for Ruby to joined him in the TARDIS. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) He then updated his diary to include his first two adventures, (PROSE: First Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...{"page":"31","1":"First Day of the Doctor (short story)"}) calling the Goblin adventure bizarre, (PROSE: TARDIS Data File: Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["TARDIS Data File: Ruby Sunday (feature)"]) and told Ruby about how he saved her life. (PROSE: Meet Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["Meet Ruby Sunday (short story)"])
Early travels with Ruby[[edit] | [edit source]]
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The Doctor took Ruby back 150 million years back on the planet Earth, to prove that the TARDIS was a time machine as well as a space machine, as they had landed it what would become Wyoming. Ruby was worried about the Butterfly effect, which did affect her temporarily changing her species into a humanoid lizard. This reminded him to activate the Butterfly compensation switch.
Asking her for a set of numbers they landed on Baby Station Beta in 21506, where they encountered a space station that was slightly debilitated. They encountered its crew of babies that were stunted in their growth, but had the intelligence of a 6 year old. He also found himself scared of the Bogeyman, which he found odd. Learning from Jocelyn Sancerre that the ship had been abandoned due to budget cuts, he vowed to find a way to get them to a neighbouring planet which accepted refugees, and to stop the Bogeyman. From analysing the shed skin of the creature, he discovered that it was made of bogeys, and theorised that the parthengensis machine made it to create something to make the babies afraid as part of their upbringing. He closed the airlock that Jocelyn had opened to remove it from the station, realising it was two a baby that needed protecting, (TV: Space Babies [+]Loading...["Space Babies (TV story)"]) where he reminded Jocelyn to help it. (PROSE: The Bogeyman [+]Loading...["The Bogeyman (short story)"]) He had realised that the pressure build up was methane that came from the babies decomposing nappies, and used that as a fuel to move the ship to a neighbouring planet. He subsequently took Ruby home to talk to her family, (TV: Space Babies [+]Loading...["Space Babies (TV story)"]) and promised Carla he would keep Ruby safe on their travels. (TV: Rogue [+]Loading...["Rogue (TV story)"]) Knowing that he would have to prepare himself for enemies he had never faced before. (PROSE: TARDIS Data File: The Doctor [+]Loading...["TARDIS Data File: The Doctor (feature)"])
The Doctor and Ruby began searching time and space for a "perfect shade of pink"; they arrived at the Barbie DreamHouse, where the Doctor repainted the TARDIS pink with his sonic screwdriver. They left, (WC: Untitled [+]Loading...["Untitled (July 2025 webcast)"]) and then travelled to the bank of the River Thames in the 2020s. (EXHIBIT: Come on TARDIS, let's go party [+]Loading...["Come on TARDIS, let's go party (exhibit)"])
Arriving atop the Jason Orange Plaza in Mancopolis 2424, the Doctor and Ruby dodged being run over by a tram, only to be arrested by the Care Force for being "tram raiders". A weather orb, noticing they weren't smiling, began raining on them. After stopping the orb, the mayor of the city, Mary Mulberry, communicated to them via the windows of a tower which also functioned as screens, believing them to be auditors sent by the Galactic Central Exchange; she ordered Zhi, one of the Care Force, to bring them to her, and, on the journey to the Mancopolis City Hall, she explained to them how Mayor Mulberry saved the city and its population after the 2399 Event.
Entering the Mayor's office, the Mayor vocalised her belief that they had been a deliberate distraction to enable the Exchange to sneak an assault ship into the city, which she promptly had destroyed. She offered a negotiation, but, after realising they weren't non-humans since they weren't going shift into another form, she threatened to dismember one of them. As they tried to escape through a lift, she had the duo teleported to a dark space filled with "massive people-eating silkworms".
Escaping from them, the duo found themselves in the real Manchester underneath before they're pursued by moths and Ruby is teleported away. With Zhi, he found his way to Ruby and frees her. He then uploaded footage of Mulberry being a Moth-person causing a revolution to overthrow her. She retaliated by using weather control to smite them, but he summoned the auditors down. Panicking, the Doctor was able to grab her weather controller and have the weather orbs zap it causing them to collapse. She teleported away to be eaten by her young while the Doctor dealt with the auditors who want to take over Mancopolis. He was able to disperse them using Ruby's bank interests. (COMIC: Mancopolis [+]Loading...["Mancopolis (comic story)"])
The Doctor and Ruby travelled to Wonder Central, where they introduced themselves to an individual outside a shop and the portal to the Deep Space Zone. If the individual travelled to the zone, the Doctor and Ruby would be waiting, ready to help the individual search for stickers.
At this time, there were advertisements for Doctor Who in the Deep Space Zone, as well as in a castle, depicting the Doctor. (GAME: Wonder Chase [+]Loading...{"ed":"First Edition","1":"Wonder Chase (video game)"})
Later tellings of this account instead had the portal to the Deep Space Zone in a more central location, away from the shop, with the Doctor and Ruby still standing near it. (GAME: Wonder Chase [+]Loading...{"ed":"Larry The Cat Election Update!","1":"Wonder Chase (video game)"})
The Doctor and Ruby landed on a wrecked luxury liner on the Asterion Field and came across Navitrix Ortega. They encountered a Kua'Mara but were able to freeze it and escape. (GAME: Fragmented Cosmos [+]Loading...["Fragmented Cosmos (episode)"])
Ruby asked to see The Beatles record their first album at Abbey Road studios. Upon arriving in 1963 they discovered that something was wrong with music as they realised that the Beatles where making bad using, as well as Cilla Black and other musicians. He realised that this also went wider as part of history had changed, like a Soviet Union offence against Finland. Investigating this, he had Ruby play one of her band's songs on a rooftop which attracted Maestro to them. He used a trick to stop all sound from appearing to help them escape. He was worried about their power, realise that they were a child of The Toymaker. To prove this to Ruby, he took her to her own time of 2024 showing a devastated world after a nuclear war, caused by the lack a music. He theorised that there was a way to banish them using the lost chord. During a music battle, (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"]) where the Doctor's performance didn't look good enough, (PROSE: Maestro [+]Loading...["Maestro (short story)"]) the Doctor managed to find most of the notes of the chord, but landed on a bum note for the final part. The combined efforts of Paul McCartney and John Lennon, found the last note rescuing the Doctor from being trapped in a Timpani drum. With music returning to the word, the Doctor and Ruby sang and danced with those at the studios, before leaving. (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])
The Doctor landed the TARDIS in a shopping centre, crushing a vending machine in the process, to chase a creature that dimension-hopped. Him and Ruby tracked it down on the CCTV and the Doctor was able to identify it as a Shreek. (PROSE: Night of the Shreek [+]Loading...["Night of the Shreek (short story)"]) Unbeknownst to them, Conrad Clark was watching and got marked with the Shreek's saliva. (TV: Lucky Day [+]Loading...["Lucky Day (TV story)"]) Ruby got marked but the Doctor was able to zap it back to its hive with his sonic screwdriver. He gave her an antidote so that the Shreek wouldn't be able to track her down later. (PROSE: Night of the Shreek [+]Loading...["Night of the Shreek (short story)"])
Further travels with Ruby[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Landing on Kastarion 3, the Doctor heard a scream and ran out of the TARDIS to investigate. In his haste, he stepped on a landmine but didn't fully set of the trigger due to it needing to confirm that the Doctor was alive. He managed to balance his weight enough to stop the countdown for a while. When Ruby arrived he asked her to find something heavy to help him balance and trick the algorithm in the mine. She arrived with what she thought in an urn, but he realised it was a smelted down body. They discover that it was of John Francis Vater when AI hologram of him appears. They learn that he was killed by the Ambulance algorithm as a mercy killing as his temporary blindness reduced his operational efficiency. When Vater's daugher, Splice Alison Vater came hearing her father's voice he tried to stop her from coming closer to him, spiking his adrenaline causing the countdown to move. An ambulance sensing conflict came over to assess the situation, sensed the Doctor but couldn't work out how to treat due to alien biology, (TV: Boom [+]Loading...["Boom (TV story)"]) when the ambulance scanned the Doctor and it read his anticipated explosion as spectacular. (PROSE: Boom [+]Loading...["Boom (feature)"]) Ruby tried to distract the machine, but was shot by Canterbury James Olliphant. The Doctor became distraught at the situation, as the countdown was entering a fail safe. Knowing that the conflict was being perpetuated by the Villengard motive for profit and keeping the casualties at a constant rate to allow more equipment to be bought, as the human's enemy didn't exist, he asked the Vater AI to enter the ambulance computers to get the systems to surrender stopping the war. This deactivated the landmine. (TV: Boom [+]Loading...["Boom (TV story)"])
The Doctor landed the TARDIS on the South Wales coast on 9 November 2024, (PROSE: 73 Yards [+]Loading...["73 Yards (novelisation)"]) and was delighted that he was in Wales. He started to tell Ruby that he loved the Welsh but started to warn her about Roger ap Gwilliam, before realising it was a spoiler for her immediate future. Not paying attention he nearly walked into a fairy circle made out of cotton, (PROSE: The Life Of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Life Of Ruby Sunday (short story)"]) but Ruby stopped him. He then told her to not interfere with it as to be respectful. (TV: 73 Yards [+]Loading...["73 Yards (TV story)"])
Following an alien distress signal to Lake Peipus in 1242, the Doctor and Ruby met Ranavere Rentara who was attempting to escape her family of mercenaries. Whilst trying to make peace between her and her sisters who had arrived to force her to fight as ordered, they discovered the Genetrix, a parasitic enemy of the Rentara, was also on Earth and was spreading its parasites among Novgordian soldiers. After a failed mental contact, the Doctor finally located the Genetrix as latched onto his TARDIS on the frozen lake and managed to separate it, forcing it back into hibernation beneath the ice. With peace now established between the sisters, he left them to guard the lake against any return of the Genetrix when the ice thawed, choosing not to tell them he actually intended to use the TARDIS to take it off-world as he wanted them to use the time to bond. (PROSE: Ruby Red [+]Loading...["Ruby Red (novel)"])
Arriving on a new planet, the Doctor and Ruby encountered Chirracharr who was looking for aliens who'd abducted her once before. They discovered drones monitoring the planet and found an observatory set up by those aliens. After Ruby was taken to the aliens' planet, the Doctor helped Chirracharr organise her people to defend against an onslaught of drones sent to clear the planet for colonisation, until Ruby was able to stop the settlement plans. Reunited, the Doctor and Ruby left with the alien scientists now openly meeting Chirracharr's people. (PROSE: Caged [+]Loading...["Caged (novel)"])
The Doctor and Ruby landed on Chemical Beach, Seaham in 1958, meeting another familiar woman, who warned them to get off the beach. Drawn through a rift in a cave structure, they ended up on Ghost Beach, where they met Reginald Wormsley. They immediately started to gain other memories. Finding the real Reginald's dead body in a forest, they realised that an immensely powerful alien creature known as the Kassif had been extracting the memories and forcing them into their minds and onto the planet. Once Kassif had been stopped, they had moments to escape before the closing of the rift. (AUDIO: On Ghost Beach [+]Loading...["On Ghost Beach (audio story)"])
Discovering the existence of a Sasquatch species in Washington state, the Doctor and Ruby learnt of an attempted Earth invasion by the Sleekers. During this period, Ruby recognised one of the victims as a "greyish-blonde woman", whom she found familiar. With the help of the Sasquatches and Dixie's antihistamines, the Doctor managed to kill off the Sleeker nest, saving those they had taken over and further saving the world from potential Sleeker control. (AUDIO: Sting of the Sasquatch [+]Loading...["Sting of the Sasquatch (audio story)"])
Landing in Finetime, the Doctor and Ruby investigated why people were going missing. realising that he was already to late to save anyone who's surnames began with A or B. (PROSE: Welcome To Finetime [+]Loading...["Welcome To Finetime (short story)"]) Managing to eventually make contact with Lindy Pepper-Bean, he managed to persuade her to escape the city by proving to her that people were going missing, by showing that one of her colleagues was being eaten by a Mantrap. (TV: Dot and Bubble [+]Loading...["Dot and Bubble (TV story)"]) While also saving the N's at the same time, (GAME: Dodge the Mantraps [+]Loading...["Dodge the Mantraps (game)"]) he directed her to a nearby conduit to the river that ran under the city, he gave her and Ricky September the code to unlock the door. He then offered the survivors a trip in the TARDIS to find a safe planet, which they declined. This was due to the racial segregation in the city and racism due to his skin colour. He tried to plead for them to understand, but this upset him. He watched them depart. (TV: Dot and Bubble [+]Loading...["Dot and Bubble (TV story)"])
Meeting Rogue[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Doctor and Ruby attended a party organised by the Duchess of Pemberton where they were photographed. (GAME: Spot The Difference [+]Loading...["Spot The Difference (game)"]) He was delighted at the spectacle. After Ruby experienced interference in her psychic earrings, he traced it to Rogue. He learnt that he was there to find a Chuldur and showed the Doctor his ship. Rogue accused him of being the Chuldur he was searching for, but after teasing him for a bit, the Doctor changed the settings on Rogue's ships scanner to show multiple previous incarnations and that he was from Gallifrey. They teamed up to find the Chuldur by creating a scandal in regency society. They discovered that there was a Chuldur family at work. He expanded Rogue's trap to work for up to six occupants. He managed to corner the family during the wedding between Lord Barton and Ruby trapping them all, thinking that Ruby had been killed by the Chuldur, (TV: Rogue [+]Loading...["Rogue (TV story)"]) and being horrified. (PROSE: Rogue's Log [+]Loading...["The Chuldurs and Rogue (feature)","Rogue's Log"]) The Doctor told all the unwilling guests to run. (PROSE: Rogue [+]Loading...["Rogue (novelisation)"]) Rogue captured the last Chuldur placing her in the trap. Rogue and the Doctor kissed, allowing him to gain the trigger. He watched as Rogue replaced Ruby in the trap and set it off. He set Rogue's ship off to wait for its pilot. Ruby asked if he would go searching for Rogue. (TV: Rogue [+]Loading...["Rogue (TV story)"])
Final adventures with Ruby[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Arriving in 19th century Copenhagen, the Doctor and Ruby met Hans Christian Andersen and encountered the Snedronningen. After the entity kidnapped Ruby when she defended Hans, the Doctor followed them through a sub-dimensional fissure with Hans. They encountered soldiers led by Hans' captive father, who decided to turn on their master after she took Hans. With their aid the Doctor reached Ruby and together they realised they could defeat Snedronningen by having everyone assert that they did not believe in her. Her realm then disappeared, returning them all to Copenhagen. (COMIC: The Hans of Fear [+]Loading...["The Hans of Fear (comic story)"])
The Doctor and Ruby arrived in CoHurtCo™'s focus group facility for creating monsters for armies, and helped free the protoplasm subjects they were using. (COMIC: The Monster Makers [+]Loading...["The Monster Makers (comic story)"])
The Doctor took Ruby for a holiday at the resort in the Gardens of Kubuntu on Yewa, only to become embroiled in a conflict between hostile vigilantes from the twin planet Bia and Yewa terrorists opposed to relations with Bia whilst the royal court of Bia and leadership of Yewa were reviving an ancient ritual. He eventually made peace with the Bia vigilantes upon discovering they were trying to retrieve the royal court who had unknowingly been at the resort for over a century due to its calming influence, and discovered an ancient remnant of Kubuntu's first attempt at life, Empire, was stirring up the conflict between the terrorists and the leaders at ritual by impersonating both the terrorist leader and the Bia prince. After pacifying Empire with the aid of the ancient security systems of the Gardens, the Doctor and Ruby departed. (PROSE: Eden Rebellion [+]Loading...["Eden Rebellion (novel)"])
Hunted by the Scream Sommelier[[edit] | [edit source]]
Hearing a sound as the TARDIS flew through the Time Vortex, the Doctor followed it to a variety of planets he'd had bad experiences on and finally leading to Yorkshire in 1739. There he found Dick Turpin had been gifted Cyber-technology and stopped him escaping his execution using it. Studying the weapon, the Doctor found it programmed with coordinates which Ruby suggested was meant as a trap. (COMIC: "Free Comic Book Day 2024" [+]Loading...["Untitled (FCBD 2024 comic story)","\"Free Comic Book Day 2024\""]) Nevertheless, the two of them followed the coordinates to Sanctum Shopping & Dining, the last shopping mall on Earth in the 29th century where the Doctor was surprised to find a group of humans living to wait out the solar storms of the time. There they encountered a battalion of Cybermen, which turned out to be a construct of the Scream Sommelier, a being from outside the universe who fed on screams. The Doctor and Ruby were able to make him retreat by threatening some of his precious scream collections. Afterwards the Doctor recalled one of the shoppers was identical to the Ambulance and Lindy's mum, and decided UNIT may be able to help them get to the bottom of it. (COMIC: Everyone Must Go! [+]Loading...["Everyone Must Go! (comic story)"])
Meeting the Storyteller[[edit] | [edit source]]
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The return of the God of all Gods[[edit] | [edit source]]
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The Doctor returned to UNIT HQ to ask for their help investigating a woman who kept appearing in different forms across recent travels, (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"]) with the help of him learning the language of coincidence, (PROSE: Who Is She? [+]Loading...["Who Is She? (feature)"]) citing Gina Scalzi and Penny Pepper-Bean amongst his examples. Kate Lethbridge-Stewart and Morris Gibbons were quick to point out that they already knew as it was Susan Triad. He noticed he noticed her name was an anagram of TARDIS, and Ruby wondered if she was his granddaughter, due to having the same first name. Of learning of Susan's age, he wondered it she might be Ruby Sunday's mother and ask to use UNIT's time window to help learn more about that night. After a glitch stopped them from seeing her face, he got Colonel Winston Chidozie to look closer at what she was pointing at. After encountering a large particulate cloud which killed Chidozie, he went with Mel Bush to confront Susan before the launch of her product. He asked her if her dreams matched the people she did, which she confirmed. When Kate informed him that there was something living around the TARDIS, and realised that UNIT archivist Harriet Arbinger was a harbinger. He deduced that he was right that there was something in her name, but it wasn't an anagram but a different abbreviation SUsan Triad TECHnology, referring to Sutekh, the Osiran who was a God of Death. (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"])
The Doctor and Mel escaped Sutekh's Dust of Death returning to the Time Window in UNIT HQ. There he encountered the Remembered TARDIS, and asked Ruby to remember the TARDIS to make it stronger. After taking one of the CRT screen from the TV that was playing the VHS, Sutekh came to taunt him explaining how he survived their first encounter, and how he had created Susan Triad and her other forms everywhere the Doctor had landed ever since. The Doctor, Mel and Ruby escaped in the Remembered TARDIS and watched from space as dust consumed the entire Earth. Landing on a planet as the universe was dying, the Doctor retrieved a piece of metal, a spoon, from a kind woman and promised to save the universe with it in her honour after she too succumbed to the dust.
He used the spoon to stabilise the Remembered TARDIS and talked to Ruby about what to do as Mel slept, (TV: Empire of Death [+]Loading...["Empire of Death (TV story)"]) telling her about his original encounter with Sutekh in 1911. (TV: Pyramids of Mars [+]Loading...["Pyramids of Mars (TotT TV story)"]) As they spoke, the Time Window's CRT screen showed them Roger ap Gwilliam prompting the Doctor to realise that his DNA programme would help them stop Sutekh by finding the identity of Ruby's mother. Travelling to the barren 2046 they found the information however were interrupted by Mel who had became one of Sutekh's angels of Death and returned them to UNIT HQ. Whilst Ruby distracted Sutekh with the information on her mother, he used a rope and the Intelligent glove he found in the Remembered TARDIS to pull Sutekh off the TARDIS and then used the ship to pull him though the Vortex, restoring life to the universe before casting him in the Vortex being torn up by the Time Winds. He took Ruby back to Earth, where they learnt the true identity of Ruby's mother Louise Miller, (TV: Empire of Death [+]Loading...["Empire of Death (TV story)"]) after explaining that the the Time Window caused Louise's wish of her daughter to be called Ruby to become true. (PROSE: Empire of Death [+]Loading...["Empire of Death (novelisation)"]) The Doctor realised he had to leave Ruby behind to so that she could be with both sets of parents to come to terms with things. (TV: Empire of Death [+]Loading...["Empire of Death (TV story)"])
Moving on from Ruby[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Picking up the pieces after Sutekh's attack, the Doctor helped UNIT rewrite and reorder their Gold Archive. (PROSE: Introduction to The Gold Archive [+]Loading...["Introduction to The Gold Archive (short story)"], et al.)
After learning UNIT was hiring new recruits, (GAME: We're Recruiting... [+]Loading...["We're Recruiting... (game)"]) he decided to help by giving them his TARDIS and three fake ones. (GAME: Assessment [+]Loading...["Assessment (game)"])
The Doctor returned to the Remembered TARDIS and reminisced on past adventures he had. This included when Omega tried to return to the universe and inflicted many incarnations of the Doctor with memory loss, (GAME: Lost in Time [+]Loading...["Lost in Time (LiT story)"]) 19th century Feudal Japan where his seventh incarnation and Ace encountered the First Monk and a Cyberman, (GAME: Deleting Enemies [+]Loading...["Deleting Enemies (LiT story)"]) a simulation exercise on Gallifrey where the War Doctor battled simulations of Daleks and Davros, (GAME: Operation Skaro [+]Loading...["Operation Skaro (LiT story)"]) his own self and Ruby saving Marlon on Raphaello-1, (GAME: Future Imperfect [+]Loading...["Future Imperfect (LiT story)"]) his eleventh incarnation being put on trial by Mr Clever, (GAME: Cyber Judgement [+]Loading...["Cyber Judgement (LiT story)"]) his tenth incarnation and Donna Noble dealing with Sontarans who used a Time Lord weapon they plundered called the Eye of Discord, (GAME: The Sleeping City [+]Loading...["The Sleeping City (LiT story)"]) his sixth incarnation being put in a trap by the Tremas Master with Mel, (GAME: A Planet Called Madness [+]Loading...["A Planet Called Madness (LiT story)"]) his fourth incarnation with Leela encounter with the Decayed Master in 16th century Venice, (GAME: Rondo Of Midnight [+]Loading...["Rondo Of Midnight (LiT story)"]) and his second incarnation and Jamie McCrimmon defeating the Never Man. (GAME: The Never People [+]Loading...["The Never People (LiT story)"])
The Doctor landed on Grey Grieving, pretending Ruby was still with him. He was chased by It and hunters trying to kill it as game. When the Doctor's chase led to It's re-imprisonment, the hunters threatened to kill him, but he was saved by the Grey Grievants attacking the hunters for attempting to kill It, a being they protect. (COMIC: Run [+]Loading...["Run (comic story)"])
Arriving in New York in 1977, the Doctor encountered the Hypnotising Cat who led him to Beatie, an alien from the Beatine Dimension of Dance seeking to rule Earth. Beatie challenged him to a dance off for the fate of the planet, however the Doctor began to lose and turn to stone until the cat tripped Beatie over. With Beatie banished back to their dimension by the cat, the Doctor was left wondering which of them had really saved the day. (COMIC: Dance Till You Drop [+]Loading...["Dance Till You Drop (comic story)"])
The Fifteenth Doctor once returned to the Federation universe and stood among several of his other incarnations, as well as various captains. He held a communicator next to Jean-Luc Picard, who was holding the Doctor's sonic screwdriver. (GRAPHIC: Friendship is Universal [+]Loading...["Friendship is Universal (illustration)"])
The Doctor broadcast to the Royal Albert Hall via the Vlinx when Maestro invaded a concert to play bad music to create dissonance, instructing the audience to clap to bring their music to an end. With Maestro banished, he told the audience Maestro were wrong to claim that they owned music and that it was for everyone. (TV: Pantheon of Discord [+]Loading...["Pantheon of Discord (TV story)"])
The Doctor once welcomed an individual into the TARDIS in London. (EXHIBIT: Travel Through Time and Space [+]Loading...["Travel Through Time and Space (exhibit)"])
The Doctor met Graham Norton at Brighton Pride. (TV: The Interstellar Song Contest [+]Loading...["The Interstellar Song Contest (TV story)"])
The Doctor arrived in the Time Hotel and in doing so he gained the Customer ID "7214", (GAME: Welcome to the Time Hotel [+]Loading...["Welcome to the Time Hotel (game)"]) where he became intrigued by a mysterious briefcase handcuffed to its carrier, recruiting aid of hotel employee Trev. He followed the briefcase from person to person until the hotel's Silurian manager took it to a room in 2024. The hypnotised manager tried to give it to him but he refused and it instead latched onto Joy Almondo who was staying in the room. Opening the briefcase the Doctor discovered a star seed within however the case began threatening to disintegrate Joy without the correct code in 20 seconds, (TV: Joy to the World [+]Loading...["Joy to the World (TV story)"]) or 15 seconds according to another account. (PROSE: Joy's Story [+]Loading...["Joy's Story (short story)"]) Unable to crack it, the Doctor was instead told it by his own future self who arrived from the Time Hotel and then told him he would need to stay behind to become him the long way round, to the Doctor's frustration, (TV: Joy to the World [+]Loading...["Joy to the World (TV story)"]) or according to another account he wasn't frustrated at all and accepted it. (PROSE: Joy's Story [+]Loading...["Joy's Story (short story)"])
Left behind in 2024 by his future self, the Doctor asked the 2024 hotel's manager Anita for a job and stayed for a year, knowing from a brochure he'd taken another door to the Time Hotel would open in a year's time. Though he became close to Anita, (TV: Joy to the World [+]Loading...["Joy to the World (TV story)"]) they played twister, (PROSE: Joy's Story [+]Loading...["Joy's Story (short story)"]) and other games, he left her in December 2025 and found a portal to the Time Hotel in New York, where he found the door to 2024 to tell the code to his younger self and take Joy back with him. After she was compelled to go through a portal 65 million years to the past, he managed to get Joy to release herself from the briefcase's hold by provoking her about her mother's death, and then discovered it belonged to Villengard. Forced to retreat by a dinosaur, (TV: Joy to the World [+]Loading...["Joy to the World (TV story)"]) to which the Doctor believed was suboptimal, (COMIC: Dino Attack! [+]Loading...["Dino Attack! (comic story)"]) the Doctor found a portal to a timezone when the seed would have matured however whilst he devised a way to open a shrine the case was now kept in Joy opened it and absorbed the seed. Choosing to become a star safely away from the Earth, Joy advised him to find a friend. (TV: Joy to the World [+]Loading...["Joy to the World (TV story)"])
While still in the Christmas spirit the Doctor once stood in his TARDIS as it was pulled forward through the sky by two reindeer. (GRAPHIC: Joy to the World, Honey! [+]Loading...["Joy to the World, Honey! (illustration)"])
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The Doctor visited a space station orbiting a black hole while it was being attacked by Daleks and Weeping Angels, and guided a visitor through the ship and past the threats. At various points during this, the Doctor's TARDIS could be seen being flown past, not piloted by the Doctor later expressing relief upon reaching the TARDIS with the visitor. (GAME: Wonder Chase [+]Loading...{"ed":"Doctor Who: Wonder Chase","1":"Wonder Chase (video game)"})
Following a SOS to the empty Lifewright city guarded by biohazard nanotechnology, the Doctor encountered Gothar who claimed to be the only survivor of his people wiped out by the Panacea and demanded rescue from the quarantined planet. The Doctor realised the truth that Gothar was in fact the Panacea itself in disguise, and that he'd heard of the Lifewrights before in the future when they were known only as the Deathsmiths of Goth. After exposing the Panacea he used the Lifewrights' biohazard guards to shut off the SOS and fled, hoping no-one would visit again. (COMIC: No Signs of Life [+]Loading...["No Signs of Life (comic story)"])
The Doctor arrived in Nigeria in 1965 where he met Omo Esosa in the midst of a fire started by him and his friend Blue sabotaging a generator for an illegal oil field. The Doctor treated Blue's injuries and helped put out the fire by dousing it with a hose whilst flying the TARDIS above it. Afterwards he asked Omo where he could go to find more information about what was going on and Omo recommended his father's barber shop in Lagos. (PROSE: What I Did On My Holidays By Omo Esosa [+]Loading...["What I Did On My Holidays By Omo Esosa (short story)"]) The Doctor did visit the barber shop multiple times, which was eventually run by Omo himself. He came to feel like he belonged as he didn't feel stigmatised there. (TV: The Story & the Engine [+]Loading...["The Story & the Engine (TV story)"])
Whilst visiting the museum dedicated to Grace Darling in Bamburgh in 2000, the Doctor was surprised to discover artron energy on her family's barometer and so travelled back in time to investigate. The TARDIS' landing was disrupted by lightning draining the fluid links, causing it to land aboard the SS Forfarshire in the midst of the historical disaster Grace was famous for aiding. He helped her and her father rescue the survivors. After refilling the TARDIS fluid links with mercury from the Darling's barometer, he worked with Grace to investigate local disturbances and a psychic link she'd developed with a strange alien creature causing shipping disasters. Discovering the creature was the Leviathan, the Doctor devised a successful plan to use its connection to Grace to pacify it. He subsequently showed Grace the TARDIS and offered to show her how she was remembered in the future but she was overwhelmed, so he apologised. The Doctor visited Grace later in her life when she was honoured by the Duke of Northumberland, and again when she was ill with consumption towards the end of her life. (PROSE: Fear Death by Water [+]Loading...["Fear Death by Water (novel)"])
Arriving in the Museum of the Natural World, the Doctor encountered an Ossuarian from the Acheronian Plane. He foiled the skeletons it animated by using the TARDIS to broadcast a frequency summoning hundreds of nearby dogs, who happily grabbed the bones. (COMIC: Field Trip [+]Loading...["Field Trip (comic story)"])
Following an alien signal to the BBC Television Centre in 1979, the Doctor became embroiled in a ghost hunt and discovered an alien tourist's frozen snapshot of time was responsible for the disturbances. (COMIC: A Ghost Story for Christmas [+]Loading...["A Ghost Story for Christmas (comic story)"])
Learning what he'd done to Ruby, the Doctor materialised the TARDIS around Conrad Clark in his prison cell and angrily confronted him, telling him he would die alone in prison having been forgotten. (TV: Lucky Day [+]Loading...["Lucky Day (TV story)"])
Taking Belinda Chandra home[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Having been told her name by Conrad Clark who had met him with her in the future, (TV: Lucky Day [+]Loading...["Lucky Day (TV story)"]) the Doctor sought out Belinda Chandra, just missing her at her house in 2025 by arriving too late to stop her kidnapping by the Missbelindachandrabots. He pursued their rocket to try and recapture her however the TARDIS and the rocket became affected by a time fracture, (TV: The Robot Revolution [+]Loading...["The Robot Revolution (TV story)"]) which made him appear on BBC One interrupting a ident on two separate idents, (TV: Untitled 3 [+]Loading...["Untitled 3 (March 2025 TV story)"]) then pushing him off course arriving Missbelindachandra One six months too early. He embedded himself in the society helping the Missbelindachandrakind rebels in their resistance against the Missbelindachandrabots, and getting promoted to be the official historian.
He became close to Sasha 55 and promised to take her travelling once the revolution was won. Encountering Belinda once she arrived, he made her aware of the glitch in the bots systems that they were not able to process every ninth word and passed on a message to her. The rebels started their plan to escape with Belinda, but Sasha was killed in the process. Deactivating the cleaning bot that came with them to stop the bots from tracing her, he discovered that the the AI generator that controls the bots had the same certificate that Belinda had from a future point it's in timeline and started forming a plan to get them to touch catastrophically.
After the Belinda chose to surrender to the bots to save the rebels from further losses they were both taken before the Generator, learning that it was controlled by Belinda's old coercive boyfriend Alan Budd who had been placed in charge 10 years earlier. After Belinda touched the two versions of her certificate activating the Blinovitch Limitation Effect, he absorbed most of the energies released saving her from the effects as Alan was regressed to conception. (TV: The Robot Revolution [+]Loading...["The Robot Revolution (TV story)"])
The Doctor and Belinda were vacuumed up by Scoot when he was cleaning Missbelindachandra One. (GAME: Polish Polish! [+]Loading...["Polish Polish! (video game)"]) The Doctor signed a few Star Certificates for The Star Registration Board before letting Scoot do the rest. (GAME: Get your own Star Certificate [+]Loading...["Get your own Star Certificate (game)"])
Though he was intrigued by mysteries surrounding Belinda, including that he'd coincidently met her descendent Mundy Flynn thousands of years in the future, she insisted he take her home to May 24 2025. However every time he tried, the TARDIS bounced off that date. (TV: The Robot Revolution [+]Loading...["The Robot Revolution (TV story)"])
The Doctor abandoned the brute force attempt of getting Belinda back to 2025 after checking the TARDIS console for faults and instead built a Vortex Indicator which he planned to use to reel the TARDIS in to circumvent whatever was blocking the ship reaching 2025. The first place he landed to triangulate it was in Miami, Florida, in 1952. Whilst waiting for the indicator to pick up a signal, the Doctor was intrigued by a chained up cinema with a memorial outside. Despite the indicator finding a signal, Belinda allowed the Doctor to solve his mystery and they went to ask at a nearby diner. Gaining knowledge from Logan Cheever about the 15 people that went missing there three months ago, the Doctor consoled Renée Lowenstein that he would find her missing son Tommy Lee.
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Managing to get inside the cinema, and trying to find the caretaker Reginald Pye to learn more, they encounter Mr Ring-a-Ding; a sentient cartoon. After making him laugh with the Giggle, (TV: Lux [+]Loading...["Lux (TV story)"]) making the Doctor terrified, (PROSE: Gods of Chaos [+]Loading...["Gods of Chaos (feature)"]) the Doctor learnt that he was Lux, the God of Light, one of the Gods of Chaos and he trapped the Doctor and Belinda in a film becoming animated. Discovering that letting out emotions helped them become their original selves, he worked out a way to get out of the film. The first attempt by accelerating the speed of the film led him to be in a fictional version of Miami where a fictional version of Renée Lowenstein used racist language and a Policeman tried to arrest him.
Realising that the Policeman's uniform was of the New York Police Department not the local force, he tried again by breaking the fourth wall, however there they encountered a fictional world where he was a fictional creation with fans, Hassan Chowdry, Lizzie Abel and Robyn Gossage who gave him clues and moved the film on. He devised a plan to stop the film reel, burning it and freeing them. However, Lux captured him and planned to use the regeneration energy stored in the Doctor to become corporeal. With his reminders of the fans' hints, Belinda and Reginald were able to devise a plan to blow up the film and expose Lux to sunlight before the process completed, which diluted Lux's power dissipating him to the universe. With the 15 missing people now returned, the Doctor and Belinda departed. (TV: Lux [+]Loading...["Lux (TV story)"])
Using the reading from Vortex Indicator to make another attempt to get back to Earth, the TARDIS lands 500,000 years in the future on a drop ship. Convincing the troop leader, Shaya Costallion, that he outranks them using his psychic paper he and Belinda help to investigate the trouble here. Finding Aliss Fenly alone with a corpse, he signed to her to ask for information. Leaving Belinda to give her medical treatment, he went with Shaya to gain information from the central computer, from which he learnt that the crew was ranting about something coming from the well, the drill hole they used to mine the planet. He asked Shaya about the history of the planet they were on, discovering that the surface was made of diamonds and about the dead star being the X-tonic star Xion. He realised that this was the planet Midnight and feared that the creature that came from the well was the Midnight Entity. Using the fact that the Entity smashed all the mirrors, he got Shaya to shoot the mercury pipelines to create a mirror to detach itself from Aliss. They all raced to the air lock but that creature attached itself to Belinda. He tried to convince the entity to use him instead, but Shaya shot Belinda instead before committing suicide. He raced to save Belinda from her laser shot wound eventually recovering her in the TARDIS before they left for their next destination. (TV: The Well [+]Loading...["The Well (TV story)"])
The Doctor and Belinda arrived on Stenlar 1065f and became embroiled in a conflict between human coloninsts and the Gangnax Imperium, due to a psychic ship called Adama who lets out psychic screams. The Doctor was able to repair Adama and dispatch of the Imperium so the colonists could live in peace. (PROSE: Spectral Scream [+]Loading...["Spectral Scream (novel)"])
When the Doctor was aiming to arrive on an asteroid, the two arrived on the Moon Cruise. Initially relaxing and having fun, Belinda became a prisoner of the ship and forced to work. The Doctor chased Jax, the escaped prisoner worker who put Belinda in that situation and helped her find Vanessa, rescue Belinda and defeat Marilyn Moon in order to stop the inhumane treatment of prisoners. (PROSE: The Moon Cruise [+]Loading...["The Moon Cruise (novel)"])
The Doctor and Belinda landed in London in 2007 amidst New Year celebrations. Whilst using the Vindicator, they briefly met Conrad Clark as a child. (TV: Lucky Day [+]Loading...["Lucky Day (TV story)"])
The Doctor and Belinda landed on planets Agua Santina, Alpha Centauri, Calufrax, Clom, Earth, Finetime, Hellia, Karn, Kastarion 3, Lizoko, Mars, Missbelindachandra One, Mondo Caroon, Ood Sphere, Pacifico Del Rio, Raxacoricofallapatorius, Shan Shen, Skaro, Sloog, Spiridon, Telos, Tigella, Trion, Varsitay, Villengard and Zygon New Habitat to get readings for his Vindicator. (GAME: Planet Pursuit [+]Loading...["Planet Pursuit (game)"])
The Doctor hoped to use the large communications network in Lagos, Nigeria, he landed there in 2019. After quickly getting a signal, he asked Belinda if he could stay a while and visit his friend Omo Esosa's barbershop, explaining to her that as this was first time one of his incarnations had been a black man he felt like he belonged here and wasn't stigmatised, which she understood as her nan did the same thing taking her to India. Making his way through the markets he was curious that the street that contained Omo's barber shop was less busy and contained a keep out sign. Entering he finds the customers in the middle of telling a story. He recognised the customers from a missing poster. He was intrigued about the walls of the shop depicting the story. He recognised Abby somehow when she entered the shop.
Being told that they couldn't leave without telling a story, the Doctor sat in the chair and told a story about Belinda's work day. The Barber realised his stories were powerful. He tried to leave the shop, but learnt that he was in a different realm with the barber shop now riding a large spider like creation in a strange domain. (TV: The Story & the Engine [+]Loading...["The Story & the Engine (TV story)"]) The act of opening the door also made him appear on a ident on BBC One. (TV: Untitled 3 [+]Loading...["Untitled 3 (March 2025 TV story)"]) He demanded to know who the Barber was, and was given a spiel about him being Anansi, Saga, Bastet, Dionysus, Loki, the god of stories. The Doctor realised his bluff having met Bastet, Saga, Dionysus, Anansi, with the latter offering the Doctor the hand of his daughter. Learning, that he was in fact a disgruntled servant of the gods who planned to wipe them out, he realised Abby was Abena, the daughter of Anansi, who he failed to help due to being a fugitive at the time.
Abena offered up her own story about how slaves in American plantations would hide maps in braids, whilst she did the same to his hair. He worked out that she had given him directions to the Engines in her weaves. Following them, he started to disrupt the engine, when the Barber came to stop him, the Doctor's stories of his past incarnations started to feed and overload the Engines. The Doctor gave the Barber an ultimatum, let everyone go and let the engine disintegrate or trap them. When the Barber opened the door he ran with him exiting the shop, before watching the ship explode. In the aftermath, (TV: The Story & the Engine [+]Loading...["The Story & the Engine (TV story)"]) the Doctor then promised the Barber that he would return and hear about the story of the Barber's new life, (PROSE: The Barber [+]Loading...["The Barber (feature)"]) the Doctor and Omo forgave each other, and the Doctor began telling Belinda of how he and Omo met as they left Lagos. (TV: The Story & the Engine [+]Loading...["The Story & the Engine (TV story)"])
In his attempts to take Belinda home the Doctor piloted the TARDIS to six locations: firstly, the studio of The Apprentice, secondly The Queen Victoria, thirdly, to the studio of Gladiators, fourthly to the dining room of The Traitors, fifthly to the filming of a nature documentary, and finally to the Squirrel Club Clubhouse where they encountered Duggee and the Doctor and Belinda appeared as a beaver and a horse, respectively. (TV: The Doctor's TARDIS lands in iconic BBC shows [+]Loading...["The Doctor's TARDIS lands in iconic BBC shows (TV story)"])
The Doctor and Belinda landed in 1656 to get another reading on the Vortex Indicator, while also deciding to explore but in doing so got separated the Doctor ended up back at the TARDIS while Belinda ended up lost in the woods, the Doctor also realised the Vindicator was missing but before he could reacts he was trapped by a group of people who thought he was a scourer. (COMIC: His Mad Pranks [+]Loading...["His Mad Pranks (comic story)"])
When they arrived on the planet Clithrow, Belinda was taken to Shadow Proclamation prison Panoptopolis. The Doctor volunteered himself as a criminal to be transported there himself and save her. He ended up leading a group of outlaws through the ship and confronted the Warden. With the help of Felik, they saved Belinda and defeated the Warden, acknowledging that their next stop was likely to be the last one needed for the Vindicator. (COMIC: The Prison Paradox [+]Loading...["The Prison Paradox (comic story)"])
The Doctor and Belinda land on Harmony Station to make another reading on the vindicator. They decided to remain after discovering it was hosting the Interstellar Song Contest. After watching Rylan Clark's opening monologue, the Doctor noticed that the live feed on their viewer wasn't matching their view of the stage, as only Sabine was showing. Looking at the electronics to find a cause, he was ejected in the air with the rest of the audience and contestants when Kid switched off the forcefield covering the area, (TV: The Interstellar Song Contest [+]Loading...["The Interstellar Song Contest (TV story)"]) the event interrupted a ident on BBC One. (TV: Untitled 3 [+]Loading...["Untitled 3 (March 2025 TV story)"])
Floating in the Mavity field and starting to freeze, he saw a vision of Susan Foreman in the TARDIS willing him to find him. He captured a nearby confetti cannon to direct him to an airlock. Inside he encountered Gary Gabbastone and Mike Gabbastone, using Gary's knowledge of the systems he finds out that Kid is planning to use a Delta Wave to kill all the viewers of contest as revenge for what the Corporation did to his home planet. He manipulated the hologram systems to fool Kid and allow him to destroy the device. He then starts to give electric shocks to Kid for his actions, ignoring his visions of Susan telling him to stop, and only stopping when Belinda arrived.
The Doctor then had Gary and Mike rescue the audience with hard light and Rylan's cryo-chamber. They watched Cora Saint Bavier sing a tradition Hellion song to tell the universe of her plight. Before leaving, they learnt from the Graham Norton hologram about the death of planet Earth. Discovering that he had enough readings they managed to get back to May 24 2025 before hearing the Cloister Bell and an explosion ripped through the doors of the TARDIS. (TV: The Interstellar Song Contest [+]Loading...["The Interstellar Song Contest (TV story)"])
On Wish World[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Doctor and Belinda woke up in an idealised world where they were a married couple with a daughter called Poppy and lived next to Melanie Bush. He didn't remember his true life and thought he was an Home Insurance Under-Manager called John Smith who was employed at the Unified National Insurance Team, (TV: Wish World [+]Loading...["Wish World (TV story)"]) with the Unified National Insurance Team ID Clearance Level X. (GAME: Unified National Insurance Team [+]Loading...["Unified National Insurance Team (game)"]) He started to doubt things when antiquated ideas were being said such as Christofer Ibrahim's reaction to the Doctor calling him beautiful, implying same gender attraction wasn't allowed, and that he should marry Kate Lethbridge-Stewart so that she shouldn't work. Later that evening he was watching one of Conrad Clark's broadcast, he briefly saw an image of Susan, before being in direct contact with Rogue, who told him that "Tables don't do that" and spent the following hours seeing that the mugs fall through the table during the "slips". This woke Belinda who called the authorities as he was having doubts. He was brought by police to the Bone Palace, where he was confronted with pieces of Gallifrey heritage such as the Seal of Rassilon. After being taken to see Conrad and the god of wishes, and learning this world has been wished into existence, he realised that he was talking to a new incarnation of The Rani. She took him to balcony explaining that she was using his doubts plus the trails of the Vindicator to rip reality apart to rescue Omega, before locking him out and detonating some explosives making the balcony fall into the Underverse. (TV: Wish World [+]Loading...["Wish World (TV story)"])
However, he was saved when Anita Benn opened a door to the Time Hotel, and learnt how the Rani's destruction of Earth was affecting the hotel given that they were based in the 23rd century stopping them from fully working. Given that he was now in reality, he first got Belinda and Poppy out of their house realising that Poppy was real. He then asked Anita to open a door to UNIT HQ to anchor it to reality. He managed to get Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, Christofer Ibrahim and Susan Triad back to reality, and restoring Rose Noble into existence. He asked Susan to make a Zero Room to protect Poppy when he removed the wish. The Rani confronted him in UNIT HQ mocking him about hiding half a mile away from her base. He copied the software from The Rani's sonic screwdriver and used this to gain access to her hover scooter to regain access to the base. He arrived just in time to see Omega return to the universe, but not in his Time Lord form, but in the form of the myths and legends of his people, a mad god. After the Rani was eaten by Omega, he used the energy stored in the Vindicator to return Omega to the Underverse. With Ruby stopping the wish, he return to the UNIT basement to see if Poppy survived, which she seemed to have. The Doctor and Belinda proceeded to take her with them into the TARDIS to continue their adventures, but they slowly forgot her and she disappeared from creation. Reminded by Ruby about Poppy, he dismissed Kate's calls to help using UNIT tech and left in the TARDIS. (TV: The Reality War [+]Loading...["The Reality War (TV story)"])
Sacrifice[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Fifteenth Doctor's regeneration
He knew that the only way to restore Poppy to the timeline was to trigger a sacrificial regeneration and direct the energy into the vortex. Reminiscing about his fondness for this incarnation, he was disturbed from this when the Thirteenth Doctor suddenly appeared in his TARDIS, and she warned him of a temporal schism which was about to happen trying to stop him from undertaking the act. Knowing it to be a futile gesture the Thirteenth Doctor aided his calculations, and the two Doctors comforted each other before she returned to her own time. The Doctor triggered the regeneration, an forcibly placed the energy through the time rotor, causing reality to shift. The Doctor found himself in Lakshmi Chandra's house, discovering that Poppy now existed again, but found that she was now Belinda's child from a previous relationship. Consoling himself, he bade farewell to Belinda and Poppy, and headed off to face his regeneration. (TV: The Reality War [+]Loading...["The Reality War (TV story)"]) The Doctor asked the TARDIS to make a quiz for a individual to make sure they had been paying attention. (GAME: TARDIS Test [+]Loading...["TARDIS Test (game)"]) Electing to not be alone, he took the TARDIS to Joy Almondo in her star form. The TARDIS powered down, and the Doctor finally succumbed to his sacrificial act and regenerated into his successor. (TV: The Reality War [+]Loading...["The Reality War (TV story)"])
Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Doctor was depicted alongside Joy Almondo in an advertisement for Doctor Who, stating that it could be watched at Christmas. Around this time, the Doctor's TARDIS was flown nearby. (WC: The TARDIS is landing just in time for Christmas! [+]Loading...["The TARDIS is landing just in time for Christmas! (webcast)"])
Mo Gilliben made an incident report called Incident Report Fatal Incident Colony Base 15 in which she recounted the events that happened in Colony Base 15 on the planet 6-7-6-7 when she and her other troopers landed on the planet and met the Doctor and Belinda Chandra and later encountered an entity, and how the Doctor and Belinda helped them escape and defeat the entity. (PROSE: Fatal Incident: Colony Base 15 [+]Loading...["Fatal Incident: Colony Base 15 (short story)"])
Other realities[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Daft Dimension[[edit] | [edit source]]
- Main article: Fifteenth Doctor (The Daft Dimension)
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In the Daft Dimension, the "new Doctor", as mentioned by one fan, was among the exciting new developments of Doctor Who. (COMIC: The Daft Dimension 579 [+]Loading...["The Daft Dimension (DWM 579 comic story)","''The Daft Dimension'' 579"]) This Doctor and his companion were on the front cover of an issue of Doctor Who Magazine. (COMIC: The Daft Dimension 600 [+]Loading...["The Daft Dimension (DWM 600 comic story)","''The Daft Dimension'' 600"])
Erased from Time[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Doctor landed the TARDIS on the South Wales coast, and was delighted that he was in Wales. He started to tell Ruby that he loved the Welsh but started to warn her about Roger ap Gwilliam, before realising it was a spoiler for her immediate future. Not paying attention he walked into a fairy circle made out of cotton, (PROSE: The Life Of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Life Of Ruby Sunday (short story)"]) disrupting it. After she started reading the offerings, he vanished. This entire timeline was averted after that version of Ruby decades later returned to that moment in time through a mysterious woman and was able to nudge her past self into warning the Doctor not to step on the circle. (TV: 73 Yards [+]Loading...["73 Yards (TV story)"])
Psychological profile[[edit] | [edit source]]
Personality[[edit] | [edit source]]
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Enjoying the feel of being himself, the Fifteenth Doctor was charismatic and flirtatious, (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) wearing his emotions openly and unafraid to react with visceral distraught in the face of tragedy. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) He sought to comfort those he knew were in distress, even offering himself as a shoulder to cry on for his fourteenth incarnation. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) However, in a moment of self-reflection, he hesitated to invite Ruby Sunday aboard the TARDIS, thinking he was "the bad luck". (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) The Fifteenth Doctor was suave, fashion-forward, and one of the Doctor's most empathetic incarnations. (PROSE: TARDIS Data File: The Doctor [+]Loading...["TARDIS Data File: The Doctor (feature)"])
He displayed an optimistic and adventurous outlook towards the future, (PROSE: "Heroes of Time" [+]Part of Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse, Loading...{"namedpart":"Heroes of Time","1":"Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)"}) having been freed from the emotional baggage of his past, following the Fourteenth Doctor's rehab on Earth, allowing him to be accepting of his losses, while fondly remembering his past loved ones. He was overjoyed meeting his predecessor and had an excellent relationship with him. He was sympathetic about the Fourteenth Doctor's struggles and urged him to retire. Before the Doctors departed, they hugged each other and saluted at one another with affection.
The Fifteenth Doctor did not seem to suffer from embarrassment, striding confidently around without trousers after bi-generating, (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) and ecstatically dancing to his own rhythm in a nightclub. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
As the Doctor's appearance was that of a black person, he felt that he was treated differently on some parts of Earth, compared to his primarily lighter-skinned predecessors. He credited the Nigerian city of Lagos as a place in which he felt accepted. (TV: The Story & the Engine [+]Loading...["The Story & the Engine (TV story)"])
He liked to learn new things.
He had a macabre sense of humour when infiltrating the Goblin ship despite the open risk of the Goblins eating him. He was likewise so enthralled by the sight of the Goblin band he overlooked that Lulubelle was about to be eaten by the Goblin King. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
The Fifteenth Doctor loved New Year's Day, especially all the hopes and possibility that it symbolized. (TV: Lucky Day [+]Loading...["Lucky Day (TV story)"])
Like his eleventh incarnation, the Doctor liked fish fingers and custard.
While the Doctor was reluctant to see faith as a concept, he acknowledged that he in fact needed it, and asked Splice Alison Vater to keep the faith.
He considered death as something unavoidable, stating that everyone would die eventually. However, he didn't see it as something bad, saying that it was the reason to keep the pace up. According to the Doctor, dying defined one. (TV: Boom [+]Loading...["Boom (TV story)"])
When Kid attempted to kill three trillion lifeforms with a delta wave, a darker side to the Doctor was triggered, an act that he referred to as Kid having "put ice in his heart". Being reminded by Kid's actions of the genocide of the Time Lords, he tortured the Hellian by inflicting repeated electric shocks via his hard light hologram, only being snapped out of his white hot rage by Belinda Chandra. After the ordeal, the Doctor remarked that he had scared himself. (TV: The Interstellar Song Contest [+]Loading...["The Interstellar Song Contest (TV story)"])
The Doctor treated robots as individuals. For example, he apologised to a Polish-Bot named Scoot before switching it off, explaining why he had to do that, and kissed it. (TV: The Robot Revolution [+]Loading...["The Robot Revolution (TV story)"])
The Fifteenth Doctor took pride in his status as a time traveller, taking offence when Ruby called the Goblin's time travellers. He corrected her that their time-surfing capabilities were a mere "bimble" in comparison to "cool" time travellers like himself. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) He also knew that time travel could be incredibly dangerous. While he was fascinated by the mystery of Ruby Sunday's birth and its status as an important fixed point in time, he refused to travel back to it a second time to help Ruby Sunday discover the identity of her birth mother, as it would be too dangerous. (TV: Space Babies [+]Loading...["Space Babies (TV story)"], The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"]) The Fifteenth Doctor also took pride in his TARDIS, and laughed at the rudimentary nature of UNIT's Time Window in comparison to his own ship. (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"])
While his immediate predecessors would dwell on lives lost in a crisis, the Fifteenth Doctor knew he "[couldn't] save everyone" and instead chose to move on. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) He also chose not to dwell on his tragedies, lightly telling Ruby Sunday he has no family left, and then quickly resuming the task at hand. However, he reflected sombrely on the abandonment and adoption of the Timeless Child when seeing Carla Sunday shower Ruby with affection. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
He could get caught up in his excitement to the point that he risked sabotaging his own efforts, (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) and also fail to notice when he was in danger until it was in front of him. (COMIC: Mancopolis [+]Loading...["Mancopolis (comic story)"])
While he moved to protect bystanders from harm, he was not above criticising their choices or begrudging the circumstances he found himself in.
Even though he was dismissive of the policeman that questioned him regarding an accident with an inflatable snowman, the Doctor stopped during his exit to reassure the man that his girlfriend would accept his marriage proposal, because his decision to buy an engagement ring before the sales was proof of character, and happily wished him a "Merry Christmas" before he left. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
The Doctor embraced his newfound status as a foundling, and proclaimed that it ultimately did not matter where he came from, because he was "absolutely lovely". (TV: Space Babies [+]Loading...["Space Babies (TV story)"])
The Fifteenth Doctor called his previous incarnations who worked with Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart "great enigma" for never mentioning Susan Foreman to the Brigadier. (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"])
He agreed with his predecessor that being separated from his TARDIS would "hurt", and also apologised to his ship after he struck it with a mallet to divide it. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])
Like his immediate predecessor, the Doctor was shown to be attracted to other men. He was enamoured with Finetime singer, Ricky September, who he believed to be "hot", and was encapsulated by his appearance as they conversed. (TV: Dot and Bubble [+]Loading...["Dot and Bubble (TV story)"]) He had a romantic encounter with the bounty hunter known only as "Rogue", with whom he danced and shared a passionate kiss. (TV: Rogue [+]Loading...["Rogue (TV story)"]) Having traveled with the Doctor, Ruby was amused at the suggestion of him being her boyfriend and believed that he would be more likely to flirt with her date, Conrad Clark. (TV: Lucky Day [+]Loading...["Lucky Day (TV story)"])
He thought that children were "the most precious gift[s] of all", and made it his mission to protect them, breaking down in tears if he realised that a child had come to harm. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
Belinda Chandra called the Doctor "wonderful", but was also frightened by his anger toward Kid. (TV: The Interstellar Song Contest [+]Loading...["The Interstellar Song Contest (TV story)"])
Describing the process of regeneration to Ruby Sunday, he likened it to wearing a disguise, stating that despite changing their appearance, a Time Lord remains the same person. He also stated that regeneration can save one from death or provide an opportunity to hide away with a new face. (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"])
Habits and quirks[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Fifteenth Doctor spoke with a unique Scottish-Rwandan accent, which meant that, unlike his predecessors, his accent did not originate solely from the British Isles. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])
The Fifteenth Doctor used "Hell" as an intensive and noteworthy expletive. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"], The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) He also littered his vocabulary with flamboyant expressions, such as referring to people as "love", "honey" (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) and "babes." (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
He had a tendency to vocalise his actions, such as saying, "jump", when he leapt into a hug with his fourteenth incarnation (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) and when he leapt onto the rope ladder of the Goblin ship. He also whispered, "curtsey", to himself as he bowed to the Goblin King. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
He would occasionally address people he had taken a liking to with shortened versions of their names out of endearment, such as calling Ruby, "Rubes", (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) or Poppy, "Pops". (TV: Space Babies [+]Loading...["Space Babies (TV story)"])
He would quip, "If you don't mind", when he wanted to be left alone to continue his activities. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"], The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
Skills[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Fifteenth Doctor had the athleticism to leap over chimneys while running over rooftops at the same pace as the Goblin ship while conversing with Ruby, (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) and also had the reflexes to help the Fourteenth Doctor best the Toymaker in a game of catch, even making the winning throw. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) He was quick enough to go from a dance floor to standing next to Ruby without her noticing, and catch a falling drink as he did so.
He also possessed the technical knowledge to create the Intelligent gloves.
He was a convincing performer, able to sing and dance to distract the goblins, (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) and even being capable of bursting into song and dance effortlessly, such as when he celebrated the defeat of Maestro by singing "Twist at the End", an act which somehow prompted others to spontaneously burst into a full-on song and dance around him. (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])
The Doctor could learn "the language of rope" to deduce how to manoeuvre through the goblin's ship. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) He also knew sign language. (TV: The Well [+]Loading...["The Well (TV story)"])
The Doctor displayed sharp deductive and reasoning skills, being able to interpret a reading from his sonic screwdriver which detected a 2 carat diamond ring in the pocket of a policeman, and deduce that he intended to propose to his girlfriend. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
Appearance[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Fifteenth Doctor was a black man, standing at "about five-ten", (TV: 73 Yards [+]Loading...["73 Yards (TV story)"]) with a "nice" new face which fitted well into place, his hair being short (POEM: Contents [+]Loading...{"page":"16","1":"Contents (poem)"}) and tinged blue, (AUDIO: Sting of the Sasquatch [+]Loading...["Sting of the Sasquatch (audio story)"]) and his nose being "just right". His legs were firm and his eyes were bright (POEM: Contents [+]Loading...{"page":"16","1":"Contents (poem)"}) and brown in colour. A thin black moustache rested on top his upper lip, and he had a faint scar around his right eye. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"])
Melanie Bush described the Fifteenth Doctor as looking "beautiful", (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) and Cherry Sunday likewise found him attractive. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) Susan Triad described the Fifteenth Doctor as "handsome," and said she would have remembered meeting a man of his looks. (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"]) Ruby Sunday described the Fifteenth Doctor as having an amazing smile. (PROSE: Who's the Doctor? [+]Loading...["Who's the Doctor? (short story)"])
The Thirteenth Doctor described the Fifteenth Doctor as "gorgeous." (TV: The Reality War [+]Loading...["The Reality War (TV story)"])
Clothing[[edit] | [edit source]]
Main attires[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Fifteenth Doctor primarily wore a double-breasted, orange leather trenchcoat, complete with pockets and belted cuffs, (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"], et al.) but he also owned a plain black leather jacket. (TV: Boom [+]Loading...["Boom (TV story)"]) However, he would sometimes dispense with leather and instead don a single-breasted overcoat and trousers in brown tweed with darker brown cheques and a plain orange jumper. (TV: Dot and Bubble [+]Loading...["Dot and Bubble (TV story)"])
Under his trenchcoat, the Doctor wore a series of zip-up polo-cardigans, with styles including one striped with shades of blue and orange vertically, a green one with horizontal stipes, (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) a yellow one with a simple orange stripe going down the middle, (COMIC: Mancopolis [+]Loading...["Mancopolis (comic story)"]) a plain white one, (TV: Lucky Day [+]Loading...["Lucky Day (TV story)"]) a green one, (TV: The Story & the Engine [+]Loading...["The Story & the Engine (TV story)"]) and an orange one. (TV: The Interstellar Song Contest [+]Loading...["The Interstellar Song Contest (TV story)"])
He also wore blue trousers, with long black socks under a pair of colourful trainers on his feet, (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"]) which were red, blue, gold and white. (AUDIO: Sting of the Sasquatch [+]Loading...["Sting of the Sasquatch (audio story)"]) Occasionally he wore tartan trousers. (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"], The Interstellar Song Contest [+]Loading...["The Interstellar Song Contest (TV story)"]) He was often seen wearing boots. (TV: Boom [+]Loading...["Boom (TV story)"], The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"], AUDIO: Sting of the Sasquatch [+]Loading...["Sting of the Sasquatch (audio story)"])
He consistently wore five rings, with two on his left hand's thumb and index finger and three on his right hand's thumb and index and middle fingers, as well as two silver necklaces. He frequently had nail tattoos on his fingernails. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
Eventually, he took to wearing a white shirt with short sleeves and blue trousers with a waistcoat and kilt of blue and grey pinstripe. (TV: The Robot Revolution [+]Loading...["The Robot Revolution (TV story)"], The Reality War [+]Loading...["The Reality War (TV story)"]) He sometimes wore a tartan jacket as well. (TV: The Robot Revolution [+]Loading...["The Robot Revolution (TV story)"])
Other outfits[[edit] | [edit source]]
Upon emerging from the bi-generation, the Fifteenth Doctor retained the Fourteenth Doctor's dress shirt, tie, pants, socks and shoes. (TV: The Giggle [+]Loading...["The Giggle (TV story)"]) However, believing them to be "off-the-peg", he soon chose an outfit of his own after pondered on wearing a frilly shirt and a scarf. He settled on wearing sturdy boots, that he believed would be handy on the Moon, and a "nice" new hat (POEM: Contents [+]Loading...{"page":"16","1":"Contents (poem)"}) in the form of a bolero. (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...{"chaptnum":"Three","page":"15","1":"The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"})
While out at a nightclub, the Doctor wore his black leather jacket over an orange tank-top and also wore a blue tartan kilt, knee-high green socks and Grenson Fred boots. (TV: The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"])
Whilst in 1963, he wore a double-breasted blue pinstripe blazer and trousers with a grey tie and white shirt, and wore a pair of black Cuban heeled boots. On this occasion he sported a wig in the style of a mini-afro with side burns. (TV: The Devil's Chord [+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])
On Kastarion 3 in 5087, he wore a purple corduroy safari jacket over a white t-shirt, tan trousers, and brown boots. (TV: Boom [+]Loading...["Boom (TV story)"])
When visiting Wales, the Doctor wore a yellow duffle coat over a white and navy striped jumper, along with jeans, wool socks, and boots. (TV: 73 Yards [+]Loading...["73 Yards (TV story)"])
On Finetime, he wore one of his signature outfits, but ditched his plaid coat while appearing in Lindy's bubble, primarily donning his orange jumper. (TV: Dot and Bubble [+]Loading...["Dot and Bubble (TV story)"])
In 1813, he wore a maroon tailcoat, a cream waistcoat, a white shirt, a white cravat, white breeches, and black shoes, blending in with party-goers. (TV: Rogue [+]Loading...["Rogue (TV story)"])
When visiting UNIT in 2024, he wore his black leather jacket over a white t-shirt, with jeans. (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday [+]Loading...["The Legend of Ruby Sunday (TV story)"])
When helping to free the missbelindachandrakind, he wore a beige tank top under the uniform worn by the slaves. (TV: The Robot Revolution [+]Loading...["The Robot Revolution (TV story)"])
When visiting Miami in 1952, he wore a single-breasted blue blazer and trousers, a white shirt, and a pink bow tie with dark blue polka dots. (TV: Lux [+]Loading...["Lux (TV story)"])
When joining forces with Squadron 7-7-5 on 6-7-6-7, he wore one of their black and blue uniforms. (TV: The Well [+]Loading...["The Well (TV story)"])
When landing in London on New Year's Eve 2007, he wore a black beanie and a double-breasted orange tweed overcoat with red cheques over a white t-shirt. (TV: Lucky Day [+]Loading...["Lucky Day (TV story)"])
When going to visit Omo Esosa in Lagos in 2019, he wore an African outfit; a black kufi cap, a sleeveless, dark red kaftan, a yellow dashiki suit with orange piping, and a necklace. (TV: The Story & the Engine [+]Loading...["The Story & the Engine (TV story)"])
As John Smith in Conrad Clark's Wish World, he wore a blazer, waistcoat, and trousers of blue and white pinstripe with a white dress shirt, a dark blue tie with grey polka dots, and black shoes. He often wore a black bowler hat when going out. (TV: Wish World [+]Loading...["Wish World (TV story)"])
Alternate forms[[edit] | [edit source]]
When the Doctor and Belinda Chandra visited the Squirrel Club Clubhouse, the Doctor appeared as a humanoid beaver with brown fur, commenting that this was "new". (TV: The Doctor's TARDIS lands in iconic BBC shows (episode 6) [+]Loading...{"ep":"6","1":"The Doctor's TARDIS lands in iconic BBC shows (TV story)"})
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
The Fourteenth Doctor?[[edit] | [edit source]]
The BBC announcement revealing Ncuti Gatwa's casting as the Doctor was worded ambiguously, with Gatwa's Doctor only described as "the new Doctor", without explicitly stating him to be the Fourteenth Doctor, or even the successor to Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor.[1][2] Nevertheless, numerous news outlets presumed that Gatwa's incarnation would be the Fourteenth Doctor and incorrectly reported as such.[3][4][5][6]
However, Whittaker's final episode, The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"], depicted the Thirteenth Doctor regenerating into a new incarnation once again portrayed by Tenth Doctor actor David Tennant. After Power of the Doctor's broadcast, Russell T Davies confirmed that Tennant's new incarnation was the Fourteenth Doctor, and that Gatwa's would follow as the Fifteenth.[7]
Strangely, Gatwa was again incorrectly identified as the Fourteenth Doctor by the Channel 5 documentary Doctor Who: 60 Years of Secrets and Scandals which aired on 25 November 2023, shortly following the premiere of The Star Beast [+]Loading...["The Star Beast (TV story)"], the first full episode of Tennant's run as the Fourteenth Doctor.
The first black Doctor?[[edit] | [edit source]]
With the casting of Rwandan-Scottish actor Ncuti Gatwa, the Fifteenth Doctor became the first "main" ordinal incarnation of the Doctor in the programme's history to be played by a black man.[3][8] However, other black Doctors have previously appeared in the Doctor Who universe;
- Comedian Lenny Henry was the very first non-white actor to portray the Doctor, having portrayed a parodical Seventh Doctor in an untitled skit [+]Loading...{"noital":"1","1":"Untitled (The Lenny Henry Show)","2":"an untitled skit"} from an episode of The Lenny Henry Show broadcast on 3 October 1985. Upon Gatwa's casting in 2022, Henry praised the development, stating; "A lot of black fans have been looking at our watches for a while! More power to Russell T Davies."[8]
- Russell T Davies's novelisation [+]Loading...{"noital":"1","1":"Rose (novelisation)","2":"novelisation"} of Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"], released on 5 April 2018, featured a photograph in conspiracy theorist Clive Finch's possession that showed a tall, bald, black female Doctor who wielded a flaming sword.
- The 2020 episode Fugitive of the Judoon [+]Loading...["Fugitive of the Judoon (TV story)"] introduced the "Fugitive Doctor", a mysterious, previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor, portrayed by BAME actor Jo Martin. This previously unseen incarnation was a predecessor to the First Doctor, much like the eight other "pre-Hartnell" Doctors introduced in the 1976 serial The Brain of Morbius [+]Loading...["The Brain of Morbius (TV story)"].
- Within the same series as Fugitive, several of the Timeless Children — seven youthful incarnations of the Doctor — were played by BAME child actors, including most notably the first.
- At the time of production for Silence in the Library [+]Loading...["Silence in the Library (TV story)"] and Forest of the Dead [+]Loading...["Forest of the Dead (TV story)"], Steven Moffat secretly intended Doctor Moon to be a future Doctor, meaning that Colin Salmon might have been the first BAME actor to portray a main ordinal Doctor, although it is unclear if this future incarnation would've been given an ordinal.
- In Showrunner Showdown in 2020, Moffat commented that he thought a version of this idea could still work and Russell T Davies revealed that he had always thought of the character as the Doctor as well while watching the episodes.
- As of 2024, this backstory has never been incorporated for the character in any later work of fiction.
- In addition, various "body swaps" have been depicted wherein the Doctor temporarily possesses the body of a BAME individual, such as Daniel Anthony's Clyde Langer being possessed by the Eleventh Doctor in Death of the Doctor [+]Loading...["Death of the Doctor (TV story)"], and Damian Lynch's Benjamin Chikoto, who the Third Doctor uses as a means to communicate in Ghost in the Machine.
First LGBTQ incarnation?[[edit] | [edit source]]
Gatwa has the distinction of being the first openly queer actor to portray a mainline ordinal incarnation of the Doctor,[9] though gay actors Mark Gatiss and Geoffrey Bayldon previously portrayed a non-ordinal Doctor in the parody skit The Web of Caves and an alternate universe Doctor in the Doctor Who Unbound audio series respectively.
Co-star Neil Patrick Harris had described Gatwa as "the first gay Doctor".[10] While an exact label has yet to be applied in-universe, the Fifteenth Doctor would go on to show attraction to, at least at the time of writing, exclusively male characters. This inclination would first be hinted at in Dot and Bubble [+]Loading...["Dot and Bubble (TV story)"], with the Doctor showing an interest in Ricky September, before being made explicit in the very next episode, Rogue [+]Loading...["Rogue (TV story)"], in which he embarks on a romance with the titular character, during which the two share a kiss.
The question of which incarnation constitutes the "first gay Doctor" is a matter of debate; the friendship between the Thirteenth Doctor and Yasmin Khan became romantically tinged towards the end of the Chris Chibnall era, though the pair never acted on their attraction to one another, while the Eighth Doctor was implied to be non-heterosexual in the Eighth Doctor Adventures series of novels, as was the Fourteenth Doctor just one episode prior to Gatwa's debut, who was surprised to discover that he found Isaac Newton "hot". Furthermore, many stories released in the 1990s and beyond reiterate that the Time Lords' concept of gender differs to that of humanity, and a number of stories hinted that there had been a romantic dimension to the Doctor's youthful relationship with the Master before they drifted apart. By one account, the Ninth Doctor was confirmed to be LGBTQ in the Ninth Doctor Adventures series of audio dramas as River Song helps him realise in Swipe Right [+]Loading...["Swipe Right (audio story)"] that he is both aromantic and asexual, as he said that he could never see himself marrying her.
Appearances prior to his first full television story[[edit] | [edit source]]
Continuing the trend set by the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Doctors, the Fifteenth Doctor appeared multiple times in expanded media before his television debut.
- Interestingly, the Fifteenth Doctor's first appearance can be interpreted to have occurred technically before the Thirteenth Doctor's television debut in The Woman Who Fell to Earth [+]Loading...["The Woman Who Fell to Earth (TV story)"]; in the 2017 poem Contents [+]Loading...["Contents (poem)"], an ambiguous future Doctor with short hair appeared, who rummaged through a chest looking for a new costume, settling on a hat and boots. As revealed on the Official Doctor Who Twitter account, the Fifteenth Doctor does indeed have very short hair, wears a bolero,[11] and boots.[12]
- Also of note, whilst not strictly a story in itself, was the Fifteenth Doctor's brief appearance, partially dressed in the Fourteenth Doctor's attire and asking "someone [to] tell [him] what the hell [was] going on here", in the televised preview for the 2023 specials immediately following the broadcast of The Power of the Doctor [+]Loading...["The Power of the Doctor (TV story)"], which had ended with the Thirteenth Doctor's surprise regeneration into the Fourteenth Doctor. (The broadcast of The Giggle over a year later would reveal the context of this appearance as following the Fourteenth Doctor's bi-generation which took place at UNIT Tower, the appearance of which had been removed for the initial preview.)
- A definitely intentioned implicit appearance of the Fifteenth Doctor occurred in the audio drama The World Tree [+]Loading...["The World Tree (audio story)"]. Whilst the text of the story was ambiguous as to which future Doctor appeared in it, Nick Slawicz, the story's author, confirmed that the intention was indeed that it was the Fifteenth Doctor who was the Doctor present in the conclusion of that story. Slawicz further explained that he didn't intend to make the future Doctor ambiguous, but needed to be vague on details as no costumes had been revealed for the Fifteenth Doctor at the time of the final draft of the story.[13]
- The pink-painted TARDIS that appeared as part of a cross-promotion exhibit [+]Loading...{"noital":"1","1":"Come on TARDIS, let's go party (exhibit)","2":"a cross-promotion exhibit"} with the 2023 film Barbie could be argued to be that of the Fifteenth Doctor, owing to the fact that Ncuti Gatwa also played a Ken in the film; Russell T Davies claimed the exhibit depicted genuine in-universe events.[14]
- The first explicit appearance of the Fifteenth Doctor was in the short story First Day of the Doctor [+]Loading...["First Day of the Doctor (short story)"], which depicted an obscured diary entry written by the Doctor shortly after his first adventure with Ruby Sunday.
- The Fifteenth Doctor's entry in the encyclopaedia Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse [+]Loading...["Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse (reference book)"] was styled as an inner monologue of the Doctor, wherein he reflected on the new friends and foes in his life.
- Although not an appearance of the Fifteenth Doctor per se, Ncuti Gatwa appeared in-costume as the Doctor in a version of An Adventure in Space and Time [+]Loading...["An Adventure in Space and Time (TV story)"] broadcast on BBC Four on 23 November 2023 as part of William Hartnell's (David Bradley) premonition of the future of Doctor Who, replacing Matt Smith's role from the original version broadcast in 2013.
- In the illustrated edition of the novelisation [+]Loading...{"ed":"2023 Illustrated Edition","noital":"1","1":"Rose (novelisation)","2":"the novelisation"} of Rose [+]Loading...["Rose (TV story)"] released on 23 November 2023, photographs of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctors were added to Clive Finch's collection of photographs of the Doctor.
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- Ncuti Gatwa had a role in the costume chosen for the Fifteenth Doctor.[15]
- The Fifteenth Doctor's main outfit in The Church on Ruby Road [+]Loading...["The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)"] has an overall retro appearance: his cardigan is Madcap England's "Capitol 60s Mod Stripe Zip Polo"[16] and his trainers are Grenson's "Sneaker 51".[17]
- Another element of a different outfit worn by the Doctor is an "Armor-Lux Molene Stripe Sailor Knit" jumper.[18]
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- Titan Merchandise, for MCM Comic Con, released an exclusive t-shirt, sweatshirt, cup and coaster using a promotional picture of the Fifteenth Doctor. These were later sold by Forbidden Planet.
- A poster of the Fifteenth Doctor was included with Doctor Who Magazine #598.
- The Fifteenth Doctor received a card in the Secret Lair x Doctor Who: Regeneration set of Magic the Gathering's Universes Beyond: Doctor Who expansion.
Other matters[[edit] | [edit source]]
- A clip of the Fifteenth Doctor was used in the Whoniverse ident released on 31 October 2023.
- A version of Lee Sullivan's The Usual Suspects? art piece including the Fifteenth Doctor was released on 21 October 2023 for the Adventures in Time and Space – 60 Years of Doctor Who Art Exhibition exhibition held at Weston Museum,[19] although there is no indication that this version of the artwork is licensed, although versions released earlier were.
- Various pieces of fan art of the Fifteenth Doctor and Ruby were shared by the Official Doctor Who Twitter account under the #FanArtFriday and #DWFanArt hashtags.
- The Fifteenth Doctor's first full series was rebranded as "Season 1", the first numbering reset since the show's televised relaunch in 2005.
- The Fifteenth Doctor is one of two numbered incarnations of the Doctor to never encounter a Dalek onscreen, the other being the Eighth Doctor.
Footnotes[[edit] | [edit source]]
Notes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- ↑ This poem features an ambiguous future Doctor who was later shown to be the Fifteenth, as their physical appearances match. Please see the behind the scenes section for more details.
Citations[[edit] | [edit source]]
- ↑ Ncuti Gatwa is the Doctor on doctorwho.tv via the Wayback Machine
- ↑ The future is here! Ncuti Gatwa is the Doctor. @bbc on twitter.com
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Doctor Who: Ncuti Gatwa to replace Jodie Whittaker, BBC announces on theguardian.com via the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Ncuti Gatwa: who is new Doctor Who from Scotland on glasgowworld.com
- ↑ Ncuti Gatwa's Edinburgh links as former high school praises new Doctor Who role on edinburghlive.co.uk
- ↑ Doctor... WHO? From homeless actor to the Fourteenth Time Lord, learn all about Ncuti Gatwa... on uk.style.yahoo.com
- ↑ David Tennant is the Doctor! on doctorwho.tv via the Wayback Machine
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 Sir Lenny Henry praises Russell T Davies for casting Ncuti Gatwa in Doctor Who on theindependent.co.uk via the Wayback Machine
- ↑ ELLE Style Awards: Ncuti Gatwa Is The Modern Pioneer on elle.com
- ↑ Neil Patrick Harris on His First On-Camera Gay Sex Scene in 'Uncoupled,' Fake Penises and Joining 'Doctor Who' on variety.com
- ↑ The Doctor 🤝 A nice big hat @bbcdoctorwho on twitter.com
- ↑ Introducing the Doctor and Ruby Sunday, played by Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson ❤️❤️➕🟦 @bbcdoctorwho on twitter.com via the Wayback Machine
- ↑ @ellingtonelms on twitter.com
- ↑ @russelltdavies63 on Instagram
- ↑ Ncuti Gatwa reveals he has a say in his "exciting" Doctor Who outfit on radiotimes.com via the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Capitol 60s Mod Stripe Zip Polo on madcapengland.com
- ↑ Men's Sneaker 51 on grenson.com
- ↑ Armour-Lux Molene Stripe Sailor Knit. End Clothing. Archived from the original on 21 May 2024. Retrieved on 21 May 2024.
- ↑ The largest collection of original and digital Doctor Who art ever shown in one location. on westonmuseum.org