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The Sooner the Better ( short story ) The Sooner the Better was the fifth short story in the Short Trips anthology " " . It was written by Ian Farrington . It featured the Fourth Doctor and Leela . Summary . The TARDIS materialises in a quiet suburb early in the morning . The Doctor and Leela step out , but they have arrived a little too early for their mission . They sit on a bench and enjoy the morning , while the Doctor shows Leela a letter he must deliver . When they get up , the Doctor fails to notice that he has left the letter behind . Paul is doing his morning paper route when he accidentally bumps into a postman , knocking him down . He helps him up and hands him a letter that has fallen on the ground . When the Doctor and Leela try to deliver the letter , the Doctor discovers that it ' s missing . They search for it in vain , then meet Paul . They ask for his help , and he tells them he gave the letter to the postman . The three head for the house of Walter Fisher , who the Doctor tells Paul is an alien exiled to Earth . When they arrive at Walter ' s home , the door is open . Inside they find the postman , who claims he was worried about the old man . Upstairs , the bedroom door is locked . When they break it open , they find Walter dead inside . The Doctor accuses the postman of killing Walter . The postman admits to being an assassin on Walter ' s home planet , assigned to kill him . The Doctor , however , states that the letter he was bringing contained a pardon for Walter . The Doctor and Leela take the postman into custody and say their goodbyes to Paul . He considers selling his story to a tabloid . Notes . " to be added " Continuity . " to be added "
Anthony ( Downtime ) Anthony was a radio host at the radio station at New World University . He was also a friend of Daniel Hinton . He wanted to get more action into his radio programm , the students at the New World University were brain dead and uninteresting to him . Anthony hoped to receive a BAFTA someday . When the Great Intelligence took over the campus , Daniel tried to warn Anthony about the Great Intelligence and the Chilly s . However Anthony soon got trapped in the broadcast booth and smothered to death with web . ( HOMEVID : " Downtime " , PROSE : " Downtime " )
Escape Velocity ( novel ) Escape Velocity was the forty - second novel in the BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures series . It was written by Colin Brake . It featured the Eighth Doctor and Fitz Kreiner and introduced new companion Anji Kapoor . Publisher ' s summary . " " You know me then ? " asked the Eighth Doctor , a little tentatively . " " " You ' re the Doctor , " replied Fitz , a slight frown worming its way on to his forehead . " " " Yes , yes , yes , the Doctor , of course I am . " The Doctor smiled , genuinely pleased to see a familiar face , even if for the moment he couldn ' t quite put a name to it . " But , er , Doctor who ? " he added , hopefully . " The Doctor and Fitz are back together at last , but the Doctor is not the man he once was — which is a shame , because Fitz has promised Anji Kapoor that his old friend is Anji ' s best hope of finding her alien - abducted boyfriend , Dave . Soon the Doctor , Fitz and Anji find themselves involved in a desperate contest between Pierre - Yves Dudoin and Arthur Tyler the Third , each determined to be the first privately funded man in space . But not all the parties are playing fairly : members of an alien race called the Kulan are helping the Frenchman — and at the far reaches of the Solar System their battle fleet awaits . . . Can the Doctor find Dave before the alien contact proves fatal ? Who are the secret agents keeping tabs on the rival Space Race teams ? Will the Doctor ' s mysterious blue box finally reveal its purpose ? And does the Doctor , now truly a man without a past , have what it takes to stop the Kulan Invasion of Earth . . . ? Plot . " to be added "
Eddie Smith Eddie Smith was the brother of Lavinia Smith , the husband of Barbara Smith and the father of Sarah Jane Smith . He was killed in a road accident shortly after the birth of his daughter . Biography . Eddie was born in Liverpool . ( PROSE : " Island of Death " ) Timeline 1 . On 18 August 1951 , the day of the Foxgrove village fête , Eddie and his wife drove off in their car , leaving their three - month - old baby Sarah Jane Smith behind in the street . Barbara and Eddie subsequently died when their car crashed into a tractor that had broken down in the road . Sarah Jane was subsequently reared by Eddie ' s sister , Lavinia . Timeline 2 . Sarah Jane and her son Luke travelled from 2009 to meet Eddie and Barbara , and Sarah Jane decided to save them by deactivating their car so they would not be able to escape . However , while this change in and of itself had no major effect on the timeline , meddling with history near an unstable rift in time caused the rift to open , allowing the Trickster to fully materialise on Earth and suck it of its life . Timeline 3 . After Sarah Jane returned to 1951 Foxgrove from the alternate timeline her parents ' survival had created , Eddie and Barbara quickly worked out who Sarah Jane was and what they had to do . They decided to sacrifice themselves to save her world , restoring original timeline . ( TV : " The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith " )
Harold V Harold V was a Killjoy who had been Helen A ' s gag writer and was then called Harold F . After his brother disappeared , Harold investigated and discovered that several other people had also disappeared , which prompted him to attempt to contact Terra Omega for help . However , he was captured by the Happiness Patrol and taken to a waiting zone , where he was regraded to Harold V . He was present at the waiting zone when the Seventh Doctor and Ace were arrested . He was playing a slot machine when Helen A used the machine to electrocute Harold , killing him . ( TV : " The Happiness Patrol " )
Postine Postine was Sheldukher ' s bodyguard . In 2389 , she was part of Sheldukher ' s raid of Checkley ' s World to steal Project FXX Q84 . Sheldukher used it to help find the planet Sakkrat , which according to legends was the home of the Highest Science . The search took nearly three centuries , during which Sheldukher and his crew were kept in suspended animation . Over that time , the Project grew and became known as the Cell . When it found Hogsumm , which seemed to match all the descriptions of Sakkrat , the Cell woke Sheldukher and the crew in 2680 . While exploring the planet , they met a group of Chelonian s who had been transported there from the 57th century by a Fortean Flicker . Postine fatally injured their general , Fakrid , who was able to kill her before he died . ( PROSE : " The Highest Science " )
Fleming ' s Island Fleming ' s Island was an island off the coast of Ireland . Branwell Damien Fleming bought the island for his wife Sinead as a wedding present . However , in 1930 , he murdered her at a party in their house on the island . The Fifth Doctor , Adric , Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka encountered the I and the I Predator on Fleming ' s Island in December 1981 . ( AUDIO : " Iterations of I " )
Primord The Primords were savage , furry humanoid s created by Stahlman ' s ooze . They existed in both the Doctor ' s universe and a parallel universe visited by the Third Doctor . Biology . Transformation . Primords were human s who had come into contact with either Stahlman ' s ooze or another infected human . The transformation occurred in stages . First , the infected area turned green , then spread across the entire body . The infected human ' s face developed bestial qualities and his teeth changed into fangs . Strength was drastically increased , as seen when one effortlessly bent the bars of its prison cell . Primords could generate heat in a way impossible for a human . Once fully transformed , they grew thick hair and partial hunchbacks . The transformation process took several hours under normal conditions , but in heightened temperatures , the full transformation could occur in a few seconds . Behaviour . Primords banded together in groups , and instinctively sought to force humans into physical contact with the ooze so that they too would transform . Although a partially converted human could be killed by gunshots , once fully transformed into a Primord , they were immune . They could survive great heat , but found cold temperatures , such as those generated by fire extinguisher s , to be fatal . Upon entering a room , they would sometimes need time to acclimatise to the temperature . ( TV : " Inferno " ) History . The Doctor ' s universe . The first Primord was Harry Slocum , who came into contact with Stahlman ' s ooze while performing maintenance on the drill . It took him several hours to transform and even then it wasn ' t complete . In this time he accessed the power supply and almost caused an overload . Before Slocum was killed , he infected John Bromley and Private Wyatt . Wyatt later fell to his death while trying to kill the Third Doctor and Bromley was killed when the Doctor sprayed him with a fire extinguisher . Stahlman himself was converted after he touched a fractured glass tube containing a sample of the ooze . His transformation became complete while he was in the drilling room . He was killed by the Doctor and Greg Sutton with fire extinguishers . ( TV : " Inferno " ) C19 preserved a small sample of the ooze in the Vault , injected it into a Dobermann Pinscher , and used it to create a mutated guard - dog known as the Stalker . ( PROSE : " The Scales of Injustice " ) Parallel universe . The Third Doctor visited a parallel universe where the same drilling operation was occurring . The drilling released a significant amount of the ooze . The Primords which had already been created forced others into the ooze , so that they changed as well . Despite the efforts of the Third Doctor and a parallel Greg Sutton , the Primords infested the facility shortly before the planet was devastated by volcanic activity triggered by the drilling . ( TV : " Inferno " )
Torvic Torvic was a Time Lord who bullied the First Doctor and the Master when they were children . The Doctor killed Torvic at the river Lethe after years of abuse . To prevent discovery they burnt the body . ( AUDIO : " Master " ) In the Doctor ' s diary , he drew Torvic as a monster in the margins of the pages . ( PROSE : " The Three Paths " )
Arn An arn was a parasitic creature about the size of a small human hand , with teeth and poison ous claw s , and the resemblance of a cross between a lizard and a rat , which was used in a punishment by the Rhodian s against the Quill . When they would release it into the brain s of those to be punished , it would burrow itself inside . The creatures would telepathically link its host with a particular Rhodian , and the Quill would be their slave . If they tried to remove the arn , it would kill them . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) The arn were artificially created from multiple different species . This was enough to give them a concept of belief . They believed they came from birthing grounds . ( TV : " The Metaphysical Engine , or What Quill Did " ) At least in Miss Quill ' s case , if she used a weapon other than her own hands , failed to protect Charlie or attempted to remove the arn , it would kill her . She was also not allowed to tell him lies . ( TV : " For Tonight We Might Die " ) The telepathic link enabled the arn to distinguish Charlie from his lookalikes , however accurate they might be . For instance , Miss Quill was free to attack Charlie ' s doppelganger created by a bone spider from Charlie ' s dreams . ( PROSE : " The Stone House " ) Dorothea Ames and the Governors , with Ballon as the surgeon , were able to remove the arn from Miss Quill ' s head , leaving her with a scar over her eye . ( TV : " Detained " , " The Metaphysical Engine , or What Quill Did " )
Kurgon Wonder The Kurgon Wonder was a temporal distortion located in the Kurgon system . It was created when the Temperon attempted to destroy the Knights of Velyshaa which were trying to capture it , causing them to be frozen in a single moment in time . The people of the Kurgon system invited delegates from the Galactic Wonders Commission to examine the Kurgon Wonder on board the " Edifice " , hoping they would name it one of the Wonders of the Universe . However , the ship came too close to the Wonder and became enveloped in a time distortion , ageing everyone on board to death except for the Sixth Doctor , Ellie and Azimendah . Presumably , the Kurgon Wonder ceased to exist when the Temperon was freed . ( AUDIO : " The Sirens of Time " )
English Channel The English Channel was a body of water that separated Great Britain from France . Supposed Earthonomics expert Mr Copper referred to it as the " British Channel " , separating Great Britain from Great France and Great Germany of Europe y . ( TV : " Voyage of the Damned " ) History . In 1588 , the Spanish Armada massed in the Channel before its failed attack on England . ( AUDIO : " The Devil ' s Armada " ) In 1875 , Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim the English Channel . The Sixth Doctor claimed that he swam with Webb in the Channel . ( AUDIO : " Doctor Who and the Pirates " ) In October 1914 , Germany bombarded Antwerp . Using her yacht , a British woman named Jessica Borthwick evacuated numerous Belgians across the English Channel while under German fire . ( AUDIO : " Brotherhood of the Daleks " ) In 1941 , Bernice Summerfield spent time stranded on Nazi - occupied Guernsey , an island in the Channel . ( AUDIO : " Just War " , PROSE : " Just War " ) Reg Arwell was believed to have died while flying over the English Channel on 20 December 1941 . However , his wife Madge Arwell had saved him while flying through the Time Vortex with the Eleventh Doctor . ( TV : " The Doctor , the Widow and the Wardrobe " ) A German U - boat which was patrolling the English Channel in 1943 was sent forward in time to 1964 , where it threatened to torpedo the Isle of Wight ferry . Sir Toby Kinsella of the Intrusion Countermeasures Group ordered Group Captain Ian Gilmore and his squad to investigate and render assistance to the personnel of the nearby Lanchester Naval Base . ( AUDIO : " State of Emergency " ) In the 1970s , a prison was established on Fortress Island , located in the Channel . ( TV : " The Sea Devils " ) When John Harrison purchased a group of Skullion slave s who had crash landed in Central Asia , they were brought across Europe and then across the Channel to him . ( TV : " The Man Who Never Was " ) The Fourth Doctor once referred to it as " a glorified shipping lane . " ( AUDIO : " The Devil ' s Armada " )
Madison Yorke Madison Yorke was the CEO of Genetec Systems , a company that developed nanoform s . He demonstrated his company ' s developments to Sarah Jane Smith , who was working on an article on nanotechnology . He took offence at some of her questions and had her removed from his labs . Later , after Sarah Jane had been taken over by Androvax , a member of the Veil species , she took him hostage and released the nanoforms to build a space ship in which Androvax could escape . Androvax was stopped when Luke Smith , Rani Chandra and Clyde Langer arrived and helped stop the nanoforms from destroying Earth . ( TV : " Prisoner of the Judoon " )
Green Green was the official colour of mourning in Perfugium , as it symbolised death and a return to nature . ( AUDIO : " Master " ) and the universal colour for medicine . ( COMIC : " A Confusion of Angels " ) Sontaran s had green blood . ( TV : " The Two Doctors " ) Many species had green skin , including Alpha Centauran s , ( TV : " The Curse of Peladon " ) Etydion s , Foamasi , Ice Warrior s , ( TV : " The Curse of Peladon " ) Jadean s , Jagaroth , ( TV : " City of Death " ) Klepton s , Primitives , Rutan s , ( GAME : " The Gunpowder Plot " ) Silurian s , ( TV : " The Hungry Earth " ) Swampie s , Urbankan s and Vinvocci . ( TV : " The Power of Kroll " , " Four to Doomsday " , " The End of Time " ) Infant Chimeron s ( TV : " Delta and the Bannermen " ) and larval Wirrn ( TV : " The Ark in Space " ) were also green . Stahlman ' s ooze was green . ( TV : " Inferno " ) The waste from Global Chemicals ' oil - refining process was green . ( TV : " The Green Death " ) The sky of an Earth - like planet was green , ( PROSE : " The Sour Note " ) as was the sky of Arcopolis . ( PROSE : " The Eyeless " ) Green was also an eye colour . River Song had green eyes , ( TV : " Let ' s Kill Hitler " ) as did as the Eleventh Doctor . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) The Eighth Doctor remembered watching a meteor storm in the sky above him during his original incarnation . He said that " [ t ] he sky [ . . . ] was dancing with lights ; purple , green [ and ] brilliant yellow . " ( TV : " Doctor Who " ) Green Daleks were at the Gallifreyan warship " Starbane " . ( GAME : " The Doctor and the Dalek " )
Project Longinus ( comic story ) Project : Longinus was the first part of the " The Forge " comic series written by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright . It featured Nimrod , the head of the Forge . Summary . Five miles beneath Edinburgh , Nimrod falls out of a ventilation shaft into the fifth floor of Hecht Museum of Unexplained and Occult Material . Across the museum , curator Rhona McAndrew brings her phonecall to an end after her security systems detect an intruder . Nimrod finds what he came to the museum for , the Lance of Longinus , and begins scanning it with Oracle . McAndrew walks into the room and shoots Nimrod . Unfortunately for her Nimrod is unaffected because of his vampirism and he reaches out and snaps her neck . He swabs the body ' s mouth and uses McAndrew ' s DNA to deactivate the museum ' s security protocols . He then collects the Longinus and walks out of the museum into the streets of Edinburgh . Notes . " to be added "
Gertie Gertie was created by Annette Billingsley as a main character in her thirty - two book series of " The Troubleseekers " children ' s novels . She was the youngest member of the group and enjoyed making scones lathered in jam . In a world created by fictional books that Martha Jones had read , Gertie was temporarily brought to life by a Ch ' otterai . ( PROSE : " The Mystery of the Haunted Cottage " )
Safe as houses " Safe as houses " was an English language expression that befuddled the Doctor — apparently until his eighth incarnation . While in the interzone of the Divergent Universe searching for Caerdroia , he was once split into three bodies . One of his three selves finally figured out that the expression originated in a 19th century recession in which the only financial security was in real estate . ( AUDIO : " Caerdroia " ) The expression also made no sense to nine - year - old Clara Oswald , who noted that house s could be " knocked down , flood ed , felled by earthquake s , set on fire , taken to Oz by tornadoes . . . " ( PROSE : " Normality " )
G . V . Santori G . V . Santori was a parametricist whose mind was stolen by Skagra at the " Think Tank " space station . He died in the destruction of the station . ( HOMEVID : " Shada " ) However , Santori ' s mind lived on in the Sphere . After the Doctor defeated Skagra , he took the Sphere to Drornid , where he had the minds of Santori and the other victims of the Sphere transplanted into new bodies . ( PROSE : " Shada " ) Behind the scenes . The names of Santori and the other Think Tank scientists are all derived from locations or geographical features associated with the volcanic Greek island . Santori is an alternative name for the island .
Crozier Crozier was a bio - engineering scientist hired by the Mentor s to perform life - saving surgery on Kiv on Thoros - Beta in 2379 . In a fake version of events , he swapped Peri Brown ' s thoughts for Kiv ' s thoughts . This was later proved to be a fake , masterminded by the Valeyard . ( TV : " Mindwarp " / " The Ultimate Foe " ) He had a daughter , Cordelia , who grew to hold a grudge against the Sixth Doctor . ( AUDIO : " Antidote to Oblivion " )
Cory English Cory English voiced Sam Sonora in Big Finish " Doctor Who " audio story " The Gift " , Daniel in " The Great White Hurricane " and Ted Hunter in " The New Counter - Measures " audio story " The Ship of the Sleepwalkers " .
Wolsey ( The Widow ' s Assassin ) Wolsey was a constable in Peri Brown ' s court . He waited outside her chambers to apprehend the Sixth Doctor on her command and took him to the dungeons . Seven days after the wedding , he employed the Doctor to help him find out who killed Yrcanos . He had narrowed down the list to Baron Pteratrark , Reverend Flitamus and a couple of other people . He wanted the Doctor . He was made into a sheep via Crozier experiments . He briefed the Doctor in a mission to Dirani ' s court . He later charged the Doctor with the murder of Peri after she fell ill . ( AUDIO : " The Widow ' s Assassin " )
3864 3864 was the year in which Princess Ellua of Earth crashed on Peladon . The King of Peladon , Kellian , provided assistance to the stranded princess — and also fell in love with her . Ellua ' s eventual contact with the Galactic Federation to report her crash became Peladon ' s introduction to the Federation , an organisation they would join about a hundred years later . ( PROSE : " Legacy " )
Imogen Frazer Imogen Frazer was the girlfriend of Jerome Khan and a math s student at an English university . In the summer of 1981 , a cult that believed that God was a number employed Frazer to search for God . However , they accidentally let loose the I Predator , and it started killing the cultists . Imogen , knowing her fate , made a deal with the I to have her transformed into an I . Khan , along with Robert DeValley , Aoife Dineen and Donal Dineen came to the island to search for Frazer . The Fifth Doctor and Khan eventually realised that Imogen was still alive . Khan later became an I to be with Frazer . ( AUDIO : " Iterations of I " )
Trevor Ray Trevor Ray acted as assistant script editor to Terrance Dicks and Derrick Sherwin during the latter half of sixth season of " Doctor Who " . He replaced Terrance Dicks , who had vacated the position to briefly be the script editor before stepping down to write " The War Games " . ( REF : " The Second Doctor Handbook " ) After Dicks was rehired as script editor for season 7 , Ray remained in place as his assistant for at least the majority of that season . ( REF : " The Third Doctor Handbook " ) He made an on - screen appearance in " Doctor Who and the Silurians " as a ticket collector who falls victim to the Silurian virus . ( DWM 222 ) He also acted as production supervisor for the story ' s location work , since the show was without a producer in the wake of Sherwin being re - assigned to " Paul Temple " , and incoming producer Barry Letts not having yet arrived . Ray also wrote the teleplay for the first episode of " The Ambassadors of Death " , after the production team were unhappy with David Whitaker ' s original version of the story . ( REF : " The Third Doctor Handbook " ) Despite being an important member of the " Doctor Who " production team for two years , Ray was never once given an on - screen credit in the show .
John Wood ( designer ) John Wood was the designer on the " Doctor Who " television stories " The Web Planet " , " The Chase " , " The Myth Makers " and " The Celestial Toymaker " . He was also the visual effects designer for " The Space Pirates " .