The Doctor ' s father The Doctor , according to several accounts , had a father . Biography . In his time at the Academy , the Doctor ' s father , like his own father , was tutored by Patience , an old friend of the House of Lungbarrow . ( PROSE : " The Infinity Doctors " ) The Doctor ' s father often discussed wars , great projects , and big things that had to be taken care of with his friends , such as Mr Saldaamir . ( PROSE : " Unnatural History " ) The Doctor ' s father was also friends with Savar before he went on his mission to find Omega . The Doctor ' s father chose to stay behind on Gallifrey rather than attempt to rescue Omega from the black hole he was trapped in . ( PROSE : " The Infinity Doctors " ) When the Doctor was " barely a loomling " , he let a cobblemouse loose in the great hall of the House of Lungbarrow and it scattered his father ' s plans and notes in the air , which made him very angry . ( PROSE : " Unnatural History " ) The Eighth Doctor recalled his original incarnation lying in the grass as they watched a meteor storm together . ( TV : " Doctor Who " ) The Seventh Doctor had a flashback to a time when his father had his arm across the Doctor ' s shoulders as together they watched a Gallifreyan dawn . ( PROSE : " Matrix " ) The Eighth Doctor relived a memory from his first incarnation where his father held him up as a child to see the stars . ( PROSE : " The Eight Doctors " ) When the Doctor was young , his mother and father went on a trek in the mountains with him . The Doctor ' s father and mother owned a summer house on the other side of Kasterborous . The Doctor ' s father was still on Gallifrey when the Doctor had children , and stood at his side while he lost a chess match to Savar . ( PROSE : " The Infinity Doctors " ) A version of history existed where the Time Lords banned all mention of the Doctor ' s father ' s name for consorting with aliens , and one where he got every record of himself deleted from the files . ( PROSE : " Unnatural History " ) The Doctor was once told that his father ' s name was " not " Ulysses , but he could be a professor at Berkeley University on Earth in the 21st century . ( PROSE : " The Infinity Doctors " ) Later references . The Eighth Doctor once said that he could remember being Loom ed , but also having a father . The Doctor knew one of these was a dream but was unsure as to which . ( PROSE : " The Shadows of Avalon " ) The Eighth Doctor said that he was immortal on his father ' s side . The sentient quantum field of the planet Albert later told the Doctor that there was a reality where he knew his father ' s face . ( PROSE : " Grimm Reality " ) Irving Braxiatel said that his father had a cellar full of Draconian brandy . ( AUDIO : " Everybody Loves Irving " ) When Quintus asked the Tenth Doctor not to tell his dad Lobus Caecilius that he showed the Doctor where Lucius Petrus Dextrus lived , the Doctor responded , " Only if you don ' t tell mine . " ( TV : " The Fires of Pompeii " ) , holding the Tenth Doctor and Wilfred Mott prisoner , commented , " Your dad ' s still kicking up a fuss , " when Wilfred protested in defence of the Doctor , he replied that he would be proud if he was . Later , the Doctor told Wilfred that he would be proud if he was his father . ( TV : " The End of Time " ) Behind the scenes . Ulysses . In Philip Segal ' s proposed late 1990s revival of " Doctor Who " , the Doctor ' s father was Ulysses . Ulysses appeared in PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " as the husband of Penelope Gate , and they were said to have a half - human , half - Time Lord son on Gallifrey . The Eighth Doctor said in TV : " Doctor Who " that he was half - human on his mother ' s side . Penelope Gate was also implied to be the Doctor ' s mother in PROSE : " The Infinity Doctors " , where the Doctor knows he can find his father as a professor at Berkeley , but that his name " isn ' t " Ulysses . In PROSE : " Unnatural History " , the Eighth Doctor meets a renegade Time Lord calling himself " Daniel Joyce " as a professor at Berkley . The Doctor says the pseudonym fits him ; in real life , the author James Joyce wrote the novel " Ulysses " . Ulysses was last seen in PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " in the company of Larna , who was Joyce ' s assistant in PROSE : " Unnatural History " .