I . M . Foreman I . M . Foreman was a Gallifreyan monk who lived on Gallifrey but was driven from the monasteries following Rassilon ' s Intuitive Revelation . He was not a Time Lord , but was able to regenerate due to his order having received its own version of the Rassilon Imprimatur . Biography . Having been exiled to the wilderness after the dissolution of the old religious orders , I . M . Foreman found twelve individuals , all of whom had no memory of who they were , but who they eventually deduce d were his future twelve incarnations . Together they formed I . M . Foreman ' s One - Species Nongenetically Engineered Travelling Show , a show which was actually a complex space time event that could travel in time . As a priest , he had been given the gift of regeneration , but in those days it was much less stable than modern regeneration , meaning he tended to absorb the DNA of whatever he encountered in his life whenever he regenerated , each of his incarnations being increasingly less human as they moved on from his original body . He eventually arrived on Dust , where his true nature was revealed to the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith ( after the TARDIS was unintentionally diverted to Dust after an accidental meeting between the Third and Eighth Doctor s ) . I . M . Foreman ' s travelling show was made up of thirteen acts , which were all aspects / bodies of I . M . Foreman , one for each regeneration . When the Remote attacked the planet , the other twelve were forced to release Number 13 , the most unstable of all his regenerations , which tried to eat everything and absorb it into its own structure . In order to conclude the time loop and prevent the death of the past twelve Foremans causing a paradox , the other regeneration aspects were sent back through time thanks to the Doctor linking the show to the TARDIS and sending it back to Gallifrey ' s distant past . Arriving at its destination with no arrival site prepared for it , their travelling show exploding as it ended up back in the Dark Times just before the first I . M . Foreman found the show . The resulting explosion and the fall from the ship triggered a regeneration for all twelve aspects , each of them changing into their next self while losing their memories due to the trauma of the damage and the limitations of their current ability to regenerate . Back in the present , after Number 13 consumed the attacking Faction Paradox fleet , the Doctor was able to convince it to blend with the planet Dust to turn it into a new , vital world . With the crisis concluded as the planet grew more vibrant , Foreman ' s consciousness formed a bond with Magdelana Bishop and inhabited her body with her consent . In this form , Foreman spent two days in the company of the Eighth Doctor , during which she talked with him and spent the night with him . ( PROSE : " Interference - Book Two " ) 76 Totter ' s Lane . Foreman ' s show spent some time at 76 Totter ' s Lane , ( PROSE : " Interference " ) which later was the junkyard where the First Doctor first met Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton . Susan Foreman adopted her surname from the lettering on the gates ; ( TV : " An Unearthly Child " ) when the Third Doctor learned of Foreman ' s existence , he realised that the TARDIS had been drawn to the scrapyard because it had been aware of the show ' s previous presence there . ( PROSE : " Interference " ) Incarnations . I . M . Foreman ' s thirteen incarnations were as follows :