Sabalom Glitz Sabalom Glitz was a rogue from the planet Salostopus in the galaxy of Andromeda . The morality of his activities was dubious even when their legality was not . Though Glitz ' s first love was money , he occasionally made uneasy alliances with the Doctor in his sixth and seventh incarnations , and also briefly worked with . Biography . Glitz ' s background was predictably shady ( he claimed to be wanted in numerous galaxies ) , though he once claimed to be the product of a broken home — which , according to at least one prison psychiatrist , was the cause of his more sociopathic tendencies . He was already an accomplished criminal when the Sixth Doctor and Peri first encountered him . With his accomplice , Dibber , he came to the planet Earth ( at that time known by name of Ravolox ) in order to acquire secrets from the Matrix , then in the possession of the L3 robot Drathro . Glitz planned to destroy the black light system which provided Drathro with energy and then steal the secrets . When Dibber destroyed the external collection aerial , the system became dangerously unstable , and only the Doctor ' s intervention prevented a potentially catastrophic explosion . ( TV : " The Mysterious Planet " ) Near the end of the Doctor ' s trial by the Time Lord s Glitz , like Melanie Bush , was dispatched to the space station by his business partner , the renegade Time Lord known as . Glitz accompanied the Doctor into the simulated reality of the Matrix to fight the Valeyard . The Master bribed Glitz to betray the Doctor , but in turn was tricked by the Valeyard . Given what he thought were the true secrets of the Matrix , the Master tried to upload them into the systems of his TARDIS . This activated a particle disseminator so that both were in fact trapped , causing the Master and Glitz to be paralysed within the TARDIS . After the Doctor had finally defeated the Valeyard , he pleaded with the Time Lords to show leniency to Glitz , who he believed still had some good in him . ( TV : " The Ultimate Foe " ) Glitz next ran into the Doctor when he and Dibber planned the " crime of the century " on the planet Vandor Prime , where they also stole a spacecraft called the " Nosferatu " . The Doctor and Frobisher collaborated with Glitz to steal a valuable artefact in order to avert interstellar war by returning it to its original owners . According to this account , however , Dibber was killed during the mission . ( PROSE : " " ) After regenerating into his seventh incarnation , the Doctor and Mel next ran into Glitz on Iceworld , a tourist destination and trading post on the planet Svartos . Glitz owed money to the vengeful Kane , having bankrupted himself with a gambling debt . The crew of the " Nosferatu " , who had rebelled against Glitz ' s dubious leadership , were sold to Kane to form part of his army of amnesia c warriors . Glitz had by this time made the acquaintance of the then sixteen - year - old Ace , a human who had travelled to this time by time storm from the year 1987 and now worked as a waitress . ( TV : " Dragonfire " ) Despite their age differences , Ace had lost her virginity to him whilst on Iceworld . ( PROSE : " Happy Endings " ) After Kane destroyed the " Nosferatu " , Glitz was consumed by vengeance . The folly of Kane ' s ambitions were revealed to him by the Doctor . Kane ' s people had died out thousands of years ago , leaving him no one on which to revenge himself . Kane chose to kill himself , leaving Glitz with Iceworld , which he christened the " Nosferatu II " . Glitz was not pleased when Mel decided to stay behind to help him run his business and make sure that he gave up his criminal ways . ( TV : " Dragonfire " ) Another account showed that , at this time , Dibber was still alive , and that Mel continued to travel with them for at least six months . At one point , she wanted to seek Earth , so Glitz and Dibber abandoned her to search on her own . ( PROSE : " Head Games " ) After Mel left , Glitz and Dibber took possession of a miniscope containing Drashig s , in which Romana II was imprisoned by the Time Lord Ruath . She was later rescued , and the miniscope was destroyed . ( PROSE : " Goth Opera " ) Mel considered Glitz to be a ne ' er - do - well . ( AUDIO : " A Life of Crime " ) Glitz and Mel once encountered a Galactic Heritage fleet . The experience led Mel to describe the organisation as " a militarised , spacefaring National Trust " . ( AUDIO : " The High Price of Parking " )