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Pigeon Pigeons were a species of bird native to the planet Earth . They were utilised as carrier birds in the Holy Land . By 1400 , having witnessed their use during the Crusades , the English imported this tactic . ( AUDIO : " The Doctor ' s Tale " ) In 1943 , pigeons were used to test a new chemical weapon planned for use in destroying Russia ' s government after World War II ended . ( TV : " The Curse of Fenric " ) The First Doctor declared that he had " the directional instinct of a homing pigeon " . ( TV : " The Chase " ) The Sixth Doctor later made the same claim . ( AUDIO : " Vampire of the Mind " ) In 1965 , Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton encountered a large flock of pigeons in Trafalgar Square . ( TV : " The Chase " ) The TARDIS startled a flock of pigeons when it materialised in Fitzroy Square in 1966 . ( TV : " The War Machines " ) Anji Kapoor deduce d she was not in London as there were no pigeons . ( PROSE : " EarthWorld " ) Frobisher once took on the form of a pigeon but found himself attacked by an owl . ( COMIC : " The Shape Shifter " ) The passenger pigeon was a type of pigeon , and was worth 100 points in the I - Spyder Book of Earth Creatures if it was spotted . ( PROSE : " The Last Dodo " ) The Eleventh Doctor adored carrier pigeon s . Major Alec Palmer once did a military operation involving carrier pigeons . ( TV : " Hide " ) Clara Oswald ' s gran met her future husband in circumstances that somehow involved a pigeon . ( TV : " The Time of the Doctor " ) On the day he died , Donald Babinger shared bits of his cheese sandwich with a pigeon . ( PROSE : " Apollo 23 " )
Ross Brimmicombe - Wood Ross Brimmicombe - Wood was a Scottish career soldier and strong British nationalist . His father , Archie Brimmicombe - Wood , was also an army officer and had been friends with Charles Crichton and Robert Dalton ' s father . ( PROSE : " Project : Valhalla " ) Years later , as a colonel , he was the commanding officer of the UK branch of UNIT , Brigadier Bambera having left sometime after 2001 . ( AUDIO : " Animal " ) Subordinate Emily Chaudhry considered him a friend ; he used to call her " the proper English rose " until she drank him under the table . ( AUDIO : " The Longest Night " ) He was believed to have been abducted while escorting alien cargo across the country in 2005 . ( AUDIO : " Time Heals " ) In reality , he was the commanding officer and a double agent for the ICIS . He had faked his own kidnapping to create chaos in UNIT . He was involved in attempts to bring down the British government for reasons of ultra - nationalism , and was imprisoned for his actions . ( AUDIO : " The Wasting " )
Mind Leech The Mind Leeches were a species encountered by Dr Elizabeth Klein , Colonel Lafayette and in an office block in the city of London . They came from another dimension and fed on intelligence , causing a number of the building ' s occupants to act unusually . When UNIT stormed the building , the leeches attacked the soldiers , resulting in Private Oscar Phillips losing his mind . ( AUDIO : " Dominion " )
Wet Puppy alien The " Wet Puppy " aliens were creatures of unknown origin . They were encountered by the Tenth Doctor and Rose in 1975 . Biology . Their exact names and origins are unknown , but they were compared in size to puppies . They resembled centipedes , with many legs . They had large , pointed ears , and had no eyes or mouths . Their skin was a rusty colour and was normally moist . Similarly to frog - hopper nymphs , they used a spit - like substance for protection from outside dangers and as a source of moisture . They could form objects out of this substance up to the size of an average humanoid body , and could control these bodies for transportation . They seemed to have some sort of telepathy ; when they were in pain , their screams could be heard inside people ' s heads . ( PROSE : " Cuckoo - Spit " ) Technology . By 1975 , these creatures had developed small , metallic pear - drop - shaped spaceships . ( PROSE : " Cuckoo - Spit " ) History . In 1975 , a spaceship full of these creatures crashed on Earth . They escaped from the crash and began to kidnap people from the area , who they proceeded to devour . They created duplicates of their bodies from a cuckoo - spit - like substance . They kept these bodies in a house in fields near the crash - site of their ship . However , the Doctor and Rose had followed them to Earth , and with the help of a local boy , Jason , they found and killed the creatures before they could cause more damage . ( PROSE : " Cuckoo - Spit " )
Buridan ' s ass Buridan ' s ass was an illustration of a problem in the philosophy of free will . It referred to Jean Buridan , a French philosopher in the 14th century , and described a hypothetical experiment with a hungry donkey . If placed exactly between two mangers filled with hay , the beast would starve to death because it couldn ' t work out which one to go for . The Fifth and Eighth Doctor s used this concept on the Eye of Orion . They both stayed equidistant from a Raston Warrior Robot as they approached it . Unable to decide on a target as the two Doctors shared identical brain patterns , the robot deactivated . ( PROSE : " The Eight Doctors " )
Belazs Belazs worked in the employ , and was a former lover , of Kane on Svartos in ca . 2 , 000 , 000 . Recruited at a young age , she felt that she had given her life and her youth away and wished to leave him . Kane killed her after her plot to kill him failed . ( TV : " Dragonfire " )
Doctor Who The Handbook : The First Doctor The book is highly regarded as a significant work of " Doctor Who " scholarship and is used as one of the main reference works for several later reference projects , perhaps most ubiquitously Shannon Sullivan ' s " A Brief History of ( Time ) Travel " website and several issues of " Doctor Who Magazine Special Edition " , which in turn are two of the major . Subject matter . Like all in the " Handbook " series , it is divided into three major sections . The first presents a series of snippets from interviews with principles involved in the creation of the persona of the First Doctor ; the second gives detailed notes about every televised adventure of this Doctor ; and the last concerns itself with behind - the - scenes developments during this Doctor ' s era . Publisher ' s summary . " " Doctor Who " is the world ' s longest running science fiction television series . Each handbook will provide both a broad overview and a detailed analysis of one phase of the programme ' s history . " William Hartnell was already a well - known and experienced film and television actor when , in 1963 , he took on a new role : a mysterious and crotchety time traveller in a new BBC drama series for children . Nothing else about the programme was as tried and tested ; the fictional premise was offbeat , the producer was a young woman at the start of her television career , and the future direction of the series was unknown . " " Doctor Who " went on to thrill millions of children and adults around the world for three decades . But the foundations of success were laid in the first three years , when the TARDIS and the Dalek s became as known and loved as the Beatles . " This is the third in the series by David J Howe , Mark Stammers and Stephen James Walker , the team that also produced and . Drawing on the latest research they have included in this book the definitive account of the genesis of " Doctor Who " , as well as a profile of William Hartnell , critical reviews of all the TV stories , a detailed analysis of the making of a typical First Doctor story , and a complete review of the programme ' s development . " - - From the back cover Notable features . This volume includes a particularly detailed examination of the making of " The Ark " .
Elizabeth Devonshire Miss Elizabeth Devonshire was a human who met the Nestene Consciousness when she was young . She was treated poorly by children because of her appearance and accent . She befriended the creature , which would give her advice every time she visited . She helped heal its injuries and made a place for it under Hyperville . Later , she offered Max Carson a job at Hyperville if he would help her destroy mankind . She became the Nestene Consciousness ' physical form . She was killed by the Tenth Doctor when he sent out a signal . ( PROSE : " Autonomy " ) Personality . Devonshire was cruel and believed in fear as a way to keep order . She was not above killing those who stood in her way to help her friend conquer the world . She was also very manipulative of Max Carson and Sir Gerry . ( PROSE : " Autonomy " )
Parallel 59 ( novel ) Publisher ' s summary . Fleeing a doomed space station in tiny life capsules , the Doctor and Compassion find themselves prisoners of Parallel 59 , a militaristic power on the planet Skale . Meanwhile Fitz finds himself apparently safe in Mechta , a colony for convalescents . A space race is in full swing on Skale , with each of the planet ' s many blocs desperate to be first to reach the stars . If the Doctor ' s knowledge helps Parallel 59 to succeed , the consequences for the rest of the world could be devastating . But Fitz knows nothing of his friends ' predicament . Enjoying his new life , he ' s not even sure he wants to be rescued — which is a good thing . Because the Doctor has no intention of going to Mechta . He ' s decreed that Fitz ' s new - found utopia must be totally destroyed . Plot . " to be added " Notes . " to be added "
Cummings ( The Zero Imperative ) Cummings was a pathologist who examined the corpses of more unusual deaths , many of which were handled by Liz Shaw ' s Preternatural Research Bureau ( PROBE ) . Cummings had a detached , unsentimental attitude towards his work and the victims he examined , casually pointing Liz to a bucket holding the few mortal remains of one victim . ( HOMEVID : " The Zero Imperative " ) On another occasion he munched a sausage - roll as he showed Liz a mutilated corpse , saying they were excellent for settling the stomach . ( HOMEVID : " The Devil of Winterborne " )
Krakow Krakow ( also spelled Cracow ) was a city in Poland . In 705 , the Doctor defeated a dragon there , at a place called Wawel . ( PROSE : " Only Human " ) During the Nazi invasion of Poland that started World War II in September 1939 , Brigadier Kraus gained a reputation as the Butcher of Krakow . ( PROSE : " Illegal Alien " ) Behind the scenes . The Polish spelling of the city ' s name is " Kraków " .
Hy - Bractor The Hy - Bractors were large grey blob - like creatures , genetically engineered by the genius Chantal Osterberg , who feasted on human s . Osterberg created them to replace the human race as a more advanced species because , although she was a genius who developed drug s to suppress the " wrong feelings " in humans , Osterberg decided this wasn ' t enough . Having eradicated her conscience , she developed the creatures . ( PROSE : " Only Human " )
Rassilon the God Rassilon the God was a history book by Cardinal Borusa . One of its subjects was how Gallifrey an history was divided between the end of the Pythia ' s reign and the beginning of the order created by Rassilon . ( PROSE : " " )
Kodak Kodak was an Earth company that manufactured camera s and image projector s . In 1974 , Alec Palmer had a projector made by Kodak . The Eleventh Doctor used it to look for ghost s in photos taken by Emma Grayling . ( TV : " Hide " )
Cybermen ( CON episode ) Cybermen was the episode of " Doctor Who Confidential " broadcast in conjunction with " Rise of the Cybermen " . Aspects of production covered . " to be added " Additional topics covered . " to be added " Crew . " to be added " Elements retained in " Cut Down " . " to be added " Home video releases . The " Cut Down " version of the episode is available on the Complete Second Series DVD box set .
Segment of Time Segment of Time was a time measurement used by people who left Earth on the Ark . The reign of Nero , the Trojan War and wars involving the Dalek s were said to be part of the First Segment of Time . ( TV : " The Ark " ) The First Doctor was said to look like an inhabitant of the First Segment of Time . ( PROSE : " Tarnished Image " ) All knowledge of the common cold virus was lost during the Primal Wars of the Tenth Segment of Time . Unsuccessful time travel experiments took place in the 27th Segment of Time . During the 57th Segment of Time , the last human s left on Earth and Monoid s evacuated the planet on the Ark to colonise Refusis II . ( TV : " The Ark " ) During the 58th Segment of Time , the planet Metralubit was discovered by human settlers . ( PROSE : " The Well - Mannered War " ) The Master stole from a Farquazi time cruiser during the 300th Segment of Time . ( PROSE : " The Quantum Archangel " )
Alan Barnes Alan Barnes is a British writer . He began at " Doctor Who Magazine " as a comic writer , then edited the magazine for a number of years . He wrote the first half of the Eighth Doctor comic strip stories before becoming assistant editor under Gary Gillatt ( the magazine ' s editor at the time ) . In issue 237 , released on 14 March 1996 , Alan Barnes was credited as " Assistant Editor " . He continued to hold this position until issue 271 in November 1998 . The following issue he began to share the position of editor with Gary Gillat . By July 2000 , with issue 293 , Barnes had assumed full duties as sole editor ( and was credited as such in the magazine ' s credits ) . Barnes was also editor of the " Judge Dredd Magazine " from 2001 to 2005 . Barnes created , or more precisely , " fleshed out " the character of Charley Pollard , who was introduced in " Storm Warning " . He was given the brief for " Storm Warning " and in it was the instruction that he had to introduce a companion called " Charley " . " Orbis " , a Big Finish Productions audio drama , was cowritten with Nicholas Briggs . However , Barnes has said that he " wrote the script from Nick ' s very detailed scene breakdown . Which was a fascinating experience – like painting , or something . A storyline is a fairly cold , mechanical blueprint of a thing ; writing the script is about adding colour , finding ways to bring it to life . " In addition to his audio and comic strip credits , Barnes has also written one television story , " The Infinite Quest " , originally a thirteen - episode animated story made up of three - and - a - half - minute episodes broadcast as part of " Totally Doctor Who " .
US Army The US Army was a branch of the military of the United States of America . In 1958 , during the Cold War , Colonel Stark of the US Army made a deal with the Viperox Lord Azlok to destroy the Soviet Union . Stark was convinced by the Tenth Doctor to turn against the Viperox . ( TV : " Dreamland " ) In 2017 , the US army was at a standstill with the Chinese army and the Russian army when in a war zone , Turmezistan , a 5000 year old pyramid appears overnight . ( TV : " The Pyramid at the End of the World " )
Battle TARDIS Battle TARDISes were the usual type of TARDIS used in battle . Contrary to the Doctor ' s Type 40 and other conventional TARDISes designed for time travel without the threat of attack , these were equipped with heavy armaments to engage in battle at a second ' s notice while being flown into hostile locations . The Celestial Intervention Agency made significant use of them . Their outer plasmic shell s were composed of living metal , able to morph into shields and any number of predetermined gun emplacements . ( PROSE : " Engines of War " ) Their main weaponry were time torpedo es , which could be used to freeze time and thus suspend other vessels in the time vortex . ( AUDIO : " Neverland " ) The CIA used at least one Battle TARDIS , commanded by Tubal Cain , to capture the Fifth Doctor after he had brought an elemental being to Stockbridge . ( COMIC : " The Stockbridge Horror " ) " Military TARDISes " were sent to collect the Sixth Doctor from Etarho in a displaced timeline . ( AUDIO : " Trial of the Valeyard " ) A flotilla of Battle TARDISes were sent to gather the Eighth Doctor and Charlotte Pollard for the fight against anti - time . The Doctor initially avoided them ( AUDIO : " Embrace the Darkness " ) , but they eventually caught up to his TARDIS and snared it with time torpedo es . ( AUDIO : " Neverland " ) Romana III cleared out large sections of Gallifrey in order to make room for more Battle TARDISes . These Battle TARDISes would then join the fight in Gallifrey ' s " darkest hour " . ( AUDIO : " Luna Romana " ) Over a million Battle TARDISes were used by the Time Lord s in the Last Great Time War . ( PROSE : " Peacemaker " ) Cardinal Ollistra travelled to Synthesis Station in a battle TARDIS . ( AUDIO : " Day of the Vashta Nerada " ) A flotilla of Battle TARDISes were destroyed by Dalek stealth ship s near the Tantalus Eye . Rassilon later sent another flotilla to the Eye to deploy the Tear of Isha . ( PROSE : " Engines of War " ) On the final day of the war , Priyan stated that every Battle TARDIS had been destroyed . ( COMIC : " Sky Jacks " ) In an alternate universe where the Time Lord s sold their technologies to other races , they gave Battle TARDISes to the Killoran s . ( AUDIO : " Reborn " )
Angels on a Hoverbike ( short story ) Angels on a Hoverike was the sixth story of " Tales of the Civil War " . Summary . " to be added " " to be completed " References . " to be added " Notes . " to be added " Continuity . " to be added "
The Terrestrial Index The Terrestrial Index is a " Doctor Who " reference guide written by Jean - Marc Lofficier which , among other features , includes a speculative history of the planet Earth in the " Doctor Who " universe . Publisher ' s summary . This companion volume to " The Programme Guide " contains everything there is to know about Doctor Who and the planet Earth . The information is divided into three main sections . The first contains a Who ' s Who of the actors , technicians and writers connected with the " Doctor Who " television stories . The second contains brief details of all the Doctor Who adventures other than those shown on television — the stories from the stage plays , the radio programmes , and the comic strips . The third is a chronology of Earth history as revealed in the Doctor Who television stories . " The Terrestrial Index " is packed with information for " Doctor Who " fans , and is an indispensable companion to The Programme Guide . The third volume of Jean - Marc Lofficier ' s Doctor Who reference trilogy will be entitled " The Universal Databank " . Subject matter . Detailed information on " Doctor Who " TV stories ranging from 1963 to 1989 , a history of Earth in the Whoniverse and a listing of " Doctor Who " universe stories in prose , comics and audio form produced throughout that time and up to 1990 .
Antony and Cleopatra ( short story ) Antony and Cleopatra is the twelfth story in " The Shakespeare Notebooks " . Summary . " This early draft extract from " Antony and Cleopatra " appears without explanation in the Notebooks . In this scene , Cleopatra , Queen of Egypt , defeated in battle by Caesar and mourning for Antony , has retreated to her monument , where she plots to kill herself . " References . " to be added " Notes . " to be added " Continuity . " to be added "
Judoonese Judoonese , sometimes just called Judoon , was the language of the Judoon . ( AUDIO : " Judoon in Chains " , COMIC : " Gangland " ) The Sixth Doctor once told Captain Kybo that English was much more expressive than Judoonese . Kybo agreed , noting in particular that Judoonese had " nothing to compare " with poetry . ( AUDIO : " Judoon in Chains " ) Nevertheless , Judonese was a language built on rhyme . It was comprised of words ending in a vowel - - generally an " o " sound , but occasionally an " a " . ( TV : " Smith and Jones " ; PROSE : " Judgement of the Judoon " ) Each sentence was composed of several of these words strung together . ( TV : " Smith and Jones " ) The Sixth Doctor called the language " uninflected " and " monosyllabic " , while noting that it was " rather too basic " for the TARDIS translation circuit to work on . ( AUDIO : " Judoon in Chains " ) The TARDIS ' " blind spot " for Judoon was the reason that the Doctor had to speak Judoonese unassisted on occasion . ( TV : " The Stolen Earth " ; AUDIO : " Judoon in Chains " )
Death in the Clouds Death in the Clouds was a murder mystery novel by Agatha Christie which was first published in 1935 . It was one of Christie ' s Hercule Poirot novels . Part of the novel ' s plot ( involving a wasp ) may have been subconsciously influenced by an adventure Christie shared with the Tenth Doctor and Donna Noble . It was one of a number of Christie ' s works to be preserved through human history , with an edition owned by the Doctor carrying a publishing date of the year 5 billion . ( TV : " The Unicorn and the Wasp " ) The Doctor had kept " Death in the Clouds " within his C chest since as early as his sixth incarnation . ( AUDIO : " The Carrionite Curse " ) Behind the scenes . In " The Writer ' s Tale " , Russell T Davies recalls that he and scriptwriter Gareth Roberts were having trouble working out the monster Agatha Christie would face in " The Unicorn and the Wasp " : " We really couldn ' t think what sort of enemy she should fight . Dickens ? Ghosts . Shakespeare ? Witches . But Agatha . . . ? Then Gareth came up with a wasp — and I remembered the old paperback cover of " Death in the Clouds " , which has a plane being attacked by a symbolically giant wasp . ' That ' ll do ' , we said . Our most tenuous link yet . "
Jack ( Kept Safe and Sound ) Jack was a boy who lived with his widowed mother . Every Saturday he and his mother would go to the market . Jack would spend his allowance at the book store . He was collecting the volumes of the " Book of Mayhem " . One Saturday , the bookseller told Jack that volume six was available . Jack paid one pound for it , and told the bookseller that he only had one volume left — volume twelve . As Jack made his way through the market , he noticed a robot dog in the electrical equipment stall . He struck up a conversation with the dog , and they became friends . The dog was slowly being sold for parts . Jack would visit him every Saturday . A few weeks later , Jack finally obtained the last volune of the " Book of Mayhem " . That same day , all that was left of the dog was its brain . Jack took the brain home with him . ( PROSE : " Kept Safe and Sound " )
Violet Hopley Violet Hopley was an Earth girl . In 2007 , an escaped Extron criminal came to Earth and hid in her bedroom . Before the Tenth Doctor could stop it , it kidnapped Violet and took her to the planet Onla - toch . The Doctor managed to find her and gave her biometric handcuffs he had gotten on Inkarsera , from where the Extron had escaped . While it was attempting full gene transmutation using her energy pattern , she put on the handcuffs , which transported the Extron back to Inkarsera . The Doctor then returned Violet home . ( COMIC : " The Monster Upstairs " )
Planet ( The Doctor , the Widow and the Wardrobe ) A snowy planet was considered by the Eleventh Doctor to be the most peaceful planet he knew . It contained forest s of Androzani tree s . The Doctor planned to take Cyril , Lily and Madge Arwell to this planet . He used a portal disguised as a gift box to connect the years 1941 and 5345 . In the latter , harvest ranger s from Androzani Major had come to harvest the forest for fuel . The trees knew of both events and had planned for them . They grew into a spacecraft and used Madge to transport their lifeforce , allowing them to escape the harvesting . ( TV : " The Doctor , the Widow and the Wardrobe " )