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Microspan A microspan was a small unit of time used on Gallifrey . As employed by Lord President Romana , Darkel and K9 Marks I and II , it seemed to indicate a length of time somewhere between Earth seconds and minutes . ( AUDIO : all of " Gallifrey " ) Although Time Lord s on Gallifrey used the term liberally , the Doctor never attempted to make his companion s learn about the unit . The materialisation of Romana ' s presidential TARDIS was once paused for two microspans . This lasted a little under one minute . ( AUDIO : " A Blind Eye " ) A unit of the same name was also used by Terpsivore s . Twelve Terpsivorian microspans were less than two minutes . ( COMIC : " Death Disco " )
Klade The Klade were a humanoid species . History . The Klade originated on the Needle in the far future and were led by Prefect Ferran . The Doctor once encountered the Klade on Falkus . ( PROSE : " Father Time " ) The Doctor mentioned the Klade as being a potential threat to Gallifrey . ( PROSE : " The Infinity Doctors " ) Marnal claimed that the Klade had the power to destroy the Time Lord s and Gallifrey , but admitted that they would not have had the nerve to do so . ( PROSE : " The Gallifrey Chronicles " )
Reggie Yates Reggie Yates played Leo Jones in the " Doctor Who " stories " Smith and Jones " , " The Lazarus Experiment " , " The Sound of Drums " and " Last of the Time Lords " . He recorded an Audio Book version of the BBC New Series Adventures " Sting of the Zygons " .
Something ' s Got to Give The Monk had a Blu - ray of Something ' s Got to Give , which Tamsin Drew guessed he had " plundered [ . . . ] from the appropriate time period " , inside his TARDIS . The Monk considered it , along with other artefacts , " souvenirs , rescued for posterity . " ( AUDIO : " The Resurrection of Mars " )
Metaphysical engine A metaphysical engine was a device that allowed travel into the minds or thoughts of individuals , or groups of people , including their beliefs and imaginations . According to the First Doctor , the TARDIS was a metaphysical engine . As it could travel through all dimensions related to space and time , it was also capable of entering into a person ' s mind , their imagination . Once , the TARDIS entered the mind of George Smythe , who was trapped in a time loop . ( PROSE : " Every Day " ) The Governors had one such metaphysical engine , also called a reliquary . The device they acquired was very old technology , and quite unstable . It could only travel into places believed in by large enough groups of people , such as their afterlife myths . ( TV : " The Metaphysical Engine , or What Quill Did " )
Orpheus constellation The Orpheus constellation was a constellation located ten thousand light year s away from Sol . In 2050 , when a surviving female Aeolian caused storms and havoc across the United Kingdom in Earth , her mate sent out a signal from the Orpheus constellation . When the female was stunned by CCPC s , Starkey was able to play the organ to reply to the male , who arrived moments later and was reunited with his mate . ( TV : " Aeolian " )
Blue - ray Blue - ray was a digital disc format for films . The Tenth Doctor had " Love Actually " , " Lion King " and " Annie Hall " on Blue - ray in the TARDIS , and binge - watched them after losing Rose Tyler . ( COMIC : " A Rose by Any Other Name " ) Behind the scenes . Blue - ray is a play on a real format called Blu - ray . The Monk owned a Blu - ray of " Something ' s Got to Give " in AUDIO : " The Resurrection of Mars " .
Are You Being Served ? Tom thought people roaming the streets in the 1970s looked like they were in " Get Carter " or Are You Being Served ? . ( PROSE : " Verdigris " ) Behind the scenes . The Tenth Doctor quoted the opening lines to the show ' s theme song — " first floor perfumery " — as he exited the elevator at the top of the Empire State Building in TV : " Evolution of the Daleks " . The Fourth Doctor quotes more of the theme tune in AUDIO : " Legacy of Death " . Trevor Bannister , Nicholas Smith , Wendy Richard and Kenneth Waller were all regulars in the series . Guest actors included Jimmy Mac , John D . Collins , Joanna Lumley , Norman Mitchell , James Copeland , Donald Morley , Eiji Kusuhara , Michael Attwell , John Ringham , Peter Greene , Ahmed Khalil , Ron Tarr , Jean Challis , Donald Hewlett , Donald Bisset , Ian Collier , Jennifer Lonsdale , Rex Robinson , Maureen Lane , Renu Setna , Martin Cochrane , Nicholas McArdle , Kristopher Kum , John Baker , Ken Barker and Imogen Bickford - Smith .
Vorn ( The Mutants ) Vorn was the son of Varan . He was assigned the task of assassin ating the Administrator who had come to grant independence to Solos . Soon afterwards , he was shot and killed by the Marshal of Solos . ( TV : " The Mutants " ) Behind the scenes . Vorn ' s name was never given on - screen or in the credits , only in the novelisation .
Harriet Kershaw Harriet Kershaw played Ann - the - Van in the Big Finish " Doctor Who " audio story " A Death in the Family " and Tamarus in " Brotherhood of the Daleks " . She also voiced Natasha and Marika in " Death in Blackpool " .
Suzie ( Father ' s Day ) Suzie was one of Sarah Clark ' s friends . Bev and she greeted Sarah as her car arrived at the church . They told Sarah that many guests had not arrived . She was nearly killed by a Reaper , when one came inside the church . She survived these events . ( TV : " Father ' s Day " ) .
Vacano Vacano was a chief scientist on the Imperial Darkheart colony . He had not aged over the last three hundred years due to the effects of the Darkheart . After obtaining parts from a Veltrochni ship , he was able to fine - tune the Darkheart . This enabled the Imperials to alter the morphic field s near the planet , changing all non - humans into human s or eliminating them from existence . ( PROSE : " The Dark Path " )
Lakertyan The Lakertyans were a race of reptilian humanoid s . ( TV : " Time and the Rani " ) Biology . The Lakertyans looked like human s with yellow ish skin and scales around the face . They had impressive gold coloured manes . Lakertyans also differed from humans in skeletal structure , with a longer skull and larger vertebrae that included external posterior segments . ( TV : " Time and the Rani " ) Strands of their DNA were found in the DNA of the chicken - like animals encountered by Bernice Summerfield . ( PROSE : " Cuckoo " ) Technology . When the Rani came to Lakertya the Lakertyans were primitive but she soon had them operating her machinery . They were unable to devise a way to remove the tethers with which they were fitted , but Melanie Bush was able to do so . ( TV : " Time and the Rani " ) History . The Avanonion ' s fostered some Lakertyans as though they were their own race . Mabe found Lakertyan DNA in an Avanonian egg . ( PROSE : " Cuckoo " ) The Lakertyans were a primitive people when discovered by the Rani . They were enslaved to work on the Rani ' s time brain project . Many Lakertyans were killed by the hard work , the Rani ' s traps or the Tetrap slave - masters . Though some of the Lakertyans tried to fight back , the Rani created more threatening motivators , such as deadly insects and electrifying bracelets . Eventually , the Rani ' s plan to convert Lakertya into a Time Manipulator was stopped by the Seventh Doctor . This action started the Lakertyans to a path of self - sufficiency , which led to Ikona pouring away the antidote to the Rani ' s killer insects — stating as he did so that the Lakertyans had to solve their own problems from now on if they were to survive . ( TV : " Time and the Rani " )
Marco Polo ( home video ) In " The Beginning " DVD boxset a colour reconstruction of Marco Polo was included on the disc of " The Edge of Destruction " . 2 | Entertain produced this reconstruction - it was only thirty minutes long having been edited down using telesnaps from the story . Synopsis . " to be added " Plot . " to be added " Cast . " to be added " Crew . " to be added " References . " to be added " External links . " to be added "
10th century The 10th century was not one that particularly interested the Doctor , his companion s or his enemies . It was perhaps most notable , at least in terms of British history , for the rise of King Athelstan of England , and his apparently good relations with King Hywel of Wales . ( TV : " Planet of the Dead " ) It was also among the centuries endured by Ashildr , ( TV : " The Woman Who Lived " ) a 9th century Viking girl who was rendered effectively immortal when she was brought back to life by the Twelfth Doctor through a self - repairing Mire repair kit . ( TV : " The Girl Who Died " )
Kuomintang The Kuomintang ( KMT ) was the governing party in China from 1911 and into World War II . It was formed during the 1911 revolution from an alliance of Nationalist warlord s led by Sun Yat Sen . They overthrew the boy Emperor Pu Yi and took charge of China . Chiang Kai - shek later took control of the Kuomintang and set his efforts on containing the growing Communist movement filtering into China from the USSR in the north . Numerous expeditions launched by Chiang successfully drove the Communists into the mountain ous regions of north and central China . Du Yue Sheng , who was a general during these expeditions , was made Minister of Opium Suppression as a reward for his services . Despite its Nationalist ideology , the Kuomintang sought alliances with Western powers and so the government allowed them to police the International Settlement in Shanghai with their own troops . Sung - Chi Li disapproved of the policy as it meant there was a greater chance that criminal s could haggle their way out of arrest , and not be handed over to the authority of the Kuomintang . The Kuomintang issued Browning Hi - Power firearm s to its own security forces . In the 1930s , the Kuomintang also had to confront the aggression of Japan and her Empire , from the invasion of Manchuria in 1931 , to the crisis in Shanghai in 1932 , and the incident at Marco Polo Bridge in 1937 which sparked war between the two nations , beginning World War II in Asia . ( PROSE : " The Shadow of Weng - Chiang " )
Korova Moo The Korova Moo was a milk bar located on a space station in the far future . The Tenth Doctor took Martha Jones to the milk bar , claiming that it served the best chocolate milkshake s in the whole universe . While there , they encountered a Gizou and a Sycorax . ( COMIC : " Agent Provocateur " ) Behind the scenes . The Korova Moo is named after the Korova Milk Bar in " A Clockwork Orange " .
Samuel Pike Samuel Pike was a pirate captain — and master of the " Black Albatross " — who searched for Captain Avery ' s treasure in a small Cornish village . He had lost his hand and in its place had a unique implement not unlike a pike , from which he got his surname . Pike met the First Doctor , whom Cherub had captured and brought to the ship . Pike was also interested in joining Squire Edwards ' smuggling ring . He left the Doctor and Jacob Kewper on the ship while he and Cherub met with the Squire on shore . When he returned to the ship , he learned that the Doctor and Kewper had tricked Jamaica and escaped , so he killed Jamaica with his pike . Pike and Cherub made arrangements with the Squire , but planned to betray him . Pike and his men came ashore in search of the Squire ' s smuggled goods . Pike found Cherub trying to make arrangements with the Doctor for the Avery ' s gold , so Pike killed Cherub for betraying him . The Doctor negotiated with Pike , promising him he could have the entire share of the gold if he would leave the town unharmed . The Doctor told Pike what he had learned from Joseph Longfoot , but when revenue officer Josiah Blake and his men arrived , Pike suspected the Doctor of laying a trap . He tried to kill the Doctor , but he was stopped by the Squire , and shot and killed by Blake . ( TV : " The Smugglers " )
Verron soothsayer A Verron soothsayer once gave Sarah Jane Smith a puzzle box ( TV : " Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane ? " ) and a warp star ( TV : " Journey ' s End " ) after Sarah Jane and her friends helped him return to his home planet . The soothsayer told her to give the puzzle box to the person she trusted most . She gave it to Maria Jackson . ( TV : " Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane ? " ) The soothsayer also told Sarah Jane that the warp star was for " the end of days " . ( TV : " Journey ' s End " )
Jo Grant ' s thirteenth grandchild Jo Grant ' s thirteenth grandchild was born in Dubai in 2010 . He was the cousin of Santiago Jones . His grandparents were Jo and Clifford Jones . ( PROSE : " Death of the Doctor " ) According to the Eleventh Doctor , he was dyslexic but a great swimmer . ( TV : " Death of the Doctor " )
The Conscript ( audio story ) Publisher ' s summary . Cardinal Ollistra has a new tactic to persuade the Doctor to join his people ’ s fight . With his friends locked away , he has been conscripted alongside fellow Gallifreyan s to train for the front lines of battle . Commandant Harlan has a reputation – his camp ’ s regime is harsh . He believes the Time Lords must adapt to win this war , but the Doctor is not easily intimidated . Can there be any place for dissent when the Time War looms so close ? Plot . " to be added " Notes . " to be added "
Benlithulan The Benlithulans were a species which Krem - ling had fed upon , along with the Heemie s , Worg s and Suasion Norb s . Marsalla mentioned them to the Fourth Doctor when he asked if Krem - ling had always looked as he did now , an elderly male humanoid . ( PROSE : " The Vampires of Crellium " )
Arimathea Artefact Arimathea Artefact was the code name for a top secret object believed to have magical powers . Its function was to serve as a focal point . The Golgotha Project set the item off whilst using detectors that would not hit the market for decades . It took three years to prepare the grounds . When they did set it off , it created a rift and went haywire . According to the readouts , another rift from another point had opened up and created a bright light . It was said to have made those who watched fearful and seemed to harbour " the negation of life " . Bomber plane s were sent to bomb the event lest the rifts engulf the world . The men later returned to the globe and found that the earth had , forming a crater , and that there was an unidentified substance at the bottom , which the men refused to touch , for fear of ruining reality . The men recruited the Fourth Doctor to help them . ( PROSE : " Heart of TARDIS " )
Sorenson Sorenson was a Morestran scientist who led an expedition to Zeta Minor in the year 37166 to search for a new energy source that would save his civilisation . Biography . Sorenson discovered rich veins of anti - matter mineral s on the planet with which he could refuel the Morestran sun . His monomania concerning this scientific pursuit , coupled with the deaths of all seven of his fellow expedition members , left him with some mental derangement , which was immediately noticeable to Vishinsky ' s landing party . This party came from a Morestran probe ship , captained by Controller Salamar , that had come in search of Sorenson ' s expedition . He brought his mineral samples on board the ship . When the Fourth Doctor reasoned that the samples would have to be left behind if the ship was to ever leave , Sorenson secreted a canister . The anti - matter infected Sorenson , causing his degeneration into a beastly form with glowing red eyes . He attacked and killed Morelli , De Haan and Reig , leaving behind the same desiccated corpses as the anti - matter creature . By drinking an oral vaccine he was able to revert this change temporarily . The Doctor labelled this creature " anti - man " , a hybrid creature whose brain cells had been destroyed causing it to " descend to the level of a brute " . The Doctor confronted Sorenson in his room aboard the ship , confirming that his vaccine was no longer working and had set in motion a series of chemical changes . The professor took the remaining mineral canister and prepared to eject it and his own person into space but transformed again before he could . Salamar used a neutron accelerator against him and was killed by Sorenson in the attempt . The device triggered the creation of several duplicates of the professor , composed of pure anti - matter . The Doctor shot him and carried him into the TARDIS . There , having landed on Zeta Minor , Sorenson broke free of his constraints . The Doctor lured him and , in his attempts to strike the Doctor , the professor fell into a ' pool ' of anti - matter . The Doctor then returned the last canister and the duplicates disappeared . The Doctor rediscovered Sorenson by the side of the pool , restored to his former self . He assured him that he was " a very lucky man " , released as the Time Lord had kept his promise to return the anti - matter . Suffering from memory loss , remembering only that he had discovered a promising source of energy , he was convinced by the Doctor that he had abandoned that line of thought and had been looking into the kinetic force of planetary movement as an alternative . ( TV : " Planet of Evil " )
The Fact of Fiction ( documentary ) The Fact of Fiction was a documentary looking at the making of the " Doctor Who " story " The Mind Robber " . Main subject . " to be added " Additional topics covered . " to be added " Home video releases . It was included in the DVD release of the " Doctor Who " story " The Mind Robber " .
Erich Strauss Erich Strauss was a scientist on Planet Z02 - 80535 . He didn ' t think that the species on the planet were of importance , and if someone had to mine the planet , it might as well be their company . He and Michael Kelin often argued the matter . When the Third Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith arrived , he figured the Doctor was a saboteur and a con man . He was appalled to learn that the slug - like creatures were sentient . Strauss and the rest of the team were killed when the Builders attacked them . ( PROSE : " Primitives " )
Pokerface " Pokerface " was a song by Lady Gaga which Flip Jackson used as the ringtone for her mobile phone . ( AUDIO : " The Crimes of Thomas Brewster " ) Iris Wildthyme sang " Pokerface " in the 1960s while in her second incarnation . ( PROSE : " Elementary , My Dear Sheila " )
Kryon radiation Kryon radiation was a type of radiation that was first created some time after 1888 and could be associated with Matrua Nebula technology . Shimmer suits used by the time - travelling Mac ' atyde and " Sir Charles Warren " were drenched in the radiation as were parts of Mac ' atyde ' s ship . The Eleventh Doctor ' s " People - Finder - Upper - Tracker - Thing " was invented to track it but he found that porridge seemed to have the same energy signature . ( COMIC : " Ripper ' s Curse " )
Paul Lacoux Paul Lacoux voiced Dr Mark Mathias in the Big Finish " Doctor Who " audio story " The Harvest " . He has been working on British television since at least the mid - 1980s , when he had a guest role on . By the end of the decade , he ' d landed a recurring role on . Indeed , " David Rowe " may be the role for which he is still best remembered . He also appeared on " EastEnders " , about a week after the debut of " Rose " .
Pontyvale Golf Course The Pontyvale Golf Course was a golf course outside Cardiff . In 1924 , Jack Harkness was a member of the club , allowing him to know the layout of the buildings . Circa 2009 , a pair of Craktor s made a nest in the Pontyvale Golf Course , killing several people before the male was killed by Torchwood Three . ( COMIC : " Ma and Par " )
Liasici Liasici was the homeworld of the Foamasi . It had been destroyed in the war with the Argolin s , but by 3999 the Foamasi had restored it . This required a lot of money , so Foamasi joined the Galactic Federation to help their economy . Despite this , the economy of the planet was still precarious . ( PROSE : " Placebo Effect " )
Janice ( Auton ) Janice was an assistant to scientific researcher Dr Sally " Sal " Arnold at a secret UNIT facility . Dr Arnold had rediscovered a Nestene pod placed in storage many years earlier . Unaware of the dangers involved , she had tried to activate the fragment and was unsuccessful until she exposed it to deep - space transmissions . Re - establishing contact with the Nestene Consciousness , the creature killed Janice before escaping . ( HOMEVID : " Auton " )
Gordon Bennett " Gordon Bennett ! " was an exclamation of shock , alarm or disbelief of which Ace was particularly fond . ( TV : " Dragonfire " , " The Happiness Patrol " , " The Greatest Show in the Galaxy " , " Battlefield " ; AUDIO : " A Life of Crime " , " The Blood Furnace " ) One typical usage occurred when she had assumed that a Happiness Patrol member ' s gun was fake , only to watch it powerfully discharged in front of her . ( TV : " The Happiness Patrol " )
Into the Silence ( novel ) Into the Silence was the tenth release in the BBC " Torchwood " Novels series . Publisher ' s summary . The body in the church hall is very definitely dead . It has been sliced open with surgical precision , its organs exposed , and its vocal cords are gone . It is as if they were never there or they ' ve been dissolved . . . With the Welsh Amateur Operatic Contest getting under way , music is filling the churches and concert halls of Cardiff . The competition has attracted the finest Welsh talent to the city , but it has also drawn something else — there are stories of a metallic creature hiding in the shadows . Torchwood are on its tail , but it ' s moving too fast for them to track it down . This new threat requires a new tactic — so Ianto Jones is joining a male voice choir . . . Plot . " to be added "
Megerra Megerra was a planet that was first known for mining , but became a tourist resort known for its corruption . Astronomical data . Megerra was a barren planet orbiting a red sun at the edge of the Mutter ' s Spiral galaxy . ( PROSE : " Mean Streets " ) The sun ' s weak light and the perpertual pollution kept the planet dark . It was very rich in valuable minerals , such as gold , iron , silver , nickel and aluminium , which attracted the mining corporations . ( PROSE : " Shakedown " ) The only city of any importance was Mega City , which covered most of the smallest continent . It was so polluted only the tallest buildings on the planet reached past the cloud level . Though there were industrial ports around the coasts of Megerra , there was still much empty coastline to the south . Thid coastline was dark and barren , with stretches of marsh . The sea was also highly polluted . The only surviving life forms were either poisonous or carnivorous . To the north of Mega City were the mountains where most of the mining was done . ( PROSE : " Mean Streets " ) History . Most of the major mining companies of Earth took advantage of the planet , setting up mines to extract the valuable minerals . As time went on , the entertainment business came to fill the miner ' s needs . Eventually , the planet became known for these attractions and became a popular ( but dangerous ) tourist attraction . ( PROSE : " Mean Streets " ) In the 26th century , Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej were tracking the Rutan renegade Karne . Karne eventually came to Megerra , where they tracked him to a bank . He murdered the bank manager and then escaped again , though wounded in the process . ( PROSE : " Shakedown " ) Several years later , Chris returned to Megerra with Bernice Summerfield to investigate the Project , something which Roz had encountered on their first trip . ( PROSE : " Mean Streets " )
Repugna Repugna was a witch who lived on the Crooked World . She was a villain in Zanytown who often used spell s and potion s on people to turn them into things . After gaining free will , Repugna renounced evil and opened up a pharmacy . ( PROSE : " The Crooked World " )