Third Doctor

The Third Doctor, as he appears in The Three Doctors

### Aliases

John Smith, Dr. Watson, The great wizard Quiquaequod, Dandy, The Wizard, Prisoner 177781, The Spokesperson, Fancy Pants

### Companions

Liz ShawAlistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart

John Benton

Jo Grant

Mike Yates

Sarah Jane Smith

## Behind the Scenes

### Latest Appearance

Destiny

The **Third Doctor,** who was exiled by the Time Lords to Earth in the 20th century for a significant period of his life, was a distinguished man of high class and gadgetry, often tinkering away and privy with machines. He also liked to share his wisdom with those who had open minds, but his patience would quickly dissolve if something annoyed him. Those who got on his good side soon found him to be a friendly fellow, while those who were against him soon found that this gentleman could actually get physical and hold his own in a fight.

The technological limits of the time period, and the constraints of his exile, often made him frustrated and bitter. However, he retained his endearing compassion toward his human companions, and he finally began to gain some mastery over his TARDIS as he dissected its inner-workings while it was rendered inoperable as the exile gave him the opportunity to learn more about his ship than he ever had before since he was no longer constantly on the move from his people. At the same time, he continued trying to regain his freedom.

This incarnation of the Doctor worked for UNIT as their scientific advisor, and remained in their service after his exile was ended. Unlike his earlier incarnations, he was quite willing to engage others physically, and cut a more dashing figure.

His foremost enemy was a fellow Time Lord, the Master. Although appalled by the disregard for life inherent in the Master's schemes, the Doctor treated their relationship as somewhat of a friendly rivalry, even enjoying their battle of wits. The Master reflected an equally casual attitude back at him. The Doctor also held out hope that he could rehabilitate the Master, whom he had once considered a friend. Though the Master sometimes teamed up with the Doctor to deal with foes who threatened them, he always bent to dark and malicious desires, which kept their mutual antagonism alive. Indeed, when they did work together, they showed a mutual respect of each other's abilities. More than once, the Master did offer the Doctor the opportunity to share his power, but the Doctor always refused.

In the field, the Doctor was aided by Sergeant John Benton, Captain Mike Yates, and Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. The Doctor often took exception to the Brigadier's military approach, just as the Brigadier was frequently irritated by the Doctor's air of superiority and seeming disregard for authority. Despite this, the two men ultimately developed an easy mutual trust and strong friendship.

He was initially assisted in the laboratory by Dr Elizabeth Shaw. A capable scientist in her own right, she eventually left to pursue her own work, and the Doctor was given a new assistant, Jo Grant. She was bubblier and had less scientific training, but the Doctor found her a most useful companion in his adventures during and after his exile. They developed a great fondness for each other. Jo left UNIT to marry scientist Clifford Jones.

Eventually thereafter, the Doctor was joined by inquisitive newswoman Sarah Jane Smith. Her journalistic skills and curiosity proved both useful and occasionally hazardous in their travels together.

The Doctor eventually regenerated into a younger body after being exposed to large amounts of radiation during his efforts to stop the Eight Legs of Metebelis III, the price of correcting a mistake he had made in the past.

## Biography

### Post-regeneration

After being caught in a Time Lord trap that resulted in an enforced regeneration in his TARDIS, (COMIC: *The Night Walkers*) the freshly regenerated Doctor collapsed outside his TARDIS on 20th century Earth, near a UNIT patrol. He was taken to a hospital unconscious, where he suffered numerous moments of consciousness before falling unconscious again. Escaping from the hospital by appropriating an ornate outfit and commandeering a sporty antique roadster, the Doctor made his way to UNIT HQ to see Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart.

However, he was uneasy about the Brigadier since their last meeting and eager to reclaim his TARDIS key to escape the planet. However, the Doctor found not only that his knowledge on how to operate the TARDIS had been blocked, but also that the dematerialisation codes had been changed. Learning that, when he arrived on Earth, a swarm of power units for a non-physical alien intelligence known as the Nestene Consciousness had been uncovered, and that the Nestene Consciousness had an affinity for plastic and planned to replace key government and public figures with animated humanoid facsimiles called Autons, the Doctor agreed to work for UNIT for the time being.

With the help of Dr. Liz Shaw, the Doctor created a device to stop the Autons. The Brigadier feared that the Nestenes would return, and asked for the Doctor's continued assistance. The Doctor agreed to join UNIT as their scientific advisor, using the identity of Dr. John Smith, in exchange for facilities to repair the TARDIS. He also requested similar clothes to the ornate outfit he had appropriated during his escape from the hospital, and a car like the sporty antique roadster he had also commandeered during the escape, since he would need to return both to their proper owners. (TV: *Spearhead from Space*)

### UNIT career begins

Summoned by the Brigadier to an underground research centre on Wenley Moor, the Doctor and Liz met Silurians, a species who had gone into hibernation millions of years earlier, revived by power from the research centre. The Doctor strove for peace between the reptiles and humans and gained the trust of the Silurian leader. However, a rebellious and intolerant young Silurian killed his leader and released a deadly virus that threatened to wipe out humanity.

The Doctor and Liz found an antidote, but the Silurians retaliated by taking over the research centre. They planned to destroy the Van Allen Belt, a natural barrier shielding the Earth from solar radiation harmful to humans, but beneficial to reptiles. The Silurians had to return to their caves when the Doctor overloaded the reactor, threatening a nuclear explosion. As the Silurians retreated to their base to go back into hibernation until the radiation in the area subsided, the Doctor stopped the reactor from exploding. However, the Brigadier, on the orders of his superiors, had the Silurian base be sealed off with explosives, killing the Silurians. (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*)

The Doctor saved radiation-dependent alien ambassadors from General George Carrington, a xenophobic retired astronaut, and arranged the exchange of the ambassadors for three captured astronauts. (TV: *The Ambassadors of Death*)

The Doctor, Liz and UNIT next began working as security at an experimental project to drill through the Earth's crust. The drill head started to leak an oily, green liquid that transformed those who touched it into vicious, primeval creatures who craved heat. The Doctor was transported by the partially repaired TARDIS console into a parallel universe in which the drilling project was further along. He worked with ruthless, alternative versions of his UNIT friends to save both universes. When the drilling site in the alternate universe was destroyed, it gave the Doctor information on the course the project would take. This let him save his own universe at the cost of the director of the operations becoming one of the creatures. (TV: *Inferno*) Upon returning to UNIT HQ, the Doctor and Liz discovered it to have been taken over by anti-matter creatures. These creatures attempted to kill the Doctor and Liz, until they were saved by Bernice Summerfield, who explained that these creatures were Cybermen attempting to destroy the Doctor's timeline. After using a gadget to render the Cybermen at the HQ harmless, the Doctor joined Bernice in saving his fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh incarnations, and rendezvoused with them at Old Marley, where he met his eighth incarnation and a retired Brigadier. He helped his other selves to hold the Cybermen back from the church, and to telepathically turn the Cybermen's time capsules into time bombs, destroying the Cybermen. Following the evacuation of the church, he and Liz were returned home by the Eighth Doctor, Bernice and the Brigadier. (TV: *Destiny*)

### Battles with the Master

The Doctor's new assistant at UNIT after Liz left was Jo Grant. After being warned about the Master coming to Earth, the Doctor convinced the Master to stop his alliance with the Nestenes, after providing them with a bridge-head allowing the aliens to return to Earth and creating weapons and tactics, as the Nestenes would not distinguish between the Master and anyone else in their takeover, and the two worked together to fling the Nestenes back into space by "chang[ing] the polarity" whilst the transfer shift of the radio telescope that summoned the Nestene invasion force was still open. The Doctor had also stranded the Master on Earth after stealing the dematerialisation circuit of the Master's TARDIS. (TV: *Terror of the Autons*)

The Doctor visited Stangmoor Prison with Jo for a demonstration of the Keller Machine, a device to extract negative emotions from hardened criminals. The Doctor discovered that the Master was behind the machine, but also that he had lost control of it. The machine was destroyed along with the Thunderbolt missile the Master tried to launch at the World Peace Conference, but the Master recovered his dematerialisation circuit and escaped again in his TARDIS. (TV: *The Mind of Evil*)

When a seemingly benevolent alien species known as the Axons arrived, promising new means of energy, the Doctor immediately saw through their charade; they had no intention of helping Earth, instead they planned to drain it dry of all energy. The Doctor once again encountered the Master, who had been captured by Axos after leading them to Earth; the Doctor put on the pretence of abandoning his friends at UNIT while working with the Master to repair his TARDIS. While the Master escaped once again, the Doctor succeeded in trapping Axos in a time loop before departing himself. However, much to his displeasure, the Time Lords had anticipated him leaving Earth and so reprogrammed the TARDIS to always return him to the 20th century. (TV: *The Claws of Axos*)

When the Time Lords discovered the Master had stolen their secret file on the Doomsday Weapon, they sent the Doctor and Jo to retrieve it on the planet Uxarieus, where they met resistance with the Interplanetary Mining Corporation, who tried to claim rights to the planet with highly unethical means and forcing the colonists to vacate, despite them not being able to do so with their old and damaged ship.

Taking advantage of the standstill between IMC and the colonists, the Master posed as an Adjudicator who could overturn the decision in favour of IMC. The Doctor had little choice but to play up to the Master's whims after a native alien tribe had stolen the TARDIS. He learned the Master's disguise was a ploy to reach a forgotten alien civilisation on Uxarieus, planning to seize the power of one of their weapons. However, the Doctor met the primitives' intelligent leader in the civilisation's city. Because it was intelligent, the Doctor reasoned with it, convincing the guardian to destroy the weapon and all traces of its civilisation before the Master could misuse the technology it held. The Master escaped to freedom. The Doctor reclaimed his TARDIS and left Uxarieus in the hands of a real Adjudicator. (TV: *Colony in Space*)

The Doctor tried to stop the Master, posing as a rural vicar, from summoning Azal, the last of the Dæmons, at Devil's End. Azal decided to give his power to the Master, and fired energy at the Doctor to kill him, until Jo stepped in front of the Doctor, asking Azal to kill her instead. This act of self-sacrifice did not make sense to Azal and the confusion destroyed him. The Master tried to escape in Bessie, but the Doctor's remote control brought the car back and the Master was finally captured by UNIT. (TV: *The Dæmons*)

### Missions in time

Freedom fighters from an alternate 22nd century tried to thwart a Dalek invasion by coming to the 20th century to assassinate a delegate, Reginald Styles, at the second World Peace Conference in Auderly House. After following the guerrillas back to the 22nd century, the Doctor realised that Styles' actions had instead been performed by Shura, one of the fighters, in a misguided attempt to fulfil his mission, creating a temporal paradox. After travelling to the 20th century, the Doctor returned to ensure the evacuations of the delegates, having the Brigadier order his men to fall back and allow the Daleks to pass. The Daleks and Ogrons arrived in pursuit of the Doctor, but both were destroyed when Shura detonated his bomb. This intervention broke the paradox so the Dalek invasion never took place. (TV: *Day of the Daleks*)

The Doctor accidentally landed the TARDIS on the ledge of a great cliff, which gave way and caused it to fall to the bottom of the chasm, on Peladon. After a cautious climb to safety in the middle of a turbulent storm, the Doctor and Jo entered the citadel of Prince Peladon, where the Doctor was mistaken for a human dignitary summoned to act as chairman of a committee assessing an application by the planet to join the Galactic Federation, where delegates consisted of the Ice Warrior Izlyr, the Alpha Centauri and Arcturus. There proved to be a conspiracy between a Federation delegate and the High Priest of Peladon, and the Doctor and Jo revealed this conspiracy to the Prince. When the delegates began to point fingers at each other in blame, the Doctor himself accused, all suspicions were rendered futile.

However, the Doctor discovered that Peladonians worshipped a mythical beast named Aggedor, which turned out to be real. After encountering it, he learned a Venusian lullaby could calm it, it feared fire, and it could fall under hypnosis. Aggedor was simply a wild creature confined to the citadel in a temple, but the Doctor faced a punishment of execution for desecrating the inner sanctum of Aggedor's temple. Through a plea, he was allowed to battle for survival in a pit fight against the mute warrior Grun instead. The Doctor won the match and spared Grun, since he was a simple and frightened soul at heart. However, delegate Arcturus revealed himself as a traitor working for Hepesh and attempted to snipe the Doctor from above the pit, however, Ssorg killed Arcturus before he could kill the Doctor.

Hepesh had refused to let Peladon join the Federation because he held fast to the old customs of the planet, which would soon be abandoned if an alliance changed the ways it was governed. He used Aggedor to kill Torbis, let Aggedor run wild through the citadel and cause chaos and framed the Ice Warriors as part of a bid to sabotage the delegation, creating dissent between all parties. The Doctor brought Aggedor to the Prince of Peladon so he would also learn of its presence, but Hepesh tried to command it to kill as its High Priest and appointed ruler. He intimidated Aggedor with a torch, thinking it would obey out of fear, but instead, it provoked Aggedor into fatally mauling him. With the traitors condemned, relations between the Federation and the Peladon Kingdom were improved. After the TARDIS had been heaved up the mountainside, the Doctor and Jo had to disembark immediately from Peladon when the real Earth delegate arrived and they were outed as impostors. (TV: *The Curse of Peladon*)

The Doctor and Jo visited the Master, now imprisoned on Fortress Island. He claimed to have reformed, but still refused to reveal the location of his TARDIS. As they left, the governor, Colonel Trenchard, told them ships had been disappearing. The Doctor investigated, and discovered that the Master had used Trenchard's sense of duty to manipulate him into stealing electrical equipment from the naval base HMS *Seaspite* to build a machine to control the Sea Devils, hoping to use the reptiles to conquer the world. The Doctor entered the Sea Devils' base and tried to encourage peaceful negotiation, but the Royal Navy, under orders from Private Secretary Walker, attacked the base with depth charges, causing more hostilities between humans and Sea Devils. The Doctor escaped with the captured navy crewmembers and their submarine, and returned to HMS *Seaspite*, which was promptly captured by the Master and the Sea Devils.

The Master forced the Doctor to create a sonar device that would reactivate more Sea Devil bases, but the Doctor plugged it in improperly, creating a noise that temporarily incapacitated the Sea Devils, and allowing time for Jo and Captain Hart to gain reinforcements to recapture HMS *Seaspite*. The Doctor chased the Master and his device into the Sea Devil base, and overloaded the device by reversing the polarity. This destroyed the base, preventing more bases from being activated and stopping the war. With the Sea Devils destroyed, the Doctor was prepared to return the Master to prison, but the Master successfully made his escape. (TV: *The Sea Devils*)

The Time Lords ordered the Doctor to deliver an object to an unknown person in the 30th century, near the end of the Earth Empire, on the colony world of Solos, where the humans were becoming hideous mutants. The Doctor, with the help of Professor Sondergaard, discovered the transformation was a natural part of the Solonian life cycle. A Solonian leader, Ky, eventually went into his metamorphosis and killed the Marshal of Solos, who had been committing genocide against the mutants. The Doctor was instrumental in finding the crystal on Solos that was necessary to spark their final metamorphosis into a higher existence for the coming of the planet's long summer climate. (TV: *The Mutants*)

The Doctor discovered that the Master had constructed a device known as TOMTIT and commissioned scientists, Ruth Ingram and Stuart Hyde, to further its work at the Newton Institute. The device let the Master pluck various objects from history out of their proper setting and slow down time, though the Master's true goal was to summon the Chronovore Kronos and use its incredible might for conquest. Pursuing him in the Time Vortex, the Doctor accidentally materialised his TARDIS inside the Master's, locking both in a space loop. After much arguing between him and the Doctor, the Master forcibly separated their TARDISes, but launched the Doctor into the Time Vortex. Fortunately, the Doctor used his binary cardiovascular system and the telepathic circuits of his TARDIS to communicate with Jo and instruct her to materialise him back in his TARDIS by using an emergency switch on the console.

The Doctor, Jo and the Master travelled to ancient Atlantis for the other half of the crystal needed to control Kronos, where the Doctor and Jo temporarily enjoyed victory over the Master. However, the Master's charm won over King Dalios's wife, Queen Galleia, making her turn against Dalios's rule. When a guard killed Dalios, however, Galleia turned against the Master in anger, and summoned Kronos with the crystal, resulting in the city's destruction. The Master escaped the destruction, but took Jo hostage in his TARDIS. The Doctor threatened to time ram the Master's TARDIS, but the Master knew he would not risk Jo's safety. Jo, however, tried to carry out the time ram on her own. To their surprise, Kronos itself intervened and told the Doctor and Jo that it was above good and evil. It would grant any wish they desired, but wanted to inflict an everlasting punishment on the Master for trying to control it. The Doctor, knowing that this fate was too cruel, asked that the Master be spared and that he and Jo were sent home to Earth. (TV: *The Time Monster*)

### Facing Omega

A superluminal signal was sent to Earth, carrying with it an unusual energy blob that seemed intent on capturing the Doctor. On Gallifrey, the Time Lords broke the first law of time to bring the Second Doctor to help him. When the two proved too different to work together, the Time Lords summoned the First Doctor to lead them, but he was trapped in a time eddy and unable to fully materialise, only communicating with them via the TARDIS scanner.

The Doctors found Omega behind the mysterious disappearances. They prevented him from reinserting himself into the world of matter from his anti-matter domain by blowing it up with a mix of regular matter and anti-matter. As a reward for his services, the Doctor's exile was lifted. (TV: *The Three Doctors*)

### Continued Voyages

The Doctor and Jo wound up on the *SS Bernice*, a cargo ship crossing the Indian Ocean. A monster appeared in the sea, events repeated themselves, and a giant hand stole the TARDIS. Investigation revealed that they were inside a miniscope, an alien peepshow sporting numerous miniaturised environments, which showman Vorg and his assistant, Shirna, had brought to amuse the populace of the planet Inter Minor. After leaving the miniscope, the Doctor returned the creatures to their homes and destroyed the machine, allowing him to return to normal size. (TV: *Carnival of Monsters*)

### The Spiridon gambit

Upon arriving on an Earth freighter, the Doctor and Jo were caught up in the escalating tension between planets Earth and Draconia. The Doctor landed his ship in an Earth cargo ship to avoid a collision, but could not properly speak to the crew, as Ogrons boarded it, making off with the TARDIS. Unfortunately, a strange noise caused the human crew to see the Ogrons as though they were Draconians, and they believed the Doctor and Jo had led them onto the ship as spies for Draconia. The two of them were imprisoned on Earth and were unable to convince their captors that they were innocent.

The Doctor was sent to a penal colony on the Moon, where the Peace Party plotted an escape, while Jo was greeted by the Master, posing as a commissioner from Sirius IV and arranged for the release of the Doctor from the penal colony after intervening with a sabotage of the Peace Party's escape plot. They soon discovered that the Master was secretly working with the Ogrons to provoke the two sides into all-out war under the orders of the Daleks, using hypnosound technology to confuse them into thinking humans and Draconians were attacking each other. His plans to kidnap them failed when the ship violated Draconian territory, causing Draconians to seize control of it and bring the Doctor, Jo, and the Master to their home world to face judgement by their own emperor.

Fortunately, the Doctor was able to convince the Draconian Emperor that they were being tricked into attacking humans. He sent the Doctor back to Earth with his son, the prince of Draconia, to convince the President of Earth they had been wronged, but the Master sent the Ogrons to attack them and they captured Jo. Unable to turn back because Earth and Draconia were on the brink of war, the Doctor continued to Earth and explained the deception to its President. He also had to reason with the unyielding General John Williams, who joined the expedition to the Ogron planet, and the group rescued Jo after she managed to resist the Master's hypnosound technology and radioed for help.

The Master anticipated the arrival of the Doctor, having both the Ogrons and Daleks wait for their arrival. He captured the expedition group and promised the Gold Dalek that he would turn over the Doctor to the Daleks for extermination. Fortunately, Jo had pocketed the Master's hypnosound device, and the Doctor used it to frighten the Ogrons into thinking their Dalek masters were terrorising them. In this panic, the Master cornered the Doctor and Jo before they retrieved the TARDIS, pointing a blaster at the Doctor, firing the gun by accident when Ogrons overran him. Though Jo wrestled the gun from the Master as he was swept out of the room by their lumbering bodies, but his shot had grazed the Doctor's forehead and had badly wounded him.

Barely conscious, the Doctor had Jo help him into the TARDIS, where he sent a message to the Time Lords, asking them to pilot his TARDIS and follow the Daleks to their new base. (TV: *Frontier in Space*) Jo brought the Doctor over to a collapsible bed within the TARDIS console room so he could rest. The Doctor told Jo he would heal, but it would take time. He gave her a tricorder to log anything unusual that happened while he was unconscious, and drifted into a temporary coma.

After the Doctor regained consciousness, he wanted to find Jo to show her he was now healthy. However, Jo had left him to find help and was presumed deceased by a group of Thals she found. He eventually found Jo alive and safe, learning that the Spiridons were a peaceful race forced into violence and experimentation by the Daleks. The group discovered a base with more than ten-thousand Daleks hibernating and buried deep in the ground, and the Doctor figured out they were vulnerable to extreme cold after noticing they slowed down during the nightfall that brought temperatures below freezing on Spiridon. The Daleks were eliminated by using the natural eruptions of liquid ice on Spiridon against them, liberating the Thals, the captive Spiridons, and removing the danger the Dalek army posed to other neighbouring races in the galaxy. (TV: *Planet of the Daleks*)

### Last travels with Jo

The Doctor and Jo visited the planet Karfel and encountered the Borad and the grandfather of Katz. (TV: *Timelash*)

After several attempts to get to Metebelis III, the Doctor landed his TARDIS there, but was attacked by violent beings. While on the planet, he took a blue crystal.

The Doctor returned to Earth and joined the Brigadier and Jo at Llanfairfach, where UNIT was investigating Global Chemicals, which was responsible for the pollution, having been directed by the computer BOSS. BOSS used mind control on key company staff, and Mike Yates, and planned on controlling the world based on its initial programming. The Doctor broke BOSS's control using the blue crystal. Once freed, company boss Stevens destroyed BOSS before it could link with computers over the world.

Jo and Clifford Jones, a scientist working at Wholeweal, had developed a quick romance in the few days since they had met, and Cliff asked for her hand in marriage, with Jo accepting his proposal. The Doctor, struggling to hide his devastation, offered his blessing and gave Jo the blue crystal he had retrieved from Metebelis III as a wedding present. Alone, he discreetly and sadly left the celebration as the Brigadier made a toast to the happy couple, driving away in Bessie. (TV: *The Green Death*)

### Meeting Sarah Jane Smith

Journalist Sarah Jane Smith impersonated her aunt, virologist Lavinia Smith, to gain access to a UNIT research centre. Top scientists were being held there in protective custody while the Doctor investigated the disappearances of their colleagues.

The missing scientists had been kidnapped by a Sontaran commander named Linx, and taken to England in the Middle Ages, where they were working under hypnosis to repair his crashed spaceship. The Doctor helped return the scientists home with Linx's osmic projector. The premature take-off of the Sontaran ship caused the destruction of Irongron's castle, along with the anachronistic weapons Linx had provided to Irongron. (TV: *The Time Warrior*)

### Exploits with Sarah

The Doctor and Sarah arrived in 1970s London to find that it had been evacuated because of dinosaurs. The dinosaurs were being brought to London through time eddys in a plan to revert Earth to a pre-technological level. The masterminds behind the Operation Golden Age scheme, Whitaker and Charles Grover, were accidentally transported to pre-historic Earth. (TV: *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*)

Attempting to travel to Florana, the TARDIS ran afoul of a device that neutralised its power, causing it to crash on the planet Exxilon. Forced to postpone their travel plans, the Doctor and Sarah were met by the primitive natives with aggression. Their issues compounded when they met other parties afflicted by the same device. The Doctor encountered Marine Space Corps members seeking Parrinium, a cure for a space-plague, who were starting to grow restless and fearful after losing some of the crew's commanders, which left Dan Galloway in charge and on edge. The Daleks also landed for the same purpose. The Doctor and the Daleks discovered the Great City of the Exxilons, a large city with a power-disrupting tower preventing technology from working. The natives had become victims of their own technology when it gained sentience and drove them out of their city. This forced them into the wilderness with no means of technology, where they remained for so long it caused them to regress to more primitive ways and worship the city that destroyed them.

However, as the Doctor and Sarah encountered the brutish natives, they also ran into a faction that wished to destroy the city, and befriended Bellal. The Doctor listened to the plight of Bellal's people and agreed to put an end to it with his help. With Bellal's help, he sought to disrupt their city's functions and remove the power-disrupting facility, though it required him and the humans to infiltrate the city's defences and get through several puzzles. Although the Daleks were incapable of using their gunsticks and were left in a rare state of vulnerability that took its toll when the Daleks where picked off by Exxilons and the city's traps alike, they resorted to using ordinary guns to coerce the Doctor and company into following their orders. The Daleks ordered humans to place bombs around the city's central tower to destroy it. The city was destroyed, as was the Dalek space ship, when Galloway chose to atone for his ruthlessness as the acting commander by sacrificing his life to manually detonate bombs placed aboard the vessel. Though the Marine Space Corps could now retrieve their cure on future missions to Exxilon, the Doctor regretted having to destroy the Exxilon's city and lamented the loss of one of the universe's wonders. (TV: *Death to the Daleks*)

### The Game of Rassilon

While taking a ride in the country in Bessie, the Doctor was captured by a Time Scoop and taken to the Death Zone on Gallifrey. There, he encountered an older Sarah Jane Smith, who at first was confused by the sight of him as she had witnessed his regeneration and had already parted company with his next incarnation. They travelled to the Tomb of Rassilon, where the winner of the Game of Rassilon would be given immortality. On the way, the Doctor met a future rendition of the Master, who claimed to have been sent by the Time Lords to help him, a claim the Doctor did not believe, confiscating the Seal of the High Council from him, under the assumption that it was stolen, and believing instead that the Master was behind everything, a claim he felt was confirmed when thunderbolts suddenly rained down on them, one of them hitting Bessie and forcing he and Sarah to walk. The Doctor and Sarah also encountered a group of Cybermen and a Raston Warrior Robot; fortunately, the two of them were able to sneak past while they did battle, the Cybermen quickly getting slaughtered.

Using stolen climbing utensils from the Raston Warrior Robot, the Doctor and Sarah climbed to the top entrance to the tower. Inside the tower, the Doctor encountered illusions of Liz Shaw and Mike Yates, and eventually reached the tomb, where the Doctor joined with his first and second incarnations to study the writing by Rassilon's tomb, and open the teleportation systems. The Fifth Doctor arrived, under the control of Lord Borusa, who had brought the Doctors there to help him retrieve immortality from Rassilon. The combined concentration of the three Doctors, however, was enough to break Borusa's control over their future incarnation. When Borusa spoke to Rassilon and took his offer of immortality, he was turned to stone and became trapped within a sarcophagus. The Doctor was soon after returned to his time zone with Sarah Jane by Rassilon. (TV: *The Five Doctors*)

### Final exploits

The Doctor returned to Peladon with the intent of reuniting with King Peladon, but accidentally jumped fifty years ahead of his last visit. By then, Peladon had died, with his daughter, Queen Thalira, ruling under a period of dissent, and an ongoing labour dispute between Pel nobility and the Pel miners worsened when apparitions of Aggedor attacked and killed several miners. Following an uprising by the oppressed miners, and distrust from the queen's chancellor, Ortron, regarding who the Doctor and Sarah had sided with, the two were sent to face the judgement of the Aggedor, whom the Doctor calmed with a Venusian lullaby. By Peladonian law, he and his companion were exonerated of any charges placed against them. With the situation worsening, Alpha Centauri summoned for assistance from the Federation, and they sent in Ice Warriors to ensure production. The Ice Warriors' commander, Azaxyr, threatened to kill hostages if the miners refused to work, and the Doctor brought the miners and ruling class together to fight the Ice Warriors.

Following a long series of disputes, the Doctor, Sarah and the Peladonians learned the planet was under siege by Eckersley, a Federation defector seeking to manipulate the people into giving up their world's stores of trisilicate for his own gain. One of the miners, Ettis, attempted to wipe out the whole of them by firing a sonic lance on the Peladonian citadel, duelling the Doctor and subduing him long enough to use the device. Having planned against this, Azaxyr had placed a self-destruct mechanism on the lance, which killed Ettis when he activated it. After recovering from his duel, the Doctor found the apparitions of Aggedor were being created by a machine in the mine that Eckersley had protected with a security system, assaulting the Doctor's senses when he turned it on. When Eckersley cranked up its effects high enough to kill him, the Doctor used sensory withdrawal to block out the attack and feign death until Sarah could rescue him. With the cooperation of Gebek, leader of the miners, and Thalira's forces, Eckersley and the Ice Warriors were wiped out. Sadly, the Aggedor was a victim of the battle between the groups when he and Eckersley killed each other, upsetting the Doctor.

In the aftermath of the uprisings, the Doctor helped bring about a new era of peace to Peladonian society and Sarah, seeing how Thalira was treated due to her gender, ensured that the laws of Peladon would view the queen as a true ruler. (TV: *The Monster of Peladon*)

### A slow demise

The Doctor took the Brigadier to see a travelling performance show, where he observed a powerful clairvoyant, Professor Herbert Clegg. He arranged for the professor to meet him in UNIT HQ, where he looked into the source of Clegg's abilities. Before his experiment could begin, he was presented with a package; Jo had sent her Metebelis crystal back to him after a group of Indian porters cited it would bring them bad luck and refused any further association with her and Cliff unless she discarded the crystal. However, Clegg looked into it, causing his psychic abilities to increase and show him a frightful image of extraterrestrial spiders, which gave him a fatal heart attack.

Reunited with Mike Yates, the Doctor and UNIT discovered mysterious goings-on at a meditation retreat run by Tibetan monks were linked to a colony of monstrous spiders on Metebelis III. Here, he ran into his old mentor, K'anpo Rimpoche, who suffered an attack from the spiders and regenerated. The spiders sought the Doctor's crystal and began attacking, possessing, subjugating and killing anyone who stood in the way of them reclaiming the crystal. The Doctor realised that the act of taking it in the first place was a deadly oversight from the beginning, and was told by K'anpo he had no choice but to return the crystal, which would spell his doom.

To save his companions, his teacher, and the whole cosmos from them, the Doctor exposed himself to lethal levels of radiation to destroy the web of the Great One. He allowed the Great One to repossess the crystal, which gave her infinite psychic power, unaware this would be too much for her to bear. The Great One and the Eight Legs linked to her could not handle the limitless power and were destroyed. The Doctor limped to his TARDIS and escaped Metebelis III, horrendously irradiated. (TV: *Planet of the Spiders*)

The Doctor was stuck wandering around the Time Vortex for ten years, the radiation slowly eating away at his body. The effects became so severe that he could not even reach the TARDIS console, and was doomed to simply wait until the TARDIS landed of its own accord. (TV: *Love and War*)

### Death

When the TARDIS finally deposited the dying Doctor back on Earth, he promptly collapsed in his UNIT lab next to Sarah Jane and the Brigadier. Looking at Sarah Jane, he tried comforting her, telling her, *"While there's life, there's..."*, but expired before he could finish his dying words.

K'anpo Rimpoche's psychic projection reappeared before Sarah Jane and the Brigadier, and promised the two that the Doctor would be all right, deciding to give the Doctor "a little push" to help his cells begin a regeneration, then vanished and told Sarah Jane and the Brigadier to "look after him". The Doctor then started breathing again and regenerated into his next incarnation. (TV: *Planet of the Spiders*)

## Personality

A champion for peace and justice, (TV: *Colony in Space*) who "hardly ever" lied, (TV: *The Time Warrior*) the Third Doctor valued his freedom, (TV: *Frontier in Space*) believing "the collection of the simplest animal lifeforms [to be] a dubious enough pursuit in itself", but that "the collection of civilised [and] intelligent beings [was] a positive crime". (TV: *Carnival of Monsters*) He was also more of a show-off than his predecessors, often putting himself at the centre of attention when his plans and contraptions worked accordingly. (TV: *Spearhead from Space*) Liz Shaw believed he only really required an assistant to "pass [him] [his] test tubes and to tell [him] how brilliant [he was]." (TV: *Terror of the Autons*)

He was far more assertive than his preceding incarnations, (TV: *Spearhead from Space*) having less patience for protocols such as visitor's passes, (TV: *The Ambassadors of Death*) and strove to maintain his independence while working for UNIT, such as by ignoring the Brigadier's summonings. (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*) He also disliked having to answer to the Time Lords, maintaining that he worked only for himself. (TV: *Colony in Space*, *Day of the Daleks*) However, he could be more passive when it came to rescues, not questioning the falsehoods his allies would give when coming to his aid, (TV: *The Dæmons*) or the validity of certain outlandish claims, (TV: *Destiny*) and, while he disliked having to work for them, he would use his association with UNIT as a means of getting his way. (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *The Mind of Evil*, *The Green Death*)

Authoritative, yet rebellious, the Third Doctor always favoured peace and diplomacy above violence and aggression, though this lead him to clash with stalwart military-minded individuals who chose rules over morality, with figures such as the Brigadier often being a thorn in his side, especially when a particularly aggressive influential had a greater majority of imprudent people on their side. The Doctor held a strong disgust towards these people, who were any combination of stubborn, selfishly goal-driven or close-minded, and would be further outraged if they refused to listen to him, ignored his protests or went to absurd lengths just to dodge the risk of being proven wrong, especially when they acted antagonistic and undiplomatic. (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *Inferno*, *The Mind of Evil*, *The Claws of Axos*, *Day of the Daleks*, *The Sea Devils*, *Frontier in Space*, *The Green Death*) If unsatisfied with someone's handling of a situation, however, the Doctor would step in forcefully and take charge, (TV: *Inferno*) but, if diplomacy outright failed, he reacted in a subdued manner, giving a scathing and virulent dressing down to the foolhardy individuals that destroyed a bid for peace and order. (TV: *The Mind of Evil*, *The Green Death*)

Feeling akin to "a shipwrecked mariner" while stranded on Earth without a working TARDIS, (TV: *Inferno*) the Third Doctor spent a lot of his time trying to escape his exile, either by tricking others into helping him unlock his TARDIS' capabilities, (TV: *Spearhead from Space*, *The Claws of Axos*) by trying to repair the circuits himself, (TV: *The Ambassadors of Death*, *Inferno*, *Colony in Space*, *Day of the Daleks*, *The Mutants*) or by stealing parts from other TARDISes. (TV: *Terror of the Autons*) His desire to escape would cause him to become overconfident at the first sign of liberation, though he was often forced to humble himself once he realised he was still trapped. (TV: *Spearhead from Space*, *Inferno*, *Terror of the Autons*, *The Claws of Axos*)

Having a distain for bureaucracy, (TV: *The Ambassadors of Death*, *Colony in Space*, *The Sea Devils*) he was rebellious against authorities that were openly hostile towards him. (TV: *Inferno*, *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*)

While he was very hospitable with fellow intellects of his calibre, (TV: *Spearhead from Space*, *The Green Death*, *Destiny*) the Doctor would get rude and dismissive with those he saw as beneath his intellectual prowess, particularly when they interfered in his work. (TV: *Terror of the Autons*, *The Curse of Peladon*, *The Sea Devils*, *The Three Doctors*) However, he could not bring himself to be dismissive of them in the face of their kindness, (TV: *Terror of the Autons*) and would not dismiss someone who others looked down upon for their poor intelligence. (TV: *Planet of the Spiders*) At times, however, the Doctor could become argumentative and needed to be defused in order to establish fluid communication with people. (TV: *The Ambassadors of Death*, *The Dæmons*)

A strong believer in fairness, the Doctor was reluctant to release the Master back into the cosmos, (TV: *The Mind of Evil*) but bargained for him to be spared "an eternity of torment". (TV: *The Time Monster*) He was also saddened by the fate of Omega. (TV: *The Three Doctors*) He strove to find a peaceful alternative to the more violent methods that others' held in resolving a crisis. (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *The Sea Devils*)

While he would chide others for having a "childish attitude", (TV: *Inferno*) the Doctor himself admitted a liking for "being childish", such as by enjoying the prospect of battling villains, (TV: *Terror of the Autons*) even prolonging a swordfight with the Master out of sheer enjoyment. (TV: *The Sea Devils*) He also had no problem interrupting lecturers when he disagreed with what was being said. (TV: *The Mind of Evil*) By his own admittance, it was "impossible" for him to admit when he was wrong. (TV: *Carnival of Monsters*)

Always trying to find the "good in everyone", the Third Doctor was an eternal optimist with a belief that life would always continue in some form, (TV: *The Dæmons*, *The Mutants*, *Frontier in Space*) often comforting people when all hope seemed lost to them, (TV: *The Time Monster*, *Frontier in Space*, *Planet of the Daleks*, *Planet of the Spiders*) believing that "nothing [was] impossible" as long as there was an answer to find. (TV: *Carnival of Monsters*)

He enjoyed gorgonzola cheese, wine. (TV: *Day of the Daleks*) His liking of tea was so great that he allowed the UNIT tea lady unrestricted access to his private laboratory. (TV: *Terror of the Autons*) Though he desired a "quiet life", (TV: *The Monster of Peladon*) the Doctor craved in seeing the wonders of the universe, (TV: *Colony in Space*) with his favourite planets being Metebelis III, (TV: *Carnival of Monsters*) and Florana. (TV: *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*)

The Third Doctor had a passion for science and gadgets that caused him to drown out other people when he was invested in his work. (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *The Time Monster*, *The Green Death*, *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*, *Planet of the Spiders*) He also loved his vintage car, Bessie, almost as much as he loved his TARDIS, fixing it up and giving encouraging pats and kisses, (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *The Five Doctors*) and even preventing the Brigadier from shooting when Bessie was in the line of fire. (TV: *The Dæmons*)

In moments of leisure, the Third Doctor could be found tinkering away at his car, (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *The Dæmons*) undergoing a scientific experiment, (TV: *Terror of the Autons*) visiting events to indulge his "scientific curiosity", (TV: *The Mind of Evil*, *Planet of the Spiders*) or building a new gadgetry contraption. (TV: *The Green Death*)

While he had a dislike for machines, (TV: *The Green Death*) he held a particular distain for computers, (TV: *The Ambassadors of Death*) believing them to be "stupid", (TV: *Frontier in Space*) but noted that they could be useful tools. (TV: *Inferno*)

While very little managed to scare him, (TV: *Planet of the Spiders*) the Doctor had a fear of seeing a planet being overwhelmed by fire and destruction (TV: *The Mind of Evil*) after seeing the Inferno Earth being destroyed in volcanic ash. (TV: *Inferno*)

Not believing in the supernatural, the Doctor put his faith in science, believing that a scientific explanation could be found to anything unexplainable. (TV: *The Dæmons*) He saw "absolute power" as "evil", (TV: *Colony in Space*) and would turn away supreme powers when they were offered to him. (TV: *The Dæmons*, *The Five Doctors*) He thought that "superior intelligence and senseless cruelty just [did] not go together". (TV: *The Three Doctors*)

The Doctor was reluctant to destroy something if it had a trace of intelligence, likening it to murder. (TV: *Terror of the Autons*) He felt nervous about his capabilities with a gun, (TV: *The Mind of Evil*) even when he proved effective with one. (TV: *Day of the Daleks*)

The Third Doctor had a noticeably antagonistic relationship with the Second Doctor, their personalities so different that they seemed incapable of working together amicably without the authoritative presence of their first incarnation. (TV: *The Three Doctors*, *The Five Doctors*) He also held some disdain towards his fourth and sixth incarnations, calling them a "demented bohemian" and a "patchwork jester", respectively. (TV: *Destiny*)

During to his exile on Earth, the Third Doctor was often frustrated about his mistreatment and became disrespectful from time-to-time, often bickering with the Brigadier due to not agreeing with his military methods. (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *Inferno*, *Terror of the Autons*, *The Claws of Axos*) However, the Doctor also held a great respect for the Brigadier, despite his "military mind", (TV: *Frontier in Space*) and often found himself telling his assistants to show him due respect. (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *The Dæmons*)

Despite his occasional rudeness, the Doctor grew very fond of his friends, often taking on the role of a teacher turning them into young scientists, (TV: *The Dæmons*) though he also enjoyed a professional relationship with his scientific equal, Liz Shaw. (TV: *Spearhead from Space*, *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *Destiny*) At first, he was fearful of Jo Grant due to her bumbling nature, (TV: *Terror of the Autons*) but soon became fond enough of her to feel that meeting her made his exile worthwhile, (TV: *Frontier in Space*) becoming upset when she decided to leave his company in pursuit of marrying Professor Clifford Jones. (TV: *The Green Death*)

The Doctor also saw "time and space" as being his "home", (TV: *The Shrink*) but also held a similar sentiment for his UNIT laboratory. (TV: *Planet of the Spiders*)

While the Third Doctor initially only saw the Master as an "unimaginative plodder" that only caused trouble, (TV: *Terror of the Autons*) he eventually came to see him as the "personification of evil." However, he still visited him in prison due to their old friendship. When he and the Master broke out into a sword fight, the Doctor duelled him light-heartedly, being courteous to let the Master retrieve his weapon, and throw banter with him. He even stole a sandwich from a platter in the Master's cell and began eating it while he had his sword pinned on the Master's neck, for no reason other than a playful show of spite. (TV: *The Sea Devils*) However, the Doctor distrusted him greatly, such as when he met the Master in the Death Zone, and, despite him carrying the Seal of the High Council as proof, the Doctor refused to believe the Master had been sent to aid him, instead assuming him to be behind the predicament and having stolen his credentials, and held no qualms about leaving him stranded in an attack. (TV: *The Five Doctors*)

Resentful at them for exiling him, the Doctor thought the Time Lords to be a "mean, despicable, [and] underhanded lot" (TV: *Spearhead from Space*) who "delighted in deviousness". (TV: *The Five Doctors*)

He was afraid of the Daleks, (TV: *The Mind of Evil*) viewing them as "the most evil [and] ruthless life form[s] in the cosmos", (TV: *Day of the Daleks*) and took "great satisfaction" in destroying them. (TV: *Planet of the Daleks*) Because they were inherently violent and lacked the intelligence to reason with properly, the Doctor did not show restraint against Ogrons, immediately resorting to fatal action if they were given orders to kill. (TV: *Day of the Daleks*, *Frontier in Space*)

Charles Lawrence called the Third Doctor "insolent, [and] impertinent", and criticised him for "showing no respect for [his] authority", (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*) while King Dalios recognised him as a philosopher. (TV: *The Time Monster*)

After confronting the Great One on Metebelis III to redeem himself for causing her incursion on Earth after stealing a Metebelis crystal, the Doctor returned to his UNIT lab on Earth, claiming to Sarah Jane that "the TARDIS [had] brought [him] home". Telling a saddened Sarah that facing his fears was more important than "just going on living", he wiped away her tears and tried to comfort her as he succumbed to the radiation poisoning of the crystal. (TV: *Planet of the Spiders*)

### Habits and Quirks

The Third Doctor developed a habit of uttering, *"good grief"*, when he was annoyed, (TV: *The Ambassadors of Death*, *The Dæmons*, *The Curse of Peladon*, *The Green Death*, *The Five Doctors*) surprised (TV: *Day of the Daleks*, *The Sea Devils*, *The Three Doctors*, *Frontier in Space*, *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*) or alarmed. (TV: *The Time Monster*, *The Green Death*, *Planet of the Spiders*, *Destiny*) When tampering with machinery, he would find himself having to "reverse the polarity" to achieve his objectives. (TV: *The Dæmons*, *The Sea Devils*, *The Time Monster*, *Frontier in Space*, *Planet of the Daleks*, *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*, *The Five Doctors*)

The Doctor also made a habit of saying, *"Yes, well..."*, to start his sentences, (TV: *Spearhead from Space*, *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *Inferno*, *Terror of the Autons*, *The Claws of Axos*, *Day of the Daleks*, *The Sea Devils*, *The Mutants*, *The Time Monster*, *Frontier in Space*, *Planet of the Daleks*, *The Time Warrior*, *The Monster of Peladon*, *Planet of the Spiders*, *The Five Doctors*) and would also say a variation of, *"Now you listen to me"*, when trying to be persuasive, gain authority, obtain attention or issue instructions, (TV: *Spearhead from Space*, *The Ambassadors of Death*, *Inferno*, *Terror of the Autons*, *The Mind of Evil*, *The Sea Devils*, *The Time Monster*, *Frontier in Space*, *Planet of the Daleks*, *The Time Warrior*, *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*, *Death to the Daleks*, *Planet of the Spiders*) or say, *"Do as I say"*, when asserting his authority. (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *The Curse of Peladon*, *The Three Doctors*, *The Green Death*)

He frequently addressed his male contemporaries as, *"my dear fellow"*, (TV: *Spearhead from Space*, *The Ambassadors of Death*, *Inferno*, *The Mind of Evil*, *The Green Death*, *Planet of the Spiders*, *Destiny*) or, "old chap", (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *Inferno*, *Terror of the Autons*, *The Mind of Evil*, *Colony in Space*, *Day of the Daleks*, *The Curse of Peladon*, *The Mutants*, *The Time Monster*, *The Three Doctors*, *Frontier in Space*, *The Time Warrior*, *The Monster of Peladon*, *Planet of the Spiders, Destiny*) and would affectionately address his female associates as, *"my dear"*. (TV: *Spearhead from Space*, *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *The Mind of Evil*, *The Claws of Axos*, *The Sea Devils*, *Planet of the Daleks*, *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*)

He frequently said, *"Yes, of course"*, when responding to someone, (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *The Ambassadors of Death*, *Inferno*, *Terror of the Autons*, *The Dæmons*, *The Mutants*, *The Time Monster*, *The Three Doctors*, *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*, *Death to the Daleks*, *Planet of the Spiders*) or when reaching a conclusion. (TV: *The Dæmons*, *Day of the Daleks*, *The Mutants*, *The Time Monster*, *Frontier in Space*, *The Time Warrior*, *Planet of the Spiders*)

When making a statement, the Doctor would say, "look", before elaborating on his statement. (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *Inferno*, *Terror of the Autons*, *The Claws of Axos*, *Colony in Space*, *The Dæmons*, *Day of the Daleks*, *The Sea Devils*, *The Mutants*, *The Three Doctors*, *Frontier in Space*, *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*)

When in moments of panicked outrage, he would often ask, *"What/Who the blazes…"*. (TV: *Terror of the Autons*, *Colony in Space*, *The Mutants*, *The Time Warrior*, *The Monster of Peladon*) He also used words such as "pompous" and "nitwit" to describe people he thought were idiots. (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *Inferno*) When displeased, he would utter a blunt, *"oh, no"*. (TV: *Spearhead from Space*, *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *Inferno*, *Terror of the Autons*, *Planet of the Daleks*)

He also had a habit of saying "Jehoshaphat", (TV: *The Five Doctors*) and singing when tinkering on things or driving Bessie. (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *Inferno*, *Terror of the Autons*, *Death to the Daleks*)

When not in the pockets of his jackets, the Third Doctor would often stand with his hands on his hips, (TV: *The Dæmons*, *Day of the Daleks*, *The Sea Devils*, *The Mutants*, *The Green Death*, *Death to the Daleks*, *Planet of the Spiders*, *The Five Doctors*, *Destiny*) or keep them in the pockets of his trousers. (TV: *Inferno*, *Day of the Daleks*, *The Time Warrior*, *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*, *Death to the Daleks*, *The Monster of Peladon*, *Planet of the Spiders*) He typically stood with a single hand in his pocket, while his other hand dithered above his waist or by his side. (TV: *Spearhead from Space*, *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *The Ambassadors of Death*, *The Claws of Axos*, *Colony in Space*, *The Dæmons*, *The Curse of Peladon*, *The Mutants*, *The Time Monster*, *The Three Doctors*, *Carnival of Monsters*, *Frontier in Space*, *The Green Death*, *The Monster of Peladon*, *The Five Doctors*, *Destiny*)

He sometimes stood with his hands crossed behind his back, (TV: *The Mind of Evil*, *The Claws of Axos*, *The Mutants*, *Frontier in Space*) or in front of him. (TV: *The Curse of Peladon*, *Frontier in Space*, *Planet of the Daleks*, *The Green Death*, *The Time Warrior*, *Destiny*) He would also have his arms folded on occasion. (TV: *Day of the Daleks*, *The Sea Devils*, *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*, *Planet of the Spiders*)

Fidgety when in thought, the Third Doctor would rarely not be seen scratching at his mouth and chin, (TV: *The Dæmons*, *The Shrink*) rubbing his fingers with his thumb (TV: *The Ambassadors of Death*, *Inferno*, *Terror of the Autons*, *The Dæmons*, *The Sea Devils*, *Frontier in Space*, *Planet of the Daleks*, *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*, *The Monster of Peladon*, *Planet of the Spiders*, *The Five Doctors*, *The Shrink*) or singlehandedly rub at his neck. (TV: *Spearhead from Space*, *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *The Ambassadors of Death*, *Inferno*, *The Mind of Evil*, *Day of the Daleks*, *Planet of the Daleks*, *The Green Death*, *The Time Warrior*, *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*, *Death to the Daleks*, *The Shrink*, *Destiny*) Instead, the Doctor would bop at his nose, (TV: *Spearhead from Space*, *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *The Ambassadors of Death*, *The Dæmons*, *Frontier in Space*) play with his lip (TV: *Spearhead from Space*, *The Ambassadors of Death*, *The Mind of Evil*, *The Claws of Axos*, *Day of the Daleks*, *The Curse of Peladon*, *Frontier in Space*) or tug at his ear. (TV: *The Ambassadors of Death*, *Inferno*, *Colony in Space*, *The Dæmons*, *Day of the Daleks*) He would also often fiddle with a pencil in his hand. (TV: *Spearhead from Space*, *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *The Ambassadors of Death*, *The Mind of Evil*)

He would interlock his fingers together when sitting down. (TV: *Terror of the Autons*, *The Mind of Evil*, *The Claws of Axos*, *The Dæmons*, *Day of the Daleks*, *The Curse of Peladon*, *The Mutants*, *The Time Monster*, *The Three Doctors*, *Carnival of Monsters*, *Frontier in Space*, *Planet of the Daleks*, *The Time Warrior*, *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*, *Planet of the Spiders*, *The Shrink*)

He would often bring up his association with historical figures and events, causing him to be labelled a "name dropper". (TV: *The Curse of Peladon*, *The Monster of Peladon*)

When he needed to respond to something, he would utter, *"I see"*. When annoyed, he would say, *"for heaven's sake"*, and was known to indulge in epizeuxes.

The Doctor made use of an eye loupe magnifying glass for examining materials. (TV: *Inferno*, *Terror of the Autons*, *Colony in Space*, *The Curse of Peladon*, *The Green Death*, *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*)

### Skills

With a reaction time "ten times faster" than a human's, (TV: *The Time Monster*) the Third Doctor was a man of action, joining the fray whenever needed with his mastery of Venusian aikido, (TV: *Inferno*) boxing, (TV: *Carnival of Monsters*) and Martian karate. (PROSE: *Inferno*)

The Doctor was a good marksman. (TV: *Day of the Daleks*, *The Time Warrior*) He was also a skilled swordsman, (TV: *The Sea Devils*, *The Monster of Peladon*) and could score a perfect golf game while blindfolded. (TV: *The Sea Devils*)

The Doctor was able to break states of hypnosis and mind control caused by others, (TV: *Spearhead from Space*, *Terror of the Autons*, *The Green Death*, *The Time Warrior*) and could also resist forms of hypnosis which would defeat weaker-minded individuals, (TV: *The Claws of Axos*, *The Green Death*, *The Time Warrior*) such as being able to withstand numerous mind probes. (TV: *Frontier in Space*) He could also perform standard hypnotism. (TV: *The Curse of Peladon*, *The Green Death*)

Having an enjoyment for tinkering with gadgets, (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*) though unsatisfied with the technology at his disposal during his exile, (TV: *Spearhead from Space*, *The Ambassadors of Death*, *Terror of the Autons*, *The Claws of Axos*) the Doctor was able to use what he had to quickly construct equipment needed to defeat his adversaries. (TV: *Spearhead from Space*, *The Ambassadors of Death*, *The Sea Devils*, *The Time Monster*) He was also able to repair and improve the relay circuit for the Uxarieus colony, (TV: *Colony in Space*) and construct his own formula for a smoke bomb in the 13th century. (TV: *The Time Warrior*)

With the aid of Liz Shaw, the Doctor was able to manufacture a counteragent to the Silurian virus. (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*)

He was also an acclaimed singer, being able to tame an Aggedor with a Venusian lullaby. (TV: *The Curse of Peladon*)

An enthusiast for transportation, the Third Doctor was able to easily commandeer cars, (TV: *Spearhead from Space*) motorcycles (TV: *The Dæmons*) quadbikes, (TV: *Day of the Daleks*) jet skis, (TV: *The Sea Devils*) gyrocopters, and hovercrafts. (TV: *Planet of the Spiders*) He also made for an experienced astronaut. (TV: *The Ambassadors of Death*)

The Third Doctor's knowledge of the TARDIS greatly increased from his previous incarnations, chiefly due to him repeatedly taking it completely apart and reassembling it to try and make it work during his exile. (TV: *The Ambassadors of Death*, *Inferno*, *The Claws of Axos*, *Day of the Daleks*) Once the Time Lords returned the knowledge of how to operate it, (TV: *The Three Doctors*) the Doctor was more adept at controlling his destinations than before, denying any mistake on his part if he strayed, and being elevated when he learnt he had been interfered with, rather than his navigation being faulty. (TV: *Carnival of Monsters*, *Death to the Daleks*)

The Third Doctor could speak Hokkien, Cantonese, (TV: *The Mind of Evil*) Spanish, (TV: *The Time Monster*) and Tibetan. (TV: *Planet of the Spiders*) He also knew Morse code, (TV: *The Ambassadors of Death*, *Terror of the Autons*) and could read Old High Gallifreyan, (TV: *The Five Doctors*)

The Third Doctor was a skilled diplomat, (TV: *The Curse of Peladon*) and linguist, (TV: *The Mind of Evil*) as well as having a knack for disguises, even altering his voice for his characters. (TV: *The Green Death*, *The Time Warrior*) He was a fast drawer, able to draw a somewhat decent picture of a Silurian in seconds. (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*)

Being able to utilise transmigration, (TV: *The Ambassadors of Death*) the Doctor could perform magic tricks, (TV: *Colony in Space*, *The Dæmons*, *The Three Doctors*, *The Monster of Peladon*) and also learnt escapology from Harry Houdini. (TV: *Planet of the Spiders*)

When his body underwent too much strain, or he was exceptionally injured, the Doctor could force himself into a coma to allow himself to heal. (TV: *Spearhead from Space*, *The Dæmons*, *Planet of the Daleks*, *The Monster of Peladon*)

## Appearance

The Third Doctor looked like a tall man in his fifties, with a shock of white hair, blue eyes, a pronounced chin and a big, pointy nose. (TV: *Spearhead from Space*) The Doctor sported a tattoo of a snake coiled into the shape of a question mark on his right forearm, (TV: *Spearhead from Space*, *Doctor Who and the Silurians*)

The Doctor disliked his face at first, but quickly thought himself as looking "quite distinctive". (TV: *Spearhead from Space*)

Arthur Ollis described the Third Doctor as being "tall, [in] fancy get up, [with] white hair.", (TV: *The Three Doctors*) while Irongron described him as a "long-shanked rascal, with a mighty nose." (TV: *The Time Warrior*)

Shortly after his regeneration, the Third Doctor possessed a flat, inconspicuous short-cut hairstyle, (TV: *Spearhead from Space*) but this gradually evolved into a voluminous and exuberant bouffant. (TV: *Inferno*, *Terror of the Autons*, *The Dæmons*, *Day of the Daleks*, *The Time Monster*, *The Three Doctors*, *The Green Death*, *The Time Warrior*, *Planet of the Spiders*) Winstanley mistook it for a wig. (TV: *The Dæmons*)

### Clothing

#### Main attires

Following his regeneration, the Doctor kept wearing a TARDIS homing watch on his left wrist and a flat metal chain bracelet on his right. After he stole clothes from Ashbridge Cottage Hospital, his outfit consisted of a white frilled shirt, a navy blue velvet suit, black trousers with suspenders, black dress shoes, a black cravat and Dr. Beavis' black Inverness cape with red innings and his black fedora hat. He returned them after being recruited by UNIT, since one of his requests for his employment was identical clothing to call his own. (TV: *Spearhead from Space*) His choice of clothes would change with a variety of colours and designs that were kept in a wardrobe by the TARDIS control console. (TV: *Planet of the Daleks*)

The Third Doctor wore a variety of smoking jackets and blazers, with colours and designs coming in navy blue with a rolled collar, (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*) maroon with a rolled collar, (TV: *Terror of the Autons*) rust orange with a notched collar, (TV: *The Curse of Peladon*) olive green with a notched collar, (TV: *Carnival of Monsters*) plum purple with a notched collar, (TV: *Planet of the Daleks*) petrol blue with scarlet piping on the notched lapel, (TV: *The Green Death*) aquamarine with a notched collar, (TV: *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*) emerald green with a notched collar, (TV: *The Monster of Peladon*) charcoal with a notched collar, (TV: *Planet of the Spiders*) and burgundy with a rolled collar. (TV: *The Five Doctors*)

He near-unanimously wore a white frilled shirt. (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*)

His Inverness capes were coloured in red silk-lined black, (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*) purple silk-lined black, (TV: *Terror of the Autons*) red and green tartan, (TV: *The Curse of Peladon*) blue silk-lined black, (TV: *The Three Doctors*) burnt orange silk-lined brown, (TV: *Carnival of Monsters*) grey checked with mid-blue lining, (TV: *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*) and brown tartan. (TV: *The Five Doctors*)

On his collars, he wore a black cravat, (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*) a midnight blue cravat, (TV: *The Ambassadors of Death*) a white jabot, (TV: *Terror of the Autons*) a patterned jabot, (TV: *The Dæmons*) a vermillion cravat, (TV: *The Mutants*) a black bow tie, (TV: *The Three Doctors*) a bottle green bow tie, (TV: *Planet of the Daleks*) a wine red bow tie, (TV: *The Green Death*) a cyan bow tie, (TV: *The Time Warrior*) or he would go with an unbuttoned collar instead. (TV: *Day of the Daleks*) Sometimes, he would don a magnifying glass pendant. (TV: *The Time Warrior*)

He sometimes wore either a grey, zigzagged patterned waistcoat, (TV: *The Curse of Peladon*) or a 6-buttoned crimson velvet collared vest with a golden fob watch. (TV: *The Green Death*, *Death to the Daleks*) He also had a pair of knee-high wellington boots. (TV: *Carnival of Monsters*)

The Third Doctor was also keen on wearing decorative rings, having a coin mounted on a silvery circlet on his left little finger, (TV: *Spearhead from Space*) and a plain one on his right little finger at some point. (TV: *The Green Death*) He also sometimes wore riding gloves while driving Bessie (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*) or outdoors in general. (TV: *The Claws of Axos*)

Because of his more frilled and flamboyant fashion, his first incarnation sneeringly called him a "dandy," (TV: *The Three Doctors*) while his second incarnation labelled him "fancy pants". (TV: *The Five Doctors*) Upon first seeing him, Morgan thought that the Doctor was wearing "fancy dress". (TV: *Colony in Space*)

## Mysteries and discrepancies

* The Doctor implied on two occasions that he was thousands of years old. (TV: *Doctor Who and the Silurians*, *The Mind of Evil*)

## Behind the Scenes

### Unofficial return

In 1995, Pertwee reprised his role as the Doctor for the fan film *Devious*, filming a regeneration scene to transition between the film's intermediate Doctor and the "real" Third Doctor. Parts of the film (including the regeneration scene) were included in the form of a trailer of sorts on the DVD release of *The War Games*.

In early 1996, Pertwee reprised the role again for a Vodafone advertisement, in which an unnamed government agent (played by Kyle MacLachlan) travels to Liverpool to prevent the construction of a dangerous time machine. When this device turns out to be an elaborate karaoke machine, the agent leaves – not realising that an actual alien time traveller, the Doctor, is coincidentally working in a garage two doors down. Pertwee died the following May.

### Casting

Ron Moody was approached by the producers after his success in "Oliver" but he turned down the role. He stated in interviews that turning down the role of the Third Doctor was the worst thing he ever did professionally.

### Other matters

* "Reverse the polarity of the neutron flow" was often thought to be this incarnation's most commonly-used quote. He in fact only says it fully on television in *The Sea Devils* and *The Five Doctors*. There are several other occasions, as in *The Dæmons*, where he mentions simply "reversing the polarity".
* Katy Manning has accepted responsibility for the Third Doctor's increasingly-bouffant hairstyle. She claimed that she teased Pertwee about a tiny bald spot on the back of his head until he became self-conscious about it. When she suggested he just put rollers in to make his hair "bigger" — and thereby cover the bald spot — he seized on the idea with alacrity. (DCOM: *Planet of the Daleks*)
* The tattoo this incarnation sports, visible on screen like in *Spearhead from Space*, was Pertwee's own. It can be seen more clearly in the film *A Yank in Ermine* (1955) and its promotional images. It is left over from Pertwee's days in the navy:

> A green and scarlet cobra was squirming itself into a question mark on my forearm. In the middle was a small letter C, which I could only assume stood for Carlotta. On the other hand perhaps the choice of subject had been taken from a child's spelling book and the C stood for cobra.
> *Moon Boots and Dinner Suits, by Jon Pertwee*
>
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* The Third Doctor is unique in having first appeared in the title sequence before appearing in any actual scenes on the show.
* The Third Doctor's wardrobe was more colourful and ornate than any of those of his previous incarnations partially because, in real life, the BBC was experimenting with various combinations of colours during Jon Pertwee's tenure in the role to determine which ones would photograph best and partially because Pertwee had outfitted himself in a dark suit with a white frilled shirt and a black cravat, accompanied by an opera cape, for his screen test on the grounds that he found it the funniest clothing ensemble he had ever seen, much more worn--but rather than laughing him out of their offices, the casting advisors seized upon its flamboyance to give the Third Doctor his overall appearance.
* In regard to his approach to the character of the Third Doctor, Pertwee was instructed to be Jon Pertwee; he asked himself, "Now who in the hell is ***that???"*** In the scripts and how he ultimately approached them, he found the answer--a dapper, technologically oriented man of action.

## Appearances

#### Season 7

* *Spearhead from Space*
* *Doctor Who and the Silurians*
* *The Ambassadors of Death*
* *Inferno*

### Season 8

* *Terror of the Autons*
* *The Mind of Evil*
* *The Claws of Axos*
* *Colony in Space*
* *The Dæmons*

#### Season 9

* *Day of the Daleks*
* *The Curse of Peladon*
* *The Sea Devils*
* *The Mutants*
* *The Time Monster*

### Season 10

* *The Three Doctors*
* *Carnival of Monsters*
* *Frontier in Space*
* *Planet of the Daleks*
* *The Green Death*

### Season 11

* *The Time Warrior*
* *Invasion of the Dinosaurs*
* *Death to the Daleks*
* *The Monster of Peladon*
* *Planet of the Spiders*