Steven Taylor

This page chronicles the adventures of **Steven Taylor** as played by Peter Purves in the order in which he experienced them. Therefore the following timeline should not be seen as an accurate reading/listening order as some stories may have framing devices which take place later in another character's life.

The timeline is primarily derived from facts from within *Doctor Who* media, however authorial intent is taken into account as well. Occasionally, assumptions or speculations may be made where insufficient information is available, however these will always be marked as such for full transparency.

Most BBC licensed *Doctor Who* content is counted on this timeline, including but not limited to the TV series itself, Big Finish Productions, BBC Books and Virgin Books material. However, intentionally parodic content such as the Dr Men books, various Titan Comics backups and Doctor Whoah! should not be added to this particular chronology. Likewise, fanfiction and charity publications will also be avoided.

## Key

* **TV**: Television story
* **WC**: Online video story
* **AUDIO**: Audio drama, audio short story, or audio novel
* **COMIC**: Comic story
* **NOVEL**: Novel
* **NOVELLA**: Novella
* **SHORT**: Short written story
* **FEATURE**: A feature or featurette which doesn't explicitly tell a story

## Limiting factors

### Time period

There are contradictory accounts as to the time period Steven originates from. In *Ash*, it is stated that he is from the 23rd century and in *The Bounty of Ceres*, Vicki claims that Steven is from before her time of the 24th century. However, in *The Ravelli Conspiracy*, Steven himself claims to be from the 28th century.

## Timeline

### Working as a space pilot

* (REFERENCE) - AUDIO: *The First Wave* / *The Anachronauts* / *The Bounty of Ceres*

Steven helps set up a colony on Sedna in a little under two weeks by transporting prefabricated colony units.

* AUDIO: *Return of the Rocket Men*

While delivering cargo on his 21st birthday, Steven is captured by the Rocket Men and badly injured. He is saved by his future self, who travelling in time with the Doctor. He would be fully recovered after six months in hospital, after which he decides to sign up for the military.

* (REFERENCE) - PROSE: *The Empire of Glass* / AUDIO: *The Sontarans*

In the war against the Krayt, Steven's ship is shot down and he crash-lands on the planet Mechanus.

* **TV: *The Chase***

Steven has been trapped and imprisoned on Mechanus by the Mechanoids for two years when he meets and is freed by the First Doctor, Barbara Wright, Ian Chesterton and Vicki Pallister. He then faces the Daleks with them, who are destroyed by the Mechonoids. As the Doctor helps Barbara and Ian to escape in the Dalek time machine, Steven sneaks aboard the Doctor's TARDIS before the Doctor and Vicki return and dematerialise.

### Travels with the Doctor and Vicki

* **TV: *The Time Meddler***

The Doctor and Vicki Pallister find Steven aboard the TARDIS and they take their first adventure together in 1066 Northumberland, meeting the Monk.

* AUDIO: *The Suffering*

Steven mutters that his last meal was in 1066, and is still getting used to time travel etiquette and in narration references often to the Doctor's saving him on Mechanus, setting this shortly after *The Time Meddler*, though he is already used to the Doctor's secretive behaviour. Steven learns of Vicki's rescue from Astra for the first time.

* COMIC: *Are You Listening?*

* AUDIO: *The Founding Fathers*

Steven recalls the events of *The Suffering*, and implies that he has not been to London since then.

* AUDIO: *Frostfire*

The crew visits London during the 1814 frost fair. Vicki mentions that Steven has only recently joined the TARDIS crew.

* (REFERENCE) - PROSE: *The Empire of Glass*

The TARDIS crew spends a few days in 15th century Spain.

* TV: *The Three Doctors*

The Doctor is abducted by the Time Lords to help his subsequent two incarnations in the Omega Crisis, but becomes trapped in a time eddy.

* NOVEL: *The Empire of Glass*

Set immediately after *The Three Doctors*, with the Doctor materialising back in the console room hours after being Time Scooped holding an invitation to Venice in 1609, where he meets Irving Braxiatel, whom the Doctor discovers delivered the message to him shortly before the Time Lords erased his memory of the Omega Crisis. The Doctor, Steven and Vicki help Braxiatel rescue his Armageddon Convention, which involves a brief visit to Hampton Court Palace, before departing once again. Steven is still a relatively new addition to the crew, although he has already done a significant amount of travelling. Upon their arrival in Venice, neither Steven nor Vicki have a TARDIS key, due to a lack of trustworthiness on Steven's part, but as they depart, he resolves to give Steven a key soon.

* AUDIO: *Upstairs*

Steven is well-aware of faults in the TARDIS and the Doctor alludes to the events of Frostfire, telling him that not everywhere the TARDIS arrives can be a fun fair.

* AUDIO: *The Bounty of Ceres*

The TARDIS lands on Ceres in a time before both Steven's and Vicki's time. The Doctor uses the the component he stole from the Monk's TARDIS in *The Time Meddler* to expand the inside of the TARDIS beyond the small number of rooms that had been accessible prior to this point.

* AUDIO: *Fields of Terror*

The crew visit the Vendée region of France during the French revolution in the 1790s.

* AUDIO: *Across the Darkened City*

In a traumatic encounter, Steven and a Dalek are forced to work together for each others survival, with the Dalek eventually betraying Steven.

* AUDIO: *The Dalek Occupation of Winter*

The crew visit the human colony planet of Winter. Steven has only recently joined the Doctor and Vicki on their travels, setting this shortly after The Time Meddler. He has an intense hatred for Daleks, suggesting a setting after *Across the Darkened City*.

* AUDIO: *An Ideal World*

Set directly after *The Dalek Occupation of Winter*. The crew encounter a group of humans attempting to colonise the planet T19.

* AUDIO: *Entanglement*

Set directly after *An Ideal World*. During a visit to Cambridge, the Doctor mentions that he "thinks [he] has a friend who lives in one of the less distinguished colleges", a reference to Chronotis. The Doctor's first meeting with Chronotis is in *Cambridge Previsited*, where he is aware of his presence there without having met him before.

* AUDIO: *The Crash of the UK-201*

A TARDIS malfunction sends Vicki back into her past where she creates a new timeline where she never crashed on Dido. The Doctor sends Steven to correct the timeline.

* SHORT: *Corridors of Power*

* SHORT: *The Schoolboy's Story*

The TARDIS crew visit early 21st century Indiana, with this being Vicki's first visit to "Ancient America" since The Chase. Vicki is used to defusing tension between Steven and the Doctor. The TARDIS detects a time anomaly, using a device set up by the Doctor following the events of The Time Meddler. In Indiana, they encounter a young man called Robert, who recounts to them the time he travelled with them in the TARDIS at the age of eight. Using the time anomaly as guidance, the Doctor claims to be able to travel directly to Robert's childhood. Whether he does or not, the eight-year-old Robert joins the TARDIS crew briefly, having numerous travels including a visit Ancient Rome. The Doctor then uses the fast return switch to return Robert home, with Steven giving Robert HIFI.

* SHORT: *Mars*

The crew visit Mars in the early human colonial period. Vicki has been travelling for a long time and is no longer a child.

* SHORT: *The Long Step Backward*

The crew visit Prague in 2348.

* SHORT: *Snowman in Manhattan*

The crew visit New York City in 2007 and 2008. Alan Wood describes Vicki as being in her late teens.

* SHORT: *The Power Supply*

The TARDIS arrives on the human colony Ca-Mon Green, many years into both Steven and Vicki's futures.

* AUDIO: *The Secret History*

The Monk replaces the Doctor with his fifth incarnation, who has an adventure in 6th century Europe with Steven and Vicki before being switched back. They have not encountered the Monk since *The Time Meddler*.

* AUDIO: *The Light at the End*

Steven and Vicki briefly encounter an apparition of Charlotte Pollard.

* AUDIO: *Etheria*

* AUDIO: *The Ravelli Conspiracy*

The crew meet Machiavelli and the de Medici family in 1514 Florence.

* (FRAME) - AUDIO: *The Suffering*

After reading a book given to her by the Doctor on the 20th century feminist movement, Vicki decides she and Steven record a telling of their visit England in 1912. After they tell the story, Vicki decides to give Steven a haircut, leading to the events of *Galaxy 4*

* **TV: *Galaxy 4***

The TARDIS crew encounter the Drahvins, Rill and Chumblies on a planet about to explode. After escaping the planet, Vicki sprains her ankle, leading into *The Myth Makers*. They also observe the planet Kembel for the first time on the scanner.

* SHORT: *Planet of the Bunnoids*

Vicki doesn't appear to have any ankle-related problems, but nevertheless the Doctor mentions the Chumblies, setting this between *Galaxy 4* and *The Mythmakers*.

* **TV: *The Myth Makers***

The travellers arrive at the siege of Troy in circa the 13th century BC. Vicki's injured ankle is mentioned but appears not to be too badly hurt. After the city is sacked, Vicki stays in Troy to found a new city with Troilus and Aeneas. Meanwhile Katarina joins the TARDIS in her place as Steven is badly injured by a Trojan soldier.

### Travels with the Doctor and Katarina

* SHORT: *Scribbles in Chalk*

The travellers arrive on a planet and travel through a temporal fault 500 years into the past. There they discover a tribe whom they live with for a week or two as Steven recovers. In addition, Katarina gets to know the Doctor better and stops thinking of him as a god. When they return to the TARDIS through the fault, Steven returns to his injured state and Katarina appears to have no memory of their experience over the passed two weeks, thinking they'd just left Troy. Only the Doctor appears to recall the events and continues his search for medication to help Steven.

* AUDIO: *Daughter of the Gods*

As the First Doctor's TARDIS is about to materialise on Kembel, it collides with that of the Second Doctor, redirecting it towards the planet Urbinia. They spend a few months in the planetary capital, Kiria City, before the Daleks invade. After the timeline is averted by the Second Doctor, they recall none of these events and are set back on course for Kembel. Steven doesn't yet have a TARDIS key.

* **TV: *The Nightmare Begins* / *Day of Armageddon* / *Devil's Planet* / *The Traitors***

The Doctor, Steven and Katarina arrive on Kembel in the year 4000 and meet Bret Vyon, before discovering a Dalek plot to conquer the solar system. The four of them escape the planet after stealing Mavic Chen's ship. After accidentally landing on the penal colony Desperus, the convict Kirksen sneaks aboard the ship and holds Katarina hostage. Katarina sacrifices herself to save her companions, with the two floating out into space. Upon their arrival at Central City, secret Dalek ally and Guardian of the Solar System Mavic Chen sends Sara Kingdom to kill the fugitives, and she kills her brother Bret Vyon. Ending leads directly into *Counter Plot*.

### Travels with the Doctor and Sara

* **TV: *Counter Plot* / *Coronas of the Sun***

The Doctor, Steven and Sara are accidentally teleported to the planet Mira by experimental technology. There, the Doctor and Steven convince Sara that Mavic Chen is working with the Daleks and she joins their efforts to stop them. Being drawn back to Kembel, where they trick the Daleks and escape in the TARDIS, leading directly into *The Feast of Steven*.

* **TV: *The Feast of Steven***

The TARDIS briefly arrive in two Christmases: Liverpool in 1965 and Hollywood in 1921, before deciding to celebrate Christmas in the TARDIS.

* AUDIO: *The Anachronauts*

The travellers are still celebrating Christmas when the TARDIS collides with another timeship. While she makes self-repairs, the TARDIS places all the travellers in a dream state to distract them. The events of the dreams last several days, and Sara herself comments that she's not sure if she has known the Doctor and Steven for a few days to even a week, but these could all be artefacts of the dream.

* AUDIO: *The Little Drummer Boy*

An hour after leaving Hollywood, the TARDIS crew find themselves visiting further Christmases across the 19ths and 20th centuries, owing to the fact the TARDIS was (unbeknownst to them) following a time-travelling boy from the 1960s.

* AUDIO: *The Guardian of the Solar System*

The TARDIS crew visit the Great Clock in 3999, with Sara meeting Bret Vyon and Mavic Chen. They accidentally set in motion the events leading to Chen's involvement in the Daleks' masterplan.

* AUDIO: *The Drowned World*

Before telling this story, Sara mentions several other adventures, including *The Guardian of the Solar System*, in an order which implies this story takes place after all of them. The TARDIS crew encounter a group of humans on an asteroid in the Red-O Belt.

* AUDIO: *Home Truths*

The TARDIS crew visit a sentient house on the isle of Ely in England in the distant future. Sara accidentally transfers a copy of her mind to the house before they all leave in the TARDIS.

* COMIC: *The Choice*

Steven is one of many companions kidnapped by Adam Mitchell and the Master, but they are all rescued by an assortment of the Doctor's incarnations in *Endgame*. Adam implies that all the companions were taken during their travels with the Doctor.

* AUDIO: *Men of War*

The TARDIS crew spend a few weeks in August 1916 in France during the Battle of the Somme. Sara sees a car for the first time, setting this before *An Ordinary Life*

* AUDIO: *An Ordinary Life*

Steven and Sara spend six months living in London in the 1950s. Sara mention that they've been on the run for so long.

* AUDIO: *The Sontarans*

The Doctor encounters the Sontarans and for the first time, learning about their nature and their war with the Rutans, although Sara and Steven are already aware of them. The encounter includes the SSS, and takes place in Sara's past, likely in the 40th century, some decades before the Daleks' Master Plan. Sara describes the events of *An Ordinary Life* as seeming like "a lifetime ago". They return to the TARDIS to discover they are being pursued by a time machine, presuming it to be the Daleks.

* **TV: *Volcano* / *Golden Death* / *Escape Switch* / *The Abandoned Planet* / *Destruction of Time***

The TARDIS crew attempts to escape by travelling further through time, arriving at a cricket match and the planet Tigus, where they discover it was The Monk following them. After travelling to 1966 New Years Eve in Trafalgar Square, they eventually arrive in Giza in Ancient Egypt, where the final face-off between the Doctor, the Monk and the Daleks occurs. The Daleks return to Kembel with the taranium core and the Monk loses his TARDIS directional unit, which the Doctor uses to pilot his TARDIS to Kembel, destroying the unit in the process. The Doctor manages to stop the Daleks by activating the time destructor on Kembel, but Sara is aged to death in the process. The Doctor and Steven return to the TARDIS and sombrely remember their three fallen companions.

### Travels with the Doctor and Oliver

* AUDIO: *The Perpetual Bond*

Following on directly from *The Destruction of Time*, The Doctor and Steven arrive in Totter's Lane in 1966. In London they meet Oliver Harper, who joins the TARDIS.

* AUDIO: *The Cold Equations*

Follows on from *The Perpetual Bond*, with Oliver taking his first trip in the TARDIS, on a satellite in the distant future orbiting Earth. The team learn of a future visit to Grace Alone, with the Doctor aiming to pilot the TARDIS there to maintain the course of history.

* AUDIO: *The First Wave*

The TARDIS crew visit the planetoid Grace Alone in the Kuiper Belt, a little while in Steven's future. They meet the Vardans, seemingly the first time from the Doctor's perspective, who initially assumes benign intent. Oliver sacrifices himself to save the Doctor and Steven

### Travels with the Doctor

* SHORT: *Ash*

The Doctor tells Steven of an adventure he and Susan had back in 1963. Steven is still sleeping badly and feeling tense following the events of *The Daleks' Master Plan*, which was their last adventure.

* (REFERENCE) - SHORT: *Roses*

Following all the deaths surrounding the events of *The Daleks' Master Plan*, the Doctor and take a break in his rose garden.

* (REFERENCE) - SHORT: *Greenaway*

* SHORT: *Making History*

The Doctor and Steven land on an asteroid on 23 April 2978 during a peace treaty to end the Human-Omwanar war.

* SHORT: *Waiting for Jeremy*

The duo visit 2005 and meet an old woman called Maggie Baxter, before intentionally travelling to 1953 to try to help her younger self live a better life. At first the Doctor forbids the idea of interference, but Steven convinces him that as an isolated case, interfering in the life of one woman shouldn't be too bad. Steven references their interference in the Human-Omwanar peace negotiations from *Making History*.

* SHORT: *Do You Smell Carrots?*

In the skies above Reading in 1982, the Doctor and Steven defeat a giant mosquito transformed by some alien substance.

* (REFERENCE) - SHORT: *White on White*

The Doctor and Steven help stop a Gelidon invasion in Antarctica in 2008, partly taking place at Snowcap. Steven doesn't appear in the story itself.

* AUDIO: *Helmstone*

The Doctor and Steven become stranded on the asteroid-turned-colony ship Not-Home for a few months. The Doctor warns Steven not to interfere ("how many times do I have to tell you"), but it turns out he himself was secretly working on ways to help the people of Not-Home.

* AUDIO: *O Tannenbaum*

The Doctor and Steven land in a pine forest in what context suggests is Germany in the 20th century. Steven hasn't celebrated a proper Christmas outside of the TARDIS since his family Christmases back home (and doesn't celebrate one here either).

* AUDIO: *The Vardan Invasion of Mirth*

The TARDIS materialises in the Vardan Mediasphere in 1956, which the Doctor enters but manages to redirect Steven to London. Steven lives for a time in London trying to reach the Doctor, who is in turn trying to avert a Vardan invasion.

* AUDIO: *Peace in Our Time*

The Doctor and Steven stop a group of aliens from altering Earth's history in 1906.

* AUDIO: *Out of the Deep*

The Doctor and Steven visit the archaeological site of Eridu in 1850s Iraq.

* **TV: *The Massacre***

The Doctor and Steven arrive in Paris on 20 August 1572. After fleeing just as the Massacre of St Bartholomew's day is beginning on 23-24 August, the pair have a falling out and Steven demands to be let out wherever the TARDIS lands next. He leaves, and Dodo Chaplet then bursts in, trying to phone the police. Steven then returns and tells the Doctor to dematerialise immediately, as a pair of policemen are approaching the TARDIS, which the Doctor obliges. Dodo seems very nonchalant about the whole time and space travelling thing, even appearing to relish the chance of leaving Earth behind for good.

### Travels with the Doctor and Dodo

* NOVEL: *Salvation*

Following on from *The Massacre*, the TARDIS lands in New York City on 27 March 1965 having not travelled in time at all. Dodo is sixteen-years-old. The Doctor, Steven and Dodo work with the US army and several other locals to defeat an alien incursion, before the Doctor gives Dodo an official offer to become a part of the TARDIS team, which she gladly accepts. They finally depart the city on 1 April.

* **TV: *The Ark***

The Doctor, Steven and Dodo arrive on a human colony ship from the 57th segment of time, around 10 million years after Dodo's time. Dodo is still very new to the TARDIS, and the way Steven talks to her implies that this is her first trip in the TARDIS. In the meantime, she has changed into an outfit from the Crusades she found in the TARDIS wardrobe. A short while after departing the *Ark*, Dodo changs into a new trendy 60s outfit. The Doctor then vanishes, declaring that they are under attack, leading into *The Celestial Toymaker*.

* **TV: *The Celestial Toymaker***

The Doctor, Steven and Dodo face off against the Toymaker in the Celestial Toyroom. The Doctor recalls a previous encounter with the Toymaker. After defeating him, the Doctor tries a sweet Dodo had acquired from the Toyroom which causes a toothache, leading into *The Gunfighters*.

* **TV: *The Gunfighters***

The Doctor gets his tooth extracted by Doc Holliday, before the three get embroiled in the Gunfight of the O.K. Corral.

* SHORT: *Murder in the Dark*

The trio encounter the Toymaker again, with the *The Celestial Toymaker* being mere "days ago" and *The Ark* and *The Gunfighters* described as "recent".

* AUDIO: *Mother Russia*

The TARDIS lands in Russia in 1812 during Napoleon's invasion of the empire. The Doctor suggests they could take a holiday there, with Steven drily remarking that they'd just had one in Tombstone, setting this shortly after *The Gunfighters*. They spend around six months in Russia in total before departing.

* AUDIO: *Return of the Rocket Men*

In narration, Steven mentions visits to the far future, the Toymaker's realm, the old west, and the many months they spent in Russia in *Mother Russia*, but that they are now "back to [their] old ways again". Dodo gives Steven a diary from 1967 for his birthday, saying that it's from "next year" for her, presumably accounting for the long amount of time she spent in Russia and other intervening adventures since they left New York in April 1965.

* SHORT: *The Golden Door*

The trio are going on a holiday to Bikol after Dodo and Steven insisted on going on a holiday. The Doctor learns of his involvement in the events at Snowcap in *The Tenth Planet*

* SHORT: *64 Carlysle Street*

In London 1909, the Doctor, Steven and Dodo track down the criminal Roztoq, who had escaped Quinnus in the Fourth Universe after the Doctor and Susan's visit there in *Quinnis*. Dodo claims to have not worked for months before she takes a temporary job at 64 Carlysle Street as part of the investigation.

* NOVEL: *Bunker Soldiers*

The Doctor, Steven and Dodo spend months in the city of Kiev leading up to the 1240 siege at the hands of the Mongol Empire. Despite this, the inner leaflet of the book places the story between *The Massacre* and *The Ark*, a placement which seems unlikely.

* (FLASHBACK) - COMIC: *Death to the Doctor!*

The trio defeat Questor in the Living Jungle of Tropicalus.

* (RECORDING) - AUDIO: *Tales from the Vault*

The Doctor, Steven and Dodo encounter Kali Karash in South Africa 1900, an alien which can enter the mind of any living being and even animate inanimate objects. In a wax cylinder recording, Steven records an account of the events and a warning for the future after they lose track of which item Kali Karash is inhabiting.

* AUDIO: *The War to End All Wars*

The Doctor and company land on the planet Comfort and become embroiled in their never-ending war against themselves. With Steven and Dodo working hard at ending the war politically, eventually the Doctor manages to expose the system and end the war for good. Afterwards, the three leave the planet shortly after, with Steven feeling guilty for not staying to help out. Consequently, he decides that next time he wants to make a lasting difference, he will have to stay and commit his life to it, which suggests that the next place he has such an opportunity will be *The Savages*.

* (REFERENCE) - SHORT: *The Dream*

Told as a short play by William Shakespeare, who claims that it had come to him as a dream, the Doctor encounters Sontarans and Rutans on the planet Vortis. He mentions Steven and Dodo, wondering where he left them, though they do not appear.

* AUDIO: *This Sporting Life*

The Doctor manages to land the TARDIS in London as Dodo had requested, arriving in March 1966. When Dodo asks if he got the day wrong, Steven laughs, saying he'd be surprised if even the century was right.

* AUDIO: *The Secrets of Det-Sen*

The Doctor, Steven and Dodo land in the Tibetan Himalayas. The Doctor meets Padmasambhava and visits Det-Sen Monastery, taking with him the monastery's Holy Ghanta which is instructed to return in 50 years. While it is suggested that the events of *The Ark* are recent ("Don't want you getting sick again, not after what happened last time."), Dodo appears to have been aboard the TARDIS a long time already ("Oh dear child, how little you know of me after all this time together" and "The Doctor's been awful kind to me and I've seen an awful lot"). Dodo thinks Steven will be leaving the TARDIS soon, and she also wants to find a permanent home for herself, but doesn't want to leave the Doctor travelling alone.

* (EPILOGUE) - **TV: *The Gunfighters***

The TARDIS lands on a planet which the Doctor declares to be in the future. On the scanner they observe a figure in animal skins and with a club, leading into *The Savages*.

* **TV: *The Savages***

The three arrive on an unnamed planet ruled by the so-called "Elders" and "Savages". After they help remove the system which repressed the Savages, Steven is chosen to be the new leader of the planet and he decides to stay behind.

### Living on the planet of Elders and Savages

* AUDIO: *The Five Companions*

* AUDIO: *The War to End All Wars*

Steven is no longer king, having organised his own ousting in order to help the planet become more self-governing and democratic. He has been isolated from political life for a while, at first to let his successors govern on their own, but then because it became too hard to go back. He had three daughters, Dodo, Raleigh and an unnamed third, although Dodo is dead. His granddaughter Sida comes to visit him in his seclusion and he tells her the story of his visit to the planet Comfort. Steven learns that the "mind in a jar" of the First Doctor, which came from the mind copy created in *The Savages*, is planning on running for the presidency.

* AUDIO: *The Founding Fathers*

Following on from *The War to End All Wars*, Steven visits the "brain in jar" Doctor with Sida. They tell Sida of an adventure with Benjamin Franklin in 1762, which he thinks will convince her that this version of the Doctor is not like the real one. Steven then tells Sida of crimes committed by this Doctor during his reign which had been covered up, and so he abandons his presidential bid and instead decides to upload itself to his laboratory computer. Sida then runs for presidency and wins. Steven starts work on a project, beginning by lining the walls of his cell with lead.

* AUDIO: *The Locked Room*

Set three years after *The Founding Fathers*, with Sida still president and Steven (now nearly 100) having completed his project at his abode in the mountains: an advanced radiotelescope on top of his house. He invites Sida into his cell in his house and locks her in with him and gets her to help contact the Doctor. The Doctor's mental aspect is then dragged to the planet. After two encounters, the Doctor becomes physically mannifested while his body remains in the South Pole of Earth, 1986. This whole event was orchestrated by the Vardan which had been thought dead in *The First Wave*, and which had remained with the Doctor and Steven every since, reconstituting itself. By the time Steven had settled on the Planet, the Vardan was strong enough to manipulate his actions, which it had been doing ever since he'd stepped down and become vulnerable. The Doctor helps to defeat the Vardan, which is eventually killed by the copy of his mind which had remained on the planet since his last visit. The next morning, the Doctor and the mind copy are then sent together back to his body using the radiotelescope. Steven agrees to return to public life and help rebuilding the planet after the damage caused by the Vardan.