Series 1 (DWP)

## Series 1 - 2022

### Guest(s)

River, Cy, Ash, Kate, Osgood, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Sarah Jane Smith, Misty, Third Doctor

### Legacy Villain(s)

Weeping Angels, Skithra, Sontarans, Daleks, Cybermen, The Master (Simm)

**Series 1** of Doctor Who Perpendicular ran from March to July 2022. It starred Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, Mandip Gill as Yasmin Khan, Billie Lourd as Nova McIntyre, and Hayden Byerly as Nolan McIntyre. The series opened with Falling Angels and concluded with War of the Daleks Part Two. Scored 7.7/10 on average on IMDb. This series was showran by Desmond Jarvis.

### Overview

*‘The Thirteenth Doctor (Jodie Whittaker) and Yaz (Mandip Gill) are flung into the Perpendicularverse at full speed, pursued by Weeping Angels. They crash land at the Time Agency and come across River Song (Alex Kingston) who tell them about the mysterious ‘V’ who is causing tension around the universe. New companions Nova (Billie Lourd) & Nolan (Hayden Byerly) also join Team TARDIS and help put a stop to a thieving Skithra Queen, a temporal Sontaran plan, a colossal Dalek takeover and more!’*

### Production & Release

**Series 1** had the longest production period, with pre-production and conception beginning as early as August 2017. Production began properly in late 2021 - over four years later, with release beginning in March 2022. It was split across 3 bi-monthly parts with 4 episodes in each.

### Main Plotline

Crash landing in the Perpendicularverse, lead by a swarm of Weeping Angels, the Thirteenth Doctor and Yaz are forced to face the reality that they can't make it home. Reunited with her wife, River Song, the Doctor is informed that her Perpendicular equivalent, as well as Yaz's, vanished without a trace after getting too close to finding out about a mysterious 'V'. Intrigued by the mystery, the pair settle down in the Time Agency along with Time Agents Cy Versailles and Ashly Kenby as they face a future which is a multiverse away from home. (TV: *Falling Angels*)

While trying to compute a route home, The Doctor and Yaz accompany Cy and Ash on a few missions, including a trip to the First Planet (TV: *Mission to the Beginning*) and to investigate a strange house wherein they discover the trapped Time Lord The Mysterio, who they help to free. (TV: *House of Mysterio*)

Travelling back to 2032, The Doctor is reunited with Kate Stewart and Petronella Osgood, both of whom assist her in avoiding an invasion of the Solar System. Following after, Yaz decides to depart from the TARDIS for a while to visit her parents in this universe and assure them of her safety, when she's abruptly kidnapped by The Master. (TV: *The Sol Invasion*) Unaware of her fate, The Doctor travels to Cromer in 2022 to investigate some otherwordly phenomenae when she meets amateur investigator Nova McIntyre and her brother Nolan McIntyre; having thwarted the Catharians' plan, the two decide to join the Doctor on her travels. (TV: *The McIntyres*)

Elsewhere in the universe, Cy and Ash encounter the Skithra on the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953, correcting the flow of history (TV: *Two Time Agents and the Queen)*, whilst in 1970s Cromer, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart and Sarah Jane Smith are plucked out of time and given an adventure with the Sontarans in the coastal town. (TV: *The Flashback Accord*) All the while, a bald-headed woman (TV: *Falling Angels*) is ramping up her schemes, while being the subject of investigations by V Initiative who uncover her name as Vaxiel. (TV: *Ms V*)

Having adventures of their own, The Doctor, Nova and Nolan travel to Illinois where they encounter Felix Truman, a boy-genius who inadvertenly bonds with an entity called the Triple Helix in an attempt to split the atom (TV: *Forge of the Helix*), as well as travelling to Pluto, a planet which Nova seemingly has a connection to, to topple the reign of Zelias. (TV: *Legends of Pluto*)

Tensions culminate in a full-out Dalek invasion of Earth as they travel from Mars in tripods to exterminate all of humanity; having exploited the Ice Warriors for strategic gain, they're able to launch a fully fledged attack that takes UNIT by surprise. (TV: *War of the Daleks*) With the help of the Doctor, a group of stragglers is able to make its way to Berlin to retreive the Artefact, an object capable of wiping the Daleks out with a contagion and then restoring the timeline to how it had been previously. (TV: *War of the Daleks*)

In a pair of standalone specials, the Doctor, Nova and Nolan battle the Cybermen who are wreaking havoc in their old summer holiday camp (TV: *Terror at Camp Silverwood*) and experience the joyous celebrations during the eve of turn of the megaannum. (TV: *New Year One Million*) The three continue to travel together whilst Yaz remains imprisoned with Samuel Mills in the depths of the Master's TARDIS. (TV: *War of the Daleks*)