Ninth Doctor

With a new lease of life, and a more happy demeanour, the **Ninth Doctor** was an inherently happy adventurer, and was not averse to experiencing and appreciating very human emotions. At his core an optimist and romantic, the Doctor tried to remain a cheerful and pacifistic adventurer, but fell into despair after Lillian Truscott died.

The Doctor initially travelled with Lillian, however after many adventures, Lillian was killed by Arkadian; this led to the Doctor travelling alone. After some time alone, the Doctor met Alison Harding, an investigator from 1960s London who was trying to uncover the identity of the Spy Master. After helping the Doctor defeat the Master, the Doctor's sense of adventure was renewed and Alison became his companion, the Ninth Doctor regenerated after being infected by a virus.

## Biography

While running back to the TARDIS on Zetov, the Doctor was shot and killed by fascist soldiers and used the last of his energy to get inside the TARDIS where he regenerated, into a much more youthful incarnation. The Fatal Rebellion (TV Story)

In his regenerative state, the Doctor crashed the TARDIS during wartime London during the blitz. He was taken care of by Lillian Truscott and her friend Marion, later he became aware of a series of murders and realised it was the work of the Master and was determined to stop him. He later tracked the Master down to a factory in London where the Master captured both the Doctor and Lillian and used a machine called 'The Extractor' which would take the Doctor's remaining regenerations and kill Lillian. Lillian broke free and turned off most of the power in the Master's TARDIS, the Doctor freed himself and later made a plan to destroy the Extractor which could also destroy the Master's TARDIS. The Doctor brought the Extractor to the Master's console room and whilst he was fighting the Master he walked Lillian through what to do and the Master's console room was destroyed, the Factory was bombed by the Luftwaffe and a railing was hit where the Doctor and the Master stood on each side, the Master's railing collapsed and he fell into the flames and the Doctor and Lillian escaped. The next day, the Doctor re-united with Lillian and asked her to come travelling with him and she accepted. Night of the Master (TV Story)

Pulled off course after deciding to return some library books before they became overdue, the Doctor learned of a temporal rift leading to Earth in 1930, which resulted in him learning about the ruthless Zodaal, a criminal from a distant planet who had imprinted his mind into a cloud of radmium, now intended to destroy Earth to channel the power of its destruction so that he could imprint himself permanently onto a new host. The Doctor was able to force his ship to take off after sabotaging Zodaal's equipment, his chosen host committing suicide before he could take control and leaving Zodaal to drift helplessly through space. The English Way of Death (TV Story)

The Doctor went on to battle the Daleks on Temperos who were attempting to gather genetic samples from the Temperon in order to graft the ability to travel through time at will into the Dalek creatures themselves. The Doctor freed the Temperon and accidentally gave the Daleks the genetic patterns they sought from the Temperon, though without his knowledge - the Daleks had succumbed to the time dialation effects of the vortex and had grown old and died in their attempt to time travel. The Time Ravagers (TV Story)

The Doctor took Lillian to the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire to see the human race at its zenith. Pretending to be management on the news broadcaster, Satellite Five, the Doctor and Lillian found the Empire had been manipulated into remaining secluded from the wider universe. Captured by the Editor, the Doctor and Lillian found that the Mighty Jagrafess of the Holy Hadrojassic Maxarodenfoe had been controlling the human race from Satellite Five by manipulating information. Thanks to Cathica Santini Khadeni, one of the workers who learned of the truth, the satellite's heat was rerouted, sending heat to the Jagrafess's control room, freeing the Doctor and Lillian and killing the Jagrafess and the Editor. The Long Game (TV Story)

The Doctor and Lillian later arrived on Farkas where President Holdar was terminally ill, an alien race called the Gortons offered help to which the planet accepted. The Doctor knew who they were and didn't trust them at all, Lillian however thought that they've changed and maybe this time the Doctor is wrong. The Doctor broke into the palace to convince Holdar to reject the help but Holdar accepted due to Lillian's interference, Holdar then became evil and sinister and the Doctor got Farkas' army to pump gas into Holdar's room to kill the Gortons, the Doctor and Lillian apologised to each other and the Doctor learn't not to judge based on past experiences. Life’s End (TV Story)

The Doctor and Lillian were captured by the Crimson Raiders on the planet Torvos IX and taken to their leader Vladek, the Doctor and Lillian learn't that the Crimson Raiders rule the city and they're in a war with a rival gang called the Emerald Cobras. The Doctor and Lillian broke out of their base and escaped to get back to the TARDIS. When onboard the TARDIS, Vladek broke in and threatened to kill the Doctor but he was sucked out of the TARDIS into the Vortex killing him. World On Fire (TV Story)

Landing on Varda, the Doctor and Lillian discovered the villagers were afraid due to a large pit in the middle of their village, the Doctor went down to investigate and discovered the Tractators were behind everything to make the planet's enviroment and make it suitable for their species, the Doctor later useed the Warper and it filled in the pit and the Doctor also set the base to self destruct, the Tractators were defeated and the village celebrated. The Pit (TV Story)

The Doctor and Lillian went to 1997 San Francisco after being summoned by Carolyn McConnell, where they encountered a rogue group of Vampires. Vampire Science (TV Story)

During their trip to Zirrodonin, the Doctor was captured by the Sontarans and Lillian got help from the Rutans and the Doctor was soon freed by a Rutan taskforce and they got back to the TARDIS. The Honour of War (TV Story)

The Doctor and Lillian later arrived in 17th Century Japan and defeated Te Yene Rana. The Room With No Doors (TV Story)

Arriving on a planet-sized Library in the 51st Century, the Doctor and Lillian met a team of archaeologists and battled the Vashta Nerada, in the end Strackman Lux organised mass teleportations, and the humans left the planet to the Vashta Nerada. The Shadows of Death (TV Story)

The Doctor used the TARDIS' Jade Pagoda to visit early 21st century Earth, meeting a reporter named Ruby Duvall during an adventure involving Cybermen at the South Pole. Iceberg (TV Story)

The TARDIS landed on Beta Scorpii V in the year 8971, the Doctor and Lillian discovered that the planet had started to boil and everyone accepted it, the Doctor discoversedthat monks on the planet carry out sacrifices to stop the planet from being destroyed and their main city, Artavas City is under martial law, the Doctor sparked a revolution and everyone on the planet managed to save themselves before it’s destroyed. The Inevitable Fate (TV Story)

The Doctor and Lillian found that a company named PlanetCorp had been illegally mining the planet Havos for minerals, the Doctor caught them out and the PlanetCorp's main executives were arrested. The Havos Project (TV Story)

The Doctor reunited with Brigadier Bambera in 2002 where the Doctor discovered a colony of Silurians, the Doctor attempted to make contact with them himself, but this triggered a near-conflict with the colony, populated by Silurian-Sea Devil hybrids seeking a way to breed further. The Doctor and UNIT were able to thwart these efforts and expose the true conspiracy, but the Silurian colony decided to remain in secret for the moment. The Scales of Injustice (TV Story)

The TARDIS materialised on Vincere where the TARDIS duo discoered that people were being ripped away from their normal lives to compete in the Champion's Game, the Doctor later met the national hero and the leader Soras. He told the Doctor that after he defended his planet from an alien race and stopped them from taking over the planet but over the years he went mad and thought of ‘The Champion’s Game’ and he enjoyed how people’s friends and family were torn apart by either their loved ones dying or what their loved ones did to survive. Lillian formed a rebellion group where Soras was overthrown and the games were stopped. A Game of Champions (TV Story)

The Doctor defeated the Great Intelligence and the Yeti in the village of Lakesville. The Intelligent Evil (TV Story)

The Doctor and Lillian worked with a shape shifter who was killing crew members on the Nova Nebula 7. The Final Frontier (TV Story)

The Doctor and Lillian stayed for a time in the Quadrant, this was part of a Narcotics investigation. The Doctor was concerned as to why people were dying after taking a Drug know as SMILE. He became worried when the narcotic was near a child with a Glamour, Gabriel Taylor. They discovered an N-Form was hell bent on wiping out every human being who could potentially produce offspring featuring the traits of a vampire. He worked out that the person was Gabriel and when his twin Steven Jericho was absorbed by him the N-Form was activated. The Doctor deactivated N-Form by causing Eva Jericho’s death and left Gabriel in a vegetated state. Damaged Goods (TV Story)

The Doctor discovered the Wirrn were responsible for creating a performance enhancing drug which slowly turned the athletes competing in the Intergalatic Olympics on Micawber's World into Wirrn. Placebo Effect (TV Story)

the TARDIS duo continued their travels, discovering an ancient Martian weapon known as the GodEngine. GodEngine (TV Story)

The Doctor and Lillian were transported back in time to 1969 by the Weeping Angels while investigating strange disappearances at Wester Drumlins in the 1990s. Using the information given to him by Sally, the Doctor left messages for her to find in the future and bring the TARDIS to 1969 to collect him and Lillian. The Doctor created a device, the Timey-wimey detector, to track people displaced in time by the Angels. The Doctor and Lillian tracked down Billy Shipton when he arrived in 1969, having been touched by the same Angel as them. From Sally's notes the Doctor was able to give him a message to pass onto Sally in the 1990s to help her investigation and that he would die shortly after meeting her again. Sally succeeded in sending the TARDIS back in time to him. The Doctor met Sally Sparrow, who gave him a folder of information, telling him that it would be vital to him in the future when he would get stuck in 1969. Blink (TV Story)

Arriving on Gallifrey in the middle of an election, the Doctor was shocked when it was revealed Arkadian had returned and Romana was imprisoned, the Doctor and Lillian broke her out with the help of Leela and the Chancellary Guard. The Doctor later battled Arkadian, but Lillian is shot and killed by Arkadian. the Doctor had finally snapped and killed Arkadian out of revenge. The Prisoner (TV Story)

The Doctor later landed in 1962 and met Alison Harding, he later discovered the world's most feared spy was in-fact the Master who was trying to heat up the Cold War, when he was stopped Alison became the Doctor's new companion. The Spy Master (TV Story)

For Alison's first trip, the Doctor took her to Platform One in the year 5000000000 to observe the Earth's destruction by the sun. While there, the Doctor befriended Jabe, a representative of the Forest of Cheem. The Doctor saved the other sightseers from Lady Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17's plot to burn them alive for insurance money, at the cost of Jabe's life. He let Cassandra's frame of skin dry out and explode as punishment when he foiled her plan, ignoring her cries for help. The End of the World (TV Story)

Stopping for food in the south of England, the Doctor and Alison met Amelia Doory and Reggie Mead, a couple apparently experimenting with finding a cure to their contamination with vampire DNA. On their trail was a vampire named Nimrod, head of a secret Black Ops organisation called the Forge, who managed to hunt the pair down in an effort to correct the failed experiment he had conducted decades earlier, code-named Project: Twilight. Alison befriended a young mother named Cassie Schofield, while the Doctor helped Amelia perfect a cure to stop their mutation, only for Amelia to betray the Doctor and turn the cure into a superior virus, first infecting Cassie, before fleeing to infect the rest of the world. Nimrod teamed up with the Doctor to stop Amelia, blowing up Amelia's blood bank, while the Doctor pursued her, knocking the virus into the water of the River Thames, prompting her to dive for it and drown. The Doctor took Cassie to Norway to live in secret while he developed a cure for her condition. Project Twilight (TV Story)

The Doctor and Alison later landed in a village where the inhabitants were being killed by a monstrous creature and he offers to help the villagers stop it, the Doctor later discovered that this was the Land of Fiction. The Warrior (TV Story)

The Doctor and Alison later discovered that people were going missing and whilst investigating Alison thought she was seeing puppets roaming the streets where she and the Doctor soon encountered one, whilst investigating they met a woman named Pauline and discovered her child went missing and left a note saying the puppets told him to leave. The Doctor discovered that the puppets were from a TV show named ‘Smiley Village’ and they go to the TV studio at night to try and rescue the children but they are captured, they learn the puppets are controlled by an entity named ‘The Chuckle’ and it reveals that at 8AM in the morning the ‘Smiley Village’ TV show will air and will play a song which will make every child in Britain laugh as laughter gives the Chuckle power. In the end the Doctor frees the children and defeats the Chuckle by causing a fire in the TV studio which kills the Chuckle and destroys the puppets. The Puppet Night (TV Story)

Arriving in Lanyon Moor, the Doctor once again met his old friend Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart and uncovered a slew of unsolved mysteries that centred around the malevolent work of a stranded Tregannan named Sancreda. Sancreda had been trapped on Earth for many millennia, and, upon awakening, tortured and destroyed several humans with his psionic powers. During this adventure, Alison also showed her skill as the Doctor's verbal equal by persuading him to apolgise to Professor Morgan after the Doctor snapped at him. Discovering that he had not been abandoned as he had believed, and that instead he had caused his brother's accidental death, Sancreda threatened to destroy the Earth in a fit of rage, prompting the Brigadier to trick him into causing his own demise before he enacted his wrath on the entire planet. The Spectre of Lanyon Moor (TV Story)

Arriving on a space research vessel, the Doctor and Alison met a man named Doctor Samuel Jones, he showed the Doctor what they do on the vessel and the Doctor soon learnt of a plague they were going to spread onto a nearby planet, the Doctor then teamed up with the scientists who didn’t want this to happen and they all tried to stop the experiment and fight the infected patients. The Doctor found Jones in the labs where a fight broke out, whilst being strangled by Jones the Doctor kicked the table which accidentally knocked some test tubes onto the both of them which had the virus in them. Now infected, the Doctor locked Jones inside and tried to hold back the virus, he then stopped the infected patients. The Doctor and Alison re-united where the Doctor became fully affected and once inside he regenerated violently into his Tenth incarnation. The Universal Plague (TV Story)

## Personality

With a carefree exterior, the Ninth Doctor was an enthusiastic figure who explored the universe for the sheer love and experience of it, craving natural things such as trees, birds and open spaces, thriving on the activity of righting wrongs, and safeguarding the future.

The Ninth Doctor was a direct, emotional and sympathetic and an emotionally accessible individual, but these traits were balanced by his feelings of self doubt and weariness of his endless battles to maintain order, with the Doctor commenting to Lillian that his travels had made him appreciate the “beauty and delicate sadness of the interconnectedness of all things”. Despite his passionate joviality and humanity, the Ninth Doctor could be dark, harsh, cold and ill-tempered when provoked, especially when the forces of evil tried to unbalance the laws of the universe, but he still had his mercy during these outbursts.

## Physical Appearance

### Hair and Grooming

The Ninth Doctor had brown hair, it was wavy at the start of his life but towards the end of his life it was combed.

### Clothing

The Doctor wore a forest green velvet frock coat, white dress shirt with a wingtip collar, loden green high-waist trousers, battleship grey cravat with a bronze pin, and double breasted waistcoat of silver paisley-brocade with 10 brass buttons and a gold fob watch and a pair of black ankle boots.

## Other Information

The Ninth Doctor is the first incarnation of the Doctor to meet the Master since the Seventh Doctor, he is also the second actor to meet multiple incarnations of the Master (Anthony Ainley and Terrance Hardiman), the first was Tom Baker (Peter Pratt, Geoffrey Beavers and Anthony Ainley).

## Behind the Scenes

Many actors were considered including Rowan Atkinson, Robert Lindsay, Ian Richardson, Tim McInnerny, Anthony Head and Richard E. Grant. But the most favoured choice was that of Irish actor Liam Cunningham who was unfortunately busy at the time, during the audition process Garwood received a letter from casting director John Hubbard who recommended the star of ITV's Heartbeat Nick Berry. Garwood at first was unsure as he felt Berry wouldn't be able to pull off the role of the Doctor, however when the audition process was over Garwood and Brake were amazed and Berry was offered the role of the Doctor to which he happily accepted.

## List of Appearances

### Doctor Who

#### Season 33

* *Night of the Master*
* *The English Way of Death*
* *The Time Ravagers*
* *The Long Game*
* *Life’s End*
* *World On Fire*
* *The Pit*
* *Vampire Science*

#### Season 34

* *The Honour of War*
* *The Room With No Doors*
* *The Shadows of Death*
* *Iceberg*
* *The Inevitable Fate*
* *The Havos Project*
* *The Scales of Injustice*
* *A Game of Champions*

#### Season 35

* *The Intelligent Evil*
* *The Final Frontier*
* *Damaged Goods*
* *Placebo Effect*
* *GodEngine*
* *Blink*
* *The Prisoner*

#### Season 36

* *The Spy Master*
* *The End of the World*
* *Project: Twilight*
* *The Warrior*
* *The Puppet Night*
* *The Spectre of Lanyon Moor*
* *The Universal Plague*