First Doctor

* An Unearthly Child
* The Tenth Planet
* The Three Doctors
* Young
* The Six Doctors
* Dimensions in Time
* The Nine Doctors
* The Power of the Doctor
* The Giggle

[[Georgie Denbrough-Poster Georgie Denbrough-Poster (adoptive grandson via Jack)

### Companions

Susan Foreman
John Who
Jillian Who
First Rmijares
Ian Chesterton
Barbara Wright
Vicki Cressida Pallister
Steven Taylor
Katarina Lemm
Bret Vyon (briefly)
Sara Kingdom
Dodo Chaplet
Ben Jackson
Polly Wright

### Cause of Regeneration

Complications due to the Time Destructor aging him (initial)
TARDIS console exploded in his face (secondary)

### Last Appearance (total)

The Three Doctors (as William Hartnell, 1973)The Giggle (2023)

### Actor

William Hartnell (1963-1975)Richard Hurndall (1975-1984)Peter Cushing (1984-1994)Evan McCabe (2020, young)David Bradley (1994-2023)Stephen Noonan (2023-)

### Age

0 (reset age, at post-regeneration)
236 ("An Unearthly Child")241 ("The Daleks' Invasion of Earth")260 ("The Daleks' Master Plan")396 ("The Massacre")403 ("The Celestial Toymaker")430 ("The War Machines")431 ("The Tenth Planet")

### Tenure

23 November 1963 - 29 October 1966

Holding himself in high regard, ∂³Σx², or the **First Doctor** (played by William Hartnell) was prone to criticising those who he felt were primitive or of lesser intelligence compared to him. However, after he began taking on companions, he developed a compassion, warmth, and wit that made up for his egocentric nature, serving to act as a mentor and guardian figure in his final years.

## Biography

### Gallifrey

#### Life

After gaining a new regeneration cycle, ∂³Σx² was in his first incarnation of the third regeneration cycle, meaning he could actually grow up as oppose to already being old after a regeneration. Like all Time Lords, ∂³Σx² did not age as quickly as a normal human. When outside of a TARDIS, ∂³Σx² would age, physically, about ten years every century. Shortly after his regeneration, ∂³Σx²'s memories were wiped by the Time Lords. As a Gallifreyan citizen, ∂³Σx², who adopted the name John Smith, worked for the Time Lords as a secretary in the lower levels of the inner city. There, he met another secretary, The Patience. After a promotion, John was able to propose to her. After getting married, they had four children together (albeit over several years): ΘΣ (or The Protector), ∫₃⁵ (or Tosin), *i*√ep3∇*f°* (or Jack), and *δ*∰ (or Sally). Of the four children, only ΘΣ decided to stay on Gallifrey. He eventually met another Gallifreyan woman and they had a daughter together. Meanwhile, John's other children chose to go to Earth, but the Time Lords wiped their memory and made them human. Angered, John began looking for a way off Gallifrey. By this point, he was around 198 years old.

#### Plan to escape

As John Smith began to try and leave Gallifrey, he came into contact with his granddaughter Larn (or Susan) when she was a young girl. She had become seperated from her parents after they were drafted by the Time Lords to do work and she was abandoned near the Doctor's home, which, at that time, was a remote barn in the Gallifreyan plains. Susan remained in the care of Patience and John Smith until Patience was forced to regenerate by the Time Lords, however, Patience was on her last regeneration and was not granted another cycle, thus died. Infuriated, John Smith looked for another way to leave Gallifrey. At first he was hoping to get promoted and gain access to a SIDRAT (rudimentary, lesser-quality TARDIS) but was convinced by one of his Time Lord friends and fellow renegade, Rmijares, to steal a TARDIS. Although; he did morally good things first before he commited theft, a morally bad act. After the good things, he called himself "the Doctor" due to being a healer, helper, and wise man. By this time he was 236, and after pursuading another Time Lord and acquaintance of theirs, The Carpenter, he was given a key to a TARDIS workshop. Although he was nearly caught by The Director while stealing a Type 40 TARDIS, Susan diverted his attention by throwing a jelly baby. They managed to get away, but Rmijares had snuck into the TARDIS during their escape.

### Early days

After he fled his home world of Gallifrey, his travels through time and space were mostly random owing to faulty components in his TARDIS. During these travels he personalized his TARDIS with many items such as a Time-Space Visualizer and a carved cuckoo clock. This was also the time that he discovered Rmijares in the TARDIS and helped him to his room. After this was finished, they landed in the Junkyard at 76 Totter's Lane, London, Earth, 1963. While there, they decided to educate Susan at Coal Hill School using the alias Susan Foreman - the surname taken from the name of the owner of the Junkyard, I.M. Foreman. The TARDIS was disguised as a police box to match the 1960s London aesthetic. However, the Doctor was forced to abruptly depart when Susan's teachers from Coal Hill School, Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, followed her back to Totter's Lane to investigate their unusual pupil, kidnapping them to stop them alerting others to his presence or sharing the secrets of the TARDIS.

However, despite the hostile and wicked start, he came to form a strong friendship with Ian and Barbara, teaching them about the wonders of the universe while learning how to grow upon his own character from their example. It was during one of their early adventures that the Doctor first came into conflict with the Daleks, a species that would quickly become one of his greatest enemies.

After a TARDIS malfunction, a meeting with Marco Polo, going back to the Aztecs and Robespierre, aswell as being trapped in a backyard shrunken after the door was opened during landing, the Doctor bade Susan farewell after another encounter with the Daleks, to allow her to live a happier life with a man with whom she had fallen in love.

### A Changing Team

Following Susan's departure, the Doctor travelled for a short time with Ian and Barbara, before landing upon the planet Dido, where he invited a new travelling companion to join him, Vicki. She reminded him of Susan, and the Doctor saw her as a surrogate to fill her spot in his travels with Ian and Barbara. Later, during a confrontation with the Daleks, the Doctor used one of their time machines to return Ian and Barbara to their proper time - something he had been unable to manage with his TARDIS. They thanked him for their ride and left.

Soon after the departure of Ian and Barbara, the Doctor and Vicki had gained a new companion in stowaway Steven Taylor, with whom the Doctor had a relatively uneasy relationship. However, Rmijares liked him. They travelled as a team many times, including one trip where they made the wrong decision regarding a conflict, and another where they met a renegade Time Lord, the Monk. Vicki, however, eventually left the Doctor's company as well, also after falling in love with a man she met in Ancient Troy. Her spot was taken by a handmaid from that time period, Katarina, whom the Doctor liked due to her curiosity. She, however, annoyed Rmi because she thought him, the Doctor and Steven were gods and that they were trying to reach "the Place of Perfection" and that they were dead.

### The Daleks' Master Plan

After landing on the planet Kembel in the year 4000, they uncovered a plot by Mavic Chen and the Daleks to construct a superweapon to aid the Daleks' takeover of the universe: the Time Destructor; which could accelerate or reverse time when used. Bret Vyon, one of Mavic Chen's guards, attempted to use the TARDIS to stop the plot, but failed as he did not know how to use the TARDIS. He became the Doctor's companion briefly, and, after hijacking Mavic Chen's ship, the Spar, it flew off-course onto the prison planet Desperus. A prisoner, Kirksen, found his way inside and held Katarina hostage, ordering them to go back to Kembel. After they tried to bluff their way to her being let go, he noticed and dragged her into the airlock. After threatening to push her out, she commited suicide by opening the door and killing both of them instead. Unfortunately, despite her sacrifice, they were forced onto Kembel after the Spar Recall Platform did its work. After becoming trapped by Bret Vyon's sister and another of Chen's guards, Sara Kingdom, who caught them in the act of treason against Chen, Bret caused a distraction, allowing the Doctor, Steven and Rmijares to escape. However, he was killed. After this, however, Sara changed her mind, refused to work for Chen anymore and joined the Doctor. After the Time Destructor was finished, Mavic Chen was killed and the Doctor stole it, using it as a shield from the Daleks, as they would not fire upon their own machine. Although it had been activated, Sara returned to assist the Doctor get back to the TARDIS where Steven was waiting. They failed to before Sara's demise, and when the Doctor fell unconscious the Time Destructor rolled into the fouliage, aging the landscape. Steven helped the Doctor back to the TARDIS, and, when trying to turn the Time Destructor off, reversed it, causing the Daleks to turn back into embreyos, ending their plan.

### Later Travels

Steven soon became bitter towards the Doctor, blaming him for their deaths, and latermore the Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve, which they experienced. They were then joined by Dodo Chaplet, a descendant of Steven's lover from their previous adventure. Dodo believed the TARDIS was a regular police box until entry. After a numerous amount of travels, including one facing off the Toymaker, an ancient celestial entity, Steven left to assist the reconstruction of a savage civilisation.

After returning to 1966 Earth, Dodo was taken under the control of a hypnotic computer, WOTAN, whom was attempting to use mind control to gain power over the whole human race, also in part of its so-called "war machines". After it was defeated, however, Dodo's memories were wiped too far, and she believed she had not left home. The Doctor found himself joined by sailor Ben Jackson and his secretary lover Polly Wright, to whom he was much more kind; he hoped to prevent them from leaving as Steven had. He only had a single adventure with them before his death.

### Death

The First Doctor's last adventure was defeating the Cybermen in 1986 Antarctica after they attempted to use the Earth's twin planet, Mondas, to gain access to the world. Unfortunately, however, to gain strength, the Cybermen used Mondas to drain the Doctor's energy and use it for their own. The aging that the Time Destructor had done to him certainly did not help. Unconscious in a holding cell, Ben and Polly, after essentially doing the Doctor's work for him, would wake him up, Ben explaining how it was "all over". The Doctor would respond and correct Ben that it was "*far* from being all over". After Ben gave him a cloak, he hastily returned to his TARDIS with Rmijares, but along the way refused to regenerate. Mixed-up in his directions, he met up with his Twelfth incarnation, and after a short adventure, they convinced eachother to regenerate. His fear of the change was turned to reassurance for his future, causing him to accept his regeneration. It had been hours since he left Ben and Polly, but moments for them. Returning to their time, he attempted to lock Ben and Polly out so they did not see him change, but they made it to the door before he could take off. He attempted to unlock the door, but the TARDIS control console was malfunctioning. He tried to repair something within the Time Rotor, but it blew up in his face, causing him to fall backwards. It fixed the problem, though, and his last action was opening the doors for Ben and Polly. They reached him just as he regenerated into his next incarnation, with Rmijares explaining what happened to him afterwards.

### Human

Like every single Time Lord, the First Doctor was turned into a human with no memory of the TARDIS after death on the planet of his choice, that being Earth. He assumed the identity of William Haureyn, in the year 1966. Unfortunately, he died in 1975 due to cerebrovascular disease, but not before having a daughter, Heather Anne Haureyn, as well as four sons, William II, Alex, Adam, and Felix

## Appearances

### Season 1

* An Unearthly Child
* 10,000 BC
* The Daleks
* The Edge of Destruction
* Marco Polo
* The Keys of Marinus
* The Aztecs
* The Sensorities
* Planet of Giants
* The Reign of Terror
* The Space Museum
* The Dalek Invasion of Earth

### Season 2

1. The Ordeals of the Demeter
2. Quest of King Piper
3. The Rescue
4. The Romans
5. Challenge of the Piper
6. The Web Planet
7. The Crusade
8. The Gyros Injustice
9. The Trodos Tyranny
10. The Chase

### Season 3

1. The Time Meddler
2. Galaxy 4
3. The Myth Makers
4. The Daleks' Master Plan
5. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve
6. The Ark
7. The Celestial Toymaker
8. The Gunfighters
9. The Savages
10. The War Machines

### Season 4

* The Smugglers
* The Tenth Planet

### Wilderness Years

* Dimensions in Time
* The Eight Doctors

### Series 7

* The Name of the Doctor
* The Day of the Doctor