Eighth Doctor

Chris Hector

Older, stricter but still warmhearted, the **Eighth Doctor** started off his life as a much stricter incarnation but became more softer & approachable as time went on. This version of the Doctor tried to lose the manipulative ways of his predecessor but was occasionally forced back into his role as "the chess master"

This incarnation of the Doctor initially travelled with Raine Cunningham. However their friendship broke down after much time travelling together & so she left. The Doctor was then joined by Professor Bernice Summerfield, an archaeologist from the 26th Century, & Sargent Chris Hector, a UNIT soldier who he worked with when hunting down a group of Zygons.

After many adventures with his companions, the Eighth Doctor finally regenerated into his next incarnation after being infected with Gastron 7.

## Biography

### Post-Regeneration

After being rescued by Raine from the Abbot, the Seventh Doctor was carried back to the TARDIS, where he used the last of his energy to dematerialise before collapsing to the ground. He died lying on the floor and then began to regenerate into his eighth incarnation while dreaming of his old companions (TV: *Alixion*)

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### Travels With Raine

Taking Raine into a cabin after she fell into a lake, the two witnessed a series of deaths amongst the group of academics staying there, and discovered that they were experimenting with time with a device they called "the Bartholomew transactor", so they could send a message back to warn their past selves about misdiagnosing a deceased girl named Edie O'Neil. However, the interference with the timeline caused Edie to be transformed into a zombie-like state of limbo, and the Doctor realised that the misdiagnosis had never been genuine, and that the whole series of events were part of a time experiment conducted by Major Dickens.

Intending to correct the academics' mistake, the Doctor travelled back to undo the damage, but was unable to bring himself to kill the child, allowing the zombie-Edie to come into being. Returning to the present, the Doctor discovered that the academics were now all deceased, and, theorising that the zombie-Edie was responsible for the deaths, keeping herself "alive" through her own use of the transactor, the Doctor and Raine departed. (TV: *Night Thoughts*)

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On his final adventure as Time's Champion, the Doctor returned to his ancestral home; the House of Lungbarrow. There, he was accused of murder, and was forced to uncovered dark secrets from his own past in a bid to clear his name. (TV: *Lungbarrow*)

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Contemplating a solitary retirement, the Doctor travelled to Crook Marsham, where he and Raine were forced to prevent the reawakening of an ancient sentience which fed on nostalgia that had been trapped within the Earth since its formation. The Doctor tricked it into feeding off a supernova, trapping it in the resulting black hole. (TV: *Nightshade*)

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The Doctor and Raine met Kadiatu Lethbridge-Stewart in the 22nd century whilst combatting an entity the Doctor nicknamed Fred which was attempting to enter their universe using the Sol Transit System. (TV: *Transit*)

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### Meeting Bernice & final adventures with Raine

Following the funeral of Raine's friend Julian Milton, the Doctor brought the TARDIS to 2570 Heaven, where the pair became friends with a group called the Travellers. The Doctor then helped Professor Bernice Summerfield open the way to a Heavenite observatory, and deciphered writing they found to discover a plot by the Hoothi to use Heaven to create an army of the dead. Entering Puterspace, the Doctor was attacked by the Vacuum Church, working in league with the Hoothi, and forced to relive the slow death of his third incarnation, until he was freed by Christopher, a psychic Traveller.

Realising the danger the falling Hoothi fibres would cause, the Doctor ordered Bernice to quickly unearth the observatory, which could detect otherwise invisible Hoothi spheres, and, knowing that the pyrokinetic Traveller Jan Rydd, whom Raine had fallen in love with, had been infected by a fibre, the Doctor ordered him to travel to the sphere. After using Brother Phaedrus of the Vacuum Church to summon the sphere to Puterspace, the Doctor used Christopher to send a message to Jan to ignite the sphere, killing himself in the process.

The Doctor found that Raine was disgusted with him for sacrificing Jan and refusing to return to the TARDIS. Angry at himself, the Doctor forces Raine back on board against her will, with Bernice accidentally finding herself onboard the TARDIS. He takes off and sets the co-ordinates for Raine's home. Then all of a sudden, the TARDIS is thrown off course and into a parallel universe (TV: *Love and War*)

Landing on an alternate Earth where the Silurians had killed the Doctor in his third incarnation, the TARDIS trio lost the TARDIS and became embroiled in an inter-species conflict. Managing to escape after finding the TARDIS, the Doctor was forced to destroy the alternate universe in order to generate the energy needed to restore the original. The Doctor then dropped Raine home and the two departed on very bad terms.

Bernice, though with some reluctance, agreed to travel with the Doctor in Raine's place, under the condition that he didn't manipulate her life or anyone else's again, and also told him to call her "Benny". (TV: *Blood Heat*)

### Travels With Bernice

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### Travels With Bernice & Chris

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In Manchester, the Doctor was attacked by a baby vampire sent by his old Time Lord friend, Ruath, who wanted his blood to resurrect the powerful vampire Yarven, but Bernice was bitten and became a vampire in his place. The Doctor found Ruath, who was also a vampire, building a machine to freeze time in eternal night to allow vampires to feed forever. The Doctor allowed Bernice to convert him, and then destroyed the machine and Yarven, changing himself, Bernice and Ruath back to normal, and then trapped Ruath in the time vortex. (TV: *Goth Opera*)

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### Legacy

As the Tenth Doctor was dying, he saw illusions of this incarnation along with his Fourth, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh and Ninth incarnations who spoke to him. As he began to regenerate, the illusions faded away. (TV: *The Dusk of War*)

## Personality

The Eighth Doctor come across a lot more stricter than his previous incarnations. Almost immediately into his life, the Eighth Doctor decided to drop his manipulating ways (TV: Night Thoughts) however he would be forced to slip back into the role, which would've caused great damage to those he cared about (TV: Love and War)

After Raine departed from the TARDIS, the Doctor began to soften up & became a lot more approachable.

## Physical Appearance

###  Hair and Grooming

After regenerating, The Doctor had short grey-white hair with a small moustache. After the events of TV: Lungbarrow, he began growing a beard. He continued to keep his beard until his death (TV: *Nerve Gas*)

### Clothing

The Doctor's outfit consists of a black suit with a white shirt, a grey waistcoat, a red & yellow tie and black shoes (TV: The Last of the Daleks). His outfit would variate in colours in later adventures (TV: The Kingdom of Lies, Legacy, Knight Falls). Occasionally, he would wear a fob watch with a question mark engraved into it on his waistcoat (TV: Illegal Alien)

Due to the effects of the Time Beetles causing him to have poorer eye-sight, the Doctor chose to wear glasses, choosing frames in the style of those from the 1980s and 90s. (TV: The Last of the Daleks)

## Behind the Scenes

### Casting

Other actors considered for the role of the Eighth Doctor included Peter Cook, Ian Richardson, and David McCallum.

## List of Appearances

### Doctor Who

#### Season 28

* *The Last of the Daleks*
* *Night Thoughts*
* *Illegal Alien*
* *Lungbarrow*

#### Season 29

* *Battleground*
* *Revolution*
* *Nightshade*
* *Network*

#### Season 30

* *Transit*
* *The Kingdom of Lies*
* *Love and War*
* *Blood Heat*
* *The Highest Science*
* *Fear of the Daleks*

#### Season 31

* *The Zygon Invasion*
* *Legacy*
* *Return of the Living Dad*
* *Tragedy Day*
* *Iceberg*
* *Goth Opera*

#### Season 32

* *Knight Falls*
* *Downtime*
* *The Left-Handed Hummingbird*
* *The Romance of Crime*
* *Damaged Goods*
* *Planet of the Nestene*
* *Nerve Gas*