Second Doctor

Jamie McCrimmon

Victoria Waterfield

Zoe Heriot

Season 6 (1968-1969)

**The Second Doctor** was the second incarnation of the Time Lord renegade known as the Doctor, and is the first regeneration in the Doctor's first regeneration cycle. He was played by English actor Patrick Troughton from the years of 1966 to 1969.

## Personality

The Second Doctor was a outwardly scruffy, light-hearted character who would hide his darker side when manipulating his enemies and even his allies to an extent for the greater good. He has often be nicknamed the "Cosmic Hobo" as he would appear more impish than his previous incarnation. While the First Doctor was more of a grumpy grandfather, the Second Doctor is more of a batty uncle.

## Biography

After stopping the Cybermen on Mondas, the First Doctor returned to the TARDIS being completely drained by the planet. Collapsing on the floor, his companions Ben and Polly came to see if he was alright before witnessing the Doctor’s first regeneration (TV: *The Tenth Planet*).

#### Post-Regeneration

The Second Doctor woke up and landed the TARDIS on a nearly barren planet. There they encountered a small scientific research facility that had discovered a capsule containing Daleks. The Doctor was able to stop the Daleks and him and his companions left (TV: *Power of the Daleks*).

#### New Companions

Meeting with his new companion Jamie McCrimmon, the Doctor dropped off Ben and Polly and continued on his adventures, meeting Victoria.

The Doctor, Jamie and Victoria landed on the planet Telos and joined a group of researchers who uncovered an entire underground hibernation chamber for Cybermen (TV: *Tomb of the Cybermen*).

The Doctor encountered the hostile Yeti in Tibet, having his first encounter with the mysterious “Great Intelligence”.

After stopping the tyranny of the future dictator Salamander who bore a striking resemblance to the Second Doctor (TV: *The Enemy of the World*) and meeting Alistair Gordon Lethbridge Stewart in his second encounter with the Great Intelligence in the underground transit system of London (TV: *The Web of Fear*), the Doctor would be drop off Victoria and would later meet Zoe in another encounter with the Cybermen. Zoe would join the Doctor and Jamie on their travels (TV: *The Moonbase*).

It is around this time that the Second Doctor was lifted from his time stream to help assist his previous and future selves to prevent the ancient Time Lord Omega from escaping the Anti-Matter universe. He was brought back to his time after his task was completed (TV: *The Three Doctors*).

The Doctor, Jamie and Zoe would face the Cybermen once again after they attempted an invasion of Earth but were stopped by the newly formed United Nations Intelligence Taskforce and with the help of the newly appointed Brigadier Lethbridge Stewart (TV: *The Invasion*).

#### Trial and regeneration

The Doctor and his companions would end up caught in the War Games and would have to survive the many zones that were based on historic battles fought on Earth. The War Lords were the controllers of this experiment and the Doctor was able to stop them by organizing a riot on the War Lord’s base, leading to the War Chief’s death, who was a fellow Time Lord.

However, the Doctor was unable to fix the damage that the War Lords had caused and so had no choice but to call upon the Time Lords to send everyone back to their time periods. The Doctor, knowing that his theft of the TARDIS and his breaking of the Time Lords’ Non-Interference Policy would get him punished, he tried to fly off with his companions and escape the Time Lords but was unsuccessful. After the lead War Lord was trialed and executed, the Doctor’s companions were returned to their respective times and had their memories of the Doctor erased aside from their first meeting with him.

The Doctor was put on trial and he was able to save himself from any serious punishment by showing the Time Lords that there were evils in the universe that needed to be stopped and that the Doctor was simply doing just that.

The Time Lords understood his plea but claimed his crimes to be too great, and so they sentenced him to death. However, the Celestial Intervention Agency intervened and bargained with the Time Lord council to let the Doctor live but to put them under their temporary custody. The Time Lords decided to accept this offer and the Doctor was forced to do missions for the CIA (TV: *World Game*). It is at this time where the CIA allowed the Doctor to restore Jamie McCrimmon's memories so that he would be assisted in his tasks, leading to an encounter with the Sixth Doctor and Peri, where they foiled a Sontaran plot to access time travel (TV: *The Two Doctors*).

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## List of appearances

###### Season 4 (1966-1967)

* *The Power of the Daleks*
* *The Highlanders*
* *The Underwater Menace*
* *The Moonbase*
* *The Macra Terror*
* *The Faceless Ones*
* *The Evil of the Daleks*

###### Season 5 (1967-1968)

* *The Tomb of the Cybermen*
* *The Abominable Snowmen*
* *The Ice Warriors*
* *The Enemy of the World*
* *The Web of Fear*
* *Fury from the Deep*
* *The Wheel in Space*

###### Season 6 (1968-1969)

* *The Dominators*
* *The Mind Robber*
* *The Invasion*
* *The Krotons*
* *The Seeds of Death*
* *The Space Pirates*
* *The War Games*

**Also see:** *The Three Doctors (1972-1973), The Five Doctors (1983), The Two Doctors (1985), World Game (1995)*