Fifteenth Doctor

Anderson Stenhouse

Amaron

To be added (TV: *New World*)

To be added (TV: *The Mind of the Surron*)

To be added (TV: *Lightstrike*)

To be added (TV: *Soul Searcher*)

To be added (TV: *The Time Machine*)

To be added (TV: *The Perfect World*)

To be added (TV: *The Lost Child*)

To be added (TV: *Santa's Coming to Town!*)

The Doctor took Joanne to Adamantine, where the entire civilisation lived inside the hollowed shell underneath the planet's exterior, and befriended Ash, one of the native silicon-based life forms, and the daughter of the planet's first scientist, Basalt. The Doctor soon determined that the civilisation was under threat as the exterior of the planet began to crack and let in water which threatened to cool the lava that Basalt's people needed to survive. While Joanne tried to calm the people, the Doctor travelled up to the surface with Ash, learning that the cracks were caused by a mining expedition that had been abandoned after the original team was killed by an exploding gas pocket while leaving their equipment running. The Doctor was able to contact the original company and obtain the necessary command codes to shut down the equipment and use it to repair the worst of the damage threatening Basalt's home city. (TV: *Molten Heart*)

Tracing strange signals to the early 1900s, the Doctor found Nikola Tesla and his assistant, Dorothy Skerrit, being pursued by strange phantom-like beings trying to capture Tesla. Having arrived in New York in the middle of a feud between Tesla and Thomas Edison, the Doctor investigated Tesla's pursuers and found them to alien scorpions known as the Skithra, who required Tesla to repair their stolen Venusian spaceship. Working with Tesla and Edison, the Doctor and Joanne fought the Skithra when they threatened to destroy Earth to get to Tesla, with the Doctor and Tesla using the TARDIS to electrify Wardenclyffe to force the Skithra into a retreat. (TV: *Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror*)

The TARDIS is drawn to the planet Far, a planet on the far limits of Earth's empire, where the Doctor had once assisted in the construction of a hypergate to help ships travelling long distances. Discovering that the abandoned planet had a platoon of Daleks on it, the Doctor and Joanne were separated when they tried to escape, the Doctor falling into an underground chamber while Joanne met a member of the local resistance. The Doctor was able to make her way to a Dalek fuelling station run by human slaves who had suffered serious mutations due to exposure to the radioactive substances the Daleks used for fuel, where she met Jickster, the admiral who had once been in charge of Far's defences and was now the least twisted of the Dalek slaves. Jickster and the Doctor were able to steal a Dalek saucer and reactivate the hypergate, allowing them to escape and make contact with an Earth Alliance fleet. Talking with Jickster, the Doctor learned that the Daleks had two secret weapons on Far; a Dalek army in stasis, numbering over a million Daleks, and a giant transmitter that would broadcast a signal enabling the Daleks to turn the attacking Earth fleet into Robomen slaves en masse once they got into range. Although Joanne was nearly forced to help set a trap for the Doctor, the Doctor managed to return to Far in her stolen saucer, accompanied by an Earth Alliance strike team. The Doctor managed to reprogram the robotisation weapon to target the Dalek army, with the overload of Dalek instructions causing them to self-destruct, with the Alliance fleet eliminating the rest. (TV: *The Conquest of Far*)

In medieval Scotland, the Doctor & Joanne met Gruach, wife of Macbeth, and helped her solve the mystery of a mysterious disease affecting the local children. Together they determined that the cause was an ancient entity disturbed by some sailors and feeding on the psychic energy of the young Lulach, heir to the previous king. The Doctor then recognised that the creature took hold of Kinade, Gruach's father, and also revealled he had been spreading lies about Macbeth, falsely accusing him of having killed the king to take the throne. The Doctor removed the influence of the creature from Kinade, and in doing so cured the children, leaving them to Gruach's care decided to take care of. (TV: *The Curse of Lady Macbeth*)

The Doctor & Joanne land on the planet Ashtallah, home of the Ashtallans, an immortal race with prodigious healing abilities. After witnessing their cells quickly healing Joanne, the Doctor discussed many scientific concepts with Brenna before a mysterious plague began killing the aliens. After the Doctor had helped Brenna create a method via which the Ashtallans could reproduce, Joanne found that Sharlan had been killing their people, via a sample of Barbara's blood. Once the spread had been halted, the duo left the planet, pondering the impact they'd had on the Ashtallans. (TV: *The Invention of Death*)

The Doctor took Joanne to 1605 only to discover history had been altered so the Gunpowder Plot was successful. Travelling to the night of the explosion, they witnessed Guy Fawkes being arrested and Berthold Schwarz take his place to cause the explosion. They failed to stop Schwarz lighting the gunpowder so fled and travelled back in time to meet his younger self. They discovered he inadvertently summoned an alien knight in an alchemy ritual and stole its gun, killing it. Joanne tried to interfere but was shot in the shoulder by Schwarz, so the Doctor got her back to the TARDIS and dealt with the wound. She explained to Joanne that the alien knight had used its dying breath to curse Schwarz to be immortal until being shot by the last gun on Earth. They travelled forward in time to find Schwarz in the ruins of Earth and he agreed to help them put history right. The Doctor took him back to the Gunpowder Plot where the older Schwarz convinced his younger self not to detonate the gunpowder, breaking the curse. (TV: *Black Powder*)

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### Travels With Joanne & Anderson

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Landing in the city of Winter, the Doctor became intrigued about how they grew fruits and vegetables on a planet where it was constantly winter. She watched a graduation ceremony and thought something was wrong. She learnt that the citizens were working with the Daleks and constructing them. With Anderson's and Amala Vost's help, she started the defeat of the Daleks, but was forced off the planet before their final destruction. (TV: *The Dalek Occupation of Winter*)

the TARDIS landed in Montgomery on 30 November, 1955. After Anderson was assaulted due to his skin colour, the Doctor was spared from having to interfere when Rosa Parks stepped up to alleviate the situation. When it was revealed that Rosa had been exposed to artron energy, and with the Montgomery Bus Boycott just a day away, the Doctor discovered that a mass murderer from the far future named Krasko was attempting to prevent the boycott in the hope that doing so would prevent equality, but he could not harm anyone due to a neural restrictor in his brain. Outdoing Krasko, the Doctor, Joanne & Anderson were able to keep history on track, albeit by becoming part of the events, and ensured Rosa was arrested after refusing to follow James Blake's order to move seats for Graham to sit on the bus. (TV: *Rosa Parks*)

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While observing the Serapheem migration, the Doctor received a call for help from Marnie McDonald, a teenager from Dundee, Scotland. Arriving on Earth, the Doctor discovered that the Serapheem had mistakenly broken down Marnie and other teenagers into their molecules, misinterpreting their desire to run away. With Marnie's help, the Doctor managed to link up with the Serapheem and convinced them to reassemble all the teens, returning them to their families. (TV: *Girl, Deconstructed*)

While travelling in the Time Vortex, the TARDIS was boarded by a Kerb!am Man to deliver a recorder, but Joanne found a message begging for help on the packing slip. The Doctor took the team to Kerb!am to find the source and began investigating the mysterious disappearances of workers. The Doctor eventually determined that the Kerb!am AI itself had sent the distress call in response to the disappearances. Shortly after making this revelation, Anderson deduced that Charlie Duffy, a maintenance worker, was behind them, and Charlie revealed his plan to have an army of Kerb!am Men deliver packages with bombs in the bubble wrap to kill customers and prevent automation from completely replacing a human workforce. The Doctor was able to reprogram the robots to open their own packages and detonate the explosives within, destroying the army and killing Charlie when he refused to escape with the Doctor. (TV: *Kerblam!*)

The TARDIS arrived back on Earth, in Norwich, where they discover the apparent invasion of the Zaross, a species neither the Doctor or the TARDIS recognised. When the Doctor confronted them directly, she discovered that they were actually the Forzell, and that the invasion was nothing more than one episode of a tv show directed by the Herazi. The Doctor and Joanne ruined their episode and foiled the invasion, then went to confront the Herazi; with the help of Anderson, the Doctor convinced the Forzell they were being used by the Herazi and convinced them to rebel against them. (TV: *Infamy of the Zaross*)

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### Fighting against the Cybermen

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## Physical Appearance

The Fifteenth Doctor resembled a woman in her mid-fifties, with hazel-coloured eyes.

### Hair and Grooming

The Fifteenth Doctor had neck-length ice-blonde hair.

### Clothing

After searching through the wardrobe containing her former companions clothing, the Fifteenth Doctor eventually settled on a light brown coat, a matching black suit jacket & trousers, a light blue buttoned shirt, a blue & yellow patternedscarf over her coat & black slip-on shoes

## Behind the Scenes

### The first female Doctor

The Fifteenth Doctor was the first official incarnation of the Doctor in the programme's history to be played by a woman, though the idea of a woman Doctor had been explored as early as 1980, when Tom Baker exited the role of the Fourth Doctor, and told the press, *"I certainly wish my successor luck, whoever he—or she—might be."* When Peter Davison decided to retire from the role of the Fifth Doctor, John Nathan-Turner told the *Daily Star* that *"the hunt for a new Doctor starts today and it's quite feasible it will be a woman".*

Second Doctor actor Patrick Troughton was quoted in 1983 as approving of the idea of a woman playing the Doctor. In 1986, series creator Sydney Newman suggested that "at a later stage Doctor Who should be metamorphosed into a woman", offering Joanna Lumley as the potential candidate for the Seventh Doctor, with Frances de la Tour and Dawn French also being mentioned. Lumley would ultimately portray a Thirteenth Doctor in the 1999 Comic Relief special *The Curse of Fatal Death*.

## List of Appearances

### Doctor Who

#### Season 53

* *New World*
* *The Beast of Shoal*
* *The Mind of the Surron*
* *Lightstrike*
* *Soul Searcher*
* *The Time Machine*
* *The Perfect World*
* *Invasion of the Eyes*
* *Night of the Krampus*

#### Season 54

* *Santa's Coming to Town!*
* *The Contagion*
* *Molten Heart*
* *Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror*
* *The Conquest of Far*
* *The Curse of Lady Macbeth*
* *The Invention of Death*
* *Black Powder*
* *The Eternal Games*

#### Season 55

* *The Pendant*
* *The Dalek Occupation of Winter*
* *Rosa Parks*
* *The Other Side*
* *Girl, Deconstructed*
* *Kerblam!*
* *Infamy of the Zaross*
* *The Saviour of Gallifrey*

#### Season 56

* *Army of Silver*
* *The Hidden Secret*
* *Ascension of Gallifrey*
* *Fight for the Future*