Adam Pearson - 101 Interesting Facts on Doctor Who: Learn About the Science-Fiction TV Show

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101 Interesting Facts On Doctor Who

By

Adam Pearson

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About the Author

Adam Pearson was born in 1966 in Hoo, near Rochester in Kent. He has spent most of his life on the Isle of Wight, but also lived in Penarth in Cardiff for a four-year period. His spare time is spent with his wife and two daughters in Cowes, following Southampton Football Club with a passion and, of course, writing. Adams first published book was The Diary of an Unwilling Virgin, he then went on to write many sports related quiz books. He is a huge fan of Doctor Who.

The Facts

1. The first Time-Lord, other than The Doctor, that we see regenerate is Kanpo Rimpoche in the third Doctor story, Planet of Spiders. He psychically projected his future self as Cho Je who appeared as an understudy to Kanpo Rimpoche. Kanpo Rimpoche was a hermit that The Doctor knew as a youth.
2. The first Doctor was advised to steal his TARDIS by the eleventh and twelfth Doctors companion, Clara. She stopped him and Susan entering one TARDIS, advising him that despite anothers faulty navigation system, they would have loads more fun with it.
3. The first Doctor episode Mission to the Unknown featured none of the regular cast. It was an introduction to the epic story, The Daleks Master Plan.
4. Second and third Doctor producer Derrick Sherwin played a UNIT Commissionaire in Spearhead from Space. The only producer of Doctor Who to appear and have a speaking part in the show. He was also a writer for Doctor Who.
5. The fifth Doctor died of Spectrox Toxemia after he dropped his own dose of the antidote he had struggled so hard to collect. He only had enough left to save his companion, Peri.
6. Nicholas Courtney appeared on screen as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart with the first seven incarnations of the Doctor (including the special Dimensions in Time).
7. The phrase regeneration was first introduced in the third Doctors last story, Planet of Spiders. Kanpo Rimpoche mentioned it in a conversation with The Doctor about his life since they last met. The Doctors companion, Sarah-Jane asked The Doctor to explain and for the audience it was a foreshadowing of the Doctors own death.
8. We didnt find out that The Doctor was a Time Lord until the last second Doctor story, The War Games. He had been on the run but got himself into a situation that forced him to call them for help. This led to him being tried, found guilty of violating the cardinal rule the Time Lords - non interference. He was forced to regenerate, had the secrets of the TARDIS blocked in his mind and was banished to Earth.
9. The first of the Doctors companions to die was Katarina in The Daleks Master Plan. She sacrificed herself to save The Doctor, Steven and Bret Vyon from Kirksen who was trying to blackmail The Doctor into taking them to the planet Kembel. While being attacked in an airlock she managed to flick the switch killing herself and her attacker.
10. The eighth Doctors regeneration did not appear on screen until after that of the tenth. In the short, Night of the Doctor we see The Sisterhood of Karn find The Doctors dead body in the wreckage of a spaceship. They used the Elixir of Life to resurrect him and helped him to choose to regenerate into a warrior incarnation.
11. Regular Doctor Who stuntman and extra, Stuart Fell had a very appropriate name as he specialised in death scenes that involved him doing a back flip. His first appearance was in the third Doctor story, The Sea Devils (1972) and his las was the fourth Doctor tale, The Five Doctors (1983).
12. The original Daleks were powered by static electricity but they soon learned to adapt themselves to new surroundings. Despite the fact that Daleks could not climb stairs, it was a notion that they could hover or fly early on in their existence as comic books of the era depicted them in flight. It was just not possible for the special effects team to show them flying on TV, although one was seen to hover in the sixth Doctor story, Resurrection of the Daleks.
13. Tenth Doctor, David Tennants father-in-law is fifth Doctor actor, Peter Davison. Tennant married Davisons daughter Georgia Moffett in 2011. Moffett had met Tennant on the set of the tenth Doctor story, The Doctors Daughter in which she played The Doctors genetically manufactured daughter, Jenny (a name given by The Doctors then companion Donna Noble from The Doctors clinical description of her as a Generated Anomaly). Georgia Moffett and David Tennant have two children together, Olive and Wilfred (also the name of the character that caused his characters death in Doctor Who [Wilfred Mott played by Bernard Cribbens]) and a son, Ty Peter Moffett from a previous relationship.
14. The Doctors tomb is on Trenzalore and is rather fittingly, his TARDIS, although it is not clear if that time-line was erased when The Doctor was given a new cycle of regenerations by the Time Lords in The Day of the Doctor.
15. The Doctors nickname at the academy was Theta Sigma, as revealed by his old colleague Drax in the fourth Doctor story, The Armageddon Factor.
16. There have been four different K-9s in Doctor Who. Mk1 left with Leela. Mk2 left with Romana. Mk3 was a gift to Sarah-Jane and was destroyed in School Reunion. Mk4 was given to Sarah-Jane at the end of School Reunion.
17. The Doctor was not the first Gallifreyan to appear in Doctor Who - Susan Foreman was.
18. The character of The Doctor appeared in two stories of Doctor Who spin-off series, The Sarah Jane Adventures. The tenth Doctor appeared in The Wedding of Sarah Jane Smith and the eleventh Doctor appeared in The Death of The Doctor.
19. Colin Baker and Peter Capaldi both played different characters in Doctor Who before taking on the roll of The Doctor. Colin played Maxel in the fifth Doctor story Arc of Infinity and Peter played Caecilius in the tenth Doctor tale, The Fires of Pompeii.
20. John Hurt is the oldest actor to play The Doctor.
21. Tom Baker was 79 when he played The Curator in The Day of The Doctor. He is also the only actor to have played The Doctor and returned to play a different character.
22. William Hartnells original 1963 console made its final appearance in the Jon Pertwee story, Inferno.
23. The sixth Doctor saw images of his companion, Mel before they first met, in The Trial of a Time Lord while delving into his future in The Matrix as evidence for his defense. Although the fact that he had a future did indicate that the trial itself was a futile event.
24. Peter Pratt took over the roll of The Master after the death of Roger Delgado in a car crash in Turkey in 1973.
25. Peter Purves played two different characters in his first story (The Chase) Morton Dill and new companion, Steven Taylor.
26. The usually evil Ice Warriors were unlikely allies of The Doctor in The Curse of Peladon.
27. The Daleks Master Plan saw two of The Doctors companions die, Sara Kingdom and Katarina.