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| Alternative, Potential and
Apocryphal Adventures
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| Apocryphal stories: The following stories may be fanciful or
stylized accounts, or perhaps don't fit into the ongoing continuity as we understand
it - but that's no reason to exclude them. My thoughts on the validity of
apocryphal Doctor Who stories appear elsewhere
on this site.
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| Deadline | BF Unbound 5 | Is the Doctor's life story just
a rejected idea for a tv series? Something that exists only in the mind of its writer,
Martin Bannister?
| | The Longest Story in the World | ST: Side Steps
| An old man (maybe the first Doctor?) is told stories by his granddaughter (Susan?) of
fantastical adventures they will have - distant travels and battles with monsters...
And yet these two are mere characters in an Arabian Nights story told by a slave girl to
entertain her Caliph... If there is any truth in the story, it would seem to depict events
prior to The Exiles.
| | The Thief of Sherwood | ST: Past Tense | There's
peripheral evidence to suggest this adventure of the first Doctor occurring, immediately
prior to Planet of Giants - but no definite
record of the story itself - save a distorted flashback in
That Time I Nearly Destroyed the World whilst Looking
for a Dress.
| | All Our Christmases | ST: Christmas Treasury | The old man may be the first Doctor - but
would his interlocutor recognize him...?
| | The Meeting | DWM 167 | Writer John Lucarotti meets the
first Doctor - or possibly a figment of his imagination...
| | Who Killed Kennedy | Virgin novel
| A devastating piece of investigative journalism, that uncovers the story of the
third Doctor's involvement with UNIT. The Doctor's eventual meeting with the author takes
place between Day of the Daleks and
The Face of the Enemy.
| | Doctor Who and the Fangs of Time | DWM 243
| The story of the fourth Doctor meeting the artist
Sean Longcroft, and
encouraging him in his work. Or possibly all just a wild fantasy imagined
in Sean's head...
| | Hamlet | The Shakespeare Notebooks | A transcription of the first
performance reveals how the fourth Doctor interrupted the play, between Image
of the Fendahl and People of the Trees.
| | The Comet's Tail | ST: Terrors
| Nightmarish visions suffered by the fifth Doctor during his post-regeneration trauma
in Castrovalva.
| | Swamp of Horrors (1957) - Viewing Notes | ST: How the Doctor...
| An examination of this film reveals how the sixth Doctor and Mel came
to appear in it, between Fegovy and Intuition.
| | Old Boys | ST: Centenarian | The characters in this tale
recount three separate encounters with the sixth Doctor: defeating the Rainbow between
Curtain Call and The Best Joke I Ever Told;
foiling the telepathic worms, between House
and Vengeance on Varos; and preventing an historical wrong between
Instruments of Darkness and The Eyes Have It.
| | "Dream a Little Dream For Me" | Yearbook 1993
| Zoe wakes up to find everything after
The Wheel in Space is a
dream, and the second Doctor has been waiting twenty-three years for her to
wake from a coma. Then the seventh Doctor helps to free some of Zoe's lost
memories - though this implies that Zoe wrote much of the tv series! It seems
likely that Zoe has suffered some illness - possibly linked to her mental trauma
in The Tip of the Mind - and much
of this story is the result of her confusion upon recovery. The meeting with
the seventh Doctor does occur though, between
The Incomplete Death's Head and
The Algebra of Ice.
| | The Tempest - A Work in Progress | The Shakespeare Notebooks | The Bard's notes
reveal how the tenth Doctor assisted him in devising this play, while dealing with a dinosaur
situation between Hold Your Horses and Beautiful Chaos.
| | Summer Falls | BBC e-book | This children's book is
inspired by an adventure the eleventh Doctor had whilst staying in the town of Watchcombe, between
The Dalek Project and The Doctor, the Widow and
the Wardrobe.
| | Canaries | Wintertime Paradox | Anke receives phone calls from, among others, the eleventh Doctor
during Father of the Daleks and the eighth Doctor during
The Enemy of My Enemy.
| | The Terror of the Umpty Ums | BBC DW website | The thirteenth Doctor encounters the Karpagnon the Deathborg - or
perhaps it's all in the head of David Karpagnon, a troubled boy in a children's home.
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| The "Fugitive" Doctor: one of the mysterious lost incarnations preceding the
first Doctor:
| Story Title
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| Origins | Titan mini-series |
| | Appearance of Fugitive Doctor in
Fugitive of the Judoon.
| | The Tourist | Adventures in Lockdown |
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| The cinematic Doctor:
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| Alternative first Doctor: a divergent timeline, featuring a Doctor who never left Gallifrey - and
when he does finally travel the cosmos, completely changes history...
| Story Title
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| Auld Mortality | BF Unbound 1 |
| | The Innocents | ST: History of Xmas |
| | A Storm of Angels | BF Unbound 7 |
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| Alternative third Doctor: in a timeline that diverges after The Night Walkers,
this Doctor is exiled to a later Earth, one in which he wasn't around to assist UNIT...
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| Sympathy for the Devil | BF Unbound 2 |
| | The sixth Doctor meets his alternative self, as recounted in
100 Days of the Doctor.
| | Masters of War | BF Unbound 8 |
| | The Library in the Body | The Unbound Universe |
| | Planet X |
| | The Very Dark Thing |
| | The Emporium at the End |
| | The de-generating War Doctor meets his alternative self, as recounted in
Time Lord Immemorial.
| | The City and the Clock | Ruler of the Universe |
| | Asking For a Friend |
| | Truant |
| | The True Saviour of the Universe |
| | Pride of the Lampian | Buried Memories |
| | Clear History |
| | Dead and Breakfast |
| | Burrowed Time |
| | Have I Told You Lately? | Lost in Translation |
| | The Undying Truth |
| | Inertia |
| | Gallifrey |
| | Willkommen | Blood and Steel |
| | Wulf |
| | Übermensch |
| | Auf Wiedersehen |
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| "Doctor of War": in a timeline that diverges during the events of Genesis of the Daleks, the fourth
Doctor regenerates into a different version of the War Doctor - one who physically resembles the sixth Doctor.
| Story Title
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| Dust Devil | Genesis | The story starts with the fourth Doctor as the events of Genesis of the Daleks
proceed along a very different path. We also see another version of the sixth Doctor, closer to the one we know, from an alternative "aberrant" timeline.
| | Aftershocks |
| | The Difference Office |
| | Who Am I? | Destiny |
| | Time Killers |
| | The Key to Key to Time |
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| Other alternative realities and divergent timelines:
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| Exile | BF Unbound 6 | Diverging after
The War Games: the Doctor escapes from
the Time Lords before his trial, and forces a regeneration to change sex...
| | The Ultimate Adventure | Stage play
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A divergent timeline is created when this alternative incarnation is brought forth by an
ailing third Doctor - a Watcher-like projection, or a case of bi-generation perhaps? Companions Jason and Crystal are later kidnapped from this
timeline, and used in an attempt to trap the sixth Doctor.
| | He Jests at Scars... | BF Unbound 4
| An alternative reality in which the Valeyard defeated the sixth Doctor in
The Trial of a Time Lord, taking over the
life force of his subsequent regenerations - with dire consequences...
| | The Infinity Doctors | BBC novel
| The clue's in the name. Infinite realities contain an infinite number of Doctors. This
one physically resembles the eighth Doctor (though his previous incarnations may not
have been the same). He gave up his wanderings early on, and has spent most
of his time on Gallifrey. This Doctor was married to Patience (as indeed he may have been
in "our" reality...) Flashbacks in Cold
Fusion show something of those times.
| | Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
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An alternative ninth Doctor has his final adventure, and his next four regenerations.
It could just be an affectionate comedy spoof...
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| "Dr Smith": - exists in an alternative timeline, whose history has shifted more towards the
female - perhaps as a result of the Sodality's tampering with time. His origin is similar to that of the eighth
Doctor in the original timeline.
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| Child of Time | Telos novella |
| | The Cabinet of Light | Telos novella |
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| Alternative ninth Doctor: another divergent timeline, and a different ninth
Doctor (though he's identified as the tenth in ...Curse of Fatal Death).
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| Scream of the Shalka | BBCi webcast |
| | The Feast of the Stone | BBCi Vampires magazine |
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| "Meta-Crisis": The human version of the tenth Doctor, created by the events of
Journey's End.
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| The Turning of the Tide | Target Storybook |
| | The Siege of Big Ben | Short Trips 8.06 |
| | Flight into Hull! | Short Trips 8.08 |
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| Future "Merlin" Doctor: as featured in the novelization of the tv story
Battlefield - but not on screen - the red-haired
future incarnation who will one day become Merlin...
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| Good Companions | More Short Trips
| Features Tegan, a good many years after her departure in
Resurrection of the Daleks, encountering the
Doctor again.
| | Revenants | ST: Side Steps |
| | Greenaway | ST: Steel Skies | This story also features appearances by the second,
fifth and eighth Doctors, in the form of telepathic projections into the titular character's
dream state.
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| Theatrical future Doctors: three successive incarnations, whose
stories are linked together by the same companion - the (presumably very long-lived)
Prince Karnak...
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| Hellblossom | Stage play |
| | Vox Dei | Stage play |
| | Warsmith | Stage play |
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| Pragmatic future Doctor: trapped on Earth and desperate to recover
his lost Tardis, this Doctor is twisted by events into an utter bastard...
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| Sustainable Energy | ST: 2040 |
| | Full Fathom Five | BF Unbound 3 |
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| Other potential future Doctors:
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| The Empress of Othernow | Stage play |
| | The final Doctor enters Mictlan and
makes a deal with the Celestis, as seen in Alien Bodies.
| | Doctor Who and the Inheritors of Time | Unproduced stage play
| Long after his death, the Doctor is resurrected in a new form to
perform a vital mission for the Time Lords.
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