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Mergin nut (The Hand of Fear)

Memory worm – one touch on your bare skin and you lose the last hour of your memory. A bite will wipe out decades (The Snowmen)

Mobile phone – because it’s good to talk (Boom Town)

Multi-quantiscope (The Hand of Fear)

Nanorecorders – voice recorders implanted in your hand (Day of the Moon)

Neutron ram (Doctor Who)

Notebook – containing all the key codes of the machines in the TARDIS along with notes on places he’s travelled to. The Doctor would never leave it behind, unless he was attacked by cavemen (An Unearthly Child)

Parthenogenesis detector – for detecting independent creation of life forms (Partners in Crime)

Recorder – can destabilise antimatter universes as long as it’s fallen into the TARDIS’s force-field generator (The Three Doctors)

Rhondium sensor – detects delta or, unsurprisingly, Rhondium particles (The Time Warrior, Planet of the Dead)

Special straw – adds extra fizz to carbonated drinks (The Impossible Astronaut)

Species matcher – identifies an individual’s species and planet of origin based on an image or picture. Given to the Doctor by a dull godmother with two heads and bad breath (Vincent and the Doctor)

Stattenheim remote control – TARDIS remote control (The Two Doctors)

Stethoscope – what Doctor worth his salt would be without a stethoscope? Especially when you can use one to listen to heartbeats in pipes (Fury from the Deep), identify transmitters (The Creature From the Pit), eavesdrop (The Runaway Bride, Partners in Crime) and follow signals (The Stolen Earth), or to check the TARDIS in flight (The Lodger)

TARDIS magnet – homing signal that helps you find the TARDIS while out and about. Just keep an eye on the green light. (The Chase) Other TARDIS homing devices crop up in Full Circle, Mawdryn Undead and The Visitation

Telescope – the Second, Third, and Fourth Doctors all kept a folding telescope handy

The Doctor’s signet ring – could open the TARDIS doors in case of power failure. Also useful for handling Zarbi, resetting TARDIS locks and hypnotising people (The Web Planet, The Daleks’ Master Plan, The War Machines)

Timey-Wimey detector – goes ‘Ding’ when there’s stuff and boils eggs at thirty paces. Best kept away from hens (Blink)

Umbrella – can be used to measure radio antennae when a tape measure isn’t to hand (Remembrance of the Daleks)

Yo-yo – for taking gravity readings (The Ark in Space)

Zeus plug – can also double as castanets (The Hand of Fear, The Girl in the Fireplace)

WHO’S DRIVING THIS THING?

When he was a lad, the Doctor always wanted to be a train driver, but as far as we know has never stepped behind the boilerplate. However, he’s driven and piloted a fair few vehicles in his time. Here’s a list of the notable ones. Vroom vroom!

The TARDIS – From An Unearthly Child to now

Helicopter – Fury from the Deep

Transport capsule – The Dominators

Military land rover – The Invasion, Day of the Daleks, Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Robot, Terror of the Zygons

Canoe – The Invasion, The Power of Kroll

Moon rocket – The Seeds of Death

Ambulance – The War Games

Wheelchair – Spearhead from Space

Packard vintage car – Spearhead from Space

Bessie – Various

Transporter lorry – The Ambassadors of Death

Recovery 7 – The Ambassadors of Death

IMC Buggy – Colony in Space

Motorbike – The Daemons, Delta and the Bannermen, Survival, Doctor Who

Motor trike – Day of the Daleks

Boat – The Sea Devils

The Master’s ship – Frontier in Space

Cargo ship – Frontier in Space

Milk float – The Green Death

Mine cart – The Green Death

The ‘Whomobile’ – Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Planet of the Spiders

Lorry – Invasion of the Dinosaurs, The Two Doctors

Campbell Cricket autogyro – Planet of the Spiders

Hovercraft – Planet of the Spiders

Speedboat – Planet of the Spiders

Nerva Beacon – Revenge of the Cybermen

Daimler limousine – The Seeds of Doom

Car – The Hand of Fear

Air car – The Pirate Planet

Punt – Shada / The Five Doctors

Bicycle – Shada

Spaceship – The Caves of Androzani

Operating table – Mark of the Rani

Army detector van – Remembrance of the Daleks

Happiness Patrol jeep – The Happiness Patrol

Scooter – The Idiot’s Lantern

Segway – The Runaway Bride

The starship Titanic – Voyage of the Damned

1920s car – The Unicorn and the Wasp

Bus 200 – Planet of the Dead

Tethered Aerial Release Developed In Style hot-air balloon – The Next Doctor

Gadget – The Waters of Mars

TARDIS pulled by reindeer – 2009 BBC Idents

Vinvocci spaceship – The End of Time

Fire Engine – The Eleventh Hour

Vortex manipulator – The Big Bang

Shark-drawn carriage – A Christmas Carol

TARDIS lash-up – The Doctor’s Wife

When it comes to our four-footed friends, the Doctor is also happy in the saddle. He rides horses in Marco Polo, The Masque of Mandragora, Survival, The Girl in the Fireplace, The Pandorica Opens and A Town Call Mercy (the last of which we discover is called Susan). When an old mare isn’t available he’ll also happily jump on top of a triceratops, as Dinosaurs on a Spaceship showed.

GOOD OLD BESSIE

Introduced in Doctor Who and the Silurians, the Doctor’s ‘Edwardian Roadster’ was in fact one of a number of limited-edition kit cars made by Siva / Neville Trinkett (Design) Limited of Blandford, Dorset.

Also available as a two-seater, the kit was designed to fit an E93A chassis, the same as the one used by Ford for its Ford Popular, Anglia and Prefect cars. The basic £160 kit purchased by the production team included the glass-fibre body, seats (four), bonnet, wheel trims, mudguards, foam cushioning, bonnet brackets, radiator, running boards and fuel tank. Numerous optional extras were also ordered including a luggage trunk, coach lamp, bulb horns, Cibie headlamps, hood (with side curtains) battery box, seat covers, carpets, screen and body straps plus the Ford chassis and engine. All of this pushed Bessie’s total cost to £502.

At the time of purchase, Barry Letts’ desired WHO 1 plate had already been purchased, so Bessie was registered as MTR 5. A fake WHO 1 number plate was used in the programme for close-ups and when the car could be driven around private grounds.

When Bessie was reintroduced in 1989’s Battlefield, the number plates had mysteriously changed to WHO 7.

STORIES THAT FEATURED BESSIE

Doctor Who and the Silurians

The Ambassadors of Death

Inferno

Terror of the Autons

The Mind of Evil

The Claws of Axos

The Daemons

The Time Monster

The Three Doctors

The Green Death

Planet of the Spiders

Robot

The Five Doctors

Battlefield

Bessie also made an appearance in the 1993 Children in Need story Dimensions in Time, driven by Captain Yates, as well as featuring in numerous Doctor Who comic strips and novels.

14 FACTS ABOUT THE WHOMOBILE

In January 1973, Jon Pertwee opened a new Ford dealership in the Midlands. There he was impressed by the Black Widow, a custom-built black and green car. He immediately asked Pete Farries, the chairman of the Nottingham Drag and Custom Club, to make him a custom car.

Pertwee gave Farries two requirements: the car needed to be street legal and it needed to look like it came from outer space.

The result was named ‘Alien’, a 4.3-metre-long by 2.1-metre-wide two-seater car built on a three-wheeled Bond Bug chassis.

A 20-centimetre rubber skirt hid the wheels giving the illusion that Alien was some kind of hovercraft.

Powered by an aluminium 975cc Hillman Imp Sports Unit, especially built by Chrysler UK, Alien could reach speeds of 105mph, although 55mph was its usual cruising speed.

The car also included a telephone, television screen and 44 lights which made up a mock computer.

It was painted using silver and red Bergacryl 1/32-inc metalflake and twenty coats of lacquer.

Alien’s official registration number was WVO 2M.

The Road Licensing department classified Alien as an Invalid Tricycle.

When Pertwee introduced Alien to the production team, a hasty rewrite saw the Doctor drive the vehicle around London in Part 4 of Invasion of the Dinosaurs. The sequence had been scripted to show the Doctor riding a motorbike.

Originally, the car had its name emblazoned along its glass fibre skin. Director Paddy Russell insisted this was removed before filming.

Alien wasn’t quite finished when filming began. The car’s canopy wasn’t added until its second and last appearance in Planet of the Spiders.

Alien remained the private property of Jon Pertwee until it was purchased by a private collector at auction in the early 1980s. Bought as a gift for his son, the car went for £1,700.

Although the car was referred to as the Whomobile in the script, the name was never used on screen and the vehicle remains unnamed within the Whoniverse.

SEVEN

RELATIVE DIMENSIONS

DOCTOR WHO AND POPULAR CULTURE

‘Books and stuff?’

The Doctor, Castrovalva

Doctor Who has always moved with the times, but along the way has picked up a host of cultural references and shared actors with some of the biggest TV and movie franchises on the planet.

SOAP WHO

‘Well, first of all Peggy heard this noise in the cellar, so she goes down…’

Jackie Tyler, Army of Ghosts

Soap operas are part of the great TV viewing tradition of Great Britain. Following Doctor Who, Frazer Hines began a 22-year stint in the ITV soap Emmerdale in 1972. In 2012, Emmerdale repaid the favour as Jenna-Louise Coleman had previously found fame on the rural soap before playing Clara in Doctor Who. Connections between Doctor Who and the soaps are many: Freema Agyeman’s first TV role was in the 2003 revival of Crossroads – a soap co-created by Peter Ling, writer of The Mind Robber. Here’s a selection of other actors who have appeared in Doctor Who and four of the nation’s favourite soaps operas currently broadcast.

CORONATION STREET (ITV, 1960–PRESENT)

EASTENDERS (BBC, 1985–PRESENT)

DIMENSIONS IN TIME

To celebrate Doctor Who’s 30th anniversary in 1993, several Doctors visited Albert Square for a special Doctor Who-EastEnders crossover for the charity telethon Children in Need. The following EastEnders cast members appeared in character:

Wendy Richard

Gillian Taylforth

Letitia Dean

Pam St Clement

Mike Reid

Adam Woodyatt

Steve McFadden

Ross Kemp

Deepak Verma

Shobu Kapoor

Nicola Stapleton

(Ron Tarr also appeared in his role as Big Ron, in an alternative version of Part 2, which was not broadcast.)

EMMERDALE (ITV 1972–PRESENT)

HOLLYOAKS (CHANNEL 4 1995– PRESENT)

CONNECTING DOCTOR WHO AND THE ARCHERS

‘I’ve matured. I’m 1200 years old now. Plus I don’t want to miss The Archers.’

The Doctor, A Town Called Mercy

Terry Molloy, who played Davros three times in Doctor Who between 1984 and 1988, has played the role of Mike Tucker in The Archers since 1973.

Charles Collingwood (The Archers’ Brian Aldridge) played the Brigadier in a series of ‘Dr Where’ sketches for the BBC Schools programme Mathshow in 1975.

In the Christmas Day 2005 episode of The Archers, the warring brothers Ed and Will Grundy briefly called a halt on hostilities to watch The Christmas Invasion.

Ysanne Churchman, who provided the voice of Alpha Centauri in The Curse of Peladon and The Monster of Peladon, played Grace Archer from 1950 to 1955. On 22 September 1955, the character was killed in a fire, a dramatic storyline intended to keep audiences away from ITV, which launched on TV that evening.

Mary Wimbush, who played Julia Pargeter in The Archers between 1992 and 2005, played Sarah Jane Smith’s Aunt Lavinia in K-9 and Company.

Tamsin Greig, the nurse in The Long Game, has played Debbie Aldridge since 1991, flitting in and out of storylines as her character lives in Hungary most of the year.

Aristocratic Lord Cranleigh in Black Orchid and Crown Saxe-Coburghunter Redvers Fenn-Cooper from Ghost Light (both played by Michael Cochrane) are better known to Archers’ fans as former gentleman farmer Oliver Sterling.

THE NAME’S WHO. DOCTOR WHO

In 1986, Sylvester McCoy and Timothy Dalton worked together on a series of Shakespeare plays at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London. Within a year Sylvester had been cast as the Doctor and Dalton as James Bond, two of the great heroes of British popular culture. With Dame Diana Rigg (Tracy in On Her Majesty’s Secret Service) guest starring in Doctor Who’s 2013 series, the following is a selection of actors who have appeared in both Doctor Who and the James Bond films.

Actor/writer Moris Farhi pitched two unused scripts to Doctor Who in the 1960s – ‘Farewell Great Macedon’ and ‘The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance’, and appeared in From Russia with Love and You Only Live Twice.

Doctor Who and The Sarah Jane Adventures script editor Gary Russell appeared as an uncredited extra in Octopussy.

TO BOLDLY GO WHERE NO TARDIS HAS GONE BEFORE

On 21 June 1969, The War Games Episode Ten concluded Patrick Troughton’s time as the Doctor. Three weeks later, on 12 July, the BBC filled the slot vacated by Doctor Who with a new American sci-fi import – Star Trek. Five decades later, both Doctor Who and Star Trek remain among the most enduring television entertainment franchises in the world, and a small handful of actors share the distinction of having appeared in both.

Star Trek Key:

TOS: The Original Series

TNG: The Next Generation

DS9: Deep Space Nine

Voy: Voyager

Ent: Enterprise

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode The Neutral Zone, broadcast in 1988, a computer readout clearly shows the names of William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davidson (sic) and Colin Baker.

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine cast members Alexander Siddig (Dr Bashir) and Chase Masterson (Leeta) have both recorded Doctor Who audio adventures for Big Finish Productions, as has Benedict Cumber-batch, who plays villain John Harrison in Star Trek: Into Darkness.

In 2012, the fictional universes of Doctor Who and Star Trek collided in the IDW comic book series Assimilation², which saw the Eleventh Doctor, Amy and Rory battle the Cybermen and Star Trek’s Borg alongside the Next Generation crew. It also transpired that the Fourth Doctor had encountered Captain James T. Kirk in his travels.

CARRY ON DOCTOR

In 1958, William Hartnell played the title role at the very beginning of another well-loved British institution – the Carry On film series. Here is a selection of actors who have appeared in both Doctor Who and the Carry Ons…

A GALLIFREY FAR, FAR AWAY

A selection of Rebels, Imperials and Dark Lords of the Sith that have appeared in both Doctor Who and the Star Wars films.

HARRY POTTER AND THE BIGGER ON THE INSIDE

Many Doctor Who actors have also appeared in the spell-binding Harry Potter film series.

POTTER PICKS

Actor Harry Melling (Dudley Dursley) is a grandson of Patrick Troughton.

Actor Alfie Enoch (Dean Thomas) is a son of William Russell.

TARDIS LIBRARY

Fictional books in the Doctor Who universe

Bartholomew’s Planetary Gazetteer

Read by Romana on Gallifrey (The Ribos Operation)

The Black Orchid by George Cranleigh

Published in 1925, an account of Cranleigh’s travels. The Doctor thought it was fascinating (Black Orchid, Earthshock)

The Book of the Old Time

The official history of the early Time Lords (The Deadly Assassin)

The definitive work on the Weeping Angels (actual title unknown) The only book ever written about the Angels. Written by a madman, barely readable, bit boring in the middle, no pictures (The Time of Angels)

Everest in Easy Stages

Tibetan text read by the Fourth Doctor in the hope of discovering tips on how to climb out of the Chloris Pit (The Creature from the Pit)

Fighting the Future by Joshua Naismith

Donna Noble’s 2009 Christmas present for Wilf (The End of Time)

Flora and Fauna of the Universe by Professor Thripsted

According to the Fourth Doctor, it listed Usurians as poisonous fungi (The Sun Makers)

The French Revolution, author unknown

Barbara Wright lent this history book to Susan Foreman who immediately noticed inaccuracies. Not long after, Ace picked up a similarly titled tome in the very same school (An Unearthly Child, Remembrance of the Daleks)

‘An illustrated guide to the Swampie tribe’

How the Doctor described a heavy, bound book he found on the third moon of Delta Magna, ‘A sort of Bayeux tapestry with footnotes.’ Atrociously written but good pictures (The Power of Kroll)

A Journal of Impossible Things by Verity Newman

The story of a woman who fell in love with a man from the stars, based on the diaries of Joan Redfern (The End of Time)

The Last Chance for Man by Charles Grover

Environmental treatise by the politician and secret leader of Operation Golden Age (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)

The Legend of Pandora’s Box

Amy Pond’s favourite book as a child, and the basis of the Pandorica myth (The Pandorica Opens)

Melody Malone

A pulp detective novel from the 1930s which was in fact a message to the Doctor from his wife, River Song (The Angels Take Manhattan)

Monsters from Outer Space

Read by Ian while the Doctor fiddled with the Time Space Visualiser. Ian described it as good, but a bit far-fetched (The Chase)

The Origins of the Universe by Oolon Coluphid

The author got it wrong in the first line according to the Doctor, who wondered why he hadn’t asked someone who saw it happen (Destiny of the Daleks)

The Secret Books of Saxon

Containing instructions for how to achieve the Master’s resurrection. Never published (The End of Time)

The Sibylline Oracles

A series of texts compiling the prophesies of the Sibyl, founder of the Sibylline Sisterhood of Pompeii. The thirteenth book foretold the Doctor’s arrival (The Fires of Pompeii)

Teach Yourself Tibetan, author unknown

A book read by the Fourth Doctor on Chloris so that he could translate Everest in Easy Stages (The Creature from the Pit)

The Worshipful and Ancient Law of Gallifrey

Dating back to the days of Rassilon and originally kept safe in the Panopticon Archives, this dangerous tome was stolen by Chronotis and brought to 20th-century Earth (Shada)

Real books in the Doctor Who universe:

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (Chapman and Hall, 1843)

During an 1869 reading of his ghostly little book in Cardiff, Charles Dickens was interrupted by a Gelth-possessed corpse (The Unquiet Dead)

Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie (Collins, 1935)

The Doctor owned an edition published in the year five billion (The Unicorn and the Wasp)

Doctor in the House by Richard Gordon (Joseph, 1952)

In Mrs Smith’s boarding house, the Doctor picked up a discarded copy of the novel that spawned the film, radio and TV series (Remembrance of the Daleks)

The Doctor’s Dilemma by George Bernard Shaw

The Doctor read Shaw’s play, first staged in 1906, as he and Mel waited to be served in the milk bar that Ace was working in (Dragonfire)

Gutenberg Bible

The first major book produced from movable type on a printing press. Several of the 180 original copies were sold by Count Scarlioni to fund his time-travel experiments (City of Death)

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (Little, Brown, 2002)

The Doctor speed-read a copy in Rose’s flat, commenting on its sad ending (Rose)

Moby-Dick by Herman Melville

One of the three Books of Knowledge of Ravolox (The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet)

Monty Python’s Big Red Book (Methuen Publishing, 1971)

Just one of the books found in the planet-sized Library along with ‘whole continents’ of Jeffrey Archer and Bridget Jones (Silence in the Library)

The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie

(William Collins and Sons, 1926)

Lady Clemency Eddison’s favourite Agatha Christie thriller (The Unicorn and the Wasp)

The Mystery of Edwin Drood by Charles Dickens

(Chapman & Hall, 1870)

The last, and incomplete, work of Charles Dickens. After helping defeat the Gelth, Dickens planned to work aliens into the novel. (The Unquiet Dead)

A Textbook of Botany for Students by Amy F.M. Johnson BSc (Allman and Son, 1902)

Stumbled upon by the Fifth Doctor while in Cranleigh Hall (Black Orchid)

The Time Machine by H.G. Wells (William Heinemann, 1895)

The Seventh Doctor’s reading matter while returning the Master’s remains to Gallifrey. The Eighth Doctor unsuccessfully tried to pick up where he left off after leaving San Francisco in the year 2000. (Doctor Who) Professor Chronotis also relaxed with a paperback edition in Shada.

UK Habitats of the Canadian Goose by H.M. Stationery Office

One of the three Books of Knowledge of Ravolox (The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet)

The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells (William Heinemann 1898)

The Master’s reading matter of choice after imprisoning the Third Doctor and Jo Grant. (Frontier in Space) Possibly inspired by Herbert’s encounter with the Sixth Doctor (Timelash)

The Water-Babies by Charles Kingsley (MacMillan and Co, 1863)

One of the three Books of Knowledge of Ravolox (The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet)

LINKS BETWEEN DOCTOR WHO AND A CHRISTMAS CAROL

Charles Dickens gave a reading from A Christmas Carol in The Unquiet Dead.

The Eleventh Doctor riffed on Dickens’s plot in A Christmas Carol.

In the world created when River Song refused to kill the Doctor, Charles Dickens was interviewed about his new Christmas special on BBC Breakfast. All he would say was that it involved ghosts and the past, present and future all at the same time.

The first draft of the Doctor Who format guide suggested that a Christmas episode could be made in which Jacob Marley was in fact a ‘slightly tipsy’ Doctor!

Simon Callow, who played Charles Dickens in The Unquiet Dead and The Wedding of River Song, also played the novelist in the 2001 animated film Christmas Carol: The Movie. The same film also featured Michael Gambon (Kazran Sardick in the 2010 Christmas special) as the voice of the Ghost of Christmas Present.

David Collings – who appeared in Doctor Who three times, as Vorus in Revenge of the Cyberman, Poul in The Robots of Death and Mawdryn in Mawdryn Undead – played Bob Cratchit in the 1970 musical Scrooge.

Jon Pertwee played Jacob Marley in the 1992 stage revival of Scrooge. The cast also included Stratford Johns (Four to Doomsday) as the Ghost of Christmas Present.

Richard E. Grant, who played Dr Simeon in The Snowmen and the Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death and Scream of the Shalka, played Bob Cratchit in the 1999 TV movie A Christmas Carol. Ian McNeice (Victory of the Daleks) also appeared in the cast as Mr Fezziwig.

Mark Strickson played young Ebenezer in the 1984 TV movie A Christmas Carol. The film also featured David Warner, the voice of Lord Azlok in Dreamland, as Bob Cratchit.

Nicola Bryant played Ebenezer Blackadder’s niece in 1988’s Blackadder’s Christmas Carol. The comedy special starred Rowan Atkinson and Jim Broadbent, and both later appeared in the 1999 Comic Relief Doctor Who spoof, The Curse of Fatal Death.

A number of Doctor Who alumni have recorded audiobooks of A Christmas Carol, including Martin Jarvis, Geoffrey Palmer, Richard Wilson and Tom Baker.

SONGS FOR ELEVEN

‘I can take you to the Battle of Trafalgar, the first anti-gravity Olympics, Caesar crossing the Rubicon, or Ian Dury at the Top Rank, Sheffield, England, Earth, 21 November 1979.’

The Doctor, Tooth and Claw

Music – from pop to classical – has always played an important part in Doctor Who. One of the earliest scenes in the series is a discussion of the merits of popular beat combo, John Smith and the Common Men (the fictional band had gone from 19 to 2 in the hit parade), and neatly provides the first mention of ‘John Smith’. Here’s a list of some of the songs featured in the series.