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From An Unearthly Child to The War Games the end credits gave the name as ‘Dr. Who’ or ‘Doctor Who’. From Spearhead from Space to Logopolis it was ‘Doctor Who’. This changed to simply ‘The Doctor’ from Castrovalva onwards. When the show returned in 2005, it was back to ‘Doctor Who’ for the Ninth Doctor adventures. Since The Christmas Invasion, it’s been plain old ‘The Doctor’ again.

Bessie’s number plate was WHO 1 (although when the Seventh Doctor turned up in Battlefield someone had conveniently changed it to WHO 7!)

In K-9 and Company: A Girl’s Best Friend, Brendan asks ‘Who is the Doctor?’ to which K-9 replies, ‘Affirmative.’

The novelisation Doctor Who and the Zarbi refers to the Doctor as ‘Doctor Who’ throughout, as do the officially licensed comic strips that appeared in TV Comic, Countdown and TV Action during the 1960s and 1970s, and the annuals published by World Distributors during the same period.

It’s not actually Doctor Who, but in Carry on Screaming Doctor Watt gives his name to Constable Slobotham who asks, ‘Doctor Who, sir?’ The reply comes back: ‘Watt. Who was my uncle, or was – I haven’t seen him in ages.’

A DOCTOR OF WHAT?

Does the Doctor have any qualifications at all? It seems even he can’t make up his mind…

The First Doctor states that he’s not a doctor of medicine. (An Unearthly Child)

He also tells Kublai Khan that he cannot cure his pains as he’s not a doctor of medicine. (Marco Polo)

When Ian thanks him, rather sarcastically, for a thorough medical, the Doctor says it is a pity he didn’t get his degree. (The Rescue)

The Second Doctor thinks he was once a medical Doctor, having taken a degree in Glasgow in 1888 under Joseph Lister. (The Moonbase)

Then again, not long after that, he’s back to saying he’s not a medical doctor. (The Krotons)

The Third Doctor tells the Investigator on Solos that he is a doctor qualified in practically everything. (The Mutants) This claim is also made by the Fifth and Tenth Doctors. (Four to Doomsday, Utopia)

The Fourth Doctor defers to a real medical doctor on board the Ark, saying that his doctorate is purely honorary. (The Ark in Space)

The Doctor once again points out Harry’s credentials on Nerva Beacon, adding that he himself is a doctor of ‘many things’. (Revenge of the Cybermen)

Runcible (the Fatuous) thought the Doctor got expelled from the Prydonian Academy due to some sort of scandal. (The Deadly Assassin)

Romana claimed the Doctor scraped through to graduation with 51 per cent on his second attempt, information the Doctor believed was confidential. She, on the other hand, graduated with a triple first. (The Ribos Operation)

Drax thought it was good that the Doctor got his doctorate from the Academy. Like Drax, the Doctor was in ‘the year of ’92’. (The Armageddon Factor)

The Fourth Doctor received an honorary degree from St Cedd’s, Cambridge in 1960. (Shada)

The Doctor failed the TARDIS flying test. (The Shakespeare Code)

The Eleventh Doctor claims he has degrees in medicine and cheese-making. (The God Complex)

THE DOCTOR IS IN

‘Doctor. The word for healer and wise man throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know?’

River Song, A Good Man Goes to War

The programme has featured some real doctors in its time – although not all of them have been particularly wise. Here’s a selection.

UNSEEN ADVENTURES

What do the Doctor and his companions get up to when we’re not watching? All sorts of things – and here’s just a small, random selection.

The Doctor and Susan visited the planet Quinnis ‘in the Fourth Universe’ four or five journeys before The Edge of Destruction and nearly lost the TARDIS.

They also saw the metal seas of Venus. (Marco Polo)

Some time before An Unearthly Child, they encountered telepathic plants on the planet Esto. If you stood between the plants they made a screeching sound when they detected another mind. (The Sensorites)

They experienced a Zeppelin air raid during the First World War. (Planet of Giants)

The Doctor visited the planet Dido before the events of The Rescue.

He also visited Rome prior to The Romans and claimed to have taught the Mountain Mauler of Montana how to fight.

He’d had a previous encounter with the Celestial Toymaker. (The Celestial Toymaker)

He was present at the Relief of Mafeking in 1900. (The Daleks’ Master Plan)

The Doctor watched the ‘magnificent folly’ of the Charge of the Light Brigade. (The Evil of the Daleks)

Prior to the events of The Abominable Snowmen, the Doctor visited the Det-Sen monastery at various times – at least once in his second body – and commented that the place always seemed to be in some kind of trouble. In 1630 he took the bell known as the Holy Ghanta into his care.

The Doctor once holidayed on Dulkis, finding it an extremely peaceful place. (The Dominators)

The Cyber Controller recognised the Doctor from a previous encounter on ‘Planet 14’. (The Invasion)

The Doctor compared a noise he heard during the Inferno drilling project to the sound of Krakatoa in 1883. (Inferno)

The Vandals were apparently ‘quite decent chaps’. (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)

The Doctor once crashed a Medusoid’s mind probe by insisting that he was on the way to meet a giant rabbit, a pink elephant and a purple horse with yellow spots. The machine didn’t believe him, even though he was telling the truth, as the unlikely trio of animals were delegates for the third Intergalactic Peace Conference. The Medusoids, a race of monopod, hairy jellyfish with claws and teeth, used up all their mind probes trying to get to the truth. (Frontier in Space)

The Doctor was made a noble of Draconia after helping the 15th Draconian Emperor in the 21st century. (Frontier in Space)

A captain in Cleopatra’s bodyguard taught the Doctor how to fence. (The Masque of Mandragora)

Prior to the events of The Face of Evil, the Doctor tried to use his own brainwaves to repair the Mordee computer that became Xoanon.

The Doctor witnessed moving mines on Korlano Beta. (The Robots of Death)

He saw the Fifth World War and was with the Filipino army in the final advance on Reykjavik in the 51st century. (The Talons of Weng-Chiang, The Unquiet Dead)

The Doctor once angered the Droge of Gabrielides so much that a bounty of an entire star system was placed on his head. (The Sun Makers)

The Doctor has visited both Aberdeen and Blackpool. (Underworld)

He has seen opera singer Nellie Melba’s party piece. (The Power of Kroll)

The Doctor learnt how to walk over hot coals from firewalkers in Bali. (The Armageddon Factor)

The Doctor witnessed the Big Bang. (Destiny of the Daleks)

Tryst’s mentor, Professor Stein, was a friend of the Doctor’s. (Nightmare of Eden)

The Doctor told Seth that he’d been to the ‘charming’ planet Aneth, just not yet. (The Horns of Nimon)

The Fourth Doctor visited Tigella and met Zastor 50 years prior to the events of Meglos.

The Logopolitans offered to complete the TARDIS’s chameleon conversion on his previous visit to Logopolis. (Logopolis)

The Doctor once played for New South Wales cricket team, taking five wickets. He used to bowl a very good chinaman (a left -handed googly in case you were wondering). (Castrovalva, Four to Doomsday)

The Second Doctor once faced the terrible Zodin, a woman of rare guile and devilish cunning whose race was covered in hair and hopped like kangaroos. The Brigadier wasn’t involved. (The Five Doctors, Attack of the Cybermen)

The Doctor recognised Silurian battle cruisers and the Myrka and thought Icthar was dead. (Warriors of the Deep)

The Doctor had visited Androzani Minor previously. (The Caves of Androzani)

Azmael was the best teacher the Doctor ever had. His fourth incarnation got Azmael drunk at their last meeting. (The Twin Dilemma)

Before leaving Gallifrey, the Doctor attended the inauguration of the Space Station Camera. (The Two Doctors)

He had also visited Seville before the events of The Two Doctors.

The Third Doctor and Jo Grant saved the planet Karfel from disaster and reported Magellan (aka the Borad) to the Inner Sanctum for unethical experimentation on the Morlox creatures. When greeting the Doctor, Tekker commented that there were ‘only the two of you’, to which the Doctor replied that he was ‘travelling light this time’, indicating that there may have been more than just the Doctor and Jo on board the TARDIS back then. (Timelash)

The agronomist Arthur Stengos was an old friend of the Doctor. (Revelation of the Daleks)

Before the events of The Trial of a Time Lord: Mindwarp, the Doctor and Peri visited Thordon, where the Mentors of Thoros Beta had supplied the primitive warlords with energy weapons.

Captain ‘Tonker’ Travers got wrapped up in ‘a web of mayhem and intrigue’ when he met the Sixth Doctor. The Doctor at least saved Travers’ ship. (The Trial of a Time Lord: Terror of the Vervoids)

The Doctor met a Stigorax in 25th-century Birmingham. (The Happiness Patrol)

On 23 November 1638, the Doctor launched a rocket sled containing a Validium statue of Lady Peinforte into space. (Silver Nemesis)

The Doctor visited Windsor castle when it was being built. (Silver Nemesis)

The Doctor defeated Fenric at chess in the third century, banishing him to a shadow dimension. The Time Lord also met the Ancient One in the far future. (The Curse of Fenric)

The Ninth Doctor was photographed in the crowd when Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, and his picture was drawn on the island of Sumatra soon after the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883. (Rose)

On the eve of the Titanic’s maiden voyage, the Ninth Doctor had his photo taken with the Daniels family in Southampton. They subsequently missed the trip (Rose) but the Doctor later recalled sailing on an ‘unsinkable’ ship – he ended up clinging to an iceberg. (The End of the World)

The assembled hordes of Genghis Khan once tried to get through the TARDIS doors – and failed. (Rose)

He pushed boxes at the Boston Tea Party. (The Unquiet Dead)

The Doctor vaporised the 51st-century weapons factories on Vilenguard by making the main reactor go critical. There’s a banana grove there now. (The Doctor Dances)

Rose visited Justicia, the Glass Pyramid of San Kaloon, and a planet called Woman Wept, where she witnessed the sea freeze in the middle of a storm on a beach a thousand miles across. She walked with the Doctor under a hundred-foot wave at midnight. (Boom Town)

Before arriving on the Game Station, the Doctor, Rose and Captain Jack had been to Raxacoricofallapatorius, then Kyoto, Japan in 1336, from which they only just escaped. (Bad Wolf)

The Ninth Doctor and Rose once had to hop for their lives. (Born Again)

The Doctor nearly lost his thumb when he helped Skylab fall to Earth. (Tooth and Claw)

When the Doctor previously met the Krillitanes they resembled humanoids with long necks. (School Reunion)

On an asteroid, a ‘weird munchkin lady’ with big eyes nearly frazzled Rose with her fiery breath. (Rise of the Cybermen)

The Doctor watched the 1948 Olympic opening ceremony – twice. (Fear Her)

Rose bought Jackie a bazoolium trinket from an asteroid bazaar. The metal got cold when rain was due and heated up when sun was on its way. (Army of Ghosts)

Martha and the Doctor watched the Moon landing four times. (Blink)

The Doctor and Martha got in a bit of a pickle with ‘four things and a lizard’. Sally Sparrow saw them running off with a bow and a quiver of arrows with only ‘twenty minutes to Red Hatching’. (Blink)

The Doctor was present at the birth of Christ. He got the last room in the inn. (Voyage of the Damned)

The Sibyl had a bit of a thing for the Doctor. The Doctor thought she was a hell of a woman. She had lovely teeth and could dance the tarantella. (The Fires of Pompeii)

The Doctor witnessed the war between China and Japan. (Planet of the Dead)

He visited the Court of King Athelstan in AD 924 when the King of the Welsh presented the Cup of Athelstan. (Planet of the Dead)

When summoned to the planet of the Ood, the Doctor went on a bit of a detour – he saw the Phosphorous Carousel of the Great Magellan Gestalt, saved a planet from the Red Carnivorous Maw, named a galaxy Alison and got married. To someone quite important (see ‘The Many Wives of the Doctor’). (The End of Time, Part One)

The Doctor once had dinner with the Aplan chief architect of Alfava Metraxis. He had two heads. The Architect, not the Doctor, that is. (The Time of Angels)

The Doctor and River had an unspecified adventure on Easter Island that ended with the islanders raising the famous statues in his honour. (The Impossible Astronaut)

The Doctor met the Silurian Madame Vastra while she was avenging the death of her sisters by killing workers in the London Underground at some point after 1863. (A Good Man Goes to War)

The Doctor arranged a birthday party for River under London Bridge in the Frost Fair of 1814. Stevie Wonder sang for them. (A Good Man Goes to War)

He played triangle in the recording of Carmen played by Oswin in the Asylum. (Asylum of the Daleks)

The Doctor rescued Queen Nefertiti from a swarm of alien locusts. He also met a big game keeper by the name of John Riddell. (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)

THE LAST GREAT TIME WAR

‘There was a war. A Time War. The last Great Time War. My people fought a race called the Daleks, for the sake of all creation. And they lost. They lost. Everyone lost. They’re all gone now. My family, my friends, even that sky.’

The Doctor, Gridlock

Before meeting Rose Tyler, the Doctor fought in a mighty war between his people and the Daleks. Much of what happened is lost in the mists of time, but some things are known:

Millions died in every second of the conflict. (The End of Time)

The Doctor fought on the front line. It’s how he survived. (Doomsday)

He witnessed the fall of Arcadia – something he hoped to come to terms with one day. (Doomsday)

The Gelth lost their physical forms during the War, existing only as gaseous beings from that day forth. (The Unquiet Dead)

All of the Nestene Consciousness’s food stock was destroyed in the War. The Doctor couldn’t save the Nestene’s world. (Rose)

Sontaran legends say that the Doctor led the battle in the Time War. The Sontarans weren’t allowed to take part. (The Sontaran Stratagem)

Davros died in the first year of the Time War at the Gates of Elysium when his command ship flew into the jaws of the Nightmare Child. The Doctor tried to save him. (The Stolen Earth)

The Master was resurrected by the Time Lords during the War when they recognised he was the perfect warrior. He wasn’t – he ran when the Dalek Emperor took the Cruciform. (The Sound of Drums)

In the last days of the War, the Doctor witnessed such horrors as the Skaro Degradations, the Horde of Travesties, the Nightmare Child, and the Could-Have-Been King and his army of Meanwhiles and Never-weres. (The End of Time)

President Rassilon aimed to end the War by destroying the universe itself. The Final Sanction would see the creation of a paradox so great it would rip the Time Vortex apart. The Time Lords would survive by becoming creatures of consciousness alone. (The End of Time)

It was Rassilon’s intent to use the Final Sanction that spurred the Doctor into action to end the War himself, sealing the conflict’s events within a time lock. (The End of Time)

The Doctor ended the Time War by using the Moment. (The End of Time)

All those fighting, including ten million Dalek ships, were wiped out in one second. (Dalek)

The Doctor was not the only survivor of the Time War. A lone Dalek crashed to Earth on the Ascension Islands, eventually ending up in the collection of Henry van Statten (Dalek); the Dalek Emperor fell through time and began rebuilding the Dalek Empire from human DNA (Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways); the Cult of Skaro escaped into the Void, having stolen the Genesis Ark, a Time Lord prison full of Daleks (Army of Ghosts / Doomsday); Dalek Caan of the Cult of Skaro penetrated the timelock and rescued Davros (The Stolen Earth / Journey’s End).

MID-LIFE CRISIS: THE CHANGING AGE OF THE DOCTOR

As River told Amy, rule number one is that the Doctor lies – but has he been lying about his age all these years? The Doctor never seems to be sure how old he is. Perhaps he doesn’t want to know…

Other clues to the Doctor’s age:

The Doctor was just 8 years old when he entered the Time Lord academy, as was the Master (The Sound of Drums).

In The Ribos Operation, Romana notes that the Doctor has been piloting the TARDIS for 523 years. If he’s really 759 by this point, that means he went joyriding at the tender age of 236.

This is backed up by Idris in The Doctor’s Wife. She says that the Doctor has been travelling with her for 700 years. If we believe he’s 909 in this story, they left Gallifrey not long into his 200s.

Before the Doctor faced his apparent death in Utah, 2011, he went on a ‘farewell tour’ lasting almost 200 years. That was some tour.

A MERE SLIP OF A GIRL?

Romana may have mocked the Doctor for massaging his true age, but the Time Lady has been economical with the truth herself at times. In The Ribos Operation she admits to being 140 (nearly), but by City of Death is running around claiming to be a mere 125. Is the 150 years stated in The Leisure Hive nearer the truth, Miss Romanadvoratrelundar?

A YOUNG, OLD FACE

Being involved with the Doctor can make you old before your years, and sometimes younger too.

Space agent Sara Kingdom was aged to death by the Daleks’ terrible Time Destructor on the planet Kembel

Stuart Hyde, a scientist at the Newton Institute, was aged by the trans-dimensional being known as Kronos. (The Time Monster)

Sergeant Benton was reverted to a bouncing baby boy by the Master’s TOMTIT (Transmission of Matter Through Interstitial Time) experiment. (The Time Monster)

A chicken was hatched and fully grown in an artificial time bubble. Then popped back in its egg. (City of Death)

Professor Theodor Nikolai Kerensky was aged to death in the same temporal field generator. (City of Death)

The Argolin race was prematurely aged thanks to the radioactive atmosphere on the planet Argolis. (The Leisure Hive)

The Fourth Doctor was turned old and grey in the Leisure Hive’s Tachyon Recreation Generator on Argolis. (The Leisure Hive)

Tegan and Nyssa, the Doctor’s companions, contracted a virus from the rogue scientist Mawdryn and both aged rapidly when travelling in time, and also regressed to children. (Mawdryn Undead)

Professor Richard Lazarus created a Genetic Manipulation Device to rejuvenate himself. He succeeded but unfortunately became a hideous, cannibalistic monster. (The Lazarus Experiment)

John Smith didn’t exactly age, but the Doctor’s human counterpart experienced a vision of himself as an old man, dying in his bed. (The Family of Blood)

The Tenth Doctor was aged 100 years by the Master, using stolen DNA and Richard Lazarus’s technology. (The Sound of Drums)

The Tenth Doctor’s ability to regenerate was suspended by the Master, transforming him into a pathetic, wizened creature. (Last of the Time Lords)

Amy Pond was trapped in an accelerated time stream for 36 years. (The Girl Who Waited)

Rory Williams was trapped in a secondary time stream when the entity known as House took over the TARDIS. Rory aged and died there in a matter of minutes. (The Doctor’s Wife)

Along with the Doctor, River and Amy, Rory met a naturally aged version of himself in New York. (The Angels Take Manhattan)

FISH FINGERS AND CUSTARD

‘Box falls out of the sky. Man falls out of a box. Man eats fish custard.’

The Doctor, The Eleventh Hour

Food the Doctor loves… and loathes

LIKES:

Apples (Fourth, Eleventh)

Bananas (Ninth, Tenth)

Celery – it turns purple in the presence of certain gases in the Praxis range of the spectrum. And it’s good for your teeth (Fifth)

Chocolate Easter Eggs (Tenth)

Cocoa (First)

Coffee (Third, Ninth)

Fish fingers and custard (Eleventh)

Fruitcake (Fourth)

Garlic (Fourth)

Ginger beer (Fourth)

Gorgonzola (Third)

Gumblejack (Sixth)

Ice cream (Second)

Jammy dodgers (Eleventh)

Jelly babies (Second, Fourth, Seventh, Eighth)

Lemon sherbets (Second)

Lime and soda (Tenth)

Liquorice Allsorts (Fourth)

Mutton broth and bread (Third)

Patty cake biscuit (Second)

Pomegranates (First)

Porridge with a dash of salt (Fourth)

Pork, potatoes, carrots (Second)

Scones (Eleventh)

Tea – the Third Doctor liked a cup of tea so much that only the Brigadier and the tea lady were allowed into his lab (Terror of the Autons) (Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh)

Wine (Burgundy) (Third)

DISLIKES:

Apples (Eleventh)

Bacon (Eleventh)

Baked beans (Eleventh)

Bread and butter (Eleventh)

Burnt toast (Seventh)

Carrot juice (Sixth)

Carrots (Eleventh)

Pears (Tenth)

Wine (Eleventh)

Yoghurt (Eleventh)

ONE LUMP OR TWO?

The Third Doctor’s sweet tooth sees him stirring a very worrying four spoons (at least!) of sugar into his hot, sweet UNIT tea. (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)

The Ninth Doctor has just two lumps of sugar in his tea. (The Unquiet Dead)

FOOD THE DOCTOR CLAIMS HE INVENTED

Banana Daiquiri (The Girl in the Fireplace)

Pasta (Pond Life)

Yorkshire pudding (The Power of Three)

THE DOCTOR’S ABILITIES

‘Dramatic recitations, singing, tap dancing. I can play the Trumpet Voluntary in a bowl of live goldfish.’

The Doctor, The Talons of Weng-Chiang

Over the years the Doctor has displayed all manner of talents. Although different incarnations have different skills, so far the Doctor has been seen to:

Hypnotise people, with or without fob watches (various)

Perfectly mimic other beings (The Celestial Toymaker)

Regenerate into an entirely new body when his old one is damaged beyond repair or ‘wearing a bit thin’ (various, see The Regeneration Game)

Regenerate the very clothes he’s wearing (The Tenth Planet). He even manages to regenerate a pair of boots into shoes in Logopolis too!

Sense danger. When Dalek agents stole his TARDIS in 20th-century London, the Doctor claimed he could feel his enemies ‘closing in all around’. Of course, he may have just been melodramatic. (The Evil of the Daleks) He’d previously sensed that there was something alien about the Post Office Tower in The War Machines, saying his skin had a pricking sensation, just as it did when Daleks were near.

Resist alien truth machines (The War Games)

Place himself into a coma to recover from certain injuries, such as being grazed by a bullet (Spearhead from Space)

Transmigrate objects such as reels of tape (The Ambassadors of Death)

Withstand considerably more G-force than mere humans (The Ambassadors of Death)

Survive extreme drops in temperature (The Daemons)

Experience premonitions through the medium of dreams (The Time Monster)

React ten times faster than a human – or so he claimed while driving Bessie at speed (The Time Monster)

Telepathically communicate with his TARDIS (The Time Monster)

Link minds with other Time Lords. (The Three Doctors)

Reduce his body temperature to speed up the healing process (Planet of the Daleks)

Escape the effects of manipulated time fields (The Invasion of the Dinosaurs)

Put himself into a trance-like complete sensory withdrawal (The Monster of Peladon)

Type faster than any secretary, human or otherwise (Robot)

Withstand strangulation thanks to his respiratory bypass system (Pyramids of Mars)

Understand foreign and alien languages (The Masque of Mandragora), a Time Lord gift he can share with his companions – although the TARDIS is later revealed to play a part in this (The End of the World)

Survive extreme heat (The Hand of Fear)

Shatter glass by singing a single note (The Power of Kroll)

Detect jumps in time (City of Death)

Mirror-write (City of Death)

Speed-read (City of Death, Rose)

Survive the sub-zero temperatures of space for six minutes (Four to Doomsday)

Bowl a left handed googlie (Four to Doomsday)

Cure concussion in others by tweaking their earlobe (Remembrance of the Daleks)

Convince people to obey his will through the power of words alone (Battlefield)

Render people helpless by simply applying his fingers to their heads (Battlefield, Survival)

Ease pain with a mere touch (Curse of Fenric)

Write different things with two hands simultaneously (The Curse of Fenric)

Forge signatures from memory (The Curse of Fenric)

Expel foreign bodies such as a medical probe from his cardiovascular system, even breaking his skin in the process (Doctor Who)

Pick pockets (various)

Slow down his perception of time to negotiate obstacles such as giant fan blades (The End of the World)

Speak five billion languages (The Parting of the Ways) including Baby (A Good Man Goes to War) and Horse (A Town Called Mercy)

Identify human blood types by taste (The Christmas Invasion) as well as viscum album, the oil of the mistletoe plant (Tooth and Claw), iron (The Idiot’s Lantern), the age of paint on a shed (The Eleventh Hour), and the mineral composition of grass (The Hungry Earth). He can also identify where an envelope was manufactured by licking it (Day of the Moon)

Re-grow appendages using residual regeneration energy – so long as the said appendage gets hacked off within the early hours of a regeneration. (The Christmas Invasion)

Absorb Roentgen radiation, channel it through his body and expel it – a trick he learnt with Roentgen bricks in the nursery (Smith and Jones)

Hear the TARDIS’s operations from a considerable distance (The Sound of Drums)

Identify the decade by smelling the air (although the appearance of a vintage car may help) (The Unicorn and the Wasp)

Expel a dose of cyanide by stimulating the inhibited enzymes into reversal. All he needs is some added protein, ginger beer, salt and a snog. From Donna (The Unicorn and the Wasp)

Open the TARDIS with a click of his fingers (Forest of the Dead)

Wipe memories (Journey’s End)

Play football to a surprisingly high standard (The Lodger)

Transfer memories by means of a head-butt (The Lodger)

Share his regenerative energy with other Time Lords, (The Angels Take Manhattan) an ability shared by River Song (Let’s Kill Hitler)

OTHER TIME LORD ABILITIES

Susan shows evidence of telepathy in The Sensorites.

The Time Lords in The War Games are able to inflict extreme pain with just the power of their minds.

The Master shares the Doctor’s mimicry talents. He is able to perfectly impersonate the Brigadier in The Time Monster.

Morbius shields his mind from the psychic probing of the Sisterhood of Karn. (Pyramids of Mars)

Romana feigns death by stopping both her hearts. (Destiny of the Daleks)

Professor Chronotis manipulates the beating of his twin hearts in time to Gallifreyan Morse. (Shada)

The Master merges his decaying Time Lord body with that of another life form. (The Keeper of Traken) He subsequently transforms his mortal remains into a gloopy, slime-snake that inhabits and reanimates Bruce the ambulance driver’s body. In this form he also spits out deadly, paralysing mucus. (Doctor Who)