Afarnis
Small city on the planet Paratractis, which was actually another name for Earth in an unstable alternative timeline during which the Tractites had eradicated the human race. The buildings were spherical and semitransparent, like misted glass eggs illuminated from within, and they seemed to float in and around each other. The Tractites regarded the city as little more than an observation point on a small, damp island.
See: Genocide

“The Affair of the Politician, the Lighthouse and the Trained Cormorant”
Title of notes compiled by Doctor Watson and based on one of the cases handled by Sherlock Holmes. Their publication was believed by Cardinal Ruffo-Scilla to have been suppressed at the highest levels, but a copy was held within the secret Library of St John the Beheaded, the repository of forbidden texts in the heart of St Giles’ Rookery in London. The Cardinal believed the notes to have been “picturesquely” titled.
See: All-Consuming Fire

“The Affair of the Spectral Lance”
Title of an illustrated after dinner talk given by Thomas Carnacki, a young student of supernatural phenomena, at the family estate of surgeon Pemberton Upcott in the year 1900. It concerned the story of a Cornish spirit lance, or medieval jousting weapon, which Carnacki himself unearthed at an archaeological dig several years earlier and which was claimed to be the focus of certain horrifying poltergeist phenomena.
See: Foreign Devils

“The Affair of the Noble Bachelor”
Title of the notes compiled by Doctor Watson from one of Sherlock Holmes‘s cases. In 1887 he explained the background of the story to the Doctor and commented that Lestrade had unsuccessfully dragged a lake for Hatty Doran’s body. The Doctor commented that he’d read the account in “The Strand” and felt that Lord St Simon deserved his fate, but this surprised Watson as the details had not been published at that time.
See: All-Consuming Fire

“The Affair of the Walking Ventriloquist's Dummy”
One of Sherlock Holmes’s rare failures, according to Doctor Watson. He occasionally thought of writing his notes up into a proper story, but ultimately he felt it was too sensitive and bizarre and could never be published. Watson explained the background to the Doctor as they strolled back to Baker Street, and later when he looked back on it, he got the impression the Doctor knew more about it than he was letting on.
See: All-Consuming Fire

Afghanistan
The TARDIS landed here in 1842 during the rebel uprising against the British who’d invaded the country. Ian was captured by Gul Zaheer, a brutal Gilzai chieftain, during the siege at Kabul and he was tortured and held prisoner for over a month. Just as he was due to be rescued by the Doctor, Ian pushed Zaheer into a pit filled with ravenous fish, which proved that, if pushed too far, he was capable of cold-blooded murder.
See: Mire and Clay

Africa
While conducting an investigation at the request of the Home Office into a mysterious fire at remote country inn, the Doctor travelled to Africa where he discovered a race of Fire People that lived beneath the Earth and who were being used by Professor Vinter.
See: Trial of Fire

During her time as a freelance reporter, Sarah once travelled from the Caribbean to the old slave coast of Africa to research a story on a local voodoo witch-doctor. It was this story that led to her getting a job on “Metropolitan”. One of her most lasting memories was of how quickly darkness fell at night time.
See: The Ghosts of N-Space

The TARDIS materialised in Nyasaland, four hundred years before it became Malawi, the Doctor, Sarah and Harry were accused by the local shaman of summoning a ’Nandi Bear‘, a mythical beast whose existence had never been verified, to kill one of their tribe. The chief helped them to trick the shaman, but when his deception was discovered, the shaman killed him and the tribe was deprived of its most rational member.
See: To Kill a Nandi Bear

The Zambezi river in Africa was the site of one of thirteen ’meteorite’ landings around the world which signified the arrival of the Pescatons. Each of the landings was located in a river or ocean and details were being reported centrally to Professor Bud Emmerson at the North London Observatory.
See: The Pescatons

The Doctor travelled back 40,000 years and spent six months in Africa waiting to observe the first encounter between Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon Man. The Doctor eventually left, disappointed that the encounter never happened - but Turlough later discovered the Neanderthal had been startled by the Doctor and fallen to its death, without the Doctor ever noticing. The two tribes did indeed meet later, but without any witnesses.
See: Observation

In the duplicate copy of Rome created by the entity known as Iam, Ptolemy Caesar, the eldest of Antony and Cleopatra’s three children, financed an expedition to Africa to discover the true extent of their world. He found that the known world was encircled by blackness, but when he returned, people refused to believe his story and even his own mother covered up the truth for fear that it might lead to dangerous social disorder.
See: State of Change

In addition to his companions and UNIT associates, the Doctor had quite a few good friends on Earth who he visited at regular intervals and who shared a mutual trust, even to the extent of understanding why he often appeared with a different face. Among these was a safari driver in Africa, but no further details were given.
See: Business Unusual

When the Brigadier was still a Lieutenant, he got lost in the African jungle, and stumbled across a Themne village called Rokoye. He had a brief relationship with Mariatu, daughter of one of the chief’s wives and they had a son. Later generations included the historian Kadiatu and Brigadier Yembe Lethbridge-Stewart, who commanded the United Nations Third Tactical Response Brigade, otherwise known as the Zen Brigade.
See: Transit

The Doctor said the most holy person he ever met was a French Jesuit palaeontologist in Africa in 1956, who felt all humanity was developing towards a cosmic unity which would be as one with God. The Doctor didn’t know if this was a supernatural entity or just the workings of the inhabitants of the universe, but he said it was important that we have the faith to believe that for each of us, that for all of mankind, there is a purpose.
See: The Pit

Prior to Ace’s arrival on the future version of Earth called Antýkhon, she and the Doctor visited the Great Rift Valley in Africa. From what she learned there, she estimated the Charrl Hive probably contained a hundred thousand inhabitants. While in Africa, she received a lecture on termite mounds from a Masai chieftain, which proved useful when she plotted proposes a sneak attack on the Hive to rescue Seeba’s brother Chel.
See: Birthright

In the alternative timeline of 1993, Africa was renamed Ophidian and became the new capital city of Earth. Bernice arrived here after falling into the Vortex, and when the Doctor tracked her down, he was reunited with Morka, the leader of the Silurians. The Brigadier (who was suffering from clinical megalomania) created a dinosaur stampede across Ophidian while a nuclear submarine attacked with missiles, but their plan failed.
See: Blood Heat

In Spring 1754, the Doctor found Kadiatu aboard a British slave ship drifting off the coast of Sierra Leone in West Africa. Everyone else on board was dead, but Kadiatu was feral by this stage and if she hadn’t been half-starved, he wouldn’t have got near her. He shot her with 60cc of heterodoxies to bring her down, then took her a small cove on the Worldsphere where she spent three months recovering with the People.
See: The Also People

In addition to the Library of St John the Beheaded in London, the Vatican's secret treasures also included the living specimens of the Crow Gallery in South Africa and the Collection of Necessary Secrets in New York. In 1799 French secret agent and psychic Marielle Duquesne was sent by the Shadow Directory to investigate “other worldly elements of destruction” and spent a few days at each of these venues.
See: Christmas on a Rational Planet

The Brigadier again discussed his experiences 40 years earlier when he was a Lieutenant in Africa and got lost in the jungle before stumbling across the Rokoye village. He revealed that it had been a long time since he’d thought about this period and there were still great chunks of his life that he couldn’t talk about.
See: The Dying Days

In 2109 two archaeologists in the Kilgai Gorge in Tanzania, East Africa, discovered a modern human skull buried in strata older than the first known homo sapiens. They were captured by a Tractite and when Jo Grant joined then, they escaped and stumbled into a “time tree” which transported them two and a half million years back in time. The Doctor said that he’d always wanted to visit the Rift Valley during this period.
See: Genocide

During the period when the Doctor was amnesiac, he spent the worst years of the Second World War travelling in South America and Africa. In October 1942 he went to Sierra Leone and investigating rumours of an incident where British spymaster Graham Greene arrived in the village of Markedo and found it deserted, apart from three strangers with pure white, unblemished skin, who spoke in a sing-song language.
See: The Turing Test

By the early decades of the 21st century, two superpowers remained - the United States and the EuroZone. There was a power vacuum in East Africa after some of the old regimes collapsed. The EZ were worried about refugees coming over as it was on their doorstep, but the US saw the region as a whole new market and therefore strategically important, so both sides sent in ’peacekeepers’ consisting of robot legions.
See: Trading Futures

In 2005, the Eye of Harmony was briefly opened and an insect race called the Vore swarmed upon Earth, killing millions. They eventually settled in the Tombali region of Guinea-Bissau in Western Africa where they built a new hive the size of a mountain and turned it into a fortress. With the help of UNIT, the Doctor, Fitz and Trix travelled to Guinea-Bissau, stood on the edge of the Hive’s ventilation shaft, and jumped in…
See: The Gallifrey Chronicles

The TARDIS landed in 22nd century Africa in the shadow of a dormant volcano. In order to pay off its debts, the rented out land to Europe and America who sent in Agri-teams to grow new foodstuffs to help feed the world’s starving millions. Beneath the volcano was a magma-form left behind by the Guardians, that turned living things into golden statues in order to protect a storehouse of art treasures left behind by the Valnaxi.
See: The Art of Destruction

The Climate Reclamation Project began in 2787 in Transkei in the eastern part of South Africa. The Panafrica Corporation, which employed almost 20% of the African population, rewrote history to their own agenda and used subliminal messages to pacify their workers, but they also single-handedly rebuilt the economy so that Africa eventually had a better standard of life than Europe, America and Australasia.
See: Decalog 4: Re:Generations - Secrets of the Black Planet

Africa
One of the triplet daughters of President Hoover at the EarthWorld theme park on New Jupiter. Asia, Africa, and Antarctica programmed many of the android attractions at the site to kill the visitors. It was discovered they were actually three parts of the same person, each incomplete and suffering from personality problems after genetic tinkering by their mother. Africa and Antarctica were traumatised by the death of Asia.
See: EarthWorld

Afterglow Incorporated
Company that produced brochures for the Hesperon Hotel at Pinochan’s Bay on the world of Yed Prior X, approximately 140 light-years from Earth. The hotel was widely regarded as a must-share experience for jaded debauchees, but in 2594 the management were investigated for gangland murders, prostitution, blackmail and personal data protection offences. In the same year, Afterglow Inc went into receivership.
See: Ghost Devices

“Aftonbladet”
Swedish newspaper which reported the bare facts of what they called the “Strängnäs Incident”, in which a number of people vanished in mysterious circumstances on 31 July 1999. What they didn’t report was that Professor Jennifer Nagle of C19 had been working on an alien warp drive to create a telecongruency warp generator and had inadvertently opened a wormhole, flooding the area with creatures from another world.
See: Dominion

Agamemnon
Star system that included the gas giant Clytemnestra and its moons Aegisthus, which was colonised by the Earth Empire and was home to an Imperial military base in Fury City, and Orestes, the home planet of the Ogrons. Its inner moons Electra and Iphigenia, had largely been ignored after colonisation. Roz went to Fury in 2982 to locate a member of an earlier expedition to Iphigenia who’d been possessed by an N-form.
See: So Vile a Sin

The Agamemnon
A bar near the library on the Braxiatel Collection.
See: A Life Worth Living - The Blame of the Nose

Agani, Simone
When Bernice was 21 she got a job with a dig on the planet Jaiwan. Among the other archaeologists was Simone Agani, allegedly a site surveyor from the planet Shantak, but in fact the entire group turned out to be from the First Regiment of Combat Archaeologists, who had orders to determine whether the Hibernation Clause in the Protocols of Colonisation applied on Jaiwan and evacuate any human colonists if necessary.
See: Genius Loci

Agar
One of two lizard-like aliens called Festulasions who disguised themselves as humans and ran a taxi firm in London so they could cut off their passengers’ toes and serve them as delicacies on their space station. When Agar’s toe was accidentally cut off, it grew back instantly and they were embarrassed when the Doctor showed them that human toes don’t do that. Later, they accepted a lift from him back to their ship.
See: She Won’t Be Home

Agar, Robert
In October 1957 the Doctor saw a TV programme in New Mexico which discussed UFO sightings and alien abductions. One of the panellists, Robert Agar, claimed to have been given a message of universal brotherhood by the peaceful inhabitants of Venus, but in fact, he’d been contacted by the Ph’Sor Tzun, genetically engineered human hybrids sent to convince the people of Earth that the Tzun came in peace.
See: First Frontier

Agat
Small shanty town situated on the fetid south coast swamps of the Papul island on the planet Jenggel. The streets consisted entirely of wooden walkways raised above the tides. The missionary Father Pieter had been working there for 30 years when the village suddenly went mad around him and brutally butchered each other. The cause was progressive brain damage from the purple fungus they’d been eating in recent months.
See: Combat Rock

Agatha
Elderly resident of Canvey Island in 1953 who gossiped with Peri about the young priest at St Anthony’s Church who’d apparently got a local woman pregnant. Different rumours were being spread as to whether she’d been murdered by the priest or by her jealous boyfriend. The Doctor discovered the priest had found four dead alien bodies and believed they were fallen angels come to give him a chance for redemption.
See: The Canvey Angels

Agatho, Bishop
Priest from the Cathedral of Braak on Haven, a primitive world which was contacted by missionaries after famine hit the outer worlds. The priests worked on the “Good Shepherd” project to ensure dogmatic unity by using pre-programmed android priests to spread the word. Agatho used one of these androids to murder Cardinal Runciman, Archbishop of the Southern Rimworlds, and tried to kill the Doctor’s companion Cat.
See: Companion Piece

Agathon Engine
The holy grail of Gallifreyan science. Together with their time travel technology, this would allow the Time Lords to have complete observation of the Universe at the quantum level, but no one had been able to solve the Agathon Equations that would make it possible. The discovery of a similar scanning wavefront ‘Effect’ meant that whoever controlled it would become omnipotent and could literally bend the Universe to their will.
See: The Infinity Doctors

“The Age of Reason”
Novel by Jean-Paul Sartre, a leading figure in 20th century French philosophy. Fitz had a copy and although he’d only read a quarter of it and didn’t feel like finishing it, it did prompt the TARDIS crew to attend the Paris Exposition of 1937. There, they noticed Picasso’s painting Guernica didn’t carry the same emotional impact as the reproduction from the book, which told them something had altered the cultural perception of history.
See: History 101

The Age of the Architect
Period of history from an uncharted planet which became uninhabitable. A Figurehead was created with instructions to re-seed the world hundreds of years later with the DNA of her former masters. She created the threat of an imaginary war to force the pace of technological change, then became a guide throughout the Ages of the Innovator and the Architect to ensure their planned Industry Project ran along efficient lines.
See: Time Works

The Age of the Innovator
see: THE AGE OF THE ARCHITECT

The Age of the Warring States
Period of Japanese history, also known as senguko jidai, which consisted of more than a half a century of constant warfare. The Shogunate was collapsing and the land was in fragments, so rival feudal lords threw their vast private armies into battle as they fought for territory and power. The Doctor had visited this period once before, but he also took Chris there in 1560 to investigate a temporal flux in the area.
See: The Room with No Doors

The Agency
Company that ran a luxury automated hotel for very rich people from Dephys 49 who wanted to spend a year suspended in the space-time vortex to avoid paying taxes. When the system was sabotaged by a business rival, the Agency had no way of retrieving or contacting the guests. Exposed to the Time Winds, nothing remained of them now but ghosts, repeatedly reliving the same moments from the last year of their lives.
See: Vortex of Fear

The Agency
Top secret crime-fighting organisation based in Washington, with a branch in London. By the year 2030 Creed McIlveen was working for them. Chris Cwej claimed to be working undercover for the Agency when he became a teacher at Scopes High School, but he was really there to keep an eye on Ricky McIlveen after his father, Vincent Wheaton, began using the Agency to help his son become President of the USA.
See: Warchild

The Agent
Unnamed client who employed a feline mercenary called Rashaa to use a new mind influencing weapon on the Doctor. They watched as the Doctor experienced a full-blown nightmare while trapped on a planet with a toxic atmosphere. Although Rashaa thought she’d succeeded, the Agent realised the Doctor had turned the tables and tricked the mercenary with her own device, so he set Rashaa’s time capsule to self-destruct.
See: Her Final Flight

The Agent
see: THE STRATUM SEVEN AGENT

The Agent
see: THE ICTHAL AGENT

Agent Orange
Name given to the defoliant used by the US military during the Vietnam War. When the TARDIS landed in this period, the Doctor, Nyssa, Wilton, Floyd and Mulberry had to take cover when helicopters flew overhead depositing the Agent. The idea that soldiers were “waging war against grass” amused the Knight Templar Mulberry, even when its purpose was explained by one of the helicopter pilots, Major Alice Hunniford.
See: Renaissance of the Daleks

Agent Scarlet
Antivirus created by the Doctor to counteract the deadly terraforming virus Agent Yellow, which destroyed much of Earth. He used material from the Cthalctose biosphere found on Jason's force field, together with a formula developed by Liz Shaw and the Silurian Imorkal, then he used the black hole power source of the Cthalctose Ark to sterilize the infected areas, although millions of people were still wiped out in the process.
See: Eternity Weeps

Agent Yellow
Cthalctose terraforming virus designed to transform a planet by creating sulphuric acid seas and a toxic atmosphere. When it infected Earth in 2003 it caused catastrophic changes, and although the Doctor was able to sterilize the affected areas with a counteragent, millions of people were wiped out in the process. Liz Shaw was also killed by the virus and died in agony when it turned the water in her body into sulphuric acid.
See: Eternity Weeps

Agga
Equinan navigator of a ship commanded by Spacemaster Roppy which answered a distress call from the eighth of the thirteen moons of Gorgus, only to find themselves being dragged down themselves. Agga and the rest of the crew evacuated, leaving only Roppy aboard. The Spacemaster was captured by the Kryllians who were slave trading on behalf of the Vogans, but the Doctor helped him and the other prisoners escape.
See: The Wreckers!

Agga, King
Ruler of the ancient city of Kish in Mesopotamia, 2700 BC. The cybernetic alien Ishtar took control of the city and threatened to kill his daughter Ninani if he opposed her, but Ninani was disgusted by his obedience and helped the Doctor to enter the city. After it was believed Ishtar has been destroyed, the Doctor revealed that Agga later forced Ninani to marry his rival Gilgamesh against her will to cement their new alliance.
See: Timewyrm: Genesys

Aggedor
Royal Beast of Peladon. In the legends of the planet, King Sherak united the scattered people under his rule, but was haunted by the fear that he wasn’t worthy of his position, so he set out on a quest to prove himself. On the peaks of Mount Megeshra, he found and tamed the wild beast Aggedor and used his lance to make the animal a blood brother. The Lance of Aggedor later became one of Peladon’s sacred objects.
See: Legacy

In the far future, financial disaster forced the Pels to turn their monarch into a toilet franchise and the sacred beasts were slaughtered for their scent glands. It was therefore possible to buy an amber perfume called Eau d’Aggedor from the House of Peladon, which was branded as the “misty musk of mountain monsters” with the promise to “bring out the beast in your man”. Leela saw an advert for it on the terraformed Mars.
See: Crimson Dawn

Bernice owned a pair of big furry Aggedor slippers and took them with her when she stayed at a hotel on the planet Beedle where she’d been invited by the Geramons, a race of compulsive practical jokers, to determine the origin of ancient ruins being disputed by the warrior Knyy’ds and the Mystic Wizards of Magee’s World.
See: A Life of Surprises - Beedlemania

Aggie
Raggedy old heather-seller who claimed to be a witch and accosted Sarah while she was on holiday in the Lake District. She warned Sarah that previous owners of the cottage where she was staying claimed to be possessed by pigs and were convicted of killing lonely travellers and serving them as food. When she got back to the cottage, she found K9 has been possessed, but fortunately it was repulsed by the heather sprig.
See: The Sow in Rut

Aggio, Ambassador
Representative from the Outer Planet Parnay who was listed as one of eleven delegates taking part in a secret meeting with the Daleks. ADF agent Lom Ilano infiltrated the conference to obtain more information, and although he never returned from Skaro, he sent back a Visiograph with details of each of the attendees. A special report was then sent to the President of the United Planets’ Parliament by Space Major Joel Shaw.
See: The Dalek Annual 1977

The Aggressive Ship Building Interest Group
One of the social groups that existed on the Worldsphere to keep the People occupied. This particular group specialised in inventing new long-range weapons for the War, including remote forced quantum singularities, controlled hyperspace breaks and something called a Pin-Stripe Cattle Grate, which nobody ever talked about. No information about the work of the ASBIG was held in public records.
See: The Also People

Agincourt
Location of a famous historical battle on 25 October 1415 in France between the armies of Henry V and Charles VI. The Doctor often mentioned being present, and on one occasion he said it summed up his life in microcosm. It was one of the worst horrors of Earth’s history and he always seemed to be walking through battlefields, wading knee-deep in carnage and spouting some soliloquy about dogma and misunderstanding.
See: The King of Terror

Benny also claimed to have visited Agincourt once, although she didn’t clarify whether she was travelling with the Doctor at the time. She was reminded of this when she visited the Trib Museum with Jason at a time when Trib was suffering from a civil war that had toppled the dictatorial regime and all but levelled the city.
See: The Lost Museum

Aglae
Slave girl and prostitute from Pompeii in AD 79 who befriended Mel when she was asked to buy some appropriate clothing for her. They fell out when Mel stopped her owner from beating her, but Aglae later stole her mistress' horse and wagon to help get Mel out of the city. They were arrested and Aglae was still locked in her cell when Vesuvius erupted, but Popidius Celsinus aided her escape and promised to keep her safe.
See: The Fires of Vulcan

Agneyas
Literally translated at things belonging to or consecrated to fire of the Hindu god of fire, Agni. In the 28th century, humans colonised the Unukalhai system and built a power facility atop an ancient alien structure on the desolate Agni, which orbits within Indra’s magnetosphere. For protection they used agneyas, missiles with a fusion warhead that were small and fast enough to avoid being shot down by their enemies.
See: Lords of the Storm

Agni
The desolate fourth moon of Indra, which orbits at the heart of the gas giant’s synchrotron radiation belt in the Unukalhai system. The moon was colonised in the 28th century and it served as the central power facility for Raghi, the sixth moon of Unukalhai IV, as well as harvesting airavata, creatures that lived in Indra's clouds, as their DNA contained a natural radiation decontaminant. Agni's station had a population of 300.
See: Lords of the Storm

Agni
In the English town of Middletown in 1890, the developer Nepath formed an alliance with a force of nature that took the form of a fire elemental and which sought to consume Earth. At a dinner party, Nepath gave the Rev Matthew Stobbold’s daughter Betty a pendant that depicted Agni, the Hindu god of fire. He claimed to have obtained it in southern India, but from that moment it enabled him to use Betty as his eyes and ears.
See: The Burning

Agonal
An immortal elemental who fed on people’s pain and suffering by intervening throughout history to make bad situations worse. In 1929 his interference in Chicago led to the St Valentine’s Day Massacre and he also increased hostilities on the Vampire planet in E-space. On Gallifrey, the Committee of Three tried to use his power against Rassilon to free Borusa, but Agonal ended up taking Borusa’s place in eternal imprisonment.
See: Blood Harvest

Agonal was described here as a disembodied energy matrix and it was revealed that the vampire Lord Yarven had long been influenced by him. Agonal claimed to be Yarven’s father and said he had come to his mother as a shower of rain. He also told Yarven he would become King of all vampire kind but that he would later be betrayed by the Time Lady Ruath, who believed it was the Time Lords’ destiny to become a vampiric race
See: Goth Opera

Agora
The Doctor’s companion Grant Markham grew up in the city of Neo Tokyo on New Earth, but he was born on the agricultural colony planet of Agora. Although that world wasn’t technically advanced, he suffered from robophobia, which he thought was due to Agoran folk tales about metal bogeymen and the evils of progress.
See: Time of Your Life

Agora was revealed to be located in the Centraxis system and was one of the most remote of the prototype Earth colonies, settled around the year 2100. In the 2150s, the Cybermen invaded and Agora became one of their breeding grounds. They placed human Overseers in charge of the ten farming villages, altered the climate, and then returned every three years to select the 500 healthiest of its population for conversion.
See: Killing Ground

When Terran Security Forces squad leader Lieutenant Kent Michaels met Jamie on the planet Kalaya in the year 2204, he assumed from the boy’s lack of technical knowledge that he must have come from Agora, or possibly another colony where the people had eschewed technology.
See: The Final Sanction

At the first UNIT Christmas part to be attended by the Doctor, circa 1969, he provided a selection of music which included the Agoran opera "The March of the Cyborgs". Among those who attended were Liz Shaw, the Brigadier, Sergeant Benton, General Scobie, Captain Munro, Corporal Bell and Zbregniev.
See: UNIT Christmas Parties: First Christmas

Agostini, Cardinal
Senior figure from the offshoot of the Catholic Church which ruled Europa. Agostini was in league with Sperano (the embodiment of the Mimic) and was responsible for the deaths of several Cardinals, but Aleister Crowley framed him as a devil-worshipper. Fleeing from the guards, Agostini tried to shelter in the TARDIS but was pulled into the Pit, a psychic vacuum where he was condemned to face his worst fear for eternity.
See: Managra

Agravanthagorum
A stormy world which is typical of many planets in the Imogenella Star Cluster. Part of a Tri-D documentary Bernice produced about the warlord Aldebrath was filmed here and it inspired Father Secundo of the Monks of Etheria to claim that Aldebrath’s lost battleship was located nearby in order to get free galaxy-wide publicity for his forgotten religion. Bernice also picked up a statue of the warlord while on Agravanthagorum.
See: The Goddess Quandary

Agrave
Location on the planet Olleril. In the late 56th century, the deranged genius youth Crispin took the genotype from two species - the Sline lizard and the Aaglon shark - that lived on the Agrave hinterland and combined them to create the ultimate living weapon. The bio-engineered creatures, the Slaags, were amphibious carnivores (who even eat wood and metal), but they excreted immediately so they had an insatiable appetite.
See: Tragedy Day

agRaven
Female agent from the ship !C-Mel with mottled reddish-brown skin and lizard-like eyes and tongue. She was a member of the Interpersonal Dynamics Interest Group on the People’s Worldsphere and, together with the drone kiKhali, conducted an initial assessment on their behalf into the murder of the drone vi!Cari. When they questioned the Doctor, he tricked them into letting his friends take over the investigation.
See: The Also People

Agrazoth, Damian
Manager of a girl band called the Glitta Bitches who was also a demon from the dimension in which Jason was once trapped. When Jason stumbled upon him filming a Tri-D movie on the resort world of Zardox, Agrazoth tricked him into believing he was in danger so he would speak his name three times which would summon the demon to appear at his location, thus saving the moviemakers a fortune on special effects.
See: A Life in Pieces - Zardox Break

Agrellian Thaxis
Planet where the Doctor intended to visit Baz’s Easy Diner, located in the eastern desert. The TARDIS took him instead to a biodome laboratory in geostationary orbit around a planet on the Outer Rim, where a research team were developing plants that grew with the faintest hint of light. After battling the man-eating plants, the Doctor continued on his journey, but decided he would avoid ordering Baz’s vegetable soup.
See: Green Fingers

Agricola, Gaius
Father of Lucius Salvius Agricola, who was a friend of Ptolemy Caesar, the eldest of Antony and Cleopatra’s three children, in the duplicate copy of Rome created by the entity known as Iam. When Ptolemy was falsely accused of treason by his younger brother, Alexander Helios, soldiers were ordered to search the homes of his friends. After Ptolemy took control of Rome, Gaius helped him with the administration.
See: State of Change

Agricola, Lucius Salvius
Friend of Ptolemy Caesar, the eldest of Antony and Cleopatra’s three children, in the copy of Rome created by the entity known as Iam. He was a cheerful companion, but after they went on an expedition to Africa and discovered their world was encircled by blackness, he was driven mad with terror and never recovered. Years later, Agricola leapt into the arena to help Ptolemy and was killed by Cleopatra Selene’s troops.
See: State of Change

Agricultural Technology Unit 12
Located in 22nd century Africa in the shadow of a dormant volcano, Mount Tarsus, this was an Agri-team working to grow new foodstuffs to help feed the world’s starving millions. The team were farming fungus in the empty tunnels created after the molten lava had flowed on, but it was later discovered that the Director of Development, Edet Fynn, was using dead human bodies to accelerate the growth of his fungus.
See: The Art of Destruction

Agrippa, Marcus
While Ian stayed at the Villa Praefectus, home of Thalius Maximus, in the city of Byzantium in 64 AD, he visited the library and randomly selected a scroll from the shelf. It was Marcus Agrippa’s account of the Battle of Actium, which the librarian, Fabulous, thought was a wise choice, but in fact Ian had already decided he wasn‘t in the mood for any war stories that hadn’t been written by Alistair MacLean.
See: Byzantium!

In the proper timeline, Agrippa was the Roman General responsible for most of Caesar Augusts’ military triumphs, most notably winning the naval Battle of Actium in 31 BC against the forces of Mark Antony and Cleopatra. However, in the duplicate copy of Rome created by the entity known as Iam, Antony and Cleopatra actually won the battle with the use of steam-powered ships from their Romano-Egyptian Navy.
See: State of Change

Agrippina
Proper name of ‘Gripper’, a former assassin for the Fifth Axis (although some believe she was most likely born Doris or Petunia). When Bernice spent time in the Glass Prison on Deirbhile, Gripper was one of her cellmates, but it turned out she’d been planted there as a spy. Her instructions were to kill Benny’s baby, but she “disappeared” herself after being interrogated by a cult who believed the baby would be their saviour.
See: The Glass Prison

Agrivan
Location on the holiday planet Shangri-La. It was here that Bernice discovered the famous Mud Fields that were the subject of a seminal paper she’d written. During a live TV interview, she invented a completely fanciful story involving lots of shovels and giant carts, which allegedly explained the origins of a lost island settlement that drowned, only to discover later - by accident - that her claims were actually quite accurate.
See: Buried Treasures - Making Myths

Agronomic Trigger
Part of the internal mechanics of a TARDIS and, according to some sources, part of the crystalline assembly found inside the Time Rotor. It’s connected to the conceptual geometer relay, but in an emergency it can be dispensed with it the interfacial resonator is working. This was the equipment that young Cambridge student Claire Keightley recognised after Professor Chronotis (aka Salyavin) placed his mind inside hers.
See: Shada

Agus
Officer in charge of one of an Indoni military patrol on the Jenggel island of Papul. When Victoria witnessed a Papul prisoner being tortured, Agus locked her up and claimed the prisoner was a multiple murderer. He then took her into the jungle to see the brutality of the natives, but instead he and his men were gunned down by a team of psychotic killers called the Dogs of War and their bodies were impaled on spikes .
See: Combat Rock

Agust, Haclav
see: PRYDONIUS, HACLAV AGUSTI

Ah: Perfume for an Alien or a Human
Perfume used by Bernice when she invited student Michael Doran back to her cabin aboard the St Oscar’s starship Winton for a glass of brandy. She dabbed her wrist, neck and cleavage with it, then arranged her robe carefully to show an accidentally large, but still academically decent, area of herself. Unfortunately her plans were ruined when the ship was hit by a Perfecton missile and they all ended up in a pantomime world.
See: Oh No It Isn’t!

Ah Ying
Novice monk from a Shaolin monastery in China in 1522 AD. When the Doctor investigated claims that the monks had been hypnotised and turned into killers, he encountered Ah Ying carrying water nearby. Ah Ying revealed that Abbot Yueh, who recently took over the monastery from the former Abbot Hsiang, had trained a picked group of monks to fight with uncharacteristic fierceness and was planning to take them to Peking.
See: Dragon‘s Claw

Ahadi
One of two Turkish farmers who acted as guides for an expedition in 2003, led by former astronaut James Edward Allen, to find the traditional resting place of Noah’s Ark at Mount Ararat. They claimed to own a letter from the First World War, which gave details of the location, although some of the group suspected they were con merchants. Later, some Iranian soldiers arrived and shoot many of them, including Ahadi.
See: Eternity Weeps

Ahasuerus
Name often associated with ‘The Wandering Jew’, the character from Christian folklore who taunted Jesus on his way to the Crucifixion and was cursed to walk the Earth until the Second Coming. One of the aliens who experimented with reality control and created an alternative reality by slipping Earth out of N-Space in 1804, took the form of Ahasuerus, one of the masked masters of Hell commonly known as the Pageant.
See: The Man in the Velvet Mask

Ahlin, Ollie
Chief Executive of the Bantu Corporation in 2067, which began as a political movement but soon turned to capitalism. Ahlin was one of the richest men in the world. The company sent out some of the first sub-light-speed vessels carrying colonists and before he died in 2099, Ahlin encouraged the colonies to create their own laws and systems. Critics on Earth considered him an imperial terrorist, acting beyond jurisdiction.
See: Another Girl, Another Planet

Ahmed
One of the three Egyptian tomb robbers who entered the pyramid of Nephthys, sister of Sutekh, in 2000 BC. After many long nights of digging, they inadvertently released her evil intelligence that was trapped within a canopic jar. As the jar was cracked, a hurricane wind erupted from inside the tomb, smashing Ahmed into the open doors. Blood streamed from his face, then he collapsed back onto the floor and tumbled away.
See: The Sands of Time

Ahnji
Invisible friend of Helen, an orphan in the Grainger family home in 1911. Ahnji and his alien family were lost in a microverse that was created by playing graphaphone records. The mercury in the mirror had shifted Ahnji out of phase, making his reflection visible, but by playing one of the records backwards, the aliens were released from the grooves and the record was then smashed to prevent them becoming trapped again.
See: Echoes

Ahrjmani
One of the many ’Gods’ that reappeared on Dellah in the mid-26th century. After an unprecedented upsurge of religious sentiment, membership of any of the 152 major religions on the planet became a legal requirement. Bernice’s student Emile spent two days in each group, including the Church of Ahriman the Great, but Elspeth was forced to join on the spot by the New Moral Army officer who’d come to arrest her.
See: Where Angels Fear

Ahuitzotl
The eighth Aztec ruler in the city of Tenochtitlan. In 1487 the Doctor and Ace rescued Iccauthli, a young man who had been condemned to death for missing a drumbeat during the emperor’s coronation, but as they tried to get him to sanctuary, they encountered Ahuitzotl himself. Fortunately, the emperor assumed the white-skinned Doctor was the god Quetzelcoatl and kneeled before him, thus absolving Iccauthli of all blame.
See: The Left-Handed Hummingbird

"A.I."
Science-fiction film co-produced, written and directed by Steven Spielberg in 2001. When Rose was told that Salvatorio Moretti of the Bureau Tygon research establishment was a specialist in artificial intelligence, she remembered the term from the film starring Haley Joel Osment from “The Sixth Sense”. Rose never really got the hang of the subject even though she watched the film twice because it starred Jude Law.
See: The Stone Rose

Aickland, Richard
19th century ghost hunter who met Ace while investigating Wychborn House. He returned with her to a simulated version of Victorian England created by a TARDIS’s architectural programme and fell in love with Charlotte, an artificial woman created from TARDIS protein. Charlotte later became fully human when she combined with the Time Lady Galah, after which they married and he became a writer of ghost stories.
See: Strange England

Richard and Charlotte were among the many guests invited to the wedding of Bernice and Jason Kane at Cheldon Bonniface in 2010. At this stage in their lives, Richard was starting to look older, with fine lines on his forehead and grey hair, but Charlotte still looked exactly the same. Richard’s first book had been published and was welcomed by a small but kind audience, but Charlotte knew there would be many more.
See: Happy Endings

“Aida”
Opera by Giuseppe Verdi, which was commissioned by Ismail Pasha, the Khedive of Egypt, and first performed at the Khedivial Opera House in Cairo on Christmas Eve, 1871. Sam listened to an ancient recording of Enrico Caruso’s performance in preparation for a trip to the opening night, but an anomaly in hyperspace drew the TARDIS off course and instead they materialised on the planet Janus Prime in 2211.
See: The Janus Conjunction

The Aiellos
One of several gangster mobs operating in Chicago in 1929. When the Doctor opened a speakeasy called “Doc’s Place”, he chose a neutral area just off Dearborn Street where the warring gangs could meet on equal terms. It overlapped into territories run by Al Capone, the Gusenbergs, the Gennas and the O’Donnells. According to private eye Tom Dekker, the Aiellos were “mad dogs”, and the others weren’t much better.
See: Blood Harvest

Aigburth, Secretary
Member of the Royal entourage who accompanied the demented Duchess of Auckland on an engagement to Micawber’s World, the artificial planet hosting the Intergalactic Olympic Games in 3999. Lord Aigburth was polite, but elderly, and was capable of a rictus grin normally seen only on corpses. He was killed instantly, alongside the Duchess, when a bomb planted by the Wirrrn-infected xenobiologist Miles Mason exploded.
See: Placebo Effect

Aighin
One of the planets of scientific or historic interest that were protected by the Galactic Heritage Foundation, ensuring they couldn’t be sold or developed. It was also visited in the past by actor Prubert Gastridge who’d been tricked into introducing “selfish memes” to a list of backwater cultures, causing the native populations to wipe themselves out, leaving behind only prime real estate which could then be bought up cheaply.
See: The Tomorrow Windows

Ailla
Companion of Koschei ever since he believed he saved her life in the 28th century. Although she claimed to be human, her true identity as a Time Lord was revealed when she was forced to regenerate. Discovering she was an undercover agent for the High Council sent to spy on him, Koschei was pushed over the edge and went on to become the Master. Ailla also made a failed attempt to arrest the Doctor, but he escaped.
See: The Tomorrow Windows

In the parallel version of Earth (seen in Inferno) Koschei had been trapped on Earth for ten years after his TARDIS was broken up and cannibalised by the British Republic to give them a means of travelling between parallel universes. He revealed to our version of the Master that the Republic had also killed Ailla, but the Master refrained from telling Koschei about his Ailla’s betrayal as he knew it would mean nothing to him.
See: The Face of the Enemy

Aimarrh
Young beggar from the city of Hezrah, who was chosen by an ’Eternal Machine’ to ascend to the stars, but the Doctor discovered the Machine was an alien monster who tortured its subjects to death and fed on their agony. The congregation destroyed the creature and overthrew the leaders of the false religion, but Aimarrh remained behind in the temple, unable to comprehend that everything he believed in had been a lie.
See: The Discourse of Flies

The Aina Gallery
Section of the Braxiatel Collection which was used to store artefacts, including a quantum sculpture from the planet Cirkel. When the Gallery mysteriously transformed into a replica of the laboratory from which Bev originally stole the sculpture, she discovered it was being used in a teleportation experiment at the time and her actions had trapped a scientist beyond the event horizon. Bev arranged to have the Aina Gallery sealed.
See: Collected Works - The Inconstant Gallery

After Bev purchased a new security system from Chester Industries, which included a new semi-sentient Mesh, many of the staff at the Collection went berserk and tried to tear the place apart. Bernice was alerted to the problem when stone bells over the Aina Gallery began to toll. She discovered Braxiatel had activated another defence system before his departure and the two systems were fighting for control of the Collection.
See: Collected Works - False Security

Ainsell, Laura
Member of a group of University potholers who unearthed an alien artefact in 1978. Before long they all ended up in the medical bay of a local research establishment, suffering from extreme exhaustion. They had been infected by the zooplankton growing in the cave where the probe was first found and began transforming into human-Cnidarian hybrids. Fortunately, the alien infection was swiftly destroyed with the use of saline.
See: AQUARIUS: The Invertebrates of Doom

Ainsley, Lettice
Attendee at a séance in London in 1893, which was also attended by the Doctor, Anji, Constance Jane, a young American girl who had a genuine ability to read people’s minds and the insane psychologist Dr Nathaniel Chiltern. Anji was being pestered by an English poet named William and Dr Chiltern considered intervening to help her, but then Anji was accosted by Lettice Ainsley, who was no great improvement.
See: Camera Obscura

Ainsworth, WPC Nan
Officer from the William Street Police Station in Brighton who discovered a mauled body in the woods near the headquarters of SenéNet, a front for the Nestene Consciousness. She was attacked by a second aide who was in shock after seeing his friend killed by the Stalker, a hound augmented with Stahlman's Gas. Nan had been an officer for four years and was well on the way to earning promotion to sergeant.
See: Business Unusual

Air Base 43
UNIT training area where the Doctor and Jo were summoned by an urgent message from the Brigadier. In fact, Air Base 43 had been decommissioned months earlier and the Doctor had been lured there by a Russian officer who planned to kidnap him and make him to work for them. The Brigadier arrived in time to rescue them, but the Doctor had already sabotaged Ashe's helicopter by filling the gas tank with sugar.
See: Target Practice

The Air Vent
Ventilation maintenance system aboard a submarine on Vo'lach Prime. The original inhabitants committed suicide and deemed all future sentient life on the planet to be illegal, but several super-intelligent machines evolved over millennia to attain full sentience, although they had to hide this fact to avoid being eradicated themselves. The Air Vent, who was a Bruce Willis fan, was later elected head of the new Vo’lach Republic.
See: Ghost Devices

Airavata
Enormous jellyfish-like creatures that lived in the clouds of Indra, the desolate fourth moon of the Unukalhai system. The moon was colonised in the 28th century and the energy production facility was funded by the bi-annual harvesting of airavata as their DNA contained a natural radiation decontaminant. They were hard to kill and appeared to communicate by skin colour changes and majestic displays of synchronised swimming.
See: Lords of the Storm

"Airhead Factor"
One of the many programmes made on the Drome, a self-contained ecosphere devoted to the creation of a single product - holovid entertainment. The CEO, Marvin Glass, was becoming concerned about the quality of the output, but his daughter Hannah, who was Executive Production Manager, argued that this series and others like “Topless Garden Makeovers” and “Whose Stool is That” were exactly what their public wanted.
See: The Worst Thing in the World

Airy, Sir George
British Astronomer Royal who, among other achievements, established the new ‘Greenwich Meridian’, which became the definitive internationally recognised timeline in 1884. The Doctor once described him as a friend.
See: Revolution Man

Aix-en-Provence
City in southern France, about 30km north of Marseille. The Doctor, Tegan and Turlough were dining here at the Café de Saint Joseph in 1791 when they were dragged over 8000 years into the future to the Crystal Bucephalus. Turlough and Hellenica Monroe returned here, but when they materialised out of thin air, they were accused of witchcraft by the terrified diners and were forced to flee for their lives back to the TARDIS.
See: The Crystal Bucephalus

Aiyix-sith
Martian name for a time telescope, the data collation system that Bernice often used on some of her better funded archaeological digs. It involved adding information from every possible source, including local legends and the arcane measurements of the bio-tacticians, to the findings from the dig and compiling it into a single independent database. It was an article of faith amongst Martians that one can never have too much data.
See: The Also People

“Aja'ib”
Book that told the story of a hapless travelling hero and was basically an amusing anthology of improbable adventures, similar to the Doctor‘s own life. The Doctor found a copy in an un-staffed bookshop on the planet Hyspero and Sam stole it for him. The book was thousands of years old and had mystical powers, so that when chants were made over it, creatures could be summoned or released from within its pages.
See: The Scarlet Empress

In the Obverse, a reality with malleable physics that was separate from our own Universe, an alternative version of the Doctor lived in a country house with his companions as lodgers. Fitz was seen reading the magical book “Aja’ib”, but Compassion argued they should burn everything in the library to keep warm. This Doctor thought his grandfather had brought the book back from the East. It had more than 197 chapters.
See: The Blue Angel

Ajax Creek
Location in California which the Doctor visited during the Gold Rush of the 19th century. A gestalt entity composed of sentient gold dust from the rings of Saturn was dislodged by a meteor storm and ended up in the waters of Ajax Creek. When part it was taken by gold prospectors, it began reanimating human corpses to attack the town in order to reconstitute itself, then it made its way to the frozen wastes of the Arctic.
See: Whiskey and Water

Ajax Saloon and Fandango House
Saloon bar run by Job Clemens in the Californian town of Ajax where a gestalt entity of sentient gold dust from the rings of Saturn ended up in the waters of the local creek in the 19th century. It was here that Lola Montez entertained the prospectors with her famous ‘Spider Dance‘, a performance she repeated to distract the human corpses who’d been reanimated by the entity while the Doctor tried to make contact with it.
See: Whiskey and Water

The Ajeesks
A rabbit-like race with fur and long noses. They were one of the various species recruited to fight in the war on Q'ell, where the Recruiter was conducting a 3,000 year experiment in order to cultivate scientific advancements and create the ultimate weapon to use against the Ceracai. The Doctor was able to ‘postpone’ the war and then used the TARDIS to transport the survivors back to their individual home worlds.
See: Toy Soldiers

Ak
see: AKHENATON

AKA
One of the ‘freaks’ in I M Foreman’s One-Species Nongenetically Engineered Travelling Show. AKA was revealed to be Foreman’s twelfth incarnation, incorporating all the DNA he’d absorbed over his lifetimes in one ever-changing body. All Foreman’s incarnations were mortally wounded during an accident when his TARDIS exploded on returning to Gallifrey, to the extent where they each regenerated into the next in line.
See: Interference

Akalu, Doctor David
‘Morale facilitator‘ at the Oliver Bainbridge Functional Stabilisation Centre, a private INC prison on Ha’olam in the late 22nd century. He’d been working at the facility for twenty years and liked to be the first face that each new prisoner saw when they first woke up. Among them was the Doctor, who he studied over a three year period, and when the Doctor finally escaped, he went up to Akalu and planted a huge kiss on his nose.
See: Seeing I

Aka-san
Samurai during the Age of the Warring States in 17th century Japan. He served the daimyo Gufuu Kocho, who sent him to investigate tales of something that had fallen near Hekison, healing the villagers and causing crops to grow unnaturally fast. After his son Aoi died, no one knew what became of Aka-san - whether he died, was recovering from wounds somewhere, or was attending to his duties without regard to his grief.
See: The Room with No Doors

aKatsia
Composer from the People of the Worldsphere. While Chris was dating Dep, they avoided an entertainment module that was playing aKatsia’s music as she didn’t care much for it, despite it being the fashionable music for parties of her age group. She felt you had to take the right drugs in order to appreciate it. aKatsia also insisted that a simultaneous twisting of geometric light shapes was an essential part of the experience.
See: The Also People

Ake
One of the older colonists on the planet Espero in the year 6048. When an alien spaceship arrived, Ake and another man shot dead the occupant without waiting to see if it was trying to communicate with them. They then burned the alien’s body and its ship and returned home. Later, the guilt-stricken Ake was absorbed by alien goo which broke down and reconstituted his DNA strands, before heading for the city as a wavefront.
See: Halflife

Akermore, Professor
One of the Heads of Department aboard space station XZ49, an open educational environment where Zoe Heriot had taken a position with the UrtiCorp project after leaving the TARDIS. Professor Akermore headed the Holographics team and he often found himself clashing with Zoe’s supervisor, Dr Sandra Urtiman, as she insisted on telling him (with little evidence to support it) that her project was more important than his.
See: The Tip of the Mind

Akestus
Veteran miner who worked on the planet on Eskon, which was turned into a desert by an intense solar flare. He was the only survivor of a party of miners who disappeared while working on the deep-steam extractors and since then had been too terrified to work. He was kidnapped by Revan, who represented the ‘slimers‘, and forced to return to the tunnels, but was killed during a fight to stop Revan setting off thermionic charges.
See: Coldheart

Akhami
see: AKHEMI

Akhemi
Inhabitant of Tantalogus in the region of Alpha Mosi in Galaxy 5 who greeted the Doctor and Leela. He took them to meet his wife Ashad and his son Akhami, then gave them a tour of the city. However, the planet was alive and Akhemi had lured them here to drain their mental powers to maintain their quality of life. He’d been banished here from his home planet Manya and his religion was the worship of the death of others.
See: Terror on Tantalogus

Akhenaten
Location in Ancient Egypt, named after the Pharaoh who ruled at the time. Ace travelled through a time rift and arrived here in 1366 BCE and became bodyguard to Lord Sedjet. She met Sesehaten who wished to overthrow Akhenaten after he outlawed the worship of all other gods but his own. She helped the Sesites kidnap the Pharaoh but then realised he was no better or worse than any other king so she released him.
See: Set Piece

Akhenaton
In several alternative versions of Ancient Egypt created by multiple paradoxical loops, the 14-year old time traveller Jack Kowaczski grew up to became Lord Akhenaton. A number of versions were killed and another went mad and was exiled to an American coffee plantation. The Doctor finally kidnapped Jack while he was still a baby and took him back to Egypt where he was adopted by a native woman and named Akhenaton.
See: The Last Resort

Akhoomi
Brother of Akhemi and one of the inhabitants of the living planet Tantalogus in the region of Alpha Mosi in Galaxy 5 who lured the Doctor and Leela there in order to drain their mental powers and maintain their quality of life. Their group had been banished from their home planet Manya as their religion was the worship of the death of others. However, starved of electrical food, the trees came to life and attacked Akhoomi.
See: Terror on Tantalogus

Akiki
Wife of Asan, last Emperor of the Narayayans of Dimetos, who purchased a fabled mirrorglass and became immensely influential, ruling over the people in all but name. Before they married, Asan fell in love with a beautiful market trader and when Akiki died, Asan bankrupted the Empire by building a palace that bore her features, but he continued to work on the structure over the years until it ended up with the face of the trader.
See: Another Girl, Another Planet

Akima
Village on the island of Papul on the planet Jenggel, which had became a popular tourist spot. Akima was noted for its sacred Mumi, the mummified body of a village chieftain, until one day it came to life and spat poisonous snakes from its mouth. A team of psychotic mercenary killers called the Dogs of War were then hired to enter Akima village, burn the Mumi, execute the surviving villagers and burn the area to the ground.
See: Combat Rock

Akimboola, Doctor Joshu
One of two United Nations Peace Corps officers assigned to escort 82-year-old Sewa Singh from the Moon to a trial after he was accused of being negligent and accidentally causing the death of 50,595 people. If guilty, he would be sentenced to community service on Earth, where the relatively high gravity would cause him to age and die. The officers, in reality Fitz and the Doctor, let Singh take his own life with dignity.
See: TAURUS: Growing Higher

Akimus
The name of the group mind created by the telepathic community on an alien planet where the inhabitants wore masks to enable them to share their thoughts. Akimus’s spokes-unit, Makassar, tried to force the Doctor and Rose to join their community mind, but they fought back inside a dreamscape based on the Powell Estate and trapped Makassar in a mental feedback loop, capable only of sending orders to himself.
See: The Masks of Makassar

Akkeen
A potent form of brandy which was local to the planet Sylvana and was reputed to be strong enough to burn holes in armour-plating. Peri tried some while she led a team of freedom fighters against Morbius’s invading force in the late 24th century. The invaders were known to be bribing Sylvana’s aboriginal race, the zaraks, with akkeen, even though it was poison to them, causing them to become addicted and die within weeks.
See: Warmonger

Akker-Takker
One of the creatures listed in “Bor Pollag’s Book of Alien Monsters”. No further details were given and the Doctor skimmed briefly through the entry while he was looking for a reference to ‘Arachnopods’ in the battered paperback copy of the book that he carried around with him.
See: Festival of Death

Akkers
Alien race who were reputed to be the dullest, most boring race in the Galaxy. They were noted for having no imagination and they pursued tedium with dogged zeal. A group of them were hired by the Great Swamp Astral Arbus (in reality Astrolabus) to capture a young Zyglot, a giant half-fish/half-insect space creature which was highly prized for its colours, to put on display at an alien zoo called the Ringway Carnival.
See: Polly the Glot

Akkia
One of the Valethske, a vicious nomadic carnivore race, originally from the planet Valeth Skettra. When Akkia came of age he underwent a ceremony called the Ten Trials of Azreske to become a Hunter. In the 31st century, the Valethske hunted the genetically advanced Eknuri, but one prisoner committed suicide by detonating a mining charge, killing himself and the Hunters Akkia and Freela, who were pursuing him.
See: Superior Beings

Aklaar, Abbot
Martian religious leader from the Order of Oras who was trying to atone for war crimes he’d committed in his earlier life as Supreme Grand Marshal Abrasaar Urr'n'Jaas, aka the Butcher of Viis Claar, when he set a trap that killed 15,000 humans and 10,000 Ice Warriors during the Thousand Day War. He was killed in 2157 in a duel with his brother Falaxyr, who collaborated with the Daleks in return for help restoring Martian rule.
See: Godengine

Aklaar's Park
Location on Phobos, the largest of Mars’s moons, which was named after Abbot Aklaar. Mr Hass, who took charge of the grounds and gardens of the Braxiatel Collection on KS-159 in 2603, was working at Aklaar\s Park when Irving Braxiatel recruited him by offering him a ninety-two percent pay-rise. During this period of his career his fungal lattice garden won a major landscaping prize, the first Martian ever to win the prize.
See: A Life Worth Living - Against Gardens

Akoshemon
Planet believed to be all that remains of the void before creation, from which the forces of evil were allegedly first spawned. It was doomed to a history of evil and corruption, and was legendary for the atrocities committed by its people. Its surface was a blood red sea of boiling mud and molten lava and the atmosphere was highly toxic. In 2382, archaeologists landed on its moon, searching for evidence of its past.
See: Fear of the Dark

Akram
Soldier from the Arabian nation of Keribia who rescued Jo from the hive of the insect-like Xarax race. He was among an army of a thousand ’special forces’ sent by the Prime Minister into the mountains to attack the Giltean separatists, but they ended up instead in the hive, where they were transformed into honey-producing globes and replaced by duplicates. He assisted Jo in rescuing the Doctor but he was killed in the attempt.
See: Dancing the Code

Akri
Cadet at Westpoint Corporate Academy in the early 22nd century when the Global Mining Corporation (GMC) replaced the USA national army with global military training for businesses. She trained alongside Helen Percival, who would go on to be the executive officer on the first interstellar colony to be built on the planet Proxima II. Akri was second-in-command during Percival’s disastrous final field infantry assault exercise.
See: The Face-Eater

Akroexabor
Captain of an Enormous Space Octopus called Rhagrak, which acted as an intergalactic towing service inside a trans-dimensional void where Bernice was sent to retrieve the Tinker’s Cuss, a lost research vessel. Akroexabor was humanoid but with tusks and small bony horns on his forehead. Although friendly enough, he escorted Bernice against her wishes back to Station Control, the nexus point between 417 multiverses.
See: The Infernal Nexus

Akrotiri
Village on the volcanic island of Thera. In 1000 BC, it came under attack from fiery demon bulls that aged whoever they touched to dust within seconds. The Titans, creatures that evolved inside the Vortex, had give the Therans four harvests a year by borrowing time from the future, but this led to several years of barrenness in the future. They also deferred the earth tremors that would eventually bury Akrotiri under ash and lava.
See: Fallen Gods

Akrotiri, Professor R F
One of the scientists aboard the Think Tank (the Institute for Advanced Scientific Studies) who were all among the greatest minds in existence until Dr Skagra encouraged them to pool their intellectual resources by electronic mind transference, which enabled him to steal their minds, leaving them decrepit. They were killed by a rampaging Krarg just before its reactivated metabolism exploded the station’s power systems.
See: Shada

Aktan, The Marquess of
Non-executive director of ElleryCorp who supplied most of the food to the inhabitants on Earth in the 30th century. During this period, the aristocracy were supposed to act as a check on the corporations, but an examination of the board of ElleryCorp showed they’d been co-opted into the system. It was alleged that the company propped up the governments of those planets where their manufacturing plants were located.
See: So Vile a Sin

Aktar, Sonali
Member of Professor Vaso’s scientific team on the planet Lethe, a domed mining colony overseen by the Outreach Corporation, who were working to upgrade some ancient service robots recently unearthed by their mining engineers. Vaso was revealed to be Davros, and the robots were Mechanoids. When the Daleks slaughtered the executives, Sonali evacuated the other colonists to safety aboard the Outreach shuttle.
See: The Juggernauts

The Akti Miaoulis
Street in Piraeus, a city in Greece just to the south of Athens. In 2109, the Doctor and Kadiatu got through several bottles of ouzo at a taverna here while celebrating the Universe’s thirteen billion five hundred million twenty thousand and twelfth birthday. Despite the pouring rain, they sat outside underneath the veranda.
See: Transit

The Aktren Galaxy
In the year 3769 aboard the orbiting space station Alpha, the Doctor encountered a gestalt being called the Klytode, which wanted to change the climate on Earth and turn in into a paradise for the rest of its species. The Klytodes’ original home planet was a dark husk of matter on the edge of the Aktren Galaxy and the same fate awaiting any world they inhabited. When the Klytode was arrested it was sent back to Aktren.
See: The Snag Finders

Akubens, Zavijava
Friend of Bernice’s who once accompanied her on holiday to the planet Alnasl. They went swimming in the shallow purple-blue sea and saw a beautiful phenomenon in the water caused by the Midan zooplankton. While distracted, they were almost killed by a speeding waterskeet and realised they’d drifted too far outside the swimming zone. Since that day, Bernice never allowed herself to be beguiled by the illusion of beauty.
See: Another Girl, Another Planet

Akun
Planet in the Sojussa System. According to the Ministers of Grace, who govern over Heaven, there are five billion, seventy-three million, nine thousand, one hundred and seven people on this planet who are praying that they’re not chosen by the Kings as their community’s yearly sacrifice to the angry sea.
See: The Ruins of Heaven

Ala'dan
Elderly Chancellor to King Yrcanos and Queen Gilliam (Peri) on the planet Kron'tep. Although loyal to his King, he was also quietly supportive of Peri, so he understood when she found her life in the royal court stifling. He was with her when she discovered an time-space escape route which was built by the unfaithful wife of Moriah, the first king of Kron'tep, and he knew Peri would use it to escape back to Earth.
See: Bad Therapy

"Aladdin"
Story, originally from “Arabian Nights” but often told in the form of a pantomime, in which a young Chinese boy is recruited by a sorcerer to retrieve a magical oil lamp from a booby-trapped cave. Although Genetically Engineered Neutral Imagination Engines (or GENIEs for short) were named after the genies from these stories, the Doctor believed they were in fact named after the GENIEs who time travelled back to that period.
See: The Stone Rose

In the pantomime world created when the spaceship Winton was struck by a Perfecton missile containing quantum fluctuations, Bernice took on the role of Aladdin and was sent to fetch a magic lamp for the Vizier from the desert wastes which lie just beyond the beautiful English countryside. She knew that as the lead ‘character’ she had to complete the story in order to end the pantomime and restore things to normal.
See: Oh No It Isn’t!

The A-Lain
One of the VLR (Very Long Range) sentient Drones that lived on the Worldsphere at the time of Bernice’s visit to the sphere’s gargantuan dockyard. If she’d been able to listen to certain bandwidths of the electro-magnetic spectrum and if she’d been capable of pico-second date processing speeds, she’s have heard the A-Lain complaining because it had been asked to do a run to one of the lesser clouds. But she couldn’t.
See: The Also People

Alamagordo
City in New Mexico in the USA and location of two major military bases, the Holloman Air Force Base and the White Sands Missile Range. In October 1957, the Doctor, Ace and Bernice visited the area to observe the launch of an Atlas missile, one of the first steps on mankind’s journey to the stars, but instead, saw two flying saucers shoot the missile down. The Tzun planned to start a world war, then step in as our saviours.
See: First Frontier

Alambil
Planet, whose conjunction with Tarva was observed and encapsulated within the Infinity Chamber on Gallifrey. The momentous occasion was observed by Larna, one of the Doctor’s more brilliant students, while she was served as a Technician in the Temporal Monitoring Chamber. (In “The Chronicles of Narnia”, the two planets Alambil and Tarva were a feature in Narnian astronomy, which was conducted by centaurs.)
See: The Infinity Doctors

El Alamein
Location of two battles in 1942 which marked a significant turning point in World War II. Allied victory at El Alamein in Egypt ended German hopes of controlling access to the Suez Canal and effectively marked the end of German expansion during the war. The Doctor often mentioned that he was present during this event and on one occasion he said it summed up his life in microcosm. It was one of the worst horrors of Earth’s history and he always seemed to be walking through battlefields, wading knee-deep in carnage and spouting some soliloquy about dogma and misunderstanding.
See: The King of Terror

On another occasion he claimed to have driven an ambulance at El Alamein several lifetimes ago and was registered as Dr John Smith 55583.
See: Autumn Mist

Alammar of Silverwood
A tall golden-haired, golden-eyed elf from the land of Elbyon on the planet Avalon. The planet contained a nanite system that responded to mental command and at some stage in the past it had been influenced by the mythological characters from an Earth colony ship. Alammar joined Sir Bron of Westhold’s expedition to retrieve the Helm from Merlin’s abandoned skyship, in reality the master control of the Nan machine system.
See: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

The Alamo
Famous siege that took place at the Alamo Mission in San Antonio, Texas in 1836, which ended with the capture of the mission and the massacre of nearly all the occupants by forces from the Republic of Mexico. Ace thought this was where the Doctor was taking her once, but in fact they ended up going to Los Alamos, the home of the Manhattan Project where scientists were working to build the world's first atom bomb.
See: Atom Bomb Blues

The Alamo
An impregnable meteor dome which protected the Davy Crockett colony in the New Earth system. When the colony came under attack from the Werelox, vicious werewolf-like creatures, the colonists retreated to the safety of the Alamo, but many of the two thousand colonists had already been scratched and infected. Less than two and a half hours after the arrival of the Werelox, all human life had been extinguished.
See: The Dogs of Doom

Alan
Husband of the unnamed woman from Cambridge who was haunted by the vision of an evil boy's face which appeared to her in every pane of glass. By the time the Doctor trapped the alien mind (which had escaped from Skagra's mind sphere) in a greenhouse, she'd gone half mad with fear. The strain on their relationship nearly led to a divorce and although the family eventually moved away, the woman never fully recovered.
See: Glass

Alan
TV cameraman who accompanied American newscaster Eve Waugh when she interviewed Lord Greyhaven, the Minister whose support made the Mars 97 mission possible. Alan was later contacted by a conspiracy theorist who pointed out a discrepancy on the recording of the Mars landing which he thought proved that the Martian atmosphere was safe to breathe, but Alan concluded instead that it meant the landings were faked.
See: The Dying Days

Alan
British Embassy official based in Rome in 1967. He interrogated Sam who was investigating a student demonstration where policemen were killed by their own guns which were turned on them by an invisible force. Alan collected Sam from a café after she’d been released from jail and took her to the Embassy, but she regarded him more as a bank manager and felt he was about as scary as a sleepy bloodhound.
See: Revolution Man

Alan
One of Jackie Tyler’s male friends. When the Doctor needed someone where to stay for a two or three nights (after he forgot to lock the time settings and the TARDIS jumped forward in time with Rose inside) he originally thought of Jackie, but when he got to her flat he saw she was busy with Alan and some ice cream. Instead, he stopped over at Mickey’s flat and made himself extremely unwelcome for a few days.
See: The Lodger

Alan
Large, bear-like creature who drove Bernice and Jason from the spaceport to the Balgoris Imperial Hotel after Bernice had received an invitation to the funeral of the demi-lemur Ivo FitzIndri, a passing acquaintance who saved her life when she was young. En route to the hotel, Benny learned she was really there to verify an archaeological find and that her decision could potentially make or break the planet's future economy.
See: Old Friends - Cheating the Reaper

Alan Clones
see: FITZGERALD, ALAN

Alane
One of the thaumaturgs who served the Hierophant Anastasia in the Labyrinth of Thaumaturgy, one of the three regions of the Great Kingdom created in 1999 by Ashley Chapel using the Millennium Codex. Alane answered directly to General Gargil and he dreamed of a valiant battle against the auriks. When things returned to normal, the real Alane turned out to be a tall man with curly hair from Tooting Bec.
See: Millennial Rites

Alanna
Member of Cosmic Soul, a relief agency that was part of the Interdenominational Missionary Foundation on the planet Kastopheria. She supported their fight for the rights of the indigenous population who’d been enslaved by the human colonists. Her rich parents died when she was young and she went through a wild period, during which time she became hooked on drugs such as skar, which eventually led to her death.
See: Catastrophea

Alareen
Daughter of Demimon, a greedy astronomer/astrologer from the planet Braktilis, who betrayed his people to the Sontaran warrior Skrant. When Alareen discovered what her father was doing, she told her lover Kinvor, who arranged for the King’s troops to attack the invader. When he saw Alareen in the crowd, Demimon turned against Skrant but died in his daughter’s arms after he was shot while leaving the Sontaran ship.
See: The Outsider (Comic strip from Doctor Who Weekly - 24/25)

Alaron
Captain of the Chancellery Guard. When the Doctor returned to Gallifrey to warn the Time Lords of the danger posed by Morbius, he had to go incognito as an Ambassador from Karn. He arrived unannounced by space yacht port and was confronted by Alaron, but the young aristocrat was nervous and unused to anything actually happening while he was on duty, so he simply referred the matter to a higher authority.
See: Warmonger

Alaska
In 1963 the world experienced an unnatural cold spell. The Americans blamed the Russians, claiming it was the result of their top-secret Novosibirsk Project, but in return the Russians blamed it on an American oil drilling project in Alaska. In fact, the Cold was discovered to be an animus of intelligence which had been dormant since the last great Ice Age. It’s possible that both the above projects may have helped revive it.
See: Time and Relative

In 1944 movie producer Leonard De Sande was filming “The Cold Blooded” in Alaska when he unearthed creatures made of light who transported themselves to Earth after their homeworld was destroyed, only to get condensed into rain and then frozen. He named the creatures ‘Selyoids’ because they could inhabit any liquids, including movie film chemicals, but they could also possess people through their blood.
See: Dying in the Sun

In 1994 the rich oilman Shaun Brett built a house in Alaska near the Koyukuk River, where each room was modelled on the stone, sea and ice from the local environment, but the ancient elements in Brett’s home re-energised the bio-electric fields of the fossilised Permians, predators from about 260 million years ago, and brought them back to life. Their energy fields also influenced the early Inuit legends 25,000 years ago.
See: The Land of the Dead

The Doctor must have a deteriorating memory. When he and Ace went for lunch at Ealing Broadway in 1991 and they both ordered a Baked Alaska, he commented that he’d never been to Alaska, but his fifth incarnation had previously visited twice with Nyssa, once briefly in 1963 and then for a longer stay in 1994.
See: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible

The human time-traveller Carmen Yeh was inadvertently left behind in Alaska in 1758 by her companion, a renegade from the Homeworld, the ancestral seat of the Great Houses. While there, she encountered the sentient TARDIS Compassion who offered her a lift until she met up with her former associate again. After several years they went their separate ways and Carmen wrote an allegedly fictitious memoir of her travels.
See: Faction Paradox - The Book of the War

Al-Azzem, Seeman
Information Minister in the government of Kebiria. In the 1970s British investigative journalist Catriona Talliser attended a press conference organised by Al-Azzem at which Prime Minister Khalil Benari blamed the disappearance of a thousand Kebirian troops on Giltean separatists, but when Catriona asked too many difficult questions, the press conference was called to a halt and she was arrested for treason.
See: Dancing the Code

Albania
In 1944, a young Lethbridge-Stewart was assigned to update the British army’s maps of the Greek islands. The God Hades wanted to provoke another world war by creating a storm to sink the British fleet, allowing the Albanians to pick off any survivors. The Gods existed in a trans-dimensional network of locations which were accessible from portals all over Earth, including one on Albania that led directly to the Underworld.
See: Deadly Reunion

According to the Proxima 2 colony Net, the Doctor and his companion (who had a number of identities such as Jo Grant, Sarah Jane Smith, Ace etc) were security consultants for Global Mining Corporation. They had White clearance, which meant they were regarded as “big guns” and their orders couldn’t be questioned. They were allegedly seconded from the old UNIT peacekeeping force and were recruited in Albania in 2127.
See: The Face-Eater

At Southend, UNIT investigated reports of a vrykolak, a form of Albanian vampire which is only visible to other vrykolaks and to dhampirs, the half-breed offspring of a vrykolak and a human. A Kosovan illegal immigrant, Goran, was a dhampir who had a criminal record after the Albanian courts charged him with fraud because they refused to accept that the service he provides as a vrykolak-hunter was legitimate.
See: UNIT: Snake Head

Albany
Private residence in Piccadilly which was built around 1770 and converted into 69 ‘sets’ in 1802, since when it has been known as the most prestigious set of bachelor apartments in London. In 1951 the Doctor was lured to apartment 17 where he met double agent Kim Philby, who had secretly set up Tightrope, a world-wide network of agents on both sides of the Iron Curtain to make sure no one tried to start a nuclear war.
See: Endgame

The Albee Megastore
Largest of the successful chain of music shops owned by Albee Greeth on the agricultural planet Blinni Prime. Although a farmer’s son, who no one thought had the business acumen to succeed, he became an accomplished boretha soloist before opening the chain store. He even negotiated a deal to sell vidcubes of Channel 400’s programmes and had Roderik Saarl was invited to gene-stamp his latest release.
See: Prime Time

Albert
In an alternative version of 2158, Albert, who was descended from royalty, was one of only twenty humans left alive on Earth and living in an underground shelter after a global disaster thirty years earlier. The Thals Ptolem and Ganatus were monitoring his actions via a psychotropic implant in his brain, but after he betrayed the Doctor and Nyssa, the Daleks decided he was surplus to requirements and exterminated him.
See: The Mutant Phase

Albert
Planet inhabited by creatures from fairy tales. Albert was, in fact, a planet-sized shapeshifting organism which had been influenced in the past by the memory banks of a crashed spaceship. The descendents of the colonists blended in with their environment, which in turn transformed itself in response to their wishes, as a result of white hole seedlings (or “wishing boxes”) being disgorged from a nearby sentient white hole.
See: Grimm Reality

Albert
Taxi driver who picked up the Doctor outside the British Museum in 2002. They followed another taxi carrying an elderly woman who claimed to be the Grand Duchess Alice Romanov, grand-daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, to Lakeside Manor Retirement Home, but the Doctor lost track of her and asked to be taken back to the auction house where Fitz’s journal was being sold. The Doctor gave Albert a generous tip.
See: Time Zero

Albert
Astro-engineer who advised the Freefall Warriors, the group of stunt pilots who the Doctor previously met during the Festival of the Five Planets. Albert was able to assist their chief pilot Big Cat when he was challenged to a race through the asteroid belt of Ariadne by an old enemy Shaman Khan, who lost half his face during an earlier encounter. Kahn tried to cause Big Cat to crash, but was tricked and crashed himself.
See: A Ship Called Sudden Death from: Doctor Who Summer Special 1982

The Albert Edward
One of two Whirlwind fighters out of the ISN Victoria, a starship carrier orbiting Orestes, the home planet of the Ogrons in the Agamemnon system in 2981. It intercepted the Hopper carrying the Doctor, Chris, Professor Martinique and Emil Zatopek after Chris inadvertently plugged his Walkman into the navigation control so the crew of the Albert Edward heard music from the Communards instead of the usual ident code.
See: So Vile a Sin

Albert, Prince
The Doctor and Sarah arrived in Covent Garden in December 1861 on the night that Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria, died. They met Mary Prout, who was being pursued by living malevolent illustrations after she stole ink containing microbes from the survivors of a 10,000 year war. Mary drank the remaining ink and the microbes formed a tattoo of Victoria and Albert on her body, after which she joined a freak show.
See: The Lampblack Wars

In 1863 Queen Victoria was inconsolable with grief following the death of her husband. She was introduced to James Lees, who claimed to have spoken to Prince Albert‘s spirit and learned of portals between this world and the afterlife. The Queen agreed to a séance at the Mausoleum where Albert’s body was kept and it was revealed that beings from the ‘other side’ were making contact in order to seal off a dimensional rift.
See: Empire of Death

In 1868 the British government built three spaceships using a solar-powered impeller drive, but their mission to the Moon attracted alien attention. In 1878, following a Vrall attack, the Doctor had Kamelion impersonate the ghost of Prince Albert and appear to Queen Victoria to tell her that humanity is not yet ready for space travel. The Queen then ordered the ships to be destroyed and all record of the event erased from history.
See: Imperial Moon

Albertine, Nurse
Companion to the stage performer, Toby the Sapient Pig (the result of experiments to increase the mental capacity of animals). She was staying with him in 1913 at the Hotel Palace Thermae in Belgium and was employed to cut up his food and listen to his stories. Formerly a nurse during the Boer War, she’d been with him for two years, but she didn’t think she’d ever leave him now as they’d grown accustomed to each other.
See: Year of the Pig

Albertine Delta
Planet where the manufacturers made their androids almost perfect, complete with heartbeats and simulated sensitivities that would make a saint look like a barbarian. It was impossible to tell the difference between an android and a human without proper equipment and even then the judgements were sometimes disputed. It made marriage a very complex business until everyone agreed to just accept the situation and be happy.
See: Slipback

Alberto
Volunteer who was the human subject of a solar power experiment conducted by the Perseus Corporation to generate 24-hour sunlight for the world. Unfortunately their scientists had been unable to encode all the data in Alberto’s body and he became trapped between two states of being. An alternative version of the Doctor (as heard in “Full Fathom Five”) shut down the experiment, but his callous actions dissipated Alberto.
See: Sustainable Energy

Albertova, Eleonora
Alternative identity taken by Cousin Anastasia, a ruthless agent of Faction Paradox. She led a revolt against the Eleven-Day Empire and later became leader of the doomed Thirteen-Day republic. As a punishment for her transgressions, she was forced back into normal linear causality three times. During each lifetime she was treated as an impostor of herself, including a life as Eleonora Albertova, who died in Bulgaria in 1944.
See: Faction Paradox - The Book of the War

Albinex
Navarino shape shifter who was a member of Isaac Summerfield’s underground movement in Little Caldwell in 1983. Isaac wanted him to extract nuclear launch codes from the Doctor‘s mind so Earth would remain on alert and be ready to defend itself against the Dalek invasion. However, Albinex was really a Dalek agent and planned to bring their invasion forward. The Doctor took him back to Navarino for psychiatric treatment.
See: Return of the Living Dad

The Albino
Leader of a group of thirteen black magic worshippers called the Fellowship in Whitechapel in 1888. They kidnapped the Doctor and William Blake, who’d arrived through a dimensional gate, and planned to sacrifice them. The unnamed albino was a huddled figure, covered in a cloak and wearing a goat‘s mask, who had to be carried everywhere. The Fellowship were all killed when their meeting place at a brothel burnt down.
See: The Pit

The Albinoni
One of the many rehearsal halls on the sole island on the ocean world of Hitchemus, which was home to a colony of musicians. The Doctor stayed there for a month, joining an orchestra conducted by Karl Sadeghi, who had a small flat above the Albinoni. The Doctor didn’t really fit in with the orchestra, and after playing the violin too wildly in one rehearsal and deliberately leaving the others behind, he was kicked out.
See: The Year of Intelligent Tigers

Albion Hill
Address in Brighton, East Sussex, where eight year old Sally Myers lived in 1989. She won a promotional competition and the prize, a new interactive games console called a Maxx, plus four games based on the Nessie Burger characters, was delivered to her home. The Doctor later discovered each of the winners had suffocated to death as part of a test run for the Nestenes’ attempt to conquer Earth using new technology.
See: Business Unusual

The Albion Hospital
(As featured in “Aliens of London” and “The Empty Child”) The hospital was inundated with injured patients following several suicide bombings across London. News reports claimed the bombers were Muslims, retaliating against Britain’s military actions in Iraq, but UNIT discovered the PM’s insane press secretary, Philip Kirby, was responsible and was trying to inflame racial hatred in order to keep Britain pure.
See: UNIT: The Longest Night

Albion Road
Address of the London headquarters of the software company I2, which was set up in the early 1990s by cyborg-reptilian hybrid creatures called Voracians to control the Earth through its digital processors.
See: System Shock

Al-Bitar
One of the troop commanders answering to the Moroccan officer Rashid, who’d been seconded to the UN and was posted to Kebiria in the 1970s. When the Brigadier and the Doctor made a ninety kilometre journey across the desert to catch a flight back to England, Al-Bitar protected them with ground-to-air missiles against a fleet of Xarax helicopters. Al-Bitar was killed and his position was taken over by Lt Tanzi.
See: Dancing the Code

Albituminium
Metal from the planet Tyrano and used by the inhabitants to launch defensive Rama Beams. Thousands of millions of years earlier, a terraformer from the planet Bremtoss landed here, with a giant robot, intending to built a motor and propel Tyrano to a more hospitable part of the Solar System. The robot had been buried all this time, but when it was reactivated it began tearing off strips of Albituminium to fulfil its original mission.
See: The Mission

Albraxiz
Planet once visited by Alex Volpe from the trading ship Bonaventure, although he considered the visit to be a poor deal. He recalled walking the desolate shores where the hydrochloric acid sea gently moulded the sapphire beaches into smooth gems the size of medicine balls. All he valued from his trip was his sun shade and the sealed bathing suit that kept him from getting splashed.
See: Grimm Reality

Albrecht
Author of “Of Finders and Seekers - A User’s Guide to Being Lost in Time”, published by Sirius One-Bee University Press in 3972, which contained theories about the origins of the Book of the Still. Albrecht was eventually lost in a Dream Time Error after he spent 14 years slowing to homeostasis among the natives of the planet Hej, but accidentally retro-crashed three of his own ancestors and wiped himself out of existence.
See: The Book of the Still

Albrecht's Ennui
Theory which suggests that when frequent time travellers are unable to travel in time for a few years or so, they experience a condition that makes them listless, depressed and cantankerous. The condition was first described in the paper “Of Finders and Seekers - A User’s Guide to Being Lost in Time”, published by Sirius One-Bee University Press in 3972, and it took its name from the author, Albrecht.
See: The Book of the Still

Albrellian
One of the Greld, intelligent flying arthropods from Canopus who attended Irving Braxiatel’s Armageddon Convention in Venice in 1609. He kidnapped Vicki, at first claiming he was in love with her, then later saying he wanted to take advantage of her knowledge of future history. In fact, he was working for Braxiatel, and to prevent the Jamarians from creating an empire of their own, he destroyed their ship with a meta-cobalt bomb.
See: The Empire of Glass

Alca Nortis
Intended destination of the Doctor and Leela before the TARDIS was dragged down to the planet Tantalogus in the region of Alpha Mosi in Galaxy 5. The Doctor had installed a Renticular Vaccualator to stop this sort of thing happening, but a family of prisoners from Manya were able to divert the TARDIS using the same magnetic warp they used to lure other unwary travellers here in order to drain off their mental sustenance.
See: Terror on Tantalogus

Alcatraz
Military and federal prison on an island in the middle of San Francisco Bay. The Doctor spent time there as an inmate, going under the name of Richard A Fells, after he discovered an alien Threckon had escaped from under the fault line beneath California, where he’d trapped it three thousand years earlier. It possessed the governor Leech and was triggering violent riots among the inmates to feed on the resulting fear and hatred.
See: Inmate 280

Alcatraz Peak
Location on the planet New Rarga, which was originally colonised by imported prisoners. In 2593, rebellion broke out and separatists from the West Wing Faction of the Freed Senate captured the autolit factory on Alcatraz Peak to distribute their own broadsheet newspaper reports via hydraulic delivery tubes into every household. The government were unable to simply bomb the factory as it was part of the Alcatraz Dam
See: Ghost Devices

Alcestis
Former priestess of the Minoan Empire who intended to make her people pay for the crimes committed in their name. The Titans, fallen gods imprisoned within crystals in a volcano, transported her to another plane of existence in order to torture the Doctor, but when she failed to release them, they put her into a time loop as a punishment. She escaped and returned to her island to face the consequences of her own actions.
See: Fallen Gods

Alchemaitres
See: THE ORDER OF ALCHEMAITRES

“The Alchemist”
Title of the third episode of a “fictional” six-part season one William Hartnell story, written by Godfrey Porter, known by the overall title “The Outlaws”. Various articles, taken from a range of sources including Radio Times, Doctor Who Magazine and even the ‘novelisation’, tell the story of Robin Hood. In episode 3, which only exists as an off-air audio recording, the Doctor posed as an alchemist to the Sheriff of Nottingham.
See: The Thief of Sherwood

“The Alchemist”
Comedy play by English playwright Ben Jonson, which premiered in 1610. The Doctor once tried to take Sarah to see this play, but the TARDIS accidentally materialised on stage in the middle of the performance. The Doctor quickly hopped a few streets away, and when they returned to the theatre they spotted three suspicious characters by the back entrance who were plotting to kill the author Christopher Marlowe.
See: All Done with Mirrors

Alcohol Dispersion Pad
Medi-patch that the Doctor used to cure Bernice after she got drunk on The Admiral’s Old Antisocial on the planet Crex in the Augon system. She’d joined a group of human females at a table, and after her second pint she’d started arguing with them, after the third they were laughing at her, by the fourth they were falling over themselves, by the fifth they were listening intently and by the sixth they were concerned about her.
See: Human Nature

Alcohophobe
Form of medicine used by Bernice at the end of the 26th century to provide an instant cure to drunkenness. It was a thick brown concoction that contained a bevy of teetotal smart drugs that flushed their way through the user’s nervous system and instantly took all the joy out of things. Bernice knew students who drank just for the buzz of Alcophobe afterwards and she fully expected it to be banned within the space of a year.
See: Ghost Devices

Alcorian Wine
Alcohol that was offered to Bernice after she’d had six pints of Admiral’s Old Antisocial in a beer tent on the planet Crex in the Augon system. She’d joined a group of human females at a table, and one of them, a Traveller Priestess called Sarah, became concerned about her and invited her for a quick hopper ride over the hill where they could hang out for a while, play tennis and try a really great Alcorian Wine she’d found.
See: Human Nature

The Alcove
A small café on the Strand near the Savoy Hotel. In an alternative version of 2003 where the British Empire rules the world and there was widespread discrimination, the Doctor met up with some demonstrators who fled there after a protest in Trafalgar Square turned into a bloodbath. They were locked inside by the police, but later released by a dim-witted, but well-meaning, constable who failed to recognise them from the news.
See: The Domino Effect

Alcruz Six
Planet of blue snowcapped mountains under a sky filled with deep green clouds, which was renowned for its mountaineering and skiing. When Professor Alexhandri Lassiter wanted a holiday, he asked the Grid Control Suite hologram system to select some suitable options (which included Alcruz Six), but the results were flawed because he’d falsified his personal profile to prevent anyone discovering his innermost secrets.
See: The Crystal Bucephalus

Aldbury
Village in Hertfordshire, about 15 miles from Ashridge (“Spearhead from Space“). Also nearby was Little Storping, where UNIT was called in to investigate the crash of an RAF plane after it had reported seeing a UFO. Although the crash occurred a week earlier, the dead body of Junior Armed Forces Minister Frederick Jackson MP was found inside the wreckage, even though he had been seen in public since then.
See: The Face of the Enemy

Aldebaran Two
A small planet about the size of Venus. The Crab-Clawed Kamelius, a native of the deserts which cover most of this planet, was one of the “monsters from outer space” on display in Space World, the Parakon Corporation theme park on Hampstead Heath in the 1970s. Aldebaran Two is about 68 light-years (or four hundred billion miles) away from Earth. The monsters were, in fact, just Experienced Reality projections.
See: The Paradise of Death

When Trix first encountered the young student Martin, who claimed to be from the planet Frantige Two acting on behalf of the Galactic Heritage Foundation to save the world from Charlton Mackerel, he offered to make her a cup of Aldebaran Instant tea - but the tea was drugged and Trix passed out.
See: The Tomorrow Windows

Aldeberians
It is finally revealed that Zog, the small furry slave who was rescued from slavery in the Bar Galactica (in the stage play “The Ultimate Adventure”) was, in reality, an evil Aldeberian would-be tyrant who planned to destroy the Doctor, steal the secrets of the TARDIS, and enslave the Universe. At the end of the story, the Doctor and his fellow companions Jason and Crystal remained blissfully unaware of his Zog’s true nature.
See: Face Value

Aldebrath
Warlord and saviour of the Imogenella Star Cluster who, according to legend, won the Festari War single handed. 500 years later, Bernice discovered Aldebrath was actually a woman of peace, whose mind was deposited within her ship’s computer matrix and was able to end wars by overwhelming people with a desire to lead a life of love and harmony. Her mind was taken back to the Collection to be looked after by Braxiatel.
See: The Goddess Quandary

Alderbaran
Location of a star cluster which reportedly glowed crimson and amber. In the 24th century, the colony ship Mayflower passed by, but its 20,000 crew were in cryo sleep and missed the wonderful scenery entirely. Only one of the occupants, Jean, who’d been woken by the maintenance computer, Monitor, to carry out routine checks, saw the cluster and said it reminded her of the crystal spires of Paris.
See: Profit of Doom!

Alderley Edge
Location of spectacular cliffs in Cheshire, near Manchester. In 1993, American evangelist Victor Lang and a gang of local Christians attempted to raid a Black Sabbath that was rumoured to be taking place there, but the ‘cultists‘ turned out to be vampires and the meeting was a trap. Many of the Christians were killed by a mist that caused them to spontaneously combust, but Lang himself was rescued from the carnage.
See: Goth Opera

Aldermar
Once one of the highest of the Nine Kingdoms on the colony planet Esselven, it was eventually overtaken by the others and seeking an alliance of strength and, for political reasons, Princess Oralissa was required to marry a prince from either of their neighbours in Corthane or Eridros. In fact they were all revealed to be holographic characters with artificial intelligence from an interactive drama called The Princess of Aldermar.
See: Palace of the Red Sun

Aldermaston
Village in Berkshire which became famous for the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment based there during the 1950s and 60s. When the Doctor first regained control over the TARDIS after his exile on Earth, Jo asked him to take her back to a CND march here during the Easter weekend of 1960 and she learned the importance of ensuring that humanity’s moral sense evolved along with their technological capabilities.
See: Come Friendly Bombs

Aldgate Station
London Underground tube station in the City of London, on the Circle and Metropolitan lines, which was the nearest location to the decontamination chamber taken over by the alien race from the waterhive. An emergency clinic was later set up here to deal with anyone who’d come into contact with the water. They all received a special jab and were registered so the navy could keep an eye on them for any long-term effects.
See: The Feast of the Drowned

Aldrich, Deputy Laurie
Police officer in Melvin Village, New Hampshire, USA. When bad weather cut off the village, some people tried to evacuate, but when Aldrich accompanied police chief Makenzie to supervise, they found a convoy of abandoned cars stuck in the snow on the highway. Then Laurie vanished, another victim of a barely-sentient ice creature from another dimension that was trying to communicate with them, but whose touch was lethal.
See: Drift

Alduss, Rankin
Author of Reality - An Overrated Concept, which was published in 2876, in which he proposed the theory that there is a sense in which real life, as much an act, or performance, for those of us who live it, as anything played in the theatre. Contrary to popular opinion, Rankin did not believe that Naturalism was a depiction of life as it is, or that Realism showed life as it really is.
See: Theatre of War

Aldwych
Area of London, connected to both the Strand and Fleet Street. In 1930 the TARDIS materialised here after the Doctor deactivated the Randomiser so he could return some overdue library books. Romana investigated some unusual time-warmed chronons caused by an unshielded time corridor in the vicinity, but the Doctor realised he hasn’t finished reading the books yet, so instead he made a detour to a Lyons tea room.
See: The English Way of Death

Aldwych, Claire
TV journalist and reporter for the Conspiracy Channel. In 2001 she found evidence of a crashed Vvormak space cruiser in the Dorset village of Turelhampton and uncovered a plot by neo-Nazis to bring about a Forth Reich. She was taken back to 1945 but was murdered by Martin Boorman and her body was substituted for Eva Braun, who survived the war and was smuggled out of Germany, carrying Adolf Hitler’s unborn son.
See: The Shadow in the Glass

Alec
One of two rival boyfriends to Kate, who would later work at a research station and become trapped inside a cyclotron during an attack by terrorists. Kate endlessly relived her life but was unable to change anything until the Doctor halted the flow of Time. She then offered to marry either of her boyfriends to avoid being sent to the station in the first place, but the Doctor enabled her to pick up her life from the moment she left off.
See: Lackaday Express

Alec
One of the Travellers, a group of nomadic anarchists who visited the planet Heaven in 2570. Alec was a young boy, but he was also a genius computer hacker and he helped the Doctor break into the library in Joycetown. When the Hoothi attacked, Alec led the archers who defended the battlefield, and afterwards, he ceremonially burned his gloves and announced that from now on he wanted to touch real things more often.
See: Love and War

Alec, now going by the name ‘Alec Without Gloves’ joined his fellow Travellers Máire and Cook William (their group’s new Priest and Priestess) as guests at the wedding of Bernice and Jason at Cheldon Bonniface in 2010. They persuaded the couple to undergo a handfasting, a naked pagan bonding ceremony which used nanotech to bond them in cyberspace and let them discover their true intentions towards each other.
See: Happy Endings

Alec
see: ROBERTS, ALEXANDER CHARLES

Alec, Brother
Resident at St Hilda’s Monastery in the English village of Crook Marsham in 1968. He was a former soldier who’d spent a good part of his life sleeping rough, so he was sympathetic to the old tramp Billy Coote and let him stay at the monastery once or twice a month. When it was cold, Alec was known to wear corduroys under his habit. The monks were all consumed by the ghosts of their loved ones, created by the Sentience.
See: Nightshade

Alekseev, Inspector
Police detective assigned to investigate the death of Isaac Deniken, an elderly war veteran who attended a convention on Mars in 2595 to celebrate the 500th anniversary of the planet’s terraforming. He seemed an odd mixture of nervousness and confidence and was happy to leave any decisions to his superior officer. Bernice was angry that Alekseev spent less time on the investigation than it took to do a crossword.
See: Beige Planet Mars

Aleph-777
Idyllic planet where peace was guaranteed because its tiny humanoid inhabitants had the ultimate weapon to defend themselves. Katsu, reputedly one of the fiercest of all Sontarans, was haunted by the humiliation of an earlier defeat, so he went in search of this weapon. Instead he was lured to the lifeless world of Omega-666 where he discovered too late that the weapon was the Omegan Green Plague, which killed him instantly.
See: The Final Quest
(from Doctor Who Weekly)

It was later revealed that Aleph-777 was in the Deneb Sector. An FHD team was assigned to the equatorial regions to protect sites judged by the Galactic Survey to be of ’extreme archaeological significance’. They discovered the Sontarans had their own FHD team there to do the same thing. In this time period, it was a planet of steam and mud, and all indigenous higher life forms had died out, reportedly from a ’super weapon‘.
See: Conflict of Interests
(from Doctor Who Magazine #183)

Alethea
At the end of the 21st century, society on Earth had collapsed and many countries were in a state of civil war. Alethea was one of two women who were kidnapped, together with Zoe, from a hospital in England by scouts from the City Republic, a caste-driven community, enclosed within a concrete wall, who were in need of slave labour. Alethea was one of the most malnourished and defeated looking women Zoe had ever seen.
See: The Indestructible Man

Alex
Boyfriend of Dinah, a school friend of Miranda Dawkins, the Doctor’s adopted daughter during her time at Greyfirth in the 1980s. At that time Miranda was nearly sixteen years old, was beautiful and was starting to take an interest in sex, albeit on an intellectual rather than hormonal level. Alex’s friend Bob showed an interest in her and out of curiosity she agreed to go on a date with him, to a party at Dinah’s home.
See: Father Time

Alexander
Village elder who featured in a manuscript passed down through generations of the family of Yehven, one of Governor Dmitri's advisors in the city of Kiev in 1240 AD. The manuscript told of a silver casket which descended from the sky in flames and when Yehven's ancestor touched it, he was granted a vision of a war in Heaven. Yehven became obsessed with raising the angel within to save the city from the Mongol invasion.
See: Bunker Soldiers

Alexander, Arch-Cardinal
Senior member of the Grand Council of the Morestran Orthodox Church on the holy planet of Archetryx, who was answerable to His Holiness, Papal Majesty Luciani XVII. After nearly 2,000 years of research and construction, the Church was ready to activate their Energy Tower, but their agent, Kristyan Fall, betrayed them in a quest for personal power. In the process of seizing control of the Project, he shot Alexander dead.
See: Zeta Major

Alexander, Bishop
Religious leader in 325 AD when Emperor Constantine convened a council of bishops to debate the issues that were dividing the Christian Church into violent schisms. Bishop Alexander felt that the views of Arius, the presbyter of Baucalis in Alexandria, detracted from Christ’s divinity and thus his ability to offer salvation. The mobs were also being stirred up by a mercenary in the employ of Bishop Alexander’s clerk, Athanasius.
See: The Council of Nicaea

Alexander II, King
Scottish King (who famously joined the English barons in their struggle against King John of England. In France in 1242 the Doctor rescued some soldiers who were about to be burned at the stake by claiming to be an important emissary from Alexander’s court. Incredibly, he was able to produce, on request, a scroll parchment, apparently signed by the King himself, giving him the freedom to travel through the realm.
See: Sanctuary

The Alexander Club
Private club on Great Portland Street. Six months after the Yeti invasion of the London Underground, the newly promoted Brigadier met Air Vice-Marshal Gilmore here and they discussed the need for a new global defence division to deal with aggressive alien incursions and anything else unexplained, extraordinary of paranormal. They also reviewed files of alien activity dating from as far back as the time of the Pharaohs.
See: Downtime

Alexander, Hugh
Mathematician who took over from Alan Turing as the chief cryptologist at Bletchley Park, the headquarters of Britain's code breaking organisation during the Second World War. In December 1944, the Doctor sought out Turing’s help with a mathematical problem he had concerning a large blue ‘wardrobe‘, but when Turing became worried by his odd behaviour, he reported everything to Alexander and the Doctor was arrested.
See: The Turing Test

Alexander, Natasha
Young psychic woman who was adopted by UNIT as a child because her parents couldn‘t handle her after they discovered they couldn‘t hide anything from her. She was employed as UNIT’s scientific advisor, but was also working undercover for their Internal Security Division. She was sent by Col Wilson to investigate the UNIT operative Lockwood as they suspected the Nestenes may have taken possession of his mind.
See: Auton 2: Sentinel

Alexander the Great
He featured in a number of the ’Game of Me’ scenarios which created computer generated landscapes. In one, Susan and Alexander fell in love and had a son called Philip, whereas in another, Alexander seemed smitten with Ian. In another, Ian served as one of Alexander’s soldiers and died beneath a chariot’s wheels and in another, Ian accidentally encourages Alexander’s assault on Halikarnassos which killed thousands.
See: Campaign
King of Macedon who was reputed to be one of the most successful military commanders in history. In 322 BC, the Doctor found slaves digging for gold to adorn Alexander’s coffin, but an alien reptile created an alternative timeline after installing transtemporal architecture in the Library of Alexandria, and Barbara was accidentally sent nine years into the past where she became Queen to Alexander’s successor, Ptolemy.
See: The Book of Shadows
The Crystal Bucephalus, the time-active restaurant located on New Alexandria on the edge of the Capricorn Tract, was named after Bucephalus, Alexander the Great’s horse which died after the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC. A fifty-foot tall statue of the warhorse, made from carved deep green crystal, was located at the centre of the restaurant. The Doctor later said that he found Alexander himself to be rather a bore.
See: The Crystal Bucephalus

Alexander's Port
Location in the duplicate copy of Rome created by the entity known as Iam. Ptolemy Caesar, the eldest of Antony and Cleopatra’s three children, had heard rumours of a plague here, but having made a special study of such things he did not believe this explained why the land was empty of people. He planned to examine the area personally before continuing on an expedition to Africa to discover the true extent of their world.
See: State of Change

Alexandria
Second largest city in Egypt and home to the Pharos Lighthouse, which was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the Library of Alexandria, the largest library in the ancient world. The Doctor visited the mines here in 322 BC, looking for gold with which to make a ring for Susan’s wedding, but Barbara was sent back nine years earlier when she passed through a temporal baffle set up by the alien reptile Rhakotis.
See: The Book of Shadows
When the Master set out to assemble the fragments of the Godhead, an artefact of unimaginable power from the distant future of the Universe, his plan involved gathering fragments of information from various locations across time and space, including hieroglyphs from the Domdaniel caverns on Strava, prophecies and future legends from the Ministers of Grace and several charts and scrolls from the Great Library at Alexandria.
See: The Duke of Dominoes

In 1872 the Doctor told eminent archaeologist Horace Stockwood that he was once employed by the library at Alexandria but was ejected from the staff in a peremptory way after he misshelved the Dead Sea Scrolls. He also discovered he still had a copy of Ptolemy’s Treatise on the Structure, Position and Medicinal Nature of Celestial Bodies, although it was now two thousand and ninety three years and four months overdue.
See: Eye of Heaven

In the duplicate copy of Rome created by the entity known as Iam, Rome and Alexandria were ruled by a triumvirate of Antony and Cleopatra’s three children. Cleopatra’s body was sent to Alexandria to lie in state, but one of her sons tried to smuggle an atomic bomb inside his mother’s coffin, willing to destroy the entire city just to remove his sister. The Oracle of Alexandria was revealed to be an exact of the TARDIS console.
See: State of Change

The renegade psychopathic Time Lord Astrolabus told the Doctor that at Alexandria in King Ptolemy's time a lighthouse was built and he was commanded to set a light that would last a thousand years. Obeying, he took fire from the sun and the stars and put it in the lighthouse, bringing an end to the age of darkness but attracting sky ships with travellers from beyond the stars and turning the City into a crossroads in time.
See: Voyager

Among the many items discovered by website author Adrian Molecross within the TARDIS library were a holograph book on the canyons of Crevitor, Newton’s notes for his Principia, several Shakespeare manuscripts, Napoleon’s battle plans, sketches by Goya, Mozart’s handwritten scores and some scrolls labelled with Greek names that were noted as survivors of the fire that destroyed the library of Alexandria.
See: The Algebra of Ice

The Doctor personally saved two plays by Aristophanes from the burning library in Alexandria. He recalled this event when Miríl, an elderly teacher, escorted him to his seminary’s library on Kirith and the beautiful surroundings, the wealth of knowledge available and the diligence partaking of it impressed even the Doctor.
See: Timewyrm: Apocalypse
The Doctor again referred to Alexandria when he once told Ace that in the wrong fins, knowledge is a dangerous thing. He explained that this is why dictators have public book burnings and added that the library at Alexandria was used to fuel a palace’s central heating system.
See: Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible

According to the guide who welcomed Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson to the secret Library of St John the Beheaded in the heart of St Giles’ Rookery in London, their repository of forbidden texts contained a small section on bibliographic theft, including a treatise which cast an intriguing new light upon the fire that consumed the library at Alexandria in the sixth century. The guide later claimed it was just his little joke.
See: All-Consuming Fire

When the Doctor sent Bernice to New York to infiltrate the International Drug Enforcement Agency and steal the results of their studies into the street drug warlock, he contacted her by videophone. To prevent the call being traced, he sent his transmission simultaneously through a thousand different routes so it appeared to be coming from Baltimore, Kathmandu, Medicine Hat and Alexandria in Egypt, all at the same time.
See: Warlock

When Bernice showed Guy de Carnac, a knight from 1242, her pen torch, it reminded him of a fakir from Alexandria who claimed to be able to harness lightning and could return dead rats to life. Unfortunately the crowd in the marketplace where he was demonstrating his magic jar stoned him to death as a sorcerer.
See: Sanctuary

The Doctor planned to take Izzy to the Alexandria library, but the TARDIS materialised way off course, spatially and temporally, and ended up aboard the Qutrusian cargo freighter X-703 in the Madrias Sector just as space pirates, led by Captain Horstrogg, attacked and slaughtered the crew.
See: The Company of Thieves

Some considerable time later, the Doctor decided again to try to take Izzy to the library of Alexandria, and said he’d aim for the pre-Aristarchos era so that he could avoid all those overdue fines. However, despite assuring Izzy that she’d love it, she realised she’d finally come to terms with who she really was and decided instead to return home so she could set things right with her adoptive parents.
See: Oblivion