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The Doctor is a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey. The Time Lords were the keepers of
the order of time until they were wiped out in the Time Wars. Long before the war, the
Doctor fled Gallifrey due to his dislike of the Time Lords non-interference directive, stealing a
time machine (the Tardis), and flying off in time and space with the intention of interfering.
All Time Lords can regenerate, or survive death, 12 times. Each time they ‘die’ their body
goes through a change – a regeneration – and the Doctor lives again with a new face and a
new facet of his personality. In his eleventh incarnation, the Doctor is an excited explorer of
the universe, with a keen intelligence that means he often notices what everyone else has
missed. He can turn in a moment from being interested in the largest of things to being
fascinated by the tiniest of things. But his excitement sometimes results in him tripping over
himself and walking into things. He enjoys anything that's different and interesting, and as
always he has a powerful sense of right and wrong and a determination to do what's right.
The Doctor is sometimes referred to as ‘the oncoming storm’ by his enemies. Gallifreyan
physiology differs in that the Doctor has two hearts instead of one.
Amy Pond, the young Scottish woman from the English village of Leadworth first met her
'raggedy Doctor' when she was a little girl and had to wait fourteen years before he finally
returned and took her off in the TARDIS. She was brought up by her aunt, without a Mum
and Dad. She's very brave, bold and decisive, always ready to confront the problem or force
the Doctor to tell her what he's up to. To the Doctor's surprise, she can sometimes see
what's going on more clearly than he does. She wants to see the universe before, perhaps,
getting back home in time for her wedding day. But that crack in her wall may turn out to be
something she can never quite escape. At the beginning of ‘A Polymorphic Counterfeit’ Amy
has just lost her boyfriend, Rory, to one of the cracks in time. Rory’s existence has been
wiped from everyone’s memory but the Doctor, who is immune to the time effect.
River Song is an archaeologist from the future who the Doctor keeps meeting in the wrong
order. He first met her on the planet of The Library, but we haven't yet seen where she first
met him. So her journal is packed with information the Doctor feels he shouldn't know about
yet. They're going to be very close: River knows the Doctor's real name (and no one knows
the Doctor’s name) and she even has a sonic screwdriver of her own that she claims he
gave to her. She even knows how to fly the TARDIS. Speculation runs to the idea that, in
some future regeneration (or perhaps past one) River Song is the Doctor’s wife.
the future who the Doctor keeps meeting in the wrong order.
He first met her on the planet of The Library, but we haven't yet seen where she first met
him. So her journal is packed with information the Doctor feels he shouldn't know about yet.
They're going to be very close: River knows the Doctor's real name and she even has a
sonic screwdriver of her own that she claims he gave to her. the Doctor's vehicle and fly the
The TARDIS, or Time and Relative Dimensions in Space, is She even knows how to home
TARDIS.take him to any place and any time. The Tardis puts out a field wherever themeet at
that can The tragedy is, the Doctor knows how River dies, so when the two of them Doctor
the crash of the Byzantium, share that picnic at Asgard and whatever they did together at
lands that translates all languages and makes the inhabitants of the time he is visiting see
the Singing Towers, he'll have a terrible secret that he won't be able to tell her.
him as a part of their world. Having had the interior of its control room destroyed when the
Doctor last regenerated, it reconfigured its appearance and now features a clicking date
River has a knack for time rotor trouble and knows the and typewriters and taps for
display, a new central getting intowith green glass globes Doctor can help her get out of it.
But as for just how much they meant to each other: even given him a port for his Sonic
controls, which suits the Eleventh Doctor's style. It'sspoilers!
Screwdriver. The Doctor treats the TARDIS like an old friend, calling it 'dear' or 'old girl'. It's
bigger on the inside than the outside and its swimming pool may now be in its library. Or
somewhere else: it'll turn up. During the Doctor’s first ‘life’ the chameleon circuit of the
Tardis failed, leaving it disguised as a 1960’s UK Police Box. It has remained the same for
over 40 years of TV shows.
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And here they are moving and talking: YouTube The Pandorica Opens
Interior of the Tardis
Cool gear
River on a bad day
Doctor Who wiki info:
Anti-plastic: Anti-plastic is a blue liquid, and may be made out of anti-matter, based on the name and the reaction with normal
plastic.
Psychic paper: Shows what the holder of the paper wants the person reading the paper to see. Apart from its usual function of
subterfuge, the paper could receive messages as well.
Sonic Screwdriver:
The sonic screwdriver is apparently the product of Gallifreyan technology since other Time Lords used the device and
understood it enough to construct their own versions of it. The name of the device itself suggests that it functions using sound
waves, although the actual workings of the device have never been explained.
Hallucinogenic lipstick:
A type of lipstick notable for creating hallucinogenic effects in people kissed with it, though apparently not in those wearing it.
Main foe in A Polymorphic Counterfeit
The Nestene Consciousness: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Nestene
Autons (Nestene Duplicates): http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Auton
Mentioned foes of the Doctor:
Atraxi: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Atraxi
Cybermen: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Cybermen
Daleks: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Dalek
Saturnynians: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Saturnynian
Silurians: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Silurians
Sontarans: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Sontarans
Sycorax: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Sycorax
Weeping Angels: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Weeping_Angels
History, the Doctor
Time Lords: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Time_Lords
Last Great Time War: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Last_Great_Time_War
Gallifreyan Physiology: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Gallifreyan_physiology
Rassilon: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Rassilon
River Song:
The Byzantium: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Byzantium_(ship)
Stormcage Containment Facility: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Stormcage_Containment_Facility
Father Octavian: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Father_Octavian
Doctor Who Episodes cited:
Spearhead from Space – Doctor Who classic, Third Doctor
Terror of the Autons - Doctor Who classic, Third Doctor
Rose – New Series One, Ninth Doctor
Christmas Invasion – New Series Two, Tenth Doctor
Silence in the Library – New Series Three, Tenth Doctor
Forest of the Dead – New Series Four, Tenth Doctor
The Girl in the Fireplace – New Series Two, Tenth Doctor
The Beast Below - New Series Five, Eleventh Doctor
The Eleventh Hour – New Series Five, Eleventh Doctor
The Vampires of Venice - New Series Five, Eleventh Doctor
The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone: New Series Five, Eleventh Doctor
The Pandorica Opens –New Series Five, Eleventh Doctor
The Big Bang - Series New Five, Eleventh Doctor