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| Alternative, Potential and
Apocryphal Adventures
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| Apocryphal stories: The following stories may be fanciful or
stylized accounts, or perhaps don't fit into the ongoing continuity as we understand
it - but that's no reason to exclude them. My thoughts on the validity of
apocryphal Doctor Who stories appear elsewhere
on this site.
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| Deadline | Big Finish CD | Is the Doctor's life story just
a rejected idea for a tv series? Something that exists only in the mind of its writer,
Martin Bannister?
| | The Longest Story in the World | ST: Side Steps
| An old man (maybe the first Doctor?) is told stories by his granddaughter (Susan?) of
fantastical adventures they will have - distant travels and battles with monsters...
And yet these two are mere characters in an Arabian Nights story told by a slave girl to
entertain her Caliph... If there is any truth in the story, it would seem to depict events
prior to The Exiles.
| | All Our Christmases | ST: Christmas Treasury | The old man may be the first Doctor - but
would his interlocutor recognize him...?
| | The Meeting | DWM 167 | Writer John Lucarotti meets the
first Doctor - or possibly a figment of his imagination...
| | Who Killed Kennedy | Virgin novel
| A devastating piece of investigative journalism, that uncovers the story of the
third Doctor's involvement with UNIT. The Doctor's eventual meeting with the author takes
place between Day of the Daleks and
The Face of the Enemy.
| | Doctor Who and the Fangs of Time | DWM 243
| The story of the fourth Doctor meeting the artist
Sean Longcroft, and
encouraging him in his work. Or possibly all just a wild fantasy imagined
in Sean's head...
| | The Comet's Tail | ST: Terrors
| Nightmarish visions suffered by the fifth Doctor during his post-regeneration trauma
in Castrovalva.
| | Old Boys | ST: Centenarian | The characters in this tale
recount three separate encounters with the sixth Doctor: defeating the Rainbow between
Curtain Call and The Best Joke I Ever Told;
foiling the telepathic worms, between House
and Vengeance on Varos; and preventing an historical wrong between
Instruments of Darkness and The One Doctor.
| | Dream a Little Dream For Me | Yearbook 1993
| Zoe wakes up to find everything after
The Wheel in Space is a
dream, and the second Doctor has been waiting twenty-three years for her to
wake from a coma. Then the seventh Doctor helps to free some of Zoe's lost
memories - though this implies that Zoe wrote much of the tv series! It seems
likely that Zoe has suffered some illness - possibly linked to her mental trauma
in The Tip of the Mind - and much
of this story is the result of her confusion upon recovery. The meeting with
the seventh Doctor does occur though, between
An Unfulfilled Dream and
The Algebra of Ice.
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| Alternative first Doctor: a divergent timeline, featuring a
Doctor who never left Gallifrey - and when he does finally travel the cosmos, completely
changes history...
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| Auld Mortality | Big Finish CD |
| | The Innocents | ST: History of Xmas |
| | A Storm of Angels | Big Finish CD |
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| Other alternative realities and divergent timelines:
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| Exile | Big Finish CD | Diverging after
The War Games: the Doctor escapes from
the Time Lords before his trial, and forces a regeneration to change sex...
| | Sympathy for the Devil | Big Finish CD | Diverging
after The Night Walkers: an alternative third
Doctor is exiled to Earth in a later time period...
| | The Ultimate Adventure | Stage play
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A divergent timeline created when a
Watcher-like alternative incarnation is projected by an
ailing third Doctor. Companions Jason and Crystal are later kidnapped from this
timeline, and used to trap the sixth Doctor.
| | He Jests at Scars... | Big Finish CD
| An alternative reality in which the Valeyard defeated the sixth Doctor in
The Trial of a Time Lord, taking over the
life force of his subsequent regenerations - with dire consequences...
| | The Infinity Doctors | BBC novel
| The clue's in the name. Infinite realities contain an infinite number of Doctors. This
one physically resembles the eighth Doctor (though his previous incarnations may not
have been the same). He gave up his wanderings early on, and has spent most
of his time on Gallifrey. This Doctor was married to Patience (as indeed he may have been
in "our" reality...) Flashbacks in Cold
Fusion show something of those times.
| | Doctor Who and the Curse of Fatal Death
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An alternative ninth Doctor has his final adventure, and his next four regenerations.
It could just be an affectionate comedy spoof...
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| Alternative ninth Doctor: another divergent timeline, and a different ninth
Doctor (though he's identified as the tenth in ...Curse of Fatal Death).
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| Scream of the Shalka | BBCi webcast |
| | The Feast of the Stone | BBCi Vampires magazine |
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| Future "Merlin" Doctor: as featured in the novelization of the tv story
Battlefield - but not on screen - the red-haired
future incarnation who will one day become Merlin...
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| Good Companions | More Short Trips
| Features Tegan, a good many years after her departure in
Resurrection of the Daleks, encountering the
Doctor again.
| | Revenants | ST: Side Steps |
| | Greenaway | ST: Steel Skies | This story also features appearances by the second,
fifth and eighth Doctors, in the form of telepathic projections into the titular character's
dream state.
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| Theatrical future Doctors: three successive incarnations, whose
stories are linked together by the same companion - the (presumably very long-lived)
Prince Karnak...
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| Hellblossom | Stage play |
| | Vox Dei | Stage play |
| | Warsmith | Stage play |
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| Pragmatic future Doctor: trapped on Earth and desperate to recover
his lost Tardis, this Doctor is twisted by events into an utter bastard...
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| Sustainable Energy | ST: 2040 |
| | Full Fathom Five | Big Finish CD |
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| Other potential future Doctors:
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| The Empress of Othernow | Stage play |
| | The Cabinet of Light | Telos novella |
| | The final Doctor enters Mictlan and
makes a deal with the Celestis, as seen in Alien Bodies.
| Doctor Who and the Inheritors
of Time | Unproduced stage play
| Long after his death, the Doctor is resurrected in a new form to
perform a vital mission for the Time Lords.
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| Peter Cushing, the cinematic Doctor Who
The comical Doctor Who
About Doctor Who spin-offs
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