CONTENTS
COVER
ABOUT THE BOOK
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
TITLE PAGE
INTRODUCTION
ONE
THE 50-YEAR DIARY: A DOCTOR WHO TIMELINE
TWO
EVERYONE’S FAVOURITE TIME LORD: THE MANY LIVES AND CHANGING FACES OF THE DOCTOR
First and Last Words
Doctor Who – The Original Trailer
The Doctor by Numbers
Who’s Who – The Twelve Doctors
What’s in a Name?
John Who?
The Doctor’s Height
Who Goes There
Doctor Doubles
Doctor… Who?
A Doctor of What?
The Doctor Is In
Unseen Adventures
The Last Great Time War
Mid-Life Crisis: The Changing Age of the Doctor
A Mere Slip of a Girl?
A Young, Old Face
Fish Fingers and Custard
The Doctor’s Abilities
Other Time Lord Abilities
The Doctor’s Family Tree
The Many Wives of Doctor Who
The Doctor’s Twin – The Other Doctor
The Doctor’s Companion – The TARDIS
The Doctor’s Daughter – Jenny
Extended Family
The Doctor’s Physiology
Capacious Pockets
The Finest Swordsman in All of Gallifrey
Reasons for Regeneration
Equipment to Aid Regenerative Crisis
THREE
THE DOCTOR’S BEST FRIENDS: COMPANIONS AND OTHER ALLIES
Companions by Numbers
Companion Roll Call: The 1960s
Hello, Goodbye
Haven’t I Seen You Somewhere Before?
Return Performances
Happy Birthday to Who
Companion Roll Call: The 1970s
Mustering the Troops – The Creation of UNIT
UNIT Personnel
The Unknown Soldiers
UNIT Call Signs
The Life and Times of Nicholas Courtney
The Men From UNIT
Companion Roll Call: The 1980s
The Sorry Ballad of Kamelion
Off-Screen Companions
Companion Roll Call: The 1990s
Kissing Companions
Companion Roll Call: The 2000s
Hello Sweetie
Companion Roll Call: The 2010s
They Keep Killing Rory
Occasional Companions
Family Ties
Extended (Unseen) Families
Reasons for Leaving the Doctor
FOUR
A CARNIVAL OF MONSTERS
Monstrous First Lines
Returning Monsters
The Silurians
Dinosaurs in Doctor Who
Designing Dinos
Monster Maker –The Bluffer’s Guide To…
The Lives and Deaths of Davros
Bringing Davros to Life
Monster Maker – The Bluffer’s Guide To…
A Dalek A-Z
Armed and Dangerous
Dalek Servants
The Only Daleks With Names
Dalek Operators
Voices of the Daleks
Familiar Voices
Dalek Variants
Colour-Coded Daleks
40 Ways to Defeat a Dalek
Universal Monsters
Warlords of Mars
Bred for War – Sontaran Factoids
Sontaran Roll Call
Sontaran Forces
Worlds of the Cybermen
Cyber-Spotter
Cyber Converts
Mapping the Web of Fear
Monster Make-Up
FIVE
LOTS OF PLANETS HAVE A NORTH: A ROUGH GUIDE TO EARTH AND OTHER WORLDS
The Doctor’s World Map
The Changing Face of the Oval Office
Namedropper
Historical Celebrities
The Nemesis Comet
Celebrity Culture
Not Quite Themselves
Medical Establishments on Earth
The Mysterious World of Doctor Who
The Moving Earth
TARDIS Log
Solar System Stories
Welcome to Gallifrey
Notable Time Lords
The Master Mad-o-meter
The Things of Rassilon and Other Gallifreyan Stuff
Planets Attacked by the Daleks
Shockeye’s Kitchen
SIX
A KETTLE AND A PIECE OF STRING: TECHNOLOGY IN DOCTOR WHO
TARDIS Components and Equipment
The Time Rotor
Console Room Designers
Some TARDIS Disguises
For Whom the Bell Tolls
Sonic Screwdrivers Galore
Using the Sonic Screwdriver
Known Limitations
Psychic Paper
The Doctor’s Toolkit
Who’s Driving This Thing?
Good Old Bessie
14 Facts About the Whomobile
SEVEN
RELATIVE DIMENSIONS: DOCTOR WHO AND POPULAR CULTURE
Soap Who
Connecting Doctor Who and The Archers
The Name’s Who. Doctor Who
To Boldly Go Where No TARDIS Has Gone Before
Carry On Doctor
A Gallifrey Far, Far Away
Harry Potter and the Bigger on the Inside
TARDIS Library
Songs for Eleven
Original Songs
Doc of the Pops
Variations on a Theme
Pop Picks
Desert Island Discs
Doctor Who, This is Your Life
Big Screen / Small Screen
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Whoniverse
The Other Doctors
EIGHT
THE MATRIX: BEHIND THE SCENES
The Long and Short of it
The Architects of Doctor Who
Prolific Guest Stars
Repeat Performance
Doctor Who’s Most Prolific Writers
Director Who
Stage Plays and Performances
TV Spin-Offs
Wireless Who
Doctor Who on the Big Screen
Stories That Name-Check Themselves
How Long Would it Take to Watch Doctor Who?
APPENDIX STORY LIST
THANKS
COPYRIGHT
ABOUT THE BOOK
Do you know your Sontarens from your Silurians? What are the 40 best ways to defeat a Dalek? What are the galactic coordinates of Gallifrey?
Test your knowledge of the last Time Lord and the worlds he’s visited in Who-ology, an unforgettable journey through 50 years of Doctor Who.
Packed with facts, figures and stories from the show’s entire run, this unique tour of space and time takes you from Totters Lane to Trenzalore, taking in guides to UNIT call signs, details of the inner workings of sonic screwdrivers, and a reliability chart covering every element of the TARDIS.
You won’t believe the wonders that await. Are you ready? Then read on, you clever boy. And remember…
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Cavan Scott has written numerous books, audio dramas and comics strips based on such series as The Sarah Jane Adventures, Skylanders, Judge Dredd and, of course, Doctor Who. He has written about the good Doctor’s adventures in such magazines as SFX and Doctor Who Magazine and regularly appears at Doctor Who conventions around the country.
Mark Wright is a journalist and author and has written many audios, short stories and comic strips featuring new adventures for the Doctor, along with tie-ins to other series such as The Power Rangers and The Sarah Jane Adventures. He is a regular contributor to Doctor Who Magazine.
INTRODUCTION
‘Have you ever thought what it’s like to be wanderers in the fourth dimension?’
The Doctor, An Unearthly Child
The Doctor started running on 23 November 1963 and hasn’t stopped since. Fifty years of adventure have given us hundreds of stories, at least 11 Doctors and more monsters than you can shake a sink plunger at.
Who-ology is a miscellany, a rattle-bag of facts, figures and trivia from five decades of time travel in the company of a madman with a box. From that junkyard on Totter’s Lane to a snow-dusted Victorian London at Christmas, we cover the companions that have accompanied him, the planets he has visited and the terrors he has faced.
Here you will discover the many names that the Doctor has used over the years, the exact number of companions he has snogged, and just how mad the Master actually is. Find out what vehicles the Doctor has driven, the tools he’s used, and the songs that have become the soundtrack to his exploits. There are questions to answer – who has written the most Doctor Who television stories and how long would it take to watch every episode back to back? There are survival guides that detail 40 methods of killing a Dalek, a timeline of significant events from all five decades of the show, and a list of every TARDIS control and mechanism ever mentioned.