War Chief
Time Lord, former friend of the Doctor. Later he defected to the side of the Lords of War. Also known as Magnus and Doctor Felix. First seen in the War Games series

Eighth Doctor
Doctor Regeneration. Fought with the Master, unexpectedly resurrected after being executed by the Daleks. During the Time War, Karna regenerated into a War Doctor using the Sisters' elixir. First seen in Doctor Who.

Second Doctor
Doctor Regeneration. Known as "Space Tramp". Discovered new enemies such as Ice Warriors, Crotons and Great Intelligence. After defeating the Lords of War, he was condemned by the Time Lords to forced regeneration and exile to Earth. Appears in the episodes "Smugglers" through "The Mark of the Rani"

Twelfth Doctor
The Doctor's first regeneration from the second cycle of regenerations granted by the Time Lords as a result of the Trenzalore Crisis. Appears in episodes "The Day of the Doctor" through "The Wizard's Apprentice"

Ninth Doctor
The Doctor's regeneration that survived the Time War. He believed that it was he who destroyed Gallifrey. Regenerated due to the absorption of energy from the Heart of the TARDIS. Appears in episodes "Rose" through "The Day of the Doctor"

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Tenth Doctor
Doctor Regeneration. As a result of his meeting with Queen Victoria, the latter created an institute. Torchwood. He was mortally wounded by a distant one, but refused to regenerate, directing all the regeneration energy to a hand severed by a sycorax, thereby creating a metacrisis. With the help of the Master, he sent the returning Gallifrey back to the Time War. Regenerated by absorbing massive amounts of radiation. Appears in the episodes "The Parting of the Ways" through "The Day of the Doctor"

Dr. Grace Holloway
San Francisco cardiologist. After injuring the Seventh Doctor in Chinatown, she performs an operation on him, unaware of his anatomy, causing him to regenerate. Helps the Doctor stop the Master from getting the Eye of Harmony. First seen in Doctor Who.

Dr. Konstantin
Doctor of the London Hospital during the Second World War. His patients suddenly began to turn into "zombies in gas masks", and he remained the last unaffected by this problem.

First seen in "Empty Child"

Dr. Liv Chenka
Medtech from 2865. Met the Doctor a few months after the incident with the Kaldor robots. Was a companion of the Seventh and Eighth Doctors

Dr. Rajash Singh
A scientist at the Torchwood Institute, before his death he was a member of Torchwood 1, where he studied the Dalek Voidship. First seen in "Army of Ghosts"

Dr. Walter Simeon
Scientist from the 19th century. Made a deal with the Great Mind and fulfilled the plans of that.

Appears in episodes from "The Snowmen" to "The Name of the Doctor"

First seen in "Dark Water"

Dr. Evelyn Smith
One of the Doctor's older companions, a 55-year-old professor of history. Was a companion of the Sixth and Seventh Doctors

Dr. Elizabeth Klein
Scientific consultant UNIT. Companion of the Seventh Doctor. The parallel universe version of her is a Nazi officer.

Flesh Doctor
Clone of the Eleventh Doctor, obtained with the help of flesh.

Appears in "Rebellious Flesh" through "A Good Man Goes to War"

Other regeneration of the Doctor
The Doctor's regeneration not featured in the series

Irving Braxiatel (The Doctor's brother)
The Doctor's older brother, esthete, collector and philanthropist. Cardinal.

Metacrisis of the Tenth Doctor
The Doctor's regeneration from his severed arm. Carried out a genocide of the Daleks. Stayed on the parallel Earth with Rosa Tyler. Appears in "Christmas Invasion" through "Journey's End"

Eleventh Doctor
One of the Doctor's regenerations. Married to River Song. Appears in the episodes "The End of Time" through "The Time of the Doctor"

First Doctor
The Doctor's first known regeneration. Occurs in the episodes "An Extraterrestrial Child" through "The Five Doctors"

Fifth Doctor
The Doctor's regeneration resulting from the fusion of the Fourth Doctor with the Observer. On the planet Androzani, he fell ill with an incurable disease - spectroxtoxamia, as a result of which he regenerated. Appears in "Logopolis" through "The Day of the Doctor"

Seventh Doctor
Doctor Regeneration. Destroyed Skaro. Regenerated into the Eighth Doctor due to a human medical operation on him, having been wounded in a gunfight by bandits. Found in the series "The Last Enemy" through "Curse of Fenric"

Third Doctor
Doctor Regeneration. He was exiled to Earth, where he collaborated with UNIT. Met many new enemies - Silurians, Autons, Masters, Sontarans, Omega. Appears in the series "War Games" through "Peladon's Monster"

Thirteenth Doctor
Doctor Regeneration. Compared to her previous incarnation, the Doctor has a more gentle and patient personality, and tends to be openly compassionate. She is also distinguished by optimism and faith in the better side of any creature, be it a person or an alien. Despite the desire to resolve any conflict peacefully to the last, the Thirteenth does not hesitate to turn the weapons of her enemies against them, even if this can lead to death.

Fourth Doctor
Doctor Regeneration. Participated in the conflict with the Sontarans. First met with Davros - the creator of the Dalek race. Was Lord President of Gallifrey. Together with Romana, he collected the Key of Time. Regenerated by falling from a radio telescope in Logopolis. Appears in the episodes "Planet of the Spiders" through "The Five Doctors"

Sixth Doctor
Doctor Regeneration. Tried by the Time Lords, accused by the Valeyard of many crimes. Appears in the Androzani Caves through Time and the Rani series.

Doctor Who by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Doctor
Military Doctor
Played	John Hurt
First appearance	"The Name of the Doctor"
Regeneration	"Day of the Doctor"
Last appearance	"Day of the Doctor"
Appearances	3 stories (3 episodes)
Chronology

In the credits of the series, he is referred to as "War Doctor", and in the special episode simply as Doctor.

The Doctor is a member of the extraterrestrial race of Time Lords from the planet Gallifrey, who uses the TARDIS space-time device to travel through time and space, most often with satellites. When the Doctor receives significant injuries, at his request, the body can “regenerate”, however, with each new incarnation, his appearance and character change (appearance, habits, tastes are updated, but the soul, memory remain the same). This feature allowed the Doctor to be portrayed by various actors and thus kept the series running from 1963.

The War Doctor himself, in the episode The Day of the Doctor, revealed that he was 800 years old.

Influence on the numbering of Doctors

Steven Moffat insists that he does not change the numbering order of the Doctors, and John Hurt's War Doctor from The Night of the Doctor mini-episode does not affect anything. He explains it in a new issue of Doctor Who Magazine: “I was really, really careful with the numbering of the Doctors. John Hurt's Doctor is very special: he doesn't take the Doctor's name. He doesn't call himself that. He's the same Time Lord, the same being as the Doctor before him, but he's the only one who says "I'm not the Doctor". So the Eleventh Doctor is still the Eleventh, the Tenth is still the Tenth…" He adds, "Technically, if you really counted regenerations, David Tennant's Doctor is two Doctors, taking into account the Meta-Crisis Doctor (in Journey's End). "). But the meaning is not in counting regenerations, but in counting the faces of the time lord who called himself the Doctor. And thus, we only have Doctor Anomaly crawling through the hole somewhere. In the script for The Day of the Doctor, Matt's Doctor was the Eleventh and David's Doctor was the Tenth. So the Doctor numbers stay exactly the same - we all refer to Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor."

Appearances

The character first appears in the final episode of the seventh season, The Name of the Doctor. In the episode's finale, the Eleventh Doctor and his Companion Clara Oswald find themselves imprisoned in the Doctor's timeline. They meet a strange man who, according to the Time Lord, is one of the Doctor's incarnations, who broke his promise and lost the right to bear the name Doctor, destroying his home planet of Gallifrey and destroying their Dalek opponents at the end of the Last Time War, when the Time Lords , desperate to win a fair way, decide to destroy time and space as such, and the Doctor apparently had to stop them.

January 27, 2016, 22:06

Since the last post was liked by as many as 59 people, and some of them are clearly fans of the series, I decided to continue.

So, Doctor Who - who is he? He has a blue TARDIS, we don’t know anything about him anymore :) Well, let me remind you: The Doctor is an alien from the planet Gallifrey, who is called the Time Lord, he has a TARDIS spaceship, he is a time machine and a lot of things in general , and this overlord, who looks like a man, but does not age, lives long and has the ability to regenerate (but not an infinite number of times), travels through time and space, to different worlds, planets in the society of different satellites. In total, 12 regenerations are supposed, in total there should be 13 incarnations of the Doctor. Recently, it seems that he was given more regenerations, but I still did not understand whether he merged them or not.

We will start from the beginning, that is, from First Doctor, who appeared in the canon series, the actor is William Hartnell. He existed in the series from 1963 to 1966.

The Doctor always added "Hmmmm...?", irritated sighs and grunts, and sometimes distorted words and phrases to his speech. Young girls were addressed as "child" or "young lady", while younger men were addressed as "my boy". It was difficult for him (or pretended to be difficult for him) to remember Ian's last name. While piloting the TARDIS, the Doctor consulted a small handbook.

The Doctor told about himself in a conversation with his fifth incarnation: "At the very beginning, I always tried to be old, grumpy and important how you behave when you are young." His adventure began by escaping his home planet with his granddaughter, Susan, on a malfunctioning TARDIS. Thus, the granddaughter became the Doctor's first companion. This Doctor's last trip was to 1986, where he first encountered the Cybermen. During the struggle, the Doctor no longer had the strength to support "that old body" and regenerated into his second incarnation.

Second Doctor, played by Patrick Troughton, lasted from 1966 to 1969.

It must be remembered that then the canon was just being formed, so at first the connection between the Second Doctor and his predecessor was not clear. In his first story, the Second Doctor referred to the First in the third person, as if he were a completely different person.

Favorite phrase: "Aunt gracious!" and "When I say run, run!"

The Second Doctor was condemned by the Time Lords for violating their laws of non-intervention. Despite the Doctor's opinion that the Time Lords should use their powers to help others, he was sentenced to exile on twentieth-century Earth. And before exile, the Time Lords initiated the process of his regeneration into the Third Doctor.

Third Doctor existed a little longer than the others: from 1970 to 1974. He was played by Jon Pertwee.

The Third Doctor wore a mark on his arm that no other of his incarnations wore. Within the framework of the series, this sign meant "exile". But it was actually a tattoo that Jon Pertwee got while in the Navy.

Always charismatic, this Doctor has a distinct style of dress that is the most opulent of his various incarnations, choosing from a ruffled shirt, blue, green, maroon, red, or black velvet tuxedo, trousers, formal boots, boots, and raincoats. This earned the Third Doctor the nickname "The Dandy Doctor". In The Three Doctors, he and the Second Doctor were called, respectively, "The Dandy" and "The Clown".

His favorite phrase was: "Now listen to me!"

On his last journey, the Doctor encountered the eight-legged giant spiders from the once visited Doctor Metabelis III. They were eager to get back the crystal that the Doctor took off the planet. When he decided to confront the Queen of the Eight Legs by facing his fear, he received a huge dose of radiation, which caused him to regenerate. This is not the last case of regeneration due to radiation.

Fourth Doctor played by Tom Baker from 1974 to 1981. Not only is this remarkable in that period of the series, but also the fact that the screenwriter at that time was Douglas Adams, a writer known for his book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy references to Adams. For example, when there was an urgent need to answer a question and it was not clear what to say, the Doctor blurted out: "Forty-two!" - it didn't help, but the fans rejoiced.

The Fourth Doctor - a kind of extraordinary freak in a kilometer scarf - was very fond of marmalade. Therefore, the favorite phrase was: "Do you want marmalade?"

The Doctor entered the battle against the Master. When the Doctor dealt with the enemy, the radio telescope began to descend and he fell to the ground. A mysterious entity known as the Watcher, who followed him through time and space, merged with the Doctor and he regenerated.

Fifth Doctor- that strange comrade who wears a sprig of celery on his jacket. He was played by Peter Davison. Played from 1981 to 1984 and appeared in a short episode in 2007 after accidentally encountering his Tenth Incarnation.

Favorite phrase: "Brilliant!"

At the end of his life, he sacrificed himself for the life of his companion Peri, giving her the only antidote for a disease that they picked up from a poisonous plant on Malaya Androzani.

Sixth Doctor was played by two actors: Colin Baker was the main character, but he was also the only Doctor who did not voluntarily leave, but was taken off the set. Colin was very upset and even refused to play in the regeneration scene. This moment was played by Sylvester McCoy, who played the role of the Seventh Doctor. It existed from 1984 to 1986.

I won't even comment on the look. The Sixth Doctor was noted for his love of cats. He always wore various cat icons on his lapel, explaining that this is now fashionable on a distant planet.

Favorite phrase: "Amazing!"

It is likely that when the Sixth Doctor's TARDIS was attacked by his old foe the Rani, he was injured and regenerated, though the exact reasons for the regeneration were never given.

Seventh Doctor, whose role, as I said, was played by Sylvester McCoy, remained until the end of the classic series: from 1986 to 1989, plus an appearance in the 1996 film.

Favorite phrase: "And somewhere else ...". For example, "And somewhere else they drink iced tea."

Regeneration: The TARDIS made an emergency landing in San Francisco in 1999. After he got out of the TARDIS, he got into a shootout between bandits from Chinatown, they tried to perform an operation in the hospital, but due to anomalies in the anatomy of the Time Lords, the Seventh Doctor died on the operating table. Unlike his previous regenerations, he did not regenerate immediately, but only after a few hours in the morgue (Doctor Who (1996)).

First appearance Eighth Doctor on television took place in the full-length film "Doctor Who" in 1996, because. the series was canceled by then. The role of the Doctor was played by Paul McGann.

This film was supposed to be the pilot episode of the updated series, which was planned to be released by Fox, but the filming of the series was never started due to the tape's low ratings in the United States. However, in Britain the film was received well, it has collected more than nine million viewers, and also received a fairly high rating.

The Eighth Doctor's next appearance after the film was in 2007, when an image of him was shown in John Smith's diary in the episode "Human Nature". Also, brief cutscenes featuring all incarnations of the Doctor, including the Eighth, were shown in the 2008 Christmas special The Next Doctor, the 2010 episode The Eleventh Hour, and the 2013 episode Nightmare in silver tones. The last appearance of the Eighth Doctor was in the seven-minute mini-episode "Night of the Doctor", which is a prequel to the anniversary series "The Day of the Doctor"; here he was regenerated into a War Doctor.

This Doctor is known for his love of steampunk, but most importantly, he is famous for taking the risk of kissing someone for the first time, a phenomenon unthinkable within the old series.

Favorite phrase: "I know who I am!"

Unique was the regeneration into the Warrior, the entity he chose to take part in the Time War. Karn's sisters gave him a special elixir that caused the regeneration. It was the Warrior who ended the Time War by destroying his people and the Daleks - something that the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Doctors will regret until the last of them learns that in fact Gallifrey is hidden in a pocket universe, since the thirteen Doctors jointly moved it there, and the memory of this was erased due to the desynchronization of time streams.

Doctor Warrior(War Doctor) - the next incarnation, considered the eighth and a half Doctor, that is, the transition period from the Eighth to the Ninth. The incarnation appeared in 2013 as part of the series "The Name of the Doctor" and "The Day of the Doctor". This anomaly is played by John Hurt.

Steven Moffat insists that he does not change the order of the Doctors, and John Hurt's War Doctor from the "Night of the Doctor" mini-episode does not affect anything. He explains it in a new issue of Doctor Who Magazine: “I was really, really careful with the numbering of the Doctors. John Hurt's Doctor is very special: he doesn't take the Doctor's name. He doesn't call himself that. He's the same Time Lord, the same being as the Doctor before him, but he's the only one who says "I'm not the Doctor".

In fact, he was created to decide the fate of Gallifrey, along with two future incarnations of the Doctor - the tenth and eleventh. After making a decision, he says goodbye to the rest of the incarnations and regenerates in the ninth.

Ninth Doctor- Queen Elizabeth's favorite is not in the series, but in reality. This is the first doctor in the revived series. He was portrayed by Christopher Eccleston in 2005.

The Ninth Doctor's favorite line is "Fantastic!"

Since this incarnation, the Doctors say they want to regenerate into red, but so far they have not succeeded.

His death was sacrificial: His companion Rose took the Vortex of Time into herself in order to save the universe from another catastrophe. And yet she saved, but a person cannot keep the Time Vortex in himself, so the Doctor is forced to take it into himself, which led him to regenerate into the Tenth Doctor.

And so we move on to my favorite, the Tenth Doctor played by David Tennant, who was on the revival from 2005 to 2010, plus the 2013 Christmas episode.

Oh, this Doctor, tragic in Shakespeare's way and suffering almost the most, was the second who sincerely fell in love with his companion and the first hipster among Doctors who did everything to promote one well-known brand of sneakers :) That is, he never got out of them and even once rejoiced at their rubberized soles.

The Tenth Doctor's favorite phrase is "Allons-y!", or in Russian - "forward!" Dream: to meet a man named Alonso and say this phrase to him (Alonsi, Alonso!) ICHSH, a dream come true! Second phrase: Molto bene (Very well).

He is known for losing his hand in the Christmas episode, but, because. regeneration did not end, he grew a new one, and alcoholized the old one, so that later he could grow a more humane and aging clone from it and give it to his former companion. I myself could not stay, so here you are, Rosa, surrogate, live, live and make good money!

He is such a sweetheart, I would talk about him and talk about him, but I will keep my fan squeaks and move on to the saddest thing - regeneration. He left for a long time and as tragically as he lived. His death was predicted in advance, which did not prevent him from dying due to the stupidity of his companion: the Doctor had to absorb a huge amount of radiation in order to save Wilfred Mott (Donna Noble's grandfather), which began the regeneration process, turning him into the Eleventh Doctor. Before that, the Doctor visited people dear to him: Mickey Smith and Martha Jones (who, as it turned out, are married), Captain Jack Harkness, great-granddaughter Joan Redfern (he met her when he was a man in the Human Nature series) - Verity Newman, Sarah Jane Smith and her son Luke, said goodbye to Wilfred and gave Donna a wedding present (at Donna's wedding), Rose Tyler (before they first met), and according to the words of his future incarnation, he visited all his companions in general (for example, Jo Grand, who accompanied Third Doctor) as featured in The Death of the Doctor episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures.

And here comes Eleventh Doctor played by Matt Smith, the youngest actor in the role. Tellingly, he got a slightly older wife, it looked a little ridiculous. Oh what am I talking about, spoilers! :) The Doctor existed in this incarnation from 2010 to 2013.

Throughout Season 5, the Doctor thought his bow tie was "cool" even though everyone around him said otherwise. In the last episode of the 5th season, "The Big Bang", the Doctor thought that wearing fez is also "cool". In The Impossible Astronaut, the Doctor wore a cowboy hat given by Craig Owens, which Rory appreciated. But the ladies did not like his hats. The following should be remembered about butterflies: a red bow tie and suspenders - a journey into the future, a blue bow tie and suspenders - into the past.

Favorite phrase: "Geronimo!"

The death of the Doctor is connected with the age-old question: "Doctor who?" The whole plot is built around this: the question comes from the home planet of Gallifrey: if the Doctor answers it by giving his real name, then the Time Lords will return from the pocket universe to this one. The Doctor realizes that he cannot help his race now, because if Gallifrey revives on Trenzalore, other aliens will immediately attack him and a new Time War will begin. Over time, hostile aliens begin to infiltrate the planet, and the Doctor is forced to confront them. As a result, during the war with the Daleks, he receives regenerative energy through a crack in space for a new cycle, shoots it at the Dalek ship (hence the doubt whether he has something left for the new cycle or everything is gone). The flagship explodes. The Doctor enters the TARDIS, says goodbye to his companion, and instantly regenerates into the Twelfth Doctor.

Twelfth Doctor- the last of the current incarnations, played by Peter Capaldi. Has existed since 2013.

Due to a post-regeneration trauma, he develops memory problems: he asks Clara if she knows how to control the TARDIS.

I don't know what his favorite phrase is, other than "Clara!"

In general, his companion infuriates me so much that I hardly watched the series with his participation, which I regret a little.

Phew! That's all, thank you all!

Characters

Doctor - timelord Characterized by hyperactivity (two hearts - a feature of the race, nothing can be done) "Doctor" is a nickname and a source of puns, the creators of the series do not disclose the real name. Wanted for over 9000 crimes (9010 if we talk about the specific number) across the galaxy and was sentenced to 2 billion years (mostly for traffic violations and interference with history) in prison.

Daleks are compact armored tanks driven by clones from the genetic material of the alien Davros. In 1963, the creators of the series thought it would be fun to insert a race of radical fascist aliens into the sci-fi series, so that the Daleks are found as stereotyped villains a little more than in the entire series. Daleks have a distinctive appearance, preserved as such from ancient times, when it was still true-sci-fi, and a recognizable staccato. They like to shout “Exterminate!”, “Obey!”, “We are superior here!”.

Cybermen are cyborgs that exist in two versions: a mechanical body with a controlled human brain or a controlled person (an intermediate version appears in one of the Torchwood series, but this is an exception). A distinctive feature - the ears of cyborgs are closed by a device that controls their brain. In the First Doctor episodes, type 2 cyborgs appear with what appear to be headphones (there was no word "cyborg" in 1963, the screenwriter used the word "robomen"). In the new series, these are two blue-toothed headsets in both ears. As well as the Daleks, they are part of the series and stereotyped villains.

The Master is a Time Lord racial hypnotist supervillain. The Doctor's antagonist; he also hides his name.

The Doctor's companions are any earthlings. For specials, the BBC may spend money on guest stars (like Kylie Minogue). Separately, it is worth highlighting Sarah-Jane Smith (companion of the 3rd and 4th Doctors), foreman Alistair Latbridge-Stewart (head of the British branch of UNIT at the time of the 2-7th Doctor) and Jack Harknes, because. the first (on the second attempt, true) and the third received their own series, and the second appears in such a number of episodes that another reincarnation of the doctor can envy him.

UNIT (Unified Intelligence Taskforce) is an international military organization to combat hostile aliens. It has been on the show since the days of the Second Doctor. They have cookies.

Torchwood is a kind of bloody gebney that catches and sends away (or kills) aliens.
The henchmen of the villains are interesting in that they often take prominent actors from British television for their role. Those interested in British actors will see many familiar faces.

Villains - appear in one or two episodes and disappear after the victory.

Doctor Who is the world's longest-running sci-fi series, and has become an integral part of British and world culture in its half century of existence. Its huge popularity is explained by the fact that everyone can find something for themselves in it: fans of "Star Trek" - travel to new planets, lovers of memoirs and turned on the butterfly effect - alternative versions of textbook stories, fans of the detective genre - unpredictable plot twists. But the main thing is that the "Doctor" has always managed to tactfully remind about simple truths that sound pompous and vulgar, if you talk about them directly: humanity defeats monsters, love is stronger than death, and friendship works wonders.

Now the eighth season of the renewed series is in full swing, which means it's time for the ultimate guide to the Doctor Who universe. It can remind ardent fans of the series, which it is high time to revisit, for beginners it will allow you to figure out what has not yet been covered, and for those who still do not dare to get hooked, we hope it will help to decide.

As opposed to River Song, all spoilers are unavoidable, but we do not want to deprive you of your rightful heart attacks, so we tried to collect all the spoilers in the "Doctor's Companions" section. We advise beginners to skip it for their own good.

In a couple of sentences, the guide can tell in which of his incarnations the Doctor was the most badass, whether the weeping angel will give a light to the Daleks and what's wrong with the phrase "Don't blink!", but no guide will describe the buckets of tears that were or will be cried by the fans of the series, and does not convey the feeling with which you are typing a tweet “Ah yes Moffat, ay yes son of a bitch!”. Our guide, no doubt, is the ultimate, but it's always better to see it yourself.

Creators

Donald Wilson, John Bribon
Alice Frick and S. E. Webber

Russell T Davies

Stephen Moffat

It all started with the need to close a gap in the Air Force program schedule. So on March 26, 1963, Donald Wilson, John Bribon, Alice Frick, and S. E. Webber got together to discuss the concept of a series that was destined to become a cult classic. Bribon insisted that the action of the new show take place in the distant future, which, in his opinion, would completely untie the hands of the writers. Wilson proposed travel through time and space. At the same time, everyone agreed that the heroes should be a handsome man of about 30 and his young companion. The project was presented to BBC head of drama Sidney Newman and future series producer Verity Lambert. Newman categorically disagreed with the image of the main character, because he saw in this capacity a grumpy old man, for whom he even came up with a name - just the Doctor.

The series was built from stories, divided into several parts. Series about the past were supposed to arouse interest in history in the younger generation, on which the "Doctor" was oriented, series about the future - interest in science (by the way, the latter were more popular with both the audience and the creators). 26 seasons of the classic Doctor Who had been produced since 1963, until inconvenient broadcast times led to a drop in ratings and the demise of the series in 1989. At some point, the tape was even more valuable than the recorded material, and about a hundred episodes were simply washed away from it to make room for other programs. Some of them are still showing up here and there (it's nice to think that the Doctor himself throws them to the Air Force), others have to be restored using animation.

Be that as it may, in 1996 a full-length film about the Doctor was shot in the USA, which was supposed to become a pilot for the continuation of the series. In the UK, the Eighth Doctor was a great success, but in the US it was not so warmly received. As a result, the series was not renewed.

A new and, fortunately for the fandom, successful attempt to resuscitate The Doctor was made in 2005 by Russell T. Davies. He changed the format of the series: now the season began to consist of 13 independent stories, connected by a story arc, which epicly resolved only in the final episode. The new seasons completely continued the storyline of the classic ones, and the new Doctor began to be considered the Ninth. Such continuity allowed the series to get into the Guinness Book of Records, but that's why they are British, to keep traditions.

The showrunner of the series is Steven Moffat. With skill and a sinister smile, Moffat twists the plot and does not miss the opportunity to tear the hearts of the fans to shreds. Jokes are jokes, and it’s very difficult to get rid of the feeling that after each episode he sends George Martin an SMS with the text “Your move” is very difficult.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy writer Douglas Adams, Sherlock screenwriter Mark Gatiss and writer Neil Gaiman were also screenwriters at various times, while the Oakley Elementary School students wrote the entire series "The Only Answer Is Death" - their screenplay was recognized as the best in the competition Script to Screen.

Whoever writes stories about the Doctor and his companions, they are unlikely to lose their popularity. This is because Doctor Who is not a series about space or even time travel, but about how hard and wonderful it is to have a heart, and about how everything is doubly harder and more beautiful when you have two hearts.

The best information that you need to know about the Doctor, of course, was summarized by himself: “I am the Doctor. I am the lord of time. I come from the planet Gallifrey in the constellation Casterobus. I am 903 years old and I am the one who will save your lives and the lives of all six billion people on the planet below us. Are you having problems with this?" Only one thing needs to be explained: the time lords are one of the most ancient and civilized races in the universe. They are able to regenerate, while completely changing their appearance, which makes them virtually immortal, and allows the creators of the show to shoot new episodes up to infinity. To date, under the name of the Doctor (and exactly in this formulation), 12 actors have already appeared on the screen.

First Doctor

William Hartnell

"I am a citizen of the universe and a gentleman to boot!"

The First Doctor wore shoulder-length gray hair and a formal black frock coat. He complained about walking, which he could not afford, grumbled, groaned and coughed - in a word, he behaved like a completely ordinary old man. He even had a granddaughter, Susan, with whom he fled from Gallifrey in a defective police beech stolen from a repair shop called the TARDIS. However, paradoxically, no matter what season you start watching the series, you will no longer see the younger Doctor. The First's youth betrayed itself in everything: he was curious, often impatient and never apologized. While Newschool Doctors have grown up saying that they are "very, very sorry," Hartnell's Doctor believed that "apologizing is the last thing that makes any sense."

second doctor

Patrick Troughton

“Our lives are different from others. It's amazing".

It was thanks to the Second Doctor that the audience learned that the regeneration does not go smoothly and after it the time lord behaves like a plague for the first time: he does not think well and cannot remember much.

The second fully justified the nickname “Space Tramp” stuck to him. He seemed more shabby than the First, and carried himself more simply. But he could not be denied the ability to manipulate others - Doctor Trotona was far from always being as naive as he wanted to appear. He had panic attacks, but he was no stranger to heroism. When the Time Lords in court accused the Second of interfering in the course of history, he not only showed no signs of remorse, but also declared that he was quite proud of himself. With the insolent on Gallifrey, however, the conversation is short, so the Second was sentenced to forced regeneration and exile to the Earth of the twentieth century.

Third Doctor

John Pertwee

"I feel like I'm some kind of galactic yo-yo!"

The Third Doctor is about James Bond, if not cooler: he flaunted in a velvet suit, practiced aikido and karate, shut up officials with a half-turn with the signature “Now listen to me!”. He spent most of his time working for UNIT as a scientific advisor, but occasionally went on missions as Time Lords. Dr. Pertwee is the only Doctor with a tattoo. Within the framework of the series, it meant "exile", although in fact the actor stuffed it while serving in the Navy.

Fourth Doctor

Tom Baker

"What's the point of growing up if you can't be childish sometimes?"

If the creators of the series are not lying, the image of the Fourth Doctor was inspired by the Toulouse-Lautrec painting “Ambassador. Aristide Bruant in his cabaret. A well-worn suit and a two-meter multi-colored scarf and made the Fourth, perhaps the most recognizable incarnation of the Doctor. He not only dressed strangely, but also joked, and in general seemed to be a much bigger alien than his predecessors. What was especially captivating about the Fourth was his love of gummies, which he offered to everyone, and sometimes used to bluff.

Fifth Doctor

Peter Davison

“Sometimes I wonder why I love people from this pathetic planet so much.”

The Fifth is the youngest of the classic Doctors and the most vulnerable. Humanity, which is more in him than in other incarnations, sometimes prevented the Fifth from acting decisively, but he was handsome. He wore a cream frock coat with a celery sprig at the lapel, striped trousers, athletic shoes, and glasses to make himself look more handsome. For luck, Fifth took a cricket ball with him everywhere. Scuffle preferred diplomacy, even though Davison was only 29 at the time of filming.

Sixth Doctor

Colin Baker

"The weak human brain can be very efficient if used properly."

The Sixth Doctor is a walking paradox. For all his arrogance and intolerance of fools, he chose the most stupid outfit in history - Colin Baker called his suit "an explosion at the rainbow factory." Accessories also did not save: the Sixth carried a multi-colored umbrella with him, and pinned badges in the form of cats on his lapel. He explained this quirk as fashion on a distant planet, but perhaps in between travels, someone just liked to stick on YouTube.

By the way, Colin Baker turned out to be no less a drama queen than his Doctor: he didn’t want to leave the series so much that he even refused to star in the regeneration scene, and Sylvester McCoy had to take the rap for two.

Seventh Doctor

Sylvester McCoy

"The maps always mark north and south, but for some reason never forward and backward."

Starting comically - a small man with a large umbrella and a Scottish accent - the Seventh gradually revealed himself as one of the darkest incarnations of the Doctor. He was a clever manipulator and, despite the fact that he sometimes had completely paternal feelings for his companions, he often perceived what was happening from a distance. The indispensable battle between the “bad guys” and “ours” was considered by the Seventh as a chess game, since he was a fan of the game. The reason for Doctor McCoy's regeneration is perhaps the most prosaic in the entire history of the series: upon landing in San Francisco, he caught a bandit bullet as soon as he got out of the TARDIS.

Eighth Doctor

Paul McGann

"I'm easy to find - I'm a guy with two hearts!"

The first incarnation of the Doctor, finally hooked up with a companion! Until the Eighth, no one could boast of kissing with pretty human girls, but he charmed Grace Holloway and thereby opened Pandora's box. From that moment on, the Doctor's romantic relationship did not give rest to either the writers or, of course, the fans. Throughout the film, Dr. McGanna demonstrated enthusiasm, zest for life, and pickpocket skills. Everything would be fine, but it was he, however, already in the mini-episode filmed 17 years later, who had to regenerate into (spoiler!) War Doctor in order to stop the Time War.

Military Doctor

John Hurt

"I'm not a doctor".

Moffat's retroactively created War Doctor was considered the Valeyard, the embodiment of the Doctor's dark side, for a long time after his first appearance in the series, but it was revealed in the episode "The Day of the Doctor" that the Eighth was regenerated into him to end the Time War. Hurt's character refused to call himself the Doctor, because he had to destroy two whole races - the Lords of Time and the Daleks, and this contradicted the main principle of the Doctor - to save lives. All subsequent incarnations up to the Eleventh could not forgive themselves for what they had done, however, having learned what really happened, he told the warrior that he "was the Doctor more than anyone else."

Ninth Doctor

Christopher Eccleston

“You think about death all the time, like eggs or beef or global warming or asteroids will kill you. But you never imagine the impossible - that perhaps you will survive."

The Ninth Doctor, from which the so-called new school began, turned out to be gloomy and prone to melancholy. He remembered that in the previous regeneration he put an end to the Time War, and could not forgive himself for the genocide of two extraterrestrial races at once. Eccleston's doctor was rather twitchy (any error of a satellite led to a peremptory landing at home), but under the influence of Rose Tyler, he began to thaw. The ninth looked more brutal than all previous Doctors - he refused any accessories, wore a short haircut and a leather jacket.

Tenth Doctor

David Tennant

“You can spend the rest of your life with me... but I can't spend the rest of mine with you. I must continue to live. One. This is the curse of the Time Lords."

The tenth, more than any other, showed how deeply alone he was. However, none of the Doctors was such a hero-lover. Dr. Tennant kissed Madame de Pompadour, Elizabeth I, and most of his companions (and this is only in the frame!), And the cloak, which became the hallmark of the Tenth, was given to him, according to him, by Janis Joplin. The tenth spoke a lot and quickly, joked funny, but external energy was called upon, rather, to hide his constant sadness. With his enemies, he was serious and even ruthless, but admitted that he cried, finishing the seventh book of Harry Potter. In general, it is easy to understand the girls who have dried up and will dry up according to the Tenth.

Eleventh Doctor

Matt Smith

“Listen, you need to get one thing clear about traveling with me, well, other than the blue booth and the two hearts. We're not leaving."

Interestingly, it was the youngest performer of the role - Matt Smith - who had to play the oldest Doctor of the first cycle of regenerations. It's amazing how well he did it. The strange hats and bow ties made Eleven boyishly delighted, but never before had the Universe known a hipster with such sad and tired eyes. A special sensitivity towards children is practically the first thing that, together with Amy Pond, the audience noted in Dr. Smith, because “if you were as old, as kind and the last of your kind, you would not be able to calmly watch how children crying."

Twelfth Doctor

Peter Capaldi

2013 - present V.

"Who frowned at my face?"

The twelfth is much closer to the classic Doctors than to the newschool regenerations: a dark cloak with red lining, gray hair and a sullen look from under the eyebrows - the whole image is built in contrast to the god-faced Tennant and Smith. The creators of the series decided to clearly explain to the fans: the Doctor should be loved not because he is young and incredibly good-looking, but because he is the Doctor. Capaldi understands this well, and, feeling his withering gaze on himself, you definitely want to fall in love with the Twelfth.

Artifacts

Tough guys rarely rush to fight evil and universal injustice with their bare hands: Gandalf has a Glamdring sword and a magic staff, Harry Potter has a magic wand and an invisibility cloak, Master Yoda has a lightsaber. The doctor is also well equipped.

TARDIS

(TARDIS – Time And RelativeDimension(s) In Space)

Everyone at least once caught himself talking to technology. The Doctor constantly sins with this, with the only difference from the mentally unbalanced us that his TARDIS time machine really understands everything. Thanks to the special technology of the Time Lords, this type of spacecraft is telepathically connected to the pilot and exists in symbiosis with him. TARDIS are so alive that they are not built on Gallifrey, but grown. A working TARDIS adjusts to the landscape and era when it lands, but the Doctor's time machine's cloaking mechanism is broken, and it always looks like a blue 1963 police box. The unwritten rule for all who step on board is to notice that she is bigger inside than outside. "Bigger on the inside" has long been a commonplace and the subject of jokes, but it's really hard to resist this remark. Almost always, the viewer is shown only the console, but it is known that the TARDIS has an art gallery, a library, a swimming pool, a multi-level dressing room and bedrooms for satellites - in general, the Doctor lives beautifully, because he can. In addition, the TARDIS translates from all existing languages ​​except ancient Gallifreyan and allows passengers to speak them fluently, and in a vacuum provides an air field. The Doctor managed to speak with the TARDIS in the usual sense only once, when her matrix moved into a woman, but sometimes the ship uses a voice interface, appearing to the Doctor in the images of people dear to him. Of course, you can call the TARDIS - after all, a telephone booth.

Sonic screwdriver

In terms of versatility, the Doctor's sonic screwdriver will give odds to even the most sophisticated items of any store on the couch: it repairs the vast majority of mechanical damage, lights candles, turns electronic devices on and off, recognizes and deactivates camouflage, it can be used to remotely control the TARDIS, charge the battery, intercept signals like a medical scanner and just a flashlight. The doctor rarely needs money, however, they can also be obtained with a screwdriver, simply by pointing it at an ATM. But mainly a screwdriver is used to open / close locks of all stripes. One problem - the super gadget is completely useless when it comes to wood.

Time Lord Clock

The mechanism, which is based on the technology of the masters of time for the transformation of one biological species into another. The Doctor, like the Master, used such a clock to change his DNA to human and thus safely hide from any persecution. After the DNA replacement procedure, the owner of the watch forgets who he is and has no chance of remembering it until he opens the watch.

Psychic Paper

Psychic paper opens doors like a sonic screwdriver. The doctor slips it in any situation when it is necessary to present a pass or an identity card that he does not have and cannot have, and those who have never undergone special training see exactly what he wants them to see. In "Silence in the Library", it was revealed that the psychic paper can also receive messages for the Doctor.

superphone

The Superphone is a mobile phone modified with a sonic screwdriver that the Newschool Doctors give out to their companions so that they can contact them wherever they are in time and space. The dream of all mobile operators and mothers.

Companions of the Doctor

Even the unprepared viewer knows that the Doctor almost never travels alone. Actually, series about relationships in the absence of super-cool aliens from outer space exist and are even popular, and sci-fi series that would not have something humany-womany should be looked for. The viewer needs satellites no less than the Doctor himself. Firstly, a series or (especially in newschool) an entire story arc is often built around them, and secondly, while explaining something to his companions, the Doctor explains this to you, who have already broken their heads at the screen. Since 1963, the blue booth has seen so many people that it would be enough for a rather thick telephone directory, so we chose the most memorable ones for the guide, although it is clear that everyone has their own favorite companion, like the Doctor.

"I understand these earthlings better than you: their minds reject what they don't understand."

Susan Foreman (Carol Ann Ford)

The first companion of the Doctor was the lady of time, who took a completely human name as a pseudonym. There are different versions about the origin of Susan - for example, that the Doctor fled with her from her home planet to save the girl from execution - however, this topic was never raised in the frame, and Susan simply called the Doctor grandfather. Once in London, she began to cultivate musical taste and go to school. Susan considered the physics and chemistry taught there too easy, but she did not really understand the British system of weights and measures, which aroused the suspicion of her teachers Barbara Wright and Ian Chesterton. It is strange how people brought up on stories about Sherlock Holmes could be alarmed at all by the ignorance of the main clever man in everyday matters, but one way or another, following Susan, Barbara and Ian declassified the Doctor. Killing those who know too much was not allowed by the internal installation, but taking hostages is completely. So the teachers also became his companions, one of the few - involuntarily.

Susan ended her journey in the TARDIS by falling in love with a young rebel from the 22nd century, David Campbell. Even in this situation, she did not want to leave her grandfather, so he simply closed the door on her and promised to return someday. They only met again in The Five Doctors, in the Dead Zone on Gallifrey.

"What I like about alien threats is the lack of immunity to bullets."

Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart (Nicholas Courtney)

You can love him for his equanimity and courage, you can because he sometimes wore a kilt, or you can for his awesome mustache! The Brigadier is not only one of the Doctor's most famous companions, but also the founder of UNIT. Besides, few have dealt with more incarnations of the Doctor than Lethbridge-Stewart. Nicholas Courtney's character first met the Second Doctor while still a colonel in the British Army, when he was sent in search of the Yeti on the London Underground. The Third Doctor, during his exile on Earth, was appointed by the Brigadier as UNIT's scientific advisor. He later crossed paths with the Fourth, Fifth and Seventh Doctors. Although the Doctor was often rebuked by the Brigadier's methods of shooting to kill without much conversation, over the years their cooperation grew into a friendship. The Eleventh Doctor learned of the Brigadier's death over the phone and looked completely lost as he received yet another reminder that none of his friends are eternal. Lethbridge-Stewart's case is continued by his daughter Kate.

“I have seen amazing things in outer space, but strange things can happen anywhere. I realized that life on Earth can also be full of adventure.”

Sarah Jane Smith (Elizabeth Sladen)

The popularity of Sarah Jane Smith is so great that her name can still be found with absolute probability in any top of satellites. In addition, after reuniting with the Tenth Doctor, she received her own spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures. Sladen's character is truly iconic - not only did she travel with some of the most popular Doctors, she completely changed the concept of the companion. She is the first to become equal to the Doctor: it all started with a refusal to serve him coffee - in the end, Sarah Jane turned out to be a companion who does not have to be saved endlessly. She is able to stand up for herself, is not lost in a critical situation and is ready to take risks. The new series made it clear that the separation from the Doctor did not break Sarah Jane: she continues to fight alien threats and is raising her son Luke.

Good doggy. - I confirm.

K-9 (John Leeson)

The Doctor's cutest companion, robot dog K-9, first appeared in "The Invisible Enemy". Infected with a strange virus, the Fourth Doctor directed the TARDIS to a nearby medical center, where he met Professor Marius and his miracle dog. With the help of K-9, the Doctor managed to defeat the virus and stop its spread. Here the Fourth could pat the dog on the metal casing and say goodbye, but Professor Marius had to fly to Earth, and he could not take the K-9 with him because of the overweight. As a result, the most unusual dog settled in the strangest phone booth in the universe. It soon became clear that in the event of a breakdown of the K-9, it was possible to assemble its new model based on the previous one, which the Doctor did every time. The tenth left a model dog for Sarah Jane IV when the previous one failed. Of course, K-9 does not execute commands in the usual sense, but it has phenomenal intelligence and accurately recognizes aliens, and this is cooler than the talking husky Mishka from YouTube.

“But what should I do every day, mother? Getting up, getting on the bus, going to work, coming home, eating fries and going to bed - is that all?”

Rose Tyler (Billie Piper)

The story of Rose Tyler is one of those that always warm the soul - the hero lives the most ordinary life (just like you), but it is with him that a miracle happens. Rose did not rave about space, did not wait for the prince - she lived alone with her mother and worked as a salesman in a clothing store. There she met the Ninth Doctor, who saved her from the reanimated mannequins. Rose did not seek an outstanding fate so much that she did not immediately agree to travel in the TARDIS. But once she crossed the threshold of the blue police box, she remained in the hearts of the fans of the series for a long time. The Doctor transported Rose to the day her father died and allowed her to be by his side in his final moments. Rose gradually helped the Doctor come to terms with himself. The character of Billie Piper is associated with the Bad Wolf arc - throughout the first season of new school, she and the Doctor were haunted by the words "Bad Wolf". In the final series, it was revealed that the Bad Wolf is Rose herself, who looked into the heart of the TARDIS and allowed the time vortex to enter her consciousness in order to save the Doctor, and that the messages, the meaning of which until then remained unclear, were also her work. The time vortex turned out to be fatal for Rose, and the Doctor had to "remove" her with a kiss, after which he himself regenerated. The romance that was just beginning to emerge with the Ninth Doctor was fully developed with the Tenth Doctor, and just say that you didn't have a lump in your throat at: “This is my last chance to say it. Rose Tyler...” Especially for those who over the next two seasons collected the same heart in pieces, Rose met the Doctor for the last time at the end of the fourth. He did not finish the phrase, the continuation of which everyone was waiting for, but left his double to his companion, who could grow old with her.

"Did someone kiss me?"

Jack Harkness (John Barrowman)

The first openly bisexual, or rather pansexual companion of the Doctor. Captain Jack's superpowers include immortality and how godlessly his military uniform suits him. On the screen, he did not flirt with the Daleks, but if they had any chance to resist the charm of Jack Harkness, then the housewives of Britain, and then the whole world, lost sleep with his first appearance in the series. Jack is not a constant companion of the Doctor, but only occasionally crosses paths with him, traveling through time with the help of a time vortex manipulator that he wears on his wrist. By 2009, the character of Barrowman had grown from a space swindler posing as an RAF officer to the leader of the Torchwood III Institute and acquired his own spin-off TV series, Torchwood. In the episode "The Last Time Lord", Jack revealed that as a child he had a nickname - the Face of Bo - which cannot but suggest a connection with a very ancient and very mysterious alien, whom the Tenth Doctor met three times. Officially, the creators of this hypothesis have never been confirmed, but in the same room, like you and Batman, no one saw Jack and Face Bo.

"I'm Donna Noble. Human. It's not as legendary as the lords of change, but it's just as important."

Donna Noble (Katherine Tate)

What distinguishes Donna Noble from all Newschool companions is that she is perhaps the only one who did not see him as a potential boyfriend for a second. When talking to the Doctor, Donna never chose a phrase and always put Ten in his place. After the first episode with her, all you can think about is why she yells like that (although you wouldn’t yell like that if you were stolen by a strange man in a flying phone booth from your own wedding). But the main thing in the character of Tate, of course, is not impulsiveness, but her endless sensitivity and kindness, and with each episode you love Donna more and more. It is hard to imagine that someone else forced the Doctor to disrupt the course of history and save the family from the dying Pompeii, just like that someone else easily called the Doctor a Martian. Of all the companions, Donna's fate after parting with the Doctor seems both the easiest and the most terrible. In Journey's End, Donna became a half-time lord, allowing her to save the universe from the Daleks, but the human body was unable to contain the inhuman consciousness, and the Doctor had to erase Donna's memory of their travels together. On the one hand - she had no reason to miss the Doctor, on the other - she lived a rather ordinary life as a British clerk, unaware that "in one brilliant moment she was the most important woman in the universe."

"I know. It was my favorite topic at school. ‘Hot Italian Boys in Britain’… Yes, I know, I got a lower mark for the title.”

Amy Pond (Karen Gillan)

Ordinary children are afraid of the dark, dogs, dentists, math teachers. Amy Pond has never been an ordinary child. As a child, Amelia was frightened only by a crack in the wall in her room, but the blue booth that fell from the sky in front of the house in which she and her aunt lived, and the guy in a tattered suit who fell out of it, did not. The guy introduced himself as the Doctor, rummaged through the entire refrigerator, ate fish sticks with custard and ran away, promising to return in five minutes. And the truth returned, but after 12 years. During this time, Amy managed to get prettier and bite all the psychiatrists who tried to convince her that she invented the Doctor in tatters. Returning in full confidence that the promised five minutes were absent, and finding the grown-up Amelia, the Eleventh, of course, was confused, but this did not stop him from saving the world and disappearing for another two years. When the Doctor landed at her house for the third time on the eve of her wedding, Amy agreed to fly with him without hesitation. During her travels in the TARDIS, Amy met Van Gogh, rescued a space whale, learned that the crack in her bedroom wall was one of many left by the exploding TARDIS, and spent two thousand years in the Pandorica, a prison designed specifically for the world's most dangerous criminal. Universe. She also managed to marry her fiancé Rory, and the Doctor not only did not ruin this marriage, but also saved it several times.

"Where is my wife?"

Rory Williams (Arthur Darvill)

It is commonly believed that women are impossible to please because they themselves do not know what they want. In fact, all you have to do is be Rory Williams. If your girlfriend is hooked on the Doctor, get ready that starting from the fifth season, you will share the title of the best boyfriend in the universe with the hero of Arthur Darvill at best. He not only guarded Amy locked in the Pandorica for two thousand years, but also resurrected for her a couple of times. Rory fought vampires and sirens, was completely erased from history, was a plastic Roman centurion, was sent back in time by the Weeping Angel, and under no circumstances stopped loving Amy. And if at first the fans could pun, they say, the Doctor is the Doctor, and Rory is just a nurse, then by the end of the sixth season, their jokes boiled down to the fact that Chuck Norris would like to be Rory Williams, and Voldemort's boggart always looked like Rory.

“I went to a gypsy gay bar to get drunk, and then I thought:“ My God, the Third Reich is such bullshit, I’ll kill the Fuhrer! ””

River Song (Alex Kingston)

Being the Doctor's companion is not easy, if only because you always have to be ready to part. Being a time traveler is even more difficult. The whole tragedy of the relationship between River and the Doctor lies in the fact that they meet in the reverse order and the first meeting for him turns out to be the last for her. For the sake of the Doctor, River sacrifices himself, and he does not even understand how she knows so much about him and why she claims that someday he will be able to absolutely trust her. Later, the Doctor learned that Professor Song had the ability to regenerate, was imprisoned for the murder of "the best person she had ever known", and also that she was the daughter of Amy and Rory - Melody Pond, kidnapped by the religious sect of Silence, who planned to raise from child is the perfect weapon against the Doctor. In order not to spoil the Doctor for his future and to find out at what point in his life their next meeting takes place, River keeps a diary, which, of course, is forbidden for the Doctor himself to look into. River lives up to Eleven's nickname of "devil in high heels" - she's smart, determined, and, unlike him, "really doesn't mind shooting people." In general, who better than her to be the wife of the Doctor.

"You're not my boss - more like a hobby."

Clara Oswin Oswald (Jenna-Louise Coleman)

The Impossible Girl made two appearances on the show before finally becoming the Doctor's constant companion. In the episode "Dalek Detention Center", her name is Oswin Oswald. The doctor did not see the girl's face, but Oswin herself learned that her ship had crashed and, unable to get out of the planet she had landed on, she defended herself from the Daleks and baked soufflé for a year. After attempting to save Oswin, Eleven discovered that she herself had been completely transformed into a Dalek and made up a life for herself to isolate herself from reality. The Doctor could not hide this from Oswin, and she could only help him escape and change the general telepathic information of all the Daleks, removing any information about him from there.

In the episode "The Snowmen", the Doctor met a governess named Clara Oswin Oswald in Victorian England, which reminded him of his meeting in the Daleks' detention center. The second Clara helped the Doctor save the Earth from the Great Intelligence (in other words, from living alien snow), but died, like Oswin Oswald.

The third Clara, living in the 21st century, called the TARDIS, thinking she was dialing the tech support number the woman in the store had given her. This version of her the Doctor could not afford to lose, because the mystery of the "impossible girl" haunted him. It turned out that while traveling to the cemetery planet Trenzalore, Clara stepped into the Doctor's time stream to finally defeat the Great Intelligence, and scattered into many copies that saved the Doctor in each of his incarnations. She advises the First Doctor to choose the very TARDIS on which he fled from Gallifrey, and the Twelfth, if not for Clara, we would not have seen at all, because it was she who begged the Time Lords to send the Doctor another cycle of regenerations. The original Clara is still the Doctor's companion and, along with the audience, gets used to Peter Capaldi in this role.

Any story about a good guy without bad guys will be insipid. And since the Doctor is supposed to save planets and beautiful women, someone has to attack them. In addition, the rebels need to somehow express themselves, and while the fools are drowning for good, outstanding personalities are waiting for what the villains will please them in the new episode. And they are happy to try.

“The new ones are far away. The true ones are far away. I have my children, Doctor. What do you have…now?”

Davros (Terry Molloy)

The evil genius is a fertile topic, and the writers of The Doctor did not fail to take advantage of it. One of the main antagonists of the series is Davros, an obsessed scientist from the planet Skaro, who created the Doctor's main enemies, the Daleks, in an attempt to bring out an ideal life form into which his race could mutate. As usual, the creature got out of control and sort of killed the creator, but Davros turned out to be such a colorful villain that his death was replayed, and he returned to the series more than once. Returning for the last (at the moment) time, he told the Doctor that he managed to get out of the time trap in which the Time War was going on, and restored the Daleks race at the expense of his own cells. With the new Daleks, Davros planned to destroy the universe with a reality bomb, but was stopped by Donna. The Daleks (for the umpteenth time!) came to an end, but Davros refused to fly away with the Doctor, and one can only guess about his future fate.

“There is always a place for surprise in experiments. Science is a tricky thing."

Rani (Kate O'Mara)

Unlike other villains, Rani is not interested in the destruction of the Earth, in fact, like any other planet. She creates chaos out of love for art. At one time, Rani did not want to cook borscht for some budding time lord and took up scientific experiments on living beings. After a hefty mouse grown by her ate the cat of President Gallifrey, she was expelled from her home planet, and Rani launched a stormy scientific activity throughout the universe. Everything would be fine, but Rani was never accurate in her experiments, and, of course, the Doctor had to eliminate all their catastrophic consequences.

"I am the Master and you will obey me."

Master (Roger Delgado, John Simm)

Like most supervillains, the Master is a megalomaniac psycho. He went crazy as a child, when he saw the entire time Vortex at the initiation ceremony of the time lords. Despite the fact that the Master is one of the main antagonists of the series, it is difficult to call him the worst enemy of the Doctor. Their relationship is more like the story of Grindelwald and Dumbledore or, if you like, Magneto and Professor Xavier: equally gifted and eager to change the world, they were friends until one began to dream of absolute power. As a weapon, the Master first used a tissue destroyer compressor, and then acquired a laser screwdriver. Such a visual opposition to the Doctor's sonic screwdriver is not accidental, because the Master's line is interesting because the Doctor always sees what he can, but should not become. The Master's main weakness is pride, the Doctor's compassion, and it's hard to say which of these two is more hopeless: the Doctor with admirable tenacity starts soul-saving conversations with the Master, but he still won't stop fooling around. Steepness is steepness, but you can’t argue against the archetype.

Creatures and aliens

Doctor Who without aliens is like Monty Python without jokes. For 50 years, the Doctor has not met anyone, but there are definitely iconic races for the series.

Space salt shakers-fascists from the planet Skaro, who subordinated their existence to the only goal - to destroy in the Universe everyone who is not far away. Armed with the likeness of a mixer and a vantus, they endlessly hysterically shout out their most recognizable phrase: "DESTROY!" The Daleks are the Doctor's longtime enemies and have been on his nerves since the second episode of the classic series' first season. How many times the Doctor managed to get rid of them, the same number of times they returned. To date, these guys have become so firmly entrenched in British culture that the very word "dalek" was included in the Oxford English Dictionary.

Cybermen

Cybermen are cybernetically improved humanoids, but in reality they are the same communists: they want to equalize everyone, leaving no gender, no emotions, no names. They are ready in this way to “improve” everyone in the Universe who wants to, and “delete” everyone who does not want to. There are two main types of Cybermen - natives of the planet Mondas and created in a parallel reality by John Lumic, head of the Cybus Industries corporation. Like the Daleks, the Cybermen are one of the main enemies of the Doctor, however, according to the Daleks, they are superior to their race only in one way - they die better.

Weeping angels

Weeping angels send the victim to a random moment in the past with a touch, and they themselves feed on the energy of the days that the poor fellows could live in their own time. According to the Doctor, angels are "the only psychopaths in the universe who kill beautifully," but they also do not disdain to turn people's necks. The only way to stop an angel is to look at him without blinking. The "quantum lock" allows them to exist only outside the field of view of other living beings, and as long as you do not take your eyes off the angel, he remains just a stone statue. Weeping Angels don't share the Daleks' and Cybermen's love of shouting out threats in a ridiculous voice, and that's probably why they're so scary.

Sontarans

Aggressive clones from the planet Sontar, most reminiscent of mutated potatoes. Sontarans see war as the meaning of life and do not know other joys. They go into battle as if on a holiday and do not turn their backs on the enemy. The latter, by the way, is explained not so much by exceptional courage as by the fact that in the back of the neck is their most vulnerable spot - the hole through which they receive food.

Silurians

Silurians are reptilians who lived on Earth before it became mainstream. People who appeared here much later are treated with hostility and contemptuously called "monkeys". Global cooling drove the Silurians underground, but they do not lose their determination sooner or later to return the planet to themselves. Several subspecies of the Silurians are known, but all of them are united by a high level of development of technology, culture and medicine.

Confessors of Silence

Telepathic humanoids, the main feature of which is the presence of a second - external hind - brain. Usually uds carry it in their hands as a symbol of the fact that they are by nature completely non-aggressive and do not even have the physical ability to take up arms. Trying to make ideal slaves out of ouds, people replaced their external brain with a sphere with which they spoke, and it just turned out to be capable of harming a person. Despite their not very attractive appearance, the ouds are distinguished by a fine mental organization and sing surprisingly beautiful and sad - almost like The National - songs.

Zygon metamorphs are also among those who want to take over the Earth. In their usual form, they are completely covered with suckers, however, for the purpose of disguise, they prefer to take the form of other living beings. One Zygon, pretending to be Elizabeth I, even managed to kiss the Doctor, so it's our job to warn you: be careful when meeting girls!

Ice Warriors

The Ice Warriors are an ancient race of reptiles from Mars. Artificially bred as slave soldiers, even after gaining freedom and becoming the rulers of the Red Planet, they did not get rid of the propensity for military expansion and attempted on Earth several times. To maintain the required body temperature, the Ice Warriors wear "survival armor" that also has sonic weapons built into it. It is worth noting that the Ice Warriors, unlike the Sontarans, are wise and even not alien to mercy.

Organizations

UNIT (UNITED NATIONS)
INTELLIGENCE TASKFORCE)

The military organization UNIT, engaged in the study of alien threats and the fight against them, was founded in the UK as soon as the UN realized that the more actively humanity explores space, the more attention (not always desirable) it attracts to itself. The need for such a structure was dotted by the yeti robot invasion of the London Underground in the late 1960s. The leadership of UNIT was entrusted to Colonel Alistair Lethbridge-Stewart of the British Army. The Third Doctor collaborated with UNIT during his exile on Earth as a scientific adviser, however, even after leaving the organization, he repeatedly helped resolve critical situations. Today, the leader of UNIT is the daughter of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart, Kate.

TORCHWOOD INSTITUTE

Torchwood is a secret organization dedicated to the study of aliens and the supernatural. The history of the Institute began with the meeting of Queen Victoria with the Tenth Doctor. For the Queen, this acquaintance opened her eyes to the existence of enemies outside the Earth, and as the first alien she met, the Doctor opened their list. At first, Torchwood had to deal with alien threats, but in 1882, Victoria broadly expanded the powers of the secret institute, allowing it to search for and capture alien technology and artifacts. The main department of the institute was based in London, where it investigated the hole formed at a height of 200 meters between the dimensions. Another branch - Torchwood III - was opened in Cardiff after the discovery there of a gap in the space-time continuum.

A religious sect that uses every conceivable and unthinkable means - from exploding the TARDIS to raising the perfect killer - to destroy the Doctor. Their main fear is that he will reveal his real name and thereby free the imprisoned Time Lords, who will start the Time War again. The goal, it would seem, is noble, but fanaticism obscures the adjunct of the movement to Madame Kovarian and the Confessors of Silence and does not allow to understand that if anyone is more disgusted by the idea of ​​resuming the War than they are, then only the Doctor himself.

Spin-offs

To date, there are as many as three spin-offs of the main series. It is possible that at some point someone had little money, but I want to believe that some really cool characters just got cramped within the framework of one "Doctor".

A children's series about the adventures of a K-9 robot and two teenagers - Starkey and Georgie. The design of K-9 differs from the canonical design, and the Doctor himself does not appear in any episode due to the fact that the rights to the Doctor characters belong to the Air Force, which does not participate in the production of K-9.

The Adventures of Sarah Jane

A spin-off about the life of the Doctor's former companion Sarah Jane Smith and her adopted children Luke and Skye. "Adventures" is aimed at a teenage audience and, like all such series, teaches you to value friendship and treat those who are not like you with understanding. So the author of the series, Russell T. Davies, admitted that as part of the BBC's lessons in tolerance, Luke Smith in the new seasons, the filming of which was canceled due to the death of the main actress of the series, Elizabeth Sladen, had, for example, to show his homosexuality. The Doctor appears twice in the series in his tenth incarnation and once in his 11th.

Series about the Cardiff branch of the Torchwood Institute. You won’t show this spin-off to children, because the main character, handsome Jack Harkness, according to the plot, not only catches aliens, but also sleeps with everyone in a row. "Torchwood" is littered with references to "The Doctor" - some of them are obvious, some are designed for an attentive viewer. For example, throughout the first season, Harkness keeps the Tenth Doctor's hand cut off immediately after regeneration. In some episodes, you can see the "Vote Saxon" posters associated with the story arc of the third season of new school or the inscription "Bad Wolf", which was constantly seen by the Ninth Doctor.Adventure
in space and time

An Adventure in Space and Time is a drama film about the making of Doctor Who, written by Mark Gatiss for the series' 50th anniversary. After watching it, you can find out how everything was invented without which it is now impossible to imagine the "Doctor": how the sound of the TARDIS was recorded, the screen saver was shot, or the voices were voiced. Any fan will definitely be pleased with how similar David Bradley is to William Hartnell and how reverently the creators reacted to the material. The film is so good that it can be advised even to those who have not seen a single series of "Doctor" yet - as a very touching story that everything done with great love will surely find a response in people's hearts, the main thing is not to give up.

Doctor Who: Confidential

A documentary series about the production of The Doctor. Each new 30-45 minute episode aired on BBC 3 immediately after the end of the next episode on BBC 1. Doctor Who: Confidential is worth watching for the many interviews of actors, writers, producers, make-up artists and costume designers, behind-the-scenes funny moments and awareness show scale. With the new season kicks off Doctor Who Extra, a ten-minute episode covering the history of the show and filming new episodes, which will air on BBC iPlayer and BBC Red Button.

The first soft-shell novelization of The Doctor, Doctor Who and the Spectacular Adventure with the Daleks by David Whitaker, was published in 1964 by Armada Books. Then Frederick Muller Ltd. released three more hardcover books.

In 1996, books focused primarily on the Eighth Doctor were published by BBC Books. And Puffin Eshorts promised to publish a collection of 12 Doctors - 12 Stories. It is easy to guess that in it each of the incarnations of the Doctor will be assigned a story. By the way, the story of the Eleventh Doctor Nothing O'Clock was written by American Gods author Neil Gaiman.

While writers were initially inspired by television episodes, over time the opposite process began to occur. Thus, Paul Cornell's 1995 novel about the Seventh Doctor "Human Nature" was made into a double episode with the Tenth Doctor, and the famous Blink series is based on the 2006 Doctor Who Annual story What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow.

Audio plays

If the books are not enough for you, you can stick to the audio series about the Doctor, which was licensed in 1999 by Big Finish Productions. The first 15 audio plays were released on cassettes and CDs, the rest can only be bought on CDs or downloaded online. In addition to the productions about the Doctor, Big Finish also release spin-offs about the Dalek Empire, the modern UNIT and the Doctor's home planet Gallifrey. In addition, together with AudioGo, Big Finish released a series of audiobooks for the Doctor's anniversary, the text of which is read by actors who played companions in different years. Audio plays require decent English proficiency, but why not improve your language? Moreover, the series itself is worth watching in the original in order to appreciate the play on words, which can be difficult to adequately translate into Russian, and the Scottish accent of some Doctors and companions.

Doctor Who:
The Adventure Games

A series of single-player adventure games starring the Eleventh Doctor and Amy Pond released in 2010-2011. Includes five episodes: "City of the Daleks", "Blood of the Cybermen", "TARDIS", "Shadows of Vashta Nerada" and "The Gunpowder Plot". All five games are, in fact, interactive episodes of the series, and even the author of the Doctor's soundtrack, Murray Gold, wrote the music for them.

Doctor Who:
The Eternity Clock

A 2012 stealth platformer in which the Eleventh Doctor and Professor River Song must save the Earth and assemble the four pieces of the Eternity Clock by cutting out the Daleks, Cybermen, Silurians, and Silence along the way.

Doctor Who Magazine

The official source for all new information related to the production of the series, in 2010 Doctor Who Magazine entered the Guinness Book of Records as the longest-running television series magazine. In the issues for different years you can find comics about different incarnations of the Doctor, interviews, episode reviews and spoilers for new seasons. In June 2008, the cover of Doctor Who Magazine featured only the phrase "Bad Wolf" instead of the logo.

Music

In addition to the epic BBC Doctor Who Proms at the Albert Hall, the series also created a whole musical direction - timelord rock. Fans use the main themes of the series in their compositions, especially creative ones themselves write both music and words. The most famous group was Chameleon Circuit, who recorded as many as two albums dedicated to the Doctor. The guys also have martyr ballads in the spirit of “Mr. Pond", and quite perky ones like "Still Not Ginger".

Merchandise

True Hoovians rarely limit themselves to just watching all the classics, newschool, mini-episodes and interviews with the actors and strive to make their love for The Doctor visible to the world. For these purposes, you can fill your name in Gallifreyan all over your back, you can wrap yourself in a scarf, like the Fourth, you can go everywhere in a fez and say that it's cool. On sale there are sonic screwdrivers of different models, plush daleks, TARDIS mugs, collectible figures of the Doctors and their companions, Cybermen masks, the main thing is to control yourself and not to mortgage the apartment in which you have to store all this.

Doctor Who and the Damnation
inevitable death

A parody short featuring the Doctor fighting the Master and the Daleks. In the film, all the cliches are brought to the point of absurdity - the pathos of the Master and the Doctor's love to be clever - and the most ridiculous fan ideas about the series are trolled: the Doctor travels with his bride and regenerates into a woman. In the parody, different incarnations of the Doctor were played by Rowan Atkinson, Richard E. Grant, Jim Broadbandt, Hugh Grant, and Joanna Lumley. What is especially funny, "The Curse of Inevitable Death" is Steven Moffat's first television work.

What to expect from the new season

The released episodes of the new season have already managed to download the fans quite well. First, it is not clear who the woman from the shop is who gave Clara the Doctor's number. Since Twelfth brought up the subject again in Deep Breath, it makes sense to wait for an answer. Secondly, a heated discussion on the network caused the emergence of a new heroine Missy - where she came from and why she talks about the Doctor as her boyfriend is completely unclear. The so-called paradise, in which this same Missy is chasing tea with the characters who died in the story, is another mystery. In addition, the creators of the series promised to play on the fact that the new Doctor Peter Capaldi has already appeared in the episode "Fires of Pompeii", so the Twelfth's question "why this particular face?" is most likely not rhetorical. In Far Inward, the Doctor asked Clara if he was a good person, which confused her. Both of them obviously have to find out, too. Geronimo!