Random Setting Trivia

[The First Doctor]

This is a place for all those odd factoids that have come up out of our threads, or that have just been bouncing around inside your skull. Jokes. Setting details. Little things that bring the wibbly-wobbly time-wimey Whoniverse to life.

[The First Doctor]

"Doctor Who" is both a series of young adult novels and a character in the novels, the first one of which was published in 1968 by "Chester Wright", the pseudonym of the husband and wife writing team Ian and Barbara Chesterton.

The first book, The Dead Planet (later retitled Doctor Who and the Daleks when the series proved to be a financial success) is the story of two orphans, Jacky Hill and Bill Russell, sent into the country during the Blitz to live with the elderly Doctor William Who and his young granddaughter Susan. In the course of the novel the two children discover Doctor Who's magical cabinet, bigger on the inside than on the outside, that can travel in time and space. Their first (accidental) trip takes them to the planet Skaro, devastated by nuclear war, where the evil Daleks plot to kill off the remaining Thals and rule Skaro themselves. The good Doctor, with the help of his granddaughter and the two orphans, stops the evil Dalek scheme and saves the Thals.

Other books in the series include:

• Doctor Who at the Roof of the World (1970)
  
• Doctor Who and the Firemaker (1971)
  
• Doctor Who Beyond the Sun (1973)
  
• Doctor Who and the Keys of Marinus (1975)
  
• Doctor Who and the Temple of Evil (1976)
  
• Doctor Who and the Strangers in Space (1978)
  
• Doctor Who in the Reign of Terror (1979)
  
• Doctor Who and the Planet of Giants (1980)
  
• Doctor Who at World's End (1981)
  
• Doctor Who in the Roman Empire (1982)
  
• Doctor Who on the Web Planet (1983)
  
• Doctor Who on Crusade (1984)
  
• Doctor Who in the Space Museum (1985)
  
• Doctor Who and the Flight through Time (1986)
  

The series was very much the Harry Potter of the 1970s and 80s, inspiring a renaissance in children's literature and a resurgence in the popularity of science, history, and science fiction.

Two of the novels - The Dead Planet and Doctor Who at World's End were produced as movies (retitled "Doctor Who and the Daleks" and "Doctor Who: Invasion 2150 AD" respectively, with Richard Hurndell playing Doctor William Who in the first movie, and Richard Harris playing the role in the second.)

The literary estate of "Chester Wright" has made no public commentary on the market similarities between the "Dalek" creatures of the Doctor Who series and the alien creatures that destroyed Canary Wharf and later dragged Earth across the galaxy.

[Sisilaya Vulmecura]

Please Time Lords, name your TARDIS. It gets so confusing lol.

Betsy the TARDIS ;D

EDIt: I've been watching some old Doctor Who episodes from the 60s to the 80s. And seeing those episodes actually gives another dimension to how Eccleston, Tennant and Smith are acting the Doctor out. Specially with Matt Smith, when his version of the doctor gets angry you really get the sense that he's an old man in a young body. You don't see it at first, but when you know the history, specially of how William Hartnell played him you see it coming through. I love it when actors work in layers like that.

[The First Doctor]

But we do, Sisi. Listen: when I talk about my capsule, I say "the TARDIS". When I talk about the Doctor's capsule, I pronounce it "TARDIS". When I talk about the Master's capsule, I pronounce it "TARDIS". Alec's capsule is pronounced "TARDIS". And so on.

It's perfectly clear.

[The Second Doctor]

Oh yes, when you pronounce mine, you roll the 'A' just a little bit.

I find it interesting that whenever Second and Third are put together, they always cause trouble, and it takes First to calm them down. This confuses me a lot, as they're all the same people.

[Sisilaya Vulmecura]

Us mere mortals cannot keep up with your Gallifreys lisps you guys :')

[The Second Doctor]

It's ok, not many can.

[The First Doctor]

When a Time Lord relates his age, it's not quite what you think it is. Time Lords only count time spent in a TARDIS or on Gallifrey as "real" time.

So a Time Lord can be thousands of years old, and legitimately state he is only 907, if he has only spent 907 years in "real time".

[Sisilaya Vulmecura]

I was wondering how they'd keep track of that, I figured the TARDIS would keep a separate clock for just his age. Or they would just scan it every so often.

Time Lords don't keep track of birth days I take? I never saw it mentioned with the doctor before.

[The Fifth Doctor]

No, us Time Lords don't celebrate such occasions, besides, I can't even remember when my birthday is, can any of you other Doctors remember? You are my previous incarnations after all.

[The First Doctor]

Venyu sankido is, like all traditions of Gallifrey, both ancient and hallowed. It is a martial science and a philosophy, with a history that dates back before the Age of Rassilon.

Looked at as a form of hand-to-hand combat, it is not largely different from other martial arts forms throughout the Spiral Politic. Practitioners learn to punch, kick, block, throw, fall, and so on - along with gymnastic skills and - before graduating to armed combat forms.

What makes it different is the mental component. All Gallifreyans are at least mildly telepathic, and even without training in one of the Academies they can perceive the flow of time around them. Venyu sankido trains both of those abilities as well, incorporating them into combat. A skilled practitioner of venyu sankido will have at least an instant's advance warning of any attack, and his every physical blow will carry a psychic attack as well.

Two skilled practitioners of venyu sankido will seem to stand motionless for full seconds, in between an exchange of blows, as each attempts to sift probabilities and predict the actions of the other.

Outside observers are often surprised to learn that Gallifrey has a tradition of martial sciences. They are even further surprised to learn that Gallifrey has a tradition of martial arts tournaments.

Once a decade - which, by the standards of the Time Lords - a full-contact venyu sankido tournament is held in the Panopticon. The tournament is surrounded by tradition and ritual. The losers gain nothing more than valuable experience in their art. The winner gains honor for his House and Family.

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