A Biography of the Doctor

The Doctor and Rose arrive on the polar region of the planet Serac. They are captured by Sontarans, operating from the mining rig The Betrothal of Sontar. It's commanding officer, Colonel Snathe, is obsessed with a legendary super-weapon called Thanatos, which he believes is located on the planet.

He forces the Doctor to help him search, and finds it. The weapon is sentient, and decides to destroy the planet of Sontar. It is stopped when Snathe's first officer, Commander Lerox, risks his life to protect Rose Tyler and the Doctor persuades it that there is still hope for the Sontarans. Snathe dies whilst escaping.

The TARDIS travels to New Earth, galaxy M87 in the year five billion and twenty three. The Doctor gets a message from the Face of Boe on his Psychic Paper telling him to go to Ward 26 of the nearby hospital. Rose meets Cassandra, who she believed to have died aboard Platform One (The End of the World).

Cassandra possesses Rose's body and manipulates the Doctor into helping her find out that the Sisters of Plenitude who run the hospital are curing diseases by growing infected human lab rats. The Doctor manages to cure the lab rats and forces Cassandra to leave Rose's body. Cassandra travels into the body of one of her cloned servants, and the Doctor allows her one last wish - to travel back to a party in her youth and tell her younger self that she looks beautiful.

Jackie tells Rose that her friend Keisha's brother Jay has died when his ship sunk. When visiting her, a “ghost” of Jay appears and turns into a puddle on the floor. It turns out that his ship was sunk by aliens called the waterhive, who want to use humanity to incubate their eggs and are using emotional ties to cause people to jump into the Thames, where the wreck is being examined. The Doctor defeats them using chemical tracers that were aboard the ship.

The Doctor and Rose decide to visit the Great Wall of China, but materialise in an area of London which is filled with fantasy creatures. It turns out to be an alien virtual reality device, which has gone wrong due to being used by a human child.

The TARDIS lands on a spaceship trapped in chronic hysteresis. Its occupants are a touring rock band, who are about to die due to sabotage on their spaceship. In the second go through the loop. The Doctor saves their lives and ends the time loop.

The Doctor intends to take Rose to a concert in 1979, but the TARDIS instead lands in 19th Century Scotland. They meet Queen Victoria and her retinue, staying with them overnight at Torchwood House, where her late husband often spent time. The local werewolf legends turn out to be true – there is a werewolf (actually an alien possessing human bodies) in the cellar, which escapes.

It turns out that Prince Albert and the father of the house's owner planned a trap for the wolf in the house's observatory. The telescope, combined with the Koh-i-noor diamond, can focus the moon's light strongly enough to kill it. After the werewolf is killed, Victoria gives the Doctor a knighthood (Sir Doctor of Tardis) and Rose a Damehood (Dame Rose of the Powell Estate) before banishing them both from the British Empire.

The Doctor invites a new companion onto the TARDIS. He links his new companion's remote control to the sonic screwdriver, enhancing its abilities. They monitor a welsh family at Christmas, noticing that the mother has been replaced by the Graske. They then track the Graske back by about 120 years to 1883.

The new companion infiltrates the Graske's base to free the people who have been replaced. They companion is spotted, and a Graske opens fire. The blast ricochets around the storage area, damaging the controls and freeing a Raxicoricofallapatorian. The Raxicoricofallapatorian breaks out and chases the Graske. The companion takes the opportunity to activate the controls choosing either to place the planet in stasis or to return the original people to their native time and place, replacing their duplicates.

The Doctor then returns his new companion back home before travelling back to pick up Rose. This adventure is caught in a time loop, and the new companion makes a different set of choices every time.

Rose falls asleep in the console room and both her and the TARDIS receive a telepathic impression of a monster on the Welsh coast. The impression is from a device that a warlike species called the Cynog are using to create a new body for their god. The Doctor and Rose investigate and ultimately thwart their plan, saving the village of Ynys Du from nightly invasions of monsters from their children's nightmares.

The TARDIS lands on an abandoned spaceship about 3,000 years in the future. It has an 18th Century French fireplace - the other side of which is in 18th Century France. The Doctor talks to Reinette - the little girl whose fireplace it is. He travels to France via this time window, arriving months later. He discovers something hiding under her bed - it wants Reinette, but she is "not yet complete" and flees back into the spaceship. He follows the robot back, and discovers that it is made of clockwork.

He finds Returning to Reinette, he finds her grown up and discovers that she is Madame du Pompadour. He then discovers another time window to her life, just after she met King Louis for the first time. It turns out that the clockwork robots were trying to repair their ship but didn't have the parts, so used the crew instead. It and its fellows are after one last part, and want Madame Pompadour's brain. They believe that her brain will only be compatible at the age of 37, when she will be the same age as the ship.

The Doctor returns to the ship well after the robot has run back there to find that the robots have opened a portal to a time when Reinette is 37. Rose finds a window when she is 32 and warns her of the danger. The Doctor finds the window the robots have gone through and crashes through it, disabling all the time windows. He then convinces the robots that their plan will not work without a way back, and they shut themselves down.

Reinette then shows the Doctor that she has moved the original fireplace to Versailles. He realises that it broke before he destroyed the time windows and that he can repair it to get back to the ship. He does so, checks up on Rose and Mickey, and then goes back to Reinette - who he promised to take to the stars. However, he arrives back in Versailles just as her coffin is leaving the palace, and the King gives him a note from Reinette.

The Doctor asks Mickey to hold down a particular TARDIS control. After thirty minutes of joking with Rose he says that Mickey can take his hand off it now. When he does the Time Vortex just disappears and the TARDIS lands on a parallel Earth. Without access to energy from the real universe, the TARDIS dies. The Doctor finds a working fuel cell,which he can recharge at the cost of 10 years of his life. It will, however, take 24 hours to fully charge up.

The alternative London has Zepplins in the sky, and Rose's father is still alive and on advertising hoardings. Rose's phone automatically connects to the Cybus Network. She discovers that her alternative parents are still married but never had children. They note that most people have earpieces which download things from Cybus Network. Mickey goes to visit his gran, who died five years ago in the real universe and gets kidnapped by a group called the Preachers run by his alternative self (called Ricky). They don't have earplugs, and consider themselves almost a resistance movement.

The Doctor and Rose go to visit Pete and Jackie at Jackie's birthday party, posing as a waiter and waitress. A group of Cybermen - only just created by John Lumic, a genius who runs the Cybus Corporation - arrive at the party, kill the President of Great Britain, and announce their intention to convert the guests. The Doctor, Rose, and Pete all escape into the gardens just as Ricky's group prepare to attack the Cybermen. Both groups are surrounded by Cybermen, who are immune to bullets. The Doctor attempts to surrender, but the Cybermen say that they will instead be "deleted".

The Doctor tries to take Rose to see Elvis in the late 50s, but ends up in London 1953, the day before the coronation of Elizabeth II. They arrive in a street where everybody already has a television. They discover that people are losing their faces as the result of a creature called "the wire" which has been living inside the TVs. Rose is affected by the wire. The owner of the local electronics shop intends to attach the wire to the Alexandra Palace transmitter, where it will be able to feed on the millions who will be watching the coronation. The doctor intervenes, trapping the wire inside a betamax video cassette. This restores all of its victims.

The crew blockade themselves from the Ood and the Captain suggests Strategy 9 emptying the oxygen from all but a small portion of the base, thus killing all the Ood. The Beast taunts the crew with knowledge of their dark secrets and traps the Doctor in the centre.

Rose and the crew incapacitate the Ood and abandon the base. The Doctor drops further down, arriving in the Beast's prison. He realises that the Beast's intelligence is onboard the spacecraft whilst its body remains in the planet. Fortunately Rose manages to shoot Toby – who is still possessed – into space. The Doctor then finds the TARDIS and saves the ship. He doesn't, however, have time to save the Ood.

The Doctor visits Elton Pope's house, trying to defeat an Elemental Shade who had escaped from the Howling Halls. He stopped it, but Elton's mother died before he could do so.

The Doctor and Rose are fighting a Hoix on contemporary Earth when Elton barges in searching for the Doctor. The Doctor and Rose defeat it, stopping it from attacking Elton in the process. He thinks that he recognises Elton.

The Doctor tracks down Elton, and an Absorbalof from Clom (the twin planet of Raxacoracofallapatorius) who has been trying to absorb Elton. He hints that the people who have been absorbed can fight the Absorbalof. They do so - pulling its body apart, and Elton snatches and breaks a cane it has been carrying, as one of them suggests. The cane contained a limitation field which kept its body together.

The TARDIS arrives on the Powell estate to find that ghosts are appearing, walking around, and fading at fairly precise intervals. The Doctor theorises that something is pressing itself into this reality. He sets up some equipment to monitor the ghost shifts and work out where the ghosts are coming from. He pinpoints the machinery which is causing the shifts. It turns out to be Torchwood, an organisation the Doctor was ignorant of. He is given a grand tour, showing that they develop technology developed from alien material on Earth. They were created by Queen Victoria after Tooth and Claw to protect Britain and use alien technology "for the good of the British Empire".

One of Torchwood's artefacts is a "void ship" - a vessel that exists outside of time and space. It came through a breach in space-time, and Torchwood have been exacerbating the hole - causing the ghost shifts - in order to get energy from it. Rose sneaks in to find Mickey posing as a lab assistant. The systems are then overriden by staff wearing earpods like the ones from the parallel world in Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel. The ghost shift is turned on full, the voidship becomes solid, and the ghosts materialise across the world, becoming Cybus Cybermen, who are invading Earth. At the same time, the voidship opens, revealing four Daleks and a device they call the Genesis Ark.