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|name = Seventh Doctor
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|alias = [[The Doctor's aliases#Seventh Doctor|'''''see list''''']]
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|alias = [[Aliases of the Doctor|List of Aliases]]
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|species = The Doctor's species
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|species = Time Lord
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|origin = [[Gallifrey]]
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|first = Time and the Rani (TV story)
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|job2 = Cleaner
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|job3 = Medic
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|appearances = [[Seventh Doctor - List of Appearances|Full List of Appearances]]
  
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|actor = Sylvester McCoy
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|affiliation = Kang{{!}}Kangs
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|affiliation2 = Royal Society
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|first cs = Time and the Rani (TV story)
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|actor = Sylvester McCoy
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|other actor = Phil Brown
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|other actor2 = Matthew Sweet
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|other voice actor = {{csl|[[Gail Clayton]]|[[Wink Taylor]]}}
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|clip = The ripple effect - Doctor Who - Remembrance of the Daleks - BBC
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|clip2 = Goodbye Mel, Hello Ace! - Doctor Who - Dragonfire - BBC
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|clip3 = Come on Ace, we've got work to do! - Last clip from the original series - Doctor Who - BBC
 
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{{counterparts|name=Seventh Doctor|2=Seventh Doctor (Earth-33⅓)|d2=Earth-33⅓|3=Seventh Doctor (The Daft Dimension)|d3=Daft Dimension}}
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The '''Seventh Doctor''' was the seventh incarnation of the [[Time Lord]] known as [[the Doctor]]. Originally an eccentric, light-hearted buffoon, this incarnation's jolly persona eventually darkened into that of a mysterious, cunning manipulator to properly combat the return of [[Fenric]].
  
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Originally a man with the demeanour of an eccentric, light-hearted buffoon who delighted in humorous reverie, the '''Seventh Doctor''' darkened into a Machiavellian manipulator to combat [[Fenric]]'s return, becoming a sombre genius of frightful calibre who could tactfully use his mind to manipulate almost any situation into reaching his favoured outcome for the "greater good", actively seeking out evil to vanquish instead of traveling aimlessly.
   
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However, he could also show profound warmth and affection to his [[companion]]s, and built a strong bond with many of them, almost becoming a substitute parent-like figure in his handling of them, even if he had to hurt some of his closest friends by toying with their minds as part of his schemes.
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Initially, the Seventh Doctor travelled with [[Melanie Bush]], his predecessor's final [[companion]]. After several adventures with Mel, she left to travel with [[Sabalom Glitz]]. The [[Time Lord]] then began adventuring with [[Ace]], a troubled teenager from the [[1980s]]. The Doctor did his best to help heal Ace's psychological wounds by helping her overcome or come to terms with her past misdeeds and fears. Though he initially planned to take Ace home, they ultimately travelled together for several years. How they separated remains unknown.
  
   
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== Biography ==
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He later became champion to the Eternal known as [[Time]], while his old foe the Master became champion to another Eternal, [[Death]]. The Doctor did many good deeds while under his title as Time's Champion.
  
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{{Main|Seventh Doctor/Biography}}
   
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In his early days, the Doctor was little more than a carefree traveller seeing the universe with [[Mel Bush]] after escaping the scheme of the [[First Rani]] on [[Lakertya]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}) with the pair arriving at the likes of [[Paradise Towers]] and [[Shangri-La]] [[Wales]] as the Doctor began to change from a clown to a schemer, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}, {{cs|Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)}}) until they came to [[Iceworld]] and met [[Ace]], a troubled teenager from [[1980s]] [[Earth]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}) who the Doctor recognised as a [[Wolf of Fenric]], and the Doctor, realising he could no longer avoid his rematch with Fenric, nudged Mel into leaving ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Head Games (novel)}}) with [[Sabalom Glitz]] while he took Ace on as a companion. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}})
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Later in his life, the Seventh Doctor regenerated in [[San Francisco]] on [[31 December]] [[1999]], following [[firearm|gunshot]] wounds and Dr [[Grace Holloway]]'s subsequent exploritory surgery with a camera accidently clogging a vein. Anaesthetic also nearly prevented him from regenerating, and left [[Eighth Doctor|his next incarnation]] with near-total amnesia.
  
   
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Treating her both as his protégé and a pawn in Fenric's game, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}}) the Doctor did his best to heal Ace's psychological wounds by helping her come to terms with her past misdeeds and fears, aiding her in maturing and supporting her in moments of difficulty, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|Silver Nemesis (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)}}, {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}}) while he descended more into a dark deceiver, even tricking [[Davros]] into destroying [[Skaro]] with the [[Hand of Omega]] to end the [[Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}) killing [[Helen A]]'s pet [[Stigorax]] to topple her regime on [[Terra Alpha]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}}) and destroying a [[Cyber-Fleet]] with [[Nemesis]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Silver Nemesis (TV story)}})
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== Biography ==
  
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=== Post-Regeneration ===
  
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The Doctor's [[Sixth Doctor|previous incarnation]] had been weakened from fighting the [[Lamprey]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Spiral Scratch]]'') when [[the Rani]] bombarded [[The Doctor's TARDIS|his TARDIS]] with lasers and caught it in a tractor beam, forcing him to crash-land on the planet [[Lakertya]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani]]'') During the crash, the Doctor suffered a "bang to the head", which knocked him out. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Zagreus (audio story)|Zagreus]]'', ''[[The Four Doctors]]'') Right after the Rani broke into his TARDIS to kidnap him for her own nefarious purposes, he regenerated.
 
   
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After they freed the [[Psychic Circus]] from the [[Gods of Ragnarok]] with the [[Vulpanan]] [[werewolf]] [[Mags (The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)|Mags]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)}}) the Doctor left Ace in the [[Cretaceous]] period ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Train-Flight (comic story)}}) and reunited with [[Frobisher]] for some brief adventures until they parted ways again. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|A Cold Day in Hell! (comic story)}}) As he travelled alone, the Doctor ran into the likes of [[Death's Head]] ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Crossroads of Time (comic story)}}) and [[Abslom Daak]], ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Nemesis of the Daleks (comic story)}}) until he retrieved Ace. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Living in the Past (short story)}}) In their continued adventures, they assisted [[UNIT]] in stopping [[Morgaine]] from obtaining [[Excalibur]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}}) and prevented [[Josiah Samuel Smith]]'s plan to assassinate [[Queen]] [[Victoria]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}}) before they had their fated showdown with Fenric at [[1943]] [[Maiden's Point]], where they emerged victorious. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}}) The Doctor then brought Ace back to her home of [[Perivale]] in time to face the [[Tremas Master]] on the [[Cheetah Planet]]. After the Master was left on the Cheetah Planet as it exploded, accounts differ on the Doctor and Ace's exploits after they departed Perivale with "work to do". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Survival (TV story)}})
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According to [[Death]], this incarnation, even prior to his existence, influenced the Sixth Doctor's actions; he forced the "colorful jester" to purposely steer the TARDIS into the Rani's tractor beam, so a defender of Time could be born. Also so that he could avoid the creation of the [[Valeyard]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'')
  
   
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According to [[2-D universe|one account]], the Doctor and Ace quickly found themselves caught in the schemes of the [[Mandragora Helix]] ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Mark of Mandragora (comic story)}}) and attended a party on ''[[Maruthea]]''. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Party Animals (comic story)}}) In conjunction with [[Virgin reality|another account]], the Doctor began to embrace his role as [[Time's Champion]], in which he worked in the service of the [[Eternal]] known as [[Time (Set Piece)|Time]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love and War (novel)}}) by the time he faced the [[Timewyrm]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Revelation}}) Although he did many good deeds while under the title of Time's Champion, his manipulative ways and amoral decisions cost him dearly, with Ace leaving him as he was joined by [[Bernice Summerfield]] on [[Heaven]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love and War (novel)}}) Ace would eventually return, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Deceit (novel)}}) though the Doctor was unable to regain her trust until they defeated {{Champion}} and his plot to corrupt the Doctor's timeline. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|No Future (novel)}}) Ace would eventually leave to become "[[Time's Vigilante]]" ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Set Piece (novel)}}) and Bernice would depart to marry [[Jason Kane]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Happy Endings (novel)}}) leaving the Doctor to travel with [[Adjudicator]]s [[Roz Forrester]] and [[Chris Cwej]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|GodEngine (novel)}}) until Roz died in battle ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|So Vile a Sin (novel)}}) and Chris left to see the universe with a [[Time Ring]] after a trip to the [[House of Lungbarrow]], where the Doctor was also asked to collect the [[Old Master]]'s remains from Skaro. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lungbarrow (novel)}})
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Following his awakening, the Doctor immediately recognised the Rani, but was knocked out. She injected him with an [[amnesia]]-inducing drug, which allowed her to trick him into assisting her with "his" project while pretending [[Melanie Bush|Mel]]. Before going further, the Doctor decided to choose a new look, shedding the chaotic, clownish attire of his predecessor for a simpler suit and hat, noting to the Rani that his new incarnation had regained a sense of haute couture. Returning to work on the Rani's machine, the Doctor found what was wrong with it, but caught the Rani when she slipped up in her lies.
  
   
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In [[Positive-time universe|a differing account]], the Doctor tried to have Ace join the [[Time Lord Academy]], though she rejected going, just as they were embroiled in a series of adventures involving [[Raine Creevy]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Thin Ice (audio story)}}) After some brief adventures with [[Bev Tarrant]] ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Dust Breeding (audio story)}}) and foiling [[Elizabeth Klein]]'s temporal scheme at [[Colditz Castle]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Colditz (audio story)}}) the Doctor and Ace were joined by [[Hex]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Harvest (audio story)}}) who became a key player in the Doctor's feud with [[the Forge]] and the [[Elder God]]s. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|A Death in the Family (audio story)}}, {{cs|Gods and Monsters (audio story)}}) After Hex left to start a family, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Signs and Wonders (audio story)}}) the Doctor was re-joined by Mel. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|A Life of Crime (audio story)}}) In this account, the Doctor still went on to have adventures with Bernice, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Love and War (audio story)}}) Roz and Chris, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Damaged Goods (audio story)}}) and he reunited with Bernice and Ace for a few more adventures, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Good Night, Sweet Ladies (audio story)}}) while also taking on Klein as a companion ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|A Thousand Tiny Wings (audio story)}}) until her actions rewrote her timeline. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Architects of History (audio story)}}) As Ace had decided to become a Time Lord, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Lights of Skaro (audio story)}}) the Doctor found himself reconnecting with old friends like Mags, [[Harry Sullivan]] and [[Naomi Cross]] to have as companions as he tended to the universe. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Monsters of Gokroth (audio story)}}, {{cs|London Orbital (audio story)}})
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He ended up trapped in her lab with Mel, who had snuck into the building. Escaping, the Doctor found several geniuses from throughout time, including [[Albert Einstein|Einstein]], had been captured to be components for the Rani's "time brain". Forced to be the final component, the Doctor made it backfire and explode because it could not handle his new clownish personality. Rescuing the captives, the Doctor took them back to their own times. The Rani ended up being captured by one of the species she currently had enslaved and was forced to take them back home. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani]]'')
  
   
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Eventually, after all his friends had left him, the Doctor dedicated himself to his mission of protecting the history of the universe, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Persuasion (audio story)}}) even traveling back down his own timeline to attend to his unfinished business and clean up after his previous incarnations. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Wormery (audio story)}}) Though he asked some people to become his new companion, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Valhalla (audio story)}}, {{cs|The Death Collectors (audio story)}}) the Doctor resigned himself to a solitary existence, only seeking out his old companions when they proved useful to his plans, which only alienated him further away from them. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Dark Universe (audio story)}}) However, after an encounter with the [[Eight Legs]], the Doctor decided to embrace his older jollier side before he met his fate, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Eight Doctors (novel)}}) allowing him to face his final adventures with high spirits. ([[WC]]: {{cs|24 Carat (webcast)}})
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Shortly after leaving [[Lakertya]], the Doctor dropped Mel off to investigate a strange institute where Time Lords, specifically the [[Celestial Intervention Agency|CIA]] were experimenting on humans, trying to graft TARDIS minds into their bodies. He was electrocuted and went insane. Fortunately, he had programmed the TARDIS to collect Mel and bring her to him. She helped restore his mind, before they confronted the doctors of the Institute. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Unregenerate!]]'')
  
   
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After many years of schemes and manipulations, the Doctor ironically met his end in events out of his control after being caught at the wrong place at the wrong time due to crash-landing in [[San Francisco]] on [[31 December]] [[1999]] while taking the Master's remains to [[Gallifrey]]. As he realised the Master had somehow survived his execution, the Doctor was shot by a San Francisco gang on the streets and then fatally injured when Dr. [[Grace Holloway]]'s exploratory surgery on his [[firearm|gunshot]] wounds accidentally clogged a vein. Due to the [[anaesthetic]] in his system, he did not properly regenerate into his [[Eighth Doctor|next incarnation]] until several hours had past. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doctor Who (TV story)}})
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The Doctor travelled to the [[Paradise Towers]] with Mel to enjoy the several attractions. However, he found that the male staff and the several female residents residing within the Towers either were mental-challenged [[Kang]]s, cannibalistic [[Rezzie]]s or were simply bone-dead stupid. Accused of being the "Great Architect" that built the Towers, the Doctor was nearly killed by the [[Chief Caretaker]], who selfishly wanted the Tower to run as he wanted. However, the real architect, [[Kroagnon]], a madman who killed anyone who moved into his creations to keep them perfect, transplanted his disembodied mind into the chief, planning to enact his plans once more. However, Kroagnon was pushed to his death down a lift shaft by [[Pex]]. The Doctor received a new half-blue and half-red scarf from the girls as thanks. ([[TV]]: ''[[Paradise Towers (TV story)|Paradise Towers]]'')
  
   
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Afterwards, the Doctor and Mel encountered the Quirks and left in the TARDIS to find some crystals highly poisonous to them. They arrived on the planet Puxatornee in the year [[3090]] where the inhabitants were struggling to live in peace with a race called the Slithergees who arrived there as refugees some 30 years ago, but were slowly taking over. The Doctor and Mel were forced by Stuart and Reed, two inhabitants, to travel back to 3060 to kill the president of Puxatornee before she could invite the Slithergees to stay. When they returned, history had changed so that the Slithergees went to war with the Puxatornees. The Doctor and Mel became separated with Stuart and Reed and captured, but realised that an alternative Mel and Doctor were due to land in the same place as them and quickly escaped back to their TARDIS and left. Another Doctor and Mel landed successfully and were captured by this alternative history's Lt. Stuart and Reed and interrogated before the now-nonexistent history's Reed and Stuart arrived to help them escape, but were killed shortly afterwards. This history's Lt. Stuart and Reed arrived and forced the Doctor and Mel to take them back 30 years so that they could prevent the president's death and make peace with Slithergees. The Doctor and Mel took them back then to see their new history, which was the first version before he and this Mel showed up. Lt Stuart and Reed ordered the Doctor to take them back to yesterday to prevent their earlier selves from time travelling, but the Doctor couldn't as that history no longer existed. The Doctor worked out that an alternative version of himself and Mel were due to land any minute and took off in the TARDIS just as their earlier selves showed up. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Flip-Flop (audio story)|Flip-Flop]]'')
  
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In an [[alternative timeline]], the Doctor was able to save [[Jan Rydd]] and his fellow Travellers on Heaven in 2570, and, in another alternative timeline, was beheaded by an [[Ice Warrior]] on [[Peladon]] in [[3985]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|So Vile a Sin (novel)}})
   
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In one alternative timeline, the Doctor and Ace were captured in [[Colditz Castle]] in [[October]] [[1944]]. When they tried to escape, Ace was killed, and left behind her walkman. This provided the [[Nazi]]s with laser technology, which they exploited to win the [[Second World War]]. Immediately afterwards, the Doctor returned to [[Germany]] in [[1955]], where he was shot by Nazi soldiers. He later regenerated into [[Johann Schmidt|an alternative version]] of his [[eighth incarnation]]. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Colditz (audio story)}}, {{cs|Klein's Story (audio story)}})
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''The events above form part of a time loop which the Doctor and Mel are able to escape, but it isn't clear which reality is the correct version or which Doctor and Mel are the real ones and which are the alternative versions. Presumably, the Doctor retained knowledge of both sets of events happening after they leave Puxatornee due to him being a time-sensitive entity.''
  
   
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On a vacation attempt, the Doctor and Mel found themselves part of an alien expedition to [[1959]] to experience [[Earth]] rock n' roll. The Doctor found the last [[Chimeron]] queen, [[Delta]] hiding with her newborn from the vicious [[Bannermen]]. The Doctor defeated the Bannermen by having their leader fall into his own trap, scaring them off. He also bid good-bye to Delta, her daughter and the recently-transformed [[Billy]] (a human boy in love with Delta, who ingested royal Chimeron jelly to do so) as they departed for the Chimeron hatchery. ([[TV]]: ''[[Delta and the Bannermen]]'')
  
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In a timeline where [[Elizabeth Klein]] used the Doctor's TARDIS to rewrite history so that the Nazis won the war, and helped the [[Galactic Reich]] conquer potential threats by travelling back in time to give them forewarning, the Doctor, who remembered the correct timeline, was captured and imprisoned on [[the Moon]], but managed to secretly contact the [[Selachian]]s and supplied them with the necessary technology to destroy the [[Moonbase (The Architects of History)|Moonbase]]. When Klein came to visit the Doctor to find out where his TARDIS was, the Selachians attacked the base. The Doctor and Klein escaped in the TARDIS, where the Doctor informed her that the Time Lords had tried her and found her guilty, and she was erased from history, along with the alternate Doctor, restoring things to their correct order. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Architects of History (audio story)}})
   
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When the [[Cybermen]] allied with {{Sumpter}} to take over history, ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)}}) the Seventh Doctor was planting [[Nemesis mine]]s across the [[Cyber-Fleet]] when he discovered that [[Ace]] had been [[cyber-converted]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Prologue: The Seventh Doctor (comic story)}}) He was then attacked by Ace. This timeline was eventually unwritten by Rassilon and the [[Twelfth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Supremacy of the Cybermen (comic story)}})
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On[[File:Departures and beginnings.jpg|thumb|The Doctor says goodbye to Mel, and begins his adventures with Ace. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')]] [[Iceworld]], the Doctor met [[Sabalom Glitz|Glitz]] again, ending up on an expedition with him to find the "dragon" living in the caverns. However, the "dragon" was a robot that guarded the Dragonfire, a powersource sought by [[Kane (Dragonfire)|Kane]], an exile who wished to use it to power Iceworld, his prison ship, and return to his home planet to get revenge. However, Kane commited suicide when the Doctor showed him his planet no longer existed; there was no-one for Kane to enact vengeance upon.
 
   
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Preparing to leave, the Doctor found Mel wished to stay with Glitz, hoping to put him on the right path. During his time on Iceworld, the Doctor also met [[Ace]], a troubled teenager from [[1980s]] [[Earth]] who somehow got to Iceworld. The Doctor took Ace with him, promising to take "the long way" to get her home. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]'')
  
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[[File:Ace_and_7_LATE.JPG|thumb|left|The Seventh Doctor and Ace arrive in the Master's trap. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Light at the End (audio story)}})]]
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In a negated timeline, the Doctor and Ace were drawn to land in a pocket universe built on [[23 November]] [[1963]], where they began to see images of the past and future of the TARDIS, and encountered the [[Sixth Doctor]] and [[Peri Brown]], who had also been brought there. Investigating further, the Seventh Doctor discovered that {{Pratt}} was also present, and found out that the Master's plot was to erase his timeline by planting a [[conceptual bomb]] inside [[Bob Dovie]] so that Dovie's inability to accept the [[Fifth Doctor]]'s TARDIS would cause the TARDIS to explode across its own timeline. After Ace vanished due to the timelines changing, the Seventh Doctor attempted to contact the Time Lords, but was unable to when his TARDIS began to explode. However, the Sixth Doctor was able to bring the Seventh Doctor and his other incarnations together using a dimensional stabiliser, and the Fifth Doctor stopped the bomb from going off by showing Dovie the inside of the TARDIS in [[1962]], ensuring that he would not consider it impossible when he entered it in 1963. The Seventh Doctor then joined his other seven incarnations in preparing to [[time ram]] [[the Master's TARDIS]]. However, rather than kill the Master, the [[First Doctor]] instead turned off the automatic distress actions, which had brought all of the Doctors to the pocket dimension and triggered the TARDIS' destruction, making it so none of that had happened. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Light at the End (audio story)}})
   
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=== Travels with Ace ===
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=== Parallel universes ===
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Events similar to the Doctor's adventure on the [[Silurian Earth]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Blood Heat (novel)}}) were experienced by Doctor [[Jon St. Myth]] of the [[Collapsing Universe]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Blood Heat Second Iteration (novel)}})
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The Doctor's first trip with Ace took him back to [[Coal Hill School]] in [[November]] [[1963]], only a few days after he had left Earth with [[Susan Foreman]], [[Ian Chesterton]] and [[Barbara Wright]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child]]'') He returned to take care of unfinished business left behind by his [[First Doctor|first incarnation]]: the retrieval of the [[Hand of Omega]]. As the Doctor had anticipated, this mission was disrupted by the arrival of [[Dalek]]s, one faction of which was controlled by [[Davros]]; the Dalek civil war was still raging. In defeating the Daleks, the seventh incarnation displayed a growing darkness of character, tricking the Daleks into using the Hand to destroy their own homeworld, [[Skaro]]; the Hand returned to Gallifrey afterwards. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')
  
   
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== Psychological profile ==
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[[File:SevenLooksRightTHP.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor on [[Terra Alpha]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Happiness Patrol (TV story)|The Happiness Patrol]]'')]]
  
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=== Personality ===
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The Doctor later landed on [[Terra Alpha]], where he helped remove the tyrannical [[Helen A]] from power; her people were being executed by the [[Kandyman]] if they did not follow her completely unreasonable and insane rule to be happy all the time. Killing her beloved pet monster in self defence, he showed Helen A that ''true'' happiness could only exist if balanced with negative emotions like sadness. As something of great annoyance, the Doctor found his TARDIS painted pink upon arrival due to Helen A's rules saying pink was a happy colour; he had it painted blue again before leaving. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Happiness Patrol]]'')
  
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[[File:Pensive_Seven.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor considers the consequences of a decision he has to make. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}})]]
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The Seventh Doctor was originally light-hearted and prone to clownish behaviour ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}, {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)}}) that masked his true intellect and courage. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Infinite Requiem (novel)}}) However, as he matured, he became a grumpy and melancholy manipulator ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}}) who saw the battle between good and evil as a game of chess or a stage play, and everyone around him as pawns in the game of fighting evil that he directed, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)}}, {{cs|The Highest Science (novel)}}, {{cs|Head Games (novel)}}, {{cs|Illegal Alien (novel)}}) though he hated himself for it, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Iceberg (novel)}}, {{cs|Blood Heat (novel)}}) instead desiring a life of playing the spoons and acting as a children's entertainer with his magic tricks. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Also People (novel)}}, {{cs|Return of the Living Dad (novel)}}, {{cs|Heritage (novel)}}) Despite his darker demeanour, the Seventh Doctor was "not without [his] share of mirth and joviality", and claimed to [[Ace]] that he could be "quite the funny fellow", ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Fable Fusion (short story)}}) though he found it hard to put his trust in others. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Younger and Wiser (comic story)}})
   
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Seeing himself as a "chess master", ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Illegal Alien (novel)}}) the Seventh Doctor was a consummate fan of [[chess]], to the point of treating his companions and enemies as pieces on a [[chess board]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Silver Nemesis (TV story)}}, {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}}) until he tired of the game in favour of [[hopscotch]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Infinite Requiem (novel)}}) He habitually lied to keep others at ease, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}, {{cs|Survival (TV story)}}) and preferred to explain "one thing at a time". ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}) While he was known for his preference on using words to resolve a problem instead of violence, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}}) and preferred to fight fairly, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rice Pudding (short story)}}) the Doctor was not adverse to letting his adversaries be the architects of their own unmaking. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}, {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|Silver Nemesis (TV story)}})
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[[File:SevenLeftLookingSN.jpg|thumb|The Doctor looking for [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]] around [[Windsor Castle]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis (TV story)|Silver Nemesis]]'')]]
  
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Arriving in [[20th century]] [[Windsor]], the Doctor found the [[Nemesis]] statue, which he sent off into space every twenty five years, had returned. Tired of the chaos it caused (which was every great disastor in history 25 years apart), the Doctor needed to find its bow and arrow for his plan to be rid of it for good. During his search, he encountered two old foes: Lady [[Peinforte]], who shockingly knew a great deal about him, and the [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cybermen]]. Also, [[Neo-Nazi]]s interfered, only to be dealt with by the more superior foes. Pretending to comply with the [[Cyber-Leader (Mondas)|Cyber-Leader]]'s order, the Doctor sent the Nemesis straight into the Cyberman fleet, where it exploded; unable to handle losing her statue, Peinforte merged with it prior to it's launch. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'')
  
   
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Although his more whimsical tendencies disappeared over time, the Doctor maintained a fondness for idiosyncratic speeches that occasionally referred to literature, ordinary places and even food and drink amidst the weightier concerns on his mind. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Survival (TV story)}}) When deducing grandiloquent plans to rule the universe, he considered their destruction of small everyday pleasures, like art and music, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}) and often mocked his enemies' grandiose plans by incorporating foods into their list of ambitions. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}}) In his more serious moments, however, the Doctor would sombrely reflect the ramifications of time and the consequences of interfering in history, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}, {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}) as well as his life of aimless travel. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Culture Shock! (comic story)}})
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During a trip back in time to see how Lady Peinforte got to the future, the Doctor discovered a chess board in her study. He immediately knew [[Fenric]] was responsible. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric]]'')
 
   
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While his previous incarnations would stumble upon trouble by happenstance, the Seventh Doctor actively sought out villains to vanquish and dictatorships to dethrone, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}}, {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}}) getting involved in local affairs without question, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)}}) and was much less forgiving than his preceding incarnation, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Project Lazarus (audio story)}}) due to the Sixth Doctor's decision to let his morality and scruples die with him in his final moments. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Brink of Death (audio story)}}) The Doctor would claim{{who}} that he served as Time's Champion because of "principles, truth, love and harmony, peace and goodwill, [and] the best of intentions." ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Return of the Living Dad (novel)}})
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While travelling in the TARDIS, the Doctor received "junk mail" advertising the [[Psychic Circus]]. Attending, the Doctor was captured and sent to the [[Gods of Ragnarok]], who kidnapped patrons for their own twisted entertainment; when no longer amusing, they murdered their captives. However, the Doctor managed to turn the tables on them when he ran out of tricks to entertain them; he reflected a death beam meant for him back at them. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]'')
  
   
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[[File:Kill her.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor challenges [[Fenric]] to kill [[Ace]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}})]]
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Much to his surprise, the Doctor reunited with his old friend, [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]], in an adventure in which he worked again with [[UNIT]]. During this time, he met people from an alternate Earth, who (possibly) mistook him for [[Merlin]]. Taking advantage of this, the Doctor found the sorceress [[Morgaine]] was waiting for a final battle with King Arthur, who had entered this universe some time ago. However, the Doctor discovered that Arthur was dead, and informed Morgaine, preventing her from setting off a nuclear missile by using her sense of honour. ([[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield]]'')
  
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Despite viewing himself as "a nice little man in a silly jumper", ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Harvest of the Sycorax (audio story)}}) he was viewed as being the most dangerous of the Doctors by [[UNIT]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Persuasion (audio story)}}) and would often only see the "bigger picture" rather than the world before him, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Head Games (novel)}}) which resulted in him causing much grief, such as devastating Ace by labelling her an "emotional cripple" to weaken Fenric's power by making her abandon her faith in him. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}}) However, he was not totally unfeeling, appearing apprehensive about his decision to destroy [[Skaro]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}) was genuinely agonised that he had to convince Ace that he did not care about her, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}}) and told [[Ellen Woodworth]] that "the end[s] never [justified] the means, [as] the means used [determined] the kind of end produced." ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)}})
   
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Nearing the end of his life, the Doctor decided to [[retire]] from his niche of manipulation.{{Fact}} Feeling guilty and tired from his plotting, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TotT TV story)}}) he acknowledged he had lived past his prime and would soon regenerate.{{Fact}} Fearing that his next incarnation would not want to continue plans that he had set in motion, the Doctor put all his affairs in order to leave nothing unsung when his time drew to a close. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Persuasion (audio story)}}) However, after being saved from one of the [[Eight Legs]] by the [[Eighth Doctor]], he became determined to enjoy every minute he had left. After the Eighth Doctor warned him of a trap by {{Tipple}}, the Seventh Doctor decided not to think about it, and let fate decide when and how his life would end, instead of despairing over being alone. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Eight Doctors (novel)}})
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After learning of Ace's guilty conscience for burning down a "haunted" mansion, the Doctor brought her to its past, a hundred years before she would burn it down as a none-too-pleasant surprise for her. He found a temporarily imprisoned and dangerous entity called [[Light]]. Light planned to destroy the Earth in a childish fit because the world had evolved while it was trapped, making the catalogue it had compiled centuries earlier worthless. The Doctor used Light's childish logic to convinced it to destroy itself; it had been evolving as well. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light]])''
  
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[[File:Seven_begs_forgiveness.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor pleads with Ace to forgive him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric]]'')]]
  
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The Doctor accidentally caused Ace to meet and interact with her grandmother and infant mother during a trip to [[1943]]. The Doctor revealed that he knew Ace's arrival and Peinforte's time travelling were arranged by [[Fenric]], an evil entity he encountered before and trapped in another dimension; it escaped thanks to manipulations. The Doctor convinced the [[Ancient One]], one of Fenric's servants, to kill Fenric's host in revenge for trying to trick it into creating his hellish future. However, Ace's faith in the Doctor held back the Ancient One's, forcing the Doctor to temporarily break her faith in him. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric]]'')
  
   
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Soon after, the Doctor took Ace back to her time in [[Perivale]]. [[Kitling]]s had been spotted and people had been disappearing. The Doctor soon found his arch-nemesis, [[the Master]], had been trapped and infected on [[Cheetah World]] and was trying to escape by bringing people to change partially and escape to Earth. After everyone escaped to Earth, the Doctor defeated the Master by playing on his sense of dignity. Once Ace mentioned it was time to go home, the Doctor was curious by what she meant. When she said the TARDIS, he happily hugged her and walked off, talking about how there are many adventures waiting for them. ([[TV]]: ''[[Survival]]'')
  
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Feeling that he "belong[ed]" in open [[space]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Unregenerate! (audio story)}}) the Seventh Doctor longed for exploration, and bemoaned how young people had "no spirit of adventure", distaining at taking downtime when he could be experiencing enjoyment in new scientific discoveries. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}, {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}) He also had a soft spot for [[jazz]] music, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Silver Nemesis (TV story)}}) [[conker]]s, ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Doctor Conkerer! (comic story)}}) [[the Beatles]], [[cat]]s, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Return of the Living Dad (novel)}}) [[science fiction]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Bad Therapy (novel)}}) [[baseball]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Illegal Alien (novel)}}) composer [[J. S. Bach]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Algebra of Ice (novel)}}) and ''[[The Wizard of Oz]]''. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Settling (audio story)}}) He also admired [[rat]]s ([[TV]]: {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}) and enjoyed collecting [[pin]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lucifer Rising (novel)}})
   
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Though the Doctor initially encouraged Ace not to call him "Professor", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}}) he later confessed that he liked the nickname. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Thin Ice (audio story)}}) He also told [[Bernice Summerfield]] that he loved "chaos, big explosions, and rebellions", ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love and War (novel)}}) described E flat minor as his favourite musical key, gave [[blue]] as his favourite colour, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lucifer Rising (novel)}}) and claimed that having his hair cut relaxed him more than anything. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)}}) He also enjoyed playing nine dimensional scrabble, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|St Anthony's Fire (novel)}}) and "doing interviews". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Happy Endings (novel)}}) When thinking about rewards he could seek for his actions, the Doctor thought about "the smile of a baby child, the first sunset on a soft and new-born world, [and] the taste of the purest spring water, untouched by any pollution of Man's making." ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dimension Riders (novel)}})
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The Doctor hated wasted journeys, ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Nemesis of the Daleks (comic story)}}) unrequited love, tyranny, cruelty, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}}) the writings of [[Stanoff Osterling]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Theatre of War (novel)}}) the over usage of [[semicolon]]s, ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Plastic Millenium (comic story)}}) [[swimming]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Also People (novel)}}) and goodbyes. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Room With No Doors (novel)}}) He also saw [[bus station]]s as "terrible places full of lost luggage and lost souls", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}}) and had little respect for those who chose not to fight injustice when they had the power to. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)}})
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The Doctor's original plan for Ace involved trying to shape her mind to the point that she would be able to attend the [[Time Lord Academy]]. The Doctor's manipulation of her was ultimately for the benefit of [[Time Lord]] observers who were assessing her potential. The assessment took the form of a journey to [[Moscow]] and [[London]] in [[1967]], involving the [[Ice Warrior]]s. Ultimately, however, she refused this academic opportunity and continued to travel with the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Thin Ice (audio story)|Thin Ice]]'')
  
   
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The Doctor spent an undisclosed time visiting a young girl named Raine Creevy when she was a child before travelling to her future. In [[1989]], she was now a skilled thief. He recruited her to steal a sword for him while he sent Ace to Russia on a secret mission. He plotted to use the sword to ward off an alien incursion called the [[Metatraxi]]. After the Metatraxi were defeated, the Doctor offered Raine the chance to travel in the TARDIS. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Crime of the Century]]'')
  
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Maintaining a strict [[vegetarian]] diet, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Human Nature (novel)}}, {{cs|Happy Endings (novel)}}, {{cs|Return of the Living Dad (novel)}}, {{cs|The Room With No Doors (novel)}}, {{cs|Lungbarrow (novel)}}, {{cs|Relative Dementias (novel)}}, {{cs|Citadel of Dreams (novel)}}) the Doctor enjoyed [[almond slice]]s, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dimension Riders (novel)}}) [[liquorice]], and [[apricott]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Rice Pudding (short story)}}) He took five to six sugars in his [[tea]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|House of Blue Fire (audio story)}}) with his favourite teas being [[Arcturan]], [[Earl Grey]] and [[Lapsang souchong]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lucifer Rising (novel)}}) his favourite [[ice cream]] being boysenberry ripple, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)}}) and his favourite biscuits being [[chocolate]] [[HobNob]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cold Fusion (novel)}}) While he didn't like [[peppermint tea]], he drank some when it was a gift from a friend. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Notre Dame du Temps (short story)}}}) He preferred having water to drink when at ''[[Maruthea]]'', ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Party Animals (comic story)}}) but did have an enjoyment for [[Fizzade]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}) and [[lemonade]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Just War (novel)}}) However, he "[couldn't] stand" burned toast, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}}) or the taste of [[pear]]s. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Human Nature (novel)}})
   
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The Doctor, Ace and Raine subsequently travelled in the TARDIS to the [[Margrave University]] in [[2001]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Animal (audio story)|Animal]]'') As well as going undercover on the [[Space Vessel Vancouver]], where they encountered the Metatraxi again. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Earth Aid (audio story)|Earth Aid]]'')
  
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The Seventh Doctor though that "anybody remotely interesting [was] mad in some way or another", ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)}}) believed [[evil]] to be a genuine force, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Strange England (novel)}}) and considered [[pacifism]] to be a "noble ideal". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Fiesta of the Damned (audio story)}})
   
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Seeing the future as being built by one's own hands, he believed that there was always [[hope]] for a tomorrow in which "life [was] worth living". However, when faced with the truly nihilistic, the Doctor would abandon them to the fates they did not want to escape. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Time and Tide (comic story)}})
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After Raine left, while in the TARDIS, Ace found some overdue library books which the Doctor explained were from the library on Kar-Charrat. They travelled to the planet in order to return the books. The Doctor met an old friend, the chief librarian Elgin. The Daleks had used time corridor technology to deploy Daleks on every planet in the sector, and then waited hundreds of years to capture a time-sensitive Time Lord in order to penetrate the library's defences and allow them to seize the [[wetworks facility]]. They created a duplicate of Ace, which — replete with the DNA tag — would be able to get through the library's barriers. The Doctor was forced to surrender. The Daleks took him to the facility, and connected him to the machinery. They successfully download the entire knowledge of the Universe into a Dalek test subject. After the download was completed, the test-subject went out of control. Trying to allow the Doctor to re-enter the surrounded TARDIS, the Kar-Charratians killed the Daleks surrounding the time machine, but the duplicate Ace arrived. The duplicate was impervious to the rain unlike the Daleks, and threatened to kill Elgin. However, the chief cataloguer Prink rushed to his aid and attacked the duplicate, damaging it. The Doctor proceeded to the Wetworks with the intention of destroying it, using Ace to pretend to be her own duplicate to get past the Daleks. At the facility they encountered the Dalek test-subject and the Dalek Supreme arguing. Having obtained something of a conscience, the test-subject was refusing to destroy the wetworks facility against the Supreme's orders. The Dalek Supreme retreated to its mother-ship leaving the Special Weapons Dalek to kill the test-subject, but the Nitro-9 succeeded in blowing up the machinery of the Wetworks, and the Kar-Charratians managed to escape. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Genocide Machine]]'')
  
   
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Sometime after facing the Daleks, the Doctor decided to travel to the current location {{What?}} of ''The Scream''. He planned to add it to his collection since it was part of established history that it would be stolen. He and Ace arrived on a barren, sandy planet and discovered a deadly curse on the painting, living dust and encountered the Master in the form of a previous incarnation. The [[Trakenite]] body could not be sustained and the Master's decaying body returned. He planned to unleash a terrible, ancient force on the universe through the dust, but the Doctor and Ace stopped him. Ace remarked that the Doctor should save them trouble and start collecting stamps. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Dust Breeding]]'')
  
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According to Ace, while the Doctor "wasn't scared of monsters or pain or dying, he was scared of being alone," ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)}}) though he would decide later in life to travel alone after a devastating incident made him realise that he couldn't trust himself with anyone's life. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Resurrection of Mars (audio story)}}) He once had a frightful experience in [[Rita Hawks]]'s [[bubble car]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Loving the Alien (novel)}}) and also admitted to the [[Mi'en Kalarash]] that he was afraid of the [[Old Time]], the [[Times of Night]] and Chaos. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|House of Blue Fire (audio story)}})
   
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The TARDIS materialised in Colditz Castle where the Doctor was shot in the shoulder and Ace was captured. The TARDIS was confiscated by the Germans and the Doctor was questioned about it. Soon after, a woman named Elizabeth Klein arrived and demanded that the Doctor hand over his TARDIS key. The Doctor, fearing for Ace's safety, did so and tried to work out how Klein knew about his TARDIS. He was informed that he was to be placed in Klein's custody. Klein had forged her identification papers and travelled to this parallel time period in the Doctor's TARDIS to capture him to take him back to her alternative future so he could teach her to fully control the TARDIS. In her future, the Germans won the war, the Doctor's TARDIS was discovered and he was killed. Klein accessed the TARDIS flight logs to travel here to and planned to learn about the TARDIS before the Doctor died. The Doctor refused, but Klein bargained Ace's life for his co-operation. They discovered that the TARDIS in which Klein arrived in, had dematerialised and were forced to use the TARDIS the Doctor and Ace arrived in. Back at Colditz Castle, the Doctor manipulates a duty-bound Krutz to expose Klein and prevent Klein's timeline from happening by locating the CD-player Ace had left behind. Klein escapes, now an anomaly. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Colditz (audio story)|Colditz]]'')
  
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Believing that "two wrongs [didn't] make a [right]", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}) the Seventh Doctor was opposed to violence of any sort, although he proved capable of rendering an opponent unconscious with a touch to the forehead ([[TV]]: {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}}, {{cs|Survival (TV story)}}) by using the [[Venusian nerve pinch]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)}}) While he was completely against the use of firearms, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}) seeing them as the "tinker toy resort of frustrated [and] hopeless individuals", ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Cuckoo (comic story)}}) the Doctor was willing to use a [[Tissue Compression Eliminator]] to defend himself against [[Death's Head]], ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Crossroads of Time (comic story)}}) and used a gun to kill [[Legion]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lucifer Rising (novel)}}) and to disable [[Eva Jericho]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Damaged Goods (novel)}})
   
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While he protested that no one had the right to kill, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}) he would orchestrate a death if it benefited his plans, ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}}) believing "killing [to be] wrong except when it's right". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Original Sin (novel)}}) While he refused to shoot the Master when it served no purpose, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|First Frontier (novel)}}) the Seventh Doctor was not averse to manipulating events that resulted in the loss of life, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love and War (novel)}}, {{cs|Eternity Weeps (novel)}}) taking a life by himself, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lucifer Rising (novel)}}) or convincing someone to commit [[suicide]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Zamper (novel)}}, {{cs|Just War (novel)}}, {{cs|Loving the Alien (novel)}}, {{cs|Utopia (short story)}}) He also played a part in the destruction of many planets, such as [[Skaro]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}) the [[Seven Planets]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Pit (novel)}}) and the [[Silurian Earth]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Blood Heat (novel)}}) and confessed to [[Red]] that a part of him enjoyed destroying worlds, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Red (audio story)}}) though he regretted their destruction either way. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Algebra of Ice (novel)}})
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After the traumatic events of Colditz, Ace asked to relax. The Doctor and she visited [[Ibiza]] where a strange DJ called Gabriel was using the power of music and his belief that he was an angel to raise an army for his brother out of the young people who came to party at their club. The army was needed to fight a war in another dimension. The Doctor stopped Gabriel, but his brother opted to continue their work until the Doctor was forced to stop his plans as well. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Rapture]]'')
  
   
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=== Meeting Hex ===
  
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On [[2021]] Earth, the Doctor and Ace investigated signs of "xenotech" alien technology in use at [[St Gart's Brookside Hospital]] in [[London]]. Here, while combating a [[Cyberman (Mondas)|Cyberman]] threat, he encountered [[Hex|Thomas Hector Scholefield]], the son of [[Cassandra Scholefield]] (whom the Doctor had met in his [[Sixth Doctor|sixth incarnation]]). Following their encounter and battle against the Cyber threat, Hex joined the Doctor and Ace in their travels. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Harvest]]'')
  
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The Doctor did his best to keep history on track, such as by ensuring he left nothing anachronistic behind when in the past. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}})
   
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The Doctor stood for presidency on [[Colony 34]]. The reigning leader was trying to avoid an election for fear of losing and was using his influence to discredit the parties that stood against him. The Doctor faked his own death and with the help of Ace and Hex and managed to expose everything the government had been trying to keep secret including deaths, disappearances. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[LIVE 34]]'')
  
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The Doctor would attempt to embrace the customs of the cultures he visited, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}, {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}) and greet anything he thought was sentient with a friendly smile. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}) However, he could get so caught up in the moment that he overlooked the finer details of the situation. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}})
   
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The TARDIS materialised in the woods, where Ace accidentally fell into a lake. Taking her to a nearby cabin, the Doctor discovered people being killed and that the people there were experimenting with time. 10 years earlier, a girl had been killed as a result of a misdiagnosis and the scientists were trying to send a message back to warn their past selves. This interference with the timeline caused the girl to become alive again in a state of zombie-like limbo. To correct their mistake, the Doctor travelled back and undid the damage. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Night Thoughts]]'')
  
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While combating [[Adam Mitchell]]'s [[Auton]]s, the Seventh Doctor associated himself with his [[First Doctor|first]] and [[second incarnation]]s, combining with them to think of a solution to the situation. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Endgame (POT comic story)}})
   
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While he was of the opinion that his [[Third Doctor|third]] and [[fourth incarnation]]s were not unattractive, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Algebra of Ice (novel)}}) he regretfully felt that his fourth incarnation had "condemned untold billions to death by not destroying the Daleks at the moment of [[Creation of the Daleks|their birth]]", and resented that his [[fifth incarnation]] "could have saved billions more by shooting down [[Davros]] like a mad dog when [he] had the chance". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lucifer Rising (novel)}}) He also thought he himself looked more "respectable" than his fourth and [[sixth incarnation]]s, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Loving the Alien (novel)}}) and thought his third incarnation was "a real dandy of a fellow". ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Under Pressure (comic story)}}) However, when he encountered [[The Doctor (Party Animals)|an incarnation]] he did not recognise, the Seventh Doctor acted civil towards him and engaged in a pleasant conversation while a fight erupted around them. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Party Animals (comic story)}})
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The Doctor sent Ace and Hex to [[Monte Carlo]] in [[1969]] to recover [[the Veiled Leopard]] diamond. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Veiled Leopard]]'')
  
   
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In [[1854]] the the Doctor paid a visit to [[Michael Faraday]] where he delivered the remains of the [[Special Weapons Dalek]]. [[Ulrik]] showed up and was followed by several Daleks tracking him through time. The Doctor manipulated the events so that Ulrik would time travel once more and sent the Daleks after him – knowing that they would encounter his previous incarnation. The Doctor joined his [[Fifth Doctor|fifth]], [[Sixth Doctor|sixth]] and [[Eighth Doctor|eighth]] incarnations briefly before being returned to his own timeline. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Four Doctors]]'')
  
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The Seventh Doctor was generally disliked by his other incarnations. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Shadow of the Scourge (audio story)}}) The [[Fifth Doctor]] was repulsed by his manipulative nature, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cold Fusion (novel)}}) and the [[Sixth Doctor]] told [[Evelyn Smythe]] that his successor was "always blowing up planets", something he was "not looking forward to". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The 100 Days of the Doctor (audio story)}}) The [[Eleventh Doctor]] described his seventh incarnation as "probably one of [his] more circumspect periods." ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Shockwave (DotD audio story)}})
   
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The Eighth Doctor described his immediate predecessor as "a [[paranoia|paranoid]] chap at times, but then often with good reason[s]", ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|War of the Daleks (novel)}}) and eventually came to view his manipulative nature with disdain, telling [[Lucie Miller]] that he was always "the man with the master plan," arranging the destruction of his enemies and the toppling of dictatorships in order to serve the greater good, to the point where he began to countenance sacrificing the lives of the few to save the many, in which he negatively compared the Seventh Doctor to {{Garden}}. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Resurrection of Mars (audio story)}})
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''At some point afterwards, the Doctor collected Ace and Hex from Monte Carlo and continued on travelling.''
  
   
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When the Doctor, Ace and Hex arrived in [[Egypt]] in [[1902]], they met a young Time Lady named [[Jane Templeton|Jane]] who had been stranded for centuries on Earth trying to find her TARDIS. She accidentally transgressed the laws of time by becoming a god to the locals. The Doctor informed Jane that her TARDIS was dying. Afterwards, Jane flew her TARDIS into the sun, but rejected the Doctor's help to save her life. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[False Gods]]'')
  
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Despite his manipulative actions, such as using psychic powers to make Mel leave with [[Sabalom Glitz]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Head Games (novel)}}) the Seventh Doctor did care for his companions, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Fearmonger (audio story)}}) focusing on their wounds before his own, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Set Piece (novel)}}) and even sought their approval on occasion. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Head Games (novel)}}) He believed he would act as a surrogate granddad to [[Bernice Summerfield]]'s children, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|SLEEPY (novel)}}) and later gave her away at her wedding to [[Jason Kane]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Happy Endings (novel)}}) He did not like others fiddling with his TARDIS, even slapping Ace's hand when she tried using the console control. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}})
   
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Although he originally invited her to travel with him to combat [[Fenric]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Head Games (novel)}}) the Doctor developed a paternal relationship with Ace, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}}, {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}}) eventually coming to trust Ace with his life. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The High Price of Parking (audio story)}}) Ace, considering the Doctor to be her "[[guru]]", ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Nightshade (audio story)}}) believed that he had the "deepest, saddest eyes", ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Prisoner's Dilemma (audio story)}}) and even told him that she loved him. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Signs and Wonders (audio story)}}) However, after she found herself unable to deal with his growing emotional coldness, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Nightshade (novel)}}) Ace walked out on the Doctor after he had arranged for the death of [[Jan Rydd]], whom she had fallen in love with. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love and War (novel)}}) Even after she re-joined his company, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Deceit (novel)}}) it was only so she could use him for her own goals, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lucifer Rising (novel)}}) believing it to be poetic justice for his own manipulations. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Conundrum (novel)}}) Their relationship would remain sour, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Blood Heat (novel)}}) until they worked together to defeat {{Champion}}, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|No Future (novel)}}) after which they realised how much they needed each other's friendship. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Tragedy Day (novel)}}) Ace eventually decided that, whilst the Doctor "may be a bastard", he was "still [her] bastard", ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Head Games (novel)}}) and that she could trust him "to sort out anything". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Death of Art (novel)}})
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The Doctor travelled to the island of [[Mendavelia]] in [[33]] AD to help solve a code, but fell into a trap laid by The Order of Simplicity. He was infected with a virus that drained the intelligence from the brain. Using the intellect of primitives, the Doctor freed himself. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Order of Simplicity]]'')
  
   
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The TARDIS crew attempted to track down an alien artefact that controlled others into telling the truth. Ace met a child version of her mother while the Doctor and Hex followed Joey, the person who stole the artefact from the Forge. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Casualties of War (audio story)|Casualties of War]]'')
  
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While his favourite planet was [[Earth]], ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Crossroads of Time (comic story)}}) the Doctor could also be critical of human nature, stating that humans had "the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by [their] ingenuity when trying to destroy [themselves]", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}) that "among all the varied wonders of the universe, [there was] nothing so firmly clamped shut as the military mind", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}}) and that their expectation that "everything [had] to be within [their] comprehension" was their "most irksome trait." ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dimension Riders (novel)}}) While he once voiced his opinion that their evolution was a "miscalculation", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Silver Nemesis (TV story)}}) the Doctor admitted to [[Mikey (Bad Therapy)|Mikey]] that, despite their illogical behaviour, he found human beings irresistible. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Bad Therapy (novel)}})
   
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The Doctor encountered a being from a dimension made out of language and communication - [[Nobody No-One]]. This being followed him into a top secret facility and proceeded to cause chaos until the Doctor captured him inside a book only for him to escape again. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Word Lord]]'')
  
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While his [[John Smith (Seventh Doctor)|human counterpart]] fell in love with [[Joan Redfern]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Human Nature (novel)}}) the Doctor himself was decidedly celibate, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Death and Diplomacy (novel)}}) failing to understand human attraction and affection, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)}}) except when it came to [[Ace]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)}}) of whom he loved in a paternal way. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TotT TV story)}}) However, Ace noted that the Doctor had chemistry with [[Mackenzie (Cat and Mouse)|Maid Mackenzie]] of the [[Campbell Ancestral Home]], with the Doctor also appearing crestfallen when he had to say goodbye to her. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Cat and Mouse (comic story)}})
   
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The Doctor, Ace and Hex landed on [[Bliss (planet)|Bliss]], a jungle planet under Dalek attack. While Ace and Hex helped in the battle with the Daleks, the Doctor discovered that a local professor had combined larvae and Piranha-locust DNA to create a new species known as the [[Ki-sabia]]. The Ki-sabia fed on metal and were created to save mankind from the Daleks, but quickly became uncontrollable. They decimated the Dalek forces easily. The Doctor planned to blow up the station and slaughter this new species, but in the end, [[Beth Stokes|Beth]], a former prisoner of the Daleks stayed behind to finish the job. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Enemy of the Daleks]]'')
  
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Seeing them as the "most evil race in the universe", ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Terror from the Deep (comic story)}}) the Seventh Doctor harboured a strong hatred for the Daleks, refusing to believe that a single timeline existed where they were benevolent. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Ripple Effect (short story)}}) He also distrusted the [[Ice Warrior]]s, even after they renounced conflict. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Legacy (novel)}})
   
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During an adventure in 1854, Hex was fatally shot ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Angel of Scutari]]''), so the Doctor and Ace returned him to Earth in 2025, where, after an adventure involving [[William Abberton|Nimrod]] and [[The Forge]], it was revealed to Hex that the [[Sixth Doctor]] was involved in his mother's death. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Lazarus (audio story)|Project: Lazarus]]'') It was this revelation that prompted Hex to leave the TARDIS crew. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Destiny (audio story)|Project: Destiny]]'') However, his departure was short lived, after an encounter with [[Evelyn Smythe]], who convinced Hex that it wasn't the Doctor's fault that his mother died. After Evelyn died, Hex was convinced to rejoin the TARDIS crew. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Death in the Family]]'')
  
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While [[Ace]] frequently described the Seventh Doctor as an "aging hippy", ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)}}; [[PROSE]]: {{cs|No Future (novel)}}, {{cs|Set Piece (novel)}}) [[Guy de Carnac]] compared the Doctor to an [[owl]], observing that "he [was] comfortable in the darkness", and also though the Doctor "[was] equally as adept at hunting down prey in cold blood". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Sanctuary (novel)}}) [[Fakrid]] believed the Doctor had "the mind of a genius", but also "prattle[d] like any other parasite". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Highest Science (novel)}}) Dr. [[Smith (Zamper)|Smith]], who initially saw the Doctor as a "great scientist", quickly changed her opinion of him to that of "an entertainer who might be hired for a children's party" after the Doctor started enthusiastically rambling. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Zamper (novel)}}) [[Lieutenant]] [[Frethil]] believed he "reek[ed] of subversion and dissent." ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Grief (comic story)}})
   
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The {{Reid}} described the Seventh Doctor as "a portentous little feller, swaggering around, thinking he's got all the world's darkest secrets under his hat." ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Scarlet Empress (novel)}}) Brigadier General [[Adrienne Kramer]] described him as "a manipulative little weirdo who was always up to something behind [her] back." ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Vampire Science (novel)}}) When she encountered the Seventh Doctor shortly before her death, [[Evelyn Smythe]] criticised him for his scheming, manipulative nature, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|A Death in the Family (audio story)}}) while [[Melanie Bush]] described the man he became as "a liar and a user and quite possibly a murderer", and proclaimed that she wanted nothing more to do with him. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Head Games (novel)}}) When the [[Eighth Doctor]] had a [[tarot]] card reading, the Seventh Doctor was identified as "the Hanged Man". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The City of the Dead (novel)}})
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Shortly afterwards, the TARDIS materialised in [[Alaska (state)|Alaska]] in the [[1930s]] with the Doctor wanting to investigate a strange ice formation. They soon met an expedition team looking for an ancient secret. The Doctor and Ace became separated from the rest of the group and were presumed dead. In reality, they had arrived at what appeared to be an island psychiatric facility and met a young poet who took them to the person in charge. There, the Doctor learned that the entire facility was in fact not a psychiatric complex, but a prison for the most dangerous being on planet Earth. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge]]'')
  
   
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The [[Reborn Master]] described the Seventh Doctor as a "tiresome little man with [an] umbrella", ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Eyes of the Master (audio story)}}) and as "a wily one", ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Two Masters (audio story)}}) while the [[Tremas Master]] described him as being "too busy setting plans and traps" to realise the ones "set for him". ([[GAME]]: {{cs|Destiny of the Doctors (video game)}}) [[Jason (Conundrum)|Jason]] considered the Seventh Doctor "no fun" due to his secret keeping and "tantrums". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Conundrum (novel)}})
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The Doctor left Hex and Ace for a while, growing a Black TARDIS, and began travelling alone in it, encountering the [[Sandminer robot]]s ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Robophobia (audio story)|Robophobia]]''), and meeting a copy of [[Nostradamus]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doomsday Quatrain]]'') Eventually, he met his new companion, [[Sally Morgan]] on Earth, [[2020]], when they tried to defeat the [[Great Old One|Elder God]], [[Mi'en Kalarash]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[House of Blue Fire]]'') After a while, [[Lysandra Aristedes]] began travelling in the Black TARDIS, where they continued to battle Elder Gods. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]], [[Project Nirvana (audio story)|Project Nirvana]]'')
  
   
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[[Alan Fitzgerald]], a summer intern at the [[Gogglebox]], believed that the Seventh Doctor knew everything. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Gathering (audio story)}}) The [[Black Dalek]] considered the Doctor's apparent ruthlessness to be "impressive". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Enemy of the Daleks (audio story)}}) [[TARDIS (Prisoners of Fate)|The Doctor's first TARDIS]] described the Seventh Doctor as "the schemer". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Prisoners of Fate (audio story)}}) [[Helen (The Sirens of Time)|Helen]] referred to him as "the Thinker". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Sirens of Time (audio story)}})
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The Black TARDIS arrived in [[5th century]], [[Denmark]], where he sent the Black TARDIS, containing Sally and Lysandra, to the alternative 1989. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'')
  
   
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While he was travelling his Black TARDIS, he sent the White TARDIS, containing Hex and Ace to [[1989]] in an alternative timeline. He gave them the mission to investigate the Elder Gods, who created this timeline. They managed to defeat the Elders Gods, and restore the original timeline, just in time for a Black TARDIS to arrive and retrieve them. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Protect and Survive (audio story)|Protect and Survive]]'')
  
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Though he was afraid of it, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Parasite (novel)}}) the Doctor wished to die alone, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Transit (novel)}}) unconscious and on his own terms, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Room With No Doors (novel)}}) and also believed it would be best if all traces of him were erased. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Transit (novel)}}) While the Doctor originally thought he would "beat chance and choose the moment to die", he later confessed to Benny that he knew he would die "[without] control, surrounded by strangers, [and] helpless." ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Return of the Living Dad (novel)}}) He later told [[Chris Cwej]] that he viewed regenerating as both a good and bad feeling in the same way that driving a car very fast was exhilarating despite the potentially fatal outcome, with the Doctor calling [[regeneration]] a "miniature death". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Room With No Doors (novel)}})
   
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As he pleaded with [[Grace Holloway]] not to operate on him after he got shot in a gang shootout in [[San Francisco]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doctor Who (TV story)}}) the Doctor privately despaired how it was "not [his] time" and that he had "too much left to do". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Zagreus (audio story)}}) Before he let out a final scream as he died, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doctor Who (TV story)}}) Holloway noted that the Doctor seemed "very clear, very determined and very powerful", while also looking "very serious, but also very frightened of something", and felt that he was "rarely afraid of anything". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Novel of the Film (novelisation)}}) A mental manifestation of the Seventh Doctor within [[the Doctor's mind]] later lamented that his demise was "[un]dignified" and expressed annoyance that he "[hadn't seen] that one coming". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Zagreus (audio story)}})
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When they entered the Black TARDIS, they discovered Sally and Lysandra already there. Upon discovering this, they realised that the Doctor was travelling in both TARDISes, simultaneously. Hex, Ace, Sally and Lysandra then arrived in [[5th century]], [[Denmark]], where they met [[Beowulf]], and faced an alien called [[Garundel]]. They discovered that the Doctor was previously in this location, but was kidnapped by an [[Fenric|unknown enemy]]. After following the Doctor's clues and instructions, they retrieved an artefact called [[Weyland's shield]], restored the original and destroy the Black TARDIS, on their way to locate the Doctor. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Black and White (audio story)|Black and White]]'')
  
   
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The TARDIS crew located the Doctor in a [[pocket universe]] which was under the control of [[Fenric]]. After releasing the Doctor, it was revealed that Fenric was playing a game against another Elder God called [[Weyland]] for control of Weyland's shield, which could grant omnipotence to an Elder God. It was also discovered that the TARDIS crew had been pawns of Weyland, used to help him win the game against Fenric, and Hex was destined to become the quintessential pawn in Weyland's plan, who prevented his death after being shot in Scutari. However, Hex managed to banish Weyland, and stop the game, but became possessed by Fenric. Hex sacrificed himself to prevent Fenric from permanently taking control and gaining power, saving the Doctor, Ace, Sally and Lysandra. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Gods and Monsters (audio story)|Gods and Monsters]]'')
  
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The Seventh Doctor spoke with a Scottish accent, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}) which [[Bernice Summerfield]] noted was of the [[Highlands]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Big Bang Generation (novel)}}) However, when necessary, the Doctor adopted other accents too. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Highest Science (novel)}}, {{cs|No Future (novel)}}, {{cs|Bad Therapy (novel)}}, {{cs|The Room With No Doors (novel)}}) When talking about [[Dalek]]s, his voice would develop a harder edge to it. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Illegal Alien (novel)}})
   
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=== Time's Champion ===
  
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He occasionally displayed a tendency to mangle and combine Earth idioms, creating {{w|Dundrearyism}}s. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}, {{cs|Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)}}) After Mel described the habit as "really annoying", the Doctor promised that he would try to stop doing it, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Bang-Bang-a-Boom! (audio story)}}) though would later slip up on his promise long after she had left the TARDIS. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|White Darkness (novel)}}, {{cs|No Future (novel)}}, {{cs|Sanctuary (novel)}}, {{cs|The Also People (novel)}})
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[[File:Original Sin Doctor.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor encounters [[Chris Cwej]] and [[Roz Forrester]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Original Sin]]'')]]
  
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In the years that followed, the Doctor continued to travel extensively, gaining and losing companions as he went. Ace left to fight in a war, but later returned, older and wiser. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'', ''[[Deceit]]'') The Doctor also gained a valued companion in Dr. [[Bernice Summerfield]], who was herself a fellow adventurer. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Love and War (novel)|Love and War]]'')
 
   
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The Seventh Doctor would often introduce himself by saying, ''"I'm the Doctor, and this is my friend…"'' ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)}}, {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}}, {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}})
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The seventh incarnation's travels saw him reuniting with many past friends, not always in a positive fashion, including [[Peri Brown]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Bad Therapy]]'') [[Romana II|Romana]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]'') [[Liz Shaw]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Eternity Weeps]]'') and some of his former UNIT colleagues, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings]]'') among others.
  
   
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He sometimes described a situation as "splendid", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}}) and would say that "monsters" feared him in their "nightmares". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love and War (novel)}}, {{cs|Blood Heat (novel)}}, {{cs|Continuity Errors (short story)}}, {{cs|Return of the Living Dad (novel)}}; [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Shadow of the Scourge (audio story)}})
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At one point, the Doctor physically changed himself into a human called [[John Smith (Seventh Doctor)|John Smith]] and lived for a time as such, even falling in love with a human woman called [[Joan Redfern (novel character)|Joan Redfern]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'')
  
   
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The Doctor was fond of using the term "grubby" when explaining his mission to keep an artefact away from his adversaries, such as when keeping the [[Hand of Omega]] out of the Daleks' "grubby little protuberances", ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}) when he sent [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Blood Heat)|the TARDIS]] away to keep the [[Robot Ant]]s from getting their "grubby little mandibles" on it, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Set Piece (novel)}}) and when preventing the fake skull of [[Jesus Christ]] from falling into [[Louis de Citeaux]] and [[Francisco Guzman]]'s "grubby little protuberances". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Sanctuary (novel)}})
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=== Travelling alone ===
  
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At some point after this, the Doctor met [[Elizabeth Klein]] again living in [[Kenya|British Kenya]] during the [[Mau Mau Uprising]] in [[1953]]. Despite their animosity, they worked together to solve the mystery of the virus and stop the [[Cheylis]] plot to use Earth as a testing ground for biological warfare. The Doctor, knowing Klein would continue to pose a threat to history, insisted she accompany him as a companion on his travels so he could keep an eye on her. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Thousand Tiny Wings (audio story)|A Thousand Tiny Wings]]'')
 
   
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Immediately upon entering the TARDIS, Klein recounted what caused her to use the TARDIS that resulted in the destruction of her timeline. It turned out that the Doctor; an alternate Seventh Doctor, orchestrated his regeneration into the Eighth to manipulate Klein into using the TARDIS and re-rewrite history. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Klein's Story]]'')
  
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While he sometimes rested both hands on his hips, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}, {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}, {{cs|Silver Nemesis (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)}}) the Seventh Doctor would more often place a single hand on his hip while gesturing with his other hand, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}, {{cs|Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)}}, {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}, {{cs|Untitled (1988 TV story)}}, {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|Silver Nemesis (TV story)}}, {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}}, {{cs|Search Out Space (TV story)}}) such as by grasping a single hand on his lapel. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}, {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}, {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}, {{cs|Silver Nemesis (TV story)}}, {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}}, {{cs|Survival (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TotT TV story)}})
   
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He also made a habit of propping himself up on an arm when lounging on something, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}, {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}, {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|Silver Nemesis (TV story)}}, {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}}) and leaning on his umbrellas with both hands. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}, {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}, {{cs|Untitled (1988 TV story)}}, {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TotT TV story)}})
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After travelling together for a period of time, the Doctor and Klein arrived on an insectoid planet and met the [[Vrill]], who communicated through smell, although the TARDIS' translation circuits helped the duo in understanding the Vrill. In the midst of a war, Klein stole the Doctor's TARDIS and abandoned him on the planet. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'')
  
   
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While he would mostly raise his [[hat]] as a friendly greeting and a farewell, the Doctor would also raise his hat in mockery as he escaped a defeated adversary or when his enemies retreated. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}, {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}, {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}})
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Klein used the Doctor's TARDIS to rewrite history so that the [[Germany|Germans]] had won the war. She captured this new timeline's Doctor and imprisoned him on [[the Moon]]. She helped the [[Galactic Reich]] conquer the [[Dalek]]s and [[Sontaran]]s and any other potential threats by travelling in time and informing the past. While visiting the Doctor, trying to find out where this version's TARDIS was, Klein, along with the rest of the [[Moonbase]] came under attack by a race of shark-like warriors. The Doctor had sent them there and supplied them with the necessary technology to destroy the base. Klein discovered that this alternate Doctor had retained the memories of her version's life as well. The two of them escaped in his TARDIS where the Doctor informed her that the Time Lords had tried her and found her guilty. She was erased from history, along with the alternate Doctor, restoring things to their correct order. Afterwards, the original Doctor paid a visit to UNIT where he encountered a different version of Klein who was now working for UNIT. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Architects of History]]'')
  
   
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He often held his hands crossed behind his back as he leaned forwards, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}, {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}, {{cs|Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)}}, {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}, {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)}}, {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Disney Club (TV story)}}) and strutted about with his hands in his trouser pockets. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}, {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}, {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}, {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}})
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=== Nearing the end ===
  
   
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As a show of affection, the Doctor would gently tap his friends on the nose. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}, {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}, {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)}},{{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}})
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The Doctor decided to take a vacation long overdue to the planet of [[Ormelia]]. The TARDIS materialised aboard a spaceship orbiting the planet. There, the Doctor befriended a genetically reconstructed creature named [[Vilgreth]]. It was only later the Doctor discovered that Vilgreth's ship travelled through space by devouring planets, and so was forced to stop him. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Last of the Titans]]'')
  
   
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When in thought, he would rub his fingers with his thumb, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}, {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}, {{cs|Silver Nemesis (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)}}, {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}}, {{cs|Survival (TV story)}}) tug at his ear, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}, {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)}}, {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}}) scratch at his mouth, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}, {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}, {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)}}, {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}}, {{cs|Survival (TV story)}}, {{cs|Dimensions in Time (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Disney Club (TV story)}}) or use his umbrella to play with his lips. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}}, {{cs|Survival (TV story)}})
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Travelling to the Forge in hopes of destroying it completely, the Doctor found his sixth incarnation assisting Nimrod and reluctantly helped the Forge fend off a telepathic transporting alien incursion. His predecessor's arm was lost in the battle which confirmed that this Doctor was a fake. The fake Doctor explained that Nimrod used DNA samples from the real Doctor when they last met to clone the Doctor, [[Project Lazarus|Project: Lazarus]], in an attempt to learn the secrets of regeneration. The Doctor initiates a plan to blow up the Forge, but the Lazarus Doctor was the one that delivers the final blow, killing everyone in the base. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Project Lazarus (audio story)|Project: Lazarus]]'')
 
   
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The Doctor travelled to [[Pelachan]] where he discovered an artefact known as the Hand of All. This object contained a living story. The Doctor took it before going to combat another version of [[Nobody No-One]], trapping him in the Hand inside his mind. He then travelled to [[the Forge]] and locked himself in a Time lord coffin and waited until he was found by Ace and his younger self. He warned them about Nobody No-One returning, thus releasing the [[Word Lord]], but fell comatose afterwards only to wake up after his younger self had died defeating the Word Lord. He took it upon himself to bring Hex to Evelyn before he faded out of existence only to return once Ace had rescued his younger self. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Death in the Family]]'')
 
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The Seventh Doctor made a habit of randomly reading books with "Doctor" in the title, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}, {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}) and would sometimes backflip his hat onto his head. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}, {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}}, {{cs|Survival (TV story)}})
   
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The TARDIS brought the Doctor once more to [[Artaris]] where he encountered Lord Sutton, who was really Warlord [[Grayvon]]. Grayvon had been reduced to a spirit in their last encounter and had managed to possess a person before sculpting [[Excelis]] once more into a war-driven dictatorship. He used the souls of the Excelis people to power his “meat puppet” army. The Doctor used [[the Relic]] to free the souls, but Grayvon activated a self -destruct which would destroy Artaris. The Doctor tried to help, but was forced to run away and escape, leaving the people of Artaris to die in the explosion. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Excelis Decays]]'')
  
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Shortly afterwards, the Doctor made a deal with [[Death]] in which she would allow [[the Master]] to live a normal life for 10 years only if the Doctor would kill him afterwards. He visited the Master’s home, 10 years in the Master’s future, where he found his old friend, amnesiac, entertaining guests. The personification of Death, Jade – the Master’s housekeeper, revealed herself and told everyone that according to a contract between her and the Doctor, he was supposed to kill the Master. The Doctor couldn’t and made another deal with Death after witnessing the Master’s friend Victor killing his wife. If the Master could make the right decision, then they’d be free, but the Master struggled and was offered one more deal by Death – his life, as her servant, or the life of Victor’s wife Jacqueline whom he was in love with. In the end, Death took the Master and sent the Doctor away to face punishment for not holding up his end of their bargain. His task: To assassinate a little girl. He travelled to the destination and encountered an already sniper about to take his shot, interrupted him and recounted his adventure. The Doctor failed to kill the girl, but discovered that the sniper was in fact Death and knew he wouldn’t be able to. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Master (audio story)|Master]]'')
  
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[[File:Dimension Riders crop.jpg|thumb|The Doctor faces the [[Garvond]] in a game of [[chess]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Dimension Riders (novel)}})]]
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The Seventh Doctor was a grand manipulator, often utilising his choice of words to persuade others into a decision of his choosing, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}}) or devising an unscrupulous scheme to defeat his adversaries. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}}, {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}}) He had a tendency to play the long game in his schemes, preferring to keep his plans subtle and "behind the scenes", ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Cat's Cradle: Warhead (novel)}}, {{cs|The Highest Science (novel)}}) but would often focus on overcomplicating his plans to the point that he overlooked a more simpler approach. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Of the Mermaid and Jupiter (short story)}}) When his plans went awry, or an unexpected element developed, the Doctor was efficient at improvising solutions. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}}) However, as he got older, his power of persuasion weakened, with the Doctor unable to convince [[Grace Holloway]] not to operate on him. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doctor Who (TV story)}})
   
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The Doctor visited the planet [[Spiridon]] again to oversee the destruction of the Daleks and the work done by [[Karendorf]]. He soon realized that he would have to get involved and steer the events so that he could control them. He made a deal with the Daleks to help them achieve their invisibility without suffering from the Lightwave sickness in exchange for Karendorf’s safety. He completed the formula, but betrayed the Daleks at the last moment and exposed them and himself to the sickness. He managed to escape back to his TARDIS and refused to regenerate before collapsing on the floor. The TARDIS healed him and he dared the Daleks to catch him if they could. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Return of the Daleks (audio story)|Return of the Daleks]]'')
  
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Despite his stature, the Doctor was capable of both directly and indirectly taking control of situations involving strangers, using his greater intelligence to assess and direct events. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}, {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}}) Even though he loathed using violence, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}, {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}}) he also showed a skill at unarmed combat, being able to briefly overpower a [[judo]] trained Mel, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}) wrestle a [[Cheetah virus]] infected Master, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Survival (TV story)}}) strike down two [[Hitler Youth]]s with a series of slaps, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)}}) and disarm [[Aoi]] using martial arts. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Room With No Doors (novel)}}) He also possessed the strength to bend a gun barrel as a demonstration, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Independence Day (novel)}}) and could still best [[Grendel of Gracht]] in a swordfight. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Trials of Tara (short story)}})
   
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Something of a showman, the Seventh Doctor was an adept physical performer, and deployed a repertoire of magic tricks, illusions and escape artistry as part of his plans. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)}}, {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}}) He could escape from [[handcuffs]], ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Final Genesis (comic story)}}) juggle five balls with his feet while standing on his head and gargling "[[The Star-Spangled Banner]]" ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lucifer Rising (novel)}}) and whistle with a small bomb in his mouth, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Also People (novel)}}) but he could not dance. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Bad Therapy (novel)}}) He also possessed the necessary accuracy to lasso a small target and improvise a zip wire, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}) was capable of picking a lock with a hairpin, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Death of Art (novel)}}) and could crack a safe by listening to the turns of its dial. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge (audio story)}})
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Millions of years ago, [[Ice Warrior]], [[Arakssor]] led like-minded Ice Warriors in an attempt to take over his people's government. The Doctor stopped him with the help of Martian elder [[Geldar]] and Arakssor and his band of war criminals were banished to primitive Earth, where they were imprisoned in the ice of the [[Antarctica]] under a sentence of life imprisonment. During a skirmish in the prison, all the individuals within the facility were frozen, including the Doctor and Geldar. There they remained until the year 2012, when a human expedition led by [[Lord Barset]] accidentally woke the Doctor, the Ice Warrior criminals and Arakssor up. While the Doctor suffered partial temporary amnesia, Arakssor quickly took over the facility. In furtherance of, Arakssor used a sonic cannon from the prison to heat the Earth's waters and destroy human civilisation by bringing about a terrible ice age. His later attempts at contacting Mars also failed and he learnt that his people were gone. Mars were now uninhabitable. The Doctor slowly regained his memory and thwarted Arakssor's plans by summoning a Martian warship. It attacked the prison from orbit. The renegades' punishment for escaping imprisonment was death. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Frozen Time]]'')
 
   
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On the planet [[Tasak]], the Doctor was preparing tea when he noticed an android named Temeter on his scanner. Temeter was tracking a strange signal, just like him so they formed an alliance. The two of them travelled across Argent City via the monorail transport system to the Grand Citadel of the House of Argentia where they discovered a cue plot and Sara, the person Temeter’s was there to rescue. Before they could leave, they were arrested as spies and brought to the banquet hall where a [[Cyberman]] statue was unveiled. The Doctor tried to warn the people of the dangers, but they ignored him. Afterwards, Argentia is taken over by the leaders of Sarkota, but eclipsed when the Silver, the core of the planet’s technology repository is revealed to be a squadron of Cybermen. They awaken and begin to convert the planet’s inhabitants. The Doctor manages to lead them into a trap before blowing the whole repository up. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Kingdom of Silver]]'')
  
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With a thought process that worked faster than his mouth, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Also People (novel)}}) the Doctor could memories entire files after flicking through them, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Blood Harvest (novel)}}, {{cs|Bad Therapy (novel)}}) and was capable of mentally keeping up with a ship that thought [[picosecond]]s was a long time. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Also People (novel)}})
   
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With a touch to the head, the Doctor could read minds, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love and War (novel)}}) calm a person, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Blood Heat (novel)}}, {{cs|Legacy (novel)}}, {{cs|Head Games (novel)}}) erase memories, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|No Future (novel)}}) induce someone to sleep, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|GodEngine (novel)}}) and read a person's dreams, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|SLEEPY (novel)}}) though he could also influence people's decisions with just a stare and a quiet voice. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}}) He was also able to receive [[Telepathy|telepathic]] [[distress call]], ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Culture Shock! (comic story)}}) telepathically link himself with the [[Silurian]]s, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Blood Heat (novel)}}) and set up a psychological block in [[Sally Morgan]]'s limbic system by touching her forehead. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|House of Blue Fire (audio story)}}) However, his powers of hypnotism had different results on different cultures in different ages, and he occasionally needed aide to successfully hypnotise someone. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Companion Piece (novel)}})
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After defeating the Cybermen, the Doctor continued to travel on his own until he arrived at the largest Reclaim Station this side of the Easto Cluster in search of fluid links for his TARDIS. He and Two’Mark, the mechanic, were approached by a small robot who recognized the Doctor. The two of them then headed back to his TARDIS where the Doctor activated a holo-glyph control and started to play back a recording made by Sara many years ago, specifically about how she was prosecuted and condemned to live inside the small robot that he met just. Afterwards, the Doctor offered to pay Two Mark for the [[fluid link]], but the engineer was in the mood to be generous and allowed him to have it on the house. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Keepsake]]'')
  
   
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The Doctor met [[Raine Creevy]] once more and started travelling on and off with her. While in flight, the TARDIS was pulled into another dimension. It materialized on a barren planet when another TARDIS suddenly arrived as well, carrying [[The Master|a future incarnation of the Doctor]]. This Other Doctor was helping [[Unified Intelligence Taskforce|UNIT]] on Earth and warned about a mistake the Doctor was about to make and urged him not to help the [[Tolian]]s, a race of aliens whose life energy was being drained away by a [[Node Stone]]. The Other Doctor departed, but the current Doctor failed to heed his warning and conjured up an energy syphon that would draw power from the very dimension. Once the Tolians were restored, they captured Raine and threatened to drop her off a cliff if the Doctor didn’t increase the output. Knowing that increasing the output would result in dimensional chaos of all dimensions, the Doctor still did as the Tolians demanded and opened up the syphon. He rescued Raine and jumped into the dimensional doorway, explaining that creatures from other dimensions would now be able to freely hop around. He and Raine wandered around the void until he instructed Raine to pick the dimensional lock with her mind.
 
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After opening a surgery in [[The Doctor's TARDIS (Blood Heat)|the alternate universe TARDIS]], the Doctor was able to remove genetic implants from soldiers modified by the [[Skrak]], and sew [[Sareth]]'s hand back on to him while doing so. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Death and Diplomacy (novel)}}) He could also perform [[CPR]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Bad Therapy (novel)}})
   
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She managed to open a door into another dimension, which consisted of a volcanic surface inhabited by molten-spewing spiders. The Doctor and Raine escaped one and sought refuge in a dormant volcano until they were chased out by more spiders. They noticed another dimensional door which the arachnids were using to cross over to Earth and followed, unaware that the Other Doctor, being assisted by [[Elizabeth Klein]], was preparing to banish the spiders that had already escaped to Earth back. Thankfully, Klein noticed Raine and the current Doctor before the Other Doctor rescued them. The current Doctor learned that UNIT had confiscated his future self’s TARDIS to force him to help them fend off a variety of dimensional escapees.
 
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The Doctor could see in the dark, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Genesys (novel)}}) and his sense of smell was sensitive enough for him to differentiate between ketones, ammonia, amino acids, aldehydes, butyric acid and geosmin in [[cheese]], though he could choose to switch off the part of his brain that identified the chemicals to enjoy the taste of the cheese. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Culture War (short story)}}) He could also identify blood samples by taste, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Bad Therapy (novel)}}) see ultraviolet light, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Room With No Doors (novel)}}) and perform a biochemical analysis by drinking chemicals. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Independence Day (novel)}})
   
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The Doctors were detained at UNIT because the members of UNIT, suspicious of their identity and motive, found it difficult to trust them. The Doctors pleaded to have the second Node Stone, in Klein’s possession, to close up the breach, but Klein refused. Before long, two more sets of creatures, floating octopi with faces on each tentacle and flying metallic cubes that self-destructed, appeared in [[Las Vegas]] and [[Tokyo]]. The Other Doctor travelled with Raine to sort out the octopi while the current Doctor and Klein dealt with the cubes. The Doctor discovered the cubes weakness – fire. After the situation had been resolved, the cubes joined together in a last desperate attempt to blow the dimensional doorway to their dimension bigger.
  
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The Seventh Doctor also showed a knack for playing the [[spoon]]s as a musical instrument, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Happiness Patrol (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TotT TV story)}}) though he was known to play them less as he matured into schemer. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Master (audio story)}}) Representing [[Earth]] in lieu of [[Nicky Newman]], he won the 309th Intergalactic Song Contest by playing the spoons, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Bang-Bang-a-Boom! (audio story)}}) and also broke the galactic record for continuous spoon-playing, with sixty-seven hours to his name. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Also People (novel)}}) He could also play the [[harmonica]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Pit (novel)}}) and the [[piano]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Blood Harvest (novel)}})
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Seeing no other way, the Other Doctor was called in to help, but demanded the release of his TARDIS and the Node Stone before he helped them. Reluctantly, Klein did as the Other Doctor ordered, but the Doctor flew off before suddenly arriving in his TARDIS to fix the situation. It turned out that he’d time travelled back to this second after he arrived in England. UNIT started shooting at the Doctor until he doubled back into his TARDIS, followed by his younger self. Inside, the Doctor realized that the Other Doctor was really a newly regenerated Master in disguise. The Master had pretended to be the Doctor and planted the first Node Stone on Earth and conning the Doctor into opening the dimensional doorway so that he could power up the Toolians and assume mastery over every dimension. The Master captured the Doctor and hooked him up to the Node Stone, but the Doctor, with the help of footage his companions had that showed the Master planting the first Node Stone helped convince the Tolians to betray the Master and restore the dimensions. The Master managed to escape in the confusion. Afterwards, the Doctor left with Raine but not before leaving Klein a [[space-time telegraph]] for contacting the Doctor, should she need his help again. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[UNIT Dominion]]'')
 
   
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Whilst travelling alone, the Doctor arrived in the remains of the [[Drashani Empire]], and met a mercenary called [[Vienna Salvatori]], who was hired to capture the Doctor for a bounty payment. He later encountered an old enemy, [[Kylo Sorsha|Tenebris]], who he had met in his [[Sixth Doctor|sixth incarnation]], on his second visit to the empire on [[Cawdor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Acheron Pulse (audio story)|The Acheron Pulse]]'') However, he discovered that Tenebris was, in fact, Kylo Sorsha, a prince he had left stranded on the planet, [[Sharnax]] when he first arrived in the Drashani Empire, in his [[Fifth Doctor|fifth incarnation]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Burning Prince (audio story)|The Burning Prince]]'') Sorsha plotted to take revenge against the Doctor for leaving him stranded on Sharnax, but the Doctor defeated him, and departed from the empire once again. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Shadow Heart (audio story)|The Shadow Heart]]'')
  
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He could ride a [[motorcycle]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)}}) drive a [[van]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}) and was still capable of driving [[Bessie]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}}) He could also ride a [[horse]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|Survival (TV story)}}) and pilot a [[helicopter]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Eternity Weeps (novel)}})
   
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The Doctor dropped off Raine in her respective timeline and journeyed to Gallifrey. There, he was tasked with transporting the ashes of the Master, who’d been captured and executed on Skaro to Gallifrey as the Master's final request. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Lungbarrow]]'')
  
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He was also an admired chief, able to work as a cook on the ''[[Schirron Dream]]'', ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Sky Pirates! (novel)}}) with Ace saying he made "great [[omelette]]s". ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Fearmonger (audio story)}}) He also knew how to make [[sofrit page]]s and could mix a good [[sangria]], ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Rapture (audio story)}}) and make [[scrambled eggs]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Strange England (novel)}}) and a [[cappuccino]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Bad Therapy (novel)}})
   
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Claiming to be "fluent in everything", ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)}}) the Doctor could speak the ancient dialect of the Japanese royal family, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Transit (novel)}}) read the writing of the [[Silurian]]s, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|White Darkness (novel)}}) swear in [[Gallifreyan (language)|Old Low Gallifreyan]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Blood Harvest (novel)}}) knew [[sign language]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|SLEEPY (novel)}}) and could use his eyebrows to communicate with [[Bernice Summerfield|Benny]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Trials of Tara (short story)}}) He could also perfectly mimic the local fauna of his surroundings, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Silver Nemesis (TV story)}}) such as a [[lion]]'s roar. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Iceberg (novel)}})
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[[File:Seventh_doctor_tv_movie.jpg|thumb|The Seventh Doctor approaches the end of his life. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'')]]
  
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The Doctor knew the Master was just as much a threat in death as in life and tried to stow away his ashes safely. However, he was more right than he had realised; the Master escaped from his ashes' container and damaged the inner workings of the TARDIS console. The Doctor was forced to make an emergency landing in [[San Francisco]] on [[30 December]] [[1999]].
  
   
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Without the aid of the TARDIS's [[translation circuit]], he could speak [[Welsh (language)|Welsh]] ([[TV]]: {{cs|Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)}}) [[Russian (language)|Russian]], ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}}) [[German language|German]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)}}) [[Tewa]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lucifer Rising (novel)}}) [[French]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Set Piece (novel)}}) [[Berberese]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Original Sin (novel)}}) ancient Betelgeusian, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Death of Art (novel)}}) plain Anglo-Saxon, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Damaged Goods (novel)}}) and [[Draconian (language)|Draconian]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Monitor (short story)}})
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No sooner had he left the TARDIS, than the Doctor was caught in a [[San Francisco]] gang gun battle and shot, once straight through the shoulder and twice in the leg. The Doctor failed to get [[Chang Lee]] to stop the Master from leaving the TARDIS before losing consciousness. Taken to hospital, the bullets were found to have caused only minor injuries. However, due to a seeming abnormality in the Doctor's [[X-ray]], caused by his second heart, cardiologist Dr. [[Grace Holloway]] undertook exploratory surgery to "fix" his abnormal heartbeat. Waking up just as Grace was to begin, the Doctor tried to stop the surgery by explaining his non-terrestrial origins, but was quickly put under anaesthetic. The Doctor was accidentally killed when Grace damaged his circulatory system with a probe. Though they attempted to revive him, the Doctor's seventh body was dead, but had not yet regenerated.
  
   
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Unlike his previous deaths, the Doctor did not regenerate into a new body until several hours later in the hospital morgue. His [[Eighth Doctor|eighth incarnation]] later attributed this to having been under anaesthesia at the time of his "death". ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'')
  
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The Doctor could levitate off the ground whilst in meditation, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Lucifer Rising (novel)}}) deliberately lower his intelligence, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Parasite (novel)}}) and sculpture a [[sandcastle]] in the shape of the [[Great City of the Exxilons]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Storm Harvest (novel)}}) While he could forget names, the Doctor never forgot what someone looked like. ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Project Lazarus (audio story)}})
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* The Seventh Doctor attended the funeral of [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Gift (short story)|The Gift]]'')
  
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The Seventh Doctor was a short man, who initially appeared to be in his mid-forties, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}) with his [[John Smith (Seventh Doctor)|human counterpart]] being able to pull off being 48-years-old. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Human Nature (novel)}}) By the end of his [[life]], however, the Doctor had [[age]]d significantly. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doctor Who (TV story)}}) He was ambidextrous, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Warlock (novel)}}) and had a small [[tattoo]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Return of the Living Dad (novel)}})
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* The Doctor trapped Fenric in another dimension. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric]]'')
  
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* The Doctor set up events to tell himself Morgaine's attempts were in vain. ([[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield]]'')
  
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* [[River Song]] met the Seventh Doctor, calling him "surprisingly Scottish." She wiped his memory with [[mnemosine recall-wipe vapour]] so their personal timelines would not be contaminated. ([[GAME]]: ''[[The Eternity Clock]]'')
  
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* At some point during his travels with Mel, they visited the planet [[Nocturne]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Nocturne (audio story)|Nocturne]]'')
  
   
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With an animated [[face]], the Doctor had expressive bulgy [[eyebrow]]s, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}) and, according to [[Ace]], three distinctive [[smile]]s: his "cartoon grin", his "secret freak-the-enemy-smile" and his "halfway smile", the last of which unnerved Ace. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Love and War (novel)}})
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== Psychological Profile ==
  
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[[File:Pensive_Seven.jpg|thumb|left|The Doctor considers the consequences of a decision he has to make. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'')]]
  
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The Seventh Doctor was originally light-hearted and prone to clownish behaviour, which masked his intellect and courage. As he matured, he took a much darker turn. He became a master manipulator who saw the battle between good and evil as a game of chess and everyone around him as pawns in the game of fighting evil. Frequently, he would see only the "bigger picture" rather than the world before him. He devastated Ace by labelling her, among other things, an "emotional cripple" during his battle with Fenric. This was necessary for her to briefly abandon her belief in him, weakening Fenric's power, which he did not explain until later. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric]]'')
  
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[[File:Seven threatens Mordred.jpg|thumb|The "darker" side of this incarnation manifests itself. ([[TV]]: ''[[Battlefield]]'')]]
  
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Despite his manipulative actions, such as (by one account) using psychic powers to make Mel leave ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Head Games]]''), the Seventh Doctor did care for his companions. He had a paternal relationship with Ace, which soured when Ace found herself unable to deal with the Doctor's growing emotional coldness.
  
   
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Though his [[eye]]s were naturally [[blue]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Set Piece (novel)}}) they would often change [[colour]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)}}) appearing as [[grey]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)}}) [[green]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Revelation (novel)}}) [[brown]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Transit (novel)}}) [[black]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Legacy (novel)}}) and a mix of blue and grey. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Toy Soldiers (novel)}})
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Aspects of his light-hearted nature persisted. He seemed to relish his game against [[Light]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light]]'') He was not totally unfeeling when it came to the "bigger picture" as he appeared apprehensive about his decision to destroy Skaro and agonised when he had to convince Ace that he did not care about her. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[The Curse of Fenric]]'')
  
   
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Despite the fact his [[body]] could heal at an accelerated rate, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Special Weapons (short story)}}) the Doctor acquired a number of [[scar]]s on his person, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Return of the Living Dad (novel)}}) from the removal of [[Ship (Set Piece)|Ship's]] [[flower]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Set Piece (novel)}}) a [[bullet]] shattering one of his [[heart]]s, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Parasite (novel)}}) and Ace stabbing his left [[shoulder]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Left-Handed Hummingbird (novel)}}) with the Doctor occasionally feeling pain emanating from the [[wound]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Set Piece (novel)}}, {{cs|Infinite Requiem (novel)}}, {{cs|Return of the Living Dad (novel)}})
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On meeting his future self, the [[Fifth Doctor]] was repulsed by his manipulative nature. The Seventh Doctor had a similarly low opinion of his fifth incarnation, describing him as "bland" and "not even one of the good ones." ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion]]'') However, it would seem none of the other Doctors (past or future) liked this incarnation either. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Eight Doctors]]'')
  
   
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The [[Renegade Time Lord|renegade]] [[Time Lord|Time Lady]] [[Iris Wildthyme]] was not fond of the Seventh Doctor. She subsequently described him to the [[Eighth Doctor]] as "a portentous little feller, swaggering around, thinking he's got all the world's darkest secrets under his hat." Furthermore, she thought that he was "a pretentious old thing" who "got on [her] nerves" as he regarded himself as the Guardian of Forever and Time's Champion. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Scarlet Empress]]'')
  
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[[Ace]] thought that in his "get-up", the Seventh Doctor resembled a "dance-hall comic". ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Fable Fusion (short story)}}) [[Peri Brown]] described him as a "goofy little guy in a weird [[pullover]]", ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Veiled Leopard (audio story)}}) and [[Josiah W. Dogbolter]] also considered him a "[[pipsqueak]]". ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Time Bomb! (comic story)}}) [[Adrienne Kramer]] described the Seventh Doctor as being a "short and dark-haired [man], [looking] somewhere in his forties, [and] with a Scottish [[accent]]." ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Vampire Science (novel)}})
   
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The Eighth Doctor came to view his immediate predecessor's manipulative nature with disdain. He compared the Seventh Doctor to his fellow renegade Time Lord [[the Monk]], telling his companion [[Lucie Miller]] that he used to be "the man with the master plan" who arranged the destruction of his enemies and the toppling of dictatorships in order to serve the greater good to the point where he began to countenance sacrificing the lives of the few to save the many. He eventually began travelling on his own as he was no longer willing to risk the lives of his companions after an incident which he did not want to discuss, possibly the death of Hex. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Resurrection of Mars (audio story)|The Resurrection of Mars]]'', ''[[Gods and Monsters (audio story)|Gods and Monsters]]'')
  
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The seventh incarnation was a consummate fan of [[chess]], to the point of treating his companions and enemies as pieces on a chess board. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silver Nemesis]]'', ''[[The Curse of Fenric]]'') Despite his tendency toward a dark personality, the seventh incarnation was known for his use of words to resolve problems instead of violence, and rolled his 'R's, speaking with a Scottish accent.
  
   
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He liked to carry around a [[question mark]] umbrella, often using it for practical purposes unrelated to keeping the rain away. ([[TV]]: ''[[Remembrance of the Daleks]]'', ''[[Battlefield]]'', ''et al.'')
  
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A habit occasionally displayed was a tendency to mangle and combine earth idioms, such as "Time and tide melt the snowman", "A stitch in time... takes up space" and "Fit as a... trombone". ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'')
  
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After many failed attempts to find a new look, the Seventh Doctor eventually settled on a single breasted ivory safari-styled [[jacket]] with a [[red]] [[Paisley (design)|paisley]] handkerchief in his left pocket, a Clan Wallace [[tartan]] [[scarf]] under his lapels, with a [[beige]] [[Jumper|pullover]] adorned with cherry [[question mark]]s and [[Turquoise (colour)|turquoise]] zigzag patterns, with [[grey]]-[[brown]] [[tweed]] plaid [[trousers]] and a pair of [[Burgundy (colour)|burgundy]] [[Braces (clothing)|braces]] either pulled over ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}) or tucked under the pullover. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}) Under the pullover, he wore a [[white]] shirt with a [[scarlet]] paisley [[tie|necktie]], and completed his outfit with a pair of two-tone white and brown brogued spectator shoes. He also had a chained [[fob watch]] attached to his left lapel, while the watch itself rested in his upper left breast pocket, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}) that could function as a gadget to aid in his adventures. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Silver Nemesis (TV story)}}, {{cs|Survival (TV story)}}) After losing his tartan scarf during his clash with the [[First Rani]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Useful Pile (short story)}}) he replaced it with a [[crimson]] paisley one. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}) He wore either matching polka-dot socks ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Time and Tide (comic story)}}) or one [[Navy (colour)|navy]] [[blue]] sock and one ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' sock. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Return of the Living Dad (novel)}})
   
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Also, early into this incarnation, the Doctor showed a knack for playing the spoons as a musical instrument, though this was seen less as he matured. As he met new people, he often raised his hat to greet them, smiling as he did so, but this began to disappear as his personality changed. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]'' ''et al.'')
  
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As he matured into more of a schemer, the Doctor began wearing a [[chocolate]] [[brown]] jacket, and changed his hatband, handkerchief and necktie to ones in more subdued shades of burgundy ([[TV]]: {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}}) and brown. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}}) Occasionally, he would remove his pullover as well, ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Distractions (comic story)}}, {{cs|The Mark of Mandragora (comic story)}}, {{cs|Party Animals (comic story)}}) and would wear a tan brown duffle coat when caught in the [[rain]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Curse of Fenric (TV story)}}; [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Untitled (DWM 184 short story)}}, {{cs|The Highest Science (novel)}})
   
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During his escapades as [[Time's Champion]], the Doctor replaced his usual attire with a wrinkled cream-coloured linen [[suit]], with a glistening silk shirt worn with a green silk [[cravat]], and a paisley banded white [[fedora]] ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|White Darkness (novel)}}) that he had had made especially for him. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|First Frontier (novel)}}) Worn on his lapel would be either [[Cameca]]'s [[brooch]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|White Darkness (novel)}}) or a Smiley Face pin badge. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Sky Pirates! (novel)}}) He would later replace his cravat for four-in-hand [[tie]]s coloured in [[Rust (colour)|rust]] [[orange]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Legacy (novel)}}) [[Ruby (colour)|ruby]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Sky Pirates! (novel)}}) [[Sapphire (colour)|sapphire]] blue, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|All-Consuming Fire (novel)}}) [[Lime (colour)|lime]] [[green]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Tragedy Day (novel)}}) [[Prussian blue]] paisley, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Strange England (novel)}}) or solid red. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Original Sin (novel)}})
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[[File:Seven like a boss.jpg|thumb|the Doctors first outfit. (''[[TV]]'': ''[[The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]'')]]At the beginning of his seventh incarnation, the Doctor wore an off-white safari-styled jacket. He wore a red paisley scarf under the lapels and had a matching handkerchief in the left pocket. Like many of his previous incarnations, he wore a fob watch as part of his clothing. He also wore a yellow pullover with turquoise zigzag lines and red question marks, sometimes tucking this into his sand-coloured tweed plaid trousers in order to attach a pair of red braces over it. Under the pullover he wore a white shirt with red tie. He wore white and brown brogued spectator shoes and a white colonial-styled Panama hat, similar to the hat he had worn in his [[Fifth Doctor|fifth incarnation]], though this one had a paisley hat band and an upturned brim. He carried an umbrella with him, the first a black one with a brown wooden handle, then a
 
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When the Doctor's personality began to change, his outfit changed alongside it. His jacket, hat band, handkerchief, scarf and tie became darker, varying between shades of burgundy and brown. ([[TV]]: ''[[Ghost Light]]'' et al)
  
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After his confrontation with the [[Brotherhood of the Immanent Flesh]], ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|So Vile a Sin (novel)}}) the Doctor began wearing a peanut brown tweed jacket, with a scarlet brocade waistcoat, an ivory shirt, green plaid trousers and a [[black]] and brown zigzag patterned tie. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Doctor Who (TV story)}})
   
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As [[Time]]s champion he kept alterning between outfits, until, during his travels with [[Ace]] and [[Benny]], he changed his outfit, removing the pullover and wearing a new linen suit. this remained until [[Roz Forrester]]'s death. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[White Darkness]] - [[Bad Therapy]]'')
  
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On his head, the Doctor wore battered [[cream (colour)|cream]] colonial-styled [[Panama hat]] with an identical paisley handkerchief folded into a hatband and an upturned brim. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}) He later replaced his battered hat with a newer one. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}}) He also wore a black Tank-styled wristwatch on his right wrist, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}) which he later replaced with a sportier round watch, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Silver Nemesis (TV story)}}) and then with a rectangular faced tank watch. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}})
   
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After finding [[The Doctor's signet ring|his old signet ring]] in the [[TARDIS console]], ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Chameleon Factor (comic story)}}) the Doctor started wearing it again through numerous adventures, ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Good Soldier (comic story)}}, {{cs|Metamorphosis (comic story)}}) until he gave it to [[Joan Redfern (novel character)|Joan Redfern]]. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Human Nature (novel)}})
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By the end of this incarnation, his outfit had altered again. He wore a light brown tweed jacket, with a red patterned waistcoat and a black and brown, zigzag patterned tie. He still wore his Panama hat. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (1996)|Doctor Who]]'')
  
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Whilst in [[Nazi]] [[Germany]], the Doctor briefly donned a black leather trenchcoat and a black soft hat. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Timewyrm: Exodus (novel)}})
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During his time in [[Chicago]] in [[1929]], the Doctor donned a grey striped suit and fedora. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Blood Harvest (novel)}})
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Whilst visiting [[Betrushia]], the Doctor wore an orange waistcoat, a white shirt with a Gladstone collar and a [[black]] [[cravat]] with his dark jacket. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|St Anthony's Fire (novel)}})
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On [[Youkali]], the Doctor wore a burgundy waistcoat and a tweed jacket. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Return of the Living Dad (novel)}})
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After his regeneration stabilised, the Doctor took to carrying around an [[umbrella]] as part of his day-to-day outfit, using them as physical props, usually to disarm and trip opponents, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}}, {{cs|Battlefield (TV story)}}, {{cs|Ghost Light (TV story)}}, {{cs|Survival (TV story)}}) as well as using them as grappling hooks, ([[TV]]: {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}) and as measuring rods. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)}})
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He initially carried his previous incarnation's rainbow umbrella, but was forced to leave it in {{O'Mara}}'s base on [[Lakertya]], where it was destroyed. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}) During a clear out, he found a replacement within the [[TARDIS wardrobe]]: ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Useful Pile (short story)}}) a black umbrella with a [[whangee]] handle. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Paradise Towers (TV story)}})
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After his black umbrella was damaged, ([[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Warehouse (audio story)}}) the Doctor acquired a new umbrella with an elaborate handle in the shape of a large, cherry coloured [[question mark]]. ([[TV]]: {{cs|Delta and the Bannermen (TV story)}}) The handle could split in half and unfold into a makeshift stool, ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|Planet of the Dead (comic story)}}) could fire a small gold pellet that contained a hallucinogenic truth drug, ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Atom Bomb Blues (novel)}}) and was also detachable, hiding a secret compartment containing a vial of Time Lord restorative. ([[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Forgotten (comic story)}})
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Attempting to "wean himself off" his umbrella, the Doctor took to carrying a walking-cane as his reign as [[The Doctor's aliases|Time's Champion]] drew to an end. ([[PROSE]]: {{cs|Christmas on a Rational Planet (novel)}})
   
 
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[[File:7andPeri.jpg|thumb|An illustration of the Seventh Doctor and [[Peri Brown]] which appeared in {{cs|A Cold Day in Hell! (graphic novel)}}.]]
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In [[COMIC]]: {{cs|A Cold Day in Hell! (comic story)}}, the Seventh Doctor is shown to be travelling with [[Frobisher]], a companion of the [[Sixth Doctor]], and Frobisher refers to [[Peri Brown]] as if she had recently left. The timeline given in the [[Doctor Who Magazine]] article ''[[Stripped for action?]]'' claims that the Seventh Doctor had picked up Peri and Frobisher to travel with him until Peri left to live with [[Yrcanos]].
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Actors considered for the role of the seventh incarnation before McCoy was cast included [[Rowan Atkinson]], who later played the [[Ninth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|ninth incarnation]] in the satirical ''[[The Curse of Fatal Death]]''; McCoy's mentor Ken Campbell; [[Chris Jury]]; Tony Robinson; and [[Alexei Sayle]]. Sayle had previously played the [[DJ (Revelation of the Daleks)|DJ]] in [[TV]]: ''[[Revelation of the Daleks]]''. Furthermore, [[Andrew Sachs]] and [[Dermot Crowley]] auditioned for the role.
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* Actors considered for the role of the Seventh Doctor before [[Sylvester McCoy]] was cast included [[Chris Jury]], [[Tony Robinson]], McCoy's mentor [[Ken Campbell]], [[Rowan Atkinson]] and [[Alexei Sayle]], with [[Andrew Sachs]] and [[Dermot Crowley]] also auditioning for the role. Sayle had previously played [[Derek Johnson|the DJ]] in [[TV]]: {{cs|Revelation of the Daleks (TV story)}}, and Atkinson would later played the [[Ninth Doctor (The Curse of Fatal Death)|Ninth Doctor]] in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Curse of Fatal Death (TV story)}}.
   
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* After the original series ended, Sylvester McCoy and [[Sophie Aldred]] played characters called the Professor and Ace, respectively, in the ''[[Audio Adventures in Time & Space]]'' audio series produced by [[BBV Productions]]. The stories were initially implied to be a continuation of ''Doctor Who'', but these connections decreased when the Professor was renamed [[the Dominie]] and Aldred's character [[Alice]].
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[[Season 25]] and [[Season 26|26]] had broad hints that the Doctor was not simply a Time Lord, as previously shown and stated. This overarching plot, conceived by [[Script Editor]] [[Andrew Cartmel]] and referred to by fans as the [[Cartmel Masterplan]], was designed to restore an element of mystery in the Doctor and his true nature as in the stories of the [[First Doctor|first]] and [[Second Doctor|second incarnations]]. Although the cancellation of the series at the end of Season 26 prevented further on-screen exploration of this arc, it was later given full rein in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] novel series.
  
[[Season 25]] and [[Season 26|26]] had broad hints that the Doctor was not simply a Time Lord, as previously shown and stated. This overarching plot, conceived by [[Script Editor]] [[Andrew Cartmel]] and referred to by fans as the [[Cartmel Masterplan]], was designed to restore an element of mystery in the Doctor and his true nature as in the stories of the [[First Doctor|first]] and [[Second Doctor|second incarnations]]. Although the cancellation of the series at the end of Season 26 prevented further on-screen exploration of this arc, it was later given full rein in the [[Virgin New Adventures]] novel series.
   
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Originally a man with the demeanour of an eccentric, light-hearted buffoon who delighted in humorous reverie, the Seventh Doctor darkened into a Machiavellian manipulator to combat Fenric's return, becoming a sombre genius of frightful calibre who could tactfully use his mind to manipulate almost any situation into reaching his favoured outcome for the "greater good", actively seeking out evil to vanquish instead of traveling aimlessly.

However, he could also show profound warmth and affection to his companions, and built a strong bond with many of them, almost becoming a substitute parent-like figure in his handling of them, even if he had to hurt some of his closest friends by toying with their minds as part of his schemes.

Biography[]

Main article: Seventh Doctor/Biography

In his early days, the Doctor was little more than a carefree traveller seeing the universe with Mel Bush after escaping the scheme of the First Rani on Lakertya, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) with the pair arriving at the likes of Paradise Towers and Shangri-La Wales as the Doctor began to change from a clown to a schemer, (TV: Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Delta and the Bannermen [+]Malcolm Kohll, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) until they came to Iceworld and met Ace, a troubled teenager from 1980s Earth (TV: Dragonfire [+]Ian Briggs, adapted from Seventh Doctor Audition Tapes (Andrew Cartmel), Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) who the Doctor recognised as a Wolf of Fenric, and the Doctor, realising he could no longer avoid his rematch with Fenric, nudged Mel into leaving (PROSE: Head Games [+]Steve Lyons, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) with Sabalom Glitz while he took Ace on as a companion. (TV: Dragonfire [+]Ian Briggs, adapted from Seventh Doctor Audition Tapes (Andrew Cartmel), Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).)

Treating her both as his protégé and a pawn in Fenric's game, (TV: The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) the Doctor did his best to heal Ace's psychological wounds by helping her come to terms with her past misdeeds and fears, aiding her in maturing and supporting her in moments of difficulty, (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., Silver Nemesis [+]Kevin Clarke, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1 and TVNZ, 1988)., The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988-1989)., Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) while he descended more into a dark deceiver, even tricking Davros into destroying Skaro with the Hand of Omega to end the Imperial-Renegade Dalek Civil War, (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).) killing Helen A's pet Stigorax to topple her regime on Terra Alpha (TV: The Happiness Patrol [+]Graeme Curry, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).) and destroying a Cyber-Fleet with Nemesis. (TV: Silver Nemesis [+]Kevin Clarke, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1 and TVNZ, 1988).)

After they freed the Psychic Circus from the Gods of Ragnarok with the Vulpanan werewolf Mags, (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988-1989).) the Doctor left Ace in the Cretaceous period (COMIC: Train-Flight [+]Andrew Donkin and Graham S. Brand, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1990).) and reunited with Frobisher for some brief adventures until they parted ways again. (COMIC: A Cold Day in Hell! [+]Simon Furman, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1987-1988).) As he travelled alone, the Doctor ran into the likes of Death's Head (COMIC: The Crossroads of Time [+]Simon Furman, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1988).) and Abslom Daak, (COMIC: Nemesis of the Daleks [+]Richard Alan and Steve Alan, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1989).) until he retrieved Ace. (PROSE: Living in the Past [+]Andy Lane, DWM short stories (1990).) In their continued adventures, they assisted UNIT in stopping Morgaine from obtaining Excalibur (TV: Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) and prevented Josiah Samuel Smith's plan to assassinate Queen Victoria, (TV: Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) before they had their fated showdown with Fenric at 1943 Maiden's Point, where they emerged victorious. (TV: The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) The Doctor then brought Ace back to her home of Perivale in time to face the Tremas Master on the Cheetah Planet. After the Master was left on the Cheetah Planet as it exploded, accounts differ on the Doctor and Ace's exploits after they departed Perivale with "work to do". (TV: Survival [+]Rona Munro, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).)

According to one account, the Doctor and Ace quickly found themselves caught in the schemes of the Mandragora Helix (COMIC: The Mark of Mandragora [+]Dan Abnett, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1990-1991).) and attended a party on Maruthea. (COMIC: Party Animals [+]Gary Russell, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1991).) In conjunction with another account, the Doctor began to embrace his role as Time's Champion, in which he worked in the service of the Eternal known as Time, (PROSE: Love and War [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992).) by the time he faced the Timewyrm. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) Although he did many good deeds while under the title of Time's Champion, his manipulative ways and amoral decisions cost him dearly, with Ace leaving him as he was joined by Bernice Summerfield on Heaven. (PROSE: Love and War [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992).) Ace would eventually return, (PROSE: Deceit [+]Peter Darvill-Evans, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) though the Doctor was unable to regain her trust until they defeated Mortimus and his plot to corrupt the Doctor's timeline. (PROSE: No Future [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) Ace would eventually leave to become "Time's Vigilante" (PROSE: Set Piece [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) and Bernice would depart to marry Jason Kane, (PROSE: Happy Endings [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) leaving the Doctor to travel with Adjudicators Roz Forrester and Chris Cwej (PROSE: GodEngine [+]Craig Hinton, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) until Roz died in battle (PROSE: So Vile a Sin [+]Ben Aaronovitch and Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997).) and Chris left to see the universe with a Time Ring after a trip to the House of Lungbarrow, where the Doctor was also asked to collect the Old Master's remains from Skaro. (PROSE: Lungbarrow [+]Marc Platt, adapted from Lungbarrow, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997).)

In a differing account, the Doctor tried to have Ace join the Time Lord Academy, though she rejected going, just as they were embroiled in a series of adventures involving Raine Creevy. (AUDIO: Thin Ice [+]Marc Platt, adapted from Ice Time, The Lost Stories (Big Finish Productions, 2011).) After some brief adventures with Bev Tarrant (AUDIO: Dust Breeding [+]Mike Tucker, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2001).) and foiling Elizabeth Klein's temporal scheme at Colditz Castle, (AUDIO: Colditz [+]Steve Lyons, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2001).) the Doctor and Ace were joined by Hex, (AUDIO: The Harvest [+]Dan Abnett, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2004).) who became a key player in the Doctor's feud with the Forge and the Elder Gods. (AUDIO: A Death in the Family [+]Steven Hall, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2010)., Gods and Monsters [+]Mike Maddox and Alan Barnes, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2012).) After Hex left to start a family, (AUDIO: Signs and Wonders [+]Matt Fitton, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2014).) the Doctor was re-joined by Mel. (AUDIO: A Life of Crime [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) In this account, the Doctor still went on to have adventures with Bernice, (AUDIO: Love and War [+]Jacqueline Rayner, adapted from Love and War (Paul Cornell), Novel Adaptations (Big Finish Productions, 2012).) Roz and Chris, (AUDIO: Damaged Goods [+]Jonathan Morris, adapted from Damaged Goods (Russell T Davies), Novel Adaptations: Volume 2 (Novel Adaptations, Big Finish Productions, 2015).) and he reunited with Bernice and Ace for a few more adventures, (AUDIO: Good Night, Sweet Ladies [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) while also taking on Klein as a companion (AUDIO: A Thousand Tiny Wings [+]Andy Lane, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2010).) until her actions rewrote her timeline. (AUDIO: The Architects of History [+]Steve Lyons, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2010).) As Ace had decided to become a Time Lord, (AUDIO: The Lights of Skaro [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) the Doctor found himself reconnecting with old friends like Mags, Harry Sullivan and Naomi Cross to have as companions as he tended to the universe. (AUDIO: The Monsters of Gokroth [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW., London Orbital [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Eventually, after all his friends had left him, the Doctor dedicated himself to his mission of protecting the history of the universe, (AUDIO: Persuasion [+]Jonathan Barnes, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2013).) even traveling back down his own timeline to attend to his unfinished business and clean up after his previous incarnations. (AUDIO: The Wormery [+]Paul Magrs and Stephen Cole, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2003).) Though he asked some people to become his new companion, (AUDIO: Valhalla [+]Marc Platt, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2007)., The Death Collectors [+]Stewart Sheargold, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2008).) the Doctor resigned himself to a solitary existence, only seeking out his old companions when they proved useful to his plans, which only alienated him further away from them. (AUDIO: Dark Universe [+]Guy Adams, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2020).) However, after an encounter with the Eight Legs, the Doctor decided to embrace his older jollier side before he met his fate, (PROSE: The Eight Doctors [+]Terrance Dicks, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).) allowing him to face his final adventures with high spirits. (WC: 24 Carat [+]Pete McTighe, Doctor Who: The Collection mini-episodes (YouTube, 2021).)

After many years of schemes and manipulations, the Doctor ironically met his end in events out of his control after being caught at the wrong place at the wrong time due to crash-landing in San Francisco on 31 December 1999 while taking the Master's remains to Gallifrey. As he realised the Master had somehow survived his execution, the Doctor was shot by a San Francisco gang on the streets and then fatally injured when Dr. Grace Holloway's exploratory surgery on his gunshot wounds accidentally clogged a vein. Due to the anaesthetic in his system, he did not properly regenerate into his next incarnation until several hours had past. (TV: Doctor Who [+]Matthew Jacobs, Doctor Who Television Movie (Fox Broadcasting Company, 1996).)

Other realities[]

Alternate timelines[]

In an alternative timeline, the Doctor was able to save Jan Rydd and his fellow Travellers on Heaven in 2570, and, in another alternative timeline, was beheaded by an Ice Warrior on Peladon in 3985. (PROSE: So Vile a Sin [+]Ben Aaronovitch and Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997).)

In one alternative timeline, the Doctor and Ace were captured in Colditz Castle in October 1944. When they tried to escape, Ace was killed, and left behind her walkman. This provided the Nazis with laser technology, which they exploited to win the Second World War. Immediately afterwards, the Doctor returned to Germany in 1955, where he was shot by Nazi soldiers. He later regenerated into an alternative version of his eighth incarnation. (AUDIO: Colditz [+]Steve Lyons, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2001)., Klein's Story [+]John Ainsworth and Lee Mansfield, Survival of the Fittest (Main Range, Big Finish Productions, 2010).)

Averted timelines[]

In a timeline where Elizabeth Klein used the Doctor's TARDIS to rewrite history so that the Nazis won the war, and helped the Galactic Reich conquer potential threats by travelling back in time to give them forewarning, the Doctor, who remembered the correct timeline, was captured and imprisoned on the Moon, but managed to secretly contact the Selachians and supplied them with the necessary technology to destroy the Moonbase. When Klein came to visit the Doctor to find out where his TARDIS was, the Selachians attacked the base. The Doctor and Klein escaped in the TARDIS, where the Doctor informed her that the Time Lords had tried her and found her guilty, and she was erased from history, along with the alternate Doctor, restoring things to their correct order. (AUDIO: The Architects of History [+]Steve Lyons, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2010).)

When the Cybermen allied with Rassilon to take over history, (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen [+]George Mann and Cavan Scott, Titan summer events (Titan Comics, 2016).) the Seventh Doctor was planting Nemesis mines across the Cyber-Fleet when he discovered that Ace had been cyber-converted. (COMIC: Prologue: The Seventh Doctor [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) He was then attacked by Ace. This timeline was eventually unwritten by Rassilon and the Twelfth Doctor. (COMIC: Supremacy of the Cybermen [+]George Mann and Cavan Scott, Titan summer events (Titan Comics, 2016).)

Undone events[]

Ace and 7 LATE

The Seventh Doctor and Ace arrive in the Master's trap. (AUDIO: The Light at the End [+]Nicholas Briggs, Big Finish Doctor Who Special Releases (Big Finish Productions, 2013).)

In a negated timeline, the Doctor and Ace were drawn to land in a pocket universe built on 23 November 1963, where they began to see images of the past and future of the TARDIS, and encountered the Sixth Doctor and Peri Brown, who had also been brought there. Investigating further, the Seventh Doctor discovered that the Decayed Master was also present, and found out that the Master's plot was to erase his timeline by planting a conceptual bomb inside Bob Dovie so that Dovie's inability to accept the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS would cause the TARDIS to explode across its own timeline. After Ace vanished due to the timelines changing, the Seventh Doctor attempted to contact the Time Lords, but was unable to when his TARDIS began to explode. However, the Sixth Doctor was able to bring the Seventh Doctor and his other incarnations together using a dimensional stabiliser, and the Fifth Doctor stopped the bomb from going off by showing Dovie the inside of the TARDIS in 1962, ensuring that he would not consider it impossible when he entered it in 1963. The Seventh Doctor then joined his other seven incarnations in preparing to time ram the Master's TARDIS. However, rather than kill the Master, the First Doctor instead turned off the automatic distress actions, which had brought all of the Doctors to the pocket dimension and triggered the TARDIS' destruction, making it so none of that had happened. (AUDIO: The Light at the End [+]Nicholas Briggs, Big Finish Doctor Who Special Releases (Big Finish Productions, 2013).)

Parallel universes[]

Events similar to the Doctor's adventure on the Silurian Earth (PROSE: Blood Heat [+]Jim Mortimore, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) were experienced by Doctor Jon St. Myth of the Collapsing Universe. (PROSE: Blood Heat Second Iteration [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Psychological profile[]

Personality[]

Pensive Seven

The Doctor considers the consequences of a decision he has to make. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).)

The Seventh Doctor was originally light-hearted and prone to clownish behaviour (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988-1989).) that masked his true intellect and courage. (PROSE: Infinite Requiem [+]Daniel Blythe, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) However, as he matured, he became a grumpy and melancholy manipulator (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) who saw the battle between good and evil as a game of chess or a stage play, and everyone around him as pawns in the game of fighting evil that he directed, (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation [+]Paul Cornell, adapted from Total Eclipse, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1991)., The Highest Science [+]Gareth Roberts, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993)., Head Games [+]Steve Lyons, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995)., Illegal Alien [+]Mike Tucker and Robert Perry, adapted from Illegal Alien, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).) though he hated himself for it, (PROSE: Iceberg [+]David Banks, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993)., Blood Heat [+]Jim Mortimore, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) instead desiring a life of playing the spoons and acting as a children's entertainer with his magic tricks. (PROSE: The Also People [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995)., Return of the Living Dad [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996)., Heritage [+]Dale Smith, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2002).) Despite his darker demeanour, the Seventh Doctor was "not without [his] share of mirth and joviality", and claimed to Ace that he could be "quite the funny fellow", (PROSE: Fable Fusion [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) though he found it hard to put his trust in others. (COMIC: Younger and Wiser [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Seeing himself as a "chess master", (PROSE: Illegal Alien [+]Mike Tucker and Robert Perry, adapted from Illegal Alien, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).) the Seventh Doctor was a consummate fan of chess, to the point of treating his companions and enemies as pieces on a chess board, (TV: Silver Nemesis [+]Kevin Clarke, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1 and TVNZ, 1988)., Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) until he tired of the game in favour of hopscotch. (PROSE: Infinite Requiem [+]Daniel Blythe, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) He habitually lied to keep others at ease, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Survival [+]Rona Munro, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) and preferred to explain "one thing at a time". (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).) While he was known for his preference on using words to resolve a problem instead of violence, (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) and preferred to fight fairly, (PROSE: Lua error in Module:Cite_source at line 420: attempt to index a nil value.) the Doctor was not adverse to letting his adversaries be the architects of their own unmaking. (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., Silver Nemesis [+]Kevin Clarke, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1 and TVNZ, 1988).)

Although his more whimsical tendencies disappeared over time, the Doctor maintained a fondness for idiosyncratic speeches that occasionally referred to literature, ordinary places and even food and drink amidst the weightier concerns on his mind. (TV: Survival [+]Rona Munro, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) When deducing grandiloquent plans to rule the universe, he considered their destruction of small everyday pleasures, like art and music, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) and often mocked his enemies' grandiose plans by incorporating foods into their list of ambitions. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) In his more serious moments, however, the Doctor would sombrely reflect the ramifications of time and the consequences of interfering in history, (TV: Dragonfire [+]Ian Briggs, adapted from Seventh Doctor Audition Tapes (Andrew Cartmel), Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).) as well as his life of aimless travel. (COMIC: Culture Shock! [+]Grant Morrison, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1988).)

While his previous incarnations would stumble upon trouble by happenstance, the Seventh Doctor actively sought out villains to vanquish and dictatorships to dethrone, (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., The Happiness Patrol [+]Graeme Curry, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) getting involved in local affairs without question, (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead [+]Andrew Cartmel, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992).) and was much less forgiving than his preceding incarnation, (AUDIO: Project Lazarus [+]Cavan Scott and Mark Wright, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2003).) due to the Sixth Doctor's decision to let his morality and scruples die with him in his final moments. (AUDIO: The Brink of Death [+]Nicholas Briggs, The Sixth Doctor: The Last Adventure (Big Finish Productions, 2015).) The Doctor would claim[who?] that he served as Time's Champion because of "principles, truth, love and harmony, peace and goodwill, [and] the best of intentions." (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).)

Kill her

The Doctor challenges Fenric to kill Ace. (TV: The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).)

Despite viewing himself as "a nice little man in a silly jumper", (AUDIO: Harvest of the Sycorax [+]James Goss, Classic Doctors and New Monsters: Volume One (Classic Doctors, New Monsters, Big Finish Productions, 2016).) he was viewed as being the most dangerous of the Doctors by UNIT, (AUDIO: Persuasion [+]Jonathan Barnes, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2013).) and would often only see the "bigger picture" rather than the world before him, (PROSE: Head Games [+]Steve Lyons, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) which resulted in him causing much grief, such as devastating Ace by labelling her an "emotional cripple" to weaken Fenric's power by making her abandon her faith in him. (TV: The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) However, he was not totally unfeeling, appearing apprehensive about his decision to destroy Skaro, (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).) was genuinely agonised that he had to convince Ace that he did not care about her, (TV: The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) and told Ellen Woodworth that "the end[s] never [justified] the means, [as] the means used [determined] the kind of end produced." (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet [+]Lawrence Miles, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).)

Nearing the end of his life, the Doctor decided to retire from his niche of manipulation.[source needed] Feeling guilty and tired from his plotting, (TV: The Curse of Fenric [+]Pete McTighe, Tales of the TARDIS (BBC iPlayer, 2023).) he acknowledged he had lived past his prime and would soon regenerate.[source needed] Fearing that his next incarnation would not want to continue plans that he had set in motion, the Doctor put all his affairs in order to leave nothing unsung when his time drew to a close. (AUDIO: Persuasion [+]Jonathan Barnes, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2013).) However, after being saved from one of the Eight Legs by the Eighth Doctor, he became determined to enjoy every minute he had left. After the Eighth Doctor warned him of a trap by the Old Master, the Seventh Doctor decided not to think about it, and let fate decide when and how his life would end, instead of despairing over being alone. (PROSE: The Eight Doctors [+]Terrance Dicks, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).)

Feeling that he "belong[ed]" in open space, (AUDIO: Unregenerate! [+]David A. McIntee, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2005).) the Seventh Doctor longed for exploration, and bemoaned how young people had "no spirit of adventure", distaining at taking downtime when he could be experiencing enjoyment in new scientific discoveries. (TV: Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Dragonfire [+]Ian Briggs, adapted from Seventh Doctor Audition Tapes (Andrew Cartmel), Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) He also had a soft spot for jazz music, (TV: Silver Nemesis [+]Kevin Clarke, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1 and TVNZ, 1988).) conkers, (COMIC: Doctor Conkerer! [+]Ian Rimmer, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1990).) the Beatles, cats, (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) science fiction, (PROSE: Bad Therapy [+]Matthew Jones, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) baseball, (PROSE: Illegal Alien [+]Mike Tucker and Robert Perry, adapted from Illegal Alien, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).) composer J. S. Bach, (PROSE: The Algebra of Ice [+]Lloyd Rose, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2004).) and The Wizard of Oz. (AUDIO: The Settling [+]Simon Guerrier, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2006).) He also admired rats (TV: Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) and enjoyed collecting pins. (PROSE: Lucifer Rising [+]Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).)

Though the Doctor initially encouraged Ace not to call him "Professor", (TV: Dragonfire [+]Ian Briggs, adapted from Seventh Doctor Audition Tapes (Andrew Cartmel), Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) he later confessed that he liked the nickname. (AUDIO: Thin Ice [+]Marc Platt, adapted from Ice Time, The Lost Stories (Big Finish Productions, 2011).) He also told Bernice Summerfield that he loved "chaos, big explosions, and rebellions", (PROSE: Love and War [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992).) described E flat minor as his favourite musical key, gave blue as his favourite colour, (PROSE: Lucifer Rising [+]Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) and claimed that having his hair cut relaxed him more than anything. (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) He also enjoyed playing nine dimensional scrabble, (PROSE: St Anthony's Fire [+]Mark Gatiss, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) and "doing interviews". (PROSE: Happy Endings [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) When thinking about rewards he could seek for his actions, the Doctor thought about "the smile of a baby child, the first sunset on a soft and new-born world, [and] the taste of the purest spring water, untouched by any pollution of Man's making." (PROSE: The Dimension Riders [+]Daniel Blythe, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).)

The Doctor hated wasted journeys, (COMIC: Nemesis of the Daleks [+]Richard Alan and Steve Alan, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1989).) unrequited love, tyranny, cruelty, (TV: Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) the writings of Stanoff Osterling, (PROSE: Theatre of War [+]Justin Richards, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) the over usage of semicolons, (COMIC: Plastic Millenium [+]Gareth Roberts, DWMS comic stories (Marvel Comics, 1994).) swimming, (PROSE: The Also People [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) and goodbyes. (PROSE: The Room With No Doors [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997).) He also saw bus stations as "terrible places full of lost luggage and lost souls", (TV: Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) and had little respect for those who chose not to fight injustice when they had the power to. (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead [+]Andrew Cartmel, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992).)

Maintaining a strict vegetarian diet, (PROSE: Human Nature [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995)., Happy Endings [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996)., Return of the Living Dad [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996)., The Room With No Doors [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997)., Lungbarrow [+]Marc Platt, adapted from Lungbarrow, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997)., Relative Dementias [+]Mark Michalowski, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2002)., Citadel of Dreams [+]Dave Stone, Telos Doctor Who novellas (Telos Publishing, 2002).) the Doctor enjoyed almond slices, (PROSE: The Dimension Riders [+]Daniel Blythe, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) liquorice, and apricotts. (PROSE: Lua error in Module:Cite_source at line 420: attempt to index a nil value.) He took five to six sugars in his tea, (AUDIO: House of Blue Fire [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) with his favourite teas being Arcturan, Earl Grey and Lapsang souchong, (PROSE: Lucifer Rising [+]Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) his favourite ice cream being boysenberry ripple, (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) and his favourite biscuits being chocolate HobNobs. (PROSE: Cold Fusion [+]Lance Parkin, Virgin Missing Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) While he didn't like peppermint tea, he drank some when it was a gift from a friend. (PROSE: Notre Dame du Temps [+]Nick Clark, Short Trips: Companions (Short Trips, 2003).}) He preferred having water to drink when at Maruthea, (COMIC: Party Animals [+]Gary Russell, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1991).) but did have an enjoyment for Fizzade (TV: Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) and lemonade. (PROSE: Just War [+]Lance Parkin, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) However, he "[couldn't] stand" burned toast, (TV: Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) or the taste of pears. (PROSE: Human Nature [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).)

The Seventh Doctor though that "anybody remotely interesting [was] mad in some way or another", (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988-1989).) believed evil to be a genuine force, (PROSE: Strange England [+]Simon Messingham, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) and considered pacifism to be a "noble ideal". (AUDIO: Fiesta of the Damned [+]Guy Adams, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2016).)

Seeing the future as being built by one's own hands, he believed that there was always hope for a tomorrow in which "life [was] worth living". However, when faced with the truly nihilistic, the Doctor would abandon them to the fates they did not want to escape. (COMIC: Time and Tide [+]Richard Alan and John Carnell, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1989).)

According to Ace, while the Doctor "wasn't scared of monsters or pain or dying, he was scared of being alone," (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) though he would decide later in life to travel alone after a devastating incident made him realise that he couldn't trust himself with anyone's life. (AUDIO: The Resurrection of Mars [+]Jonathan Morris, Eighth Doctor Adventures (Big Finish Productions, 2010).) He once had a frightful experience in Rita Hawks's bubble car, (PROSE: Loving the Alien [+]Mike Tucker and Robert Perry, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2003).) and also admitted to the Mi'en Kalarash that he was afraid of the Old Time, the Times of Night and Chaos. (AUDIO: House of Blue Fire [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

Believing that "two wrongs [didn't] make a [right]", (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) the Seventh Doctor was opposed to violence of any sort, although he proved capable of rendering an opponent unconscious with a touch to the forehead (TV: Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., Survival [+]Rona Munro, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) by using the Venusian nerve pinch. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus [+]Terrance Dicks, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1991).) While he was completely against the use of firearms, (TV: Dragonfire [+]Ian Briggs, adapted from Seventh Doctor Audition Tapes (Andrew Cartmel), Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) seeing them as the "tinker toy resort of frustrated [and] hopeless individuals", (COMIC: Cuckoo [+]Dan Abnett, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1993-1994).) the Doctor was willing to use a Tissue Compression Eliminator to defend himself against Death's Head, (COMIC: The Crossroads of Time [+]Simon Furman, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1988).) and used a gun to kill Legion (PROSE: Lucifer Rising [+]Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) and to disable Eva Jericho. (PROSE: Damaged Goods [+]Russell T Davies, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).)

While he protested that no one had the right to kill, (TV: Dragonfire [+]Ian Briggs, adapted from Seventh Doctor Audition Tapes (Andrew Cartmel), Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) he would orchestrate a death if it benefited his plans, (TV: The Happiness Patrol [+]Graeme Curry, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).) believing "killing [to be] wrong except when it's right". (PROSE: Original Sin [+]Andy Lane, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) While he refused to shoot the Master when it served no purpose, (PROSE: First Frontier [+]David A. McIntee, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) the Seventh Doctor was not averse to manipulating events that resulted in the loss of life, (PROSE: Love and War [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992)., Eternity Weeps [+]Jim Mortimore, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997).) taking a life by himself, (PROSE: Lucifer Rising [+]Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) or convincing someone to commit suicide. (PROSE: Zamper [+]Gareth Roberts, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995)., Just War [+]Lance Parkin, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996)., Loving the Alien [+]Mike Tucker and Robert Perry, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2003)., Utopia [+]Darren Sellars, Short Trips: Farewells (Short Trips short stories, 2006).) He also played a part in the destruction of many planets, such as Skaro, (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).) the Seven Planets, (PROSE: The Pit [+]Neil Penswick, adapted from Hostage, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) and the Silurian Earth, (PROSE: Blood Heat [+]Jim Mortimore, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) and confessed to Red that a part of him enjoyed destroying worlds, (AUDIO: Red [+]Stewart Sheargold, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2006).) though he regretted their destruction either way. (PROSE: The Algebra of Ice [+]Lloyd Rose, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2004).)

The Doctor did his best to keep history on track, such as by ensuring he left nothing anachronistic behind when in the past. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).)

The Doctor would attempt to embrace the customs of the cultures he visited, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) and greet anything he thought was sentient with a friendly smile. (TV: Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) However, he could get so caught up in the moment that he overlooked the finer details of the situation. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).)

While combating Adam Mitchell's Autons, the Seventh Doctor associated himself with his first and second incarnations, combining with them to think of a solution to the situation. (COMIC: Endgame [+]Scott & David Tipton, Prisoners of Time (IDW Publishing, 2013).)

While he was of the opinion that his third and fourth incarnations were not unattractive, (PROSE: The Algebra of Ice [+]Lloyd Rose, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2004).) he regretfully felt that his fourth incarnation had "condemned untold billions to death by not destroying the Daleks at the moment of their birth", and resented that his fifth incarnation "could have saved billions more by shooting down Davros like a mad dog when [he] had the chance". (PROSE: Lucifer Rising [+]Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) He also thought he himself looked more "respectable" than his fourth and sixth incarnations, (PROSE: Loving the Alien [+]Mike Tucker and Robert Perry, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2003).) and thought his third incarnation was "a real dandy of a fellow". (COMIC: Under Pressure [+]Dan Abnett, Doctor Who Yearbook comic stories (Marvel Comics UK, 1991).) However, when he encountered an incarnation he did not recognise, the Seventh Doctor acted civil towards him and engaged in a pleasant conversation while a fight erupted around them. (COMIC: Party Animals [+]Gary Russell, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1991).)

The Seventh Doctor was generally disliked by his other incarnations. (AUDIO: The Shadow of the Scourge [+]Paul Cornell, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2000).) The Fifth Doctor was repulsed by his manipulative nature, (PROSE: Cold Fusion [+]Lance Parkin, Virgin Missing Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) and the Sixth Doctor told Evelyn Smythe that his successor was "always blowing up planets", something he was "not looking forward to". (AUDIO: The 100 Days of the Doctor [+]Paul Cornell, 100 (Main Range, Big Finish Productions, 2007).) The Eleventh Doctor described his seventh incarnation as "probably one of [his] more circumspect periods." (AUDIO: Shockwave [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.)

The Eighth Doctor described his immediate predecessor as "a paranoid chap at times, but then often with good reason[s]", (PROSE: War of the Daleks [+]John Peel, adapted from War of the Daleks, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).) and eventually came to view his manipulative nature with disdain, telling Lucie Miller that he was always "the man with the master plan," arranging the destruction of his enemies and the toppling of dictatorships in order to serve the greater good, to the point where he began to countenance sacrificing the lives of the few to save the many, in which he negatively compared the Seventh Doctor to the Monk. (AUDIO: The Resurrection of Mars [+]Jonathan Morris, Eighth Doctor Adventures (Big Finish Productions, 2010).)

Despite his manipulative actions, such as using psychic powers to make Mel leave with Sabalom Glitz, (PROSE: Head Games [+]Steve Lyons, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) the Seventh Doctor did care for his companions, (AUDIO: The Fearmonger [+]Jonathan Blum, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2000).) focusing on their wounds before his own, (PROSE: Set Piece [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) and even sought their approval on occasion. (PROSE: Head Games [+]Steve Lyons, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) He believed he would act as a surrogate granddad to Bernice Summerfield's children, (PROSE: SLEEPY [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) and later gave her away at her wedding to Jason Kane. (PROSE: Happy Endings [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) He did not like others fiddling with his TARDIS, even slapping Ace's hand when she tried using the console control. (TV: Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).)

Although he originally invited her to travel with him to combat Fenric, (PROSE: Head Games [+]Steve Lyons, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) the Doctor developed a paternal relationship with Ace, (TV: Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) eventually coming to trust Ace with his life. (AUDIO: The High Price of Parking [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) Ace, considering the Doctor to be her "guru", (AUDIO: Nightshade [+]Kyle C Szikora, adapted from Nightshade (Mark Gatiss), Novel Adaptations (Big Finish Productions, 2016).) believed that he had the "deepest, saddest eyes", (AUDIO: The Prisoner's Dilemma [+]Simon Guerrier, The Companion Chronicles (Big Finish Productions, 2009).) and even told him that she loved him. (AUDIO: Signs and Wonders [+]Matt Fitton, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2014).) However, after she found herself unable to deal with his growing emotional coldness, (PROSE: Nightshade [+]Mark Gatiss, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992).) Ace walked out on the Doctor after he had arranged for the death of Jan Rydd, whom she had fallen in love with. (PROSE: Love and War [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992).) Even after she re-joined his company, (PROSE: Deceit [+]Peter Darvill-Evans, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) it was only so she could use him for her own goals, (PROSE: Lucifer Rising [+]Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) believing it to be poetic justice for his own manipulations. (PROSE: Conundrum [+]Steve Lyons, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) Their relationship would remain sour, (PROSE: Blood Heat [+]Jim Mortimore, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) until they worked together to defeat Mortimus, (PROSE: No Future [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) after which they realised how much they needed each other's friendship. (PROSE: Tragedy Day [+]Gareth Roberts, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) Ace eventually decided that, whilst the Doctor "may be a bastard", he was "still [her] bastard", (PROSE: Head Games [+]Steve Lyons, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) and that she could trust him "to sort out anything". (PROSE: The Death of Art [+]Simon Bucher-Jones, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).)

While his favourite planet was Earth, (COMIC: The Crossroads of Time [+]Simon Furman, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1988).) the Doctor could also be critical of human nature, stating that humans had "the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by [their] ingenuity when trying to destroy [themselves]", (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).) that "among all the varied wonders of the universe, [there was] nothing so firmly clamped shut as the military mind", (TV: Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) and that their expectation that "everything [had] to be within [their] comprehension" was their "most irksome trait." (PROSE: The Dimension Riders [+]Daniel Blythe, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) While he once voiced his opinion that their evolution was a "miscalculation", (TV: Silver Nemesis [+]Kevin Clarke, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1 and TVNZ, 1988).) the Doctor admitted to Mikey that, despite their illogical behaviour, he found human beings irresistible. (PROSE: Bad Therapy [+]Matthew Jones, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).)

While his human counterpart fell in love with Joan Redfern, (PROSE: Human Nature [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) the Doctor himself was decidedly celibate, (PROSE: Death and Diplomacy [+]Dave Stone, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) failing to understand human attraction and affection, (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead [+]Andrew Cartmel, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992).) except when it came to Ace, (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus [+]Terrance Dicks, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1991).) of whom he loved in a paternal way. (TV: The Curse of Fenric [+]Pete McTighe, Tales of the TARDIS (BBC iPlayer, 2023).) However, Ace noted that the Doctor had chemistry with Maid Mackenzie of the Campbell Ancestral Home, with the Doctor also appearing crestfallen when he had to say goodbye to her. (COMIC: Cat and Mouse [+]Scott & David Tipton, Prisoners of Time (IDW Publishing, 2013).)

Seeing them as the "most evil race in the universe", (COMIC: Terror from the Deep [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) the Seventh Doctor harboured a strong hatred for the Daleks, refusing to believe that a single timeline existed where they were benevolent. (PROSE: The Ripple Effect [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) He also distrusted the Ice Warriors, even after they renounced conflict. (PROSE: Legacy [+]Gary Russell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).)

While Ace frequently described the Seventh Doctor as an "aging hippy", (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988-1989).; PROSE: No Future [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994)., Set Piece [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) Guy de Carnac compared the Doctor to an owl, observing that "he [was] comfortable in the darkness", and also though the Doctor "[was] equally as adept at hunting down prey in cold blood". (PROSE: Sanctuary [+]David A. McIntee, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) Fakrid believed the Doctor had "the mind of a genius", but also "prattle[d] like any other parasite". (PROSE: The Highest Science [+]Gareth Roberts, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) Dr. Smith, who initially saw the Doctor as a "great scientist", quickly changed her opinion of him to that of "an entertainer who might be hired for a children's party" after the Doctor started enthusiastically rambling. (PROSE: Zamper [+]Gareth Roberts, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) Lieutenant Frethil believed he "reek[ed] of subversion and dissent." (COMIC: The Grief [+]Dan Abnett, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1992).)

The "Beryl Reid" Iris described the Seventh Doctor as "a portentous little feller, swaggering around, thinking he's got all the world's darkest secrets under his hat." (PROSE: The Scarlet Empress [+]Paul Magrs, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1998).) Brigadier General Adrienne Kramer described him as "a manipulative little weirdo who was always up to something behind [her] back." (PROSE: Vampire Science [+]Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).) When she encountered the Seventh Doctor shortly before her death, Evelyn Smythe criticised him for his scheming, manipulative nature, (AUDIO: A Death in the Family [+]Steven Hall, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2010).) while Melanie Bush described the man he became as "a liar and a user and quite possibly a murderer", and proclaimed that she wanted nothing more to do with him. (PROSE: Head Games [+]Steve Lyons, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) When the Eighth Doctor had a tarot card reading, the Seventh Doctor was identified as "the Hanged Man". (PROSE: The City of the Dead [+]Lloyd Rose, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2001).)

The Reborn Master described the Seventh Doctor as a "tiresome little man with [an] umbrella", (AUDIO: Eyes of the Master [+]Matt Fitton, Dark Eyes 2 (The Eighth Doctor Adventures: Dark Eyes, Big Finish Productions, 2014).) and as "a wily one", (AUDIO: The Two Masters [+]John Dorney, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2016).) while the Tremas Master described him as being "too busy setting plans and traps" to realise the ones "set for him". (GAME: Destiny of the Doctors [+]Hannah Redler, Gary Russell, Terrance Dicks and Andy Russell, BBC Multimedia (1997).) Jason considered the Seventh Doctor "no fun" due to his secret keeping and "tantrums". (PROSE: Conundrum [+]Steve Lyons, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).)

Alan Fitzgerald, a summer intern at the Gogglebox, believed that the Seventh Doctor knew everything. (AUDIO: The Gathering [+]Joseph Lidster, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2006).) The Black Dalek considered the Doctor's apparent ruthlessness to be "impressive". (AUDIO: Enemy of the Daleks [+]David Bishop, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2009).) The Doctor's first TARDIS described the Seventh Doctor as "the schemer". (AUDIO: Prisoners of Fate [+]Jonathan Morris, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2013).) Helen referred to him as "the Thinker". (AUDIO: The Sirens of Time [+]Nicholas Briggs, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 1999).)

Though he was afraid of it, (PROSE: Parasite [+]Jim Mortimore, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) the Doctor wished to die alone, (PROSE: Transit [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992).) unconscious and on his own terms, (PROSE: The Room With No Doors [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997).) and also believed it would be best if all traces of him were erased. (PROSE: Transit [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992).) While the Doctor originally thought he would "beat chance and choose the moment to die", he later confessed to Benny that he knew he would die "[without] control, surrounded by strangers, [and] helpless." (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) He later told Chris Cwej that he viewed regenerating as both a good and bad feeling in the same way that driving a car very fast was exhilarating despite the potentially fatal outcome, with the Doctor calling regeneration a "miniature death". (PROSE: The Room With No Doors [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997).)

As he pleaded with Grace Holloway not to operate on him after he got shot in a gang shootout in San Francisco, (TV: Doctor Who [+]Matthew Jacobs, Doctor Who Television Movie (Fox Broadcasting Company, 1996).) the Doctor privately despaired how it was "not [his] time" and that he had "too much left to do". (AUDIO: Zagreus [+]Alan Barnes and Gary Russell, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2003).) Before he let out a final scream as he died, (TV: Doctor Who [+]Matthew Jacobs, Doctor Who Television Movie (Fox Broadcasting Company, 1996).) Holloway noted that the Doctor seemed "very clear, very determined and very powerful", while also looking "very serious, but also very frightened of something", and felt that he was "rarely afraid of anything". (PROSE: The Novel of the Film [+]Gary Russell, adapted from Doctor Who (Matthew Jacobs), BBC Books novelisations (BBC Books, 1996).) A mental manifestation of the Seventh Doctor within the Doctor's mind later lamented that his demise was "[un]dignified" and expressed annoyance that he "[hadn't seen] that one coming". (AUDIO: Zagreus [+]Alan Barnes and Gary Russell, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2003).)

Habits and quirks[]

The Seventh Doctor spoke with a Scottish accent, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) which Bernice Summerfield noted was of the Highlands. (PROSE: Big Bang Generation [+]Gary Russell, BBC New Series Adventures (BBC Books, 2015).) However, when necessary, the Doctor adopted other accents too. (PROSE: The Highest Science [+]Gareth Roberts, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993)., No Future [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994)., Bad Therapy [+]Matthew Jones, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996)., The Room With No Doors [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997).) When talking about Daleks, his voice would develop a harder edge to it. (PROSE: Illegal Alien [+]Mike Tucker and Robert Perry, adapted from Illegal Alien, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).)

He occasionally displayed a tendency to mangle and combine Earth idioms, creating Dundrearyisms. (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Delta and the Bannermen [+]Malcolm Kohll, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) After Mel described the habit as "really annoying", the Doctor promised that he would try to stop doing it, (AUDIO: Bang-Bang-a-Boom! [+]Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2002).) though would later slip up on his promise long after she had left the TARDIS. (PROSE: White Darkness [+]David A. McIntee, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993)., No Future [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994)., Sanctuary [+]David A. McIntee, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995)., The Also People [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).)

The Seventh Doctor would often introduce himself by saying, "I'm the Doctor, and this is my friend…" (TV: Dragonfire [+]Ian Briggs, adapted from Seventh Doctor Audition Tapes (Andrew Cartmel), Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988-1989)., Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).)

He sometimes described a situation as "splendid", (TV: Delta and the Bannermen [+]Malcolm Kohll, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., The Happiness Patrol [+]Graeme Curry, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) and would say that "monsters" feared him in their "nightmares". (PROSE: Love and War [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992)., Blood Heat [+]Jim Mortimore, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993)., Continuity Errors [+]Steven Moffat, Decalog 3: Consequences (Virgin Decalogs, 1996)., Return of the Living Dad [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).; AUDIO: The Shadow of the Scourge [+]Paul Cornell, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2000).)

The Doctor was fond of using the term "grubby" when explaining his mission to keep an artefact away from his adversaries, such as when keeping the Hand of Omega out of the Daleks' "grubby little protuberances", (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).) when he sent the TARDIS away to keep the Robot Ants from getting their "grubby little mandibles" on it, (PROSE: Set Piece [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) and when preventing the fake skull of Jesus Christ from falling into Louis de Citeaux and Francisco Guzman's "grubby little protuberances". (PROSE: Sanctuary [+]David A. McIntee, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).)

While he sometimes rested both hands on his hips, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Silver Nemesis [+]Kevin Clarke, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1 and TVNZ, 1988)., The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988-1989).) the Seventh Doctor would more often place a single hand on his hip while gesturing with his other hand, (TV: Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Delta and the Bannermen [+]Malcolm Kohll, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Dragonfire [+]Ian Briggs, adapted from Seventh Doctor Audition Tapes (Andrew Cartmel), Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Untitled [+]Doctor Who series adverts (BBC1, 1988)., Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., Silver Nemesis [+]Kevin Clarke, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1 and TVNZ, 1988)., Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., Search Out Space [+]Lambros Atteshlis and Berry-Anne Billingsley, Search Out Science (BBC Two, 1990).) such as by grasping a single hand on his lapel. (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Dragonfire [+]Ian Briggs, adapted from Seventh Doctor Audition Tapes (Andrew Cartmel), Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Silver Nemesis [+]Kevin Clarke, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1 and TVNZ, 1988)., Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., Survival [+]Rona Munro, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., The Curse of Fenric [+]Pete McTighe, Tales of the TARDIS (BBC iPlayer, 2023).)

He also made a habit of propping himself up on an arm when lounging on something, (TV: Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Dragonfire [+]Ian Briggs, adapted from Seventh Doctor Audition Tapes (Andrew Cartmel), Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., Silver Nemesis [+]Kevin Clarke, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1 and TVNZ, 1988)., Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) and leaning on his umbrellas with both hands. (TV: Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Dragonfire [+]Ian Briggs, adapted from Seventh Doctor Audition Tapes (Andrew Cartmel), Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Untitled [+]Doctor Who series adverts (BBC1, 1988)., Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., The Happiness Patrol [+]Graeme Curry, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988-1989)., The Curse of Fenric [+]Pete McTighe, Tales of the TARDIS (BBC iPlayer, 2023).)

While he would mostly raise his hat as a friendly greeting and a farewell, the Doctor would also raise his hat in mockery as he escaped a defeated adversary or when his enemies retreated. (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., The Happiness Patrol [+]Graeme Curry, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).)

He often held his hands crossed behind his back as he leaned forwards, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Delta and the Bannermen [+]Malcolm Kohll, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Dragonfire [+]Ian Briggs, adapted from Seventh Doctor Audition Tapes (Andrew Cartmel), Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988-1989)., Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., The Disney Club [+]Disney specials (ITV, 1994).) and strutted about with his hands in his trouser pockets. (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Dragonfire [+]Ian Briggs, adapted from Seventh Doctor Audition Tapes (Andrew Cartmel), Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).)

As a show of affection, the Doctor would gently tap his friends on the nose. (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Dragonfire [+]Ian Briggs, adapted from Seventh Doctor Audition Tapes (Andrew Cartmel), Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988-1989).,Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).)

When in thought, he would rub his fingers with his thumb, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Silver Nemesis [+]Kevin Clarke, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1 and TVNZ, 1988)., The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988-1989)., Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., Survival [+]Rona Munro, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) tug at his ear, (TV: Dragonfire [+]Ian Briggs, adapted from Seventh Doctor Audition Tapes (Andrew Cartmel), Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988-1989)., Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) scratch at his mouth, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., The Happiness Patrol [+]Graeme Curry, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988-1989)., Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., Survival [+]Rona Munro, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., Dimensions in Time [+]John Nathan-Turner and David Roden, Doctor Who 30th anniversary special (BBC1, 1993)., The Disney Club [+]Disney specials (ITV, 1994).) or use his umbrella to play with his lips. (TV: Dragonfire [+]Ian Briggs, adapted from Seventh Doctor Audition Tapes (Andrew Cartmel), Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., The Happiness Patrol [+]Graeme Curry, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., Survival [+]Rona Munro, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).)

The Seventh Doctor made a habit of randomly reading books with "Doctor" in the title, (TV: Dragonfire [+]Ian Briggs, adapted from Seventh Doctor Audition Tapes (Andrew Cartmel), Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).) and would sometimes backflip his hat onto his head. (TV: Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., Survival [+]Rona Munro, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).)

When his companions acted in a way that was detrimental to his plans by reacting prematurely, the Doctor would warn them not to act with a stern, "Not now".[source needed]

Skills[]

Dimension Riders crop

The Doctor faces the Garvond in a game of chess. (PROSE: The Dimension Riders [+]Daniel Blythe, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).)

The Seventh Doctor was a grand manipulator, often utilising his choice of words to persuade others into a decision of his choosing, (TV: Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., The Happiness Patrol [+]Graeme Curry, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).) or devising an unscrupulous scheme to defeat his adversaries. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) He had a tendency to play the long game in his schemes, preferring to keep his plans subtle and "behind the scenes", (PROSE: Cat's Cradle: Warhead [+]Andrew Cartmel, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992)., The Highest Science [+]Gareth Roberts, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) but would often focus on overcomplicating his plans to the point that he overlooked a more simpler approach. (PROSE: Of the Mermaid and Jupiter [+]Ian Mond and Danny Heap, Short Trips: Past Tense (Short Trips, 2004).) When his plans went awry, or an unexpected element developed, the Doctor was efficient at improvising solutions. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) However, as he got older, his power of persuasion weakened, with the Doctor unable to convince Grace Holloway not to operate on him. (TV: Doctor Who [+]Matthew Jacobs, Doctor Who Television Movie (Fox Broadcasting Company, 1996).)

Despite his stature, the Doctor was capable of both directly and indirectly taking control of situations involving strangers, using his greater intelligence to assess and direct events. (TV: Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., The Happiness Patrol [+]Graeme Curry, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).) Even though he loathed using violence, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) he also showed a skill at unarmed combat, being able to briefly overpower a judo trained Mel, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) wrestle a Cheetah virus infected Master, (TV: Survival [+]Rona Munro, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) strike down two Hitler Youths with a series of slaps, (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus [+]Terrance Dicks, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1991).) and disarm Aoi using martial arts. (PROSE: The Room With No Doors [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997).) He also possessed the strength to bend a gun barrel as a demonstration, (PROSE: Independence Day [+]Peter Darvill-Evans, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).) and could still best Grendel of Gracht in a swordfight. (PROSE: The Trials of Tara [+]Paul Cornell, Decalog 2: Lost Property (Virgin Decalogs, 1995).)

Something of a showman, the Seventh Doctor was an adept physical performer, and deployed a repertoire of magic tricks, illusions and escape artistry as part of his plans. (TV: The Happiness Patrol [+]Graeme Curry, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988-1989)., Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) He could escape from handcuffs, (COMIC: Final Genesis [+]Warwick Gray, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1993).) juggle five balls with his feet while standing on his head and gargling "The Star-Spangled Banner" (PROSE: Lucifer Rising [+]Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) and whistle with a small bomb in his mouth, (PROSE: The Also People [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) but he could not dance. (PROSE: Bad Therapy [+]Matthew Jones, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) He also possessed the necessary accuracy to lasso a small target and improvise a zip wire, (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).) was capable of picking a lock with a hairpin, (PROSE: The Death of Art [+]Simon Bucher-Jones, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) and could crack a safe by listening to the turns of its dial. (AUDIO: Lurkers at Sunlight's Edge [+]Marty Ross, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2010).)

With a thought process that worked faster than his mouth, (PROSE: The Also People [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) the Doctor could memories entire files after flicking through them, (PROSE: Blood Harvest [+]Terrance Dicks, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994)., Bad Therapy [+]Matthew Jones, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) and was capable of mentally keeping up with a ship that thought picoseconds was a long time. (PROSE: The Also People [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).)

With a touch to the head, the Doctor could read minds, (PROSE: Love and War [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992).) calm a person, (PROSE: Blood Heat [+]Jim Mortimore, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993)., Legacy [+]Gary Russell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994)., Head Games [+]Steve Lyons, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) erase memories, (PROSE: No Future [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) induce someone to sleep, (PROSE: GodEngine [+]Craig Hinton, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) and read a person's dreams, (PROSE: SLEEPY [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) though he could also influence people's decisions with just a stare and a quiet voice. (TV: Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) He was also able to receive telepathic distress call, (COMIC: Culture Shock! [+]Grant Morrison, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1988).) telepathically link himself with the Silurians, (PROSE: Blood Heat [+]Jim Mortimore, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) and set up a psychological block in Sally Morgan's limbic system by touching her forehead. (AUDIO: House of Blue Fire [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) However, his powers of hypnotism had different results on different cultures in different ages, and he occasionally needed aide to successfully hypnotise someone. (PROSE: Companion Piece [+]Robert Perry and Mike Tucker, Telos Doctor Who novellas (Telos Publishing, 2003).)

After opening a surgery in the alternate universe TARDIS, the Doctor was able to remove genetic implants from soldiers modified by the Skrak, and sew Sareth's hand back on to him while doing so. (PROSE: Death and Diplomacy [+]Dave Stone, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) He could also perform CPR. (PROSE: Bad Therapy [+]Matthew Jones, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).)

The Doctor could see in the dark, (PROSE: Timewyrm: Genesys [+]John Peel, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1991).) and his sense of smell was sensitive enough for him to differentiate between ketones, ammonia, amino acids, aldehydes, butyric acid and geosmin in cheese, though he could choose to switch off the part of his brain that identified the chemicals to enjoy the taste of the cheese. (PROSE: Culture War [+]Kate Orman, Short Trips: 2040 (Short Trips short stories, 2004).) He could also identify blood samples by taste, (PROSE: Bad Therapy [+]Matthew Jones, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) see ultraviolet light, (PROSE: The Room With No Doors [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997).) and perform a biochemical analysis by drinking chemicals. (PROSE: Independence Day [+]Peter Darvill-Evans, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2000).)

The Seventh Doctor also showed a knack for playing the spoons as a musical instrument, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., The Happiness Patrol [+]Graeme Curry, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988)., The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988-1989)., The Curse of Fenric [+]Pete McTighe, Tales of the TARDIS (BBC iPlayer, 2023).) though he was known to play them less as he matured into schemer. (AUDIO: Master [+]Joseph Lidster, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2003).) Representing Earth in lieu of Nicky Newman, he won the 309th Intergalactic Song Contest by playing the spoons, (AUDIO: Bang-Bang-a-Boom! [+]Gareth Roberts and Clayton Hickman, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2002).) and also broke the galactic record for continuous spoon-playing, with sixty-seven hours to his name. (PROSE: The Also People [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) He could also play the harmonica, (PROSE: The Pit [+]Neil Penswick, adapted from Hostage, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) and the piano. (PROSE: Blood Harvest [+]Terrance Dicks, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).)

He could ride a motorcycle, (TV: Delta and the Bannermen [+]Malcolm Kohll, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) drive a van, (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).) and was still capable of driving Bessie. (TV: Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) He could also ride a horse, (TV: Survival [+]Rona Munro, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) and pilot a helicopter. (PROSE: Eternity Weeps [+]Jim Mortimore, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997).)

He was also an admired chief, able to work as a cook on the Schirron Dream, (PROSE: Sky Pirates! [+]Dave Stone, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) with Ace saying he made "great omelettes". (AUDIO: The Fearmonger [+]Jonathan Blum, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2000).) He also knew how to make sofrit pages and could mix a good sangria, (AUDIO: The Rapture [+]Joseph Lidster, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2002).) and make scrambled eggs (PROSE: Strange England [+]Simon Messingham, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) and a cappuccino. (PROSE: Bad Therapy [+]Matthew Jones, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).)

Claiming to be "fluent in everything", (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus [+]Terrance Dicks, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1991).) the Doctor could speak the ancient dialect of the Japanese royal family, (PROSE: Transit [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992).) read the writing of the Silurians, (PROSE: White Darkness [+]David A. McIntee, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) swear in Old Low Gallifreyan, (PROSE: Blood Harvest [+]Terrance Dicks, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) knew sign language, (PROSE: SLEEPY [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) and could use his eyebrows to communicate with Benny. (PROSE: The Trials of Tara [+]Paul Cornell, Decalog 2: Lost Property (Virgin Decalogs, 1995).) He could also perfectly mimic the local fauna of his surroundings, (TV: Silver Nemesis [+]Kevin Clarke, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1 and TVNZ, 1988).) such as a lion's roar. (PROSE: Iceberg [+]David Banks, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).)

Without the aid of the TARDIS's translation circuit, he could speak Welsh (TV: Delta and the Bannermen [+]Malcolm Kohll, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) Russian, (TV: The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) German, (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus [+]Terrance Dicks, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1991).) Tewa, (PROSE: Lucifer Rising [+]Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) French, (PROSE: Set Piece [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) Berberese, (PROSE: Original Sin [+]Andy Lane, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) ancient Betelgeusian, (PROSE: The Death of Art [+]Simon Bucher-Jones, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) plain Anglo-Saxon, (PROSE: Damaged Goods [+]Russell T Davies, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) and Draconian. (PROSE: Monitor [+]Huw Wilkins, Short Trips: Steel Skies (Short Trips, 2003).)

The Doctor could levitate off the ground whilst in meditation, (PROSE: Lucifer Rising [+]Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) deliberately lower his intelligence, (PROSE: Parasite [+]Jim Mortimore, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) and sculpture a sandcastle in the shape of the Great City of the Exxilons. (PROSE: Storm Harvest [+]Robert Perry and Mike Tucker, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1999).) While he could forget names, the Doctor never forgot what someone looked like. (AUDIO: Project Lazarus [+]Cavan Scott and Mark Wright, Main Range (Big Finish Productions, 2003).)

Appearance[]

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The Seventh Doctor was a short man, who initially appeared to be in his mid-forties, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) with his human counterpart being able to pull off being 48-years-old. (PROSE: Human Nature [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) By the end of his life, however, the Doctor had aged significantly. (TV: Doctor Who [+]Matthew Jacobs, Doctor Who Television Movie (Fox Broadcasting Company, 1996).) He was ambidextrous, (PROSE: Warlock [+]Andrew Cartmel, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) and had a small tattoo. (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).)

With an animated face, the Doctor had expressive bulgy eyebrows, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) and, according to Ace, three distinctive smiles: his "cartoon grin", his "secret freak-the-enemy-smile" and his "halfway smile", the last of which unnerved Ace. (PROSE: Love and War [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992).)

Though his eyes were naturally blue, (PROSE: Set Piece [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) they would often change colour, (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation [+]Paul Cornell, adapted from Total Eclipse, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1991).) appearing as grey, (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus [+]Terrance Dicks, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1991).) green, (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation [+]Paul Cornell, adapted from Total Eclipse, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1991).) brown, (PROSE: Transit [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1992).) black, (PROSE: Legacy [+]Gary Russell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) and a mix of blue and grey. (PROSE: Toy Soldiers [+]Paul Leonard, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).)

Despite the fact his body could heal at an accelerated rate, (PROSE: Special Weapons [+]Paul Leonard, More Short Trips (Short Trips short stories, 1999).) the Doctor acquired a number of scars on his person, (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).) from the removal of Ship's flower, (PROSE: Set Piece [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) a bullet shattering one of his hearts, (PROSE: Parasite [+]Jim Mortimore, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) and Ace stabbing his left shoulder, (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) with the Doctor occasionally feeling pain emanating from the wound. (PROSE: Set Piece [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995)., Infinite Requiem [+]Daniel Blythe, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995)., Return of the Living Dad [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).)

Ace thought that in his "get-up", the Seventh Doctor resembled a "dance-hall comic". (PROSE: Fable Fusion [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) Peri Brown described him as a "goofy little guy in a weird pullover", (AUDIO: The Veiled Leopard [+]Iain McLaughlin and Claire Bartlett, Big Finish DWM originals (Big Finish Productions, 2006).) and Josiah W. Dogbolter also considered him a "pipsqueak". (COMIC: Time Bomb! [+]Steve Parkhouse, Stories in Death's Head (1988) using characters that originated in the DWU (Marvel UK, 1989).) Adrienne Kramer described the Seventh Doctor as being a "short and dark-haired [man], [looking] somewhere in his forties, [and] with a Scottish accent." (PROSE: Vampire Science [+]Kate Orman and Jonathan Blum, BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 1997).)

The First Doctor described his seventh incarnation as the "short Scottish fellow" who would "turn things to his own ends". (PROSE: Five Card Draw [+]Todd Green, Short Trips: Zodiac (Short Trips, 2002).)

Hair and grooming[]

While he had a full set of brown hair after his regeneration, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) the Doctor allowed his greying hair to grow out into tufts on the sides of his head, while it thinned a bit at the top of his scalp, by the end of his life. (TV: Doctor Who [+]Matthew Jacobs, Doctor Who Television Movie (Fox Broadcasting Company, 1996).)

Clothing[]

Main attires[]

Seven like a boss

The Doctor's first outfit. (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988-1989).)

After many failed attempts to find a new look, the Seventh Doctor eventually settled on a single breasted ivory safari-styled jacket with a red paisley handkerchief in his left pocket, a Clan Wallace tartan scarf under his lapels, with a beige pullover adorned with cherry question marks and turquoise zigzag patterns, with grey-brown tweed plaid trousers and a pair of burgundy braces either pulled over (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) or tucked under the pullover. (TV: Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) Under the pullover, he wore a white shirt with a scarlet paisley necktie, and completed his outfit with a pair of two-tone white and brown brogued spectator shoes. He also had a chained fob watch attached to his left lapel, while the watch itself rested in his upper left breast pocket, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) that could function as a gadget to aid in his adventures. (TV: Silver Nemesis [+]Kevin Clarke, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1 and TVNZ, 1988)., Survival [+]Rona Munro, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) After losing his tartan scarf during his clash with the First Rani, (PROSE: The Useful Pile [+]Kate Orman, Brief Encounter (1992).) he replaced it with a crimson paisley one. (TV: Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) He wore either matching polka-dot socks (COMIC: Time and Tide [+]Richard Alan and John Carnell, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1989).) or one navy blue sock and one Rocky and Bullwinkle sock. (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).)

SeventhBrigBessie

The Doctor's second outfit. (TV: Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).)

As he matured into more of a schemer, the Doctor began wearing a chocolate brown jacket, and changed his hatband, handkerchief and necktie to ones in more subdued shades of burgundy (TV: Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) and brown. (TV: Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) Occasionally, he would remove his pullover as well, (COMIC: Distractions [+]Dan Abnett, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1990)., The Mark of Mandragora [+]Dan Abnett, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1990-1991)., Party Animals [+]Gary Russell, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1991).) and would wear a tan brown duffle coat when caught in the rain. (TV: The Curse of Fenric [+]Ian Briggs, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).; PROSE: Untitled [+]Paul Ferry, Brief Encounter (1992)., The Highest Science [+]Gareth Roberts, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).)

During his escapades as Time's Champion, the Doctor replaced his usual attire with a wrinkled cream-coloured linen suit, with a glistening silk shirt worn with a green silk cravat, and a paisley banded white fedora (PROSE: White Darkness [+]David A. McIntee, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) that he had had made especially for him. (PROSE: First Frontier [+]David A. McIntee, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) Worn on his lapel would be either Cameca's brooch, (PROSE: White Darkness [+]David A. McIntee, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1993).) or a Smiley Face pin badge. (PROSE: Sky Pirates! [+]Dave Stone, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) He would later replace his cravat for four-in-hand ties coloured in rust orange, (PROSE: Legacy [+]Gary Russell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) ruby, (PROSE: Sky Pirates! [+]Dave Stone, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).) sapphire blue, (PROSE: All-Consuming Fire [+]Andy Lane, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) lime green, (PROSE: Tragedy Day [+]Gareth Roberts, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) Prussian blue paisley, (PROSE: Strange England [+]Simon Messingham, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).) or solid red. (PROSE: Original Sin [+]Andy Lane, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).)

Seven Armchair

The Doctor's final outfit. (TV: Doctor Who [+]Matthew Jacobs, Doctor Who Television Movie (Fox Broadcasting Company, 1996).)

After his confrontation with the Brotherhood of the Immanent Flesh, (PROSE: So Vile a Sin [+]Ben Aaronovitch and Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1997).) the Doctor began wearing a peanut brown tweed jacket, with a scarlet brocade waistcoat, an ivory shirt, green plaid trousers and a black and brown zigzag patterned tie. (TV: Doctor Who [+]Matthew Jacobs, Doctor Who Television Movie (Fox Broadcasting Company, 1996).)

On his head, the Doctor wore battered cream colonial-styled Panama hat with an identical paisley handkerchief folded into a hatband and an upturned brim. (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) He later replaced his battered hat with a newer one. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).) He also wore a black Tank-styled wristwatch on his right wrist, (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) which he later replaced with a sportier round watch, (TV: Silver Nemesis [+]Kevin Clarke, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1 and TVNZ, 1988).) and then with a rectangular faced tank watch. (TV: Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).)

After finding his old signet ring in the TARDIS console, (COMIC: The Chameleon Factor [+]Paul Cornell, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1991).) the Doctor started wearing it again through numerous adventures, (COMIC: The Good Soldier [+]Andrew Cartmel, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1991)., Metamorphosis [+]Paul Cornell, Doctor Who Yearbook comic stories (Marvel Comics, 1992).) until he gave it to Joan Redfern. (PROSE: Human Nature [+]Paul Cornell, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1995).)

Other clothes[]

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Whilst in Nazi Germany, the Doctor briefly donned a black leather trenchcoat and a black soft hat. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Exodus [+]Terrance Dicks, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1991).)

During his time in Chicago in 1929, the Doctor donned a grey striped suit and fedora. (PROSE: Blood Harvest [+]Terrance Dicks, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).)

Whilst visiting Betrushia, the Doctor wore an orange waistcoat, a white shirt with a Gladstone collar and a black cravat with his dark jacket. (PROSE: St Anthony's Fire [+]Mark Gatiss, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1994).)

On Youkali, the Doctor wore a burgundy waistcoat and a tweed jacket. (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad [+]Kate Orman, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).)

Umbrellas[]

After his regeneration stabilised, the Doctor took to carrying around an umbrella as part of his day-to-day outfit, using them as physical props, usually to disarm and trip opponents, (TV: Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987)., Battlefield [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., Ghost Light [+]Marc Platt, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989)., Survival [+]Rona Munro, Doctor Who season 26 (BBC1, 1989).) as well as using them as grappling hooks, (TV: Dragonfire [+]Ian Briggs, adapted from Seventh Doctor Audition Tapes (Andrew Cartmel), Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) and as measuring rods. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks [+]Ben Aaronovitch, Doctor Who season 25 (BBC1, 1988).)

He initially carried his previous incarnation's rainbow umbrella, but was forced to leave it in the First Rani's base on Lakertya, where it was destroyed. (TV: Time and the Rani [+]Pip & Jane Baker, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) During a clear out, he found a replacement within the TARDIS wardrobe: (PROSE: The Useful Pile [+]Kate Orman, Brief Encounter (1992).) a black umbrella with a whangee handle. (TV: Paradise Towers [+]Stephen Wyatt, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).)

After his black umbrella was damaged, (AUDIO: The Warehouse [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW.) the Doctor acquired a new umbrella with an elaborate handle in the shape of a large, cherry coloured question mark. (TV: Delta and the Bannermen [+]Malcolm Kohll, Doctor Who season 24 (BBC1, 1987).) The handle could split in half and unfold into a makeshift stool, (COMIC: Planet of the Dead [+]John Freeman, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1988).) could fire a small gold pellet that contained a hallucinogenic truth drug, (PROSE: Atom Bomb Blues [+]Andrew Cartmel, BBC Past Doctor Adventures (BBC Books, 2005).) and was also detachable, hiding a secret compartment containing a vial of Time Lord restorative. (COMIC: The Forgotten [+]Tony Lee, IDW mini-series and one-shots (IDW Publishing, 2008-2009).)

Attempting to "wean himself off" his umbrella, the Doctor took to carrying a walking-cane as his reign as Time's Champion drew to an end. (PROSE: Christmas on a Rational Planet [+]Lawrence Miles, Virgin New Adventures (Virgin Books, 1996).)

Behind the scenes[]

Information from invalid sources[]

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An illustration of the Seventh Doctor and Peri Brown which appeared in A Cold Day in Hell! [+]Error: Code 2 - no data stored in variables, cache or SMW..

In COMIC: A Cold Day in Hell! [+]Simon Furman, DWM Comics (Marvel Comics, 1987-1988)., the Seventh Doctor is shown to be travelling with Frobisher, a companion of the Sixth Doctor, and Frobisher refers to Peri Brown as if she had recently left. The timeline given in the Doctor Who Magazine article Stripped for action? claims that the Seventh Doctor had picked up Peri and Frobisher to travel with him until Peri left to live with Yrcanos.

Casting[]

In popular culture[]

  • After the original series ended, Sylvester McCoy and Sophie Aldred played characters called the Professor and Ace, respectively, in the Audio Adventures in Time & Space audio series produced by BBV Productions. The stories were initially implied to be a continuation of Doctor Who, but these connections decreased when the Professor was renamed the Dominie and Aldred's character Alice.
  • In the BBC medical soap opera Doctors, McCoy guest-starred as Graham Capelli, an actor who had played the titular role in The Amazing Lollipop Man, a cult 1980s children's television series. The character of the Lollipop Man had many similarities to the Doctor.
  • An Easter Egg referencing the Seventh Doctor appears in the seventh episode of the first season of the Nickelodeon children's horror series, Are You Afraid of the Dark? , "The Tale of the Captured Souls" , in which the Seventh Doctor's hat and coat can be seen hanging from a hatstand at two points in the episode.

The Cartmel Masterplan[]

Season 25 and 26 had broad hints that the Doctor was not simply a Time Lord, as previously shown and stated. This overarching plot, conceived by Script Editor Andrew Cartmel and referred to by fans as the Cartmel Masterplan, was designed to restore an element of mystery in the Doctor and his true nature as in the stories of the first and second incarnations. Although the cancellation of the series at the end of Season 26 prevented further on-screen exploration of this arc, it was later given full rein in the Virgin New Adventures novel series.

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