Gallifrey
The Citadel of the Time Lords on Gallifrey (from "The Sound of Drums")
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Universe	Whoniverse
Notable locations	Citadel, Panopticon, Academy, Death Zone, Eye of Harmony, Continent of Wild Endeavour, Mountains of Solace and Solitude
Notable races	Time Lords
Notable people	The Doctor The Master Romanadvoratrelundar Salyavin The Rani The Monk Susan Foreman
Genre	Science fiction television
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Gallifrey is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and is the homeworld of the Doctor and the Time Lords. It is supposed to be located in the constellation of Kasterborous, at "galactic coordinates ten-zero-eleven-zero-zero by zero-two from galactic zero centre" (Pyramids of Mars, 1975), some 250 million light years away from Earth (as stated in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie; this would put it outside our Milky Way galaxy, which is only 80-100 thousand light years in diameter).^[1] During the first decade of the television series, the name of the Doctor's home planet was not revealed, although it was actually shown for the first time in The War Games (1969) during the Doctor's trial. Gallifrey is the umbrella title of a line of audio plays set in the Doctor Who universe, produced by Big Finish Productions, featuring Louise Jameson as Leela, Lalla Ward as President Romana, and John Leeson as two K-9 units, Mark I and Mark II. Like all spin-off media... Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... The Sound of Drums is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... // The Whoniverse, a portmanteau of Doctor Who and universe, is the fictional universe in which Doctor Who, Torchwood and other related stories take place. ... The Eye of Harmony, in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, is the name given by the Time Lords to the artificially created black hole that provides nearly inexhaustible amounts of energy to their home planet of Gallifrey and providing the power needed for time travel. ... This article is about the Time Lords from Doctor Who. ... This article is about the character of the Doctor. ... This article is about the character. ... Romana, short for Romanadvoratrelundar, is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Professor Urban Chronotis is a fictional character created by Douglas Adams. ... The Rani is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Peter Butterworth as the Meddling Monk (from The Time Meddler) The Meddling Monk is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Susan Foreman is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... This is a list of planets, fictional or otherwise, that are mentioned in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spinoff literature. ... A broadcast of the long-running and popular British science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... This article is about the television series. ... This article is about the Time Lords from Doctor Who. ... Pyramids of Mars is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from October 25 to November 15, 1975. ... A light year, abbreviated ly, is the distance light travels in one year: roughly 9. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... Doctor Who (film) redirects here. ... For other uses, see Milky Way (disambiguation). ... This article is about the Doctor Who serial. ...

It was finally identified by name for the first time in The Time Warrior (1973) whilst the Doctor was being interrogated by the Sontaran Commander Linx. The Third Doctor, at gun-point, informed Linx that he was aware of the Sontaran species. Linx, realising that if the Doctor were human would have no knowledge of his species, asks, "What is your native planet?" The Doctor replies, "Gallifrey. I am a Time Lord." The Time Warrior is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from December 15, 1973 to January 5, 1974. ... The Sontarans are a fictional extraterrestrial race from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Third Doctor is the name given to the third incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ...

It is never definitively stated when the appearances of Gallifrey in the television series take place. As the planet is often reached by means of time travel, its relative present could conceivably exist anywhere in the Earth's past or future.^[2]

Gallifrey's position in the revived series (2005 onwards) was filled in slowly over the first three years of the series' run. In Series 1, it had been implied that it was destroyed, along with the Dalek Empire, by the Doctor during the Time War. The planet was not referred to by name until the third series and wasn't shown on screen until "The Sound of Drums". The Dalek city on Skaro, from The Daleks. ... Combatants Time Lords Dalek Empire Commanders President of Gallifrey Dalek Emperor Casualties Virtually the entire Time Lord population; the Doctor and the Master are known survivors. ... The Sound of Drums is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Geography

A Vardan spaceship approaches Gallifrey from space (from The Invasion of Time)

From space, Gallifrey is seen as a yellow-orange planet and is close enough to central space lanes for spacecraft to require clearance from Gallifreyan Space Traffic Control as they pass through its system. The planet is surrounded by a quantum force field as well as an impenetrable force field called the transduction barrier. This prevents all outsiders (with hostile intent, or otherwise) from approaching the planet and allows the Time Lords to maintain their status of absolute neutrality. It also lets them observe the actions of the rest of the Universe without actually taking part in its affairs. The barrier was breached on one occasion by the Sontarans, when it was sabotaged from within (The Invasion of Time, 1978). A Vardan spaceship approaches the planet Gallifrey, homeworld of the Time Lords. ... A Vardan spaceship approaches the planet Gallifrey, homeworld of the Time Lords. ... The Invasion of Time is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from February 4 to March 11, 1978. ... The Sontarans are a fictional extraterrestrial race from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Invasion of Time is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from February 4 to March 11, 1978. ...

The Doctor's granddaughter Susan described her home world (presumably Gallifrey, but not named as such) as having bright, silver-leafed trees and a burnt orange sky at night (The Sensorites, 1964), features that the Tenth Doctor reiterates in the episode "Gridlock" (2007). This casts an amber tint on anything outside the city, as seen in The Invasion of Time. Gallifrey's sky appeared blue and Earth-like in The Five Doctors (1983) within the isolated Death Zone, but this is likely a production oversight. Susan Foreman is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Sensorites is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from June 20 to August 1, 1964. ... The Tenth Doctor is the name given to the tenth and current incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Gridlock is the third episode from the third series of the revived British science fiction television series Doctor Who which aired on April 14, 2007. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... The Five Doctors was a special movie-length episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, produced in celebration of the programmes twentieth anniversary. ...

In "Gridlock", the Doctor also mentions vast mountain ranges situated on Gallifrey, "with fields of deep red grass, capped with snow". He goes on to describe how Gallifrey's second sun would "rise in the south and the mountains would shine", with the silver-leafed trees looking like "a forest on fire" in the mornings. In "The Sound of Drums", the Doctor says that Gallifrey was called the Shining World of the Seven Systems.

The Citadel of the Time Lords stands on the continent of Wild Endeavour, in the Mountains of Solace and Solitude ("The Sound of Drums"), where the Capitol is also located. Within the Capitol is the Panopticon, under which the Eye of Harmony, the nucleus of a black hole also used as the heart of the Tardis as explained in the Season finale of Episode 1 of the new Doctor Who which is kept safe by the Time-Lords. The Eye provides the power required for time travel (The Three Doctors, 1973; The Deadly Assassin, 1976), and all Time Lord TARDIS time machines draw their power from it (the 1996 television movie). Also situated in the Capitol is the Matrix, the vast extradimensional computer network which acts as the repository of all Time Lord knowledge as well as containing the memories of dead Time Lords (The Deadly Assassin). Animated, colour-coded map showing the various continents. ... For other uses, see Panopticon (disambiguation). ... The Eye of Harmony, in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, is the name given by the Time Lords to the artificially created black hole that provides nearly inexhaustible amounts of energy to their home planet of Gallifrey and providing the power needed for time travel. ... For other uses, see Black hole (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Black hole (disambiguation). ... Time travel is a concept that has long fascinated humanity—whether it is Merlin experiencing time backwards, or religious traditions like Mohammeds trip to Jerusalem and ascent to heaven, returning before a glass knocked over had spilt its contents. ... The Three Doctors is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, first broadcast in four weekly parts from December 30, 1972 to January 20, 1973. ... The Deadly Assassin is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from October 30 to November 20, 1976. ... The current TARDIS prop. ... Doctor Who (film) redirects here. ... The Matrix, in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, is a massive computer system on the planet Gallifrey that acts as the repository of the combined knowledge of the Time Lords. ...

Outside the city lie wastelands where "Outsiders",^[3] Gallifreyans who have dropped out of Time Lord society, live in less technological tribal communities. The wastes of Gallifrey include the Death Zone, an area that was used as a gladiatorial arena by the first Time Lords, pitting various species kidnapped from their respective time zones against each other (although Daleks and Cybermen were considered too dangerous to use). Inside the Death Zone stands the Tomb of Rassilon, the founder of Time Lord society (The Five Doctors). For other uses, see Gladiator (disambiguation). ... This article is about the fictional species. ... The Cybermen are a fictional race of cyborgs who are amongst the most persistent enemies of the Doctor in the British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ... Rassilon is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Somewhere on Gallifrey is also a portal known as the Untempered Schism, a gap in the fabric of reality. Eight-year-old Gallifreyans are brought before the Schism and made to look into the Time Vortex as part of an initiation ceremony into the Time Lord Academy. According to the Doctor, some are inspired, some run away, and some are driven mad. ("The Sound of Drums"). The TARDIS in the vortex, from the 2005 title sequence. ...

In several spin-off novels, which are of uncertain canonicity, Gallifrey is said to have a copper moon, Pazithi Gallifreya (first named in Cat's Cradle: Time's Crucible).^[4] The novel Lungbarrow also places Karn (setting of The Brain of Morbius, 1976) in Gallifrey's solar system, along with a frozen gas giant named Polarfrey and an "astrological figure" of "Kasterborous the Fibster".^[5] Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of, but related to, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... // The Whoniverse, a portmanteau of Doctor Who and universe, is the fictional universe in which Doctor Who, Torchwood and other related stories take place. ... Lungbarrow cover Lungbarrow (ISBN 0426205022) is an original novel written by Marc Platt and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Brain of Morbius is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from January 3 to January 24, 1976. ...

History

For general Time Lord history, see History of the Time Lords.

The Time Lords are a fictional race of humanoids, originating on the planet Gallifrey, seen in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

On screen

Few details on the history of the planet itself emerge from the original series run from 1963–1989. In "The End of the World" (2005), the Ninth Doctor states that his home planet has been destroyed in a war and that he is the last of the Time Lords. The episode also indicates that the Time Lords are remembered in the far future. The End of the World is an episode in the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on April 2, 2005. ... The Ninth Doctor refers to the ninth official incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor, in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ...

Subsequently, in "Dalek" (2005), it is revealed that the last great Time War was fought between the Time Lords and the Daleks, ending in the obliteration of both sides and with only two apparent survivors; the Doctor and a lone Dalek that had somehow fallen through time and crashed on Earth. At the conclusion of that episode, that surviving Dalek self-destructs, leaving the Doctor believing that he was the sole survivor of the Time War. However, the Daleks return in "Bad Wolf"/"The Parting of the Ways" (2005), and subsequently in "Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday" (2006), "Daleks in Manhattan"/"Evolution of the Daleks" (2007), and "The Stolen Earth"/"Journey's End" (2008), the last of these being the series 4 finale where Davros also returns. Dalek is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on April 30, 2005. ... Combatants Time Lords Dalek Empire Commanders President of Gallifrey Dalek Emperor Casualties Virtually the entire Time Lord population; the Doctor and the Master are known survivors. ... This article is about the fictional species. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... Bad Wolf is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on June 11, 2005. ... The Parting of the Ways is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on June 18, 2005. ... Army of Ghosts is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who which was first broadcast on 1 July 2006. ... Doomsday is the thirteenth and final episode in the second series of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Daleks in Manhattan is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Evolution of the Daleks is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

It is suggested that other Time Lords might have survived the war when the Face of Boe utters its final words to the Doctor: "Know this, Time Lord, you are not alone" ("Gridlock"). These suspicions are later borne out in "Utopia" (2007) when the Tenth Doctor discovers that the renegade Time Lord the Master has survived the Time War and has been living in human form in the year 100 trillion, at the end of the material universe, a point so far forward in time that it is believed that no Time Lord has ever travelled there. The Face of Boe is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that appears to consist of a gigantic, human-like head, with, in place of hair, numerous tendrils, which terminate in round, pod-like structures. ... Utopia is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... This article is about the character. ...

The Doctor's reference to Gallifrey in "The Runaway Bride" marks the first time the name of his homeworld has been uttered on screen since the new series began. The Doctor's revelation that he is from Gallifrey elicits terror from the Empress of the Racnoss. John Smith (the Doctor in human form) also mentions Gallifrey in "Human Nature". This is a list of monsters and aliens from the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

The planet makes its first appearance in the revived series in "The Sound of Drums", where the Citadel, enclosed in a transparent globe, is seen in flashback as the Doctor describes it. Also seen is a ceremony initiating 8-year-old Gallifreyans — in particular the Master — into the Time Lord Academy.

Novels

Various spin-off novels have expanded on the history and nature of Gallifrey, although not all fans consider the information in them to be canonical. Canon, in the context of a fictional universe, comprises those novels, stories, films, etc. ...

In the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Ancestor Cell by Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, Gallifrey is destroyed as a result of the Eighth Doctor's desire to prevent the voodoo cult Faction Paradox from starting a war between the Time Lords and an unnamed Enemy. This also apparently (and retroactively) wipes the Time Lords from history. It is unclear what the attitude of the new Doctor Who television series is toward the information in the novels and audio plays, the latter produced by Big Finish Productions. However, a number of writers of the novels and audio plays are also writing for the new television series, and Russell Davies refers to the comic strips, audio plays and novels in an essay describing the Time War, written for the Doctor Who Annual 2006. The Eight Doctors was the first novel in the Eighth Doctor Adventures range. ... The Ancestor Cell is a novel by Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole, based on the science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Peter Anghelides is an author and dramatist most well known for his work on various spin-offs related to the BBC Television series Doctor Who. ... Stephen Cole (born 1971) is an author of childrens books and science fiction. ... The Eighth Doctor is a fictional character, the eighth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Faction Paradox is a fictional time travelling voodoo cult/rebel group/organized crime syndicate created by Lawrence Miles. ... Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays released straight to compact disc, based on British cult science fiction properties. ...

In the last regular Eighth Doctor novel, The Gallifrey Chronicles by Lance Parkin, it is revealed that while Gallifrey was destroyed, the Time Lords were not erased from history. However, the cataclysm sets up an event horizon in time that prevents anyone from entering Gallifrey's relative past or travelling from it to the present or future. The Time Lords also survive within the Matrix, which has been downloaded into the Eighth Doctor's mind, but their reconstruction requires a sufficiently advanced computer. At the novel's end, the question of whether or not the Time Lords will be restored remains unanswered, although if the events of the novel are to tie in with later events in the TV series it must be assumed that Gallifrey was at some point restored, only to be destroyed again during the events of the Time War. The Gallifrey Chronicles is the title of two books related to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Lance Parkin is a British author, best known for writing fiction and reference books for television series, in particular Doctor Who (and spin-offs including the Virgin New Adventures and Faction Paradox) and Emmerdale. ... For the science fiction film, see Event Horizon (film). ...

Television series executive producer Russell T. Davies wrote in Doctor Who Magazine #356 that there is no connection between the War of the books and the Time War of the television series.^[6] Presumably, if the novels and the television series events are to be reconciled, at some point Gallifrey is restored, only to be destroyed again in the Time War. In the same Doctor Who Magazine column, Davies compared Gallifrey being destroyed twice with Earth's two World Wars. He also said that he was "usually happy for old and new fans to invent the Complete History of the Doctor in their heads, completely free of the production team's hot and heavy hands".^[6] Russell T Davies, interviewed for the documentary series Doctor Who Confidential in 2005. ... Doctor Who Magazine (abbreviated as DWM) is a magazine devoted to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Despite Davies' unequivocal statement that the two wars are distinct, Lance Parkin, in his Doctor Who chronology AHistory, suggests in a speculative essay that the two destructions of Gallifrey may be the same event seen from two different perspectives, with the Eighth Doctor present twice (and both times culpable for the planet's destruction).^[7]

Notes

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See also

• Chronology of the Doctor Who universe
• Outpost Gallifrey, a Doctor Who fan website named for the planet

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External links

• Rassilon, Omega, and that Other guy — every fact about Gallifrey no matter how apocryphal