Doctor Who character
Katy Manning, who voices Iris Wildthyme
Iris Wildthyme
Affiliated with	None
Race	Time Lord?
Home planet	Gallifrey?
Home era	Gallifrey era
First appearance	Old Flames
Last appearance	Wildthyme on Top
Portrayed by	Katy Manning (voice)

Iris Wildthyme is a fictional character in the spin-off media based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, appearing mainly in short stories and novels. She is a renegade Time Lord, and was created by writer Paul Magrs. British actress Katy Manning, best known for playing Jo Grant in Doctor Who This work is copyrighted. ... The Time Lords are a fictional race of humanoids, originating on the planet Gallifrey, seen in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... // Headline text A Vardan spaceship approaches Gallifrey from space (from The Invasion of Time). ... Katy Manning (publicity portrait) Katy Manning (born October 14, 1949 in Guildford, Surrey) is a British actress best known for her part as the companion Jo Grant in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... A fictional character is any person who appears in a work of fiction. ... Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of, but related to, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... A broadcast of the long-running and popular British science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Main article: History of Doctor Who Doctor Who first appeared on BBC television at 5:15 p. ... The Time Lords are a fictional race of humanoids, originating on the planet Gallifrey, seen in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Paul Magrs (pronounced Mars) is a Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, where he began work in 2004 having formerly taught at the University of East Anglia. ...

A character named Iris Wildthyme originally appeared in one of Magrs's non-genre novels, Marked for Life. Although this may simply be a case of Magrs reusing the name, it should be noted that at the end of the novel, Iris Wildthyme seemed to die and then become an infant in a scene reminiscent of regeneration. The Time Lords are a fictional race of humanoids, originating on the planet Gallifrey, seen in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Iris's first Doctor Who-connected appearance was in the short story Old Flames, where she met the Fourth Doctor and Sarah. The Doctor already knew Iris as an "old friend", and she was seen to be travelling in a 20th century London double-decker bus (No. 22), which was, in reality, her TARDIS. She made her first full-length novel appearance in The Scarlet Empress, and went on to appear in several more short stories and novels in both the BBC Books and Big Finish Productions lines, as well as unofficial anthologies set in the Doctor Who universe. Her stories are in the New Wave mold, characterised by nonlinear, sometimes stream of consciousness narrative, intertextual references to the rest of Doctor Who and popular culture, and themes of unreliable narration. She has a playful, mischievous personality, delighting in baiting the Doctor and getting into trouble. The Fourth Doctor is the name given to the fourth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Sarah Jane Smith is a fictional character played by Elisabeth Sladen in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... London is the capital city of the United Kingdom and of England. ... The first London AEC Routemaster, RML 2473 (JJD 473D), on route 7 approaching Ladbroke Grove tube station in April 2002. ... The Third Doctor emerging from the TARDIS (from the 1970 serial Spearhead from Space). ... BBC Books is the book publishing division of BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays released straight to compact disc, based on British cult science fiction properties. ... New Wave science fiction was characterised by a high degree of experimentation, both in form and in content and a highbrow sensibility. ... In psychology and philosophy stream of consciousness, introduced by William James, is the set of constantly changing inner thoughts and sensations which an individual has while conscious, used as a synonym for stream of thought. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... In literature and film, an unreliable narrator is a first-person narrator, the credibility of whose point of view is seriously compromised, possibly by psychological instability, or a powerful bias, or else simply by a lack of knowledge. ...

Attempting to pin down the exact details of Iris's history is problematic because such details are not only kept deliberately vague by Magrs and other writers, but also because the accounts of her adventures may not be reliable, in whole or in part. For example, some of her claimed exploits bear a remarkable similarity to those of the Doctor's, and some have suggested that it is the Doctor's adventures that are plagiarised from Iris's life, rather than the other way around. Plagiarism refers to the use of anothers information, language, or writing, when done without proper acknowledgment of the original source. ...

Iris has argued that her adventures are more "true" than the Doctor's recollections because she writes them in her diaries while the Doctor does not, and there are hints that Iris is aware of her status as a fictional character. In the context of the Doctor Who universe, all this may be explained by Iris's claim in the novel The Blue Angel that she was from the Obverse, a surreal parallel universe with radically different physical laws. However, to accept her claim at face value or to use this as a means of making sense of her history may be to miss the point entirely. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with parallel world. ...

Magrs may have created Iris as a polar opposite to the Doctor (whom she described as the love of her life), a metafictional construct to comment on the Doctor's own stories and the nature of fiction, textual or otherwise. Evidence to support this includes the fact that she is female, travels with attractive, homosexual companions whom she usually kidnaps, and in a TARDIS which is slightly smaller inside than on the outside. Also unlike the Doctor, she is willing to use weaponry - especially laser guns coloured a stylish hot pink. Metafiction is a kind of fiction which self-consciously addresses the devices of fiction. ... Homosexuality is a sexual orientation characterized by esthetic attraction, romantic love, or sexual desire exclusively for another of the same sex. ... A weapon is a tool used to kill or incapacitate a person or animal, or destroy a military target. ... The range of sizes in which lasers exist is immense, extending from microscopic diode lasers (top) to football field sized neodymium glass lasers (bottom) used for inertial confinement fusion. ...

Iris regenerated at the end of The Scarlet Empress (into a form resembling Jane Fonda in Barbarella), and is known to have at least six other incarnations. One of these, Bianca (voiced by Maria McErlane), appeared in the Big Finish Productions audio play The Wormery and was similar to the Doctor's villainous Valeyard incarnation. Iris has also apparently worked for UNIT as a Scientific Advisor, and for the Ministry of Incursions and Ontological Wonders (MIAOW). This topic is considered a necessary subject on Wikipedia, and there is a high-priority on its being cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Barbarella was originally a French science fiction comic book created by Jean-Claude Forest, who originated the character for serialisation in the French magazine V-Magazine in 1962. ... Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays released straight to compact disc, based on British cult science fiction properties. ... The Wormery is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... The Valeyard is a fictional character from the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. ... The United Nations Intelligence Taskforce (also known as UNIT) is a fictional military organization from the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

Iris also claims she was raised by a House of Aunts (as opposed to Cousins) in the mountains of Gallifrey, and also that she has erased all of her records from the Matrix, explaining why the Time Lords know nothing about her. She survived the destruction of Gallifrey and the apparent retroactive wiping of the Time Lords from history that took place at the end of the novel The Ancestor Cell. // Headline text A Vardan spaceship approaches Gallifrey from space (from The Invasion of Time). ... 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. ...

In The End of the World the Doctor stated that his homeworld had been destroyed and that he was the last of the Time Lords. Whether Iris was present on Gallifrey and killed with the others, however, is uncertain, especially given her unique nature. 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. ...

Iris is voiced by Katy Manning in the Big Finish audio plays and also features in all three parts of the Excelis trilogy as well as in the connected Bernice Summerfield audio drama The Plague Herds of Excelis. Big Finish published a short story collection in 2005, Wildthyme on Top, edited by Magrs. Katy Manning (publicity portrait) Katy Manning (born October 14, 1949 in Guildford, Surrey) is a British actress best known for her part as the companion Jo Grant in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Bernice Surprise Summerfield is a fictional character originally created by author Paul Cornell as a new companion of the Seventh Doctor in Virgin Publishings range of original full-length Doctor Who novels, the New Adventures. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• Welcome to Wildthyme - a page dedicated to Iris Wildthyme
• Phoenix Court - a Paul Magrs website
• Wildthyme Forum - Iris Wildthyme/Paul Magrs Message Board