Doctor Who character
John and Gillian
Affiliated with	First Doctor Second Doctor
Race	Time Lord?
Home planet	Earth
Home era	20th century
First appearance	The Klepton Parasites
Last appearance	Invasion of the Quarks
Portrayed by	None

John and Gillian (last names not given) are fictional characters who appeared in the TV Comic strip based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. The comic strip was pitched towards young children, and the stories more whimsical than those of the television series. The tales featuring John and Gillian were drawn first by Neville Main, then by Bill Mevin and finally by John Canning. The First Doctor is the name given to the first incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... The Second Doctor is the name given to the second incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... This article is about the Time Lords from Doctor Who. ... This article is about Earth as a planet. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999... Alice, a fictional character based on a real character from the work of Lewis Carroll. ... TV Comic was a British comic book published weekly between November 9, 1951 and June 22, 1984 for 1696 issues. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... For other uses, see Doctor Who (disambiguation). ...

A young brother and sister pair, John and Gillian were companions of the First and Second Doctors. The canonicity of the comic strips, like other Doctor Who spin-off media, is unclear. Companion, in the long-running BBC television science fiction programme Doctor Who and related works, is a term used to describe a character who travels with and shares the adventures of the Doctor. ... The First Doctor is the name given to the first incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... The Second Doctor is the name given to the second incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Canon, in the context of a fictional universe, comprises those novels, stories, films, etc. ... Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of, but related to, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

John and Gillian first appeared in the story The Klepton Parasites (issues 674 to 683). They began by looking for their grandfather, Doctor Who, in a junkyard. This paralleled the events of the television series' first episode "An Unearthly Child", although in the strip, the junkyard was at No. 16 instead of No. 76. For other uses, see Doctor Who (disambiguation). ... An Unearthly Child (also known as 100,000 BC, among other titles, see below) is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 23 November to 14 December 1963. ...

In the TV Comic strips, John and Gillian are the Doctor's grandchildren. Since they predated the introduction of the Time Lords into the television series (in the last Second Doctor serial, The War Games), whether they are also Gallifreyan like the Doctor's television granddaughter Susan Foreman is uncertain. All in all, they appeared to be typical human children of their era. This article is about the Time Lords from Doctor Who. ... This article is about the Doctor Who serial. ... Gallifrey is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Susan Foreman is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...

The Doctor did not appear to have met them prior to their first appearance, but they were aware of him as being an 'inventor or something' and he identified them as soon as they entered the TARDIS: 'You must be John and Gillian...' This lack of surprise on his part indicated his awareness of the possibility of them turning up at some point. During their visit, John playfully touched a control button, to the Doctor's irritation, and transported them to the 30th century, where they helped the peaceful Thains to defeat a race of alien invaders, the Kleptons. At the end of the tale it seemed that the Doctor was about to make an attempt to return his grandchildren to the twentieth century, but this was not taken up in the second story, which commenced with a crash-landing for the three on an asteroid and went on to tell of their involvement in the quest for a moss with medicinal qualities. The current TARDIS prop as seen at the BBC Wales reception in 2005. ... The 30th century of the anno Domini (common) era will span the years 2901–3000 of the Gregorian calendar. ...

John and Gillian travelled with the Doctor for many adventures and fought against many enemies, including the villainous 'Great Ixa', the space pirate Captain Anastas Thrax, the ant-like Zarbi (from the televised story The Web Planet), the spherical Gyros robots and even the Pied Piper in what amounted to a sequel to Robert Browning's famous poem. A later story introduced the Trods, cone-shaped robotic creatures that ran on static electricity, created for the strip by artist John Canning as surrogate Daleks, since the real thing could not at that time be used for contractual reasons. These were solved by the time the Second Doctor entered the strip and the Daleks swept onto the front cover of issue 788 of TV Comic in the first instalment of The Trodos Ambush, in which they massacred the Trods. This is a list of monsters from the television series Doctor Who. ... The Web Planet is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from February 13 - March 20, 1965. ... Pied Piper is a novel by Nevil Shute, first published in 1942. ... Robert Browning (May 7, 1812 – December 12, 1889) was a British poet and playwright whose mastery of dramatic verse, especially dramatic monologues, made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. ... Static electricity is a class of phenomena involving the net charge present on an object; typically referring to charged object with voltages of sufficient magnitude to produce visible attraction, repulsion, and sparks. ... For other uses, see Dalek (disambiguation). ...

John and Gillian, who now appeared to be teenagers, returned to the TARDIS with the First Doctor at the conclusion of The Experimenters (issues 780 to 783) and were next seen awaiting the Second Doctor's return to the TARDIS in The Extortioner (issues 784 to 787). No explanation whatever was given for the Doctor's sudden change of appearance and the two children never once commented on it. The Second Doctor reiterated that John and Gillian were his grandchildren, but later they began to refer to him as 'The Doctor'.

John and Gillian remained with the Second Doctor for many more comic strip adventures until the first part of Invasion of the Quarks (issues 872 to 876), when the Doctor enrolled them in the galactic university on the planet Zebadee. This was their last appearance in the TV Comic strip. This is a list of monsters and aliens from the television series Doctor Who. ...

Other appearances

Several attempts have been made to reconcile or incorporate John and Gillian into the various Doctor Who continuities. In the Past Doctor Adventures novel Heart of TARDIS by Dave Stone, the Second Doctor commented that he had friends and family living in late twentieth century London. The Past Doctor Adventures (sometimes known by the abbreviation PDA or PDAs) are a series of spin-off novels based on the long running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who and published under the BBC Books imprint. ... Heart of TARDIS is a BBC Books original novel written by Dave Stone and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Dave Stone is a British writer. ...

In the Virgin New Adventures novel Conundrum by Steve Lyons, which took place in the Land of Fiction previously encountered by the Second Doctor in The Mind Robber, the new Master of the Land of Fiction pitted himself against Dr Who, John and Gillian. The Virgin New Adventures (often referred to simply as NAs within fandom) were a series of novels from Virgin Publishing based on the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which had been cancelled in 1989, continuing the story of the series from where the television programme had left off. ... Conundrum is an original novel written by Steve Lyons and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Steve Lyons is a British writer. ... The Second Doctor is the name given to the second incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... The Mind Robber is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in five weekly parts from September 14 to October 12, 1968. ... “The War Chief” redirects here. ...

John and Gillian — or rather John Brent and Gillian Roberts — appeared in the novella Time and Relative by Kim Newman, featuring the First Doctor and Susan, and taking place in 1963, some six months before the events of "An Unearthly Child". This John and Gillian were friends of Susan's, attending the Coal Hill School with her. Aside from the coincidence in names (an obvious homage), there is no resemblance between them and the John and Gillian of the TV Comic strips. The Telos Doctor Who novellas are a series of spin-off novellas based on the long running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who officially licensed by the BBC and published by Telos Publishing. ... Time and Relative is an original novella written by Kim Newman and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Kim Newman (born July 31, 1959) is an English journalist, film critic, and fiction writer. ... The school sign as seen in Remembrance of the Daleks. ... For a description of the medieval homage ceremony see commendation ceremony Homage is generally used in modern English to mean any public show of respect to someone to whom you feel indebted. ...

The original John and Gillian appeared in the Eighth Doctor comic strip story "The Land of Happy Endings" (Doctor Who Magazine #337). In the story, celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the television series and drawn mostly in the style of the TV Comic strips, the Eighth Doctor and his grandchildren shared a light-hearted adventure on the planet Darbodia. At the end of the story, this is revealed to be a dream of the Doctor's, the art style changing to reflect this. The Eighth Doctor is the name given to the eighth incarnation of the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ... Doctor Who Magazine (abbreviated as DWM) is a magazine devoted to the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...