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The Time Lords are a fictional race and civilisation from the planet Gallifrey, portrayed in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, of which the series' main character, the Doctor, is a member. Time Lords are so called because they are able to travel in and manipulate time through technology to a far greater degree than any other civilisation.[1] It is also implied heavily in the series that there are those from Gallifrey who are not Time Lords, though it is not stated categorically either way (see Trial of a Time Lord, among others). The term Time Lord can refer to: The Time Lords, a fictional extraterrestrial species from the television series Doctor Who Time Lord — Adventures through Time and Space, a roleplaying game based on Doctor Who The Timelords, name under which the musical group The KLF released one record Time Lord (Ultima...
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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 Trial of a Time Lord is the name used on screen for all fourteen episodes comprising the 23rd season (1986) of the original Doctor Who series. ...
Overview The nature and history of the Time Lords were gradually revealed as the television series progressed. Each story to feature them and their home planet added additional layers of complexity and intrigue, stemming from the dissatisfaction of various scriptwriters wrestling with the question of why the Doctor is in exile in the first place. Among other things, Time Lords are increasingly revealed as being corrupted by their inaction and Time Lord society as stagnant. Over the course of the show's initial 26-year run, it was never made entirely clear what purpose or mission the Time Lords served, or what exactly they did with their mastery over time.
Nor, ultimately, was it ever explicitly made clear what had caused the Doctor to leave his people, although it is suggested in some stories that he was an involuntary exile[2] and in others that he had simply grown tired of the restrictions of Time Lord society and left.[3]. Exile (band) may refer to: Exile - The American country music band Exile - The Japanese pop music band Category: ...
The Time Lords are normally considered one of the oldest and most technologically powerful races in the Doctor Who universe. The small number of beings more powerful than the Time Lords includes the (now extinct) Osirans and higher powers of the universe such as the Black and White Guardians[4] and, from the spin-off novels, which are of uncertain canonicity, The People, with whom the Time Lords signed a non-aggression treaty.[5] The power of the Time Lords appears limited by their policy of non-interference with the universe and sometimes by intense internecine division. 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. ...
The Black Guardian is a character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
The White Guardian is a character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of, but related to, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
Canon, in the context of a fictional universe, comprises those novels, stories, films, etc. ...
The Also People is an original novel written by Ben Aaronovitch and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
A non-aggression pact is an international treaty between two or more states, agreeing to avoid war or armed conflict between them even if they find themselves fighting third countries, or even if one is fighting allies of the other. ...
However, the view that they are, to a degree, custodians of time developed in the spin-off media. This is also suggested in the television series; in The War Games[6] the Time Lords return time-displaced humans abducted by the War Lord to their proper time zones on Earth. The name of the Time Lords' central hall, the Panopticon, suggests that they are perpetual observers of all existence. Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of, but related to, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
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In "Father's Day"[7] the Ninth Doctor remarks that prior to their destruction, the Time Lords would have prevented or repaired paradoxes such as that which attracted the Reapers to 1987 Earth. In "Rise of the Cybermen",[8] the Tenth Doctor mentions that while the Time Lords were around, travel between alternative realities was easier, but with their demise, the paths between worlds were closed. In "The Satan Pit",[9] the Tenth Doctor states that his people "practically invented black holes. Well, in fact they did." Fathers Day is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast on May 14, 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. ...
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This is a list of monsters and aliens from the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
Rise of the Cybermen is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
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. ...
Parallel universe or alternate reality in science fiction and fantasy is a self-contained separate reality coexisting with our own. ...
The Satan Pit is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
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. ...
Physical characteristics
 The Binary vascular system of a Time Lord (from " Dalek", 2005). [10] Time Lords appear human, but differ from them in many respects. All Time Lords in the classic television series were portrayed by white adults, although in Planet of the Spiders some of those white actors used yellowface to appear Tibetan. A black Time Lord appears in the 2007 episode "The Sound of Drums"[11] and others in the spin-off novel The Shadows of Avalon[12] and the comic strip Blood Invocation[13], both by Paul Cornell. In addition, Time Lord founder Rassilon was portrayed in several audio plays by black actor Don Warrington, and a black Time Lord was seen in various crowd scenes in 1975's The Deadly Assassin. An 8-year-old Gallifreyan child (implied to be the renegade Time Lord known as the Master) was depicted in "The Sound of Drums" and appeared identical to a human child of the same age.[11] Image File history File links Bicardial. ...
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Dalek is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on April 30, 2005. ...
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Planet of the Spiders is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from May 4 to June 8, 1974. ...
Katherine Hepburn in Dragon Seed Yellowface is the practice in cinema, theatre, and television where East Asian characters are portrayed by white actors, often while wearing heavy makeup in order to approximate Asian or Oriental facial characteristics. ...
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The Sound of Drums is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
The Shadows of Avalon is a BBC Books original novel written by Paul Cornell and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
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Rassilon is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
Don Warrington is an actor, originally from Trinidad and Tobago where he was born in 1952, who has been a familiar face on British television and stage for thirty years. ...
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. ...
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No explanation is given in the series as to why Time Lords look human, nor why the universe seems filled with predominantly humanoid species. The Virgin New Adventures novel Lucifer Rising[14] by Andy Lane and Jim Mortimore suggests that the Time Lords were the first sentient life-form. As such, their evolutionary pattern created a morphogenetic field that resonated across the universe, making the development of humanoids far more likely. The Big Finish Productions audio play Zagreus[15] offers a more sinister explanation, that the xenophobic Rassilon seeded the universe with biogenic molecules so that (save for worlds where humanoids could never evolve) only intelligent species that approximated the Gallifreyan humanoid norm would develop. However, in the Cushing movie Dr. Who and the Daleks (though not necessarily thought to be canon), one of the Thals states that the 'humanoid' form has been proven to be ideal for survival, hence many species in the universe have it for survival. The canonicity of these accounts, as with all spin-off media, is unclear. 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. ...
Lucifer Rising is an original novel written by Jim Mortimore and Andy Lane and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
Andy Lane is a British writer. ...
Jim Mortimore is a British science fiction writer, who has written several spin-off novels for popular television series such as Doctor Who and Babylon 5. ...
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Morphic field is a term introduced by British biologist Rupert Sheldrake, the major proponent of this concept, through his Hypothesis of Formative Causation in the early 1980s. ...
Big Finish Productions is a British company that produces audio plays released straight to compact disc, based on British cult science fiction properties. ...
Zagreus is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
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Time Lords are extremely long-lived, routinely counting their ages in terms of centuries. It is not known how long a Time Lord can live, although the Doctor claimed in The War Games[6] that Time Lords could live "practically forever, barring accidents." In The Daleks' Master Plan[16] the First Doctor is able to resist the effects of the Time Destructor better than his companions, who are visibly aged by it; one of them, Sara Kingdom, ages to dust before the Destructor device can be reversed, although the Fourth Doctor is briefly aged 500 years in The Leisure Hive, which leaves him an old man but still somewhat active. A similar situation occurred in "The Sound of Drums", where the Master uses specially made technology to age the Tenth Doctor by a century, leaving him in a frail and helpless state. A further application of this in "The Last of the Time Lords" ages the Doctor another 900 years and turns him into a shrunken, wrinkled humanoid. It's likely this was 'aging as a human would' because being 900 years old yet having only had lived 10 lives, the Doctor had to have spent centuries in one body at a time without aging. This article is about the Doctor Who serial. ...
The Daleks Master Plan is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which originally aired in twelve weekly parts from November 13, 1965 to January 29, 1966. ...
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. ...
Jean Marsh as Sara Kingdom (from The Daleks Master Plan) Sara Kingdom is a fictional character played by Jean Marsh in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
The Fourth Doctor is the name given to the fourth incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ...
The Leisure Hive is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from August 30 to September 20, 1980. ...
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. ...
Last of the Time Lords is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
The Doctor is quoted as saying 'I don't age' in the episode ("School Reunion") when talking to his companion, Rose, although in this he may have been referring to the results of regeneration rather than immunity to the aging process. His statement is otherwise contradicted by the First Doctor's claims to be "wearing a bit thin" and encounters between different regenerations where the previous actors have necessarily aged noticeably ("The Two Doctors", "Time Crash"). School Reunion is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
The Two Doctors is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in three weekly parts from February 16 to March 2, 1985. ...
Time Crash is a mini-episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
It is implied (in The Invasion of Time and The Deadly Assassin) that the terms "Gallifreyan" and "Time Lord" may not be synonymous, and that Time Lords are simply that subset of Gallifreyans who have achieved the status of Time Lord via achievement in the Gallifreyan collegiate system; in the episode "The Sound of Drums" The Doctor talks of 'children of Gallifrey' which implies that children are Gallifreyan before they are Time Lords. Romana and the Doctor have also referred to "Time Tots", or infant Time Lords,[17], and (in "Smith and Jones") the Doctor refers his compatriots and he playing "with Röntgen bricks in the nursery"[18]. In "The Sound of Drums", the Master is seen as a child, apparently at the age of 8.[11] For other uses, see College (disambiguation). ...
The Sound of Drums is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
For other uses, see Romana (disambiguation). ...
Smith and Jones is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
The röntgen or roentgen (symbol R) is a unit of exposure to ionizing radiation (X or gamma rays), and is named after the German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen. ...
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Other physiological differences from humans include two hearts (which normally beat at 170 beats a minute), an internal body temperature of 15 degrees Celsius and a "respiratory bypass system" that allows them to survive strangulation. Time Lords can also survive full exposure to the vacuum of space with no ill effects, though in such cases, even with their respiratory bypass boosting the length of time they can go without air, when in vacuum for an extended period a Time Lord must take a supply of air along, or else suffocate. A commonly held piece of fan continuity is that Time Lords only grow their second heart during their first regeneration.[19] If severely injured, Time Lords can go into a healing coma which lowers their body temperature to below freezing. In the serial Destiny of the Daleks, Romana was able to voluntarily stop both of her hearts beating, to fool the Daleks into believing that she was dead. In "World War Three"[20], the Doctor is able to shake off an electrocution attempt which is fatal to a number of humans, and appears unaffected by the energy whip wielded by the Sycorax in "The Christmas Invasion".[21] Time Lords, or at least the Doctor, can read extremely quickly.[22] They appear to have greater physical stamina than humans and need considerably less sleep. In "Smith and Jones" the Tenth Doctor says that Röntgen radiation poses no real threat to Time Lords, and proceeds to absorb an amount that would be lethal to a human, which he subsequently expels through his foot.[18] The heart and lungs, from an older edition of Grays Anatomy. ...
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Destiny of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from September 1 to September 22, 1979. ...
For other uses, see Romana (disambiguation). ...
World War Three is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who that was first broadcast on April 23, 2005. ...
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This is a list of monsters and aliens from the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
The Christmas Invasion is a 60-minute special episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
In the NATO phonetic alphabet, X-ray represents the letter X. An X-ray picture (radiograph) taken by Röntgen An X-ray is a form of electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength approximately in the range of 5 pm to 10 nanometers (corresponding to frequencies in the range 30 PHz...
The Doctor states in The Mind of Evil[23] that a pill (apparently aspirin) could kill him. It is not known whether this is a susceptibility shared by all Time Lords, or merely something like an allergy unique to the Doctor (or if he was lying for comedic effect). The Mind of Evil is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from January 30 to March 6, 1971. ...
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The biological imprint (also known as bio-data) of a Time Lord, which also defines his personal history, is kept in the Matrix, a computer network that contains the sum total of all Time Lord knowledge. The unauthorised extraction of a Time Lord's bio-data is tantamount to treason.[24] 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. ...
It is stated that the Time Lords are biologically suited for time travel. Also in The Two Doctors, it is stated that the "Rassilon Imprimatur" allows Time Lords to safely travel through time, becoming symbionts with their TARDISes, and that the reason other species are incapable of developing time travel are that they lack the imprimatur. At the beginning of The Trial of a Time Lord, the Doctor suggests that a number of elder Time Lords were able to use their combined mental energy to summon his TARDIS against his will. For other uses, see Symbiosis (disambiguation). ...
The Trial of a Time Lord is the on-screen title for all fourteen episodes comprising the 23rd season (1986) of the original Doctor Who series. ...
It is stated and seen in the Fourth Doctor serial The Robots of Death that Time Lords are immune to the voice-changing effects of helium. However, the Doctor alludes to this being a learnt ability rather than a basic biological immunity[25]. The Fourth Doctor is the name given to the fourth incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ...
The Robots of Death is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from January 29 to February 19, 1977. ...
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Mental powers Time Lords can also communicate by telepathy. The Doctor's granddaughter, Susan Foreman, displays psychic abilities in The Sensorites[26] and in The Invasion of Time it is revealed the Doctor's old tutor Borusa also taught him telepathy. In both the final episode of Frontier in Space[27] and the first of Planet of the Daleks, the Doctor communicates with the Time Lords via telepathic circuits in the TARDIS, and in Castrovalva, the Doctor activates the TARDIS' Zero Room mentally. In The Deadly Assassin,[28] the Doctor mentions that Time Lords are telepathic. Additionally, in The Three Doctors,[29] the Doctor's first three incarnations communicate with each other telepathically. This ability is exhibited by the Doctors during other occasions where multiple incarnations are present in one location and used primarily as a means of updating the other selves to the current situation. In Logopolis,[30] the Doctor hints at a kind of shared consciousness among Time Lords when he comments of the Master: "He's a Time Lord. In many ways, we have the same mind." This comment may refer to the existence of a "reflex link" in his brain that is said to connect his thoughts to a Time Lord Intelligentsia, a sort of communal shared mind (although he does state in The Invisible Enemy that his own reflex link was disconnected when he went into exile). Telepathy, from the Greek τῆλε, tele, remote; and πάθεια, patheia, to be effected by, describes the hypothetical transfer of information on thoughts or feelings between individuals by means other than the five classical senses. ...
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 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. ...
Frontier in Space is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from February 24 to March 31, 1973 // Synopsis Materialising on an Earth cargo spaceship in the 26th century, the Doctor and Jo are caught up in the...
Planet of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from April 7 to May 12, 1973. ...
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Castrovalva is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from January 4 to January 12, 1982 It was the first full serial to feature Peter Davison in the starring role. ...
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 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. ...
Logopolis is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from February 28 to March 21, 1981. ...
The Invisible Enemy is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from October 1 to October 22, 1977. ...
In "The Girl in the Fireplace",[31] the Tenth Doctor reads the mind of Madame de Pompadour--and in the process, to his surprise, she is able to read his mind as well. In Paul Cornell's Virgin New Adventures novel Love and War,[32] the Doctor uses a similar method to read the mind of his companion Bernice Summerfield. He later displays his telepathic communion powers in "Fear Her" and in "The Shakespeare Code", where by using his mind melding technique he is partially able to relieve a man of his mental illness as he traces back through his memories. In the later episode, Planet of the Ood, he seems able to temporarily confer some degree of telepathy on his companion Donna Noble, so that she can hear the telepathic song of the Ood. When she is unable to bear the song, the Doctor removes the ability. It is unclear at this point whether the Doctor is actually able to gift another being with telepathy or if he simply switches on or off telepathic potential that those beings already possess. The Girl in the Fireplace is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
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. ...
Madame de Pompadour, portrait by François Boucher circa 1750, detail Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise (later Duchesse) de Pompadour, also known as Madame de Pompadour (December 29, 1721 – April 15, 1764) was a well-known courtesan and the famous mistress of King Louis XV of France. ...
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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. ...
Love and War is an original novel written by Paul Cornell and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
Bernice Surprise Summerfield (later Professor Bernice Summerfield or just Benny) 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. ...
Fear Her is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
The Shakespeare Code is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
The Doctor also contacts the Time Lords by going into a trance and creating an assembling box (suggesting telekinesis as well) in The War Games.[6] In The Two Doctors, the Doctor engages in astral projection, but warns that if he is disturbed while doing so, his mind could become severed from his body and he could die. In "Last of the Time Lords", the Doctor telepathically interfaces with a network tapped into the human population who collectively chant his name.[33] The focus of psychic energy granted the Doctor the ability to de-age himself, float through the air, deflect shots from the Master's laser screwdriver, and telekinetically disarm the Master while surrounded in a powerful blue glow. Psychokinesis (literally mind-movement) or PK is the more commonly used term today for what in the past was known as telekinesis (literally distant-movement). It refers to the psi ability to influence the behavior of matter by mental intention (or possibly some other aspect of mental activity) alone. ...
The Two Doctors is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in three weekly parts from February 16 to March 2, 1985. ...
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Last of the Time Lords is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
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In addition, it is implied that Time Lords may be clairvoyant, or have additional time-related senses. In The Time Monster[34] and Invasion of the Dinosaurs[35] the Third Doctor is able to resist fields of slow time, being able to move through them even though others are paralysed. In City of Death[36] both the Fourth Doctor and Romana notice distortions and jumps in time that no one else does. In the 2005 series, the Ninth Doctor claims that he can sense the movement of the Earth through space[37] as well as being able to perceive the past and all possible futures.[38] As the Tenth Doctor he repeats this assertion, adding also that he is somehow innately able to sense which events in time are 'fixed' and which are in 'flux'.[39] In the original series episode Warrior's Gate, Romana is called a 'time-sensitive' by a marauding slaver and, though she seems to deny this, is able to interface with his spaceship in ways that only a 'time-sensitive' is supposed to be able to. [40] He is also able to concentrate and time his motions well enough to step safely through the blades of a rapidly spinning fan and later claims that if any Time Lords still existed, he would be able to sense them.[11]. In "Utopia" the Doctor states that he finds it difficult to look at Captain Jack Harkness because Jack's existence has become fixed in time and space. Clairvoyance, from 17th century French Clair meaning clear and voyant meaning seeing, is a term used to describe the transference of information about an object, location or physical event through means other than the 5 traditional senses (See Psi). ...
The Time Monster is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from May 20 to June 24, 1972. ...
Invasion of the Dinosaurs is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from January 12 to February 16, 1974. ...
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. ...
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City of Death is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from September 29 to October 20, 1979. ...
The Fourth Doctor is the name given to the fourth incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ...
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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. ...
Warriors Gate 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, 1981. ...
Utopia is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
Captain Jack Harkness, also known as Captain Jack, is a fictional character played by John Barrowman in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
Regeneration -
 The Fourth Doctor regenerates into the Fifth Doctor (from Castrovalva, [41] 1982). Time Lords also have the ability to regenerate their bodies when their current body is mortally wounded. This process results in their body undergoing a transformation, gaining a new physical form. Regeneration, in the context of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who, is a biological ability exhibited by the Time Lords, a race of humanoids originating on the planet Gallifrey. ...
Regenerations can be traumatic events. In Castrovalva,[41] the Doctor requires the use of a Zero Room, a chamber shielded from the outside universe that provides an area of calm for him to recuperate. He comments that there is an excellent polygonal zero room beneath the junior senate block on Gallifrey. The Time Lord's personality also sometimes goes through a period of instability following a regeneration.[21]. Castrovalva is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from January 4 to January 12, 1982 It was the first full serial to feature Peter Davison in the starring role. ...
It was first stated in The Deadly Assassin[28] that a Time Lord can regenerate twelve times before dying (thirteen incarnations in all). There were exceptions to this rule, however: when the Master reached the end of his regenerative cycle, he took possession of the body of another person to continue living. The Master was also offered a new cycle of regenerations by the High Council to save the Doctor from the Death Zone, which may indicate that there are methods to circumvent the 12 regeneration limit. The Master says in "The Sound of Drums" that the Time Lords "resurrected" him to fight in the Time War, which appears to support this. It was revealed in "The Brain of Morbius" that the Time Lords also use the Elixir of Life in extreme cases, where regeneration is not possible. This may be the reason for additional regeneration cycles being granted. 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. ...
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 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. ...
Also in The Deadly Assassin, several Time Lords including the President are stated to have been "murdered" and are not stated to have regenerated. Although it is possible that all of the Time Lords killed were at the end of their regeneration cycles (somewhat more likely with a retiring President: potentially his reaching the end of his regeneration cycle was the very reason for his retirement), it is also possible that regeneration regardless of how many regenerations the individual Time Lord has already undergone is a conditional and non-inevitable phenomenon. In The Deadly Assassin at least one of the murders was carried out with a 'staser', possibly a weapon designed to both kill and prevent regeneration (stasers are also stated to have little effect on non-living tissue)[28].
In Destiny of the Daleks,[42] Romana showed the ability to rapidly change form several times in a row during her first regeneration and apparently had the ability to change into whatever appearance she desired. This brings up many questions about the degree of control that Time Lords have over their regeneration process. It should be noted, however, that, despite showing several appearances, Romana regenerated only once on that occasion. Destiny of the Daleks is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from September 1 to September 22, 1979. ...
Whether or not Time Lords can recognise each other across regenerations is not made entirely clear in the original television series. In The Deadly Assassin[28] an old classmate recognizes the 4th Doctor despite his changes in appearance. And in a later serial, The Armageddon Factor,[43] another alumnus immediately recognises the Doctor, though the Doctor does not recognise him. In Planet of the Spiders, the Third Doctor has trouble recognising his former mentor. In The Five Doctors,[44] the Third Doctor is also unable to initially recognise the Master in his non-Gallifreyan body. Similarly, the Eighth Doctor is unable to recognise the Master while he possesses a human body in the 1996 television movie[45]. The Master recognises the Seventh Doctor on sight in Survival,[46] although this may simply point to an earlier, unseen encounter. The Armageddon Factor is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from January 20 to February 24, 1979. ...
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The Tenth Doctor does not recognise the human form of the Master in "Utopia", although the Doctor did recognise him, and name him "Master", as soon as he recovered his Time Lord physiology and mind. In "The Sound of Drums" the Doctor states that Time Lords can "always" recognise each other, although, while on Earth, the Master used satellites with a telepathic network to mask his presence from the Doctor.[11] However, in "Time Crash," the Fifth Doctor could not instinctively recognise that the Tenth Doctor was a Time Lord, nor did he guess that they were different incarnations of the same Time Lord. 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. ...
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The Fifth Doctor is the name given to the fifth incarnation of the fictional character known as the Doctor seen on screen in the long-running BBC television science-fiction series Doctor Who. ...
In "The Last of the Time Lords", when the Master is fatally wounded, he chooses not to regenerate, essentially committing suicide rather than regenerate and kept prisoner by the Doctor forever. This again implies that regeneration is not inevitable and can indeed be refused.
Culture and society The Time Lord homeworld, Gallifrey, is an Earth-like planet in the "constellation" of Kasterborous. Its capital city is referred to as the Citadel, and contains the Capitol, the seat of Time Lord government. At the centre of the Capitol is the Panopticon, beneath which is the Eye of Harmony. Outside the Capitol lie wastelands where the "Outsiders", Time Lords who have dropped out of Time Lord society, live in less technologically advanced communities, shunning life in the cities. The Outsiders have often been equated with the "Shobogans", a group mentioned briefly in The Deadly Assassin[28] as being responsible for acts of vandalism around the Panopticon, but there is actually nothing on screen that explicitly connects the two. Gallifrey is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
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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. ...
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In general, the Time Lords are an aloof people, with a society full of pomp and ceremony. The Doctor has observed that his people "enjoy making speeches"[47] and have an "infinite capacity for pretension".[48] The Time Lord penchant for ceremony extends to their technology, with various artefacts given weighty names like the Hand of Omega, the Eye of Harmony or the Key of Rassilon. The Hand of Omega is a fictional device from the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
The Doctor has also characterised the Time Lords as a stagnant and corrupt society, a state caused by ten million years of absolute power.[49] Brother Lassar, in the episode "School Reunion",[50] describes the Time Lords as "a pompous race" of "ancient, dusty senators... frightened of change and chaos" and "peaceful to the point of indolence". Their portrayal in the series is reminiscent of academics living in ivory towers, unconcerned with external affairs. The Doctor states that the Time Lords were sworn never to interfere, only to watch ("The Sound of Drums"). It has been suggested that, since perfecting the science of time travel, they have withdrawn, bound by the moral complexity of interfering in the natural flow of history (compare with the Prime Directive from Star Trek); in Earthshock, the Cyberleader, when notified of the arrival of a TARDIS, is surprised at the presence of a Time Lord, stating "they are forbidden to interfere." In The Two Doctors, it is suggested that Time Lords are responsible for maintaining a general balance of power between the races of the Universe. The War Chief redirects here. ...
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While interference is apparently against Time Lord policy, there are occasions when they do intervene, albeit indirectly. The Time Lords occasionally send the Doctor on missions that required plausible deniability, as in The Two Doctors,[51] and sometimes against his will, like in Colony in Space[52] and The Monster of Peladon.[53] He is also sent on a mission in The Mutants which was intended to help preserve the existence of a unique race, which was being destroyed by the excesses of the Earth empire. The Doctor's mission in Genesis of the Daleks[54] even involves changing history to avert the creation of the Daleks, or at least temper their aggressiveness. The Two Doctors is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in three weekly parts from February 16 to March 2, 1985. ...
Colony in Space is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in 6 weekly parts from April 10 to May 15, 1971. ...
The Monster of Peladon is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in six weekly parts from March 23 to April 27, 1974. ...
For the Brazilian tropicalia band see Os Mutantes The Mutants is a serial from the ninth season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, featuring Jon Pertwee as the Doctor. ...
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Children of Gallifrey are taken from their families at the age of 8 and admitted into the Academy. Novices are then taken to an initiation ceremony before the Untempered Schism, a gap in the fabric of reality that looks into the time vortex. Of those that stare into it, some are inspired, some run away and others go mad. The Doctor suggests that the latter happened to the Master, and that he himself ran away [11].
Each Time Lord belongs to one of a number of various colleges or chapters, such as the Patrexes, Arcalian, and the Prydonian chapters, which have ceremonial and possibly political significance. In The Deadly Assassin[28], it is explained that each chapter has its own colours; the Prydonians wear scarlet and orange, the Arcalians wear green, and the Patrexeans wear heliotrope. However, in that same serial, Cardinal Borusa, described as "the leader of the Prydonian chapter" wears heliotrope. Other Prydonians wear orange headdresses with orange-brown (not scarlet) robes. Others chapters mentioned in spin-off novels include the Dromeian and Cerulean chapters. The Prydonian chapter has a reputation for being devious, and tends to produce renegades; the Doctor, the Master and the Rani are all Prydonians. The colleges of the Academy are led by the Cardinals. Ushers, who provide security and assistance at official Time Lord functions, may belong to any chapter, and wear all-gold uniforms.[28] 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. ...
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The executive political leadership is split between the Lord President, who keeps the ceremonial relics of the Time Lords, and the Chancellor, who appears to be the administrative leader of the Cardinals and who acts as a check on the power of the Lord President. The President is an elected position and on Presidential Resignation Day, the outgoing President usually names his successor, who is then also usually confirmed in a non-contested "election". However, it is still constitutionally possible for another candidate to put themselves forward for the post, as the Doctor did in The Deadly Assassin.[28] In that story, the Presidency was described as a largely ceremonial role, but in The Invasion of Time[47] the orders of the office were to be obeyed without question. A show election or a sham election is an election that is held purely for show, that is, without any significant political purpose. ...
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The President and Chancellor also sit on the Time Lord High Council, akin to a legislative body, composed variously of Councillors and more senior Cardinals. Also on the High Council is the Castellan of the Chancellory Guard, in charge of the security of the Citadel, whom the Doctor has referred to as the leader of a trumped-up palace guard. According to the constitution, if while in emergency session the other members of the High Council are in unanimous agreement, even the President's orders can be overruled.[44]
Technology Paradoxically, although the Time Lords are a scientifically and technologically advanced race, the civilisation is so old that key pieces of their technology have become shrouded in legend and myth. In the spin-off fiction, an edict and general aversion against exploring Gallifrey's past also contributes to this. Accordingly, until the Doctor rediscovers it, the Time Lords do not know the location of the Eye beneath their capital. They also treat such ceremonial symbols as the Key and Sash of Rassilon as mere historical curiosities, being unaware of their true function.
TARDISes are characterised not just by their ability to travel in time, but also their dimensionally transcendent nature. A TARDIS's interior spaces exist in a different dimension from its exterior, which is how it's bigger on the inside. The Doctor states that transdimensional engineering was a key Time Lord discovery in The Robots of Death.[55] In the revived series, the TARDIS has an organic look, and the Doctor states in "The Impossible Planet" that TARDISes are grown, not made. The Robots of Death is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from January 29 to February 19, 1977. ...
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Fitting their generally defensive nature, Time Lord weapons technology is rarely seen, other than the staser hand weapons used by the Guard within the Capitol. Stasers (acronym unknown) are lethal energy weapons, specifically designed to prevent the unwanted regeneration of rogue Time Lords; staser beams also shatter the crystalline structure of non-organic targets.
Standard TARDISes do not generally seem to use any on-board weaponry, although War or Battle TARDISes (armed with "time torpedoes" that freeze their target in time) have appeared in the spin-off media. In the novels, the Eighth Doctor's companion Compassion, a living TARDIS, has enough firepower to annihilate other TARDISes. 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. ...
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One exception to the Time Lords' defensive weaponry is the de-mat gun (or dematerialisation gun). The De-mat gun is a weapon of mass destruction that removes its target from space-time altogether, as seen in The Invasion of Time.[47] The de-mat gun was created in Rassilon's time and is a closely guarded secret; the knowledge to create one is kept in the Matrix and is available only to the President. To make sure this knowledge is not abused, the only way to arm a de-mat gun is by means of the Great Key of Rassilon, whose location is only known to the Chancellor. As a means of extreme sanction, the Time Lords have also been known to place whole planets into time-loops, isolating them from the universe in one repeating moment of time. 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. ...
In the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Ancestor Cell by Peter Anghelides and Stephen Cole,[56] the Time Lords are shown to house other weapons of mass destruction in a stable time eddy known as the Slaughterhouse. In the Doctor Who Annual 2006,[57] a section by Russell T. Davies says that during the Time War, the Time Lords used Bowships (used against the Great Vampires in an ancient war), Black Hole Carriers and N-Forms (war machines first mentioned in the Virgin New Adventures novel Damaged Goods,[58] written by Davies). 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. ...
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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. ...
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History within the show -
 The Dark Tower in the Death Zone on Gallifrey Details of the Time Lords' history within the show are sketchy and are, as is usual for Doctor Who continuity, fraught with supposition and contradiction. The Time Lords became the masters of time travel when one of their number, the scientist Omega created an energy source to power their experiments in time.[29] To this end, Omega used a stellar manipulation device, the Hand of Omega, to rework a nearby star into a new form to serve that source.[48] Unfortunately, the star flared, first into a supernova, and then collapsed into a black hole. Omega was thought killed in that explosion but unknown to everyone, had somehow survived in an antimatter universe beyond the black hole's singularity. Rassilon, the ultimate founder of Time Lord society, then took a singularity (assumed by fans and the spin-off media to be the same one as Omega's) and placed it beneath the Time Lords' citadel on Gallifrey. This perfectly balanced Eye of Harmony then served as the power source for their civilisation as well as their time machines.[28] In "The Satan Pit", the Doctor states that his race "practically created black holes. In fact, we did", presumably a reference to the singularity created by Omega. The Time Lords are a fictional race of humanoids, originating on the planet Gallifrey, seen in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (874x666, 215 KB)The Tower of Rassilon, which stands in the Death Zone on the planet Gallifrey, from the television series Doctor Who - The Five Doctors File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev...
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The Hand of Omega is a fictional device from the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
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Rassilon is a fictional character in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
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. ...
The Satan Pit is an episode in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
At some point in their history the Time Lords interacted with the civilisation of the planet Minyos, giving them advanced technology. This met with disastrous results, the Minyans destroying themselves in a series of nuclear wars (Underworld[59]). The Titan II ICBM carried a 9 Mt W53 warhead, making it one of the most powerful nuclear weapons fielded by the United States during the Cold War. ...
Underworld is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from January 7 - January 28, 1978. ...
As of the current series, the Time Lords have, according to the Doctor, all perished at the conclusion of a Time War with the Daleks, leaving the Doctor the sole survivor and the last of his race (It was also revealed that the Doctor was responsible for the extinction of both races, as was confirmed by the Beast). This may not be entirely true however.[60] In the episode "Gridlock", the Face of Boe tells the Doctor with his dying breath that the Doctor is "not alone". 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. ...
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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. ...
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. ...
In the episode "Utopia" the Doctor learns that the Master survived. The Doctor failed to sense him because he used a chameleon arch to turn himself into a human (as the Doctor did in "Human Nature"), while hiding at the end of the Universe. The Master's subsequent conquest of 21st century Earth and his attempt to set up a new, expansionist Time Lord empire, is foiled by the Doctor and his companions. Shortly after his plan fails, the Master is shot by his Human wife and, refusing to regenerate, dies. The Doctor burns his body on a pyre. ("Last of the Time Lords"). Utopia is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
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Last of the Time Lords is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...
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Peter Butterworth as the Meddling Monk (from The Time Meddler) The Meddling Monk is a fictional character in the British science fiction telev |
