Doctor Who character
The White Guardian
Affiliated with	Council of Guardians
Race	Not applicable
Home planet	Not applicable
Home era	Various
First appearance	The Ribos Operation
Last appearance	Enlightenment
Portrayed by	Cyril Luckham Gerald Cross

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The White Guardian is an anthropomorphic personification of order and the counterpart of the Black Guardian, a personification of chaos and entropy. The two Guardians balance out the forces in the universe, although the Black Guardian seems to desire to upset the balance in favour of chaos and evil while the White Guardian prefers to maintain the status quo. The Guardians both appeared in Season 16 of the programme, where all six serials of that season were linked together in the quest for the Key to Time, an artifact of immense power that would give the wielder supreme power over all existence. An example of an anthropomorphic animal (by Carrie J. Berman). ... The Black Guardian is a character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ... Ice melting - a classic example of entropy increasing In thermodynamics, thermodynamic entropy (or simply entropy) S is an important state function of a thermodynamic system: that is, a property depending only on the current state of the system, independent of how that state came to be achieved. ... This is a list of Doctor Who television serials. ... The Key to Time is the umbrella title for a story arc that links all six serials of Season 16 of Doctor Who. ...

The White Guardian had concerns that the universe was descending into chaos. As a result, he asked the Doctor to find and assemble the Key to Time so that he might restore the balance of the universe. The Doctor was successful in this task, but the Black Guardian disguised himself as the White and tried to deceive the Doctor into handing the key over to him instead. The Doctor saw through the Black Guardian's ruse and ordered the key to disperse, though he commented afterwards that the White Guardian should have been able to carry out his work while the key was assembled.

He next appeared in the serial Enlightenment, as the apparent organiser (with the Black Guardian) of an interstellar boat race. Enlightenment is a serial in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, which was originally broadcast in four twice-weekly parts from March 1 to March 9, 1983. ...

Other appearances

In the BBC Books spin-off novel The Quantum Archangel by Craig Hinton, the White Guardian appears briefly with the Black Guardian and four others, who form a Council of Guardians that oversee reality. Although extremely powerful, the Guardians apparently cannot be seen to act directly, which is why they can only affect things through agents like Turlough or the Doctor. BBC Books is the book publishing division of BBC Worldwide, the commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation. ... Doctor Who spin-offs refers to material created outside of, but related to, the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. ...