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An elderly woman on Gallifrey died and was shrouded in veils and surrounded by flies, giving the Doctor recurring nightmares, which the confession dial in ' Heaven Sent' would later visualise to torment him. In ' The Girl in the Fireplace', according to Madame de Pompadour who psychically linked with the Doctor's memories, the Doctor experienced a very lonely childhood.

He is later reunited with this former mentor, now on Earth posing as the abbot K'anpo Rimpoche, in Planet of the Spiders. In The Time Monster, the Doctor says he grew up in a house on a mountainside and talks about a hermit who lived under a tree behind the house and inspired the Doctor when he was depressed. In ' Hell Bent' the Doctor recalled his origins as a high-born Gallifreyan. The First Doctor's childhood on Gallifrey has been little described in the series. The Doctor's memories were subsequently erased, prior to the childhood she remembers only snippets remain, masked as the story of the Irish Garda Brendan. Tecteun and the child were inducted into a clandestine organisation called the Division, the details of which were redacted from the Matrix. The Master reveals that the Doctor is the 'timeless child'. Tecteun then adopted the child and studied her, successfully grafting her regeneration capacity into the Shobogans, transforming them into Time Lords they chose to limit a Time Lord's regenerations to twelve. In this episode, The Master reveals to the Thirteenth Doctor that a female space explorer named Tecteun found a 'timeless child' who had the power to regenerate. The episode ' The Timeless Children' gives an alternative origin for The Doctor and the Time Lords. The promise itself is revealed in ' The Day of the Doctor': 'Never cruel nor cowardly. In ' The Name of the Doctor', the Eleventh Doctor tells companion Clara Oswald that the name 'Doctor' is essentially a promise he made. Spin-off media offer the explanation that the Doctor's true name is unpronounceable by humans.

In later episodes of the revived programme, specifically under showrunner Steven Moffat, the story arcs surrounding events in the Doctor's future implied serious consequences in the event of the Doctor's true name being spoken, with the nature of these finally revealed in ' The Time of the Doctor'. Human companions accompany the Doctor through their adventures who serve as audience surrogate characters to ask questions which allow the Doctor to provide relevant exposition. Within the fictional narrative, the Doctor is a Time Lord who travels through time and space in a stolen dimensionally transcendental – 'bigger on the inside' – time machine: the TARDIS (an acronym for Time And Relative Dimension(s) In Space) which takes the exterior form of a 1963 police telephone call box, and retains the appearance throughout the programme.

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This will be followed by his first full series, set for release in 2024. His first full episode was the 2023 Christmas special, ' The Church on Ruby Road'. Ncuti Gatwa portrays the current Fifteenth Doctor, debuting in ' The Giggle'.

The Doctor has also been featured in films and a vast range of spin-off novels, audio dramas and comic strips.

The character of the Doctor has been well received by the public, with an enduring popularity leading The Daily Telegraph to dub the character 'Britain's favourite alien', while abroad the character has come to be seen as a British cultural icon. The transition to each succeeding actor is explained within the show's narrative through the plot device of ' regeneration', a biological function of Time Lords that allows a change of cellular structure and appearance with recovery following a fatal injury.Ī number of other actors have played the character in stage and audio plays, as well as in various film and television productions. In the programme, 'the Doctor' is the alias assumed by a humanoid alien, a Time Lord who travels through space and time in their ship, the TARDIS, often with companions. Since the show's inception in 1963, the character has been portrayed by fourteen lead actors.

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The Doctor is the main character of the long-running BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.