The War Doctor's regeneration into the Ninth was not shown on screen until, The Ninth Doctor is also the only incarnation of the, With only one season, the Ninth Doctor's television run is the third shortest, behind that of the Eighth Doctor's two appearances in the 1996 made-for-television movie, The Ninth Doctor is only one of two incarnations to date to have the same companion throughout all his television appearances (Rose Tyler); he shares this distinction with the. The Doctor helped McNeil arrest Wolfsbane, ensuring he survived. The Ninth Doctor was the first never to face another, In 2020, when asked which part of the Ninth Doctor's life was witnessed by the. In Sneed's morgue, the Doctor had Gwyneth try and pull the Gelth through the Rift using her psychic connection to it. Grystock took him before the Sisters, who had turned Rose into a Vampire. The TARDIS began imploding on itself to protect the Earth from its engines exploding, so the group evacuated to the flyer, where its shields were still up. (TV: The Name of the Doctor), After saving Gallifrey from the Moment after the Last Great Time War, the Eleventh Doctor dreamed of himself standing with all his past incarnations, including the Ninth Doctor, as he thought about his search for Gallifrey. A submission from Terrance Chua stated that while researching the American Civil War at the University of Georgia, Terrance had found a picture from the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863, where a man in a Union Army captain's uniform was standing next to a converted field hospital "that looked slightly out of place". (PROSE: The Beast of Babylon), The Doctor rematerialised by Rose and Mickey, a few seconds later from their perspective, and told Rose that the TARDIS was capable of travelling in time, before slipping his head back in. (TV: The Parting of the Ways), After the regeneration process was started by the cellular damage he had achieved from siphoning the Time Vortex out of Rose's body, the Doctor first stated his regret at being unable to take Rose to Barcelona and then speculated what he would look like after he regenerated. He turned down the role, thinking the show would not take off. After verifying that Rose and Tara were safe and in the audience, the Doctor was alarmed to learn that Slist brought him on her show as a guest to bury the hatchet with General Yolaktorin of the Retjarvik-Sattavarian, who was shot through a rift after their regime was toppled by the Doctor. The Ninth Doctor led his successors and their companions into his TARDIS after a corrupted Kate Stewart destroyed his gun, and the group learned that all thirteen versions of the TARDIS had fused into one. As Tara and Rose discussed their dubious victory, the Doctor piloted their shuttle in silence. (COMIC: Hacked), When the Cybermen allied with Rassilon to take over history, the Doctor, Rose and Jack rescued Jackie during a Cyberman invasion in 2006. Since, Eccleston had vowed never to return to the science fiction series, even declining to portray the character in the fiftieth anniversary special "The Day of the Doctor" due to his feelings that the story "didn't do the character any justice" and felt the BBC still owed him an apology. Read more about this topic on the Tardis Data Core. He died moments after the Master fled, forgiven by the Doctors. (TV: The Day of the Doctor), When the Doctor and Rose visited Piccadilly Circus in 1977, Rose decided to tamper with history by buying the Stranglers album her mother had wanted in her youth. (TV: Rose, Father's Day) Truly, while the Doctor showed the ability to move past the deaths of those around him in the heat of the moment, (TV: Dalek) he remembered the lives lost and even took time to console the Forest of Cheem for the loss of Jabe's life. He convinced Drogann to use the attack, which had killed the Three Sisters, to gain freedom. The Doctor did this by spraying the human virus at his biotech ship. The Ninth Doctor arrived at St Luke's University in 2017 in time to rescue his tenth and twelfth incarnations, along with Jenny, Bill Potts, and Nardole, from a mob of infected students, explaining that he was instructed to find them by their fourth incarnation. On August 9th 2020 it was announced that Eccleston would be returning to his role as the Ninth Doctor in an audio series for Big Finish, after a fifteen year absence from playing the character. According to Steven, he was muttering "They're all gone, I'm the only one left", alluding to the Doctor's involvement in the Last Great Time War. (AUDIO: Retail Therapy) The Doctor once suggested that he bought his clothes from a Gap in Croydon. In the second part of the season finale, the Doctor and Jack race to save Rose who has been transported to a Dalek ship. (TV: Bad Wolf). (TV: Boom Town), Like his other incarnations, the Doctor had his TARDIS key with him at all times, but also carried a spare placed on a chain with a D-shackle. (AUDIO: Retail Therapy), The Doctor was capable of reversing a teleportation feed, (TV: The End of the World, Boom Town) and had the technical skills to make Satellite Five into a Delta wave generator in a few hours despite initially predicting it would take at least three days given its size. However, the Doctor managed to stop them with the remnants of the Slitheen family, whom he was unable to stop from stealing their rival's technology. (PROSE: Only Human), Whilst at the launch of the RMS Titanic in 1912, the Doctor wore a red cravat with a white shirt and black double-breasted frock coat. Rose Tyler was his most constant companion. These locations include Dallas in 1963; the Titanic in 1912, and the eruption of Krakatoa in … (TV: The End of the World), The Ninth Doctor voiced a hatred of guns, leading to initial tensions with Jack Harkness, who was used to carrying them on his person. (TV: The Parting of the Ways), He had large ears, which he was initially shocked at when looking at his reflection, (TV: Rose) and that he felt did not suit him, but determined that "we work with what we have." (TV: The Parting of the Ways) While others believed them to be lovers, (TV: Aliens of London, Dalek, Father's Day) the Doctor would deny such a claim when it was made by Ali. Jack stopped the bomb from hitting the bombsite by placing it in stasis inside his warship and when everyone got to safety, the Doctor destroyed the ambulance, making sure that history said that a bomb hit that location. Puzzled, the Doctor discovered that the Game Station was unknowingly broadcasting a secondary signal to an empty location of space, which was where all the losers ended up. Realising Blon had a second chance in life, the Doctor decided to drop her off in the hatchery on her homeworld. Marcus claimed that the man would have to have been in his 70s "now". (TV: Twice Upon a Time), When the Third Doctor met Jackie Tyler while answering a distress call in 2006, he learnt that one of his future incarnations would meet and travel with a girl named Rose Tyler, and would also regenerate whilst in her company. She commented that Death, when he was talking about people's deaths being fixed, sounded like him. The Doctor recognised Glom's weapons as being from Gallifrey and flipped Glom's table in anger. Created by Sydney Newman. Cazkelf used the psychic energy of the visitors to send a distress signal to his people so he could return home, but the Doctor freed Rose and set up a feedback loop, returning the stolen psychic energy to its owners. (TV: The Day of the Doctor), The Doctor rode the TARDIS through a supernova to save a robot clown and spent a week trying to restore its higher brain functions, and then set it loose in the TARDIS corridors. The Doctor fixed the nanogenes' mistakes by comparing the DNA of the child and Nancy, who was his mother, restoring the infected zombies to normal. (PROSE: The Tomorrow Windows), A less flamboyant incarnation, the Ninth Doctor opted for a more stripped-down and rugged attire. Following a chronal trail left by the Eleventh Doctor as the Tenth Doctor merged their TARDISes, the Ninth Doctor joined his other incarnations as they stormed Adam's fortress in Limbo to save their friends from Adam and the Master. He summoned them to his TARDIS by flashing its rooftop light, and, with the barnacles surrounding the exterior, transported them to a nearby asteroid belt so they could feed off the sun. (PROSE: What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow), The Doctor delivered letters from his fifth incarnation to Clarrie and his former companions Peri Brown and Erimem at the Kingmaker inn in 1483, (AUDIO: The Kingmaker) tended to Honoré Lechasseur's injuries after a bunker exploded in 1951, (PROSE: The Albino's Dancer) and took Alexander Pope and Theobald to see William Shakespeare's Cardenio. He saw the Doctor wandering around a building development on Totter's Lane. Afterwards, Cazkelf returned to Earth. The Doctor rescued Jack from his Chula warship just before it exploded, taking him aboard the TARDIS as his latest companion. Christopher Eccleston as the Ninth Doctor. (GAME: The Eternity Clock), The Doctor followed traces of a Gallifreyan stone to 1939 London, where he discovered that RATS were also after the stone when one of them attacked Winston Churchill's secretary, Hetty Warner. (COMIC: Dead Man's Hand), When Clara Oswald entered the Doctor's time stream, she saw the ninth incarnation among the Doctors that ran past her, with the Eleventh Doctor claiming them to be his "ghosts". With the help of Peter's work on DNA resequencing, the Doctor created a virus containing genetic instructions from Rose in the form of perfume, which Rose threw at the Lend-a-Hand girls, making them humans with human instructions. After discovering he was the same Time Lord who put his mind up for auction on Fluren's World, Taggani planned on using the Doctor's memories to recreate everything lost in the Time War. (TV: The Doctor Dances), Even during his limited travels with Adam Mitchell, the Doctor admitted to him that he was a "tiny bit fantastic" after he helped the Doctor defeat the Bygone Horde, (AUDIO: The Other Side) and accepted him as a true companion when he sacrificed his life to defeat the Master's plan to end the universe, (COMIC: Endgame) despite previously kicking him out of the TARDIS for attempting to send information from 200,000 to his 2012 answering machine. During the investigation, the Doctor received a message from his future self via an electronic billboard that he had to make sure Police Chief McNeil survived. As of 2015, the Ninth Doctor is the only incarnation who has yet to be seen on. (PROSE: The King of Terror), After the TARDIS became "stalled in the equivalent of a galactic lay-by", the Sixth Doctor had a worried thought of Peri Brown growing old and dying in the TARDIS, while he would "go on regenerating until all [his] lives [were] spent." She planned on attending a peace conference on Clix, as the Raxas Alliance was on the brink of war. Teaming up with Adriana Jarsdel to find out why the people on the planet were made to want to kill, he found that it was being caused by a rift in interstitial space by the Time Lords during the Time War to protect them from the Compassionate. ), The Doctor chased the Starman to Karkinos where he knocked it into the twenty-sixth dimension, but the ripples spreading out the time stream created a far worse Starman that was also linked to the Doctor's time stream. After the guests reached safety, Rose explained that the trapped spaceship's engines were releasing an energy field that had been killing people in an attempt to move. Doctor Who logos © BBC 1969 and 2009. (COMIC: Doctormania), Answering the call, the Doctor met Mickey in 2016 San Francisco, and learned that Mickey had been trying to call his next incarnation for help after his wife, Martha Jones, had turned into a gargoyle. (COMIC: Death to the Doctor!). However, after Pete accidentally made Rose hold her infant self, the Doctor sacrificed himself to the Reaper brought by the paradox and the creature was zapped by the key, killing it, but also interrupting the TARDIS' return. Jettisoning the drive into the Void, the trio made their narrow escape to an examiner shuttle as the facility dissolved in the face the time storm surrounding it. (TV: Doctor Who), When the Eighth Doctor looked into the Tomorrow Windows, he saw the Ninth Doctor as what he might look like in his future. Setting history back on course, the Doctor used his sonic screwdriver to destroy the housing development, and make them start over and build Rose's future home. The Ninth Doctor met his end upon discovering that Daleks, having survived the Time War through their emperor, had been rebuilding their ranks by manipulating the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire to their advantage. (COMIC: Monstrous Beauty). The Gelth, numbering in the billions rather than just the few they claimed, wished to wipe out humanity and take over their bodies, starting with the dead bodies in Sneed and Company. Dais Johnston. In an attempt to attract the Unon, the Doctor announced to the crowd that he was offering his Time Lord mind for sale, but was transmitted aboard the Lect ship instead. They attempted to persuade him to stop and hold his attack on Mordeela, but he rejected them as illusions and ordered his fleet to open fire. They discovered that the Whisper had been created by McNeil to combat crime boss Wolfsbane, not realising how lethal a vigilante it would become. The Doctor was then forced to wait for twenty-eight years after being displaced to 1894 to catch up with Rose, who was herself sent to 1922. (TV: The Parting of the Ways) Indeed, while he was dismayed at the idea of being killed by the Gelth in a Cardiff dungeon, (TV: The Unquiet Dead) when he believed the Daleks were going to exterminate him, his only reaction was to close his eyes and wait for the end. The Doctor quickly grabbed the bicycle and left to deliver the bicycle to Rose's flat in time for Christmas morning. Igrix' first major step was to destroy the Moon in 1966, preventing any staging post from which to break out into space. Meeting up with Rose and Jack, they went to an abandoned ship which had crashed and had been tampered with to collect energy from humans rather than wind and solar. (TV: The Long Game), When it came to children, the Ninth Doctor generally treated them kindly. (WC: Doctors Assemble! (TV: Boom Town) However, he could grow irritated with children who misbehaved, finding the boy who graffitied his TARDIS and making him wash it off as punishment, and threatening to “have [him]" should he do it again. (PROSE: What I Did on My Christmas Holidays by Sally Sparrow), The Ninth Doctor possessed certain control over regeneration. Recording on The Ninth Doctor … "Morbius" • "Muldwych" • "Relic"The Curator • "Fugitive" • Timeless Child Fighting alongside Jenny using his modified Silurian gun, the Doctor and his future incarnations were soon distracted by a white hole opening up in the sky. Rose briefly absorbed the power of the Time Vortex and became the god-like Bad Wolf. The Doctor drove a large tourist bus through the wormhole when it was at maximum capacity, collapsing it whilst also sending him back to San Francisco. The Doctor went to a pub to check The Daily Mirror for any other alterations to history, and discovered the football score in the World Cup had England scoring an extra goal against West Germany. Escaping in the lift, the Doctor saved Rose and Harriet from Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen. Before going off in the TARDIS, the Doctor said goodbye to Dickens, telling him that his work would be remembered forever, which made Dickens a happier person. (PROSE: The Red Bicycle) He also believed himself to be handsome, telling Rose he was "making an effort not to be insulted" when she rhetorically asked why all the "great looking" men disappear from her, (TV: The Doctor Dances) and being fixated on Mickey Smith implying he didn't find him handsome. Receiving another message from his past as he made to leave, the Doctor quickly dropped Vastra and Jenny back in London, leaving Rose behind with them to keep her safe. Once Rose destroyed the Daleks and their fleet, the Doctor absorbed the energy out of her, forcing him to regenerate into a new body to survive. The Vampires kept him alive for information, however Androkan was killed by an acolyte of the Three Mad Sisters, Friar Grystock. Slist then kidnapped Rose to act as her companion. (TV: Rose), The Doctor slayed a dragon in Krakow, wrestled with a tiger, (PROSE: Only Human) had an adventure with Mako, (COMIC: Escape into Alcatraz) and attended the funeral of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart. (AUDIO: R&J), After he remained unmerciful towards her, Blon tried to tear the TARDIS and the Earth apart by making the extrapolator lock onto an alien power source that was refuelling on the rift, using the extrapolator as an interstellar surfboard to escape the Earth. (TV: Dalek) When the Daleks invaded Satellite Five, the Doctor sent her back home to protect her, and deliberately absorbed the Time Vortex energy in her to save her life, knowing that he would regenerate afterwards.