93-556: Meglos is the second serial of the 18th season of the science fiction television series Doctor Who , which was first broadcast in four weekly parts on BBC1 from 27 September to 18 October 1980. In the serial, the Zolfa-Thuran plant Meglos steals a huge source of power on the planet Tigella known as the Dodecahedron. The Prion star system contains two habitable planets which have supported civilisations: Zolfa-Thura,
186-665: A Time Lord can regenerate twelve times (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. In " The Five Doctors ", the Master was 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
279-683: A Time Lord. This story element was notably featured in Series 3 ; the Doctor uses it to hide himself from the Family of Blood and becomes a schoolteacher in Edwardian England. His nemesis the Master used it to disguise himself as a human to escape the Time War. The story element is later revisited in the Series 12 episode " Fugitive of the Judoon " when a mysterious, unknown incarnation of
372-423: A camera-linking system known as Scene-Sync that allowed the use of non-static shots of characters superimposed onto a miniature set. As the cameras on the actors were moved, the cameras on the miniature set moved the equivalent scaled amount automatically. The exact scale motion was achieved by trial and error, involving minute adjustments to the voltage delivered to the slave camera's motors. Part Four's closing theme
465-446: A crack in time to grant him a full new regeneration cycle. The revelation in 2020's The Timeless Children that The Doctor is, in fact, not Gallifreyan and instead had their DNA used to give Gallifreyans the ability to regenerate, calls into doubt whether or not the Doctor does in fact have a limit to their regenerations, or if they merely believed they did due to all other Time Lords being limited. The Time Lord homeworld, Gallifrey ,
558-464: A desert world devoid seemingly of life structures bar five giant screens; and Tigella, a jungle world inhabited by the humanoid, white haired Tigellans. The structure of Tigellan society is based on two castes: the scientific Savants, led by the earnest Deedrix, and the religiously fanatical Deons, led by Lexa. The latter worship the Dodecahedron , a mysterious twelve-sided crystal which they see as
651-675: A different concept of ageing from humans. In " The Stolen Earth ", the Tenth Doctor refers to when who he thought was his original incarnation was a "kid" at 90 years old. However, within a specific incarnation, a Time Lord is able to age, albeit much more slowly than a human. The War Doctor and Eleventh Doctor , over the course of the Last Great Time War and the Battle of Trenzalore , respectively, are seen to age within their respective incarnations to what would appear to
744-596: A female. The Doctor also regenerated as a woman in " Twice Upon A Time ", as the Thirteenth Doctor . Whether or not Time Lords can recognise each other across regenerations is not made entirely clear: In " The Impossible Astronaut ", a future version of the Eleventh Doctor is shot, causing him to begin his regeneration cycle. He is shot again before the regeneration completes, causing him to die instantly. However, in " The Wedding of River Song ", it
837-503: A gift from the god Ti. The Savants, however, have utilised its power as an energy source for their entire civilisation. The planet’s leader, Zastor, mediates between the two factions, whose tensions have grown greater as the energy source has begun to fluctuate. When Zastor’s old friend the Doctor gets in touch, the weary leader invites him back to Tigella to investigate and help. When the Fourth Doctor , Romana , and K9 try to land
930-399: A hand. Also seen in " Journey's End ", is the apparent ability to siphon off regeneration energy in order to cancel the effect of changing appearance; which requires them to have a "bio-matching receptacle" (in this case the Doctor's severed hand), which is usually impractical. However, this "non-regeneration" was revealed as "counting" towards the Doctor's twelve possible regenerations during
1023-514: A hostage Savant named Caris for company. She soon gets the upper hand when the Earthling tries another bout of resistance. In a subsequent mix-up, Romana overpowers Caris, letting Meglos escape and reunite with the Gaztaks, who have staged an attack on the city to rescue him. With the miniaturized Dodecahedron in his possession, the pirates blast off back to Zolfa-Thura – though three Gaztaks, half
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#17327830108391116-498: A human to be old age; both conflicts are suggested within the series to last hundreds if not thousands of Earth years. In The Two Doctors , the Second Doctor states 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 is that they lack the imprimatur. However, he implies later that he
1209-623: A new personality. Regenerations can be traumatic. In Castrovalva , the Fifth 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. The Time Lord's personality also sometimes goes through a period of instability following a regeneration, such as in The Christmas Invasion . It was first stated in The Deadly Assassin that
1302-482: A powerful and wise race from the planet Gallifrey , from which the Doctor was a renegade; details beyond this were very limited for the first decade of the series. They later became integral to many episodes and stories as their role in the universe developed. For the first eight years after the series resumed in 2005, the Time Lords were said to have been destroyed during the Last Great Time War at some point in
1395-544: A race called Time Lords, and in Spearhead from Space (1970), the Doctor's earlier description of himself as a human is retconned when the Third Doctor explicitly states that he is not human. In The Time Warrior (1973–1974), the name of the Doctor's home planet, Gallifrey , was revealed on screen for the first time. The Time Lords are considered one of the oldest and most technologically powerful races in
1488-401: A return to the format of early seasons, virtually all serials from Seasons 18 through 20 are linked together, often running directly into each other. Three serials – Full Circle , State of Decay , and Warriors' Gate – are part of a trilogy within the season. These three serials include the arrival of Adric and the departure of Romana and K9. Over the period of Christmas 1980, the season took
1581-479: A sequel to Meglos but this sequel idea was ultimately dropped. Jacqueline Hill, who played the First Doctor 's companion Barbara Wright , makes a guest appearance as Lexa, marking the first time a companion has returned to play a role other than their original character. Brotadac is an anagram of "Bad Actor", an in-joke by the production team. Bill Fraser only agreed to take the role of Grugger on condition
1674-415: A stagnated ceremony-bound oligarchy and their past having descended into myth and legend . The Doctor became at times an ally, being appointed their president during his fourth , fifth , and twelfth incarnations and assisting them on many other occasions. In an audio commentary recorded for the 2009 DVD release of The War Games (1969), producer Derrick Sherwin mentioned how in a discussion with
1767-461: A trial is a "very rare" event for the Time Lords. Exceptions to this policy are made only in extreme circumstances when they feel they have to, such as where the Doctor calls them for help in the serial. At the start of the 2005 television series, Gallifrey was thought to have been destroyed and the Time Lords functionally extinct as a result of a mutually destructive Time War with the Dalek race;
1860-752: A trilogy set in a "bubble universe" called E-Space, as well as The Keeper of Traken and Logopolis , the first two serials of a trilogy continued in season 19's Castrovalva , centred on the return of The Master and the regeneration of the Fourth Doctor. Season 18 is the final season of Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor after seven years in the role. New companions Adric ( Matthew Waterhouse ), Nyssa ( Sarah Sutton ), and Tegan Jovanka ( Janet Fielding ) make their introductions in Full Circle , The Keeper of Traken , and Logopolis , respectively. Romana , played by Lalla Ward , departs from
1953-593: A two-week transmission break between the broadcasts of State of Decay and Warriors' Gate . The entire season was broadcast from 30 August 1980 to 21 March 1981. All releases are for DVD unless otherwise indicated: Time Lord The Time Lords are a fictional ancient race of extraterrestrial people in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who . Time Lords are so named for their command of time travel technology and their non-linear perception of time. Originally, they were described as
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#17327830108392046-688: A warrior greater than either", which is "half-Dalek, half-Time Lord", while in " Hell Bent " (2015), the General, while describing the prophecy of the Hybrid, mentions the Time Lords as one of two warrior races along with the Daleks . In " Before the Flood " (2015), the Fisher King describes the Time Lords as "cowardly, vain curators, who suddenly remembered they had teeth, and became the most warlike race in
2139-498: Is able to interface with his spaceship in ways that only a 'time-sensitive' is supposed to be able to. In " Utopia ", the Tenth Doctor states that he finds it difficult to look at Captain Jack Harkness because Jack's existence has become fixed in time and space. In the Series 4 episode " Journey's End ", the Tenth Doctor was shown to use his telepathic abilities to wipe Donna Noble's mind of certain memories, specifically
2232-436: Is accused of theft. His bewilderment and charm are little defence as both Savants and Deons start to panic as the energy levels of the city start to fail. Lexa uses the situation to her own ends. Zastor and Deedrix are arrested in a Deon coup, with other Savants expelled to the hostile surface of the planet, while the Doctor himself is prepared for sacrifice to Ti. The doors of the city are sealed with Meglos trapped inside, with
2325-495: Is an Earth-like planet in the fictional constellation of Kasterborous. It is located in a binary star system 250 million light years from Earth. The points in time when Gallifrey appears are never definitively stated. As the planet is often reached by means of time travel, its relative present could conceivably exist almost anywhere in the Earth's past or future, as well as anywhere in the conceivable universe. From space, Gallifrey
2418-400: Is revealed this was a shape shifting android the Doctor used to fake his death, making this questionable. It's a bit dodgy, this process, you never know what you're gonna end up with. In cases of non-fatal injury, Time Lords who have recently regenerated can use left over cellular energy to heal and even regrow severed limbs, as seen in " The Christmas Invasion " where the Tenth Doctor regrows
2511-536: Is seen as a yellow-orange planet and was close enough to central space lanes for spacecraft to require clearance from Gallifreyan Space Traffic Control as they pass through its system. The planet was protected from physical attack by an impenetrable barrier called the quantum force field, and from teleportation incursions by the transduction barrier—which could be reinforced to repel most levels of this type of technological attack. The Doctor's granddaughter Susan first describes her home world (not named as "Gallifrey" at
2604-553: Is seen using this method to query a cat about the goings-on of the flat in " The Lodger ". In " A Good Man Goes to War " and " Closing Time " he is apparently able to even understand babies, as well as horses in " A Town Called Mercy ". In " The Girl in the Fireplace ", 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 " The End of Time ",
2697-403: Is somehow innately able to sense which events in time are 'fixed' and which are in 'flux'. The Eleventh Doctor slightly amends what was said earlier in " The Doctor's Wife ", saying that he could only sense if there were other Time Lords in this universe. In the original series episode Warriors' Gate , Romana is called a 'time-sensitive' by a marauding slaver and, though she seems to deny this,
2790-453: Is speculated by Donna Noble in " The Doctor's Daughter " (2008) to be a surviving Time Lord, though the Doctor initially rejects the suggestion. Two other Time Lord-like beings appeared in " Journey's End " (2008): Donna, briefly empowered with the mind and knowledge of a Time Lord, and a half-human clone of the Tenth Doctor. Donna's memories related to the Doctor, as well as her Time Lord knowledge, are buried in order to save her life, while
2883-472: Is still conscious and able to return to return to the TARDIS and Pandorica respectively. In Death of the Doctor , the Eleventh Doctor responds to a question from Clyde Langer by saying he can regenerate "507" times. Early news reports, before the episode was broadcast, suggested he would say there is no limit to the number of regenerations. Writer Russell T Davies stated in an interview with SFX that
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2976-514: The 2005 series , the Ninth Doctor claims that he can sense the movement of the Earth through space as well as being able to perceive the past and all possible futures. 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. As the Tenth Doctor he repeats this assertion, adding also that he
3069-480: The Doctor Who universe. In The Time Warrior , the Time Lords are characterised by Sontaran military intelligence, quoted by Commander Linx , as "a race of great technical achievement, but lacking the morale to withstand a determined assault". In " The Witch's Familiar " (2015), Davros mentions a prophecy on the Doctor's world that spoke of a hybrid made up of "two great warrior races forced together to create
3162-418: The Fifth Doctor ( Peter Davison ), as well as Lalla Ward 's as companion Romana II and John Leeson 's as the voice of K9 . For the second time (The first being during Season 4 and third being Season 21 ), the entire main cast changed over the course of a single season. The season also sees the debut of Matthew Waterhouse as Adric , Sarah Sutton as Nyssa , and Janet Fielding as Tegan Jovanka ,
3255-744: The Krillitane Mr Finch in " School Reunion " (2006). In " Father's Day " (2005), the Ninth Doctor remarks that before Time Lords were "all gone", they would have prevented or repaired paradoxes such as that which attracted the Reapers to 1987 Earth. In " Rise of the Cybermen " (2006), the Tenth Doctor mentions, "When the Time Lords kept their eye on everything, you could pop between realities , home in time for tea. Then they died, and took it all with them. Walls of reality closed,
3348-613: The Ninth Doctor describes his planet as "just rocks and dust" in " The End of the World " (2005), and mentions in " Dalek " (2005) that the Time Lords "burnt" with the Daleks at the end of the "Last Great Time War", and the Tenth Doctor tells the Master in " The Sound of Drums " (2007) that the Time Lords are "dead" and "all [they've] got is each other". The Doctor describes himself as the last of his kind and says his planet burned on numerous other occasions, as do other individuals, such as
3441-517: The Series 5 episode " The Big Bang " the Doctor telepathically left a message in Amy Pond 's head before sealing her into the Pandorica so that she would know what was happening when she woke up. 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 and
3534-474: The TARDIS on Tigella they are trapped in a time loop (which they call a chronic hysteresis), causing them to repeat a small "pocket of time" over and over again. The culprit is Meglos, the last Zolfa-Thuran, a cactus creature who has remained hidden below the surface of his planet in a secret structure. He has summoned a band of space pirates called Gaztaks to help him in an audacious plan. Meglos wants to steal
3627-524: The BBC Radiophonic Workshop Volume 4: Meglos & Full Circle in 2002. Doctor Who season 18 The eighteenth season of British science fiction television series Doctor Who consisted of seven four-episode serials broadcast from 30 August 1980 with the serial The Leisure Hive , to 21 March 1981 with the serial Logopolis . The season is Tom Baker 's final as the Fourth Doctor before his regeneration into
3720-781: The Doctor " (2013), it is shown that the Eighth Doctor regenerates into the War Doctor to fight in the Time War. Many years later, as shown during " The Day of the Doctor " (2013) and also described by the Partisan in "The End of Time", the War Doctor originally planned to use a Time Lord weapon known as the Moment to destroy the Time Lords and Daleks. However, after being shown the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors during "The Day of
3813-548: The Doctor (played by Jo Martin ), is revealed to have been hiding on Earth as a tour guide named “Ruth Clayton” using a Chameleon Arch. Time Lords can communicate by telepathy , and can link their minds to share information and enhance their powers. In Castrovalva , the Doctor activates the TARDIS' Zero Room mentally. Additionally, both the Doctor and the Master demonstrate significant hypnotic abilities which may be supplemented by their telepathic abilities. These powers were elaborated upon from 2005. The Eleventh Doctor
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3906-425: 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. The focus of psychic energy granted the Doctor the ability to de-age himself, float through the air, deflect shots from
3999-513: The Doctor forever. This again implies that regeneration is not inevitable and can indeed be refused. Upon encountering the remains of fellow Time Lord the Corsair in " The Doctor's Wife ", the Doctor refers to the Corsair as both male and female, hinting that Time Lords can switch genders upon their regenerations; this is confirmed in " Dark Water ", in which the Master , previously seen in various male incarnations for over forty years, returned as
4092-509: 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 ". In " Smith and Jones " the Tenth Doctor says that the radiation given off by X-rays pose 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. "The End of Time" shows
4185-420: The Doctor remarks upon her ability, she comments that he should have stayed in university. However, despite showing several appearances, Romana regenerated only once on that occasion. In " Utopia ", the Master, just before regeneration, claimed that he would become "young and strong", implying that he could choose the form of his new body. The human-Time Lord hybrid River Song in " Let's Kill Hitler " claimed she
4278-485: The Doctor spends centuries believing he burnt Gallifrey until the Eleventh Doctor's time; this is because the time streams are out of sync after the War Doctor meets his future selves and the altered events are only known to the Doctor once they occur in the Eleventh Doctor's experience and become part of his memory. Indeed, earlier on in the episode, both the Tenth and the Eleventh Doctors mistakenly believe that
4371-426: The Doctor there to begin with for questioning—and exile him in "Hell Bent" before running off again. Time Lords and human beings look alike, however they differ in many respects. Physiological differences from humans include two hearts which normally beat at 170 beats per minute, and a "respiratory bypass system" that allows them to survive strangulation. The Twelfth Doctor was able to survive direct exposure to
4464-404: The Doctor would be in trouble. In a 2016 interview with The Essential Doctor Who magazine, Dicks mentioned how when Sherwin and he were discussing The War Games one day, Sherwin said, "He belongs to this mysterious race called the Time Lords, doesn't he?" with "everything" ultimately coming from that discussion. In The War Games DVD commentary, Sherwin mentioned that he recalled hearing about
4557-455: The Doctor", he works together with them to change the assumed outcome of the Time War : thirteen incarnations of the Doctor team up together to freeze Gallifrey in time and place it outside of their universe (protecting it and the remaining Time Lords), while the Daleks destroy themselves in their own crossfire once Gallifrey is gone. The War Doctor does not retain the memory of these events and
4650-481: The Doctor's, Madame Vastra , reminds the Doctor that the Time Lord race developed due to their billions of years' exposure to the time vortex. The Doctor then recalls that Rory and Amy had spent their wedding night in the TARDIS; therefore it is theorised by Vastra that River's conception mirrored that of the Time Lords' genesis and therefore she herself developed Time Lord genetic characteristics. In " The Night of
4743-531: The Dodecahedron back from Tigella, as it is a Zolfa-Thuran energy source of immense power. To aid him, Meglos uses an Earthling captured for him by the Gaztaks to occupy and take on humanoid form: and the humanoid form he chooses is the Doctor, whom he has trapped in the bubble. While the hysteresis persists Meglos gets the Gaztaks to take him to Tigella, and infiltrates the city in his new identity. Zastor greets “the Doctor” warmly as an old friend, asking him to examine
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#17327830108394836-495: The Dodecahedron to full size and placing it at a spot equidistant between the Screens. He reveals his race perished in a civil war over the control of the crystal, which can power a weapon strong enough to destroy planets. At Grugger’s urging Meglos decides to use the weapon again and to aim it at Tigella. When the Doctor arrives, he plays Meglos at his own game and tries a little impersonation. The situation becomes so confused that
4929-400: The Dodecahedron, but others are less sure, especially Lexa. The Doctor and Romana break out of the loop by throwing it out of phase, and then land on Tigella in the middle of the hostile jungle. As the Doctor heads off to find Zastor, Romana stumbles across dangerous vegetation – deadly bell plants – and then the Gaztaks, waiting patiently for Meglos to return to their spaceship. She gives them
5022-483: The Earthling home, but as they are leaving Romana receives a message from the Time Lords that she must return to Gallifrey . Working titles for this story included The Golden Pentangle and The Last Zolfa-Thuran . This is one of only two multi-part stories to feature all credited cast members in every episode, the other being The Edge of Destruction (1964). This story features the only use in Doctor Who of
5115-416: The Gaztaks lose track of which one is which, enabling the Doctor to redirect the super-weapon at Zolfa-Thura before both he and Meglos are detained by the Gaztaks. Meglos abandons the Earthling, leaving a bemused man watching a cactus creature reassert himself in his laboratory. Meglos knows the Doctor has realigned the weapon. However, the creature is unable to stop the Doctor fleeing back to the TARDIS, taking
5208-571: The Master uses the same technique, allowing the Tenth Doctor to hear the drumming sound the Master constantly hears. The Doctor 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 " Planet of the Ood ", the Tenth Doctor seems able to temporarily confer some degree of telepathy on his companion Donna Noble, so that she can hear
5301-528: The Master's laser screwdriver, and telekinetically disarm the Master. In addition, Time Lords may be clairvoyant , or have additional time-related senses. In The Time Monster , and Invasion of the Dinosaurs , 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 , both the Fourth Doctor and Romana notice distortions and jumps in time that no one else does. In
5394-536: The Tenth Doctor as being capable of surviving (for a short period) a massive burst of radiation that would have killed anything else instantly. However, the radiation burst caused enough damage to start a regeneration. Time Lords are extremely long-lived, routinely counting their ages in terms of centuries; the Second Doctor claimed in The War Games that Time Lords could live "practically forever, barring accidents". The series has suggested that Time Lords have
5487-457: The Tenth Doctor explains to Wilfred Mott that a Time Lord can die before they have a chance to regenerate, in which case they die outright. 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). In the Series 4 episode " Turn Left ",
5580-423: The Tenth Doctor's body is shown on a stretcher following the parallel events of " The Runaway Bride ". A UNIT officer states that the Doctor's death must have been too quick to allow for regeneration. In Destiny of the Daleks , 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. When
5673-411: The Time Lords are attempting to return to the universe and will come back if he speaks his true name. Due to "half the universe" surrounding Trenzalore, a siege begins that lasts centuries as the Doctor knows that if the Time Lords return, the Time War will begin anew. With the Doctor on the verge of death, Clara Oswald pleads with the Time Lords through the crack to intervene and save the Doctor. Through
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#17327830108395766-529: The Time Lords at the beginning of the series, but as no one else remembered this, it "might have come out of [his] dreams". Elaborating on this genesis in a 2014 interview in Doctor Who Magazine , Sherwin said of The War Games , "It was a case of what shall we do, how can we end this? Let's go back to the beginning and say [the Doctor] was a Time Lord, a renegade Time Lord, a pain in the arse for
5859-409: The Time Lords have the ability to grant more regenerations: at the behest of Clara Oswald they granted the Doctor himself a new cycle when he was at the point of death from old age, having used up his entire cycle. Regeneration, regardless of how many regenerations the individual Time Lord has already undergone, is a conditional and non-inevitable phenomenon. This is stated in " The End of Time " when
5952-465: The Time War. During the episode "The Doctor's Wife" it is revealed that several Time Lords and their TARDISes had been trapped and destroyed by an entity called House who lived in a separate bubble universe. In " A Good Man Goes to War " (2011), it is revealed that the daughter of Amy Pond and Rory Williams , Melody Pond (who later goes by her transliterated name " River Song "), has been born with Time Lord-like genetic traits. An old acquaintance of
6045-442: The War Doctor killed all of the Time Lords on the last day of the Time War. After being informed that the plan to save Gallifrey was successful, the Eleventh Doctor sets out to find Gallifrey and restore the Time Lords. In " The Time of the Doctor ", the Doctor visits the planet Trenzalore where he discovers a question being broadcast through all of time and space through a crack in the universe: "Doctor Who?" The Doctor realizes that
6138-483: The ability to stay conscious for moments after events that would outright kill other lifeforms instantly, giving them the opportunity to regenerate. This is seen in Logopolis (fall from a great height), and The Caves of Androzani (fatal disease). In both " The Stolen Earth " and " The Big Bang ", the Doctor is shot by a Dalek's energy weapon, which has almost always been shown to instantly kill any other lifeform, yet
6231-485: The character was allowed to kick K9. His request was granted; he later appeared in the spin-off pilot K-9 and Company . Crawford Logan also provided the voice of Meglos but was credited only as Deedrix. Terrance Dicks ' novelisation was published by Target Books in February 1983. Dicks names Meglos' unfortunate human host and bookends the novel with his kidnapping and subsequent return to Earth. A French translation
6324-405: The clone lives out his existence in a parallel universe with Rose Tyler . " The End of Time " (2009–10) shows the High Council of Time Lords, led by Lord President Rassilon , attempting to escape the Time War by materialising Gallifrey in the place of Earth at Christmas. However, the Tenth Doctor destroys the device which allows their passage into the present, sending them back into the events of
6417-467: The crack, the Time Lords grant the Doctor a new regeneration cycle, saving his life before sealing the crack again. In " Hell Bent " (2015), it is revealed that Gallifrey returned to the universe around the time of its end. After escaping his confession dial in " Heaven Sent " (2015), still furious over the death of Clara Oswald in " Face the Raven " (2015), the Doctor manages to depose Rassilon—who had put
6510-546: The crew, have been lost. The real Doctor has by now been able to prove that he did not steal the artefact and that there is a doppelgänger at work. Lexa realises her mistake but does not live long to regret it when she is shot dead while protecting Romana from a wounded Gaztak who was left behind. The Doctor, Romana, Caris, and Deedrix head with K9 for the TARDIS, determined to follow the Gaztak ship. Grugger’s ship touches down on Zolfa-Thura and Meglos wastes no time in restoring
6603-599: The events of Traken , the Master was thereafter played by Anthony Ainley , who would continue in the part for the rest of the classic series' run. Jacqueline Hill , who had played the First Doctor 's companion Barbara Wright , returned in Meglos , although playing a different character, the alien priestess Lexa. For Season 18 John Nathan-Turner replaces Graham Williams as producer. Barry Letts returns now as executive producer, for just this season. Christopher H. Bidmead also replaces Douglas Adams as script editor. In
6696-530: The events of " The Time of the Doctor ". In "The End of Time", the Tenth Doctor was able to postpone his regeneration long enough so that he could travel in time and space to see his past companions for one last time before he regenerated. The Fifth Doctor had also shown a similar ability in The Caves of Androzani , fighting off the effects of an impending regeneration so he can return to Androzani Minor to save his companion Peri. Time Lords appear to have
6789-514: The galaxy". In the very distant past, the Time Lords fought a genocidal war against the Great Vampires, which led to such a catastrophic loss of life that the Time Lords renounced violence. In The War Games , the Second Doctor mentions that the Time Lords' "great powers" are hardly ever used due to their policy of non-intervention into the affairs of other planets, and that they instead observe and gather knowledge. Because of this, holding
6882-488: The line was not intended to be taken seriously and is instead a commentary. He said that the "thirteen lives" rule was too deeply entrenched in the viewer consciousness for his throwaway line to affect it. It is revealed in " The Time of the Doctor " that this was in fact false and that due to his various regenerations, the Eleventh Doctor was in fact his last incarnation. However, the Time Lords intervened through
6975-476: The man from Earth with him, and is also unable to persuade Grugger not to fire the weapon. From the TARDIS the Doctor and his friends witness the destruction of Zolfa-Thura, along with the Gaztaks, Meglos, and the Dodecahedron. Caris and Deedrix return to rebuild Tigella, recognising with Zastor and the Deons that old enmities must be put aside and a new society forged. The Doctor and Romana depart and prepare to take
7068-411: The memories of her travels in the TARDIS and to 'implant' a defence mechanism which is activated in " The End of Time ". The War Games showed that other Time Lords are also able to erase people's memories, as in that story, Jamie and Zoe 's travels with the Doctor were erased from their memory, and the council of Time Lords also put a memory block on the Doctor so he could not pilot the TARDIS. In
7161-439: The other Time Lords who stole his TARDIS and buggered off around the universe. So if he's going to be called to book let's bring in the Time Lords." Early on in the series, the Doctor was identified as a human being; however, his home planet, which from the start of the series is explicitly established as not being Earth , was not named. In The War Games (1969), the Doctor's people appeared, who from then on are known as
7254-657: The scanners being programmed to "detox" humans and therefore being unaware of what elements the Doctor requires. A Time Lord is able to conceal their Time Lord nature, and become a human, by using the Chameleon Arch – a device that stores their "essence" and memories in an innocuous device such as a fob watch , and replaces them with false counterparts until the object is later re-opened. The process allows them to disguise themselves as humans physiologically and psychologically, meaning they only have one heart and are stripped of non-human powers, and of any memory of having been
7347-449: The serial's co-writer Terrance Dicks the previous day, Dicks was "absolutely certain" that Sherwin created the Time Lords for the serial, although Sherwin could not remember himself. Later in the commentary, Dicks recalled Sherwin telling him in the discussions with Dicks and Dicks' fellow co-writer Malcolm Hulke that because the Doctor had always been established as being on the run from his own people, that if he has to appeal to them,
7440-564: The series in Warriors' Gate , along with John Leeson who returns to voice the robot K9 . With the arrival of Adric, this season marks the first time since 1967 that the Doctor has three regular travelling companions in the TARDIS. Peter Davison makes his first appearance as the Fifth Doctor in the closing moments of Logopolis . The Master returned to the show, this time played by Geoffrey Beevers , in The Keeper of Traken . After
7533-522: The show's continuity between the television movie in 1996 and the show's revival. In 2013, the 50th anniversary special " The Day of the Doctor " concerned this supposed destruction and their eventual survival. They developed a culture of custodianship and time-related technologies based on this perception which includes strictly controlled space /time travel machines (known as " TARDISes ") and monitoring devices to travel through time and to prevent time from being subverted or abused—although actual action
7626-466: The slip after a while and heads off to the city. Meglos has used his time as the Doctor to steal the Dodecahedron, shrinking it to minute size. However, the Earthling fights back against his occupation, causing green cactus spikes to break out on his skin. When the Tigellans discover that the Dodecahedron is missing and sound the alarm, Meglos hides away, but the real Doctor arrives at the same time and
7719-473: The telepathic song of the Ood. When she is unable to bear the song, the Doctor removes the ability. In " The Lodger ", the Eleventh Doctor (pressed for time and needing to convey a great deal of information to someone) smashed his forehead into another person's forehead, causing a massive instantaneous transfer of information. The Doctor also contacts the Time Lords by going into a trance and creating an assembling box in The War Games . In The Two Doctors ,
7812-490: The three of whom would remain regular companions into the Fifth Doctor 's era, as well as the return of the Master , portrayed both by Geoffrey Beevers and Anthony Ainley . The season was the first to be produced by John Nathan-Turner , who would produce every season of the show until 1989, and the first to feature script editor Christopher H. Bidmead . The season features a trilogy of connected serials, Full Circle , State of Decay , and Warrior's Gate , which form
7905-512: The twelve regeneration limit. The Master says in " The Sound of Drums " that the Time Lords "resurrected" him to fight in the Time War . 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. It is confirmed in " The Time of the Doctor " that a Time Lord can normally regenerate only twelve times but that
7998-503: The vacuum of space in " Oxygen ". Time Lords also seem to have an increased resilience to higher frequencies of sound, as seen in " The Christmas Invasion " and " Partners in Crime ". If severely injured, Time Lords can go into a healing coma which lowers their body temperature to below freezing which the Doctor did in Planet of the Daleks . In the serial Destiny of the Daleks , Romana
8091-558: The worlds were sealed. Everything became that bit less kind." In " The Satan Pit " (2006), the Tenth Doctor states that his people "practically invented black holes. Well, in fact, they did." Both the Beast (in "The Satan Pit") and the Doctor (in "The Sound of Drums" and " The Doctor's Wife ", 2011) believe the Doctor ended the War by killing all of the Time Lords and many of the Daleks. The Tenth Doctor's artificially created "daughter" Jenny
8184-429: Was "focusing on a dress size", but subsequently weighed herself, seeming unsure of how her new body had truly developed. The Doctor said on several occasions he wished he was "ginger", which he has seemed unable to control in previous regenerations. In " Last of the Time Lords ", when the Master is fatally wounded, he chooses not to regenerate, essentially committing suicide rather than regenerate and be kept prisoner by
8277-533: Was able to voluntarily stop both of her hearts beating, to fool the Daleks into believing that she was dead. The Doctor also shows a greater tolerance to cold compared to humans in The Seeds of Doom and " Planet of the Ood " and even Romana in The Ribos Operation , and in " 42 ", the Tenth Doctor states he is able to survive at absolute zero for a short period of time. In " World War Three ",
8370-412: Was described as rare in practice due to their traditional policy of strict non-interference and neutrality. They can act to manipulate timelines of a wide range of events and individuals, so long as they do not cross back into their own timeline. Over subsequent episodes their history, their development of time manipulation, and their internal politics were touched upon, with Time Lord society portrayed as
8463-658: Was lying about at least some of this information to mislead the Sontarans . At the beginning of The Trial of a Time Lord , the Sixth Doctor suggests that a number of elder Time Lords were able to use their combined mental energy to summon his TARDIS against his will. In the episode " Cold Blood ", the Eleventh Doctor experiences excruciating pain when the Silurian attempts to decontaminate him of surface bacteria. The Doctor states this would kill him, most likely due to
8556-697: Was published in 1987. An audiobook of the Target novelisation was released by BBC Audio on 1 July 2021 read by Jon Culshaw and John Leeson. Meglos was released on VHS in April 2003, on DVD in January 2011, and as part of the Doctor Who DVD Files (issue 109) in March 2013. Paddy Kingsland and Peter Howell 's incidental music for the serial was released as part of the compilation album Doctor Who at
8649-465: Was transposed to the lower key of the original theme music. During production of this story, Madame Tussauds in London debuted the "Doctor Who Exhibition". Included were sculptures of both the Fourth Doctor and his Meglos doppelganger. As a result, Tom Baker is the only person to have appeared twice in the wax museum. When writing the 2010 story The Lodger , Gareth Roberts had thought of making it
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