Part 2 Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide

Welcome to Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide,

where we celebrate 50 years of Doctor Who,

visiting the many incarnations of the eccentric Time Lord,

his travelling companions and, of course, his many foes.

Come with me.

So far on Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide,

we've met six very different incarnations of the Doctor.

-Do you care for a jelly baby?

-Shut up!

We've seen the Cybermen, the Daleks and the Master.

It's me. Ta-da!

And we've looked into the world of the companion.

Do you like my gun?

Still to come - we countdown more Doctors...

Look at the women in the Doctor's life...

And the men.

Sit still. Shut up.

The seventh Doctor, played by Sylvester McCoy

was, on the face of it, a bit of a clown.

I know that woman from somewhere.

I guess my favourite doctor is Sylvester McCoy.

Look at me. I can see.

My doctor was much lighter, Buster Keaton-esque, Chaplin-esque.

Sylvester started off

in a borrowed coat from Colin Baker.

Where am I? Who am I? And who are you?

He may have started in a borrowed coat,

but he soon developed his own unique identity.

His wardrobe was off the scale.

Thank goodness in this regeneration I have

regained my impeccable sense of haute couture.

Like, I loved his hat and his swagger.

HE SIGHS

I think that's quite a good sentence.

He worked with props so well, so like his hat.

And his umbrella.

He plays the spoons, which he always does in everything.

Oh!

McCoy is a brilliant comedic actor.

His Doctor was a kind of trickstery, magician.

-Things don't just vanish.

-No.

But it soon became apparent that under this playful exterior

lay a more complex character.

He had a specific... transformation

within his character.

The more I know me, the less I like me.

I realised when I was playing the role that there was so much

more to this character.

On the surface he's a comical little man

but, underneath that,

he's actually one of the coldest

and most manipulative of the Doctors.

It wasn't until the second series that I think my Doctor became,

started to become more mysterious.

Look me in the eye, pull the trigger.

End my life.

Yes, the seventh Doctor was certainly manipulative.

And in the story The Curse Of Fenric,

he even used his sidekick Ace as a pawn

in the psychological game of chess.

Time for the one final game.

Suddenly, you realise, hang on a minute,

-he's actually using her for his own ends.

-She's an emotional cripple.

I wouldn't waste my time on her, unless I had to use her somehow.

No!

MAN LAUGHS My Doctor did play chess a lot.

There's reasons, but he did stitch her up.

He would be making moves, sometimes hoping, or driving

the opposition into making the moves that would destroy them.

His betrayal of her helps him defeat his foe

and eventually Ace forgives and learns to trust him again.

Where to now, Ace?

-Home.

-Home?

-The TARDIS.

-Yes, the TARDIS.

The mystery had gone as far as I was concerned,

I wanted to bring that back.

That was very important.

I wanted the "Who" to be, you know, the question mark again,

"who is this person?"

The sad clown, McCoy embodied that.

You know, and it works.

It will always work.

Sylvester McCoy.

A wonderful, magical, wizard-like clowning Doctor.

Yeah, terrific.

So the Doctors had a dog...

Goodbye, Master.

-..aliens...

-Goodness me, I'm tired.

And, of course, women for his companions.

It almost feels like there's someone left out.

Of course, it's the boys.

Sit still. Shut up.

Nice to see you again.

-Oh, my God!

-What are you getting at, Doctor?

How could you forget them?

We all know that guys, when they get together,

they're like all a bit more, "Oi, oi..."

THEY LAUGH

One of the Doctor's shortest-lasting companions ever was boy genius, Adam Mitchell.

-Oh, my God!

-The Doctor accepted Adam as a companion at Rose's request.

On your own head.

I think Adam had the potential to be a great companion.

But it wasn't to be.

Adam was a bit of a naughty boy, and the Doctor soon decides to send him

home after he tries to take future technology back to his own time.

-See ya!

-A lot of people always ask me

whether, you know, I would come back in the show.

But I think Adam's two-episode stint was great.

You can't just go, in my head I've got a chip Type II.

My head opens.

Stop it!

But someone who's stuck around a little bit longer was Mickey.

Doctor!

Things started out WHEELIE bad for Mickey.

# I'm a loser, baby... #

He was just very scaredy cat,

very, sort of, scared of his own shadow.

That thing down there, the liquid, Rose, it can talk!

And then you see Mickey starting to change, drastically.

-Nice to see ya.

-Come and have a go!

Just stay where you are, mister.

The name's Mickey. Mickey Smith. Defending the Earth.

Next up, a man who also saved the world once or twice -

time-travelling sex symbol, Captain Jack Harkness.

# Bend me, shape me anyway you want me... #

-Captain Jack Harkness.

-Stop it.

-Maybe later, Blue.

Jack's time seemed to have come to an end

when he was destroyed by Dalek.

Exterminate!

I kind of figured that.

But thanks to a possessed and very scary looking Rose...

I bring life.

Captain Jack was restored to his former glory.

-What happened?

-Rose.

And as a bonus, he was given the gift of immortality.

I'm the man who can never die.

-He's dead.

-HE GASPS, SHE SCREAMS

No, he's going to fry!

And the good thing is, he's not dead for long. I get to kill again.

If you're going to play a character where you're going to be this immortal gung ho,

cool, American guy.

Who's going to say no to that?

One man who Amy Pond couldn't say no to was our most recent male companion, Rory Williams.

-This is Rory, he's a friend.

-Boyfriend.

When Amy vanished the night before the wedding,

Rory obviously had his suspicions about his fiancee's new best friend.

But you're human!

You're Amy, you're getting married in the morning!

Between Amy, the Doctor and Rory...

it's like a love triangle.

Tell you what, you're a lucky man, she's a great kisser. GLASS SMASHES

Got my spaceship, got my boys.

-My work here is done!

-Pfft!

Er, we are not her boys.

Yeah, we are.

I think essentially it became the most dysfunctional family

in all of time and space.

But as their journey went on, Rory showed Amy he could be a hero.

-Heil!

-Heil!

-Can you ride a motorbike?

-I expect so. It's that sort of day.

And to prove how he heroic he was,

he only ever died once...

-Looks aren't everything.

-Twice.

GUNSHOT RINGS OUT

Well, quite a few times, actually.

But I suppose it is kind of hard

to compete with someone

when their boyfriend Rory keeps coming back to life.

That's pretty cool.

He proved himself more than a worthy participant in this three-way

relationship, and cemented his place in Amy's heart by waiting

nearly 2,000 years to see her.

Wow, that's proper love for you.

-How could I leave her?

-Why did you have to be so...

..human?

And finally, of course, Rory got his girl.

-Mr Pond!

-No. I'm not Mr Pond.

That is not how it works.

Yes, it is.

Yeah, it is.

The seventh Doctor's journey came to an end on the streets of San Francisco.

But after some ill-advised, dodgy double open-heart surgery,

the eighth Doctor materialised.

Paul McGann's Doctor, I think, created a wonderful intriguing mystique,

that that sense of when a Doctor is freshly regenerated

and the early hours of behaviour is very erratic, very confused.

He spends the first 10 minutes going, "Who am I?"

And that was an opportunity, of course, to find the costume.

I said, "OK I'll put that on, but I don't want to wear the scarf."

He was elegant. He looked Byron-esque.

A great alien quality as well.

A meteor storm. The sky above us was dancing with light!

Purple, green, red and yellow. Yes!

I think he was quite sweet.

A sweet Doctor.

These shoes - they fit perfect.

Like the fourth Doctor before, the eighth had a love for Jelly babies.

And with his sugar levels shooting through the roof,

the ladies certainly saw him as a bit of eye candy.

Here we go again!

# You're nobody till somebody loves you... #

Paul McGann is the first, but not the last of the romantic Doctors.

He's a dashing, great looking guy.

In a way, one of the first sex symbols and the women went,

"Whoa, this Doctor is absolutely gorgeous."

Yes, this space-travelling stud

was going to take us to a place we'd never been before.

Quite radical at the time.

But my goodness, they've all been at it ever since.

Are you any good at setting alarm clocks?

But not everyone was impressed by the Doctor's new-found sexual appetite.

It turned a bit soapy... Soppy, and soapy.

Grace says that you have a big secret.

I had no conception at all that this chaste kiss was going to cause any bother.

He's an alien. What's he messing around with human women for? For heaven's sake.

But, of course, nor did we realise, in a little way...

we might be pioneers.

You know, Doctor Who had been very successful for nearly 30 years without a canoodle anywhere.

Cos now I just think that now everybody has a kiss, don't they?

There's always snog in Doctor Who, isn't there? Isn't there?

We got there first.

Ground-breaking smooch aside, he was still the Doctor,

and wherever the Doctor may be, trouble is never far behind.

Once the regeneration has happened,

and then realises the Master is also there, he has to save the day.

He's planning to take my body so that he will live and I will die!

But will he make it? We don't know, the clock is ticking.

-And to make things worse, it's New Year's Eve.

-Champagne?

-Grace?

Cos it's a race against time, literally.

Midnight is going to mean the end of everything.

He's got him where he wants him. He keeps him trapped at one point.

Tortures him.

It's the perils of the Doctor.

He becomes a fantastic hero has who saves the universe yet again.

And with the Master sent packing,

it was time for the Doctor to get on his way.

And for us to join him on an incredible journey.

Oh, no, that was it.

The eighth Doctor just about made it into the pantheons of Doctors.

You know what they called me? The longest and the shortest.

I was the Doctor for the longest, just by default.

But I wear the name with pride.

The eighth Doctor's struggle with the Master was just

one of hundreds of battles against alien foes over the years.

Many of which have had us hiding behind the sofa.

Doctor Who would be nothing without all the monsters that he fights.

Harvest the humans!

The fascination with Doctor Who is what monster will it be this week?

From the Autons to the Zygons...

From the Ood to the Judoon...

I would say that my favourite part of Doctor Who is the villains.

The baddies are bad and they're scary.

Yes, they are, they're very scary.

Have you met monsters before?

-Yeah.

-You scared of them?

No, they're scared of me.

My favourite episode is Blink with the Weeping Angels

which was so, so, scary.

Yes, you'd be blinking mad to mess with the Weeping Angels.

These far from angelic statues can send you back in time,

just make sure you keep your eyes open.

My favourite monsters of all time are the Weeping Angels

because they are the scariest.

They just are.

Don't look away. And don't blink!

It was a totally new monster, totally new threat.

And...don't blink?

Scary.

I actually went like that as I watched,

as they kind of did that jump cut.

And their normal method of killing is to send you back in time

and let you live to death.

I can't go past that sort of statue now without taking a side glance.

Can you guess who our next Doctor Who villains are?

Quiet please.

It's the Silence.

I remember.

Some freaky...things, man.

Very frightening.

The Silence are the scariest villains ever.

I need to know about the Silence.

A religious order.

Great power and discretion.

The Silence are enemies from the Doctor's future

and people have travelled back in time in order to kill

the Doctor before he gets there.

That's all he knows about the Silence.

You've been interfering in human issues for thousands of years,

yes, people have suffered and died,

but what's the point in two hearts

if you can't be a bit forgiving now and then.

They've got really long fingers

and when you look away from them you forget that you've seen them.

Oh, man.

They can be there and then you turn away and they're like,

"Oh, I'm fine now."

Argh!

Out of all the monsters and villains the Doctor has battled

throughout his journeys, there is one...

You will be punished for this.

..calculating...

You have the audacity to interrupt one of my experiments.

..tyrannical mastermind who has left his mark on the Doctor's universe.

You have confounded me for the last time!

Davros!

Freaky. He's like the guy with the cat in James Bond.

Davros is the creator of the Daleks.

A scientist from the planet Skaro

who believes that alongside his creations,

he can become the supreme power in the universe.

Welcome to my new empire, Doctor.

He first appeared in our screens in the 1975 adventure

Genesis Of The Daleks.

What was brilliant about him when he first appeared is it put this

human face to the Daleks, that they weren't just a thing that had...

plopped out of nowhere, that they had come from somewhere.

I will go on!

You are insane, Davros!

I think Michael Wisher was the first to play Davros,

and even as a kid you knew he was in a mask and enclosed,

and he was very still and very chilling

and in that sort of pimped out mobility scooter

that looked like the bottom half of a Dalek,

he was really properly frightening and other-worldly, and evil.

Over the last four decades like the proverbial bad penny that he is,

Davros has continuingly reappeared

spouting his dogma of universal conquest

again and again and again.

You did this!

I name you for ever.

You are the destroyer of the worlds!

Argh!

Davros may never become one of the good guys, but in

the modern world of the Doctor, things aren't so black and white.

The bad guys can often turn out to be not so bad.

It's always been the case in Doctor Who that

the Doctor finds good in everything

and some of the creatures he meets are on his side,

and it's not always cut and dried,

there are Ice Warriors who have been on the Doctor's side

that he's allied himself with.

He's very good friends with Strax these days.

Sir, permission to express my opposition to your current apathy.

Permission granted.

I think that's created a subculture of very particular characters,

I don't think that means every Sontaran is going to be a good guy.

I think that's just elaborating the texture of the Doctor Who universe.

He's very good friends with Madame Vastra

who is a Silur and he's had to fight them before.

Nice to see you off your cloud and engaging again.

I'm not engaging again, I'm under attack.

There are lots and lots of creatures out there and whole races

of creatures are bound to throw up everything along the moral spectrum.

Apart from Daleks, they're all bad.

Be exterminated!

Hello.

The Doctor's brand-new, rebooted, 9th incarnation in the shape of

Christopher Eccleston was the ultimate tough guy Time Lord.

He looked like he would have sorted out a couple of nightclub bouncers

on a Friday if you need help.

Leather jacket, short hair.

He made it relevant.

It was just cool. The Doctor was suddenly cool.

MUSIC: "Underdog" by Kasabian

Suddenly here was somebody who looked like a bloke.

Somebody who blended into the background.

So that for a start I thought was wonderful.

No scarves or bow ties here, just a leather jacket

and a come-and-have-a-go attitude.

Are you going to witter on all night?

It wasn't important that he was liked, I liked that.

He looked like a gangster. You know.

-NORTHERN ACCENT:

-I'm not wearing that scarf.

I'm not wearing that twiddle bow tie.

I'm wearing black leather and a T-shirt.

They decided to make it regional, give him a working class accent.

He's northern, so you just feel a bit more scared of him.

He's just got that edge.

Swagger, slightly angry.

Sort of had it up to here with aliens.

I'm busy trying to save the life of every stupid ape

blundering about on top of this planet, all right?

-All right.

-Yes, it is!

We'd almost got to the point where we'd forgotten that there was

a real person inside all those comic book excesses.

What?

But here was a very serious, slightly gloomy hero again,

and he brought genuine proper gravitas

and drama to the part of the Doctor.

And most of that drama came from the Doctor's dark secret.

I just wanted to say how sorry I am.

You did think, "What on earth has happened to him?"

The Doctor was traumatised by his role in The Last Great Time War.

A battle that had wiped out the Daleks, or so he thought.

Doc...

ter..

Impossible.

THE Doctor?

Exterminate! Exterminate!

-Let me out!

-Exterminate!

Sir, it's going to kill him.

It's talking!

You are an enemy of the Daleks!

In one of the most memorable scenes of the series,

it soon becomes apparent that this Dalek is a dud.

It's not working.

Fantastic.

Oh, fantastic!

Powerless.

Look at you.

The great space dustbin. How does it feel?

Get back.

What for?

What are you going to do to me?

If you can't kill, what you good for, eh, Dalek?

Dalek.

What's the point of you?

I was there on set when Chris was doing this scene

and it's kind of a hard thing to do, do you know what I mean?

To talk to an inanimate object and have a sort of duologue with it.

But I think that just shows what an actor Chris is,

that he pulled it off.

Your race is dead.

You all burn, all of you.

Ten million ships on fire.

The entire Dalek race wiped out in one second.

The emotional power that he conveys talking to a Dalek,

I don't think I've ever seen anything quite as strong as that.

You lie!

I watched it happen.

I made it happen!

You destroyed us?

But this Doctor wasn't all grim, northern grit...

MUSIC: "Blurred Lines" by Robin Thicke

This is fantastic.

Fantastic. Fantastic.

Fantastic. Fantastic.

Yes, he had several reasons to be cheerful - apart from a brand-new,

all singing, all dancing TARDIS,

he also introduced us to psychic paper.

Look, I've got an invitation. Look. There, you see it?

It's fine. See. "The Doctor plus one."

I'm the Doctor. This is Rose Tyler, she's my plus one.

Is that all right?

The psychic paper is awesome.

That is something which would be the coolest thing to have in real life.

Shows them whatever I want them to see.

Saves a lot of time.

As a teenager, the damage I would have done with that.

And of course he had his upgraded, slimline sonic screwdriver.

But the most important addition to the ninth Doctor's weaponry

was his new companion Rose.

I think when Billie Piper came in, that kind of changed things,

-you know.

-You look beautiful.

Cos she was pretty to look at, but she was, ah...

..she was mean.

Rose was a great companion.

A very modern companion.

Rose was the companion that it needed to be for the new age.

You see, I'm prepared for anything.

She was just every girl, Jane Bloggs, you know.

-I want chips.

-Me too.

That street kid...but got a job on the TARDIS.

I'm a chav!

See you later, I got a job on the TARDIS, yeah.

But Rose came with baggage.

Mickey.

Fat lot of good you were.

And when she was forced to pick between him and the Doctor...

it was a no-brainer.

The moment the Doctor appeared, Mickey never stood a chance.

I think a lot of women maybe would...

love to be swept off their feet by a mysterious guy...

maybe not in a blue box...

That would be weird.

Did I mention it also travels in time.

Poor Mickey, man, in his Ford Focus.

It's no match for a time machine.

The time machine. Laters.

Rose and the Doctor battled farting aliens...

-FARTS

-Blimey!

..Victorian ghosts and paid a visit to the end of the world.

But wherever they went there were two words that kept cropping up.

Blaidd Drwg.

What's it mean?

Bad Wolf.

But I've heard that before.

Bad Wolf. I've heard that lots of times.

The Bad Wolf storyline, that was very confusing.

Yes, if we're going to talk about the ninth Doctor,

then we have to talk about the Bad Wolf.

The big bad wolf.

You know, all those messages, but we'll come back to that.

Okey-doke.

So, where were we?

When uber-baddies the Daleks turn up,

it appears that nothing can stop them this time.

So the Doctor sends Rose off in the TARDIS to keep her out of harm's way

while he threatens to go kamikaze and blow everyone to smithereens.

I'll do it!

Then prove yourself, Doctor!

What are you - coward or killer?

Well, I guess he wasn't such a tough guy after all.

Coward.

Meanwhile back on Earth, Rose is starting to realise that

maybe this Bad Wolf thing is something to do with her.

It's a link between me and the Doctor.

Bad Wolf here, Bad Wolf there.

Rose knows about the power locked beneath the TARDIS console,

so she and Mickey break it open.

She then looks into the space time vortex which gives her

amazing powers enabling her to save Captain Jack.

And not before she destroys the Daleks and saves the world.

Rose, you've done it. Now stop.

It also gives her the power to leave all those messages through her past

to lead her to become the Bad Wolf.

Like I said before...

It's a message.

..it's a pre-destination paradox.

Ah, it's simple really.

Anyway, it turns out that looking into the time vortex

is really bad for you.

You've got the entire vortex running through your head.

You're going to burn.

But the Doctor won't let Rose die, oh, no.

I think you need a Doctor.

He cheekily nabs himself a kiss from a rose...

which also incidentally saves her life.

He is saving her, but it's obviously a part of him...

..where he actually just wants to...

you know, wants to get some lip on lip action.

Who wouldn't? It's Billie Piper.

Love Billie Piper.

Tell me what's going on.

I absorbed all the energy from the time vortex

and no-one's meant to do that.

Yes, in true heroic fashion,

our fearless Time Lord swallows up the vortex

and kicks off his regeneration.

I'm going to regenerate now. Let's have it.

By the time I got to the end of that series, I was well in there,

I was hooked on Christopher Eccleston.

He brought it back with huge success.

It's a great legacy that he carries.

Christopher Eccleston's Doctor was amazing.

He's exactly what the show needed to make it work.

He owned it. He owned it.

So far in Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide...

we've seen nine of the 11 Doctors in action.

-They've been intelligent...

-It's antimatter.

..courageous,

sometimes a little grumpy...

Mind your own business.

..but always entertaining.

Still to come, our look back at the Doctors has brought us

-slap-bang into the modern era.

-New teeth.

And as we near the end of our journey across the Whoniverse,

we're down to out last two Doctors.

And things begin to get a little darker.

My favourite Doctor...

..it has to be Mr Tennant.

MUSIC: "Yeah Yeah" by Willy Moon

The tenth Doctor came crashing down to Earth with a bang

and a whole new appearance.

Here we are then.

It was awesome.

It was amazing.

He just came in and was like so different.

Good different or bad different?

He's a lot more manic.

Barcelona.

Even in the serious moments.

Ba-da boom!

Someone who looks a certain way and wears soft shoes

and a tight suit

and larks around a bit.

Exuberant.

Very quirky.

Pulled a lot of sort of faces.

New teeth. That's weird.

New teeth.

He was a very joyous, very happy Doctor.

Very energetic Doctor.

But you're also trying to undercut that with the fact that

he's actually 900 years old.

There's steel in there.

I need you to shut up!

Oh, he hasn't changed that much, has he?

Despite his crash landing,

the tenth Doctor took a while

-to actually start doing the usual Doctory stuff.

-Help us.

Please, Doctor.

Help us.

I spent a lot of the Christmas Invasion asleep.

We didn't even get to see what his Doctor was like

until the critical moment came.

But then I get to show off, I don't stop speaking for about five pages.

Did you miss me?

Yes, still in his PJs, he sprang into action

and took on the evil leader of the Sycorax.

I fight an alien on the wing of a spacecraft.

Had my hand chopped off and save the day.

You cut my hand off.

It's an entrance worth waiting for.

Witchcraft!

Want to know the best bit?

This new hand...

is a fighting hand!

The Doc then defeated his sharp-toothed opponent

and offered him an ultimatum.

I'll spare your life if you'll take this champion's command.

Leave this planet.

And never return.

What do you say?

Yes.

Swear on the blood of your species!

I swear.

There we are then. Thanks for that.

Cheers, big fella.

Bravo!

But as well know, you never turn your back on a Sycorax.

Not bad for a man in his jim jams.

And it became clear he wasn't going to be a Time Lord to mess with.

No second chances.

I'm that sort of a man.

He may be apparently affable,

but you shouldn't underestimate what lies beneath.

Am I funny?

When he wasn't being ruthless, the tenth Doctor liked a bit of a laugh.

You are the best because you are so sick.

Allons-y.

Allons-y.

Brilliant. Brilliant. Allons-y.

Allons-y.

It's French for let's go.

David's a true fan.

I'm brilliant.

And it was genuine.

His own personal joy just to be...

You knew he loved being there.

He wouldn't have wanted to be anywhere else.

You're stone-cold brilliant.

But the tenth Doctor's reign more than any previous Doctor

was defined by his relationship with the ladies.

He loves playing with Earth girls.

This is...very unfairly levelled at the tenth Doctor,

That he was chasing lots of women.

He absolutely wasn't.

We make quite a couple.

Any kisses that he may have had in the series,

none of them are romantic.

Oh, yeah?

Women may have fallen for him, but it didn't work the other way around.

He was scrupulous.

Hold on a minute.

There was Lady Christina, Madame de Pompadour and uh...

You must be Malcolm.

Even Malcolm.

Oh, I love you.

He deserves a bit of love in his life.

I love you.

But most importantly there was Rose.

The Doctor and Rose was a love story really

without any sexual element.

Because that would be wrong, they were...

clearly devoted to each other.

I always think the Doctors and their companions end up closer

when they've seen him regenerate.

It's almost like they know him in an intimate way.

And Rose just got to him and they had a very unconventional love story

certainly, but I think that's what it was.

The whole story of David Tennant's Doctor with Rose was just

so moving and wasn't it like suddenly the Doctor just came out

of nowhere, fell in love with his companion and they started snogging.

It was really beautifully done.

Like all good love stories, it ends in desperate tragedy.

When Rose was thrust into a different universe,

the Doctor makes the journey over,

allowing Rose to say the words she'd longed to say.

They get to say the goodbye they were robbed of...

..when they parted.

So in the end there was a tearful farewell

and the chance to express their feelings.

I love you.

Quite right too.

Rose tells him that she loves him.

But the Doctor doesn't quite manage to say it back.

And I suppose...

..it's my last chance to say it.

Rose Tyler...

After the heartache of the departure of Rose,

it took the Doctor ages to find some...

Fancy going out?

-Oh, no, it didn't.

-OK.

Medical student Martha Jones was the next to fall for

the Doctor's charms.

And not before long she was finding

the good looking Gallifreyan irresistible.

And if you will wear a tight suit...

Now, don't!

..and then travel all the way across the universe

-just to ask me on a date...

-Stop it.

But with a new girl there's one thing you never do...

There's something I'm missing, Martha.

Something really close.

Rose would know.

..mention the ex.

I felt a bit sorry for Martha cos she was so into him

and he'd just bang on about Rose.

A friend of mine,

Rose, right now, she'd tell you exactly the right thing.

Can't you see how she's in front of your eyes?

With Martha we got to see in a way the fact that he couldn't understand

what she was looking for, that sort of alienness.

It didn't happen. Never mind.

Yes, alas, although he had two hearts,

there was no room in either of them for his new companion.

But things were complicated

and Doctor yearned for something more simple...

I just want a mate.

..a friend without benefits.

You just want to mate?

I just want A mate!

You're not mating with me, sunshine.

A MATE! I want A mate!

Well, just as well because I'm not having any of that nonsense.

With Donna, who just was his kind of mate

and they rolled about the universe together having a laugh.

And that was so clever because it was completely different

kind of companion you got with the character of Donna.

Yes, Donna Noble abandoned her nuptials for a life in the TARDIS.

And it was clear from the start that this was one girl

who wouldn't be giving the Doctor an easy ride.

Why are you dressed like that for?

I'm going ten pin bowling.

Why do you think, dumbo?!

Before long the self-proclaimed best temp in Chiswick

found herself battling giant insects and even brained the odd Sontaran.

Back of the neck.

That button there.

But in her finest hour she defeated Davros and saved the universe.

Bio electric dampening field with a retrogressive arc inversion.

Exterminate her!

Oh, yes.

That was a two-way biological Meta-Crisis.

Half Doctor.

Half Donna.

Doctor Donna.

For Donna to turn into Doctor Donna right at the end

and her have the whole explosion of her brain,

she suddenly sees the universe as the Doctor sees it and it is great.

-Ha!

-Someone going to tell us what's going on?

He poured all his regeneration energy into his spare hand.

I touched the hand.

He grew out of that, but that fed back into me.

But it just lay dormant in my head till the synapses got that

little extra spark kicking them into life.

A Time Lord's brain isn't for mere mortals however,

and Donna began to malfunction.

Shall we go and see Charlie Chaplin? Shall we?

Charlie Chester. Charlie Brown.

No, he's fiction. Friction. Fiction. Fixing. Mixing. Rixton. Brixton.

The Doctor realised that it was

the end of the road for this relationship.

Donna's farewell, I felt was more upsetting, it was more devastating.

Oh, Donna Noble, I am so sorry.

The fact that she's gone on this journey

and she's seen so many things.

But we had the best of times.

She's grown as a person.

-Goodbye.

-No. No!

And so the Doctor was forced to wipe Donna's memory.

I'm just going.

Yeah, see ya.

And Doctor Donna became plain old Donna from Chiswick again.

But he had plenty of other stuff to keep himself occupied.

During his time-travels, he fought old foes, the Cybermen.

Davros and the Daleks.

Tangled with Professor Lazarus.

Battled some mouth-watering Martians.

And there was an encounter with

the Weeping Angels you simply couldn't take your eyes off.

In one episode he even joined forces with legendary former companion

Sarah Jane Smith and K-9.

But in the history of Doctor's downfalls,

the story of the demise of the tenth is a hard one to beat.

It stretches back to a prophecy foretold

by those handsome chaps the Ood.

I think your song must end soon.

Meaning?

Every song must end.

Yeah.

Your song is ending, sir.

The next bearer of bad news was a psychic that

-the Doctor met on a bus.

-He will knock four times.

So by the time he next caught up with Donna's grandfather Wilf,

the Doctor was feeling pretty grim about his future.

I'm going to die.

He will knock four times.

That was the prophecy.

It appeared that the four knocks were

the handiwork of his fellow Time Lords on Gallifrey.

The heartbeat of a Time Lord.

The Time Lords retrospectively placed this beat in the Master's head

and they used that as a beacon to pull themselves out of the Time War.

You sticking with this?

Never ever stops, the drumming, Doctor, the constant drumming...

And after a ferocious battle with the Time Lords and the Master,

the Doctor was the last man standing.

I'm still alive.

Turns out that the four knocks are Wilf

asking to be let out of a radiation box.

Something much more mundane but of course for the Doctor,

much more tragic.

I can do so much more.

So much more!

David Tennant's exit was a classic Doctor Who exit,

he sacrificed himself.

But then who wouldn't sacrifice themselves to save Bernard Cribbins?

It's my honour...

I think that is the epitome of the Doctor to do that.

Better be quick.

Three, two, one.

And so the tenth Doctor's time was up.

David, I think, it was the first time you saw his two hearts.

It's the battle between the good side and bad side,

but I think that's the internal battle of the Doctor.

He quite outrageously sort of made this sexy, cool, cheeky Doctor,

almost the ladies' man and he was properly cool.

Female population of the world...

"Oh, Doctor Who."

It shone and what's more it inspired everybody else.

And that was such a radical departure for the old Time Lord.

Ten regenerations, countless villains,

adventures and companions later,

yes, it's time to meet the present owner of the TARDIS.

It's the 11th Doctor.

Hello.

My favourite Doctor is Matt Smith.

When I heard that they were going to get a 12-year-old to play Doctor Who,

I was like, "No, you can't go for young!"

But then when Matt came along...he was terrific.

Things. Hello. What kind of things?

Interesting things. I love things. Ask anyone.

I love that energy. It's youthful, of course.

He's like a boffin and an action hero at the same time.

I think he captures the character perfectly.

You only live once.

I think he was just born to play that role.

So what's the 11th Doctor actually like then?

Spontaneous, I would say.

I'd say he's one of the sillier versions of the character.

Christmas Eve on a rooftop, saw a chimney,

my whole brain just went, "What the hell?"

I love the sheer brilliance of his physical comedy.

Reminds me of a silent screen comedian.

I love how he does this...

He definitely played up the alien aspect.

Time isn't a straight line, it's all bumpy-wumpy.

There's loads of boring stuff like Sundays and Tuesdays

and Thursday afternoons.

He's just so...not of Earth.

The 11th Doctor has also become known

for having an interesting sense of fashion.

Bow ties are cool.

Bow ties are cool.

Yeah?

-Nice bow tie.

-Thanks.

Bow ties are cool.

He is somewhere on the bow tie axis

between Indiana Jones and Stan Laurel.

-You look a bit like Matt Smith.

-I think that's why I like him,

I think, "Ooh, I could be this Doctor."

Glasses are cool, see.

Matt Smith and his quiff.

Yeah, he's got a bit of a quiff.

It's a wicked fashion sense.

Fez, I wear a fez now.

Fezzes are cool.

Fezzes are cool.

I can buy a fez.

The Doctor who genuinely believes he's cool and is utterly wrong.

Who da man?

Oh... So, never saying that again. Fine.

The 11th Doctor has faced a fraught time in the TARDIS,

and has been taken to darker places than any previous Doctor before him.

Argh!

But with his time in the TARDIS shortly to come to an end,

where did it all start?

Well, it all began with a little girl called Amy Pond.

The Doctor literally crashed into Amy's life.

I mean, he was in a spaceship that fell out of the sky and crashed

into her back garden when she was a little girl, only seven years old.

For any seven-year-old,

that's going to be the best thing that's ever happened.

I'm the Doctor.

Do everything I tell you, don't ask stupid questions,

and don't wander off.

The Doctor has just regenerated, which always leaves him a bit mad,

a bit manic.

They had a really lovely time together,

and they ate fish fingers and custard at the same time.

I need...fish fingers...

and custard.

Fish fingers and custard actually does sound like a nice meal.

I'd eat that.

But no sooner had he turned up, the Doctor was gone again,

leaving Amy wondering where her raggedy man had disappeared to.

And then he went away for five minutes and came back,

like 14, 15 years later.

Which is going to have an effect on a person and how they turn out.

-You're a police woman?

-I'm a kissagram.

-You're Amelia.

-You're late.

-Amelia Pond, you're the little girl?

I'm Amelia and you're late.

With our hero back on Earth...

Amy and the Doctor didn't waste any time,

and got straight to the business of fighting aliens.

And in his first extraterrestrial encounter,

the 11th Doctor showed us that he's not a Time Lord to be trifled with.

The Doctor's competition with the Atraxi is sort of the moment

where he's finally got his mojo back.

I'm the Doctor.

'And that's when he's properly arrived.'

Run.

So, once he's scared off the aliens and got the key to his TARDIS,

there was only one thing left to do.

Get himself a companion.

And Amy seemed to fit the bill.

Amy was a kick-ass companion.

I mean, I hope - is it bad to say that myself?

She certainly was. She had to fiercely do battle with vampires...

Weeping Angels...

and, of course, the Daleks.

My friend reckons you're dangerous. Is it true?

I wouldn't say she was totally fearless,

but she certainly dealt with her fears really well.

Yes, this was one fiery redhead

who certainly knew the meaning of swashbuckling.

Amy, what are you doing?

Saving your life. OK with that, are you?

Put down the sword, a sword could kill us all, girl.

Yeah, thanks, that's actually why I'm pointing it at you.

But through Amy's adventures we discover an ugly side to the Doctor,

when he leaves an older version of Amy behind to save her younger self.

So, he's very silly and funny, but at the same time,

there's a sort of dark side.

I trusted you!

We learn more about the character, and learn more about the dark side.

Nobody talk to me. Nobody human has anything to say to me today!

I mean, if you've been round the block as much as the Doctor has,

and you've encountered as much evil as he has,

it may have rubbed off on you.

Then, in The Pandorica Opens,

a legion of his enemies conspire to lock him away for eternity.

The Pandorica.

More than just a fairy tale.

The Pandorica is the greatest prison in all of the universe,

and it was actually created especially to put the Doctor in.

In The Pandorica Opens, as it works out, all the Doctor's enemies

have got together and realised that the end of the universe is coming,

and it's going to be caused by the Doctor.

We will save the universe...from you!

Seal the Pandorica.

No!

Please, listen to me!

Listen to me!

But then, the Doctor being the Doctor,

manages to get himself out of the situation

and ends up putting Amy in as a form of protection.

Little young Amy, played by my cousin, Caitlin,

manages to open the Pandorica, and then finds her older self inside.

And it was a cool moment.

OK, kid. This is where it gets complicated.

Speaking of complicated,

the other important figure in the 11th Doctor's story was River Song.

Who's River Song?

She's a time-traveller...

who kicks arse.

Tip for you all...

..never shoot a girl while she's regenerating.

When the Doctor first meets River Song,

she's someone from his future.

-What is it, though?

-Her diary.

-Our diary.

-Her past, my...future.

She's extremely flirtatious with him.

She knows his name.

And she behaves like she owns him, and it's very hard to resist the

impression that what you're meeting is, at some level,

the Doctor's wife.

You may kiss the bride.

I'll make it a good one.

But not only was she the time-traveller's wife,

she had another bombshell to drop.

Rory and Amy are her parents.

I'm your daughter.

And when the Doctor found her grave,

he still found time for a smooch with River's ghost.

I guess that's a timey-wimey relationship for you.

Since nobody else can see you, God knows how that looked.

So, the 11th Doctor certainly loved his wife.

But he also had a vengeful side.

Give 'em hell, Danny boy.

I want people to call you Colonel Runaway.

I want children laughing outside your door,

cos they've found the house of Colonel Runaway.

And when people come to you and ask if trying to get to me

through the people I love...

He's a man of immense power if he chooses to use it.

Look, I'm angry, that's new.

I'm really not sure what's going to happen, now.

And there are times when his great rage

and his impatience can overtake him.

Take it!

Take it all, baby!

Have it!

You have it all!

River always says,

"You can't be on your own, you need someone to limit you."

You make them so afraid.

When you began, all those years ago,

sailing off to see the universe, did you ever think you'd become this?

Realising that there were a lot of people out to get him,

he conjured up a plan...

to fake his own death.

Amy! Stay back!

A master of escapology he may have been,

but one of the things he wasn't so good at was being on his own,

as we found out when his companions' journey came to an end.

Amy and Rory had the saddest farewell from the Doctor.

The Doctor, Amy and Rory have a huge battle with the Weeping Angels

in New York, and then when they think that it's all done,

at the last moment, a Weeping Angel gets Rory.

# I hear the angels talking talking, talking... #

Doctor?!

Amy is left with a choice, she can essentially commit suicide

or have herself zapped back in time to be with her husband.

Just come back into the TARDIS.

Or she could stay with the Doctor, and she chooses Rory, her husband,

and sacrifices herself to a Weeping Angel.

Goodbye.

In a moment, in a heartbeat, they're dead and gone,

then it's just utterly wretched for him again.

He knows, because he's such a long-lived time-traveller,

that all friendship is deferred bereavement,

as far as he's concerned. It's going to happen, he's going to lose them.

He moves and moves and moves, cos if he stopped, it would...

He would be very, very upset about all the things that he's...

All the people he's lost along the way.

The Doctor shouldn't be alone.

The Doctor can't be alone.

And he wasn't alone for long

before he had a new travelling companion.

Clara.

Doctor Who?

The Doctor first met Clara after she'd been turned into a Dalek,

but she died.

Then, as a Victorian nanny, again, she died.

She died, both times. The same woman!

So, by the third time,

the Doctor was desperate not to make it a hat-trick.

When he meets her again and gets a third chance to save her,

he knows there's a mystery to solve here.

How can he have met the same person three times?

Right then, Clara Oswald.

Time to find out who you are.

Clara is, on the surface, very, very sweet.

Doctor...

Bit of a control freak.

You're the boss.

Am I?

No. No!

And when she confronts the 11th Doctor,

she finds someone she can manipulate quite easily.

We don't walk away.

She doesn't want to be on the Doctor's arm

and just running around the universe with him being a sidekick.

I would like to see... What I would like to see is...

..something awesome.

But their Doctor-companion relationship developed,

and it was with Clara

that the Doctor found himself facing his ultimate fate.

His friends are lost for evermore unless he goes to Trenzalore.

It's his grave,

the one place he must never go in the universe is his own grave.

Welcome to the tomb of the Doctor.

Genuinely freaked and frightened by it.

This a man who travels into the past and the future all the time,

but on this occasion,

he's travelling into the furthest recess of his own future.

It turns out that that clever-clogs, the Great Intelligence,

was planning to wipe the Doctor from history,

by jumping into his timeline.

But Clara had other ideas.

When she sees the Doctor's timeline and realises the only way

to save the Doctor is to go into the timeline and repair it...

Clara...

I don't know where I am.

Clara!

I just know I'm running.

I love the bit where Clara jumped into the timeline,

because she's another feisty, brave young character, you know?

I love her, she's brilliant.

And it's here we start to realise just how important Clara is.

This is the point at which she will shatter into many different

versions of herself and become the girl that keeps saving him

throughout his life, helping him choose the TARDIS,

helping him survive at every point.

Always I'm running to save the Doctor, again and again and again.

And, hidden in his timeline,

Clara finds the Doctor's deepest, darkest secret.

He has to keep something back.

We've always thought we've seen every moment of his life,

seen every face that he's had.

There's a place that...even his closest companions can't go there.

But at the end of The Name Of The Doctor,

we realise there's one more Doctor he simply doesn't talk about,

who somehow doesn't even count as the Doctor,

and that version of himself is played by John Hurt.

So, we've come to the end of our journey across 50 years

of Doctor Who.

And we've seen the many faces of our time-travelling hero.

From the action man to the joker.

Am I funny?

From the boffin to the dandy.

From the lothario to the tough guy.

I am a Time Lord.

We've got to know this complex

and unique hero of science fiction a little better.

Would you care for a jelly baby?

Don't I know you?

Come on then!

Absolutely fantastic.

That's absolutely splendid.

Wait a minute...

You did this!

Gotcha.

And whatever the future holds for our beloved Doctor,

we can only hope it's going to be as mesmerising

and full of wonderment as the last 50 years.

I'll just be off, then.

I remember now.

I remember everything.

It's like seeing it all for the first time.

Seeing me, me...

The Doctor.

11 faces, hundreds, thousands of years of space and time.

And now it's all back in there again.

Ready for our proper holiday?

I don't know if I deserve a holiday -

you know, I don't know if I deserve anything.

Not knowing was good.

It was a relief.

So much death, so many...

..friends I've lost.

I mean, how do I carry on?

Because...

Because you've saved billions of lives,

and every time you go to a place and there's something wrong,

you could turn and run, but you don't.

You never do.

You stay. You help.

Wouldn't ANYONE stay and help?

No! And because you don't know that,

and because you'll never understand it,

-that, my friend, is what makes you the Doctor.

-Ooh.

And that's why you'll never stop.

-You've made me feel better.

-You make everything better.

Now, listen. Don't get soppy,

I will not have soppiness in the TARDIS, young lady.

Right! OK...

Let's go on holiday, shall we?

-Hold tight.

-Woo!