Doctor Who
Summary
Doctor Whois a serial publication that is built around enigma , but some characters have leave looker with more questions than solution and have yet to be explained . Doctor Whofirst began send in 1963 on the BBC , and in the 60 old age since it ’s release , there have been hundred of episode . The show follows an extraterrestrial being who travels through fourth dimension and infinite along with a few especial comrade who help him on his adventures . However , despite the Doctor ’s vast knowledge , some things in the show stay on a enigma .
The Doctor has a detailed cognition of many events and position throughout all of prison term and space . This , of course , include many well - cognize figures across the Galax urceolata , but the show has sport several character who were never explained . While it is potential for any of these characters to return in a future adventure and have their chronicle lastly revealed , it ’s also possible that they will perpetually remain a enigma lost in time .
Doctor Who time of year 1 mavin Billie Piper addresses the potential difference of the Doctor ’s beloved Rose Tyler ever returning to the show in next episodes .
8The Doctor’s Parents
Who Raised The Time Lord?
Doctor Whois one of the foresightful running video showsof all time , but the Doctor ’s personal history remain a mystery , including his lineage . The Doctor has made very few references to his own parent , but there have been a few conflicting accounts about his origins . The Doctor has mentioned receive Time Lord parent , being raise in an academy , and being in a stately kinsperson among the Time Lords on Gallifrey . In accession , the show has also recently let in a plot line where the Doctor was let out to be a " Timeless Child " from a orphic universe .
And consideringDoctor Who’shistory of leaving some affair as a mystery , it may never be .
However , with Russell T Davies ' 60th Anniversary episodes have the Celestial Toymaker , it seem that this narrative has been wind into a large mythology . Whether the Doctor was a mystery story child from outside of the universe who suddenly appeared on Gallifrey and was experimented on by Tecteun , or their origins are a small less outside of the box has yet to be full explained . And consideringDoctor Who’shistory of leaving some things as a secret , it may never be .
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One of Doctor Who ’s prominent villains , the Master , has torment the Doctor for decades , and each embodiment became a staple in the show ’s story .
7Susan’s Mother
A Family Mystery On Gallifrey
Susan Foreman was the Doctor ’s first companion on the series when the show began in 1963 . In addition , she was one of the few fellow traveller he had who was also a Time Lord , and the only one who was a direct descendant . In the pilot instalment , " An Unearthly minor , " and subsequent story , the fact thatSusan is the Doctor ’s granddaughteris made unclouded . While some official books refer to Susan ’s founder being a cardinal on Gallifrey , her mother is more mysterious .
It has never been fully elucidate which of Susan ’s parents is the Doctor ’s child . The Doctor has made several references to being a father throughout the show , in both the Hellenic series and since the revival in 2005.However , since Susan left the TARDIS gang , there had been no more information shared about her parents , even when she returned on two disjoined occasions during the definitive era . With nothing to go on , and the serial publication keep the Doctor ’s family relationships vague , it ’s unbelievable that more information about Susan ’s female parent will ever be revealed .
6The Valeyard
Friend, Foe, or figment of the Doctor’s past?
In 1986 , when the Sixth Doctor was put on trial on Gallifrey during the serial , " The Trial of a Time Lord , " the Doctor is being prosecute by a Time Lord referred to as the Valeyard . While many other Time Lords have come and gone during the series , the Valeyard remain a particular mystery . During the episode , the Master reveals that the Valeyard is really a future variation of the Doctor . This was a shocking melodic theme , thatthe Doctor was being put on trial and actively fighting a version of himself , but the details about how or why this was remained minimal .
evidently , the Valeyard was in reality a combine version of the Doctor ’s dour sides from a point in his future timeline . However , nothing else is ever see of the Valeyard after appear in the short hardening of episodes he featured in . With the end of the Time Lord ’s just a few regenerations later , it is unclear where and when this version of the Doctor could have been create , or how he was create .
Over the years , Doctor Who has been no alien to release resume and comedic specials , whether in the name of Polemonium van-bruntiae , or simply just for fun .
The latest Doctor Who series introduces the Fifteenth Doctor, joined by new companion Ruby Sunday.
5The Watchers
Guardians of the Web of Time
viewer are another whodunit within theDoctor Whouniverse that have only appear once in the show . beforehand ofthe Fourth Doctor’sregeneration in " Logopolis , " he encounters his own Watcher , and was able-bodied to talk with them . witness are potential re-formation of Time Lords , in a state that seems to be flummox between the previous version and the next . It ’s uncommon for a Watcher to arrive , and much less converse with a Time Lord , so the information about the anomaly or why they come out is passing limited .
Why these organism exist and appear sometimes is a mystery .
When a Watcher does look , it is ordinarily around the time that a Time Lord will revitalize , and they sometimes merge with the Time Lord during the regeneration cognitive process . Why these beings exist and come out sometimes is a enigma . As is why they are not present for every regeneration . There has been much venture that the Valeyard is a Watcher , although , his coming into court and his ability to self - sustain and exist outside of the moment of a regeneration may expose this sentiment .
4The Woman At The End Of Time
A Harbinger of Doom or a Distant Echo?
During RTD ’s first tenure as showrunner , he introduce several characters and ideas that became a part ofDoctor Wholore . However , some of these grapheme slipped through the cracks and were never refer again after their first visual aspect . One such fictitious character that had a apparently crucial function duringDavid Tennant ’s stint as the Tenth Doctorwas the mystery woman who stay fresh appear ahead of Tennant ’s re-formation . Her concluding appearance come in the episode " The End of Time , " where she locks eyes with the 10th Doctor , but no Scripture are exchanged .
When the episode was filmed , RTD told the actress that her role was to be the position of mother of the Doctor ( viaThe Telegraph ) , the show never officially confirmed this . There are other theory about the identity of the woman , indicate she could be Susan , Romana , or any other Time Lady from the Doctor ’s yesteryear . disregardless of her exact identity , it was exculpated that she had a connexion with the Doctor .
Dr. Who has create oodles of in - jest with viewer over its 60 geezerhood on the air , with many running jokes established from the very beginning .
3Jenny
The Doctor’s (Sort Of) Daughter - A Genetic Anomaly?
Technically speaking , the origins behind Jenny and who she is are made dead unmortgaged when she appears in " The Doctor ’s Daughter . “On the planet Messaline , the Doctor and Martha are introduced to two race of aliens who have been at war for generation . Despite the fact that generation have been bear and kill , the stallion of this ongoing war has happen in the space of a few days . This was made possible by the use of a special engineering science used by both mintage to make hereditary descendants almost instantaneously .
The automobile used some of the Doctor ’s DNA in rescript to create a new person , and what came out the other side , was Jenny . Jenny has shine law of similarity to the Doctor in terms of her personality and values , and later in the instalment , it ’s revealed that she possesses at least some of his regenerative property as well . However , the secret come from where Jenny vanish . After that undivided installment , she never give . take RTD was the showrunner at the time , hopefully , Jenny will return in a future sequence and the mystery revealed .
2The Curator
The Doctor’s Future, a Past Incarnation, or Something Else Entirely?
The Curator made his launching inDoctor Whoduring the fiftieth anniversary special , " The Day of the Doctor . “While the eccentric may appear slightly eccentric and may not immediately stand out to modern earned run average viewers , the grapheme is toy by one of themost pop Dr. ’s of the classic era , Tom Baker . In summation , the character displayed several outstanding similarities to the Fourth Doctor , whom Baker played , offer the Doctor a jelly baby and talking in a similar beat and tone to the previous incarnation .
The Curator remains a mystery , however , considering the type was clearly a much older version of the Fourth Doctor than had ever appeared on the show . RTD has suggested that with late developments like the bigeneration of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Doctor , this could offer an explanation for the Curator ’s existence as some sort of alternating variation of the Fourth , but this is strictly musings by RTD rather than canon in the show .
Doctor Who has featured a long list of primary role in its 60 - twelvemonth run , with some of the primary actors even appearing in multiple roles .
1Reapers
Enigmatic Enforcers of Time - Balancing the Scales or Something More Sinister?
The giant flying monsters that ate the Doctor in this episode have never been look or referenced again .
The Reapers are another creation of RTD ’s which appeared in the very first time of year of the revived show in 2005,during the episode " Father ’s Day . " The Reapers look when Rose Tyler go away back in time to contact her father , Pete , and decides to change history by save Pete ’s biography . In the episode , they are explained as being creatures that feed on secular paradox . However , the giant fly monsters that ate the Doctor in this episode have never been seen or referenced again .
The Doctor has had several more representative where paradoxes have been introduced , with only a few offering some sort of account about how they can be support . Yet , in every other happening , the Reapers have never been look again . The reason for their appearance around Rose ’s saving of her father and their lack of appear in any other sequence is fox , but it remains a mystery ofDoctor Whoto this present moment , despite the paradox that not have them return also creates .
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The modish Doctor of the Church Who series preface the Fifteenth Doctor , joined by new fellow traveller Ruby Sunday .
