Stuart Hyde, a scientist at the Newton Institute, was aged by the trans-dimensional being known as Kronos. (The Time Monster)
Sergeant Benton was reverted to a bouncing baby boy by the Master’s TOMTIT (Transmission of Matter Through Interstitial Time) experiment. (The Time Monster)
A chicken was hatched and fully grown in an artificial time bubble. Then popped back in its egg. (City of Death)
Professor Theodor Nikolai Kerensky was aged to death in the same temporal field generator. (City of Death)
The Argolin race was prematurely aged thanks to the radioactive atmosphere on the planet Argolis. (The Leisure Hive)
The Fourth Doctor was turned old and grey in the Leisure Hive’s Tachyon Recreation Generator on Argolis. (The Leisure Hive)
Tegan and Nyssa, the Doctor’s companions, contracted a virus from the rogue scientist Mawdryn and both aged rapidly when travelling in time, and also regressed to children. (Mawdryn Undead)
Professor Richard Lazarus created a Genetic Manipulation Device to rejuvenate himself. He succeeded but unfortunately became a hideous, cannibalistic monster. (The Lazarus Experiment)
John Smith didn’t exactly age, but the Doctor’s human counterpart experienced a vision of himself as an old man, dying in his bed. (The Family of Blood)
The Tenth Doctor was aged 100 years by the Master, using stolen DNA and Richard Lazarus’s technology. (The Sound of Drums)
The Tenth Doctor’s ability to regenerate was suspended by the Master, transforming him into a pathetic, wizened creature. (Last of the Time Lords)
Amy Pond was trapped in an accelerated time stream for 36 years. (The Girl Who Waited)
Rory Williams was trapped in a secondary time stream when the entity known as House took over the TARDIS. Rory aged and died there in a matter of minutes. (The Doctor’s Wife)
Along with the Doctor, River and Amy, Rory met a naturally aged version of himself in New York. (The Angels Take Manhattan)
FISH FINGERS AND CUSTARD
‘Box falls out of the sky. Man falls out of a box. Man eats fish custard.’
The Doctor, The Eleventh Hour
Food the Doctor loves… and loathes
LIKES:
Apples (Fourth, Eleventh)
Bananas (Ninth, Tenth)
Celery – it turns purple in the presence of certain gases in the Praxis range of the spectrum. And it’s good for your teeth (Fifth)
Chocolate Easter Eggs (Tenth)
Cocoa (First)
Coffee (Third, Ninth)
Fish fingers and custard (Eleventh)
Fruitcake (Fourth)
Garlic (Fourth)
Ginger beer (Fourth)
Gorgonzola (Third)
Gumblejack (Sixth)
Ice cream (Second)
Jammy dodgers (Eleventh)
Jelly babies (Second, Fourth, Seventh, Eighth)
Lemon sherbets (Second)
Lime and soda (Tenth)
Liquorice Allsorts (Fourth)
Mutton broth and bread (Third)
Patty cake biscuit (Second)
Pomegranates (First)
Porridge with a dash of salt (Fourth)
Pork, potatoes, carrots (Second)
Scones (Eleventh)
Tea – the Third Doctor liked a cup of tea so much that only the Brigadier and the tea lady were allowed into his lab (Terror of the Autons) (Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh)
Wine (Burgundy) (Third)
DISLIKES:
Apples (Eleventh)
Bacon (Eleventh)
Baked beans (Eleventh)
Bread and butter (Eleventh)
Burnt toast (Seventh)
Carrot juice (Sixth)
Carrots (Eleventh)
Pears (Tenth)
Wine (Eleventh)
Yoghurt (Eleventh)
ONE LUMP OR TWO?
The Third Doctor’s sweet tooth sees him stirring a very worrying four spoons (at least!) of sugar into his hot, sweet UNIT tea. (Invasion of the Dinosaurs)
The Ninth Doctor has just two lumps of sugar in his tea. (The Unquiet Dead)
FOOD THE DOCTOR CLAIMS HE INVENTED
Banana Daiquiri (The Girl in the Fireplace)
Pasta (Pond Life)
Yorkshire pudding (The Power of Three)
THE DOCTOR’S ABILITIES
‘Dramatic recitations, singing, tap dancing. I can play the Trumpet Voluntary in a bowl of live goldfish.’
The Doctor, The Talons of Weng-Chiang
Over the years the Doctor has displayed all manner of talents. Although different incarnations have different skills, so far the Doctor has been seen to:
Hypnotise people, with or without fob watches (various)
Perfectly mimic other beings (The Celestial Toymaker)
Regenerate into an entirely new body when his old one is damaged beyond repair or ‘wearing a bit thin’ (various, see The Regeneration Game)
Regenerate the very clothes he’s wearing (The Tenth Planet). He even manages to regenerate a pair of boots into shoes in Logopolis too!
Sense danger. When Dalek agents stole his TARDIS in 20th-century London, the Doctor claimed he could feel his enemies ‘closing in all around’. Of course, he may have just been melodramatic. (The Evil of the Daleks) He’d previously sensed that there was something alien about the Post Office Tower in The War Machines, saying his skin had a pricking sensation, just as it did when Daleks were near.
Resist alien truth machines (The War Games)
Place himself into a coma to recover from certain injuries, such as being grazed by a bullet (Spearhead from Space)
Transmigrate objects such as reels of tape (The Ambassadors of Death)
Withstand considerably more G-force than mere humans (The Ambassadors of Death)
Survive extreme drops in temperature (The Daemons)
Experience premonitions through the medium of dreams (The Time Monster)
React ten times faster than a human – or so he claimed while driving Bessie at speed (The Time Monster)
Telepathically communicate with his TARDIS (The Time Monster)
Link minds with other Time Lords. (The Three Doctors)
Reduce his body temperature to speed up the healing process (Planet of the Daleks)
Escape the effects of manipulated time fields (The Invasion of the Dinosaurs)
Put himself into a trance-like complete sensory withdrawal (The Monster of Peladon)
Type faster than any secretary, human or otherwise (Robot)
Withstand strangulation thanks to his respiratory bypass system (Pyramids of Mars)
Understand foreign and alien languages (The Masque of Mandragora), a Time Lord gift he can share with his companions – although the TARDIS is later revealed to play a part in this (The End of the World)
Survive extreme heat (The Hand of Fear)
Shatter glass by singing a single note (The Power of Kroll)
Detect jumps in time (City of Death)
Mirror-write (City of Death)
Speed-read (City of Death, Rose)
Survive the sub-zero temperatures of space for six minutes (Four to Doomsday)
Bowl a left handed googlie (Four to Doomsday)
Cure concussion in others by tweaking their earlobe (Remembrance of the Daleks)