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| Sixth Doctor | |
| Also known as: | |
| Race: | Gallifreyan (Time Lord) |
| Home Planet: | Gallifrey |
| Home Era: | Rassilon Era |
| Appearances: | Full List of Appearances |
| Actor: | Colin Baker |
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The Doctor regenerated for a fifth time after exposure to spectrox and contracting the fatal spectrox toxaemia disease on the planet Androzani Minor. He had given his companion, Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown, the last of the antidote, leaving none left for himself. He remarked in his final moments that the regeneration felt "different this time". (DW: The Caves of Androzani)
Following this regeneration, he suffered from a particularly unstable personality and even attempted to throttle Peri to death. The Doctor then decided to exile himself on Titan III, but soon got involved with stopping Mestor and his gastropods. On Titan III he also met another Time Lord, his old friend Azmael. Throughout, he experienced extreme lows to bouts of near-insanity and violence. (DW: The Twin Dilemma)
After a short time, the Doctor's personality settled down into an extremely large ego with a side of compassion only experienced by his closest friends. He set out to fix everything wrong with his aging TARDIS and succeeded in fixing its broken chameleon circuit. For a brief time, it managed to change shape. (DW: Attack of the Cybermen)
Peri must have parted company with the Doctor for a short amount of time; however, the Doctor stumbled upon Whifferdill calling himself "Avan Tarklu," a private investigator set upon the Doctor as revenge by Josiah W. Dogbolter. Initially the Doctor's tormentor, the whifferdill decided to travel with the Doctor, changing his name to Frobisher and his shape to that of a large, rather cartoonish penguin. (DWM: The Shape Shifter)
Peri and Frobisher would travel together with the Doctor for periods of time, between taking breaks from him.
During an adventure on the planet Thoros Beta, the Doctor and Peri were forcibly separated by the Time Lords. Peri remained on the world in dire peril of having of the Mentor Kiv's mind transferred into her body. Meanwhile, a council of Time Lords forced the Doctor into his TARDIS and made the ship re-materialize in the Space Station Zenobia. (DW: Mindwarp)
The Valeyard (as he learned later both enemy and, in some sense, the Doctor himself) acted as prosecutor and there was an Inquisitor, Darkel. Because he had been taken out of time, the Doctor suffered from partial amnesia. He found himself once again on trial for interfering in the affairs of the universe. He elected to represent himself in the trial, for which he and his prosecutor, the Valeyard, would present events from his life as evidence via the Matrix. (DW: The Mysterious Planet, Mindwarp) The Doctor suffered a severe emotional blow as he witnessed the apparent destruction of Peri's mind and her physical death on Thoros Beta. (DW: Mindwarp)
After a recess, the Doctor would have the opportunity to present a case for defending himself, presenting an adventure from his own future, by which time he had met an Earth woman Melanie "Mel" Bush. The Valeyard seized on this as a chance to try the Doctor for the genocide of the Vervoids, prohibited by Article 17 of the Constitution. (DW: Terror of the Vervoids)
The Valeyard had falsified some of the evidence (which included the supposed death of Peri) with the aid of the High Council, in order to cover up a conspiracy which the Doctor had unknowingly uncovered. By this time, though, the Doctor had gradually won Darkel over to his side.
The Valeyard schemed to steal the Doctor's remaining regenerations with the help of the corrupt Council. Paradoxically (because in the Doctor's timeline, he had not met her yet) Mel was brought to the trial as a witness, as well as Sabalom Glitz. The Doctor's enemy, the Master, intervened. As the populace of Gallifrey reacted to news of the dishonesty of their High Council, they seemed ready to overthrow their leaders. Subsequently, Darkel suggested the Doctor as the new Lord President, but the Doctor suggested that Darkel herself would make for a better choice. The Doctor left in his TARDIS with Mel. The Valeyard, apparently killed inside the Matrix, had actually survived. (DW: The Ultimate Foe)
The Doctor travelled to Bianca's Bar and became involved in a problem concerning Iris Wildthyme. (BFA: The Wormery)
He spent some time on the planet Torrok, determined to become a hermit and avoid becoming the Valeyard by avoiding meeting Mel; however, he was interrupted in this venture. He eventually met a young man, Grant Markham. (MA: Time of Your Life)
The Doctor (at some point after his trial) was tracking nexus point distortion and encountered Evelyn Smythe. The Doctor then took her back in time to stablise the nexus point and save her life. (BFA: The Marian Conspiracy)
At some point after his travels with Evelyn but before meeting Mel, the Doctor picked up a distress signal from a desert island in the year 500,002. There he rescued a young girl named Charley Pollard who, unbeknownst to the Doctor, was, in fact, the companion of one of his later incarnations. (BFA: The Condemned)
It is confirmed that the Doctor reunited with Jamie McCrimmon and travelled with him for a time, but the details of these adventures have yet to be revealed.[1]
The Doctor met Melanie Bush on a beach in Brighton in 1989. Mel was a computer programmer. She elected to travel with the Doctor for some time, until the end of the Doctor's sixth regeneration. (PDA: Business Unusual)
The Sixth Doctor ended up regenerating after the Rani blasted his Tardis with a Tractor Beam causing him to regenerate into his Seventh Form. (DW: Time and the Rani)
The sixth incarnation of the Doctor is probably the most consistently arrogant, and certainly the most bombastic. He almost never doubted his own ability, and considered himself greatly superior to nearly everyone he encountered. This included his companions, especially Peri, though he seemed to have mellowed during his time with Evelyn. More than his other incarnations, the Doctor could be something of a fatalist, more than once deciding he was doomed and resolving to accept his fate.
Physically, he is very tall; Mel also considered him to be overweight, and forced him to take up both a diet (consisting mainly of carrot juice) and an exercise regime, neither of which he felt he needed. (DW: Terror of the Vervoids)
The Sixth Doctor was unpredictable. Arrogant and self-absorbed, stubborn and childish, argumentative and tasteless, he could often be seen as un-likeable or even loathsome. At other times, he could be seen as melodramatic. This was a Doctor who did not suffer fools gladly; he sometimes seemed to endure his Companion's presence far more than he actually appreciated it, and held himself as superior to almost anyone he encountered. But the new incarnation's brash exterior hid the fact that this was a Doctor more determined than ever to defeat the evil he encountered. He was possessed of a tenacity and a thirst to do what was right that was far more visible than ever before. Despite his often unstable demeanour, he was always quick to act when the situation called for it, and very little -- even his Companions -- could hope to get in his way.
It was during this incarnation that in some instances he began to see the logic in murder. (EDA: Alien Bodies) This might be reflected by how he seems to be a bit more accepting of violence in certain circumstances. While his physical attack on Peri can be attributed to a post-regenerative crisis, he reacted with humour after witnessing two men fall to their death in an acid bath (DW: Vengeance on Varos) - rumours that he pushed them in are unfounded. Most notably, he smothered Shockeye to death in self defence. (DW: The Two Doctors). Peri sometimes appeared nervous around the Doctor (DW: Attack of the Cybermen, Timelash), perhaps due to his initially erratic behaviour (or possibly as-yet unchronicled incidents).
The Sixth Doctor was very fond of cats, and always wore one of a number of cat-shaped pins or brooches in his possession (by the time of his tenth incarnation, however, he had developed a dislike for the breed (DW: Fear Her)). His taste in clothes was the subject of much ridicule, though it has been suggested that he wore his outlandish coat in order to distract people from noticing anything else about him. He once mentioned that his coat was the "height of sartorial elegance." (BFA: Jubilee) At some point, the Doctor abandoned his outlandish multi-coloured outfit for a more subdued blue costume (WC: Real Time, plus assorted Big Finish cover art), though by the time of his regeneration, he had resumed wearing his original garb (DW: Time and the Rani).
After an unpleasant encounter with an Androgum in Spain, the Doctor proclaimed that he was becoming a vegetarian, though it's not known if or for how long he followed this promise. (DW: The Two Doctors).
He also had an ear for poetry, often reciting bits of it when events remind him of it (DW: The Twin Dilemma, The Mark of the Rani, Terror of the Vervoids).
This Doctor also had a habit of walking in a different direction to where he proclaimed he would be going; this quirk was mirrored in the Doctor's tenth incarnation, though it was more of the Doctor simply going the wrong way as opposed to purposely going the wrong direction. This led to the Tenth Doctor being corrected more than a few times.
| The incarnations of the Doctor |
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| First – Second – Third – Fourth – Fifth – Sixth – Seventh – Eighth – Ninth — Tenth – Eleventh |
| Companions of the Sixth Doctor |
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| Television Peri Brown • Melanie Bush Other media Frobisher • Jason • Crystal • Zog • Grant Markham • Evelyn Smythe • Will Hoffman • Emily Chaudhry • Charley Pollard • Jamie McCrimmon • Zoe Heriot |
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