Grumpy but kind hearted much like his original incarnation, the Eighth Doctor began life as a grumpy and snappish man, but he eventually mellowed out and showed his kinder and softer nature.
While The Doctor was no longer a manipulator, he did on one occasion slip back into the role in order to stop the Hoothie from taking over Heaven.
The Doctor initially traveled with his predecessor's final traveling companion, Katie Tollinger. However after sacrificing Jan on Heaven Katie decided to leave at the next place they landed and the Doctor was joined by Professor Bernice Summerfield, an archaeologist from the 26th Century. After Katie was killed in the Sol Transit System he traveled with just Bernice and Henrick.
After a number of adventures, the Doctor was reunited with his Grandaughter Susan Campbell who joined the TARDIS team on their adventures. After visiting Gallifrey The Doctor took Susan back to Earth.
After several more adventures, one of which had the Doctor fulfill his destiny of becoming Merlin, the Doctor was captured and brainwashed by the Daleks and turned Bernice and Henrick into Daleks. After this The Doctor was left feeling guilt ridden.
After some time alone, The Doctor befriended Dr Grace Holloway a cardiologist from 1995 SAN Francisco who became his companion.
The Doctor was finally forced to regenerate into his next incarnation on Karn by The Master And The Sisterhood after feeling great guilt at seeing Henrick's dead body.
Biography
Post-Regeneration
While working with UNIT to stop a group of animal rights activists at Margrave University, the Seventh Doctor's Tea was poisoned with Iron by Sergent Henrick Benjamin. The Doctor eventually succumbed to the poison and the day after defeating the Numlock he died in Katie's arms while asking. “Doctor... Doctor Who?” He then regenerated into his eighth incarnation. (TV: Blood And Iron); (TV: Night Thoughts)
After regenerating the Doctor explained the concept to Henrick and Katie before recalling the TARDIS. After getting inside the Doctor took off and spent some time getting used to his new body. Eventually an unknown force took control of the TARDIS, forcing it to land outside a remote Scottish mansion in 2006.
Taking Katie into the mansion after she fell into a lake, the trio witnessed a series of deaths amongst the academics that were living there and discovered that they were experimenting with time, with a device they called the Bartholomew Transactor, so they could send a message back in time to their past selves about misdiagnosing a deceased girl known as Eddie O'Neil. However the interference with the timeline caused Eddie to transform into a zombie-like state of limbo, the Doctor realised that the misdiagnosis had never been genuine and that the whole series of events were part of a cruel time experiment conducted by Major Dickens, who intended to correct the academics' mistake. The Doctor traveled back in time to undo the damage, but found himself unable to kill the child, allowing the zombie Eddie to come into existence. Returning to the present, the Doctor discovered that all the academics were now deceased, and theorising that the Zombie-Eddie was responsible for the deaths, keeping herself “Alive” through her own use of the Transactor. He, Katie and Henrick departed. (TV: Night Thoughts)
Travels with Katie and Henrick
The Doctor, Katie and Henrick while tracing an alien signal arrived in Muggion House in 1915. While there The Doctor found that the weapons trainees were using contained electrical powers, the trio eventually discovered that the Warden was using alien technology from a crashed ship underneath the house and selling them to the Germans so that they could win the war while they stopped working for the soldiers In the trenches. The Doctor defeated the Warden after contacting the aliens and allowing them to take the weaponry back, after this he, Katie and Henrick left. (TV: Glory School)
The Doctor was prompted by Katie into investigating the mystery of the Seven Planets which had vanished. Arriving on the worst of the seven the Doctor and Katie were suddenly transported into another world, The Doctor eventually discovered that Kopyion, a general who had fought in the war against the Great Vampires was attempting to unleash the Yssgaroth's back into the main universe. The Doctor managed to defeat him and found that he was responsible for the destruction of the seven worlds. (TV: The Hostage)
After learning of recent strange dreams Henrick had been having, the Doctor unintentionally arrived at his ancestral home, the House Of Lungbarrow. There the Doctor was arrested and accused of murdering his cousins, Quences and Arkhew, The Doctor determined to clear his name began investigating and discovered that his cousin Clospin was the true killer, The Doctor learned of his connection to The Other but rejected his inheritance. The Doctor, Katie and Henrick escaped the house just as it collapsed. (TV: Lungbarrow)
While traveling in the TARDIS, The Doctor picked up a spaceship heading through London. However when landing the Doctor, Katie and Henrick found themselves in Newcastle in 2002, the Doctor and Katie went to figure out what was happening. (TV: A House Of Cards)
The next evening the Doctor unable to figure out what had actually happened returned to the TARDIS to find Henrick running up to them, the Doctor was left baffled when Henrick wouldn't say where he'd been or why they had to leave, but the Doctor agreeed And The trio departed. (TV: 16th February 2002)
Contemplating a solitary retirement, The Doctor visited Crook Marshall in 1965, where he, Katie and Henrick were forced to prevent the reawakening of an ancient sentience that fed on nostalgia which had been trapped under the Earth since its formation. The Doctor tricked it into feeding on a supernova, trapping it in a black hole. (TV: Nightshade)
Losing Katie
Following the funeral of Katie's friend Jullian Milton, the Doctor brought the TARDIS to 2570 Heaven where the trio became friends with a group known as the travelers. The Doctor then helped Professor Benny Summerfield open the way to Heavenite observatory, and disiphered writing they found and discovered a plot by the Hoothi to use Heaven to create an army of the dead. Entering puterspace, the Doctor was attacked by the Vacume Church working in league with the Hoothi, and forced to relive the death of his third incarnation, until he was saved by Christopher a psychic traveler.
Realising the dangers the falling Hoothi fibres would cause, the Doctor Ordered Benny to quickly unearth the observatory which could detect otherwise invisible Hoothi spheres, and knowing that the Pyrokinetic traveler Jan Rydd whom' Katie had fallen in love with had been infected by a fibre, The Doctor Ordered him to travel to the Sphere. After using brother Phaedrus of the Vacume Church to summon the Sphere to Puterspace, the Doctor used Christopher to send a message to Jan, telling him to ignite the Sphere killing himself in the process. Even though Heaven was now safe the Doctor destroyed Katie's trust in him and was told by her that she was leaving to wherever the TARDIS took them next. The Doctor then offered Bernice the chance to travel which she accepted. (TV: Love And War)
The Doctor took Katie, Bernice and Henrick to London in 2109 to see the Sol Transit system, however when they arrived, the TARDIS became trapped in a wall and Bernice was left stranded on Pluto. While trying to reach Pluto, the Doctor, Katie and Henrick were forced to deal with an evil entity whom' the Doctor nicknamed Fred, that was trying to break through to their dimension. During the journey there was a malfunction in the train which caused an explosion, while the Doctor managed to escape he and Henrick were horrofied to discover that Katie had been killed. In the end the Doctor defeated Fred and rescued Bernice, he, Bernice and Henrick then departed. (TV: Transit)
Travels with Bernice and Henrick
In search of a Fortean Flicker somehow connected with the legend of Sakkrat and the Highest Science, The Doctor, Henrick And Benny arrived on the planet Hogsumm and, encountering a troop of Chelonians who had been transported to the planet by the flicker, were seperated. Whilst Benny discovered a ruined Citadel, the Doctor and Henrick realised that a group of humans had also been drawn to the planet by the flicker and witnessed the arrival of Sheldukehr, an infamous criminal in search of the Highest Science alongside a genetically engineered intelect known as the Cell. Taken hostage the Doctor was forced to reveal his own knowledge of the Science, leading Sheldukeher to the citadel where they discovered Benny. Managing to enter the inner-sanctum they discovered that the entire planet had been a trap for Sheldukehr who had stolen the Cell originally known as Project FFXQ84 from its creators, who were desperate to regain it. Giving the Cell the death it desperately desired, the Doctor, Henrick and Bernice managed to escape just in time to save the humans from being slaughtered by the Chelonians by freezing them both in a slow time bubble. (TV: The Highest Science)
The Doctor began tracking an alien signal and tracked it to London in 1941. The Doctor Benny and Henrick befriended Cody Mcbride who'd seen the Sphere crash land, after investigating the Peddler institute the trio discovered that the Cybermen had arrived on Earth from the 30th Century And with the Aid of Wal were attempting to convert everyone into Cybermen. The Doctor and Benny eventually found their way to the Cybermen's base of operations and rescuing Henrick, George Limb ended up using one of the Cybermen's Time machines to escape into the future. After escaping in the TARDIS and saying goodbye to Cody, the Doctor lost control of the TARDIS which took off without Benny and Henrick. (TV: Illegal Alien)
The Doctor attempted to retake control of the TARDIS but it was no use as the ship's psyche began to rebel against him. Deciding to make contact with the psyche power that controlled the ship, the Doctor journeyed through the ship towards the centre of the TARDIS. The Psyche however began to try and kill the Doctor by setting various traps and forcing him to face illusions of some of his enemies and deceased companions which almost drove the Doctor mad, but he eventually made contact with the psyche and after a battle of wills the Doctor managed to make peace with the psyche and regained control of his TARDIS. (TV: The Enemy Within)
While attempting to get back to Benny and Henrick, the TARDIS was knocked off course and the Doctor found himself on Earth in 1993 where he found the Imperial and Renegade Daleks had made London their battleground in their civil war. The Doctor teamed up with a small resistance group who were trying to get rid of both Daleks, the Doctor soon discovered that the Imperial Daleks wanted to end the war and to live in peace. The Doctor soon rescued Benny and Henrick from the Renegade Daleks After they’d traveled back in time to 1941 With help from Davros who had teamed up with them. The trio were then forced to flee as the Imperial Daleks, Renegade Daleks And resistance group battled it out which ended with both Dalek factions wiping each other out. (TV: Conquest Of The Daleks)
The Doctor Benny and Henrick next arrived in England 1993 where the Doctor was reunited with his old traveling companion Victoria Waterfield who had been campaigning against a nuclear Power Plant alongside her friends who had went missing. After investigating the Doctor discovered that Dominic, an employee at the power plant had been contacted by the terrible Zodin to destroy Earth. The Doctor with help from Victoria, Benny and Henrick managed to defeat him. (TV: Meltdown)
The Doctor, Benny and Henrick stayed for a time in the Quadrant, this was part of a Narcotics investigation. The Doctor was concerned as to why people were dying after taking a Drug know as SMILE. He became worried when the narcotic was near a child with a Glamour, Gabriel Taylor. They discovered an N-Form bent on wiping out every human being who could potentially produce offspring featuring the traits of a vampire. He worked out that the person was Gabriel and when his twin Steven Jericho was absorbed by him the N-Form was activated. He thought that Dr James Greco was abusing his power. (TV: Damaged Goods)
Personality
The Eighth Doctor harkens back to his original incarnation, acting grumpy at times and prone to snapping at people who annoyed him. He also had an acid tongue, regularly making sarcastic remarks to both friends and foes alike.
However, he also proved to be very caring of his companions, and is haunted by their respective demises, constantly blaming himself for putting them in harm's way.
Out of all the Doctors, he is arguably the most capable of flying the TARDIS, especially after the events of The Enemy Within where he made contact with the ship's psyche.
Physical Appearance
After regenerating, The Doctor appeared as a tall middle aged man in his forties But appeared older than his previous incarnation. (TV: Night Thoughts)
He was the most rotund of his incarnations and while this effected his ability to run away from incoming threats, he was still able to hold his own in a sword fight. (MOVIE: Doctor Who (2003)
Hair and Grooming
After regenerating, The Doctor had short grey-white hair. While trapped in the TARDIS he began growing a beard, (TV: The Enemy Within) which was due to his ongoing grief over Katie Tollinger's death. (TV: Transit) After reuniting With Bernice and Henrick the Doctor allowed his beard to continue growing until his Regeneration. (TV: Conquest Of The Daleks); TV: The Last Night)
Clothing
The Eighth Doctor's main outfit was a red suit, with either a matching waistcoat or pullover, a necktie and black shoes. He also regularly wore glasses, the only Doctor to do so, choosing frames in the style of those from the 1980s and 90s. A few variants appeared over the years, with different ties and waistcoats.
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Behind the Scenes
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List of Appearances
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