Welcome
to Phantom Who, a new feature designed to go along with the Earth
Station Who podcast, which I co-host. There I am known as “Dave”
because “Phantom Troublemaker” takes up too much room on the
stationary. Every other week there will be a new podcast discussing
all things Doctor Who, with a central discussion about a particular
story.
For
the first year we are covering regeneration stories. Starting with An
Unearthly Child and wrapping up the current regenerations with
The Eleventh Hour, we’ll be covering the first and last
stories of each of the first eleven Doctors.
The
Doctor spent a good bit of time recovering from a forced regeneration
at the hands of the Time Lords. He was exiled to Earth in his TARDIS,
but wasn’t going anywhere because the dematerialization circuit had
been removed. Those darn Time Lords and their penalties for
renegadism.
While
the Doctor was recovering in the hospital, then taking a shower, then
stealing cloaks, jackets, hats, and cars; there was an invasion going
on. Creepy plastic people were doing creepy things all over the
world. Naturally the Doctor stopped them.
Once
it was all said and done, he agreed to stay on with UNIT as
Scientific Advisor and help Brigadier Lethbridge-Stuart defend the
world from threats both terrestrial and extra-terrestrial. All the
while, though, the renegade Time Lord kept working on repairing his
TARDIS. Eventually he helped his fellow Gallifreyans out of a bind
and they let him fix his craft. The very first thing he did was bop
off to Metebelis 3 and swipe a certain blue crystal…