#Morbius Doctors

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The Doctor's Timeline (v14)

v1-v13 were somewhere else

Not Authorial Confirmation of Anything done as speculation only

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It'll never not amaze me the depths and vast expansive-ness of Doctor Who spin-off content. Can any other fandom or show truly say that they have a 'universe' in the same way that Doctor Who does? You have decades of audio dramas, licensed, partially licensed, and unlicensed. Books about the main character, books about the main characters friends, books about timelines that never were or might have been! Movies with villains from the show and promotional shorts that occupy a secret third special place between plain fun and actual canon. Is all of it canon? Is none of it canon besides the show? Are only the bits we like canon? YOU decide, because you have decades and mountains and worlds to choose from.

Not to mention that this all gives fans the easiest in to make fan-content, fan doctors, etc and they do, hundreds of them! They have been for decades!

The Whoniverse is ever expanding, vast in a way that few can truly grasp onto, and you'll never be done discovering it. I'll never not be in awe of it.

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Two amazing photo edits by Tim Buckle for proposed pre-Hartnell "Morbius Doctors."

The first is based on Doctor Who's original producer, Verity Lambert:

The second is based on the series' first director, Waris Hussein:

I am very tempted to write some fanfic for these incarnations!

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This is the finished version of the third Morbius/Forgotten Lives Doctors, the Christopher Baker Doctor. In the Forgotten Lives anthologies, this Doctor was a pulp science fiction adventurer—and a dad.

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Every Morbius Doctor's partner Pokémon (a spiritual sequel to this post):

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Doctor I: Eevee

An awful lot of potential packed into what's just a little guy just trying to live his best life. This Doctor would love normal type Pokémon in general and take pleasure in training them up to be unstoppable. Also Eevee's little collar looks like his ruff which he'd enjoy.

Doctor II: Noctowl

I mean he literally has an owl companion in the books, could it be more obvious? Noctowl's psychic typing also fits Banks' whole 'occult detective' theme really well.

Doctor III: Kangaskhan

A protective parent pokémon who travels around with it's young? Yeah he'd love Kangaskhan and so would Cedric and Jilly

Doctor IV: Shiny Psyduck

I almost said Aegislash and that's still my runner up HOWEVER i think a dumbass duck with accidental magic powers fits him more. And yes it has to be a shiny, this Doctor has probably hunted for months just to get one.

Doctor V: Vespiqueen

With his thirteen children, Supreme Council status and the way he flits from place to place but always returns (albeit reluctantly) to Galifrey like a nest he definitely is a Queen Bee.

Doctor VI: Unown

There are no words that can describe what manner of creature this is.

Doctor VII: Bulbasaur

As Holmes' was a vegetarian and his Doctor had a floral design on his jacket I feel like this Doctor would specialise in Grass, Bug and Poison Pokémon particularly, so who better to be his partner than the original plant Pokémon? Bulbasaur is a chill Pokémon to raise which after all the hardship in his life I think this Doctor deserves. Plus Bulbasaur's markings kinda look like the his jacket design.

Doctor VIII: Chimecho

Just a little lad bouncing around causing chaos and disrupting time. Chimecho's psychic typing would match perfectly with this Doctor's showman nature and regular magic tricks. I can't lie I did very nearly pick Yamper for him but I think Chimecho is just that little bit more perfect for this Doctor because of how he could float around the Doctor's head as he performs.

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A little @forgottenlivesobverse thing in honor of today's big day. Nothing huge, and it does in fact break one of the cardinal rules of writing Forgotten Lives - but since it's on my blog and not in a book, I'll allow myself this one little stretch.

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morbius doctors

morbius doctor alignment chart but we only did this on vibes because I don’t know enough about them.

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Random sketches I did

Yea -u-

Got Jamie

A Morbius Doctor with Andy Warhol as a companion

And this

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Biowhography (n.): mapping the doctor's incarnations

Since my last post, I've added Lady Aesculapius, The Master of Baker's End, added some more curator-adjacenet incarnations, corrected a key error (the colour for comics was wrong in the key), and probably added some incarnations I've forgotten about.

Here's the link (pls tell me if it doesn't work)

Tagging people who were interested in my last post: @qqaba @familyparadox

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Fugitive Doctor 🤝 Season 6b Second Doctor 🤝 Holmes Doctor

Working for the Time Lords and being angsty about it

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My own for fun fleshing out of the idea posited by Jonathan Morris that the other voices Xoanon adopts in the Face of Evil are forgotten incarnations plucked from the Doctor's subconscious.

Specifically played by Pamela Salem, Rob Edwards, Anthony Frieze and Roy Herrick.

The First Xoanon Doctor (Pamela Salem)

This incarnation was posted on Earth by her request, as part of the Time Lords solidifying of the Web of Time as history, arriving in the era of the First World War. Upbeat and playful, she had a knack for outmanoeuvring her opponents even in spite of the cultural pushback against the form this incarnation took. She also often came across as anachronistic due to a lack of understanding of the culture of the era of this planet that she was assigned to. She, however, was occasionally prone to seeing humans more as interesting specimens than individuals in their own right.

The Second Xoanon Doctor (Rob Edwards)

Coming across as an eccentric but kindly Professor-like figure, wearing a scruffier version of a formal outfit. This incarnation took up teaching on Earth. He was heavily interested in the idea of luck as an external force and wore a clover on his lapel to represent that. He was prone to meddling in events outside his purview, but only subtly, within his remit as an agent of the Time Lords and thus often employed luck or what appeared to be luck as a ‘weapon’ of sorts in said situations, despite his pleasant exterior he was capable of doing almost anything if he thought it would benefit the ‘greater good’. He was the first incarnation to meet the Abbot.

The Third Xoanon Doctor (Anthony Frieze)

This incarnation lived for a long time, aging up from a child to an adult. He spent a lot of his time on Gallifrey, getting involved in the internal politics of the planet as an advocate for the Non-Intervention policy. He regretted the meddling his immediate predecessor was prone to, though he still returned to Earth to observe the planet and would occasionally intervene if he found a situation significant enough to warrant it. He was brash and abrasive, and had a superiority complex, but still was a kind-hearted person when the chips were down. He met his end in service to Gallifrey in the midst of a Time War.

The Fourth Xoanon Doctor (Roy Herrick)

A calmer, younger, mellower incarnation. This Doctor prided himself on his moral compass, whilst he still acted as an agent for the Time Lords, he treated the role as secondary to his interest in the planet Earth and its people. He was granted an official remit to travel across the Universe, rather than just the history of the planet he was observing, as a result of a great service to Gallifrey during his early life. He was also one of few early incarnations of the Doctor who contemplated any form of relationship with a human, though he ultimately never went through with it. Despite this, he still maintained a wide social network in the era to which he was assigned.

(Did an amateur artwork, also including headcanons for the 'eras' under the assumption of them directly preceding the Morbius Doctors from Forgotten Lives)

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Forgotten Lives 3

A third and final set of FORGOTTEN LIVES tales…

A person is the sum of their memories. A Time Lord even more so.

But some people live so long that there is no longer room for all the memories; they find themselves diminished, whittled away piece by piece…

For many years, Doctor Who has implied that William Hartnell played the Doctor’s first incarnation — but in The Brain of Morbius, we were given glimpses of eight stern-faced men in assorted historical costumes — Doctors before the one we know as the first.

What were they like, these forgotten Doctors? What worlds did they visit, and what adventures did they have there? Who were their companions, and who were their enemies?

And perhaps just as interesting — what sort of stories would this forgotten prehistory of Doctor Who have told?

‘The Lungs of the Birastrop’ by Paul Driscoll

‘Who Needs Enemies’ by Jay Eales

‘Admission to the Unknown’ by Ian McIntire

‘Hope Springs’ by Chris Wing

‘The Swan and the Flame’ by Kara Dennison

‘Scientific Advisor’ by Daniel Tessier

‘The Country of the Young’ by Philip Purser-Hallard

The Seven Scholars and the Storyteller’ by Simon Bucher-Jones

Edited by Philip Purser-Hallard. Cover art by Jon Huff. Cover design by Cody Schell.

PRE-ORDER ONLY. PUBLICATION EARLY DECEMBER.

ALL PROFITS FROM THIS BOOK WILL BE DONATED TO ALZHEIMER’S CHARITIES.

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Doctor Who removes two classic Tom Baker stories from BBC iPlayer | Radio Times

This is a bit odd. As both stories (Terror of the Zygons and The Seeds of Doom) were written by Robert Banks Stewart, I'm guessing it's something to do with his estate. Both serials are now getting sequel series from Big Finish, so I wonder what's going on here.

Time to get Bruce, Brae and Bute on the case

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The Douglas Camfield Doctor was the fifth of the Morbius/Forgotten Lives Doctors. This Doctor was an ambassador, who also hunted war criminals.

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FORGOTTEN LIVES: A Modern Morbius Doctor

So since Forgotten Lives is available digitally for the month of February, it gives me more opportunity to discuss Doctors that are a little more forgotten. Or, in the case we're all fans of, PNGs that look like staff working on the show that self inserted themselves as the Doctor. We're all familiar, by now, with the eight members of production staff that wore period clothes in the place of all those famous actors that... didn't line up to be pre-Hartnell. It's funny, but it doesn't it feel more like the show? The faces before the Doctor being those that really came before them, the people that kept the wheels spinning through an era of the show, multiple eras in some of their cases!

But who's to say that "The Brain of Morbius" is the only time we saw production crew turned Timeless Children? Who's to say they even played the titular hero of the show?

If anybody was going to add themselves to the peculiar line-up... it would be Steven Moffat, wouldn't it?

If you were growing up in 2010, then you were there for Doctor Who Series 5, starring Matt Smith (obvious Morbius Doctor joke) and Karen Gillan, the first series showrun by Steven Moffat. It was far from his first time working on the show, having notably written "The Curse of Fatal Death" for Red Nose Day 1999 along with a handful of iconic episodes littered throughout the RTD1 era of NuWho. What also debuted in 2010 following "Vincent and the Doctor" was a trailer for Doctor Who's latest attempt in the video game market - Doctor Who: The Adventure Games.

This episodic PC game covered five episodes encountering Daleks, Cybermen, Sontarans and Vashta Nerada, before production was ceased a year later. What is most important for this discussion is episode 3 of the Adventure games, "TARDIS".

In a bottle episode set entirely on the TARDIS, you traverse through two different locations. The first is the console room but the second is more exciting, as we saw the Eleventh Doctor's Drawing Room. We were encouraged to rummage around and learn about some of the Doctor's collection, seeing different items from throughout space and time. Dozens of items were littered around the room that could be interacted, but we're only going to talk about the portrait.

On the left is the Portait of Adriaan van der Hoop, a banker and politician from 19th century Netherlands. On the right is the redesigned portrait in the Drawing Room. The intention with giving this portrait longer darker hair holding Time Lord tech was to make the appearance closer to Steven Moffat, which then raises the question of this post. Unlike "The Brain of Morbius", this is a simple Easter Egg that had no intention to reimagine the history of the Doctor. But in the wake of "The Timeless Children", there are new possibilities.

The issue is figuring out WHO this portrait is. Luckily, we have options.

Option 1.) The Doctor

It's the option that, as a Forgotten Lives fan, is more fun to imagine. The Doctor having an anachronistic portrait of himself with a new face? It's a mystery that'd grab them! The issue is that there isn't much else there - the only reason this grabs as being the Doctor is the same reason that the Morbius Doctors belong to them, because the face is based on the crew behind the camera and the eight previous examples belong to our lead. However, there's a more compelling option...

Option 2.) The Master

This one has a lot more ground and isn't too difficult to presume, especially with this video by Captainjimipie covering the theory. The Master almost has a whole unseen regeneration cycle, meaning there's a lot of space for this portrait to be a previous incarnation. The portrait also, importantly, appears to be holding a Laser Screwdriver which was used by the War and Saxon Masters. While it would be strange for the Doctor to have a portrait of the Master, the Doctor is using his Drawing Room as a storage room so would make sense to be kept.

But there's a specific option that's much more fun and really needs discussing...

Option 3.) Both

There is no evidence, this would just be fun. We've yet to have the Doctor and the Master share a face at the same time (we were so close with Dhawan!Doctor) but what if they did? A portrait of a forgotten Doctor with the iconography of an unseen Master, the two closest friends and enemies sharing a face.

It's fun to debate and consider who these people were and, if you're a fan of Forgotten Lives, then you're already well aware of it! The biggest appeal to Forgotten Lives is getting eight brand-new original takes on the Doctor, and the biggest benefit is raising money to fight Alzheimers.

You can get a PDF copy from the link below until the end of February.

[mintyimperiatrix]

a random headcanon for each of the Morbius Doctors because why not:

Barry Doctor: He's the Doctor who first beat Fenric and carved chess pieces out of bone

Banks Stewart Doctor: He met Jack Harkness during the Blitz once and they shared a bottle of wine. neither knew who the other really was nor will they ever know.

Baker Doctor: he used to sing the Zagreus rhyme to Cedric and Jilly when they were little. Jilly loved it, Cedric found it scary and unsettling

Hinchcliffe: he changes the colour scheme of his outfit and TARDIS interior whenever he gets a new companion. He wore blue with Rue (because it rhymes, you see) but with Swan he changes to red or green

Camfield: functioning alcoholic

Harper: she only wears the psychic beard to fuck with people and judge their personal prejudices, anyone who actually gets to know her will quickly discover that she vastly prefers feminine terminology

Holmes: he has a special interest in botany so his TARDIS has a lot of potted plants in it

Gallaccio: he loves indian food and always smells of spices. also Chuckaboo's remains were used to build the Sonic Cane in Let's Kill Hitler (this will sound horrific out of context)