List of Doctor Who items
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This is a list of items from the BBC television series Doctor Who.
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
[edit] 0-9
- 3-D glasses
- Red-blue anaglyphic lenses used by the Tenth Doctor to examine the void ship and the "ghosts" of Army of Ghosts. They can detect the radiation given off by an object or person that has crossed between dimensions (or "void stuff"). It is unknown whether these are regular 3-D glasses or consist of Time Lord technology; however, they appear to be made of cardboard and plastic.
- 500 year diary
- First appears in the Second Doctor serial The Power of the Daleks
- 900 year diary
- Seen among the Seventh Doctor's effects in the TARDIS in the Doctor Who television movie.
[edit] A
- Anti-plastic
- A blue-coloured liquid that the Ninth Doctor uses to defeat the living plastic body of the Nestene Consciousness in Rose.
- Astral Map
- A device which the First Doctor has on board the TARDIS. In The Web Planet, the Doctor was going to use his Astral Map to help the Zarbi "queen" find the Menoptra "invasion force".
[edit] B
- Banana
- A fruit that the Ninth Doctor expressed fondness for in The Doctor Dances (2005). The Tenth Doctor claimed to have invented the banana daiquiri in 17th century France in The Girl in the Fireplace (2006).
- Black Scrolls of Rassilon
- From The Five Doctors, these contained forbidden knowledge from the Dark Time of Gallifrey, the home of the Time Lords.
- Blue crystal
- In The Green Death, the Third Doctor takes a perfect blue crystal from the planet Metebelis Three, which has the ability to focus and amplify thoughts. After giving it to Jo Grant as a wedding present, the consequences of this caught up to him in Planet of the Spiders.In Destiny of the Doctors, it seems that the Doctor actually had another hidden in his TARDIS.
- Graak had to find it and give it to the The Master in order to contiue his quest to save the seven incarnations of the Doctor. To find it, Graak had to go to the Green House area of the Third Doctors TARDIS. It was hidden in one of the pot plants there but the pot just had soil. Graak had to turn on the lights in which the plant would appear. Then he had to pick up a watering can and water the plant so it would open and reveal the crystal so he could take it to The Master but he had to hurry as there were also Sontarans nearby.
[edit] C
- Celery
- The Fifth Doctor wore a sprig of celery in his lapel. He claimed that he was allergic to certain gasses in the praxis range. If those gasses were present the sprig would turn purple, whereupon he would eat the celery (The Caves of Androzani). He first affixes the celery in Castrovalva, and replaces it in Enlightenment. In both cases, the celery comes from places which are later established to be illusory.
- Chameleon circuit
- A component of a TARDIS which allows it to change shape to match its surroundings and remain inconspicuous. The circuit on the Doctor's TARDIS has malfunctioned, leaving it stuck in the shape of a 1950s-style British police box. Attempts to repair the circuit have led to unpredictable results, including the TARDIS taking on the form of a pipe-organ (on which The Doctor sarcastically plays a few notes of Beethoven's 5th Symphony), and The Doctor has expressed fondness for the Police Box form, so he has stopped fiddling with it now. The TARDISes owned by the Master, the Rani, and the Meddling Monk had fully functioning chameleon circuits.
- Charged Vacuum Emboitment or CVE
- Part of a system created by the mathematicians of Logopolis to allow the universe to survive past its point of heat death by shunting excess entropy into other universes (Logopolis). The Fourth Doctor and Romana unwittingly travelled through a CVE into a parallel universe known as E-Space at the start of Full Circle.
- Cloister bell
- An alarm that tolls, in the manner of a heavy church bell, in the TARDIS to warn the crew of impending disaster. It was first heard in Logopolis, and rang again in Castrovalva, Resurrection of the Daleks (in the final-moments cliffhanger leading into Frontios), the 1996 television movie, and the 2005 Children in Need special.
- Crystal of Kronos
- From the Third Doctor serial The Time Monster, this was used by the Master to power his TOMTIT machine, but turned out to be something much more powerful.
[edit] D
- Delta Wave
- A wave of "Van Cassadyne energy" that will destroy the brain patterns of all living creatures within its field of effect. The Ninth Doctor builds a delta wave projector to use against the Daleks in The Parting of the Ways. In reality, a delta wave is a brain wave associated with deep sleep. The Fifth Doctor builds a delta wave augmentor in Kinda to help Nyssa sleep.
- De-mat gun
- A powerful Time Lord weapon from the serial The Invasion of Time that can remove its target from spacetime altogether. It cannot be armed without the Great Key of Rassilon.
- Doomsday Weapon
- In the serial Colony in Space the Time Lords sent the Third Doctor on a mission to recover this weapon, the plans for which the Master had stolen from Gallifrey.
- Dwarf-star alloy
- In the serial Warriors' Gate, a super-dense material obtained from white dwarf stars. It is used as a building material in the hulls of spaceships and can also be used to contain temporally sensitive beings.
- Dynatrope
- In The Krotons, a machine created by the Krotons that transforms mental power and intelligence into energy.
[edit] E
- Eye of Harmony
- Everlasting Matches
- The Doctor carries a box of everlasting matches. They are made from Umbeka wood, which comes from the planet Umbeka, where winter lasts for centuries, and the summer is very hot and only last a couple of weeks. The heat from the flame makes the wood grow as fast as the flame consumes it, so the match never burns down. They are used in both of the New Series Adventures novels, 'The Resurrection Casket' and 'The Nightmare of Black Island.'
[edit] F
- Field Gravity Detector
- In actuality, a yo yo, used by the Fourth Doctor to determine the presence, magnitude, and direction of gravity in a given area.
[edit] G
- Genesis Ark
- Created by the Time Lords many years ago as a prison for the Daleks, this is introduced in the season finale of series 2 Doomsday. Like the TARDIS, it is bigger on the inside, containing millions of prisoners. It was seen flying through the Void after the Doctor opens the breach.
- Giant brain
- A creation of the Rani in Time and the Rani, it was linked to the minds of several geniuses, such as Albert Einstein, Louis Pasteur and Pierre Curie.
- Gravitron
- A device installed on the Moon in the 21st century to control Earth's weather. In The Moonbase, the Cybermen attempted to gain control of the device in an attempt to destroy Earth. The Second Doctor managed to stop the Cybermen by using the Gravitron to send them and their ships into space.
- Great Key of Rassilon
- A constituent part of the De-mat gun, its location is known only to the Chancellor of the High Council of Time Lords. (Not to be confused with the Key of Rassilon or the other Great Key, also known as the Rod of Rassilon.)
[edit] H
- Hand of Eldrad
- In the Fourth Doctor serial The Hand of Fear, the hand was the only surviving part of the Kastrian creature Eldrad, found by the Doctor and Sarah in an English quarry.
- Hand of Omega
- Huon particles
- Ancient particles from the Dark Times, created independently by Time Lords and later the Torchwood Institute. They are potentially deadly and contain a great amount of energy, and can cause people to inadvertently teleport as they magenetise with other sets of Huon particles. A remnant of them exists in the heart of the TARDIS.
[edit] I
- Ice gun
- A fire extinguisher used by the Tenth Doctor to immobilise the Clockwork Droids in The Girl in the Fireplace. According to Noel Clarke in the Doctor Who Confidential episode "From Zero to Hero", the art department labelled them with the warning: "Do not use to cool drinks, freeze food, win arguments, or create Christmas grotto decorations."
[edit] J
- Janus thorn
- A poisonous weapon of the Sevateem, used by Leela much to the Fourth Doctor's disapproval.
- Jelly babies
- A confectionery favoured by the Second, Fourth, Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Doctors.
[edit] K
- Key of Rassilon
- A Gallifreyan artefact that allows access to the Matrix, the repository of all Time Lord knowledge. It is kept by the Keeper of the Matrix, and should not be confused with the Great Key of Rassilon or the Rod of Rassilon.
- Key to Time
- Koh-i-Noor Diamond
- Revealed to be an element for a telescopic device designed to focus a beam of moonlight to trap a werewolf in Tooth and Claw.
[edit] L
- Laser spanner
- A device similar to the sonic screwdriver, one of which was owned by the Doctor until it was stolen by Emmeline Pankhurst, whom the Doctor referred to as a "cheeky woman". Martha Jones initially believed she had coined the term as a joke upon being introduced to the sonic screwdriver.
[edit] M
- Matrix
- Miniscope
- From the Third Doctor serial Carnival of Monsters. Its use as a peep show containing various creatures is outlawed, but the Doctor found an active one in the hands of the Lurman entertainers Vorg and Shirna on the planter Inter Minor. Their miniscope included Drashigs, Cybermen and humans on board a ship.
- Molecular disseminator
- An experimental means of interstellar teleportation accidentally used to send the First Doctor and his companions from Earth to Kembel in The Daleks' Master Plan.
[edit] N
- Nanogenes
- Nanotechnological robots which can heal damaged tissue, part of Chula technology, seen in The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances.
- Nitro-9
- An explosive substance created and used by the Seventh Doctor's companion Ace, often carried around in her backpack despite the Doctor's warnings.
- Nova Device
- The Movellans failed to destroy the Daleks' homeworld of Skaro with this device in the serial Destiny of the Daleks.
[edit] O
- Opera Glasses
- These are a small set of binoculars that the doctor carries with him. In the novel The Nightmare of Black Island, the Doctor uses his opera glasses to gain a closer view of Ynis Du's lighthouse. The actual orgin of the glasses carried by the Doctor is known, the fact that they are described as having "computer-enhanced lenses" seems to suggest that they are a product of some future time.
[edit] P
- Psychic paper
- Described as "slightly psychic" paper and first appearing in the 2005 series episode The End of the World, it shows whomever is reading it whatever the holder wants the person viewing it to see. It also has the disadvantage of revealing private thoughts if the user lets his or her mind wander and has shown the ability to display telepathic messages from sources external to the user (like the Face of Boe in New Earth). The prop is kept in a credit card or travel pass holder. It has since appeared in the novels featuring the Ninth and Tenth Doctors as well as the Past Doctor Adventures novel World Game, where it is said to be a then-recent invention of the Celestial Intervention Agency. Jack Harkness is also seen to use psychic paper (The Empty Child), but it is unclear how he obtained it. Torchwood Institute personnel receive psychic training and are not susceptible to psychic paper (a piece used by Rose was confiscated in Army of Ghosts, although the Doctor might have retrieved it before he left Canary Wharf). It is also shown to somehow unlock an electronic pass reader. In the BBC novel The Nightmare of Black Island the Doctor mentions that the psychic paper usually leaves a brief after image, giving him some idea of what a person has seen in the psychic paper.
- Psychic Credit Card
- This item was used in the BBC novel Only Human to open a bank account of half a million pounds sterling in balance for Captain Jack Harkness and the Neanderthal named Das. According to Captain Jack in the novel, the psychic credit card was banned after the Infinite Recession of Bayfadarn.
[edit] Q
- Quantum Crystaliser
- A device featured in the audio drama Human Resources used by the Celestial Intervention Agency to control time over a small area. It uses branching timelines to explore various possible futures and select the one it likes. Exposure to two Crystalisers causes dangerous instability, potentially leading to death.
[edit] R
- Randomiser
- The Fourth Doctor fitted this device to the TARDIS Console in The Armageddon Factor to randomise his travel coordinates and prevent the Black Guardian from finding him. The Randomiser was removed from the TARDIS and left on the planet Argolis in The Leisure Hive.
- Recorder
- The Second Doctor was often seen playing a recorder. It played a pivotal role in the serial The Three Doctors as well as often being used by the Second Doctor to distract and confuse his enemies.
- Rod of Rassilon
- Another name for the Great Key of Rassilon (not to be confused with the Key of Rassilon or the other Great Key). It is a control device for the Eye of Harmony, and can be used to drain power from it.
[edit] S
- Sash of Rassilon
- A control device for the Eye of Harmony, it is used to protect the wearer from the Eye's gravitational and energy forces.
- Scarf
- The Fourth Doctor's long scarf, which he claimed was knitted for him by Madame Nostradamus, is one of the images people generally associate with the character. He had more than one: in some episodes during the time he travelled with Romana, he could be seen wearing one while another was hanging on the Console Room coat tree. The one he wore during his regeneration at the end of Logopolis was unravelled by the Fifth Doctor in the beginning of Castrovalva. A Fourth Doctor's scarf was seen hanging in the TARDIS Wardrobe Room in the Tenth Doctor special The Christmas Invasion. The Seventh Doctor occasionally wore a smaller, plainer scarf.
- Seal of Rassilon
- A symbol of Time Lord authority, this was given to the Master in The Five Doctors to prove to the Doctor that he was working with the Time Lords and not against them. The third Doctor believes that the Master has stolen it from the Time Lords and takes it from him. When the Master tries to explain to the fifth Doctor that one of his other selves has taken it he doesn't believe him.
- SIDRAT
- Dimensionally transcendent time machines named SIDRATs were provided by the War Chief to the alien race known as the War Lords in The War Games. According to the novelisation of the story by Malcolm Hulke, SIDRAT is an acronym for Space and Inter-Dimensional Robot All-purpose Transporter.
- Sonic screwdriver
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An iconical multi-purpose tool, for massive values of "multi." - Sonic blaster
- A handheld weapon from the 51st century, used by Captain Jack in The Empty Child. It can distintegrate as well as reintegrate its targets. but quickly runs out of power when it is constantly being used. It runs on batteries.
- Sonic knife
- A tool used by Scaroth in stealing the Mona Lisa in City of Death.
- Sonic lance
- A handheld tool used by the Sixth Doctor in Attack of the Cybermen. It was used as a detonator to explode an unstable material which resulted in the destruction of the Cyberman base on Telos. The Sonic lance was seen in an earlier serial, Robot as an add-on to the sonic screwdriver.
- Stattenheim remote control
- A device used by the Rani to control her TARDIS remotely. The Second Doctor also had a Stattenheim in the serial The Two Doctors, to the envy of the Sixth Doctor.
- Space-time telegraph
- A device given by the Doctor to Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart that can contact the Doctor throughout time and space. It was supposed to be used only in the gravest of emergencies. The Doctor received its signal at the end of Revenge of the Cybermen, leading to the events of Terror of the Zygons.
- "Superphone"
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A Nokia 3200 mobile phone belonging to Rose Tyler that the Ninth Doctor modified in The End of the World. At first it was to allow her to contact her mother from five billion years in the future, but thanks to the modifications, it can even receive signals in places ordinary phones would not be able. For example, Rose used the "superphone" to communicate with Mickey from within the sealed Cabinet Rooms at 10 Downing Street during the events of World War Three,, and later on the Doctor called her from a telephone inside the TARDIS (his caller ID is displayed, appropriately enough, as "Tardis", accompanied by a police box icon). It also appears to be able to automatically calibrate itself to the user's native era (as it did for Adam Mitchell in The Long Game). By Rise of the Cybermen the Nokia 3200 had been replaced by a Samsung D500 which was able to pick up signals from Cybus industries, but it was given to Mickey Smith at the end of The Age of Steel. Rose appears to have obtained a replacement Samsung by The Impossible Planet, although it was unable to pick up a signal in the vicinity of a black hole.
The first "Superphone": Rose's supercharged Nokia 3200
[edit] T
- TARDIS
- Time Destructor
- Powered by a core of the rare element taranium and able to accelerate the flow of time, the Daleks hoped to gain control of the Solar System with this device in The Daleks' Master Plan.
- Time ring
- Given to the Fourth Doctor in the serial Genesis of the Daleks by the Time Lords so that he could escape Skaro on successful completion of his mission to avert the creation of the Daleks. The Doctor, Harry Sullivan, and Sarah Jane Smith use the Time Ring at the end of the adventure and are taken to the Nerva station where they go onto participate in the events of Revenge of the Cybermen. Although it was apparently retrieved by the Time Lords in Revenge, it makes an appearance at the end of the Tenth Doctor novel I am a Dalek. Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane were also given time rings as a wedding present by the Seventh Doctor in the Virgin New Adventures spin-off novel Happy Endings by Paul Cornell. These were used by Peter Summerfield in the Big Finish Productions audio adventure The Grel Escape.
- Time scoop
- Created by the Time Lords during the Dark Time, which they misused by kidnapping various specimens to compete in gladiatorial games. In The Five Doctors, this was used to fetch various incarnations of the Doctor to the Death Zone on Gallifrey, along with various foes such as the Daleks, Cybermen, and Yeti. It also plays a minor role in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Eight Doctors, and a major role in the final chapter of the Gallifrey audio series.
- Time/Space Visualiser
- A device given to the First Doctor at the end of The Space Museum, it is a "time television", allowing the operator to tune in on any event in history. The TARDIS crew used it to watch various historical events at the beginning of The Chase.
- Time War
- A conflict between the Time Lords and the Daleks that resulted in their mutual destruction. Referred to on several occasions since the revival of the series, little is known about this event. Time_War_(Doctor_Who)
- Tissue Compression Eliminator
- The Master's weapon of choice, it shrinks people to doll size, killing them in the process. The weapon was also used by the Doctor to shrink the alien mechanoid Death's Head in his Marvel Comics adventures. This was parodied in the Radio 4 comedy series Nebulous, in which the arch-enemy of Professor Nebulous, Doctor Klench, miniaturises his foes, but unlike the Master's victims, they are not dead and Klench carries them around with him.
- TOMTIT machine
- Ostensibly a teleportation device, seen in the Third Doctor serial The Time Monster. The acronym stands for Transmission Of Matter Through Interstitial Time.
- Transmat
- Possibly short for "matter transmitter", a device which disperses matter, transmits it to and then reconstitutes it in another location. Transmats are used in the serials The Seeds of Death, The Ark in Space, Revenge of the Cybermen, The Armageddon Factor, The Five Doctors, Mawdryn Undead, The Twin Dilemma, Remembrance of the Daleks, and Bad Wolf. The word transmat is also used as a verb.
- Travel dial
- In The Keys of Marinus, devices that could teleport the user from one place to another.
- Tribophysical waveform macro-kinetic extrapolator
- An interstellar transportation platform that utilises massive energy to create a force bubble that protects the rider while riding the shockwave to its destination — in short, a "pan-dimensional surfboard". It was introduced in Boom Town and thereafter used to create a force field, first around the TARDIS and later the Game Station, in The Parting of the Ways. It was also used in The Runaway Bride to shunt the TARDIS two hundred yards when it was forcibly summoned by the Empress of the Racnoss. In this latest appearance, the Extrapolator is partly covered by a coral-like crust, indicating that the TARDIS has somehow begun to absorb it into its systems.
- Trilogic game
- A devious game designed by the Celestial Toymaker in the story of the same name — it is essentially the Tower of Hanoi.
- Trisilicate
- An ore used primarily in computers and as spaceship fuel. Originally mined on Mars (as seen in The Curse of Peladon), it was later found on Peladon (The Monster of Peladon). It occurs in abundance on Laylora, as described in the novel The Price of Paradise.
[edit] U
- Umbrella
- The Seventh Doctor carried, from Delta and the Bannermen onwards, an umbrella with a question-mark shaped handle. He had ceased using it by the time of his last appearance in the Doctor Who television movie.
[edit] V
- Validium
- A living metal created on Gallifrey that has the power of life and death. It appears in the serial Silver Nemesis.
- Vorpal Penknife
- Quite what a Vorpal Penknife is remains unknown, but the name suggest that it is a small blade with unique properties. In the BBC Novel The Nightmare of Black Island Rose asks if the Doctor would happen to have a Vorpal Blade with him, to which he replies "Only a Vorpal Penknife, im afraid. And a blunt one at that."
[edit] W
- Watch
- The Doctor sometimes carries a watch, either a wristwatch or a pocket watch. In Silver Nemesis the Seventh Doctor's pocket watch has an alarm signalling planetary disaster. The Sixth Doctor and Ninth Doctor's watches could also indicate the era he was in (The Mysterious Planet, The Long Game).
- Weight negation clamp
- Items belonging to the Torchwood Institute which negate the mass of any object, making it possible to carry heavy weights easily. It appeared in Army of Ghosts and Doomsday. In Doomsday, the Tenth Doctor and Rose each use these clamps to attach themselves to the walls of Torchwood One to prevent themselves from being sucked into the void along with the Dalek and Cyberman armies.
[edit] X
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[edit] Z
- Zero Room
- A room in the TARDIS whose walls shield it from the rest of the universe, providing a restful environment for the Fifth Doctor to recover from his regeneration in Castrovalva.
