List of Doctor Who planets
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This is a list of planets, fictional or otherwise, that are mentioned in the British science fiction 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
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- 4-X-Alpha-4 is the extragalactic star system which the Movellans come from, as identified by Romana in Destiny of the Daleks.
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- Abydos A planet mentioned in The Leisure Hive.
- Agora is the homeworld of the Sixth Doctor's companion Grant Markham. In 2191, the Cybermen attempted to take over this planet and change it into a breeding ground to rebuild their race in the Virgin Missing Adventures book, Killing Ground.
- Algol a planet mentioned in Destiny of the Daleks.
- Alzarius is Adric's homeworld, located in E-Space. It appeared in the serial Full Circle. Its galactic coordinates are identical to that of Gallifrey, the home planet of the Time Lords. In Full Circle, Alzarius is discovered to be covered in lush, dense forests and marshlands. Every 50 years, the planet is dragged further away from its sun by a larger planet, causing an occurrence known as "Mistfall".
- Anagonia A planet mentioned in the Seventh Doctor story The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
- Anathema is the homeworld of the Eighth Doctor's companion Compassion.
- Andromeda Gamma Epsilon The homeworld of the Wirrn. Mentioned in the original series.
- Androzani Major and Androzani Minor are a pair of planets and are the setting of the serial The Caves of Androzani. In The Caves of Androzani, Androzani Minor is discovered to feature an intricate network of caves, where spectrox-producing giant bats lived. When the planet moved closer to Androzani Major, mud bursts rose from Androzani Minor's core. Through extensive research in the original series, these planets are discovered to be located in The Sirius Star System, a system containing 5 planets, including the planet Sirus IV. It is also discovered that Androzani Minor was once covered by water, but has since drained away (as it also did on Androzani Major). Since then, both planets have become hot and arid desert planets. Native life on Androzani Minor includes the Magma Beast, which lives in Androzani Minor's bubbling mud pools.
- Aneth, home of the Anethans, was forced to pay tribute to the planet Skonnos in the Fourth Doctor story The Horns of Nimon.
- Arcadia is a human colony world in the 25th century, and the setting of the Virgin New Adventures novel Deceit. In Doomsday, the Doctor told the Daleks that he had fought against them on Arcadia, at the front lines of the Time War, and refers to its fall.
- Arcateen 5 is referred to in Invasion of the Bane (The Sarah Jane Adventures). It is the home planet of the Butterfly People,[1] which include a "star poet" associate of Sarah Jane Smith and a criminal called Mary, who features in Greeks Bearing Gifts (Torchwood).
- Arden, the home of the Shenn, is the setting for the Virgin Missing Adventures book Shadowmind.
- Argolis is the setting of the serial The Leisure Hive. Argolis is the first of the Argolin leisure planets. Argolis became radioactive after the Argolins' 20-minute war with the Foamasi. The surviving Argolins then built a Leisure Hive, and abandoned their war-like culture to promote peace and understanding between alien races.
- Aridius The planet where the story The Chase begins. It was once a planet completely covered by oceans; but its orbit around both its suns was somehow altered and now its seas have dried up and there is nothing left but desert. The only remaining species are the amphibious Aridians and the octopus-like Mire Beasts.
- Asinta A planet mentioned in School Reunion. A planet conquered by the Krillitanes.
- Astra a planet mentioned in The Rescue.
- Auralya The planet seen at the beginning of Army Of Ghosts. It is not related to the planet Aurelia seen in the TV Special Extraterrestrial though both names are pronounced the same.
- Atrios is one of the planets at war in The Armageddon Factor.
- Axista Four is the planet on which the Independent Earth Colony was founded by great humanitarian Stewart Ransom in the year 2439. The Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, and Zoe Heriot visited this colony in 2539 in the Past Doctor Adventures book, The Colony of Lies.
- Azure The blue planet seen from the ships in the Fourth Doctor story Nightmare of Eden.
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- Bandraginus 5 was a planet rich in the rare mineral Orlion until it was destroyed by Zanak in The Pirate Planet. It had over a hundred million inhabitants.
- Bandril is the planet of the Bandrils, the enemies of the Karfelons in the Sixth Doctor story Timelash.
- Barcelona is a planet where dogs have no noses, mentioned by name only in The Parting of the Ways and the 2005 Children in Need special.
- Bellaphores A planet mentioned in The Two Doctors.
- Bessan a planet mentioned in School Reunion, one of many planets conquered by the Krillitanes.
- Beta Two a planet mentioned in State of Decay. Discovered to be located in the Perugellis Star System.
- Betelgeuse a planet mentioned in Destiny of the Daleks.
- Betrushia features in the Virgin New Adventures novel St Anthony's Fire.
- Bonarcha Anarda a planet mentioned in The Power of Kroll, where there are methane-catalysing refineries in every town.
- Boromeo a planet mentioned in the Seventh Doctor adventure The Greatest Show In The Galaxy.
- Bortresoye is the homeplanet of the Eighth Doctor's companion C'rizz. This planet appeared in the Big Finish Productions adventure The Creed of the Kromon.
- Brudyac is the homeplanet of the Brudyac, an alien race featured in the Torchwood original novel Another Life.
- Brus a planet mentioned in Nightmare Of Eden. Brus has a light blue atmosphere and does have a variety of vegetation. The ground is always covered by the thick white rolling mist that is as thick as a cloud. Tanish-yellow mountains can be seen in the distance. Brus is seen in the first picture shown to Romana on the cinomatograph in Nightmare Of Eden.
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- Calufrax Is a dead, icy polar planet which was in actuality a disguised segment of The Key to Time in The Pirate Planet.
- Carsus is a planet which the Sixth Doctor and Mel visited in the Past Doctor Adventures book, Spiral Scratch.
- Cassius A planet mentioned in The Sunmakers as part of Earth's solar system.
- Castrovalva The lush, green world seen in the Fifth Doctor story of that name.
- Catastrophea features in the Past Doctor Adventures novel of that name.
- Centauri Seven a planet mentioned in Time And The Rani.
- Cheetah Planet is the unnamed homeworld of the Cheetah People in the Seventh Doctor serial Survival. It is a beautiful world, with sand dunes and forests near a great lake. It is also a deadly world, where the natives share a symbionic relationship.
- Chelonia is the home of the Chelonians, tortoise-like aliens introduced in the Virgin New Adventures novel The Highest Science.
- Chimeria a lush, green planet mentioned in Delta And The Bannermen. It is known as "The Garden Planet".
- Chloris is the setting of the Fourth Doctor serial The Creature from the Pit. In The Creature from the Pit, Chloris is discovered to be a lush, green jungle planet high in vegetable matter but low in minerals. Through extensive research, the planet is discovered to have two suns.
- Cinethon A planet mentioned in the Seventh Doctor story Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
- Clom, the twin planet of Raxicoricofallapatorius, is the planet of origin of the Abzorbaloff as revealed in Love & Monsters.
- Colano Alpha and Colano Beta are both mentioned in the story Robots Of Death.
- Collactin A planet mentioned in The Pirate Planet. It was destroyed by the planet Zanak for its minerals.
- Crestus a planet mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
- Crinoth a planet mentioned in The Horns Of Nimon.
- Cyrennis Minima a planet mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
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- Daemos Aka. Demos is a planet mentioned in the story The Daemons.
- Darp is a planet mentioned in Nightmare of Eden.
- Delphon is a planet where the natives communicate with their eyebrows, first mentioned in Spearhead from Space. The language is "spoken" in the Big Finish Productions audio play ...ish.
- Delta Magna's third moon (known as Delta 3) is the setting of The Key to Time serial The Power of Kroll. It is mostly covered by wet and boggy swamps, with reeds as tall as The Tardis (some possibly taller).
- Desperus is the penal planet of the solar system in the 41st century, seen in The Daleks' Master Plan.
- Deva Loka is the setting of the Fifth Doctor serial Kinda. It was once part of the Manussan Empire. The planet is very close to being a paradise, with a mild climate and warm blue seas. Much of Deva Loka is covered by sub-tropical jungles. It is also rich in exotic alien fruits and is largely unspoiled. It is the native planet of the peaceful and telepathic Kinda race.
- Dido is the setting of The Rescue.
- Dioscuros A planet mentioned in the Seventh Doctor story The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
- Diplos is the home of Cessair, the Doctor's adversary in The Stones of Blood.
- Discurus Another planet that was destroyed by planet Zanak. Mentioned in The Pirate Planet.
- Draconia is the homeworld of the Draconians and features in the serial Frontier in Space. Draconia and Earth become the dominant space-faring species at some point in the future, leading to conflict.
- Drahva is the home planet of the Drahvins, a female warrior race encountered by the First Doctor in Galaxy 4.
- Dronid A planet mentioned in the unfinished serial Shada.
- Dulkis is the planet on which the Second Doctor encounters The Dominators.
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- Earth, also known to some races as Terra, is the home planet of Humans, Silurians, Sea Devils and in an alternate future, Haemovores. It was revealed in The Runaway Bride that the centre of the Earth was a Racnoss spaceship which the planet formed around. Torchwood episodes reveal it is home to supernatural "fairies" and a prison to Biblical demon Abaddon. In another parallel universe it is home to the Cybermen. It is a planet which by the 51st century has developed time travel capabilities. First seen in An Unearthly Child and many times thereafter.
- Eden A darkly jungled and hostile planet seen in Nightmare of Eden. It is the native planet of The Mandrels. It has an orange atmosphere and is constantly bathed in orange twilight (possibly due to an orange sun or suns). Native plant life includes meat-eating plants, which is also seen in Nightmare Of Eden, when it attacks The Doctor.
- Enlandia A planet mentioned in Ark In Space. It is a planet entirely covered by water.
- Epsilon Four Zero Gamma A planet mentioned in the story called The Dominators.
- Esto A planet mentioned in the story The Sensorites.
- Eudamus Another planet mentioned in the Seventh Doctor story Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
- Exarius Is a planet mentioned in the story Colony in Space.
- Exxilon is the planet on which the Third Doctor encounters the Daleks in Death to the Daleks. According to the Doctor, the Great City of the Exxilons is one of the 700 Wonders of the Universe (after it's destruction, he sadly says that the universe has now been reduced to 699 wonders).
- Eye Of Orion The wet, tranquil planet visited by the Fifth Doctor at the beginning if The Five Doctors. It is a planet constantly bombarded by positive energy and is believed (a least by the Doctor) to be one of the most beautiful and peaceful planets in the cosmos. Ruins on the planet suggest that it once had (or still does have) a civilization.
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- Fagiros Another planet mentioned in the Seventh Doctor story The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
- The Fifth Galaxy is the domain of Zephon, Master of the Fifth Galaxy, in the story The Daleks' Master Plan. It is unknown if this is the same as Galaxy 5, who are at war with the Federation in The Monster of Peladon.
- Florana Is one of the universe's most beautiful planets, mentioned at the end of Invasion of the Dinosaurs. It is said by The Doctor that its land is carpeted by perfumed flowers, seas of warm milk and sand as soft as swan's down. It is also described as having oceans of effervescent water (where the bubbles support you).
- Freytus A planet mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
- Frontios is a colony planet in the Veruna system in the serial of the same name. Frontios is a desert planet and is often bombarded by sandstorms and gale force winds.
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- Galaxy 4 - the location of the Drahvins' home planet in the story Galaxy 4.
- Gallifrey is the home planet of the Time Lords. It was first seen (but not named) in The War Games and named (but not seen) in The Time Warrior.
- Galsec Seven A planet mentioned in The Sontaran Experiment. It is where a human colony is located.
- Gidu A stormy planet mentioned in Nightmare of Eden. Gidu has a light pinkish-yellow atmosphere and has a wide variety of vegetation. Its surface is often bombarded by gale force winds.
- Glasson Minor A planet mentioned in Creature From The Pit.
- Golobus Another planet mentioned in the Seventh Doctor story Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
- Granados Another planet that was destroyed by Zanak in The Pirate Planet.
- Griffoth is the home planet of the Graske, and is seen in the mini-episode Attack of the Graske.
- Griophos A planet mentioned in Paradise Towers.
- Grolon Yet another planet mentioned in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
- Grundle is a planet mentioned in Carnival of Monsters. A swampy satellite of this planet is home to the vicious Drashigs.
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- Harkol A probe from this planet features in the Fifth Doctor serial The Awakening.
- Harlequin Three A planet mentioned in the original series.
- Heaven is the setting of the Virgin New Adventures novel Love and War by Paul Cornell. It lies between Human space and the Draconian Empire, but despite being beautiful and peaceful, has no tactical value or mineral wealth. It was a jointly administered burial ground for humans and Draconians, but became part of a plot by the Hoothi.
- Heiradi A planet mentioned in Frontios.
- Hell is the homeworld of the Helkans, who were enslaved by the Daleks to mine pockets of the highly toxic helkogen gas beneath the planet's surface in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story Nemesis of the Daleks (DWM #152-#155). It also appeared in Emperor of the Daleks (DWM #197-#202).
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- Inter Minor and Inter Major features in the Third Doctor serial Carnival of Monsters as the location of the Miniscope.
- Iphitus Yet another planet mentioned in Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
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- Jaconda is the planet on which the Sixth Doctor serial The Twin Dilemma is set. It was once a lush, green world with lush meadows and wooded countryside. It was also once well known for its friendly natives. However, in present times, it has become an almost dead, barren and arid planet, with little vegetation. It also smells of rotting vegetables. On some parts of the planet, forests of dead trees can be seen for miles.
- Jupiter is the fifth planet from Earth's sun. A gas giant, Jupiter has immense gravity. An orbiting space station is the setting for the novel Fear Itself. The planet has many moons including, in the future, Voga.
- Justicia is a system of prison planets featured in the New Series Adventures novel The Monsters Inside by Stephen Cole. Rose Tyler mentions her visit to Justicia in the episode Boom Town, the first explicit reference to a plot point from the novels in the television programme.
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- Kalakiki Another planet from The Greatest Show In The Galaxy.
- Kantria A warm, tropical world mentioned in Destiny of the Daleks. It is the native planet of the Kantrians.
- Kanval A planet mentioned in the original series.
- Karfel is the setting of the serial Timelash. It is a barren, rocky, gray planet that orbits two suns known as Rearbus and Selynx. It's natives have an uneasy relationship with the neighbouring planet of Bandril.
- Karn is home to the Sisterhood of the Flame in The Brain of Morbius.
- Kastria is the home planet of the Eldrad, and features in The Hand of Fear
- Katakiki Another planet mentioned in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. This planet along with the planet Kalakiki might share the same solar system and both might also be tropical planets.
- Kegron Pluva is a planet with the "maddest ecosystem in the universe", mentioned in the New Series Adventures novel Only Human.
- Kembel is the setting of Mission to the Unknown and much of The Daleks' Master Plan.
- Kirith is the planet of the Kirithons and setting of the Virgin New Adventures story Timewyrm: Apocalypse.
- Kolkokron Aka. Culkacron is a planet mentioned in Frontios. It is a rocky, barren planet covered by boulders, boulders and more boulders.
- Kosnax A planet mentioned in Time-Flight.
- Kreme A planet mentioned in The Space Museum.
- Krontep a planet mentioned in Mindwarp.
- Krop Tor also known as "The Bitter Pill" is a planet impossibly in orbit around a black hole and the setting of The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit. It has a diameter of only twenty miles.
- Kylos Another planet mentioned in The Space Museum.
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- Lakertya is the setting of the serial Time and the Rani. It is a peaceful and primitive planet. Most of the planet is rocky and mountainous, with little vegetation. It is covered by large lakes.
- Laylora is the setting of the New Series Adventures novel The Price of Paradise. It is often referred to as the Paradise Planet.
- Leela's World The planet visited in The Face Of Evil. It is Leela's homeworld. It is a planet covered by dense forests and has a pinkish atmosphere. It also has mountains.
- Lelex Yet another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
- Leophantos Aka. Leovontos Is another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
- Levithia A planet mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
- Limus 4 A planet mentioned in The Leisure Hive.
- Lobos features in the Second Doctor serial The Space Pirates.
- Logopolis is the setting of much of the action in the serial Logopolis. It is home to a race of mathematicians who are masters of Block Transfer Computation.
- Lowitelom Aka. Lowiteliom Another planet that was destroyed by Zanak in The Pirate Planet. Its name is seen briefly in The Captain's Trophy Room.
- Lucifer is the giant planet featured in the Virgin New Adventures book Lucifer Rising. It is also mentioned in the Ninth Doctor episode Bad Wolf.
- Lurma A planet mentioned in Carnival of Monsters.
- Lvan Another planet mentioned in Nightmare of Eden.
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- Malcassairo features in the Tenth Doctor episode Utopia.
- Manussa is the setting of the Fifth Doctor serial Snakedance. The planet's surface is arid and sandy and is dotted by raggid rocks.
- Marinus is the setting of the First Doctor serial The Keys of Marinus.
- Marpesia Another planet mentioned in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
- Mars is the homeworld of the Ice Warriors. It is also the planet of origin of mysterious signals saying "Beware Sutekh" that were being beamed to Earth in Pyramids of Mars.
- Mechanus is the jungle homeworld of the Mechanoids in The Chase.
- Melagophon Aka. Melogophon Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
- Metebelis Three Aka. The Blue Planet is where the Third Doctor takes a perfect blue crystal (a Metabelis Sapphire, which contains strange powers) from in The Green Death, and where he returns to in the serial Planet of the Spiders. It is also mentioned in Carnival of Monsters. Through research into this planet through the original series, The planet is discovered to have a blue sun, has more then one moon, blue mountains, the nighttime sky is blue (and is light blue during the day) and often snows at night. Mist sometimes rolls over its surface. Native creatures include metabelian snakes (giant snakes), meat-eating tentacles and giant flying predators, which are seen briefly in The Green Death when the Doctor visits the planet. It is called The Blue Planet because the moonlight is blue.
- Miasimia Goria a planet ruled by the Rani.
- Minyos is the original homeworld of the Minyans, and Minyos II is where they settle at the end of the serial Underworld.
- Mira is the planet of the Visians, seen in The Daleks' Master Plan.
- Mirabilis Major and Mirabilis Minor are both mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
- Mogar A planet stripped bare of all its natural resources by humans. In Terror of the Vervoids, the Hyperion III spaceship sets off from Mogar with a cargo of deadly Vervoids created on the planet. Mogar is (or was) the source of many valuable and rare metals, including the mineral vionesium (a mineral similare to magensium) that emits an intense light when exposed to oxygen. Mogar is an oxygen-free planet with a reddish surface.
- Mondas is the home planet of the Cybermen, first seen in The Tenth Planet.
- Morestra A planet mentioned in Planet of Evil.
- Morok is the home of the Moroks, the rulers of Xeros and The Space Museum.
- Morphoton A planet mentioned in the original series.
- Muscolane Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
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- Navaros Aka. Navarro is the planet of the Navarinos, tour-loving aliens from the Seventh Doctor serial Delta and the Bannermen.
- Necros Aka. Nekros is a frozen planet used as a final resting place for the galaxy's dead. It features in the serial Revelation of the Daleks. It also has dark land masses and is almost constantly bombarded by turbulent weather.
- Neogorgon Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
- New Earth in the episode New Earth is a planet in the galaxy M87, the new home of humanity some five billion years hence after Earth was destroyed by the Sun's expansion in The End of the World. It has the same orbit, same atmosphere and same size as the original Earth. However the land masses and the placement of the oceans look very different from the original Earth. The Tenth Doctor returns to New Earth with his companion Martha in Gridlock.
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- Oberon A planet mentioned in Revelation of the Daleks.
- Oblivion is the homeworld of the Eighth Doctor's companion Destrii. The planet appeared in the DWM comic strip of the same name (DWM #323-#328).
- The otherwise unnamed Ogron planet, a huge gray ball many light years away from the central spaceways, is the homeworld of the Ogrons and is the setting for the last two episodes of Frontier in Space. In Fourth Doctor Virgin Missing Adventures book The Romance of Crime, it is named Braah.
- Ogros a planet of Tau Ceti notable for its amino acid swamps. The Ogri originate from Ogros. Mentioned though not seen in The Stones of Blood
- Oseidon is the home planet of the Kraals, who were behind The Android Invasion.
- Othrys Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
- Overod Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
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- Peladon is the setting of the Third Doctor serials The Curse of Peladon and The Monster of Peladon, as well as the Virgin New Adventure Legacy.
- Perganon Aka. Perganin A planet mentioned in School Reunion.It is another planet conquered by The Krillitanes.
- Periboea Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
- Pete's World is the name the Doctor gives to the parallel Earth that he first travels to in Rise of the Cybermen and later, Doomsday, after the alternate version of Pete Tyler.
- Phaester Osiris is the home planet of the Osirians, a powerful race who left their mark on Mars in the Virgin New Adventures novel GodEngine and on Earth in the Fourth Doctor serial Pyramids of Mars.
- Pharos A planet mentioned in Logopolis.
- Pictos A planet mentioned in The Web Planet.
- Polymos is the home planet of the Nestene Consciousness according to the Missing Adventure Millennial Rites and the Past Doctor Adventure Synthespians™. It was destroyed prior to Rose.
- Pluto is the setting of the Fourth Doctor serial The Sun Makers, in which it is endowed with six suns and a breathable atmosphere.
- Ponton A planet mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
- Posikar A planet mentioned in Mindwarp.
- Proamon was the homeworld of Kane, the icy ruler of Iceworld in the Seventh Doctor story Dragonfire. It was destroyed a thousand years after his exile.
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- Quinnis is a planet visited by the First Doctor and Susan as referenced in the serial The Edge of Destruction.
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- Raaga is the penal planet of the Terileptils, as mentioned in The Visitation.
- Ravolox is the titular planet of The Mysterious Planet. It is actually Earth, displaced by the Time Lords through time and space and renamed. It features a black light pinnacle of tremendous power.
- Ranx A planet mentioned in Nightmare of Eden. It has an orange sun and a purple- orange sky. Its native plant life includes an alien form of large stalked fungus that seems to grow as high as trees.
- Raxacoricofallapatorius, first mentioned in World War Three, is the home planet of the criminal Slitheen family, aliens made of living calcium. According to the book Monsters and Villains, Raxacoricofallapatorius is a paradise with burgundy seas and four polar regions. It is filled with several indigenous species. The Slitheen notwithstanding, the native species, the Raxacoricofallapatorians, are a generally peaceful race. Raxacoricofallapatorians have limited technology, albeit highly advanced by Earth standards. Its sister planet is Clom. Interestingly, the subtitles for The Christmas Invasion on the Complete Second Series DVD box set contain the spelling "Rexicoricophallapatorius."
- Red Rocket Rising is a human planet attacked by the Daleks in the audio play Blood of the Daleks. It seems to be in the same solar system as Telos.
- Refusis and Refusis 2 are both mentioned in Ark In Space. Refusis is also the destination for the refugees of humanity in The Ark, as they flee the devastation of Earth by the Sun in AD 10,000,000.
- Reja Magnum A planet mentioned in Space Pirates.
- Ribos Is the setting for the start of the quest for the Key to Time in The Ribos Operation. Ribos is located in the constellation of Skythra. It is also 116 parsecs from the planet Cyrennis Minima and is 3 light centuries away from The Magellanic Clouds. Ribos takes 64 local years to complete 1 elliptical orbit around its sun. It has two seasons known as Sun Time and Ice Time, each last for 32 years. Ice Time can be particularly harsh for the natives of the planet.
- Riften Five Is a planet mentioned in Attack of the Cybermen.
- Ruta 3 is the home planet of the Rutan Host, described by the Fourth Doctor as icy and inhospitable for humans in the 1977 story Horror of Fang Rock.
- Ruta Magnum Another planet mentioned in Space Pirates. The planet Reja Magnum may share the same solar system with this planet.
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- S14 A planet mentioned in Kinda.
- Salostophus is a planet in the constellation of Andromeda. Sabalom Glitz revealed in The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet that this was his home planet.
- Sarn is the Planet of Fire in the Fifth Doctor serial of that name. It is a rocky and barren planet with a high amount of volcanic activity.
- Sava A planet mentioned in Ark In Space.
- Scalpor A planet mentioned in the original series.
- Segonax Is a dusty, arid, godforsaken desert planet with a blue atmosphere. A large, magenta-pink ringed planet is seen in Segonax's skyline. There is little plant life, animal life and water on the planet, but is not without a stable eccosystem or life, including the native Segonaxians. It is also where The Psychic Circus is performing in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. This is one of many planets that were visited by The Psychic Cirus.
- The Sense Sphere is the home planet of the Sensorites, a telepathic but xenophobic species. First seen in The Sensorites.
- Shada is the prison planet of the Time Lords in the serial of the same name.
- Siralos is one of the 700 Wonders of the Universe, and it is the planet made of pure psychic energy that the Master takes over in the computer game Destiny of the Doctors.
- Sirius V A planet mentioned in City of Death.
- Sirius IV is an Earth colony planet referenced in Frontier in Space.
- Skaar was where the Graff Vynda-K's men fought in the Alliance Wars mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
- Skaro is the home planet of the Thals, the Kaleds, and the Daleks. First seen in The Daleks. It is a rocky, barren planet with little vegetation. A thick fog sometimes rolls over its surface and its upper atmosphere is red due to neuclear fall-out from Skaro's 1000-year War between The Thals And The Kaleds. Landmarks include The Lake Of Mutations and The Petrified Forest. In The TV Movie, Skaro is discovered to have two moons.
- Skonnos is the setting for much of The Horns of Nimon.
- Skythros is mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
- The Slough of The Disunited Planets is the setting of the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story The Warkeeper's Crown (DWM #378-380). The Disunited Planets form a galaxy where the inhabitants have waged war since the near the beginning of time and is a place where space travellers avoid at all costs.
- Solos is the setting of the Third Doctor serial The Mutants.
- Sontar (or Sontara) is the homeworld of the Sontarans. In the Third Doctor serial The Time Warrior, the planet was called Sontar and said to be in "the southern spiral arm of the galaxy". However, the Virgin Missing Adventures novel The Crystal Bucephalus by Craig Hinton names the planet as "Sontara". The canoncity of the novels is unclear.
- Spiridon is an inhospitable planet, home to the Spiridons, a race of beings with the natural ability to become invisible. The Daleks kept a secret army there in Planet of the Daleks. In Planet Of The Daleks, Spiridon is discovered to be a lush, green jungle planet where the plant life is more animal then plant. Temperatures range from tropical in the day to sub freezing at night. Landmarks include: The Plain Of Stones, Molten Ice Pools (Molten Ice: Ice that never freezes but is extremely cold) and Molten Ice Volcanoes. The planet is also featured in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story Emperor of the Daleks (DWM #197-#202) and the audio drama Return of the Daleks.
- Starfall is the setting of the New Series Adventures novel The Resurrection Casket, a planet where no technology works except steam power.
- Stella Stora A planet mentioned in Terror of the Vervoids.
- Stricium A planet mentioned in the original series.
- Svartos Is the location of Iceworld in the serial Dragonfire. The planet is locked in its orbit, causing one side of the planet to be in perminent sunshine, while the other side is perminently cold and icy.
- Sycorax is the homeworld of the Sycorax race as named in The Doctor Who Files. It may or may not be the asteroid the race originated on in the JX82 system known as the Fire Trap. It should not be confused with Uranus's moon of the same name.
- Szabo A planet mentioned in Creature From The Pit.
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- Ta is the headquarters of the Issigri Mining Corporation and features in the Second Doctor serial The Space Pirates.
- Tara is the setting of the Fourth Doctor serial The Androids of Tara. It is a planet resembling 19th century Earth, with lush green fields, attractive landscapes and Medieval type forests.
- Telos is a colony world of the Cybermen, first seen in The Tomb of the Cybermen. It is an arid, mountainous planet that was once an ice planet until the tempuratures on the planet rose.
- Terra Alpha is the location of Helen A's misery-free colony (or so some believe) in The Happiness Patrol. It is a gloomy planet with a yellow-purpleish atmosphere. The conditions on the planet are terrible and demonstrations are frequent.
- Terra Beta and Terra Omega are both mentioned in The Happiness Patrol.
- Terradon was the origin of the starliner on Alzarius in the Fourth Doctor serial Full Circle.
- Tersurus is the planet on which Chancellor Goth met the dying Master prior to The Deadly Assassin. It was also the setting of the Comic Relief spoof episode The Curse of Fatal Death. The spoof described the Tersurons as the most gentle, yet most shunned race in the universe, due to the fact that they communicated through carefully controlled "gastric emissions". They became extinct when they discovered fire.
- Tetrapyriarbus is the home planet of the Tetraps.
- Thegeros Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
- Therabenas A planet mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
- Therka A planet mentioned in the original series.
- Therra Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
- Thordon A planet mentioned in Mindwarp.
- Thoros Alpha and Thoros Beta are planets featured in Mindwarp. Thoros Beta is home to the Mentors, an amphibious race. The Doctor first encounters a Mentor — Sil — in Vengeance on Varos and mention of Thoros Beta is made in that serial. Thoros Alpha is a ringed planet seen in Thoros Beta's skyline and looks green through Thoros Beta's bright neon green atmosphere. Thoros Beta has bright neon pink oceans.
- Tigella Is a tropical planet that is the neighbouring planet to Zolfa Thura in Meglos.
- Tigus A planet mentioned in The Dalek Masterplan.
- Tisar A planet mentioned in The Dalek Masterplan.
- Titan A moon mentioned in The Invisible Enemy.
- Titan 3 - a desolate planetoid with a hostile climate on which the Sixth Doctor planned to become a hermit in The Twin Dilemma.
- Tithonus is the home planet of Erato, the golobulous green entity in the Fourth Doctor serial The Creature from the Pit.
- Tokl A planet mentioned in Mindwarp.
- Toop was the home planet of the Quevvils and Mantodeans in the New Series Adventures novel Winner Takes All.
- Traken in the Metulla Orionsis system was the densely forested homeworld to a race of pacifists and the centre of the Traken Union. It was first seen in The Keeper of Traken and destroyed by a wave of entropy in Logopolis. The Doctor's companion, Nyssa, was a native of Traken.
- Trieste Another planet from Creature From The Pit. It is also mentioned in novel.
- Tranquela is the setting of part of The Ultimate Evil, one of the Missing Episodes that never reached production during Doctor Who's 1985 hiatus.
- Trion is the home planet of the Doctor's companion Turlough, featured in Planet of Fire.
- Tythonus A planet mentioned in Creature from the Pit.
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- Uranus Is the 7th planet in The Solar System. It is mentioned in The Dalek Masterplan.
- Urbanka in the Inokshi system is the planet of the frog-like Urbankans, the technologically-gifted aliens in the Fifth Doctor serial Four to Doomsday.
- Usurius is the planet of the Usurians, coincidentally a race of usurers who feature in the Fourth Doctor serial The Sunmakers.
- Uxaerius is the location of the Doomsday Weapon in the Third Doctor serial Colony in Space.
[edit] V
- Vampire Planet is the unnamed world visited by the Fourth Doctor in the serial State of Decay and subsequently revisited in the Virgin New Adventures story Blood Harvest. It is so-named due to the presence of the Great Vampire, a great enemy of the Time Lords who escaped normal space through a CVE to hibernate on the planet in E-Space. It is covered by forests and wooded countryside.
- Vandos is the home planet of the Vandosians, a race featured in the comic strip Mr. Nobody (Doctor Who Annual 2006).
- Varos is the setting of the Sixth Doctor serial Vengeance on Varos and the source of the rare ore Zeiton-7. It is a violent and barbaric world with a red sun and a magenta-red atmosphere. It is barren and rocky with little or no vegetation.
- Vardon A planet mentioned in Time-Flight.
- Vasilip Another planet from The Happiness Patrol.
- Venessia Another planet from Ark In Space.
- Venus is often mentioned during the Third Doctor's era as the origin of Venusian aikido, Venusian karate and a Venusian lullaby. The planet itself has only been featured in the Virgin Missing Adventures novel Venusian Lullaby by Paul Leonard.
- Verticulus A planet mentioned in The Space Museum.
- Veturia Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
- Vij Another planet from Nightmare of Eden.
- Vita 15, in the future, is the homeworld to a race of warriors which Lytton belongs to.
- Voga is also known as the Planet of Gold. A wandering asteroid captured by Jupiter's orbit, it is homeworld to the Vogans and contains more gold than in the rest of the known galaxy. The Cybermen try to destroy it in Revenge of the Cybermen.
- Vollotha A planet mentioned in The Two Doctors.
- Vortis is the setting of the First Doctor serial The Web Planet; the Menoptera and Zarbi were indigenous species. It is located in the Isop Galaxy, which also contains the Silver Devastation, from where Face of Boe comes.
- Vulcan is home to a human colony in the Second Doctor serial The Power of the Daleks. It has no connection to the Star Trek planet of Vulcan.
- Vulpana Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
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- Wilson 1 A planet mentioned in Mindwarp.
- Woman Wept is a planet visited by Rose Tyler and the Ninth Doctor where the continental land mass is shaped like a lamenting woman; and the entire ocean, including waves hundreds of feet high, froze in an instant by means of some undisclosed natural disaster. Rose mentioned her visit in Boom Town.
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- Xeros is the location of The Space Museum, the First Doctor serial of that name.
- Xeriphas is the home planet of the Xeraphin, referred to in the Fifth Doctor serial Time-Flight. It is also Kamelion's planet of origin.
[edit] Y
- Yegros Alpha and Yegros Beta are both mentioned in The Leisure Hive.
[edit] Z
- Zaakros Another planet from The Leisure Hive.
- Zamper, home of the Zamps, features in the Virgin New Adventures story of the same name.
- Zanak is the "Pirate Planet", a planet which can materialise around other planets and steal their mineral wealth, crushing the planets. The planet is hollow inside, but it surface is pleasant, with green fields, lush vegetation and friendly natives.
- Zeen 4 Another planet from The Leisure Hive.
- Zeos Is one of the planets at war in The Armageddon Factor. Zeos has a greenish-gray surface.
- Zeta Major A planet mentioned in The Armageddon Factor.
- Zeta Minor Are the farthest planets out in the known universe, and contains samples of antimatter. It was first seen in Planet of Evil. It is a planet covered by lush, swampy jungle.
- Zil Another planet from Nightmare of Eden.
- Zolfa Thura is an apparently barren world in Meglos.
- Zygor is the homeworld of the Zygons according to the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Bodysnatchers. It was destroyed by an arachnid race from Tau Ceti known as the Xaranthi.
[edit] Others
- Terminus is not a planet, but a planet-sized spacecraft that caused the Big Bang and lies at the centre of the universe. Its engines are capable of causing another explosion that will end the universe, and the radiation leaking from them is the cure for Lazar's Disease.
- The time vortex is the continuum that time machines travel through on the way from one destination to another.
- E-Space, or Exo-space, is another universe connected to our own by Charged Vacuum Emboitments, through which entropy is vented from our universe to stave off the heat death of the universe. It contains its own planets, including Adric's homeworld, Alzarius.
- Magla is mentioned in Destiny of the Daleks. Magla is actually a giant space creature that is rolled up in a ball, often mistaken for a planet.
- N-Space, or Normal-space, is our universe, where heat death should have already occurred, but for the Logopolitans' creation of the CVEs to shunt the excess entropy into other universes, including E-space. Unless otherwise noted, all planets listed are in N-Space.
- The Void is the name given by the Time Lords to the infinite nothingness between dimensions. According to the Doctor in Army of Ghosts, Eternals call it the Howling, and some others call it Hell. It is traversable only using a void ship.
[edit] References
- ^ BBC - The Sarah Jane Adventures - Mr Smith (UK Access Only)
