THE NINTH DOCTOR (CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON): 2005
The sole survivor of the Last Great Time War, scarred by the terrible things he’d seen and done, the Ninth Doctor was an intense and emotional incarnation. Hiding his psychological trauma behind madcap wit and frivolity, he took Rose Tyler to see the end of the world, inspired Charles Dickens and showed that for once, everybody could live. He was still capable of great cruelty and anger though, killing Cassandra and torturing a lone Dalek into submission. After Rose defeated the Daleks using the power of the time vortex, The Doctor saved her by transferring that dangerous power into his own body. The strain destroyed his every cell and as Rose watched, his body exploded with raging energy…
"Do you know like we were sayin'? About the Earth revolving? It's like when you're a kid. The first time they tell you that the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it 'cause everything looks like it's standin' still. I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinnin' at 1,000 miles an hour and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're fallin' through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go... That's who I am."
The sole survivor of the Last Great Time War, scarred by the terrible things he’d seen and done, the Ninth Doctor was an intense and emotional incarnation. Hiding his psychological trauma behind madcap wit and frivolity, he took Rose Tyler to see the end of the world, inspired Charles Dickens and showed that for once, everybody could live. He was still capable of great cruelty and anger though, killing Cassandra and torturing a lone Dalek into submission. After Rose defeated the Daleks using the power of the time vortex, The Doctor saved her by transferring that dangerous power into his own body. The strain destroyed his every cell and as Rose watched, his body exploded with raging energy…
"Do you know like we were sayin'? About the Earth revolving? It's like when you're a kid. The first time they tell you that the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it 'cause everything looks like it's standin' still. I can feel it. The turn of the Earth. The ground beneath our feet is spinnin' at 1,000 miles an hour and the entire planet is hurtling around the sun at 67,000 miles an hour, and I can feel it. We're fallin' through space, you and me, clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go... That's who I am."
THE TENTH DOCTOR (DAVID TENNANT): 2005 - 2010
Waking on Christmas Day in his new form, the Doctor fought the Sycorax high above London, where he lost a hand but grew a new one with remnant regenerative power. Travelling with Rose and Mickey he battled Cybermen, werewolves and possibly, the Devil itself. Losing Rose in a parallel universe – but later leaving her with a half-human clone of himself – the Doctor travelled on. He hid as a human schoolmaster to spare the Family of Blood his wrath, he defeated his nemesis the Master once more and met River Song for the first time. Told that he would die when someone knocked four times, the Doctor remained defiant, but to no avail. Reeling from his confrontation with the Time Lords and fatally dosed with radiation, the Tenth Doctor’s song ended, as his violent regeneration burned the TARDIS and sent it crashing through space…
"There was a war. A Time War. The Last Great Time War. My people fought a race called the Daleks, for the sake of all creation. And they lost. We lost. Everyone lost. They're all gone now. My family. My friends. Even that sky. Oh, you should have seen it! That old planet... The second sun would rise in the south, and the mountains would shine. The leaves on the trees were silver, when they caught the light, every morning it looked like a forest on fire. When the autumn came, a brilliant glow though the branches..."
Waking on Christmas Day in his new form, the Doctor fought the Sycorax high above London, where he lost a hand but grew a new one with remnant regenerative power. Travelling with Rose and Mickey he battled Cybermen, werewolves and possibly, the Devil itself. Losing Rose in a parallel universe – but later leaving her with a half-human clone of himself – the Doctor travelled on. He hid as a human schoolmaster to spare the Family of Blood his wrath, he defeated his nemesis the Master once more and met River Song for the first time. Told that he would die when someone knocked four times, the Doctor remained defiant, but to no avail. Reeling from his confrontation with the Time Lords and fatally dosed with radiation, the Tenth Doctor’s song ended, as his violent regeneration burned the TARDIS and sent it crashing through space…
"There was a war. A Time War. The Last Great Time War. My people fought a race called the Daleks, for the sake of all creation. And they lost. We lost. Everyone lost. They're all gone now. My family. My friends. Even that sky. Oh, you should have seen it! That old planet... The second sun would rise in the south, and the mountains would shine. The leaves on the trees were silver, when they caught the light, every morning it looked like a forest on fire. When the autumn came, a brilliant glow though the branches..."
THE ELEVENTH DOCTOR (MATT SMITH): 2010 - 2013
Born, “still cooking”, into a crashing TARDIS, the Eleventh Doctor hurtles into the life of Amy Pond, and the mystery of the crack in her wall. Pursuing the time-erasing cracks, the Doctor and Amy battle new paradigm Daleks in World War Two, Weeping Angels by the thousand and the depression in Vincent van Gogh’s mind. After learning the cracks are caused by the TARDIS exploding, the Doctor sacrifices himself to reboot the universe, only to be remembered back into existence by Amy. After calling his companions to Lake Silenco, Utah, a future version of the Doctor was seen to die at the hands of an impossible astronaut. When it transpired that the astronaut was River Song, controlled by the Silence, the Doctor allowed the fixed moment in time to happen by substituting himself with shape-shifting ship Teselecta. The Doctor was able to slip out of view, going on to infiltrate the Dalek Asylum, discover dinosaurs on a spaceship, save a town called Mercy, bring to an end the slow invasion, defeat the Weeping Angels, the Great Intelligence, the Spoonheads, a sun God, a lone Ice Warrior and the Cybermen, solve a ghost story, explore the inner working of the TARDIS, and visit his own grave as his greatest secret came under threat – but how long will it be before the prophesied “fall of the Eleventh”?
"...I've lived a long life, and I've seen a few things. I walked away from the Last Great Time War. I marked the passing of the Time Lords. I saw the birth of the universe, and I watched as time ran out, moment by moment, until nothing remained. No time, no space – just me. I've walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a madman. I've watched universes freeze and creations burn. I have seen things you wouldn't believe. I have lost things you will never understand. And I know things. Secrets that must never be told, knowledge that must never be spoken, knowledge that will make parasite gods blaze!"
Born, “still cooking”, into a crashing TARDIS, the Eleventh Doctor hurtles into the life of Amy Pond, and the mystery of the crack in her wall. Pursuing the time-erasing cracks, the Doctor and Amy battle new paradigm Daleks in World War Two, Weeping Angels by the thousand and the depression in Vincent van Gogh’s mind. After learning the cracks are caused by the TARDIS exploding, the Doctor sacrifices himself to reboot the universe, only to be remembered back into existence by Amy. After calling his companions to Lake Silenco, Utah, a future version of the Doctor was seen to die at the hands of an impossible astronaut. When it transpired that the astronaut was River Song, controlled by the Silence, the Doctor allowed the fixed moment in time to happen by substituting himself with shape-shifting ship Teselecta. The Doctor was able to slip out of view, going on to infiltrate the Dalek Asylum, discover dinosaurs on a spaceship, save a town called Mercy, bring to an end the slow invasion, defeat the Weeping Angels, the Great Intelligence, the Spoonheads, a sun God, a lone Ice Warrior and the Cybermen, solve a ghost story, explore the inner working of the TARDIS, and visit his own grave as his greatest secret came under threat – but how long will it be before the prophesied “fall of the Eleventh”?
"...I've lived a long life, and I've seen a few things. I walked away from the Last Great Time War. I marked the passing of the Time Lords. I saw the birth of the universe, and I watched as time ran out, moment by moment, until nothing remained. No time, no space – just me. I've walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a madman. I've watched universes freeze and creations burn. I have seen things you wouldn't believe. I have lost things you will never understand. And I know things. Secrets that must never be told, knowledge that must never be spoken, knowledge that will make parasite gods blaze!"