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A CHRONOLOGY OF THE DOCTORS AGE STEPHEN MOFFAT: The thing I keep banging on about is that he doesn't know what age he is. He's lying. How could he know, unless he's marking it on a wall? He could be 8,000 years old, he could be a million. He has no clue. The calendar will give him no clues. [SFX interview, May 2010] 1

ST DOCTOR:

LUNGBARROW (Virgin novel) The Doctor was birthed (loomed) into the House of Lungbarrow on Gallifrey. He contains the genetic heritage of the Other, the third member of the triumvirate which also included Rassilon and Omega (see also Remembrance of the Daleks and Silver Nemesis). THE SOUND OF DRUMS The Doctor entered the Academy when he was 8 (and spent centuries studying there according to the DWM comic-strip Mortal Beloved). SHROUD OF SORROW (BBC novel) The Doctor says he was 45 when he left primary school. Maybe this refers to the primary grades at the Academy. THE NEXT LIFE (Big Finish audio) In Year 50 at the Academy (presumably when he was 58), he fed a fellow students summer project to the snapping wart fowl. THE STOLEN EARTH He visited the Medusa Cascade at the age of 90 (when he was just a kid). THE TIME WITCH (DWM strip) The Doctor says he was a spotty teenager for 50 years. THE NEXT LIFE (Big Finish audio) The Doctor says that as a teenager he was a terror until he was 120 (he was a late developer). THE PIRATE PLANET The Doctor operates the TARDIS for the first time at the age of 236 (see The Pirate Planet, below) and presumably leaves Gallifrey. THE DOCTOR: HIS LIVES AND TIMES Referring to researching the Doctors life, Madame Kovarians intro says: The first 236 years are patchy its irritatingly difficult to research a timelocked planet. This is further evidence of the Doctor leaving Gallifrey at 236.

SUSANS AGE: BIRTH OF A RENEGADE (short story in the Radio Times 20

th Anniversary Special) This story gives Susans

age as 7 when she left Gallifrey. AN UNEARTHLY CHILD Barbara states that Susan is 15. [But see Here There Be Monsters (below).] MARCO POLO - Susan claims to be 15: Ping-Cho says she is in her 16

th year, Susan replies Well, so am I.

THE SENSORITES The Doctor claims that Carol Richmond (who appears to be in her twenties) is only a few years older than Susan. THE FRAGILE YELLOW ARC OF FRAGRANCE (Big Finish audio) Susan again says shes 15. HERE THERE BE MONSTERS (Big Finish audio) - Susan claims to have been older than Ian and Barbara combined during the events of this adventure. So in Marco Polo (and others), she was presumably just using the age she had been claiming to be whilst at Coal Hill School, and the Doctor was doing likewise in The Sensorites. THE DALEK INVASION OF EARTH Using the BBC novel Byzantium! as a rough guide (see below), Susan has presumably been travelling in the TARDIS for around 55 years by this point (bearing in mind the passage of time for the Doctor in The Revenants (see below), which is set between The Dalek Invasion of Earth and Byzantium!). If her age in Birth of a Renegade is correct (see above), then she is now likely to be in her early 60s. LEGACY OF THE DALEKS (BBC novel) - This story takes place approximately 30 years after The Dalek Invasion of Earth, so Susan is probably in her 90s. AN EARTHLY CHILD (Big Finish audio) This story also takes place approximately 30 years after The Dalek Invasion of Earth, so Susan is probably still in her 90s.

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THE REVENANTS (Big Finish audio) The Doctor waits for Ian and Barbara on Orkney for several years. BYZANTIUM! (BBC novel) The Doctor states he has been travelling in the TARDIS for 60 years, which would make him about 300 now. THE ARMAGEDDON FACTOR The Doctor attended a tech course with Drax about 450 years before The Armageddon Factor, which would have been when he was 300 or so.

THE SLEEPING CITY (Big Finish audio) Ian says that he and Barbara travelled with the Doctor for two years maybe (from An Unearthly Child to The Chase), but sometimes it seemed longer and sometimes shorter. THE DALEKS MASTER PLAN The Daleks time destructor may have aged the Doctor. This is never expressly stated, but it could be used to explain the Doctor leaving Gallifrey at the age of 236, travelling for 60 years by Byzantium!, but being 450 by The Tomb of the Cybermen. 2

ND DOCTOR:

THE TOMB OF THE CYBERMEN - For the first time in the series the Doctor gives his age of about 450 years. Given the minimal ageing of Ben, Polly and Jamie in the interim, it is likely that his regeneration was within the last year or so. The 150-ish years between Byzantium! and The Tomb of the Cybermen could be accounted for by extended side-trips away from his companions though how he was able to find them again at a time when the TARDISs destination was virtually uncontrollable is not known. An alternative explanation is provided in The Daleks Master Plan (see above), with the Doctor now measuring his physical (rather than chronological) age. THE MIND ROBBER The Master of the Land of Fiction says that the Doctor is ageless, existing outside the barriers of time and space. This is presumably figurative. DESTINY OF THE DOCTOR 2: SHADOW OF DEATH (AudioGO/Big Finish audio) The Doctor spends a few years in an area of accelerated time. THE WAR GAMES According to the Big Finish audio Legend of the Cybermen, Zoe travelled with the Doctor for two years (revealed by a medical examination of her after she was returned to the Wheel by the Time Lords). THE BROTHERHOOD (TV Comic strip) The Doctor says he is 500 years old. He is already living in exile on Earth, and two stories later (in The Night Walkers) the Time Lords scarecrow servants activate his regeneration. The 50 years since The Tomb of the Cybermen presumably mainly take place during Shadow of Death (see above) and after The War Games in the hypothetical Season 6B, in which the 2

nd Doctor acted as an agent of the

Time Lords for an unknown period before he was finally regenerated. 3

RD DOCTOR:

DOCTOR WHO AND THE SILURIANS - The Doctor says his life covers several thousand years. This could be a slip of the tongue, or maybe he is referring to his travels in time, into the past and future, covering many thousands of years. It could also be a reference to the Doctor containing the genetic heritage of the Other (see above) and he is including the Others life-span. THE MIND OF EVIL States I have been [a scientist] for several thousand... but doesnt finish the sentence. THE MEGA (Big Finish audio) The Doctor has told Jo that he is hundreds of years old. THE THREE DOCTORS The President refers to William Hartnells incarnation as the earliest Doctor, and to Patrick Troughtons as the second Doctor, confirming that the 1

st Doctor is indeed the first incarnation.

NIGHTDREAMERS (Telos novella) The Doctors age is numbered in many centuries. THE GREEN DEATH Malcolm Hulkes novelisation describes a tear rolling down the Doctors 725 year old cheek. So its 225 years since he was regenerated. This is possibly explained by the 3

rd Doctor taking extended

trips away from Earth since regaining his freedom in The Three Doctors; he also presumably does this after The Green Death, as he is 748 when he regenerates again (see A Device of Death, below). THE PARADISE OF DEATH (radio series) The Doctor says that Sarah Jane and Jeremy are younger than him by several hundred years. INVASION OF THE DINOSAURS In Malcolm Hulkes novelisation, The Dinosaur Invasion, the Doctor says to Sarah Jane You're over 700 years younger than me. As Sarah Jane gives her age as 23 in this story, this fits

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with the Doctor being somewhere between 725 (see The Green Death, above) and 748 (see A Device of Death, below). THE PLANET OF THE SPIDERS The Virgin novel Love and War suggests that the 3

rd Doctor was in his

TARDIS dying of radiation poisoning for 10 years before returning to UNIT HQ. 4

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A DEVICE OF DEATH (Virgin novel) - The Doctor states that he is 748 at this point. Given the minimal ageing of Sarah Jane and Harry in the interim, it is likely that his regeneration was very recent (possibly only a few weeks or even days before, as Robot to Revenge of the Cybermen all seem to follow on directly from each other).

PYRAMIDS OF MARS The Doctor says hes lived for something like 750 years. THE BRAIN OF MORBIUS - The Doctor says here that he is only 749 (and that life doesnt begin until seven hundred and... but doesnt finish the sentence). The production team intended that the other faces seen on the screen of the mind-bending machine were earlier incarnations of the Doctor, from before William Hartnells version. But this is flatly contradicted by the Presidents statements in The Three Doctors (see above), and later also by Mawdryn Undead, The Five Doctors, Time and the Rani, Lungbarrow, the 1996 TV movie and The Name of the Doctor (see below). So these faces could be Morbiuss incarnations or people from either Morbiuss or the Doctors pasts. Its possible that they may include the Other (see the Doctors birth, above), but as he was probably from a time before Time Lords were able to regenerate, its not certain whether he would have had multiple incarnations. THE SEEDS OF DOOM - Again the Doctor quotes his age as only 749. THE ROBOTS OF DEATH - The Doctor says he has lived for 750 years. SERPENTS CREST (BBC audio series): In The Hexford Invasion, when Mrs Wibbsey says that the Doctor has been gone for 9 months (since the previous adventure, Aladdin Time), he replies that it has been longer for him. And in Survivors in Space, Mrs Wibbsey says that for her and the Doctor, it has been umpteen months since The Hexford Invasion (and certainly longer than the 3 months that have passed for Mike Yates). So Serpents Crest in total takes well over a year from the Doctors perspective. THE TIME WITCH (DWM strip) The Doctor is aged 4 years by a time rift. He says I shall still think of myself as 743 or was it 730, I can never remember Hes clearly confused! THE RIBOS OPERATION - Romana says the Doctor is 759, but the Doctor contends that hes 756.

ROMANAS AGE: THE RIBOS OPERATION - Romana is nearly 140 and has already graduated from the Academy with a Triple First. [By comparison, the Doctors centuries at the Academy (according to DWMs Mortal Beloved) may have something to do with him scraping through with fifty-one percent at the second attempt; which in turn may be due to him deliberately failing officiating and legislation (according to Lungbarrow).]

HEART OF TARDIS (BBC novel) The Doctor and Romana experience 30 years of adventures while travelling through a dimensional interface and back again. See the separate entry on Heart of TARDIS (below) for possible explanations as to why this doesnt seem to add to their ages. CITY OF DEATH Romana tells Duggan that shes 125. Given her statements in The Ribos Operation (above) and The Leisure Hive (below), she is likely to be fibbing about her age here. THE LEISURE HIVE The Doctor ages 500 years in the Tachyon Generator. Romana states that if she went in, she would come out as 650 years old, indicating that shes around 150 now.

THE PIRATE PLANET Romana says the Doctor has been operating the TARDIS for 523 years now. This would be since he was 236 (assuming Romana was right in The Ribos Operation).

THE STONES OF BLOOD A filmed scene (removed prior to broadcast) shows the Doctor celebrating his 751

st

birthday, perversely contradicting both his and Romanas claims about the Doctors age from only a couple of stories earlier!

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HEART OF TARDIS (BBC novel) The Doctor and Romana experience 30 years of adventures while travelling through a dimensional interface and back again. This is a bit of a problem as this would make the Doctor nearly 790, whereas the next few stories (mostly written before Heart of TARDIS) all indicate his age still to be around

750-760. Maybe the strange properties of the dimensional interface mean that although the Doctor and Romana experience 30 years, it doesnt age them? Perhaps travelling back through the rift for 15 years undid the first 15 years of travel? Or, as their adventures in this time are untold, something that we dont know about happened to remove those 30 years? THE POWER OF KROLL The Doctor says he is nearly 760. THE JUSTICE OF JALXAR (Big Finish audio) The Doctor says hes 760. THE CREATURE FROM THE PIT Romana states the Doctor was born about 750 years ago, so he says. SHADA In Gareth Roberts novelisation, Romana says that the Doctor is 760. Later, when the Doctor regains his memories, the text states 760 years flashed through his mind in less than a second. THE WELL-MANNERED WAR (Virgin novel) - Romana thinks of the Doctor as 800 years old (the only evidence to support Heart of TARDIS). But presumably shes rounding up, as the Doctor says hes been in the business [of saving planets or travelling] for 525 years, which places this story a couple of years after The Pirate Planet, making the Doctor 761. THE LEISURE HIVE - He ages about 500 years in the Tachyon Generator (but is later rejuvenated again). The aged Doctor implies he is around 1,250, meaning that his age before was around 750 and fitting in roughly with his age up to now. 5

TH DOCTOR:

CASTROVALVA The age at which the 4

th Doctor regenerates into the 5

th is unknown. All we can say is that he

was around 760 in The Leisure Hive and was almost 900 by Omega, so the regeneration took place at some point between those extremes. However, from the passage of time in several 5

th Doctor stories, described below,

it cant be later than when the Doctor was around 888 years old (and is likely to be much earlier than this). THE HAUNTING OF THOMAS BREWSTER (BF audio) The Doctor spends 12 months stranded in 19

th Century

London with the TARDIS in need of repair. THE BOY THAT TIME FORGOT (BF audio) Since The Haunting of Thomas Brewster (above), the Doctor and Nyssa have been marooned in London for an undisclosed period after the TARDIS was stolen. THE DEMONS OF RED LODGE AND OTHER STORIES (BF audio) In Doing Time, the Doctor spends over 4 months in solitary confinement and takes a year to cross a time field. 1001 NIGHTS (BF audio) The Doctor spends almost 3 years (one thousand and one nights, to be exact) stranded on Earth. OMEGA (BF audio) The Doctor says he is pushing 900. MAWDRYN UNDEAD The Doctor confirms he is the 5

th incarnation, saying: I can only regenerate twelve

times. I have already done so four times. TERMINUS According to the BBC novel Asylum, Nyssa travelled with the Doctor for two years (i.e. from Logopolis to Terminus). This is not the case from the Doctors perspective though, particularly in view of the passage of time in stories such as The Haunting of Thomas Brewster and 1001 Nights (when the Doctor and Nyssa are separated in time). PRISONERS OF FATE (BF audio) The Doctor isnt sure but thinks its about 600 years since he abandoned his former Type 50 TARDIS. Given the vagueness of this estimate (and uncertainty as to precisely when the Doctor swapped the Type 50 for his Type 40), it doesnt particularly help with pinning down his age now. THE CRYSTAL BUCEPHALUS (Virgin novel) - The Doctor spends 5 years running a restaurant, Tempus Fugit, before returning to the Crystal Bucephalus. Tegan has been travelling with the Doctor for nearly 3 years (since Logopolis but remember the break in her travels between Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity). THE FIVE DOCTORS The 1

st Doctor refers to himself as the original, you might say, and the 5

th Doctor states

that he has had his fourth regeneration, to which the 1st Doctor exclaims so there are five of me now! All of

which implies that the 1st Doctor is indeed the earliest incarnation.

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THE ULTIMATE TREASURE (Virgin novel) - The Doctor tells Peri he is about 850 years old. WARMONGER (BBC novel) This story takes place over a period of more than a year. 6

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REVELATION OF THE DALEKS - The Doctor says hes a 900 year old Time Lord. Given the minimal ageing of Peri in the interim, it is likely that his regeneration was within the last year or so. THE WORLD SHAPERS (DWM strip) Peri comments that its a couple of years since they last met Jamie (in The Two Doctors). THE MYSTERIOUS PLANET - The Doctor says he is only 900 years old. THE ULTIMATE FOE - He now says he is over 900 so there may be a year or so between The Mysterious Planet and Mindwarp, or he was rounding down in The Mysterious Planet. EXCELIS RISING (Big Finish audio) The Doctor says hes a mere stripling at 900 (presumably rounding down). MISSION: IMPRACTICAL (Virgin novel) - The Doctor claims to be 900 (presumably rounding down again). 100 (BF audio) In A Bedtime Story the Doctor offers to show the sleeping humans the Universe for the next 100 years or so; presumably he does this concurrently with his other adventures. THE CRIMES OF THOMAS BREWSTER (BF audio) The Doctor refers to himself as a 900 year old. PATIENT ZERO (BF audio) The Doctor spends years trying to find a cure for Charleys virus while shes comatose in the Zero Room. When asked how many years, his reply is no more specific than a long time. BLUE FORGOTTEN PLANET (BF audio) By the start of this story, the Doctor and Charley (Mila) have been travelling together for a long time, probably many years, having adventures which have yet to be told. THE ONE DOCTOR (BF audio) The Doctor says his age is 930, though this is in a scene where he is commenting on forgetting to celebrate his birthday for two decades. Hes definitely over 900 as he can remember blowing out the candles on his 900

th birthday cake.

A WEE DEOCH AN? (DWM short story) The Doctor celebrates his 991

st birthday. As this contradicts the age

he gives in Time and the Rani, hes presumably using an arbitrary age here. 7

TH DOCTOR:

TIME AND THE RANI - The Doctor states that he and the Rani are both 953 years old and that this new incarnation is his seventh persona. This is the final time in the Classic TV Series that the Doctors age is clearly stated on screen. There are plenty of opportunities post-Trail of a Time Lord for the 6

th Doctor to have added on

the years to reach 953 while travelling solo and/or with a variety of non-TV companions. REMEMBRANCE OF THE DALEKS The Doctor says Its easy when you have 900 years experience, presumably rounding down. He also provides the only clear hint from the TV series that he may be the Other (see the Doctors birth, above), when he says (referring to the Hand of Omega) and didn't we have trouble with the prototype, correcting himself to they when prompted by Ace. SILVER NEMESIS Lady Peinforte says she knows the Doctors secret. The production team may have intended this to be that the Doctor is the reincarnation of the Other, but this is never expressly stated. 1963: THE ASSASSINATION GAMES (Big Finish audio) At the start of this story (set in late November 1963), the Doctor has already spent 6 months in London as an MP, plus several more months during the preceding election campaign. He then remains as an MP until the next general election in October 1964. LOVE AND WAR (Virgin novel) Ace reckons the Doctor is 783 years old, give or take a day. However, all the other evidence indicates that shes mistaken. THE PIT (Virgin novel) The Doctor claims he is now over 1,000 years old. Hes presumably lying. ICEBERG (Virgin novel) The Doctor is approaching his 1,000

th birthday.

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ALL-CONSUMING FIRE (Virgin novel) The Doctor has aged 500 years since his first incarnation, which would make him around 950 years old. Perhaps hes rounding down. SET PIECE (Virgin novel) According to the Virgin novel SLEEPY, the Doctor passed his 1,000

th birthday while

he was a prisoner of the Ship during this story. Again, the Doctor must be making extended solo side-trips in the period since Time and the Rani, as Mel, Ace, Benny and Chris Cwej all overlap each other as companions until Lungbarrow, and none age by more than a few years each, certainly not 47 years. ORIGINAL SIN (Virgin novel) It is 500 years since the Doctor first met Tobias Vaughan (in The Invasion), which would make him around 950 years old now. Perhaps, as in All-Consuming Fire (see above), he is rounding down.

SO VILE A SIN (Virgin novel) Takes place over a period of 18 months or so (February 2981 to September 2982). THE ROOM WITH NO DOORS (Virgin novel) The Doctor is at least 1,003 years old. LUNGBARROW (Virgin novel) States that the Doctor left his family (and Gallifrey) 673 years ago, which would make him only 909 now. However, Romana says The thing is that Gallifrey moves at a different time speed to the rest of the Universe. That's what sets it apart, but for a long time its metabolism has been running down. In Earth terms, it's like a clock that's losing perhaps a second every hour and it's getting slower all the time. So 673 years on Gallifrey does not equal 673 years of the Doctors life away from it. It is again confirmed that the Doctor is in his 7

th incarnation.

FROZEN TIME (BF audio) The Doctor is frozen in ice for millions of years (but doesnt age physically). SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST (BF audio) At the start of this story, Klein has been travelling with the Doctor for an unspecified period since Kleins Story (possibly not very long though, as she has not encountered aliens previously). THE ARCHITECTS OF HISTORY (BF audio) At the start of this story, the Doctor has been Kleins prisoner for an extended but unknown period of time, possibly many years. But as the timelines keep changing in this story, it is unclear at the end of the story how much of this time the Doctor has actually experienced. 8

TH DOCTOR:

TV MOVIE In the opening narration, the 8

th Doctor refers to his previous incarnation as his seventh life.

According to Vampire Science, he is 1,009 years old (see below). THE TIME LORDS STORY (short story in Short Trips: Repercussions) The Time Lord Handrel states that the Doctor is barely over a thousand years old. THE TWILIGHT KINGDOM (Big Finish audio) The Doctor is over 1,000 years old. [The relative placing of the 8

th Doctor BBC novels and Big Finish audios in the Doctors timeline is somewhat ambiguous. In the BBC novels

series, there is a three year gap between The Eight Doctors and Vampire Science in which the 8th

Doctor and Charley Pollard stories are often said to be set and which I have used here.] THE NEXT LIFE (Big Finish audio) The Doctor describes his age as being over 950. THE GIRL WHO NEVER WAS (Big Finish audio) The Doctor refers to his age as nine hundred in Earth years. In the Big Finish audios, the 8

th Doctors age seems to get lower each time its mentioned so perhaps his

estimates arent too reliable at this point in his life. VAMPIRE SCIENCE (BBC novel) The Doctor calculates his age as 1,012 and estimates he was 1,009 when he regenerated, but admits he may have lost count (and so starts counting again from his regeneration, giving his age as three when asked). GENOCIDE (BBC novel) The Doctor claims he hasnt seen Jo Grant for about 300 years. As he was 725 in The Green Death (see above), this more or less fits. ALIEN BODIES (BBC novel) The Doctor is three and a half years into his current body, which would make him 1,015 or 1,016. SEEING I (BBC novel) The Doctor spends at least 3 years in a prison on Haolam. AUTUMN MIST (BBC novel) The Doctor claims to be 1,018 years old.

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THE ANCESTOR CELL to ESCAPE VELOCITY (BBC novels) Spends the years 1888 to 2001 trapped on Earth as an amnesiac, so aging 113 years in that time, taking him to at least 1,131. THE ADVENTURESS OF HENRIETTA STREET (BBC novel) The Doctor spends a year in London, arriving in February 1782 and not departing until 13

th February the following year.

THE SLEEP OF REASON (BBC novel) The Doctor lives at the Retreat for several months and is then stranded in 1904 for several more months. He also spends a century in a self-induced coma. SPORE (Puffin ebook) The Doctor muses that he had a name once, 900 years ago. The author may have intended this to refer to the Doctors age as stated in the New Series (see below), but it is more likely that he stopped using his name when he left Gallifrey for good when he was 236 years old. This would make him roughly 1,140 now. [Note that the placement of this story in the Doctors timeline is unconfirmed.] MAX WARP (Big Finish audio) The Doctor says he had his mid-life crisis centuries ago. [I have placed Big Finishs 8

th Doctor and Lucie Miller stories after the BBC novels, mainly because of the passage of time in Orbis

(see below), which isnt reflected in the novels.] ORBIS (BF audio) Again amnesiac, the Doctor spends 600 years on Orbis, but says And to be honest, I lost track of how old I really was aeons ago. I tend to round it down a bit, making a few adjustments for variations in year length across the cosmos. I could be four hundred years old, seven hundred, nine hundred; or in some parts of a particularly obscure galaxy, Id be just er two. If the 600 years on Orbis is correct (and not 600 Orbis Years or whatever), then the Doctors age is now over 1,740, and probably 1,800 or more. PRISONER OF THE SUN (BF audio) The Doctor spends 6 years as a prisoner of the Consensus. THE WAR DOCTOR:

THE NEW SERIES rebooted the 9

th Doctors age to 900 (see Aliens of London, below). Whether this was some

effect of the Time War on his actual age, the Doctors vanity making him round down (with 900 being the Time Lord equivalent of 39 perhaps) or because he genuinely has forgotten his true age is unknown. Possibly he just continued to count from the start of his 8

th incarnation (see Vampire Science, above).

THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR The War Doctor says hes 400 years younger than the 11

th Doctor, making him

800 and something. 9

TH DOCTOR:

ALIENS OF LONDON Says 900 years of time and space and Ive never been slapped by someones mother! and confirms Thats my age. THE EMPTY CHILD The Doctor refers to 900 years of phone box travel. He later says Nine centuries in, I'm coping, in response to Rose asking him whether he ever gets tired of being asked Doctor who? 10

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THE STONE ROSE (BBC novel) The Doctor takes an extended (and unseen) side trip to Renaissance Italy and spends enough time there to learn to become a proficient sculptor, studying under Michelangelo. Its not clear how long this takes, but when Rose says months and months, he doesnt correct her. RISE OF THE CYBERMEN When the Doctor passes some of his own energy into a TARDIS power cell, he says I just gave away ten years of my life. This presumably means hes chopped 10 years off his life-span, rather than added 10 to his age now. THE INFINITE QUEST (animation) When the Doctor and Martha are reunited after she has been kidnapped by Baltazar, he tells her that its taken him three years well two and three-quarters to create the means to travel faster than the speed of light and catch up with her. Probably an exaggeration, otherwise theres little time left to fit in everything else that happens between Aliens of London (when hes 900) and Voyage of the Damned (when hes 903), including the extended stopovers in Renaissance Italy (The Stone Rose, see above), 1913 (Human Nature/The Family of Blood) and 1969 (Blink). Maybe it just seemed like 2 years! THE SOUND OF DRUMS The Doctor is aged by 100 years. THE LAST OF THE TIME LORDS The Master refers to all 900 years of your [the Doctors] life. The Doctor is physically aged by those 900 years and then spends a year as the Masters prisoner. Presumably that year is

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wiped from the Doctors age (but not his memory) when time is reversed back 1 year and 1 day (and the Doctor is rejuvenated back to what he was before The Sound of Drums). VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED - He says he is 903 years old. THE NEMONITE INVASION (BBC audiobook) He again claims to be 903. DREAMLAND (animation) Claims he is 900 (presumably hes rounding down). THE END OF TIME - Tells Wilf he is 906 years old. 11

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THE ELEVENTH HOUR In deleted lines (printed in The Brilliant Book 2011), the Doctor says The steering wheel! 900 years, I shouldve read the manual. NOTHING OCLOCK (Puffin ebook) The Doctor has lost track of how long hes lived. FLESH AND STONE The Doctor says hes 907 years old. FLESH AND STONE: MEANWHILE IN THE TARDIS (DVD extra scene) The Doctor again says hes 907. AMYS CHOICE Again says hes 907. THE IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT - Amy says the Doctor was 908 the last time she saw him (sometime after A Christmas Carol), and he tells her he is now 909. The future version of the Doctor says hes 1,103. THE DOCTORS WIFE The TARDIS strongly implies (several times) that she has been travelling with the Doctor for 700 years. This fits with the New Series age reboot and that its roughly 700 years since the Doctor first flew the TARDIS at the age of 236 (see The Pirate Planet)... in which case, whatever caused the reboot has also affected the TARDIS! NIGHT TERRORS The Doctor says to 8-year old George, when I was your age, about ooh, uh uh a thousand years ago. Is he now around 1,000? In a BBC interview on the Doctor Who website, Gareth Roberts said that Closing Time takes place 200 years after The God Complex, which would mean that in Night Terrors the Doctor is rounding up and he is still only about 909. NIGHT AND THE DOCTOR (DVD extra mini-episodes) The Doctor is clearly off having adventures while Amy and Rory sleep at night in the TARDIS. There is no indication as to how much time the Doctor spends in this way. Amy says that they must be a very small part of the Doctors life, but he denies this. CLOSING TIME According to writer Gareth Roberts, 200 years has passed from the Doctors perspective since The God Complex (see Night Terrors, above). The Doctor tells Craig Tomorrow Im going to die. This could be taken to mean that the date is 21

st April 2011, the day before the date on which he will die at Lake Silencio, Utah.

Or it could mean that in his own timestream, the Doctor is now only one day from his death. Either way, he is now at or approaching 1,103, the age the older Doctor said he was in The Impossible Astronaut. THE WEDDING OF RIVER SONG It is already established that the Doctor is now 1,103 (see The Impossible Astronaut). THE DOCTOR, THE WIDOW AND THE WARDROBE The Doctor says Suddenly the last 900 years of time travel seem a bit less secure. This implies that it is still about 200 years after The Doctors Wife. A TOWN CALLED MERCY The Doctor says Im twelve hundred years old now. THE ANGELS TAKE MANHATTAN In a cut scene (printed in DWM #453), the Doctor admits he has no idea how old he is and says I live in a time machine, I dont age theres nothing to go on. THE SNOWMEN How long the Doctor has been sulking on his cloud in London is not stated, but both Vastra and the Doctor himself consider it to be a long time. However, it is likely to have been no more than four years, as Vastra and Jenny were from 1888 in A Good Man Goes to War, and it is now 1892. The Doctor also mentions Over a thousand years of saving the Universe, placing this story three hundred or so years after The Doctors Wife. This confirms that the Doctor is over 1,200 now. JOURNEY TO THE CENTRE OF THE TARDIS The Doctor says I have piloted this ship for over 900 years.

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THE NAME OF THE DOCTOR Having stepped into the Doctors timestream, Clara confirms that hes the 11th

incarnation, saying I saw all of you. Eleven faces, all of them you. You're the eleventh Doctor. It is made clear that the War Doctor is additional to the 11 Doctors. PRISONERS OF TIME (IDW Comics mini-series) In issue 5, the main villain says that the Doctor is 1,200 years old. THE BIRTHDAY BOY (IDW Comics Blu-ray Special) The Doctor mentions that he has over 1,000 years worth of information in his head. He later clarifies it as 1,200 years worth. THE DAY OF THE DOCTOR When asked by the War Doctor how old he is, the 11

th Doctor says: I don't know.

I lose track. Twelve hundred and something, I think, unless I'm lying. I can't remember if I'm lying about my age, that's how old I am. TALES OF TRENZALORE: AN APPLE A DAY (BBC novella) The Doctor has been on Trenzalore for a couple of hundred years by the time of this story. He later says Im nearly fifteen hundred years old. At least, I think thats about right. Could be a few hundred years either way, really. THE TIME OF THE DOCTOR When Clara first returns to Trenzalore, the Doctor has been there for 300 years, making him over 1,500 years old; and by the time of his regeneration, he has been there for an unknown period more, probably another few centuries (see Tales of Trenzalore, below, for confirmation). He also confirms that he is actually the 13

th incarnation of the Doctor, including the War Doctor and his regeneration in The Stolen Earth.

TALES OF TRENZALORE: THE DREAMING (BBC novella) In this story, its stated that People said the Doctor was hundreds of years old. Hundreds and hundreds. It later states that the Doctor came to Trenzalore over 750 years earlier. The Doctor himself confirms how long hes been here as: Seven hundred years, give or take a decade or five, making him around 2,000 by this point. TALES OF TRENZALORE (BBC novella anthology) This books blurb and introduction confirms that the 11

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Doctor spent a total of 900 years on Trenzalore, making him over 2,100 by the time of his regeneration LIFE-SPANS OF THE DOCTORS:

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st Doctor: 449 years (0-c449)

2nd

Doctor: 51 years (c449-c500) 3

rd Doctor: 248 years (c500-748)

4th

Doctor: not known; anywhere between 12 and 140 years (748-???) 5

th Doctor: not known; anywhere between 11 and 139 years (???-c899)

6th

Doctor: 54 years (c899-953) 7

th Doctor: 56 years (953-1,009)

8th

Doctor: not known; possibly over 800 years (1,009-???) War Doctor: not known (age rebooted: ???-800 and something) 9

th Doctor: not known (800 and something-c901)

10th

Doctor: 5 years (c901-906) 11

th Doctor: around 1,200 years (906-over 2,100)

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TIME LORD REGENERATIONS & LONGEVITY:

DIVIDED LOYALTIES (BBC novel) In the extensive flashback sequence to the Doctors time at the Prydon Academy, it is revealed that members of the Deca (which included the Doctor) were forbidden to regenerate until after their 500

th birthdays.

FLASHBACK (DWM strip) Magnus (the War Chief) ridicules Thete (the Doctor) for holding onto his 1

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incarnation so long: Still hobbling about in that old body, Thete? This is before the Doctor has left Gallifrey (at the age of 236), but probably not many years before. HERE THERE BE MONSTERS (BF audio) At this time (late in Season 1, when he is probably approaching 300), the Doctor would still be considered an adolescent by his own people. THE WAR GAMES The Doctor claims the Time Lords can live forever, barring accidents (but see The Deadly Assassin and The Five Doctors).

THE TIME WARRIOR The Doctor comments on the days activities: Do you know, I think that was one of the most active days I've had in years. Well, it's not as if I was a lad anymore, once you're over two hundred. Its not clear whether he is referring to a Time Lords total age or the age of a single incarnation: the former would be at odds with Here There Be Monsters (see above), in which the Doctor would still be considered an adolescent at around 300. But the Doctors third incarnation is well over 200 by now (see The Green Death, above), so the latter would make more sense. AMORALITY TALE (BBC novel) The 3

rd Doctor comments that his current body must be getting old. As this

story is set after The Monster of Peladon, he would be approaching 748 at this point, and his third incarnation would be almost 250 years old. THE DEADLY ASSASSIN Engin says After the twelfth regeneration, there is no plan that will postpone death. However, this is not necessarily true as the Master intends to use the Eye of Harmony to trigger a new regeneration. [The BBC novel, Legacy of the Daleks, states that the Masters regenerative ability was destroyed, rather than he had reached the end of his regenerative cycle. But see The Five Doctors and Utopia for further

evidence that the 12 regenerations/13 incarnations limit can be breached.] SHADA In Gareth Roberts novelisation, it is implied that Professor Chronotis is in his final incarnation, which could last for centuries. Romana estimates Chronotiss age as twelve or thirteen thousand years old. HEXAGORA (BF audio) When asked how long Gallifreyans live for, the Doctor replies it could be millennia. MAWDRYN UNDEAD The Doctor confirms the limits on regeneration stated in The Deadly Assassin, saying: I can only regenerate twelve times. I have already done so four times. THE FIVE DOCTORS Borusa offers the Master Regeneration. A complete new life cycle. So the 12 regenerations/13 incarnations limit is not unbreakable. Later, with regard to immortality (which the 5

th Doctor

claims is impossible, even for a Time Lord), Borusa says Rassilon achieved it. Timeless perpetual bodily regeneration. True immortality! Rassilon lives, Doctor. He cannot die. He is immortal. However, although immortality is possible for a Time Lord, its secret lies with Rassilon and, as the 1

st Doctor explains: It was all part

of Rassilon's trap to find out who wanted immortality and put him out of the way. He knew very well that immortality was a curse, not a blessing. NO PLACE LIKE HOME (Big Finish audio) The 5

th Doctor would not even be considered to be middle-aged by

his peoples standards. THE ULTIMATE FOE - The Master says that the Valeyard comes from somewhere between [the Doctors] twelfth and final incarnation, implying but not proving - that the 13

th incarnation is a Time Lords final one.

TRIAL OF THE VALEYARD (Big Finish audio) The Valeyard claims that the limit of 12 regenerations is an artificial one imposed by Rassilon to keep the Time Lords in his thrall. Rassilon ensured that that the 13

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incarnation of a Time Lord would be insane. Theoretically, this restriction could be removed and a Time Lord could have unlimited regenerations and become immortal, even outliving Gallifrey itself. The reliability of the Valeyards testimony though has to be in doubt. HEAD GAMES (Virgin novel) - The number of regenerations is limited to twelve because a Time Lord's past selves continue to exist within their subconscious; their minds can't handle the multiplicity of psyches. LUNGBARROW (Virgin novel) The Doctor has been using his regenerations up at a faster rate than his relatives (and presumably most other Time Lords). Arkhew, one of the Doctors cousins, comments (in relation to

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another cousin, Quences) that 7,000 is a fair age for a Time Lord (meaning impressive rather than reasonable) and that later incarnations tend to be shorter in their longevity. THE TV MOVIE The Master says My body can [regenerate] twelve times. THE TIME LORDS STORY (short story in Short Trips: Repercussions) The Time Lord Handrel claims that With rejuvenation and care, a Time Lord can live ten times as long as [the 8

th Doctor has] lived before their first

regeneration. As the Doctor is just over 1,000 at this point, this would mean about 10,000 years. The Doctor says that Time Lords live for thousands upon thousands of years. UTOPIA The Master is able to regenerate again, despite him having reached his final incarnation as far back as The Deadly Assassin. See The Sound of Drums for an explanation. THE SOUND OF DRUMS The Master tells the Doctor that the Time Lords resurrected him to fight in the Time War. Whether this was achieved via cloning or similar means, or by plucking the Master out of his previous time-stream, is unclear, but his new life seems to include a new set of regenerations. Again, the 12 regenerations/13 incarnations limit has been breached by the Time Lords. THE END OF TIME - If the President is indeed the original Rassilon, then as he was already immortal (see The Five Doctors), the Time Lords presumably just revived him, rather than resurrected him as they did with the Master. DEATH OF THE DOCTOR (SJA story) The Doctor tells Clyde that he can regenerate 507 times, but this is likely to have been a less than serious reply to Clydes questioning. LETS KILL HITLER River Song uses all her remaining regenerations to save the Doctors life. This would suggest that there is still a limit on Time Lord regeneration in the New Series. Though as she is a child of the TARDIS rather than a true Time Lord, maybe things are different for River. TALES OF TRENZALORE: THE DREAMING (BBC novella) This story states that the Doctors current body is his final one. THE TIME OF THE DOCTOR The Doctor says: I can change twelve times. Thirteen versions of me. Thirteen silly Doctors. But the Time Lords are able to give him a whole new regeneration cycle.