Eighth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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38 Facts About Eighth Doctor
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Eighth Doctor made his first television appearance in the 1996 Doctor Who television film, the first time the Doctor had returned to television screens since the end of the original series in 1989.
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Eighth Doctor is the longest-serving Doctor in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip.
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In 2007, the Eighth Doctor finally made a second appearance within the television series' continuity.
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Eighth Doctor is taken to a hospital where surgeons, confused by his double heartbeat, attempt to correct a non-existent fibrillation.
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The Master manages to cheat death, and while the Eighth Doctor is on Earth his spirit takes over the body of a paramedic named Bruce.
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The Master then attempts to steal the Eighth Doctor's remaining lives by opening the Eye of Harmony inside the Eighth Doctor's time machine, the TARDIS, nearly destroying the Earth in the process.
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TV film did not lead to the commissioning of a revived television series, and while Eighth Doctor stories continued in other media, Doctor Who did not air again on television until 2005.
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Eighth Doctor can be briefly seen on a screen in the War Room, though like the other past incarnations of the Doctor, this is achieved through archive footage.
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Eighth Doctor initially wore a Wild Bill Hickok costume including a battleship grey cravat tie intended for a New Year's fancy dress party, which he liberated from the lockers at the San Francisco hospital where he regenerated.
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Eighth Doctor completed it with a pair of black leather shoes taken from Grace Holloway's ex-boyfriend Brian to give him the appearance somewhere between a Victorian dandy and wild west gambler.
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Almost as soon as he'd left San Francisco, the Eighth Doctor had another brief attack of amnesia, caused by a final trap of the Master's.
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Fitz took on the role of a sort of younger brother to the Eighth Doctor, placing the Time Lord on as high a pedestal as Fitz had ever known.
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Eighth Doctor experienced a particular funk in the 1950s, feeling that his efforts to learn about his past were pointless, but his interest in life was re-inspired when he was recruited to defeat his old enemies the Players as they sought to escalate the Cold War.
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Unsure what "St Louis" was intended by the note, the Eighth Doctor created his own in London: the St Louis Bar and Restaurant.
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Only a few months after resuming his old lifestyle, the Eighth Doctor faced another radical change: the loss of his second heart.
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An unexpected side effect of this experiment was that so long as the Eighth Doctor's heart remained within Sabbath's chest, the Eighth Doctor himself remained practically invulnerable to harm, returning to life after up to a day in a death-like state even after sustaining normally regeneration-inducing injuries such as getting his chest crushed by sandbags.
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In reality, Sabbath had been manipulated into creating a plan that would effectively wipe out free will itself, with the Eighth Doctor proving that Sabbath's perception was wrong when they found themselves in a situation that could only have occurred due to time travel in a single timeline.
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Explosion at Event One was averted when the Eighth Doctor diverted the black light that would have triggered the explosion to 1898, but instead of reality collapsing into a single controllable timeline, what occurred was reality starting to 'slide' between histories, multiple parallel realities fighting to become the dominant one.
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However, in the end, their sacrifices paid off, the Eighth Doctor managing to stabilise reality by resolving a paradox that had been hanging over them since the beginning of the crisis, and then, with Sabbath's help, they confronted his masters; the Council of Eight, mysterious beings who gained power by foreseeing likely future events and then ensuring that they came to pass.
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Some while after this, the Eighth Doctor was captured by Marnal, one of the few surviving Gallifreyans, and accused of destroying Gallifrey.
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However, right then, the Eighth Doctor had more immediate worries; namely, saving Earth from a species of massive fly-like aliens called the Vore, who would soon have the power to devour the planet.
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Eighth Doctor saves Charley's life, and brings her aboard the TARDIS as his latest companion.
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The Eighth Doctor soon learns that Charley's rescue negatively affects the timestream.
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The Eighth Doctor eventually learns that, due to Charley's survival, the universe has become infected with "anti-time" leading to a conflict with the wraith-like Never People: individuals who were erased from history for crimes against reality, and now seek to unleash anti-time on the universe.
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Eighth Doctor enters a divergent universe of which he has no prior knowledge, and in which there is no linear time.
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Eighth Doctor Adventures, featuring the Doctor and new companion Lucie Miller, began on BBC7 on New Year's Eve 2006; a second series followed in 2007.
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Eighth Doctor appeared in Doom Coalition, a four-CD, four-part miniseries.
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Doom Coalition concludes with the Eighth Doctor thwarting the Doom Coalition, a group of Time Lords led by the Eighth Doctor's old schoolfriend Padrac.
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The hunt for the Eleven is intended to manipulate the Eighth Doctor into gathering the equipment needed for Padrac's plan to succeed, but the Eighth Doctor and his companions disrupt Padrac's machines at the last minute.
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The series concludes with the Eighth Doctor working with three incarnations of the Master to restore the Ravenous to their original state.
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The Threshold attempted to manipulate the Eighth Doctor into stopping the Daleks gaining access to the multiverse and dying in the attempt, but were outmaneuvered.
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The Eighth Doctor was specifically sent to times and places that would undermine him – discovering he had upset the course of Grace Holloway's life in 2001, encountering an alien race with motivations uncomfortably similar to his which caused death and horror in 17th Century Japan, and almost killing the benevolent Kroton by mistake.
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The Eighth Doctor was defeated, only for the Master discover he was not able to access the Glory, as instead Kroton and Sato had been the ones prophesied to battle for it.
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Eighth Doctor's quest led him to the planet Oblivion, a surreal and brutal world ruled by Destrii's mother, the Matriax.
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Unable to stomach this and with the Eighth Doctor urging her to listen to the spark of decency in her, Destrii helped the Eighth Doctor stop her uncle.
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The Eighth Doctor destroyed them through use of the Time Vortex, almost surrendering to it but giving up its power to save Destrii.
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