28 Facts About Seventh Doctor

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Seventh Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, and the final incarnation of the original Doctor Who series.

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2.

The Seventh Doctor made an appearance at the start of the 1996 movie before the character was replaced by the Eighth Doctor.

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3.

The Seventh Doctor era is noted for the cancellation of Doctor Who after 26 years.

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4.

The Seventh Doctor appeared in the 50th anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor" and can be seen standing beside all incarnations of the Doctor, at the time.

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5.

Seventh Doctor began taking a more scheming and proactive approach to defeating evil, using the Gallifreyan stellar manipulator named the Hand of Omega as part of an elaborate trap for the Daleks which resulted in the destruction of their home planet, Skaro.

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Seventh Doctor engineered the fall of the oppressive government of a future human colony in a single night and encountered the Gods of Ragnarok at a circus on the planet Segonax, whom he had apparently fought throughout time.

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7.

The Seventh Doctor continued to act as Ace's mentor, returning her to Perivale; however, she chose to continue travelling with him.

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8.

Seventh Doctor was taken to a hospital, where surgeons removed the bullets but mistook the Doctor's double heartbeat for fibrillation; their attempt to save his life instead caused the Doctor to "die" with one last shocking scream.

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9.

Seventh Doctor is thus the only Doctor to have died at the hand of one of his own companions.

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10.

An image of an aged Seventh Doctor appeared in a transitional quasi-afterlife to the Thirteenth Doctor as well as being mimicked in an AI hologram programmed by the Doctor herself.

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11.

In Time and the Rani, the Seventh Doctor gives his age soon after his regeneration as "exactly" 953 years, indicating that some two centuries of subjective time has passed since his fourth incarnation was revealed to be 756 in The Ribos Operation, and approximately half a century since Revelation of the Daleks in which the Sixth Doctor stated he was 900 years old.

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Seventh Doctor has the most profound change in attitude of any of the Doctor's incarnations, beginning as someone bumbling and progressing into a driven, dark gamemaster whose plans to defeat his adversaries, both old and new, would play out across space and time.

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13.

Seventh Doctor generally displayed an affable, curious, knowledgeable, easygoing, excitable, and charming air.

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14.

Seventh Doctor was an adept physical performer and deployed a repertoire of magic tricks, illusions and escape artistry to this effect as part of his plans.

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15.

Seventh Doctor was empathetic to his friends and somewhat melancholic at times but now placed greater burdens upon himself in the name of protecting the universe.

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16.

Seventh Doctor was not above hiding the truth from his friends and allies and using them to complete his schemes and gambits.

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17.

In direct contrast to his third incarnation, this Seventh Doctor was absolutely opposed to violence of any sort and he was totally against the use of firearms, although he proved capable of rendering a man unconscious with a touch.

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18.

Seventh Doctor displayed a talent for hypnosis on various occasions that appeared to be much stronger than in past incarnations.

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19.

Seventh Doctor enjoyed using his hat, umbrella and the TARDIS key, amongst other items, as physical props, usually as showy affectations or to command attention, while the umbrella could be used to disarm and trip foes.

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20.

In Season 24, the Seventh Doctor era began with a light-hearted approach, with stories like Delta and the Bannermen clearly aimed at a younger audience.

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21.

In that novel, the Seventh Doctor is revealed to be the reincarnation of "the Other", a shadowy figure and contemporary of Rassilon and Omega from Ancient Gallifrey.

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22.

At the time Seventh Doctor Who used satire to put political messages out there in the way they used to do in places like Czechoslovakia.

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23.

The Seventh Doctor persuaded "the drones", who toiled in the factories and mines, to down tools and rise up in revolt, an echo of the miners' strikes and printers' disputes during Thatcher's first two terms in office.

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24.

The Seventh Doctor then appeared in the 1993 charity special Dimensions in Time.

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25.

Seventh Doctor appears in the 50th anniversary special "The Day of the Doctor" helping his past and future incarnations save Gallifrey from the Time War, and an image of an aged Seventh Doctor appeared in a transitional quasi-afterlife to the Thirteenth Doctor as well as being mimicked in an AI hologram programmed by the Doctor herself in "The Power of the Doctor".

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26.

Storylines in these audios include his travels with Ace and nurse Thomas Hector Schofield- known as 'Hex'- who is the son of a young woman that the Seventh Doctor failed to save in his sixth incarnation who was particularly close to his then-companion Evelyn Smythe-, his attempts to reform Elizabeth Klein, a Nazi officer from an alternate timeline, and his later interaction with her other self from this reality, and the return of Mel as she travels with him and Ace.

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27.

The Seventh Doctor was the subject of 60 of these between 1991 and 1997.

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28.

Seventh Doctor's adventures appeared in the BBC Past Doctor Adventures novels.

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