Sixth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who.
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15 Facts About Sixth Doctor
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The Sixth Doctor's era was marked by the decision of the BBC controller Michael Grade to put the series on an 18-month "hiatus" between seasons 22 and 23, with only one new Doctor Who story, Slipback, made on radio during the hiatus, broadcast as 6 parts on BBC Radio 4 from 25 July to 8 August 1985, as part of a children's magazine show called Pirate Radio Four.
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Sixth Doctor's regeneration was initially unstable, and he nearly strangled Peri before he came to his senses.
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Sixth Doctor faced a renegade female Time Lord scientist, the Rani, who was conducting experiments on humans using the Luddite riots as a cover.
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Sixth Doctor had edited the Matrix recordings of the Doctor's travels; in reality Peri had survived events on Thoros Beta.
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Sixth Doctor Who was put on hiatus for 18 months following The Trial of a Time Lord, and Colin Baker was asked to return for a single story which would have led to an event precipitating the Sixth Doctor's regeneration.
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Sixth Doctor was lured back into travelling by the Time Lords, and recruited Grant Markham as a companion.
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The novel The Shadow in the Glass depicts the Sixth Doctor working with his old friend Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart to thwart a conspiracy to unleash a Fourth Reich led by the secret son of Adolf Hitler.
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The BBC Books Past Doctor Adventures novel Spiral Scratch proposes that the Sixth Doctor died as a result of his chronal energy being drained in a confrontation with a powerful pan-dimensional entity before being snared by the Rani's beam.
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Sixth Doctor wears a scarlet plaid frock coat, with green patchwork, and yellow and pink lapels over a white shirt with crimson question marks embroidered in the collar, a waistcoat with a fob watch, a large tie, yellow trousers with black stripes, and emerald green ankle boots with royal orange spats.
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The "future" version of the Sixth Doctor seen aboard the Hyperion III wore a stripey waistcoat and a yellow cravat, speckled with black stars.
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Sixth Doctor was featured in a number of acclaimed comic strips drawn by John Ridgway.
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The Sixth Doctor was somewhat calmer and more restrained than on television.
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