Day 4717: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #50: THE DOCTOR

Saturday:

Age: Between his twelfth and last incarnation… hang on if Davy T used up regeneration eleven AND twelve now, doesn’t that make Mr Dr Matt both twelfth AND last…? Uh oh!
Stories: 2
Awesomeness: the Catharsis of Spurious Morality!
Cuddles: there’ll be no impropriety with the Inquisitor!
AKA: m'learned doctor of law (allegedly; Boatyard, Backyard, Graveyard, Knackers’ Yard… Keeper of the Great Key; Peter Guillam (Tinker, Tailor); Neville Badger (A Bit of a Do); Colonel Mustard (Cluedo); Colonel X (no relation) (Press Gang); …and James Bond on the radio; he’s the immortal Michael Jayston.

He'd better be in the Christmas Dr Woo!

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Day 4716: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #49: SIR IAN CHESTERTON KNIGHT OF JAFFA CAKE

Friday:

Age: Hasn’t aged since the Sixties
Stories: 37
Awesomeness: Knighted by King Richard; can defeat Aztecs with only his thumb; married Barbara and lived happily ever after
Cuddles: Barbara Wright, the one and only
AKA: Sir Lancelot, the magnificent William Russell Enoch

Day 4715 BONUS: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #48: SPACE PILOT STEVEN TAYLOR

Still Thursday:

Age: Silver Fox
Stories: 28
Awesomeness: Ended up ruler of the Universe
Cuddles: Panda
AKA: Blue Peter Hero Mr Peter Purvis

Day 4715: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #47: SPECIAL SPACE SECURITY SERVICE AGENT SARA KINGDOM

Thursday:

Age: Tragically Time Destructed
Stories: 6
Awesomeness: Thwarted the Daleks’ Master Plan. In leather.
Cuddles: Loves her brother Brett Vyon. Also shot him.
AKA: Princess Joanna (The Crusade); Rose the Lady’s Maid; co-creator of Upstairs Downstairs; and of House of Eliot; Morgaine, the Sunkiller, Dominator of the Thirteen Worlds and Battle Queen of the S'rax; the divine Jean Marsh

Day 4714 BONUS2: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #46: SPECIAL SOUND DICK MILLS

Yet More Wednesday:

Day 4714 BONUS: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #45: SPECIAL SOUND BRIAN HODGESON

More Wednesday:

Day 4714: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #44: POLLY

Wednesday:

Age: Swinging Sixties
Stories: 21
Awesomeness: Can kill a Cyberman with her nail varnish
Cuddles: Able Seaman Ben Jackson. Jamie doesn’t get a look in.
AKA: Lady Pollard; Miss Pussy Kat (The Avengers, Dressed to Kill); the impossible girl, Miss Anneke Wills

Day 4713 BONUS: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #43: DERRICK SHERWIN

Tuesday again:

Age: of Change
Stories: 7
Awesomeness: Created UNIT. And the Time Lords. Exiled the Doctor to Earth. Killed Troughton, Cast Pertwee. And left! Not bad for a couple of afternoon’s work.
Cuddles: too busy
AKA: oldest surviving producer of Doctor Who

Day 4709 BONUS: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #37: DUGGAN

Friday Again:

Age: He’s the detective; he can work it out
Stories: 1
Awesomeness: Never Mind the Most Important Punch in History… he’s IN A JAMES BOND FILM!
Cuddles: Wedded to mindless violence
AKA: Harry’s Brother (Sarah Jane, Big Finish); Le Chiffre’s stockbroker (Casino Royalle… did I mention IN A JAMES BOND FILM!); the suave super-sleuth Tom Chadbon

Day 4709: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #36: ROMANA

Friday:

Age: Ageless
Stories: 76
Awesomeness: Lush! Aggressive! Vegetation! Impudent Worm! Lady Lord President of the Time Lords and Ladies; hand-picked by the White Guardian (but never mind); triple first from the academy (but never mind); Magnificent (with medal to prove it)
Cuddles: The Time Traveller’s Wife; Mr Professor Richard Dawkins
AKA: Princess Astra; her supreme divinity, Mistress Lalla the Hon Sarah Ward

Day 4708 BONUS: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #35: K-9 (Mark I through IV)

Another Thursday:

Age: 5000 A.D.
Stories: 84
Awesomeness: Dr Woo’s second best friend!
Cuddles: Cuddles are unnecessary, mistress [hug me!]
AKA: Dugeen (The Power of Kroll); it’s the irrepressible John Leeson

Day 4708: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #34: LEELA of the SEVATEEM

Thursday:

Age: the Wisdom of the Elders
Stories: 64
Awesomeness: That’s Silly! More Crowning Moments of Awesome than an entire European Monarchy.
Cuddles: Marry In Haste, Repent When He Regenerates; BFF’s with Romana; K-9 (Mark I)
AKA: Blanche Simmons in Tenko; Susan Young in Bergerac; Rosa di Marco in Eastenders; the beyond multi-talented Janice Thorn, er, I mean Louise Jameson (please forgive us, Lou!)

Day 4707: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #33b: PROFESSOR GEORGE LITEFOOT

Wednesday:

Age: Academic
Stories: 28
Awesomeness: He may have had a bash on the head but it’s STILL a damned queer story
Cuddles: Not sos you’d notice; Oscar Wilde
AKA: Dr Jennings (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow); Dr Albrigtsen (Maelstrom); member of the RSC; playwright and bon viveur; the ineffable, unforgettable, unspeakably outrageous Mr Sir Trevor Baxter

Day 4707: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #33a: HENRY GORDON JAGO Esq

Wednesday:

Age: Theatrical
Stories: 28
Awesomeness: A tiger when his dander’s up (but we’ll forgive him)
Cuddles: Jago in Love; Sigmund Freud; Merry Wiffes of Winsor (Horns are HILARIOUS)
AKA: Sir Keith Gold (Inferno), Sir Colonel Hugh Curbishly (The Unicorn and the Wasp); the evanescent, effervescent, indescribably adorable Mr Sir Christopher Benjamin

Day 4707: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #33: A CASE FOR JAGO & LITEFOOT

Wednesday:

Age: Eighteen-Nineties
Stories: 28
Awesomeness: Their exploits have come to the attention of the Queen Empress herself! (Or have they!)
Cuddles: Confirmed bachelors. (Not for want of trying on Mr Jago’s part.) Best friend Ellie might be a bit, er, vampirey. (And/or her aging papa works in refuse collection.)
AKA: Investigators of Infernal Incidents, Dynamic Duo of Dastardly Dealings, Fabulous Foilers of Fantastical Fiends; Avuncular Vacationing Visitors to Venus; Prodigious Pair of Promethean Protectors (that’s enough, ed.)

Day 4706: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #32: PHILIP von HINCHCLIFFE

Tuesday:

Age: Friend From The Future
Stories: 18
Awesomeness: Deadly Assassin
Cuddles: Mary Whitehouse… not!
AKA: eyebrow-wielding, unstoppable godlike force who was producer of the golden age of Doctor Who

Day 4705 BONUS: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #31: LADY ELLAINYA

Still technically Monday:

Age: Plaything of Sutekh for over 300 years
Stories: 2
Awesomeness: takes on deities (admittedly, with predictable results)
Cuddles: her dark god, Upuat (Dame Julian Glover)
AKA: Merytra of the Caanan Mal’akh, Lady Isabella (The King’s Demons); Francis Urquhart’s comeuppance (The Final Cut); Mrs Walter Donovan in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; not-coincidentally, Mrs Dame Julian Glover; the divinely lovely Ms Isla Blair

Day 4705: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #30: SUTEKH

Late-ish Monday:

Age: He lived about seven thousand years
Stories: 7
Awesomeness: Kneel before Sutekh!
Cuddles: Would rather be alone
AKA: The Beast, was Neil before Sutekh, the divinely sinister Gabriel Woolf

Day 4704: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #29: THE MASTER

Sunday:

Age: A New Body… At Last!
Stories: 7 (in this incarnation)
Awesomeness: Keeper of Traken (a win on points)
Cuddles: A bit Skull Beneath The Skin. Without the Skin.
AKA: Mrs Liz Shaw; Mr Tolliver (Poirot’s Problem at Sea, with Carrie); the nicest man in the World, Geoffrey Beevers.

Day 4703: Millennium’s Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Top Trunks #28: THE DOCTOR

Saturday:

Age: 800-and-something
Stories: 96
Awesomeness: Saves the Universe twice but gives his life for a friend he’s only just met. Often at his best in Caves
Cuddles: Moffat: Time Crash. Gatiss: Can We Kiss Peter?
AKA: Omega; Dr Stephen Daker (A Very Peculiar Practice); Albert Campion; Inspector Christmas (Mrs Bradley Mysteries); Dangerous Davis (The Last Detective); David Tennant’s father-in-law; Peter Davidstone… it’s the always-pleased-to-see-the-fans Peter Davison