Doctor Who family tree
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daibhidc(I've given up trying to get this to look right in a proportional font. Please cut-and-paste into Notepad, and you should see it properly. Sorry.)
Anyway, daft idea that occured to me a couple of days ago when I was thinking about how much of the Doctor's family history was revealed in the books, even as they insisted they were bringing back the mystery. It'd have been up then, but, as mentioned above, I kept trying to get it to look right.
(Edit: Thanks to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pedanther, I now know how to set it to a non-proportional font. So I've done that, and also fixed a spelling mistake, and a bit where it didn't seem to line up right. It should be OK now.)
(Further edit: Following an anonymous responder who asked, I've added Jenny from "The Doctor's Daughter".)
(Further further edit: Now with the Doctor-Donna and Susan's kids from "Legacy of the Daleks"!)
(Yet another edit: Reread Unnatural History and the character who's probably Ulysses is married to a woman called Anne, probably based on the Doctor's father's second wife in one of the unmade film scripts. And Susan and David have a son in the audio "An Earthly Child".)
(Yet another edit: Suddenly realised I should probably add River. And since I'm including clones, probably the Ganger Doctor as well.)
Notes for anyone who isn't a total anorak:
Penelope Gate first appeared in the Virgin New Adventures novel "The Room With No Doors" by Kate Orman, as a time-traveling Victorian scientist/adventuress. This was the second-to-last Seventh Doctor stories, so was probably written in the knowledge the Doctor was half-human in the TV Movie.
Ulysses was going to be the name of the Doctor's father in various films that weren't made. In the BBC Book Eight Doctor Adventures novel "Unnatural History" by Orman and Jon Blum, we meet Daniel Joyce [Joyce -> James Joyce -> Ulysses], who interestingly claims *not* to be a Time Lord, but is strongly hinted to be the Doctor's father, and has a photo of himself, a woman who resembles Penelope Gate, and a young girl. Hence the unnamed daughter.
Ulysses and Penelope finally appeared as more or less definitely the Doctor's parents (and with the descriptions matching the above) in the EDA "The Gallifrey Chronicles" by Lance Parkin. This also featured the Master's father, which is why he's not on the tree, no matter *how* many fan theories there are that he's the Doctor's brother.
"The Other's biodata" (and, indeed, the House of Lungbarrow) is a reference to the Cartmel Masterplan. If you don't know what that is, you really don't want me to try to explain it. Find a synopsis of "Lungbarrow" by Marc Platt. Note that I've ignored that book's revelation that Susan is the Other's granddaughter, because I think it's been overtaken by later events.
Irving Braxiatel was invented by Justin Richards in the NA "Theatre of War" and revealed to be the Doctor's brother in the Doctorless NA "Tears of the Oracle", also by Richards. Simon Winstone, who was editing the NAs at that time, is also the script editor of the current series, in which the Doctor implies he once had a brother.
Patience is the Doctor's ex in "Cold Fusion" and "The Infinity Doctors", both by Parkin. It's not clear she's Susan's grandmother (hence the ?), but she's the best candidate in a field of one.
Susan is the Doctor's granddaughter from "An Unearthly Child". If you didn't know that, the rest of this must be utter gibberish. Sorry.
John and Gillian are from TV Comic. They have question marks against them because both the books and the DWM comic strip have explained they don't exist. This is frankly the simplest option, but if I hadn't mentioned them someone would have pointed it out.
The Doctor adopted Miranda in the EDA "Father Time" by Lance Parkin (again). Her daughter Zezanne appears in the EDA "Sometime Never..." by Justin Richards (again). The degree of homonymity between "Susan" and "Zezanne" is not a coincidence, but I'd rather explain the Cartmell Masterplan...
So, anyone I missed?
Anyway, daft idea that occured to me a couple of days ago when I was thinking about how much of the Doctor's family history was revealed in the books, even as they insisted they were bringing back the mystery. It'd have been up then, but, as mentioned above, I kept trying to get it to look right.
(Edit: Thanks to
pedanther, I now know how to set it to a non-proportional font. So I've done that, and also fixed a spelling mistake, and a bit where it didn't seem to line up right. It should be OK now.)(Further edit: Following an anonymous responder who asked, I've added Jenny from "The Doctor's Daughter".)
(Further further edit: Now with the Doctor-Donna and Susan's kids from "Legacy of the Daleks"!)
(Yet another edit: Reread Unnatural History and the character who's probably Ulysses is married to a woman called Anne, probably based on the Doctor's father's second wife in one of the unmade film scripts. And Susan and David have a son in the audio "An Earthly Child".)
(Yet another edit: Suddenly realised I should probably add River. And since I'm including clones, probably the Ganger Doctor as well.)
The Doctor's Family Tree
Augustus Tabetha
Pond----------?
Assorted Cousins, Elders etc. |
of the House of Lungbarrow | Wilf
| Brian | Mott----?
Ulysses of the Williams----? | |
Anne Prydonian College | | |
(Baker?)---- and Penelope | | Sylvia Geoff
House of Lungbarrow---- Gate (The Other's | | Mott ----Noble
| biodata?) Rory Amy |
____________________|___________ | Williams----Pond |
| | | | | Donna Noble
| | | | | |
daughter? Irving Patience?----The Doctor------------River Song |
Braxiatel | | | |
| | |__________________________________ |
| | | | | |
| |_______ | | | |
| | | | | |
?----? Miranda----? Jenny Ganger Doctor
| Dawkins | (Opposite Doctor -Donna
________|_______ (adopted) | sex clone) (clone) (clone)
| | | |
David ----Susan John? Gillian? Zezanne
Campbell | Foreman
|
_________________|________________
| | | |
Ian Barbara David Alex
Campbell Campbell Campbell Jr Campbell
(adopted) (adopted) (adopted)
Notes for anyone who isn't a total anorak:
Penelope Gate first appeared in the Virgin New Adventures novel "The Room With No Doors" by Kate Orman, as a time-traveling Victorian scientist/adventuress. This was the second-to-last Seventh Doctor stories, so was probably written in the knowledge the Doctor was half-human in the TV Movie.
Ulysses was going to be the name of the Doctor's father in various films that weren't made. In the BBC Book Eight Doctor Adventures novel "Unnatural History" by Orman and Jon Blum, we meet Daniel Joyce [Joyce -> James Joyce -> Ulysses], who interestingly claims *not* to be a Time Lord, but is strongly hinted to be the Doctor's father, and has a photo of himself, a woman who resembles Penelope Gate, and a young girl. Hence the unnamed daughter.
Ulysses and Penelope finally appeared as more or less definitely the Doctor's parents (and with the descriptions matching the above) in the EDA "The Gallifrey Chronicles" by Lance Parkin. This also featured the Master's father, which is why he's not on the tree, no matter *how* many fan theories there are that he's the Doctor's brother.
"The Other's biodata" (and, indeed, the House of Lungbarrow) is a reference to the Cartmel Masterplan. If you don't know what that is, you really don't want me to try to explain it. Find a synopsis of "Lungbarrow" by Marc Platt. Note that I've ignored that book's revelation that Susan is the Other's granddaughter, because I think it's been overtaken by later events.
Irving Braxiatel was invented by Justin Richards in the NA "Theatre of War" and revealed to be the Doctor's brother in the Doctorless NA "Tears of the Oracle", also by Richards. Simon Winstone, who was editing the NAs at that time, is also the script editor of the current series, in which the Doctor implies he once had a brother.
Patience is the Doctor's ex in "Cold Fusion" and "The Infinity Doctors", both by Parkin. It's not clear she's Susan's grandmother (hence the ?), but she's the best candidate in a field of one.
Susan is the Doctor's granddaughter from "An Unearthly Child". If you didn't know that, the rest of this must be utter gibberish. Sorry.
John and Gillian are from TV Comic. They have question marks against them because both the books and the DWM comic strip have explained they don't exist. This is frankly the simplest option, but if I hadn't mentioned them someone would have pointed it out.
The Doctor adopted Miranda in the EDA "Father Time" by Lance Parkin (again). Her daughter Zezanne appears in the EDA "Sometime Never..." by Justin Richards (again). The degree of homonymity between "Susan" and "Zezanne" is not a coincidence, but I'd rather explain the Cartmell Masterplan...
So, anyone I missed?
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Date: 2007-05-13 05:50 am (UTC)The Doctor does have a niece called Jenny, though.
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Date: 2007-05-13 11:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-05-13 01:58 pm (UTC)...in other news, the internet seems to be unaware of the idea that Jenny is the Doctor's niece, leading to the possibility that either
(a) whichever book I originally read it in was wrong; or
(b) my memory of reading whichever book it was is wrong.
*adopts "Look over there! A three-headed monkey!" stance*
I assume Doctor Who's niece Louise is explicitly excluded?
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Date: 2007-05-13 02:13 pm (UTC)I also didn't include the Doctor's neice Lyria, from the unmade films, because, unlike Ulysses, she never made it into an official story.
James and Jenny are on Wikipedia now, although without any details, 'cos I've never seen it.