List of Doctor Who planets
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This is a list of planets, fictional or otherwise, that are mentioned in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.
Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
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- 4-X-Alpha-4 is the extragalactic star system which the Movellans come from, as identified by Romana in Destiny of the Daleks.
[edit] A
- Agora is the homeworld of the Sixth Doctor's companion Grant Markham. In 2191, the Cybermen attempted to take over this planet and change it into a breeding ground to rebuild their race in the Virgin Missing Adventures book, Killing Ground.
- Alzarius is Adric's homeworld, located in E-Space. It appeared in the serial Full Circle. Its galactic coordinates are identical to that of Gallifrey, the home planet of the Time Lords.
- Anathema is the homeworld of the Eighth Doctor's companion Compassion.
- Androzani Major and Androzani Minor are a pair of planets and are the setting of the serial The Caves of Androzani.
- Aneth, home of the Anethans, was forced to pay tribute to the planet Skonnos in the Fourth Doctor story The Horns of Nimon.
- Arcadia is a human colony world in the 25th century, and the setting of the Virgin New Adventures novel Deceit. In Doomsday, the Doctor told the Daleks that he had fought against them on Arcadia, at the front lines of the Time War, and refers to its fall.
- Arden, the home of the Shenn, is the setting for the Virgin Missing Adventures book Shadowmind.
- Argolis is the setting of the serial The Leisure Hive.
- The planet Aridius is where the story The Chase begins. It was once a planet completely covered by oceans; but its orbit around both its suns was somehow altered and now its seas have dried up and there is nothing left but desert. The only remaining species are the amphibious Aridians and the octopus-like Mire Beasts.
- Atrios is one of the planets at war in The Armageddon Factor.
- Axista Four is the planet on which the Independent Earth Colony was founded by great humanitarian, Stewart Ransom in the year 2439. The Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, and Zoe Heriot visited this colony in 2539 in the Past Doctor Adventures book, The Colony of Lies.
- Azure is the blue planet seen from the ships in the Fourth Doctor story Nightmare of Eden.
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- Bandraginus 5 was a planet rich in orlion until it was destroyed by Zanak in The Pirate Planet. It had over a hundred million inhabitants.
- Bandril is the planet of the Bandrils, the enemies of the Karfelons in the Sixth Doctor story Timelash.
- Barcelona is a planet where dogs have no noses, mentioned by name only in The Parting of the Ways and the 2005 Children in Need special.
- Betrushia features in the Virgin New Adventures novel St Anthony's Fire.
- Bortresoye is the homeplanet of the Eighth Doctor's companion C'rizz. This planet appeared in the Big Finish Productions adventure The Creed of the Kromon.
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- Calufrax is a planet which was in actuality a disguised segment of The Key to Time in The Pirate Planet.
- Carsus is a planet which the Sixth Doctor and Mel visited in the Past Doctor Adventures book, Spiral Scratch.
- Catastrophea features in the Past Doctor Adventures novel of the same name.
- The unnamed Cheetah Planet is the home of the Cheetah People in the Seventh Doctor serial Survival.
- Chelonia is the home of the Chelonians, tortoise-like aliens introduced in the Virgin New Adventures novel The Highest Science.
- Chloris is the setting of the Fourth Doctor serial The Creature from the Pit.
- Clom, the twin planet of Raxicoricofallapatorius, is the planet of origin of the Abzorbaloff.
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- Delphon is a planet were the natives communicate with their eyebrows, first mentioned in Spearhead from Space. The language is "spoken" in the Big Finish Productions audio play ...ish.
- Delta Magna's third moon is the setting of The Key to Time serial The Power of Kroll. It is mostly covered by swamps.
- Desperus is the penal planet of the solar system in the 41st century, seen in The Daleks' Master Plan.
- Deva Loka is the setting of the Fifth Doctor serial Kinda. It was once part of the Manussan Empire.
- Dido is the setting of The Rescue.
- Diplos is the home of Cessair, the Doctor's adversary in The Stones of Blood.
- Draconia is the homeworld of the Draconians and features in the serial Frontier in Space. Draconia and Earth become the dominant space-faring species at some point in the future, leading to inevitable conflict.
- Drahva is the home planet of the Drahvins, a female warrior race encountered by the First Doctor in Galaxy 4.
- Dulkis is the planet on which the Second Doctor encounters The Dominators.
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- Earth, also known to some races as Terra, is the home planet of Humans, Silurians, Sea Devils and in an alternate future, Haemovores. In another parallel universe they are home to the Cybermen. First seen in An Unearthly Child and numerous times thereafter.
- Exxilon is the planet on which the Third Doctor encounters the Daleks in Death to the Daleks. According to the Third Doctor, the Great City of the Exxilons is one of the 700 Wonders of the Universe.
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- Frontios is a colony planet in the Veruna system in the serial of the same name.
- Florana is one of the universe's most beautiful planets, mentioned at the end of Invasion of the Dinosaurs.
- The Fifth Galaxy is the domain of Zephon, Master of the Fifth Galaxy, in the story The Daleks' Master Plan. It is unknown if this is the same as Galaxy 5, who are at war with the Federation in The Monster of Peladon.
[edit] G
- Galaxy 4 - the location of the Drahvins' home planet in the story Galaxy 4.
- Gallifrey is the home planet of the Time Lords. It was first seen (but not named) in The War Games and named (but not seen) in The Time Warrior.
- Griffoth is the home planet of the Graske, and is seen in the mini-episode Attack of the Graske.
- Grundle is a planet mentioned in Carnival of Monsters. A swampy satellite of this planet is home to the vicious Drashigs.
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- Hakol: a probe from this planet features in the Fifth Doctor serial The Awakening.
- Heaven is the setting of the Virgin New Adventures novel Love and War by Paul Cornell. It lies between Human space and the Draconian Empire, but despite being beautiful and peaceful, has no tactical value or mineral wealth. It was a jointly administered burial ground for humans and Draconians, but became part of a plot by the Hoothi.
- Hell is the homeworld of the Helkans, who were enslaved by the Daleks to mine pockets of the highly toxic helkogen gas beneath the planet's surface in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story Nemesis of the Daleks (DWM #152-#155). It also appeared in Emperor of the Daleks (DWM #197-#202).
[edit] I
- Inter Minor features in the Third Doctor serial Carnival of Monsters as the location of the Miniscope.
[edit] J
- Jaconda is the planet on which the Sixth Doctor serial The Twin Dilemma is set.
- Jupiter is the fifth planet from Earth's sun. A gas giant, Jupiter has immense gravity. An orbiting space station is the setting for the novel Fear Itself. The planet has many moons including, in the future, Voga.
- Justicia is a system of prison planets featured in the New Series Adventures novel The Monsters Inside by Stephen Cole. Rose Tyler mentions her visit to Justicia in the episode Boom Town, the first explicit reference to a plot point from the novels in the television programme.
[edit] K
- Karfel is the setting of the serial Timelash.
- Karn is home to the Sisterhood of the Flame in The Brain of Morbius.
- Kastria is the home planet of the Eldrad, and features in The Hand of Fear.
- Kegron Pluva is a planet with the "maddest ecosystem in the universe", mentioned in the New Series Adventures novel Only Human.
- Kembel is the setting of Mission to the Unknown and much of The Daleks' Master Plan.
- Kirith is the planet of the Kirithons and setting of the Virgin New Adventures story Timewyrm: Apocalypse.
- Krop Tor also known as "The Bitter Pill" is a planet impossibly in orbit of a black hole and the setting of The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit. It has a diameter of only twenty miles. Krop Tor is an ancient world predating the universe, the Civilization which lived on Krop Tor known as the "disciples of the light" imprisoned The Beast a powerful Demon under the planets surface. the disciples of the light used an odd untranslatable Alphabet which a Human expedition discovered while trying to find the power source which keeps the planet in orbit. it is unknown weather Krop Tor still exists because The Doctor destroyed the gravitational field which kept the planet in a stable orbit.
[edit] L
- Lakertya is the setting of the serial Time and the Rani.
- Lobos features in the Second Doctor serial The Space Pirates.
- Logopolis is the setting of much of the action in the serial Logopolis. It is home to a race of mathematicians who are masters of Block Transfer Computation.
- Lucifer is the giant planet featured in the Virgin New Adventures book Lucifer Rising. It is also mentioned in the Ninth Doctor episode Bad Wolf.
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- Manussa is the setting of the Fifth Doctor serial Snakedance.
- Marinus is the setting of the First Doctor serial The Keys of Marinus.
- Mars is the homeworld of the Ice Warriors. It is also the planet of origin of mysterious signals saying "Beware Sutekh" that were being beamed to Earth in Pyramids of Mars.
- Mechanus is the jungle homeworld of the Mechanoids in The Chase.
- Metebelis Three is where the Third Doctor takes a perfect blue crystal from in The Green Death, and where he returns to in the serial Planet of the Spiders. It is also mentioned in Carnival of Monsters.
- Miasimia Goria a planet ruled by the Rani.
- Minyos is the original homeworld of the Minyans, and Minyos II is where they settle at the end of the serial Underworld.
- Mira is the planet of the Visians, seen in The Daleks' Master Plan.
- Mogar - a planet stripped bare of all its natural resources by humans. In Terror of the Vervoids, the Hyperion III spaceship sets off from Mogar with a cargo of deadly Vervoids created on the planet. Mogar is the source of the valuable rare metal vionesium.
- Mondas is the home planet of the Cybermen, first seen in The Tenth Planet.
- Morok is the home of the Moroks, the rulers of Xeros and The Space Museum.
[edit] N
- Navaros is the planet of the Navarinos, tour-loving aliens from the Seventh Doctor serial Delta and the Bannermen.
- The frozen planet Necros is used as a final resting place for the galaxy's dead. It features in the serial Revelation of the Daleks.
- New Earth in the episode New Earth is a planet in the galaxy M87, the new home of humanity some five billion years hence after Earth was destroyed by the Sun's expansion in The End of the World.
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- Oblivion is the homeworld of the Eighth Doctor's companion Destrii. The planet appeared in the DWM comic strip of the same name (DWM #323-#328).
- The otherwise unnamed Ogron planet, a huge gray ball many light years away from the central spaceways, is the homeworld of the Ogrons and is the setting for the last two episodes of Frontier in Space. In Fourth Doctor Virgin Missing Adventures book The Romance of Crime, it is named Braah.
- Ogros a planet of Tau Ceti notable for its amino acid swamps. The Ogri originate from Ogros. Mentioned though not seen in The Stones of Blood
- Oseidon is the home planet of the Kraals, who were behind The Android Invasion.
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- Pete's World is the name the Doctor gives to the parallel Earth that he first travels to in Rise of the Cybermen and later, Doomsday, after the alternate version of Pete Tyler.
- Peladon is the setting of the Third Doctor serials The Curse of Peladon and The Monster of Peladon, as well as the Virgin New Adventure Legacy.
- Phaester Osiris is the home planet of the Osirians, a powerful race who left their mark on Mars in the Virgin New Adventures novel GodEngine and on Earth in the Fourth Doctor serial Pyramids of Mars.
- Polymos is the home planet of the Nestene Consciousness according to the Missing Adventure Millennial Rites and the Past Doctor Adventure Synthespians™. It was destroyed prior to Rose.
- Pluto is the setting of the Fourth Doctor serial The Sun Makers, in which it is endowed with six suns and a breathable atmosphere.
- Proamon was the homeworld of Kane, the icy ruler of Iceworld in the Seventh Doctor story Dragonfire. It was destroyed a thousand years after his exile.
[edit] Q
- Quinnis is a planet visited by the First Doctor and Susan as referenced in the serial The Edge of Destruction.
[edit] R
- Raaga is the penal planet of the Terileptils, as mentioned in The Visitation.
- Ravolox is the titular planet of The Mysterious Planet. It is actually Earth, displaced by the Time Lords through time and space and renamed. It features a black light pinnacle of tremendous power.
- Raxacoricofallapatorius, first mentioned in World War Three, is the home planet of the criminal Slitheen family, aliens made of living calcium. According to the book Monsters and Villains, Raxacoricofallapatorius is a paradise with burgundy seas and four polar regions. It is filled with several indigenous species. The Slitheen notwithstanding, the native species, the Raxacoricofallapatorians, are a generally peaceful race. Raxacoricofallapatorians have limited technology, albeit highly advanced by Earth standards. Its sister planet is Clom.
- Refusis is the destination for the refugees of humanity in The Ark, as they flee the devastation of Earth by the Sun in AD 10,000,000.
- The planet Ribos is the setting for the start of the quest for the Key to Time in The Ribos Operation.
- Ruta 3 is the home planet of the Rutan Host, described by the Fourth Doctor as icy and inhospitable for humans in the 1977 story Horror of Fang Rock.
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- Salostophus is a planet in the constellation of Andromeda. Sabalom Glitz revealed in The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet that this was his home planet.
- Sarn is the Planet of Fire in the Fifth Doctor serial of that name.
- Segonax is where the Psychic Circus is performing in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy
- The Sense Sphere is the home planet of the Sensorites, a telepathic but xenophobic species. First seen in The Sensorites.
- Shada is the prison planet of the Time Lords in the serial of the same name.
- Siralos is one of the 700 Wonders of the Universe, and it is the planet made of pure psychic energy that the Master takes over in the computer game Destiny of the Doctors.
- Skaro is the home planet of the Thals, the Kaleds, and the Daleks. First seen in The Daleks.
- Skonnos is the setting for much of The Horns of Nimon.
- Solos is the setting of the Third Doctor serial The Mutants.
- Sontar (or Sontara) is the homeworld of the Sontarans. In the Third Doctor serial The Time Warrior, the planet was called Sontar and said to be in "the southern spiral arm of the galaxy". However, the Virgin Missing Adventures novel The Crystal Bucephalus by Craig Hinton names the planet as "Sontara". The canoncity of the novels is unclear.
- Spiridon is an inhospitable planet, home to the Spiridons, a race of beings with the natural ability to become invisible. The Daleks kept a secret army there in Planet of the Daleks. It was also featured in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story Emperor of the Daleks (DWM #197-#202).
- Starfall is the setting of the New Series Adventures novel The Resurrection Casket, a planet where no technology works.
- Svartos is the location of Iceworld in the serial Dragonfire.
- Sycorax is the homeworld of the Sycorax race as named in The Doctor Who Files. It may or may not be the asteroid the race originated on in the JX82 system known as the Fire Trap. It should not be confused with Uranus's moon of the same name.
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- Ta is the headquarters of the Issigri Mining Corporation and features in the Second Doctor serial The Space Pirates.
- Tara is the setting of the Fourth Doctor serial The Androids of Tara.
- Telos is a colony world of the Cybermen, first seen in The Tomb of the Cybermen.
- Terra Alpha is the location of Helen A's misery-free colony in The Happiness Patrol.
- Terradon was the origin of the starliner on Alzarius in the Fourth Doctor serial Full Circle.
- Tersurus is the planet on which Chancellor Goth met the dying Master prior to The Deadly Assassin. It was also the setting of the Comic Relief spoof episode The Curse of Fatal Death. The spoof described the Tersurons as the most gentle, yet most shunned race in the universe, due to the fact that they communicated through carefully controlled "gastric emissions". They became extinct when they discovered fire.
- Tetrapyriarbus is the home planet of the Tetraps.
- Thoros Alpha and Thoros Beta are planets featured in Mindwarp. Thoros Beta is home to the Mentors, an amphibious race. The Doctor first encounters a Mentor — Sil — in Vengeance on Varos and mention of Thoros Beta is made in that serial.
- Tigella is the neighbouring planet to Zolfa Thura in Meglos.
- Titan 3 - a desolate asteroid on which the Sixth Doctor planned to become a hermit in The Twin Dilemma
- Tithonus is the home planet of Erato, the golobulous green entity in the Fourth Doctor serial The Creature from the Pit.
- Toop was the home planet of the Quevvils and Mantodeans in the New Series Adventures novel Winner Takes All.
- Traken in the Metulla Orionsis system was the homeworld to a race of pacifists and the centre of the Traken Union. It was first seen in The Keeper of Traken and destroyed by a wave of entropy in Logopolis. The Doctor's companion, Nyssa, was a native of Traken.
- Tranquela is the setting of part of The Ultimate Evil, one of the Missing Episodes that never reached production during Doctor Who's 1985 hiatus.
- Trion is the home planet of the Doctor's companion Turlough, featured in Planet of Fire.
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- Urbanka in the Inokshi system is the planet of the frog-like Urbankans, the technologically-gifted aliens in the Fifth Doctor serial Four to Doomsday.
- Usurius is the planet of the Usurians, coincidentally a race of usurers who feature in the Fourth Doctor serial The Sunmakers.
- Uxaerius is the location of the Doomsday Weapon in the Third Doctor serial Colony in Space.
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- The Vampire Planet is the world visited by the Fourth Doctor in the serial State of Decay and subsequently revisited in the Virgin New Adventures story Blood Harvest. It is so-named due to the presence of the Great Vampire, a great enemy of the Time Lords who escaped normal space through a CVE to hibernate on the planet in E-Space.
- Vandos is the home planet of the Vandosians, a race featured in the comic strip Mr. Nobody (Doctor Who Annual 2006).
- Varos is the setting of the Sixth Doctor serial Vengeance on Varos and the source of the rare ore Zeiton-7.
- Venus is often mentioned during the Third Doctor's era as the origin of Venusian aikido, Venusian karate and a Venusian lullaby. The planet itself has only been featured in the Virgin Missing Adventures novel Venusian Lullaby by Paul Leonard.
- Vita 15, in the future, is the homeworld to a race of warriors which Lytton belongs to.
- Voga is also known as the Planet of Gold. A wandering asteroid captured by Jupiter's orbit, it is homeworld to the Vogans and contains more gold than in the rest of the known galaxy. The Cybermen try to destroy it in Revenge of the Cybermen.
- Vortis is the setting of the First Doctor serial The Web Planet; the Menoptera and Zarbi were indigenous species. It is located in the Isop Galaxy, which also contains the Silver Devastation, from where Face of Boe comes.
- Vulcan is home to a human colony in the Second Doctor serial The Power of the Daleks. It has no connection to the Star Trek planet of Vulcan.
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- Woman Wept is a planet visited by Rose Tyler and the Ninth Doctor where the continental land mass is shaped like a lamenting woman; and the entire ocean, including waves hundreds of feet high, froze in an instant by means of some undisclosed natural disaster. Rose mentioned her visit in Boom Town.
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- Xeros is the location of The Space Museum, the First Doctor serial of that name.
- Xeriphas is the home planet of the Xeraphin, referred to in the Fifth Doctor serial Time-Flight. It is also Kamelion's planet of origin.
[edit] Z
- Zamper, home of the Zamps, features in the Virgin New Adventures story of the same name.
- Zanak is the "Pirate Planet", a planet which can materialise around other planets and steal their mineral wealth.
- Zeos is one of the planets at war in The Armageddon Factor.
- Zeta Minor is the farthest planet out in the known universe, and contains samples of antimatter. It was first seen in Planet of Evil.
- Zolfa Thura is an apparently barren world in Meglos.
- Zygor is the homeworld of the Zygons according to the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Bodysnatchers. It was destroyed by an arachnid race from Tau Ceti known as the Xaranthi.
[edit] Others
- Terminus is not a planet, but a planet-sized spacecraft that caused the Big Bang and lies at the centre of the universe. Its engines are capable of causing another explosion that will end the universe, and the radiation leaking from them is the cure for Lazar's Disease.
- The time vortex is the continuum that time machines travel through on the way from one destination to another.
- E-Space, or Exo-space, is another universe connected to our own by Charged Vacuum Emboitments, through which entropy is vented from our universe to stave off the heat death of the universe. It contains its own planets, including Adric's homeworld, Alzarius.
- N-Space, or Normal-space, is our universe, where heat death should have already occurred, but for the Logopolitans' creation of the CVEs to shunt the excess entropy into other universes, including E-space. Unless otherwise noted, all planets listed are in N-Space.
- The Void is the name given by the Time Lords to the infinite nothingness between dimensions. According to the Doctor in Army of Ghosts, Eternals call it the Howling, and some others call it Hell. It is traversable only using a void ship.
