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"One day I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then there must
be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs,
and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine"
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| The First Doctor's Adventures Continue |
Companions: Susan, Ian, Barbara, Vicki, Steven
Taylor
Major Enemies: Daleks, the Animus, Mechanoids, The Monk
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| Planet of Giants |
| Location: England |
Date: 1964 |
 The TARDIS finally gets
Ian and Barbara back to England in their own time period, but a
malfunction has caused the ship's doors to open while in flight, and
the resulting dimensional instability shrinks the travelers to the
size of insects. The crew face many dangers, including a common
domestic cat, drowning in a laboratory sink, and Barbara's
accidental poisoning due to exposure to a dangerous insecticide, but
they still manage to expose a murderer before The Doctor figures out
how to cure Barbara and reverse the shrinking process.
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| Unrecorded Adventure |
| Location: South Africa |
Date: May 1900 |
In an adventure whose details are unknown, The
Doctor and his companions witness the relief of Mafeking during the Boer War. 
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| The Dalek Invasion of
Earth |
| Location: England |
Date: circa 2164 |
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 The TARDIS lands in London in the 22nd century,
and the crew discovers that Earth has been conquered by the Daleks.
(The Doctor theorizes that this is chronologically before their
first meeting with the Daleks, but later evidence suggests that he
is incorrect.) The Daleks have enslaved most of the survivors, and
some of these slaves are being used in a mysterious mining project
in Bedfordshire. Susan becomes romantically involved with the young
resistance fighter David Campbell. The crew discover that the Daleks
intend to remove the Earth's magnetic core and replace it with a
propulsion system so that they can use the planet as a mobile base
for further conquest. The Doctor frees the slaves from Dalek control
and they begin a rebellion. Ian diverts the bomb which will activate
the propulsion system, and it destroys the Daleks' headquarters. As
the travelers prepare to leave, The Doctor, knowing that Susan is
torn between her wish to continue taking care of him and her desire
to stay with David, locks her out of the TARDIS and bids her a sentimental farewell.
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| The Rescue |
| Location: Dido |
Date: 2493 |
The Doctor,
somewhat listless and depressed following Susan's departure, falls
asleep during their next journey, and the TARDIS itself takes over
their landing. They arrive on the planet Dido (which The Doctor has
visited before). They find a crashed spaceship from Earth with two
survivors, an apparently paralyzed man named Bennett, and a orphaned
girl named Vicki. They tell the TARDIS crew that a monstrous
creature called Koquillion is protecting them from the Didonians,
who supposedly killed the other crash survivors. The Doctor, who
remembers the planet's natives as peaceful, is suspicious, and
discovers that Koquillion is actually a disguised Bennett, who
intends to use the girl as an alibi to cover the fact that he
committed the murders. Bennett is accidentally killed while fleeing
from two Didonians, and The Doctor invites Vicki to join his crew.
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| The Romans |
| Location: Italy |
Date: 64 |
 The TARDIS makes a precarious landing in Italy, and after
they make sure it is all right, The Doctor and his companions take a
holiday, spending a month at a villa near Rome. Shortly after The
Doctor and Vicki decide to visit the city, Barbara and Ian are
captured by slavers. Ian becomes a galley slave and Barbara is sold
to the court of Nero. The Doctor is mistaken for the famed musician
Maximus Petullian. With his gift for getting involved, he manages to
get in the thick of court intrigue, while never actually running
into Barbara. Ian eventually escapes, and rescues Barbara, who's
been fending off Nero's advances, and they make their way back to
the villa. The Doctor accidentally sets fire to Nero's city plans
with his magnifying lens, inspiring the Great Fire, and he and Vicki
manage to escape in the confusion. He asks her not to tell the
others what happened, and when they arrive back at the villa he
chastises Barbara and Ian for sitting around doing nothing.
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| The Web Planet |
| Location: Vortis |
Date: Unknown |
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 A powerful force drags
the TARDIS to the desolate planet Vortis, where the crew become
caught in a war between the exiled Menoptra, a race similar to large
butterflies, and the Zarbi, an ant-like race who have taken over the
planet. The Zarbi are under the control of the Animus, a parasitic
intelligence which has seized the TARDIS to prevent it from leaving
the planet. The Doctor discovers that he can hypnotically control
the Zarbi by linking his ring to a machine in the TARDIS, and he and
Vicki make their way to the Animus. Ian and Barbara, along with
Menoptra troops, meet them there, and the Animus is destroyed by the
Isop-tope, an invention of the Optera, a race descended from the
Menoptra who were unable to flee when the planet was invaded. The
Zarbi revert to their normal mindless condition, and Vortis is saved.
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| The Crusade |
| Location: Palestine |
Date: circa 1190 |
 The TARDIS lands in Palestine during Richard the
Lionheart's crusade against the Saracens. Barbara is captured along
with a knight who is impersonating the king. The others assist a
wounded knight in returning to Jaffa. Richard, who wants to end
hostilities by arranging a marriage between his sister Joanna and
the brother of Saladin, the Saracen leader, knights Ian and sends
him to Saladin. The Doctor and Vicki, who's disguised as a boy, try
to stay out of trouble, but Joanna finds out about Vicki, and
enlists The Doctor to help her find out what's going on. Though he
does not betray the king's secret, the Duke of Leicester makes it
appear that he has. Richard, knowing that war is inevitable because
of Joanna's refusal to agree with the plan, needs Leicester and
sends The Doctor and Vicki away. They arrive back at the TARDIS as
Ian and Barbara return, but The Doctor is captured by Leicester, who
thinks he's a spy. Ian claims the right to execute The Doctor, and
they escape in the TARDIS, leaving Leicester convinced that Ian has
been spirited away by sorcery.
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| The Space Museum |
| Location: Xeros |
Date: Unknown |
 The TARDIS shifts out of phase with time as it
arrives on the planet Xeros, which is under the sadistic rule of a
warrior race called Moroks. The crew discover that they are exhibits
in a planetary museum, and as the timelines stabilize again, they
realize they must help the Xerons rebel against their conquerors in
order to prevent this alternate future. The Doctor is captured, and
baffles the Morok leader with his strange ability to withstand their
mind probe. The revolt succeeds, and the grateful Xerons give The
Doctor one of the exhibits, a time-space visualizer, as a parting gift.
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| The Chase |
| Locations: Aridius, Earth, Mechanus |
Dates: See below |
 The Doctor uses the visualizer, "a sort of time television", to look at historical events, including the Gettysburg
Address, a visit to Queen Elizabeth's court by Shakespeare, and a TV
appearance by The Beatles. The TARDIS lands on the planet Aridius,
and Barbara and The Doctor see a transmission which alerts them that
the Daleks are using their own time machine to track them down. They
narrowly escape, and manage to stay one step ahead of their enemies
in a series of jumps in time. They land on the observation level of
the Empire State Building in 1966, the deck of the Mary
Celeste in 1872 (the Daleks are responsible for the crew's
disappearance), and at a house of horrors built for the canceled
Festival of Ghana in 1996, which The Doctor believes to be a world
of dreams (they depart without learning the truth). Vicki is
accidentally left behind, and stows away on the Dalek ship, where
she learns that they have made a robot duplicate of The Doctor. The
TARDIS lands on Mechanus, where the robot is defeated by The Doctor
after giving itself away by mentioning Susan, who the Daleks don't
realize is no longer with them.  The travelers are then captured by Mechanoids,
robots sent to prepare for an Earth expedition which never arrived,
and meet Steven Taylor, a pilot who's been kept prisoner. The Daleks
and Mechanoids destroy each other while the crew escape, but they're
separated from Steven, who goes back to retrieve a stuffed panda
he'd kept as a mascot. After The Doctor finds that the Dalek ship is
empty, Barbara and Ian realize that they finally have a way to go
home. The Doctor is reluctant to let them leave, both from fear that
he can't program the craft properly, and because he'll miss them,
but Vicki convinces him to try. Barbara and Ian return to London,
discovering after the ship self-destructs that they've landed in
1965 instead of 1963. The Doctor and Vicki use the visualizer to see
that they've returned home safely. The
time-space visualizer breaks down soon after this adventure.
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| The Time
Meddler |
| Location: England |
Date: 1066 |
 The Doctor and Vicki discover that Steven escaped from the
Mechanoid city and found his way to the TARDIS. Steven doesn't
believe the ship is a time machine, and when they land in England
(in what The Doctor first identifies as the 10th or 11th century)
and find a wristwatch on the ground, his suspicions seem confirmed.
The Doctor discovers that there is another traveler from his own
planet there. The Monk, as he calls himself, stole a later model
TARDIS and left their world about 50 years after The Doctor. He
spends his days attempting to change history, not from malicious
intent, but purely for his own amusement. He plans to give advanced
weapons to Harold's forces so that they will defeat William the
Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. The Doctor sabotages The Monk's
TARDIS, causing its interior to shrink to the size of a doll's
house, and the travelers depart, leaving The Monk stranded and
vowing revenge.
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