A GREAT ADVENTURE IN TIME
AND SPACE . . .
For thousands of years, the Time Lord known as the Doctor has been travelling in his TARDIS across
the galaxies. From the explosive creation of the Universe until its eventual end, the Doctor has perhaps
found himself caught up in more incredible adventures than any other being in the entire history of creation.
Sometimes he might pause for tea. Occasionally he finds time to read. He’s even been known to go
fishing for Gumblejacks. But while other life forms might find these activities fulfilling, the Doctor is never
happier than when he’s caught up in the most thrilling and dangerous adventures you can imagine.
Never happier, and never more brilliant.
The Doctor has had so many adventures that they would never fit into a single book like this.
(Unless that book was somehow bigger on the inside than the outside . . . but that’s impossible, isn’t it?)
In these pages, you’ll find just one hundred of the Doctor’s most wonderful, jaw-dropping and
eye-popping escapades, from the First Doctor to the Twelfth Doctor and every Doctor in between.
These adventures have been illuminated with stunning illustrations from the Doctor’s fans themselves, entered in
response to the Illustrated Adventures competition held by Puffin Books in 2017. The art collected here showcases
a wealth of creative talent and reminds us why Earth has always been one of the Doctor’s favourite planets.
If you enjoy reading these stories, then rest assured: there are many more adventures to hear about,
and many more adventures yet to come . . .
1
An Unearthly Child
An adventure for: First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara
First shown: 23 November–14 December 1963 (4 episodes)
Written by: Anthony Coburn
Two of the teachers at Coal Hill School – Ian
Chesterton and Barbara Wright – are concerned
about one of their pupils. Susan Foreman seems
incredibly clever and knowledgeable in some areas,
like history and science, but her knowledge of some
basic facts is strangely lacking. She even thinks that
Britain uses a decimal system for currency!
Ian and Barbara follow Susan home, and find that she
apparently lives with her grandfather in a junkyard.
Worried for Susan’s safety, Barbara and Ian force their
way inside a police telephone box where they believe the
old man, who calls himself the Doctor, is keeping Susan.
The police box is actually a TARDIS – bigger inside than
out, and capable of travelling through time and space.
Despite Susan’s assurances, the Doctor insists he can’t let
the teachers leave as they will bring future knowledge to
the present day now they have seen inside his TARDIS.
The TARDIS dematerialises and takes the Doctor,
Susan, Ian and Barbara back in time on Earth.
Suddenly finding themselves in prehistoric times,
the travellers are captured by a primitive tribe that
has lost the secret of fire. They must work together
to negotiate with the cave people if they are to have
any hope of escape . . .
2
The Daleks
An adventure for: First Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara
First shown: 21 December 1963–1 February 1964 (7 episodes)
Written by: Terry Nation
The TARDIS lands on the planet Skaro, in the middle of a petrified jungle.
The ground is ash, and the trees brittle stone: the result of a terrible nuclear
war. The Doctor and his companions discover a vast metal city and encounter
the Daleks for the very first time.
Survivors of the nuclear conflict, the Daleks now live inside protective survival
machines within their metal city. Their machines pick up static power from the
metal floors, so the Daleks cannot leave the city. They send Susan out to take a
message to the Thals – their opponents in the war, now mutated into humanoids.
The Thals give Susan anti-radiation drugs that will cure her and her friends,
who are all suffering as a result of radiation left from the war. In return, Susan
tells the Thals the Daleks are offering them food and supplies. But this is a trap –
the Daleks’ only interest in the Thals is their total extermination.
The Doctor and his friends escape the Dalek city, and warn the Thals of the
impending danger. Together, they lead an attack on the Dalek city and manage
to destroy its power source – disabling the Daleks before they can flood the
atmosphere with more deadly radiation.
3
The Time Meddler
An adventure for: First Doctor, Vicki and Steven
First shown: 3–24 July 1965 (4 episodes)
Written by: Dennis Spooner
The TARDIS lands on a beach in north-east England in 1066,
close to where Viking invaders will come ashore before King
Harold of England defeats them at the battle of Stamford Bridge.
The Doctor, Vicki and their new friend, Steven, soon discover that
they are not the only time travellers present . . .
They encounter a monk in an otherwise abandoned monastery.
The ‘monk’ has a gramophone player, a small stove for cooking,
a wristwatch . . . and a TARDIS! He is a time meddler from the
Doctor’s own race, the Time Lords, who plans to destroy the Viking
fleet before it lands. That way, he reasons, King Harold won’t have
to fight them. He will then be able to face William the Conqueror
with fresh, rested troops and win the Battle of Hastings. The meddling
monk thinks that Harold being king would be far better for the future
of western civilization.
Despite the monk’s attempts to imprison them, the Doctor and his
companions thwart his scheme. The Doctor sabotages the monk’s
TARDIS, removing the dimensional controls so it’s no longer bigger
on the inside and trapping the Time Meddler in 1066.
4
The Daleks’ Master Plan
An adventure for: First Doctor, Steven and Katarina
First shown: 13 November 1965–29 January 1966 (12 episodes)
Written by: Terry Nation and Dennis Spooner
The TARDIS brings the Doctor, Steven and Katarina, their new Trojan
companion, to the planet Kembel. Steven has blood poisoning, and the
Doctor sets off to find medicine to cure him. What he doesn’t know yet is that
elsewhere on the planet, the Daleks are forming an alliance with other
alien races . . .
Mavic Chen, the traitorous Guardian of the Solar System, has provided the
Daleks with the Taranium core of their most deadly weapon yet: the Time
Destructor. The Doctor manages to steal the vital core and escapes in Chen’s
spaceship with security agent Bret Vyon.
With the Daleks in pursuit, Katarina bravely sacrifices her own life to save her
friends. Vyon is also killed, and the Daleks now chase the Doctor, Steven and
tough security agent Sara Kingdom through time and space. After a battle among
the pyramids of ancient Egypt, the Doctor is forced to hand over the core.
Back on Kembel, the Daleks turn on their former allies, including Chen, and
prepare to activate the Time Destructor. The Doctor is able to turn it against
the Daleks, but tragically kills Sara Kingdom in the process, who is caught in
the weapon’s destructive field.
5
The War Machines
An adventure for: First Doctor, Dodo, Ben and Polly
First shown: 25 June–16 July 1966 (4 episodes)
Written by: Ian Stuart Black
During a visit to London’s Post Office Tower in 1966, the Doctor and Dodo
meet Professor Brett. The professor is the mastermind behind WOTAN –
Will Operating Thought ANalogue – a universal problem-solver and self-aware
thinking machine.
There are plans to network WOTAN with major computers across the globe.
However, WOTAN starts taking control of the humans working on the project,
including Professor Brett. It programs them to build War Machines,
militarised mobile computers, which WOTAN plans to use to take over Earth.
Polly, Brett’s secretary, and her friend Ben, a young merchant seaman, are captured,
but Ben escapes and tells Sir Charles Summer, the senior civil servant overseeing the
project, what is going on. With the Army defenceless against the War Machines,
the Doctor captures one, and reprograms it to destroy WOTAN.
Now back in her own time, Dodo decides to stay on Earth. The Doctor prepares
to leave aboard the TARDIS alone, but just before it dematerialises Polly and
Ben follow him inside.
6
The Tenth Planet
An adventure for: First Doctor, Ben and Polly
First shown: 8–29 October 1966 (4 episodes)
Written by: Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis
The TARDIS arrives in 1986 at the coldest place on Earth, close to the
International Space Command Snowcap Base in Antarctica. The base
is monitoring a manned space flight when a new planet appears – a planet
that looks very much like Earth.
It is Earth’s lost twin planet, Mondas, home of the Cybermen. The
Cybermen are humans who have gradually replaced their bodies with
artificial limbs and organs made of metal and plastic. They have also altered
their brains so that they are now logical beings with no emotions at all.
Mondas is absorbing energy – draining it away from Earth. A group of
Cybermen take over Snowcap Base, aiming to use a powerful Z Bomb to
destroy Earth before Mondas absorbs too much energy
Ben discovers the Cybermen are vulnerable to radiation, and the crew of
the base defeat the Cybermen there. With the bomb disarmed, Mondas
explodes and the Cybermen remaining on Earth collapse and die.
The Doctor also collapses, his elderly body exhausted and worn out. As Ben
and Polly watch in amazement, he miraculously changes into a new form . . .
7
The Power of the Daleks
An adventure for: Second Doctor, Ben and Polly
First shown: 5 November–10 December 1966 (6 episodes)
Written by: David Whitaker and Dennis Spooner
The TARDIS brings the newly regenerated Second Doctor to the
human colony planet of Vulcan. Here he is mistaken for an Examiner,
sent from Earth to inspect the colony. With Polly and Ben, the Doctor sets
about ‘inspecting’ Vulcan and finds a crashed space capsule that a scientist
named Lesterson has recovered from a mercury swamp. To his horror,
the Doctor finds two deactivated Daleks inside.
Lesterson has already removed a third Dalek and given it the power it needs
to become active. The Doctor tries to warn everyone that the Daleks are
dangerous, but the Daleks pretend to be helpful, servant-like robots, keen to
aid the colony and perform menial tasks.
In fact, the Daleks are biding their time while they siphon off energy to power a
huge Dalek production factory hidden inside their spaceship! A group of rebels
The Doctor manages to turn the Daleks’ power source against them,
destroying the creatures and saving the day. But just as the TARDIS leaves,
the eye-stalk of an apparently dead Dalek lifts to watch it go.