Ninth Doctor (Scream of the Shalka)

The Ninth Doctor was a possible future incarnation of the Doctor.

Biography
When the eighth incarnation of the Doctor looked into the Tomorrow Windows, he saw this Doctor as a possible future incarnation as well as another which would not be and the one which would. (EDA: The Tomorrow Windows)

The Doctor had been involved in circumstances which had led to the death of a companion. During these events, he also gave the Master a chance to redeem himself by somehow placing him in a robotic body confined to the Doctor's TARDIS. The Doctor implied that something had happened to the Time Lords.

Arriving in the small Lancashire town called Lannet, seemingly against his own will, he cursed the unknown people he served, telling them "[he] won't do it". The melancholic Doctor met a barmaid Alison Cheney. Together, they fight to save the world, and win against the silicon-based Shalka. Afterwards, Alison left with the Doctor in the TARDIS. (WC: Scream of the Shalka) The two, along with the android Master, shared at least one more adventure together, involving vampires. (WC: The Feast of the Stone)

Characteristics
This Doctor was serious, and often angry, but wasn't averse to the odd bit of fun. He kept an android version of the Master in his TARDIS.

Habits and Quirks

 * This Doctor was known to drink alcohol. (WC: The Feast of the Stone)
 * He carried a mobile phone, taken from a charging cradle hidden behind the telephone panel in the TARDIS' police box shell. Shaped like the TARDIS, the phone was in fact part of the TARDIS itself.
 * This Doctor displayed a fondness for singing, and had a repertoire of showtunes.

Canonicity
Just after the new 2005 series was announced with the official Ninth Doctor, the BBC webcast starring the "new" Doctor, Scream of the Shalka, was released onto the BBC website. This caused this Doctor to be shunted into "unofficial" status. Lance Parkin in his AHistory reasons that since this incarnation of the Doctor never literally specified himself as the ninth (but only heavily implied it) that this version of the Doctor could still one day exist in the Eleventh Doctor's future.

Paul Cornell, who wrote Scream of the Shalka, has since referred to this Doctor as his "unbound."

The Tomorrow Windows and The Gallifrey Chronicles state that the Eighth Doctor had many possible Ninth bodies including this one, other being The Curse of Fatal Death version and the official Ninth Doctor.

Possible appearance
There is a similarity between the unspecified incarnation of the Doctor seen in the Telos Novella The Cabinet of Light and the Shalka version due to them having a similar apperance and wearing identical clothing. However it has not been confirmed which incarnation featured in the story, and the writing of the novella and its publication predated the broadcast of Scream of the Shalka, rendering any similarity coincidental.