Fifth Doctor

The Fifth Doctor was the fifth incarnation of the Time Lord known as the Doctor. He looked younger than his predecessors and expressed a new, more human aspect of his alien nature.

He began his incarnation with three companions: Adric, Nyssa and Tegan Jovanka. All had joined the TARDIS crew near the end of his fourth incarnation. His relationship with Adric grew rocky over their lack of common interests. After the Cybermen's attack on Earth in the 26th century, the Doctor felt guilty over Adric's death and his inability to save his friend.

The Doctor took Nyssa in after the Master destroyed Traken. He gave her a home in the TARDIS until she left to find a cure for Lazar's disease.

The Doctor tried repeatedly to return Tegan to Heathrow Airport. He eventually succeeded, but Tegan soon rejoined him. They finally parted when she grew tired of the death and destruction the TARDIS crew continually found themselves amidst.

The Black Guardian pursued the Fifth Doctor and sent Turlough to kill him. However, the Doctor won Turlough over and defeated the Guardian. Turlough accompanied the Doctor until his exile from Trion was ended.

In an encounter with the Master, the Doctor gained a companion in the android Kamelion. However, by the time Turlough had left and Peri joined, Kamelion had died, too weak to resist the Master.

The Doctor gained Peri Brown as a companion. The Doctor allowed Peri to travel with him on a holiday, but became a more permanent arrangement. They were joined by the Egyptian princess Erimem for a while.

Soon after, the Doctor and Peri were exposed to unrefined spectrox on Androzani Minor and contracted spectrox toxaemia. The Doctor gave the single dose of vaccine to Peri and regenerated into his sixth incarnation.

Post-regeneration
His companions took the newly-regenerated Doctor to the Zero Room, to stablise him. While he was recovering, a message came from Adric, whom the Master had kidnapped, saying the TARDIS was heading for Event One. The Doctor left Tegan and Nyssa instructions on how to escape by ejecting much of the TARDIS.

Much of the Zero Room had been ejected. The Doctor needed to find a simple and peaceful place to finish stablising and went to Castrovalva. After the Doctor recovered, he learned the city was artificial, created by block transfer computations, The Master in the guise of the Portreeve, had created the city with Adric's brilliant mind. The Doctor rescued Adric and the TARDIS crew fled Castrovalva as it collapsed in on itself, leaving the Master to be erased from existence. (DW: Castrovalva)

Looking for Heathrow
Tegan insisted he return her to 1981 Earth. He tried and failed many times. (DW: Four to Doomsday, The Visitation)

The Doctor got to 1981, but in the wrong place. They wound up on Monarch's spaceship. The TARDIS crew stopped Monarch's mad scheme for time travel with cyborgs. Nyssa had almost been converted into a cyborg and was greatly weakened. (DW: Four to Doomsday)

The Doctor built a device to help her recover. While she rested, Adric and he visited a human colony and were arrested by a madman undergoing a nervous breakdown. After escaping and pacifying him, the Doctor found Tegan had been possessed by the Mara. The Kinda and the Doctor cured her and removed the humans from the Kinda's planet. (DW: Kinda)

The TARDIS landed at Heathrow three hundred years early. The locals accused him of carrying the plague. The Doctor found that aliens called Terileptils were enhancing the plague in carrier rats to rid the planet of humans so they could take over. In stopping them, the Doctor accidentally caused the Great Fire of London and destroyed sonic screwdriver. (DW: The Visitation) He would not use one again for almost two incarnations. (DW: Snakedance, DW: Doctor Who)

On a side trip, the Doctor was mistaken by Lord Cranleigh for a cricket player. He helped Cranleigh win a match. Cranleigh invited the Doctor and his friends to a fancy-dress ball to celebrate their victory. The Doctor's costume was stolen and used as a disguise for a murderer and the Doctor was accused of the crime. He cleared his name by showing off his TARDIS and finding that Cranleigh's supposedly deceased son was the culprit. (DW: Black Orchid)

About this time, the Doctor met his tenth incarnation when their TARDISes crashed into each other. The Fifth Doctor found his future self annoying and called him a "skinny idiot". The Tenth Doctor poked fun at some of the old Doctor's quirks. They saved the universe from being sucked into a black hole by blowing up the TARDIS at the same time as the black hole imploded and bonded over this success. (DW: Time Crash)

Adric was growing distant from the Doctor and wanted to return to E-space. Before he could leave, Adric discovered a plan by Cybermen to use Captain Briggs' space freighter as a giant bomb. He tried to stop the freighter by cracking logic codes on the ship's controls. The freighter shifted through time to the distant past. When a surviving Cyberman destroyed the controls, the freighter hit the Earth and killed the dinosaurs. Adric, trapped on the freighter, died trying to save the Earth. The Doctor, Nyssa and Tegan never ceased to mourn him. (DW: Earthshock)

Soon after Adric's death and another encounter with the Master, the Doctor finally returned Tegan to Heathrow in the year she had come from. The Doctor was enlisted to help find a lost plane. He discovered the Master was trying to repair his TARDIS, damaged at their last meeting. The Doctor sent the Master to a world full of people who loathed him. (DW: Time-Flight)

Journeys with Nyssa
The Doctor and Nyssa become embroiled in Time Lord politics on an alien world ruled by intelligent but flightless birds. (BFA: Spring) They fell afoul of Sir Isaac Newton and were arrested for having counterfeit coins, actually genuine coins from Earth’s future. (BFA: Summer) The Doctor set down in an English village to play cricket while Nyssa tried her hand at writing a novel. She caught the attention of a local boy. Nyssa fell in love and contemplated life on Earth, left by the Doctor to grow old and die. (BFA: Autumn)

Instead, the Doctor and Nyssa continued to travel together. They returned to Earth a few times: in the past following an accident with a teleportation experiment; and in an alternative Earth where the Dalek Emperor tried to manipulate a Mutant Phase infection. (BFA: Winter for the Adept, The Mutant Phase)

The Doctor returned to Traken before its destruction to find the cause of Nyssa's psychic sensitivity. They found Kwundaar, who had deliberately caused her illness. (BFA: Primeval) On the planet Mondas while it travelled through interstellar space, he learned that he might have been part of the inspiration for the Cybermen. (BFA: Spare Parts) He spent some time in Victorian London, then the lands of the Scorpion King, where he found that someone he thought dead had survived. (BFA: The Haunting of Thomas Brewster, The Boy That Time Forgot)

The Doctor and Nyssa continued their travels. They woke with no memory of where they were or how they had arrived. After escaping to a cabin in the woods and learning the date - 1624 - they encountered a race of aliens who were busy assimilating/cloning the locals. The Doctor's Binary vascular system helped them save the world. (BFA: The Demons of Red Lodge) They went to hear some of the last remaining Traken music in the universe and uncovered a plot involving a musical piece called "White Waves, Soft Haze". (BFA: The Entropy Composition)

On a planet where the Doctor used his "John Smith" alias, he was mistaken for a local criminal, arrested and sent to prison. While Nyssa tried to free him, the Doctor tried to warn the prison authorities of an explosion that was destined to destroy them. (BFA: Doing Time). After getting out of that fix, he took part in a DVD commentary of a horror film from the 1970s. In the film was an alien parasite that possessed people who watched a specific part of the movie. The Doctor destroyed all the parasitical footage. (BFA: Special Features)

The Doctor and Nyssa were swept up by a time storm to the futuristic village of Stockbridge. A strange rain was mutating the villagers into slaves of the Daleks. The Daleks tried to turn the Doctor into a Dalek and use his TARDIS to help conquer the universe. (BFA: Plague of the Daleks)

Old Foes Return Again
The Doctor was summoned to Gallifrey after dealing with an anti-matter being near the Arc of Infinity. The High Council ordered a Warrant of Termination issued; the Doctor was to be killed. He had an encounter with Omega and, oddly, Tegan Jovanka in the Matrix. He escaped to Earth and found Tegan and Omega, who had created a new body for himself. Omega looked like the Doctor! The Doctor used the gun of one of Omega's creation's to destroy him before Omega could will his self-destruction. He also took Tegan back as his companion; she wished to resume travelling with him losing her job. (DW: Arc of Infinity)

When Tegan began having precognitive dreams concerning the Mara, the Doctor decided the best place to deal with the problem was on the Mara's planet of origin, Manussa. To keep the remnants of the Mara still in Tegan at bay, the Doctor was forced to seek help from a former sceintist and snakedancer Dojjen. The Doctor learned he had to find the "still point" in himself which had no negative emotion for the Mara to feed on. He was successful in starving the Mara to the point of death, confident he had removed it completely from Tegan for good. (DW: Snakedance)

The Doctor later was attacked by a baby vampire, sent by his former Time Lord, Ruath, to steal his blood for ressurecting the powerful vampire Yarven. However, Nyssa ended up getting bit in his place, turning into a vampire. The Doctor eventualy found Ruath, who had become a vampire as well, building a machine to freeze time in eternal night to allow vampires to feed on as many people as they wished without fear of the sun. Tricking her into thinking he was joining her, the Doctor allowed Nyssa to convert him, but destroyed the machine and Yarven, changing himself, Nyssa and Ruath back to normal. He then trapped Ruath in the time vortex, after explaining he felt she couldn't leave the life of a renegade as he does. (MA: Goth Opera)

In the midst of travel, the TARDIS gets stuck in a warp ellipse, causing it to materialise on a starliner in 1983, stuck in place in time and space. While seeking a way to remove the ellipse preventing the TARDIS from going anywhere, the Doctor encounters a young man named Turlough, who, unknown to him, was contacted by the Black Guardian to kill him in exchange for being returned to his home planet. Heading to Earth with him in the TARDIS, the Doctor finds a transmat capsule is responsible for the chaos, deciding to disable it; it explodes, sending the TARDIS, with Nyssa and Tegan inside, to 1977. Wandering to the school near by, the Doctor meets his old friend, the Brigadier. Shockingly, he is missing his memories of their time together at UNIT. Jogging his memory with mentions of their adventures, the Doctor, along the Brig and Turlough use a device on the capsule to bring them to where the TARDIS went, ending back on the ship.

Onboard, the Doctor meets his companions, who reveal the Brigadier of 1977 is there as well; if the two met, the resaulting short-out of the differential could be disastorous. He then meets Mawdryn, one of nine aliens who stole and abused Time Lord tech to become immortal, but now wished to die because each regeneration is a hideous mutation. As Nyssa and Tegan made physcial contanct with Mawdryn, the Doctor would be forced to use his remaining lives to power a machine to would cure his companions and kill the others. However, he's saved from doing so thanks to the physical meeting of the two Brigadiers, initiating the blinovitch limitation effect, giving 1977 Brigadier amnesia and providing a sustitute energy source for the machine. Returning the Brigadiers to their proper times, the Doctor welcomed Turlough onboard. (DW: Mawdryn Undead)

After Turlough sabotaged the TARDIS on the Black Guardian's orders, its thermal dimensions locked it onto a spaceship transporting victims of Lazar's disease to Terminus. The Doctor found Terminus had accidently created the Big Bang and was in the process of recreating it, which would destroy the universe. However, the Doctor managed to win over the Garm and had him stop the engines from blowing up. By the time he returned to the TARDIS, the Doctor was saddened to learn Nyssa wished to remain on Terminus to help perfect the cure for Lazar's disease. Respecting her wishes despite some initial protests, the Doctor left her behind. (DW: Terminus)

While the TARDIS was still under repairs from Turlough's previous sabatoge, the Doctor received a message from the White Guardian, infroming him of a new misssion. Folloiwng his instructions from the power entity, the Doctor piloted his TARDIS to what appeared at first to be a sea-going yacht. It was a space-ship, piloted by Eternals in the ultimate race for Enlightenment. One of the Eternals, Wrack, who sought the prize to end her bordeom forever, cheated in the race by using the power of the Black Guardian to blow up the competing ships. Tegan also expereinced what she beleived to a romantic relationship with the Eternal Marriner, but he was only interested in the emtions she gave off; she sent him away with her will-power after learning this.

At the end of the race, the Doctor and Turlough had been the ones victorious and both Guardians offered Enlightenment to him as a prize. However, the Doctor decided it should go to Turlough, to test his sense of right and wrong. Though the Black Guardian tempted him with anything he wanted, included the TARDIS, in exchange for the Doctor, Turlough did as the Doctor predicted and rejected the offer. cuasing the guardian to vanish in agony. The White Guardian explained that Enlightenment was the choice and Turlough has chosen it wisely, but warned the Doctor that so long as HE existed, his opposite would as well until the universe no longer needed them. The Doctor decided to go on a trip to where his companions wanted to help him recover from the trauma the Black Guardian had sent him through. (DW: Enlightenment)

Returning to 13th century Earth, the Doctor again encountered the Master, who was in disguise at the time. It was only after the two duelled that the Master revealed his identity. King John of England gave the Doctor the choice to save either the innocent Geoffrey de Lacy or the Master. He chose Geoffrey, but the Master managed to escape in his TARDIS. John then knighted the Doctor. However, it transpired that John was in fact an imposter android called Kamelion. The Doctor took Kamelion with him when he left, because the android did not wish to hurt others and was easily influenced by power minds such as the Doctor's and the Master's. (DW: The King's Demons)

The Game of Rassilon
The Doctor took Tegan and Turlough to the Eye of Orion to get some rest and relaxation after their series of stressful adventures. However, this was impeded when all four of the Doctor's previous lives had been taken out of their places in his timestream, leaving the Doctor to fade away. Luckily, his companions managed to pilot the TARDIS to the Death Zone on Gallifrey that the first three incarnations were, allowing the Doctor to stablise for the moment. It turns out that President Borusa, was attempting to gain Rassilon's secret of immortality and wished to use the Doctors as pawns to clear the way past traps, but ultimately, the First Doctor tricked Burosa into Rassilon's final trap. The Doctor was both happy and disturbed that he was seeing his previous lives be in the same time again. (DW: The Five Doctors)

Departures
During a trip to the near future, the Doctor found that the surviving Silurians from his previous encounter with them had teamed up with a brood of Sea Devils to instigate a nuclear war against humanity. Much to the Doctor's displeasure, he had to murder the Silurians and Sea Devils with gas that was poisonous to reptiles. He found that all his attempts in the past to help make a peaceful future between them had all been for nothing. (DW: Warriors of the Deep)

In the midst of traveling, the TARDIS was pulled down to the planet Frontios, where it was torn apart by the Tractator, lead by Gravis. The Doctor found these aliens had been stranded on the planet for a long time and wished to leave once they had enough wreckage to make a functional ship. The Doctor tricked Gravis into reconstructing the TARDIS, with him inside, seperating him from the rest of the Tractators and leaving them without their hive mind. He then left Gravis on a barren and rocky planet, (DW: Frontios) being soon drawn to the planet Artaris, meeting Iris Wildthyme once more. (BFA: Excelis Dawns)

The Doctor eventually encountered the Daleks again, but this time, they were loyal to Davros, the mad scientist who created them. Defeating his old foes once more, the Doctor was dismayed to hear that Tegan wished to remain in her home time because of the growing amount of violence and death she had encountered during their adventures. The Doctor respected Tegan's wishes and let her leave. However, he remained unaware that she may have changed her mind when she came running back just as the TARDIS was taking off. (DW: Resurrection of the Daleks) The Doctor next found Kamelion receiving a distress signal, leading him to Lanzarote in 1984, where he sought the source. He retuned to the TARDIS shortly after to see Turlough had the device responsible, and Kamelion in a different form. Shocking him further, the Doctor learned Turlough brought an American girl, Peri Brown, who he saved from drowning, onbaord as well. Reguardless, he landed the TARDIS on a planet known as Sarn, where they discover decendants of banished Trions, unaware Kamelion fell under the control of the Master again. When Kamelion/the Master poses as the God "Logar", the Doctor was in danger of being burned alive; citizens suspicious of the legends sided with him and prevented this. The Doctor then revealed the original Trions developed Numismaton Gas from the volcanic surroundings to heal others.

Running into Peri, who was given a crutial part of his TARDIS by Kamelion to prevent the Master from stealing it, the Doctor and she run to the control room, where Kamelion has brough the real Master, having accidently shrunk himself while upgrading his Tissue Compression Eliminator. Though unable to prevent the Master from using the gas to return to his proper size, the Doctor fiddeled with the controls, leaving his old foe to the mercy of the flames. Now free of the Master's control, Kamelion begged for death, which the Doctor complied, using the TCE. Preparing to leave, the Doctor found Turlough wished to return home now as his exile from Trion had long ago been lfited. At Peri's requst, the Doctor toke her on as his new companion for the remaining three months of her summer vacation. (DW: Planet of Fire)

Adventures with Peri
On a trip to Egypt with Peri, the Doctor became involved in a struggle against an alien parasite that infected people through touch and controlled them as a hive mind, after they saved the young pharaoh Erimem from a group of rebels. After saving Erimem's throne from a conspiracy, Erimem decided to travel with the Doctor, leaving her throne to a distant relative. (BFA: The Eye of the Scorpion)

Tracking down several members of the Celestial Intervention Agency, the Doctor and Peri set up shop in a restaurant where they served the members their food. Unbeknownst to the CIA, they had in fact spiked their food with a vaccine to a virus the CIA members picked up while investigating the Doctor's recent actions of the plant Pointy. (BFA: Exotron) The Doctor, Peri and Erimem arrive in Paris during the 17th century where Peri was accidently kidnapped after being mistaken for Queen Ann, the queen of France. (BFA: The Church and the Crown)

Shortly afterwards, the Doctor and company visit the market place in the Garazone system where Erimem learns of a mystery in the Necromanteia system. The trio travel there and discover a war between a group of humanoid soldiers and witches. The Doctor was killed by the witches and brought into a dreamlike plain and learns that the war was over a powerful device that can make someone immortal. The god of the witches resurrects him and he, along with Peri and Erimem, escape before the planet explodes. (BFA: Nekromanteia)

After a giant robot from the 64th century appears in the TARDIS and pressures the Doctor into continuing his writing contract that he was employed for, he travels to 1485 and encounters one of the most notorious characters from the past as he journeys through time to solve the great Historical Mysteries - Richard III. Peri and Erimem become lost in time and the Doctor discovers the truth about who killed the princes in the tower and comes face to face with an unlikely enemy - William Shakespeare. (BFA: The Kingmaker)

The Doctor dropped Erimem and Peri off for a party in Monte Carlo in 1966 and informed them that they are to prevent the theft of The Veiled Leopard. After discovering that the thief was none other than the woman they had spent most of the evening together, Peri and Erimem managed to catch the thief. (BFA: The Veiled Leopard)

The Doctor, after dropping off Peri and Erimem in Monte Carlo, arrived at the Gogglebox instead of the ice caves of Shabadabadoda and learned of a mystery involving 1984 and 2006. He discovered that another version of himself was already investigating in 1984 and decided to travel to 2006, Brisbon. There he encountered both an older Tegan Jovanka and a mysterious doctor Katherine Chambers that seemed to know about him. He learned that Tegan had contracted an alien brain tumour that was slowly killing her. He demanded that she travel with him again so that he could help, but Tegan was kidnapped by Katherine and her accomplice. It turns out that Katherine was the best friend of Peri Brown when they were kids and that somewhere in the Doctor’s personal future, in a later incarnation, he will become involved in a plot involving the Cybermen that will ultimately result in the paralysis of Katherine’s brother Nate and the death of her father. It was also revealed that she will in-avertedly kill Peri’s mother. Katherine kidnapped Tegan to use as the first patient of her new medical computer. The Doctor managed to stop Katherine and offered Tegan a chance to travel with him again, but she refused, saying that she’d grown accustomed to her life on Earth. (BFA: The Gathering)

Before collecting Peri and Erimem from 1966, the Doctor became involved in a plot regarding Time Leakage and the Vault of Interstellar Curios. There he came under attack by a legion of Daleks who were helped by a man named Ulrick. The Daleks were trying to steal the contents of the vault. He met another Timelord (his Eighth self) and used his and his partner’s TARDIS to form a temporal loop. Just then, an older Ulrick appeared before him and sacrificed himself to help the Doctor defeat the Daleks. The Doctor joined his Sixth, Seventh and Eighth incarnations briefly before being returned to his own timeline. (BFA: The Four Doctors)

Hunt for the Key to Time
Assigned a mission to seek out the pieces of the Key to Time once more, this time, because the pieces were degrading, the Doctor was provided a sentient tracer, whom he named Amy. (BFA: The Judgement of Isskar, The Destroyer of Delights, The Chaos Pool)

Death
The Doctor and Peri arrived on Androzani Minor, and were quickly caught in the midst of a power struggle over the precious mineral Spectrox. As they contended with gun runners, government troops, crooked politicians, and a fiendish masked madman called Sharaz Jek, the Doctor and Peri were also exposed to raw spectrox. From this, they contracted Spectrox toxaemia. With only one dose of the antidote available to cure the fatal condition, the Doctor sacrificed his own life to save Peri, regenerating into his sixth incarnation. (DW: The Caves of Androzani)

During his regeneration, the Master tried to interfere via Kamelion's lingering connection to the TARDIS, but the Doctor was saved by an older Nyssa who connected with him in his mindscape. (BFA: Winter)

Unrecorded adventures

 * The Doctor attended Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart's funeral, as did all his incarnations. (ST: The Gift)
 * River Song met the Fifth Doctor. As with all her trips into the Doctor's past, she wiped his memory with mnemosine recall-wipe vapour so as not to contaminate the timeline. (VG: The Eternity Clock)

Personality
The fifth incarnation was probably the most human and vulnerable of all the Doctors. He was less pretentious and selfish, often reacting to situations rather than initiating them and openly expressing his hopes and fears to his companions. He could decipher the ingredients of a drink by smell alone and rosemary made him sneeze. His young appearance was reflected in the youthfulness of his companions as well, whom he treated more like parts of a team than their usual subordinate role under previous incarnations. The death of Adric affected him and the rest of his companions deeply. (DW: Earthshock)

He did not suffer ill effects after opening the Box of Jhana. Panna thought him an idiot for not turning insane and he agreed. (However, the Doctor may have been joking as his mind was more advanced than that of a human and he was normally rather kind and peaceful). (DW: Kinda)

Despite his youthful body and love of cricket, he was one of the least physical Doctors, preferring to use communication and diplomacy to solve a problem. In contrast to some of his more aggressive predecessors, he preferred to gain people's trust by honestly proving himself, instead of using his vast experience as an excuse to take charge. Indeed, he often willingly participated in situations under the leadership of someone else who had the strong command presence that he lacked.

However this does not mean to say that he did not take charge in moments of frustration, as demonstrated during his encounter with a "skinny idiot". In an occasional reminder of his actual age, this Doctor would sport a pair of glasses when examining something, though these would later be revealed by his future self to be vanity "brainy specs", which he wore just to make him look "a bit clever". (DW: Time Crash)

At the same time, this humanity made him prone to panic under pressure and become occasionally indecisive. He was unable to execute Davros in cold blood, (DW: Resurrection of the Daleks) and reluctantly killed Kamelion only at the android's request. Following this, he did not move to help the Master as he failed to replenish his life. However, he seemed deeply upset by this following the Master's apparent death. (DW: Planet of Fire)

Of all the incarnations of the Doctor, the fifth was the one who showed the greatest abhorrence for violence and needless bloodshed as well as the pain and suffering of others. Despite this, violence and bloodshed continued to dog his footsteps, as in the massacre in Sea Base 4 (DW: Warriors of the Deep) and the number of deaths of anonymous soldiers which led to Tegan's departure. The Doctor acknowledged that he perhaps had to mend his ways. (DW: Resurrection of the Daleks) Although this incarnation greatly disliked violence, he took part in gunning down a few foes when the situation deemed it necessary. (DW: Earthshock)

Towards the end of this incarnation, the Doctor began to display a more relaxed and controlled side; even as he awaited execution on Androzani Minor he was still fiercely curious about the nature of the spectrox which was mined there. He also seemed to have developed a sarcastic side, mocking Chellak's insistence on being addressed as "sir". It was perhaps a combination of realising that his lifestyle begat violence and the weighing of Adric's death on his mind that led him ultimately to sacrifice his own existence to save Peri. It was telling that this incarnation's last word before his regeneration into his sixth incarnation was "Adric". (DW: The Caves of Androzani)

Upon meeting his seventh incarnation, he was repulsed by his future self's manipulative nature. (MA: Cold Fusion)

Typical outfits
This Doctor had two different, though similar, outfits. He wore his first one in the first stages of his life and his second one in the later stages. Both of them were based on traditional cricket whites. So close were they to whites that he could take off his coat and immediately begin playing the sport, without other players questioning his appearance. (DW: Black Orchid; DWM: The Tides of Time)

His very first outfit (DW: Castrovalva) was a long beige coat with red lining along the collars, sleeves and pockets. On his left lapel he wore a stick of celery, for he was allergic to certain gases in the praxis range of the spectrum and if he was near any, it would turn purple and he would eat it; and he wore a white long sleeve cricket jumper with a red and black V-Neck pattern. Under that would be a white dress shirt with a red interior and embroidered question marks on the collars. His trousers were a unique pattern consisting of brown and beige stripes and on his feet he wore white socks and white plimsolls. Often he would top the look off with a Panama hat with a red band studded with sparkling stones.

He wore his second outfit after his first one was ruined. (DW: Warriors of the Deep) For this outfit, he made a few changes. The colour of the coat was slightly faded and the collar was made shorter. The jumper had a pattern of thick red and black lines on the bottom of the jumper, the V-neck and sleeves; the dress shirt had a green interior instead of a red one, and the pattern of the trousers changed to thick orange lines. He had been seen wearing suspenders adorned with question marks with this outfit. (DW: Planet of Fire)

Influence on later incarnations
It was implied that after his regeneration into his immediate successor, he hated being this incarnation. (DW: The Twin Dilemma) The Sixth Doctor's companion Evelyn Smythe stated that he "seemed lovely" after observing him from afar. The Sixth Doctor was somewhat irritated by this statement, reinforcing his somewhat low opinion of his immediate predecessor. In spite of this, he grudgingly admitted that he enjoyed his fifth incarnation, stating that "being him was like a holiday. A very wonderful holiday." (BFA: The 100 Days of the Doctor)

His seventh incarnation described him as being "bland" and "not even one of the good ones." The Fifth Doctor had a similarly low opinion of his future self, being repulsed by his manipulative nature. (MA: Cold Fusion)

While inside the Doctor's dreamscape, Ace discovered that this incarnation in the Doctor's subconscious had come to personify the conscience of his future selves, reflecting his strong sense of compassion. (NA: Timewyrm: Revelation)

His tenth incarnation expressed a fond enjoyment of his time living as this incarnation. (DW: Time Crash) He looked upon his fifth incarnation as a turning point in his life. According to the Doctor's tenth incarnation, it was in his fifth incarnation where he truly began to enjoy himself, an ironic statement considering the darkness surrounding the death of Adric (DW: Earthshock) and the departures of Nyssa (DW: Terminus) and Tegan (DW: Resurrection of the Daleks). He admitted to his earlier self that certain aspects of his wardrobe and personality were influenced by his fifth incarnation. (DW: Time Crash)

His eleventh incarnation made references at least two times which were perhaps influenced by this incarnation; asking for some celery after a physically-distressing decontamination (DW: Cold Blood) and encouraging Canton Delaware with the words 'Brave heart' as he often had done with Tegan (DW: The Impossible Astronaut).

Behind the scenes

 * Richard Griffiths was considered for the role of the fifth incarnation before Peter Davison was cast.
 * After the famous and popular fourth incarnation, it was decided that the next incarnation should be played by an actor who was already firmly established in the British public's mind. Peter Davison was chosen, due in no small part to his popular and critically acclaimed role as Tristan Farnon in All Creatures Great and Small, a BBC series based on the books of James Herriot.
 * Until the announcement in 2009 of 26-year-old Matt Smith as the eleventh incarnation, Davison, age 29 when he began the role, held the record as the youngest actor to ever officially play the Doctor, beating his predecessor Tom Baker by eleven years. Davison was reluctant to accept the role because of his age.
 * The fifth incarnation's era was notable for a "back to basics" attitude, in which humour, and, to an extent, horror, was kept to a minimum, but more scientific accuracy was encouraged by the producer, John Nathan-Turner. It was also notable for the reintroduction of many of the Time Lord's enemies, such as the Cybermen, Omega, the Black and White Guardians, the Silurians, and the Sea Devils, while the Master, who had been reintroduced at the end of the Baker era, became a regular adversary, appearing at least once, and often more than once, per season.
 * In 2007, the fifth incarnation became the first and only past incarnation to appear in the 2005 series revival when he appeared in the mini-episode Time Crash.
 * As a result of this, the Fifth Doctor was tied for second place (after the Second Doctor and tied with the Third Doctor) for canonically meeting the most other incarnations: Richard Hurndall, Patrick Troughton, Jon Pertwee and David Tennant (DW: The Five Doctors, Time Crash).
 * In several DVD commentaries, Peter Davison claims the reason that he abandoned the use of his half-moon glasses was because Janet Fielding mercilessly teased him when he used them. Fielding seemed to agree with this assessment on at least the commentary for Earthshock.

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