George Litefoot

Professor George Litefoot was a pathologist in London during the 1880s and 1890s whose path intersected with the Doctor more than once.

Biography
Litefoot was born in the mid 1830s. (PROSE: The Bodysnatchers) His father was a brigadier-general who was involved in the punitive expedition to China in 1860. He lived in Peking as an attaché and George spent most of his childhood in China. After his father's death in 1873, he returned to England. He also brought back the 51st century war criminal Magnus Greel's time cabinet, which had been disguised as a Chinese puzzle box and was a gift from Emperor Tongzhi.

In 1889, he was investigating several corpses related to Greel and the Tong of the Black Scorpion when he encountered the Fourth Doctor and Leela. He helped them with their investigations, and lent the Doctor a gun to kill the giant rats created by Greel. At the same time, Greel found out that Litefoot had the time cabinet and sent Mr Sin and his other servants to take it back.

Litefoot joined forces with Henry Gordon Jago to find where Greel escaped to. They followed him to the House of the Dragon, where they were captured by members of the Tong. The Doctor tried to help free them, but he was captured as well. During the final confrontation with Greel, Jago and Litefoot helped to distract Mr. Sin. (TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang)

After the Doctor's departure, he and Henry Gordon Jago began many adventures together, finding murderers and so on. Their first encounter was with a rapidly changing Captain, who was transforming into a beast that sucked the blood from people. (AUDIO:  The Bloodless Soldier)

He then encountered a body of man who had already been killed, who had seemingly awakened from the dead. He was rivalled by Doctor Sacker who pretended to poison him using cyanide in his drink. It was all an act though. Part of The Far-Off Travellers tradition. (AUDIO:  The Bellova Devil)

Following the trail of Toby's wife, Litefoot discovered that people were being possessed when they meet Mrs Vanguard, someone who can apparently talk to spirits. This causes combustion, which means her patients catch fire. He then helped to free Jago and Ellie's bodies. (AUDIO:  The Spirit Trap)

Jago and Litefoot later descended into the London sewers to kill the rest of Greel's remaining giant rats with a Gatling gun and on the way there, failed to recognise the Fifth Doctor, who had regenerated since their first encounter with him. (PROSE: A Victorian Interlude)



His association with Henry Gordon Jago continued beyond their adventure with the Doctor. The pair were involved as amateur sleuths in several other mysteries. (AUDIO: The Mahogany Murderers, AUDIO: Jago and Litefoot)

In 1894, he assisted the Eighth Doctor and his companion Samantha Jones in investigating a Zygon ship beneath the River Thames. (PROSE: The Bodysnatchers)

After Jago and Litefoot assisted the Sixth Doctor and Leela in defeating Mr Kempston and Mr Hardwick, they were invited to join the Doctor as his companions aboard the TARDIS. They eagerly accepted the offer, though Jago began to suffer from motion sickness on his first trip. (AUDIO: The Hourglass Killers)