The Doctor's psychic paper

The Doctor, throughout their lives, carried a card of psychic paper.

Second Doctor
The Second Doctor was given psychic paper while employed as an agent by the Time Lords' covert organisation, the Celestial Intervention Agency, which had developed the technology. He and the Time Lady Serena used it to attend the Duchess of Richmond's ball to keep an eye on the Duke of Wellington. (PROSE: World Game)

Ninth Doctor
The Ninth Doctor used the psychic paper to display himself as a member of the War Office to British Army members in 1959, then to allow himself and Nova to enter the Sphere of Freedom's central arc as systems spot-checkers. (AUDIO: Sphere of Freedom) While captured on Tarlishia, a prison guard read the psychic paper and saw a romantic message from the Doctor. (AUDIO: Cataclysm)

While investigating the migration of the Serapheem in 2004 Dundee, the Doctor used the psychic paper to display himself as DS John Smith to DC Jana Lee who was searching for missing teenager Marnie McDonald in the same house. (AUDIO: Girl, Deconstructed)

Landing in Paris in December 1946 on the case of a sound creature, the Doctor entered the Hôtel Le Prestige and used the psychic paper to call himself a hotel inspector of the tourist board of the French Fourth Republic. (AUDIO: Fright Motif)

Just prior to Earth Death in the year 5,000,000,000, the Doctor used his psychic paper as a fake invitation to pass himself off as a guest, under the name "the Doctor", with Rose Tyler as his "plus one" to the steward of Platform One. (TV: The End of the World)

Aboard Satellite Five in the year 200,000, the Doctor used psychic paper to pass himself off as being from management to Suki Macrae Cantrell and Cathica Santini Khadeni. (TV: The Long Game)

Searching for a Chula ambulance which crashed to London in 1941, the Doctor used his psychic paper to pose as a Doctor John Smith from the Ministry of Asteroids. (TV: The Empty Child)

Landing on a shadow planetoid near a Gallifreyan thorocite mine, the Doctor used his psychic paper to claim to a young Rassilon, before he realised who she was, that he and Rose were mining inspectors. However, it did not work on her. (COMIC: Monstrous Beauty)

Tenth Doctor
In 5,000,000,023, the Tenth Doctor received a message on the psychic paper instructing him to come to Ward 26 of the New New York Hospital. As he discovered, the message was sent by the Face of Boe. (TV: New Earth)

In 1879, the Doctor used the psychic paper to identify himself to Queen Victoria as Doctor James McCrimmon from the township of Balamory, with a doctorate from the University of Edinburgh, trained by Doctor Joseph Bell. To his surprise, the Doctor found that the paper stated that he had been appointed by the Lord Provost as the Queen's Protector. (TV: Tooth and Claw)

In Pete's World in 2007, the Doctor used the psychic paper to pass himself and Rose off as staff for Jackie Tyler's 40th birthday party. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)

In 1953, the Doctor used the psychic paper to enter Eddie Connolly's household, claiming to represent "Queen and Country". Later, he used the paper to get past a security guard, finding that was identified as the King of Belgium. (TV: The Idiot's Lantern)

In 2012, the Doctor used the psychic paper to pass himself and Rose off as police officers to Tom's dad. (TV: Fear Her)

Within Torchwood Tower, Rose Tyler took the Doctor's psychic paper from his coat pocket within the TARDIS. Though she successfully used the paper to bypass the door leading to the sphere chamber, she failed to pass it off as Torchwood Institute authorisation to Doctor Rajesh Singh, who saw the paper as blank due to his basic psychic training. (TV: Army of Ghosts)

In 1599, the Doctor attempted to use the psychic paper to pass himself and Martha Jones off as "Sir Doctor of TARDIS" and "Miss Martha Jones" to William Shakespeare, only for Shakespeare to see it as blank, proving his genius to the Doctor. (TV: The Shakespeare Code)

Having been given the psychic paper by the Doctor, Martha used it to pass herself Frank and Tallulah off as "two engineers and an architect" as they navigated through the Empire State Building. (TV: Evolution of the Daleks)

By handing the psychic paper to Constantine Ethelred Gurney, who saw it as blank, and promptly taking it back, the Doctor was able to tell that that Gurney was not the governor of prison planet Volag-Noc as he claimed but a released prisoner convicted of larceny, blackmail and fraud. (TV: The Infinite Quest)

Aboard the spaceship Titanic, the Doctor used the psychic paper to enter the Red 67 shore leave tour led by Mr Copper, with Astrid Peth as his "plus one". (TV: Voyage of the Damned)

Within Adipose Industries, the Doctor used his psychic paper to get past a guard, passing himself off as Health and Safety officer John Smith. (TV: Partners in Crime)

In Pompeii in 79 AD, the Doctor used the psychic paper to pass himself off as an inspector for the Caecilius household. (TV: The Fires of Pompeii)

The Doctor used the psychic paper to pass himself off as an acquaintance to Lady Clemency Eddison, allowing him and Donna Noble to join her party. While investigating a murder at Eddison Manor, he used the paper to identify himself as "Chief Inspector Smith from Scotland Yard, accompanied by "Miss Noble". (TV: The Unicorn and the Wasp)

The Doctor was summoned to the Library in the 51st century through a message sent to the psychic paper by River Song, though he did not know her at this point. (TV: Silence in the Library)

Aboard the Crusader 50, the Doctor used the psychic paper to pass himself off as an "engine expert" to the hostess. (TV: Midnight)

Disembarking from the 200 bus, the Doctor used the psychic paper to avoid a debriefing from UNIT. (TV: Planet of the Dead)

Eleventh Doctor
In Leadworth, the newly regenerated Eleventh Doctor's psychic paper displayed a message from the Atraxi, alerting him to the escape of Prisoner Zero. Later, he used the paper to identify himself in a video conference with NASA, Jodrell Bank, Tokyo Space Centre, Patrick Moore, ESA and CSIRO. (TV: The Eleventh Hour)

In Venice in 1580, the Doctor used the psychic paper to pass himself, Amy Pond and Rory Williams to an inspector as His Holiness, a Viscountess and her eunuch respectively. Later, Amy and Rory used psychic paper with references from His Majesty the King of Sweden to enter Rosanna Calvierri's school. Rosanna, actually a Saturnynian, was not influenced by the psychic paper. (TV: The Vampires of Venice)

Aboard Station 7, the Doctor used the psychic paper to pass himself and Amy off as inspectors to the crew. (COMIC: The Only Good Dalek)

Entering 79A Aickman Road as the lodger of Craig Owens, the Doctor used the psychic paper to show Craig what appeared to be his National Insurance number, NHS number as well as references, including one from the Archbishop of Canterbury. (TV: The Lodger)

Claiming to be babysitter to the young Kazran Sardick, the Doctor provided the psychic paper as proof that he was "universally recognised as a mature and responsible adult". However, Kazran saw the paper as "a lot of wavy lines", which the Doctor took as the paper shorting out as result of a "lie too big". (TV: A Christmas Carol)

At St John's Monastery in the 22nd century, the Doctor used psychic paper to identify himself to Miranda Cleaves as being sent from the Meteorological Department. (TV: The Rebel Flesh)

The Doctor was summoned to the home of George by a message to the psychic paper which read "please save me from the monsters". Ostensibly a human child, George was found by the Doctor to be a Tenza. (TV: Night Terrors)

During the Year of the Slow Invasion, Kate Stewart of UNIT had the Doctor summoned to the Tower of London by sending a message to his psychic paper, a feat which impressed him. (TV: The Power of Three)

In 221 BC, the Doctor visited China to leave a message for River Song on a vase, using his psychic paper to convince ancient Chinese potters that it was a special commission from the emperor. The message was the expression, "Yowzah", written in period Chinese script. (TV: The Angels Take Manhattan)

When facing Captain Zhukov aboard the Russian submarine Firebird in 1983, the Doctor announced that he would "just this once" forgo the use of psychic paper and admitted that he and Clara Oswald were time travellers. (TV: Cold War)

The Doctor used his psychic paper to identify himself to Alec Palmer. (TV: Hide)

On Hedgewick's World of Wonders, the Doctor used the psychic paper to pass himself off as the Emperor's Proconsul to punishment platoon Captain Alice Ferrin. (TV: Nightmare in Silver)

Twelfth Doctor
At the West Country Children's Home, the Twelfth Doctor used the psychic paper to pose as an inspector to Reg. (TV: Listen)

As Clara revealed to the Doctor, Courtney Woods took his psychic paper and used it as fake ID to buy "White Lightning or alcopops". (TV: Kill the Moon)

Aboard the Orient Express spacecraft, the Doctor used the psychic paper to pass himself off to Quell as a mystery shopper. (TV: Mummy on the Orient Express)

Trapped within the TARDIS as its exterior dimensions shrank, the Doctor handed Clara his psychic paper, which she took as an honour, asking if that "made [her] [the Doctor]", to which he insisted it did not. Clara used the psychic paper to pass herself off to PC Forrest as being from MI5. Later, she failed to convince Fenton that she was a Health and Safety inspector using the paper, which the Doctor attributed to Fenton's exceptional lack of imagination. (TV: Flatline)

At 3W, the Doctor used his psychic paper to pass himself off as a government inspector to Doctor Chang, who found much swearing on the paper, which the Doctor attributed to his own "internalised anger". (TV: Dark Water)

At the Drum in 2119, the Doctor used the psychic paper to pass himself off as a UNIT member to Richard Pritchard. (TV: Under the Lake)

In 1651, the Doctor used the psychic paper when he claimed to pikeman Lloyd Llewelyn that he was an undercover constable from Scotland Yard, decorated for valour in battle with the Dunbar victory medal. Llewelyn, however, was not influenced. (TV: The Woman Who Lived)

The Doctor used the psychic paper to identify himself as "Doctor John Disco" to policemen. (TV: The Zygon Inversion)

Aboard the Le Verrier space station in the 38th century, the Doctor used the psychic paper to pass himself and Clara off to Jagganth Daiki-Nagata as engineering stress assessors. (TV: Sleep No More)

While leaving the Vault, the Doctor assured Nardole that he would get a message on his psychic paper if there was any trouble. (TV: The Pilot)

During the London frost fair of 1814, the Doctor used his psychic paper, which claimed that he worked "for the palace", to convince an overseer to allow him to inspect the dredgers. Later, he used the psychic paper, identifying himself as Doctor Disco from the Fairford Club, to enter Sutcliffe Manor, presenting it to a manservant who passed it to Lord Sutcliffe. (TV: Thin Ice)

At Chasm Forge, the Doctor used the psychic paper to identify himself to surviving crew members. (TV: Oxygen)

At NASA Mission Control, the Doctor used the psychic paper to identify himself to Coolidge. In 1881, the Doctor used the paper to convince British Army soldiers that he had boarded Friday's spaceship. (TV: Empress of Mars)

Thirteenth Doctor
The Thirteenth Doctor used the psychic paper to pass herself and Team TARDIS off to Jack Robertson as "crisis investigators". (TV: Arachnids in the UK)

At Kerb!am, the Doctor used the psychic paper to pass herself and Team TARDIS off to Judy Maddox as relatives of the First Lady. (TV: Kerblam!)

In Bilehurst Cragg in the 1600s, the Doctor used the psychic paper to identify herself as a Witchfinder General to Becka Savage. However, when she attempted to convince King James I the same, he read the paper as identifying Graham O'Brien as the Witchfinder General and the Doctor as the Witchfinder's Assistant as he ridiculed the notion that a woman could by the Witchfinder General. (TV: The Witchfinders)

At Tranquility Spa, the Doctor used the psychic paper to pass herself off as a Pan-Galactic Standards and Practices Officer, Health and Safety, Security and Hygiene and Resort Inspector to Hyph3n. (TV: Orphan 55)

The Doctor used the psychic paper to pass herself off as an Imperial Regulator to Judoon Captain Pol-Kon-Don. (TV: Fugitive of the Judoon)

When seeking refuge from the rain in Villa Diodati, the Doctor attempted to use the psychic paper on Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, John Polidori and Lord Byron, but found that it showed them nothing due to it being soaking wet, prompting her to say it might need a blow dry. (TV: The Haunting of Villa Diodati)

In 1967 Medderton and on the trail of a Weeping Angel, the Doctor used the psychic paper to display herself to Eustacius Jericho as being from the 'Institute of Psychic Investigation', which she remarked as being an "interesting" choice. (TV: Village of the Angels)

When transported to an alien landscape inspired by the Roman Empire, the Doctor used her psychic paper to get two Roman guards to open up about the whereabouts of Yaz by describing her as a market inspector and personal friend of Emperor Nero. (COMIC: Hydra's Gate)