Whale


 * You may be looking for the star whale, an unrelated though similarly-named species.

Whales were large marine mammals from Earth.

After an attempt by Nyssa to repair the chameleon circuit, the Fifth Doctor's TARDIS took on the form of a whale internally, externally, and personality-wise. The whale which had been the TARDIS dropped its passengers out onto a beach and retreated into the ocean.

By projecting the Doctor's heartbeats into the ocean, he and Nyssa were able to entice the whale back to the surface so that the Doctor could reestablish telepathic contact before the whale lost all memory of being the TARDIS. The Doctor was then able to restore the TARDIS to its familiar form and function. (ST: The Deep)

In a possible future, Haemovores sometimes ganged together to hunt whales. (MA: Goth Opera)

The Sixth Doctor once said that he, possibly in an earlier incarnation, had seen a beached whale upon the sands at Ostend, Belgium. It lay there dying for four days before its intestines exploded. Some of the human spectators died because of a disease that lived in the rotting whale flesh. (BFA: Year of the Pig)

At some point before she visited San Francisco on New Year's Eve 1999, Iris Wildthyme was in the city trying to find two humpbacked whales she could transport to the future. (BFIW: The Panda Invasion)