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 was a drink made from the dried leaves of the tea plant, created by brewing the leaves in hot water. The Fifth Doctor once described it to Will Chandler as "a noxious infusion of oriental leaves containing a high percentage of toxic acid". Will thought it sounded vile, to which the Doctor replied, "Personally, I rather like it".

Milk and sugar were often used to flavour tea. According to Professor Litefoot, ladies should add only one lump of sugar to their tea. Tea was often served with biscuits or cookies. The Second Doctor once requested a patty cake with his tea. The Eleventh Doctor was particularly fond of Jammie Dodgers, both without and without his tea. He once fooled the Daleks into believing that the biscuit was the TARDIS self-destruct control. He claimed that he brought the biscuit since he was promised tea.

Serving tea
The Doctor considered the ablity to make tea important. The Fourth Doctor once asked Romana if she knew how to make tea. As she didn't know what it was, he claimed that the Time Lords no longer taught anything useful. When Professor Litefoot attempted to educate Leela on the etiquette of tea, the Fourth Doctor told her that the only thing she really needed to know was how to heat a teapot.

During his time with UNIT, the Third Doctor drank a lot of tea. Tea was so important to him that the tea lady was allowed in his lab, which was off limits to anyone except the Brigadier and his staff.

Daleks posing as a man-made machine called an Ironside, had a variety of duties including serving tea.

After Owen Harper was relieved of his duties with Torchwood Three, he continued as their tea boy.

Types of tea
Tibetans drank hot yak butter tea to fortify themselves against the cold of their native land. The Seventh Doctor was particularly fond of Lapsang souchong, Earl Grey, and Acturan tea. He disliked peppermint tea, but drank some because it was a gift from a friend. He considered tea made in a hotel room to taste worse than any other kind of tea. The Eighth Doctor enjoyed darjeeling tea with lemon.

Healing
According to the Doctor the free radicals and tannin in tea made it healing.

The Sixth Doctor drank tea to recover from Sancreda's psychic attack. The steam from a spilled thermos of tea helped the Tenth Doctor recover from his ninth regeneration. The Eleventh Doctor used a large amount of tea to save the life of Craig Owens, who had been adversely affected by a ceiling that had been altered by a time ship's attempts to find a pilot; the Doctor claimed that the tannins "reversed the enzyme decay".

The Doctor
The Third Doctor took his tea with milk and four sugars. He had a habit of stirring his tea with whatever was available, such as a silicon rod. The Brigadier was once confused when the Third Doctor did not put milk or sugar in his tea. In fact, he was not having tea with the Doctor, but rather with the Master, who had temporarily stolen the Doctor's body.

The Forth Doctor wrested some of the control away from Brimo by having one of her mentally created servets serve him a cup of tea rather than kill him.

The Emporer of China once gave the Doctor a gift of tea. When travelling with the Fifth Doctor Nyssa gave the tea away, unaware of it's origins. (AUDIO: Spare Parts)

The Seventh Doctor once met a potential future version of himself who had a particularly great interest in tea.

The Ninth Doctor took his tea with two sugars.

Sometime before his tenth incarnation, the Doctor pushed boxes of tea at the Boston Tea Party.


 * During the Shoreditch Incident, the Seventh Doctor went to a cafe within central London. He had a mug of tea and discussed many things on his mind about the nature of evil and destiny. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)


 * When the Doctor's TARDIS was destroyed, the Eighth Doctor and Fitz sat around talking about all the tea they used to love drinking which was now gone. (PROSE: The Shadows of Avalon)


 * The Eleventh Doctor claimed that tea helped him think while on Conaway farm, so he drank a lot. (PROSE: Heart of Stone)
 * The Eleventh Doctor made some tea and drank it with Alex. (TV: Night Terrors)

Companions

 * Barbara Wright drank tea aboard the TARDIS. (AUDIO: 1963)
 * Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart occasionally used tea as a means of comfort, as when he offered it to Zoe when she became worried about the Doctor's safety. (TV: The Invasion)
 * Sarah Jane Smith muttered that she could "murder a cup of tea". (TV: The Time Warrior)
 * Turlough expressed a fondness for tea, or as he called it, "that brown liquid." (TV: The Awakening)
 * Mel drank tea with the Rezzies Tilda and Tabby twice while at Paradise Towers. (TV: Paradise Towers)
 * Mickey Smith was offered a cup of tea when he visited his Gran on a parallel world. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)

Others

 * There was much tea (both with and without milk and sugar) in Professor Chronotis's rooms at St Cedd's College, Cambridge. (HOMEVID: Shada, WC: Shada, AUDIO: Shada)
 * Captain Cook drank tea from the Groz valley on Melogophon. He offered many people tea, and was still able to drink it, even when captured by the Psychic Circus. (TV: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy)
 * Vilgreth was fond of tea and took some with him when he left Earth in his spaceship. (AUDIO: Last of the Titans)
 * Alexander Christian searched the Doctor's House for tea bags following his escape from a helicopter. (PROSE: The Dying Days)
 * While talking to the Jackie from Pete's World, Rose Tyler offered to make her a cup of tea. She later said that her mum would not go to bed until she had a cup of tea, with two sugars. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)
 * While talking to the Jackie from Pete's World, Rose Tyler offered to make her a cup of tea. She later said that her mum would not go to bed until she had a cup of tea, with two sugars. (TV: Rise of the Cybermen)


 * Sarah Jane Smith and Gita Chandra shared a thermos of tea when the Chandras first moved to Bannerman Road. (TV: The Day of the Clown)