Forum:The Doctor's Age

Ok, after thinking about this for a long time, i found that there is NO WAY the Doctor can be 903 years old. Just think how little time he spent in his 9th regenerative form, and because they regenerate if the body dies of natural causes, so if you add up all the possible time he could have spent in his original body, then for each of his regenerations, it could not possibly add up to 903? Anyone see what I'm taking about or can anyone be bothered to work it out? --LuisFernandoLopez 16:16, 10 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Always remember, there's lots of "gaps" in which the Doctor could have been traveling alone or otherwise having un-chronicled adventures. We don't know how long these gaps are. For example:
 * Unknown is the Doctor's age when he left Gallifrey, or how long he and Susan traveled before An Unearthly Child. Some sources suggest that when the series starts, he's about 450.
 * How long he traveled, with or without Jamie, in "Season 6B".
 * The gap between The Green Death and The Time Warrior - the Doctor was clearly upset at Jo's decision; who knows how long he went away.
 * The gap between The Invasion of Time and The Ribos Operation, when the Doctor could have traveled with just K-9; it's also suggested that the Fourth Doctor Doctor Who Magazine comic strips with Sharon take place in this gap.
 * Further, as Romana and the Doctor are both Time Lords, the gaps between their adventures, especially with the Randomiser, are unknown. The Randomiser could take them to a lot of boring places.
 * There's a gap between Time-Flight and Arc of Infinity where the Doctor and Nyssa traveled for an unknown amount of time.
 * Just because he only had one televised story, the Eighth Doctor had a huge amount of adventures.
 * It's been suggested that the Doctor's behavior in Rose (TV story) is not an indicator that he just regenerated, but simply that he's still unhappy with how his ears turned out.
 * The Tenth Doctor has had gaps after The Runaway Bride, after Voyage of the Damned, and on either side of each of the specials after Journey's End.
 * Unless you think that 903 is too low, in which case he's lying out of vanity. He's done it before. Monkey with a Gun 17:31, 10 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Exactly. I was trying to work out if LuisFernandoLopez was commenting on it being too high or too low. For the Eighth Doctor it's easy as it's mentioned in Vampire Science he states he's 1,012 years old. If you go from there he spends 3 or so years on Ha'olam in Seeing I, there's also the 100 years or so during the stuck on Earth arc. So that's 1,115 years, that's not counting the time between Seeing I and The Ancestor Cell nor the time between Escape Velocity and The Gallifrey Chronicles (plus the Time War however long that lasted), there's also all the time the Doctor spends with Charley (and later C'rizz) and then Lucie.
 * Additionally with the Fifth Doctor there's all the travelling done with Peri and Erimiem (in addition to the travel with Nyssa). There is also all the time the Sixth Doctor spends travelling with Peri, Mel, Evelyn, Charley and the time he spends solo.
 * The 903 vanity is a good reason (or to not freak Rose out) or alternatively in Vampire Science the Doctor say's he's either 3 or 1,012 years old. Three is how many years since he last regenerated. (Though there's nothing to suggest that the Ninth Doctor has been in that body for 903 years, though he does refer to himself being in the time war rather than 'the other me' as he does in the some other instances). --Tangerineduel 18:12, 10 July 2009 (UTC)


 * I understand about the un-seen events type thing (like the one with Sally Sparrow where the Doctor and Martha go off to fight something at the end). But i'm sure that the Doctor can age, body-wise, eg he can regenerate to a young body then live for another 50 years ageing like a human. This would mean his body would die of natural causes and he would have to regenerate correct. So, assuming that the first doctor we see is his original body(the one he was born in) or in his first regenerated body, then he cannot be 450 years old. Do you know where it was said that he was 450 years old? --LuisFernandoLopez 18:39, 10 July 2009 (UTC)


 * We know that individual bodies can live for at least 500 years (see the Leisure Hive, when he ages 500 years and just looks elderly), so it's not a big stretch to assume the First Doctor was 450 when he died. And according to the pertaining page, the Doctor claimed he was 450 in The Tomb of the Cybermen. -<Azes13 20:04, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
 * There's also a line by #10, I'm blanking on the episode, where he says "I don't age, I regenerate." Basically, Time Lords age, but at a dramatically slower rate than humans; barring injury or illness, each form could potentially last centuries. Monkey with a Gun 04:29, 11 July 2009 (UTC)