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A day to come

When the Eleventh Doctor met the Curator in the Under Gallery and quipped how he "never forget[s] a face", the Curator cryptically replied that he "might find [him]self revisiting a few" in the "years to come", though only "old favourites". (TV: The Day of the Doctor ^[+]Steven Moffat, 50th Anniversary Specials (BBC One, 2013).)

After being told that her "time [was] heading to its end" by the embodiment of Time, (TV: The Vanquishers ^[+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who series 13 (BBC One and BBC America, 2021).) the Thirteenth Doctor compiled a book about all of her lives to aid her next incarnation if they suffered post-regenerative amnesia. (PROSE: A Short History of Everyone ^[+]Craig Donaghy and Justin Richards, Official Guides (BBC Books, 2022).)

Hijacked by the Master

Main article: Thirteenth Doctor's forced regeneration

The Master hijacks the Doctor's fourteenth incarnation. (TV: The Power of the Doctor ^[+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who Centenary Special 2022 (BBC One, 2022).)

The Thirteenth Doctor was made to undergo a forced regeneration into her fourteenth incarnation in a chamber by the Spy Master, who used the energies of a Qurunx as a power source for a cyber-conversion planet that allowed him to obtain the energy needed to hijack the Doctor's regeneration and insert himself as her fourteenth incarnation. However, due to a fail-safe the Doctor had enacted before her regeneration, the Holo-Doctor was able to work in conjunction with Yaz Khan, Tegan Jovanka and Ace to undue the Master's Dalek Plan, with Inston-Vee Vinder helping Yaz to force the Master back into the chamber so that they could use the CyberMasters' regeneration energy to get the Master to degenerate back into the Thirteenth Doctor, returning him to his original body. (TV: The Power of the Doctor ^[+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who Centenary Special 2022 (BBC One, 2022).)

Post-regeneration

Main article: Thirteenth Doctor's regeneration

The Doctor's clothes change as they regenerate. (TV: The Power of the Doctor ^[+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who Centenary Special 2022 (BBC One, 2022).)

After the Doctor freed the Qurunx so it could destroy the cyber-conversion planet, the Master spitefully used his Tissue Compression Eliminator to redirect the Qurunx's destructive blast at the Doctor, fatally wounding her. Staving off the regeneration long enough to have a final conversation with Yaz, the Doctor then travelled alone to a cliff overlooking the sea, where she could enjoy the sunrise before she regenerated. Making peace with herself, the Doctor began to regenerate, with her outfit morphing into a completely different set of clothes with her, (TV: The Power of the Doctor ^[+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who Centenary Special 2022 (BBC One, 2022).) as she subconsciously allowed the lingering stress from her recent adventures to effect the regeneration. (TV: The Giggle ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).) After the regeneration was completed, the first thing the Fourteenth Doctor did was run his tongue over his teeth and immediately realised their familiarity, speaking his realisation out loud in an equally familiar voice. After quickly examining his new body, and finding his previous incarnation's clothes had completely changed with him, the Doctor felt his face and realised he was in a body remarkably identical to his tenth incarnation. (TV: The Power of the Doctor ^[+]Chris Chibnall, Doctor Who Centenary Special 2022 (BBC One, 2022).) Whilst thinking how he should be "somebody new" instead of "somebody [he'd] been before", the Doctor also thought that his clothes changing too was "weird". (PROSE: "Heroes of Time" ^[+]Part of Whotopia: The Ultimate Guide to the Whoniverse, Simon Guerrier, Una McCormack and Jonathan Morris, BBC Books (2023).)

The Doctor returns to the TARDIS. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks ^[+]Alan Barnes, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 2022-2023).)

After returning to the TARDIS, (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks ^[+]Alan Barnes, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 2022-2023).) the Doctor wrote a letter to the readers of an annual as he continued to question why he had regenerated back into an old body. While he acknowledged that he had new braincells, he wrote that he had regained his old teeth, hands, "fantastic" hair, "slightly quizzical left eyebrow" and "brilliant" grin, concluding that it was nice to have this face back, but that he was still unsure as to why. As he wrote down how his clothes had also changed for the first time since the First Doctor's renewal, he got distracted by something "making a right old racket" on the opposite side of the TARDIS control console. (PROSE: A Letter from the Doctor ^[+]Paul Lang, Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024 (Penguin Group, 2023). Page 6.)

The first adventure

The Daleks fire upon the Doctor. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks ^[+]Alan Barnes, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 2022-2023).)

Seeing that the noise was a distress signal, the Doctor followed it to what seemed to be Wembley Stadium during the 1966 World Cup Final, where he found what he thought were time tourists watching the historical football tournament, using psychic shields to cover the fact they were a family of purple aliens. However, when a Dalek flying saucer appeared in the sky and started deploying a force of Bronze Daleks to start an invasion, the Doctor focused his efforts on getting the Supreme Dalek's attention so that the Daleks would abandon their attack in an attempt to exterminate him instead. Fleeing back to the TARDIS, the Doctor was handed the World Cup's Jules Rimet Trophy by Georgy Gold, who had mistaken him for the police. Not having enough time for explanations, the Doctor bundled Georgy into the safety of the TARDIS, only for a Dalek saucer to seize it before he could follow her in, leaving him surrounded by the Daleks as the Supreme Dalek ordered them to exterminate him, only for their blasts to have no effect, surprising both them and the Doctor. With both wanting answers, the Doctor let himself be taken aboard the Dalek saucer, where he bargained for the invasion to be stopped in return for providing an explanation to the Supreme Dalek after scanning himself with the sonic screwdriver, which the Supreme Dalek agreed to. After scanning the Daleks, the Doctor realised that they were simulacra of real Daleks and and that he was in a simulation, though the Supreme Dalek refused to believe him and destroyed the Earth to prove they were real. However, Claire and Claudine then materialised on the bridge, captured the Doctor and teleported him away, as the Daleks watched in confusion, to the Dalek Dome, where the Doctor met Georgette Gold and learnt he had been in an attraction at a theme park based on Dalek history.

The Doctor sees his sonic screwdriver destroyed. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks ^[+]Alan Barnes, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 2022-2023).)

As Georgette showed him the attractions, the Doctor continuously voiced his displeasure at how the "suffering of countless billions" was being made a "fun day out for the family". When Georgette revealed she had lured him in with the distress signal, the Doctor attempted to return to his TARDIS until Georgette told him he couldn't return to the 66-scape until the psychoplasm had been vented, so he followed her to a control room and discovered Kaled mutants sleeping in tanks, with the one designated Specimen Six Sigma waking up, which the Doctor realised was due to his questioning of the Daleks' existence in the 1966 simulation, prompting Georgette to shut it down, depositing the TARDIS in the lobby. The Doctor rushed to the TARDIS, where they discovered Georgy, who was Georgette's simulacra in the 66-space, had been forced to let the Supreme Dalek into the ship in order for it to survive the shutdown and escape into reality. The Doctor tried to convince the Supreme Dalek the Daleks were still fakes by scanning them with his sonic screwdriver, only for the the Supreme Dalek to have one if its guards destroy it, with the gathering crowd convinced they were watching a live show and asking to be exterminated, ignoring the Doctor's warnings. However, it soon became apparent that the Daleks were becoming anatomically unstable and would soon dissolve once the residue from the artron energy in the TARDIS dissipated, along with Georgy. Unable to stop a tearful Georgy from running off due to needing to focus on the Daleks, the Doctor kept them distracted until they melted away, but was then forced to leave the Dalek Dome by the staff when he continued to advocate its closing.

As he planned to skip ahead in time, the Doctor was drawn into the Dalek Dome's Golden City Zone by Georgy, who had allied herself with the Golden Dalek Emperor in order to find a way for the simulacra to become real, and could only watch as a Dalek interrogator used a hypno-pulse in conjunction with Georgy's connection to her to hypnotise Georgette into transmitting the hypno-pulse into the Dalek Dome and allow the Golden Emperor to gain control as it began constructing a quantum-powered reality gate to enable it's escape from the simulation. However, the Doctor managed to trick the Golden Emperor into revealing its plan of conquest to Georgy, and she severed the hypnotic link to the Dome, though she was swiftly killed. As the Golden Emperor explained it would harvest the psychoplasm of the other Dalek Zones, the Doctor was rescued by Georgette, Claire and Claudine, and they escaped to a zone governed by the Dalek Emperor of the Dalek City, who the Doctor convinced to ally with him and a Dalek Alliance in order to stop the Golden Emperor, though the Alliance's attempt to destroy the Golden Emperor only incited chaos. Taking control of the situation, the Doctor teleported himself into the Golden Emperor's control centre and arranged the destruction of the quantum-powered reality gate, causing the psychoscape to collapse as he escaped in his TARDIS, which also destroyed the Daleks attacking the Earth. As Georgette lamented the destruction the Daleks had caused while free in reality, the Doctor left it up to her what to do with Dalek Dome as he made his leave. However, he found that the Jules Rimet Trophy that Georgy had left on the TARDIS control console had also melted, and he pondered if the fast return switch had been compromised. (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks ^[+]Alan Barnes, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 2022-2023).)

The Doctor sees the first Dalek. (TV: Destination: Skaro ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who (BBC One, 2023). Timestamp 03:23.)

After the TARDIS crash-landed on Skaro (TV: Destination: Skaro ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who (BBC One, 2023).) due to the compromised fast return switch, (COMIC: Liberation of the Daleks ^[+]Alan Barnes, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 2022-2023).) and the press of a wrong button, (PROSE: Destination: Skaro ^[+]Steve Cole, adapted from Destination: Skaro (Russell T Davies), Doctor Who The Official Annual 2025 (BBC Children's Books, 2024)., Fleeting Faces ^[+]Steve Cole, adapted from Destination: Skaro (Russell T Davies), Fifteen Doctors 15 Stories (Puffin eshort, Puffin Books, 2024).) the Doctor emerged to greet Castavillian and ponder aloud why he had regenerated back into an "old face", only to discover that the TARDIS had collided with a Dalek in a Mark III Travel Machine casing and torn its multi-dextrous claw clean off, as he thought aloud about his fortunate at not being exterminated during the "genesis of the Daleks". Once he realised that Castavillian had been recording down his musings, and that he was creating a bootstrap paradox that could put ruptures in "the timelines and canon", the Doctor went to leave, but stopped to replace the multi-dextrous claw with a plunger before he left. (TV: Destination: Skaro ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who (BBC One, 2023).)

Enjoying a second chance

The Doctor in combat with the Queen of the Sycorax. (COMIC: Into Control ^[+]Steve Cole, Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024 (BBC Children's Books, 2023). Page 52.)

The Doctor wrote information about some of his regenerations and how regenerating worked, (PROSE: Secrets of Regeneration ^[+]Paul Lang, Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024 (Penguin Group, 2023).) and then obtained a new sonic screwdriver, (WC: The Fourteenth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver ^[+]Doctor Who mini-episodes (BBC Studios, YouTube, 2023).) which he gave some familiar functions of his past incarnations screwdrivers. (PROSE: Super Sonic ^[+]Paul Lang, Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024 (Penguin Group, 2023).)

The Doctor found himself in what appeared to be a cave, (PROSE: Under Control ^[+]Steve Cole, Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024 (BBC Children's Books, 2023). Pages 10-15.) which he was compelled to explore due to remnants of his tenth incarnation's blood being used in blood control, (COMIC: Into Control ^[+]Steve Cole, Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024 (BBC Children's Books, 2023). Page 53.) and he ended up saving a Strombok in peril and rescuing scared Vega Raptons from a pig he named Alfredo. As he and Alfredo rescued some humans and Sarnsquids, (PROSE: Under Control) the Doctor found himself facing the Queen of the Sycorax, who planned to use blood control and the blood taken from the blade that cut off the Tenth Doctor's hand to force the Doctor to take the place of the Sarnsquids that were moving her ship. However, because he had different blood from his tenth incarnation, the Doctor was able to resist the blood control and duelled the Queen until Alfredo knocked her into the ship's bile pit, with the Sycorax Queen teleporting away to escape the vengeful Sarnsquids. As the Sarnsquids took control of the ship, the Doctor urged all the lifeforms aboard to use it to get home as he left with Alfredo, saying that they should make the most of "second chances". (COMIC: Into Control ^[+]Steve Cole, Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024 (BBC Children's Books, 2023). Pages 48-55.)

The Doctor on Planet Bedtime Stories. (TV: Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story ^[+]Oliver Jeffers, adapted from The Way Back Home, CBeebies Bedtime Stories (CBeebies, 2023).)

Upon arriving on Planet Bedtime Stories, the Doctor told The Way Back Home, a story written and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers, about a boy who befriended a Martian after they got stranded on the Moon. After concluding the story, he began to tell a story about himself before realising he didn't have enough time to tell it. (TV: Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story ^[+]Oliver Jeffers, adapted from The Way Back Home, CBeebies Bedtime Stories (CBeebies, 2023).)

When the Master attempted to force all the incarnations of the Doctor to regenerate at once, the Fourteenth Doctor's face was mixed with his twelfth, fifth, and eighth incarnations' faces, and a human was tasked with identifying each incarnation to repair the timeline. (GAME: Random Regenerations ^[+]Paul Lang, Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024 (Penguin Group, 2023).)

The Doctor recorded an ident for BBC ONE where he waved his sonic screwdriver at the camera as he smirked, revealing an air date for an unnamed show. (TV: 60th Anniversary Idents ^[+]BBC idents (BBC One, 2023).)

Reunited with Donna

The Doctor investigates a spaceship. (TV: The Star Beast ^[+]Russell T Davies, adapted from Doctor Who and the Star Beast (Pat Mills and John Wagner), Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

When the TARDIS landed Camden Market (TV: The Star Beast ^[+]Russell T Davies, adapted from Doctor Who and the Star Beast (Pat Mills and John Wagner), Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).) during November 2023, (PROSE: The Star Beast ^[+]Gary Russell, adapted from The Star Beast (Russell T Davies), 60th Anniversary Novels (Target Books, 2023).) the Doctor found himself running into Donna Noble while she was out shopping with her daughter, Rose, just as a spaceship landed at the Millson Wagner Steelworks, with the Doctor going to investigate after being getting a ride from Donna's husband, Shaun Temple, in his taxi, and using the trip to get an update on Donna's life since he last saw her, (TV: The Star Beast ^[+]Russell T Davies, adapted from Doctor Who and the Star Beast (Pat Mills and John Wagner), Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).) with the fear that news of the ship crash would jog Donna's memory in his mind. (PROSE: The Doctor's Busiest Day ^[+]Steve Cole, adapted from The Star Beast (Russell T Davies), Doctor Who The Official Annual 2025 (BBC Children's Books, 2024).)

Arriving at the steelworks shortly after UNIT established a perimeter, the Doctor snuck in to scan the spaceship with his sonic screwdriver, (TV: The Star Beast ^[+]Russell T Davies, adapted from Doctor Who and the Star Beast (Pat Mills and John Wagner), Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).) and quickly recorded another ident where he voiced his concern about Donna seeing his face and his fear that "something [was] coming." (TV: 60th Anniversary Idents ^[+]BBC idents (BBC One, 2023).) The Doctor quickly learned from his scan that the Dagger Drive had been damaged in an attack just as UNIT's scientific advisor, Shirley Bingham, approached him to share resources, though the Doctor instead talked to her of his worries about Donna remembering his face and being killed by the Human-Time Lord Meta-Crisis in her head. Once UNIT located the spaceships escape pod, the Doctor went with them (TV: The Star Beast ^[+]Russell T Davies, adapted from Doctor Who and the Star Beast (Pat Mills and John Wagner), Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).) just outside 23 Bachelor Road, (PROSE: The Star Beast ^[+]Gary Russell, adapted from The Star Beast (Russell T Davies), 60th Anniversary Novels (Target Books, 2023).) where the Doctor, after a quick reunion with Sylvia Noble, found that Rose was housing the Meep. With Shaun's return home calming things down, the Doctor listened as the Meep explained they were hiding from the Wrarth Warriors, saying that they were hunting the Meep for their fur, just as UNIT soldiers hypnotised by Solar Psychedelia arrived looking for the Meep and the Wrarth Warriors also began an attack, resulting in a street fight that forced the Doctor, the Meep and the Nobler family to flee in Shaun's taxi, though not before the Doctor realised that the Wrarth Warriors were fighting with stun guns, as opposed to the Soldiers of the Psychedelic Sun using live ammunition, which raised his suspicions about the Meep.

The Doctor seeks answers. (TV: The Star Beast ^[+]Russell T Davies, adapted from Doctor Who and the Star Beast (Pat Mills and John Wagner), Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

Driving to a secluded car park, the Doctor donned a barrister's wig and intercepted the Wrarth Warriors' teleportation to summon Sergeant Zogroth and Constable Zreeg to put the Meep's statements on trial, with the Wrarth Warriors revealing that they were working for the Galactic Council to capture the Meep for war crimes. With the truth exposed, the Meep opted to drop their innocent façade and killed Zogroth and Zreeg as the Soldiers of the Psychedelic Sun arrived, though the Doctor bargained for his and the Noble family's safety by pointing out that he could be in league with the Wrarth Warriors and was more useful as a hostage. As he and the Noble family were brought to the steelworks, the Meep revealed that they planned to destroy London as fuel for their ship's Dagger Drive, just as Shirley arrived to rescue them from the hypnotised soldiers. While telling the Noble family to flee, the Doctor made his way into the Meep's ship to deactivate the Dagger Drive, only for Donna to follow him in to help. When the Meep's take-off separated him from half the controls and Donna, the Doctor found himself forced to reactive the DoctorDonna to stop the destruction of London, with the pair working in tangent to stop the Meep's ship taking off, and undo the damage done to London.

The Doctor enjoys the happy ending. (TV: The Star Beast ^[+]Russell T Davies, adapted from Doctor Who and the Star Beast (Pat Mills and John Wagner), Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

While it looked like Donna was about to die from her brain overloading, it quickly transpired that the Human-Time Lord Meta-Crisis had been partially passed down to Rose, allowing Donna to survive as Rose deactivated the psychedelic sun emitters and freed the UNIT soldiers. As the Meep was taken away by the Wrarth Warriors, while promising to tell "the Boss" about the Doctor, Donna and Rose explained that letting go was the only way to safety disperse the Meta-Crisis from them. As the sun rose on a new day, the Doctor brought the Noble family to his TARDIS, and he and Donna convinced Sylvia to let them take a trip to see Wilfred Mott in his sheltered accommodation. Upon finding that the TARDIS control room has redesigned itself with a coffee machine on the TARDIS control console, the Doctor gave Donna a cup of coffee as they talked about the Doctor's returning face and need to keep travelling, until Donna accidently spilled her coffee on the control console and sent the TARDIS spinning out of control through time and space. (TV: The Star Beast ^[+]Russell T Davies, adapted from Doctor Who and the Star Beast (Pat Mills and John Wagner), Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

At the edge of the universe

The Doctor and Donna talk with Isaac Newton. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

Hurtling out of control, the Doctor and Donna found themselves in 1666, where they interrupted Isaac Newton as he discovered gravity, and their joke on the "gravity of [their] situation" before they were yanked away caused him to mishear them and dub his new discovery "mavity". (TV: Wild Blue Yonder ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).) They then intercepted the Red Baron in 1917, where a member of the Brigade of Gübernators hitched onto the TARDIS roof and remained in place as the TARDIS landed in front of Neanderthals in 200,000 BC. After he and Donna accidentally saved Harold Godwinson's life at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, the Doctor eventually disposed of the Gübernator, self-destructing it high above London in in the 1970s, as he realised he and Donna would have evacuate the TARDIS at their next stop. (COMIC: Untitled ^[+]Alan Barnes, DWM Comics (Panini Comics, 2023).)

The Doctor ponders the not-things. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

As the TARDIS interior erupted into an inferno, the Doctor and Donna managed to escape to an empty spaceship at the edge of the universe, leaving the TARDIS to regenerate itself with aid of the sonic screwdriver until the reactivation of the Hostile Action Displacement System caused the TARDIS to flee without them. As they looked for the "hostile action" to "kick its arse" and get the TARDIS to return for them, the Doctor and Donna found a slow moving robot marching down the hallway, two not-things from beyond the edge had infiltrated the spaceship and that the captain had walked out the air-lock three years prior, all while an unknown language was saying words over the intercom periodically. After he got separated from Donna, the Doctor was tricked into opening up to a not-thing impersonating her about his guilt over the devastation of the Flux and his uncertainty of his identity after learning about the Timeless Child, causing him to briefly lose his composure until he found Donna again, and kept the not-things at bay with a line of salt, tricking them into thinking they had to count every grain to pass until they realised he was lying.

The Doctor reunites with Wilfred Mott. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

As they retreated to the cockpit, the Doctor pieced together that the not-things could not understand the concept of slow, and that the captain had initiated the robot to activate the ship's self-destruct at a slow pace, with the words over the intercom being the countdown, and then killed themselves to stop the not-things from realising their plan, only for the not-things to realise the plan as the Doctor did, so he accelerated the countdown and then gave chase to stop them interrupting the robot, only to realise that the not-things resilience would not stop the self-destruct, meaning the hostile actions were resolved, at which point the TARDIS returned, but the Doctor was tricked into bringing the non-thing with him instead of Donna, though he quickly realised his mistake and retrieved the real Donna as the ship blew up, (TV: Wild Blue Yonder ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).) with the Doctor wishing they could have stayed to watch the explosion, while also apologising to Jimbo. (PROSE: The No-Things ^[+]Paul Lang, adapted from Wild Blue Yonder (Russell T Davies), Doctor Who The Official Annual 2025 (BBC Children's Books, 2024).) Returning to Camden Market, though still worried what invoking the superstition of the salt line at a place where "the walls [were] thin and all things [were] possible" would bring, the Doctor and Donna were greeted by Wilf, only to find the city in chaos and Wilf begging the Doctor to save the day. (TV: Wild Blue Yonder ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

Rematch with the Toymaker

The Doctor sees the chaos of the Giggle. (TV: The Giggle ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

As he traversed the streets with Donna and Wilf, the Doctor watched humanity descend into chaos, with a pedestrian explaining that every human believed themselves to be in right, as the Doctor and Donna were pick up by Colonel Christofer Ibrahim and taken to UNIT headquarters as Wilf was taken to a safer location. Shirley and Kate Lethbridge-Stewart greeted the Doctor and Donna as they arrived, and Melanie Bush helped them to explain that a distorted waveform was responsible for the chaos to the Doctor. When Donna realised that the waveform was an arpeggio melody, it was discovered that the waveworm was the giggle of Stooky Bill, who had been embedded in every screen screen since the invention of television in 1925 and was only now triggering due to the KOSAT 5 satellite connected everyone to the internet. Leaving Kate to destroy KOSAT 5 with a Galvanic beam on his authority, the Doctor went to 1925 Soho with Donna to find the shop Stooky Bill came from, where they were met by the Toymaker, who had managed to escape into the universe due to the Doctor's salt trick.

The Doctor faces the Toymaker. (TV: The Giggle ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

Escaping into his domain, the Toymaker tormented the Doctor with a puppet show depicting the deaths of Amy Pond, Clara Oswald and Bill Potts and the fallout of the Flux, provoking the Doctor into challenging him to a game of cut, only for the Toymaker to emerge the winner. However, the Doctor, pointing out his victory in their last game, invoked the best of three rule (TV: The Giggle ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).) as it was his only hope, (PROSE: The Doctor's Busiest Day ^[+]Steve Cole, adapted from The Star Beast (Russell T Davies), Doctor Who The Official Annual 2025 (BBC Children's Books, 2024).) meaning they were tied one-all and needed to have one more game to decide the ultimate victor between them. Delighted, the Toymaker agreed and transported to 2023 for their final match. (TV: The Giggle ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

Bi-generation

Main article: Fourteenth Doctor's bi-generation

The Doctor undergoes bi-generation. (TV: The Giggle ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

Returning to UNIT HQ after they destroyed KOSAT 5, the Doctor tried to prepare them for the Toymaker's arrival, only for him to appear and overpower UNIT while dancing to "Spice Up Your Life", distracting them long enough to commandeer the Galvanic beam. The Doctor tried to talk the Toymaker into leaving Earth with him so that they could play games throughout the cosmos, but the Toymaker refused, instead shooting the Doctor with the Galvanic beam so he could play the third game with the next incarnation of the Doctor. As regeneration energy began to emit from him, the Doctor was comforted by Donna and Mel and prepared himself for the change of appearance, only for the regeneration energy to dissipate without him changing. Noting that it "[felt] different this time", the Doctor had Donna and Mel pull him apart as he began to experience a previously unseen act of bi-generation, with the Fifteenth Doctor splitting out of him.

The Doctor helps make the winning throw. (TV: The Giggle ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

The Doctors then challenged the Toymaker to a game of catch, reasoning that they could both play him due to still being the same person. After an intense game, the Fifteenth Doctor was able to make a winning throw, and the Fourteenth Doctor named banishing the Toymaker from existence as his prize. While everyone celebrated, the Fourteenth Doctor chose to lament the lives lost in the chaos of the Giggle, to which the Fifteenth Doctor comforted him over. (TV: The Giggle ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

Settling down

The Doctor is convinced to stay on Earth. (TV: The Giggle ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

While showing the Fifteenth Doctor around the TARDIS control room, the Fourteenth Doctor began to wonder how life will work with the two of them simultaneously existing, but the Fifteenth Doctor told him he needed to take a break after lifetimes of hardship to ensure his fifteenth incarnation would have his carefree attitude, saying that they were "doing rehab out of order", (TV: The Giggle ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).) as the Fourteenth Doctor thought about the last fifteen hours of facing the Daleks, the Meep, the not-things and the Toymaker without rest. (PROSE: The Giggle ^[+]James Goss, adapted from The Giggle (Russell T Davies), 60th Anniversary Novels (Target Books, 2023).) As the Fifteenth Doctor listed the numerous battles they had fought and losses they had endured, Donna opened her home up to the Fourteenth Doctor, and offered the theory that he had regenerated back into his tenth incarnation's appearance as a way of telling himself to "come home" to her. As he realised they were right, the Fourteenth Doctor still refused to part with the TARDIS, but the Fifteenth Doctor used the lingering powers of the Toymaker's domain to bi-generate the TARDIS with a mallet as his prize for wining the game. Accepting that he had to let himself heal, the Fourteenth Doctor bid farewell to his fifteenth incarnation as he left to explore the universe, (TV: The Giggle ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).) with the Doctor taking in his past fifteen hours of nonstop adventures with a simple, "Phew!". (PROSE: The Doctor's Busiest Day ^[+]Steve Cole, adapted from The Star Beast (Russell T Davies), Doctor Who The Official Annual 2025 (BBC Children's Books, 2024).)

Seeking a home of his own on Earth, the Doctor considered buying a castle, mansion or a beach hut, but eventually found a house in the countryside that connected with him due to its history of having people spend their whole lives inside, and attempted to purchase it for £60 from the estate agent Tiff, who informed him of the much higher asking price and sold him the house after he realised he could afford it with the UNIT income he had been receiving since his third incarnation, and even managed to avoid talking about the council tax, parking zones, catchment areas, mortgage and paperwork. (PROSE: The Giggle ^[+]James Goss, adapted from The Giggle (Russell T Davies), 60th Anniversary Novels (Target Books, 2023).)

Rehab with the Noble family

The Doctor entertains the Noble family with his stories. (TV: The Giggle ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

Although he had chosen to retire, the Doctor would take the occasional trip in the TARDIS, such as clandestinely taking Rose to Mars and Mel to New York City during the Gilded Age. During a garden party, where he entertained his adopted family with tales from his adventures, the Doctor let Donna know that he had "never been so happy in [his] life" as he witnessed the peace he had long fought for, even though Donna suggested that he could resume his travels at anytime. (TV: The Giggle ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

When the Fifteenth Doctor saw Rose at UNIT when he and Ruby Sunday visited in mid-2024, she told him that "[her] uncle" was "all good" when he asked about him. (TV: The Legend of Ruby Sunday ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who series 14 (BBC One and Disney+, 2024).)

History takes its course

The Fourteenth Doctor would eventually overcome his issues and complete the bi-generation from which the Fifteenth Doctor emerged from. (TV: The Giggle ^[+]Russell T Davies, Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials (BBC One and Disney+, 2023).)

Undated events

A photograph of the Doctor. (PROSE: Rose ^[+]Russell T Davies, adapted from Rose (Russell T Davies), Target novelisations (Target Books, 2018). Edition: 2023 Illustrated Edition.)

• Following a rupture in time that resulted in the creation of multiple versions of reality, the Doctor asked a human to examine two pictures of the Toymaker to determine the differences. (GAME: Double Danger ^[+]Paul Lang, Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024 (Penguin Group, 2023).)
• At some point prior to 5 March 2005, the Fourteenth Doctor was photographed in a photo that would come into the possession of Clive Finch. (PROSE: Rose ^[+]Russell T Davies, adapted from Rose (Russell T Davies), Target novelisations (Target Books, 2018). Edition: 2023 Illustrated Edition.)