Vampire (Doctor Who)
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Vampires have featured a number of times in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its other media tie-ins. The canonicity of the non-television stories in relation to the television series is unclear, and the various media may not even be consistent with respect to each other.
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[edit] Television series
[edit] The Chase
In the fourth episode ("Journey into Terror") of the First Doctor serial The Chase (1965), the Doctor, Ian Chesterton, Barbara Wright and Vicki encounter Count Dracula and Frankenstein's Monster, who make short work of a pursuing party of Daleks. The Doctor speculates that the monsters and the haunted mansion that they inhabit are the products of nightmares created from the human psyche. As the TARDIS and the Daleks' time capsule leave, it is revealed that the monsters are, in fact, funfair robots.
[edit] The Claws of Axos
An entity known as Axos attempts to invade and consume the Earth in the Third Doctor serial The Claws of Axos. Extending itself into the forms of either beautiful golden-skinned humanoids or many-tentacled monsters, Axos is referred to by the Doctor as "a kind of space vampire". (A working title for this serial, dropped close to transmission, was Vampires from Space.)
[edit] State of Decay
The Fourth Doctor encounters vampires whilst travelling in E-Space in the serial State of Decay (1980). On a nameless planet, the Doctor, Romana, Adric and K-9 encounters three vampires, Aukon, Camilla and Zargo. It is revealed that the three are servants of the giant King Vampire, a member of the Great Vampires who once fought a great war against the Time Lords, but were eventually defeated. By escaping to E-Space, the King Vampire was the sole surviving member of its race. The Doctor defeats the King Vampire by launching the lesser vampires' tower — actually the command module of the ship piloted by the originally human trio — and using it as a stake to pierce the giant vampire's heart. The three servant vampires perish along with their king.
[edit] The Curse of Fenric
In the 1989 serial The Curse of Fenric, the Seventh Doctor and Ace encounter sea-dwelling vampiric creatures called Haemovores. One Haemovore, called the Ancient One, has been transported by Fenric from a possible future in which millennia of pollution had caused human beings to evolve into Haemovores. Eventually the Anicent One kills Fenric, stopping that future from exsiting. Over the course of centuries, he transformed many humans into Haemovores. Like traditional vampires, the Haemovores can be killed by a stake through the heart. An individual with strong faith (in anything) can also protect themselves from the Haemovores by focusing on the object of their belief.
[edit] Smith and Jones
The 2007 episode Smith and Jones features a plasmavore, who sucks blood through a straw. [1]
[edit] Novels
[edit] Goth Opera
The Fifth Doctor, Tegan Jovanka and Nyssa encounter vampires in the Virgin Missing Adventures novel Goth Opera by Paul Cornell. During the course of this adventure, both Nyssa and the Doctor are temporarily turned into vampires. This story is both a sequel and a prequel to Blood Harvest.
[edit] Blood Harvest
The Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice encounter vampires in the Virgin New Adventures novel Blood Harvest by Terrance Dicks. This story is a sequel to State of Decay, and both a sequel and prequel to Goth Opera.
[edit] Managra
The Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith encounter vampires (allegedly descended from the main vampires of Goth Opera) and Elizabeth Báthory in the Virgin Missing Adventures novel Managra by Stephen Marley.
[edit] Damaged Goods
The Seventh Doctor, Chris Cwej and Roz Forrester encounter an N-form, a weapon created by the Time Lords to fight the Great Vampires of State of Decay, in the Virgin New Adventures novel Damaged Goods by Russell T. Davies.
[edit] The Eight Doctors
The Fourth Doctor segment of this story features vampires, as it is set straight after State of Decay. It directly contradicts author Terrance Dicks' earlier story Blood Harvest.
[edit] Vampire Science
The Eighth Doctor and Sam Jones encounter vampires in the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel Vampire Science by Kate Orman.
[edit] Audio plays
[edit] Death Comes to Time
The Seventh Doctor encounters the vampire Nessican in London in the BBCi webcast Death Comes to Time by Colin Meek.
[edit] Project: Twilight
The Sixth Doctor and Evelyn Smythe become embroiled in a struggle between a vampire hunter and artificially created vampires in the Big Finish Productions audio drama Project: Twilight by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright. Scientists working for a black operations organisation known as the Forge created a virus which would turn human beings into vampires to be used as super-soldiers during the First World War. When the test-subjects escaped, the Forge's chief scientist Dr William Abberton injected himself with the virus, and became a vampire hunter going by the name of Nimrod. In the late 20th Century, the Doctor finds the Twilight vampires running a casino in South London, but Nimrod has also discovered their hideout. Most of the vampires are killed, but not before converting Cassie, a young waitress secretly working for Nimrod, into a vampire herself. The Doctor takes Cassie to Norway in hopes that she will find a way to survive until he can discover a cure for her vampirism.
[edit] Project: Lazarus
In the two episodes of the Big Finish Productions audio drama Project: Lazarus by Cavan Scott and Mark Wright, the Doctor and Evelyn are tricked and trapped by Cassie and Nimrod when the Doctor returns to give her the cure for her vampirism. Cassie, having been brainwashed by Nimrod, now works for Nimrod and the Forge. When Evelyn reminds Cassie of her son, she recovers from the brainwashing and challenges Nimrod, who kills her, much to Evelyn's horror.
[edit] Zagreus
In the Big Finish Productions audio drama Zagreus, a vampire appears and confronts confronting Rassilon, claims that the vampires were a peaceful race, who were provoked into a war with the Time Lords. However, the vampire was a illusion created by the TARDIS, so wether this is true is unclear.
[edit] Son of The Dragon
In the forthcoming Big Finish Productions audio drama Son of The Dragon, the Fifth Doctor will encounter Dracula.[1]
