List of Doctor Who planets

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This is a list of planets, fictional or otherwise, that are mentioned in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who and its spinoff literature.


Contents: Top - 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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  • Abydos A planet mentioned in The Leisure Hive.
  • Agora is the homeworld of the Sixth Doctor's companion Grant Markham. In 2191, the Cybermen attempted to take over this planet and change it into a breeding ground to rebuild their race in the Virgin Missing Adventures book, Killing Ground.
  • Algol a planet mentioned in Destiny of the Daleks.
  • Alzarius is Adric's homeworld, located in E-Space. It appeared in the serial Full Circle. Its galactic coordinates are identical to that of Gallifrey, the home planet of the Time Lords. In Full Circle, Alzarius is discovered to be covered in lush, dense forests and marshlands. Every 50 years, the planet is dragged further away from its sun by a larger planet, causing an occurrence known as "Mistfall".
  • Anagonia A planet mentioned in the Seventh Doctor story The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
  • Anathema is the homeworld of the Eighth Doctor's companion Compassion.
  • Androzani Major and Androzani Minor are a pair of planets and are the setting of the serial The Caves of Androzani. In The Caves of Androzani, Androzani Minor is discovered to feature an intricate network of caves, where spectrox-producing giant bats lived. When the planet moved closer to Androzani Major, mud bursts rose from Androzani Minor's core. Through extensive research into the original series, these planets are discovered to be located in The Sirius Star System, a system containing 5 planets, including the planet Sirus IV. It is also discovered that Androzani Minor was once covered by water, but has since drained away (as it also did on Androzani Major). Since then, both planets have become hot and arid desert planets. Native life on Androzani Minor includes the Magma Beast, which lives in Androzani Minor's bubbling mud pools.
  • Aneth, home of the Anethans, was forced to pay tribute to the planet Skonnos in the Fourth Doctor story The Horns of Nimon.
  • Aractus A planet mentioned in Wooden Heart.
  • Arcadia is a human colony world in the 25th century, and the setting of the Virgin New Adventures novel Deceit. In "Doomsday", the Doctor told the Daleks that he had fought against them on Arcadia, at the front lines of the Time War, and refers to its fall. In the Torchwood episode, "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang", part of the plot revolves around Captain Jack Harkness's friend Captain John Hart search for an Arcadian diamond.
  • Arcateen V is referred to in "Invasion of the Bane" (The Sarah Jane Adventures). It is the home planet of the Butterfly People,[1] which include a "star poet" associate of Sarah Jane Smith and a criminal called Mary, who features in "Greeks Bearing Gifts" (Torchwood).
  • Arden, the home of the Shenn, is the setting for the Virgin Missing Adventures book Shadowmind.
  • Argolis is the setting of the serial The Leisure Hive. Argolis is the first of the Argolin leisure planets. Argolis became radioactive after the Argolins' 20-minute war with the Foamasi. The surviving Argolins then built a Leisure Hive, and abandoned their war-like culture to promote peace and understanding between alien races.
  • Aridius The planet where the story The Chase begins. It was once a planet completely covered by oceans; but its orbit around both its suns was somehow altered and now its seas have dried up and there is nothing left but desert. The only remaining species are the amphibious Aridians and the octopus-like Mire Beasts.
  • Arkannis Major is a planet where fiction is banned, visited by the Doctor, Rose and Jack in the The Stealers of Dreams. It is also known as Colony World 4378976.Delta Four, Oneiros, Journey's End, and Discovery.
  • Astra A planet mentioned in The Rescue.
  • Augea A planet mentioned in Sting of the Zygons. The planet mirrors Greek mythology and the Twelve Labours of Hercules.
  • Atrios is one of the planets at war in The Armageddon Factor.
  • Axista Four is the planet on which the Independent Earth Colony was founded by great humanitarian Stewart Ransom in the year 2439. The Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, and Zoe Heriot visited this colony in 2539 in the Past Doctor Adventures book, The Colony of Lies.
  • Azure The blue planet seen from the ships in the Fourth Doctor story Nightmare of Eden.


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  • Balhoon is possibly the homeworld of the Moxx of Balhoon, as seen in "The End of the World".
  • Bandraginus 5 was a planet rich in the rare mineral Oolion until it was destroyed by Zanak in The Pirate Planet. It had over a hundred million inhabitants.
  • Bandril is the planet of the Bandrils, the enemies of the Karfelons in the Sixth Doctor story Timelash.
  • Barcelona is a planet where dogs have no noses, mentioned in "The Parting of the Ways" and the 2005 Children in Need special, and also in "The Fires of Pompeii". In the Doctor's opinion, it is a "fantastic place".
  • Baydafarn is a planet mentioned in the Ninth Doctor novel Only Human. There was an infinte recession on this planet, leading to the ban of the psychic credit card.
  • Bel Belannia II and Belannia IV's sun.
  • Belannia II Another planet mentioned in the 8th Doctor adventures.
  • Belannia IV The Eighth Doctor and Sam visited this planet in Beltempest.
  • Belepheron A planet mentioned in the Tenth Doctor New Series Adventures novel The Last Dodo.
  • Bellaphores A planet mentioned in The Two Doctors.
  • Bessan A planet mentioned in "School Reunion", one of many planets conquered by the Krillitanes.
  • Beta Two a planet mentioned in State of Decay. Discovered to be located in the Perugellis Star System.
  • Betelgeuse a planet mentioned in Destiny of the Daleks.
  • Betrushia features in the Virgin New Adventures novel St Anthony's Fire.
  • Biblios Known as the library planet. All the data in the known universe is stored here. Even about the Doctor himself and about his adventures. The fourth Doctor and K9 Mark II visited this planet in the comic strip "War of the Words".
  • Boeshane Peninsula homeworld, or part of the homeworld, of Captain Jack Harkness
  • Bonarcha Anarda a planet mentioned in The Power of Kroll, where there are methane-catalysing refineries in every town.
  • Boromeo a planet mentioned in the Seventh Doctor adventure The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
  • Bortresoye is the homeplanet of the Eighth Doctor's companion C'rizz. This planet appeared in the Big Finish Productions adventure The Creed of the Kromon.
  • Brudyac is the homeplanet of the Brudyac, an alien race featured in the Torchwood original novel Another Life.
  • Brus A planet mentioned in Nightmare of Eden. Brus has a light blue atmosphere and has a variety of vegetation. The ground is always covered by a thick white rolling mist that is as thick as a cloud. Tanish-yellow mountains can be seen in the distance. Brus is seen in the first picture shown to Romana on the cinomatograph in Nightmare Of Eden.
  • Bouken A barren, desert planet rich in oil and covered by tanish-yellow sand first mentioned in the second episode of The Infinite Quest and the prime setting of the third, fourth and fifth episodes. It is in orbit around 3 artificial suns. It is the location of the first data chip that will lead to The Infinite.

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  • Calufrax Is a dead, icy polar planet which was in actuality a disguised segment of The Key to Time in The Pirate Planet.
  • Carsus is a planet which the Sixth Doctor and Mel visited in the Past Doctor Adventures book, Spiral Scratch. The Library of Carsus, the largest knowledge repository in the universes, is located on this planet.
  • Cassius A planet mentioned in The Sunmakers as part of Earth's solar system.
  • Castrovalva The lush, green world seen in the Fifth Doctor story of that name.
  • Catastrophea features in the Past Doctor Adventures novel of that name.
  • Catrigan Nova a planet The Master promises to take his masseuse to in "Last of the Time Lords". It has whirlpools of gold.
  • Centauri Seven a planet mentioned in Time And The Rani.
  • The integrated planets of Cep Cassalon are mentioned in the book Monsters and Villains, and are referenced as a place in the year five billion where the Face of Boe is known as 'the Creature that God Forgot'.
  • Chavic Five is a planet mentioned in "The Long Game", the government of which has collapsed by the year 200,000, reducing the emigration of its inhabitants.
  • Cheetah Planet is the unnamed homeworld of the Cheetah People in the Seventh Doctor serial Survival. It is a beautiful world, with sand dunes and forests near a great lake. It is also a deadly world, where the natives share a symbionic relationship.
  • Chelonia is the home of the Chelonians, tortoise-like aliens introduced in the Virgin New Adventures novel The Highest Science.
  • Chimeria a lush, green planet mentioned in Delta and the Bannermen. It is known as "The Garden Planet".
  • Chimera IV A forest planet that holds sanctury for the kind Chimerans, descended from the Chimeras that left ancient Greece.
  • Chloris is the setting of the Fourth Doctor serial The Creature from the Pit. In The Creature from the Pit, Chloris is discovered to be a lush, green jungle planet high in vegetable matter but low in minerals. Through extensive research, the planet is discovered to have two suns.
  • Cinethon A planet mentioned in the Seventh Doctor story The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
  • Clom is the home planet of the Abzorbaloff mentioned by the creature in the 2006 series episode "Love & Monsters", as being the twin planet of Raxicoricofallapatorius.
  • Colano Alpha and Colano Beta are both mentioned in the story Robots of Death. They are believed to be covered by thick sand.
  • Collactin A planet mentioned in The Pirate Planet. It was destroyed by the planet Zanak for its minerals.
  • Cotta Pilunie's World (aka. Cotta Pulunie's World) A planet mentioned in the episode The Sontaran Stratagem. It is said to have lightening skies (or a sky constantly bombarded by lightening/lightening storms).
  • Crafa Tec Heydra is a planet mentioned in the Doctor Who Annual. On the side of one of its mountains, there are carvings of the Time War with the words 'You are not alone' scratched underneath the hieroglyphs and symbols.
  • Crespallion is the home of the diminutive, blue-skinned humanoid race who run Platform One in "The End of the World". it is described by Raffalo as not being a planet, but rather part of the Jaggit Brocade, affiliated to the Scarlet Junction, Convex 56.
  • Crestus a planet mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
  • Crinoth a planet mentioned in The Horns of Nimon.
  • Cyrennis Minima a planet mentioned in The Ribos Operation.


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  • Dæmos Aka. Demos is the home planet of the Dæmons in the story The Dæmons. It is also mentioned in "The Satan Pit" as one of many planets with legends of a horned god.
  • Darp is a planet mentioned in Nightmare of Eden.
  • Darillium (aka. Durillium) The planet that is the location of the Singing Towers. The Doctor took Pro. Riversong (in the distant future) to see these towers just before she had to go to the Library. It was mentioned in Forest of the Dead.
  • Delphon is a planet where the natives communicate with their eyebrows, first mentioned in Spearhead from Space. The language is "spoken" in the Big Finish Productions audio play ...ish.
  • Delta Magna's third moon (known as Delta 3) is the setting of The Key to Time serial The Power of Kroll. It is mostly covered by wet and boggy swamps, with reeds as tall as The Tardis (some possibly taller).
  • Desperus is the penal planet of the solar system in the 41st century, seen in The Daleks' Master Plan. The native creatures of Desperus are the screamers.
  • Deva Loka is the setting of the Fifth Doctor serial Kinda. It was once part of the Manussan Empire. The planet is very close to being a paradise, with a mild climate and warm blue seas. Much of Deva Loka is covered by sub-tropical jungles. It is also rich in exotic alien fruits and is largely unspoiled. It is the native planet of the peaceful and telepathic Kinda race.
  • Dido is the setting of The Rescue.
  • Dioscuros A planet mentioned in the Seventh Doctor story The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
  • Diplos is the home of Cessair, the Doctor's adversary in The Stones of Blood.
  • Discurus Another planet that was destroyed by planet Zanak. Mentioned in The Pirate Planet.
  • Draconia is the homeworld of the Draconians and features in the serial Frontier in Space. Draconia and Earth become the dominant space-faring species at some point in the future, leading to conflict.
  • Drahva is the home planet of the Drahvins, a female warrior race encountered by the First Doctor in Galaxy 4.
  • Dravidia is a planet mentioned during Love's Labours Won in The Shakespeare Code.
  • Dronid A planet mentioned in the unfinished serial Shada.
  • Duchamp 331 A planet used as a refueling station for ships. It also has a gallery and a few businesses. It rains dust every day and every night there is a loud, Dalek-like scream that can be heard throughout the planet. According to legend, the origin of the screaming is that a long time ago, a Dalek saucer came down to land but the dust dragged it down and destroyed it. The Seventh Doctor and Ace visited the planet in Dust Breeding.
  • Dulkis is the planet on which the Second Doctor encounters The Dominators.


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See also: List of Doctor Who planets#Others
  • Eden A dark, hostile jungle world seen in Nightmare of Eden. It is the native planet of The Mandrels. It has an orange atmosphere and is constantly bathed in orange twilight (possibly due to an orange sun or suns). Native plant life includes meat-eating plants, which are also seen in Nightmare Of Eden, when one attacks The Doctor.
  • Enlandia A planet mentioned in The Ark In Space. It is a planet entirely covered by water.
  • Epsilon Four Zero Gamma A planet mentioned in the story called The Dominators.
  • Esto A planet mentioned in the story The Sensorites.
  • Eudamus Another planet mentioned in the Seventh Doctor story The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
  • Exarius Is a planet mentioned in the story Colony in Space.
  • Exxilon is the planet on which the Third Doctor encounters the Daleks in Death to the Daleks. According to the Doctor, the Great City of the Exxilons is one of the 700 Wonders of the Universe (after its destruction, he sadly says that the universe has now been reduced to 699 wonders). It is also the origin of a spaceship that crashed in Mexico in the Virgin New Adventures novel The Left-Handed Hummingbird.
  • Eye of Orion The wet, tranquil planet visited by the Fifth Doctor at the beginning of The Five Doctors. It is a planet constantly bombarded by positive energy and is believed (at least by the Doctor) to be one of the most beautiful and peaceful planets in the cosmos. Ruins on the planet suggest that it once had (or still does have) a civilization. After the last Time War (in which Gallifrey and all the Time lords have been destroyed) a shrine was built on this planet in memorial to that war.


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  • Fagiros Another planet mentioned in the Seventh Doctor story The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
  • The Fifth Galaxy is the domain of Zephon, Master of the Fifth Galaxy, in the story The Daleks' Master Plan. It is unknown if this is the same as Galaxy 5, who are at war with the Federation in The Monster of Peladon.
  • The Fifth Planet - The fifth planet in our solar system was destroyed by the Time Lords, in an attempt to destroy the Fendahl, the planets' remains create the asteroid field that lays between Mars and Jupiter.
  • Florana Is one of the universe's most beautiful planets, mentioned at the end of Invasion of the Dinosaurs. It is said by The Doctor that its land is carpeted by perfumed flowers, seas of warm milk and sand as soft as swan's down. It is also described as having oceans of effervescent water (where the bubbles support you).
  • Freytus A planet mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
  • Frontios is a colony planet in the Veruna system in the serial of the same name. Frontios is a desert planet and is often bombarded by sandstorms and gale force winds.


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Gallifrey as seen from space
Gallifrey as seen from space
  • Galaxy 4 - the location of the Drahvins' home planet in the story Galaxy 4.
  • Gallifrey is probably the most important planet in Doctor Who, being the home planet of the Time Lords. It was first seen (but not named) in The War Games and first named (but not seen) in The Time Warrior. It was destroyed in a Time War, wiping out all but two of the Time Lord race. It has burnt-orange skies and snow-covered mountains.It also had silver-leafed trees and red grass. It is said that the fragments of Gallifrey still revolve around its system's two suns in the form of a ring of rocks and dust.
  • Galsec Seven A planet mentioned in The Sontaran Experiment. It is where a human colony is located.
  • Gameworld Gamma is a lush, green world owned by Mr and Mrs Pakoo, as seen in the Doctor Who Adventures. It is used to hunt humans in the year five billion.
  • Gidu A stormy planet mentioned in Nightmare of Eden. Gidu has a light pinkish-yellow atmosphere and has a wide variety of vegetation. Its surface is often bombarded by gale force winds.
  • Glasson Minor A planet mentioned in The Creature from the Pit.
  • Golobus Another planet mentioned in the Seventh Doctor story The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
  • Gotta Floco (aka. Gotta Floko) A planet mentioned in the episode The Sontaran Stratagem. It is said to have diamond coral reefs and is presumed to be a tropical/paradise world.
  • Granados Another planet that was destroyed by Zanak in The Pirate Planet.
  • Griffoth is the home planet of the Graske, and is seen in the interactive episode Attack of the Graske.
  • Griophos A planet mentioned in Paradise Towers.
  • Grolon Yet another planet mentioned in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
  • Grundle is a planet mentioned in Carnival of Monsters. A swampy satellite of this planet is home to the vicious Drashigs.


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  • Hakol (aka. Harkol) A probe from this planet features in the Fifth Doctor serial The Awakening. The people of Harkol can harness psychic energy, and use tinclavic metal acquired from Raaga.
  • Harlequin Three A planet mentioned in the original series.
  • Hastus Minor is a planet mentioned in The Monsters Inside. Ermenshrew Blathereen is revealed to have led a talent agency on this planet.
  • Heaven is the setting of the Virgin New Adventures novel Love and War by Paul Cornell. It lies between Human space and the Draconian Empire, but despite being beautiful and peaceful, has no tactical value or mineral wealth. It was a jointly administered burial ground for humans and Draconians, but became part of a plot by the Hoothi.
  • Heiradi A planet mentioned in Frontios.
  • Hell is the homeworld of the Helkans, who were enslaved by the Daleks to mine pockets of the highly toxic helkogen gas beneath the planet's surface in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story Nemesis of the Daleks (DWM #152-#155). It also appeared in Emperor of the Daleks (DWM #197-#202).
  • Hermethica The homeworld of the Wire as mentioned in the book 'Creatures and Demons'.

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  • Jaconda is the planet on which the Sixth Doctor serial The Twin Dilemma is set. It was once a lush, green world with lush meadows and wooded countryside. It was also once well known for its friendly natives. However, in present times, it has become an almost dead, barren and arid planet, with little vegetation. It also smells of rotting vegetables. On some parts of the planet, forests of dead trees can be seen for miles.
  • Jupiter is the sixth planet from Earth's sun. The fifth planet was destroyed by the Time Lords, and its remains create the asteroid field that lays between Mars and Jupiter. A gas giant, Jupiter has immense gravity. An orbiting space station is the setting for the novel Fear Itself. The planet has many moons including, in the future, Voga.
  • Justicia is a system of prison planets featured in the New Series Adventures novel The Monsters Inside by Stephen Cole. The Justicia system has lots of planets, six of which are named after letters in the Greek alphabet: Justice Alpha, Justice Beta, Justice Gamma, Justice Delta and Justice Epsilon. There is also another planet called Justice Prime. Rose Tyler mentions her visit to Justicia in the episode "Boom Town", the first explicit reference to a plot point from the novels in the television programme.


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  • Kalakiki Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
  • Kantra A warm, tropical world mentioned in Destiny of the Daleks. It is the native planet of the Kantrians.
  • Kanval A planet mentioned in the original series.
  • Karfel is the setting of the serial Timelash. It is a barren, rocky, gray planet that orbits two suns known as Rearbus and Selynx. Its natives have an uneasy relationship with the neighbouring planet of Bandril.
  • Karn is home to the Sisterhood of the Flame in The Brain of Morbius. It is an almost barren world with a mountainous terrain that is often bombarded by fierce lightening storms, as seen in the episode The Brain Of Morbius. Through extensive research into the original series, it is suggested that Karn sits closer to its system's suns then its neighboring planet of Gallifrey, which lies in the same star system as Karn.
  • Kastria is the home planet of the Eldrad, and features in The Hand of Fear
  • Katakiki Another planet mentioned in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. This planet along with the planet Kalakiki might share the same solar system and both might also be tropical planets.
  • Katuria is a planet named in the New Series Adventures novel The Clockwise Man. It was ruled by a tyrannical dictator by the name of Shade Vassily until he was overthrown by a group of revolutionists and was sentenced to exile on Earth.
  • Kegron Pluva is a planet with the "maddest ecosystem in the universe", mentioned in the New Series Adventures novel Only Human.
  • Kembel is the setting of Mission to the Unknown and much of The Daleks' Master Plan. It is mostly covered in large, inhospitable jungles home to many strange creatures.
  • Kinjana A planet mentioned in the Tenth Doctor New Series Adventures novel The Last Dodo.
  • Kirith is the planet of the Kirithons and setting of the Virgin New Adventures story Timewyrm: Apocalypse.
  • Kolkokron (aka. Culkacron) Is a planet mentioned in Frontios. It is a rocky, barren planet covered by boulders, boulders and more boulders.
  • Koorharn (aka. Koorharr,Coorharn) A planet mentioned in the episode 42. The Doctor takes Martha there to ice skate on its mineral lakes.
  • Kosnax A planet mentioned in Time-Flight.
  • Kreme A planet mentioned in The Space Museum.
  • Krontep a planet mentioned in Mindwarp.
  • Krop Tor Is a planet impossibly in orbit around a black hole and the setting of "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit". It has a diameter of only twenty miles. Its name translates to "The Bitter Pill", the legend being that the black hole was a demon who was tricked into swallowing the planet only to spit it out after discovering that it was poison. Destroyed by eventually falling into the black hole.
  • Kylos Another planet mentioned in The Space Museum.


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  • Lakertya is the setting of the serial Time and the Rani. It is a peaceful and primitive planet. Most of the planet is rocky and mountainous, with little vegetation. It is covered by large lakes.
  • Laylora is the setting of the New Series Adventures novel The Price of Paradise. It is often referred to as the Paradise Planet.
  • Leela's World The planet visited in The Face of Evil. It is Leela's homeworld. It is a planet covered by dense forests and has a pinkish atmosphere. It also has mountains.
  • Lelex Yet another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
  • Leophantos Aka. Leovontos Is another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
  • Levithia A planet mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
  • The Library A planet containing every book from throughout time. The planet was abandoned when it was invaded by a deadly swarm of Vashta Nerada which devoured all the visitors and staff. The Doctor and Donna travel to the planet in "Silence in the Library" after the Doctor receives an emergency call from the planet on his Psychic Paper.
  • Limus 4 A planet mentioned in The Leisure Hive.
  • Loam is the setting of the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story The Woman Who Sold The World (DWM #381-?). It is a world undergoing a "planet clearance" by a race of giant robots known as the High Goliax.
  • Lobos features in the Second Doctor serial The Space Pirates.
  • Logopolis is the setting of much of the action in the serial Logopolis. It is home to a race of mathematicians who are masters of Block Transfer Computation.
  • Lonsis is a planet visited in Human Resources.
  • Lowitelom Aka. Lowiteliom Another planet that was destroyed by Zanak in The Pirate Planet. Its name is seen briefly in The Captain's Trophy Room.
  • Lucifer is the giant planet featured in the Virgin New Adventures book Lucifer Rising. It is also mentioned in the Ninth Doctor episode "Bad Wolf".
  • Lurma A planet mentioned in Carnival of Monsters.
  • Lvan Another planet mentioned in Nightmare of Eden.


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  • Malcassairo is a planet featured in the Tenth Doctor episode "Utopia". It is the home of Chantho's people, the Malmooth, in their city (conglomeration). By the end of the universe it is home to a human refugee camp/space program, and the hostile Futurekind with almost all of the Malmooth wiped out.
  • Manussa is the setting of the Fifth Doctor serial Snakedance. The planet's surface is arid and sandy and is dotted by raggid rocks.
  • Marinus is the setting of the First Doctor serial The Keys of Marinus.
  • Marpesia Another planet mentioned in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
  • Mars is the homeworld of the Ice Warriors. It is also the planet of origin of mysterious signals saying "Beware Sutekh" that were being beamed to Earth in Pyramids of Mars. The Usurians engineered it to make it habitable by humans until the humans depleted its resources. In "The Long Game", a reference is also made to the University of Mars.
  • Mechanus is the jungle homeworld of the Mechanoids in The Chase.
  • Medusa Cascade A planet or system of planets mentioned throughout the Doctor Who series (new series). In The Sontaran Stratagem, it is said to have a 15th broken moon.
  • Melagophon Aka. Melogophon Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
  • Messaline a planet visited by the Doctor in "The Doctor's Daughter". The planet is in a state of constant war. Before it was terraformed at the end of "The Doctor's Daughter", the planet's surface was cold, windy and rocky, and covered in sinkable sludge pits. The planet also seems to have 3 moons. It is the homeworld of the titular character, Jenny.
  • Metallurgis 5 is a planet mentioned in the novel The Resurrection Casket.
  • Meta Sigma Polia Is a planet mentioned at the end of the episode Last Of The Time Lords. It is said to have a sky that looks like oil on water. It is also said to be the place where you can see a burst of starfire.
  • Metebelis Three Aka. The Blue Planet is where the Third Doctor takes a perfect blue crystal (a Metabelis Sapphire, which contains strange powers) from in The Green Death, and where he returns to in the serial Planet of the Spiders. It is also mentioned in Carnival of Monsters. The planet has a blue sun, has more than one moon, blue mountains, the nighttime sky is blue (and is light blue during the day) and often snows at night. Mist sometimes rolls over its surface. Native creatures include metabelian snakes (giant snakes), meat-eating tentacles and giant flying predators, which are seen briefly in The Green Death when the Doctor visits the planet. It is called The Blue Planet because the moonlight is blue. In his impersonation of Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor in Dead Ringers, Jon Culshaw makes frequent reference to this planet. According to the Sarah Jane Adventures episode The Lost Boy (Part 2), the Metebelan Cosmic Cluster is home to 68,000 lifeforms.
  • Miasimia Goria a planet ruled by the Rani.
  • Midnight a leisure planet visited in the fourth series of the new series in the episode of the same name. It has golden spas, anti-gravity restaurants, sapphire waterfalls and a landscape of diamonds. The sapphire waterfall is an enormous jewel, the size of a glacier, which reaches the Cliffs of Oblivion and then shatters into sapphires, falling a hundred thousand feet into a crystal ravine.
  • Minyos is the original homeworld of the Minyans, and Minyos II is where they settle at the end of the serial Underworld.
  • Mira is the planet of the Visians, seen in The Daleks' Master Plan.
  • Mirabilis Major and Mirabilis Minor are both mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
  • Mogar A planet stripped bare of all its natural resources by humans. In Terror of the Vervoids, the Hyperion III spaceship sets off from Mogar with a cargo of deadly Vervoids created on the planet. Mogar is (or was) the source of many valuable and rare metals, including the mineral vionesium (a mineral similar to magnesium) that emits an intense light when exposed to oxygen. Mogar is an oxygen-free planet with a reddish surface.
  • Mondaran A planet now in ruins by the Cybermen. The Cybermen hold curfews with nightly patrols everyday on the planet making sure no one is on the streets.
  • Mondas is the home planet of the Cybermen, first seen in The Tenth Planet.
  • Morestra A planet mentioned in Planet of Evil.
  • Morok is the home of the Moroks, the rulers of Xeros and The Space Museum.
  • Museum of the Last Ones The setting of the Tenth Doctor New Series Adventures novel The Last Dodo. It is an entire planet dedicated to a museum displaying the last of every species from every planet in the universe.
  • Muscolane Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
  • Myarr A planet first visited in the fifth episode of The Infinite Quest and the prime setting of the sixth and seventh . It is the location of the third data chip that will lead to The Infinite.


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  • Navaros Aka. Navarro is the planet of the Navarinos, tour-loving aliens from the Seventh Doctor serial Delta and the Bannermen.
  • Necros Aka. Nekros is a frozen planet used as a final resting place for the galaxy's dead. It features in the serial Revelation of the Daleks. It also has dark land masses and is almost constantly bombarded by turbulent weather.
  • Neogorgon Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
  • New Earth in the episode "New Earth" is a planet in the galaxy M87, the new home of humanity some five billion years hence, and just 23 years after Earth was destroyed by the Sun's expansion in "The End of the World". It has the same orbit, same atmosphere and same size as the original Earth. However, the land masses and the placement of the oceans look very different from the original Earth, and the main vegetation is apparently apple grass. The city of New New York (the fifteenth New York after the original) is on New Earth. As well as humans, New Earth is home to a population of Cat People including the Sisters of Plenitude, who run the futuristic hospital seen in "New Earth". The Tenth Doctor returns to New Earth with his companion Martha in "Gridlock" where the Doctor finds the planet dying with the remaining humans surviving in an under city living in cars on a never ending motorway and a huge population of devolved Macra living below the surface.
  • New Venus is a planet mentioned in the Long Game. In the year 200,000, sandstorms on this planet kill 200 sentients in the Archipelago.


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  • Padrivole Regency 9 A planet mentioned in the Doctor who episode Smith and Jones.
  • The Panjassic Asteroid Field is mentioned in the Doctor Who book Monsters and Villains as the isolated asteroid field bought by the Brothers of Hame in the year five billion as a base for the evolution acceleration experiments run on trees, resulting in the Forest of Cheem.
  • Peladon is the setting of the Third Doctor serials The Curse of Peladon and The Monster of Peladon, as well as the Virgin New Adventure Legacy and the Big Finish audio adventure The Bride of Peladon.
  • Pen Hacsico 2 (aka. Pen Haxsico 2) A planet mentioned in Voyage Of The Damned. Said to have beaches and is a tropical retreat for cyborgs, as well as a place of retirment. The ladies there are said to be fond of metal.
  • Periboea Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
  • Phaester Osiris is the home planet of the Osirans, a powerful race who left their mark on Mars in the Virgin New Adventures novel GodEngine and on Earth in the Fourth Doctor serial Pyramids of Mars.
  • Pheros A planet visited in the second episode of The Infinite Quest. It is the homeworld of Caw, Baltazar's robotic parrot.
  • Pictos A planet mentioned in The Web Planet.
  • Pluto is the setting of the Fourth Doctor serial The Sun Makers, in which it is endowed with six suns and a breathable atmosphere, owing to the engineering practices of the Usurians.
  • Polymos is the home planet of the Nestene Consciousness according to the Missing Adventure Millennial Rites and the Past Doctor Adventure Synthespians™.
  • Ponton A planet mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
  • Posikar A planet mentioned in Mindwarp.
  • Proamon was the homeworld of Kane, the icy ruler of Iceworld in the Seventh Doctor story Dragonfire. It was destroyed a thousand years after his exile.
  • Pyrovillia a planet mentioned in the fourth series of the new series, homeworld of the Pyrovilles (Rock Monsters) featured in "The Fires of Pompeii". The planet was lost, so the Pyrovilles attempted to colonise the Earth, and claim it as their home planet.

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  • Raaga is the penal planet of the Terileptils, as mentioned in The Visitation. The prisoners work in tinclavic mines. In The Awakening, it is stated that Raagan tinclavic is used by the people of Harkol.
  • Ralafea A planet mentioned in Wooden Heart.
  • Ravolox is the titular planet of The Mysterious Planet. It is actually Earth, displaced by the Time Lords through time and space and renamed. It features a black light pinnacle of tremendous power.
  • Ranx A planet mentioned in Nightmare of Eden. It has an orange sun and a purple- orange sky. Its native plant life includes a form of large stalked fungus that seems to grow as high as trees.
Raxacoricofallapatorius as seen in "Captain Jack's Monster Files"
Raxacoricofallapatorius as seen in "Captain Jack's Monster Files"
  • Raxacoricofallapatorius, first mentioned in "World War Three", is the home planet of the Raxacoricofallapatorians, including the criminal Slitheen and Blathereen families, aliens made of living calcium. Other family of the planet are the Hosdraseen Family and the Hostrotheen Family. According to the book Monsters and Villains, Raxacoricofallapatorius is a paradise with burgundy seas and four polar regions. It is filled with several indigenous species. A creature native to the planet, known as a Barladootkaliumpetekshus Beast, is said to be an extinct species of native giant squirrel that roamed free and lived on the great plains of the planet. It became extinct after the natives hunted and killed them for food centuries ago. The Slitheen and Blathereen notwithstanding, the native species, the Raxacoricofallapatorians, are a generally peaceful race. They are governed by a High Council and a Senate. Raxacoricofallapatorians have limited technology, albeit highly advanced by Earth standards. Its sister planet is Clom. Interestingly, the subtitles for every DVD in which it is mentioned contains the spelling "Rexicoricophallivatorius." The name, while pronounced effortlessly by the Doctor, gives the other characters in the episodes where it is mentioned enormous trouble to say.
  • Reblais Beta A planet mentioned in the Tenth Doctor New Series Adventures novel The Last Dodo.
  • Red Rocket Rising is a human planet attacked by the Daleks in the audio play Blood of the Daleks. It seems to be in the same planetary system as Telos.
  • Refusis and Refusis II are both mentioned in The Ark. Refusis is also the destination for the refugees of humanity in The Ark, as they flee the devastation of Earth by the Sun in AD 10,000,000.
  • Reja Magnum A planet mentioned in The Space Pirates.
  • Rex Vox Jax Planetary home of the Hop Pyleen brothers, inventors of Hyposlip Travel Systems.
  • Rexel 4 is the home planet of the Carrionites, as mentioned in "The Shakespeare Code".
  • Ribos Is the setting for the start of the quest for the Key to Time in The Ribos Operation. Ribos is located in the constellation of Skythra. It is also 116 parsecs from the planet Cyrennis Minima and is 3 light centuries away from The Magellanic Clouds. Ribos takes 64 local years to complete 1 elliptical orbit around its sun. It has two seasons known as Sun Time and Ice Time, each last for 32 years. Ice Time can be particularly harsh for the natives of the planet.
  • Riftan Five is the home planet of the mercenary Lytton, mentioned in Attack of the Cybermen.
  • Rit is a lawless border world mentioned in the book Monsters and Villains in the year five billion.
  • Ruta 3 is the home planet of the Rutan Host, described by the Fourth Doctor as icy and inhospitable for humans in the 1977 story Horror of Fang Rock.
  • Ruta Magnum Another planet mentioned in The Space Pirates. The planet Reja Magnum may share the same planetary system with this planet.
  • Ry'leh is a planet featured in the Doctor Who crossover novel All-Consuming Fire. It is based on H. P. Lovecraft's R'lyeh.


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  • S14 An alternative name for Deva Loka Kinda.
  • Salarius is a planet mentioned in The Resurrection Casket.
  • Salostophus is a planet in the constellation of Andromeda. Sabalom Glitz revealed in The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet that this was his home planet.
  • Sant's World is a planet mentioned in the book Monsters and Villains in the year five billion.
  • Sarn is the Planet of Fire in the Fifth Doctor serial of that name. It is a rocky and barren planet with a high amount of volcanic activity. The Spanish island of Lanzarote, with its unique volcanic features, was the filming location for Sarn.
  • Sava A planet mentioned in The Ark.
  • Scalpor A planet mentioned in Vengeance on Varos.
  • The Scarlet System is a system of planets and suns that was home to the billion-year-old Polushi civilisation. It is pulled into the black hole that Krop Tor orbits and destroyed in "The Impossible Planet".
  • Scotia is a planet mentioned in The Resurrection Casket.
  • Segonax Is a dusty, arid, godforsaken desert planet with a blue atmosphere. A large, magenta-pink ringed planet is seen in Segonax's skyline. There is little plant life, animal life and water on the planet, but is not without a stable eccosystem or life, including the native Segonaxians. It is also where The Psychic Circus is performing in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. This is one of many planets that were visited by the Psychic Circus.
  • Sense-Sphere Is the home planet of the Sensorites, a telepathic but xenophobic species. First seen in The Sensorites.
  • Shada is the prison planet of the Time Lords in the serial of the same name.
  • The Silver Devastation is the planet where Professor Yana (the Master in human disguise) claims to have been found as an orphan. Also was mentioned as the home planet of The Face of Boe in "The End of the World"
  • Shadmoch A planet in the Rexel planetary configuration with a hollow moon.
  • Shan Shen is a planet visited in "Turn Left". It is described as a 'Chino' planet, with a sea of flags and pagodas.
  • Shantella Prime A planet mentioned in the tenth Doctor comic strip "Which switch?" in the Doctor Who Magazine. Time Placement: Rose is wearing her outfit from New Earth, and the Doctor uses the in-flight stereo in Tooth and Claw, suggesting he has had time to move switches around.
  • Siralos is one of the 700 Wonders of the Universe, and it is the planet made of pure psychic energy that the Master takes over in the computer game Destiny of the Doctors.
  • Sireen The home planet of one the prisoners in Destiny of the Daleks.
  • Sirius V A planet mentioned in City of Death.
  • Sirius IV is an Earth colony planet referenced in Frontier in Space.
  • Skaar was where the Graff Vynda-K's men fought in the Alliance Wars mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
  • Skaro is the home planet of the Thals, the Kaleds, and the Daleks. First seen in The Daleks. It was the first planet to appear in Doctor Who other than Earth, the only alien planet in 1963. It is a rocky, barren planet with little vegetation. A thick fog sometimes rolls over its surface and its upper atmosphere is red due to nuclear fall-out from Skaro's 1000-year War between The Thals And The Kaleds. Landmarks include The Lake Of Mutations and The Petrified Forest. It was destroyed by the Hand of Omega in Remembrance of the Daleks when the Seventh Doctor fooled Davros. In The TV Movie, Skaro is discovered to have two moons.
  • Skonnos is the setting for much of The Horns of Nimon.
  • Skythros is mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
  • The Slough of The Disunited Planets is the setting of the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story The Warkeeper's Crown (DWM #378-380). The Disunited Planets form a galaxy where the inhabitants have waged war since the near the beginning of time and is a place where space travellers avoid at all costs.
  • Solos is the setting of the Third Doctor serial The Mutants.
  • Sontar (or Sontara) is the homeworld of the Sontarans. The Virgin Missing Adventures novel The Crystal Bucephalus by Craig Hinton names the planet as "Sontara". Yet in The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, the Sontarans referred to their home planet as Sontar. The official website explicitly states their home planet as Sontar.
  • Spiridon is an inhospitable planet, home to the Spiridons, a race of beings with the natural ability to become invisible. The Daleks kept a secret army there in Planet of the Daleks. In this story, Spiridon is discovered to be a lush, green jungle planet where the plant life is more animal than plant. Temperatures range from tropical in the day to sub freezing at night. Landmarks include: The Plain Of Stones, Molten Ice Pools (Molten Ice: Ice that never freezes but is extremely cold) and Molten Ice Volcanoes. The planet is also featured in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story Emperor of the Daleks (DWM #197-#202) and the audio drama Return of the Daleks.
  • Starfall The setting of the Tenth Doctor New Series Adventures novel The Resurrection Casket, a planet where no technology works except steam power due to the EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse), which covers the entire world of Starfall except for the outskirts.
  • Stella Stora A planet mentioned in Terror of the Vervoids.
  • Sto A planet located in the Casivanian Belt. It is the home planet of those, including Astrid Peth and Max Capricorn, aboard the Titanic in "Voyage of the Damned".
  • Strepto The home planet of the water hags featured in the Torchwood spin-off novel, Something in the Water.
  • Stricium A planet mentioned in City of Death as the location of the Solarium Panatica gallery.
  • Sunday The setting of the Tenth Doctor New Series Adventures novel Wetworld.
  • Svartos The location of Iceworld in the serial Dragonfire. The planet is locked in its orbit, causing one side of the planet to be in permanent sunshine, while the other side is permanently cold and icy.
  • Sycorax is the homeworld of the Sycorax race as named in The Doctor Who Files. It may or may not be the asteroid the race originated on in the JX82 system known as the Fire Trap. It should not be confused with Uranus's moon of the same name.
  • Szabo A planet mentioned in The Creature from the Pit.


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The Torajii Sun
The Torajii Sun
  • Ta is the headquarters of the Issigri Mining Corporation and features in the Second Doctor serial The Space Pirates. Its parent star is called Pliny.
  • Tara is the setting of the Fourth Doctor serial The Androids of Tara. It is a planet resembling 19th century Earth, with lush green fields, attractive landscapes and Medieval type forests.
  • Tarsius. In Only Human, Captain Jack Harkness recalls encountering a 'proto-humanoid Gloobi hybrid' in the 39th century wastes of this planet.
  • Telos is a colony world of the Cybermen, first seen in The Tomb of the Cybermen. It is an arid, mountainous planet that was once an ice planet until the tempuratures on the planet rose.
  • Terra Alpha is the location of Helen A's misery-free colony (or so some believe) in The Happiness Patrol. It is a gloomy planet with a yellow-purpleish atmosphere. The conditions on the planet are terrible and demonstrations are frequent.
  • Terra Beta and Terra Omega are both mentioned in The Happiness Patrol.
  • Terradon was the origin of the starliner on Alzarius in the Fourth Doctor serial Full Circle.
  • Tersurus is the planet on which Chancellor Goth met the dying Master prior to The Deadly Assassin. It was also the setting of the Comic Relief spoof episode The Curse of Fatal Death. The spoof described the Tersurons as the most gentle, yet most shunned race in the universe, due to the fact that they communicated through carefully controlled "gastric emissions". They became extinct when they discovered fire.
  • Tetrapyriarbus is the home planet of the Tetraps.
  • Thegeros Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
  • Therabenas A planet mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
  • Therka A planet mentioned in the original series.
  • Therra Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
  • Thordon A planet mentioned in Mindwarp.
  • Thoros Alpha and Thoros Beta are planets featured in Mindwarp. Thoros Beta is home to the Mentors, an amphibious race. The Doctor first encounters a Mentor — Sil — in Vengeance on Varos and mention of Thoros Beta is made in that serial. Thoros Alpha is a ringed planet seen in Thoros Beta's skyline and looks green through Thoros Beta's bright neon green atmosphere. Thoros Beta has bright neon pink oceans.
  • Thrace is a planet mentioned in New Earth.
  • Tiermann's World The setting of the Tenth Doctor New Series Adventures novel Sick Building. A planet named after the professor that lives there, it is covered by wintry woods.
  • Tigella Is a tropical planet that is the neighbouring planet to Zolfa Thura in Meglos.
  • Tigus A planet mentioned in The Daleks' Masterplan.
  • Tisar A planet mentioned in The Daleks' Masterplan.
  • Titan A moon mentioned in The Invisible Enemy.
  • Titan 3 - a desolate planetoid with a hostile climate on which the Sixth Doctor planned to become a hermit in The Twin Dilemma.
  • Tithonus is the home planet of Erato, the golobulous green entity in the Fourth Doctor serial The Creature from the Pit.
  • Tokl A planet mentioned in Mindwarp.
  • Toop was the home planet of the Quevvils and Mantodeans in the New Series Adventures novel Winner Takes All.
  • Torajii Alpha A planet mentioned in the Tenth Doctor short story "42: Prologue". The sun of this planet is actually a living organism. In the episode 42, it is said to be located in the Torajii System. Through extensive research into the new series, the Torajii System is discovered to have at least 1 ringed planet (but possibly has another) and several other smaller planets.
  • Traken in the Metulla Orionsis system was the densely forested homeworld to a race of pacifists and the centre of the Traken Union. It was first seen in The Keeper of Traken and destroyed by a wave of entropy in Logopolis. The Doctor's companion, Nyssa, was a native of Traken.
  • Trieste Another planet from The Creature from the Pit. It is also mentioned in novel.
  • Tranquela is the setting of part of The Ultimate Evil, one of the Missing Episodes that never reached production during Doctor Who's 1985 hiatus.
  • Trion is the home planet of the Doctor's companion Turlough, featured in Planet of Fire.
  • Triton Homeworld of Balthazar, who was the planet's corsair king.
  • Tythonus A planet mentioned in The Creature from the Pit.


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  • Umbeka A planet mentioned in the Tenth Doctor novel The Resurrection Casket. It is the planet from which ever-lasting matches originate.
  • Uranus Is the 7th planet in The Solar System. It is mentioned in The Daleks' Masterplan.
  • Urbanka in the Inokshi system is the planet of the frog-like Urbankans, the technologically-gifted aliens in the Fifth Doctor serial Four to Doomsday.
  • Usurius is the planet of the Usurians, coincidentally a race of usurers who feature in the Fourth Doctor serial The Sun Makers.
  • Utopia is the fictional place the last humans are attempting to reach in the Tenth Doctor episode "Utopia". At its co-ordinates, the last humans found darkness, and eventually cannibalized themselves into the 'Toclafane'. The Master unleashes them on present day Earth through a rift opened by a paradox generator installed in the TARDIS.
  • Uxaerius is the location of the Doomsday Weapon in the Third Doctor serial Colony in Space.


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  • Vampire Planet is the unnamed world visited by the Fourth Doctor in the serial State of Decay and subsequently revisited in the Virgin New Adventures story Blood Harvest. It is so-named due to the presence of the Great Vampire, a great enemy of the Time Lords who escaped normal space through a CVE to hibernate on the planet in E-Space. It is covered by forests and wooded countryside.
  • Vandos is the home planet of the Vandosians, a race featured in the comic strip Mr. Nobody (Doctor Who Annual 2006).
  • Varos is the setting of the Sixth Doctor serial Vengeance on Varos and the source of the rare ore Zeiton-7. It is a violent and barbaric world with a red sun and a magenta-red atmosphere. It is barren and rocky with little or no vegetation.
  • Vardon A planet mentioned in Time-Flight.
  • Vasilip Another planet from The Happiness Patrol.
  • Vel Consadine is a planet mentioned in the Satan Pit as a planet which has a representation of the horned beast.
  • Venessia Another planet from The Ark.
  • Venus is often mentioned during the Third Doctor's era as the origin of Venusian aikido, Venusian karate, Venusian spearmint and a Venusian lullaby. The planet itself has only been featured in the Virgin Missing Adventures novel Venusian Lullaby by Paul Leonard.
  • Verticulus A planet mentioned in The Space Museum.
  • Veturia Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
  • Vij Another planet from Nightmare of Eden.
  • Vita 15, in the future, is the homeworld to a race of warriors which Lytton belongs to.
  • Voga is also known as the Planet of Gold. A wandering asteroid captured by Jupiter's orbit, it is homeworld to the Vogans and contains more gold than in the rest of the known galaxy. The Cybermen try to destroy it in Revenge of the Cybermen.
  • Volag-Noc is an icy prison planet where Baltazar is imprisoned for a time in The Infinite Quest. It is the coldest planet in the galaxy.
  • Vollotha A planet mentioned in The Two Doctors.
  • Vortis is the setting of the First Doctor serial The Web Planet; the Menoptera and Zarbi were indigenous species. It is located in the Isop Galaxy, which also contains the Silver Devastation, from where Face of Boe comes.
  • Vulcan is home to a human colony in the Second Doctor serial The Power of the Daleks. It has no connection to the Star Trek planet of Vulcan.
  • Vulpana Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.


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  • Wilson 1 A planet mentioned in Mindwarp.
  • Woldyhool is a planet visited by the Doctor and Rose in the Doctor Who Adventures. It is a planet dedicated to hyperfilm production, and is used by the great director Zemm Foolini in the year five billion.
  • Women Wept is a planet visited by Rose Tyler and the Ninth Doctor where the continental land mass is shaped like a lamenting woman; and the entire ocean, including waves hundreds of feet high, froze in an instant by means of some undisclosed natural disaster. Rose mentioned her visit in "Boom Town".


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  • Xeros is the location of The Space Museum in the First Doctor serial of that name.
  • Xeriphas is the home planet of the Xeraphin, referred to in the Fifth Doctor serial Time-Flight. It is also Kamelion's planet of origin.


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  • Zaakros Another planet from The Leisure Hive, famous for having the galaxy's largest flora collection.
  • Zamper, home of the Zamps, features in the Virgin New Adventures story of the same name.
  • Zanak is the "Pirate Planet", a planet which materialises around other planets to steal their mineral wealth, crushing the planets. The planet is hollow inside, but it surface is pleasant, with green fields, lush vegetation and friendly natives.
  • Zeen 4 Another planet from The Leisure Hive, famous for its historical reenactments.
  • Zeos Is one of the planets at war in The Armageddon Factor. Zeos has a greenish-gray surface.
  • Zeta Major A planet mentioned in The Armageddon Factor.
  • Zeta Minor Are the farthest planets out in the known universe, and contains samples of antimatter. It was first seen in Planet of Evil. It is a planet covered by lush, swampy jungle.
  • Zil Another planet from Nightmare of Eden.
  • Zolfa Thura is an apparently barren world in Meglos.
  • Zygor is the homeworld of the Zygons according to the Eighth Doctor Adventures novel The Bodysnatchers. It was destroyed by an arachnid race from Tau Ceti known as the Xaranti.


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The Time Vortex
The Time Vortex
  • Alpha Centauri is the star system from which the delegate Alpha Centauri, seen in The Curse of Peladon and The Monster of Peladon originates. The name of Alpha Centauri's planet is not given.
  • E-Space, or Exo-space, is another universe connected to our own by Charged Vacuum Emboitments, through which entropy is vented from N-Space or Normal-Space to stave off the heat death of the universe. It contains its own planets, including Adric's home world, Alzarius.
  • The Horsehead Nebula is a real nebula that Russell T Davies said was the general area of the home planet of the Ood, Oodsphere[citation needed]. In the story Planet of the Ood it is mentioned that Sense-Sphere (from The Sensorites) is a near neighbour and therefore presumably also part of the nebula. In The Sarah Jane Adventures episode Warriors of Kudlak, this was said to be the location of the Ghost Wars, which had lasted for hundreds of years between an alien race known as the Uvodni and another alien race known as the Malakh until 10 years ago, when a peace treaty was finally established between the two races.
  • Magla is mentioned in Destiny of the Daleks. Magla is actually a giant space creature that is rolled up in a ball, often mistaken for a planet.
  • The Moon is a natural Terrestrial satellite. In Smith and Jones, a hospital was temporarily transported there. From the 21st century onwards it is the location of a number of scientific outposts, such as a weather control centre (The Moonbase) and a Transmat hub (The Seeds of Death). In the 26th century it had a prison for political prisoners (Frontier in Space)
  • N-Space, or Normal-space, is our universe, where heat death should have already occurred, but for the Logopolitans' creation of the CVEs to shunt the excess entropy into other universes, including E-space. Unless otherwise noted, all planets listed are in N-Space.
  • A Parallel Earth was visited by the Third Doctor in Inferno. Another, presumably different Parallel Earth (later given the name Pete's World by the Doctor) was visited by the Tenth Doctor, Rose and Mickey in the episodes "Rise of the Cybermen", "The Age of Steel" and "Doomsday".
  • Terminus is not a planet, but a planet-sized spacecraft that caused the Big Bang and lies at the centre of the universe. Its engines are capable of causing another explosion that will end the universe, and the radiation leaking from them is the cure for Lazar's Disease.
  • The Time Vortex is the continuum that time machines travel through on the way from one destination to another.
  • The Void is the name given by the Time Lords to the infinite nothingness between dimensions; even time does not exist in the Void. According to the Doctor in "Army of Ghosts", Eternals call it the Howling, and some others call it Hell. It is traversable only using a void ship or also a TARDIS before the events of the Time War (Rise of the Cybermen).


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