List of Doctor Who vehicles

This is a list of fictional vehicles in the Doctor Who media franchise.

Cyberman craft

Shuttle

In The Tenth Planet a shuttle was used by a Cyberman landing party in 1985 to negotiate with Earth authorities at Snowcap base. In Silver Nemesis a different shuttle was used by a task-force of Cybermen led by the Cyber-Leader, charged with the task of retrieving the Nemesis statue in 1988 to use in taking control of Earth.

Cyber-saucer

In The Moonbase a large saucer-shaped ship was used by the Cybermen in their take-over of the Moonbase, hidden behind some mountains quite a distance from the base. The ship and the Cyberman invasion-force were both thrown off into space by the Gravitron device they wished to capture.

Cyber-Warship

The Invasion

Thousands of Cyber-Warships made up the Cyber fleet. The first attempted invasion of the Cyber-Fleet was some time before 1970, when the Cybermen spearheaded an invasion of Earth with help from Tobias Vaughn and his company, International Electromatics. The fleet was destroyed by a barrage of RAF missiles and a Russian rocket fitted with a nuclear warhead.

Silver Nemesis

The second invasion was in 1988, where they were intent on making the planet the new Mondas. It was destroyed by the Nemesis statue.

A Good Man Goes To War

A battle fleet of Cybermen were seen in an unknown part of space in an unspecified point in time. Rory Williams arrived on the Cyber Leader's ship and said he had a message and a question, one from the Doctor and one from him. He asked where his wife was (Amy Pond). The Cyber Leader asked what the Doctor's message was at which point Cyber ships began to be destroyed by the Doctor.

Dalek craft

Dalek shell

Strictly speaking, the visible, outer form of the Daleks is itself a vehicle. It is explained several times in the series that the metallic shell is a life support system and transport for the mutant descendents of the Kaled people, which was created by Davros in Genesis Of The Daleks. The living being within the shell is likewise revealed to the viewer at several points.

Time machines

The Daleks use time machines in The Chase and The Daleks' Master Plan; both are revealed to be dimensionally transcendental ("bigger on the inside") like the TARDIS, capable of transporting many Daleks to any point in time and space. In the first story, the vehicle is referred to as the "DARDIS" in scripts, though the term is not used on screen.

Battle cruiser

In Resurrection of the Daleks the Daleks used a battle cruiser to attack the prison space station containing Davros. The cruiser was heavily armed, allowing the Daleks to overwhelm the station's defenses and rescue Davros. The cruiser was destroyed when the station's self-destruct mechanism was activated.

Motherships
Motherships surround Satellite 5

In The Dalek Invasion of Earth the Daleks use flying saucers for transport and to scout for human resistance. "Bad Wolf" and "The Parting of the Ways" also feature saucer-shaped Dalek motherships. These variants possess enough firepower to crumple the continents of Earth in little time. The Dalek Emperor's "flagship" is several times the size of a regular ship and carries missiles. A different design of Dalek mothership seen in the Seventh Doctor serial Remembrance of the Daleks is described as being able to crack the Earth open like an egg. One also appeared in Into the Dalek, this time with four huge spheres built into its hull, each rotating around its own axis.

Shuttlecraft

The Dalek shuttlecraft is capable of atmospheric landing and has been seen to be able to carry at least four Daleks. The Seventh Doctor in Remembrance described the Dalek shuttle as having massive ground defences but an un-guarded service hatch on the top. Dalek shuttles possess a control position with an "engaged" Dalek. In The Power of the Daleks, a damaged shuttlecraft was discovered buried in a mercury swamp on the Earth colony planet Vulcan, where the dormant Daleks were revived by the colonists, ignorant of what the Daleks were. Exactly how the shuttlecraft came to crash on the planet, and how long it had been buried before discovery, are never explained in the episode. Like the Dalek time machines it is dimensionally transcendental, with an inner chamber containing Dalek embryos and machinery used to construct Dalek casings.

Void ship

In the "Army of Ghosts"/"Doomsday" a void ship is a spherical ship that is capable of travelling through the nothingness between parallel universes, existing outside the whole of time and space — though visible to the human eye, it emits no energy of any kind and has no mass to speak of, thus causing an uneasy feeling in those who look upon it. Torchwood instruments, being more advanced than any human technology, originally could not detect anything from the sphere, but began reading mass and energy emissions when the Daleks emerged; it was not clear whether these readings were of the void ship, or of the emerging Daleks themselves.

The Crucible

This is the flagship of Davros' New Dalek Empire, based within the centre of the "Medusa Cascade". It is a giant spherical space station, with a ring running around the centre of it with five or six docking arms spreading out from it. The station uses a Magnatron to steal planets from space and time and place them within the Medusa Cascade. It is the centerpoint for Davros' Reality Bomb, a weapon created using 27 stolen planets, that could cancel out the electrical energy binding atoms together.

The Crucible is powered by a core of Z-Neutrino energy, which manifests itself as a massive, star-like fireball. The station has many levels, including the bridge manned by the Supreme Dalek and a prison ("The Vault") where both Davros and the insane Dalek Caan are kept.

Spacecraft

Aristotle

The Aristotle was a former medical vessel, reconfigured as a command ship to fight the Daleks. It served as the mother ship to the "Wasp Delta".

The Ark

The Ark is a generational ship inhabited by humans and Monoids. The humans were originally in control, but later on, the Monoids took over. It was built in the year 10,000,000 to carry Earth-native species away from their home planet, which would be destroyed by the sun; this journey was estimated to take 700 years.

Buccaneer

The Buccaneer is a 17th-century pirate ship commanded by Captain Wrack that sailed through space propelled by solar winds in a race organised by the Eternals.

Cargo freighter

This ship was piloted by the Cybermen and was set to crash into Earth. It was thought that it would hit Earth in the 22nd century, so Adric boarded the freighter in hopes of reprogramming it. However, it actually crashed into prehistoric Earth, killing the dinosaurs and Adric in the process.

Chula Ambulance

Chula ambulances are tube-shaped vehicle coloured mauve, the intergalactic symbol for distress. To facilitate its function, the ambulance is filled with enough nanogenes to heal an entire planet's worth of people. It landed by Albion Hospital in London during the Blitz, planted there by Captain Jack Harkness to attract Time Agents.

Chula Spacecraft

Captain Jack Harkness, before joining the Doctor, possesses a time ship of Chula design. Aside from the aforementioned time-travelling capacity, the ship possesses a tractor beam and a camouflage device. The ship is destroyed (though this is not seen onscreen) when Jack takes a World War-II era bomb on board to rescue the Ninth Doctor and Rose Tyler. Jack is rescued by the TARDIS before the ship explodes.

Crusader 50

Crusader 50 was a series of ships used on the planet Midnight. They were equipped with entertainment screens, and were shielded from X-tonic radiation. Sonic screwdrivers were effective for turning off a ship's annoying entertainment.

Empress

This ship is an interstellar cruise ship from the 22nd century. It becomes fused with Hecate after emerging from hyperspace at the same co-ordinates.

Family of Blood's spaceship

The Family of Blood owned a green spaceship with a cloaking device and a vortex manipulator for time travel. It was also shown to have significant firepower. It was destroyed by the Doctor.

Genesis Ark

A prison ship using the same dimensionally transcendental technology as was used in the TARDIS. It was created by the Time Lords to house millions of Daleks captured during the Time War. It has a forcefield, and can also fly. The Ark can only be opened by the touch of a person who has travelled through time. The Ark needs an area of thirty square miles for proper use.

It is the main feature of the episodes "Army of Ghosts" and "Doomsday", along with the invasion of Earth by the Cybermen. The Genesis Ark is sucked into the void, along with all the Daleks it released.

Hecate

This is a trade ship from the 22nd century. It became fused with the Empress after emerging from hyperspace at the same co-ordinates.

Hydrax

The Hydrax is a human-owned cargo ship from the 22nd century. After entering E-space, the crew members were turned into Great Vampires, the ship was disguised as the Tower by the Vampires.

Hyyperion III

This ship was used to transport passengers and cargo between the planets Mogar and Earth in 2986. Among its passengers was Professor Lasky, who was experimenting with a new plant species, the Vervoid. However, these plants became murderous, killing innocent passengers.

Ice Warrior ships

These ships belonged to the Ice Warriors, natives of the planet Mars. They have not had major roles in any story; in The Ice Warriors their ship is said to have crashed, while in "Cold War" one in sent to rescue Ice Warrior Skaldak.

Jaatha Sunglider

This was a black, saucer-shaped ship used by the alien Jaatha. It was housed in Torchwood One.

King Arthur's organic transdimensional spaceship

This was a booby trapped ship submerged in Lake Vortigan. It housed the body of King Arthur and the Excalibur sword.

Privateer

"Privateer" is a slave ship used to imprison the time-sensitive Tharil species. It is constructed of dwarf star alloy, allowing it to hold the species.

Sanctuary Base 6 Rocket

This was a black rocket that could travel via a gravity funnel. It was used by the Sanctuary Base 6 crew to escape the planet Krop Tor.

Silver Carrier

The Silver Carrier is a 21st-century human ship. The ship was ninety million miles off course, as it had been invaded by the Cybermen.

Sky-ship

The "Sky-ship" is a spacecraft crewed by robots. Little is known about it, including its real name, as "Sky-ship" is simply a nickname given to it by the Sheriff. It is known for a fact its engines require gold to work.

Sontaran ships

Battlecraft pod

The Sontarans travel in spherical spaceships. The spheres are covered by tessellating squares and have a single curved door which opens outwards to reveal the ship's only room, a control room.

In The Time Warrior, a Sontaran warrior named Linx crashed his spaceship on Middle Age Earth where he is forced to make repairs. Kidnapping scientists from the 20th century using an osmic projector and hypnotising them, Linx has his ship repaired. However, he is shot dead as he prepares to take off and falls on his controls triggering the launch mechanism prematurely. The ship explodes destroying the castle in which it had been sheltered along with it.

In The Sontaran Experiment, a Sontaran named Styre landed on Earth to experiment on human astronauts ahead of a Sontaran invasion. Under the Doctor's instruction, Harry Sullivan removed a component from the ship's energizer as the Doctor fought Styre. When Styre returned to his ship to recharge his energy, the sabotaged energizer drained Styre as opposed to feeding him, causing Styre to shrivel, and the ship to explode soon afterwards.

Sontaran battlecraft are seen again in The Two Doctors.

The Sontaran ships in "The Sontaran Stratagem", an episode in series 4 remain very true to the original design, but the spherical pod now sports extra armaments a slightly different cris-cross pattern, and a viewing port at the front. Unlike earlier designs, these pods seem to be completely spherical.

A Sontaran battlecraft pod also appeared in the Sarah Jane Adventures episode "The Last Sontaran".

Sontaran flagship

First seen in The Sontaran Stratagem orbiting above earth, the flagship is a large spherical shape with an external 'claw-like' structure added on. Around the middle it contains numerous docking ports for Sontaran battle pods. The Doctor states that it has the power to "destroy the Earth with one blow."

SS Madame de Pompadour

The SS Madame de Pompadour is a ship found drifting through space around two and a half galaxies away from Earth. It is a 51st-century energy trawler that collects dark matter in its rotor-like arms, which double as the ship's main source of propulsion.[1] It is severely damaged in an ion storm[2] and features a number of time portals into 18th century France, created by its backup engines.

SS Marie Antoinette

This was the sister ship to the SS Madame de Pompadour, and was also crewed by clockwork droids. It crashed during the time of the dinosaurs, before the moon came into alignment with the Earth. It was repaired over the centuries by the droids, using the flesh of creatures. The escape pod became part of a restaurant in the 1890s, its fate is left unknown, but it presumebly crashed somewhere.

SS Pentallian

This ship worked as a cargo ship in the 42nd century. It was powered by illegally stolen gas from a sentient sun, and was saved from crashing into the sun by the Doctor.

Sycorax ship

The Sycorax travel in a massive city ship apparently built into an asteroid. The ship is so massive that the shockwave created by it entering the Earth's atmosphere shattered all of the glass in London and it eclipsed the Sun. This ship is destroyed by Torchwood One under orders from Prime Minister Harriet Jones.

Titanic

The Titanic is a cruiseliner, used on the planet Sto and modelled off the earth 20th century ship of the same name; this prompted the Tenth Doctor to sarcasticly ask if anyone knew why it was a famous ship. It crashes into the Doctor's TARDIS, and would apparently have crashed into Earth if the Doctor hadn't saved it.

Wasp Delta

"Wasp Delta" is a two-man spacecraft. Little is known about it, but it was destroyed by a Dalek Mothership.

Webstar

Racnoss Webstar

The Webstar is the star-shaped ship of the Empress of the Racnoss. A similar vessel, used to house Racnoss children, is revealed to be the centre of the Earth. Both appear in "The Runaway Bride".

Webstars are shaped like eight-pointed stars, though the design of the two ships is inconsistent. Both are covered in a substance that resembles spider webbing. The Empress' ship can discharge energy bolts from its points. The Empress' ship is destroyed over London by Challenger 2 tanks per orders from cabinet minister Harold Saxon.

Judoon rocket

Judoon rockets are transport used by the Judoon. The rockets themselves fly vertically with engines at the bottom of the rockets. When landing, three prongs come out to ensure a secure landing. During the events of Smith and Jones, three rockets landed on the Moon, to where they had previously used an H2O scoop to transport the Royal Hope Hospital. The Moon is regarded as neutral grounds by Galactic Law. The Plasmavore Florence Finnegan planned to escape in one, while simultaneously killing all the life forms currently on the Moon and on the side of the Earth which was facing it.

Slitheen Craft

Slitheen craft about to crash into the River Thames

The craft owned by the Slitheen crashed into Big Ben and destroyed two faces. The tower was seen to have a scaffold around it in subsequent episodes, but the unbroken faces were apparently still working. The Slitheen used this event as a diversion for their larger plans, mainly destroying the Earth for money. Most likely, Torchwood One (which would have still been active at the time) confiscated the ship and dismantled it.

TARDIS

Main article: TARDIS

Vehicles of the Time Lords, capable of taking on an appearance to fit in with the local architecture. The Doctor owns the last TARDIS in N-Space, which serves as his home and mode of transportation.

Space stations

Platform One

The Space Station in front of the sun

In "The End of the World", Platform One is the luxuriously appointed space station orbiting Earth carrying the rich and affluent of the universe, staying to view the expansion of the Sun and the destruction of the Earth in the year 5 billion.

With the Earth destroyed, the station was likely moved and repurposed.

Satellite 5

Main article: Satellite 5

Space Station Nerva

In "The Ark in Space" Space Station Nerva is the space station in orbit around the Earth in the 30th century. Its function is to keep members of the human race preserved in cryogenic stasis following a cataclysm on the surface until the Earth is safe for rehabitation.

In the "Revenge of the Cybermen" it is shown in its original use as Nerva Beacon, in orbit around Jupiter. No explanation is given as to how the entire space station comes to be physically moved from Jupiter orbit to Earth orbit.

In the audio "Destination Nerva", the Fourth Doctor makes his third visit.

Starship UK

In "The Beast Below", the colony spaceship containing the remaining population of the United Kingdom is Starship UK It is carried on the back of the supposedly last Star Whale, who benevolently does so out of concern for the children.

The Wheel

In The Wheel in Space, Space Station W3, commonly known as the Wheel, is a 21st century space station designed by humans for scientific research. It is armed with an x-ray laser and a force field.

Motor vehicles

Bessie

The Third Doctor's main mode of transport, during his exile on Earth, was a canary-yellow roadster. This vehicle, bearing the fictitious registration number "WHO 1", made its debut in the Third Doctor story Doctor Who and the Silurians and made its final regular appearance in the Fourth Doctor story Robot. (The legal registration number, which had to be used when the vehicle was operated on the public roadways, was "MTR 5"; for this reason, shots of the car taken on public roads do not show the registration plate.) Upon the Fourth Doctor's departure from Earth, Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart had it "put into mothballs". It has reappeared in the Fifth Doctor story The Five Doctors—driven by the Third Doctor as he was 'collected' by the story's villain—the Seventh Doctor serial Battlefield (wearing the registration number "WHO 7" for this story only) and the 1993 charity special Dimensions in Time. Bessie was actually one of about 100 cars made by an inventor based in England that used Ford 103E Populars as a base, with a fibre-glass body. These kit cars were sold as 'Siva Edwardian' cars, available as both two and four seaters. The current chairman of the Ford Sidevalve Owners Club has a four-seater Siva based on an early 8 hp Ford Model Y. Bessie was built for a cost of £500. It currently resides in "The Doctor Who Experience" in Cardiff Bay.

The Doctor made several modifications to Bessie during his time at UNIT. These were an anti-theft force field (The Ambassadors of Death), a remote control (The Dæmons) and a minimum inertia hyperdrive Allowing it to go along roads at extremely high speeds without risking the passenger being thrown from their seats if sudden stops are required (The Time Monster). In an Eleventh Doctor comic, he connects Bessie to the TARDIS Matrix, turning it into a monster truck by setting the controls on random.

Whomobile

A hovercraft-type vehicle that was also capable of flight, used by the Third Doctor in the serials Invasion of the Dinosaurs and Planet of the Spiders. The vehicle was also known as Alien, but was only ever referred to as "my car" by the Doctor in the television series. However, it is popularly referred to as the Whomobile. The vehicle was specially commissioned by and was the property of Jon Pertwee, and was not seen in the programme again after he left it. It bore the license plate WV0 2M, and was registered as an invalid tricycle.

Motorcycle

A motorcycle with anti-gravity device ridden by the Eleventh Doctor, with companion Clara Oswald riding pillion, in the episode entitled The Bells of Saint John. The Doctor goes into the TARDIS after mentioning "the garage" and rides out of the TARDIS on the motorcycle. The motorcycle was a Triumph Scrambler in Jet Black colour scheme, with an anti-gravity control mounted on the fuel tank. The Doctor refers to having previously ridden it in the Anti-Gravity Olympics. The Doctor uses the anti-gravity capability in the episode to ride up the side of The Shard, to gain entry to a floor high up in the building.

Flying vehicles

Motorway cars

In the episode "Gridlock", New Earth's underground motorways are filled with large, box-shaped, flying cars, similar to camper-vans complete with beds, communication devices, as well as recreation, kitchen and toilet facilities. People like Brannigan (a humanoid cat, like the Sisters of Plenitude in "New Earth") and his wife Valerie had been traveling for years on the motorway in never ending gridlock, sometimes only travelling between a few yards to a few miles per year, trying to get off and even ended up having children while they waited. The cars are built for such trips, completely recycling waste into water and food, as well as having air filtration systems. Strangely enough, most of the passengers had become resigned to their fate and had become somewhat comfortable living their lives in a perpetual holding pattern, as well as having given up trying to communicate with the outside world to find out what the problem was. When they needed to communicate with other cars, they would use a high-tech version of a "CB Radio"

Valiant

A rift opens above the Valiant

The Valiant was a UNIT controlled airborne aircraft carrier similar to Cloudbase in Gerry Anderson's Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons series and the Helicarrier of Marvel Comics. As the craft operates in international airspace under the control of the United Nations, it is neutral territory. It was designed in part by the Master in the guise of Harold Saxon then the British Minister of Defence. Elements of the design make reference to Time Lord architecture, such as roundels and an insignia based on a Gallifreyan design. It is also equipped with a scaled down version of the Torchwood weapon that destroyed the Sycorax ship in "The Christmas Invasion";[3] however, since it is mounted on the ship's underbelly, it can only fire at surface targets, as opposed to the surface-to-air or surface-to-space aim of the ground-based Torchwood version.

It was first featured in "The Sound of Drums"/"Last of the Time Lords". As the United Nations requires that the British Government move first contact operations from British soil to neutral territory, the US Government forces Harold Saxon to make contact with the Toclafane on board. It is then used by the Master as a mobile headquarters during his rule of Earth. In "The Poison Sky", the Valiant aids UNIT in their counterattack on the Sontaran forces occupying the ATMOS factory. By hovering over the factory, the carrier is able to clear the poisonous gas surrounding the area with the powerful downdraft of the vehicle's engines. It also fires upon the factory to commence the attack on the Sontaran forces, using the Jathaa sunglider technology recovered by the Torchwood Institute.

It appeared again in "The Stolen Earth", in which it was shown being attacked by Dalek forces. The last transmission from the carrier was the order for its crew to abandon ship. It is then stated in the next scene that the craft is "down" and as such, assumed destroyed.

In "Death in Heaven" it is referred to by Kate Stewart suggesting that UNIT have built a replacement, and that the Cloudbase in Captain Scarlet was based on the Valiant owing to the Doctor's association with Sylvia Anderson.

Utopia rocket

This rocket was created by "Professor Yana" at the beginning of the event collapse to convey the last of the human race to the fabled Utopia.

BBC production artwork

References

  1. ↑ The Doctor Who Visual Dictionary, BBC 2007
  2. ↑ episode "TARDISODE"
  3. ↑ BBC – Doctor Who – Episodes – Series Four
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