DWF - Planet Files

Planet Files

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Welcome to DWF's Planet Files. Here you can read every planet in Doctor Who so far and their descriptions. Click on the category you would like to go to on the sidebar (more pages are currently being constructed).

Planet Files

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Quinnis - A planet in the Fourth Universe visited by the First Doctor and Susan as referenced in the serial 'The Edge of Destruction'.

Planet Files

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Padrivole Regency 9 - A planet mentioned in the Doctor who episode Smith and Jones.
Panjassic Asteroid Field - 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.
Parakon - The planet Parakon and the Parakon Corporation attempted to sell rapine to Earth in "The Paradise of Death". This would have left the Earth devastated.
Paradost - A planet visited in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip "The Glorious Dead." Paradost was a planetary museum, home to exhibits n a million species.
Peladon - 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 Haxico 2 - The planet Max Capricorn, a cyborg, planned to retire to in "Voyage of the Damned". He mentioned tropical beaches, and ladies who are "fond of metal".
Periboea - Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
Phaester Osiris - 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.
Phryxus - Home planet of the wolf-like Phryxians, located in NGC4258. The Phryxians appeared in The English Way of Death.
Pictos - A planet mentioned in The Web Planet.
Pluto - 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 - The home planet of the Nestene Consciousness according to the Missing Adventure Millennial Rites and the Past Doctor Adventure Synthespians.
Poosh - A planet mentioned in "Midnight". The Lost Moon of Poosh was the subject of study by student Dee Dee Blasco. In "The Stolen Earth", the Lost Moon of Poosh is revealed to be one of the 27 worlds taken by Davros.
Ponton - A planet mentioned in 'The Ribos Operation'.
Posikar - A planet mentioned in 'Mindwarp'.
Proamon - The homeworld of Kane, the icy ruler of Iceworld in the Seventh Doctor story 'Dragonfire'. It was destroyed a thousand years after his exile.
Pyrovilia - The homeworld of the Pyroviles, rock beings featured in "The Fires of Pompeii". The planet was lost, prompting the Pyroviles' attempt to colonise the Earth and convert humanity into their own kind. In "The Stolen Earth", it is revealed that Davros was responsible for the planet's disappearance. Returned to where it belonged by Donna in Journey's End.

Planet Files

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Oberon - A planet mentioned in Revelation of the Daleks.
Oblivion - The homeworld of the Eighth Doctor's companion Destrii. The planet appeared in the DWM comic strip of the same name (DWM #323-#328).
Ockora - The homeworld of the Selachians. The native Ockorans were hunted by beings from Kalaya, and surgically altered themselves to become a warrior race known as the Selachians. Ockora was destroyed by a G-bomb in The Final Sanction.
Ogron planet (unnamed) - A huge gray ball many light years away from the central spaceways, is the homeworld of the Ogrons and is the setting for the last two episodes of Frontier in Space. In Fourth Doctor Virgin Missing Adventures book The Romance of Crime, it is named Braah. The human designation for the planet is Orestes, according to the novel So Vile a Sin; it is said to be a moon of the gas giant Clytemnestra, in the Agamemnon system.
Ogros - A planet of Tau Ceti notable for its amino acid swamps. The Ogri originate from Ogros. Mentioned though not seen in 'The Stones of Blood'.
Olympus - A planet visited in the Doctor Who Monthly comic strip "The Life Bringer," home to a race who seemed to be the gods of Greek myth.
Ood-Sphere - The homeworld of the Ood in the episode 'Planet of the Ood'. It is a barren, icy planet with vast mountains and caves. A couple moons and a grayish-pink colored ringed planet can also be seen in its skyline. It lies close to the Sense-Sphere (and are possibly in the same star system).
Omphalos - One of the ten planets that had its entire population stolen - bar one person - in IDW's Doctor Who comic series.
Oseidon - The home planet of the Kraals, who were behind The Android Invasion.
Oskerion - Varan Tak, eponymous character of the Doctor Who Monthly comic strip "The Collector" was from Oskerion.
Othrys - A planet from 'The Greatest Show in the Galaxy'.
Overod - A planet from 'The Greatest Show in the Galaxy'.

Planet Files

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Navaros (Navarro) - The planet of the Navarinos, tour-loving aliens from the Seventh Doctor serial Delta and the Bannermen.

Necros (Nekros) - 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.

Nefrin - A planet in a distant galaxy. Home of Brimo, an immortal, from the Doctor Who Weekly comic strip The Time Witch.

Neogorgon - A planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

New Alexandria - A planet that hosted the restaurant The Crystal Bucephalus. Heavily implied to be the ruins of Gallifrey; however, Gallifrey is said to be destroyed in the new TV series.

New Earth - A planet in the galaxy M87, first seen in the episode of the same name. It is the new home of humanity five billion years in the future. New Earth is the same size as Earth and has the same atmosphere and orbit, though the continents and ecology are different. The city of New New York (the 15th New York after the original) is located here. In "Gridlock", much of the population has died from a virus save for those isolated in the underground motorway, which is also home to numerous devolved Macra.

New Earth (unrelated to the above) - Visited in the Doctor Who Weekly comic strip "The Dogs of Doom." The inhabitants were being transformed into Wereloks, in a scheme revealed to be masterminded by the Daleks.

New Savannah - A planet in the Felinus system, in the Galaxy M57. It was the home planet of the Catkind. On the eve of the year 5 Billion, it became part of the New Human Empire. Visited in IDW's Doctor Who comic series. Could possibly be the homeworld of the catkind in 'Survival'.

New Venus - A planet mentioned in "The Long Game". In the year 200,000, sandstorms on this planet kill 200 sentients in the Archipelago.

Nooma - A planet visited in the novel "Speed of Flight". For 4000 years, an genetic experiment was conducted on the natives.

Nyrruh 4 - One of the ten planets that had its entire population stolen - bar one person - in IDW's Doctor Who comic series.

Planet Files

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Magellan - A planet visited by the fifth Doctor in the Doctor Who Monthly comic strip The Moderator.

Magla - A planet that is actually an 8,000-mile-wide amoeba with a crusty shell (Destiny of the Daleks).

Magnus / Magnus Epsilon - An Earth colony visited this planet in the unfilmed but novelised script Mission to Magnus. Females dominate the society.

Malcassairo - 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 - The setting of the Fifth Doctor serial Snakedance. The planet's surface is arid and sandy and is dotted by raggid rocks.

Marinus - The setting of the First Doctor serial The Keys of Marinus. It was home to a human-like race, the disembodied brains of Morpho, and the Voord. The Doctor Who Monthly comic strip "The World Shapers" suggests that Marinus is in fact Mondas.

Marpesia - Another planet mentioned in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

Mars - 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 Osirans left the GodEngine weapon there. 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 - The jungle homeworld of the Mechanoids in 'The Chase'.

Melagophon (Melogophon) - Another planet from 'The Greatest Show in the Galaxy'.

Melissa Majoria - The true homeworld of most of Earth's bees, mentioned in 'The Stolen Earth'.

Mer - One of the ten planets that had its entire population stolen - bar one person - in IDW's Doctor Who comic series.

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 - A planet mentioned in the novel The Resurrection Casket.

Meta Sigmafolio - 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.

Meta Vorka 6 - A planet mentioned in the Sarah Jane Adventures story "The Last Sontaran (Part 1)". The Vorkasian horde travel in spacecraft about the size of a coffee cup.

Metebelis 3 (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.

Metralubit - A remote human colony in the Fostrix galaxy in the 58th Segment of Time. The capital city is Metron. An intelligent gestalt of flies named Hive existed here, and could possess and animate dead bodies.

Miasimia Goria - A planet ruled by the Rani.

Midnight - A leisure planet visited by the Doctor and Donna in the episode of the same name. It has golden spas, anti-gravity restaurants, sapphire waterfalls, and a landscape of diamonds. The planet's sun emits x-tonic radiation, which vapourises organic matter and can only be viewed safely through sufficiently thick finito glass. The radiation poisons the diamonds, so the planet's surface can never be touched. However, there is some form of native life, which possesses a tourist named Sky Silvestry.

Minyos - The original homeworld of the Minyans, and Minyos II is where they settle at the end of the serial Underworld.

Mira - The planet of the Visians, seen in The Daleks' Master Plan.

Mirabilis Major and Mirabilis Minor - These are both mentioned in The Ribos Operation.

Mobox Homeworld - Visited in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip Urobouros. The Mobox were intelligent, bulky creatures that could breathe fire.

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 - The home planet of the Cybermen, first seen in The Tenth Planet.

Morestra - A planet mentioned in Planet of Evil.

Morok - 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'.

Planet Files

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Lakertya - 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 - 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 - A planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

Leophantos (Leovontos) - A 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 - 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 - This featured in the Second Doctor serial The Space Pirates.

Logopolis - 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 - A planet visited in Human Resources.

Lowitelom (Lowiteliom) - Another planet that was destroyed by Zanak in The Pirate Planet. Its name is seen briefly in The Captain's Trophy Room.

Lucifer - 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 - A planet mentioned in Nightmare of Eden.

Planet Files

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Kalakiki - Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

Kalaya - Homeworld of the Kalarians, foes of the Selachians.

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.

Kar-Charrat - A planet close to the edge of the Galaxy, home to a race composed of water. It is the location of a vast library complex, visited in the audio The Genocide Machine.

Karfel - 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 - 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 solar system as Karn. Karn is also the setting for the Doctor Who stageplay Seven Keys to Doomsday, probably during another era of its history. It was once the capital world of the Empire of the Master of Karn. It has one moon.

Karris - One of the planets featured in the New Series Adventures novel Shining Darkness.

Kas - One of the ten planets that had its entire population stolen - bar one person - in IDW's Doctor Who comic series.

Kastopheria (Catastrophea) - A planet positioned between the United Planets Association and the Draconian Empire. Home to an advanced race of giant humanoids named the People.

Kastria - The home planet of the Eldrad, and features in The Hand of Fear. Once a lush planet, it has an icy, rocky and barren surface that is constantly bombarded by heavy gusts, turbulent ice storms/blizzards and suffers from frigid temperatures as seen in the episode The Hand Of Fear.

Katakiki - A 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 - 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 - A planet with the "maddest ecosystem in the universe", mentioned in the New Series Adventures novel Only Human.

Kembel - 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 - The planet of the Kirithons and setting of the Virgin New Adventures story Timewyrm: Apocalypse.

Kolkokron (Culkacron) - A planet mentioned in Frontios. It is a rocky, barren planet covered by boulders, boulders and more boulders.

Kosnax - A planet mentioned in Time-Flight.

Kreme - A planet mentioned in The Space Museum.

Krillia - Home planet of the Krillitanes.

Krontep - A planet mentioned in Mindwarp.

Krop Tor - A planet impossibly in orbit around a black hole designated K37 Gem 5, and the setting of "The Impossible Planet" and "The Satan Pit". Its name translates to "The Bitter Pill" in Veltino, 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.

Kurhan - A planet mentioned in the episode 42. The Doctor takes Martha there to ice skate on its mineral lakes.

Kylos - Another planet mentioned in The Space Museum.

Kyrol - A watery planet that was home to a human expedition, a humanised Dalek colony, and a native beast named Kataphobus. Visited in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip Children of the Revolution.

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Jaconda - 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.

Jahoo - one of the twenty-seven planets taken by Davros in "The Stolen Earth".

Jan Francis IX - the planet visited by the Doctor, Romana, Tavius and Janet sometime in TNAODW history.

Junk - one of the planets featured in the New Series Adventures novel Shining Darkness.

Jupiter - 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 - 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.

Planet Files

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Indigo 3 - the location of the Blue Desert in the audio drama The Skull of Sobek. The desert is perfectly symmetrical, but in the centre is the Sanctuary of Imperfect Symmetry, a religious retreat which exists to counterbalance the desert's perfection.

Inter Minor and Inter Major - feature in the Third Doctor serial Carnival of Monsters as the location of the Miniscope.

Iphitus Yet - A planet mentioned in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

Planet Files

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Hakol (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.

Halcya Tranquil - a planet briefly visited in the comic strip "The Gift."

Harlequin Three - A planet mentioned in the original series.

Hastus Minor - a planet mentioned in The Monsters Inside. Ermenshrew Blathereen is revealed to have led a talent agency on this planet.

Heaven - 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.

Hedron Planet - where the advanced inhabitants conducted disastrous experiments with time, as seen in the Doctor Who Monthly comic strip "Time Bomb."

Heiradi - A planet mentioned in Frontios.

Hell - 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'.
The unnamed planet on which Hokesh was located orbited an old star near the centre of the Galaxy, suffering from temporal disturbances. Hokesh was a city, and a life form, visited in the novella Citadel of Dreams.

Hyspero -A planet visited by the Eighth Doctor in the novel The Scarlet Empress. It's capital city, by the same name, has huge markets. Hyspero has a 21 hour day cycle, a mythological quality to life and its literature celebrates thieves and assassins.

Hydropellica Hydroxi - A planet once inhabited by the sinister Gappa. The Gappa eventually consumed all lifeforms on Hydropellia Hydroxi and resorted to canniballism. The last living Gappa was captured by a scientific expedition which crashed on Earth.

Planet Files

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Galaxis Bright and Galaxis Dark Sister - planets mentioned in the novella Nightdreamers. Dark was economically superior to Bright. The moon Verd orbited Bright.

Gallifrey - 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 - 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.

Gond Homeworld - Unnamed planet of the humanoid Gonds, who were in the thrall of The Krotons.

Gotta Floco (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 - The home planet of the Graske, and is seen in the interactive episode Attack of the Graske.

Griophos - A planet mentioned in Paradise Towers.

Grold Homeworld - A small, hot planet with a rarified atmosphere. Tidally locked, therefore lacking a day-night cycle. The Grold were flurosilicon based, and appeared in The Eye of the Giant.

Grolon - A planet mentioned in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

Grundle - A planet mentioned in Carnival of Monsters. A swampy satellite of this planet is home to the vicious Drashigs.

Planet Files

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Fagiros - Another planet mentioned in the Seventh Doctor story The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

Felspoon - A planet mentioned by Donna in "Journey's End". The planet has mountains that sway in the breeze.

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 - 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 - 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.

Planet Files

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Earth - also known to some races as Terra or Sol-3, is the home planet of Humans. Other sentient with terrestrial origins include Silurians, Sea Devils, "fairies" and, in an alternate futures, Haemovores and Cybermen. Frequently a target for alien invasions. Earth is first seen in An Unearthly Child and many times thereafter.

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.

Ephte Major - Home planet of the avaricious, slug-like Ephtes, seen in the Doctor Who Monthly comic strip "Profits of Doom."

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 - A planet mentioned in the Seventh Doctor story The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

Exarius - A planet visited in the story Colony in Space, also spelt Uxaerius.

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. According to Martha Jones' blog 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.

Planet Files

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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.

Darbodia - A planet visited by the Doctor and his grandchidren, John and Gillian, in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip "The Land of Happy Endings."

Darkheart - A planet located in the gap between the Galaxy's spiral arms, connected to its star's mass via a dimensional bridge. It was the location of the Darkheart device, a machine that could destroy planets and alter morphic fields. The Dark Path (Missing Adventure).

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.

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.

Dhakan Planet visited in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip "The Glorious Dead." Dhakan was ruled by Cardinal Morningstar, head of the Church of the Glorious Dead. It was in fact Earth, whose history had been perverted by the The Master.

Diadem - The most relaxing planet in the Galaxy. Visited in The Crystal Bucephalus.

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.

Dramos Moon of Titania visited in Burning Heart. A third of its surface is covered by an artificial habitat.

Drahva is the home planet of the Drahvins, a female warrior race encountered by the First Doctor in Galaxy 4.

Dravidia is a planet in the Rexel Planetary Configuration, mentioned during Love's Labours Won in The Shakespeare Code. A Dravidian ship crash-landed on Karn in The Brain of Morbius.
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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Calufrax (or Callufrax Minor) Is a dead, icy polar planet which was in actuality a disguised segment of The Key to Time in The Pirate Planet. It is mentioned in "The Stolen Earth" as one of the 27 planets taken by Davros.

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. It is located in the same stellar system as Lakertya.

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.

Cep Cassalon a group of integrated planets, 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.

Cheem - Home planet of the Forest of Cheem, highly-evolved trees who sent delegates to witness The End of the World.

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 symbiotic 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.

Chronos - Setting for the webcast Real Time. The planet was conquered by the Cybermen.

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. In The Stolen Earth, Clom is one of the 27 planets that have been taken out of time and space by Davros and the Daleks. In hearing that the Daleks have taken Clom the Doctor remarks "Clom's gone? Who'd want Clom?"

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.

Cotter Palluni's World (aka. Cotta Pallunie’s World) A planet where the skies are constantly bombarded by electricity or lightening storms, mentioned in the episode "The Sontaran Stratagem".

Crafe 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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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.

Bane World is said to be the planet of the Bane even though it may not be its specific name.

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 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".

Blestinu was a world on which the Parakon Corporation caused a war to generate dead bodies to fertilise rapine. Blestinuians were a reptilian race.

Blini-Gaar - Planet visited by the seventh Doctor in the novel Prime Time. It is an agricultural world with an all-encompassing televisual culture. It has a single moon, Blinni-Orkos.

Boeshane Peninsula - The birthplace of Captain Jack Harkness, first mentioned in "Last of the Time Lords".

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.

Bruydac is the homeplanet of the Bruydac, 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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Abydos - A planet mentioned in The Leisure Hive.

Adipose 3 - Breeding world of the Adipose, mentioned to be lost in "Partners in Crime". In "The Stolen Earth" reveals the culprit as Davros. Returned to where it belonged by the New Doctor in Journey's End.

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.

Alpha Canis - One also called Canis Major, is the home planet of the Canisians, a warmongering race encountered in Death Comes to Time. It is presumably located in orbit of the star Sirius AKA Alpha Canis Majoris.

Althrace - The name of both a star system and its primary planet, visited by the fifth Doctor in the Doctor Who Monthly comic strip "The Tides of Time." The planets of the system were bolted togther around a white hole. The system was home to race of Higher Evolutionaries, and to the demon Melanicus.

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 - except they were negative. 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 System, a system containing 5 planets, including the planets Sirius V and Sirius 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.

Anima Persis - A geo-psychic world, inhabited by psychic ghosts of its long-dead inhabitants. Visited in Death Comes to Time.

Anura Planet - almost entirely covered in water, home to an amphibian race. Mergrass was an Anuran - (The Infinite Quest).

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's search for an Arcadian diamond. The Mayflower, a colony ship seen in the Doctor Who Monthly comic strip "Profits of Doom," was headed to settle Arcadia. Note that these may not all refer to the same planet.

Arcateen V - is referred to in "Invasion of the Bane" (The Sarah Jane Adventures). It is the home planet of the Butterfly People, which include a "star poet" associate of Sarah Jane Smith and a criminal called Mary, who features in "Greeks Bearing Gifts" (Torchwood).
Archetryx Planet - that is home to a time-active race. Visited in the audio The Apocalypse Element, and frequently mentioned in the audio line.

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.

Artaris Planet - visited in the Excelis Trilogy of audio plays, beginning with Excelis Dawns. Excelis was a major city-state on the planet. Bernice Summerfield and Iris Wildthyme also visited the planet.

Asgard - The Doctor and River Song went picnicking here at some point. It was mentioned in "Silence in the Library"

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.

Avalon - A planet with six moons. Once home to an advanced race, it was colonised by humans, setting up a nation named Elbyon. The Doctor visited Avalon circa 3025 in the novel .The Sorceror's Apprentice.

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.