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Gallifrey ( / ˈɡælɪfreɪ /; sometimes, in the classic series, / ˈɡælɪfriː / ), is a fictional planet in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It is the original home world of the Time Lords, the civilisation to which the protagonist, the Doctor belongs. It is located in a binary star system [2] 250 ...
May 9, 2024 · Gallifrey, home of the Time Lords, has been destroyed twice, but continues to play a key role in dramatic Doctor Who stories. The destruction of Gallifrey by the Master was due to a bitter jealousy over the Doctor's identity as the Timeless Child. Despite the fixed point in time preventing the Doctor from saving Gallifrey, its return in Doctor ...
Mar 24, 2023 · This froze Gallifrey in time, but the planet eventually found a new home. Gallifrey exists at the end of the universe, placing the planet back in play for future Doctor Who stories. Gallifrey went ...
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Gallifrey was used as a background during the Doctor Who Event in the crossover video game Funko Pop! Blitz. AUDIO: R&J implies that Jack Harkness and River Song were causing the noise heard in Listen, with Jack also referencing a woman waiting to play a game of chess, implying that Gallifrey was the planet that Orson Pink wound up on. External ...
- Who is Doctor Who? The Doctor is a Time Lord from the "shining world of the seven systems", the planet Gallifrey in the constellation of Kasterborous, 250 million light years away from where you are (probably) reading this.
- Hold on, what's a "Sonic Screwdriver"? As the Fourth Doctor (played by Tom Baker) said in an episode from 1983, "I never carry weapons. If people see you mean them no harm, they never hurt you – nine times out of 10" (the 10th time perhaps being the operative number).
- And what is a "Tardis"? It's a time machine, right? Technically it's a space and time machine. The Tardis is in the shape of a blue UK police box (a form of public telephone in early 20th Century Britain).
- What is a Time Lord? The Time Lords were a race of intergalactic time-travellers. The Doctor is (almost) the last of them, after Gallifrey was destroyed in the Time Wars, a battle across space and time in which everyone in the Universe started using time travel as a weapon to go back and reverse-engineer the destruction of everyone else in the universe.
Gallifrey really begins to play a central role in Doctor Who at the advent of the revived series - and central to this is the concept of the Time War. During Christopher Eccleston's brief stint as ...
Gallifrey was the homeworld of the Time Lords. (The Time Warrior) By one account, the planet was actually called Jewel, (Return of the Daleks) and during several time wars, it was utilitarianly referred to as the Homeworld. (Damaged Goods, The Book of the War, etc) It was also called Gallifrey Original. (Doctor Who and the Time War) The literal ...
