The Doctor’s origin is actually laid out in The Mind Robber. Fact?
I’ve been following Philip Sandifer’s fanatastic blog as he steps through and analyses each Doctor Who story starting from 1963 (and its counterpart, Adventures With The Wife in Space on Tachyon TV), but his last post has just blown my mind. He’s up to the final few stories of Patrick Troughton, specifically The Mind Robber: The primary threat in this story is that the characters will become fictional. This is, of course, a brilliant use of existential horror and one of the highlights of the story. But thinking about that from a remotely human perspective, it does not actually make
