{"id":566,"date":"2010-07-20T11:02:10","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T15:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/?p=566"},"modified":"2023-08-14T09:38:58","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T13:38:58","slug":"tardis-database-printout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2010\/07\/20\/tardis-database-printout\/","title":{"rendered":"TARDIS Database Printout?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Cyberman<\/a>Given the vast numbers of foes the Doctor has encountered over his almost as vast number of regenerations, one wonders if he’s kept track of them.<\/p>\n

Early episodes<\/a> of Doctor Who<\/em> emphasized the TARDIS’ powerful computing power, with rows of mainframe-like cabinets and whirring data tapes, and it’s not hard to imagine Hartnell’s Doctor inputting data in the brief lulls between random jumps through time and space.<\/p>\n

The Guardian’s<\/em> Datablog<\/a> has taken on the task of enumerating all of the Doctor’s many foes<\/a>, enlisting the hive mind’s assistance by creating a Google Docs spreadsheet<\/a>, complete with motivations, number of appearances, episode titles, and which Doctor(s) they opposed:<\/p>\n

Here’s a list of all the Doctor Who villains there have ever been since the very first episode in 1963. Whether it’s to help you put your bet on what will make a reappearance next series or just to satisfy hard-core Whovians, hopefully this will help you out.<\/p>\n

The chart however doesn’t include villains exclusively in Doctor Who books, audio books and spin-off shows.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Definitely worth checking out the entire data set<\/a>. The Daleks are, of course, tops in appearances, which is sure to annoy their rivals, the Cybermen…<\/p>\n

(Image<\/a> courtesy of Fredde Cooney Ahlstrom<\/a> via a Creative Commons Attribution license<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Given the vast numbers of foes the Doctor has encountered over his almost as vast number of regenerations, one wonders if he’s kept track of them. Early episodes of Doctor Who emphasized the TARDIS’ powerful computing power, with rows of mainframe-like cabinets and whirring data tapes, and it’s not hard to imagine Hartnell’s Doctor inputting … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","tag-doctor-who"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedXm-98","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6208,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/6208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}