Nth Doctor

The Nth Doctor, appearing as a balding man who sometimes went by Fred, was one of the many versions of the Doctor who existed across the Multiverse.

The sorcerer Doctor Know-It-All, who was noted by the Man in Grey to resemble “the time-traveller guy” himself, possessed photographs of a balding man in a floral shirt talking with a man similar to the Man in Grey himself. The Man in Grey also reacted oddly to mentions of the name “Fred”. (PROSE: Open Sourcing)

Behind the scenes

This character is the “Nth Doctor”, the alternative Ninth Doctor of a series of fanmade 1980s Doctor Who audio-plays, the Audio Visuals, played by Nicholas Briggs. Due to many of the creators of the series going on to contribute to official Doctor Who media, the Nth Doctor gained a measure of officiality, notably appearing as an amnesiac called “Fred” in the audio play Cybergeddon and its novelisation. The latter revealed that Fred had lost his status as a “real” Doctor in-universe as part of a Faustian bargain with an entity known as the Man in Black. Callum Phillpott, the writer of the Cybergeddon novelisation and originator of the Man in Black, would go on to create The Nine-Two-Five Universe, with the Man in Grey being a self-parody of his earlier creation the Man in Black (and implied, in-universe, to be the Man in Black under a witness-protection program).

External links

• Fred on Tardis, the Doctor Who Wiki