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 Cyber-Hunt 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 Cyber-Hunt 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