The Three Doctors (Doctor Who) the Third Doctor (Jon Pertwee) for help when Omega drains their civilisation's power. The serial opened the tenth anniversary year of the series, and features the first three Doctors all appearing in the same serial. This makes it the first "Doctor Who" story in which an earlier incarnation of the Doctor returns to the show. A superluminal signal is sent to Earth, carrying with it an energy blob that seems intent on capturing the Doctor. The homeworld of the Time Lords is also under siege, their power being drained through a black hole. Trapped themselves, and desperate to send help,
The Doctor (Doctor Who) named Miranda whom he adopted and raised until she was 16. In the novel "Sometime Never...", she returned to the Doctor with her daughter Zezanne. She was also the central character in a three-issue comic book series published by Comeuppance Comics in 2003. Author Lance Parkin, who devised the character of Miranda, has hinted that her real father is a future incarnation of the Doctor which, if so, would make Zezanne the Doctor's biological granddaughter as well. The Virgin New Adventures novel "Lungbarrow" presents an alternative take on the Doctor's origins, suggesting that Time Lords are "loomed" in large batches