Dr. Watson If you won't, I will for you". Holmes suavely responds: "You may do what you like, Doctor". Therefore, the story is presented as "a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson", and most other stories of the series share this by implication. In the first chapter of "The Sign of Four", Holmes comments on Watson's first effort as a biographer: "I glanced over it. Honestly, I cannot congratulate you upon it. Detection is, or ought to be, an exact science and should be treated in the same cold and unemotional manner. You have attempted to tinge it with romanticism...
First Doctor him to repair his damaged TARDIS, and in "The Great White Hurricane" the TARDIS crew are separated when they arrive in New York just before the Great Blizzard of 1888. Images of the First Doctor appear in "The Power of the Daleks", "Day of the Daleks", "The Brain of Morbius", "Earthshock", "Mawdryn Undead", "Resurrection of the Daleks", "The Next Doctor", "The Eleventh Hour", "The Vampires of Venice", "Vincent and the Doctor", "The Lodger", "Nightmare in Silver" and "The Sarah Jane Adventures" story "Death of the Doctor". In the episode "The Name of the Doctor", he is seen stealing a TARDIS