In " The Parting of the Ways " and " Utopia " it is used to operate the TARDIS controls remotely ; when the Doctor attempts to counteract the Master's theft of the TARDIS, it is used to limit the TARDIS ' destination.

The Doctor attempts to repair the circuit in " Logopolis " and " Attack of the Cybermen ", but the successful transformation of the TARDIS into the shapes of a pipe organ, a painted Welsh dresser ( much to the amusement of Perpurgilliam " Peri " Brown and the Sixth Doctor's annoyance ) and an elaborate gateway in the latter serial was followed by a return to the police box shape.

* The Bicycle Doctor, a laughing, malevolent clown disguised as a doctor who destroys the protagonist's beloved bicycle after feigning attempts to repair it in a nightmare experienced by Pee-Wee Herman in the film Pee-Wee's Big Adventure.

In the episode Cold Blood, the Eleventh Doctor experiences excruciating pain when the Silurian attempts to decontaminate him of surface bacteria.

In this story, the Rani attempts to trap the first seven incarnations of the Doctor in a time loop.

*( in English language productions ) The Doctor attempts to conjugate English words as if they are Latin ( i. e. complaining he's been attacked by “ hoodla ” instead of “ hoodlums ” or speaking of going “ inside and exside .”)

* In Marvel Comics ' Super-Villain Team-Up # 7, Doctor Doom attempts to exercise his droit de seigneur with a Latverian peasant girl named Gretchen, but is prevented by a blind superhero called the Shroud.

After another encounter with the Overmind and a visit to the laboratory world of the Stranger ; the Whizzer participates in a " speedster " race organised by Elder of the Universe the Runner attempts ( with the Squadron ) to return to their universe and with fellow members Hyperion and Doctor Spectrum battle the entity Deathurge.

Doctor Octopus later attempts to steal the Defense Department's Nullifier device, and sets a trap for Spider-Man.

Attempting to find a cure for his condition, Doctor Octopus attempts to capture Tony Stark to force him to find a treatment for his injuries, threatening to detonate a nuclear bomb if Stark doesn't help him.

* In English novelist Peter Ackroyd's 1993 novel The House of Doctor Dee, John Dee, the Elizabethan mathematician, astrologer, philosopher and magus, attempts and succeeds in creating a homunculus.

The Doctor ’ s early attempts to intercede are futile, but he does rescue Burton and Mel from the Bannermen.

The Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story Emperor of the Daleks ( DWM # 197 -# 202 ) also attempts to fill in this gap, with Davros conquering Skaro and also explaining how his remains came to be housed in the Emperor Dalek shell while the Big Finish Productions audio adventure The Juggernauts presents an alternate version of Davros's activities in the period between Revelation and Remembrance.

On Kang's first foray into the 20th century where he expects to meet Doctor Doom, he attempts to conquer this time period and meets the superhero team the Avengers, he reveals how he returned and battles them.

The 2000 Big Finish audio play The Apocalypse Element attempts to explain this decision by introducing a plot point in which the eye of the Sixth Doctor's companion Evelyn Smythe is keyed to a Gallifreyan security system so as to confound enemy expectations by allowing entry only to the most unlikely of candidates, the Doctor speculating after the crisis is over that the TARDIS may retain some sensitivity to human eyes in the future.

* The Doctor Who episode titled " The Mark of the Rani " depicted Killingworth in the 19th-century, with the Sixth Doctor in search of George Stephenson after arch-enemy The Master attempts to hijack the Industrial Revolution.

The Doctor attempts to mediate the two, but Giorgio insists on seeing her one last time.

When the Doctor arrives, he attempts to plead for Drathro to shut himself down in order to disable the black light system, but Drathro refuses.

The Doctor attempts to return to save her but is suddenly drawn hypnotically into the TARDIS, which appears in the hallway ; it is later revealed that he travelled directly to this trial from that point.

The brother of Doctor Magnus attempts to avert a catastrophic future and prevent the creation of the group, and uses a device stolen from the villain T. O. Morrow to change the Metal into evil, radioactive versions based on other metals, called the Death Metal Men ( Uranium ( Iron ), Strontium ( Mercury ), Thorium ( Platinum ), Radium ( Gold ), Lithium ( Copper ), Polonium ( Lead ) and Fermium ( Tin )).

The story concerns the Doctor and his companions ' attempts to thwart the machinations of Tegana, who attempts to sabotage the caravan along its travels through the Pamir Plateau and across the treacherous Gobi Desert, and ultimately to assassinate Kublai Khan in Peking, at the height of his imperial power.

He made two attempts in the television series to re-enter the positive matter universe, in The Three Doctors where he attempted to force the Doctor to take his place in the antimatter universe so that he could depart it, and in the serial Arc of Infinity where he attempted to create a new body for himself using the Doctor's biological data .< ref name =" bbcwebarc ">

The Doctor attempts to explain that they are aliens, but Nyder refuses to believe it as their greatest scientist, Davros has stated there is no life outside of Skaro.

In order to get around Nintendo's lockout chip, when using the Doctor V64 a game cartridge is plugged into the Nintendo 64 through an adaptor which connects only the lockout chip.

Dreadknight has since tried to get revenge on Doctor Doom only to be thwarted by various superheroes.

In the final story of season 15, The Invasion of Time, the Fourth Doctor conceded, " Not even the sonic screwdriver can get me out of this one.

Also in " The Doctor's Wife ", the TARDIS reveals that much of this " unpredictability " was actually intentional on her part in order to get the Doctor " where needed to go " as opposed to where he " wanted to go ".

In " Doomsday ", when the TARDIS is confiscated, the Doctor claims, " You'll never get inside it.

And though I've been denying the accusation for twenty-five years, one of the first questions I get from many reporters and interviewers is, " Doctor Spock, are you still permissive?

With him, the 76ers were back in the playoffs after a five-year absence, and even though they lost to the Buffalo Braves in three games, a " Doctor " would come along and get the team healthy enough to stay in perennial contention.

After that, he sets off to reunite with the Daleks, hoping to get his final revenge on the Doctor, in Lucie Miller / To the Death, only for his plans to backfire when the Daleks betray him, resulting in the deaths of Tamsin, Lucy, and the Doctor's great-grandson Alex, although the Monk saves the Doctor and Susan to make up for his role in the Dalek attack.

Hulk heads into the wilderness to find a way to get everyone back home, while Doctor Doom builds a replica of his Latverian Castle.

On this road students can get a complete education all the way from preschool to a Doctor of Philosophy degree.

She wants him to try and get it back before the Good Reverend Doctor comes home, so Flipper goes out to find Gator.

The Rani then injects the Doctor with an amnesia drug, and disguises herself as the Doctor's companion, Mel ( Bonnie Langford ); she later uses a hologram of Mel to get the Doctor to return a vital piece of machinery.

Spider-Man told Doctor Octopus that they will get the baby back from the Lizard and then fight over who will get it.

Norman Osborn tells Doctor Octopus that if he doesn't get the results by sundown, he's pulling the plug on Doctor Octopus ' project.

Spider-Man manages to get Doctor Octopus out of the underwater base.

After tanking an attack from Iron Man, Spider-Man manages to defeat Doctor Octopus who manages to get away.

It soon turns out that Norman Osborn secretly manages to get Doctor Octopus away before S. H. I. E. L. D.

The tentacles convince Otto that in order to get funding for a new fusion reactor, he must begin a life of crime, becoming Doctor Octopus.

Many important and notable people national and international get the Doctor Honoris Causa from Universitas Indonesia.

Mohammad Hatta, the first vice president of Indonesia get the Doctor Honoris causa in law.

Prof. Miriam Budiarjo, M. A. get Doctor Honoris Causa in 1997 in political science.