In the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion, he is a saint and pre-eminent Doctor of the Church, and the patron of the Augustinians ; his memorial is celebrated 28 August, the day of his death.

Ring modulation, also known as amplitude modulation, is an effect made famous by Doctor Who's Daleks and commonly used throughout sci-fi.

In the Roman Catholic Church he is deemed a Doctor of the Church.

St Gregory Nazianzen, fellow Doctor of the Church, 330-390, said in Or. 21: " When I praise Athanasius, virtue itself is my theme: for I name every virtue as often as I mention him who was possessed of all virtues.

In 1899, Bede was made a Doctor of the Church by Leo XIII, a position of theological significance ; he is the only native of Great Britain to achieve this designation ( Anselm of Canterbury, also a Doctor of the Church, was originally from Italy ).

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

* Doctor ( played by David Cann ): " The Doctor " is a seemingly " normal " physician working in a standard British medical practice.

Although aided by Doctor Strange and the appearance of Cassandra Nova, Xavier is unsuccessful.

This schooling is followed by four years of dental school to qualify as a " Doctor of Dental Surgery " ( DDS ) or " Doctor of Dental Medicine " ( DMD ).

In Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Finland, Sweden, the United States, and Canada, a dentist is a healthcare professional qualified to practice dentistry after graduating with a degree of either Doctor of Dental Surgery ( DDS ) or Doctor of Dental Medicine ( DMD ).

The Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn is the smuggler hero of a series of novels by Russell Thorndike.

Mipps escaped in the confusion of Syn's death and disappeared from England, but it is said that a little man very much like him is living out his days in a Buddhist Monastery somewhere in the Malay Peninsula, delighting the monks with recounting the adventures of Doctor Syn and the eerie stories of the Romney Marsh and the mysterious Scarecrow and his night riders.

This is essentially a reworking of Further Adventures of Doctor Syn with a different conclusion and some conflation and renaming of the supporting characters.

In the Arliss movie Doctor Syn, Syn escapes to sea with Mipps and the rest of the Dymchurch smugglers, whereas Captain Clegg ends more faithfully to the novel, with Parson Blyss being killed by the mulatto ( who is then killed by Mipps ) and then being carried to and buried in Captain Clegg's empty grave by Mipps.

Doctor Syn is also the name given to one of the locomotives on the Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway.

In the US, the Doctor of Science, Sc. D., is an academic research degree that was first conferred in North America by Harvard University in 1872.

Though lawyers in the United States do not customarily use such a title, the law degree in that country is the Juris Doctor, a professional doctorate degree, and some J. D.

When a medical doctor passes the examinations which enable them to become a member of one or more of the Royal Surgical Colleges and become " MRCS ", it is customary for them to drop the " Doctor " prefix and take up " Miss ", " Mister ", or and so on.

In the United Kingdom the status and rank of consultant surgeons with the FRCS, titled " Mister ", etc., and consultant physicians with the MRCP, titled " Doctor ", is identical.

* The Doctor Who serial State of Decay features a vampire named Camilla who in a brief but explicit moment finds much to ' admire ' in the Doctor's female travelling companion Romana who finds she has to turn away from the vampire's intense gaze.

In 1963, the BBC began production of the longest-running science-fiction television series ever, Doctor Who, about a time travelling alien called the Doctor.

By the time of " The Pirate Planet ," the Doctor had been travelling on board in time and space for 523 years and by the time of " The Doctor's Wife ", he had been travelling in it for 700 years.

In " The Empty Child " ( 2005 ), the Ninth Doctor claimed that he has had " 900 years of phone box travel ", while " The Doctor's Wife " says they've been travelling together for only 700 years.

* The Doctor Who episode Marco Polo is set in this year, where Doctor Who joins Marco Polo travelling along the Silk Road toward Beijing.

1936's The Flying Doctor was directed by Miles Mander and starred Charles Farrell as a swagman travelling through the Blue Mountains towards Sydney.

In the Doctor Who episode " Tooth and Claw ", the time travelling adventurer known as the Doctor identifies himself as an ex-student of Dr Bell to Queen Victoria.

The Doctor announces that the device is travelling back to Gallifrey.

In the story, Vicki, a teenaged travelling companion of the Doctor played by Maureen O ' Brien, meets Priam, King of Troy who, disliking her name, dubs her Cressida.

When he first came on board the TARDIS, the Sixth Doctor was travelling alone, but in Kane's Story ( DWM # 104 ), the Sixth Doctor's television companion Peri Brown returned, apparently placing Frobisher's stories between the unmade Season 23 and The Trial of a Time Lord ( indicated by Peri's changing hairstyles in the comic strip compared to her television appearances ).

After this story, Frobisher apparently departs again, since he is never again seen travelling with the Sixth Doctor.

The Fourth Doctor is intercepted while travelling from Earth to the Ark by the Time Lords.

Having returned the soldiers to Earth, the Time Lords erase Zoe and Jamie's memories of travelling with the Doctor, and return them to the point in time just before they entered the TARDIS.

She officially stopped travelling with the Doctor in Happy Endings but returned a few times thereafter, including the last Virgin New Adventure, The Dying Days.

* The Fifth Doctor's sequence in the novel The Eight Doctors – featuring the Eighth Doctor going through his own past to meet and assist his other selves – takes place after this episode, the Fifth Doctor travelling to the Eye of Orion to continue their earlier holiday only to be attacked by a renegade Time Lord from the Eighth Doctor's era using the Timescoop, forcing the two Doctors to defeat a Raston Warrior Robot and a Sontaran squadron.

The Doctor and Susan had already been travelling for an unspecified amount of time, before they decide to settle in London to make repairs on the TARDIS ; Susan states that she and her grandfather have been in London for five months.

Doctor Coppélius is not unlike Hoffmann's sinister Herr Drosselmeyer in " The Nutcracker " or the macabre Svengali-like travelling magician of the same name in Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann

In the next serial, Robot, after the Doctor's third regeneration, Sullivan is called in to attend him, and ends up travelling aboard the TARDIS with the Fourth Doctor and Sarah Jane Smith ( played by Elisabeth Sladen ) for several subsequent adventures.

Hartnell's Doctor would initially be accompanied by his granddaughter Susan Foreman ( played by Carole Ann Ford ), originally to have been merely a travelling companion, but with a family tie added by Coburn, who was uncomfortable with the possible undertones the relationship could carry were they to be unrelated.

The MRCS also gives a " Mister " title, but the Doctor cannot become a consultant with an MRCS alone.

It is suggested that other Time Lords might have survived the war when the Face of Boe utters its final words to the Doctor: " Know this, Time Lord: you are not alone " (" Gridlock ").

In the episode " Gridlock ", the Face of Boe told the Doctor with his dying breath that " you are not alone ".

After one visit, I never saw the Doctor again, and since then have been fighting my mental turmoil alone, and seemingly to no avail.

" For me, as a young boy and a teenager, growing up in the north of England, in a world where I could never imagine being a gay man, let alone settling down and finding someone, I think Doctor Who was really asexual.

The Doctor reveals Peri to the Mentors and requests he be allowed to interrogate her alone, a request Sil allows.

During Adam-Troy Castro's Sinister Six trilogy of Spider-Man novels, a new Sinister Six-consisting of Doctor Octopus, the Vulture, Electro, Mysterio, the Chameleon, and original member Pity, who can generate a psionic-based darkness-are formed by Gustav Fiers, a notorious criminal known as the Gentleman, who wishes to kill Peter Parker in revenge for the actions of his parents in thwarting some of the Gentleman's schemes in the 1960s, having already been responsible for betraying his parents to their true killer, the Red Skull ( Fiers requested that the Skull leave Peter alone because he preferred the challenge of fighting adults who could understand what was happening and possibly fight back to present some kind of challenge rather than the ease of taking out helpless children ).

The Doctors depart, leaving the Fifth Doctor, Tegan, and Turlough alone.

The Doctor, alone, practices wooing Seven in the holodeck, noting to the simulation that the last few dates have been " unforgettable ".

In June, 2008 it was announced that he would write a New Series Adventures novel, The Eyeless, starring the Tenth Doctor alone for release on Boxing Day 2008.

The Doctor says that joining the Federation will free them from superstition, but Hepesh counters that he is not alone in this.

Only Rogue, Ms. Marvel, Beast, Falcon, Cyclops, Iron Man and Doctor Strange are left – they were the ones who were directly confronting Cap and Wanda – and a guilt-ridden Beast, learning from Uatu that Cap would have recovered from his illness and abandoned his manipulative relationship with the Witch as he became leader of a new team of Avengers if Beast had done nothing, realizes that he should have left everything alone.

Nyssa travels alone with the Doctor for an unspecified period of time when the Doctor leaves Tegan at Heathrow.

Peri Brown has the distinction of being the first humanoid television companion to appear in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip ( previously the strip, which began in 1979, depicted the Doctor either travelling alone or with companions created for the strip, while the robotic television companion K9 was featured in several DWM comic strips featuring the Fourth Doctor ).

When the Seventh Doctor is next seen in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie, he is travelling alone, with no reference made as to what had happened to Ace.

In No Future ( also by Cornell ) the Meddling Monk tries to manipulate her into betraying the Doctor, which she seemingly does, again stabbing him and leaving him alone on an ice planet.

Although the Doctor at this point was content to travel alone, Leela barged into the TARDIS and continued to accompany the Doctor on his journeys.

She relied on Peri and the Doctor a great deal, as her knowledge of the world, let alone the universe, was limited and her travels in the TARDIS a constant source of amazement to her.