Vamana ( Devanagari: व ा मन, IAST: Vāmana ) is described in the Puranic texts of Hinduism as the Fifth Avatar of Vishnu, and the first incarnation of the Second Age, or the Treta yuga.

Fifth incarnation: He is a modern man in New York, paying the consequences of cowardly indecision and gaining the strength to address the children he lost lifetimes ago.

Quentin Willson ( born 23 July 1957 ) is a British TV presenter and motoring expert, perhaps most widely known as a presenter of the motoring programmes Britain's Worst Driver, Fifth Gear, and the original incarnation of Top Gear.

Fifth Gear was first broadcast on 8 April 2002 as a continuation of the original incarnation of the BBC show Top Gear, which was cancelled in 2001 due to low ratings.

* While he is still disoriented, the Fifth Doctor grasps his lapels, adopting the persona of his first incarnation, and addresses Adric as " Brigadier " and " Jamie ", and Tegan as " Vicki " and " Jo ".

Dorje Shugden is regarded as the incarnation of Gelugpa Lama Dragpa Gyaltsen of Drepung Monastery, a contemporary of the Fifth Dalai Lama.

The Fifth Doctor is the fifth incarnation of the protagonist of the long-running BBC television science fiction series Doctor Who.

In the Fifth Doctor story Resurrection of the Daleks, a small Dalek force aided by human mercenaries and Dalek duplicates liberates Davros ( now played by Terry Molloy, with a new mask designed by Stan Mitchell ) from his space station prison, needing his expertise to find an antidote for a Movellan-created virus that has all but wiped them out.

Not all iterations of the Doctor have used the sonic on screen ; the Fifth Doctor in fact opted not to replace his after it was destroyed.

The sonic screwdriver was written out of the series late in season 19, in the Fifth Doctor serial The Visitation.

The Tenth Doctor joked about the Fifth Doctor's lack of sonic screwdriver in the mini-episode Time Crash, commenting that he " went hands-free " and could " save the universe using a kettle and some string.

Big Finish Productions first used the Sontarans for their audio drama Heroes of Sontar-a 2011 Fifth Doctor story.

They next featured in The Five Companions and were stuck in an alternative version of the Death Zone with the Fifth Doctor and various companions.

In " Frontios " ( 1984 ), the Fifth Doctor believes the TARDIS to have been destroyed in a meteorite bombardment, apparently contradicting the earlier claim of indestructibility.

In the 2007 Children in Need special " Time Crash " the Fifth Doctor complains to the Tenth Doctor that he had " changed the desktop theme!

Reportedly, he also advised the Fifth Doctor, actor Peter Davison, to limit his time in the role to three seasons in order to avoid being typecast and the young actor followed that advice.

The Monk was easily defeated by the Fifth Doctor.

The Fourth Doctor regenerates into the Fifth Doctor ( from Logopolis, 1981 ).

* In " Time Crash ", the Fifth Doctor could not instinctively recognise that the Tenth Doctor was a Time Lord, much less one of his own later incarnations.

The Fifth Doctor also showed a similar ability in his final televised story " The Caves Of Androzani ".

In " The Caves of Androzani ", the Fifth Doctor remains conscious throughout the entire course of his ( eventually fatal ) spectrox toxaemia, while his human companion Peri loses consciousness as the disease worsens.

More recently, she has appeared with the Fifth Doctor in The Chaos Pool, the final part of the Key 2 Time trilogy, where it is revealed that Romana's regeneration was at least partly caused by her transformation into the new sixth segment of the Key to Time, the audio concluding with the segment's essence being transferred back to Astra to save Romana's life before the Doctor destroys the Key for good.

The Fifth Doctor encountered many of the Doctor's best-known adversaries, including the Daleks ( in Resurrection of the Daleks ) and the Cybermen ( in both Earthshock and The Five Doctors ).

Davison did, in fact, return to play the Fifth Doctor in the 1993 multi-doctor charity special Dimensions in Time and in the 1997 video game Destiny of the Doctors ( audio only ).

He returned once again in " Time Crash ", a special episode written by Steven Moffat for Children in Need ; in the episode, which aired on 16 November 2007, the Fifth Doctor met the Tenth Doctor, played by David Tennant, who would later become Davison's son-in-law.

Malinalli is the main character in a historical novel by Helen Heightsman Gordon, " Malinalli of the Fifth Sun: The Slave Girl Who Changed the Fate of Mexico and Spain.

* 2000, Schools that Learn: A Fifth Discipline Fieldbook for Educators, Parents, and Everyone Who Cares about Education

Building on this, a " what if " article in Doctor Who Magazine # 255 featured her in this role along with a hypothetical Eighth Doctor, played by Richard Griffiths, who was at one time considered for the role of the Fifth Doctor.

** Nyssa ( Doctor Who ), a companion of the Fourth and Fifth Doctors in the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who

The Rutans first appearance in the Doctor Who range of Big Finish Productions audio stories was Castle of Fear, with the Fifth Doctor and Nyssa.

* Doctor Who The Handbook: The Fifth Doctor ( paperback, co-written with Walker, 1995, Virgin Publishing )

** Primeval ( 2001 ; Doctor Who audio featuring the Fifth Doctor )

* In the 1984 Doctor Who serial The Awakening, the Fifth Doctor's companion Tegan Jovanka becomes ' The Queen of the May ' during a war game gone awry.

India Fisher first appeared in the Doctor Who audio plays as the voice of Peril Bellamy in the Fifth Doctor audio Winter for the Adept ( 2000 ).

# Chronologically, this is the earliest audio drama in the main Doctor Who range to feature the Fifth Doctor.

In 2007, Tennant's Tenth Doctor appeared with Peter Davison's Fifth Doctor in a Doctor Who special for Children in Need, written by Steven Moffat and entitled " Time Crash ".

Janet Fielding ( born Janet Mahoney, 9 September 1953 ) is an Australian actress, known for her role in the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who as Tegan Jovanka, a companion of the Fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker, and the Fifth Doctor, played by Peter Davison.

In addition to his Star Wars role, Sheard had a lengthy affiliation with science fiction, and appeared in six stories of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who, appearing with the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Seventh Doctors.

Richard Hurndall, Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton and Peter Davison as the First, Third, Second and Fifth Doctors respectively, in The Five Doctors, the 1983 anniversary special of Doctor Who.

* The Fifth Doctor on the BBC's Doctor Who website

In his later years, Neville had numerous cameo appearances in films, including Primate of the Anglican Church in Australia in The Man Who Sued God and an Admiral in the Earth Space Navy in The Fifth Element.

Broadcast in January 2010, the second series was composed of adaptations of Faceless Killers, The Man Who Smiled, and The Fifth Woman.

He has appeared in the The Tomorrow People, Dalek Empire, 2000 AD, Sarah Jane Smith, Bernice Summerfield and Luther Arkwright plays, but is best known for his various appearances in the Doctor Who range, most notably as the companion Shayde in the Fifth Doctor play No Place Like Home.