The TARDIS was already old when the Doctor first took it, but its actual age is not specified.

Under a flag of truce, Eufaula's mayor, Doctor C. J. Pope, and other prominent citizens met General Grierson beyond College Hill with news that General Robert E. Lee had already surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Courthouse and that the Civil War was over.

However, the Doctor had already pre-programmed the Hand of Omega to turn their sun into a supernova, resulting in Skaro's being completely obliterated.

Backstory references indicate that Dr. Dolittle travelled to the North Pole in April 1809, and already knew how to speak to some species of animals at that date, suggesting that the early chapters of The Story of Doctor Dolittle take place before that date.

In the early 1990s, Lambert attempted to win the rights to produce Doctor Who independently for the BBC ; however, this effort was unsuccessful because the Corporation was already in negotiations with producer Philip Segal in the United States.

However, the Doctor had already bought the architect that dinner, so when the Master pulls the lever the trap door opens beneath him instead.

Her intention is to capture all of the Doctor's selves in a time loop, trapping him in London's East End ; she has already captured the First and Second Doctor in the time hole.

Repeated series include Doctor Who, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Are You Being Served ?, Dad's Army, Torchwood, Torchwood Declassified, The Jewel in the Crown, Never the Twain, The Sweeney and The Bill that have already been seen on free-to-air terrestrial television in Australia.

Dr Holloway disbelieves the Doctor initially, but when he demonstrates that the nature of reality is already changing by walking through her bay windows without breaking them, she agrees to take him to the unveiling of an atomic clock at the San Francisco Institute of Technological Advancement and Research.

The Doctor finds the black light system is already beginning to self-destruct, and reconfigures the system so that its explosion would be limited to the underground complex.

She finds the Doctor and warns him-but he had already realised that the courtroom was a fake and merely wished to reach a final confrontation with the Valeyard.

The Doctor finds that he is already on Skaro, and joins with his companions Sarah Jane Smith and Harry Sullivan.

By this point, Doctor Octopus had already obtained his lost adamantium arms ( by killing a wealthy, unethical individual who offered to sell the arms to him ) and stealing the old man's robot soldiers and weapons.

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 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.

The Doctor is travelling alone and already in his ninth incarnation as the story begins.

Jon Pertwee's debut as the Third Doctor in Spearhead from Space also began with him already regenerated and without a companion.

The plaintiff, George McLaurin, who already had a Masters Degree in Education, was first denied admission to the University of Oklahoma to pursue a Doctor of Education degree.

Although MacDonald agreed with the principle of appointing someone familiar with the workings of the show, he first offered the job to Nathan-Turner's predecessor George Gallaccio, who after leaving Doctor Who in 1977 had already gained experience as a producer on the BBC Scotland drama The Omega Factor.

Based on the BBC TV series ( which at that point had already been running for 16 years ), Doctor Who Weekly featured original comics stories by John Wagner, Pat Mills, and Dave Gibbons, among many others, plus articles and features on the show itself.

Doctor Carossa had already by this time published three other works: Stella Mystica, Gedichte, and a fifteen page lyrical pamphlet titled Ostern.

Though Lands has already launched the Little Doctor ( the Molecular Disruption Device in the form of a missile ), Peter convinces Jane to transport it back to the flagship so the other officers can disarm it.

Aside from the continuity issues arising from " The Five Doctors " that are never addressed nor apparently acknowledged, Mel is the first companion who had already met the Doctor before he met her and vice versa, and the only such companion in the classic era, setting a precedent for revived era companions such as River Song and others.

The Doctor then determines that Gwyneth is, in fact, already dead ; the process of becoming a bridge for the Gelth was fatal.

In the 2008 episode " Forest of the Dead ", River Song ( a character whose timeline intersects with the Doctor in reverse order ) says to the Doctor that she knows he would be able to open the TARDIS doors with a snap of his fingers.

* In " The War Games ", the War Chief recognises the Second Doctor despite his regeneration and it is implied that the Doctor knows him when they first meet.

The thirteen life rule is suggested to have been a rule the time lords imposed upon themselves to stop them living forever, but as he is the last Time Lord, no-one knows if this applies to the Doctor.

Out of all the staff, Johnny appears to be the closest to fellow DJ Venus Flytrap, to the point where Venus gives him financial advice, bets on horses and football games with him, and even knows which seedy bars Johnny spends time at ( for his part, Venus once claimed that he came to WKRP specifically " to work with the Doctor ").

Spock adds quietly, " He knows, Doctor.

In the episode " Blink " the Doctor knows exactly what clues to leave in the past in order to help a character in the present ( Sally Sparrow ) deal with an alien threat because she has carefully collected and preserved all the information and gives it to him after the fact.

But at least the Doctor now knows the full extent of the Ice Warrior plans.

Within the house, Rutans and Sontarans come into conflict with each other, a conflict which is resolved when the Doctor decides to give each of the two doomsday weapons to both sides, revealing that he reprogrammed one of them to target Rutans, and nobody knows whose weapon will target who.

The Doctor knows that the Emperor realises that he would die before complying with this order, and so is concerned about why the Emperor seems so confident.

However, only Doctor Mindbender knows the full truth of his condition as Cobra Commander funds the scientist's research in hopes to achieve immortality.

Despite Yellow Peri's contrary advice, Doctor Occult trusts her with the Unspoken Principum, a mysterious and universal truth that every condemned soul knows, but s / he can never communicate by any means.

Finally, Miss Augusta and Doctor Cadaverezzi ( whom she knows as Signor Rolipolio ), old lovers, reunite and marry.

When the Doctor and the Brigadier go to Think Tank, Winters tells them that K1 has been dismantled, but Winters is aware that the Doctor knows she is lying.

Despite befriending a young woman named Anne Chaplet, the Doctor knows he cannot prevent the coming massacre of 10, 000 Huguenots, including Anne, by the Catholic French authorities.

" Piper stated that at the start of the series Rose is " looking for something to happen " and that once the Doctor arrives she becomes " ruthless " in her decision to " completely drop her life as she knows it.

But in the next story, A Death in the Family, the Doctor apologizes to Hex and takes him to meet Evelyn, who tells him everything she knows about his mother.

Back on the base, the Doctor reveals what he knows about the tenth planet: it is Mondas, Earth's former sister planet and its inhabitants will soon be visiting Earth.

She knows the crystal is still on Earth and sends the Doctor there to get it for her.

The Seventh Doctor and Ace are on the trail of a monster that not only knows their every move but appears to be able to anticipate their actions too.

John tells the others that he knows the lead plotter, but he is now too powerful, so The Doctor and Ian go down to the aqueduct to find the poisoners.

Following some vague threats from the Doctor ( who is by this stage pretending that he knows exactly who Merlin is ), Mordred's knights retreat.