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Planet
A planet being made ready for Earth's colonists by little robots, the Emojibots, which kill anyone who isn't happy.
Visited in: Smile (Twelfth Doctor)
Every place on the TARDIS Navigation Console, grouped by region, with the episodes in which the Doctor goes there. Plot twists from the series are left out.
Open the 3D mapEarth's corner of Mutter's Spiral, as the Time Lords call this galaxy, about 26,000 light years out from its centre. More of the Doctor's adventures happen here than anywhere else.
Planet
A planet being made ready for Earth's colonists by little robots, the Emojibots, which kill anyone who isn't happy.
Visited in: Smile (Twelfth Doctor)
Star system
The Sun and its planets. Zoom in to see Earth, the Moon, Mars and the rest, along with lost Mondas and the stations that orbit Earth in the far future.
The constellation that holds Gallifrey, home of the Time Lords, and its bleak neighbour Karn.
Time Lord world
Home of the Time Lords, a world of burnt orange skies and silver-leaved trees, ruled from the domed Citadel. The Doctor ran away from it in a stolen TARDIS.
Visited in: The War Games (Second Doctor); The Deadly Assassin (Fourth Doctor); The Invasion of Time (Fourth Doctor); Arc of Infinity (Fifth Doctor); The Five Doctors (Fifth Doctor); The Day of the Doctor (War Doctor); The Day of the Doctor (Tenth Doctor); The Day of the Doctor (Eleventh Doctor); Hell Bent (Twelfth Doctor); Spyfall (Thirteenth Doctor); The Timeless Children (Thirteenth Doctor)
Time Lord world
A bleak, rocky neighbour of Gallifrey, home of the Sisterhood of Karn, who guard the Elixir of Life. The renegade Time Lord Morbius was executed, but his brain survives here, kept alive by a surgeon who is building him a new body.
Visited in: The Brain of Morbius (Fourth Doctor); The Night of the Doctor (Eighth Doctor); The Night of the Doctor (War Doctor)
The space around Skaro, where the Daleks were created. Their conquests spread out from here across many eras, and The show never says where the other Dalek worlds are, so placing them nearby is a guess.
Planet
A snowbound planet where the Daleks lock away the ones too damaged or insane even for them. A human survivor named Oswin seems to be holding out inside.
Visited in: Asylum of the Daleks (Eleventh Doctor)
Planet
A grey, misty world whose great living City drains every source of power around it, leaving the Daleks' guns and the TARDIS useless.
Visited in: Death to the Daleks (Third Doctor)
Planet
A jungle world where, in the year 4000, the Daleks and their allies meet to plot the conquest of the Solar System with a terrible weapon, the Time Destructor.
Visited in: The Daleks' Master Plan (First Doctor, 4000)
Monster homeworld
Homeworld of the Daleks. A thousand-year war between the Kaleds and the Thals left it a radioactive wasteland, and the Kaled scientist Davros turned his people into the Daleks.
Visited in: The Daleks (First Doctor); Genesis of the Daleks (Fourth Doctor); The Evil of the Daleks (Second Doctor); Destiny of the Daleks (Fourth Doctor); Asylum of the Daleks (Eleventh Doctor); The Magician's Apprentice (Twelfth Doctor); The Witch's Familiar (Twelfth Doctor)
Planet
A jungle world of poisonous plants and invisible natives, where the Daleks hide an army of ten thousand frozen in the ice caverns beneath its surface.
Visited in: Planet of the Daleks (Third Doctor)
The cold region around Telos, the world the Cybermen took for their own after Mondas was lost.
Monster homeworld
A cold world the Cybermen took from the Cryons, who lived there before them. Their tombs lie frozen beneath its surface, waiting for anyone foolish enough to open them.
Visited in: The Tomb of the Cybermen (Second Doctor); Attack of the Cybermen (Sixth Doctor)
The domain of the Sontarans, a clone race bred for war. They have been fighting the shape-shifting Rutan Host for millennia.
Monster homeworld
Homeworld of the Sontarans, a squat, high-gravity clone race that lives for war. The Doctor has never set foot here on screen, but its troops turn up everywhere.
By the 26th century humans rule an empire across this part of the galaxy, in a cold war with the Draconians. By the 30th it is falling apart, and colonies like Solos win their independence.
Planet
An Earth colony in the 30th century whose people, the Solonians, are fighting for independence from a dying Earth Empire.
Visited in: The Mutants (Third Doctor, 30th century)
The empire of the Draconians, an old and proud reptile people whose space borders Earth's. In 2540 the Master tries to start a war between the two.
Monster homeworld
Throne world of the Draconian Empire. In 2540 the Doctor and Jo are brought before its Emperor while the Master works to push Earth and Draconia into war.
Visited in: Frontier in Space (Third Doctor, 2540)
An alliance of worlds including Earth, Mars, Alpha Centauri and Arcturus. The mountain kingdom of Peladon asks to join it.
Planet
A stormy mountain kingdom ruled from a citadel on a peak, whose people fear the royal beast Aggedor. It asks to join the Galactic Federation, and fifty years later its mines are fought over.
Visited in: The Curse of Peladon (Third Doctor); The Monster of Peladon (Third Doctor)
A rift in space and time, and one of the strangest places the Doctor knows. One story puts it halfway across the universe, so its spot here is a guess.
Anomaly
A rift in space and time that the Doctor first visited when he was just a kid of ninety.
Visited in: The Stolen Earth (Tenth Doctor, c. 2009); Journey's End (Tenth Doctor, c. 2009)
The Sun and its planets, drawn far apart and not to scale, with the stations that orbit Earth in the far future.
Planet
The Doctor's favourite planet, and the one most often invaded. Its whole history is on the itinerary, from the Stone Age to the far future.
Visited in: The Runaway Bride (Tenth Doctor, 4.6 billion years ago); An Unearthly Child (First Doctor, 100,000 BC); The Fires of Pompeii (Tenth Doctor, AD 79); The Pandorica Opens (Eleventh Doctor, AD 102); The Time Meddler (First Doctor, 1066); Marco Polo (First Doctor, 1289); The Vampires of Venice (Eleventh Doctor, 1580); The Shakespeare Code (Tenth Doctor, 1599); The Visitation (Fifth Doctor, 1666); Rogue (Fifteenth Doctor, 1813); The Unquiet Dead (Ninth Doctor, 1869); Vincent and the Doctor (Eleventh Doctor, 1890); The Snowmen (Eleventh Doctor, 1892); Pyramids of Mars (Fourth Doctor, 1911); The Unicorn and the Wasp (Tenth Doctor, 1926); The Empty Child (Ninth Doctor, 1941); Victory of the Daleks (Eleventh Doctor, 1941); Rosa (Thirteenth Doctor, 1955); An Unearthly Child (First Doctor, 1963); Remembrance of the Daleks (Seventh Doctor, 1963); The Devil's Chord (Fifteenth Doctor, 1963); Day of the Moon (Eleventh Doctor, 1969); Spearhead from Space (Third Doctor, c. 1970); The Stones of Blood (Fourth Doctor, c. 1978); Cold War (Eleventh Doctor, 1983); The Tenth Planet (First Doctor, 1986); Father's Day (Ninth Doctor, 1987); Doctor Who (the TV movie) (Eighth Doctor, 1999); Rose (Ninth Doctor, 2005); Aliens of London (Ninth Doctor, 2006); Partners in Crime (Tenth Doctor, 2008); The Stolen Earth (Tenth Doctor, c. 2009); Dalek (Ninth Doctor, 2012); The Bells of Saint John (Eleventh Doctor, 2013); The Woman Who Fell to Earth (Thirteenth Doctor, 2018); Fugitive of the Judoon (Thirteenth Doctor, 2020); The Star Beast (Fourteenth Doctor, 2023); The Church on Ruby Road (Fifteenth Doctor, 2023); The Dalek Invasion of Earth (First Doctor, 2164); The Mysterious Planet (Sixth Doctor, about 2 million AD); The Ark (First Doctor, about 10 million AD)
Monster homeworld
Homeworld of the Ice Warriors. In 2059 it holds Bowie Base One, humanity's first base on Mars.
Visited in: Empress of Mars (Twelfth Doctor, 1881); Pyramids of Mars (Fourth Doctor, 1911); The Waters of Mars (Tenth Doctor, 2059)
Monster homeworld
Earth's lost twin planet, which drifted away to the edge of space long ago. Its people replaced their bodies with machines and became the first Cybermen. In 1986 it comes back.
Visited in: The Tenth Planet (First Doctor, 1986)
Planet
Earth's moon. A weather-control base there is attacked by Cybermen in 2070, in 2540 it holds a penal colony where the Doctor is locked up, and in 2008 a whole London hospital is carried up to it.
Visited in: Smith and Jones (Tenth Doctor, 2008); Kill the Moon (Twelfth Doctor, 2049); The Moonbase (Second Doctor, 2070); Frontier in Space (Third Doctor, 2540)
Station
A luxury viewing platform where the galaxy's rich gather in the year five billion to watch the Sun expand and destroy Earth.
Visited in: The End of the World (Ninth Doctor, year 5 billion)
Planet
In the far future, after Earth is used up, humanity lives on Pluto under artificial suns, taxed to the bone by a corporation run by the Usurians.
Visited in: The Sun Makers (Fourth Doctor)
Station
A news station orbiting Earth in the year 200,000, at the height of the Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. A century later it has become the Game Station, broadcasting deadly game shows.
Visited in: The Long Game (Ninth Doctor, year 200,000); Bad Wolf (Ninth Doctor, year 200,100); The Parting of the Ways (Ninth Doctor, year 200,100)
Planet
A planet rich in gold, the one metal the Cybermen can't survive. It wandered into the Solar System and was caught by Jupiter's gravity, and its people, the Vogans, live hidden inside it.
Visited in: Revenge of the Cybermen (Fourth Doctor)
Worlds scattered across the galaxy. The show almost never says where they are, so these positions are guesses.
Planet
A system of seven worlds whose peoples worship Akhaten, a vast glowing presence they call the Old God. The Doctor and Clara arrive for the Festival of Offerings.
Visited in: The Rings of Akhaten (Eleventh Doctor)
Planet
A world where the starliner Byzantium crashes into a temple full of statues, carrying a Weeping Angel. River Song calls the Doctor in.
Visited in: The Time of Angels (Eleventh Doctor); Flesh and Stone (Eleventh Doctor)
Planet
A desert world honeycombed with caves where spectrox, a drug that slows ageing, is mined, and fought over by gunrunners and the army.
Visited in: The Caves of Androzani (Fifth Doctor)
Planet
Once a top tourist destination, now under quarantine for Chen7, a plague that kills species with two hearts. Amy gets trapped in a fast-running time stream there.
Visited in: The Girl Who Waited (Eleventh Doctor)
Planet
A world locked in a war of attrition with its twin planet Zeos, where the hunt for the Key to Time comes to an end.
Visited in: The Armageddon Factor (Fourth Doctor)
Planet
A dying planet of the Cheetah People, who hunt for sport. Its wildness gets into anyone who stays too long. It is the setting of the last story of the original run.
Visited in: Survival (Seventh Doctor)
Monster homeworld
Twin planet of Raxacoricofallapatorius and home of the Abzorbaloff, a creature that absorbs people into its own body.
Mentioned in: Love & Monsters, The Stolen Earth
Planet
Home of the Singing Towers, which sing only when the winds are right, and a promise the Doctor keeps putting off.
Visited in: The Husbands of River Song (Twelfth Doctor)
Planet
Its third moon is a swamp where a giant squid, Kroll, has swallowed the fifth segment of the Key to Time and grown to monstrous size.
Visited in: The Power of Kroll (Fourth Doctor)
Station
An asteroid base where the Doctor raises an army to rescue Amy Pond, and pays a price for it.
Visited in: A Good Man Goes to War (Eleventh Doctor)
Planet
A poisoned, deserted planet at the end of the Rally of the Twelve Galaxies, where the prize, a ghostly monument, keeps fading in and out.
Visited in: The Ghost Monument (Thirteenth Doctor)
Planet
A paradise jungle world where the telepathic Kinda live, and where the Mara, a snake of the mind, gets into Tegan's dreams.
Visited in: Kinda (Fifth Doctor)
Planet
A bright colony of rich young people living their whole lives inside their social feeds, too busy scrolling to notice the monsters eating them.
Visited in: Dot and Bubble (Fifteenth Doctor)
Planet
One of the last refuges of humanity in the far future, a colony bombarded from space and dragged underground by the burrowing Tractators.
Visited in: Frontios (Fifth Doctor)
Planet
A grey, isolated world that has just reopened to visitors. A travelling showman brings a Miniscope, a peepshow full of tiny living creatures, and the TARDIS lands inside it.
Visited in: Carnival of Monsters (Third Doctor)
Planet
A war-torn planet where the Doctor steps on a landmine and can't move, while Anglican marines and their deadly ambulances fight an enemy nobody has seen.
Visited in: Boom (Fifteenth Doctor)
Anomaly
A planet that should be impossible, held in orbit around a black hole. A mining base drills down towards something chained at its core that calls itself the Beast.
Visited in: The Impossible Planet (Tenth Doctor); The Satan Pit (Tenth Doctor)
Planet
A planet-sized library in the 51st century, holding a copy of every book ever written, now deserted and haunted by the shadow-swarming Vashta Nerada. The Doctor meets River Song here.
Visited in: Silence in the Library (Tenth Doctor, 51st century); Forest of the Dead (Tenth Doctor, 51st century)
Planet
A world of mathematicians whose chanted calculations, known as block transfer computation, keep the universe running.
Visited in: Logopolis (Fourth Doctor)
Planet
A world of glass beaches and acid seas, ruled by a machine called the Conscience. Its keys are scattered across the planet, and the Doctor's crew must find them before the Voord.
Visited in: The Keys of Marinus (First Doctor)
Planet
A world where human colonists and the fish-like Hath fight a war that has run for generations in a single week. The Doctor's daughter Jenny is grown there from his DNA.
Visited in: The Doctor's Daughter (Tenth Doctor)
Planet
The famous blue planet of the Acteon group, ruled by giant spiders, the Eight Legs. The Doctor takes one of its blue crystals home, which turns out to be a mistake.
Visited in: The Green Death (Third Doctor); Planet of the Spiders (Third Doctor)
Planet
A diamond planet bathed in deadly X-tonic sunlight, visited only from a sealed Leisure Palace. Something out there gets into a stalled shuttle bus.
Visited in: Midnight (Tenth Doctor)
Monster homeworld
Snowbound homeworld of the Ood, a gentle telepathic race. In 4126 the Doctor and Donna find the company that sells them as servants has been cutting them off from their shared mind. He returns a century later, when the Ood call him back.
Visited in: Planet of the Ood (Tenth Doctor, 4126); The End of Time (Tenth Doctor, 4226)
Planet
A scorched battlefield world whose psychic fields scramble the minds of anyone who lands there unprotected, where the Doctor faces the Stenza warrior Tim Shaw again.
Visited in: The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos (Thirteenth Doctor)
Monster homeworld
Homeworld of the Raxacoricofallapatorians, among them the criminal Slitheen family, who hunt on other planets wearing their victims' skins.
Mentioned in: Aliens of London, Boom Town
Planet
A frozen, medieval world where a con man tries to sell the whole planet. The first segment of the Key to Time is hidden in plain sight there.
Visited in: The Ribos Operation (Fourth Doctor)
Planet
A dusty world where the Psychic Circus, the Greatest Show in the Galaxy, has turned sinister, performing for audiences who don't forgive a bad act.
Visited in: The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (Seventh Doctor)
Station
The galaxy's police, who send rhino-like Judoon troopers to enforce their laws. Their base is the Doctor's first stop when Earth goes missing.
Visited in: The Stolen Earth (Tenth Doctor)
Planet
A busy market world where a fortune teller sets a creature on Donna's back to change one choice in her past.
Visited in: Turn Left (Tenth Doctor)
Planet
A world of castles, swordfights and lifelike androids, where Romana finds the fourth segment of the Key to Time and is mistaken for a princess.
Visited in: The Androids of Tara (Fourth Doctor)
Planet
Homeworld of the Mentors, slug-like traders like Sil, where the Doctor seems to turn against Peri.
Visited in: Mindwarp (Sixth Doctor)
Planet
Heart of the Traken Union, a world kept so peaceful by its Keeper that evil withers there, until a statue in its garden starts to stir.
Visited in: The Keeper of Traken (Fourth Doctor)
Planet
A remote world the Doctor has been warned never to visit, where a question that must never be answered is asked.
Visited in: The Name of the Doctor (Eleventh Doctor); The Time of the Doctor (Eleventh Doctor)
Planet
A former prison colony whose people vote on their governor's life and watch torture as entertainment. Sil tries to cheat them out of their valuable ore.
Visited in: Vengeance on Varos (Sixth Doctor)
Planet
A human mining colony in 2020, full of mercury swamps, where colonists dig up a crashed capsule of Daleks who claim to be their servants. This is the Second Doctor's first adventure.
Visited in: The Power of the Daleks (Second Doctor, 2020)
Planet
A hollow pirate planet that materialises around smaller worlds and strips them bare.
Visited in: The Pirate Planet (Fourth Doctor)
Places in other galaxies, other universes, or at the very end of time, shown around the edge of the chart.
Beyond the galaxy
Our neighbouring galaxy, the source of a theft from the Time Lords that has far-reaching results for Earth.
Mentioned in: The Trial of a Time Lord
Beyond the galaxy · a smaller universe
A tiny universe next door to ours. The TARDIS slips into it through a charged vacuum emboitment, and finds it hard to get out again.
Visited in: Full Circle (Fourth Doctor); State of Decay (Fourth Doctor); Warriors' Gate (Fourth Doctor)
Beyond the galaxy · outside time and space
A realm outside reality where fictional characters come to life, run by a master who wants the Doctor to take his place.
Visited in: The Mind Robber (Second Doctor)
Beyond the galaxy · the end of the universe
A barren planet at the edge of the universe in the year one hundred trillion, as the stars burn out. The last humans wait to fly to Utopia, helped by the kindly Professor Yana.
Visited in: Utopia (Tenth Doctor, year 100 trillion)
Beyond the galaxy · in the galaxy M87
The planet humans settle after Earth is gone, home to the city of New New York. The Doctor brings Rose there in the year five billion and twenty-three, and Martha thirty years later, when the city is trapped in a never-ending traffic jam.
Visited in: New Earth (Tenth Doctor, year 5 billion); Gridlock (Tenth Doctor, year 5 billion)
Beyond the galaxy · a parallel universe
A parallel Earth where Rose's father Pete is still alive and the Cybermen are being built in London.
Visited in: Rise of the Cybermen (Tenth Doctor); The Age of Steel (Tenth Doctor); Doomsday (Tenth Doctor)
Beyond the galaxy · in the Isop galaxy
A planet in the Isop galaxy, where the butterfly-like Menoptra fight to win back their world from the giant ant-like Zarbi and the Animus that controls them.
Visited in: The Web Planet (First Doctor)