Fugitive Doctor

It's an object that is sort of...

Well, basically, what's happened is the circuit is revealed to be all these different artifacts that the fugitive doctor has returned to relevant time zones and her other incarnations.

And it's, yeah, a trap to send a... circuit across the all the different lives of the doctor to essentially fry the doctor out of existence so i thought that was quite a good idea uh were you surprised that that was what the

reveal was no not really no i i mean i i kind of you have your own little theories as you're reading these sort of things but i kind of had the idea that i mean obviously i I think, again, it's kind of hinted throughout all the stories in this series that there's more to this than meets the eye.

And it was in maybe the first of the Titan comics.

There was a hooded figure that we saw, the...

it was hinted that there's something you know someone sort of running all this so i i was thinking all there's obviously a circuit of some sort and i was thinking that the breaker of this circuit is the fugitive doctor but what the circuit is i don't know um so yeah when when um you know, it was revealed that it was the objects throughout time.

It was probably a bit like, it was probably quite obvious really, but actually I think it's quite a good idea.

What's next?

The next one is, uh, the Fugitive Doctor's TARDIS.

I think it's a cool design.

I think it's gorgeous.

... and, like, lighting choices going on there.

Yeah

Also really fits the theme of who the Fugitive Doctor is and what she kind of stands for, too.

Yeah, and this kind of ...

[laughs]

That's got a fugitive, that's got the Fugitive Doctor turning up halfway through it, and then you get the really good sh- showdown at the end between her and, um, Swarm and Azure.

[laughs]

Um-

Just so great, and the Sontarans have never been better.

It's the best Angel story since Blink.

Um, you know, you get the Fugitive Doctor popping up, you build on all of that.

You get the best villains, I think, outside of returning monsters-

Yeah.

I loved the Fugitive Doctor.

Like, like, it was a wild tilt.

And-

Welcome to Trap 1, the podcast where a group of fans get together each week to discuss recent releases or events from the world of Doctor Who.

I'm Mark and I'm delighted to be back with my fellow circuit breakers, Hannah, Melvin and Chris, to discuss the seventh, eighth and ninth instalments of this year's multimedia Doctor Who story starring the fugitive Doctor.

To wit, Don't Blink, The Doctor and the Three Witches and Memento Mori.

Welcome back, everyone.

We don't know quite what it is.

Martha Jones, God bless Martha Jones, was just fantastic.

And I think it was the way that she got to react with the fugitive doctor and the fugitive doctor got to act with her.

It was kind of nice to see the fugitive doctor not being picked on, not being belittled and actually accepted for being different to the doctors that the unit people knew.

Did Joe Martin write the book? Like her name's on it.

Um, and a whole bunch of other stuff that I kind of want to get into, but I was also like, uh, they're still making Fugitive Doctor, um, big finishes though.

Like that's an ongoing story.

Uh, anyway, we're in the black archive.

And this is the first full-length episode to feature Judy Gattoir as the 15th Doctor and would be the first black actor in the lead role, although they were not the first black actor to play the Doctor.

In the January 2020 episode, The Fugitive of the Judoon, the actress Jo Martin portrayed the Doctor as the Fugitive Doctor.

And before we leave Doctor Who, the episode Dot and Bubble would see Pete McHale in the role of Gothic Paul, the first trans male actor in Doctor Who.

And whilst the casting of the first trans character in a soap from today's perspective also feels like a misstep, Coronation Street was not alone.