Wiggins (Doctor Who Series Three)

First Appearance: Doctor Who Series Three Episode Three: "The Shakespeare Code"

Played By: Sam Marks


A young lute player living in 1599 Southwark- London, who was attracted to Lilith (a woman who was actually a Carrionite). He tried to impress her with his lute playing, but was torn apart by Lilith and her two "mothers"; Doomfinger and Bloodtide.


"The Shakespeare Code"

"This was like a Winter's moon, that lights the traveler's way. Her smile was like a summer bloom, that bursts then fades away. My love is light, my love is day, my love is my world."

Wiggins stood under Lilth's window in her house on All Hallow Street, where he serenaded her with his song (the quote above) and his lute playing. While he sings Lilith giggles and shows signs of reciprocating his affection: commenting that his "sweet music shows your blood to be afire" and asks "why wait we on stale custom for consummation," inviting him up inside. He grins delightedly saying that "tonight's the night", letting himself in as Lilith disappears from her balcony to wait for him.

Meeting him at the top of the stairs, Lilth asks him whether her is willing to enter, addressing him as "bold sir," which he gladly accepts. However upon entering and seeing the cauldron with other weird items hanging from the room Wiggins is disturbed and slightly scared, questioning how "one so beautiful" can't be where she lives. He apologies but expresses his feelings of disgust at the house, which he refers to as "foul." Lilith puts her finger on his lips, silencing him and telling him that his "sad words suit not upon a lover's tongue." She instigates a kiss, which she pulls away from a few minutes later, her facade lifted and revealing the true Carrionite form. He backs away terrified as she comments that "your kiss transformed me" and that as her "suitor" he should meet her "parents." She summons her two "mothers"- Mother Doomfinger and Mother Bloodtide (one appears behind him, while the other is in the rafters)- which terrifies him even further. 

All three rush at him and knock him to the ground, beginning to rip him apart as he screamed. As Doomfinger and Bloodtide continue their grotesque mutilation, Lilith declares that "Soon, at the Hour of Woven Words, we shall rise again and this fleeting world will perish." She cackles shortly after his final scream.

The New Earth Senate (Doctor Who Series Three)

First Appearance: Doctor Who Series Three Episode Four: "Gridlock"

One of the main ruling bodies of the planet New Earth, the Senate held council and resided in the New New York over-city.

In the year 5,000,000,029 the entire senate along with those in the over-city were exposed to a mutated chemical airborne virus that killed them and most of the planet's population (except those that were in the Under-City and Motor Way).


"Gridlock"

After being teleported away from the Motor Way by Novice Hame, the Doctor angrily demanded to speak with the Senate about the people trapped in the Motor Way/ However she sadly tells him that they are "inside the senate" and lets sunlight into the room to reveal that all the senate members have been reduced to skeleton and asking the Goddess Santori to "bless them."

Hame goes onto explain how the city of New New York had fallen, showing him a used Bliss patch that had been on one of the Senate's dead members and telling him about the virus capable of killing the world in "seven minutes." 

However just before the Senate did die, they set up a planet wide 100 year long quarantine and warned neighboring planets that it was unsafe to help them.

Bliss Virus (Doctor Who Series Three)

First Appearance: Doctor Who Series Three Episode Four: "Gridlock" (Mentioned Only)

Mutating from a compound within the chemical mood drug known as Bliss, the Bliss Virus became airborne and killed the whole of the world in "seven minutes flat." Due to the prevention of the Senate, Novice Hame and the Face of Boe (despite the Senate's death) the virus was unable to infect anyone else after the initial epidemic and it itself "perished."


"Gridlock":

During her explanation of what happened twenty four years earlier with the death of New NewYork at the Senate building, Novice Hame shows the Doctor a used Bliss Patch that she had removed from the corpse of a user and tells him about the how the virus had killed New Earth in a matter of minutes. 

Just before the Senate had succumb to the virus; they sealed off the under-city from the over, leaving the system to be run automatically with the limited power that was left (and eventually had run out) and activating an 100 year quarantine that stopped any neighboring planets from helping them. In the outbreak The Face of Boe used his mist to protect Novice Hame from the virus; leaving them the only two individuals in the over-city. 

Yet the virus was unable to sustain itself without anymore hosts to infect and it eventually died leaving the planet able to be repopulated once the Doctor opened the roof of the Motor Way and let the residents of the under-city return above ground to the over-head.

Bliss (Doctor Who Series Three)

First Appearance: Doctor Who Series Three Episode Four "Gridlock"

One of the latest Mood Patches that were on the market at some point prior to  the year 5,000,000,029 of New New York. The drug was bought worldwide, becoming highly addictive and was taken often by those who used it. However a "virus mutated inside the compound and became airborne" resulting in the deaths of the whole New New York and the rest of the world in "seven minutes flat."


"Gridlock"

Whilst explaining to the Doctor about the death of the entire senate and the fall of the city of New New York, Novice Hame removes a used Bliss patch from a corpse and explains about the virus created by the compound's mutation.

The Naturists (Doctor Who: Series Three)

First Appearance: Doctor Who: Series Three Episode Four: "Gridlock"

Played by: 

Male Naturalist: Chris Ilston
Female Naturalist: Zoe Jeffries

 Residents of New Earth in the year 5,000,000,053, the Naturists were a couple who were among those millions sealed inside the New New York Undercity just before the airborne virus- that had mutated from the chemical “Bliss”- could kill them. At some point they decided to go on the Motor Way.

“Gridlock”

During the Doctor's journey to the bottom of the New New York Motor Way in pursuit of Martha Jones (who had been taken as a “hostage” by Milo and Cheen) he surprises the couple who are in the front of the car. The female naturalist, who was reading a magasine called “Hanging Out” uses it to cover herself as the Doctor tells them not to mind him and continues to the car's exit hatch to continue his chase.

The Macra (Doctor Who: Series Three)

First Appearance: (Original Series) Doctor Who: Episode: "The Moonbase Episode Four"

First Appearance: (New Series) Doctor Who: Series Three: Episode Four: “Gridlock”

 The Macra had devolved from a race capable of building it's own empire into a mindless, giant crustacean that fed off poisonous gasses (possibly even people). One colony of the Macra survived on the planet New Earth, where they found there way into the Motor Way and bred, using the fumes from the car exhaust and some of the people travelling on the “Fast-Lane” as food for survival.

“Gridlock”

The Macra attack and destroy a car (car-1015) that was illegally travelling in the fast-lane, taking advantage of the fact that the steering wheel was locked (due to the three adult minimum as a car-share policy for New New York's Motor way). The couple driving the car where killed.

They later crush another car that is travelling behind Car-434 diamond 6, which is being driven by a cat-kind called Javit. Just before her death and the death of her other two passengers, she warns Martha, Milo and Cheen to drive and escape before they too die.

Later when the Doctor reaches the final layer of the Motor Way traffic before the “Fast Lane” begins, he hears the Macra beneath him. Unable to discover what the noise is from the rather startled business man (who owns the car) and questioning what the “lights were” (the Macra's eye-stalks), he uses the main console of the car and the sonic screwdriver to activate the ventilation system below, recognising the shapes and form of the hundreds of creatures below to be “The Macra” as the gas slightly began to clear.

After failing to get access to the main Motor Way, Martha tells Milo to turn off everything in the car hoping that it would stop the Macra from detecting them and trying to claw at them with their pincers. Despite protests Milo does and the attack stops immediately.

The Doctor explains that the Macra “used to be the Scourge of this Galaxy” feeding off polluted gas and created/ ran a “small empire” that was driven by the enslavement of humanity to mine gas for them. When the business man states that they don't look capable of building empires, the Doctor states that the billions of years between the fall of the Macra empire and the current time he was in now (5,000,000,053) had led them to devolve into mindless “beasts.”

The Doctor tries to argue with Novice Hame (who has followed him through the cars) that they can go down and that the Macra are a dangerous threat to everyone, but she teleports him away claiming that the situation is far worse than he knows.

After deciding to turn the engines back on and continue driving The Macra continue their assault on the car, while Milo tried to steer through the swarm of pincers. One of the Macra successfully grabs the car and starts compressing it, but the car gets away when another Macra slams it's claw into the first.

The Macra were left alone after the Motor Way was finally opened and all the drivers escape, losing both their food sources.