Why did the Doctor abandon Susan?

The Doctor, realising that Susan had become a woman, elected to leave her with David after helping liberate the Earth. As he said goodbye, he promised that he would one day return. By numerous accounts, the Doctor would indeed return to see her, specifically during their eighth and thirteenth incarnations.
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Why did the Doctor leave Susan?

Her departure from the TARDIS was forced onto her by her grandfather who thought that she needed to leave to pursue a normal life with a man she fell in love with.
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Did the Doctor ever meet Susan again?

In the Big Finish bonus release An Earthly Child (2010), Susan is reunited with the Doctor in his eighth incarnation (Paul McGann), and has a son named Alex (Jake McGann). She appears in the Eighth Doctor Adventures audio plays in Relative Dimensions (2010) and Lucie Miller / To the Death (2011).
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Why did the Doctor and Susan leave Gallifrey?

The Doctor and his wife made plans to escape with Susan by stealing old TARDISes and flying away from the jurisdiction of the High Council, so that their children - who would remain on Gallifrey - need not live with the political strife their granddaughter would bring.
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When did Susan leave the Tardis?

Unfortunately, their bond wasn't enough to prevent the Doctor locking Susan out of the TARDIS in the closing moments of 1964's "The Dalek Invasion of Earth." Justifying the decision, The Doctor said he knew Susan had fallen in love with human freedom fighter, David Campbell, but would never willingly leave his side.
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Is Clara the Doctor's daughter?

Clara is the future child of the Doctor and River who's had her memory erased. The two Time Lords must be up to something on their nights away from River's prison cell.
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Was Susan actually the Doctor's granddaughter?

Susan was the Doctor's granddaughter and as such shared a unique relationship with the Time Lord. He looked after her in 1960s England where she received part of her schooling, but both their destinies lay beyond Twentieth Century Earth…
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Did Susan survive the Time War?

We met lots of other Gallifreyans throughout the original series, both Time Lords (and Ladies) and not, but the Time War wiped them all out; presumably including Susan.
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Why was Dr Who exiled to Earth?

A man of action with a passion for gadgets and thrilling forms of transport, he was exiled to Earth for much of his era, deprived of a functioning TARDIS and the knowledge of time travel by the Time Lords.
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Are all Gallifreyans Time Lords?

There are still Gallifreyans whom are not Time Lords, some which lived outside of the Capital Cities. There are also non-Timelord farmers in the series such as in the episode Hell Bent. Essentially from all this we can determine that Time Lords are Gallifreyan but a Gallifreyan may not always be a Time Lord.
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Will the Doctor's granddaughter return?

Doctor Who is bringing back The Doctor's granddaughter… albeit not in a traditional way. More than 55 years after she left the BBC One science fiction series, Carole Ann Ford will reprise her role as Susan Foreman to enter the infamous Time War as The Time Lords' secret weapon to defeat The Daleks.
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Who is the lady Time Lord in the end of time?

John Simm, who played the Master in the 2007 series finale episodes "Utopia", "The Sound of Drums" and "Last of the Time Lords", was spotted on location during the Tredegar House recording.
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Is River Song the Doctor's wife?

Melody Pond's third incarnation, best known as Professor River Song, was a "child of the TARDIS" and the wife of the Doctor, specifically of their eleventh and twelfth incarnations, although she also had encounters with their tenth and thirteenth incarnations, as well as earlier incarnations whose memories were later ...
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How old is Susan in Doctor Who?

Susan's age is given as 15. In The Sensorites, the Doctor, when encountering an unconscious young human woman, remarks that "she's only a few years older than Susan," suggesting that Susan is the age of a normal secondary school student.
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Who will be the 14th Doctor?

Doctor Who casts Sex Education's Ncuti Gatwa as 14th Doctor - Polygon.
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What is the DRS name?

John Smith. The Doctor's most common alias (apart from the Doctor, obviously), this is his standard pseudonym on Earth.
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Will Carole Ann Ford return to Doctor Who?

Carole Ann Ford reprises the role she first created for television way back in 1963 in Susan's War, a four-part full-cast audio drama due for release in April 2020. Gallifrey needs every Time Lord to fight the Time War.
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Why is Gallifrey in a bubble?

At the conclusion of "The Day of the Doctor" (2013), Gallifrey is revealed to have actually survived the Time War, though it was frozen in time and transported into a bubble universe, before being unfrozen and arriving at the end of the universe at a chronological point before "Hell Bent" (2015).
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Was Susan from Gallifrey?

Susan is a Gallifreyan, but possibly not a Time Lord. She was once asked if she had two hearts, but didn't answer. However, she is telepathic, and the Doctor implies that she can regenerate (by being surprised that her son, Alex, has only one heart, lacks telepathy, and can't regenerate.
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How many TARDIS are there?

If a TARDIS Type is particularly successful, then over 300 of that Type might be created. There were around 100 different types issued before the end of the Last Great Time War. The Type 89 TARDIS is the most advanced non-military TARDIS ever created.
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Why did the Third Doctor regenerate?

The Doctor eventually regenerated into a younger body after being exposed to large amounts of radiation during his efforts to stop the Eight Legs of Metebelis III, the price of correcting a mistake he had made in the past.
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Did the Doctor have parents?

The final book in the Virgin New Adventures range, 1997's Lungbarrow, suggests that the Doctor had no parents at all. Instead he was genetically-engineered along with 45 other “cousins” by a Gallifreyan “Loom” belonging to the House of Lungbarrow, from which he was later disowned.
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Is the Doctor actually a Doctor?

In the modern series, the Doctor is more vague, simply referring to himself as a "Doctor of everything", specialising in "making people better". In some of the early concept work (This is discussed h the book "Regeneration") the Doctor was conceptualised as a Doctor of everything -- as in a PhD in all fields.
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