The Sixth Doctor (played by Colin Baker) began life after the fifth incarnation died after a lethal exposure to spectrox, contracting the lethal spectrox disease. This regeneration left the doctor in an unstable mind, with bouts of near insanity and violence at one point even attempting to throttle his companion Peri to death.
The Doctor decided to exile himself on Titan III but soon became embroiled with stopping Mestor and his Gastropods. After some time the Doctors personality settled down and he developed an extremely large ego, deciding to fix everything that was wrong with his TARDIS.
Eventually the Doctor began to travel again with Peri and it was during an adventure with Peri on the planet Thorus Beta that the Doctor was captured by the Time Lords and once again put on trial.
In capturing the Doctor, he was taken out of time and as a consequence had partial amnesia. He was accused again of interfering in the affairs of the universe, being prosecuted by the Valeyard. The Valeyard falsified some evidence during the trial and eventually it became apparent that the real reason for the trial was to cover up a conspiracy of a corrupt council of Time Lords that the doctor had unknowingly uncovered.
The populace of Gallifrey became aware of this and threatened to overthrow their leaders, in the end appointing Darkel as Lord President.
This Doctor's personality was quite unpredictable, arrogant, self absorbed, stubborn, tasteless, childish and argumentative. This was a Doctor who did not suffer fools gladly; he sometimes seemed to endure his Companion's presence far more than he actually appreciated it, and held himself as superior to almost anyone he encountered.
The Sixth Doctors time came to an end when the TARDIS was attacked by the Rani, forcing a regeneration into the seventh Doctor.
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The Shadow in the Glass
by Justin Richards
The Shadow in the Glass is a Doctor Who novel featuring the Sixth Doctor. In 1944 a squadron of Hurricanes shot down a unidentified Aircraft over the dorset village of Turelhampton. 57 years later and the village is still occupied, guarding a dark secret from prying eyes.
When a TV...
The Quantum Archangel
by Craig Hinton
In the fabled city of Atlantis, 5000 years ago, the Priest Kings of Atlantis tried to enslave Kronos, the greatest of the Chonivores, but failed and doomed their magnificent city to a watery grave.
30 years ago The Master attempted the same thing, barely escaping with his life. 200...
Players
by Terrance Dicks
Players is a Doctor Who novel featuring the sixth Doctor and has been written by Terrance Dicks.
The TARDIS has landed on the sun-baked veldt in the middle of a Boer War skirmish. And soon the Doctor and Peri are involved in the adventures of a struggling politician and war corresp...
Palace of the Red Sun
by Christopher Bulis
The Palace of the red sun is a Doctor Who novel featuring the sixth Doctor, written by Christopher Bulis.
The TARDIS lands on a strange isolated world where the timeless sun overlooks immaculate gardens and tranquility reigns.
The Doctor and his companion Peri realis...
Millennial Rites
by Craig Hinton
Millennial Rites is a Doctor Who novel featuring the sixth Doctor and has been written by Craig Hinton.
Just prior to the millenium and the Doctor has arrived in London along with his companion Mel to celebrate with old friends.
Not all is safe though and there are s...
Killing Ground
by Steve Lyons
Imagine you can live a life completely free from pain, from aging, imagine you could live forever without fear, without losing control, without ever being sick. You can see things with total clarity, unfettered by any irrelevant details.
This is the Cyberman's legacy, the promise t...
Instruments of Darkness
by Gary Russell
The Magnate is considered by the leaders of the planet to be a shadow government, secretly controlling the world, they are wrong. The Leaders also think that the Network is a small, poorly managed group of paranoid anarchists who will eventually kill themselves, again they are wrong.
Grave Matter
by Justin Richards
Dorsill is a group of islands shrouded in fog with a community struggling to survive in the face of economic ruin. Then a wealthy businessman Christopher Sheldon buys the islands and the local inhabitants are relieved, owing him a debt of thanks.
They don't think to ask too many qu...
Business Unusual
by Gary Russell
A security force without any identity... an MD with no name... a sinister and hellish creature on guard patrol, you could say that SenéNet is no ordinary multinational company.
The Doctor, travelling alone, arrives in Brighton, 1989 and soon discovers his old friend, the Brigadier, h...
Burning Heart
by Dave Stone
There is a god in the machine - and the god is insane.
Things are getting totally out of control in the self contained habit on Drams. There are Twenty million humans and aliens all at each other's throats and the Church of Adjudication is barely keeping control, only through their O...
Blue Box
by Kate Orman
It's the 1980's and a technological revolution is sweeping across America, the Internet is born. Across this technological frontier, an incredible war begins between the criminals and their savvy opponents.
A brilliant young programmer, a beautiful college student, and a mysterious...
