List of minor Doctor Who villains

This is a list of fictional villains from the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who.

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Josiah Samuel Smith

Thousands of years in the past a creature called Light launched a survey expedition to catalogue all forms on the planet Earth. Josiah Samuel Smith was a member of the crew of Light's ship.

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In the late 1880s, Smith began to evolve towards a human form, discarding husks of previous insect like bodies. He planned to seize power in the British Empire by assassinating Queen Victoria, but his plans were thwarted when Light was reawakened from his slumber, and another member of the survey team's crew known as Control escaped Smith's imprisonment. When Light was defeated by the Seventh Doctor, Control who was also evolving into a human departed in Light's ship, taking Smith as her prisoner.

Related Topics:
1880s - British Empire - Queen Victoria - Seventh Doctor

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Shadow

The Shadow was a servant of the Black Guardian, and at least partially responsible for a war between the planets Atrios and Zeos. The extent of the Shadow's involvement with starting the war was unstated, but when the Zeons eventually abandoned their planet rather than continue the war, he had a Time Lord named Drax build a computer named Mentalis which would co-ordinate the remaining Zeon forces. Once Drax completed work on Mentalis he realised just who he was working for, but was imprisoned by the Shadow so as not to disrupt his plan. The Shadow then waited on a space station in orbit of Zeos (invisible to either the Atrians or Mentalis) and waited for the Doctor to arrive. In the meantime, Mentalis was more successful in fighting the war than the Zeons and pushed the Atrians to the brink of defeat.

Related Topics:
Black Guardian - Time Lord

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The Shadow knew that the royal family of Atrios held the secret of the sixth segment of the Key to Time, and when the Fourth Doctor arrived he arranged for the Doctor and the last survivor of the family, Princess Astra to be kidnapped. With this done, the Shadow ordered Mentalis to cease its attacks and duped Atrios' military leader, the Marshall, into making a nuclear attack on Zeos — the result of which would have been that Mentalis would set off an explosion powerful enough to destroy both planets.

Related Topics:
Key to Time - Fourth Doctor

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Eventually the Shadow worked out that Astra herself was the sixth segment, and transformed her into the segment. Before he could attach it to the other five (which he had stolen from the Doctor), the Doctor stole the segments back and with Drax's aid dismantled Mentalis. Finally, using the TARDIS, the Doctor set up a force field which diverted the Marshall's missiles into the Shadow's space station, destroying it. The Shadow perished in the explosion, but not before informing the Black Guardian of what had happened.

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Sutekh

Sutekh was a renegade member of the powerful race of Osirians — an ancient but now extinct race — whom even the Time Lords feared. After destroying his home planet Phaester Osirius, he was hunted down by Horus and the remaining 740 Osirians, who imprisoned him in a pyramid on the planet Earth, where the Eye of Horus, beaming a signal from Mars suppressed Sutekh's powers. The tales of the Osirians were remembered in Egyptian mythology — Sutekh as the god Set, brother of Horus.

Related Topics:
Time Lord - Horus - Pyramid - Eye of Horus - Mars - Egyptian mythology - Set

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In the year 1911, the archaelogist Professor Marcus Scarman broke into the inner chamber of the Pyramid of Horus on Earth, discovering Sutekh and setting in chain a sequence of events which could have allowed Sutekh to escape his bonds. The Fourth Doctor was eventually able to defeat Sutekh by trapping him in a time tunnel for thousands of years — longer even than the extended life span of an Osirian.

Related Topics:
1911 - Fourth Doctor

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