Doctor Who was a character created by Martin Bannister in an alternate universe for a failed television pilot in the 1960s.

When Bannister was in a nursing home, he began to confuse fantasy and reality. He started to believe he was the Doctor Who character he had created decades previously. In the fantasy, he travelled in his TARDIS with Susan (based on his second wife Amy), Ian (based on his son Philip) and Barbara (based on his nurse at the home). Bannister eventually succumbed completely to the fantasy. (AUDIO: Deadline)

v • e Accounts of the Doctor in popular culture and mythology   The Doctor's universe Television Doctor Who see more Zoe Heriot's scripts The Dominators - Episode 1 Professor X see more Others Doctor Omega • Doctor X • Mister E Prose Doctor Who Discovers Doctor Who Discovers Prehistoric Monsters • Doctor Who Discovers Space • Doctor Who Discovers Strange and Mysterious Creatures • Doctor Who Discovers the Conquerors • Doctor Who Discovers Historical Mysteries Sarah Jane's Doctor series Operation Golden Age • Irongron's Star • Exxilon • Return to Peladon • Eightlegs • The Destructors • A Girl's Best Friend • Noah's Ark • More than Human • Dalek Dawn • Return to the Ark • Terror of the Loch • Forbidden Matter • A Gift of Death • The Kraal Invasion • The Seeds of Doom • Solon's Brain • Death Masque • A Hand through Time • Moving On Video games Games played by Izzy Sinclair on the Time-Space Visualiser Happy Deathday • The Five Doctors • Thirteen Doctors • The Three K-9s • The Chalk Pit of Slough • Measles to the Daleks • The Rubber Suits of the Bygones   Meta-fiction universes Parallel universe (The Girl Who Loved Doctor Who) Television episodes The Android Invasion • The Twin Dilemma • Doomsday • The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe • Asylum of the Daleks • Dinosaurs on a Spaceship • A Town Called Mercy • The Power of Three • The Angels Take Manhattan • The Snowmen • The Bells of Saint John • The Rings of Akhaten • Cold War • Hide • Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS • The Crimson Horror • Nightmare in Silver • The Name of the Doctor Godfrey Porter's universe Television serials The Outlaws • Planet of Giants Target Novelisations The Thief of Sherwood Doctor Who Magazine see more Parallel universe (TV Action!) Doctor Who Weekly Parallel universe (Deadline) Doctor Who   Other realities Land of Fiction Love and War • Dragonfire • Deceit Lawrence Burton Against Nature • We Are the Enemy Vicki Pallister Vicki and the Zarbi • Vicki and the Crusaders • Vicki and the Space Museum Miscellaneous Doctor Who and the Silence in The Library