I remember Transit. Well, vaguely. The Brigadier's African love child? A tube ride to Mars? I just thought it was a ridiculous novel, and disliked it intensely. And I was, at the time, so looking forward to reading it as it had been written by Ben Aaronovitch, who'd previously scripted Rememberance of the Daleks, which I'd absolutely loved.


Good point. When Gallifrey existed, he may have been counting his age in Gallifreyan years. When it ceased to exist, perhaps he couldn't bring himself to use them anymore and started counting in human years.

i think i read some where or heard on one of the big finish audios that he gives his age depending on which planet or universe he is, In one place he could be 2 years old on ours he's 907

lol don't open that can of worms

First time I read Transit I hated it too. But I went back & read it again a year later & loved it. I just found it made sense to me on the second reading.

As the doctor is a time traveller.
Is it not entirely possible that his own timeline is not linear.

Could it not be that whenhe states his age he has been telling the truth on every occaision.

As he travels forward and backward in time can he not consider his age to be reflected by the date. So if he is 907 in 2010. Could he not state that if he travelled to 1960 that he is in fact 857? Not necessarily lying just fitting his age into the timeline he has travelled within?

So an earlier incarnation could have travelled to a time period where he would be considerably older and state an older age. Much like the computer system making Amy's age up in the beast below when she is infact 21?

So long as you don't meant the novel 'Transit' by Edmund Cooper, which is a fantastic novel, and well worth adapting to a Doctor Who story..

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cant remember which story it is but tb claimed to be 749 that was only in his 4th regeneration

And a few years after that he claimed to be 756, and was corrected by Romana who added a couple of years.`

NOT canon! I don't care about cans or worms, only that what is shown on television is canon and everything else is an absolutel minefield with no more right to exist in official circles than anyone else's fanfiction. So nerrh.

He said something along those lines in Orbis. He seemed to have been on Orbis for generations (though I suspect the locals were quite short-lived) - he did seem to have forgotten about Lucy Miller though.
Even so it also seemed a bit of a nod & wink to these sort of threads.

That's your opinion, not BBC policy. Fan fiction is not for profit, amateur stuff written by fans. The novels and audios are created by professionals, for profit, and officially licensed by the BBC. Not fan fiction. And there is no official statement on canon.

So, as you so eloquently put it, 'nerrh'.

Your view, which you are fully entitled to in a democracy and on a civilised forum like this one. My view is that the audios and novels are very much canon. I won't say nerrh, it's childish, I'll just say let's agree to disagree ..... amicably.

As long as the books and audios aren't referred to on the TV series, we can regard them as canon or not, but it doesn't make a shred of difference.