Greenaway (Short Trips: Steel Skies)

Prose  One of the genre of stories in which the Doctor confronts the consequences of ordinary people becoming involved in his extraordinary adventures.  Over time various incarnations, including Eighth, visit a dying man, trying but failing to help him after he aided them in fighting a dangerous threat.  Perhaps the most interesting element of the story is the inclusion of a future Doctor, based according to the writer Peter Anghelides, on one of his university friends, with ginger hair, a big afghan coat smelling of patchouli oil.  The TARDIS Datacore has a whole entry for this incarnation offering various appearances and implying he's the source of the running joke after regenerations about still not being ginger.

Placement:  Eighth's behaviour suggests that for him this is early when he's still trying to sort out some of his past mistakes.

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