[Promises Unkept] … yet
“One day, I shall come back. Yes, I shall come back. Until then, there must be no regrets, no tears, no anxieties. Just go forward in all your beliefs and prove to me that I am not mistaken in mine.”
my favourite goodbye,
help i’m drowning in bittersweet nostalgia.
First Doctor - Never stated his age on screen.
Second Doctor - Told Victoria he was ‘Something like 450’
Third Doctor - Claimed to have been a scientist for ‘several thousand’ years
Fourth Doctor - At least 760 by the time he regenerated
Fifth Doctor - Never stated his age on screen
Sixth Doctor - Told Peri he was ‘More or less’ 900-years-old
Seventh Doctor - Claimed to be 953, same age as the Rani
Eight Doctor - Never stated his age on screen.
Ninth Doctor - Told Rose he was 900
Tenth Doctor - 906 when he regenerated
Eleventh Doctor - 1103 by the time he was ‘killed’ at Lake Silencio.
I truly believe he has no idea how old he is, certainly in Earth years, and Gallifreyan years obviously no longer exist so he just makes up a number.
All those facts and figures I saw of the Doctor’s life, you were never alone. All those bright and shining companions.

Doctor: the word for healer and wise man throughout the universe. We get that word from you, you know. But if you carry on the way you are, what might that word come to mean? To the people of the Gamma Forests, the word “doctor” means “mighty warrior”. How far you’ve come.
So Kroze showed this link to me…
https://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.drwho/browse_thread/thread/7cd734f99a62ae98/c845f05e9b213df9?lnk=st&q&hl=en&pli=1
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“Here’s a particularly stupid theory. If we take “The Doctor” to
be the Doctor’s name - even if it is in the form of a…