Steven as in The Time Meddler
Name:
Steven Taylor
Tenure:
22 May 1965-18 June 1966
First Seen In:
Last Appearance:
Numberof Series:
1
Appearances:
Main Actor:
Peter Purves
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PRIOR TO MEETING THE DOCTOR
Steven was born on 10 February. (Return of the Rocket Men)
Steven grew up during a war (The Chase) on a Hiveblock on
He studied basic anatomy as part of his pilot training. (The Suffering)
On a mission, Steven crashed on the planet Mechanus in the jungle. He wandered around for days, trying to avoid the hostile plant life. He was captured by the Mechanoids and taken to their city. There, he spent two years as a prisoner, alone but for a toy panda mascot he called HiFi. (The Chase)
ADVENTURES WITH THE DOCTOR
While a prisoner, Steven built a woodenconstruction rather like a climbing frame to keep himself active. It let him climb up to the roof for fresh air. It was in his room in the Mechanoid City that Steven met The Doctor and his companions and soon after, the daleks. He asked, “Who won the war?” and introduced himself as “Steven Taylor, Flight Red Fifty”. He helped the others escape from the city, though he returned to retrieve HiFi. Steven fell from a great height when the Daleks destroyed the Mechanoid City. Luckily, he stumbled through the jungle and found the TARDIS and entered it as the Doctor and Vicki Pallister were saying goodbye to their former companions, Ian and Barbara. Before The Doctor and Vicki returned to the TARDIS, Steven passed out in a dead faint. (The Chase)
When Steven recovered, he found the TARDIS had re-materialised in England in 1066.
In the city of Troy, Steven temporarily adopted the name”Diomede”.
He was wounded in the shoulder by a sword thrust and suffered blood poisoning. A temple handmaiden called Katarina, whom the travellers had met earlier, nursed him back to health and helped him return to the TARDIS. (The Myth Makers)
Once he had recovered, Steven faced some of the worst experiences of his life. Katarina and two new allies, siblings Bret Vyon and Sara Kingdom, all died violently in the midst of a complicated series of events which ranged from the planet Kembel in 4000 through time and space. Minutes after the death of Sara Kingdom, Steven asked The Doctor, in the waste that the Time Destructor had made of Kembel, if he considered the loss of so many lives worthwhile to defeat the Daleks. (The Daleks’ Master Plan)
After The Daleks and Mavic Chen had been defeated, the TARDIS materialised in London in 1966. There they encounter the Fulgurites, who were involved in the trafficking of humans across the galaxy for slave labour with the full knowledge of the British government. The Doctor and Steven put an end to the Fulgurites’ activities with the assistance of a young city trader named Oliver Harper, who joined the TARDIS crew. (The Perpetual Bond) Oliver travelled with The Doctor and Steven briefly. He met his death at the hands of the Vardans on the asteroid Grace Alone while saving his companions’ lives. (The First Wave)
When the travellers arrived in Paris in August 1572, Steven was disgusted by The Doctor’s abandonment of his Huguenot friends, in particular the young Anne Chaplet. He was so dis illusioned that he left the TARDIS when it had returned to London in 1966, but returned to warn The Doctor that two policemen were approaching. He met Dodo, who was possibly, he thought, a descendant of Anne Chaplet, proving she had lived. (
He thought that the 10 Downing Street look terrible when they arrived there. After
they later travelled to England in 1912 where they came into contact which an alien skull. This skull managed to get to possess
they landed in London in 1762 where they were locked out of the
The
The travellers arrived in Prague in 2348, where they participated in the celebration of the 1000th anniversary of the Charles University and prevented a scientist named Jane Childress from erasing the human evolution. Steven and
The
After celebrating Christmas the
LEAVING THE DOCTOR
Steven ended up disguising himself to save a younger version of himself from being killed at the hands of the Rocket Men. After this he began to wonder if his time with The Doctor was nearing its end. (Return of the Rocket Men) Eventually, the experiences that Steven had on his travels led him to decide to use his skills and training to help rebuild a civilisation. When Chal invited him to help the Elders and the Savages live together, he accepted the challenge and left the TARDIS. (The Savages)
LATER LIFE
Many years after he had left the TARDIS, he was transported to an alternative version of the Death Zone on Gallifrey by Borusa. Once there, he was soon reunited with not only The Doctor, by then in his
As The Doctor told his former companions that their memories could be hazy after being returned to their respective native eras by the Time Lords, it is unclear how much of his experiences in the alternative Death Zone Steven remembered. (The Five Companions)
UNDATED EVENTS
At some point, Steven was taken to the