Nardole materialized the Tardis around the Doctor in The Return of Dr. Mysterio, after Nardole took the Tardis to an excusion to 12th century Constantinople where he ruled "firmly but wisely."
@@arthemis1039 I know. I just adored how Nardole and the Doctor interacted in The Return of Dr Mysterio, and then that humor and mutual understanding just vanished almost never to return.
In Journeys End Series 4 the TARDIS is flown as it was intended, with all six consoles in use, with Rose, Sarah Jane, Captain Jack, Mickey, Martha & Donna all flying the TARDIS together, with a little help from the doctors.. It's a brilliant scene, with them all working together to bring the earth back home 💙 (thanks to the Facebook group for helping me track down which episode the scene was in😊)
Yeah, I am going to agree with Daniel on the 'kind of did fly the TARDIS' thing, with a heavy side of 'kind of' because she didn’t really fly it, she let the Vortex maneuver it back to the Game Station but by saying she was possessed by the TARDIS, you are saying that the TARDIS is the one that made the VERY human decision to kill the Daleks and bring back Jack instead of Rose having used the power of the Vortex to get to the Doctor and protect him. The TARDIS is very much alive and very powerful but it wasn't the TARDIS that was in control. It was Rose using the power of the Time Vortex. @@JohnWinchester3567
They didn't really fly the TARDIS, though. They were led to believe that they did, but the TARDIS would have landed in Castrovalva no matter what. Adric was controlling it, in essence.
"Unless you want to be flung into the endless void of space, try not to piss them off" Salamander: Yeah, maybe I should have thought of that Also, Yaz can fly the Tardis. Sure the Doctor taught her, but she's technically fully able to do it without the Doctor's help in what we see of Flux. She can fly the Tardis just as much as Clara.
@@danthemeegs8751 well when the Doctor called her a copilot.. also all that technical jargon she rattled off.. maybe not a completely solo pilot but I think Yaz has a strong idea. Especially since she had access to a tardis for 10 months while the doctor was away. I guess we'll see in the following specials. They didn't really get into it with Flux
It doesn't seem fair or accurate to describe Leela as unintelligent. Naive, perhaps, or uncultured if you must, but you don't survive in a hunter/gatherer/warrior society without a grain of wit.
You forgot romana in both versions, or is she lumped in with the other timelords? And Susan, she supposedly can fly the tardis as she grew up in the rate is too
Even though she was kind of covered by 'The Doctor and Other Time Lords', surely Romana deserved to get at least a clip if not a mention alongside The Master/Missy since she was seen to pilot the TARDIS better than the Doctor on a number of occasions?
I get that Romana would be included with the Time Lords section, but no picture of either one is a bit disappointing. Also, no mention of the back up console the 4th doctor used at one point.
I didn't like how this video said she was "least intelligent" in her introduction. Clearly, since she's can fly the TARDIS, she's not least intelligent. "Initially least knowledgeable" would be more accurate and not disrespectful.
@@macherie1234 yeah it’s bad phrasing. She was from a more primitive society so she wasn’t as educated as the traditional companions but she learned quick when she needed to
Clara and Twelve/Capaldi had a much better dynamic than Clara and Eleven/Smith. Clara and Eleven had that odd side plot of sorts where they were sort of flirting in a way?? Despite, yknow, The Doctor being a married man. Clara and Eleven was weird to me because of things like her obvious crush on him (that she only really got over when he became old), and his comments on her skirt, and more, all while the Doctor was as Eleven, who was not only in a relationship with River, but also was as the most asexual-esque depiction of the doctor ever. On top of that, Clara's character herself was too hollow and perfect with Eleven. She didn't have enough flaws in her character imo. She was just... The odd Impossible Girl plotline.
I just can't comprehend why they spent a final half-series on the Ponds when it was clear Moffat just wanted to move on to Clara from the word go in series 7. Their story was effectively concluded, their time with the Doctor didn't need an earth-shaking tragic end (that Moffat was still too much of a coward to truly deliver on). The transition of the Doctor from a wild friend who takes them on adventures to a genuine family friend who comes over for Christmas dinner would have been more than enough to end their time with him on.
Don't forget that a Weeping Angel hijacked the TARDIS in the Flux, and the Daleks planned to fly a TARDIS that they invaded in Revolution Of The Daleks.
Other companions who have flown the TARDIS (skipping Susan & Romana), Steven Taylor (sets the TARDIS to dematerialise at end of Celestial Toymaker), K-9, Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough And from the modern era Nardole (Return of Doctor Mysterio)
If I remember correctly; in the Classic Doctor Who episode "The Two Doctors"; only Timelords can fly a TARDIS due to the "Rassilon Imprinture" in their thumb! Anyone else is only because the TARDIS likes you n so let's you think you're flying it! 🤔
You did say other time Lord's I recall how upset number 4, Tom Baker's Doctor got when the original Lady Romana started flying it way back in the in the key to time serial. David Tenants Doctor implied that the TARDIS...or at least a type 40 originally required a crew one person at each station around the console to properly pilot the ship.
Tectaoon returned in the flux and she was the beginning of the timelords and now we know she's alive so she definitely could pilot a TARDIS so she should be included to the list ... Brilliant though
if i remember correctly the first time she flies the TARDIS she says 'she was taught by the very best' proceeded by 'shame you were busy that day' which from what we've seen would mean the TARDIS implanted the the knowledge of properly flight, something The Doctor never got so it would stand that River is better then the Doctor
I commented this further down, but Donna couldn’t properly pilot the TARDIS by herself. The Doctor was teaching her, but we never saw the end result. She probably could do it as DoctorDonna, but that wasn’t really Donna
I like to think Diane Holmes would be able to fly the TARDIS if given the opportunity, though I have literally no evidence to back this up other than her being a pilot and technically a time traveller
Donna also knows how to fly a TARDIS in the episode of Journey End when he had the brain of The Doctor..And also known as Doctor Donna by the prophecy of the Ood.
Covered in number 1 on the list, "The Doctor and other Time Lords"... Same reason why I didn't respond with Romana, or to be more accurate, the Lady Romanadvoratrelundar...
the reason Clara could is explained in the background of her story she has always been linked to the doctor and the TARDIS that connection is what allows her to fly it as she is linked to them both via the time vortex itself and thus even though she does not know it she i as close as a human can become to a timelord in fact we could consider her like the time lords themselves before they mastered time or were learning to she has a link to the TARDIS that is so strong that she can see anything or anyone else with that link thus why she can see river even after she has died
The master was able to fly the TARDIS so the theory on the pilot not actually being in control thing might not be true since if the TARDIS in Matt smiths era can figure the doctors intentions and fight back then tenths TARDIS could of stopped or tried to stopped the master from taking off knowing what he had planned to do
There is two more that I know of Romana, she was galifreyan, a time lady, who regenerated once so both are known as Romana and Romana 2, she can fly the Tardis on her own, and has done so on a couple of episodes The second is Nardole, a fully Sentient Robot in a human form introduced in the Husbands of River Song Special, His Tardis Piloting Skills become Abundantly Clear when the Doctor made a loud whistle and The Tardis materializes all around him, it was later revealed that Nardole piloted the Tardis to make this happen It is speculated that both River and the doctor himself taught him
I’ve never understood Leela’s ability to fly the tardis because in the show she’s able to do it a couple of times but in big finish there’s a couple of scenes that say she can’t. There’s an audio where she meets river and has to travel in Romana’s tardis to get there and when river asks how she could fly the tardis she says she can’t and Romana preprogrammed the flight for her. There’s also a bit in the gallifrey series where despite loving on Gallifrey for a very long time she explains to a time lord character that somehow didn’t realize she’s human because she’s known specifically as Romana’s bestie and bodyguard at this point that she cannot fly a tardis because she is not a time lord. Of course in this specific scene they want her to do something really complicated and it’s during the time war and it’s likely to get them both killed if she does it but she’s been on Gallifrey for a really long time at this point surely Romana has taught her how to fly it properly by then. Of course Romana was in high positions the entire time she knew Leela and was worried about more important things but there should have been time to teach Leela to fly a tardis ffs
Okay but that was anticlimactic. #1 being the Doctor ‘and other time lords’ I’m sorry but Romana should have been mentioned much more specifically and by name I am disappointed, dissatisfied, and utterly annoyed that romana was not mentioned once.
Leela was intelligent, she just wasn't educated. Heather WAS human until she was killed by the sentient puddle of oil and turned into the Pilot, an alien.
To anybody who keeps mentioning Missy/the Master, The Rani, Doctor Donna, the Metacrisis Doctor, etc., those all fall under number one on the list, along with Susan and Romana...
In The Flux series we saw a Weeping Angel fly the Tardis. It ended up actually being a race between whether The Doctor could find a way to expel the Weeping Angel from the Tardis before the Weeping Angel managed to fly the Doctor to where it wanted her to be.
Going all the way back to Season 1 Dr 1 (William Hartnell) the Doctor's granddaughter Susan Foreman was shown to be able to fly Sexything (the TARDIS). Also a another Timelord Romanadvoratrelundar AKA Romana was a gifted pilot earning praise from Dr 4 (Tom Baker).
The person tries to be objective, but clarahater inside her appears in some moments :DDDD Its always funny to watch. I love how my Clara triggers people
No mention of the other non-Gallifreyan CIA agent? Dorothy McShane was an accomplished TARDIS pilot once she finished her training and was sent out on multiple missions by herself and with her own companions to fix the timeline.
@@brainlock72 I love Whovians that believe in "canon". The Whoniverse isn't built around a canon, it's not like Star Wars, Trek, etc... Each writer/producer or in NuWho "showrunner" brings their own idea of canon to the show. Ace being sent to Gallifrey to train to become a Time Lord was part of the end of the Cartmel Masterplan (which also included The Doctor being an incarnation of "The Other", one of the three founders of Time Lord society along with Rassilon and Omega. But even if we were to agree that there is a canon then we'd need to define what's included. If you set this as just what was on TV then you're cutting out the extensive Web content that was produced. If you include Web content then The Night of The Doctor brought the Big Finish Audios into canon as he named 4 BF companions (Charley, C'rizz, Lucy, Molly). As this part of the Cartmel Masterplan was produced by BF it therefore has both the showrunner canon and linked to BBC produced material as veracity. So I'm more than confident to argue that there is no canon, but if there is one then BF is definitely part of it. 😉 (Also, by extension, the Virgin NA could also be brought into canon as BF have brought a lot of their stories and characters into their productions.)
Jack could, and helped the Children of Time with a more hands on approach than the Doctors or Donna (who apparently hit your one-off rule?). Tasha Lem is already mentioned as to how she learned. 😉🤐 The captain (Avery?) that Lord Grantham played recognized the basic instrumentation of the console and tried to fly it before 11 stopped him. Nardole was shown to be able to fly her, as well. Likely trained by River? “The Doctor and other Gallifreyans” in the top spot? That’s like saying the #1 thing that is wet is water. 🙄
In regards to Leela I’d say you’re confusing intelligence and education. Leela was, at least when not in the hands of lazy or incompetent writers, very intelligent, just uneducated.
How about "The Watcher" - the pasty white stalker who merged with the Doctor at the end of Logopolis to trigger the fourth Doctor's regeneration? He managed to pilot the ship out of time and space itself.
1:58 That particular reference was a sign of the show's declining quality of writing and lack of understanding its own history. It was supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek way of explaining the noise, but that does NOT explain why every other Gallifreyan time travel capsule makes the exact same noise (and one Time Lord on his own back in Terror of the Autons). 8:27 Wonderment about the TARDIS and the Doctor are so in sync...almost like there might some sort of "Symbiotic Nuclei" involved? Go figure! Gee I wish they had covered that one in a Doctor Who story...oh wait, they did.
Yes, unfortunately as we can see from Timeless Child(ren) the current writers don't really give a damn about anything that happened before they came along.
Gadget from Waters of Mars...sure the doctor was controlling him from the base but the doctor wasn't actually in the TARDIS when Gadget used the TARDIS. Also Nardole on Multiple occasions. The Watcher in Logopolis House in The Doctors Wife The TARDIS itself also in The Doctors Wife K9 on multiple occasions
@@michaeljones7465 very true but we didn't find that out until the last moments of the episodes also strictly speaking it was a completely different actor to Peter Davison so technically a different character
Well, there is the bit where the Doctor yells at the Ponds and the River that he's busy being brilliant, but what's the point if you're not watching. Ah, vanity. I would put River at two. Did I miss it, maybe watch again? How was Romana's skills at flying the TARDIS? Weird side note, I would not call Leela unintelligent. She was called primitive etc., but are there not intelligent people in primitive cultures just as there are stupid people in so called modern cultures? Ya know, just wondering.
Romana would be covered in the arguably insipid #1 spot of “other Gallifreyans”. 🙄 Agreed on Leela. One’s intelligence and one’s local culture are not always on the same level. She was descended from astronauts and very intelligent, esp in comparison to her tribe mates.
@@MarvelX42 Well...we know she's a Gallifreyan, but I don't think she's a Time Lord. Like I don't think she looked into the untampered schism or graduated from the Academy. So she wouldn't be covered on the number one slot, which was 'The Doctor and Other Time Lords.'
Nardole materialized the Tardis around the Doctor in The Return of Dr. Mysterio, after Nardole took the Tardis to an excusion to 12th century Constantinople where he ruled "firmly but wisely."
I loved Nardole, such a shame he was not used more in Season 10.
@@arthemis1039 I know. I just adored how Nardole and the Doctor interacted in The Return of Dr Mysterio, and then that humor and mutual understanding just vanished almost never to return.
In Journeys End Series 4 the TARDIS is flown as it was intended, with all six consoles in use, with Rose, Sarah Jane, Captain Jack, Mickey, Martha & Donna all flying the TARDIS together, with a little help from the doctors.. It's a brilliant scene, with them all working together to bring the earth back home 💙 (thanks to the Facebook group for helping me track down which episode the scene was in😊)
I’m so glad you didn’t say Jackie 😂😂. I always laugh when 10 goes “no Jackie not…not you” and she steps away from the console
Rose kind of did fly the Tardis in Bad Wolf and Parting Of The Ways, she had the whole Vortex in her head!
The TARDIS was the one in control that time
Rose didn't fly anything the Tardis possessed Rose and used her body.
Yeah, I am going to agree with Daniel on the 'kind of did fly the TARDIS' thing, with a heavy side of 'kind of' because she didn’t really fly it, she let the Vortex maneuver it back to the Game Station but by saying she was possessed by the TARDIS, you are saying that the TARDIS is the one that made the VERY human decision to kill the Daleks and bring back Jack instead of Rose having used the power of the Vortex to get to the Doctor and protect him. The TARDIS is very much alive and very powerful but it wasn't the TARDIS that was in control. It was Rose using the power of the Time Vortex. @@JohnWinchester3567
Nah nah nah, that was Bad Wolf, who used the time vortex
Lela was very intelligent, she was just poorly educated. A very different thing
Yep, she was a Barbarian, not a Primitive. 😉
I seem to recall Nyssa and Tegan also doing a bit of flying as well.
Yes, they learnt off a manual
@@totallynotkhobsessed So did Me and Clara.
They didn't really fly the TARDIS, though. They were led to believe that they did, but the TARDIS would have landed in Castrovalva no matter what. Adric was controlling it, in essence.
There were two concord pilots the kind of flew the TARDIS after the Master took it apart.
In (I think) Four To Doomsday, Tegan managed to move it into space, causing the Doctor some inconvenience.
"Unless you want to be flung into the endless void of space, try not to piss them off"
Salamander: Yeah, maybe I should have thought of that
Also, Yaz can fly the Tardis. Sure the Doctor taught her, but she's technically fully able to do it without the Doctor's help in what we see of Flux. She can fly the Tardis just as much as Clara.
I didn’t get the impression that Yaz could be a proper solo pilot, but either way, this video was written before Flux aired!
@@danthemeegs8751 Okay thanks!
@@danthemeegs8751 well when the Doctor called her a copilot.. also all that technical jargon she rattled off.. maybe not a completely solo pilot but I think Yaz has a strong idea. Especially since she had access to a tardis for 10 months while the doctor was away.
I guess we'll see in the following specials. They didn't really get into it with Flux
Yaz can fly the tardis
Dalek: Only the Doctor can pilot the TARDIS!
WhoCulture: hold my sonic
I’ve watched enough Doctor Who to know how to pilot the RTD TARDIS 😂😉
What’s rtd if you don’t mind?
@@abdullahlol6098 it's the era of the showrunner Russell T Davis
@@abdullahlol6098 Russell T Davies, Basically the 9/10th doctors TARDIS
*hits console with a hammer*
It seems to fly pretty well when you tell Jackie “No…just…No”
We learnt recently that Weeping Angels can fly the TARDIS
Some, at least. Remember that this particular Angel had worked for Division, so he must have learned to travel through space and time like so
Because chibnall can do whatever the hell he wants
It doesn't seem fair or accurate to describe Leela as unintelligent. Naive, perhaps, or uncultured if you must, but you don't survive in a hunter/gatherer/warrior society without a grain of wit.
remember when not even the doctor could fly the TARDIS properly? good old times
Tbh I still don’t think he can fly it XD I’m pretty sure it flys itself
@@oneheckinchonkerthiccboidu9761 it does
You forgot romana in both versions, or is she lumped in with the other timelords? And Susan, she supposedly can fly the tardis as she grew up in the rate is too
Even though she was kind of covered by 'The Doctor and Other Time Lords', surely Romana deserved to get at least a clip if not a mention alongside The Master/Missy since she was seen to pilot the TARDIS better than the Doctor on a number of occasions?
I get that Romana would be included with the Time Lords section, but no picture of either one is a bit disappointing. Also, no mention of the back up console the 4th doctor used at one point.
Leela is a tragically underrated companion and being on this list just adds another reason why she was great
I didn't like how this video said she was "least intelligent" in her introduction. Clearly, since she's can fly the TARDIS, she's not least intelligent. "Initially least knowledgeable" would be more accurate and not disrespectful.
@@macherie1234 yeah it’s bad phrasing. She was from a more primitive society so she wasn’t as educated as the traditional companions but she learned quick when she needed to
Nyssa from Traken flew the tardis quite a lot and should be included in this line up
And Romana a female time lord also knew how to pilot the tardis?
You showed Lady Me at the controls when you mentioned Clara
Being at the controls/pushing the odd button is VERY different from being able to “pilot”!
Are timelords a "species"? I thought they were the elite educated classes of Galifreyans, sorta our equivalent of a graduate.
It's a Shame that we didn't get a full season with The Eleventh Doctor And Clara Oswald Hopefully Big Finish Will Rectify it.
Clara and Twelve/Capaldi had a much better dynamic than Clara and Eleven/Smith.
Clara and Eleven had that odd side plot of sorts where they were sort of flirting in a way??
Despite, yknow,
The Doctor being a married man.
Clara and Eleven was weird to me because of things like her obvious crush on him (that she only really got over when he became old), and his comments on her skirt, and more, all while the Doctor was as Eleven, who was not only in a relationship with River, but also was as the most asexual-esque depiction of the doctor ever.
On top of that, Clara's character herself was too hollow and perfect with Eleven. She didn't have enough flaws in her character imo. She was just... The odd Impossible Girl plotline.
@@troytab6089 this is when people were starting to dislike Clara for the way she treats The Doctor after Regenerating into his twelfth incarnation
I just can't comprehend why they spent a final half-series on the Ponds when it was clear Moffat just wanted to move on to Clara from the word go in series 7. Their story was effectively concluded, their time with the Doctor didn't need an earth-shaking tragic end (that Moffat was still too much of a coward to truly deliver on). The transition of the Doctor from a wild friend who takes them on adventures to a genuine family friend who comes over for Christmas dinner would have been more than enough to end their time with him on.
You missed someone! Donna can also fly the tardis, although she was still being taught/ on beginner mode
Also when she was doctor Donna!
She could when she was the doctor Donna too
@@k.stewart007 oh yeah! I'll edit that in thanks for the reminder
Donna couldn’t “pilot” the TARDIS solo. She might’ve been able to when she was the DoctorDonna, but that wasn’t really her.
@@danthemeegs8751 if you read my comment I said "while still being taught"
@@totallynotkhobsessed I did read it! You said “you missed someone”, as though Donna belongs in the video. I was explaining why she doesn’t.
Don't forget that a Weeping Angel hijacked the TARDIS in the Flux, and the Daleks planned to fly a TARDIS that they invaded in Revolution Of The Daleks.
NO ONE CARES ABOUT THE FLUX SHIT SERIES
Other companions who have flown the TARDIS (skipping Susan & Romana), Steven Taylor (sets the TARDIS to dematerialise at end of Celestial Toymaker), K-9, Nyssa, Tegan, Turlough And from the modern era Nardole (Return of Doctor Mysterio)
Legit was hoping for a list like this so happy that one was made!
*"Nobody Loved Clara More Than Me!"*
She's not as bad as people remember
If I remember correctly; in the Classic Doctor Who episode "The Two Doctors"; only Timelords can fly a TARDIS due to the "Rassilon Imprinture" in their thumb!
Anyone else is only because the TARDIS likes you n so let's you think you're flying it!
🤔
Actually, once a Time Lord has "primed" a time machine, anyone can fly it, as stated in that story.
Pretty sure that I remember Turlough flying it at least once if not afew times.
Mostly he just ripped wires out, though.
@@johnsensebe3153 TBH it has been awhile so I don't remember how, etc.
Heather was a human to start with, but merged with sentient oil. Which taught her how to pilot the oil ship.
You did say other time Lord's I recall how upset number 4, Tom Baker's Doctor got when the original Lady Romana started flying it way back in the in the key to time serial. David Tenants Doctor implied that the TARDIS...or at least a type 40 originally required a crew one person at each station around the console to properly pilot the ship.
"It's my Tardis, and a woman"
"...Did you wish really hard?"
Tectaoon returned in the flux and she was the beginning of the timelords and now we know she's alive so she definitely could pilot a TARDIS so she should be included to the list ... Brilliant though
River is probably the best tardis pilot
Indeed
if i remember correctly the first time she flies the TARDIS she says 'she was taught by the very best' proceeded by 'shame you were busy that day' which from what we've seen would mean the TARDIS implanted the the knowledge of properly flight, something The Doctor never got so it would stand that River is better then the Doctor
Imo its a tie between her and Romana.
What about Donna! We saw her partially fly it before her mind was erased. It makes sense because she became the Doctor basically.
I commented this further down, but Donna couldn’t properly pilot the TARDIS by herself. The Doctor was teaching her, but we never saw the end result.
She probably could do it as DoctorDonna, but that wasn’t really Donna
Imagine if the doctor was flying the tardis completely wrong and the tardis had to compensate for his bad flying
Driving instructions are in the library. Down the hall and on the left, by the swimming pool and Clara's missing bedroom.
I like to think Diane Holmes would be able to fly the TARDIS if given the opportunity, though I have literally no evidence to back this up other than her being a pilot and technically a time traveller
Leela literally flicked a few switches to possibly make it dematerialise but she didn’t land it to it’s next destination
But she did, it seems, pilot it to the Bi-ial Foundation in The Invisible Enemy.
Donna also knows how to fly a TARDIS in the episode of Journey End when he had the brain of The Doctor..And also known as Doctor Donna by the prophecy of the Ood.
I think that one’s a little bit too obvioua
Missy aka The Master.....
Covered in number 1 on the list, "The Doctor and other Time Lords"... Same reason why I didn't respond with Romana, or to be more accurate, the Lady Romanadvoratrelundar...
the reason Clara could is explained in the background of her story she has always been linked to the doctor and the TARDIS that connection is what allows her to fly it as she is linked to them both via the time vortex itself and thus even though she does not know it she i as close as a human can become to a timelord in fact we could consider her like the time lords themselves before they mastered time or were learning to she has a link to the TARDIS that is so strong that she can see anything or anyone else with that link thus why she can see river even after she has died
The master was able to fly the TARDIS so the theory on the pilot not actually being in control thing might not be true since if the TARDIS in Matt smiths era can figure the doctors intentions and fight back then tenths TARDIS could of stopped or tried to stopped the master from taking off knowing what he had planned to do
The doctor Donna, she turned half time lord with some of the Doctors memory.
There is two more that I know of
Romana, she was galifreyan, a time lady, who regenerated once so both are known as Romana and Romana 2, she can fly the Tardis on her own, and has done so on a couple of episodes
The second is Nardole, a fully Sentient Robot in a human form introduced in the Husbands of River Song Special, His Tardis Piloting Skills become Abundantly Clear when the Doctor made a loud whistle and The Tardis materializes all around him, it was later revealed that Nardole piloted the Tardis to make this happen
It is speculated that both River and the doctor himself taught him
I thought River said she learned from the best, then when the Doctor starts to look smug she said “shame you were busy that day.”
Most recently a weeping angel flew the Tardis to Division HQ
I’ve never understood Leela’s ability to fly the tardis because in the show she’s able to do it a couple of times but in big finish there’s a couple of scenes that say she can’t. There’s an audio where she meets river and has to travel in Romana’s tardis to get there and when river asks how she could fly the tardis she says she can’t and Romana preprogrammed the flight for her. There’s also a bit in the gallifrey series where despite loving on Gallifrey for a very long time she explains to a time lord character that somehow didn’t realize she’s human because she’s known specifically as Romana’s bestie and bodyguard at this point that she cannot fly a tardis because she is not a time lord. Of course in this specific scene they want her to do something really complicated and it’s during the time war and it’s likely to get them both killed if she does it but she’s been on Gallifrey for a really long time at this point surely Romana has taught her how to fly it properly by then. Of course Romana was in high positions the entire time she knew Leela and was worried about more important things but there should have been time to teach Leela to fly a tardis ffs
Okay but that was anticlimactic. #1 being the Doctor ‘and other time lords’ I’m sorry but Romana should have been mentioned much more specifically and by name I am disappointed, dissatisfied, and utterly annoyed that romana was not mentioned once.
Leela was intelligent, she just wasn't educated. Heather WAS human until she was killed by the sentient puddle of oil and turned into the Pilot, an alien.
To anybody who keeps mentioning Missy/the Master, The Rani, Doctor Donna, the Metacrisis Doctor, etc., those all fall under number one on the list, along with Susan and Romana...
As for Bad Wolf Rose, she was being controlled by the vortex, so the TARDIS was more piloting her...
I think that the TARDIS can fly independently to wherever the Doctor needs to go, but requires their input to go where they want to go
Me! The woman who lived. They even have footage of her doing it in this video, but she doesn't make the list?
I'm sure that the Doctor Donna could aswell if she had the time.
Not only can the Master fly the Tardis, thwier Tardis has a chameleon circuit that actually works
I have watched every single episode first to thirteen
Lady Me seemed capable of flying a TARDIS
What about Nardole? Remember when he was dresssed as a Bohemian king?
The doctor Donna and the meta crisis doctor
In The Flux series we saw a Weeping Angel fly the Tardis. It ended up actually being a race between whether The Doctor could find a way to expel the Weeping Angel from the Tardis before the Weeping Angel managed to fly the Doctor to where it wanted her to be.
Doctor Who
Biroc, "Warrior's Gate," 1981
You don't pilot the TARDIS. You negotiate with it. Usually unsuccessfully.
I spent the whole time waiting for Susan
Umm, Vislor Turlough?
Going all the way back to Season 1 Dr 1 (William Hartnell) the Doctor's granddaughter Susan Foreman was shown to be able to fly Sexything (the TARDIS). Also a another Timelord Romanadvoratrelundar AKA Romana was a gifted pilot earning praise from Dr 4 (Tom Baker).
The tardis taught River how to pilot by downloading the manual to her mind telepathically
Try and throw THAT into a supernova when he disagreed with it! 😂😂
@@brainlock72 he did but the Tardis telepathically gave river the e book version
I'm betting the Doctor would win the Tardis olympics because he has an actual relationship with his Tardis, it's more than just a tool for him.
In his, but if you put him in another TARDIS, maybe not
Does rose count from her look into the vortex? I cant decide.
Just 7 I kinda expected more
Nardol in the return of doctor Mysterio
Don't forget yaz with the female doctor she can fly it
Ouch, sorely missing Nardole on this list.
The person tries to be objective, but clarahater inside her appears in some moments :DDDD Its always funny to watch. I love how my Clara triggers people
And now a Weeping Angel can fly the TARDIS
How could you leave Nardole off this list? Just because he got lost and became a Byzantine Emperor for a few years before heading back to the Doctor?
Donna kind of tried to fly the tardis in the sontaran stratagem
Adric is the best companion
Tegan and Nyssa
Nardole and Romana
Now Yaz can too
It would seem Jack is also capable of I flying the TARDIS
Whether this counts or not probably depends who you ask; The Bad Wolf definitely flew the Tardis. I don't think Rose can though.
No mention of the other non-Gallifreyan CIA agent? Dorothy McShane was an accomplished TARDIS pilot once she finished her training and was sent out on multiple missions by herself and with her own companions to fix the timeline.
Yeah, but that’s EU, not screen canon.
@@brainlock72 I love Whovians that believe in "canon". The Whoniverse isn't built around a canon, it's not like Star Wars, Trek, etc... Each writer/producer or in NuWho "showrunner" brings their own idea of canon to the show.
Ace being sent to Gallifrey to train to become a Time Lord was part of the end of the Cartmel Masterplan (which also included The Doctor being an incarnation of "The Other", one of the three founders of Time Lord society along with Rassilon and Omega.
But even if we were to agree that there is a canon then we'd need to define what's included. If you set this as just what was on TV then you're cutting out the extensive Web content that was produced. If you include Web content then The Night of The Doctor brought the Big Finish Audios into canon as he named 4 BF companions (Charley, C'rizz, Lucy, Molly). As this part of the Cartmel Masterplan was produced by BF it therefore has both the showrunner canon and linked to BBC produced material as veracity. So I'm more than confident to argue that there is no canon, but if there is one then BF is definitely part of it. 😉
(Also, by extension, the Virgin NA could also be brought into canon as BF have brought a lot of their stories and characters into their productions.)
Same
Brilliant video. Recorded in a bathroom? Please pop to Maplin for a microphone. 🧡
Are you suggesting that WhoCulture can also fly a TARDIS? 😁
Nardole, in The Return of Dr Mysterio, presumably having been taught by Missy in Empress of Mars.
Or River, at any point.
Time to redo this list and add the Weeping Angel, lol!
The Tenth Doctor also taught Donna Noble too
Jack could, and helped the Children of Time with a more hands on approach than the Doctors or Donna (who apparently hit your one-off rule?).
Tasha Lem is already mentioned as to how she learned. 😉🤐
The captain (Avery?) that Lord Grantham played recognized the basic instrumentation of the console and tried to fly it before 11 stopped him.
Nardole was shown to be able to fly her, as well. Likely trained by River?
“The Doctor and other Gallifreyans” in the top spot? That’s like saying the #1 thing that is wet is water. 🙄
I wonder where the Angel from Flux learn how to use the tardis, i like the theory that some of them were Time lord before
Rose flew the TARDIS with the timestream so yeah you did miss one and that was in how that was in parting of the waves
My #1......The Doctor Donna.
No more bashing on Adric
In regards to Leela I’d say you’re confusing intelligence and education. Leela was, at least when not in the hands of lazy or incompetent writers, very intelligent, just uneducated.
YOU FORGOT ABOUT K9
He cannot reach the buttons on the console,but can interface with it with connection to the wires
How about "The Watcher" - the pasty white stalker who merged with the Doctor at the end of Logopolis to trigger the fourth Doctor's regeneration? He managed to pilot the ship out of time and space itself.
He's actually the next generation of the Doctor that merges with Tom Baker in the regeneration scene to become Peter Davison.
the GOD Rose Tyler aka Bad Wolf
1:58 That particular reference was a sign of the show's declining quality of writing and lack of understanding its own history. It was supposed to be a tongue-in-cheek way of explaining the noise, but that does NOT explain why every other Gallifreyan time travel capsule makes the exact same noise (and one Time Lord on his own back in Terror of the Autons).
8:27 Wonderment about the TARDIS and the Doctor are so in sync...almost like there might some sort of "Symbiotic Nuclei" involved? Go figure! Gee I wish they had covered that one in a Doctor Who story...oh wait, they did.
Yes, unfortunately as we can see from Timeless Child(ren) the current writers don't really give a damn about anything that happened before they came along.
What did Sally Sparrow do to send the TARDIS back to 1969?
she inserted a disc programmed to send to tardis to a specific place and time
Gadget from Waters of Mars...sure the doctor was controlling him from the base but the doctor wasn't actually in the TARDIS when Gadget used the TARDIS.
Also Nardole on Multiple occasions.
The Watcher in Logopolis
House in The Doctors Wife
The TARDIS itself also in The Doctors Wife
K9 on multiple occasions
The Watcher in Logopolis was the 5th Doctor pre-regeneration.
@@michaeljones7465 very true but we didn't find that out until the last moments of the episodes also strictly speaking it was a completely different actor to Peter Davison so technically a different character
Well, there is the bit where the Doctor yells at the Ponds and the River that he's busy being brilliant, but what's the point if you're not watching. Ah, vanity. I would put River at two. Did I miss it, maybe watch again? How was Romana's skills at flying the TARDIS?
Weird side note, I would not call Leela unintelligent. She was called primitive etc., but are there not intelligent people in primitive cultures just as there are stupid people in so called modern cultures? Ya know, just wondering.
Romana would be covered in the arguably insipid #1 spot of “other Gallifreyans”. 🙄
Agreed on Leela. One’s intelligence and one’s local culture are not always on the same level. She was descended from astronauts and very intelligent, esp in comparison to her tribe mates.
Susan
Susan would be included in the 1 slot.
@@MarvelX42 possibly but she isn't the Doctor or the TARDIS is she :)
@@MarvelX42 Well...we know she's a Gallifreyan, but I don't think she's a Time Lord. Like I don't think she looked into the untampered schism or graduated from the Academy. So she wouldn't be covered on the number one slot, which was 'The Doctor and Other Time Lords.'
@@doctormew9399 Maybe, maybe not. I don't know and it has never been confirmed one way or the other on the show.
@@MarvelX42 True
Uhm...coming from a 'primitive civilisation' is no measure of an individuals intelligence. You might want to check your assumptions/prejudice there.
Agreed. Leela was smart just not used to modern things. When explained in a way she understands she picked it up right away.
Colonizer attitude!