Revisiting History (solution)
by Greg Clark and Skuld, with assistance from C. Scott Ananian
Each figure was played by an actor on at least one episode of Dr. Who, and the caption describes the companions accompanying the Doctor on one of those episodes. Each clue is also as long in words as the episode title is in letters, with each line representing one word, and contains a single instance of the word “who”. Take the letter at that index and arrange by episode order.
by someone from London who was living with both her grandfather and her mother. THE FIRES OF POMPEII → S Lucius Caecilius Iucundus |
The teachers came, and the girl who got shipwrecked. THE ROMANS → A Nero |
People who came along: my granddaughter and her teachers. MARCO POLO → A Marco Polo |
When I finally visited this man, I was travelling with a female medical student who loved me, regrettably. THE SHAKESPEARE CODE → C William Shakespeare |
Accompanying me were a young Scottish lad who liked arguing and an astrophysicist. THE MIND ROBBER → R Cyrano de Bergerac |
There was a family of three who came with me when I got to see this man, including my future (past?) wife! THE IMPOSSIBLE ASTRONAUT → O Charles II |
When I met this man, a nurse came along who had gotten married to the young lady (possibly pregnant) also with us. THE CURSE OF THE BLACK SPOT → F Henry Avery |
I got distracted this time, but there was that mechanic and his girlfriend who loved me (and whom I...never mind). THE GIRL IN THE FIREPLACE → I Madame de Pompadour |
Two people with me overheard the man who is pictured here conspiring; granddaughter was very ill! THE REIGN OF TERROR → N Napoleon Bonaparte |
The young botany student who almost got strangled (by... well...me) came with me this time. THE MARK OF THE RANI → A George Stephenson |
That shopgirl was with me here. (What about her enticed me so? Who knows.) THE UNQUIET DEAD → A Charles Dickens |
The poor girl who couldn’t save her father came on this trip. TOOTH AND CLAW → T Queen Victoria |
The lady who came with me when I saw him was a computer programmer. TIME AND THE RANI → M Louis Pasteur |
That young woman who spread her cold, and the stowaway, came along this time. THE GUNFIGHTERS → G Wyatt Earp |
The woman who came with me was dressed in a ridiculous police uniform when she decided to join me! VINCENT AND THE DOCTOR → N Vincent Van Gogh |
The lass who was (atypically) American met him. TIMELASH → M H.G. Wells |
This was with the woman that now forgets she knew me. What man’s to blame for that? Me, that’s who. THE UNICORN AND THE WASP → P Agatha Christie |
One of the people who came with me disappeared in a library. DAY OF THE MOON → F Richard Nixon |
A good friend’s stargazing grandfather was the brave chap who came with. THE END OF TIME → I Barack Obama |
This gives the final clue ANAGRAMMATIC SPINOFF. The spinoff of Doctor Who which is also an anagram of DOCTOR WHO is the answer to this puzzle: TORCHWOOD.