Celestial Toymaker
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| Doctor Who character | |
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| The Toymaker | |
| Affiliated with | None |
| Race | Unknown |
| Home planet | Unknown |
| Home era | Unknown |
| Appears in | The Celestial Toymaker |
| Portrayed by | Michael Gough |
The Celestial Toymaker is a fictional character in the long-running British science fiction television series, Doctor Who. He was played by Michael Gough, and featured in the 1966 story, The Celestial Toymaker by Brian Hayles.
The Toymaker is immortal; and has lived for thousands of years, playing his games. If he loses a game, his world is destroyed (although he is powerful enough to rebuild it). If a contestant loses, he is added to the game as a toy, and if he wins, he is destroyed with the world. The Toymaker is manipulative and can turn people, as the First Doctor comments, "into his playthings". As he demonstrates, he is a being of great power, judging from how he effortlessly makes the Doctor invisible and, for a while, mute.
He uses his enormous power for self-satisfaction and bullying, such as threatening to break Sergeant Rugg and Mrs Wiggs like a stack of plates.
[edit] Other appearances
The Toymaker appears in the novelisation of the unmade serial The Nightmare Fair by Graham Williams, in a story set in Blackpool. At the end of Revelation of the Daleks, the Sixth Doctor starts to say Blackpool, but as the series was about to enter an 18-month hiatus, it was edited out.
The Toymaker also features in Past Doctor Adventures novel Divided Loyalties by Gary Russell and the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story End Game, written by Alan Barnes and published in DWM #244-#247.
