Editing Time Lord (section)

==Planet==
[[File:Gallifrey Sound of Drums.jpg|thumb|right|The Citadel of the Time Lords on Gallifrey (from "[[The Sound of Drums]]")<ref name="Sound of Drums"/>]]
The Time Lord homeworld, Gallifrey, is an Earth-like planet in the fictional constellation of Kasterborous. It is located in a [[binary star]] system<ref name="gridlock">{{Cite episode |title=Gridlock |episode-link=Gridlock (Doctor Who) |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Russell T (writer) |last=Davies |author-link=Russell T Davies |first2=Richard (director) |last2=Clark |author-link2=Richard Clark (director) |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC One]] |date=14 April 2007 |series-no=3 |number=3 }}</ref> 250 million light years from Earth.<ref name="RT">{{cite web|last=Cremona|first=Patrick|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-gallifrey-history/|title=Doctor Who: A brief history of Gallifrey on screen| date=1 March 2020|access-date=14 November 2024}}</ref> The points in time when Gallifrey appears are never definitively stated. As the planet is often reached by means of time travel, its relative present could conceivably exist almost anywhere in the Earth's past or future.

From space, Gallifrey is seen as a yellow-orange planet and was close enough to central space lanes for spacecraft to require clearance from Gallifreyan Space Traffic Control as they pass through its system.<ref name="invasion of time">{{cite serial |title=[[The Invasion of Time]] |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=David (writer) |last=Agnew |author-link=David Agnew |first2=Gerald (director) |last2=Blake |author-link2=Gerald Blake (director) |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC1]] |date=11 March 1978 }}</ref> The planet was protected from physical attack by an impenetrable barrier called the quantum force field, and from teleportation incursions by the transduction barrier—which could be reinforced to repel most levels of this type of technological attack.<ref>{{cite journal |last=Richards |first=Justin |author-link=Justin Richards |date=October 2014 |title=Gallifrey |journal=The Essential Doctor Who |publisher=[[Panini Comics|Panini UK Ltd]] |issue=3: ''Alien Worlds'' |page=31 }}</ref>

The Doctor's granddaughter [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] first describes her home world (not named as "Gallifrey" at the time) as having bright, silver-leafed trees and a burnt orange sky at night in the serial ''[[The Sensorites]]'' (1964).<ref>{{cite serial |title=[[The Sensorites]] |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Peter R. (writer) |last=Newman |author-link=Peter R. Newman |first2=Mervyn |last2=Pinfield |author-link2=Mervyn Pinfield |first3=Frank (directors) |last3=Cox |author-link3=Frank Cox (director) |network=[[BBC]] |station=[[BBC1]] |date=1 August 1964 }}</ref> This casts an amber tint on anything outside the city, as seen in ''The Invasion of Time''.<ref name="invasion of time"/> However, Gallifrey's sky appears blue and Earth-like in "[[The Five Doctors]]" (1983) within the isolated Death Zone.<ref name="the five doctors">{{cite serial |title=[[The Five Doctors]] |series=Doctor Who |series-link=Doctor Who |first=Terrance (writer) |last=Dicks |author-link=Terrance Dicks |first2=Peter (director) |last2=Moffatt |author-link2=Peter Moffatt |network=[[PBS]] |date=23 November 1983 }}</ref>

In "[[Gridlock (Doctor Who)|Gridlock]]", the [[Tenth Doctor]] echoes Susan's description of the world now named as Gallifrey and goes further by mentioning the vast mountain ranges "with fields of deep red grass, capped with snow". He then elaborates how Gallifrey's second sun would "rise in the south and the mountains would shine", with the silver-leafed trees looking like "a forest on fire" in the mornings.<ref name="gridlock"/>