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Fourth Doctor: Science, Appearances & Development

The Fourth Doctor is an incarnation of the Doctor, the protagonist of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He is portrayed by Tom Baker.

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Fourth Doctor topic overview

The analysis highlights Science, Appearances and Development as prominent areas in the source structure around Fourth Doctor.

Related topics
276
Source areas
6
Connected nodes
288
Extracted relationships
386
Concept neighborhoods
67
Bridge connections
288

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 81 topics
Appearances · 59 topics
Other appearances · 58 topics
Development · 39 topics
Story style · 37 topics
International reception · 2 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Appearances
41 stories (172 episodes)
Chronology
Season 12 (1974–1975) · Season 13 (1975–1976) · Season 14 (1976–1977) · Season 15 (1977–1978) · Season 16 (1978–1979)
Companions
Sarah Jane Smith · Harry Sullivan · Leela · K9 · Romana
First regular appearance
Robot (1974–1975)
Introduced by
Barry Letts
Last regular appearance
Logopolis (1981)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Appearances

Development

Story style

International reception

Other appearances

Sources

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Fourth Doctor connects Entity context

The extracted context around Fourth Doctor shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Fourth Doctor → Anniversary Special, Awe, Babblesphere, Buda Castle, Casualties, Colophon, Crime, Daleks, Death, Death Match, DeathDestination Nerva, Deep, Destiny, Destroy, Destruction, Dethras, Doctor, Doctor Who, Draxx, E-Space Another extracted example is Fourth Doctor → Archival, Attic, Clara, Clara Oswald, Daleks, Death, Doctor, During, Earthshock, Eleventh Doctor, Eleventh Doctor's, Empire, Fear, Fifth Doctor, He, His, In, Mars, Mawdryn Undead, Missy's. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Fourth Doctor

Top relations

related to Big Finish audio dramas · 126
Fourth Doctor → Anniversary Special, Awe, Babblesphere, Buda Castle, Casualties, Colophon, Crime, Daleks, Death, Death Match, DeathDestination Nerva, Deep, Destiny, Destroy, Destruction, Dethras, Doctor, Doctor Who, Draxx, E-Space
related to Other mentions · 52
Fourth Doctor → Archival, Attic, Clara, Clara Oswald, Daleks, Death, Doctor, During, Earthshock, Eleventh Doctor, Eleventh Doctor's, Empire, Fear, Fifth Doctor, He, His, In, Mars, Mawdryn Undead, Missy's
related to Spoofs · 43
Fourth Doctor → Archival, As, Back, Big Finish, Blue Harvest, Dalek, Dead Ringers, Doc Brown, Doctor, Doctor Who, Epic Rap Battles, Family Guy, Fourth Doctor's, Futurama, Future, George Watsky, He, History, Hugo II, In
related to Reception · 36
Fourth Doctor → After, Baker, Baker's, BBC, Best Doctor, Britain, By, City, Daily Mail, David Tennant, Death, Doctor Who, Doctor Who Magazine, Doctors, Fourth, Fourth Doctor's, Harpo Marx, He, Horse Feathers, Humorous
related to Story style · 32
Fourth Doctor → Autons, Baker's, Barry Letts, BBC Director General, Decay, Doom, Evil, Frankenstein, Gothic Horror, Graham Williams, Hinchcliffe, Hyde, In, Jekyll, Mars, Mary Whitehouse, Morbius, Philip Hinchcliffe, Planet, Pyramids
related to Casting · 25
Fourth Doctor → Baker, Baker's, Barry Letts, BBC, BBC Head, Bill Slater, Doctor, Doctor Who, Doctor Who's, English, February, He, Jon Pertwee, Letts, On, Serials, Sinbad, Slater, Terrance Dicks, The
related to BBC audio dramas · 12
Fourth Doctor → Baker, BBC, CD, Daleks, Doctor, Doctor Who, Exploration Earth, For, Genesis, Hornets' NestDemon QuestSerpent Crest, The Time Machine, Tom Baker
related to International reception · 12
Fourth Doctor → Also, Doctor, Doctor Who, For, Howard, Italy, PBS, Silva, The, Time Life, Tom Baker, United States
related to Advertising · 9
Fourth Doctor → Baker, Disliking, Doctor, In, Lalla Ward's Romana, New Zealand's National Superannuation, Prime Computer, Romana, Tom Baker
Chronology · 8
Fourth Doctor → Season 12 (1974–1975), Season 13 (1975–1976), Season 14 (1976–1977), Season 15 (1977–1978), Season 16 (1978–1979), Season 17 (1979–1980), Season 18 (1980–1981), Season 20 (1983)

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

doctor fourth baker time also tom series doctor's tardis stories season story planet baker's first death incarnation leela romana one

Fourth Doctor relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 386 structured relationships around Fourth Doctor. Examples in this analysis include Fourth Doctor → Appearances → 41 stories (172 episodes) and Fourth Doctor → Chronology → Season 12 (1974–1975). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Fourth DoctorAppearances41 stories (172 episodes)1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorChronologySeason 12 (1974–1975)1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorChronologySeason 13 (1975–1976)1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorChronologySeason 14 (1976–1977)1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorChronologySeason 15 (1977–1978)1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorChronologySeason 16 (1978–1979)1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorChronologySeason 17 (1979–1980)1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorChronologySeason 18 (1980–1981)1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorChronologySeason 20 (1983)1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorCompanionsSarah Jane Smith1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorCompanionsHarry Sullivan1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorCompanionsLeela1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorCompanionsK91.00infobox
Fourth DoctorCompanionsRomana1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorCompanionsAdric1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorCompanionsNyssa1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorCompanionsTegan Jovanka1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorFirst regular appearanceRobot (1974–1975)1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorIntroduced byBarry Letts1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorLast regular appearanceLogopolis (1981)1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorNo of series71.00infobox
Fourth DoctorPortrayed byTom Baker1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorPreceded byJon Pertwee (Third Doctor)1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorSucceeded byPeter Davison (Fifth Doctor)1.00infobox
Fourth DoctorTenure28 December 1974 – 21 March 19811.00infobox
Fourth Doctoris aincarnation of the Doctor0.90text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Fourth Doctor bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Fourth, Doctor's and Also. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Fourth Doctor
    • Fourth
    • Doctor's
    • Also
    • Baker's
    • Series
    • Time
    • Baker
    • Television
    • Romana
    • Tom
    • Third
    • Fifth
  • fourth doctor
    • Fourth
    • Doctor's
    • Baker
    • Also
    • Time
    • Baker's
    • Tom
    • Series
    • Tardis
    • Television
    • Romana
    • Third
  • the doctor
    • Fourth
    • Baker
    • Time
    • Also
    • Tom
    • Tardis
    • Series
    • Doctor's
    • Television
    • Incarnation
    • Death
    • Life
  • doctor who
    • Fourth
    • Baker
    • Time
    • Also
    • Tom
    • Tardis
    • Series
    • Doctor's
    • Television
    • Incarnation
    • Death
    • Life
  • tom baker
    • Tom
    • Doctor
    • Life
    • Season
    • Fourth
    • Character
    • Also
    • Series
    • Doctor's
    • Portrayed
    • Television
    • Bbc
  • time lord
    • Romana
    • Time
    • Portrayed
    • Leela
    • Television
    • Daleks
    • Doctor's
    • First
    • Planet
    • Tardis
    • Stories
    • Tom
  • tardis
    • Nyssa
    • Time
    • Also
    • Jane
    • Logopolis
    • Life
    • Bbc
    • End
    • Sarah
    • Fifth
    • Death
    • Season
  • companions
    • Sarah
    • Jane
    • Leela
    • Lord
    • Nyssa
    • Romana
    • Planet
    • Tardis
    • Portrayed
    • Time
    • Logopolis
    • Appearance

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Fourth Doctor, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Fourth Doctor with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Fourth DoctorOverview · splits 207 ⟂ 82
Fourth DoctorAppearances · splits 229 ⟂ 60
Fourth DoctorOther appearances · splits 230 ⟂ 59
Fourth DoctorDevelopment · splits 249 ⟂ 40
Fourth DoctorStory style · splits 251 ⟂ 38
Fourth DoctorSources · splits 283 ⟂ 6
Fourth DoctorInternational reception · splits 286 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Fourth Doctor

Nodes289
Edges288
Triples386
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.00692
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Fourth Doctor to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Science, Appearances & Development, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Fourth Doctor · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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