In the last five years, he saved it at least twice, from Davros' reality bomb and the End of Time Itself (tm). It's almost a cliche of Davies' era for the stakes to be set ridiculously high.
My question is, when was the FIRST time he saves the entire universe? Before it became old hat to him, when was the first time his actions made absolutely everyone, everywhere owe him a big one? My first thought was thwarting the Master from controlling the CVEs and saving everything from entropy in "Logopolis", but that can't be it, can it? Presumably getting the Key to Time for the Black Guardian would have royally messed things up for a lot of people, but it wouldn't have ended the entire universe, would it have?
For that matter, when was the FIRST time the Doctor saved Earth from total destruction? It's certainly old hat by the 70s in any case, but when was the first time that, if the Doctor hadn't saved the day, that the planet would have been immediately pulverized / vaporized / conquered right away?
Hm!
Mark
My question is, when was the FIRST time he saves the entire universe? Before it became old hat to him, when was the first time his actions made absolutely everyone, everywhere owe him a big one? My first thought was thwarting the Master from controlling the CVEs and saving everything from entropy in "Logopolis", but that can't be it, can it? Presumably getting the Key to Time for the Black Guardian would have royally messed things up for a lot of people, but it wouldn't have ended the entire universe, would it have?
For that matter, when was the FIRST time the Doctor saved Earth from total destruction? It's certainly old hat by the 70s in any case, but when was the first time that, if the Doctor hadn't saved the day, that the planet would have been immediately pulverized / vaporized / conquered right away?
Hm!
Mark