 The character featured in comic strips in Doctor Who Magazine between 2005 and 2006 as well as in several short stories in the Doctor Who Annual 2006 . In Steven Moffat 's Ninth Doctor short story " ' What I Did on My Christmas Holidays ' by Sally Sparrow " the Doctor and the TARDIS are inadvertently separated twenty years in time by a fault in the time machine and the Doctor is able to instruct Sally how to bring it back to him in the past . This short story later became the basis of the third series episode " Blink " . The Ninth Doctor has appeared in IDW Comics Doctor Who : The Forgotten and Doctor Who : Prisoners of Time . 
