Planet Files

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Magellan - A planet visited by the fifth Doctor in the Doctor Who Monthly comic strip The Moderator.

Magla - A planet that is actually an 8,000-mile-wide amoeba with a crusty shell (Destiny of the Daleks).

Magnus / Magnus Epsilon - An Earth colony visited this planet in the unfilmed but novelised script Mission to Magnus. Females dominate the society.

Malcassairo - A planet featured in the Tenth Doctor episode "Utopia". It is the home of Chantho's people, the Malmooth, in their city (conglomeration). By the end of the universe it is home to a human refugee camp/space program, and the hostile Futurekind with almost all of the Malmooth wiped out.

Manussa - The setting of the Fifth Doctor serial Snakedance. The planet's surface is arid and sandy and is dotted by raggid rocks.

Marinus - The setting of the First Doctor serial The Keys of Marinus. It was home to a human-like race, the disembodied brains of Morpho, and the Voord. The Doctor Who Monthly comic strip "The World Shapers" suggests that Marinus is in fact Mondas.

Marpesia - Another planet mentioned in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

Mars - The homeworld of the Ice Warriors. It is also the planet of origin of mysterious signals saying "Beware Sutekh" that were being beamed to Earth in Pyramids of Mars. The Osirans left the GodEngine weapon there. The Usurians engineered it to make it habitable by humans until the humans depleted its resources. In 'The Long Game', a reference is also made to the University of Mars.

Mechanus - The jungle homeworld of the Mechanoids in 'The Chase'.

Melagophon (Melogophon) - Another planet from 'The Greatest Show in the Galaxy'.

Melissa Majoria - The true homeworld of most of Earth's bees, mentioned in 'The Stolen Earth'.

Mer - One of the ten planets that had its entire population stolen - bar one person - in IDW's Doctor Who comic series.

Messaline - A planet visited by the Doctor in 'The Doctor's Daughter'. The planet is in a state of constant war. Before it was terraformed at the end of "The Doctor's Daughter", the planet's surface was cold, windy and rocky, and covered in sinkable sludge pits. The planet also seems to have 3 moons. It is the homeworld of the titular character, Jenny.

Metallurgis 5 - A planet mentioned in the novel The Resurrection Casket.

Meta Sigmafolio - A planet mentioned at the end of the episode Last Of The Time Lords. It is said to have a sky that looks like oil on water. It is also said to be the place where you can see a burst of starfire.

Meta Vorka 6 - A planet mentioned in the Sarah Jane Adventures story "The Last Sontaran (Part 1)". The Vorkasian horde travel in spacecraft about the size of a coffee cup.

Metebelis 3 (The Blue Planet) - is where the Third Doctor takes a perfect blue crystal (a Metabelis Sapphire, which contains strange powers) from in The Green Death, and where he returns to in the serial Planet of the Spiders. It is also mentioned in Carnival of Monsters. The planet has a blue sun, has more than one moon, blue mountains, the nighttime sky is blue (and is light blue during the day) and often snows at night. Mist sometimes rolls over its surface. Native creatures include metabelian snakes (giant snakes), meat-eating tentacles and giant flying predators, which are seen briefly in The Green Death when the Doctor visits the planet. It is called The Blue Planet because the moonlight is blue. In his impersonation of Tom Baker as the Fourth Doctor in Dead Ringers, Jon Culshaw makes frequent reference to this planet. According to the Sarah Jane Adventures episode The Lost Boy (Part 2), the Metebelan Cosmic Cluster is home to 68,000 lifeforms.

Metralubit - A remote human colony in the Fostrix galaxy in the 58th Segment of Time. The capital city is Metron. An intelligent gestalt of flies named Hive existed here, and could possess and animate dead bodies.

Miasimia Goria - A planet ruled by the Rani.

Midnight - A leisure planet visited by the Doctor and Donna in the episode of the same name. It has golden spas, anti-gravity restaurants, sapphire waterfalls, and a landscape of diamonds. The planet's sun emits x-tonic radiation, which vapourises organic matter and can only be viewed safely through sufficiently thick finito glass. The radiation poisons the diamonds, so the planet's surface can never be touched. However, there is some form of native life, which possesses a tourist named Sky Silvestry.

Minyos - The original homeworld of the Minyans, and Minyos II is where they settle at the end of the serial Underworld.

Mira - The planet of the Visians, seen in The Daleks' Master Plan.

Mirabilis Major and Mirabilis Minor - These are both mentioned in The Ribos Operation.

Mobox Homeworld - Visited in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip Urobouros. The Mobox were intelligent, bulky creatures that could breathe fire.

Mogar - A planet stripped bare of all its natural resources by humans. In Terror of the Vervoids, the Hyperion III spaceship sets off from Mogar with a cargo of deadly Vervoids created on the planet. Mogar is (or was) the source of many valuable and rare metals, including the mineral vionesium (a mineral similar to magnesium) that emits an intense light when exposed to oxygen. Mogar is an oxygen-free planet with a reddish surface.

Mondaran - A planet now in ruins by the Cybermen. The Cybermen hold curfews with nightly patrols everyday on the planet making sure no one is on the streets.

Mondas - The home planet of the Cybermen, first seen in The Tenth Planet.

Morestra - A planet mentioned in Planet of Evil.

Morok - The home of the Moroks, the rulers of Xeros and The Space Museum.

Museum of the Last Ones - The setting of the Tenth Doctor New Series Adventures novel The Last Dodo. It is an entire planet dedicated to a museum displaying the last of every species from every planet in the universe.

Muscolane - Another planet from The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.

Myarr - A planet first visited in the fifth episode of The Infinite Quest and the prime setting of the sixth and seventh . It is the location of the third data chip that will lead to 'The Infinite'.