List of Doctor Who Planets - D

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• Dæmos Aka. Demos is the home planet of the Dæmons in the story The Dæmons. It is also mentioned in "The Satan Pit" as one of many planets with legends of a horned god. Vorg and Shirna mention visiting a planet called Demos in episode two of "Carnival of Monsters", but it is unclear whether this is the same planet.
• Darbodia A planet visited by the Doctor and his grandchildren, John and Gillian, in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip "The Land of Happy Endings."
• Darkheart A planet located in the gap between the Galaxy's spiral arms, connected to its star's mass via a dimensional bridge. It was the location of the Darkheart device, a machine that could destroy planets and alter morphic fields. The Dark Path (Missing Adventure)
• Darp is a planet mentioned in Nightmare of Eden.
• Darillium (aka. Durillium) The location of the Singing Towers. The Doctor took Professor River Song (in his future and her past) to see these towers just before she had to go to the Library. It was mentioned in Forest of the Dead.
• Delphon is a planet where the natives communicate with their eyebrows, first mentioned in Spearhead from Space. The language is "spoken" in the Big Finish Productions audio play ish.
• Delta Magna's third moon (known as Delta 3) is the setting of The Key to Time serial The Power of Kroll. It is mostly covered by wet and boggy swamps, with reeds as tall as The Tardis (some possibly taller).
• Demon's Run is an asteroid on which the Anglican Marines constructed a base. It is the birthplace of Melody Pond (a/k/a River Song); its infirmary served as a prison for Amy Pond from shortly after Melody's conception until weeks after the latter's birth. The name of the asteroid, on which the majority of "A Good Man Goes to War" takes place, is derived from an old saying: "Demons run when a good man goes to war," the first line of an eight-line poem.
• Desperus is the penal planet of the solar system in the 41st century, seen in The Daleks' Master Plan. The native creatures of Desperus are the screamers.
• Deva Loka is the setting of the Fifth Doctor serial Kinda. It was once part of the Manussan Empire. The planet is very close to being a paradise, with a mild climate and warm blue seas. Much of Deva Loka is covered by sub-tropical jungles. It is also rich in exotic alien fruits and is largely unspoiled. It is the native planet of the peaceful and telepathic Kinda race.
• Dhakan Planet visited in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip "The Glorious Dead." Dhakan was ruled by Cardinal Morningstar, head of the Church of the Glorious Dead. It was in fact Earth, whose history had been perverted by The Master.
• Diadem The most relaxing planet in the Galaxy. Visited in The Crystal Bucephalus.
• Dido is the setting of The Rescue. It is a mountainous desert world home to vicious-looking but harmless sand beasts, and to a mysterious humanoid race. The Doctor describes the natives as a people to whom violence is totally alien.
• Dioscuros A planet mentioned in the Seventh Doctor story The Greatest Show in the Galaxy.
• Diplos is the home of Cessair, the Doctor's adversary in The Stones of Blood.
• Discurus Another planet that was destroyed by planet Zanak. Mentioned in The Pirate Planet.
• Draconia is the homeworld of the Draconians and features in the serial Frontier in Space. Draconia and Earth become the dominant space-faring species at some point in the future, leading to conflict.
• Dramos Moon of Titania, visited in Burning Heart. A third of its surface is covered by an artificial habitat.
• Drahva is the home planet of the Drahvins, a female warrior race encountered by the First Doctor in Galaxy 4.
• Dravidia is a planet in the Rexel Planetary Configuration, mentioned during Love's Labours Won in The Shakespeare Code. A Dravidian ship crash-landed on Karn in The Brain of Morbius. The Dravidians are featured in the Doctor Who book The Planet Of Oblivion, part of The Darksmith Legacy.
• Dronid A planet mentioned in the unfinished serial Shada.
• Duchamp 331 A planet used as a refuelling station for ships. It also has a gallery and a few businesses. It rains dust every day and every night there is a loud, Dalek-like scream that can be heard throughout the planet. According to legend, the origin of the screaming is that a long time ago, a Dalek saucer came down to land but the dust dragged it down and destroyed it. The Seventh Doctor and Ace visited the planet in Dust Breeding.
• Dulkis is the planet on which the Second Doctor encounters The Dominators.