List of Doctor Who Planets - S

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• S14 An alternative name for Deva Loka Kinda.
• Salarius is a planet mentioned in The Resurrection Casket.
• Salostophus is a planet in the constellation of Andromeda. Sabalom Glitz revealed in The Trial of a Time Lord: The Mysterious Planet that this was his home planet.
• Salvak is a neighbouring planet to Magnus in Mission to Magnus.
• San Helios is the desert world visited by the Tenth Doctor and Lady Christina de Souza in "Planet of the Dead". San Helios had a population of 100 billion, prior to an attack by an alien swarm. It is located in the Scorpion Nebula, which is on the other side of the universe, and has three suns – 1 blue, 1 white and 1 orange. The planet had mountains, oceans, wildlife and vegetation, some of which could be found around San Helios City, the planet's capital, until it was all destroyed, turned into sand.
• San Kaloon (aka. Sanclune) is a planet visited by the Ninth Doctor and Rose. It has a glass pyramid. It was mentioned in Boom Town. It is also mentioned somewhere in the original series, though under a different spelling.
• Santiny Planet inhabited by a human-like people. It's rich in resources and has huge forests. It was a major setting of Death Comes to Time, and was invaded by the Canisians.
• Sant's World is a planet mentioned in the book Monsters and Villains in the year five billion.
• Sarn is the Planet of Fire in the Fifth Doctor serial of that name. It is a rocky and barren planet with a high amount of volcanic activity. The Spanish island of Lanzarote, with its unique volcanic features, was the filming location for Sarn. Sarn was also referenced in the 11th Doctor episode, Amy's Choice, as the name of the Residential Home in Upper Leadworth.
• Saturnyne was the homeworld of the Saturnynians, a race of exo-skeletal fish creatures who thrived in the planet's seas, besieged by cracks in the universe. At first the cracks appeared to pose no real danger and the aliens were able to observe other worlds through them. Eventually however, the true nature of the cracks became apparent and Saturnyne was consumed, forcing the Saturnynians to flee through the smaller cracks to other worlds. It was mentioned in "The Vampires of Venice."
• Sava A planet mentioned in The Ark.
• Scalpor A planet mentioned in Vengeance on Varos.
• Scrantek Home planet of the horrific Fleshsmiths, in the novel Prime Time. It is located in the Brago Nebula, and plagued by ionising radiation and lightning storms that have detroyed the natives' bodies.
• Scotia is a planet mentioned in The Resurrection Casket.
• Segonax Is a dusty, arid, desert planet with a blue atmosphere. A large, magenta-pink ringed planet is seen in Segonax's skyline. There is little plant life, animal life and water on the planet, but is not without a stable eccosystem or life, including the native Segonaxians. It is also where The Psychic Circus is performing in The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. This is one of many planets that were visited by the Psychic Circus.
• Sense-Sphere Is the home planet of the Sensorites, a telepathic but xenophobic species. It has a high concentration of the valuable element molybdenum. It is located near to the planet Ood-Sphere. First seen in The Sensorites.
• Shada The prison planet of the Time Lords in the serial of the same name.
• Shadmoch A planet in the Rexel planetary configuration with a hollow moon.
• Shallacatop (aka. Challakatop) One of the 27 planets taken by Davros in "The Stolen Earth".
• Shan Shen is a planet visited in "Turn Left". The planet was inhabited by humanoid species with a somewhat Chinese influenced culture (described as a 'Chino' planet), a mixture of flags, pagodas and futuristic skyscrapers influenced by ancient Chinese architecture. It has two moons, and lies millions of light years from Earth.
• Shantella Prime A planet mentioned in the tenth Doctor comic strip "Which switch?" in the Doctor Who Magazine. Time Placement: Rose is wearing her outfit from New Earth, and the Doctor uses the in-flight stereo in Tooth and Claw, suggesting he has had time to move switches around.
• Shallanna (aka. Shrillanna) A planet mentioned in the 11th Doctor episode The Girl Who Waited. Amy Pond walks through an Apalapucian garden, the topiary of which is said according to the Interface to be perfect replicas of those found on a Shill governor's mansion garden on Shallanna.
• Sigma home planet of the Doctor Who Monthly character Doctor Asimoff.
• Sinda Callesta Mentioned in the Dr. Who episode titled The Lodger. The Doctor was planning on taking Amy to its 5th moon, but ended up landing on Earth.
• Siralos is one of the 700 Wonders of the Universe, and it is the planet made of pure psychic energy that the Master takes over in the computer game Destiny of the Doctors.
• Sireen The home planet of one the prisoners in Destiny of the Daleks.
• Sirius IV is an Earth colony planet referenced in Frontier in Space. This planet, as well as Sirius V, Androzani Major, Androzani Minor and Alpha Canis One make up the system of 5 planets known as the Sirius System, which orbits around the star Sirius, which is in fact a binary star, with one white star (Sirius A) and one white dwarf (Sirius B).
• Sirius V A planet mentioned in City of Death. Is one of the planets in the Sirius System.
• Skaar was where the Graff Vynda-K's men fought in the Alliance Wars mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
• Skaro is the home planet of the Thals, the Kaleds, and the Daleks. First seen in The Daleks. It was the first planet to appear in Doctor Who other than Earth, the only alien planet in 1963. It is a rocky, barren planet with little vegetation. A thick fog sometimes rolls over its surface and its upper atmosphere is red due to nuclear fall-out from Skaro's 1000-year War between The Thals And The Kaleds. Landmarks include The Lake Of Mutations and The Petrified Forest. It was destroyed by the Hand of Omega in Remembrance of the Daleks when the Seventh Doctor fooled Davros. In The TV Movie, Skaro is discovered to have two moons. Skaro was seen again in the episode Asylum of The Daleks, presumably re-built after the Time War.
• Skonnos is the setting for much of The Horns of Nimon.
• Skythros is mentioned in The Ribos Operation.
• The Slough of The Disunited Planets is the setting of the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story The Warkeeper's Crown (DWM #378–380). The Disunited Planets form a galaxy where the inhabitants have waged war since the near the beginning of time and is a place where space travellers avoid at all costs.
• Sol 3 another name for Earth.
• Solos is the setting of the Third Doctor serial The Mutants. During the day the ultraviolet rays from its sun makes its atmosphere poisonous to humans. It has four seasons, each lasting five hundred years.
• Sontar (or Sontara) is the homeworld of the Sontarans. The Virgin Missing Adventures novel The Crystal Bucephalus by Craig Hinton names the planet as "Sontara". Yet in The Sontaran Stratagem and The Poison Sky, the Sontarans referred to their home planet as Sontar. The official website explicitly states their home planet as Sontar.
• Spiridon is an inhospitable planet, home to the Spiridons, a race of beings with the natural ability to become invisible. The Daleks kept a secret army there in Planet of the Daleks. In this story, Spiridon is discovered to be a lush, green jungle planet where the plant life is more animal than plant. Temperatures range from tropical in the day to below freezing at night. Its landmarks include the Plain of Stones, molten ice pools (molten ice being ice that never freezes but is extremely cold) and molten ice volcanoes. Spiridon is also featured in the Doctor Who Magazine comic strip story Emperor of the Daleks (DWM #197-#202) and the audio drama Return of the Daleks.
• Splendurosa is home to a floating coral city, visited in the short story "Grand Theft Planet."
• Starfall The setting of the Tenth Doctor New Series Adventures novel The Resurrection Casket, a planet where no technology works except steam power due to the EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse), which covers the entire world of Starfall except for the outskirts.
• Stella Stora A planet mentioned in Terror of the Vervoids.
• Sto A planet located in the Cassavalian Belt. It is the home planet of those, including Astrid Peth and Max Capricorn, aboard the Titanic in "Voyage of the Damned". Although the dominant species is humanlike, Sto is also home to the red, spiny-skinned Zocci, and to cyborgs who are treated as an underclass.
• Stormcage A prison planet for the worst criminals in the galaxies. Dr. River Song, or Melody Pond, is put in there for murdering "A good, good man." She continually breaks out throughout the series.
• Strepto The home planet of the water hags featured in the Torchwood novel, Something in the Water. The Time Traveller's Almanac confirms that it was one of the 27 planets stolen by the Daleks in The Stolen Earth.
• Stricium A planet mentioned in City of Death as the location of the Solarium Panatica gallery.
• Sunday The setting of the Tenth Doctor New Series Adventures novel Wetworld. It is inhabited by intelligent creatures resembling terrestrial otters.
• Svartos The location of Iceworld in the serial Dragonfire. The planet is locked in its orbit, causing one side of the planet to be in permanent sunshine, while the other side is permanently cold and icy.
• Sycorax is the homeworld of the Sycorax race. Located in the JX82 system, is was broken up into asteroid-starships, including the flagship Fire Trap. It should not be confused with Uranus's moon of the same name.
• Sylvaniar A planet visited by the sixth Doctor in the Doctor Who Monthly comic strip "Revelation." It had been infiltrated by Cybermen.
• Szabo A planet mentioned in The Creature from the Pit.