White Guardian
| Doctor Who character | |
| Missing image WhiteGuardian.jpg | |
| The White Guardian | |
|---|---|
| Affiliated with | Council of Guardians |
| Race | Not applicable |
| Home planet | Not applicable |
| Home era | Various |
| First appearance | The Ribos Operation |
| Last appearance | Enlightenment |
| Portrayed by | Cyril Luckham Gerald Cross |
The White Guardian is a character in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. He was played by Cyril Luckham, with the exception of a vocal message in The Stones of Blood which was performed by Gerald Cross.
The White Guardian is an anthropomorphic personification of order, and had concerns that the universe was descending into chaos. As a result, he asked the Doctor to find and assemble the Key to Time so that he might restore the balance of the universe. The Doctor was successful in this task, but the White Guardian's counterpart, the Black Guardian disguised himself as the white and tried to deceive the Doctor into handing the key over to him instead. The Doctor saw through the Black Guardian's ruse and ordered the key to disperse, though he commented afterwards that the White Guardian should have been able to carry out his work while the key was assembled.
He next appeared in the serial Enlightenment, as the apparent organiser (with the Black Guardian) of an interstellar boat race.