Wilfred Mott first appears in "Voyage of the Damned". The Doctor and Astrid meet him shortly after teleporting down to Earth. He mans a newspaper stand and is one of the few people to remain in London over Christmas following the events of "The Christmas Invasion" and "The Runaway Bride". He is a staunch monarchist. He witnesses the Doctor and Astrid being teleported back to the intergalactic cruiser Titanic.^[4]

Donna Noble calls him Gramps In the episode "Partners in Crime", Wilfred is revealed to be an amateur astronomer who spends his evenings stargazing with his telescope from an allotment. He has an interest in alien conspiracies, and is somewhat eccentric.

He has a good relationship with his granddaughter who joins him on the allotment when she wishes to escape her mother's nagging. Donna asks him to tell her if he ever sees "a little blue box" and vaguely describes the Doctor to him. After Donna joins the Doctor, the pair make a fly-by of the allotment in the TARDIS, its door open, which astonishes Wilfred. Donna waves to him from the TARDIS door and he is elated to see that she is following her desire for adventure

Although various commentators have erroneously suggested that Mott wears UNIT insignia on his woollen hat, it is in fact the badge of the Parachute Regiment, in which Cribbins served during his National Service The hat itself is the same colour of the Regiment's famous beret, with the badge worn over the left eye as standard, indicating a nostalgia for his patriotic service.

In the End of Time Wilfred joins the Doctor in the TARDIS for his first adventure

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