Strax Field Report: The Doctor's Greatest Secret (webcast)

Strax Field Report: The Doctor's Greatest Secret
Featuring:	Strax
Main setting:	The Doctor's TARDIS
Key crew
Writer:	Steven Moffat
Release details
Premiere broadcast:	24 May 2013
Format:	1x.5 minute webcast
Doctor Who - Prequels
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Strax Field Report: The Doctor's Greatest Secret was the third Strax Field Report webcast. It was released following the airing of the final episode of the seventh series of Doctor Who and leads up to the show's 50th anniversary episode.

Synopsis

Field Report D895/O: "The Doctor's greatest secret has been revealed! And it has nothing to do with his chin."

Plot

Strax records a field report for his home world: Field Report D895/O. He reports that "the Doctor has kept one of his many faces from view" and shows an image of the new face. He describes this face as having "the look of a battle hardened warrior."

Characters

• Strax - Dan Starkey

References

The Doctor

• Strax references and shows the face of The Doctor's unknown incarnation. He says he has the look of a warrior, but that is head is not "round enough".

Planets

• Strax is trying to contact Sontar.

Story notes

• The image of John Hurt as the "secret face" of Doctor is taken from a frame of TV: The Name of the Doctor.

Filming locations

to be added

Production errors

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Continuity

• Strax says that the secret of the Doctor doesn't deal with his chin. He had already discarded another feature of his body in a previous report (WC: Strax's Field Report: The Name of the Doctor).
• Strax is up to date about the events in the timestream of the Doctor (TV: The Name of the Doctor) and confirms that the Doctor has kept secret one of his "faces".