Hell Bent (TV story)

Hell Bent
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Companion(s):	Clara
Featuring:	Ashildr, Ohila
Main enemy:	Rassilon, Time Lords, Cloister Wraiths
Main setting:	Gallifrey and Nevada, Texas
Key crew
Writer:	Steven Moffat
Director:	Rachel Talalay
Producer:	Peter Bennett
Release details
Story number:	260b
Premiere broadcast:	5 December 2015
Premiere network:	BBC One
Format:	1x65 minute episode
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Hell Bent was the twelfth episode of the ninth series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales.

It featured the return of the Time Lords for the first time since The Time of the Doctor.

Synopsis

The Doctor is pushed to the brink of madness by his experience in the confession dial. Who can predict his next move?

He's on Gallifrey and facing the Time Lords. He's planning to go to the end of time itself, where he meets Ashildr. What does he know of the hybrid. Does he have another confession?

Plot

The Doctor walks into a diner, where Clara is waitress and having no money, plays her a song and begins his story.

The Doctor walks on Gallifrey, to the hut he once called his own. A woman walks in on him and states that they will kill him.

Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Capaldi
• Clara - Jenna Coleman
• Ashildr - Maisie Williams
• The President - Donald Sumpter
• The General - Ken Bones
• Female General - T'Nia Miller
• Gastron - Malachi Kirby
• Ohila - Clare Higgins
• The Woman - Linda Broughton
• Man - Martin T. Sherman
• Wraiths - Jami Reid-Quarrell, Nick Ash, Ross Mullan
• Voice of the Dalek - Nicholas Briggs

Crew

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References

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Story notes

• Notably the first Doctor Who television story to feature a regeneration from a male body to a female, there have been references to this happening with the Corsair in TV: The Doctor's Wife and the Master in TV: Dark Water/Death in Heaven but it has never been televised, in this case the General from his tenth to her eleventh incarnation.
• The Doctor plays the first note of the theme song on his guitar, leading into the title sequence.

Ratings

• BBC One Overnight: to be added
• BBC America Overnight: to be added

Filming location

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Production errors

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.

Continuity

• The Daleks invasion of the Matrix occured in AUDIO: Ascension which lead Narvin to start the Last Great Time War.
• Before the Doctor shoots the General, he asks "Regeneration?". He replies "Tenth" , similar to the First Doctor when meeting his fifth incarnation (TV: The Five Doctors)
• Charlotte Pollard had previously wiped the Sixth Doctor's memory so that he forgot travelling with him and went on other adventures afterwards with in her case the Viyrans. (AUDIO: Blue Forgotten Planet)
• At the end of the episode, the Doctor's TARDIS provides a new sonic screwdriver. (TV: The Eleventh Hour)
• Clara and Ashildr have not been able to get their TARDIS' chameleon circuit working, leaving its outer shell stuck in one shape just like the Doctor's. It stays in the form of an American diner, the same one that appeared in TV: The Impossible Astronaut. Amy Pond and Rory Williams are also mentioned visiting it.
• The Doctor's TARDIS still has Rigsy's Clara memorial graffiti on it. (TV: Face the Raven) It is destroyed when the TARDIS dematerialises.
• When The Doctor first walks into the diner Don't Stop Me Now can be heard in the background performed by Foxes from TV: Mummy on the Orient Express.
• The Doctor plays his guitar again.
• The Doctor returns to the barn from his youth (TV: Listen) where he nearly detonated the Moment. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)

Home video releases

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