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This is the main page on this wiki for the discussion of '''discontinuity in Doctor Who television stories'''. Feel free to use this list to create pages that discuss in detail all the continuity errors that you've found — or think you've found — in your favourite episodes of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.  
This is the main page on this wiki for the discussion of '''discontinuity in Doctor Who television stories'''. Feel free to use this list to create pages that discuss in detail all the continuity errors that you've found — or think you've found — in your favourite episodes of ''[[Doctor Who]]''.  


The notion of removing discontinuity sections from mainspace article pages was deemed approved by community consensus at [[Forum:Discontinuity revisited]].  '''Therefore, please do not attempt to add discussion of narrative discontinuity on the episode pages themselves'''.
The notion of removing discontinuity sections from mainspace article pages was deemed approved by community consensus at [[Forum:Discontinuity revisited]].  '''Therefore, please do not attempt to add discussion of narrative discontinuity on the episode pages themselves.'''
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*'''When adding new episodes to this list, it is ''critically important'' that they be placed into [[:Category:DW TV discontinuity]].'''
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== [[First Doctor]] - [[William Hartnell]] ==
== Episode pages ==
===='''[[Season 1|Season One]] - 1963-64'''====
=== Season 1 ===
*''[[/An Unearthly Child/]]'' a.k.a. "100,000 BC", "The Tribe of Gum"
*''[[/An Unearthly Child/]]''
*''[[/The Daleks/]]'' a.k.a. "The Mutants", "The Dead Planet"
*''[[/The Daleks/]]''  
*''[[/The Edge of Destruction/]]'' a.k.a. "Inside the Spaceship", "Beyond the Sun"
*''[[/The Edge of Destruction/]]''
*''[[/Marco Polo/]]'' a.k.a. "A Journey to Cathay"
*''[[/Marco Polo/]]''
*''[[/The Keys of Marinus/]]''
*''[[/The Keys of Marinus/]]''
*''[[/The Aztecs/]]''
*''[[/The Aztecs/]]''
*''[[/The Sensorites/]]''
*''[[/The Sensorites/]]''
*''[[/The Reign of Terror/]]'' a.k.a. "The French Revolution"
*''[[/The Reign of Terror/]]''


===='''[[Season 2|Season Two]] - 1964-65'''====
=== Season 2 ===
*''[[/Planet of Giants/]]''
*''[[/Planet of Giants/]]''
*''[[/The Dalek Invasion of Earth/]]''
*''[[/The Dalek Invasion of Earth/]]''
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*''[[/The Time Meddler/]]''
*''[[/The Time Meddler/]]''


===='''[[Season 3|Season Three]] - 1965-66'''====
=== Season 3 ===
*''[[/Galaxy 4/]]''
*''[[/Galaxy 4/]]''
*''[[/Mission to the Unknown/]]'' a.k.a. "Dalek Cutaway"
*''[[/Mission to the Unknown/]]''
*''[[/The Myth Makers/]]''
*''[[/The Myth Makers/]]''
*''[[/The Daleks' Master Plan/]]''
*''[[/The Daleks' Master Plan/]]''
*''[[/The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve/]]'' a.k.a. "The Massacre"
*''[[/The Massacre/]]''
*''[[/The Ark/]]''
*''[[/The Ark/]]''
*''[[/The Celestial Toymaker/]]''
*''[[/The Celestial Toymaker/]]''
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*''[[/The War Machines/]]''
*''[[/The War Machines/]]''


===='''[[Season 4|Season Four]] - 1966''' ====
=== Season 4 ===
*''[[/The Smugglers/]]''
*''[[/The Smugglers/]]''
*''[[/The Tenth Planet/]]''
*''[[/The Tenth Planet/]]''
== [[Second Doctor]] - [[Patrick Troughton]] ==
===='''[[Season 4|Season Four]] - 1966-67''' (continued)====
*''[[/The Power of the Daleks/]]''
*''[[/The Power of the Daleks/]]''
*''[[/The Highlanders/]]''
*''[[/The Highlanders/]]''
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*''[[/The Evil of the Daleks/]]''
*''[[/The Evil of the Daleks/]]''


===='''[[Season 5|Season Five]] - 1967-68'''====
=== Season 5 ===
*''[[/The Tomb of the Cybermen/]]''
*''[[/The Tomb of the Cybermen/]]''
*''[[/The Abominable Snowmen/]]''
*''[[/The Abominable Snowmen/]]''
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*''[[/The Wheel in Space/]]''
*''[[/The Wheel in Space/]]''


===='''[[Season 6|Season Six]] - 1968-69'''====
=== Season 6 ===
*''[[/The Dominators/]]''
*''[[/The Dominators/]]''
*''[[/The Mind Robber/]]''
*''[[/The Mind Robber/]]''
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*''[[/The War Games/]]''
*''[[/The War Games/]]''


== [[Third Doctor]] - [[Jon Pertwee]] ==
=== Season 7 ===
 
===='''[[Season 7|Season Seven]]''' - '''1970'''====
*''[[/Spearhead from Space/]]''
*''[[/Spearhead from Space/]]''
*''[[/Doctor Who and the Silurians/]]''
*''[[/Doctor Who and the Silurians/]]''
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*''[[/Inferno/]]''
*''[[/Inferno/]]''


===='''[[Season 8|Season Eight]] - 1971'''====
=== Season 8 ===
*''[[/Terror of the Autons/]]''
*''[[/Terror of the Autons/]]''
*''[[/The Mind of Evil/]]''
*''[[/The Mind of Evil/]]''
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*''[[/The Dæmons/]]''
*''[[/The Dæmons/]]''


===='''[[Season 9|Season Nine]] - 1972'''====
=== Season 9 ===
*''[[/Day of the Daleks/]]''
*''[[/Day of the Daleks/]]''
*''[[/The Curse of Peladon/]]''
*''[[/The Curse of Peladon/]]''
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*''[[/The Time Monster/]]''
*''[[/The Time Monster/]]''


===='''[[Season 10|Season Ten]] - 1972-73'''====
=== Season 10 ===
*''[[/The Three Doctors/]]''
*''[[/The Three Doctors/]]''
*''[[/Carnival of Monsters/]]''
*''[[/Carnival of Monsters/]]''
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*''[[/The Green Death/]]''
*''[[/The Green Death/]]''


===='''[[Season 11|Season Eleven]] - 1973-74'''====
=== Season 11 ===
*''[[/The Time Warrior/]]''
*''[[/The Time Warrior/]]''
*''[[/Invasion of the Dinosaurs/]]''
*''[[/Invasion of the Dinosaurs/]]''
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*''[[/Planet of the Spiders/]]''
*''[[/Planet of the Spiders/]]''


== [[Fourth Doctor]] - [[Tom Baker]] ==
=== Season 12 ===
 
===='''[[Season 12|Season Twelve]] - 1974-75'''====
*''[[/Robot/]]''
*''[[/Robot/]]''
*''[[/The Ark in Space/]]''
*''[[/The Ark in Space/]]''
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*''[[/Revenge of the Cybermen/]]''
*''[[/Revenge of the Cybermen/]]''


===='''[[Season 13|Season Thirteen]] - 1975-76'''====
=== Season 13 ===
*''[[/Terror of the Zygons/]]''
*''[[/Terror of the Zygons/]]''
*''[[/Planet of Evil/]]''
*''[[/Planet of Evil/]]''
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*''[[/The Seeds of Doom/]]''
*''[[/The Seeds of Doom/]]''


===='''[[Season 14|Season Fourteen]] - 1976-77'''====
=== Season 14 ===
*''[[/The Masque of Mandragora/]]''
*''[[/The Masque of Mandragora/]]''
*''[[/The Hand of Fear/]]''
*''[[/The Hand of Fear/]]''
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*''[[/The Talons of Weng-Chiang/]]''
*''[[/The Talons of Weng-Chiang/]]''


===='''[[Season 15|Season Fifteen]] - 1977-78'''====
=== Season 15 ===
*''[[/Horror of Fang Rock/]]''
*''[[/Horror of Fang Rock/]]''
*''[[/The Invisible Enemy/]]''
*''[[/The Invisible Enemy/]]''
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*''[[/The Invasion of Time/]]''
*''[[/The Invasion of Time/]]''


===='''[[Season 16|Season Sixteen]] - 1978-79''' ====
=== Season 16 ===
*''[[/The Ribos Operation/]]''
*''[[/The Ribos Operation/]]''
*''[[/The Pirate Planet/]]''
*''[[/The Pirate Planet/]]''
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*''[[/The Armageddon Factor/]]''
*''[[/The Armageddon Factor/]]''


===='''[[Season 17|Season Seventeen]] - 1979-80'''====
=== Season 17 ===
*''[[/Destiny of the Daleks/]]''
*''[[/Destiny of the Daleks/]]''
*''[[/City of Death/]]''
*''[[/City of Death/]]''
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*''[[/Shada/]]'' (incomplete; not broadcast)
*''[[/Shada/]]'' (incomplete; not broadcast)


===='''[[Season 18|Season Eighteen]] - 1980-81'''====
=== Season 18 ===
*''[[/The Leisure Hive/]]''
*''[[/The Leisure Hive/]]''
*''[[/Meglos/]]''
*''[[/Meglos/]]''
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*''[[/Logopolis/]]''
*''[[/Logopolis/]]''


== [[Fifth Doctor]] - [[Peter Davison]] ==
=== Season 19 ===
 
 
 
===='''[[Season 19|Season Nineteen]] - 1982'''====
*''[[/Castrovalva/]]''
*''[[/Castrovalva/]]''
*''[[/Four to Doomsday/]]''
*''[[/Four to Doomsday/]]''
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*''[[/Time-Flight/]]''
*''[[/Time-Flight/]]''


===='''[[Season 20|Season Twenty]] - 1983'''====
=== Season 20 ===
*''[[/Arc of Infinity/]]''
*''[[/Arc of Infinity/]]''
*''[[/Snakedance/]]''
*''[[/Snakedance/]]''
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*''[[/The Five Doctors/]]''
*''[[/The Five Doctors/]]''


===='''[[Season 21|Season Twenty-One]] - 1984'''====
=== Season 21 ===
*''[[/Warriors of the Deep/]]''
*''[[/Warriors of the Deep/]]''
*''[[/The Awakening/]]''
*''[[/The Awakening/]]''
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*''[[/Planet of Fire/]]''
*''[[/Planet of Fire/]]''
*''[[/The Caves of Androzani/]]''
*''[[/The Caves of Androzani/]]''
== [[Sixth Doctor]] - [[Colin Baker]] ==
===='''[[Season 21|Season Twenty-One]] (continued) - 1984'''====
*''[[/The Twin Dilemma/]]''
*''[[/The Twin Dilemma/]]''


===='''[[Season 22|Season Twenty-Two]] - 1985'''====
=== Season 22 ===
Format changes to 45-minute episodes
 
*''[[/Attack of the Cybermen/]]''
*''[[/Attack of the Cybermen/]]''
*''[[/Vengeance on Varos/]]''
*''[[/Vengeance on Varos/]]''
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*''[[/Revelation of the Daleks/]]''
*''[[/Revelation of the Daleks/]]''


===='''[[Season 23|Season Twenty-Three]] - 1986'''====
=== Season 23 ===
25-minute episodes resume.
*''[[/The Mysterious Planet/]]''
*''[[/Mindwarp/]]''
*''[[/Terror of the Vervoids/]]''
*''[[/The Ultimate Foe/]]''


*The Trial of a Time Lord
=== Season 24 ===
**''[[/The Mysterious Planet/]]''
**''[[/Mindwarp/]]''
**''[[/Terror of the Vervoids/]]''
**''[[/The Ultimate Foe/]]''
 
== [[Seventh Doctor]] - [[Sylvester McCoy]] ==
===='''[[Season 24|Season Twenty-Four]] - 1987'''====
*''[[/Time and the Rani/]]''
*''[[/Time and the Rani/]]''
*''[[/Paradise Towers/]]''
*''[[/Paradise Towers/]]''
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*''[[/Dragonfire/]]''
*''[[/Dragonfire/]]''


===='''[[Season 25|Season Twenty-Five]] - 1988-89'''====
=== Season 25 ===
*''[[/Remembrance of the Daleks/]]''
*''[[/Remembrance of the Daleks/]]''
*''[[/The Happiness Patrol/]]''
*''[[/The Happiness Patrol/]]''
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*''[[/The Greatest Show in the Galaxy/]]''
*''[[/The Greatest Show in the Galaxy/]]''


===='''[[Season 26|Season Twenty-Six]] - 1989'''====
=== Season 26 ===
*''[[/Battlefield/]]''
*''[[/Battlefield/]]''
*''[[/Ghost Light/]]''
*''[[/Ghost Light/]]''
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*''[[/Survival/]]''
*''[[/Survival/]]''


== [[Eighth Doctor]] - [[Paul McGann]] ==
=== Educational special ===
*''[[/Search Out Space/]]''


===='''Television Movie - 1996'''====
=== 30th anniversary special ===
*''[[/Doctor Who/]]'', a.k.a. "Enemy Within", "The TV Movie" or "The Movie"
*''[[/Dimensions in Time/]]''


== [[Ninth Doctor]] - [[Christopher Eccleston]] ==
=== Television movie ===
*''[[/Doctor Who/]]''


===='''[[Series 1 (Doctor Who)|Series 1]] - 2005'''====
=== Comic Relief Special ===
*''[[/The Curse of Fatal Death/]]''


=== Animated serial ===
*''[[/Shada/]]''
=== Series 1 ===
*''[[/Rose/]]''
*''[[/Rose/]]''
*''[[/The End of the World/]]''
*''[[/The End of the World/]]''
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*''[[/The Parting of the Ways/]]''
*''[[/The Parting of the Ways/]]''


== [[Tenth Doctor]] - [[David Tennant]] ==
=== Children in Need Special ===
 
===='''[[Children in Need]] Special - 2005'''====
*''[[/Children in Need Special/]]''
*''[[/Children in Need Special/]]''


===='''Christmas Special - 2005'''====
=== Interactive Christmas Special ===
*''[[/The Christmas Invasion/]]''
 
===='''Interactive Christmas Special - 2005'''====
* ''[[/Attack of the Graske/]]''
* ''[[/Attack of the Graske/]]''


===='''[[Series 2 (Doctor Who)|Series 2]] - 2006'''====
=== Series 2 ===
* ''[[/The Christmas Invasion/]]''
* ''[[/New Earth/]]''
* ''[[/New Earth/]]''
* ''[[/Tooth and Claw/]]''
* ''[[/Tooth and Claw/]]''
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* ''[[/Doomsday/]]''
* ''[[/Doomsday/]]''


===='''Christmas Special - 2006'''====
=== Series 3 ===
* ''[[/The Runaway Bride/]]''
* ''[[/The Runaway Bride/]]''
===='''[[Series 3 (Doctor Who)|Series 3]] - 2007'''====
* ''[[/Smith and Jones/]]''
* ''[[/Smith and Jones/]]''
* ''[[/The Shakespeare Code/]]''
* ''[[/The Shakespeare Code/]]''
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* ''[[/Last of the Time Lords/]]''
* ''[[/Last of the Time Lords/]]''


====Animated Mini-Series - 2007====
=== Animated Mini-Series ===
Produced as part of the behind-the-scenes series, ''[[Totally Doctor Who]]''.
 
*''[[/The Infinite Quest/]]''
*''[[/The Infinite Quest/]]''


===='''[[Children in Need]] Special - 2007'''====
=== Children in Need Special ===
*''[[/Time Crash/]]''
*''[[/Time Crash/]]''


===='''Christmas Special - 2007'''====
=== Series 4 ===
 
*''[[/Voyage of the Damned/]]''
* ''[[/Voyage of the Damned/]]''
 
===='''[[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]] 2008'''====
*''[[/Partners in Crime/]]''
*''[[/Partners in Crime/]]''
*''[[/The Fires of Pompeii/]]''
*''[[/The Fires of Pompeii/]]''
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*''[[/Journey's End/]]''
*''[[/Journey's End/]]''


===='''Proms Special 2008'''====
=== Proms Special 2008 ===
*''[[/Music of the Spheres/]]''
*''[[/Music of the Spheres/]]''
===='''Christmas Special 2008'''====
 
=== 2009 specials ===
*''[[/The Next Doctor/]]''
*''[[/The Next Doctor/]]''
===='''[[2009 Specials (Doctor Who)|2009 specials]]'''====
*''[[/Planet of the Dead/]]''
*''[[/Planet of the Dead/]]''
*''[[/The Waters of Mars/]]''
*''[[/The Waters of Mars/]]''
*''[[/The End of Time/]]''
*''[[/The End of Time/]]''


===='''Animated Mini-Series - 2009'''====
=== Animated mini-series ===
*''[[/Dreamland/]]''
*''[[/Dreamland/]]''


==[[Eleventh Doctor]] - [[Matt Smith]]==
=== Series 5 ===
===='''[[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]] - 2010'''====
*''[[/The Eleventh Hour/]]''
*''[[/The Eleventh Hour/]]''
*''[[/The Beast Below/]]''
*''[[/The Beast Below/]]''
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*''[[/The Big Bang/]]''
*''[[/The Big Bang/]]''


===='''Christmas Special 2010'''====
=== Series 6 ===
*''[[/A Christmas Carol/]]''
*''[[/A Christmas Carol/]]''
===='''[[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|Series 6]] - 2011'''====
*''[[/The Impossible Astronaut/]]''
*''[[/The Impossible Astronaut/]]''
*''[[/Day of the Moon/]]''
*''[[/Day of the Moon/]]''
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*''[[/The Wedding of River Song/]]''
*''[[/The Wedding of River Song/]]''


===='''Christmas Special 2011'''====
=== Series 7 ===
*''[[/The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe/]]''
* ''[[/The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe/]]''
 
===='''[[Series 7 (Doctor Who)|Series 7]] - 2012'''====
* ''[[/Asylum of the Daleks/]]''
* ''[[/Asylum of the Daleks/]]''
* ''[[/Dinosaurs on a Spaceship/]]''
* ''[[/Dinosaurs on a Spaceship/]]''
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* ''[[/The Power of Three/]]''
* ''[[/The Power of Three/]]''
* ''[[/The Angels Take Manhattan/]]''
* ''[[/The Angels Take Manhattan/]]''
 
* ''[[/The Snowmen/]]''
===='''Christmas Special 2012'''====
*''[[/The Snowmen/]]''
 
===='''[[Series 7 (Doctor Who)|Series 7]] - 2013'''====
*''[[/The Bells of Saint John/]]
*''[[/The Bells of Saint John/]]
*''[[/The Rings of Akhaten/]]
*''[[/The Rings of Akhaten/]]
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*''[[/The Name of the Doctor/]]
*''[[/The Name of the Doctor/]]


==== '''50th Anniversary Special''' ====
==== 2013 specials ====
* ''[[/The Day of the Doctor/]]
* ''[[/The Day of the Doctor/]]
==== '''Christmas Special 2013''' ====
* ''[[/The Time of the Doctor/]]
* ''[[/The Time of the Doctor/]]


== [[Twelfth Doctor]] - [[Peter Capaldi]] ==
=== Series 8 ===
 
===='''[[Series 8 (Doctor Who)|Series 8]] - 2014'''====
* ''[[/Deep Breath/]]''
* ''[[/Deep Breath/]]''
* ''[[/Into the Dalek/]]''
* ''[[/Into the Dalek/]]''
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* ''[[/Death in Heaven/]]''
* ''[[/Death in Heaven/]]''


===='''[[Series 9 (Doctor Who)|Series 9]] - 2015'''====
=== Series 9 ===
* ''[[/Last Christmas/]]''
* ''[[/Last Christmas/]]''
* ''[[/The Magician's Apprentice/]]''
* ''[[/The Magician's Apprentice/]]''
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* ''[[/The Husbands of River Song/]]
* ''[[/The Husbands of River Song/]]


=== Series 10 ===
* ''[[/The Return of Doctor Mysterio/]]''
* ''[[/The Return of Doctor Mysterio/]]''
===='''[[Series 10 (Doctor Who)|Series 10]] - 2017'''====
* ''[[/The Pilot/]]''
* ''[[/The Pilot/]]''
* ''[[/Smile/]]''
* ''[[/Smile/]]''
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* ''[[/Knock Knock/]]''
* ''[[/Knock Knock/]]''
* ''[[/Oxygen/]]''
* ''[[/Oxygen/]]''
* ''[[/Extremis/]]''
* ''[[/The Pyramid at the End of the World/]]''
* ''[[/The Lie of the Land/]]''
* ''[[/Empress of Mars/]]''
* ''[[/The Eaters of Light/]]''
* ''[[/World Enough and Time/]]''
* ''[[/The Doctor Falls/]]''
* ''[[/Twice Upon a Time/]]''


=== Series 11 ===
* ''[[/The Woman Who Fell to Earth/]]''
* ''[[/The Ghost Monument/]]''
* ''[[/Rosa/]]''
* ''[[/Arachnids in the UK/]]''
* ''[[/The Tsuranga Conundrum/]]''
* ''[[/Demons of the Punjab/]]''
* ''[[/Kerblam!/]]''
* ''[[/The Witchfinders/]]''
* ''[[/It Takes You Away/]]''
* ''[[/The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos/]]''
* ''[[/Resolution/]]''


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=== Series 12 ===
* ''[[/Spyfall/]]''
* ''[[/Orphan 55/]]''
* ''[[/Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror/]]''
* ''[[/Fugitive of the Judoon/]]''
* ''[[/Praxeus/]]''
* ''[[/Can You Hear Me?/]]''
* ''[[/The Haunting of Villa Diodati/]]''
* ''[[/Ascension of the Cybermen/]]''
* ''[[/The Timeless Children/]]''
* ''[[/Revolution of the Daleks/]]


This category assignment assumes that this page will be
=== Series 13 ===
about a TV episode of Doctor Who.  If this assumption is
* ''[[/The Halloween Apocalypse/]]''
wrong, then change to appropriate category.  It MUST
* ''[[/War of the Sontarans/]]''
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* ''[[/Once, Upon Time/]]''
places around the Theory namespace.
* ''[[/Village of the Angels/]]''
* ''[[/Survivors of the Flux/]]''
* ''[[/The Vanquishers/]]''
* ''[[/Eve of the Daleks/]]''
* ''[[/Legend of the Sea Devils/]]''
* ''[[/The Power of the Doctor/]]''


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=== 2023 Anniversary specials ===
* ''[[/Destination: Skaro/]]''
* ''[[/The Star Beast/]]''
* ''[[/Wild Blue Yonder/]]''
* ''[[/The Giggle/]]''


==Other==
=== Season 1 ===
[[File:Skorr2.jpg|thumb|250px|right|"They may not be in the [[Whoniverse]], but anything for sport, innit?"]]
* ''[[/The Church on Ruby Road/]]''
The following episodes are generally considered wholly discontinuous with the main series, and so therefore can't have "continuity errors" as such. Another way of looking at it is that they '''are''' continuity errors. Nevertheless, as this is a forum, they're included more or less for pure sport.
* ''[[/Space Babies/]]''
 
* ''[[/The Devil's Chord/]]''
===='''Pilot Episode'''====
* ''[[/Boom/]]
*''[[/The Pilot Episode/]]'' (unaired)
* ''[[/73 Yards/]]''
 
* ''[[/Dot and Bubble/]]''
===='''[[Jim'll Fix It]] Mini-Episode - 1985'''====
* ''[[/Rogue/]]''
* ''[[/The Legend of Ruby Sunday/]]''
* ''[[/Empire of Death/]]''


== Other ==
*"[[/The Pilot Episode/]]"
*''[[/A Fix with Sontarans/]]''
*''[[/A Fix with Sontarans/]]''
*''[[/Dermot and the Doctor/]]''


===='''{{w|Search Out Science}} Mini-Episode - 1990'''====
[[Category:Discontinuity stickies]]
*''[[/Search Out Space/]]''
 
===='''[[Children in Need]] Special - 1993'''====
*''[[/Dimensions in Time/]]''
 
==== '''Comic Relief/Red Nose Day Special - 1999'''====
*''[[/The Curse of Fatal Death/]]''
[[category:discontinuity stickies]]

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Children in Need Special[[edit source]]

Interactive Christmas Special[[edit source]]

Series 2[[edit source]]

Series 3[[edit source]]

Animated Mini-Series[[edit source]]

Children in Need Special[[edit source]]

Series 4[[edit source]]

Proms Special 2008[[edit source]]

2009 specials[[edit source]]

Animated mini-series[[edit source]]

Series 5[[edit source]]

Series 6[[edit source]]

Series 7[[edit source]]

2013 specials[[edit source]]

Series 8[[edit source]]

Series 9[[edit source]]

Series 10[[edit source]]

Series 11[[edit source]]

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Other[[edit source]]