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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]]''.  
Welcome to the TARDIS wiki discussion forum for Doctor Who discontinuity and plot holes. Through this page via the links below you can discuss plot holes and discontinuity (point of continuity in stories that does not make sense with regards to other stories).


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 favorite 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.'''


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*'''When adding new episodes to this list, it is ''critically important'' that they be placed into [[:Category:DW TV discontinuity]].'''


'''Please do not attempt to add discussion of narrative discontinuity on the episode pages themselves'''.
== Episode pages ==
=== Season 1 ===
*''[[/An Unearthly Child/]]''
*''[[/The Daleks/]]''
*''[[/The Edge of Destruction/]]''
*''[[/Marco Polo/]]''
*''[[/The Keys of Marinus/]]''
*''[[/The Aztecs/]]''
*''[[/The Sensorites/]]''
*''[[/The Reign of Terror/]]''


== [[First Doctor]] - [[William Hartnell]] ==
=== Season 2 ===
*''[[/Planet of Giants/]]''
*''[[/The Dalek Invasion of Earth/]]''
*''[[/The Rescue/]]''
*''[[/The Romans/]]''
*''[[/The Web Planet/]]''
*''[[/The Crusade/]]''
*''[[/The Space Museum/]]''
*''[[/The Chase/]]''
*''[[/The Time Meddler/]]''


===='''[[Season 1|Season One]] - [[1963]]-[[1964|64]]'''====
=== Season 3 ===
*[[/An Unearthly Child]] a.k.a. "100,000 BC", "The Tribe of Gum"
*''[[/Galaxy 4/]]''
*[[/The Daleks]] a.k.a. "The Mutants", "The Dead Planet"
*''[[/Mission to the Unknown/]]''
*[[/The Edge of Destruction]] a.k.a. "Inside the Spaceship", "Beyond the Sun"
*''[[/The Myth Makers/]]''
*[[Forum:Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/Marco Polo (TV story)|/Marco Polo]] a.k.a. "A Journey to Cathay"
*''[[/The Daleks' Master Plan/]]''
*[[/The Keys of Marinus]]
*''[[/The Massacre/]]''
*[[/The Aztecs]]
*''[[/The Ark/]]''
*[[/The Sensorites]]
*''[[/The Celestial Toymaker/]]''
*[[/The Reign of Terror]] a.k.a. "The French Revolution"
*''[[/The Gunfighters/]]''
*''[[/The Savages/]]''
*''[[/The War Machines/]]''


===='''[[Season 2|Season Two]] - [[1964]]-[[1965|65]]'''====
=== Season 4 ===
*[[/Planet of Giants]]
*''[[/The Smugglers/]]''
*[[/The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]
*''[[/The Tenth Planet/]]''
*[[/The Rescue]]
*''[[/The Power of the Daleks/]]''
*[[/The Romans]]
*''[[/The Highlanders/]]''
*[[/The Web Planet]]
*''[[/The Underwater Menace/]]''
*[[/The Crusade]]
*''[[/The Moonbase/]]''
*[[/The Space Museum]]
*''[[/The Macra Terror/]]''
*[[/The Chase]]
*''[[/The Faceless Ones/]]''
*[[/The Time Meddler]]
*''[[/The Evil of the Daleks/]]''


===='''[[Season 3|Season Three]] - [[1965]]-[[1966|66]]'''====
=== Season 5 ===
*[[/Galaxy 4]]
*''[[/The Tomb of the Cybermen/]]''
*[[/Mission to the Unknown]] a.k.a. "Dalek Cutaway"
*''[[/The Abominable Snowmen/]]''
*[[/The Myth Makers]]
*''[[/The Ice Warriors/]]''
*[[/The Daleks' Master Plan]]
*''[[/The Enemy of the World/]]''
*[[/The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve]] a.k.a. "The Massacre"
*''[[/The Web of Fear/]]''
*[[/The Ark]]
*''[[/Fury from the Deep/]]''
*[[/The Celestial Toymaker]]
*''[[/The Wheel in Space/]]''
*[[/The Gunfighters]]
*[[/The Savages]]
*[[/The War Machines]]


===='''[[Season 4|Season Four]] - [[1966]]''' ====
=== Season 6 ===
*[[/The Smugglers]]
*''[[/The Dominators/]]''
*[[/The Tenth Planet]]
*''[[/The Mind Robber/]]''
*''[[/The Invasion/]]''
*''[[/The Krotons/]]''
*''[[/The Seeds of Death/]]''
*''[[/The Space Pirates/]]''
*''[[/The War Games/]]''


== [[Second Doctor]] - [[Patrick Troughton]] ==
=== Season 7 ===
===='''[[Season 4|Season Four]] - [[1966]]-[[1967|67]]''' (continued)====
*''[[/Spearhead from Space/]]''
*[[/The Power of the Daleks]]
*''[[/Doctor Who and the Silurians/]]''
*[[/The Highlanders]]
*''[[/The Ambassadors of Death/]]''
*[[/The Underwater Menace]]
*''[[/Inferno/]]''
*[[/The Moonbase]]
*[[/The Macra Terror]]
*[[/The Faceless Ones]]
*[[/The Evil of the Daleks]]


===='''[[Season 5|Season Five]] - [[1967]]-[[1968|68]]'''====
=== Season 8 ===
*[[/The Tomb of the Cybermen]]
*''[[/Terror of the Autons/]]''
*[[/The Abominable Snowmen]]
*''[[/The Mind of Evil/]]''
*[[/The Ice Warriors]]
*''[[/The Claws of Axos/]]''
*[[/The Enemy of the World]]
*''[[/Colony in Space/]]''
*[[/The Web of Fear]]
*''[[/The Dæmons/]]''
*[[/Fury from the Deep]]
*[[/The Wheel in Space]]


===='''[[Season 6|Season Six]] - [[1968]]-[[1969|69]]'''====
=== Season 9 ===
*[[/The Dominators]]
*''[[/Day of the Daleks/]]''
*[[/The Mind Robber]]
*''[[/The Curse of Peladon/]]''
*[[/The Invasion]]
*''[[/The Sea Devils/]]''
*[[/The Krotons]]
*''[[/The Mutants/]]''
*[[/The Seeds of Death]]
*''[[/The Time Monster/]]''
*[[/The Space Pirates]]
*[[/The War Games]]


== [[Third Doctor]] - [[Jon Pertwee]] ==
=== Season 10 ===
*''[[/The Three Doctors/]]''
*''[[/Carnival of Monsters/]]''
*''[[/Frontier in Space/]]''
*''[[/Planet of the Daleks/]]''
*''[[/The Green Death/]]''


===='''[[Season 7|Season Seven]]''' - '''[[1970]]'''====
=== Season 11 ===
*[[/Spearhead from Space]]
*''[[/The Time Warrior/]]''
*[[/Doctor Who and the Silurians]]
*''[[/Invasion of the Dinosaurs/]]''
*[[/The Ambassadors of Death]]
*''[[/Death to the Daleks/]]''
*[[/Inferno]]
*''[[/The Monster of Peladon/]]''
*''[[/Planet of the Spiders/]]''


===='''[[Season 8|Season Eight]] - [[1971]]'''====
=== Season 12 ===
*[[/Terror of the Autons]]
*''[[/Robot/]]''
*[[/The Mind of Evil]]
*''[[/The Ark in Space/]]''
*[[/The Claws of Axos]]
*''[[/The Sontaran Experiment/]]''
*[[/Colony in Space]]
*''[[/Genesis of the Daleks/]]''
*[[/The Dæmons]]
*''[[/Revenge of the Cybermen/]]''


===='''[[Season 9|Season Nine]] - [[1972]]'''====
=== Season 13 ===
*[[/Day of the Daleks]]
*''[[/Terror of the Zygons/]]''
*[[/The Curse of Peladon]]
*''[[/Planet of Evil/]]''
*[[/The Sea Devils]]
*''[[/Pyramids of Mars/]]''
*[[/The Mutants]]
*''[[/The Android Invasion/]]''
*[[/The Time Monster]]
*''[[/The Brain of Morbius/]]''
*''[[/The Seeds of Doom/]]''


===='''[[Season 10|Season Ten]] - [[1972]]-[[1973|73]]'''====
=== Season 14 ===
*[[/The Three Doctors]]
*''[[/The Masque of Mandragora/]]''
*[[/Carnival of Monsters]]
*''[[/The Hand of Fear/]]''
*[[/Frontier in Space]]
*''[[/The Deadly Assassin/]]''
*[[/Planet of the Daleks]]
*''[[/The Face of Evil/]]''
*[[/The Green Death]]
*''[[/The Robots of Death/]]''
*''[[/The Talons of Weng-Chiang/]]''


===='''[[Season 11|Season Eleven]] - [[1973]]-[[1974|74]]'''====
=== Season 15 ===
*[[/The Time Warrior]]
*''[[/Horror of Fang Rock/]]''
*[[/Invasion of the Dinosaurs]]
*''[[/The Invisible Enemy/]]''
*[[/Death to the Daleks]]
*''[[/Image of the Fendahl/]]''
*[[/The Monster of Peladon]]
*''[[/The Sun Makers/]]''
*[[/Planet of the Spiders]]
*''[[/Underworld/]]''
*''[[/The Invasion of Time/]]''


== [[Fourth Doctor]] - [[Tom Baker]] ==
=== Season 16 ===
*''[[/The Ribos Operation/]]''
*''[[/The Pirate Planet/]]''
*''[[/The Stones of Blood/]]''
*''[[/The Androids of Tara/]]''
*''[[/The Power of Kroll/]]''
*''[[/The Armageddon Factor/]]''


===='''[[Season 12|Season Twelve]] - [[1974]]-[[1975|75]]'''====
=== Season 17 ===
*[[/Robot]]
*''[[/Destiny of the Daleks/]]''
*[[/The Ark in Space]]
*''[[/City of Death/]]''
*[[/The Sontaran Experiment]]
*''[[/The Creature from the Pit/]]''
*[[/Genesis of the Daleks]]
*''[[/Nightmare of Eden/]]''
*[[/Revenge of the Cybermen]]
*''[[/The Horns of Nimon/]]''
*''[[/Shada/]]'' (incomplete; not broadcast)


===='''[[Season 13|Season Thirteen]] - [[1975]]-[[1976|76]]'''====
=== Season 18 ===
*[[/Terror of the Zygons]]
*''[[/The Leisure Hive/]]''
*[[/Planet of Evil]]
*''[[/Meglos/]]''
*[[/Pyramids of Mars]]
*''[[/Full Circle/]]''
*[[/The Android Invasion]]
*''[[/State of Decay/]]''
*[[/The Brain of Morbius]]
*''[[/Warriors' Gate/]]''
*[[/The Seeds of Doom]]
*''[[/The Keeper of Traken/]]''
*''[[/Logopolis/]]''


===='''[[Season 14|Season Fourteen]] - [[1976]]-[[1977|77]]'''====
=== Season 19 ===
*[[/The Masque of Mandragora]]
*''[[/Castrovalva/]]''
*[[/The Hand of Fear]]
*''[[/Four to Doomsday/]]''
*[[/The Deadly Assassin]]
*''[[/Kinda/]]''
*[[/The Face of Evil]]
*''[[/The Visitation/]]''
*[[/The Robots of Death]]
*''[[/Black Orchid/]]''
*[[/The Talons of Weng-Chiang]]
*''[[/Earthshock/]]''
*''[[/Time-Flight/]]''


===='''[[Season 15|Season Fifteen]] - [[1977]]-[[1978|78]]'''====
=== Season 20 ===
*[[/Horror of Fang Rock]]
*''[[/Arc of Infinity/]]''
*[[/The Invisible Enemy]]
*''[[/Snakedance/]]''
*[[/Image of the Fendahl]]
*''[[/Mawdryn Undead/]]''
*[[/The Sun Makers]]
*''[[/Terminus/]]''
*[[/Underworld]]
*''[[/Enlightenment/]]''
*[[/The Invasion of Time]]
*''[[/The King's Demons/]]''
*''[[/The Five Doctors/]]''


===='''[[Season 16|Season Sixteen]] - [[1978]]-[[1979|79]]''' ====
=== Season 21 ===
*[[/The Ribos Operation]]
*''[[/Warriors of the Deep/]]''
*[[/The Pirate Planet]]
*''[[/The Awakening/]]''
*[[/The Stones of Blood]]
*''[[/Frontios/]]''
*[[/The Androids of Tara]]
*''[[/Resurrection of the Daleks/]]''
*[[/The Power of Kroll]]
*''[[/Planet of Fire/]]''
*[[/The Armageddon Factor]]
*''[[/The Caves of Androzani/]]''
*''[[/The Twin Dilemma/]]''


===='''[[Season 17|Season Seventeen]] - [[1979]]-[[1980|80]]'''====
=== Season 22 ===
*[[/Destiny of the Daleks]]
*''[[/Attack of the Cybermen/]]''
*[[/City of Death]]
*''[[/Vengeance on Varos/]]''
*[[/The Creature from the Pit]]
*''[[/The Mark of the Rani/]]''
*[[/Nightmare of Eden]]
*''[[/The Two Doctors/]]''
*[[/The Horns of Nimon]]
*''[[/Timelash/]]''
*[[/Shada]] (incomplete; not broadcast)
*''[[/Revelation of the Daleks/]]''


===='''[[Season 18|Season Eighteen]] - [[1980]]-[[1981|81]]'''====
=== Season 23 ===
*[[/The Leisure Hive]]
*''[[/The Mysterious Planet/]]''
*[[/Meglos]]
*''[[/Mindwarp/]]''
*[[/Full Circle]]
*''[[/Terror of the Vervoids/]]''
*[[/State of Decay]]
*''[[/The Ultimate Foe/]]''
*[[/Warriors' Gate]]
*[[/The Keeper of Traken]]
*[[/Logopolis]]


== [[Fifth Doctor]] - [[Peter Davison]] ==
=== Season 24 ===
*''[[/Time and the Rani/]]''
*''[[/Paradise Towers/]]''
*''[[/Delta and the Bannermen/]]''
*''[[/Dragonfire/]]''


=== Season 25 ===
*''[[/Remembrance of the Daleks/]]''
*''[[/The Happiness Patrol/]]''
*''[[/Silver Nemesis/]]''
*''[[/The Greatest Show in the Galaxy/]]''


=== Season 26 ===
*''[[/Battlefield/]]''
*''[[/Ghost Light/]]''
*''[[/The Curse of Fenric/]]''
*''[[/Survival/]]''


===='''[[Season 19|Season Nineteen]] - [[1982]]'''====
=== Educational special ===
*[[/Castrovalva]]
*''[[/Search Out Space/]]''
*[[/Four to Doomsday]]
*[[/Kinda]]
*[[/The Visitation]]
*[[/Black Orchid]]
*[[/Earthshock]]
*[[/Time-Flight]]


===='''[[Season 20|Season Twenty]] - [[1983]]'''====
=== 30th anniversary special ===
*[[/Arc of Infinity]]
*''[[/Dimensions in Time/]]''
*[[/Snakedance]]
*[[/Mawdryn Undead]]
*[[/Terminus]]
*[[/Enlightenment]]
*[[/The King's Demons]]
*[[/The Five Doctors]]


===='''[[Season 21|Season Twenty-One]] - [[1984]]'''====
=== Television movie ===
*[[/Warriors of the Deep]]
*''[[/Doctor Who/]]''
*[[/The Awakening]]
*[[/Frontios]]
*[[/Resurrection of the Daleks]]
*[[/Planet of Fire]]
*[[/The Caves of Androzani]]


== [[Sixth Doctor]] - [[Colin Baker]] ==
=== Comic Relief Special ===
===='''[[Season 21|Season Twenty-One]] (continued) - [[1984]]'''====
*''[[/The Curse of Fatal Death/]]''
*[[/The Twin Dilemma]]


===='''[[Season 22|Season Twenty-Two]] - [[1985]]'''====
=== Animated serial ===
Format changes to 45-minute episodes
*''[[/Shada/]]''


*[[/Attack of the Cybermen]]
=== Series 1 ===
*[[/Vengeance on Varos]]
*''[[/Rose/]]''
*[[/The Mark of the Rani]]
*''[[/The End of the World/]]''
*[[/The Two Doctors]]
*''[[/The Unquiet Dead/]]''
*[[/Timelash]]
*''[[/Aliens of London/]]''
*[[/Revelation of the Daleks]]
*''[[/World War Three/]]''
*''[[/Dalek/]]''
*''[[/The Long Game/]]''
*''[[/Father's Day/]]''
*''[[/The Empty Child/]]''
*''[[/The Doctor Dances/]]''
*''[[/Boom Town/]]''
*''[[/Bad Wolf/]]''
*''[[/The Parting of the Ways/]]''


===='''[[Season 23|Season Twenty-Three]] - [[1986]]'''====
=== Children in Need Special ===
25-minute episodes resume.
*''[[/Children in Need Special/]]''


*The Trial of a Time Lord
=== Interactive Christmas Special ===
**[[/The Mysterious Planet]]
* ''[[/Attack of the Graske/]]''
**[[/Mindwarp]]
**[[/Terror of the Vervoids]]
**[[/The Ultimate Foe]]


== [[Seventh Doctor]] - [[Sylvester McCoy]] ==
=== Series 2 ===
===='''[[Season 24|Season Twenty-Four]] - [[1987]]'''====
* ''[[/The Christmas Invasion/]]''
*[[/Time and the Rani]]
* ''[[/New Earth/]]''
*[[/Paradise Towers]]
* ''[[/Tooth and Claw/]]''
*[[/Delta and the Bannermen]]
* ''[[/School Reunion/]]''
*[[/Dragonfire]]
* ''[[/The Girl in the Fireplace/]]''
* ''[[/Rise of the Cybermen/]]'' 
* ''[[/The Age of Steel/]]''
* ''[[/The Idiot's Lantern/]]''
* ''[[/The Impossible Planet/]]''
* ''[[/The Satan Pit/]]''
* ''[[/Love & Monsters/]]''
* ''[[/Fear Her/]]''
* ''[[/Army of Ghosts/]]''
* ''[[/Doomsday/]]''


===='''[[Season 25|Season Twenty-Five]] - [[1988]]'''''''''-[[1989]]''''''====
=== Series 3 ===
*[[/Remembrance of the Daleks]]
* ''[[/The Runaway Bride/]]''
*[[/The Happiness Patrol]]
* ''[[/Smith and Jones/]]''
*[[/Silver Nemesis]]
* ''[[/The Shakespeare Code/]]''
*[[/The Greatest Show in the Galaxy]]
* ''[[/Gridlock/]]''
* ''[[/Daleks in Manhattan/]]''  
* ''[[/Evolution of the Daleks/]]''
* ''[[/The Lazarus Experiment/]]''
* ''[[/42/]]''
* ''[[/Human Nature/]]''
* ''[[/The Family of Blood/]]''
* ''[[/Blink/]]''
* ''[[/Utopia/]]''
* ''[[/The Sound of Drums/]]''
* ''[[/Last of the Time Lords/]]''


===='''[[Season 26|Season Twenty-Six]] - [[1989]]'''====
=== Animated Mini-Series ===
*[[/Battlefield]]
*''[[/The Infinite Quest/]]''
*[[/Ghost Light]]
*[[/The Curse of Fenric]]
*[[/Survival]]


== [[Eighth Doctor]] - [[Paul McGann]] ==
=== Children in Need Special ===
*''[[/Time Crash/]]''


===='''Television Movie - [[1996]]'''====
=== Series 4 ===
*[[/Doctor Who (1996)]], a.k.a. "Enemy Within", "The TV Movie" or "The Movie"
*''[[/Voyage of the Damned/]]''
*''[[/Partners in Crime/]]''
*''[[/The Fires of Pompeii/]]''
*''[[/Planet of the Ood/]]''
*''[[/The Sontaran Stratagem/]]''
*''[[/The Poison Sky/]]''
*''[[/The Doctor's Daughter/]]''
*''[[/The Unicorn and the Wasp/]]''
*''[[/Silence in the Library/]]''
*''[[/Forest of the Dead/]]''
*''[[/Midnight/]]''
*''[[/Turn Left/]]''
*''[[/The Stolen Earth/]]''
*''[[/Journey's End/]]''


== [[Ninth Doctor]] - [[Christopher Eccleston]] ==
=== Proms Special 2008 ===
*''[[/Music of the Spheres/]]''


===='''[[Series 1 (Doctor Who)|Series 1]] - [[2005]]'''====
=== 2009 specials ===
*''[[/The Next Doctor/]]''
*''[[/Planet of the Dead/]]''
*''[[/The Waters of Mars/]]''
*''[[/The End of Time/]]''


*[[/Rose]]
=== Animated mini-series ===
*[[/The End of the World]]
*''[[/Dreamland/]]''
*[[/The Unquiet Dead]]
*[[/Aliens of London]] / [[/World War Three]]
*[[/Dalek]]
*[[/The Long Game]]
*[[/Father's Day]]
*[[/The Empty Child]] / [[/The Doctor Dances]]
*[[/Boom Town]]
*[[/Bad Wolf]] / [[/The Parting of the Ways]]


== [[Tenth Doctor]] - [[David Tennant]] ==
=== Series 5 ===
*''[[/The Eleventh Hour/]]''
*''[[/The Beast Below/]]''
*''[[/Victory of the Daleks/]]''
*''[[/The Time of Angels/]]''
*''[[/Flesh and Stone/]]''
*''[[/The Vampires of Venice/]]''
*''[[/Amy's Choice/]]''
*''[[/The Hungry Earth/]]''
*''[[/Cold Blood/]]''
*''[[/Vincent and the Doctor/]]''
*''[[/The Lodger/]]''
*''[[/The Pandorica Opens/]]''
*''[[/The Big Bang/]]''


===='''[[Children in Need]] Special - [[2005]]'''====
=== Series 6 ===
*[[/Children in Need Special]]
*''[[/A Christmas Carol/]]''
*''[[/The Impossible Astronaut/]]''
*''[[/Day of the Moon/]]''
*''[[/The Curse of the Black Spot/]]''
*''[[/The Doctor's Wife/]]''
*''[[/The Rebel Flesh/]]''
*''[[/The Almost People/]]''
*''[[/A Good Man Goes to War/]]''
*''[[/Let's Kill Hitler/]]''
*''[[/Night Terrors/]]''
*''[[/The Girl Who Waited/]]''
*''[[/The God Complex/]]''
*''[[/Closing Time/]]''
*''[[/The Wedding of River Song/]]''


===='''Christmas Special - [[2005]]'''====
=== Series 7 ===
*[[/The Christmas Invasion]]
* ''[[/The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe/]]''
* ''[[/Asylum of the Daleks/]]''
* ''[[/Dinosaurs on a Spaceship/]]''
* ''[[/A Town Called Mercy/]]''
* ''[[/The Power of Three/]]''
* ''[[/The Angels Take Manhattan/]]''
* ''[[/The Snowmen/]]''
*''[[/The Bells of Saint John/]]
*''[[/The Rings of Akhaten/]]
*''[[/Cold War/]]
*''[[/Hide/]]
*''[[/Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS/]]
*''[[/The Crimson Horror/]]
*''[[/Nightmare in Silver/]]
*''[[/The Name of the Doctor/]]


===='''Interactive Christmas Special - [[2005]]'''====
==== 2013 specials ====
* [[/Attack of the Graske]]
* ''[[/The Day of the Doctor/]]
* ''[[/The Time of the Doctor/]]


===='''[[Series 2 (Doctor Who)|Series 2]] - [[2006]]'''====
=== Series 8 ===
* [[/New Earth]]
* ''[[/Deep Breath/]]''
* [[/Tooth and Claw]]
* ''[[/Into the Dalek/]]''
* [[/School Reunion]]
* ''[[/Robot of Sherwood/]]''
* [[/The Girl in the Fireplace]]
* ''[[/Listen/]]''
* [[/Rise of the Cybermen]] / [[/The Age of Steel]]
* ''[[/Time Heist/]]''
* [[/The Idiot's Lantern]]
* ''[[/The Caretaker/]]''
* [[/The Impossible Planet]] / [[/The Satan Pit]]
* ''[[/Kill the Moon/]]''
* [[/Love &amp; Monsters|/Love &amp; Monsters]]
* ''[[/Mummy on the Orient Express/]]''
* [[/Fear Her]]
* ''[[/Flatline/]]''
* [[/Army of Ghosts]] / [[/Doomsday]]
* ''[[/In the Forest of the Night/]]''
* ''[[/Dark Water/]]''
* ''[[/Death in Heaven/]]''


===='''Christmas Special - [[2006]]'''====
=== Series 9 ===
* [[/The Runaway Bride]]
* ''[[/Last Christmas/]]''
* ''[[/The Magician's Apprentice/]]''
* ''[[/The Witch's Familiar/]]''
* ''[[/Under the Lake/]]''
* ''[[/Before the Flood/]]''
* ''[[/The Girl Who Died/]]''
* ''[[/The Woman Who Lived/]]''
* ''[[/The Zygon Invasion/]]''
* ''[[/The Zygon Inversion/]]''
* ''[[/Sleep No More/]]''
* ''[[/Face the Raven/]]''
* ''[[/Heaven Sent/]]''
* ''[[/Hell Bent/]]''
* ''[[/The Husbands of River Song/]]


===='''[[Series 3 (Doctor Who)|Series 3]] - [[2007]]'''====
=== Series 10 ===
* [[/Smith and Jones]]
* ''[[/The Return of Doctor Mysterio/]]''
* [[/The Shakespeare Code]]
* ''[[/The Pilot/]]''
* [[/Gridlock]]
* ''[[/Smile/]]''
* [[/Daleks in Manhattan]] / [[/Evolution of the Daleks]]
* ''[[/Thin Ice/]]''
* [[/The Lazarus Experiment]]
* ''[[/Knock Knock/]]''
* [[/42]]
* ''[[/Oxygen/]]''
* [[/Human Nature]] / [[/The Family of Blood]]
* ''[[/Extremis/]]''
* [[/Blink]]
* ''[[/The Pyramid at the End of the World/]]''
* [[/Utopia]] / [[/The Sound of Drums]] / [[/Last of the Time Lords]]
* ''[[/The Lie of the Land/]]''
* ''[[/Empress of Mars/]]''
* ''[[/The Eaters of Light/]]''
* ''[[/World Enough and Time/]]''
* ''[[/The Doctor Falls/]]''
* ''[[/Twice Upon a Time/]]''


====Animated Mini-Series - [[2007]]====
=== Series 11 ===
Produced as part of the behind-the-scenes series, ''[[Totally Doctor Who]]''.
* ''[[/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/]]''


*[[/The Infinite Quest]]
=== 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/]]


===='''[[Children in Need]] Special - [[2007]]'''====
=== Series 13 ===
*[[/Time Crash]]
* ''[[/The Halloween Apocalypse/]]''
* ''[[/War of the Sontarans/]]''
* ''[[/Once, Upon Time/]]''
* ''[[/Village of the Angels/]]''
* ''[[/Survivors of the Flux/]]''
* ''[[/The Vanquishers/]]''
* ''[[/Eve of the Daleks/]]''
* ''[[/Legend of the Sea Devils/]]''
* ''[[/The Power of the Doctor/]]''


===='''Christmas Special - [[2007]]'''====
=== 2023 Anniversary specials ===
* ''[[/Destination: Skaro/]]''
* ''[[/The Star Beast/]]''
* ''[[/Wild Blue Yonder/]]''
* ''[[/The Giggle/]]''


* [[/Voyage of the Damned]]
=== Season 1 ===
* ''[[/The Church on Ruby Road/]]''
* ''[[/Space Babies/]]''
* ''[[/The Devil's Chord/]]''
* ''[[/Boom/]]
* ''[[/73 Yards/]]''
* ''[[/Dot and Bubble/]]''
* ''[[/Rogue/]]''
* ''[[/The Legend of Ruby Sunday/]]''
* ''[[/Empire of Death/]]''


===='''[[Series 4 (Doctor Who)|Series 4]] [[2008]]'''====
== Other ==
*[[/Partners in Crime]]
*"[[/The Pilot Episode/]]"
*[[/The Fires of Pompeii]]
*''[[/A Fix with Sontarans/]]''
*[[/Planet of the Ood]]
*''[[/Dermot and the Doctor/]]''
*[[/The Sontaran Stratagem]] / [[/The Poison Sky]]
*[[/The Doctor's Daughter]]
*[[/The Unicorn and the Wasp]]
*[[/Silence in the Library]] / [[/Forest of the Dead]]
*[[/Midnight]]
*[[/Turn Left]]
*[[/The Stolen Earth]] / [[/Journey's End]]


===='''Proms Special 2008'''====
[[Category:Discontinuity stickies]]
*[[/Music of the Spheres]]
===='''Christmas Special 2008'''====
*[[/The Next Doctor]]
 
===='''[[2009 Specials (Doctor Who)|2009 specials]]'''====
 
*[[/Planet of the Dead]]
*[[/The Waters of Mars]]
*[[/The End of Time]]
 
===='''Animated Mini-Series - [[2009]]'''====
*[[/Dreamland]]
 
==[[Eleventh Doctor]] - [[Matt Smith]]==
===='''[[Series 5 (Doctor Who)|Series 5]] - [[2010]]'''====
*[[/The Eleventh Hour]]
*[[/The Beast Below]]
*[[/Victory of the Daleks]]
*[[/The Time of Angels]] / [[/Flesh and Stone]]
*[[/The Vampires of Venice]]
*[[/Amy's Choice]]
*[[/The Hungry Earth]] / [[/Cold Blood]]
*[[/Vincent and the Doctor]]
*[[/The Lodger]]
*[[/The Pandorica Opens]]/[[/The Big Bang]]
===='''[[Doctor Who: The Adventure Games]]'''====
*[[/City of the Daleks]]
*[[/Blood of the Cybermen]]
*[[/TARDIS]]
*[[/Shadows of the Vashta Nerada]]
 
===='''Christmas Special 2010'''====
*[[/A Christmas Carol]]
 
===='''[[Series 6 (Doctor Who)|Series 6]] - [[2011]]'''====
*[[Forum: Doctor Who television discontinuity and plot holes/The Impossible Astronaut|/The Impossible Astronaut]]
 
==Other==
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.
 
===='''Pilot Episode'''====
*[[/The Pilot Episode]] (unaired)
 
===='''[[Jim'll Fix It]] Mini-Episode - [[1985]]'''====
 
*[[/A Fix with Sontarans]]
 
===='''[[Wikipedia:Search Out Science|Search Out Science]] Mini-Episode - [[1990]]'''====
*[[/Search Out Space]]
 
===='''[[Children in Need]] Special - [[1993]]'''====
*[[/Dimensions in Time]]
 
==== '''Comic Relief/Red Nose Day Special - [[1999]]'''====
*[[/The Curse of Fatal Death]]

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