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== Continuity ==
== Continuity ==
* The Great Intelligence refers to [[The Valeyard]] as a future name of the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]'')
* The Great Intelligence refers to [[the Valeyard]] as a future name of the Doctor. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Trial of a Time Lord]]'')
* The Great Intelligence mentions the deaths of the [[Fadros Pallujikaa|Sycorax Leader]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'') and [[Solomon (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)|Solomon the Trader]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]])
* The Great Intelligence mentions the deaths of the [[Fadros Pallujikaa|Sycorax Leader]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Christmas Invasion (TV story)|The Christmas Invasion]]'') and [[Solomon (Dinosaurs on a Spaceship)|Solomon the Trader]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Dinosaurs on a Spaceship (TV story)|Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]])
* Clara gets her memories of being trapped in the TARDIS back. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]'')
* Clara gets her memories of being trapped in the TARDIS back. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS (TV story)|Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS]]'')
* The 'most important leaf in history' is shown and is returned to Clara. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'', ''[[The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)|The Rings of Akhaten]]'')
* The 'most important leaf in history' is shown and is returned to Clara. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]]'', ''[[The Rings of Akhaten (TV story)|The Rings of Akhaten]]'')
* River Song appears from the databanks of [[CAL]] at the [[The Library]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'', ''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'')
* River Song appears from the databanks of [[the Library]] [[Data Core]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'', ''[[Forest of the Dead (TV story)|Forest of the Dead]]'')
* Vastra witnesses the disappearing stars in the sky, and says that "the stars are going out." ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'') This could be in reference to [[Davros]]'s [[Reality bomb|reality bomb]] successfully activating due to the Great Intelligence's changes to the timeline. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')
* The Doctor has been killed prematurely before, and, just as in ''Name'', the stars went out, and his actions undone. ([[TV]]: ''[[Turn Left (TV story)|Turn Left]]'')
* Vastra mentions the Doctor dying in the [[Dalek Asylum]] ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]''), [[Androzani Minor|Androzani]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]''), and Victorian London. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'')
* Among things that were undone were: saving Jenny, making [[Strax]] good, ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'') and stopping [[Davros]] from obliterating the [[Universe]] with his [[Time Bomb]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Journey's End (TV story)|Journey's End]]'')
* The prophecy of [[The first question|the First Question]] is referred to again, and silence indeed falls just as it did when the [[Pandorica]] opened ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'').
* Vastra mentions the Doctor dying in the [[Dalek Asylum]], ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'') in [[Androzani Minor|Androzani]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Caves of Androzani (TV story)|The Caves of Androzani]]'') and in [[Victorian]] London. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'')
* River Song and the Doctor both mention the Doctor's hatred of endings. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'')
* The prophecy of [[The first question|the First Question]] is referred to again, and silence indeed falls. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pandorica Opens (TV story)|The Pandorica Opens]]'', ''[[Let's Kill Hitler (TV story)|Let's Kill Hitler]]'', ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'')
* River Song and the Doctor both mention the Doctor's hatred of endings. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)|The Angels Take Manhattan]]'') River states this as the reason for him saving her to the Data Core. Ironically, this took place in the same story in which the Doctor exclaimed, "You need a good death. Without death, there'd only be comedies. Dying gives us size." ([[TV]]: ''[[Silence in the Library (TV story)|Silence in the Library]]'')
* Clara screams "I don't know where I am" several times while going through the Doctor's timeline. She's said this before in [[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]] and as a copy of her in the [[Dalek Asylum]] was being converted. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|The Asylum of the Daleks]]'')
* Clara screams "I don't know where I am" several times while going through the Doctor's timeline. She's said this before in [[The Bells of Saint John (TV story)|The Bells of Saint John]] and as a copy of her in the [[Dalek Asylum]] was being converted. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|The Asylum of the Daleks]]'')
* Clara attempts to make [[soufflé]]s and states that her love of them stemmed from her mother. Interestingly, her Oswin Oswald self in the Dalek Asylum made a soufflé specifically on the occasion of her mother's [[birthday]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'', ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'')
* Strax expresses that he did not know that River is a woman, once again demonstrating his difficulty of separating the genders. ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'', ''[[The Snowmen (TV story)|The Snowmen]]'', et al.)


== Home video releases ==
== Home video releases ==

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The Name of the Doctor was the thirteenth and the last episode of the seventh series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales. It revealed the mystery of Clara Oswin Oswald and introduced an unknown incarnation of The Doctor.

Synopsis

Vastra is gathering Jenny, Strax, Clara and River, but everything goes wrong when the deadly Whisper Men take over the gathering. Clara wakes up in the Maitland family house, and finds the Doctor. When she tells him about the Whisper Men, the Doctor understands that this is the time to go to the place he must never be in. Where no creature can speak false. A place where a question that must never be answered will be asked - Trenzalore.

Plot

In a workshop at the base of the Capitol on Gallifrey two engineers notice a security breach in the repair shop. One notes how foolish it is to steal a malfunctioning TARDIS. Two people, the First Doctor and his granddaughter Susan Foreman begin entering a capsule, however suddenly the Doctor is stopped by Clara. She tells him he is about to make a big mistake. Clara is seen falling through a golden vortex. She remarks that she does not know where she is, but remembers one thing: she is the Impossible Girl, and she was born to save the Doctor.

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Story notes

  • In this episode, it is revealed that Clara has lived thousands of lives throughout the Doctor's history, saving him from the Great Intelligence's sabotage in each life, finally revealing why the Doctor met two versions her at the Dalek Asylum and in Victorian London, respectively. However, according to her, he almost never notices her, with the exception of the First Doctor and the Eleventh Doctor
  • This episode shows clips of different versions of Clara scattered throughout the Doctor's timeline: advising the First Doctor to steal his Type 40 TARDIS on Gallifrey, calling out for the Third Doctor as he's driving away in Bessie (from TV: The Five Doctors), chasing after the Fourth Doctor on Gallifrey (from TV: The Invasion of Time), finding the Fifth Doctor trapped (from TV: Arc of Infinity), trying to find the Sixth Doctor on his TARDIS, attempting to rescue the Seventh Doctor from falling off of a cliff (from TV: Dragonfire), running after the Second Doctor and the Eighth Doctor, and watching the Tenth Doctor in The Library.
  • This story features for the first time on television, the Doctor prior to stealing the TARDIS. The event had previously been seen in the comic strip adventure: Time & Time Again. His granddaughter Susan Foreman appears briefly when the First Doctor helps her into a TARDIS before the Gallifreyan Clara suggests he take the older model.
  • While trapped in the Doctor's time stream, the First, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Ninth Doctors move past, behind, and in front of Clara. Unknown actors portrayed them without their faces being shown.
  • This story contains the greatest number of Doctors in any medium.
  • In the final scene, Clara refers to having seen 11 Doctors meaning she has not interacted with any future incarnations of the Doctor, if there are any.
  • This is the first televised story in which we see the Doctor's TARDIS in what appears to be its "default" form, in the scenes set on Gallifrey. We also see it flying through the vortex soon after the First Doctor steals it.

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