Twice Upon a Time (TV story)

Twice Upon a Time
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Featuring:	First Doctor, Bill, Captain Lethbridge-Stewart, Thirteenth Doctor, Ben, Polly
Main enemy:	Testimony
Main setting:	South Pole; Christmas 1914
Key crew
Writer:	Steven Moffat
Director:	Rachel Talalay
Producer:	Peter Bennett
Release details
Story number:	276
Premiere broadcast:	25 December 2017
Premiere network:	BBC One
Format:	1x60 minute episode
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Twice Upon a Time was the 2017 Doctor Who Christmas special. As the final episode under showrunner Steven Moffat's tenure, it saw Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor regenerate into Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth.

Synopsis

Two Doctors stranded in a forbidding snowscape, refusing to face regeneration. A British army captain, seemingly destined to die in the First World War but taken from the trenches to play his part in the Doctor's story. In the final chapter of the Twelfth Doctor's epic adventure, he must face his past to decide his future. Along the way he realises the resilience of humanity, discovering hope in his darkest frozen moment. It is the end of an era, but the Doctor's journey is only just beginning...

Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Capaldi
• The Doctor - David Bradley
• Bill - Pearl Mackie
• The Captain - Mark Gatiss
• Clara - Jenna Coleman
• Nardole - Matt Lucas
• Helen Clay - Nikki Amuka-Bird
• German Soldier - Toby Whithouse
• Polly - Lily Travers
• Ben - Jared Garfield
• Voice of the Daleks - Nicholas Briggs

The Tenth Planet

• The Doctor - William Hartnell
• Polly - Anneke Wills
• Ben - Michael Craze

And Introducing Jodie Whittaker As The Doctor

Crew

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Story notes

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Filming locations

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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.

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Continuity

• The Doctor recalls Bill's cyber-conversion and apparent death. (TV: World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls)
• Bill reminds the Doctor about Heather and the sentient oil. (TV: The Pilot)
• The Doctor's promises to check up on the family of Lethbridge-Stewart, even meeting the Brigadier's grandfather on the battlefield in Ypres (TV: The Web of Fear et al.)
• The Doctor has previously been present at the Christmas truce in 1914, both as his ninth incarnation and his fifth incarnation.
• The Doctor once more explains why he ran away from Gallifrey. (TV: Heaven Sent)
• The Doctor meets Rusty again. (TV: Into the Dalek)
• The Doctor refers to the year 5 billion and New Earth. (TV: New Earth, Gridlock)
• The Doctor holds a Dalek Eyestalk. (TV: The Wedding of River Song, The Time of the Doctor)
• The Doctor is referred to as "the Doctor of War". (TV: A Good Man Goes to War, The Name of the Doctor, The Day of the Doctor)
• The Doctor encounters his first incarnation. He has experienced such before, (TV: The Three Doctors, The Five Doctors, The Day of the Doctor) and also struggles to remember the encounter. (TV: Time Crash)

Home video releases

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External links

• Official Twice Upon a Time page on the Doctor Who website