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* The Doctor is referred to as "the Doctor of War". ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'', ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'', ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'' , ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') The Testimony also calls the Doctor by other titles associated with conflict, as did the Daleks, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'', ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'') and the [[Great Intelligence]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')
* The Doctor is referred to as "the Doctor of War". ([[TV]]: ''[[A Good Man Goes to War (TV story)|A Good Man Goes to War]]'', ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'', ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'' , ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') The Testimony also calls the Doctor by other titles associated with conflict, as did the Daleks, ([[TV]]: ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|The Parting of the Ways]]'', ''[[Asylum of the Daleks (TV story)|Asylum of the Daleks]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[Engines of War (novel)|Engines of War]]'') and the [[Great Intelligence]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Name of the Doctor (TV story)|The Name of the Doctor]]'')
* The Doctor meets his first incarnation. He has met him before and also struggles to remember the encounter. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
* The Doctor meets his first incarnation. He has met him before and also struggles to remember the encounter. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'', ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
* The Twelfth Doctor tells the First Doctor they have an advantage as "this time there's two of us". The Eleventh Doctor made a similar remark when talking to his Tenth and War incarnations. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
* The Doctor once more pilots a previous incarnation's [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
* The Doctor once more pilots a previous incarnation's [[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
* The Doctors banter about their differences. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]'', ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
* The Doctors banter about their differences. ([[TV]]: ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]'', ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
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* The Twelfth Doctor mentions Bill's [[Christmas]] gift of a [[rug]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'')
* The Twelfth Doctor mentions Bill's [[Christmas]] gift of a [[rug]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'')
* The final shot of the Twelfth Doctor is a shot of his [[eye]]s, echoing his first appearance ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') His [[ring]] also falls to the ground shortly after regenerating, mirroring when his [[Eleventh Doctor|predecessor]]'s [[bow tie]] fell to the ground as he regenerated. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
* The final shot of the Twelfth Doctor is a shot of his [[eye]]s, echoing his first appearance ([[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'') His [[ring]] also falls to the ground shortly after regenerating, mirroring when his [[Eleventh Doctor|predecessor]]'s [[bow tie]] fell to the ground as he regenerated. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor]]'')
* The Twelfth Doctor says "Doctor, I let you go" before regenerating. Before he blew up the Cybermen on the Mondas Colony Ship, he previously told himself to let go. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'')
* The Twelfth Doctor says "Doctor, I let you go" before regenerating. Before he blew up the Cybermen on the Mondas Colony Ship, he previously told himself to let go. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'') In contrast, as his Tenth incarnation regenerated, he said "I don't want to go". ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
* The First Doctor chides Bill for [[swearing]], echoing how he did similar with his own granddaughter [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] when she made crude remarks. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'')
* The First Doctor chides Bill for [[swearing]], echoing how he did similar with his own granddaughter [[Susan Foreman|Susan]] when she made crude remarks. ([[TV]]: ''[[An Unearthly Child (TV story)|An Unearthly Child]]'')
* The Twelfth Doctor recalls where the [[alcohol]] is stored in the TARDIS, having seen River access it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'')
* The Twelfth Doctor recalls where the [[alcohol]] is stored in the TARDIS, having seen River access it. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Husbands of River Song (TV story)|The Husbands of River Song]]'')
* The Twelfth Doctor tells his successor not to eat [[pear]]s. The [[Seventh Doctor|Seventh]] and Twelfth Doctor previously expressed a distaste for pears. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') Though the human [[John Smith (Tenth Doctor)|John Smith]] was seen eating a pear in [[TV]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'', footage which is used, sped up, in that same episode, included the [[Tenth Doctor]] himself warning [[Martha Jones|Martha]] not to let his human counterpart eat pears.
* The Twelfth Doctor tells his successor not to eat [[pear]]s. The [[Seventh Doctor|Seventh]] and Twelfth Doctor previously expressed a distaste for pears. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'', [[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'') Though the human [[John Smith (Tenth Doctor)|John Smith]] was seen eating a pear in [[TV]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'', footage which is used, sped up, in that same episode, included the [[Tenth Doctor]] himself warning [[Martha Jones|Martha]] not to let his human counterpart eat pears.
* The Thirteenth Doctor expresses delight when she sees her new reflection in the TARDIS view screen. The Twelfth Doctor previously expressed approval when Clara suggested he could become female. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') The Eleventh Doctor also expressed enjoyment at being a woman when he switched bodies with Amy Pond. The Doctor noted that "Time Lords don't really worry that much about what sex they are." ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Body Snatched (comic story)|Body Snatched]]'') He also mistakenly thought he had regenerated into a woman shortly after his own regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
* The Thirteenth Doctor expresses delight when she sees her new reflection in the TARDIS view screen. The Twelfth Doctor previously expressed approval when Clara suggested he could become female. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'') The Eleventh Doctor also expressed enjoyment at being a woman when he switched bodies with Amy Pond. The Doctor noted that "Time Lords don't really worry that much about what sex they are." ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Body Snatched (comic story)|Body Snatched]]'') He also mistakenly thought he had regenerated into a woman shortly after his own regeneration. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
* The TARDIS doors fly open after the Doctor has regenerated and the TARDIS is malfunctioning. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]) ''
* The TARDIS doors fly open after the Doctor has regenerated and the TARDIS is malfunctioning. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'', ''[[The Eleventh Hour (TV story)|The Eleventh Hour]]'')
* Shortly before regenerating, the [[Twelfth Doctor]] salutes Captain [[Archibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart]], something that [[Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]] always wanted the Doctor to do. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')
* Shortly before regenerating, the [[Twelfth Doctor]] salutes Captain [[Archibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart]], something that [[Alastair Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]] always wanted the Doctor to do. ([[TV]]: ''[[Death in Heaven (TV story)|Death in Heaven]]'')
* The [[glass avatar]] of [[Bill Potts]] mentions that the Doctor "serves with the pleasure of the human race." ([[TV]]: ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'')
* The [[glass avatar]] of [[Bill Potts]] mentions that the Doctor "serves with the pleasure of the human race." ([[TV]]: ''[[Thin Ice (TV story)|Thin Ice]]'')

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Twice Upon a Time was the 2017 Doctor Who Christmas special. It was the final episode under showrunner Steven Moffat's tenure, and featured the last regular appearance of Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor.

Concluding the end of the Twelfth Doctor's life teased in World Enough and Time and shown throughout the events of The Doctor Falls and this episode, the ending showed the Doctor's regeneration and introduced Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, marking the first female incarnation of the Doctor in the series history.

After a surprise appearance at the end of the last episode the First Doctor had his first full appearance on the programme since The Five Doctors. Here, he was portrayed by David Bradley, who had previously played William Hartnell himself in An Adventure in Space and Time. This was the first televised interaction between a "classic" Doctor and a BBC Wales era Doctor since 2007's Time Crash. Archival footage from The Tenth Planet is used to bookmark the First Doctor's place in this story. The special also introduced Archibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart, credited as "the Captain", a new member of the Lethbridge-Stewart family.

Ben Jackson and Polly Wright make a brief re-reappearance in the programme for the first time since their exit in 1967's The Faceless Ones. Bill Potts joins the two Doctors, and Captain Lethbridge-Stewart, as a Testimony glass avatar. Past companions Nardole and Clara, briefly, make similar appearances. The "good Dalek" Rusty, from Capaldi's second episode, Into the Dalek, makes his second appearance—in Villengard, a location mentioned only once before on television, in 2005's The Doctor Dances .

Synopsis

In the Twelfth Doctor's final chapter, he must face his past to decide his future, discovering hope in his darkest moment. But can he convince his original self to also change?

Plot

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Cast

The Tenth Planet
And introducing Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor

Uncredited

The Tenth Planet
Invasion of the Dinosaurs
Arc of Infinity
The Happiness Patrol
The Night of the Doctor
The Day of the Doctor
The Parting of the Ways
The Pandorica Opens
The Waters of Mars
Journey's End

Crew

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References

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Story notes

  • The Twelfth Doctor's regeneration has a new visual effect, and even sound effect, to those used previously in the BBC Wales series. Resembling slow, elongated golden lightning, it is the first regeneration for the Doctor, since the Seventh Doctor's in 1996, to use an effect which is visually distinct from that seen in The Parting of the Ways, with the Ninth Doctor up to The Doctor Falls.
  • Toby Whithouse is the second person involved in the BBC Wales series as both an actor and a writer, following Mark Gatiss.
  • This is the third consecutive regeneration story to include the word "time" in the title, following The End of Time and The Time of the Doctor.
  • This is the second multi-Doctor story to feature a regeneration, and the first in which it is the current incarnation of the Doctor who is shown to regenerate. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
  • Nikki Amuka-Bird is credited as "Helen Clay" on-screen, and as "The Glass Woman" in Radio Times.
  • When Bill's glass avatar and the Doctor talk and she restores his memories of Clara Oswald, the music from The Husbands of River Song when the Doctor and River were on a date before the Singing Towers of Darillium plays.
  • Nardole having invisible hair was already jokingly stated by Steven Moffat in a BBC post episode interview.[11] There he also stated that Nardole was the only one able to see it through his glasses and that it was purple.
  • The Twelfth Doctor's final lines about his name and how humans would understand it are directly taken from a theory Capaldi stated at a press screening interview of The Pilot.[12]
  • The Twelfth Doctor's line "don't eat pears" is from an unshown scene of Human Nature.
  • This is the first regeneration story in the revived series to not have any direct connections to the Last Great Time War.
  • This is the third multi-Doctor story, after The Two Doctors and Time Crash, that's not an anniversary special.

Ratings

  • 5.70 million (UK final)[13]

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

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Digital releases

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External links

Footnotes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Archival footage from TV: The Tenth Planet.
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  8. In archival footage, a Cyberman from The Pandorica Opens is heard saying, "You will be assimilated."
  9. In footage from The Waters of Mars, the Tenth Doctor says, "they all died."
  10. In archival footage from Journey's End, Davros names the Doctor "Destroyer of Worlds!"
  11. Doctor Who: The Fan Show - The Aftershow Ep 1
  12. Doctor Who: The Fan Show – 2017 Christmas Special
  13. Ratings; DoctorWho TV