The Power of the Doctor (TV story)

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The Power of the Doctor
Doctor:	Thirteenth Doctor
Companion(s):	Yaz
Featuring:	Ace, Tegan, Dan, Kate, Vinder, Graham, Ian, Mel, Jo, Fourteenth Doctor
Main enemy:	The Spy Master
Main setting:	London, 2022
Release details
Story number:	300
Premiere broadcast:	23 October 2022
Premiere network:	BBC One
Format:	1x90 minute episode
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The Power of the Doctor was the 2022 Doctor Who Centenary Special, broadcast as part of the BBC 100 event in celebration of the BBC's 100th anniversary. It was the Thirteenth Doctor's final episode and introduced David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor.

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Story notes

• This story was created in celebration of the BBC's 100th Anniversary, as part of BBC 100.
• Despite all being featured in 1983 story The Five Doctors, this is the first story to depict both the Daleks, the Cybermen and the Master all working together.
• This story touches on the circumstances of Ace leaving the Seventh Doctor's company, an event which was not seen on-screen but was most recently depicted in the novel At Childhood's End, written by Sophie Aldred. The Power of the Doctor contradicts At Childhood's End by having Ace meet the Thirteenth Doctor, Yasmin Khan and Graham O'Brien for the first time, though At Childhood's End does establish that Ace's timeline has multiple possible futures.

Continuity

• Tegan last saw the Doctor 38 years ago. (TV: Resurrection of the Daleks)
• Ace mentions it being three decades since she last met the Doctor. (AUDIO: An Alien Werewolf in London)
• The Master taunts Tegan by mentioning her Aunt Vanessa. (TV: Logopolis)
• Ace recalls that the Master was "half cat" the last time she saw him. (TV: Survival)
• The Master is aware of the Time Lords enforcing a regeneration onto the Second Doctor. (TV: The War Games)
• Both Ace and the Master acknowledge that she had a "fall[ing] out" with the Seventh Doctor. (PROSE: At Childhood's End)
• Tegan confides to the Fifth Doctor's image that seeing the Cybermen makes her think of Adric. (TV: Earthshock)
• The Doctor also got in a subconscious contact with previous incarnations after their respective regenerations in AUDIO: Zagreus.
• Ace recalls fighting the Daleks in 1963. (TV: Remembrance of the Daleks)
• Cortalian also had a Type 75 timeship. (PROSE: Going Once, Going Twice)
• The regenerated Doctor remarks on his teeth (TV: The Parting of the Ways) and repeats the word "what" in rapid succession. (TV: Doomsday, Last of the Time Lords, Time Crash)
• The Doctor changes clothes when they regenerate. (TV: The Tenth Planet, The Power of the Daleks)
• The Master says that he has "dressed for the occasion" before switching bodies with the Doctor. (TV: Doctor Who)
• Ace refers to the Cybermen's weakness to gold, (TV: Silver Nemesis) and UNIT has guns with god bullets. (AUDIO: Code Silver)
• The Curator told the Eleventh Doctor he might find himself revisiting old faces; the Fourteenth Doctor has the face of the Tenth Doctor. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)