Continuity Errors (short story)

Continuity Errors
Doctor:	Seventh Doctor
Companion(s):	Bernice Summerfield
Main setting:	New Alexandria
Key crew
Writer:	Steven Moffat
Release details
Part of:	Decalog 3: Consequences
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← Previous	Fegovy
Next →	Timevault

Continuity Errors was the eighth story in the anthology Decalog 3: Consequences. It was written by Steven Moffat (his first professional Doctor Who work). It featured the Seventh Doctor and Bernice Summerfield.

Summary

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Characters

• Seventh Doctor
• Bernice Summerfield
• Andrea Talwinning
• Walter
• Fred Talwinning
• Gwendoline Talwinning

Worldbuilding

• Andrea Talwinning was born in 2625.

Notes

• This was Steven Moffat's first professionally published Doctor Who-related storyline. He would go on to pen the 1999 spoof The Curse of Fatal Death before becoming a multi-Hugo Award-winning scriptwriter for the revived series from 2005 to 2008, and then the show's executive producer commencing in 2009.
• Moffat reused the idea of the Doctor travelling back in time to alter a person's perception of him in the television story A Christmas Carol.
• The idea of a planet-sized library was later reused in the television story Silence in the Library, while the description of the Doctor as a Complex Space-Time Event was echoed by his self-identification as a complicated space-time event in Flesh and Stone. Professor Candy himself would ultimately get a televised cameo in the final scene of Let's Kill Hitler.
• Moffat originally considered calling this story both History MD and The Curse Of Fatal Death, the latter of which he later used.

Continuity

• Professor Candy is mentioned in PROSE: Oh No It Isn't!, and appears in TV: Let's Kill Hitler.
• The Library was inspired by the events of PROSE: Fegovy.

External links

• Decalog 3: Consequences - Continuity Errors