The Day of the Doctor (TV story)

The Day of the Doctor was the fiftieth anniversary special of Doctor Who. It saw a sky-shattering revelation about the Time War and featured the most number of Doctors in a single episode: all thirteen, including an astounding glimpse of another Doctor who had never been seen before, only this time, instead of being a past Doctor, it was a future incarnation, becoming the first episode to proactively reveal an incarnation of the Doctor before their birth via regeneration. The special also included a surprise cameo from an elderly Tom Baker, the former Fourth Doctor, deliberately keeping the nature of his role ambiguous as either the Doctor or someone else entirely.

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Plot

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Cast

The Doctor - Matt Smith
The Doctor - David Tennant
The Doctor - Christopher Eccleston
The Doctor - John Hurt ^[1]
The Doctor - Paul McGann
The Doctor - Sylvester McCoy
The Doctor - Colin Baker
The Doctor - Peter Davison
The Doctor - Tom Baker ^[2]
The Doctor - Jon Pertwee
The Doctor - Patrick Troughton
The Doctor - William Hartnell
Clara - Jenna Coleman
Rose - Billie Piper
Tom - Tristan Beint
Kate Stewart - Jemma Redgrave ^[3]
Osgood - Ingrid Oliver ^[3]
Time Lord soldier - Chris Finch
Androgar - Peter de Jersey
The General - Ken Bones
Arcadia father - Philip Buck
Time Lord - Sophie Morgan-Price
Elizabeth I - Joanna Page ^[3]
Lord Bentham - Orlando James
McGillop - Jonjo O'Neill ^[3]
Atkins - Tom Keller
Zygons - Aidan Cook, Paul Kasey
Voice of the Daleks & Zygons - Nicholas Briggs
Dalek 1 - Barnaby Edwards
Dalek 2 - Nicholas Pegg
Voice over artist - John Guilor
The Doctor - Peter Capaldi (uncredited)

Crew

Writer - Steven Moffat

References

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Story notes

The story uses the original opening sequence, modified to include a BBC logo.
With the regeneration of the War Doctor into the Ninth Doctor, every incarnation of the Doctor up to his current life has been depicted onscreen.

Production errors

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Continuity

The Tenth Doctor's relationship with Elizabeth I is shown. (TV: The Shakespeare Code, The End of Time)
The Eleventh Doctor refers to his fate on Trenzalore. (TV: The Wedding of River Song, The Name of the Doctor)
The Tenth Doctor, upon hearing of Trenzalore, says they need to take a different direction as "I don't want to go." His successor notes that "He always says that.", being his last words before his regeneration. (TV: The End of Time)

Footnotes

↑ The BBC iPlayer notes credit John Hurt's character as "the Other Doctor"
↑ Tom plays an enigmatic character implied to be the Doctor known as "the Curator" towards the end of the episode. However, the credits only credit Tom as "the Doctor".
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 ^3.3 Plays a Zygon duplicate as well as the original

Doctor Who television stories

Seasons 1-4: William Hartnell

Season 1: 1963-1964	An Unearthly Child • The Daleks • The Edge of Destruction • Marco Polo • The Keys of Marinus • The Aztecs • The Sensorites • The Reign of Terror

Season 2: 1964-1965	Planet of Giants • The Dalek Invasion of Earth • The Rescue • The Romans • The Web Planet • The Crusade • The Space Museum • The Chase • The Time Meddler

Season 3: 1965-1966	Galaxy 4 • Mission to the Unknown • The Myth Makers • The Daleks' Master Plan • The Massacre • The Ark • The Celestial Toymaker • The Gunfighters • The Savages • The War Machines

Season 4: 1966	The Smugglers • The Tenth Planet

Seasons 4-6: Patrick Troughton

Season 4: 1966-1967	The Power of the Daleks • The Highlanders • The Underwater Menace • The Moonbase • The Macra Terror • The Faceless Ones • The Evil of the Daleks

Season 5: 1967-1968	The Tomb of the Cybermen • The Abominable Snowmen • The Ice Warriors • The Enemy of the World • The Web of Fear • Fury from the Deep • The Wheel in Space

Season 6: 1968-1969	The Dominators • The Mind Robber • The Invasion • The Krotons • The Seeds of Death • The Space Pirates • The War Games

Seasons 7-11: Jon Pertwee

Season 7: 1970	Spearhead from Space • Doctor Who and the Silurians • The Ambassadors of Death • Inferno

Season 8: 1971	Terror of the Autons • The Mind of Evil • The Claws of Axos • Colony in Space • The Dæmons

Season 9: 1972	Day of the Daleks • The Curse of Peladon • The Sea Devils • The Mutants • The Time Monster

Season 10: 1972-1973	The Three Doctors • Carnival of Monsters • Frontier in Space • Planet of the Daleks • The Green Death

Season 11: 1973-1974	The Time Warrior • Invasion of the Dinosaurs • Death to the Daleks • The Monster of Peladon • Planet of the Spiders

Seasons 12-18: Tom Baker

Season 12: 1974-1975	Robot • The Ark in Space • The Sontaran Experiment • Genesis of the Daleks • Revenge of the Cybermen

Season 13: 1975-1976	Terror of the Zygons • Planet of Evil • Pyramids of Mars • The Android Invasion • The Brain of Morbius • The Seeds of Doom

Season 14: 1976-1977	The Masque of Mandragora • The Hand of Fear • The Deadly Assassin • The Face of Evil • The Robots of Death • The Talons of Weng-Chiang

Season 15: 1977-1978	Horror of Fang Rock • The Invisible Enemy • Image of the Fendahl • The Sun Makers • Underworld • The Invasion of Time

Season 16: 1978-1979	The Key to Time: The Ribos Operation • The Pirate Planet • The Stones of Blood • The Androids of Tara • The Power of Kroll • The Armageddon Factor

Season 17: 1979-1980	Destiny of the Daleks • City of Death • The Creature from the Pit • Nightmare of Eden • The Horns of Nimon • Shada (unfinished)

Season 18: 1980-1981	The Leisure Hive • Meglos • Full Circle • State of Decay • Warriors' Gate • The Keeper of Traken • Logopolis

Seasons 19-21: Peter Davison

Season 19: 1982	Castrovalva • Four to Doomsday • Kinda • The Visitation • Black Orchid • Earthshock • Time-Flight

Season 20: 1983	Arc of Infinity • Snakedance • Mawdryn Undead • Terminus • Enlightenment • The King's Demons

Children in Need 1983	The Five Doctors

Season 21: 1984	Warriors of the Deep • The Awakening • Frontios • Resurrection of the Daleks • Planet of Fire • The Caves of Androzani

Seasons 21-23: Colin Baker

Season 21: 1984	The Twin Dilemma

Season 22: 1985	Attack of the Cybermen • Vengeance on Varos • The Mark of the Rani • The Two Doctors • Timelash • Revelation of the Daleks

Season 23: 1986	The Trial of a Time Lord (The Mysterious Planet • Mindwarp • Terror of the Vervoids • The Ultimate Foe)

Seasons 24-26: Sylvester McCoy

Season 24: 1987	Time and the Rani • Paradise Towers • Delta and the Bannermen • Dragonfire

Season 25: 1988-1989	Remembrance of the Daleks • The Happiness Patrol • Silver Nemesis • The Greatest Show in the Galaxy

Season 26: 1989	Battlefield • Ghost Light • The Curse of Fenric • Survival

TV Movie & 2013 specials: Paul McGann

TV Movie: 1996

Doctor Who

Specials: 2013

Minisodes

The Night of the Doctor

Series 1: Christopher Eccleston

Series 1: 2005

Regular episodes

Rose • The End of the World • The Unquiet Dead • Aliens of London / World War Three • Dalek • The Long Game • Father's Day • The Empty Child / The Doctor Dances • Boom Town • Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways

Series 2-4: David Tennant

Series 2: 2005-2006

Minisode	Born Again

Christmas Special	The Christmas Invasion

Regular episodes	New Earth • Tooth and Claw • School Reunion • The Girl in the Fireplace • Rise of the Cybermen / The Age of Steel • The Idiot's Lantern • The Impossible Planet / The Satan Pit • Love & Monsters • Fear Her • Army of Ghosts / Doomsday

Series 3: 2006-2007

Christmas Special	The Runaway Bride

Regular episodes	Smith and Jones • The Shakespeare Code • Gridlock • Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks • The Lazarus Experiment • 42 • Human Nature / The Family of Blood • Blink • Utopia / The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords

Animated special	The Infinite Quest

Series 4: 2007-2010

Minisode	Time Crash

Christmas Special	Voyage of the Damned

Regular episodes	Partners in Crime • The Fires of Pompeii • Planet of the Ood • The Sontaran Stratagem / The Poison Sky • The Doctor's Daughter • The Unicorn and the Wasp • Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead • Midnight • Turn Left • The Stolen Earth / Journey's End

Minisodes	Music of the Spheres • The Daleks & Davros

Animated special	Dreamland

Seasonal specials	The Next Doctor • Planet of the Dead • The Waters of Mars • The End of Time

Series 5-2013 specials: Matt Smith

Series 5: 2010

Regular episodes

The Eleventh Hour • The Beast Below • Victory of the Daleks • The Time of Angels / Flesh and Stone • The Vampires of Venice • Amy's Choice • The Hungry Earth / Cold Blood • Vincent and the Doctor • The Lodger • The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang

Series 6: 2010-2011

Christmas Special	A Christmas Carol

Minisodes	Space / Time

Regular episodes (Part 1: Apr 2011)	The Impossible Astronaut / Day of the Moon • The Curse of the Black Spot • The Doctor's Wife • The Rebel Flesh / The Almost People • A Good Man Goes to War

Regular episodes (Part 2: Aug 2011)	Let's Kill Hitler • Night Terrors • The Girl Who Waited • The God Complex • Closing Time • The Wedding of River Song

Minisode	Death Is the Only Answer

Series 7: 2011-2013

Christmas Special	The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe

Minisodes	Good as Gold • Pond Life

Regular episodes (Part 1: 2012)	Asylum of the Daleks • Dinosaurs on a Spaceship • A Town Called Mercy • The Power of Three • The Angels Take Manhattan

Minisode	The Great Detective

Christmas Special	The Snowmen

Regular episodes (Part 2: 2013)	The Bells of Saint John • The Rings of Akhaten • Cold War • Hide • Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS • The Crimson Horror • Nightmare in Silver • The Name of the Doctor

Specials: 2013

The Day of the Doctor • The Time of the Doctor

Series 8-10: Peter Capaldi

Series 8: 2014

Regular episodes

Deep Breath • Into the Dalek • Robot of Sherwood • Listen • Time Heist • The Caretaker • Kill the Moon • Mummy on the Orient Express • Flatline • In the Forest of the Night • Dark Water / Death in Heaven

Series 9: 2014-2015

Christmas Special	Last Christmas

Minisode	The Doctor's Meditation

Regular episodes	The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar • Under the Lake / Before the Flood • The Girl Who Died • The Woman Who Lived • The Zygon Invasion / The Zygon Inversion • Sleep No More • Face the Raven • Heaven Sent • Hell Bent

Christmas Special	The Husbands of River Song

Series 10: 2016-2017

Christmas Special	The Return of Doctor Mysterio

Regular episodes	The Pilot • Smile • Thin Ice • Knock Knock • Oxygen • Extremis • The Pyramid at the End of the World • The Lie of the Land • Empress of Mars • The Eaters of Light • World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls

Christmas Special	Twice Upon a Time

Series 11-13: Jodie Whittaker

Series 11: 2018-2019

Regular episodes	The Woman Who Fell to Earth • The Ghost Monument • Rosa • Arachnids in the UK • The Tsuranga Conundrum • Demons of the Punjab • Kerblam! • The Witchfinders • It Takes You Away • The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos

New Year Special	Resolution

Series 12: 2020-2021

Regular episodes	Spyfall • Orphan 55 • Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror • Fugitive of the Judoon • Praxeus • Can You Hear Me? • The Haunting of Villa Diodati • Ascension of the Cybermen / The Timeless Children

New Year Special	Revolution of the Daleks

Series 13: 2021

Minisodes	Welcome to the TARDIS... • The Flux is Coming...

Regular episodes	Flux (The Halloween Apocalypse • War of the Sontarans • Once, Upon Time • Village of the Angels • Survivors of the Flux • The Vanquishers)

Seasonal specials	Eve of the Daleks • Legend of the Sea Devils • The Power of the Doctor

60th Anniversary Specials: David Tennant

Specials: 2023

Minisodes	Destination: Skaro • Doctor Who: The Bedtime Story

60th Anniversary Specials	The Star Beast • Wild Blue Yonder • The Giggle

Season 1 (2023)-present: Ncuti Gatwa

Season 1: 2023-2024

Christmas Special	The Church on Ruby Road

Regular episodes	Space Babies • The Devil's Chord • Boom • 73 Yards • Dot and Bubble • Rogue • The Legend of Ruby Sunday • Empire of Death

Regeneration stories

The Doctor

TV series	The Tenth Planet • Planet of the Spiders • Logopolis • The Caves of Androzani • Time and the Rani • Doctor Who • The Parting of the Ways • The Stolen Earth • The End of Time • The Night of the Doctor • The Day of the Doctor • The Time of the Doctor • World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls / Twice Upon a Time • The Power of the Doctor • The Giggle

Comic Relief	The Curse of Fatal Death • Lenny Henry Regenerates into David Tennant

Comics	The Night Walkers

Prose	Interference: The Hour of the Geek • Spiral Scratch • The Cabinet of Light • Doctor Who and the Time War

Audio	Seven Keys to Doomsday • Full Fathom Five • The Brink of Death • The People Made of Smoke

Home video	Devious • Regeneration

Webcast	Another Doctor

The Master

Television	The Keeper of Traken • Utopia • The Doctor Falls

Prose	First Frontier

Comics	Doorway to Hell

Audio	Day of the Master • The Lumiat

Alternate universe	Sympathy for the Devil

Romana

Television	Destiny of the Daleks

Prose	The Lying Old Witch in the Wardrobe

Audio	Renaissance • Enemy Lines

Other
Time Lords

Television	Planet of the Spiders • Hell Bent

Prose	Timewyrm: Exodus • Goth Opera • Lungbarrow • Tears of the Oracle • The Shadows of Avalon • The Suns of Caresh • The Book of the War • Newtons Sleep • Engines of War • What Keeps Their Lines Alive • Flickering Flame • The Cactus and the Corpse • The First Metamorphosis

Audio	Unregenerate! • Panacea • Spring • The Adventure of the Diogenes Damsel • Intervention Earth • Enemy Lines • The Black Hole • The Doomsday Chronometer • Songs of Love • The Side of the Angels • Mel-evolent • Partisans • Deeptime Frontier • Day of the Master • The Resurrection Plant

Comics	Ophiuchus

Non-Time Lord Gallifreyans

Prose

Cold Fusion • Interference: The Hour of the Geek • The Taking of Planet 5

Shobogans

Television

The Timeless Children

Proto-
Time Lords

Television	Day of the Moon • Let's Kill Hitler

Audio	The Lady in the Lake • My Dinner with Andrew

Others

Television	The Hand of Fear • Underworld • Mawdryn Undead • Dalek • Tony Blair Regenerates • Regeneration • The Eclipse of the Korven • The Witch's Familiar • The Timeless Children

Prose	Happy Endings • The Scarlet Empress • Divided Loyalties • Tears of the Oracle

Comics	Omega

Audio	Day of the Master • Regeneration Impossible • Omega

For the purposes of this list, a "regeneration story" is one in which a regeneration is actually and initially depicted. For this reason The War Games is not included below, even though it is commonly thought of as a "regeneration story". It doesn't actually include a clear scene of regeneration, and the preponderance of stories in other media confirms that the Second Doctor did not regenerate at the end of it.
Additionally, immediate post-regeneration stories, like the 2005 Children in Need Special Born Again — and ones like Castrovalva, where the regeneration sequence was replayed — are not included.

Dalek television stories

For the purposes of this list, a "Dalek story" is one in which one living, authentic Dalek plays a part within the confines of the story, outside of flashbacks to previous stories and cliffhangers that lead into the following story. For this reason, stories such as The Space Museum are not counted due to the Daleks' appearance being defined by their importance to following stories, while stories such as The Wheel in Space and The Waters of Mars are absent due to the Daleks' only contribution being references to past Dalek stories. Stories like The Wedding of River Song, Hell Bent, Once, Upon Time and The Vanquishers are also not included due to the Daleks' appearance being restricted to a single scene of no consequence to the plot of the story, while the TV movie is also absent due to the Daleks only being heard from off-screen.

First Doctor era

The Daleks • The Dalek Invasion of Earth • The Chase • Mission to the Unknown • The Daleks' Master Plan • The Dalek Party

Dr. Who films

Dr. Who and the Daleks • Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.

Second Doctor era

The Power of the Daleks • The Evil of the Daleks • Sky Ray

Third Doctor era

Day of the Daleks • Frontier in Space / Planet of the Daleks • The Dalek Appeal • The Dance of the Daleks • Death to the Daleks

Fourth Doctor era

Genesis of the Daleks • Homemade Dalek • Destiny of the Daleks

Fifth Doctor era

The Five Doctors • Resurrection of the Daleks

Sixth Doctor era

Revelation of the Daleks

Seventh Doctor era

Remembrance of the Daleks

The "Wilderness Years"

Susan and the Daleks • Emperor of the Daleks • The Curse of Fatal Death • Robots Ad

Ninth Doctor era

Blue Peter special 2005 • Dalek • Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways

Tenth Doctor era

Army of Ghosts / Doomsday • Daleks in Manhattan / Evolution of the Daleks • The Stolen Earth / Journey's End • The Daleks & Davros

Eleventh Doctor era

Victory of the Daleks • The Pandorica Opens / The Big Bang • Symphony of the Daleks • Asylum of the Daleks • The Day of the Doctor • The Time of the Doctor

Twelfth Doctor era

Into the Dalek • The Magician's Apprentice / The Witch's Familiar • The Pilot • Twice Upon a Time

Thirteenth Doctor era

Resolution • Revolution of the Daleks • Eve of the Daleks • The Power of the Doctor

Fourteenth Doctor era

Destination: Skaro • The Daleks in Colour

Fifteenth Doctor era

The Final Battle

Because of the ubiquity of this race, no attempt will be made here to list every appearance in every medium. Instead, we focus on televised appearances here, and invite you to explore a complete list of appearances elsewhere.

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