The Day of the Doctor (TV story)

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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.

Synopsis

The Doctors embark on their greatest adventure in this 50th anniversary special. In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.

Plot

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Cast

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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.
  • This episode marks the fifth televised Multi-Doctor story, not counting the times he meet his past or future self in the same regeneration.

Production errors

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Continuity

Footnotes

  1. The BBC iPlayer notes credit John Hurt's character as "the Other Doctor"
  2. 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. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Plays a Zygon duplicate as well as the original
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