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 == Story notes ==
 * The cinematic release featured two documentaries: ''[[The End of an Era]]'', a retrospective and behind-the-scenes look, before the showing, and ''[[Twice Upon a Time (documentary)|Twice Upon a Time]]'', an in-depth look into the making of this Christmas special.
-* ''Twice Upon a Time'' features a "Previously on Doctor Who..." sequence saying "709 Episodes ago" and showing footage from [[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'' with [[William Hartnell]], [[Anneke Wills]] and [[Michael Craze]] as the [[First Doctor]], [[Polly Wright]] and [[Ben Jackson]] respectively. The footage slowly morphs Hartnell into [[David Bradley]], and [[Lily Travers]] and [[Jared Garfield]] then appears as Polly and Ben, who then proceed to reenact the missing bits on [[Snowcap]] from said episode.
+* ''Twice Upon a Time'' features a "Previously on Doctor Who..." sequence saying "709 Episodes ago" and showing footage from [[TV]]: ''[[The Tenth Planet (TV story)|The Tenth Planet]]'' with [[William Hartnell]], [[Anneke Wills]] and [[Michael Craze]] as the [[First Doctor]], [[Polly Wright]] and [[Ben Jackson]] respectively. The footage slowly morphs Hartnell into [[David Bradley]], and [[Lily Travers]] and [[Jared Garfield]] then appear as Polly and Ben, who then proceed to reenact the missing bits on [[Snowcap]] from said episode.
-* [[Rachel Talalay]] had actually shot a number of scenes from ''The Tenth Planet'', with a complete set reconstruction, recasted characters, and the series 10 Mondasian Cybermen. She said in an interview that she tried to make both the set, and the cinematography, as accurate to the original scenes, and original production values, as much as possible. She did admit to having fun with some parts of the set in particular, and embellishing with a "60s feel", and noted that some details of the action had to be invented. These scene recreations were not used in the final edit of ''Twice Upon a Time''; the original footage was used in its place. However, these specially shot re-tellings were shown in the cinema feature [[DOC]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (documentary)|Twice Upon a Time]]''.<ref name="TUAT">[[DOC]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (documentary)|Twice Upon a Time]]''</ref>
+* [[Rachel Talalay]] had actually shot a number of scenes from ''The Tenth Planet'', with a complete set reconstruction, recast characters, and the series 10 Mondasian Cybermen. She said in an interview that she tried to make both the set, and the cinematography, as accurate to the original scenes, and original production values, as much as possible. She did admit to having fun with some parts of the set in particular, and embellishing with a "60s feel", and noted that some details of the action had to be invented. These scene recreations were not used in the final edit of ''Twice Upon a Time''; the original footage was used in its place. However, these specially shot re-tellings were shown in the cinema feature [[DOC]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (documentary)|Twice Upon a Time]]''.<ref name="TUAT">[[DOC]]: ''[[Twice Upon a Time (documentary)|Twice Upon a Time]]''</ref>
 * The First and Twelfth Doctors meeting also features the scene acted out differently in [[TV]]: ''[[The Doctor Falls (TV story)|The Doctor Falls]]'' and ''Twice Upon a Time'', similar to how episodes in the 60s reshooting the prior scene’s [[cliffhanger]], often resulting in little differences.
 * The recreated Hartnell [[TARDIS control room|TARDIS interior]] set actually included props from the original set in the 1960s. As told by [[Mark Gatiss]], these included the [[brass pillar]]s, which are indeed the brass pillars from way back in 1963. Other aspects of the set were recreated.<ref name="TUAT" />
 * 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 travelling, elongated golden [[lightning]]. It is the first regeneration for the Doctor, since the [[Seventh Doctor]]'s [[Doctor Who (TV story)|in 1996]], to use an effect which is visually distinct from that seen in ''[[The Parting of the Ways (TV story)|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 (TV story)|''The End of Time'']] and [[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|''The Time of the Doctor'']].
+* This is the third consecutive regeneration story to include the word "time" in the title, following ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'' and ''[[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|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 (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'')
 * Nikki Amuka-Bird is credited as "Helen Clay" on-screen, and as "The Glass Woman" in ''Radio Times''.
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 * 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''.<ref>Doctor Who: The Fan Show – 2017 Christmas Special
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-* The Twelfth Doctor's line "never, ever eat pears" is a tweaked version of the one in a hidden scene in [[TV]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'' by the [[Tenth Doctor]]. It was also said in [[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'' by the [[Twelfth Doctor|Twelfth]] .
+* The Twelfth Doctor's line "never, ever eat pears" is a tweaked version of the one in a hidden scene in [[TV]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'' by the [[Tenth Doctor]]. It was also said in [[TV]]: ''[[Hell Bent (TV story)|Hell Bent]]'' by the Twelfth Doctor.
-* 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 first regeneration story in the revived series not to have any direct connections to the [[Last Great Time War]].
-* This is the third televised multi-Doctor story, after [[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]'' and ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]'', that is not an anniversary special. There have been many audio and book multi-Doctor stories which aren't anniversairy special such as [[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Sirens of Time (audio story)|The Sirens of Time]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Cold Fusion (audio story)|Cold Fusion]]'')
+* This is the third televised multi-Doctor story, after [[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]'' and ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]'', that is not an anniversary special.
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