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 Many aspects of the multi-Doctor story have been explored over-the-years in many different forms. The Multi-Doctor story bases itself in the bending of the [[Laws of Time]], as the Doctor is explicitly disallowed form crossing his own time-stream.
-A contentious topics for fans (and for a time, only fans) was if the characters featured in Multi-Doctor stories would actually be allowed to remember the events of the story afterwards. If, for instance, the [[Second Doctor]] did not forget the events of [[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', then it would make little sense for the [[Third Doctor]] to not also remember the same events. Many fans speculated that this meant that the [[Time Lord]]s simply wiped the Second and [[First Doctor|First]] Doctors' memories of the story. This some somewhat supported by such stories as [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass (novel)|The Empire of Glass]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Briefly Noted (short story)|Briefly Noted]]''.
+A contentious topic for fans (and for a time, only fans) was if the characters featured in Multi-Doctor stories would actually be allowed to remember the events of the story afterwards. If, for instance, the [[Second Doctor]] did not forget the events of [[TV]]: ''[[The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors]]'', then it would make little sense for the [[Third Doctor]] to not also remember meeting himself. Many fans speculated that this meant that the [[Time Lord]]s simply wiped the Second and [[First Doctor|First]] Doctors' memories afterwards. This some somewhat supported by such stories as [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Empire of Glass (novel)|The Empire of Glass]]'' and [[PROSE]]: ''[[Briefly Noted (short story)|Briefly Noted]]''.
-Writers at the time, however, were not concerned with this continuity point. Indeed, in the televised story [[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'' the first, second, and third incarnations of the Doctor speak as if they remember their first encounter when meeting in [[Rassilon]]'s tomb for the first time.
+Writers at the time, however, were not concerned with this continuity point. Indeed, in the televised story [[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'' the first, second, and third incarnations of the Doctors consistently speak as if they recall the events of ''The Three Doctors''. On one occasion, the Second Doctor directly mentions fighting [[Omega]] to [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|the Brigadier]], and upon meeting his third incarnation, the First Doctor asks where the "little fellow" is.
 An early script for the [[TV]]: ''[[Dimensions in Time (TV story)|Dimensions in Time]]'' featured a scene where [[Jamie McCrimmon]] would suddenly find himself next to the [[Sixth Doctor]], leading Jamie to recognise him from their encounter in [[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]''. This scene was cut after [[Frazer Hines]] realised that he would not be able to meet the schedule of production.
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 One of the most notable examples of versions of the Doctor remembering the events of the story was in [[2007]]'s ''[[Time Crash (TV story)|Time Crash]]'', where a central plot point to the [[Fifth Doctor|Fifth]] and [[Tenth Doctor]]'s survival in the story is that the Tenth Doctor remembers seeing himself save the day from the point-of-view of the Fifth Doctor.
-Since these stories, most mainstream and secondary stories have to come to accept the idea that characters lose their memories after the events of Multi-Doctor stories. [[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'' features the realisation that the [[Tenth Doctor]] and the [[War Doctor|War incarnation of the Doctor]] will both forget the events of the story in due time. [[COMIC]]: ''[[Four Doctors (comic story)|Four Doctors]]'' expanded on this, stating that in multi-Doctor events, all but the final incarnation of the Doctor will forget about the story's taking place. His companions, however, will remember. Later stories contradicted this, with [[COMIC]]: ''[[Lady of the Blue Box (comic story)|Lady of the Blue Box]]'' suggesting that [[Gabby]] barely remembers the events of ''Four Doctor'' and [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Heralds of Destruction (comic story)|The Heralds of Destruction]]'' suggesting that even the Third Doctor had all-but forgotten the events of ''The Three Doctors''.
+Since these stories, most mainstream and secondary stories have to come to accept the idea that characters lose their memories after the events of Multi-Doctor stories. [[TV]]: ''[[The Day of the Doctor (TV story)|The Day of the Doctor]]'' features the realisation that the [[Tenth Doctor]] and the [[War Doctor|War incarnation of the Doctor]] will both forget the events of the story in due time. [[COMIC]]: ''[[Four Doctors (comic story)|Four Doctors]]'' expanded on this, stating that in multi-Doctor events, all but the final incarnation of the Doctor will forget about the story's taking place. His companions, however, will remember. Later stories contradicted this, with [[COMIC]]: ''[[Lady of the Blue Box (comic story)|Lady of the Blue Box]]'' suggesting that [[Gabby]] barely remembers the events of ''Four Doctors'' and [[COMIC]]: ''[[The Heralds of Destruction (comic story)|The Heralds of Destruction]]'' implying that even the Third Doctor had all-but-forgotten the events of ''The Three Doctors''.
 Like most things in the impossibly large spectrum of ''Doctor Who'' content, deciding which of these accounts hold true is up to each and every fan to decide.