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-'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a short promotional mini-episode broadcast during Match of the Day and later released online in [[2016 (releases)|2016]], which introduced the character of [[Bill Potts]] to the world. While this was made before the filming of ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'', which introduced Bill to the show proper, this production was meant as an additional scene for that episode.
+'''''{{StoryTitle}}''''' was a short promotional mini-episode broadcast during Match of the Day and later released online in [[2016 (releases)|2016]], which introduced the character of [[Bill Potts]] to the world. Originally, this scene was produced as a stand-alone episode to reveal the casting of [[Pearl Mackie]], similar to [[2017 (releases)|2017]]'s ''[[Meet the Thirteenth Doctor (TV story)|Meet the Thirteenth Doctor]]''.
+However, when writing [[TV]]: ''[[The Pilot (TV story)|The Pilot]]'', Bill's introduction episode, [[Steven Moffat]]'s intuition was to make ''Friend from the Future'' "fit" into the series. Because of this, ''The Pilot''{{'}}s plot carefully sets up the conditions of the mini-episode, although only copying part of the exchange from the scene. Moffat jokes that ''Doctor Who'' fans knew when the story took place, and that they "could all sleep at night now."
 == Synopsis ==