The Doctor Falls (TV story)

The Doctor Falls
Doctor:	Twelfth Doctor
Companion(s):	Bill, Nardole
Featuring:	Missy, First Doctor
Main enemy:	Cybermen, The Saxon Master
Main setting:	Mondasian colony ship: Floor 1056 and Floor 507
Key crew
Writer:	Steven Moffat
Director:	Rachel Talalay
Producer:	Peter Bennett
Release details
Story number:	275b
Premiere broadcast:	1 July 2017
Premiere network:	BBC One
Format:	1x60 minute episode
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The Doctor Falls, written by Steven Moffat, was the twelfth and final episode of the tenth series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales.

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Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - Peter Capaldi
• Bill - Pearl Mackie
• Nardole - Matt Lucas
• Missy - Michelle Gomez
• The Saxon Master - John Simm
• Voice of the Cybermen - Nicholas Briggs

Crew

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Production errors

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.

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Continuity

• The Doctor recalls last seeing Missy's predecessor heading to Gallifrey. (TV: The End of Time)
• The Doctor notes the Cybermen have risen from Mondas (AUDIO: Spare Parts, TV: The Tenth Planet) to Telos, (TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen) Earth, (TV: Rise of the Cybermen/The Age of Steel) Planet 14 (TV: The Invasion) and Marinus. (COMIC: The World Shapers)
• The Doctor recounts his various victories over the Cybermen: on Telos where he sealed them into their ice tombs, (TV: The Tomb of the Cybermen) Voga, (TV: Revenge of the Cybermen), Canary Wharf (TV: Army of Ghosts/Doomsday) and Planet 14. (COMIC: The World Shapers, TV: The Invasion)
• The Doctor reminds Bill how she remembered the truth during the reign of the Monks. (TV: The Lie of the Land)
• Bill is reunited with Heather in the form of sentient oil. (TV: The Pilot)
• Missy uses her sonic umbrella. (TV: World Enough and Time)
• The Master uses a modified Laser screwdriver. (TV: Last of the Timelords)
• The Doctor has a brief recall of all of his past companions from his ninth incarnation onwards, just before his body attempts to regenerate. The Fifth Doctor similarly had this occur to him. (TV: The Caves of Androzani)
• As he begins regenerating, the Doctor says "I don't want to go", the exact same words his tenth incarnation said before regenerating. (TV: The End of Time)
• The Doctor resists regenerating. He has previously done this. (TV: The End of Time)

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External links

• Official The Doctor Falls page on the Doctor Who website