The Timeless Children (TV story)

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The Timeless Children was the tenth and final episode of series 12 of Doctor Who.

The episode revealed that the Timeless Child was the Doctor all along; a child being from another planet who had been adopted by one of the earliest Gallifreyans, the Shobogan Tecteun, and who originally had the ability to regenerate infinitely. The episode at the same time seemed to conclude various loose ends on why the First Doctor might not have been the first, mostly seen in expanded media, such as the mysterious 8 faces from The Brain of Morbius and others such as the incarnation from Fugitive of the Judoon, although it pointedly refused to confirm whether those specific faces had been among the Timeless Child's many regenerations.

Synopsis

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Plot

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Cast

Special guest appearance by Jo Martin as The Doctor

Crew

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References

Species

Culture 

  • When showing the destroyed Citadel to the Doctor, the Master references Ozymandias, a sonnet by Percy Shelley.

Story notes

  • This episode used the same kind of "cold opening" used in Spyfall: Part Two; a recap of the preceding episode.
  • This episode had the most extensive use of archive footage in any of the Doctor Who episodes or any other media, and indeed any of the spin-offs as of 2020.
  • This is the first series finale since Last of the Time Lords to end on a cliffhanger that leads directly into a seasonal special. The ending of the episode, incidentally, calls back to both Last of the Time Lords and The Runaway Bride by ending with the Doctor caught by surprise inside her TARDIS, and her continuous exclamations of "what?" in response to the events rapidly unfolding around her.

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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

Home video releases

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