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* This episode has the record for the most Doctors in one episode - 11, plus [[The Doctor (The Name of the Doctor)|the unknown Doctor]] revealed in the final moments of the episode played by [[John Hurt]]. | * This episode has the record for the most Doctors in one episode - 11, plus [[The Doctor (The Name of the Doctor)|the unknown Doctor]] revealed in the final moments of the episode played by [[John Hurt]]. | ||
* Ultimately, Clara's companionship with the Doctor is something of an [[ontological paradox]]; the Doctor might not have invited 21st Century Clara to travel with him if he had not met the echoes of her in the [[Dalek Asylum]] and [[Victorian]] [[London]], but if she never travelled with the Doctor, those echoes would never have existed. | * Ultimately, Clara's companionship with the Doctor is something of an [[ontological paradox]]; the Doctor might not have invited 21st Century Clara to travel with him if he had not met the echoes of her in the [[Dalek Asylum]] and [[Victorian]] [[London]], but if she never travelled with the Doctor, those echoes would never have existed. | ||
* This episode shows clips of different versions of Clara scattered throughout the Doctor's timeline: advising the [[First Doctor]] to steal his Type 40 TARDIS on Gallifrey, calling out for the [[Third Doctor]] as he's driving away in [[Bessie]] (from [[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]''), chasing after the [[Fourth Doctor]] on Gallifrey ( | * This episode shows clips of different versions of Clara scattered throughout the Doctor's timeline: advising the [[First Doctor]] to steal his Type 40 TARDIS on Gallifrey ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Beginning]]''), calling out for the [[Third Doctor]] as he's driving away in [[Bessie]] (from [[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]''), chasing after the [[Fourth Doctor]] on Gallifrey ([[TV]]: ''[[The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time]]''), finding the [[Fifth Doctor]] trapped ([[TV]]: ''[[Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity]]''), trying to find the [[Sixth Doctor]] on his TARDIS, watching the [[Seventh Doctor]] hang on to his umbrella ([[TV]]: ''[[Dragonfire (TV story)|Dragonfire]]''), running after the [[Second Doctor]] (with footage taken from [[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]'') and the [[Eighth Doctor]], the Tenth Doctor as he stands in [[the Library]] and seeing the [[Ninth Doctor]] run past her while she was inside the Doctor's time stream. | ||
::* While many of these appearances are taken from actual footage of the original actors in character, many of them are lifted from different contexts than they appear here. As mentioned below, for example, there was no previous footage of the [[First Doctor]] stealing the TARDIS that would become his (or, if you prefer, the TARDIS stealing the [[First Doctor]]) | * When the [[Great Intelligence]] is in the Doctor's timeline we additionally see the [[First Doctor]] examining the seal under the tomb of [[Yetaxa]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Aztecs (TV story)|The Aztecs]]'') and the Great Intelligence's former henchmen, the [[Yeti]], from the [[London Underground]] ([[TV]]: ''[[The Web of Fear (TV story)|The Web of Fear]]'') | ||
::* While many of these appearances are taken from actual footage of the original actors in character, many of them are lifted from different contexts than they appear here. As mentioned below, for example, there was no previous footage of the [[First Doctor]] stealing the TARDIS that would become his (or, if you prefer, the TARDIS stealing the [[First Doctor]]). Similarly, the [[Second Doctor]] was never before seen running across a palm-tree lined beach in a fur coat, although he was seen '''running''' in a fur coat, in [[TV]]: ''[[The Five Doctors (TV story)|The Five Doctors]]''. | |||
* This story features for the first time on television, the Doctor ''prior'' to stealing the TARDIS. The event had previously been portrayed | * This story features for the first time on television, the Doctor ''prior'' to stealing the TARDIS. The event had previously been portrayed in the comic strip adventure ''[[Time & Time Again (comic story)|Time & Time Again]]''. His granddaughter [[Susan Foreman]] appears briefly when the First Doctor helps her into a TARDIS before the Gallifreyan Clara suggests he take another one because it will be more "fun". | ||
* While trapped in the Doctor's time stream, the [[First Doctor|First]], [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth]], [[Ninth Doctor|Ninth]], [[Tenth Doctor|Tenth]], and [[Fourth Doctor|Fourth]] Doctors move past, behind, and in front of Clara. Unknown actors portrayed them, although the actor portraying the first Doctor resembles the appearance of [[Richard Hurndall]], who replaced [[William Hartnell]] in ''The Five Doctors''. | * While trapped in the Doctor's time stream, the [[First Doctor|First]], [[Sixth Doctor|Sixth]], [[Ninth Doctor|Ninth]], [[Tenth Doctor|Tenth]], and [[Fourth Doctor|Fourth]] Doctors move past, behind, and in front of Clara. Unknown actors portrayed them, although the actor portraying the first Doctor resembles the appearance of [[Richard Hurndall]], who replaced [[William Hartnell]] in ''The Five Doctors''. | ||
* This is the first televised story in which we see the Doctor's TARDIS in what appears to be its "default" form, in the scenes set on Gallifrey. We also see it flying through the vortex soon after the First Doctor steals it. | * This is the first televised story in which we see the Doctor's TARDIS in what appears to be its "default" form, in the scenes set on Gallifrey. We also see it flying through the vortex soon after the First Doctor steals it. | ||
