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* Paul McGann's reprisal of the role of the Eighth Doctor, seventeen years after his debut, parallels a visibly older [[Sylvester McCoy]]'s exit from the series as the [[Seventh Doctor]] to hand over the role to McGann himself. McCoy reappeared for one final outing as the Seventh Doctor in the [[Doctor Who (TV story)|1996 TV movie]], after his last on-screen adventure in [[1989]]. | * Paul McGann's reprisal of the role of the Eighth Doctor, seventeen years after his debut, parallels a visibly older [[Sylvester McCoy]]'s exit from the series as the [[Seventh Doctor]] to hand over the role to McGann himself. McCoy reappeared for one final outing as the Seventh Doctor in the [[Doctor Who (TV story)|1996 TV movie]], after his last on-screen adventure in [[1989]]. | ||
* By depicting the regeneration of the Eighth Doctor into the War Doctor, ''The Night of the Doctor'' abolishes the long-speculated idea that the Eighth Doctor eventually fought in the Time War and would regenerate into the [[Ninth Doctor]] portrayed by [[Christopher Eccleston]]. Years earlier, conditions imposed by [[Russell T Davies]] and the BBC on how it could be done (namely over having the Ninth Doctor with any other companion but Rose) led to the abandonment of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''{{'}}s plan to depict the regeneration from the [[Eighth Doctor]] to the Ninth Doctor at the conclusion of ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]''. | * By depicting the regeneration of the Eighth Doctor into the War Doctor, ''The Night of the Doctor'' abolishes the long-speculated idea that the Eighth Doctor eventually fought in the Time War and would regenerate into the [[Ninth Doctor]] portrayed by [[Christopher Eccleston]]. Years earlier, conditions imposed by [[Russell T Davies]] and the BBC on how it could be done (namely over having the Ninth Doctor with any other companion but Rose) led to the abandonment of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]''{{'}}s plan to depict the regeneration from the [[Eighth Doctor]] to the Ninth Doctor at the conclusion of ''[[The Flood (comic story)|The Flood]]''. | ||
* According to Emma Campbell-Jones, Paul McGann played the War Doctor in the scene where he takes Cass' bandolier after the regeneration. This technically makes McGann the second actor to play two incarnations of the Doctor, since Sylvester McCoy played the [[Sixth Doctor]] for the regeneration sequence in ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]''.<ref name=":0">http://twitter.com/ohmissjones/status/447565901265924096</ref> | * According to Emma Campbell-Jones, Paul McGann played the War Doctor in the scene where he takes Cass's bandolier after the regeneration. This technically makes McGann the second actor to play two incarnations of the Doctor, since Sylvester McCoy played the [[Sixth Doctor]] for the regeneration sequence in ''[[Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani]]''.<ref name=":0">http://twitter.com/ohmissjones/status/447565901265924096</ref> | ||
* This is the second televised regeneration story not to feature any scenes inside the TARDIS, following [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]].'' | * This is the second televised regeneration story not to feature any scenes inside the TARDIS, following [[TV]]: ''[[Planet of the Spiders (TV story)|Planet of the Spiders]].'' | ||
