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| The Fourteenth Doctor decides to live on Earth with the [[Noble family]] for the time being. He has a garden party with them and Mel at [[Fourteenth Doctor's home|his home]], recounting tales of his adventures. He remarks to Donna that he is the happiest he has been in his entire life because he finally knows what he has been fighting for: a normal life with a family. Elsewhere, the Fifteenth Doctor travels into the unknown, his next adventures soon to come. | | The Fourteenth Doctor decides to live on Earth with the [[Noble family]] for the time being. He has a garden party with them and Mel at [[Fourteenth Doctor's home|his home]], recounting tales of his adventures. He remarks to Donna that he is the happiest he has been in his entire life because he finally knows what he has been fighting for: a normal life with a family. Elsewhere, the Fifteenth Doctor travels into the unknown, his next adventures soon to come. |
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| == Cast ==
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| * [[Fourteenth Doctor|The Doctor]] - [[David Tennant]]
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| * [[Donna Noble]] - [[Catherine Tate]]
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| * [[Charles Banerjee]] - [[Charlie De Melo]]
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| * [[The Toymaker]] - [[Neil Patrick Harris]]
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| * [[John Logie Baird]] - [[John MacKay]]
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| * [[Middle Aged Man (The Giggle)|Middle Aged Man]] - [[Ross Gurney-Randall]]
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| * [[Colonel]] [[Ibrahim (The Giggle)|Ibrahim]] - [[Alexander Devrient]]
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| * [[Shirley Bingham]] - [[Ruth Madeley]]
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| * [[Kate Lethbridge-Stewart]] - [[Jemma Redgrave]]
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| * [[Melanie Bush]] - [[Bonnie Langford]]
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| * [[Pilot (The Giggle)|Pilot]] - [[Glen Fox]]
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| * [[Edward Lawn Bridges]] - [[Tim Hudson]]
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| * [[The Vlinx]] - [[Aidan Cook]]
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| * Voice of the Vlinx - [[Nicholas Briggs]]
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| * [[Trinity Wells]] - [[Lachele Carl]]
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| * Voice of [[Stooky Sue]] - [[Leigh Lothian]]
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| * The Toymaker [[Dance Double]] - [[Luke Featherston]]
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| * [[Shaun Temple]] - [[Karl Collins]]
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| * [[Sylvia Noble]] - [[Jacqueline King]]
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| * [[Rose Noble]] - [[Yasmin Finney]]
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| And introducing [[Ncuti Gatwa]] as [[Fifteenth Doctor|The Doctor]]
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| === Uncredited cast ===
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| * [[Wilfred Mott]] - [[Bernard Cribbins]] (archive audio)
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| * [[First Doctor]] - [[William Hartnell]] (archive footage)
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| * [[The Toymaker]] - [[Michael Gough]] (archive footage)
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| * [[The Master]] - [[Anthony Ainley]], [[John Simm]], [[Michelle Gomez]], [[Sacha Dhawan]] (archive audio){{Fact}}
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| == Crew ==
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| |ExecutiveProd4=Joel Collins
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| |ExecutiveProd5=Phil Collinson
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| |Stunt12=Paul Bailey
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| |AssistedExec3a=Russell T Davies
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| |ActionPropsBuyer=Tara Lily Johnston
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| |AssistantBuyer=Taymar Lee
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| |ProductionDesigner=Phil Sims
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| |CostumeDesigner=Pam Downe
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| |Make-upDesigner=Claire Williams
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| |LineProducer=Mark Devlin
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| |ProductionExec=Steffan Morris
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| |HeadOfProduction=Alex Protherough
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| |DirectorOfProduction=Emily Russell
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| |ProductionExecBBCStudios=John Hamer
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| |ExecutiveProdForTheBBC=Rebecca Ferguson
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| |CommissioningEditorBBC=Lindsay Salt
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| |Note=Note: Several of the camera department credits were given erroneously on broadcast due to an apparent formatting error. (More details [[Talk:The Giggle (TV story)#Crew table note|here]].)
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| == Worldbuilding ==
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| * [[Bi-generation]] is a form of regeneration that results in the regenerating individual splitting between their current incarnation and the one they would have become, with the clothes being split between them. Long thought to be a [[myth]], it doesn't result in [[temporal paradox]]es, as both incarnations are the concurrent versions of the same person.
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| * When setting up the [[template]] in the [[sub-frame]], Donna asks Mel if it is [[Static (frequency)|static]] or [[Dynamic (frequency)|dynamic]]. Mel responds that it is dynamic, as UNIT uses [[Triad (The Giggle)|Triad]].
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| * [[Stooky Bill]] was televised on the [[2 October]] [[1925]] at [[22 Frith Street|22]] [[Frith Street]], [[Soho]], [[W1D 4RF]]
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| * In [[Albion Chambers]], an alleyway located in 1925 [[Soho]], the Doctor and Donna pass posters for [[Henrik's]] and the [[School of Motoring]].
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| * [[Grade's Barber Shop]] is a [[hairdresser]]s for [[men|gentlemen]]. It offers [[hot shave]]s and [[haircut]]s.
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| * The Toymaker claims that the "[[game]] of the [[21st century]]" involves people [[shouting]], [[writing|typing]] and [[Cancel culture|cancelling]].
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| * The Toymaker has the [[Spice Girls]] song "[[Spice Up Your Life]]" play when he breaks into [[UNIT HQ, City of London|UNIT HQ]].
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| * Kate has fought with [[robot]]s, [[insect]]s, [[Robot Yeti|yetis]], and [[clone]]s.
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| * Mel returned to Earth from space on a [[Zingo]].
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| * The Toymaker threatens to use the [[Galvanic beam]] to play [[Grandma's footsteps]], [[off ground touch]] and [[shooting ducks]] with UNIT.
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| === Individuals ===
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| * The [[television]] was created by [[John Logie Baird]], with the assistance of [[Charles Banerjee]] and the usage of a puppet called [[Stooky Bill]].
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| * The Doctor remarks to Donna that he's "a billion-years-old".
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| * The Toymaker says he [[Game between the Toymaker and the Guardians of Time and Space|played]] against the [[Guardians of Time]] and turned them into [[voodoo doll]]s.
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| * [[Sabalom Glitz]] died at the age of [[101 (number)|101]]-years-old after tripping over a [[whiskey]] bottle. He had a [[Viking]]-themed funeral.
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| * Donna spent six months teaching Rose how to play the [[recorder]] before she said it "[was]n't who [she was]", which was apparently the start of "a whole other conversation".
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| * The Toymaker "gambled with [[God (mythology)|God]]" and turned Him into a [[jack-in-the-box]].
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| * The Toymaker remarks that he made a "[[jigsaw]]" out of the Doctor's history, implying that he is, at the very least, partly responsible for any inconsistencies and changes in the Doctor's past, such as his [[The Doctor's early life|origins]] and the history of the [[Timeless Child]].
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| * The [[Spy Master]] begged the Toymaker to save his life when he drew close to dying. They played a a game, but the Master lost, and was imprisoned in the Toymaker's [[The Toymaker's gold tooth|gold tooth]].
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| * The only being the Toymaker made to avoid with his games was [[the One Who Waits]].
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| * [[Sarah Jane Smith]] is confirmed to be deceased by [[2023]].
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| == Notes ==
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| [[File:Bernard Cribbins stand-in with Catherine Tate.jpg|thumb|130px|Bernard Cribbins' stand-in in the episode]]
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| * [[Bernard Cribbins]] was originally intended to appear in ''The Giggle'' as [[Wilfred Mott]]. However, his health prevented him from doing so, making the previous episode his final acting performance prior to his death. Wilfred still appears briefly in the episode, through use of a stand-in actor, and archive audio from {{cs|The Poison Sky (TV story)}}.
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| * When researching [[John Logie Baird]] during the production of ''[[Nolly (series)|Nolly]]'', [[Russell T Davies]] was inspired to write an episode around the puppet [[Stooky Bill]]. He later realized that a two-foot tall puppet wouldn't be the most intimidating foe, so decided to use the Toymaker as the antagonist.<ref name="DWM 598">[[DWM 598]] - Preview of ''The Giggle'', Page 17</ref>
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| * This story's upcoming debut was mentioned alongside the other [[60th Anniversary Specials]] in the non-fiction feature ''[[Back in Business (feature)|Back in Business]]'' published in ''[[Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024]]'' on [[7 September (releases)|7 September]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]].
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| * ''The Giggle'' is the only post-[[2005 (releases)|2005]] [[regeneration]] episode not to feature either the [[Dalek]]s or [[the Master]], not counting the appearance of the Toymaker's [[gold tooth]] that houses the trapped Master.
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| * Colourised footage from {{cs|The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)}} is shown when the Doctor identifies the Toymaker. One of the scenes appeared at the end of {{cs|The Daleks in Colour (TV story)}}. The footage was colourised by [[Rich Tipple]] and Kieran Highman.<ref name="FarFromAll">[https://x.com/farfromallover/status/1733159735531131210?s=20 Status post], ''Far From All Lover''. Accessed December 13, 2023</ref>
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| * Davies revealed in his [[in-vision commentary]] that ''The Giggle'' almost included a scene which mentioned Wilfred Mott passing, saying "''It was immensely sad, it was beautiful, and it was very much a reaction to what had literally just happened, 'cause it felt very, very strange so I felt like we had to acknowledge it.''". He mentions that it was [[Phil Collinson]] who prevented the scene from happening, which Davies agreed was the right decision.<ref name="RadioTimesNews">[https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-wilfred-mott-passing-bernard-cribbins-newsupdate/ News Update], ''Radio Times''. Accessed December 12, 2023.</ref> Davies also revealed that the Toymaker's remark about turning the Doctor's life into a "[[jigsaw]]" was a reference to both the [[Timeless Child]] and [[The Doctor's species|half-human]] claims about the Doctor's origins, creating some ambiguity as to how much of the Doctor's past is true and how much was fabricated by the Toymaker.
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| * In [[DWM 599|the 599th issue]] of ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'', an excerpt from the original script for ''The Giggle'' revealed a cut line of dialogue during the [[Fourteenth Doctor's bi-generation]] referenced {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)}}. When the Fourteenth Doctor's hand started glowing with [[regeneration energy]], Donna was to ask Mel if she had seen [[regeneration]] before, with Mel replying, "''No, I missed it, I was unconscious.''" (...) "''Well, the TARDIS was attacked, by [[the Rani]], she was this evil [[Time Lady]], although not evil, more like amoral, and she dragged the TARDIS down to this planet called [[Lakertya]]-''", at which point the Doctor would have interrupted her. The dialogue is retained in the [[The Giggle (novelisation)|novelisation]] by [[James Goss]].
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| * Davies considered bringing back [[Peter Purves]] as [[Steven Taylor]], but ultimately decided against it.{{source}}
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| * [[Russell T Davies]] had previously worked with [[Neil Patrick Harris]] on ''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_a_Sin_(TV_series) It's a Sin]''.
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| === Comparison between BBC and Disney+ versions ===
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| There are slight differences between the version broadcast on [[BBC One]] and the one shown on [[Disney+]]:
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| * The [[Whoniverse ident|''Whoniverse'' ident]] was shown at the beginning of the episode on the [[BBC]] version. However, on the Disney+ version, the [[BBC ident]] was shown.
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| * The [[Disney]] ident was shown at the end of the episode on the Disney+ version.
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| * The [[Executive Producer]]s' credits were shown after the [[title sequence]] in the BBC version, however, they were shown in the [[end credits]] in the Disney+ version.
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| * In the end board for the BBC version, the [[Bad Wolf]] logo was shown on the left and the [[BBC Studios Productions]] logo on the right. In the Disney+ version, they were switched.
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| === Myths ===
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| * [[Donna Noble]] would regenerate into the [[Fifteenth Doctor]] instead of the [[Fourteenth Doctor]].{{Fact}} (''This theory gained some attention before the airing of the [[2023 specials]], but was proven false during the first special'')
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| * The Toymaker would be revealed as the reason for the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] having the same face as the [[Tenth Doctor]]. (''No connection was made between the two, with the Toymaker just telling the Doctor he had "made a jigsaw out of [his] history", leaving it ambiguous what he meant by that.'')
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| * The Fourteenth Doctor's regeneration would go wrong, causing the Fifteenth Doctor to physically separate from the Fourteenth, resulting in both [[incarnation]]s existing at the same time. (''This was partially true, as instead of the regeneration going wrong, the Fourteenth Doctor underwent a [[bi-generation]] that resulted in him "splitting" from the Fifteenth Doctor, delaying his physical change until after his healing with the Nobles.'')
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| * The [[First Doctor]] would appear in the story and interact with the Fifteenth Doctor, either in the form of [[David Bradley]] reprising the role, or a deep-faked version of [[William Hartnell]]. (''The First Doctor only appears in the form of colourised flashback footage from ''The Celestial Toymaker'', and does not interact with the Fourteenth or Fifteenth Doctors. This may have been fuelled by [[Ncuti Gatwa]]'s teasing that a scene was coming up in which his Doctor would share a scene with the First Doctor, which turned out to be referring to the newly-filmed insert in the [[List of anniversaries|60th Anniversary]] rebroadcast of ''[[An Adventure in Space and Time (TV story)|An Adventure in Space and Time]]''.'')
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| === Filming locations ===
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| * TBA - [[Clare Street]], [[Bristol]]<ref name="google maps">[https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1An-L78zyD0YCNNFDlUu6vGDOMNOCp2s&ll=51.45395784079994%2C-2.596082890359257&z=12 ''Doctor Who in Bristol'' on google.com/maps]</ref>
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| * TBA - [[Broad Street]], Bristol<ref name="google maps"/>
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| === Ratings ===
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| * 4.62 million (UK overnight).<ref>[https://guide.doctorwhonews.net/info.php?detail=ratings&start=0&type=date&order= Doctor Who - overnight ratings]</ref>
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| * 6.84 million (UK final).<ref>[https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/drwho-thegiggle-7days Doctor Who - consolidated ratings]</ref>
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| === Production errors ===
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| * After the [[bi-generation]] splits the [[Fourteenth Doctor|Fourteenth]] and [[Fifteenth Doctor]]s into two separate entities, the English (UK) captions on the [[Disney|Disney+]] version incorrectly identity the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] as the [[Tenth Doctor]].
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| * In certain shots, the green-screen erected for filming on Clare Street can be seen reflected in the window fronts of Grades, Mr Emporium, and a window of the building besides.
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| * At beginning of the Toymaker's attack on UNIT, Kate is standing next to Donna. But when the Toymaker pulls her into a dance, Kate is now at the front of the room.
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| * During the Doctor's bi-generation, in the shot that follows after the [[Fourteenth Doctor]] says, "''You're me''", [[David Tennant]] can be seen mouthing the same line again before the [[Fifteenth Doctor]] says, "''No, I'm me''", with his audio having clearly been removed.
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| == Continuity ==
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| * When UNIT retrieve the TARDIS, they transport it by attaching it to a helicopter, something that had been done before in {{cs|The Day of the Doctor (TV story)}} and {{cs|Death in Heaven (TV story)}}.
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| * Kate was seen fighting the [[Great Intelligence]]'s [[Robot Yeti]] in {{cs|Downtime (home video)}}.
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| * Shirley notes that the [[South Korea|South Korean]] satellite was not emitting a mind control link the way the [[Saxon Master]]'s [[Archangel Network]] did to control the human race in {{cs|The Sound of Drums (TV story)}}.
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| * Kate remarks how, with all of the world leaders succumbing to the Toymaker's control, they need permission from the Doctor to destroy the satellite. The Doctor has functioned as an emergency world leading authority before, notably with the [[Twelfth Doctor]] acting as [[President of Earth]] in {{cs|Death in Heaven (TV story)}}, {{cs|The Zygon Invasion (TV story)}} and {{cs|The Pyramid at the End of the World (TV story)}}.
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| * Mel reminds the Doctor about her travelling with [[Sabalom Glitz]], who left the [[Seventh Doctor]] to travel with at the end of {{cs|Dragonfire (TV story)}}.
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| * Mel mentions Kate offering her a job with UNIT, which was alluded to at the [[Companion support group]] meeting in {{cs|The Power of the Doctor (TV story)}}.
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| * Donna is also offered a job at UNIT, having lost her last one just prior to the events of {{cs|The Star Beast (TV story)}}.
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| * Donna mentions how the Doctor tends to keep traveling to refuse to confront or think back on things that have happened to him, an observation previously made by [[Blon Fel-Fotch Passameer-Day Slitheen]] in {{cs|Boom Town (TV story)}}, Davros in {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}, and [[Tecteun (Once, Upon Time)|Tecteun]] in {{cs|Survivors of the Flux (TV story)}}.
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| * The Doctor and the Toymaker repeatedly recall their previous game, where the [[First Doctor]] won and escaped the Toymaker's domain, in {{cs|The Celestial Toymaker (TV story)}}.
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| * Donna recalls her and the Tenth Doctor facing the [[Ood]] in {{cs|Planet of the Ood}}, [[Davros]] in {{cs|The Stolen Earth (TV story)}}, the [[Adipose]] in {{cs|Partners in Crime}}, and the [[Dalek]]s' use of the [[reality bomb]] in {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}.
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| * The Doctor recalls how he played a game at the edge of the universe against the [[Not-thing]]s in {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}, which he believes allowed the Toymaker into the universe. He blames this error on him becoming clever, something the [[Tenth Doctor]] lamented as one of his greatest flaws in {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}}.
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| * The Toymaker recalls that the [[Eleventh Doctor]] met [[Amy Pond]] in {{cs|The Eleventh Hour (TV story)}} soon after the Tenth Doctor's final encounter with Donna and her family in {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}}.
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| * The Toymaker mocks the Doctor's treatment of his companions, but the Doctor rebukes his accusations; they bring up Amy being stranded in time by the [[Weeping Angel]]s and dying of old age in {{cs|The Angels Take Manhattan (TV story)}}, [[Clara Oswald]] being killed by the [[Quantum Shade]] in {{cs|Face the Raven (TV story)}} and her managing to survive in the last second before her death after being retrieved by an [[extraction chamber]] in {{cs|Hell Bent (TV story)}}, [[Bill Potts]]'s [[cyber-conversion]] in {{cs|World Enough and Time (TV story)}} and the Doctor learning her consciousness had managed to survive in {{cs|Twice Upon a Time (TV story)}}, but the Doctor has no defence when the Toymaker mentions the universe's suffering during [[the Flux]] event in {{cs|The Halloween Apocalypse (TV story)}}.
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| * The Doctor says no-one in London is faster on a keyboard than Donna, a fact she prided herself on during {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}}.
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| * The Toymaker makes his entrance into UNIT HQ with a dance sequence, echoing the dance routines of the [[Saxon Master]] in {{cs|Last of the Time Lords (TV story)}} and the [[Spy Master]] in {{cs|The Power of the Doctor (TV story)}}.
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| * The Doctor makes an offer to fight across the cosmos with the Toymaker in an effort to make him leave Earth and humanity alone. He once made a similar proposal as his tenth incarnation to the [[Saxon Master]] in {{cs|The Sound of Drums (TV story)}}, which he also turned down.
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| * When he starts to regenerate, the Doctor remarks he's not dying, contrasting how the Tenth Doctor viewed regeneration as dying, expressed in {{cs|The End of Time (TV story)}}.
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| * As he is overcome with [[regeneration energy]], the Doctor says, ''"Here we go again"'', just as [[the Brigadier]] did when seeing the [[Third Doctor's regeneration]] in {{cs|Planet of the Spiders (TV story)}}, and also by [[Vastra]] when she saw the newly-regenerated [[Twelfth Doctor]] in {{cs|Deep Breath (TV story)}}.
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| * As he begins to bi-generate, the Doctor remarks that it "feels different this time", just as the [[Fifth Doctor]] did just before regenerating into the [[Sixth Doctor]] in {{cs|The Caves of Androzani (TV story)}}.
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| * After the Toymaker's banishment, the gold tooth housing [[the Master]] is retrieved by a feminine hand with red nail polish, recreating the scene of [[the Master's ring]] being retrieved at the end of {{cs|Last of the Time Lords (TV story)}}.
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| * The act of the TARDIS being split into identical versions of itself was previously seen as [[temporal fission]] in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Five Doctors (TV story)}}.
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| * The Fifteenth Doctor talks with the Fourteenth Doctor about all the suffering that has impacted them of which his younger incarnation needs to heal from; they bring up the [[Second Doctor]]'s [[The Doctor's trial (The War Games)|trial]] and [[exile on Earth]] from {{cs|The War Games (TV story)}}, the Fourth Doctor's hunt for the [[Key to Time]] between {{cs|The Ribos Operation (TV story)}} and {{cs|The Armageddon Factor (TV story)}}, the [[Tremas Master]]'s actions on [[Logopolis]] during {{cs|Logopolis (TV story)}}, [[Adric]]'s death in {{cs|Earthshock (TV story)}}, [[River Song]]'s death in {{cs|Forest of the Dead (TV story)}}, [[Sarah Jane Smith]]'s passing that was first mentioned in {{cs|Farewell, Sarah Jane (webcast)}}, losing [[Rose Tyler]] in {{cs|Doomsday (TV story)}}, their imprisonment in the [[Pandorica]] during {{cs|The Pandorica Opens (TV story)}}, fighting [[Mavic Chen]] in {{cs|The Daleks' Master Plan (TV story)}}, and fighting the [[Gods of Ragnarok]] in {{cs|The Greatest Show in the Galaxy (TV story)}}.
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| * The Fourteenth Doctor mentions when he and the Warrior Queen of the [[Felooth]] had to communicates with their eyebrows, recalling when the Third Doctor remarked that he would use his new eyebrows to speak to the [[Delphon (species)|Delphon]] in {{cs|Spearhead from Space (TV story)}}.
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| * The Fourteenth Doctor remarks that he has ended up with a family after all after adopting him self into the [[Noble family]]. [[Sarah Jane Smith]] had remarked in {{cs|Journey's End (TV story)}} that, while he acted like a "lonely man", he actually had "the biggest family on Earth" through his companions.
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| * The Toymaker mentions the year 5 billion and references the last human, Lady [[Cassandra O'Brien.Δ17]] ({{cs|The End of the World (TV story)}}, {{cs|New Earth (TV story)}}).
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| *''[[Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024]]'' contained several works of fiction which teased some of the characters in ''The Giggle'':
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| **The short story [[PROSE]]: {{cs|First Day of the Doctor (short story)}} contained an obscured snippet of a page of the [[Fifteenth Doctor]]'s [[Fifteenth Doctor's diary|diary]], containing a quote of his line "''Someone tell me what the hell is going on here?''" It also posits that the events of {{cs|The Church on Ruby Road (TV story)}} takes place directly after the bi-generation.
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| **The spot-the-difference puzzle [[GAME]]: {{cs|Double Danger (game)}} depicted the Doctor asking [[Human (Double Danger)|an individual]] for help with the then-unnamed version of the Toymaker portrayed by [[Neil Patrick Harris]].
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| *Some of the set dressing in ''The Giggle'' contains Easter Eggs to previous stories and people:
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| **Posters are seen around 1925 Soho for [[Henrik's]], the department store [[Rose Tyler]] worked for in {{cs|Rose (TV story)}},
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| **Although not visible in the final cut of the episode, one building was given [[Sanderson & Grainger]] branding, the department store the [[Eleventh Doctor]] briefly worked for in {{cs|Closing Time (TV story)}}.
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| **The building next door to the Toymaker's emporium carries the name "[[Grade's Barber Shop]]", possibly a reference to former controller of BBC1, [[Michael Grade]].
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| ==Home media releases==
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| ===DVD and Blu-Ray===
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| This story was released on [[DVD]] and [[Blu-Ray]] in the [[United Kingdom]] on [[18 December (releases)|18 December]] [[2023 (releases)|2023]], along with {{cs|The Star Beast (TV story)}} and {{cs|Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)}}. The Bluray release is encoded to Region B, atypical of BBC releases which usually do not have any kind of region encoding on the disc.
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| Contents:
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| *[[Rachel Talalay]]'s Scene Breakdown
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| *[[Chanya Button]]'s Scene Breakdown
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| *[[Tom Kingsley]]'s Scene Breakdown
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| *''[[The Star Beast Behind The Scenes]]''
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| *The [[Fourteenth Doctor]] Reveal
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| *''[[Wild Blue Yonder Behind The Scenes]]''
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| *''[[The Giggle Behind The Scenes]]''
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| *''The Giggle'' [[In-vision Commentary]]
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| *''The Star Beast'' In-vision Commentary
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| *[[David Tennant|David]] and [[Catherine Tate|Catherine]]'s Flashbacks
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| *[[Yasmin Finney]] Introduces [[Rose Noble]]
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| *Designing the Fourteenth Doctor
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| *Set Tour with Yasmin Finney
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| *''The Star Beast'' - Behind The Scenes Trailer
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| *''Wild Blue Yonder'' - Behind The Scenes Trailer
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| *''The Giggle'' - Behind The Scenes Trailer
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| *The Cast Introduce the Villains in {{'}}''Wild Blue Yonder''{{'}}
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| *Behind The Scenes Fun with David and Catherine
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| *Video Diary with David Tennant's [[George Cheetham|Stand-in]]
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| *[[The Doctor's TARDIS|TARDIS]] Set Tour with David Tennant and [[Phil Sims]]
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| *[[Ruth Madeley]] Introduces [[Shirley Bingham]]
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| *[[Neil Patrick Harris]] Introduces [[the Toymaker]]
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| *Becoming the Toymaker
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| *[[60th Anniversary Specials|60th Specials]] Recap with David Tennant
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| Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials UK DVD.jpg|UK DVD cover
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| Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials UK Blu-ray.jpg|UK Blu-ray cover
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| Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials UK Steelbook.jpg|UK steelbook cover
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| </gallery>
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| ===Digital releases===
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| This story is available on [[BBC iPlayer]] in the United Kingdom, in Ultra High-Def (4K). It is also available on [[Disney+]] in other territories.
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