The Five Doctors (TV story): Difference between revisions

* The Brigadier refers to the [[Robot Yeti|Yeti]] and the [[Cybermen]], whom he had encountered in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Web of Fear (TV story)}} and [[TV]]: {{cs|The Invasion (TV story)}} respectively.

* The [[Second Doctor]] mentions [[Omega]], and criticises the redecorating of UNIT HQ. Both of these are call-backs to [[TV]]: {{cs|The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors}}, with the latter reflecting the way he critiqued the [[Third Doctor]]'s redesigned TARDIS console room

* Sarah is seen with [[K9 Mark III|K9]], whom she was gifted in [[TV]]: {{cs|A Girl's Best Friend (TV story)|A Girl's Best Friend}}.  

* The Fourth Doctor gets stuck in a time eddy. The First Doctor previously got stuck in a time eddy in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors}}. However, unlike the Fourth, the First was able to communicate and assist.

* The Fourth Doctor and [[Romana II]]'s appearances were depicted using reused footage from [[TV]]: {{cs|Shada (TV story)}}, a partially-filmed story which had remained unbroadcast as of ''The Five Doctors'' airing. [[WC]]: {{cs|Shada (webcast)}} would later literalise this artifice, suggesting that the Doctor was genuinely plucked by the [[Time Scoop]] from the events of ''Shada'', thus causing the TV version of ''Shada'' to diegetically "not happen" to match its unfinished nature in the real world. This facilitated the webcast's plot device of the [[Eighth Doctor]] being made to pick up where his earlier self went off and go through the rest of the ''Shada'' plotline.

* The Second Doctor is wearing [[The Doctor's fur coat|his fur coat]], which he wore in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Abominable Snowmen (TV story)|The Abominable Snowmen}} and [[TV]]: {{cs|The Ice Warriors (TV story)|The Ice Warriors}}. The coat would again be seen in the Second Doctor's cameo in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Name of the Doctor (TV story)}}, and be worn by other Doctors in [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Beyond the Ultimate Adventure (audio story)|Beyond the Ultimate Adventure}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|Time and the Rani (TV story)|Time and the Rani}}, and [[COMIC]]: {{cs|A Cold Day in Hell! (comic story)|A Cold Day in Hell!}}.

* The [[Eighth Doctor]] and the [[Fifth Doctor]] would later encounter a [[Raston Warrior Robot]] at the [[Eye of Orion]], shortly after the Fifth Doctor's role in events here, as one of the vignettes within [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Eight Doctors (novel)|The Eight Doctors}}.  

* [[The Brigadier]] recognises [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] and later the Fifth Doctor from [[TV]]: {{cs|Mawdryn Undead (TV story)|Mawdryn Undead}}.  

* The [[Time Lord]]s offer the Master a new [[regeneration cycle]], something which he had previously come back to the homeworld to ''steal'' in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Deadly Assassin (TV story)}}. Acquiring new regenerations remained a point of motivation for the character in many subsequent appearances leading up to {{cs|Doctor Who (TV story)|the 1996 TV movie]]. The [[High Council]] being able to bestow regenerations upon people who previously lacked them would become a major plot point in the [[War in Heaven]] mythos, with the [[regen-inf]] recruits as seen in [[PROSE]]: {{cs|Dead Romance (novel)}} and [[PROSE]]: {{cs|The Book of the War (novel)}}, and also come into play at the climax of [[TV]]: {{cs|The Time of the Doctor (TV story)|The Time of the Doctor}}, where the dying [[Eleventh Doctor]] is granted an arbitrary number of additional lives by the deities in response to [[Clara Oswald]]'s impassioned plea.

* The [[Third Doctor]], currently familiar with a [[The Master (Terror of the Autons)|prior incarnation]] of [[the Master]], takes a moment to recognise the [[Tremas Master]], who came into existence after his tenure, towards the end of the [[Fourth Doctor]]'s lifetime. Upon recognising him as the Master, the Doctor asks if this is a "new regeneration"; the Master slyly replies "not exactly", alluding to the complexity of the process by which this new Master was born in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Keeper of Traken (TV story)|The Keeper of Traken}}, involving the powers of the [[Keeper of Traken]] and the [[possession]] of a [[Tremas|preexisting man]]'s [[Trakenite|non-Gallifreyan]] body.

* When the [[First Doctor]] fails to recognise the Master, he reminds him that they went to [[the Academy]]. The Master's status as a former schoolmate of the Doctor's had been established as early as [[TV]]: {{cs|Terror of the Autons (TV story)|Terror of the Autons}} and was frequently mentioned thereafter.

* The Doctor is called upon to once again become Lord President of Gallifrey. He ran for the position initially in order to save himself from trial in ([[TV]]: {{cs|The Deadly Assassin (TV story)|The Deadly Assassin}}, then briefly assumed the role in earnest in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Invasion of Time (TV story)|The Invasion of Time}}, only to resign by the story's conclusion. Although the [[Sixth Doctor]] was informed in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe}} that he had been booted from office ''in absentia'', the [[Seventh Doctor]] would again describe himself as "President-Elect of the High Council of Time Lords" in [[TV]]: {{cs|Remembrance of the Daleks (TV story)|Remembrance of the Daleks}}.

* The Brigadier's says "Wonderful chap, all of them," referring to all five incarnations of The Doctor. He previously said "Wonderful chap, both of him", referring to his second and third incarnations in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors}}.

* The First Doctor appears annoyed when [[Tegan Jovanka|Tegan]] calls him "Doc", a gag previously used with the Fifth Doctor in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Time Meddler (TV story)|The Time Meddler}}. The running joke would recur in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma}}, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Ultimate Foe (TV story)|The Ultimate Foe}}, and [[TV]: {{cs|Dreamland (TV story)|Dreamland}}; the First Doctor's exact words in ''The Five Doctors'', "Kindly refrain from addressing me as ‘Doc’", would be specifically reused by the [[Sixth Doctor]] in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Twin Dilemma (TV story)|The Twin Dilemma}}.

* Rassilon is said to have achieved "timeless, perpetual bodily regeneration" granting him true [[immortality]]. A much less convenient form of [[perpetual regeneration]] was a plot point in [[TV]]: {{cs|Mawdryn Undead (TV story)|Mawdryn Undead}}.

* The [[Second Doctor]] calls the [[Third Doctor]] "Fancy pants", to which the Third Doctor replies "[[Scarecrow]]", continuing their somewhat antagonistic rapport from [[TV]]: {{cs|The Three Doctors (TV story)|The Three Doctors}}. Ironically, [[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Night Walkers (comic story)}} showed animated scarecrows being used by the Time Lords to enact their sentence of [[forced regeneration]] on the Second Doctor.

* [[Sarah Jane Smith]] once again notes her fear of heights, prominently displayed in [[TV]]: {{cs|Genesis of the Daleks (TV story)|Genesis of the Daleks}}.

* [[Jerricho|The Castellan]] theorises that "the Doctor wants revenge" as a possible motive for deceiving the [[High Council]], implicitly referring to the Time Lords' recent attempt to execute the Doctor in [[TV]]: {{cs|Arc of Infinity (TV story)|Arc of Infinity}}.

* [[Rassilon]]'s body wears a more colourful version of the style of Time Lord robes previously depicted in [[TV]]: {{cs|The War Games (TV story)}}.

* The climax hinges on an intercession with a manifestation of Rassilon's [[mind]]. It had been mentioned to "still exist within the [[APC Net]]" in [[TV]]: {{cs|The Invasion of Time (TV story)}}, and the Fifth Doctor had previously been shown meeting with Rassilon's spirit within [[the Matrix]] during [[Melanicus]]'s hijack of the [[Event Synthesizer]] in [[COMIC]]: {{cs|The Tides of Time (comic story)|The Tides of Time}}.

* Romana would later recall during [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|Extermination (audio story)|Extermination}} that she was shocked that the Doctor ran away from his responsibilities when he was appointed Lord President.  

* [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Five Companions (audio story)}} serves as an interquel to this story, asserting that before the Fifth Doctor arrived in [[the Capitol]], the Master's transmat recall device sent him to a "spare" [[Death Zone]] where he met his former companions [[Ian Chesterton]], [[Steven Taylor]], [[Sara Kingdom]], [[Polly Wright]] and [[Nyssa]], battling the [[Dalek]]s and the [[Sontaran]]s.

* The Cybermen type seen here are described as [[CyberNeomorph]]s in [[AUDIO]]: {{cs|The Ultimate Cybermen (audio story)|The Ultimate Cybermen}}.

* After the Tremas Master hands the [[Third Doctor]] the [[Seal of the High Council]] as proof of his legitimacy, the Doctor simply pockets it instead of returning it. Decades later, [[TV]]: {{cs|The Time of the Doctor (TV story)}} would reveal that the Doctor had kept it all along, with the [[Eleventh Doctor]] revealing he still held it, and mentioning how he "nicked it from the Master in the Death Zone" before he puts it to use as an interface to translate [[the Message]].

* An exchange between the First and Fifth Doctors is similar to the exchange between the [[Twelfth Doctor]] and the [[Eleventh General]], shortly before the Doctor shot the General, in [[TV]]: {{cs|Hell Bent (TV story)}}.{{what?}}

* The Death Zone, noted as a place of "dangerous games", was one of the names from the Doctor's past which were scrambled by [[the Flux]] in [[GAME]]: {{cs|Flux Fixers (game)}}.