The Day of the Doctor. Revising the back story, the Doctor succumbs to Clara Oswald's plea to change his mind; and instead, at the last instant of the Time War, he hides his war- torn home planet in time, rather than destroy it. Unfortunately, the time distortions incurred leave his past selves with no memory of his changed decision. The episode starred Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and Jenna Coleman as his companion, Clara Oswald.
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Previous lead actors David Tennant and Billie Piper returned for the episode, Tennant reprising his role as the Tenth Doctor, while Piper portrayed a sentient doomsday weapon called the Moment, projected as an image based on her character Rose Tyler. She is invisible and inaudible to everyone but the War Doctor (John Hurt). Other appearances included a very brief glimpse of the then- upcoming Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi), who would succeed Matt Smith in .
Rounding out the guest cast were Joanna Page as Queen Elizabeth I. It has been described by series producer Marcus Wilson as a . He is a conscientious objector to the ongoing Time War and intends to rescue a crew member from a crashing spaceship via the TARDIS. Realising that her rescuer is a Time Lord she refuses to comply, preferring to die rather than go with him. She and the Doctor die as the ship crashes on Karn. The Doctor is resurrected temporarily by the Sisterhood of Karn (who control a secret Elixir of Life in the 1.
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The Brain of Morbius). They persuade the Doctor to take action to end the Time War, offering him a selection of potions to control his regeneration. He reluctantly accepts that with all of reality threatened and the universe . The soldiers scan for Daleks at Arcadia, Gallifrey's second city and believed due to its impregnable defences to be the safest place on the Time Lords' home planet. During training exercises, a blurred object in the sky is identified shockingly as the first of a fleet of successfully invading Daleks, which kill the soldiers. Three- dimensional paintings, made with Time Lord stasis cubes, appear to have been broken from within; the figures previously in the paintings are now missing.
While examining the paintings, a fissure in time opens above them and the Doctor jumps into it. The Moment is sentient and manifests itself as Rose Tyler. It questions whether mass killing is the best option for ending the Time War and prescribes the Doctor's punishment if he does so — he will survive while the rest of his race dies. The Moment offers to show the Doctor what this will turn him into and opens a fissure linking him to the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors. The three Doctors converge in the year 1. Tenth Doctor has been tracking down a Zygon.
They discover that the Zygon is disguised as Queen Elizabeth, who captures and imprisons them in the Tower of London. Meanwhile, within UNIT's Black Archive, Clara learns that the Zygons from Elizabethan England have entered the three- dimensional paintings in the Undergallery and have emerged in 2. UNIT members so that they could utilise UNIT's weapons and technology.
While the three Doctors are in their cell, The Moment encourages the War Doctor to ask them the questions he needs answered before he decides whether to destroy Gallifrey. After a tense exchange, the Doctors devise an escape plan.
They then encounter the real Queen Elizabeth and learn through her of the Zygon scheme to conquer Earth. Kate Stewart also learns of the Zygon plan and locks herself in the Black Archive with the Zygons, starting a countdown that will detonate a nuclear warhead underneath the archive. The Doctors, unable to land a TARDIS in the Black Archive, instead use the stasis cube technology to enter a painting. They exit the painting in the present and use the archive's mind- wiping equipment to render the UNIT members and Zygons temporarily unaware which of them are which. The countdown is stopped and all present negotiate a perfectly fair peace treaty, as they no longer know which way to skew it. The War Doctor, now convinced that detonating the Moment will save many more lives in the longer term, is returned to his time by the Moment.
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The other two Doctors follow him in their TARDISes with the intention of helping him so as to share his burden. After Clara reminds them of their choice of the title . They plan to use the stasis technology to freeze the entire planet of Gallifrey in a single moment in time, which would be kept in a pocket universe. When Gallifrey disappears, the surrounding Dalek warships would obliterate themselves in the inevitable crossfire and both species will appear to have been wiped out. The Doctors relay their plan to the Time Lords and then surround Gallifrey, which erupts in a bright light.
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My journey is the same as yours, the same as anyone's. It's taken me so many years, so many lifetimes, but at last I know where I'm going. Where I've always been going. Home, the long way round. The War Doctor is content to think that he failed in doing the right thing before realising that neither he nor the Tenth Doctor will remember what happened and will continue shouldering the guilt. The War Doctor departs in his TARDIS and begins to regenerate.
The Tenth Doctor departs in his TARDIS after persuading the Eleventh Doctor to reveal that he is going to the planet Trenzalore. The Eleventh Doctor, now alone, begins to muse about retiring to become the museum's curator, when he is interrupted by the museum's actual curator.
As they talk, the curator reveals that the painting's title, which was thought to be either No More or Gallifrey Falls, is in fact the Gallifrey Falls No More. In the closing scene, the Doctor describes a recurring dream in which he and his previous incarnations are looking together upon Gallifrey and states that he is going home. Continuity. It opens with the title sequence and theme arrangement used at the series' debut in 1. Echoing the opening of An Unearthly Child, the first episode of the first Doctor Who story, a policeman is shown walking past the sign for I.
M. Foreman, the scrap merchant in whose yard the TARDIS was located, and its first few seconds are in monochrome (as had been the case in The Two Doctors, the last time more than one Doctor had featured in an official story). Coal Hill School, which the Doctor's granddaughter Susan Foreman attended when they were on Earth in 1.
Remembrance of the Daleks. According to the school sign, the chairman of the school governors is now Ian Chesterton, one of the First Doctor's original three companions and a science teacher at the school, and the headmaster is W. Coburn, a reference to Waris Hussein and Anthony Coburn, who respectively directed and wrote An Unearthly Child. Lethbridge- Stewart was a central character in the Third Doctor's era and also several of his successors', originally appearing in the Second Doctor serial The Web of Fear and making his last appearance in Doctor Who in Seventh Doctor serial Battlefield, which is also referenced. An image of the Brigadier is seen alongside images of various companions of the Doctor.
The UNIT dating controversy, regarding whether the Third Doctor era stories took place in the 1. Kate Stewart, when she mentions that events occurred in . His marriage to Queen Elizabeth I, mentioned in . When the Eleventh Doctor tells Clara that the situation is . Additionally, River Song's high heels from . The vortex manipulator in the Archive was donated to UNIT by Captain Jack Harkness, a companion of the Ninth Doctor who was reunited with the Tenth Doctor on multiple occasions. The Black Archive was also seen in the Series 2 Finale of The Sarah Jane Adventures .
I didn't know when I was well off. A line from the First Doctor from The Five Doctors is also reused near the end as the Tenth Doctor tells the Eleventh, .
The Eleventh Doctor resurrects the phrase . In trying to compensate for the presence of three Doctors who utilise different console rooms, the Tenth Doctor's TARDIS console briefly changes to the War Doctor's console room, seen again later in the episode, before settling on the Eleventh's.!
Excluding flashbacks and archive footage, Tennant had not appeared in Doctor Who since his final regular appearance as the Doctor in the concluding scenes of The End of Time, broadcast on 1 January 2. John Hurt as the War Doctor, the Doctor's warrior- like forgotten incarnation. The War Doctor came between the Eighth and Ninth Doctors, and renounced the title of Doctor. Christopher Eccleston, Paul Mc. Gann, Sylvester Mc. Coy, Colin Baker, Peter Davison, Tom Baker, Jon Pertwee, Patrick Troughton and William Hartnell as the Ninth, Eighth, Seventh, Sixth, Fifth, Fourth, Third, Second and First.
Doctors respectively. Archive footage of all the actors was used. Collectively credited as . The special was the first time the actress was credited on the show simply as Jenna Coleman, dropping the Louise part of her name seen in previous episodes. Piper has not portrayed Rose as a series regular since . His resemblance to the Fourth Doctor is alluded to, but left unexplained. However, he liked the concept of bringing back her Bad Wolf persona and felt that Piper needed to be in the special as she symbolised the rebirth of Doctor Who.
Hurt's request to keep his beard adds to this effect. Barrowman stated that he would have liked to be in it, but speculated that the producers wanted to try some different things. Normally I am responsible for the disinformation and the rubbish rumors—I usually put them out myself, but I haven't needed to for this one. He is a brand new Doctor in . It couldn't have been is . I also had trouble, I have to be honest, imagining it being Paul Mc. Gann's Doctor? Would that be a cool thing to do?
Going round and round in circles on it I just thought, 'What about a Doctor that he never talks about?' And what if it is a Doctor who's done something terrible, who's much deadlier and more serious, who represents that thing that is the undertow in both David and Matt. You know there's a terrible old man inside them.