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Has the Doctor ever had facial hair before?
I'm not aware of any Doctor that routinely had facial hair other than the War Doctor (I thank Bjorn Eriksson below for reminding me of him). Matt Smith's Doctor was imprisoned for sometime and had a ...
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Has the Doctor ever had facial hair before?
The War Doctor did have facial hair. He was a Doctor that regenerated between the 8th and 9th Doctor and was played by John Hurt. The War Doctor only appeared in the episode "The Day of the ...
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Has the Doctor ever had facial hair before?
The 1980 story "The Leisure Hive" Tom Baker's doctor is at one point artificially aged, and appears with a full beard. He looks like this:
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Does each new incarnation of the Doctor retain all the skills displayed by previous incarnations?
Certain skills (like Venusian aikido) are used by multiple incarnations (https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Venusian_aikido), suggesting that the skills transfer, but interests don't - so for example, the ...
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Which version of The Curse of Fenric is available on BBC iPlayer?
The version on BBC iPlayer is 24(ish)* minutes x 4 episodes. Minus approximately 1.45 minutes per episode for opening and closing credits, that equates to around 92 minutes in total.
Since we know ...
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Out of Universe, how many TARDIS props have been used?
As of 2020, there have been nineteen known full size TARDIS Police Box exterior props.
Original 1963 prop. Lamp was replaced in season two. Various refurbishments were made over the years, including ...
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When was the Doctor's age first mentioned in the show?
I’ll stick to the television series since other sources make this very complicated. For the purposes of this answer, I’ll also ignore the issue of the “Timeless Child” and the revelation that the ...
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Where did the Starship UK go after “The Beast Below”?, What was its destination?
The existence of Starship UK is consistent with storylines from much earlier serials, The Ark in Space and The Sontaran Experiment, from the 12th season of the original series, which aired in 1975. ...
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Does the "fury of the Time Lord" scene occur in the original Human Nature?
Not at all. There is no such scene in the novel.
The villains in the novel were six members of the Aubertides, a race of shapeshifters, who can transform into the shape of any creature they consume.
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How did Donna know this fact?
The Doctor-Donna has all the knowledge of a Time Lord ...
Maybe it's "obvious", to someone with Time Lord experience, that the Fourteenth Doctor isn't the same regeneration as the Tenth ...
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Did the Doctor take a UK driving test before using Bessie?
You'll be pleased to learn that the good Doctor holds a 'Universe Driving Licence', entitling him to fly (and presumably drive) anything anywhere.
The Faithful Rocket Pack (comic story)
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Were the scanners and habermans from Cordwainer Smith an influence for the writing of the Cybermen?
I found a writeup of a Gerry Davis interview where he spoke of the creation of the Cybermen. I've snipped out the part about why they were creating a new monster :
We did set out to create a monster,...
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What were the 27 planets taken by the Daleks?
9 are mentioned in the episode:
Earth, Callufrax Minor, Jahoo, Shallacatop, Woman Wept, Clom, Pyrovilia, Adipose 3, and The lost moon of Poosh.
Three more are mentioned elsewhere:
Strepto (...
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Did the Cybermen ever have a civil war?
No.
I've read through the entirety of https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/Cyberman#History, and at no point in any officially-licensed media have two factions of Cybermen fought against each other.
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Were the daleks' enemies, the thals, named after neanderthal man?
It is possible that the syllable "Thal" is meant to be suggestive in this way. In fiction, presentation of Neanderthals often concentrated on the idea of them being savage enemies of our own ...
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Which Doctor was it that likes Jelly Babies?
The Twelfth Doctor
offers them in a cigarette-like container in the episode, "Mummy on the Orient Express."
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Why Hull in Blink?
Weeping Angels can send people back through time and space, and evidently, they can choose to do one, or the other, or both.
In Blink, Billy, was sent back in time but not space, as he was still in ...
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Humanoids in seventh doctor and tenth doctor story
They have some thematic similarities but there is nothing to say they are the same. Over (what was then) 40 years of Doctor Who, it's inevitable that some concepts will turn up more than once. We have ...
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What happened to the Doctor's daughter after the Doctor Who episode “The Doctor's Daughter”?
An updated answer is that while Jenny has not reappeared on television (as of November 2023), she has appeared in other media, including short stories and especially comics and audio adventures. These ...
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When was the Doctor's age first mentioned in the show?
According to dialog in various episodes, the Doctor apparently aged about 450 to 500 years during the course of old Doctor Who in the period 1963 to 1989.
And this is a problem, because the doctor ...
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Why did Commander Millington order the chess sets destroyed?
Fenric was directly manipulating people and, therfore, events, making Millington just one of the pawns in his long game.
Having been trapped in the Shadow Dimension after failing to solve a chess ...
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How did Rose Noble know about this alien?
From other clues, I'd guess that Rose's memories are not the result of a single information dump, but that the metacrisis somehow created an ongoing bond. That is because in addition to Karvanista, ...
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Effect of the Flux on the universe?
There are some hints in the very next episode, Eve of the Daleks, but they are not terribly satisfactory.
Firstly, the Doctor was working to reset the effects of The Flux on the TARDIS:
DOCTOR: When ...
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How are the inner and outer doors of the original series TARDIS connected?
In the Third Doctor era (primarily season 8, I think), there was sometimes shown to be a vestibule between the inner and outer doors. For example, this is from near the beginning of episode four of &...
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Why does River Song say how young the tenth doctor is?
River: "You know when you see a photograph of someone you know, but it's from years before you knew them. and it's like they're not quite finished. They're not done yet. Well, yes, the Doctor's ...
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