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Why doesn't the TARDIS translation circuit work on the Hath?
Martha appears to be able to understand them. For story-telling purposes, it's we the audience that can't translate their language.
As you can see from this episode of Doctor Who Confidential, their ...
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Which version of The Curse of Fenric is available on BBC iPlayer?
The Whoniverse on BBC iPlayer has the original four episode version as broadcast in the normal seasons section, but also the upscaled version of special edition with the extra footage from the Season ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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