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This site talks about how the reconstructions were made. Here's what it says about why there are missing episodes at all: ...By the 1970's the show had moved to colour and the old 60's black and white episodes were becoming less popular to show as more and more foreign TV stations opted to show the newer colour stories instead. The copies distributed ...

I don't really know how to prove it definitively, but it seems pretty clear to me that they're not the same guy when you look at the guy from your picture side by side with 2010 Adam Sandler. I guess the most telling part is different head shape, the Dr Who guy has less of an oval shape to his noggin.

In the beginning of the episode when The Doctor was "admitted" in the hospital and Martha's class group was making their rounds, Martha volunteered to do the assessment. Martha came under ridicule because when she went to listen for a heartbeat, she discovered one on both sides of The Doctor's chest. During this final scene, Martha remembers this and ...

Initially, he stated that he wanted to avoid being typecast so he quit to move on with his career. However, in this statement in an acting class, he tells a rather different story. I left Doctor Who because I could not get along with the senior people. I left because of politics. I did not see eye-to-eye with them. I didn’t agree with the way things ...

Although regeneration usually appears as an involuntary, biological process that occurs when death would otherwise be imminent, the nature of regeneration has not always been consistently represented. It has been most fully explored over the years in the case of the Master: It's possible to reset the counter on regenerations-- as in The Five Doctors ...

It wasn't Earth tech. He used Rose's cellphone that was originally modified by the Doctor so that she could talk to her mother: The "Superphone" is an upgraded mobile phone that can make calls across time and space. It even calibrates to the user's home time period, as shown by Adam Mitchell's ability to call his home time on Rose Tyler's phone ("The ...

This is a major spoiler: At the end of the first season, it's discovered that the daleks have been controling the human race through the tv games. Rose looked at the heart of the Tardis and was impued with the power of time. She used it to return to where the doctor was and scattered the message across time. It's a message to herself from the future.

The angels had followed Sparrow to the police station, and they generally hide themselves in positions where you'd expect to see statues (like the church across the street). But when Sparrow turned her back they went across the road into the police station. Once they got to the carpark there was no need to hide any more so they showed themselves more openly. ...

I don't think you're ever going to get a clear answer to this one but I'll do my best. The Doctor has already proven he has telepathic abilities (The Girl in the Fireplace). The Master has linked together the entire human race using the Archangel network, this is designed to subdue them. During his year as a captive The Doctor integrates with this network ...

From an interview with Steven Moffat (May 2012): There are going to be five Doctor Who episodes in the autumn, then a Christmas special, then eight more in 2013 - what was the thinking behind that structure? I don't know, on this occasion, that the thinking particularly came from me, actually. I've always been open to anything that shakes [the ...

Budget issues. Since 2010, BBC's budget for Doctor Who has been shrinking, causing issues for the series. One of the efforts to deal with the issue is to spread out production and airing of the show, decreasing the number of episodes made each year. This is why Series 6 and 7 have done the 'split season' thing, airing half a season, then airing the rest a ...

Here's a video with the Latin lyrics superimposed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmkad_x6xUs And with a literal translation in English: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lihghy0YU2E&feature=youtu.be ADDITIONAL NOTES: Lyrics and translations by Classicist Penelope Goodman, University of Leeds Murray Gold’s lyrics Vale Decem... Ad aeternam... Di ...

At the time, all events in the world were only possible because the Tardis was being used to power a paradox machine, allowing past and future to coexist and destroy each other without affecting the natural progression of things. Both the Doctor and the Tardis have telepathic abilities, and everyone on the planet was linked by a group of satellites that ...

List by Doctor Number: (William Hartnell): Hmmn. Hmmn. Hmmn. (Patrick Troughton): When I say run. (Jon Pertwee): Nothing comes to mind except Whomobile (Tom Baker): Care for a Jelly baby (Peter Davison): Nothing again except for Cricket & Celery (Colin Baker): Got nothing (Sylvester McCoy): Nothing again (Paul McGann): Who am I? (Christopher ...

Doctor Who refers to how characters identify the David Tenant character and past actors who have played the time lord. Doctor is the title that the time lord uses to identify himself, and this started way back in the first Doctor Who film back in 1965 called Dr. Who and the Daleks. In the beginning, the Doctor reference was regarded as a Ph.D. title since ...

The general suggestion (at least as far as The Doctor is concerned) is that as a creature of time he is able to control his contact with the effects of the crack. He has to give himself over to it willingly before it consumes him. In the 11th season, the nature of the crack is said to not be fully understood and will be effected by the "Great Unasked ...

There is quite some information on this (mostly from the old series) if you google it so I won't give a full explanation but only my own interpretation. The regeneration process is a natural ability of the Time Lord race to regenerate completely when mortally wounded. Once the process starts, the cells of the Time Lord produce energy that can completely ...

The problem wasn't so much that she resurrected him, as how she did it. She controlled time itself and wrapped it around him, giving him life with a power that she didn't understand. Imagine it as someone who has a prosthetic limb and needs to learn to control it. She tried to place something (his life) gently back into time and instead punched out ...

My understanding is that Jack's life becomes a fixed point in time and space (much like Pompeii/Mars/Lake Silencio - these are events which will always happen and can never be avoided (we'll ignore the Waters of Mars example for now). When Rose brought him back she didn't resurrect him she made altered time so that his life is simply fixed. No matter what ...

Rule #1: The Doctor lies. Most of the time, when the Doctor says, "I can't...", he's eventually shown to really mean, "I really, really, really shouldn't, but if I really had to, or really wanted to, I could." The most clear example of this is the 1964 story, The Aztecs. The Doctor spends most of that story adamant that time cannot be changed. This notion ...

The translation systems of the Tardis are not always easy to understand (see this question). In-movie explanations: Clara has only recently started traveling with the Doctor, so the translation systems might not be tuned to her brain. They landed right in the middle of a crowded space, with lots of different languages. The Tardis can have difficulties ...

The Toclafane were a creation of The Master. After that rocket left, the Utopia did not exist, just a barren wasteland at the edge of space at the end of time. So in order to essentially "make a living" the humans linked themselves into a single child-like consciousness in order to prevent their further suffering. In order to do this, they evolved around ...

I don't believe so. It sounds to me like the prophesy is about the battle that resulted in the graveyard we see in The Name of the Doctor. During that battle, Silence fell. The main reason I think this is the case, is because: when no living creature may speak falsely or fail to give answer wasn't really part of the events of that episode. The ...

Time travel is not restricted to humanoid species (take the dalek for example) so the creature could have ended up there the same way Hila Tukurian got trapped there. It could also be a side effect of the experiments Hila was doing or some completely unrelated experiment of the alien itself. The Doctor only said they got separated by events, war, politics or ...

In the episode turn left Donna creates two parallel universes. 1 Where the doctor never meets Donna and where he dies. and therefore cannot prevent the Daleks stealing the earth and using the reality bomb. And another universe where the earth is never stolen, but where the blast of the reality bomb (from the first universe) still reaches them and ...

The Deadly Assassin (1976) is the first time any limitation on the process is mentioned, and it becomes a major plot point in almost all stories dealing with The Master from that point forward, including in the 1996 attempt to revive the series. However...all of that predates the Last Great Time War. The modern series has yet to nail down any limitation on ...

When Rose looked into the time vortex itself and gained the energy time she had infinite energy and endless power, so when she wrapped this energy around Jack i guess she couldn't controlled it and gave him too much enough to be as you say "Inmortal" however if you remember the episodes of The Face of Boe he says that his energy is running out.In the episode ...