Doctor Who

Doctor Who (1963)

4 corrected entries in season 6

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Correction: It wouldn't be the first time he's got the coordinates wrong.

Josman

The Dominators - S6-E1

Corrected entry: The chart of the radiation on the island is wrong. The dialogue says it has steadily decreased over the past 172 years then suddenly disappeared. But the chart says it initially dropped rapidly for a few years, then started to fall at a slower rate for about a hundred years, then changed again and dropped to zero over fifty years. However, the way radiation disperses is anything but steady. It will continually slow down in its dispersal, forming a curve on a graph.

Correction: Actually, radiation will decay from an atomic bomb explosion at varying rates, depending upon which radioactive elements are dominant.

Correction: The Doctor studied medicine under Joseph Lister in 1885. While he presumably hasn't taken the exams required to officially become an MD, he does have the skills to be considered qualified.

The War Games - S6-E7

Corrected entry: After the second doctor's regeneration, the TARDIS lands in a field with trees around it. When the third doctor comes out of the TARDIS, the background changes completely.

Comedyfan74

Correction: Correct me if I'm wrong here, but doesn't the Third Doctor not actually appear at the end of "The War Games"? As I understand it, the serial ends with Two being punished by the Time Lords by being made to regenerate, but the results of the regeneration aren't seen until Three arrives on Earth at the beginning of "Spearhead From Space."

Planet of the Spiders - S11-E5

Plot hole: At the climax of episode 2, the Doctor is about to catch Lupton when the latter simply teleports to safety. So why didn't he do that in the first place, before engaging in a 15-minute chase?

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Planet of the Spiders - S11-E5

Trivia: The first thing the Third Doctor does on-screen is collapse out of the TARDIS, which is also the last thing he does in that incarnation.

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Question: In which season and episode is Gallifrey destroyed, or is it just a shocking new plot development for the new series?

Answer: It was never destroyed on-screen; it was intact at the end of the TV movie, and destroyed by the start of the 2005 series. It was destroyed in the novel "The Ancestor Cell," but in a completely different manner to what happened in the series.

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