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The Doctor goes with former companion Mel to talk to Triad as she prepares for an international technology launch broadcast. The Doctor does not recognise Triad as his granddaughter, and realises that she experiences dreams of her other existences. UNIT view the vortex on the VHS tape and determine that the TARDIS was at the centre of the vortex.
There is also a different trailer that showed still shots of the Doctor, Martha Jones and Captain Jack over the top of which Mr Saxon's speech, in which he says, "what this country really needs, right now, is a doctor", can be heard and at the end there is a small clip of him showing his trademark smile, making his intent to kill the Doctor ...
The War Games was the last regular appearance of Patrick Troughton as the Doctor and the last serial to be recorded in black and white. It also marks the last regular appearances of Wendy Padbury and Frazer Hines as companions Zoe and Jamie, and the first appearances of the Doctor's race, the Time Lords , and their home planet, Gallifrey .
A prelude to the finale was released online 24 September 2011 after the previous episode, "Closing Time". [3]It shows Area 52 with the clock stuck at 5:02 p.m., where the leaders of the religious order the Silence are kept in stasis and River Song is wearing an eye patch in the same fashion as Madame Kovarian.
She interrupts her father's speech, imploring the Doctor to come to the wedding. The TARDIS and the Doctor appear at the reception. Later, River tells the Doctor that he will soon find out who she is, before teleporting away. Aboard the TARDIS, the Doctor explains to Amy and Rory that unanswered questions remain about the TARDIS explosion.
The Eighth Doctor made a similar statement about his lineage in the 1996 television movie. [1] When Ashildr knocks on the TARDIS's door, she knocks four times, which the Doctor points out. This is a reference to the Tenth Doctor 's regeneration and the prophecy stating "He will knock four times" just before his death. [ 2 ]
The Doctor Who production office at the BBC finally closed down in August 1990, having been in continuous operation since 1963. This story is the last to feature Anthony Ainley as the Master. Ainley was not asked to return as the Master for the 1996 Doctor Who television movie.
"Twice Upon a Time" is Capaldi's fourth and final Christmas special as the Twelfth Doctor, and at the time was the last Doctor Who story to be written and produced by Moffat, who served as the show's executive producer and chief writer since taking over from Russell T Davies in 2010.