May 19th, 2013
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The Name of the Doctor Past References
Did you spot all the past Doctor references in The Name of the Doctor?
The Aztecs
The first Doctor clips were a were a mix of archive footage from The Aztecs and new footage.
The Five Doctors
The second and Third Doctor clips were originally from The Five Doctors
The Invasion of Time
The Fourth Doctor clip was from The Invasion of Time
Arc of Infinity and Dragonfire
The Fifth Doctor clip was from The Arc of Infinity, the Sixth Doctor clip was new footage and the Seventh Doctor clip was from Dragonfire.
The Name of the Doctor
The Eight Doctor may have appeared briefly just before the Second Doctor clip (blink and you’ll miss it!). The Tenth Doctor also appeared briefly.
From left to right: The First Doctor, Sixth Doctor, Fifth Doctor, Ninth Doctor, Fourth Doctor and the Mystery Doctor.
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Some bloke
May 20th, 2013 - 9:27amI swear that on the third image of where all the doctors run pass clara, the third one is the tenth doctor. The coat is too long and his hair looks more like 10’s
Anonymous
May 20th, 2013 - 9:36amthe coat is too pale to be 10s and you can see the red trim on the pocket so it is 5s
Anonymous
May 20th, 2013 - 9:46amthen you would be wrong
Some bloke
May 20th, 2013 - 10:17amOh yeah I see it now. Still thought it was too long. I watched it this morning and thought ‘That doesn’t look like 5 to me’
Martin
May 20th, 2013 - 8:52amWonderfully put together post — cheers!
daire34567
May 20th, 2013 - 5:02amwhy did they not show the facees of 6,8,9,and 10 clearly ?
Anonymous
May 20th, 2013 - 8:06amThey weren’t the original actors
daire34567
May 20th, 2013 - 4:54amwhen i seen that the second doctor in LA was a mashup, i was dissapointe to find out that there was no episode of the second doctor in LA
Slidin_sidewayz
May 20th, 2013 - 9:48am*When I saw
The Rancid Terrapin
May 20th, 2013 - 3:42amWhy do the Gallifrey Techs say someone is about to steal a “TARDIS” and not a “Type 40”, when Susan in “Unearthly Child” says she made up the name “TARDIS”?
Dalek: the Supreme
May 20th, 2013 - 4:31amOther models have been called TARDIS before.
timelord327
May 20th, 2013 - 7:11amactually its proper name is a type-40 TT capsule
Bean
May 20th, 2013 - 7:48amThis happens a lot in the show. Time Lords referring to it as a TARDIS and not a TT capsule (Robert Delgado Master, Invasion of Time, Deadly Assassin, etc.). It’s usually done to avoid confusing the audience, or because the writers got confused or forgot. The idea is that the Doctor traveled around in his “past” and “present” and spread the word into Gallifray’s vernacular, re-writting time so it was a common phrase.
Feli
June 7th, 2013 - 12:11pmIt’s the same way when you go to a mechanic you are not bringing in your automobile. in your mind, you’re bringing in your car. it was an easier name for them to remember and use.
MaxP
May 20th, 2013 - 12:44amWonder why they used 5 Doctors version of Pertwee, as he looks a little older than he really should.
Bean
May 20th, 2013 - 7:49amIt was in color, they had to restore or leave B/W the older ones, but it was easier for them to find a color one. The third doctor is also from that episode.
Anonymous
May 20th, 2013 - 9:48amAll the Jon Pertwee episode are in colour, so this answer doesn’t make sense…
BT52
May 20th, 2013 - 10:37amNot all the Pertwee stories were in colour.
But most were.
f
May 20th, 2013 - 10:53amno they are all in colour now, (mind of evil was done last year)
Dorothy
May 20th, 2013 - 11:51amNo, a few parts of the early Pertwee episodes were black and white. I remember being surprised because I expected everything in to be in color.
Peter
May 20th, 2013 - 12:15pmI’m guessing they used the Five Doctors footage because it still exists on film and so can be used in HD, rather than original 70s Pertwee footage which would all be on video tape.
Ian
May 20th, 2013 - 2:34pmPertwee’s adventures were ALL shot and transmitted in colour. Many were lost when the BBC recycled loads of the old videotape, leaving only black and white masters. Most of these have been restored to colour now as well.
Chris
May 20th, 2013 - 3:44pmI thought spearhead from space was the 1st doctor who shot and filmed in color if so then all of the pertwee stories are color
Chris
May 20th, 2013 - 3:45pmShot and broadcast I meant to say 🙂
Anonymous
May 20th, 2013 - 12:13amLoved Saturdays show can’t wait for November.
Lillian Luthor
May 20th, 2013 - 12:10amThis episode was a major let down for me. I didn’t like it because they didn’t reveal the Doctor’s name like the title says. I was expecting them to give us the name of the Doctor. The Doctor played by John Hurt, is he a future incarnation of the Doctor? I sure hope that the 50th Anniversary special isn’t a major let down like this episode and Journey To The Center of the TARDIS.
Damien Wade
May 20th, 2013 - 2:11am“I didn’t like it because they didn’t reveal the Doctor’s name like the title says.” River Song didn’t get married in the series 6 final, as far as I’m concerned The Doctor isn’t married to the TARDIS and Jenny technically isn’t his child.
Dalek: the Supreme
May 20th, 2013 - 4:13amI see where you’re coming from, Damien, but he did get married in The Wedding of River Song and considers River his wife, as he considers Jenny his daughter.
Anonymous
May 20th, 2013 - 4:25amI believe it would’ve been a bigger let down if they did reavel his name. The whole story of doctor who is his secrets. There would no longer be any mystery if they just traveled his name. This is what makes the show suspenseful and interesting.
Pierce
May 20th, 2013 - 4:59amI think the more accurate name for the episode would have been ‘In The Name Of The Doctor’, meaning, what that ‘Doctor’ did wasn’t ‘In The Name Of The Doctor’
CrazyAboutWho
May 20th, 2013 - 5:50amJourney to the Center of the Tardis was awesome, as was this episode. I was hoping that they WOULDN’T tell us his name, I really don’t want to know. He’s the doctor. Done.
DoctorWhom
May 20th, 2013 - 11:08amThe title was referencing what Matt says at the end to Hurt’s Doctor.
“But you didn’t do it in the name of The Doctor!” Nothing to do with his actual name but revealing that one of The Doctor’s broke the bond that the other Doctor kept, to help people (Well in Seventh’s case that is highly debatable but never mind, let us go with this idea). So yes the name was never going to be revealed it was just implied that it was.
Laura
May 21st, 2013 - 1:06amSteven Moffat has even said that he would never want to know what the actual name of the Doctor is, no matter what it was, it would be a let down. The entire point of the show is Doctor WHO? The title is a trap pretty much to gain attention and lead to what Eleven says at the end, what has been done in the the name of the Doctor.
Imagine Wizard
May 27th, 2013 - 1:58amThen you miss the point of the episode.
It’s actually a clever misdirection by Moffat. What we all thought the episode was promising was his name. It wasn’t, it was revealing what his name represented. Id est ‘[Whar you did] was not in *the Name of the Doctor*.’
raxicarigofalipaturius (dont care about spelling)
May 19th, 2013 - 9:00pmi ♥ love doctor who and this was awsome
ROCKSTAR
May 19th, 2013 - 8:56pmI think john hurt is the true ninth doctor and he must have fought in the time war.Also anyone see he was wearing ninth s leather jacket and I think eighth s cloths underneath.
ROCKSTAR
May 20th, 2013 - 6:32pmI hear Tenth and Rose are coming for the 50 th aniverssery and eighth might come at the last moment.Can t wait
Anonymous
May 19th, 2013 - 8:37pmThe best is when she meets the first doctor and talks about the TARDIS. The opening of this ep was epic!
Rafael
May 19th, 2013 - 8:36pmWWWWWWWWWWOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW I CAN’T BE LIVE JOHN HURT WILL BE THE NEXT DOCTOR WHO ????????????????????
Anonymous
May 19th, 2013 - 8:54pmHaha not quite. From what I’ve heard, it’s a secret past regeneration that nobody knew about, from when the doctor did something that was “”in the name of sanity, but not in the name of the doctor”. I’m guessing that maybe John Hurt’s doctor could have been the one that put the time lock on the time lords and the daleks during the time war. Just a guess.
videogamemad00
May 19th, 2013 - 8:57pmHe isn’t.
Anonymous
May 19th, 2013 - 8:57pmits just the Doctor, not The Doctor who
videogamemad00
May 19th, 2013 - 8:59pmThat was aimed at Rafael. Your comment hadn’t shown up when I posted mine.
Kelvington
May 19th, 2013 - 9:38pmHe’s not the next doctor, he’s a doctor between the 8th & 9th… or the new 9th.
Anonymous
May 19th, 2013 - 9:46pmfrom what I’ve read, he IS the 9th incarnation during the Time War and was the one who destroyed the TimeLords and Daleks. It has been assumed that McGann’s Doctor was the one fighting the War when in actuality he had regenerated and became Hurt. The rest of his incarnations do not consider him worthy of the Title of Doctor and discredit his incarnation and it was Eccleston’s incarnation who reclaimed the Title of Doctor, making him the 10th, Tannant the 11th and Smith the 12th. But where he was discredited it seems that he was non-existent…it’s all confusing really, but the show always has been since day 1. He IS in fact one giant enigma. The one thing I didn’t like in this episode was the use of Smith’s TARDIS interior as the final one. Moffat should have at least changed the interior for the tomb. You know, to some future design not yet seen.
Anonymous
May 19th, 2013 - 10:43pmI think he is bad in the time line so the 10th and 11th team up to stop hime.
droney
May 19th, 2013 - 10:44pmI think he is bad in the time line so the 10th and 11th team up to stop hime.
videogamemad00
May 19th, 2013 - 11:13pmBasically, he is the 9th incarnation of the time lord but noth the 9th doctor.
Anonymous
May 21st, 2013 - 2:33amAfter the series ended there were a few ways to continue it, like books. There was a series of books stating it was the 8th doctor, the same one in the movie, who ended the time war. It depends in if you count the books as series relevant. Although other things have changed since they bought the series back…
Cory Eadson
May 19th, 2013 - 8:00pmI am told 8’s un-appearance is deliberate 😉 See November for more details 😉
Michael Daugherty
May 19th, 2013 - 8:10pmWhere’d you hear that?
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Anonymous
May 19th, 2013 - 11:59pmWeird…coz eight did appear…albeit it very briefly…but he was there.
The Silence
May 19th, 2013 - 6:38pmNotice the white pole things in ‘The Invasion of Time’ pics are in the original 11th Doctor’s TARDIS by the stairs.
Anonymous
May 19th, 2013 - 8:39pmOh yeah, well spotted 🙂
Vicki Summers
May 19th, 2013 - 6:22pmJust loved it good memories with all the flashes of past doctors and i just love the ending. I cant wait to see what next season brings
B anonymous
May 19th, 2013 - 6:37pmI hate what moffat did he could have done so much more with Clara and have you noticed the personalities of both Clara and Amy are the same both the girls are perky, quirky and in love with the doctor? ( even though the doctor has a wife!)
mojo
May 19th, 2013 - 7:03pmclara isnt in love with the doctor and is very different than amy i think you are watching the wrong show
Leah
May 19th, 2013 - 8:37pmExactly mojo! Amy loves her best friend and son-in-law but is not “in love” with The Doctor. Clara knew The Doctor wasn’t himself in Hedgewick’s World of Wonders when he started hitting on her! She is not “in love” with The Doctor any more than Amy is. And B Anonymous, all The Doctor’s companions have been, smart, quirky, strong, vulnerable, brave, and loving. What show have you been watching? Moffat is a genious! I do agree, though, that I though there would be more to Clara. I’m hanging my hat, and my opinion of Moffat’s brilliance, on the 50’th Anniversary special in November. John Hurt!!! I can’t wait!!
Jeff
May 19th, 2013 - 9:10pm…I don’t think Moffat’s done with Clara yet… We need to wait OVER SIX MONTHS though… 🙁
Chris
May 20th, 2013 - 3:51pmErr amy was obsessed with the doctor not in love. That’s what amys choice is about !!!!
Anonymous
May 21st, 2013 - 6:50am@ time vortex
Doctor who is not about cute couples. If you want that, start watching soap operas! Doctor Who is all about mystery and heroes and seeing things that others dont!
Anonymous
May 19th, 2013 - 6:20pmThe 10th doctor had to be pointed out for me but my question is where is the 8th I mean the bbc own him so where is he?
Anonymous
May 19th, 2013 - 6:23pmWatch the Second Doctor clip, Clara first sees somebody (the Eighth Doctor) but then the Second Doctor runs past her in the other direction and she goes after him.
mixedvortex
May 22nd, 2013 - 8:36amThis notion that the 8th Doctor is briefly seen at the start of the clip for the 2nd is pretty flimsy. It doesn’t really look like 8 at all. I don’t think 8 was in it, period; which is really sad.
I think the whole 2nd Doctor clip is a combination of The Five Doctors scene and footage of a 2nd Doctor stand-in. They staged it like the 2nd Doctor nearly knocks Clara over, which required some kind of stand-in to run past her. Remember the heavily rumored sightings of an actor dressed as the 2nd Doctor during filming for the finale? I think this scene is where that all comes in to play.
On a side note, does anyone think both the 1st and 2nd Doctor stand-ins used here could be the actors that were hired for An Adventure In Space And Time?
mixedvortex
May 23rd, 2013 - 7:02amOk, it does indeed look like the 8th before the 2nd. My bad. I hadn’t been able to get the pause and slo-mo right. I see him now. I still think they used both a stand-in and the five doctors clip for 2 sort of like they did with 1, though.
Dalek: the Supreme
May 19th, 2013 - 6:00pmI recognized all of them except the two I missed (Eighth and Tenth Doctors) Thanks, booboo!
Dalek: the Supreme
May 19th, 2013 - 8:46pmOh, and the First Doctor because I have not yet seen The Aztecs.
videogamemad00
May 19th, 2013 - 9:00pmI saw it recently but I didn’t spot that it was from The Aztecs.
Jeff
May 19th, 2013 - 9:12pmSurprise… they showed The Aztecs as the episode with the first Doctor memories on BBC… or did everyone else miss those? 🙂
Kara
May 19th, 2013 - 5:59pmYeah, I was lamenting severe lack of 8. (I thought the movie rights had been cleared up since there are DVD releases in both the US and the UK, and since we’ve seen at least brief clips of 8 in ‘The Next Doctor’ and such?) I think you’re right about that at least having been a body double for him right before we see 2. He’s my favourite, so I was a bit sad that he was notably missing, but if you guys are right then at least they made an effort. ♥
im still not here
May 19th, 2013 - 5:55pmi thought the 5th doctor clip was warriors of the deep
DOCTOR WHO ONE
May 19th, 2013 - 5:38pmI hadn’t realized that was the 10th Doctor in the Library. I end up thinking it was Gallifrey with some guy standing on the right hand side, not knowing it was the 10th Doctor, but I guess cos it was quite a quick moment, you may not notice straight away first time around.
The colourized footage of the 1st Doctor from the Aztec’s reminded me of the colourized clips made by Babelcolour on YouTube.
After the episode, I had a feeling in me that said “I bet Babelcolour feels he could have done a lot better colourizing the footage then whoever actually did it for this episode” 😀
pathdw98
May 20th, 2013 - 4:30amWho said it wasn’t Babelcolour who did it?
Correct me if I am wrong, but I heard that he recently done some work for the bbc colourizing for a classic dvd release,I think mind of evil.
Like I said, maybe wrong. But if they did, maybe they got him to do this as well?
Also, It was amazing to see Hartnell in colour.
Imagine Wizard
May 27th, 2013 - 2:05amOooh, same. I thought it was Gallifrey, but after seeing the video again I google image-ed the Library and the buildings are identical.
Kev
May 19th, 2013 - 5:34pmI was hoping the 8th Doctor would be in his blue Time War outfit.
Any idea of the names of the actors to play the Doctors in the Docs mind?
Allie
May 19th, 2013 - 5:44pmThe 9th and 10th doctors were played by David Tennant and Christopher Eccelson (not sure how to spell his name). The rest of the doctors were clips that were edited in.
Al
May 19th, 2013 - 5:46pm@Allie. I think Kev is asking who the body doubles were.
Kev
May 20th, 2013 - 6:59amYeah I was wondering about the actor body doubles. Hopefully there will be a behind the scenes mentioning them. Id be interested to see how much the actors actually look like the original actors.
Dan Cox
May 19th, 2013 - 5:27pmwhen I watched it yesterday I didn’t see the tenth doctor thanks to Sam Orme for sharing the link.
Sam Orme
May 19th, 2013 - 5:30pmYour welcome
The Whofan101
May 19th, 2013 - 5:26pmThe only one I didn’t get was the 5th Doctor running in the episode (as opposed to the bit from Arc of Infinity), thought it was the 7th! Apart from that, got them all!
UDWF1
May 19th, 2013 - 5:23pmSo all the Doctors were there! Could have made David and Paul a little more obvious!
Kayla
May 19th, 2013 - 5:55pmDavid wasn’t in that bit.
MindAsh
May 19th, 2013 - 8:56pmno but he was in the other bit in the Library
KyleK3
May 19th, 2013 - 5:08pmI was rather disappointed with what we got of the 8th Doctor. He barely had screen time as it is and when it comes to bringing all the Doctor’s back – let’s leave him out. Good move Moffat, good move (Y)
Sam Orme
May 19th, 2013 - 5:12pmBut remember, the BBC dont ave rights 2 use the 8th dr hardly cause of copyright with the movie
Anonymous
May 20th, 2013 - 8:16pmBut it was a joint BBC production so surely they would be able to use the footage?
Sam Orme
May 21st, 2013 - 8:22pmI got told it was copyright cause canada made the film not the BBC
Imagine Wizard
May 27th, 2013 - 2:08amBut they’ve used clips from the movie on past episodes. Besides, I would very disappointed in the BBC if this was the case and they weren’t willing to buy him back. A worthy use if tax payer’s money if ever I saw one, and I doubt Fox would care, they didn’t see the value in Who in 1996
Sam Orme
May 30th, 2013 - 10:09pmGood point imagine wizard, mayb Steven wasnt a big fan of the movie and didnt want to put him in, either that or it was too hard 2 put clara into a scene with the 8th dr
Sam Bentley
May 19th, 2013 - 5:06pmOh, thank you for this! I got all of them apart from that I missed the Tenth Doctor one, which I believe is set in Gridlock?, and I thought it was Ten running past Clara instead of Five and his jacket looked darker in the light!
Doctor Who Crazy Ross
May 19th, 2013 - 10:44pmYANA! I thought it was ten too!
AlphaOmega
May 19th, 2013 - 4:59pmIn the clip where all the Doctors pass Clara, The First Doctor looks more like Richard Hurndall (First in 5 Doctors)
Some bloke
May 19th, 2013 - 5:16pmThats what I thought
ROCKSTAR
May 19th, 2013 - 9:16pmSame
HeikoCDellbruck
May 19th, 2013 - 4:56pmWas it really susan in the clip where the doctor steals the tardis? Looked more like Barbara to me? Where did that part come from?
booboo
May 19th, 2013 - 4:58pmwe think that was specially filmed with actors, it doesn’t appear in any episode that we can see
Jennifer
May 19th, 2013 - 5:25pmIt was Susan. It showed them entering the TARDIS on Gallifrey when he stole it.
Some bloke
May 19th, 2013 - 5:29pmyes it was susan but not actually carole anne ford
Mary
May 19th, 2013 - 6:00pmThat was indeed Barbara, not Susan – I just watched that series on Netflix last week.
Mary
May 19th, 2013 - 6:02pmSorry – I managed to reply to the wrong post, and don’t know how to un-post that one.
HeikoCDellbruck
May 19th, 2013 - 7:31pmThe clothing looked more like barbaras. Susan mostly wore sweater and trousers in the first season, while barbara wore a dress.
@Mary: Do you know which episode the shot was taken from?
ROCKSTAR
May 19th, 2013 - 9:07pmI thought why is he running away with barbara on Gallifrey he meets her on earth
Martin
May 20th, 2013 - 8:54amIt was Susan. Barbara was not with The Doctor when he left Gallifrey.
ROCKSTAR
May 20th, 2013 - 6:37pmI know Martin but it looked like Barbra
Matt Smithy
May 19th, 2013 - 4:56pmThank you for doing this, I was going to do something similar, but you did it so much better!
Matt Smithy
May 19th, 2013 - 5:15pmAlso, seeing as this series is over and the episode is defiantly a build up to the 50th, maybe change the banner to a 50th countdown ? I doubt we will get any more Doctor Who before then 😀
Some bloke
May 19th, 2013 - 5:18pmdo you mean episodes, cus if you do then quite obviously we are not, considering that was the end of series 7 and series 8 is not due to start filming until end of this year/beginning of next
Matt Smithy
May 19th, 2013 - 5:32pmWhy are you taking everyone’s comments so literally? Obviously I knew that there is no more episodes ANNOUNCED, but you never know, the BBC may have a surprise waiting for us or something as unlikely as it seems. Plus Booboo didn’t want to rush to conclusions on the doctor/Susan front just in case. As mad this idea might seem, you don’t know anything for sure until you check. And YOU don’t know everything on first glance ether. OBIVOUSLY I didn’t mean episodes, I just meant on the off chance that a mini-sode/ surprise event happens. Someone woke up on the wrong side of bed this morning…
Professor When
May 19th, 2013 - 4:50pmThis is brilliant! Thanks Guys! 😀
Professor When
May 19th, 2013 - 4:53pmCould it be? I think I might be ‘FIRST’! 😀
Anonymous
May 19th, 2013 - 7:38pmSo you must be Bogbrush!!