Doctor Who

Doctor Who (1963)

2 corrected entries in season 5

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The Ice Warriors - S5-E3

Corrected entry: Penley says they is no way of knowing the cause of Jamie's paralysis. The cause should be fairly obvious...Jamie was shot. How could Penley miss that - or is a bullet hole not obvious enough?

Correction: Jamie was shot with a sonic gun (and a glancing blow at that) not a projectile weapon. So there would be no visible wound and Penley probably doesn't understand the Martian weapons well enough to know what damage they may have done.

The Web of Fear - S5-E5

Corrected entry: When talking about 'underground trains', the Doctor says that this is 'a little after your time, I think, Victoria'. As Victoria comes from 1866 he's wrong: the first underground line (between Farringdon and Edgware Road) opened in 1863, so Victoria would have been around at the time.

Correction: More of a character error. The Doctor said he "thought" they were after Victoria's time, not that he "knew" they were.

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Planet of Giants - S2-E1

Trivia: This Doctor Who story was originally scripted and produced as a four-episode story, but, just two weeks before transmission, upon viewing the story, co-creators Sydney Newman and Donald Wilson felt that the final two episodes (Episode 3, 'Crisis'; and Episode 4, 'The Urge to Live') should be combined into a single episode. The new 'condensed' episode incorporated the opening titles of 'Crisis' with the closing credits of 'The Urge to Live'.

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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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