The read-through for the Christmas special took place on 4 September 2013. The episode was directed by Jamie Payne, who previously directed the episode " Hide". He later revealed filming would start in September. "The Time of the Doctor" is the last episode to feature Matt Smith (left) in the central role, and the second to include Peter Capaldi (right) as the new Doctor, following his cameo in " The Day of the Doctor".Īctor Matt Smith said filming would commence on the episode when he had finished work on the film Lost River. The Twelfth Doctor finds the TARDIS is crashing while Clara looks on in confusion. In the aftermath, the Doctor sets the TARDIS in motion, and finishes regenerating. The Doctor uses the excess energy of his regeneration to destroy the Daleks, while the crack closes, ending the stalemate. Regeneration energy flows from the crack and into the Doctor, granting him a new regeneration cycle. The crack in the tower closes and reappears in the night sky. The Eleventh Doctor, about to die from old age, is granted a new regeneration cycle by the Time Lords, subsequently preventing his death.Ĭlara speaks to the Time Lords through the crack, begging them to help the Doctor. After saying goodbye to Clara, he goes out to the top of the tower to face his enemies. The Doctor is dying of old age and cannot stop the Daleks' attack. Tasha eventually brings Clara back to Trenzalore as the siege finally comes to a conclusion. As even more centuries pass, the Daleks remain the only aggressors against the Doctor and the dwindling forces of the Silence. After rescuing Tasha Lem from the Daleks, the Doctor tricks Clara again into being returned to Earth. The two discover that in the intervening time, the Papal Mainframe have renamed themselves the Church of the Silence, and that a chapter of the Silence broke off to try to interfere with the Doctor's life, which includes them unwittingly creating the crack in the tower. The Doctor reveals to her that his body has no further regenerations left, and that he is prepared to die defending Trenzalore. Clara jumps onto the TARDIS before it returns to the Doctor, arriving 300 years later. The Doctor tricks Clara into being returned to Earth. The drawings the older Doctor is surrounded by, as shown at the Doctor Who Experience. A stalemate is in place the other aliens cannot attack at the risk of the Doctor letting the Time Lords out, while the Doctor cannot risk abandoning Trenzalore as most of the forces in orbit will burn it to stop the Time Lords' return. The Doctor deduces the Time Lords are trying to escape the pocket universe they are in and want the Doctor to announce his name as a sign that it is safe to emerge. The message originates from a crack in reality in the clock tower and is being sent by the Doctor's people: the Time Lords. They discover the message is coming from a human settlement called Christmas. The Eleventh Doctor and Clara are offered the opportunity to explore to find the source of the message on the planet by the church's head, Tasha Lem. The Church of the Papal Mainframe constructs a force field around Trenzalore. Thousands of aliens orbit the planet Trenzalore, from which a message is continually being broadcast across time and space. "The Time of the Doctor" is Smith's fourth and final Christmas special as the Eleventh Doctor. The episode addresses numerous plot threads developed over the course of Smith's tenure, including the prophecy of the Silence, cracks in the universe, and the Doctor's fate on the planet Trenzalore, while also dealing with the regeneration limit established in the 1976 serial The Deadly Assassin. The episode also features Jenna Coleman as the Doctor's companion Clara Oswald, plus several enemies of the Doctor, including the Daleks, Cybermen, Silence and Weeping Angels. It features the final regular appearance of Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and the first full appearance of Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor following his brief cameo in the previous episode " The Day of the Doctor". " The Time of the Doctor" is an episode of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, written by Steven Moffat and directed by Jamie Payne, and was broadcast as the ninth Doctor Who Christmas special on 25 December 2013 on BBC One. List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present) Barnaby Edwards, Nicholas Pegg – Daleks.Nicholas Briggs – Voice of the Daleks & Cybermen.
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