The Three Doctors (TotT TV story)

The Three Doctors was the fourth episode of the series Tales of the TARDIS and was released on BBC iPlayer on 1 November 2023 by the BBC, written by Phil Ford and directed by Joshua M.G. Thomas.

This story consists of two newly recorded scenes placed on either side of an omnibus version of the TV story The Three Doctors.

Synopsis
Jo Jones and Clyde Langer meet again as she remembers when the Time Lords summoned three Doctors to fight an awesome adversary from Gallifrey's past.

Plot
To be added

Cast

 * Jo Grant - Katy Manning
 * Clyde Langer - Daniel Anthony

Uncredited

 * Stewart Bevan - Clifford Jones (archive voice)

Worldbuilding

 * Jo is wearing one of the Third Doctor's smoking jackets.
 * The remembered TARDIS has a drawer that houses the Eleventh Doctor's sonic screwdriver, the Second Doctor's sonic screwdriver, the Twelfth Doctor's second sonic screwdriver, the Third Doctor's sonic screwdriver, the Thirteenth Doctor's sonic screwdriver and the Seventh Doctor's sonic screwdriver.
 * Clyde's Blood River City comics are being made into a television series in Los Angeles.
 * Jo mentions meeting several incarnations of the Doctor.
 * Jo compares her love for the Doctor to Clyde's love for Sarah Jane Smith, though notes that her love for Cliff was different.
 * Clyde likes to play Hungry Hippo.

Continuity

 * Jo has become a great-grandmother of at least two. (PROSE: Velvet Hugs)
 * Jo mentions Sarah Jane Smith as she snuggles an owl toy. A stuffed toy owl was among the belongings Sarah took when she left the TARDIS. (TV: The Hand of Fear)
 * Clyde gives his condolences to Jo after hearing about her husband's death. (WC: Defenders of Earth)
 * When he takes a seat in the TARDIS, Clyde accidentally sits on a Verron puzzle box. (TV: Whatever Happened to Sarah Jane?, TV: The Temptation of Sarah Jane Smith)
 * Clyde hasn't seen much of Luke Smith and Rani Chandra since Sarah Jane's funeral. (WC: Farewell Sarah Jane) He mentions that Luke is working for UNIT (AUDIO: Here Today) at the UNIT space station (AUDIO: In Memory Alone) with his husband, Sanjay. (WC: Farewell Sarah Jane)
 * Jo tells Clyde that she once met three incarnations of the Doctor at once, but then corrects herself to "two and a bit", which spurs her memories of the First Omega Crisis. (TV: The Three Doctors)
 * Clyde mentions meeting Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in an adventure involving the Black Archive. (TV: Enemy of the Bane)
 * The TARDIS gives Jo her wedding present from the Doctor, the Metebelis crystal, (TV: The Green Death) which she previously sent back to the Doctor. (TV: Planet of the Spiders)