Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1293767-20151029072618/@comment-1293767-20151207222314

SOTO wrote: What does it say at the end of those episodes? The Stolen Earth through the Specials, I mean. Does it say to be continued specifically?

No and that's one of the two problems this discussion was created to address:

Journey's End: "Coming Christmas 2008 the Return of the Cybermen"

The Next Doctor: "Doctor Who will return in Planet of the Dead"

Planet of the Dead: "Later this year The Waters of Mars"

The Waters of Mars: "Doctor Who Coming Soon the biggest adventure yet The End of Time"

The End of Time: Part 1: "To Be Continued..."

No return card for The End of Time: Part 2.

In the previous thread (and quoted in the first post of this one):

CzechOut wrote: So, as far as this thread is concerned, we are left with only one question: is "the Doctor will return" truly, materially different than "to be continued"? Personally, I think you'd be splitting truly fine semantic hairs to think so. After all, "to be continued" on Doctor Who necessarily means that "the Doctor will return".

If we made this argument policy, we would have to change multiple stories ending with return card variations into multi-parters because we're counting them the same as TBC.

I am opposed to counting them as the same. We would just be creating a policy that sweeps standalone stories into confusing conglomerates.