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 was the fourth episode of the eighth series of Doctor Who produced by BBC Wales. It explored a theory proposed by the Doctor due to past experiences, leading to some exploration of his childhood.

Synopsis
The Twelfth Doctor has been pondering something for quite a long time: are we ever truly alone? With Clara at his side, they soon find the answer more terrifying and more complicated then they had ever imagined.

In his determination for an answer, the Time Lord will find himself delving into familiar pasts and eerie futures. Does the answer to the question lie at the end of the universe? It's time to learn what scares this old man the most.

Plot
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Cast

 * The Doctor - Peter Capaldi
 * Clara Oswald - Jenna Coleman
 * Danny Pink/Orson Pink - Samuel Anderson
 * Rupert Pink - Remi Gooding
 * Reg - Robert Goodman
 * Figure - Kiran Shah

The Doctor

 * The Gallifreyan adult who visited the young Doctor in the barn was skeptical of him joining the Academy and becoming a Time Lord.
 * Clara has affected the Doctor's timeline since his childhood.
 * The First Doctor had dark hair as a child.
 * The Doctor in his youth didn't want the other boys to hear him cry, so he sleeps in a barn.
 * The Doctor refers to the Where's Wally? book series.

Individuals

 * Clara says she'd never been to Gloucester.
 * Courtney is a pupil of Clara and Danny.
 * The real name of Danny is Rupert. As a kid, in the 1990s, he lived in the West Country Children's Home in Gloucester.
 * Rupert Pink plays with plastic toy soldiers.
 * Danny dug twenty-three wells when he was a soldier.
 * Colonel Orson Pink is the first recorded human to time travel, in about hundred years after the 2010s. He is hinted as a grand-nephew of Clara Oswald and Danny Pink.
 * Clara wonders if asking to be brought back in her recent past might break the laws of time.
 * Clara connects to the TARDIS telephatic interface, first to retrieve the source of her nightmare, then to pilot the TARDIS.

Story notes

 * Aside from archive footage, and body/voice doubles, this episode marks the first time in years that the First Doctor had appeared in an episode of the show, as well as being played by a different actor (he has now been played by three different actors). It also marks the very first instance the Doctor has been portrayed as a child in the televised series.

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Filming locations
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Production errors
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Continuity

 * Clara's encounter with the Doctor as a young boy marks the second time a version of her has met his original incarnation, and the first from his perspective. One of her splinters created after she entered the Doctor's time stream had met the older First Doctor, suggesting which TARDIS to steal as he escaped Gallifrey. (TV: The Name of the Doctor)
 * The barn that the young Doctor seeks shelter in is the same one the War Doctor goes to detonate the Moment. It became the place he always went to whenever there was trouble, and he returned there out of sentimentality. (TV: The Day of the Doctor)
 * The Doctor again uses chalk. (TV:  Deep Breath, Into the Dalek, Robot of Sherwood)
 * The Doctor has previously visited the end of the universe. (TV: Utopia)
 * The Twelfth Doctor uses for the first time his psychic paper (PROSE: World Game, TV: The End of the World onwards) to enter the Children's Home.
 * The Doctor uses mind control (TV: The War Machines et al.) to make Rupert Pink sleep and scramble his memory about their rendezvous, by pressing his fingers against his temples.
 * Despite the account about Orson Pink being a pioneer of time travel in 22nd century, TV: The Talons of Weng-Chiang suggested that time travel was still experimental on Earth in 51st century.
 * The Doctor finds Orson Pink thanks to a trace left by Clara Oswald in the telepathic circuits of the TARDIS. (TV: Frontier in Space et al.)
 * The Twelfth Doctor, upon awaking in the TARDIS, mentions "Sontarans perverting the course of human history" to Orson Pink, repeating his first words as the Fourth Doctor. (TV: Robot)

DVD releases
The episode will be released as part of the Complete Series 8 box set in November 2014.''

Blu-ray releases
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