Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1293767-20151029072618/@comment-1827503-20151112041758

CzechOut wrote: Please describe the conditions under which something could be labelled as "to be continued", but not actually continued in a second part.

The obvious examples are The Almost People (which was itself a second part) and The Name of the Doctor. The former did not share any writers with the following episode, and the latter had an exceptionally long gap before the following episode.

CzechOut wrote: Also, please describe how the "must be written by the same writer" thing would work? Are you seriously suggesting that The Zygon Inversion is not the second part of The Zygon Invasion simply because Moffat gets a co-writing credit only on Inversion?

Peter Harness is credited as a writer for both, so both episodes share a writer and this rule is not violated.

CzechOut wrote: Also, I'm not for writing a blanket policy by which we demand the eps be aired over consecutive weeks, because Doctor Who sometimes has week-long transmission gaps for special events. I could live with the community voting on an explicit exception, such as determining that Let's Kill Hitler is not the second part of A Good Man Goes to War.

A consecutive-weeks rule would not be the best course. It can be written as "two consecutive episodes within the same series, with a gap of 28 days or fewer between their airdates" to avoid special events from breaking up an intended two-parter.