Board Thread:The Panopticon/@comment-1827503-20141023232658/@comment-1293767-20151007163929

Bwburke94 wrote: Mewiet wrote: The Name of the Doctor also has a "to be continued" at the end, though I have not seen that we count it and The Day of the Doctor as a two-parter. Every BBC Wales series finale, including AGMGTW but excluding Part 2 of The End of Time, has "The Doctor Will Return on [date]" or a variant thereof - it's worth noting, however, that AGMGTW was the only such message advertising a regular episode rather than a Christmas or anniversary special.

I'm not talking about Name having a generic return card, I'm talking about specifically a "to be continued" card. File:The Name of the Doctor TBC.JPG It is the only series finale to end with a TBC (and with the exception of TEOT:P1, where the title itself clearly designates it as the first part of a two-parter, none of the specials ever had a TBC card either).

As for the other finales, no, not all of them have return cards. Doomsday, The Big Bang, and Death in Heaven don't have them.

Series (and mid-series) finales The Parting of the Ways: "Doctor Who will return in The Christmas Invasion"

No return card for Doomsday.

Last of the Time Lords: "Doctor Who will return at Christmas in Voyage of the Damned"

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

No return card for The Big Bang.

(A Good Man Goes to War: "The Doctor will be back in Let's Kill Hitler Autumn 2011")

The Wedding of River Song: "Doctor Who will return Christmas 2011"

(No return card for The Angels Take Manhattan.)

The Name of the Doctor: "To Be Continued November 23, 2013"

No return card for Death in Heaven.

Specials 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.

A Christmas Carol: "Coming Soon"

No return card for The Doctor, the Widow, and the Wardrobe.

No return card for The Snowmen.

No return card for The Day of the Doctor.

No return card for The Time of the Doctor.

Last Christmas: "The Doctor and Clara will return next year in The Magician's Apprentice"

There seems to be no rhyme or reason for applying them. Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.