I just watched 'The Crimson Horror' and at that end, the Maitland kids have found a picture of the Doctor and Clara in the Caliburn House during the events of 'Hide'.

I know that the image they're looking at is not an episode still, but a promo image for that episode that was widely distributed. I even had that image! I was looking at it not long ago! But... now I can't find it - not on my computer, not on the internet, not anywhere.

Please tell me I'm right that this promo image exists (and also gimme it):

I have a friend who doesn't have much time to watch Doctor Who but he loves trivia. He wants to watch episodes where an actor returns to the show since he and his partner stopped watching it (probably Matt Smith's last episode). Of special interest are actors from the classic series who returned, and actors who reprised their roles in the revival series. Please help. This is what I have so far:

Carole Anne Ford

First appeared in An Unearthly Child (1963) as Susan. Departed in Dalek Invasion of Earth. Reprised in The Five Doctors. Reprised in The Interstellar Song Contest.

William Russel

First appeared in An Unearthly Child (1953) as companion Ian Chesterton. Departed in The Chase (1965). Reprised in The Power of the Doctor (2022) as a brief cameo.

Nicholas Courtney

First appeared as Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in The Web of Fear (1969) and reprised in The Invasion (1969) with the introduction of UNIT, before becoming a regular cast member in Spearhead from Space (1970). While the Doctor left him behind following Robot (1974), he made multiple returns in the classic series. In the revival series, the character was mentioned several times but never appeared, save for a reprisal of the role in spin-off series The Sarah Jane Adventures in the episode Enemy of the Bane (2008).

Katy Manning

Appeared as companion Jo Jones in Terror of the Autons (1971) and departed in The Green Death (1973). She reprised the role in an episode of the spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, The Death of the Doctor (2010). Cameo'd in The Power of the Doctor (2022).

Elisabeth Sladen

First appeared as companion Sarah Jane Smith in The Time Warrior (1973), and departed in The Hand of Fear (1976). She reprised her role in The Five Doctors (1985) followed a failed pilot for a spin-off series (K9 & Company) that was still treated as canon by this episode. She later reprised the role in School Reunion (2006) and The Stolen Earth/Journeys End (2009). A successful spin-off series, The Sarah Jane Adventures, followed her 2006 appearance in which she played the titular role. Elisabeth unfortunately passed away before completing the final season of The Sarah Jane Adventures, which was later acknowledged and translated into a character death for Sarah Jane in both a YouTube Lockdown special Farewell Sarah Jane (2020), and a mention in the main series in The Giggle (2023). In Empire of Death (2024), archive footage of Elisabeth Sladen in her role as Sarah Jane Smith was shown.

Janet Fielding

First appeared as companion Tegan in Logopolis (1981) and departed in Resurrection of the Daleks (1984).Reprised in The Power of the Doctor (2022).

Bonnie Langford

First appeared as a companion in the confusing and controversial Terror of the Vervoids (1986), having been called in before the Doctor actually met her. This paradox is never resolved on-screen and he never meets her for the first time. She departed in Dragonfire (1987). Reprised in The Power of the Doctor (2022) as a cameo, and properly in The Giggle (2023) and two-part season finale The Legend of Ruby Sunday/Empire of Death (2024).

Sophie Aldred

First appeared as companion Ace in Dragonfire (1987) and left in Survival (1989) due to series cancellation. Reprised in The Power of the Doctor (2022).

Tom Baker

Fourth Doctor Tom Baker appeared in The Day of the Doctor, possibly reprising his role. It is left ambiguous.

Colin Baker

Sixth Doctor Colin Baker reprised his role in The Power of the Doctor (2022).

Paul McGann

Paul McGann became the Doctor in 1996. Without a full series, he wouldn't reprise his role in the main series until the short prequel episode The Night of the Doctor (2013), which was released on YouTube before The Day of the Doctor. His next reprisal was The Power of the Doctor (2022), where he appeared as a mental projection.

Sylvester McCoy

Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy reprised his role in The Power of the Doctor (2022).

Richard E Grant

Richard E Grant played the 9th Doctor in Scream of the Shalka (2003), and was officially considered the 9th Doctor until Christopher Eccleston took up the mantle in 2004. He reprised the role in a special photoshoot, allowing his image to appear amongst several previous Doctors in Rogue (2023). While he did not act on-screen and the photoshoot has not been released to the public, that the photoshoot took place could be considered a reprisal of the role. He also played Walter Simeon and The Great Intelligence in The Snowmen (2012) and throughout the 2013 series (mainly in The Name of the Doctor).

Gabriel Woolf

Played Sutekh in The Pyramids of Mars (1975) and reprised the role in The Legend of Ruby Sunday/Empire of Death (2024). Also played Satan in The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit (2006).

Anne Reid

Played Nurse Crane in The Curse of Fenric (1989), and later the blood-sucking granny in Smith and Jones (2007).

Clive Swift

Famous in the UK for his lead role in the sitcom Keeping Up Appearances, Clive Swift appeared in Revelation of the Daleks (1985) and returned to play a different character in Voyage of the Damned (2007).

Christopher Benjamin

First appeared in Inferno (1970), then appeared as Henry Jago in The Talons of Weng-Chang (1977) which spawned an audio spin-off (Jago & Litefoot). Later played the Colonel in The Unicorn and the Wasp (2008).

Misc.

The Special Weapons Dalek first appeared in Remembrance of the Daleks (1989). It was recast in Asylum of the Daleks (2013), where its role was taken up by a lookalike, but the original reprised its role in 2016's The Magician's Apprentice/The Witch's Familiar.

The Midnight Entity (Midnight, 2008) returns in The Well (2025), played by the same complete absence of anything discernible.

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Someone help me figure out the history of this stupid thing.

So in The Talons of Weng-Chiang, the Time Cabinet arrives in China and is taken to Victorian London by the Litefoot family where it remains in their possession. At the end of the serial, the Doctor smashes the trionic lattice that is used to unlock it.

In the game Edge of Time, the Doctor tasks the player with collecting Sciencefictionium crystals, one of which is the trionic lattice. The player finds this and Weng-Chiang's Time Cabinet in the Victorian-era abode of some Grayle jerk (ancestor of the Weeping Angel collector from The One Where Amy & Rory Get Killed By Weeping Angels).

But.

That doesn't fit anywhere in the timeline.

If it's before the original serial, then the cabinet should either be in China or in the possession of the Litefoot family. If it's after, there should be no trionic lattice.

Am I missing something or did the writers just not watch the episode?

Didn't the 2nd doctor say that he had a medical degree or something? Cause in the recent episode Boom the doctor said that he wasn't a doctor.

Was this fact retconed or something?!

So in the Eleventh Doctor's speech in the episode "The Rings of Akhaten", the Doctor says the line "I walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a mad man". Who is this referring to? I initially thought he was referring to The Toymaker. Is it?

It sounds absurd but it might be possible. I'll explain.

The width of a police box is 4 ft 6 in.

The height of a police box is 9 ft 4 in and the inner diameter of a stargate is 22 feet.

It would be a tough maneuver to do but I don't think it's impossible, I would like some input on this

Making pages for AAAGH! (the DWA comic strip) and I can't figure out what this monster is:

Some of you might remember my blog, where I write about events from the Doctor Who universe as if they actually happened.

Whilst looking up what happened in 2018, I found this:

• Ace bought a copy of NME outside Ladbroke Grove hypertube station. In it, the Seventh Doctor had placed a personal advert that read, "Ace - Behind You!". (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation)

So of course, I checked the source cited. However, when it comes to NME, the Revelation page says this:

• Johnny Chess was reviewed in the NME - 18th July 1998.

There are no other mentions of NME on that page. Nor of the year 2018.

So can someone who read the book help me out here? Did Ace buy a 2018 copy of NME whilst in 2018, or a 1998 copy of NME while in 2018, or some other thing?

In Paradise Towers, when the Doctor exits the Tardis, he encounters a tall metal thing, which he says hello to. Upon reentering the Tardis at the end, he says hello to it again, remarking to Mel "You never know". Anyone got any idea what it is, because I'm really curious as to what it be? (it's the thing on the right in the image below, between the tardis and the thing that looks like a lampshade)

I was doing research for the wiki's page on the Teletubbies, and I came across Nick Kellington, an actor who played Dipsy in the revival series who, according to his Wikipedia article, previously played a Sontaran in an unspecified DW episode from 2008, assumedly, series 4's Sontaran 2-parter.

The catch, however, is that we don't seem to have a page on the guy at all, and doing a search for his name only brings up the pages for… The War Games, Deep Breath, and The Christmas Invasion, nothing to do with his alleged role, in other words.

Do any of you guys know anything about this?

I seem to remember something to this extent, but not sure. Anyone remember anything?

In The Impossible Astronaut, Amy reads a book that contains historical accounts featuring the Doctor.

Can anyone make out what the title of the book is?

I've skimmed the Fandom page and not found anything.

Perhaps it's more visible in the HD version? IDK.

Would anybody happen to know which episode of The Two Doctors Nej Adamson made his uncredited cameo in?

Adamson was among the original cast members of EastEnders, the very first episode of which would have been broadcast the Tuesday between parts 1 and 2 of that serial, so I'm curious, for wiki purposes, to find out if his EE debut pre or post-dated his DW cameo.

The Power of the Doctor's article says that Chris Chibnall thought that his part of the scene where Jodie regenerates would be the last scene of the show because he didn't know that there would be a next showrunner, but I can't find a source for that. Does anyone know what it is?

Mr Russell is currently a grand old 97 years old, and would’ve been around 96 when he filmed Sunday’s episode!

Surely this could very well make him a candidate for oldest ever actor to appear in the show’s history?

EDIT: Ahhhh, turns out that he is!

Sorry, I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but I've been trying to find something I vaguely remember, and cannot seem to reach the article. I recall reading about some part of a TARDIS that can be used to send items back in time to an earlier point in the TARDIS's history, but I cannot remember what it is, and am struggling to find it. Would anyone happen to know?

How long are each of the Torchwood Big Finish audio stories (for Aliens Among Us and God Among Us)