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Welcome to the TARDIS wiki discussion forum for Doctor Who discontinuity and plot holes. Through this page via the links below you can discuss plot holes and discontinuity (point of continuity in stories that does not make sense with regards to other stories).

This is the main page on this wiki for the discussion of discontinuity in Doctor Who television stories. Feel free to use this list to create pages that discuss in detail all the continuity errors that you've found — or think you've found — in your favorite episodes of Doctor Who.

Note that the slash (/) in front of episode names is necessary in order to create a link back to this page, and to prevent a link to the main article itself. The notion of removing discontinuity sections from mainspace article pages was deemed approved by community consensus at Forum:Discontinuity revisited.

Please do not attempt to add discussion of narrative discontinuity on the episode pages themselves.

First Doctor - William Hartnell

Season One - 1963-64

/An Unearthly Child a.k.a. "100,000 BC", "The Tribe of Gum"
/The Daleks a.k.a. "The Mutants", "The Dead Planet"
/The Edge of Destruction a.k.a. "Inside the Spaceship", "Beyond the Sun"
/Marco Polo a.k.a. "A Journey to Cathay"
/The Keys of Marinus
/The Aztecs
/The Sensorites
/The Reign of Terror a.k.a. "The French Revolution"

Season Two - 1964-65

Season Three - 1965-66

/Galaxy 4
/Mission to the Unknown a.k.a. "Dalek Cutaway"
/The Myth Makers
/The Daleks' Master Plan
/The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Eve a.k.a. "The Massacre"
/The Ark
/The Celestial Toymaker
/The Gunfighters
/The Savages
/The War Machines

Season Four - 1966

Second Doctor - Patrick Troughton

Season Four - 1966-67 (continued)

Season Five - 1967-68

Season Six - 1968-69

Third Doctor - Jon Pertwee

Season Seven - 1970

Season Eight - 1971

Season Nine - 1972

Season Ten - 1972-73

Season Eleven - 1973-74

Fourth Doctor - Tom Baker

Season Twelve - 1974-75

Season Thirteen - 1975-76

Season Fourteen - 1976-77

Season Fifteen - 1977-78

Season Sixteen - 1978-79

Season Seventeen - 1979-80

Season Eighteen - 1980-81

Fifth Doctor - Peter Davison

Season Nineteen - 1982

Season Twenty - 1983

Season Twenty-One - 1984

Sixth Doctor - Colin Baker

Season Twenty-One (continued) - 1984

/The Twin Dilemma

Season Twenty-Two - 1985

Format changes to 45-minute episodes

Season Twenty-Three - 1986

25-minute episodes resume.

The Trial of a Time Lord

Seventh Doctor - Sylvester McCoy

Season Twenty-Four - 1987

'Season Twenty-Five - 1988''''-1989

Season Twenty-Six - 1989

Eighth Doctor - Paul McGann

Television Movie - 1996

/Doctor Who (1996), a.k.a. "Enemy Within", "The TV Movie" or "The Movie"

Ninth Doctor - Christopher Eccleston

Series 1 - 2005

Tenth Doctor - David Tennant

Series 2 - 2006

Christmas Special - 2006

/The Runaway Bride

Series 3 - 2007

Animated Mini-Series - 2007

Produced as part of the behind-the-scenes series, Totally Doctor Who.

/The Infinite Quest

Children in Need Special - 2007

/Time Crash

Christmas Special - 2007

/Voyage of the Damned

Series 4 2008

Proms Special 2008

/Music of the Spheres

Christmas Special 2008

/The Next Doctor

2009 specials

Animated Mini-Series - 2009

/Dreamland

Eleventh Doctor - Matt Smith

Series 5 - 2010

Doctor Who: The Adventure Games

/City of the Daleks
/Blood of the Cybermen
/TARDIS
/Shadows of the Vashta Nerada

Christmas Special 2010

/A Christmas Carol

Series 6 - 2011

/The Impossible Astronaut / /Day of the Moon

Other

The following episodes are generally considered wholly discontinuous with the main series, and so therefore can't have "continuity errors" as such. Another way of looking at it is that they are continuity errors. Nevertheless, as this is a forum, they're included more or less for pure sport.

Pilot Episode

/The Pilot Episode (unaired)

Jim'll Fix It Mini-Episode - 1985

/A Fix with Sontarans

Search Out Science Mini-Episode - 1990

/Search Out Space

Children in Need Special - 1993

/Dimensions in Time

Comic Relief/Red Nose Day Special - 1999

/The Curse of Fatal Death

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