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The concept of regeneration was created in 1966 by the writers of Doctor Who as a method of replacing the leading actor. The Doctor had been played by William Hartnell since the programme began in 1963 but, by 1966, it was increasingly clear that Hartnell's health was deteriorating and he was becoming more difficult to work with.
Later, in "The Timeless Children" (2020), the Master lures the Thirteenth Doctor back to Gallifrey, opening a path for the Cybermen to invade and convert the bodies of deceased Time Lords to create CyberMasters - a subrace of Cybermen capable of regeneration. The Doctor, after being shown the truth about their past, plants an explosive in the ...
The regeneration scene was ommitted from this showing. [57] "The Power of the Doctor" was first broadcast to the public on BBC One on 23 October 2022 as part of the BBC's special centenary programming. [7] With a runtime of 87 minutes, [58] it is the longest Doctor Who episode in the revived era. [59]
regeneration has become one of the hallmarks of Doctor Who’s long run on television.
David Tennant's Doctor Who regeneration originally included a reference to classic era villain The Rani, new material has revealed.
The Second Doctor's regeneration was also depicted in Devious, a fan-produced film starring Jon Pertwee in his last appearance as the Third Doctor. [ 5 ] According to script editor Robert Holmes , the Second Doctor's missions for the Time Lords took place prior to the events of The War Games : "they 'framed' the Troughton Doctor and got him to ...
There’s a lot unprecedented about Doctor Who’s latest regeneration, where outgoing Time Lord Jodie Whittaker, the series’ first female Doctor, transformed into returning star David Tennant ...
The Doctor points out he is too well known on Earth, so the Time Lords tell him he must change his appearance, as he has before, and present him with images of four faces. He does not like any of them; impatient, the Time Lords inform him that a decision has been made for him. He cries out indignantly as the forced regeneration is triggered.