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regeneration has become one of the hallmarks of Doctor Who’s long run on television.
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.
This category is for Doctor Who serials featuring the Doctor's regeneration. Pages in category "Doctor Who regeneration stories" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
The Doctor said on several occasions he wished he was "ginger", which he has seemed unable to control in previous regenerations. [32] [42] In "Last of the Time Lords", [72] when the Master is fatally wounded, he chooses not to regenerate, essentially committing suicide rather than regenerate and be kept prisoner by the Doctor forever. This ...
The Doctor solves the problem, and the Sisterhood later aid him in stopping the revived Morbius. They later reappear in the 2013 mini-episode "The Night of the Doctor," where they revive a mortally wounded Eighth Doctor, and help him regenerate into his next incarnation. They make further appearances in "The Magician's Apprentice" and "Hell Bent."
Upon emerging, the Doctor collapses to the floor. The Abbot K’anpo then also materialises, having regenerated into the form of Cho-je, who was in fact a tulpa generated by K’anpo Rimpoche - a secret earlier revealed by the Abbot to the Doctor and Sarah Jane. He tells them the Doctor can yet survive, by regenerating.
Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC.Having ceased broadcasting in 1989, it resumed in 2005.The 2005 revival traded the earlier multi-episode serial format of the original series for a run of self-contained episodes, interspersed with occasional multi-part stories and structured into loose story arcs.
In Doctor Who Magazine's 2009 viewer poll The Mighty 200, rating all of the Doctor Who stories transmitted at the time, the story was rated thirteenth of two hundred, with an approval rating of 84.62%—one hundredth of a percentage point less than the immediately preceding episode, "Turn Left"—and rated as the best story by under-18s and ...