Twice Upon a Time (Doctor Who)

2017 Doctor Who episode

276 - "Twice Upon a Time"

Doctor Who episode

Promotional poster

Cast

Doctors

* Peter Capaldi – Twelfth Doctor
* David Bradley – First Doctor

Companion

* Pearl Mackie – Bill Potts

Others

* Mark Gatiss – The Captain
* Nikki Amuka-Bird – Helen Clay
* Toby Whithouse – German Soldier
* Matt Lucas – Nardole
* Jenna Coleman – Clara Oswald
* Lily Travers – Polly
* Jared Garfield – Ben Jackson
* Nicholas Briggs – Voice of the Daleks
* Jodie Whittaker – Thirteenth Doctor

Production
Directed by| Rachel Talalay
Written by| Steven Moffat[a]
Produced by| Peter Bennett
Executive producer(s)| Steven Moffat
Brian Minchin
Music by| Murray Gold
Running time| 60 minutes
First broadcast| 25 December 2017 (2017-12-25)
Chronology
| ← Preceded by
"The Doctor Falls"  | Followed by →
"The Woman Who Fell to Earth"

|

List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present)

"Twice Upon a Time" is an episode of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who, written by Steven Moffat, directed by Rachel Talalay, and was broadcast as the thirteenth Christmas special on 25 December 2017 on BBC One. It features the final regular appearance of Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor, the first official appearance of Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, and guest-stars David Bradley as the First Doctor, having previously portrayed original First Doctor actor William Hartnell in the 2013 docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time. Pearl Mackie guest stars as the Twelfth Doctor's former companion Bill Potts, while his other companions make guest appearances – Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald and Matt Lucas as Nardole. Mark Gatiss plays a British army captain taken from the First World War.

This episode is a continuation of events after "The Doctor Falls", addressing the cliffhanger that it ended on, and takes place during the final serial of the First Doctor, The Tenth Planet (1966), which ended with the introduction of the concept of a Doctor regenerating; footage from The Tenth Planet is used in the special. "Twice Upon a Time" is Capaldi's fourth and final Christmas special as the Twelfth Doctor, and the last Doctor Who story to be written and produced by Moffat, who served as the show's executive producer and chief writer since taking over from Russell T Davies in 2010. After the special's broadcast, Moffat was succeeded as executive producer and showrunner by Chris Chibnall. It is also the last episode until the 2023 specials to have music composed by Murray Gold, who had composed music since the series' revival in 2005 and was succeeded by Segun Akinola in Series 11. The show had an annual run of Christmas specials from 2005's "The Christmas Invasion" to 2017's "Twice Upon a Time"; the next Christmas special made was not until 2023's "The Church on Ruby Road". During the period from 2018-2022, post-series episodes aired on New Year's Day.

## Plot[edit]

### Synopsis[edit]

Wandering back to his TARDIS through the South Pole in 1986 after leaving his companions behind, the First Doctor refuses to regenerate. He encounters the Twelfth Doctor outside his own TARDIS in a similar state of mind. The pair are soon approached by a confused and injured First World War British captain (Mark Gatiss), displaced from December 1914 while in a gun-point stalemate with a German soldier. All three are then forcibly taken into a large spaceship. Inside, they meet with Bill Potts. The Twelfth Doctor, however, doubts she is the real Bill. Upon encountering the ship's glass-like holographic pilot, they are offered freedom in exchange for allowing the ship to return the Captain to the moment of his death. Refusing to allow the Captain to die, they escape and take the First Doctor's TARDIS to the planet Villengard in the far future.

Alone, the Twelfth Doctor meets with the rogue Dalek Rusty, who has taken refuge from other Daleks hunting it. Given access to the Dalek Hivemind, the Doctor learns that the pilot and its ship, known as Testimony, were created on New Earth, designed to extract people from their timelines at the moment of their death, and archive their memories into glass avatars. "Bill" is one such avatar, created from her memories. Seeing no evil to fight, the Doctors agree to return the Captain to his timeline. Upon arrival, the Captain asks the Doctors to keep an eye on his family, introducing himself as Archibald Hamish Lethbridge-Stewart (implying that he is the ancestor of the Doctor's frequent ally and lifelong friend, the Brigadier, and his daughter Kate Stewart). As time resumes, the Doctors watch as soldiers on both sides begin singing "Silent Night". The Twelfth Doctor explains to the First that he deliberately shifted the Captain's timeline forward to the start of the Christmas truce, to ensure his life would be spared.

With the Captain saved, the First Doctor informs the Twelfth that he is now prepared to regenerate and says his goodbyes before returning to his TARDIS. He returns to the South Pole for Ben and Polly and finally regenerates into his second incarnation. Now alone with Bill's avatar, the Twelfth Doctor adamantly contends she is not really Bill, but she argues that memories are what defines a person. Bill's avatar restores the Doctor's memories of Clara Oswald before they are joined by Nardole's avatar. The Doctor, however, refuses to give the avatars testimony of his life. They respect his wish to be alone and leave after he embraces them both. The Doctor then returns to the TARDIS and decides to regenerate, but not before relaying some personal advice to his next incarnation.

After the newly regenerated Thirteenth Doctor examines her own reflection, the TARDIS suffers multiple system failures due to damage caused by the delayed regeneration. Falling out of the tumbling ship, the Doctor watches in horror as the time rotor and the console room explode, and the TARDIS dematerialises while she plummets towards the Earth below.

### Continuity[edit]

"Twice Upon a Time" takes place towards the end of the First Doctor's final serial, The Tenth Planet (first broadcast in October 1966), some of which is shown at the start of the special. During the last episode's final moments, the Doctor leaves his companions Ben and Polly and returns to the TARDIS; they find him collapsed in the console room, where he undergoes his first regeneration. Derek Martinus, the episode's director, reportedly cut a line from the original script which suggested that the Doctor was refusing to give in to the regeneration process. Steven Moffat's 2017 story creates an extended narrative around that part of the story, in which the First Doctor delays his regeneration and encounters his future self — the Twelfth Doctor — in the snowy wasteland.[1][2]

When Testimony shows the First Doctor images of his future incarnations, clips from both the classic series and the revival are used, including the Third Doctor from Invasion of the Dinosaurs (1974); the Fifth Doctor from Arc of Infinity (1983); the Seventh Doctor from The Happiness Patrol (1988); the Eighth Doctor from "The Night of the Doctor" (2013); the Ninth Doctor from "The Parting of the Ways" (2005); and the Tenth Doctor from "The Waters of Mars" (2009).[3]

Testimony also lists several of the Doctor's future titles: "The Shadow of the Valeyard" (from The Trial of a Time Lord, said to be a distillation of the Doctor's darker side), "the Oncoming Storm" ("The Parting of the Ways"), "the Imp of the Pandorica" (a reference to the Eleventh Doctor story "The Pandorica Opens"), "the Beast of Trenzalore" ("The Time of the Doctor"), "the Butcher of Skull Moon" and "the Doctor of War" ("Hell Bent"). "The Destroyer of Skaro" refers to the destruction of the planet in Remembrance of the Daleks (1988), although Skaro was later restored, as explained in "Asylum of the Daleks" (2012) and shown in "The Magician's Apprentice" (2015).[3]

The Weapons Factories of Villengard were originally mentioned in "The Doctor Dances" (Steven Moffat's first Doctor Who story), where the Ninth Doctor implied that he was responsible for their destruction.[4][5]

Helen Clay, who would become Testimony's glass pilot, was from New Earth and lectured at "New Earth University," a reference to the Tenth Doctor stories "New Earth" and "Gridlock".[3]

### Outside references[edit]

The Doctor addresses his original incarnation as "Mary Berry", "Corporal Jones", and "Mr Pastry".[3] Mr Pastry was a comedic variety stage act and children's show character played by actor Richard Hearne,[6] who was once considered for the role of the Fourth Doctor. Hearne, however, wanted to play the Doctor as a version of Mr. Pastry, so he was passed over in favour of Tom Baker.[3]

The Doctor paraphrases philosopher Bertrand Russell when he advises his future self that "hate is always foolish and love is always wise".[7]

## Production[edit]

### Cast notes[edit]

Peter Capaldi reprised his role as the Twelfth Doctor. On 30 January 2017, he confirmed that the tenth series would be his last, and that he was set to leave after the 2017 Christmas special.[8] The episode also sees the introduction of Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, whose casting was announced on 16 July 2017.[9][10]

David Bradley appears in the episode as the First Doctor, having previously portrayed William Hartnell in the docudrama An Adventure in Space and Time.[11][12][13] This makes him the third actor to play the role in the television programme, after William Hartnell and Richard Hurndall (in 1983's The Five Doctors) since the premiere of Doctor Who in 1963.[14] Bradley previously played Solomon in the 2012 episode "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship". Since 2017, Bradley has reprised his role as the First Doctor in many audio dramas for Big Finish Productions alongside his co-stars from An Adventure in Space and Time.

The first trailer for the episode was shown during the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con, revealing the return of Polly, a companion from the end of William Hartnell's tenure as the First Doctor, portrayed by Lily Travers,[15] and Pearl Mackie as Bill Potts. Also confirmed were appearances by Toby Whithouse, writer of seven episodes between 2006 and 2017,[16] and Mark Gatiss, also writer of nine episodes between 2005 and 2017, marking his fourth acting appearance in the series, playing a character credited as The Captain.[17][18] In an interview following the episode's broadcast, Gatiss said he cried at the thought of playing the Brigadier's grandfather when he finished reading the script.[19] However, the Haisman Literary Estate asserted their control of the backstory of the Brigadier, stating that Archibald was actually the Brigadier's great-uncle who appeared in Night of the Intelligence.[20][21] They later compromised in What's Past is Prologue by implying that Archibald may secretly be the biological father of the Brigadier's father, thereby allowing for either interpretation.[22][23]

It was later confirmed that Ben Jackson, a companion of the First and Second Doctors, who served alongside Polly, would also feature in the episode and that he would be played by the former Hollyoaks cast member Jared Garfield.[24] Hartnell, Anneke Wills and Michael Craze appeared as the First Doctor, Polly and Ben respectively through archive footage,[25] as also did Patrick Troughton as the freshly regenerated Second Doctor. Nikki Amuka-Bird voices the "Glass Woman".[26]

As with the last change of showrunners, Chibnall wrote the final moments of the episode, so as to allow him to write Whittaker's first lines on the show. This happened in the 2010 special "The End of Time", when Moffat took over for Russell T. Davies in the final moments of the episode, writing Matt Smith's first words as the Eleventh Doctor.[27]

The episode includes a cameo appearance by Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald, as the Doctor's memories of Clara, lost during "Hell Bent", are restored. The scene was the last to be filmed for the episode and while Coleman was willing to come back to film, timing between the filming of this special and her work in Victoria was difficult to arrange. Moffat said "How many times have I killed that girl off and she was right there in my last shot! It's absolutely extraordinary. The unkillable Coleman!"[28]

### Filming[edit]

The episode was written by Steven Moffat and directed by Rachel Talalay,[29] who wrote and directed the two-part finale of the tenth series, "World Enough and Time" / "The Doctor Falls", respectively.[30][31] In January 2016, Moffat announced that he would step down as the programme's showrunner after the tenth series, to be replaced by Chris Chibnall beginning with the eleventh series in 2018, but a 2017 Christmas special was not mentioned in the plans at that time.[32] The change in showrunners almost caused the annual episode to be cancelled, as Moffat planned to leave after the tenth series finale and Chibnall did not want to begin his run with a Christmas special. When he learned of Chibnall's plans, Moffat elected to stay long enough to produce one final episode, as he was concerned that the show would lose the coveted 25 December slot in the future if it missed a year. As a result, he had to rewrite his plans for the tenth series finale to allow Capaldi to appear in one more episode.[33]

Near the end of the special, the two Doctors part company and return to their respective TARDISes to undergo regeneration. The First Doctor's regeneration is shown, using original footage from "The Tenth Planet". Although the last episode of the 1966 story is one of the most sought-after missing episodes of Doctor Who, the regeneration sequence was preserved when it was used in a 1973 edition of the children's magazine programme Blue Peter.[1][34]

The final scene of "The Doctor Falls" involving David Bradley was filmed as part of the filming of "Twice Upon a Time" in June 2017.[35] Production for "Twice Upon a Time" started on 12 June 2017, and concluded on 10 July 2017.[36][37][38] However, the final scene of the episode, in which Whittaker makes her debut as the Doctor, was not filmed until 19 July.[39] The episode had been reportedly titled "The Doctors", before it was announced at the 2017 San Diego Comic-Con that it would officially be titled "Twice Upon a Time".[40][18]

## Broadcast and reception[edit]

The episode was watched by 5.70 million viewers overnight, making it the fifth most watched programme of the day across all channels.[41] The episode received 7.92 million views overall, and it received an Appreciation Index of 81.[42][43] In the United States "Twice Upon a Time" was watched by 2.2 million viewers on BBC America.[44]

### Cinemas[edit]

"Twice Upon a Time" was released in cinemas in multiple countries, including Brazil on 25 December, Australia and Denmark on 26 December, and the United States and Canada on 27–28 December. The cinema release includes two bonus features: a behind-the-scenes view of the episode, and a special celebrating the tenure of Peter Capaldi as the Doctor and Steven Moffat as showrunner and lead writer.[45][46]

### Critical reception[edit]

Professional ratingsAggregate scores

Source| Rating
Rotten Tomatoes (Average Score)| 7.55[47]
Rotten Tomatoes (Tomatometer)| 88%[47]
Review scores
Source| Rating
The A.V. Club| A−[48]
Entertainment Weekly| A[49]
IndieWire| C+[50]
IGN| 9.5[51]
New York Magazine| [52]
Radio Times| [53]
The Daily Telegraph| [54]
Daily Mirror| [55]
Starburst| 7/10[56]

"Twice Upon a Time" received generally positive reviews, with praise given to the performances.[57][53][49][48] 88% of 24 critic reviews are positive on Rotten Tomatoes, with an average rating of 7.55/10. The site's consensus reads "Doctor Who: Twice Upon a Time pays gratifying homage to the outgoing Doctor while marking a thoughtful, warm and funny passing of the torch to a new era in the franchise."[47]

Michael Hogan offered a negative review for The Daily Telegraph, criticising Moffat's writing and concluding that viewers "would have been left scratching their heads in bafflement. It was self-indulgent, overcomplicated and, most unforgivably, frequently boring."[54]

Some commentators noted the depiction of the First Doctor, who is portrayed as displaying a sexist attitude. Moffat said that Hartnell's Doctor was "not progressive. Without being too outrageous I think we have re-created that version of Hartnell's Doctor, with all the 1960s political incorrectness in place."[58] Den of Geek reported that this was a controversial aspect of the episode, even in the pre-publicity, but they "found it hard to find any examples of sexism as egregious as the ones shown here."[1] Patrick Mulkern of Radio Times thought Moffat's characterisation for the First Doctor would make viewers "cavil that his character has been revised, made to seem more old-fashioned than he was", but felt it highlighted the changing of attitudes and how far the Doctor had developed.[53]

The episode was a finalist in the category of Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form for the 2018 Hugo Awards.[59] It was also nominated for Saturn Award for Best Television Presentation.[60][61]

## Commercial releases[edit]

Twice Upon a Time Author| Paul Cornell

|

Cover artist| Anthony Dry
Series| Doctor Who book:
Target novelisations
Publisher| BBC Books

Publication date

| 5 April 2018
Pages| 224
ISBN| 978-1-785-94330-0

### Home media[edit]

The episode was released on DVD and Blu-ray in Region 2 on 22 January 2018,[62] in Region 4 on 7 February 2018,[63] and in Region 1 on 13 February 2018.[15]

"Twice Upon a Time" is also the first Doctor Who episode to be released on the Ultra HD Blu-ray format. It was released in North America on 25 September 2018 and in the UK on 24 September 2018.[64]

### In print[edit]

A novelisation of the story, written by Paul Cornell, was released in paperback by BBC Books on 5 April 2018. Also on the same day, a digital edition was released, both as part of the Target Collection.[65][66]

## Notes[edit]

1. ^ Chris Chibnall wrote the Thirteenth Doctor's (Jodie Whittaker) dialogue at the end of the episode after Capaldi's regeneration.

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* Ainsworth, John, ed. (2016). "Inside the Spaceship, Marco Polo, The Keys of Marinus and The Aztecs". Doctor Who: The Complete History. Panini Comics, Hachette Partworks. 2 (32).

## External links[edit]

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* "Voyage of the Damned"
* "The Next Doctor"
* "The End of Time"

Eleventh Doctor|

* "A Christmas Carol"
* "The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe"
* "The Snowmen"
* "The Time of the Doctor"

Twelfth Doctor|

* "Last Christmas"
* "The Husbands of River Song"
* "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"
* "Twice Upon a Time"

Thirteenth Doctor|

* "Resolution"
* "Revolution of the Daleks"
* "Eve of the Daleks"

Fifteenth Doctor|

* "The Church on Ruby Road"

Related|

* "The Feast of Steven"
* K-9 and Company
* "Invasion of the Bane"
* "Captain Jack Harkness"
* "End of Days"
* "Spyfall, Part 1"

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Doctor Who: First Doctor stories

Television

| Season 1|

* An Unearthly Child
* The Daleks
* The Edge of Destruction
* Marco Polo
* The Keys of Marinus
* The Aztecs
* The Sensorites
* The Reign of Terror

|

Season 2|

* Planet of Giants
* The Dalek Invasion of Earth
* The Rescue
* The Romans
* The Web Planet
* The Crusade
* The Space Museum
* The Chase
* The Time Meddler

Season 3|

* Galaxy 4
* The Myth Makers
* The Daleks' Master Plan
* The Massacre
* The Ark
* The Celestial Toymaker
* The Gunfighters
* The Savages
* The War Machines

Season 4|

* The Smugglers
* The Tenth Planet

Other appearances|

| Major|

* The Three Doctors
* The Five Doctors
* "Twice Upon a Time"

|

Minor|

* "The Name of the Doctor"
* "The Day of the Doctor"
* "Listen"
* "The Witch's Familiar"
* "The Doctor Falls"
* "The Power of the Doctor"

See also|

* Dimensions in Time
* An Adventure in Space and Time

Audio

| The Companion Chronicles|

* Frostfire
* Here There Be Monsters
* Home Truths
* The Drowned World
* The Suffering
* The Guardian of the Solar System
* Quinnis
* The Perpetual Bond
* The Rocket Men
* The First Wave
* The Anachronauts
* The Wanderer
* The Time Museum

|

The Early Adventures|

* Domain of the Voord
* The Doctor's Tale

Other|

* The Revenants
* Farewell, Great Macedon / The Fragile Yellow Arc of Fragrance
* A Star is Born
* The Masters of Luxor
* Hunters of Earth
* The Light at the End
* The First Doctor Adventures
* An Unearthly Woman

Books

| Missing Adventures|

* Venusian Lullaby
* The Sorcerer's Apprentice
* The Empire of Glass
* The Man in the Velvet Mask
* The Plotters

|

Past Doctor Adventures|

* The Witch Hunters
* The Infinity Doctors
* Salvation
* City at World's End
* Bunker Soldiers
* Byzantium!
* Ten Little Aliens
* The Eleventh Tiger
* The Time Travellers

Novellas|

* Time and Relative
* Frayed

Video games

* Destiny of the Doctors
* Legacy
* Lego Dimensions

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Doctor Who: Second Doctor stories

Television

| Season 4|

* The Power of the Daleks
* The Highlanders
* The Underwater Menace
* The Moonbase
* The Macra Terror
* The Faceless Ones
* The Evil of the Daleks

|

Season 5|

* The Tomb of the Cybermen
* The Abominable Snowmen
* The Ice Warriors
* The Enemy of the World
* The Web of Fear
* Fury from the Deep
* The Wheel in Space

Season 6|

* The Dominators
* The Mind Robber
* The Invasion
* The Krotons
* The Seeds of Death
* The Space Pirates
* The War Games

Other appearances|

| Major|

* The Three Doctors
* The Five Doctors
* The Two Doctors

|

Minor|

* The Tenth Planet
* "The Name of the Doctor"
* "The Day of the Doctor"

See also|

* Dimensions in Time
* "Twice Upon a Time"

Audio

| The Companion Chronicles|

* Fear of the Daleks
* The Glorious Revolution
* Resistance
* The Emperor of Eternity
* Echoes of Grey
* The Forbidden Time
* The Memory Cheats
* The Selachian Gambit
* The Jigsaw War
* The Uncertainty Principle

|

The Lost Stories|

* Prison in Space / The Destroyers
* The Rosemariners

Other|

* Shadow of Death
* The Light at the End
* The Second Doctor Adventures

Books

| Missing Adventures|

* The Menagerie
* Invasion of the Cat-People
* Twilight of the Gods
* The Dark Path

|

Past Doctor Adventures|

* The Murder Game
* The Roundheads
* The Infinity Doctors
* Players
* The Final Sanction
* Heart of TARDIS
* Independence Day
* Dying in the Sun
* Combat Rock
* The Colony of Lies
* The Indestructible Man
* World Game

Novellas|

* Foreign Devils
* Wonderland

Video games

* Dalek Attack
* Destiny of the Doctors
* Legacy
* Lego Dimensions

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Doctor Who: Twelfth Doctor stories

Television

| Series 8|

* "Deep Breath"
* "Into the Dalek"
* "Robot of Sherwood"
* "Listen"
* "Time Heist"
* "The Caretaker"
* "Kill the Moon"
* "Mummy on the Orient Express"
* "Flatline"
* "In the Forest of the Night"
* "Dark Water" / "Death in Heaven"

|

Series 9|

* "Last Christmas"
* "The Magician's Apprentice" / "The Witch's Familiar"
* "Under the Lake" / "Before the Flood"
* "The Girl Who Died"
* "The Woman Who Lived"
* "The Zygon Invasion" / "The Zygon Inversion"
* "Sleep No More"
* "Face the Raven"
* "Heaven Sent"
* "Hell Bent"
* "The Husbands of River Song"

Series 10|

* "The Return of Doctor Mysterio"
* "The Pilot"
* "Smile"
* "Thin Ice"
* "Knock Knock"
* "Oxygen"
* "Extremis"
* "The Pyramid at the End of the World"
* "The Lie of the Land"
* "Empress of Mars"
* "The Eaters of Light"
* "World Enough and Time" / "The Doctor Falls"
* "Twice Upon a Time"

Other appearances|

| Major|

* "For Tonight We Might Die"

|

Minor|

* "The Day of the Doctor"
* "The Time of the Doctor"

See also|

* "The Fires of Pompeii"

Books

* The Blood Cell
* Silhouette
* The Crawling Terror
* Royal Blood
* Big Bang Generation
* Deep Time

Video games

* Legacy
* Lego Dimensions

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Doctor Who: Thirteenth Doctor television stories

Series 11|

* "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"
* "The Ghost Monument"
* "Rosa"
* "Arachnids in the UK"
* "The Tsuranga Conundrum"
* "Demons of the Punjab"
* "Kerblam!"
* "The Witchfinders"
* "It Takes You Away"
* "The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos"
* "Resolution"

Series 12|

* "Spyfall"
* "Orphan 55"
* "Nikola Tesla's Night of Terror"
* "Fugitive of the Judoon"
* "Praxeus"
* "Can You Hear Me?"
* "The Haunting of Villa Diodati"
* "Ascension of the Cybermen" / "The Timeless Children"
* "Revolution of the Daleks"

Series 13|

* "The Halloween Apocalypse" / "War of the Sontarans" / "Once, Upon Time" / "Village of the Angels" / "Survivors of the Flux" / "The Vanquishers"

2022 specials|

* "Eve of the Daleks"
* "Legend of the Sea Devils"
* "The Power of the Doctor"

Minor appearances|

* "Twice Upon a Time"

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Doctor Who: Cyberman stories

Television

| First Doctor|

* The Tenth Planet

|

Second Doctor|

* The Moonbase
* The Tomb of the Cybermen
* The Wheel in Space
* The Invasion

Fourth Doctor|

* Revenge of the Cybermen

Fifth Doctor|

* Earthshock
* The Five Doctors

Sixth Doctor|

* Attack of the Cybermen

Seventh Doctor|

* Silver Nemesis

Tenth Doctor|

* "Rise of the Cybermen" / "The Age of Steel"
* "Army of Ghosts" / "Doomsday"
* "The Next Doctor"

Eleventh Doctor|

* "Closing Time"
* "Nightmare in Silver"

Twelfth Doctor|

* "Dark Water" / "Death in Heaven"
* "World Enough and Time" / "The Doctor Falls"

Thirteenth Doctor|

* "The Haunting of Villa Diodati"
* "Ascension of the Cybermen" / "The Timeless Children"
* "The Power of the Doctor"

Other appearances|

| Major|

* "Cyberwoman"

|

Minor|

* The War Games
* The Mind of Evil
* Carnival of Monsters
* "Dalek"
* "The Pandorica Opens" / "The Big Bang"
* "A Good Man Goes to War"
* "The Day of the Doctor"
* "The Time of the Doctor"
* "Face the Raven"
* "Hell Bent"
* "Once, Upon Time" / "The Vanquishers"

See also|

* Dimensions in Time
* Tardisode
* "Twice Upon a Time"

Audio

| The Monthly Adventures|

* Sword of Orion
* Spare Parts
* Real Time
* The Harvest
* The Gathering
* The Reaping
* Human Resources
* The Girl Who Never Was
* Kingdom of Silver / Keepsake
* Legend of the Cybermen
* The Silver Turk
* Hour of the Cybermen
* Conversion

|

Bernice Summerfield|

* Silver Lining
* The Crystal of Cantus

Other|

* The Blue Tooth
* Cyberman
* The Ultimate Adventure
* The Fate of Krelos / Return to Telos
* The Isos Network
* The Tyrants of Logic
* Cyber-Reality
* Return of the Cybermen
* The Gates of Hell
* The Ninth Doctor Adventures
* Bad Day in Tinseltown

Books

* Iceberg
* Made of Steel

Video games

* Destiny of the Doctors
* Top Trumps
* "Blood of the Cybermen"
* Return to Earth
* The Mazes of Time
* The Eternity Clock
* Legacy
* Lego Dimensions

Stage

* Doctor Who Prom
* Doctor Who Live

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Doctor Who: Dalek stories

Television

| First Doctor|

* The Daleks
* The Dalek Invasion of Earth
* The Chase
* "Mission to the Unknown"
* The Daleks' Master Plan

|

Second Doctor|

* The Power of the Daleks
* The Evil of the Daleks

Third Doctor|

* Day of the Daleks
* Planet of the Daleks
* Death to the Daleks

Fourth Doctor|

* Genesis of the Daleks
* Destiny of the Daleks

Fifth Doctor|

* Resurrection of the Daleks

Sixth Doctor|

* Revelation of the Daleks

Seventh Doctor|

* Remembrance of the Daleks

Ninth Doctor|

* "Dalek"
* "Bad Wolf" / "The Parting of the Ways"

Tenth Doctor|

* "Army of Ghosts" / "Doomsday
* "Daleks in Manhattan" / "Evolution of the Daleks"
* "The Stolen Earth" / "Journey's End"

Eleventh Doctor|

* "Victory of the Daleks"
* "Asylum of the Daleks"
* "The Time of the Doctor"

Twelfth Doctor|

* "Into the Dalek"
* "The Magician's Apprentice" / "The Witch's Familiar"

Thirteenth Doctor|

* "Resolution"
* "Revolution of the Daleks"
* "Eve of the Daleks"
* "The Power of the Doctor"

Minor appearances|

* The Space Museum
* The Wheel in Space
* The War Games
* The Mind of Evil
* Frontier in Space
* Logopolis
* The Five Doctors
* Doctor Who
* "The Waters of Mars"
* "The Beast Below"
* "The Pandorica Opens" / "The Big Bang"
* "The Wedding of River Song"
* "The Day of the Doctor"
* "Hell Bent"
* "The Pilot"
* "Twice Upon a Time"
* "Once, Upon Time" / "The Vanquishers"

See also|

* The Curse of Fatal Death
* Tardisode 13 – "Doomsday"
* "The Last Day"
* Daleks!
* "Destination: Skaro"

Films

| Dr. Who films|

* Dr. Who and the Daleks
* Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D.

|

See also|

* The Lego Batman Movie

Audio

| The Monthly Adventures|

* The Genocide Machine
* The Apocalypse Element
* The Mutant Phase
* The Time of the Daleks
* Jubilee
* The Juggernauts
* Terror Firma
* Return of the Daleks
* Renaissance of the Daleks
* Brotherhood of the Daleks
* Patient Zero
* Enemy of the Daleks
* Plague of the Daleks
* The Curse of Davros
* Daleks Among Us

|

Dalek Empire|

* Invasion of the Daleks
* The Human Factor
* Death to the Daleks!
* Project Infinity
* Dalek War
* The Exterminators
* The Healers
* The Survivors
* The Demons
* The Warriors
* The Future
* The Fearless

I, Davros|

* Innocence
* The Davros Mission

Other|

* Death and the Daleks
* Masters of War
* The Lost Stories
* The Four Doctors
* The Five Companions
* Energy of the Daleks
* Dark Eyes
* The War Doctor
* Living History
* Blood of the Daleks
* The Tenth Doctor Adventures
* After the Daleks
* Nightmare of the Daleks
* The Final Beginning

Minor appearances|

* Seasons of Fear
* Dust Breeding
* Eyes of the Master

Books

| Novelisations|

* Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks
* The Dalek Invasion of Earth
* The Chase
* The Daleks' Master Plan Part I: Mission to the Unknown
* The Daleks' Master Plan Part II: The Mutation of Time
* The Power of the Daleks
* The Evil of the Daleks
* Day of the Daleks
* Doctor Who and the Space War
* Planet of the Daleks
* Death to the Daleks
* Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks
* Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks
* Resurrection of the Daleks
* Revelation of the Daleks
* Remembrance of the Daleks

|

Eighth Doctor Adventures|

* War of the Daleks
* Legacy of the Daleks

New Series Adventures|

* I Am a Dalek
* Prisoner of the Daleks
* The Dalek Generation
* Engines of War

Other|

* The Dalek Factor

Video games

* Dalek Attack
* Destiny of the Doctors
* Top Trumps
* "City of the Daleks"
* Evacuation Earth
* Return to Earth
* The Mazes of Time
* The Eternity Clock
* Legacy
* Lego Dimensions

Stage

* The Evil of the Daleks
* The Daleks' Master Plan
* Doctor Who Prom
* Doctor Who Live

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Doctor Who: Multi-Doctor stories

Television|

| Major instances|

* The Three Doctors
* The Five Doctors
* The Two Doctors
* "Time Crash"
* "The Day of the Doctor"
* "Twice Upon a Time"
* "Fugitive of the Judoon"
* "The Power of the Doctor"
* "The Giggle"

|

Minor instances|

* "The Name of the Doctor"
* "Deep Breath"
* "Listen"
* "The Doctor Falls"
* "The Timeless Children"
* "Once, Upon Time"

Audio|

* The Sirens of Time
* Project: Lazarus
* Zagreus
* The Wormery
* The 100 Days of the Doctor
* The Four Doctors
* The Light at the End
* The Eleven
* Cold Fusion
* The Eye of the Storm
* Dumb Waiter
* Daughter of the Gods
* Regeneration Impossible
* The Annihilators
* Together in Eclectic Dreams

Books|

* Timewyrm: Genesys
* Timewyrm: Revelation
* Who Killed Kennedy
* Cold Fusion
* The Eight Doctors
* Players
* Interference – Book One
* Interference – Book Two
* Heart of TARDIS
* The Colony of Lies
* Wolfsbane

Comics|

* Emperor of the Daleks
* Assimilation2
* Four Doctors
* Supremacy of the Cybermen
* The Lost Dimension

Video games|

* Dalek Attack
* Destiny of the Doctors
* Legacy
* Lego Dimensions

See also|

* Regeneration
* The Brain of Morbius
* The Trial of a Time Lord
* Dimensions in Time
* The Curse of Fatal Death
* "Journey's End"
* "The Big Bang"
* "Time"
* "The Rebel Flesh / "The Almost People"
* "Last Night"
* "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS"
* "The Vanquishers"
* "Wild Blue Yonder"

Regeneration stories

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Doctor Who: Regeneration television stories

The Doctor|

| Regeneration|

* The Tenth Planet
* The War Games
* Planet of the Spiders
* Logopolis
* The Caves of Androzani
* Time and the Rani
* Doctor Who
* "The Parting of the Ways"
* "The Stolen Earth"
* "The End of Time"
* "The Night of the Doctor"
* "The Day of the Doctor"
* "The Time of the Doctor"
* "Twice Upon a Time"
* "The Power of the Doctor"
* "The Giggle"

|

Post-regeneration|

* The Power of the Daleks
* Spearhead from Space
* Robot
* Castrovalva
* The Twin Dilemma
* Time and the Rani
* Doctor Who
* "The Christmas Invasion"
* "Journey's End"
* "The Eleventh Hour"
* "Deep Breath"
* "The Woman Who Fell to Earth"
* "The Star Beast"
* "The Giggle"

Other characters|

* Planet of the Spiders
* The Deadly Assassin
* Underworld
* Destiny of the Daleks
* Shada
* Mawdryn Undead
* The Five Doctors
* "Utopia"
* "Day of the Moon"
* "Let's Kill Hitler"
* "Hell Bent"
* "The Timeless Children"

See also|

* The Curse of Fatal Death
* "Doctor Who : Children in Need"
* "The Impossible Astronaut"
* "The Wedding of River Song"
* "The Angels Take Manhattan"
* "The Witch's Familiar"
* "The Lie of the Land"
* "World Enough and Time" / "The Doctor Falls"

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