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==The Doctors==
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[[Image:Doctor_Who_alignments.jpg|250px|thumb|right|baseline|But compared to anyone else besides themself they are irrevocably Chaotic Good]]
Originally the Doctor could only regenerate 12 times (well, originally it was implied it was infinite, but this was forgotten about), resulting in 13 different versions of themself (12 because David Tennant once managed to regenerate into themself) but during the 2013 Christmas special they managed to restart a new cycle (something that the Time Lords offered The Master in The Five Doctors all the way back in 1983.). They are currently in their God-Knows-Whateenth incarnation (We know of over '''100''' across every medium, counting John Hurt who doesn't get an official number for watch-the-damn-show reasons), of which at least 16 have taken up the mantle of 'The Doctor'. This means that they've had fifteen official actors so far. We really need to update that image.
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!Actor
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!Summary
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|'''First'''
|'''William Hartnell (1963-1966):''' 
|Susan Foreman (his granddaughter), Ian Chesterton and Barbara Wright, Vicki, Steven Taylor, Katarina, Sara Kingdom, Dodo Chaplet, Ben Jackson and Polly Wright
|A mysterious grumpy old professor. He didn't like to have humans tag along with him, but changed his mind after a while. Extremely intelligent (like all Doctors, duh), but also short-tempered. Speak a bit in [[Star Wars|Yoda]] manner. And a pretty good fighter, despite being old: Once beat up a big man in fisticuffs, while laughing. The Daleks and Cybermen were introduced during his time. (Evidently, one of the replacement actors for Hartnell is a fan of 40k. Duncan got a request to paint flayed wracks from Bradley, as Hartnell died in 1975, Hurndall in 1983, so it couldn't be them.)  Some of these episodes are actually lost to the ages due to BBC at the time thinking that there was no reason to keep footage after it was broadcast.
|''The Keys of Marinus'', ''The Aztecs'', ''The Tenth Planet''
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|'''Second'''
|'''Patrick Troughton (1966-1969)'''
|Ben Jackson and Polly Wright, Jamie McCrimmon, Victoria Waterfield, Zoe Heriot
|A cosmic hobo. He liked music and played the recorder. He was more of an anti-authority figure than his predecessor. Looked like a total idiot, made his enemies underestimate him, and ran away quite a lot. It was also during his time that his race, the Time Lords, was first introduced. At the end of Troughton's run, they banished him from Gallifrey for breaking the [[Star Trek|Prime Directive]], and forced him to regenerate as punishment. The Great Intelligence was introduced along with the robotic yeti during this time period, as was UNIT (more on those guys later). He is also distinguished by the fact that he may just be the most influential Doctor ever - not only would the show have failed if he didn't succeed, but over half of the later actors have claimed inspiration from his performances when they first took the lead role. Most of these episodes are actually lost to the ages due to BBC at the time thinking that there was no reason to keep footage after it was broadcast, and having a policy of routinely wiping magnetic video tape - which was at the time quite expensive and bulky to store - so that it could be re-used. However, the BBC is now funnelling cash into animation studios to animate the lost episodes with the use of off-screen recordings, fan-created recordings, and anything that they can scrape together to resurrect them. Some of them are even animated in colour! 
|''The Power of the Daleks'', ''The Enemy of the World'', ''The Mind Robber''
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|'''Third'''
|'''Jon Pertwee (1970-1974)'''
|Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, Liz Shaw, Jo Grant, Sarah Jane Smith
|A gentleman and a dandy. Spend a lot of time stuck on Earth, thanks to his stupid race putting him into exile (and not at all because the BBC decided to save money in the cash-strapped 70s by not set-building any more alien worlds, which cost more to look good on 625-line colour TV - ushered in by Pertwee - than they did on 405-line black & white). Could do Venusian Aikido, liked vintage cars, and at the end of the day was very much a less-womanizing, more science fiction-based James Bond. The Master, his arch-nemesis and a fellow Time Lord, was introduced: He tried to conquer the world with plastic chairs! We're not kidding. 
|''Spearhead from Space'', ''The Sea Devils'', ''The Green Death''
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|'''Fourth'''
| '''Tom Baker (1974-1981)'''
|Sarah Jane Smith, Harry Sullivan, Leela, Romana I, Romana II, Adric, Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka
|The bohemian, a total weirdo, who liked candy (specifically Jelly Babies) and had a disarmingly devilish grin, [[Bag of Holding|bottomless pockets]] and an extremely long, very colourful scarf. Very good in playing a fool: to quote Count Scarlioni: "No one could be as stupid as he seemed". Could switch from manic to serious in a single moment. Oh, and they were written for by Douglas fucking Adams. Yes, that one. The most iconic Doctor from the old series, probably due to his long tenure. Davros, the creator of the Daleks and a total maniac, was introduced.  Baker briefly married and then divorced Lalla Ward, who played his travelling companion; their marriage difficulties (On the question, which was the most terrible monster in Doctor Who, Ward quipped: "Tom Baker!"), alongside Baker's bad relationship with the incoming showrunner John Nathan-Turner, contributed to Baker's end in the role. While the maxim "Doctor Who is a barrel of pretty good serials mixed in with pure, refined emeralds" is true of all eras of the show, Baker's era probably epitomises this the most. "Just touch these two strands together, and the Daleks are finished... Have I that right?"
|''Genesis of the Daleks'', ''The Seeds of Doom'', ''City of Death''
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|'''Fifth'''
| '''Peter Davison (1981-1984)'''
|Adric, Nyssa, Tegan Jovanka, Vislor Turlough, Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown
|Created to be pretty much the complete opposite of his predecessor. Very much a human, very noble, liked cricket. Was also a complete sociopath. Davison was also the youngest actor in the role, until Matt Smith some 25 years later. Some people hated him just for replacing Tom Baker (seems like the Who fanbase never changes... unlike the lead). People died a ''lot'' during his time: Sometimes there was literally no one left but him and his companions - or, in the case of his last story, only his companion. Is the father-in-law of David Tennant (Tenth Doctor), which means that The Doctor's Daughter played The Doctor's Daughter, and then became the Doctor's wife, meaning that the Doctor is his own Father-in-law. God time travel is confusing…
|''Earthshock'', ''Resurrection of the Daleks'' (this has the highest on-screen body count of all time in Who), ''The Caves of Androzani'' (an episode consistently voted as the best story in Who ever, even including the revival series).
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|'''Sixth'''
|'''Colin Baker (1984-1986, 2002)'''
|''TV'': Perpugilliam "Peri" Brown, Melanie "Mel" Bush<br/>''Extended Media'': Evelyn Smythe, Charley Pollard
|An unstable maniac. More violent than the rest of his incarnations put together, shocking the audience by dumping executioners into acid baths, and having the genetic torture of his companion broadcast live on TV - and they both happened in the same episode! The whole show became bloodier during his time. Thought he was awesome, despite always wearing that awful coat. Generally regarded as being the worst Doctor, at least in the TV shows, but became much more awesome in the Big Finish audio. Had already played a minor character in the series before he was cast as the Doctor, making this the first instance of a casting choice of a Who veteran, as it were.
|Go and listen to the Big Finish audios now, no, seriously, and why are you still here, go listen to The Marian Conspiracy.
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|'''Seventh'''
|'''Sylvester McCoy (1987-1989, 1996, 2002)'''
|''TV'': Melanie "Mel" Bush, Ace<br/>''Extended Media'': Bernice Summerfield, Hex, Chris, Roz
|Started like a goofy wacky fellow, but quickly became more serious later on. Seemed like a god walking among lesser people, quite literally destroyed a pantheon of gods, and could <strike>probably</strike> definitely out-manipulate Tzeentch. Often they had beaten the villain of the week before they even came onto the scene, because of some centuries-long plan concocted in a prior regeneration. During their time, they started to turn onto some big questions, like who the hell the Doctor actually ''is'', but then the show got cancelled even as ratings increased. Bummer. He could also seem to be a dick to his companion (even if his motives were good), taking her to a circus despite being told about her fear of clowns, taking her to a house that she burned to the ground even when she requested not to, and manipulating her into a sense of hopelessness/depression so that he could slightly weaken a cosmic entity. Had the first CGI intro; all previous intros were generated using some combination of optics and analogue electronics.
|''Remembrance of the Daleks'' (in which The Daleks finally conquered stairs), ''The Happiness Patrol'', the entirety of their last season. Seriously. You'll cry when you see that this is what they <strike>cancelled</strike> rested Dr Who on.
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|'''Eighth'''
|'''Paul McGann (1996, 2003, 2013)'''
|''TV'': Grace Holloway, Cass<br/>''Extended Media'': Bernice Summerfield, Charley, Fitz, Liv, Lucie
|A romantic. Told people to make the best use of their limited time in this world and embrace their lives instead of being all emo and crying in a corner. But he also stated that he was half-human, which is a lie. The books and Big Finish fleshed him out a bit. Too bad his movie didn't do well enough in America to spawn a new series <s>(damn you America!). </s> There's an animated version of Shada with the Eighth Doctor that practically everybody has forgotten about, but it's an official animated story nonetheless, so there. </s> Also turned up unexpectedly, but to everyone's surprise, in a quick minisode in 2013 written by Steven Moffat, which, by a rare fan consensus, is considered superior to the movie in every fashion. It probably had something to do with the lack of that wig he had to wear in 1996…
|''The Chimes of Midnight'', ''The Silver Turk'', ''Neverland''/''Zagreus''/''Scherzo''
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|'''"War Doctor"'''
|'''John Hurt (''secret bonus Doctor'', 2013)'''
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|The Doctor as he was fighting in the Time War, known by some as the "War Doctor". In setting chronology, this incarnation fits between McGann's and Eccleston's, but due to committing some horrible war crimes in order to end the Time War, he denied himself the title of "the Doctor" and later regenerations refused to acknowledge his existence; so much so that Matt Smith's version is still referred to in-universe as the Eleventh Doctor, even in mysterious prophecies, despite technically being the twelfth incarnation. He was a rather grim and serious character and quite put off by the perceived silliness and light-heartedness of his successors. He was seen only briefly in the finale of season 7, played a major role in the 50th anniversary special, and had a set of audio adventures, but probably won't be seen again (RIP, John).
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|'''Ninth'''
|'''Christopher Eccleston (2005)'''
|Rose Tyler, Jack Harkness
|The only survivor of the horrible Time War (which is a rip-off of the War in Heaven, a war that happened in the Eighth Doctor books which had horrible consequences for everybody involved), which will never be fully shown, but we have seen parts of. All the other Time Lords died in it ([[Just As Planned|or did they?]]). Dark and moody, probably because of the survivor's guilt, tended to hide it behind a horribly manic and happy outward appearance. Was pretty dependent on his friends and companions when it came to moral issues. Often found himself in a kind of fix where he couldn't do shit without blowing the hell out of the area around him (the guy dropped missiles on his own head to kill a damn alien threat near him for fucks sake). The first Doctor not to wear (particularly) weird clothes.
|''Dalek'', ''The Empty Child''/''The Doctor Dances'', ''Bad Wolf''/''The Parting of Ways''
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|'''Tenth'''
|'''David Tennant (2005-2010)'''
|Rose Tyler, Martha Jones, Jack Harkness, Donna Noble
|Probably the outwardly happiest of all Doctors... or maybe the most Machiavellian. <strike>Nah, this award goes to the Seventh Doctor.</strike> A total crackpot. Talks a lot of [[Star Trek|technobabble]], at like 90mph, sometimes about something completely unrelated. If Time Lords could have ADHD, he probably does. Attracts a lot of women. For some reason, one of the last monsters featured was EAT. Yeah, that EAT. Oh and, when he'll offer you a chance of redemption and says that he can help you, you ''bloody well'' should take that offer! Because he doesn't believe in second chances, nor in letting someone walk away (Unless you're an arch-villain). Alternatively a child on Christmas morning and the '''MASTER''' of the ''resting bitch face'' whilst he destroys you, or ''he watches you destroy yourself''. His performance was so good that BBC actually considered ending the series after his tenure because they thought that the show would fail without him.
|''Blink'', ''Human Nature''/''Family of Blood'', ''Silence in the Library''/''Forest of The Dead'' (in which a future main character was introduced by being killed off, fuck you, Moffat), and ''The End of Time''
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|'''Eleventh'''
|'''Matt Smith (2010-2013)'''
|Amy Pond, Rory Williams, Clara Oswald
|The biggest nutjob since Tom Baker's Doctor. Acts like an awkward, hyperactive child most of the time, with a weird taste in clothes and an even weirder taste in food, but is also an old man, weary and reserved. Will deceive people for their own good, but this later backfires and makes him more cautious. Great with kids. Has one hell of a nasty streak: piss him off enough, and he ''will'' destroy you without so much as an offer of mercy. His stories tend to feature fuck-terrifying monsters and situations, including an army of quantum abominations who only move when you're not looking at them<s>, but logically should be of no threat to anyone who owns a time machine</s> and eat time, being trapped in a false awakening loop, a crack in the wall that ''eats reality,'' and an entire fucking race of Slendermen (whom you completely forget even exist when you aren't looking at one). Two of his assistants are insanely hot and another spends most of his time getting killed (and the rest of the time being awesome). Suffers a lot over the course of his tenure, but eventually achieves something of a happy ending before his regeneration into the Twelfth Doctor.
|''The Eleventh Hour'', ''Vincent and The Doctor'', ''The Impossible Astronaut''/''Day of the Moon'', ''Day of the Doctor''
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|'''Twelfth'''
|'''Peter Capaldi (2013-2017)'''
|Clara Oswald, Bill Potts, Nardole
|Something in between the Ninth and Fourth Doctors, making him an all-out sinister badass if you know anything about those Doctors. Went from a prickly old man to a communist punk-rocker grandad in the span of three seasons. The actor has appeared twice in Doctor Who (well, once in Torchwood) in other roles before becoming the Doctor, which was explained as the Doctor trying to tell himself something. When he was announced as the Doctor, fans imagined him in the role as the Doctor in the same style Peter Capaldi has appeared on the show The Thick of It, where he was exceptionally foul-mouthed. It turned out he's pretty damn hilarious. And Scottish. Quite eccentric, though. Apparently, a lot of the female fans were [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzWOlMif-Fw outraged] that an older guy got the role. It says a lot that the closest thing he had to a catchphrase was "Shut up!" Despite that charming catchphrase, his character eventually got his head out of his arse, and then decided to try and make everyone see that we should all be kind to each other. Probably also the most stubborn and loyal Doctor ever, spending roughly 7000 years in a sort of prison to save the life of his companion. He was also the absolute GOD of speeches, with arguably his best episode being a 45-minute long monologue over the idea of grief. On top of that, he is the only Doctor thus far to bring the Master round to the side of good, has stopped Zygon terrorists with nothing but words, and he became the Lord-President of Gallifrey... again. His tenure as The Doctor had ginormous levels of character development, for both him, his companions, and his own rogues gallery. Did we mention that the actor is a massive Whovian too?
|Literally all of his season finales and Christmas specials, ''The Zygon Invasion''/''The Zygon Inversion'', ''Oxygen'', ''Heaven Sent'' (which Capaldi carries ''entirely by himself'' as the only living being other than the monster, more or less the final Doctor given those teleport replacement copies).
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|'''Thirteenth'''
|'''Jodie Whittaker: (2017-2022)'''
|Yasmin "Yaz" Khan, Ryan Sinclair, Graham O'Brien, Dan Lewis
|The {{Spoiler|second or even later}} female Doctor in canon <strike>THERE IS NO CANON</strike>. The precedent for Time Lords changing gender was established earlier during the Fourth Doctor's era and when the Master changed genders during the Twelfth Doctor's tenure. An actress from ''Broadchurch'' to go along with the producer of the same show. She's portrayed as being overly hyperactive as 4 and 11, whilst also being utterly incpable of expressing feelings to anyone. Her first season was pure, '''unrefined''', powdered Dr. Who; It ranged between oft-mediocre-to-bad watching to absolute god-tier TV once or twice with a <s>well-written</s> season finale/New Year's special that made the Daleks the powerful threat they should have been during Eleven and Twelve's tenure, where a Scout [[BLAM|takes out a whole armoured British Platoon with no effort]]. However, Capaldi's comments about "the beeb" running the show into the ground were prophetic, as the following season wasn’t out until (very) early 2020 - most likely in part due to how some people [[RAGE|didn't take kindly]] to a woman doctor. Season 12 was divisive, [[Skub|to say the least]], although almost everyone agrees that it was miles better than the previous season (which is saying something). Oh, and the Master is back. Again. Series 13 premiered with a much lower episode count than usual due to [[Nurgle|COVID]] constraints and was widely regarded as the kiss of death to the franchise, although many fans responded positively to it. Her last episode is generally considered to be a good end to a thoroughly mixed era. 
|''Demons of the Punjab'' (the aforementioned god-tier TV), ''Spyfall'' (Part 1, at least), ''The Haunting of Villa Diodati'', and ''The Power of the Doctor''. Most fans believe that Chibnall was an awful showrunner & writer, and as such, Jodie was only able to be a mediocre Doctor. Her era floundered so much so that the BBC brought back Russell T. Davies in the hopes of reviving the franchise's collapsing ratings. For their part, Chibnall and Whittaker both claim they had a "pact" to only do 3 seasons on Dr. Who before moving on to other things.
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|'''Fourteenth'''
|'''David Tennant (2005-2010, 2022-2023)'''
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|[[What]]. [[What]]? [[What]]!? Yes, number 10 is back... sort of. For three episodes coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the show, Tennant is back as the Doctor. We don't have any idea why he's degenerated this time, and we won't until 2023.
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|'''Fifteenth'''
|'''Ncuti Gatwa (2023--):'''
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|The ''real'' 14th Doctor. First non-white person to be cast as a main Doctor. We know very little about his incarnation, but most fans are optimistic about him.
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|'''"Doctor Ruth"'''
|'''Jo Martin (2020-2022)'''
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|Another "missing" Doctor played by Jo Martin who debuted in Series 12 of the modern era. It's unknown where she fits in the timeline but she is confirmed to be a pre Hartnell Doctor. As it's now revealed The Doctor is "The Timeless Child" and isn't a Time Lord or from Gallifrey <strike>this was done first in the 1990s, but then [[retcon]]ned, and unretconned some more</strike>, but a being from a different universe [[grimdark|stolen and experimented on]] by the Time Lords, she is confirmed to be a real Doctor and not a trick or a misunderstanding. She is the result of trying to fix a plot hole created all the way back in the classic era episode ''The Brain of Morbius''. Where the battle between Four and the Time Lord war criminal Morbius revealed several Pre-Hartnell Doctors. Whether this was a plot hole worth fixing is a matter of [[Skub]] among fans. Something that other writers have tried to explain in side materials before now. An attempt to explain said plot hole was used earlier during the McCoy era to make him not just "an ordinary Time Lord" and restore mystery to the character with the incarnation called "The Other". It was later explained that she worked for The Division, although for how long is unknown. Regardless, she was never fully explained, nor was the Timeless Child. A shame, considering that she had a lot of potential.
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|'''"The Curator"'''
|'''Tom Baker (2013)'''
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|An incarnation of the Doctor who retired and became curator of the Under Gallery. Eleventh Doctor met him in "The Day of the Doctor".
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===Other Doctors===
There have been a number of Doctors who were either the Doctor in strange circumstances, were later retconned or were never intended to be canon in the first place.

* Peter Cushing (1965-66): Yes, THAT Peter Cushing, the guy that played Grand Moff Tarkin in [[Star Wars]] and was so oldschool he once played alongside Laurel and Hardy. He played a human scientist called Dr. Who (yes, his last name is Who) in two movie-length remakes of early episodes featuring the Daleks. The movies were not very good, as one would expect when they [[wat|didn't use the iconic theme tune]], had [[HERESY|blaring jazz instead of electronic incidental music]], were directed by someone who'd [[Extra Heresy|never actually watched Doctor Who]] and didn't even realise that the [[derp|Daleks' head lights are supposed to flash in modulation with their voices]], and rumours had it that Cushing was taking any work he could to keep his mind off the recent loss of his wife. He is easily the best thing about the movies, mind, and his sweet, grandfatherly Doctor is a flavour almost worth seeing if you don't mind wading through all the crap. It also featured a set of groovy-coloured Daleks (who had decorated their base with lava lamps!), which was considered silly because Daleks are supposed to be drab... at least until they returned in Matt Smith's run as a group of happy fascist murderous rainbows.  This particular Doctor has the dubious honour of having successfully defeated the Daleks' latest world-domination plan by quite literally pointing at nothing and yelling "Look!"
* Rowan Atkinson, Richard E. Grant, Jim Broadbent, Hugh Grant and Joanna Lumley (1999): The BBC has a tradition of making silly parodies of their shows for charity. Dr. Who got one called Doctor Who and the Curse of the Fatal Death, where the aforementioned actors played the Ninth through Twelfth Doctors in quick succession. Rowan Atkinson played the role magnificently as the Time Lord Blackadder. He announces to the Master that he is going to marry the only companion he ever ''had'', but the Master enlists the help of the Daleks to kill his archenemy once and for all. Belayed explanations, Zektronic energy, [[Nurgle|communication based on breaking wind]], a couple of [[Wat|Dalek chairs]], and LOTS of hijinks later, the Doctor burns through pretty much all of his regenerations in two minutes. It is a very funny short and should be watched, if only for the magnificent snark that only Rowan Atkinson can produce.
* Richard E. Grant (2003): Just a few years after playing the Tenth Doctor in Curse of the Fatal Death, Grant returned as the Ninth Doctor for the "webisode" Scream of the Shalka. This incarnation was angry, moody, looked like a [[vampire]], and compared to Sherlock Holmes by the actor himself (which is funny when you consider that Benedict Cumberbatch, of ''Sherlock'' fame, was in the running to be the Eleventh Doctor), but he was still a good man who left no monster rampaging (or at least unstudied) and no woman unsaved. He fought the exeptionally creepy Shalka, whom he defeated with... no, no spoilers, you wouldn't believe it anyway. He also traveled alongside none other than the Master, who was confined to an android body stuck in the TARDIS. They share homoerotic subtext to the level it becomes homoerotic SUPERtext; the author commented that this was intentional.
**As a side note, while they were making the special, some kid pretty much kicked down the door, ranted about how much he loved Doctor Who, and begged for a role in the short. The producers gave him one, causing the kid to all but explode. The kid's name? David Tennant.
* David Morrissey (2009): In the episode ''The next Doctor'', the 10th Doctor stumbles upon cybermen, cybermonkeys, and a man who calls himself the Doctor, played by David Morrissey, in 1851. He claims to be an incarnation of the gallifreyan time-traveler we have had for 50 years, but something is amiss; his memory is practically gone, his sonic screwdriver isn't sonic, and his TARDIS is a balloon. In the end, it turns out he was actually a regular person who absorbed all information the cybermen had about the Doctor and only thought he was him, altrough still hugely helps Tenth into defeating the Cybermen.