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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0="catalina_marina"]What's with all those [insert number here]th (/st/nd/rd... Geez, what's with this language? ) doctors, anyway?[/quoteost_uid0]
The part of the Doctor has changed hands several times. Three special episodes have featured multiple Doctors (the current occupant of the role plus some or all predecessors) interacting with each other.

I thought it was fun in SCMoll's fiver of "The Five Doctors" that not only did he use the five Doctors who were in that special (actually, three Doctors, an impostor recast Doctor, and stock footage of another), extra Doctors were thrown into the mix. I thought that was great and stole it for my fiver of "An Unearthly Child", which is the pilot episode of Doctor Who. It also gave me a chance to point out that late in the series, when the Doctor could steer the TARDIS, an explanation was provided for why the Doctor had visited where he was in the beginning of the pilot--even though at the beginning of the show he couldn't steer the TARDIS and could never visit a particular place on purpose.

"So you're my replacements, eh? A dandy and a clown!" is a line from "The Three Doctors", when the First Doctor scoffs at his two successors. It occurred to me that these comparisons also fit the Seventh and Sixth Doctors, who had just come in to ridicule the whole steering-the-TARDIS thing. So the First Doctor still has the upper hand.

And since I brought in extra Doctors there I thought I might as well do it for the shape-of-the-TARDIS scene, especially since it's the Sixth Doctor who actually fixes the "chamelion circuit" (temporarily).

Sorry this is so lengthy. I was just watching "The Five Doctors" with Peter Davison's commentary track on DVD. Now I'm giving a commentary track on my own fiver. Hope that answers your question...


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