OT: Dr. Who

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You'll never BELIEVE what John Esak said here...:
> 
> Well, of course, but as I said, there was a different tone about his home
> world in the first/original series. By First season, I mean the first season
> of this new BBC production. As they said this is series 5 of the new stuff.
> I wondered if in series one, it talks about this personal tie to the
> destruction of Galafrey. (sp?)

>From memory, he starts opening up about Gallifrey's fate by series 1,
episode 2, "The End of the World".  That's the first mention of what
happened.  More is revealed in later episodes, including "Dalek", and many
others throughout the multiple series.  But there's significant backstory
given in series 1.

I really, really wish there was a way they could go back and explore
on-camera the events surrounding the fate of Gallifrey, but you'd really
need to go back to the 8th doctor (which was the one from the Fox one-off
movie "Doctor Who", Paul McGann) in order to do it without screwing up the
doctor count.  And that movie didn't have anything to do with the
events--it's just alluded to that that's the regeneration involved--it
happens before the start of series 1, and presumably before the 9th
Doctor/8th regeneration.

And yes, there are 13 episodes per series in the new programme, barring the
five-episode collection of specials from 2009 (the post-series-4 specials).
Then it goes back to 13 in series 5.

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