10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About Doctor Who 

"Chris Chibnall had a five-year plan" I would never accuse Chibnall of having any plan whatsoever.

As an amputee I really enjoyed the amputee woman in the episode where healing Nanites show up in London during the Battle of Britton and go about healing people wrong. The Doctor eventually sets things right (with the help of a medical doctor) and there is a woman, one of the victims and tells the medical doctor that she had come in with one leg but now she had two. The doctor asks, "Are you sure you didn't miscount?" For some reason I found this very amusing.

I was 10 in Nov 1963 and remember watching the first episode "live" on the 23rd, but what not many people know, or can remember, is that for the only time EVER, the BBC re-transmitted the complete first episode the following Saturday 30th just before episode 2 because of the devastating events that had taken place the previous Friday in Dallas. Now not many people know that :)

My personal theory on Susan coining the TARDIS name and meaning is that Gallifrey had a children's programme like Blue Peter, and one week, they had a contest to name the new type of time capsule; Susan won. Makes ya wonder what the badge for that show looks like...

10- I will accept that Jenny didn’t regenerate, if we also consider the possibility that she does have the ability to regenerate as a Timelord. This situation may only circumvented the process allowing her to continue her first generation. Frankly, if the series continues enough, I can see the character come back even in a new regenerated state.

"And no it isn't 'Mirror, mirror on the wall' . It's actually 'Magic mirror on the wall'" No, it's not. Maybe in the Disney-film, but then Disney got it wrong and not everybody else. In the original fairy tale it is "Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand, wer ist die Schönste im ganzen Land?" which translates to "Little mirror, little mirror, on the wall, who is the most beautiful one in the entire country?" or a little bit adjusted so it rhymes better: "Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all?" And by the way: Who is this "Everyone" who got these 10 things wrong?

Chibnall didn't have a 5 minute plan, never mind 5 years.

I think i do have an answer for why the diamond wall didnt resent in room 12, its not official but i think it makes perfect sense in the episode it was stated that the rooms inside the castle reset every day, it is also later revealed that the castle is actually inside the confession dial i believe the diamond wall is the wall of the confession dial and not actually a part of the castle itself meaning it doesn't reset

While in the movie it might be "Magic mirror on the wall", the original German version is "Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand", with Spieglein being a diminutive of mirror. The saying of 'mirror, mirror' in German dates back at least to 1812.

"The reference book The Time Traveller's Almanac, which is not accepted as a valid source for in-universe articles on this wiki, suggests that Jenny's revival was not due to regeneration but rather the Source, as suggested by visual cues in the episode."

We know from several different versions that often Daleks are basically like different parts of an army so some have more armour, some are more intelligent, some have special weapons and also we are seeing them over millions of years as they evolved as well. Just a matter of which version you came up against as to what they could do.

For the 3. No Steven, it's because you write all your female characters in the same way that we confuse them. (I love Moffat but this is his fault not ours.)

5:10 actually, it is "Mirror, mirror on the wall". Magic Mirror is a mistranslation of the original «Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand»

One of Doctor Who's many memorable continuity errors involves the name TARDIS. TARDIS is Susan's PERSONAL name for her Grandfather's time-travel machine, yet on various occasions we hear it used as if it is a generic term for such a device.

“The Day of The Doctor” made it abundantly clear that not all Gallifreyans are Time Lords (because it shows civilians on Gallifrey).

7:20 MYTH: Doctor Who has been on the air for 59 years. Reality: Doctor Who has been on the air for 43 years. There was a 16 year gap between the final episode of the 7th Doctor and the first episode of the 9th. (The TV movie excepted.) OK then call it 15 years that Who was off the air, not counting reruns.

10. Source energy and Regeneration energy are too similar. What if Jenny did regenerate? What if Source energy and Regeneration energy are the same thing? Perhaps being part Timelord is what allowed the Source energy to regenerate her. 9. Although I understand that not all Galifreyans are Timelords, it's easy to mistake because it's not just the fans that use them interchangably. Many show writers seem to forget this distinction, seeing as how often Timelords refer to Timelords as a race, ignoring any distinction between them and non-Timelord Galifreyans. Although I suppose this could be explained in how entitled Timelords tend to be. 7. I don't recall mention of a "five-year plan". But I do recall mention of a "3-season plan". But that could be a variation of the same myth I suppose.

Tasha Lem and River has many more in common to a point that either Moffat forgot character should have at least some differences, or he forgot that he placed River in there and told this. One particular one everyone forget is the doctor told Tasha she was fighting the psycopath in her.

I know River Song inside out, and she is definitely her own woman!

I have watched since the first series. I missed the first few. As a 10 yr old, my friend at school told me about the series. He said "It's great, there are monsters called "Garlics." When I told my parents I wanted to watch this, they were rightly amused and asked if the monsters grabbed you and breathed in your face!!

With River Song and Tasha Lem - it shows that the Doctor has a type of woman (slightly criminally insane).

Went to the Doctor Who museum in Blackpool in 1984. I was in Heaven! Have a coffee mug with the Tardis on it, a leather Doctor Who book mark, own every episode except the last few on blu-ray and still watch them every year in sequence. My grown kids are fanatics like their Mom. My daughter called my G.P. Doctor Who. His name was Neville Hughes, he was from Birmingham, and he loved that she called him that. She was 3 at the time! Guess you could say we’re a bunch if nerds, but we’re proud of that. Wasn’t aware of these misconceptions until moments ago. Thanks! 🖖🏻 🇨🇦

There are a couple of "dead unicorn" tropes associated with Doctor Who. One is that in the classic series "all alien planets looked like quarries". Whilst Doctor Who did film in quarries for some of its episodes, to depict barren planets, I think it was _Blake's 7_ that did that the most at the time and for whom the joke was originally said.

Actually the Daleks definitely can’t climb stairs! They can fly to the top of the stairs, but they can’t climb

The image of Peter Capaldi's head on a nude torso will now haunt my nightmares for weeks. Thanks, Ellie.

I think it was obvious chibnall didn’t have a 5 year plan, or any plan at all for that matter

WhoCulture: “Things Everyone Gets Wrong About DW” Also WhoCulture: “DW has been ON THE AIR for 59 years…” 😂

Honestly thought seeing that thumbnail, this was gonna talk about the "pull to open" thing with the TARDIS doors. Even though Pull To Open only applies to the phone hatch door.

While mainly right about Grade/Powell and Cregeen- the Unholy trinity, it was Grade who got the ball rolling when the show was 'rested'. So he instigated the whole thing. The behind-the scenes book Regeneration by Philip Segal and Gary Russell sheds a more interesting light on the subject- that it was a combination of things that led to the cancellation and well worth a read.

Technically Daleks cannot "CLIMB" stairs. They can hover or levitate above stairs, they are not actually "CLIMBING" the stairs.

In a fun double meaning, the lady playing "the doctor's daughter" in the episode, actually is the daughter of one of the early "Doctor" actors.

5:08 "...and no, it isn't mirror mirror on the wall-" Yes. Yes, it damn well is! The only version where it's "magic mirror on the wall" is the Disney version. *LITERALLY EVERY OTHER VERSION EVER WRITTEN,* including the original German version written by the Brothers Grimm, themselves, had it mirror mirror on the wall. Well, okay, technically, the German version was "spieglen spieglan an der wand," which more directly translates to "looking glass looking glass on the wall," buuuuut, close enough.

Regarding the spare set of clothes, if the first run through isn't the first cycle then we can imagine the Doctor deciding to run through naked on one cycle to leave himself some clothes for later.

chibnall didnt have a 5 year plan. chibnall didnt have any plans at all. he just threw shit at the wall to see what would happen

While you're right about the Disney movie quote, it's actually that quote that's wrong. In essentially every other iteration of the story it's "mirror mirror on the wall", including the German original ("Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand")

A couple of these I didn't know but most I did and in fact have never met a Doctor Who fan who made a lot of these "mistakes".

Time Lords aren't Gallifrey's "government officials." You're thinking of the High Council of the Time Lords. They wear the funny hats/collars.

"Good luck getting that image out of your head." Why would I want to?

You can add that to the list of things people get wrong about Doctor Who. It has NOT, in fact been running for sixty years. It started nearly sixty years ago, BUT that's about the limit of the six decade connection. The original show actually ran from 1963 UNTIL 1989. With the exception of a single story movie in 1996, Doctor Who did NOT in fact, return to television until 2005, and has been running continuously since. The show has actually had a non-consecutive FORTY-THREE year run in all.

I can see people possibly conflating Chibnall's ideas with what was known as the Cartmel Plan from the original series, resulting in the idea of a Chibnall Plan. They both even involved changes to the nature of the Doctor.

0:02 she did it she realy did it. And I like this “wibbly wobbly” 😅👌

I don't know why you are being so picky. I watched Dr. Who from the very first episode, when i was in the cubs. I am now 67 and still enjoy the DOCTOR'S adventures, whoever depicts this being. To enjoy this special programme and the concepts it gives us, you have to suspend belief, so i did exactly that, why can't you stop picking holes in it?

The number 1 thing people get wrong about Dr. Who, is the misconception that it is a good show. It isn't, and never has been good. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

Also, on Nov 22, 1963, the Beatles released 'With The Beatles'. This is the Album that got them noticed in America and started Beatlemania.

I don't consider the timeless children canon, so I don't really give a crap what the episode says.

The books I read as a kid (Grimms' Fairy Tales, 1812) all had, "Mirror, mirror on the wall...", and you'll find it in every translation, e.g. the original German is "Spieglen, spieglen an der wand....". The fact that Disney inexplicably decided to change it to "Magic mirror..." doesn't make the original wrong; it's misquoted in the animation. Yet another example of [modern] Internetizens (who have probably never read the original story) rewriting history.

6:31 - If you pay attention, you can actually notice that the figure moves similar to Matt Smith's movements, so it is likely that Smith himself might have shot the scene.

I knew that Jenny was from the source stuff, it’s clear with the fact it’s green tint and that she doesn’t change or modern regenerate explosion, just gets reborn

So close to 100k subscribers, keep up the good work!!

Doctor Who has not 'been on the air' for 59 years. As for 'Dimensions', that was first coined (with grammatic accuracy) by Vicki in The Time Meddler and used throughout the original series other than a couple of instances, so no, 'Dimension' is not the most used iteration of the TARDIS acronym.

A naked Peter Capaldi's far from the worst visual I could imagine...

Great, intelligent video! One item was very illuminating! :) Just one thing: the wall was not made of daimond.

Well, if the original plans for Ace had been carried out then not all Timelords would be Gallifrain. The plan was that the Doctor was preparing Ace to go to the Academy (or University) to become a Timelord. Of course, that was all done away with by the series cancelation and rebrith so I guess it's true now. :)

Of course Jenny regenerated. She became a complete different woman Who married David Tennant. 😂🤣😹🎉

Just so you know the timeless child episode was removed as cannon by the directors and the BBC. So it's not supposed to exist as a plot line anymore. At least just the Episodes in the 13th doctor about it.

I'm.glad you mentioned 12 running around naked that's always amused me lol

Even though Michael Grade didn't cancel Doctor Who, he still should take most of the blame. He got it into the state where it needed to be cancelled with intentions of getting it cancelled.

Knew 10 out of 10. Also the wall doesn’t reset because it exists both in and outside the confession dial at the same time.

3:50. They're not climbing stairs! They're rising above them! 🤣

Ron Grainer always wanted Derbyshire to be recognised as a co composer but the BBC refused, Delia was a pioneer of electronic music and without her involvement the Dr Who theme music would have been a forgetable traditional instrumental.

Even Claudia Grant, who played Carol Anne Ford (Suzan Foreman) in An Adventure in Time and Space, when, as Susan, explains how she came up with Tardis uses 'dimensions' rather than 'dimension'. That really pissed me off.

In some of the classic Who stories the Daleks had anti-gravity technology, like the " lift " shafts in Planet Of The Daleks, so the only thing I can think is, that the forth Doctor's escape in Destiny Of The Daleks, is the cause of the staircase joke. But the reason the Dalek can't chase him, is because the ceiling is too low, for the Dalek to follow and the Dalek's gun can't get up at the right angle to hit him. The cause of the Dr Who debut versus the Kennedy Assassination, actually comes from the BBC postponing programmes in a mark of respect, including the first Dr Who. Tasha Lem is clearly one of many girlfriends, because the first Doctor romanced an ancient Greek woman, so his wife, Susan's grandmother clearly was either dead or they were divorced, or separated.

Time Lord is the title, Gallifreyan is the species

Grade did his utmost to undermine the programme and made sure that his successor would have had to make a 2005-style commitment to repair the damage.

When "dimensions" has been said on the show - especially when its been said by the doctor himself - you cannot claim "dimension" is the only correct option. Ridiculous.

It's just a jump to the left And then a step to the right With your hands on your hips You bring your knees in tight But it's the pelvic thrust That really drives you insane Let's do the Time Warp again Let's do the Time Warp again

Galafreyans are the name of the race and time lords are the ones who ascend to a higher rank and get to live in the citadel

It did have to be re-aired a week later. But it debuted on Nov 23, 1963

If the terraforming thing brought Jenny back and not the fact she’s The Doctor’s daughter, why didn’t it do that for all the other soldiers that died?

I was going to cite "The Chase" as the first proof of Daleks levitating, but not the part you indicated. When the Daleks are on the sailing ship, one of them is on the little upper deck portion. It could only have gotten there via levitation. But yeah, we actually SEE it in another part of the story. BTW, The Chase is one of the very best Classic serials, regardless of Doctor. (First, in this case.)

There's no getting around the fact that at some point, the Doctor left his clothes, without having a replacement.

I came to Doctor Who from downloading it for my tv station. I still enjoy that he always seems to land where there's trouble (makes for better tv), while he also has his own problems.

10 isn't 10, he's 11 and 12. We had the War Doctor between 8 & 9, so War Doctor is 9. That makes 9 actually 10, and 10 actually 11. Then Tennant's Doctor regenerated, though without changing his face, in Journey's End. He still used a full regeneration though. He said himself he used enough energy to heal himself, and channeled the rest into his spare hand. So the energy was all still used.

The only five years of chibnal anyone wants is five straight years of him apologizing to Jody for fucking up so badly.

Love the editing of the clips for this video 👌🏽

Well actually sometimes nongallifreyians can be time lords

I wondered why there was only one time we saw the TARDIS doors open OUT, rather then IN, in Matt Smith's first episode, when the TARDIS has crashed into Amelia's garden shed...

in my reality the timeless child never took place and 12th skipped a regeneration

If "everyone"" gets these things wrong then who compiled this list?

I bet a disproportionate number of physicists don't add the s because the first thing we think of when hearing the word dimension is different.

I will never consider the timeless child as canon. It is fan fiction and should be treated as such

Chibnal didn't even have a morning plan

Although it was never mentioned, Daleks appeared to have the ability to go up stairs in "Dalek Invasion of Earth" as they are seen in the upper levels of ruined buildings and at the top of the steps in Trafalgar Square. In their next story, The Chase, they appear on several dufferent decks on the Marie Celeste. Although in that same story Ian points to a staircase and says thatbthey are safe from the Daleks there. Just before the Daleks appear and get arracked by Frankenstein's monster. Oh, blimey.

But a Dalek did try at the beginning of the series back in the day when they found the Dalek couldn't walk down the stairs or levitate. One tried to follow the Doctor down a few stairs and it hesitated, leading the Doctor and his companions realising it couldn't go downstairs and pushed it where it fell on its side.

Chibnall couldn't plan his way out of a shallow hole in the ground!

Michael Grade wanted to cancel Doctor Who, Jonathon Powell was his assistant, pretty much his protégé so when Grade left as soon as Powell had the opportunity he carried out his master's bidding and cancelled the series. Also Grade is full of crap as he complained about Doctor Who look cheap but he was in control of the budget at because he wanted to get rid of it he wouldn't give them more money.

I really need that Jenny to come back. « Hi dad ! »

This episode...Dr Who gets into a PortaJohn and flys off by mistake.

The most obvious mistake people make is calling the main character Doctor Who. Also the name Time Rotor was never meant to apply to the central column but one of the controls. You might have mentioned this in a previous video.

Nothing Jodie Whitaker did will ever be Canon. I'll still give it to the narrator that not all the residents of gallifrey are time lords. But we do not speak of Whitaker. Or chibnall, chibnall was awful and should never have worked on that show.

The Doctor had to leave his clothes the first time without a change for a couple reasons. First , if he didn't there wouldn't have been a change for the second time through, and thus every subsequent time. Second, he did the Dial the same every single time. That was the whole point of the show. I know Moffat wrote the damn thing, but sometimes I think he has a tendency to blame his own shortcomings as a writer on the fans interpreting it wrong.

2:50 Erm you forgot the most obvious examples of Gallifreyan non Time Lords! The people we see in the Time War flashbacks in the 50th! Also for references to the Academy you really should have included what the old lady in the barn said when Clara was hiding under a young boy (we later realise is the Doctor)'s bed in Listen!

To answer the question on the castle from heaven sent... The clothes, the food? believe it or not... the Vale is the one who prepared everything *for* the doctor. Apparently in the novelization of the ep, the Vale even becomes sentient and wished to escape *with* the doctor after he broke through the wall. Hoping it'd be taken with him... it's... kinda fucked up when you think about it.

Heaven Sent The diamond wall didn't reset because it was not part of the loop. Why would a Time Lord put that in their own dial? It was placed there as part of the trap

Number 9 the doctor even says I'm the last of the time Lords but never says I'm the last of the galifreyans

Most of these are fake rumors I had never heard to begin with. And I never used the wrong name for the TARDIS (nor does it roll better on the tongue, tbh). As for #10... I'm pretty sure the mistaken assumption is only in this video. Jenny wasn't a Time Lord. Therefore nobody ever believed she would just get up and resurrect herself. Everybody who saw the episode *SAW* that it was the terraforming energy from that place that helped her. This was never in doubt, no need to rewatch it frame by frame. *However,* what people assume is that the terraforming thingee *kickstarted* Jenny's partial Time Lord DNA, and allowed her to regenerate, hence why you see the typical golden regeneration effect *besides* the green thing. Therefore, it was a unique combination of factors. Something similar happens in "Let's Kill Hitler", by the way, with enough energy being given to the Doctor to keep him alive. Sure, it is an assumption, but assuming that "no, that thing can resurrect anyone" is also an assumption. Just a worse one.

Plan or no plan. the Timeless child is, and will always will be, a very dumb idea that exists just to wreck the past of the series for no good reason other than he could.

While I like The Source Explanation for Jenny, Having Timelord DNA does leave the possibility that she can also Regenerate - So there is an opening to bring her back at any time they wish... And it would also mean they can cast a Different Actress and have an explanation! That said, NO JENY DID NOT REGENERATE - She HEALED! There is a Difference and we have seen it before... ... Namely when David Tennant lost his hand in The Christmas Invasion! Yeah, People forget that one... So NO I can 100% accept Jenny did NOT Regenerate - It was the Source, but it does not mean she CANNOT REGENERATE! There are some others I have thought of Fans and Non-Fans get wrong - EARTHSHOCK is a good one... Why didn't the Doctor use the TARDIS to save Adric? There is a very simple explanation... He couldn't! Fans and Non-Fans always make teh mistake of thinking the Doctor can Pilot the TARDIS when in fact he TRIES but is only "Half Capable" - Not only is teh TARDIS Sentient to a degree and makes it sown decisions... LOOK AT THE CONSOLE!!! And yes, while never bought up regular in show... This is 100% CANON! A TARDIS is supposed to have at least 3 Pilots, Preferably 6!!! Each TARDIS is supposed to have a crew of 3 to 6 people to fly it... That is how Timelords negate the will of the Semi Living Machine and make it do what they require... But the Doctor STOLE his TARDIS... He does not have a full crew, and the TARDIS itself can therefore influence where it wants to go and where it believes the Doctor Needs to be against his wishes! Wait!? Am I saying that like the fans the TARDIS Hated Adric? No... Nothing like that! We all know TV Shows and Movie shave Dramatic Tension - So Adric's Final Scenes which seem to drag out - Much like Captain Jack when he almost dies and is saved by the Doctor at the last minute in The Doctor Dances probably lasted MERE SECONDS in Universe... The TARDIS simply could NOT allow such a rescue as it would have placed itself in Danger - While it is a fantastic and Amazing Machine, It's not impervious... Nor is it's Time Travel and Dimension Hopping abilities perfect... It takes a short amount of time to Land / Launch and is Vulnerable during this time... For the show, We see time dragged out as that adds "Dramatic Tension" - But in Universe - Saving Adric was IMPOSSIBLE even with the TARDIS... And I just realised I answered TWO in one Comment! The fact the Doctor Pilots teh TARDIS (He doesn't... He tries but is totally useless as it's not a Single Pilot Machine!) and WHY The Doctor did not save Adric! (It was IMPOSSIBLE!)

Another interesting bit about Jenny is that the Doctor apparently knows she's out there, because Clara mentions her when she's telling the Cyberman that she's the Doctor. How would Clara have known that unless the Doctor told her?

It is 'mirror mirror', you're citing the 1937 Disney movie as the original source. It was changed.