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Doctor Who: Christmas Specials and Behind the Scenes

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  1. 1. Song who gets a 24-year night at Darillium's Singing Towers
  2. 5. Pettigrew, the singer kept on ice as collateral in the 2010 special
  3. 7. Pink returns as a dream of domestic bliss in the 2014 festive adventure
  4. 10. Paul behind the camera for the 2014 festive dream within a dream
  5. 12. Telepathic precipitation menaces Victorian London in the 2012 Christmas special
  6. 13. Peth, the waitress whose last journey turns her into stardust
  7. 14. Bogus historian aboard the doomed space liner, with a surname fit for a penny

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  1. 1. Widowed in error: Madge Arwell's RAF husband
  2. 2. Spider-like species whose empress menaces London in the 2006 Christmas special
  3. 3. Elder Arwell child who steps through a present into a wintry forest
  4. 4. Bow tie and a farewell wig: the Eleventh Doctor's actor's first name
  5. 6. Saxon who sabotages her husband's resurrection in the 2009 Christmas special
  6. 8. Shipwreck history repeats itself in space for the 2007 Christmas special
  7. 9. Santa's actor in the 2014 special sounds like a nip in the air
  8. 11. Stargazing Mott's familiar name, heard before four fatal knocks

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Doctor Who: The Classic Era from 1963 to 1989

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  1. 1. Jean Marsh played this space security agent surnamed Kingdom
  2. 2. Royal Navy able seaman played by Michael Craze
  3. 4. American botany student who joins the Fifth Doctor on Lanzarote
  4. 5. Scientist Shaw, the Third Doctor's first assistant
  5. 8. Peaceful blond people encountered in the show's second serial
  6. 10. Military rank of Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart
  7. 12. Dorothea Chaplet's birdlike nickname
  8. 13. Mathematical prodigy aboard the Wheel space station
  9. 14. Military organization first seen in 'The Invasion'

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  1. 1. Ancient reptile people stirring in caves beneath the Wenley Moor research centre
  2. 3. Traken aristocrat whose home world is destroyed in 'Logopolis'
  3. 6. Shape-changing android first seen in 'The King's Demons'
  4. 7. Emotionless cyborgs first seen in 1966, invading a South Pole tracking station
  5. 9. Peter behind the Fifth Doctor's cricketing whites
  6. 11. 'The Power of ___' features a monstrous squid

Doctor Who: Famous Episodes and Stories

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  1. 1. Waterborne infection that overtakes the crew of Bowie Base One
  2. 3. Celestial body that turns out to be an egg in a 2014 episode
  3. 5. Biblical vessel in the title of a 1975 adventure aboard Nerva
  4. 6. A sinister spell in the title of a Seventh Doctor story featuring Fenric
  5. 7. Relationship claimed in the title of Neil Gaiman's 2011 TARDIS adventure
  6. 11. A sightseeing shuttle's passengers turn on one another in this 2008 story
  7. 13. Patrick Troughton plays both hero and villain in 'The ___ of the World'
  8. 15. Finality promised by the title of a 1979 Paris caper, 'City of ___'
  9. 16. Ancient monuments named in the title of a 1975 Sutekh serial

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  1. 2. Azal and the gargoyle Bok appear in this 1971 serial, 'The ___'
  2. 4. Space train haunted by a mummy in 2014: the ___ Express
  3. 8. Adjective before 'Child' in the title of Steven Moffat's gas-mask mystery
  4. 9. Shape-shifting aliens behind a 1975 Loch Ness mystery
  5. 10. Planet-sized archive where the Doctor first meets River Song
  6. 12. Tentacled servants introduced in the Tenth Doctor's 2006 black-hole adventure
  7. 14. Red planet visited by Adelaide Brooke's doomed expedition

Doctor Who: Gallifrey and Time Lord Lore

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  1. 1. Circular insignia decorating the High Council's ceremonial robes
  2. 3. Disgraced leader whose brain survives in a monstrous patchwork body
  3. 6. Organ of which a typical Time Lord has two
  4. 7. Operative played by Ritu Arya in 'Fugitive of the Judoon'
  5. 9. The Doctor's ship sounds its ___ Bell when catastrophe threatens
  6. 11. Mysterious third founder in the Virgin New Adventures novels
  7. 12. The Doctor's former tutor seeks immortality in 'The Five Doctors'
  8. 13. Gloucester tour guide whose human identity conceals a fugitive incarnation

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  1. 1. Ceremonial band worn across the High President's body
  2. 2. Jewellery promising immortality in 'The Five Doctors'
  3. 3. Repository of departed Time Lords' minds, entered through the APC Net
  4. 4. Staff carried as part of the High President's ceremonial regalia
  5. 5. Twin suns shine over this world beneath an orange sky
  6. 8. Explorer who adopts the child later known as the Doctor
  7. 10. The Last Great Time ___ pitted an ancient civilization against the Daleks

Doctor Who: The Actors Who Played the Doctor

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  1. 1. ___ Atkinson, comic star who played the Doctor in The Curse of Fatal Death
  2. 4. Jo ___, introduced as the Fugitive Doctor in 2020
  3. 5. The Elephant Man star who became the War Doctor
  4. 6. Hairpiece used for the Eleventh Doctor's farewell after its star shaved his head for Lost River
  5. 7. The Thick of It's Malcolm Tucker, later the Twelfth Doctor
  6. 10. Famously lengthy neckwear associated with the Fourth Doctor
  7. 12. Metalworking surname of the Eleventh Doctor's portrayer
  8. 13. Fourth Doctor actor's first name, also a male cat

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  1. 2. Broadchurch star who became the first woman to lead Doctor Who as the Doctor
  2. 3. Third Doctor actor's first name, three letters long
  3. 4. Surname of the leading man in the 1996 Doctor Who television movie
  4. 6. Original Doctor actor's first name, shared with Shakespeare
  5. 8. Seventh Doctor actor who also played Radagast in The Hobbit films
  6. 9. The War Doctor's portrayer had this first name
  7. 11. Brimless hat declared cool by the Eleventh Doctor

Doctor Who: Companions of the Doctor

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  1. 1. The Doctor's granddaughter, enrolled at Coal Hill School as ___ Foreman.
  2. 4. Australian flight attendant ___ Jovanka.
  3. 5. A warrior of the Sevateem tribe who travels with the Fourth Doctor.
  4. 6. The Seventh Doctor's teenage friend, known for carrying explosives.
  5. 10. Matt Lucas plays this bald alien helper of the Twelfth Doctor.
  6. 12. The Eleventh Doctor's red-haired friend, Ms. Pond.
  7. 13. Schoolteacher ___ Oswald, nicknamed the Impossible Girl.
  8. 14. Mr. Chesterton, the science teacher who joins the First Doctor.
  9. 15. Shop assistant ___ Tyler, who travels with the Ninth Doctor.

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  1. 2. Pilot ___ Taylor, whom the First Doctor finds stranded on Mechanus.
  2. 3. Captain ___ Harkness, the immortal former Time Agent.
  3. 4. Schoolboy Vislor ___, who travels with the Fifth Doctor.
  4. 6. Young mathematical genius from Alzarius who wears a gold star badge.
  5. 7. Retired bus driver ___ O'Brien.
  6. 8. Full first name of the computer programmer nicknamed Mel.
  7. 9. Nurse ___ Williams, who marries Ms. Pond.
  8. 11. Nickname of police officer Yasmin Khan.

Doctor Who: Daleks, Cybermen and Classic Villains

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  1. 5. Title of the Doctor's recurring rival played by Roger Delgado.
  2. 6. Board game with kings and pawns used to defeat Fenric.
  3. 8. Renegade scientist played by Kate O'Mara.
  4. 10. Trance-inducing method Roger Delgado's villain uses to control minds.
  5. 13. '___!' is the signature command of the pepperpot invaders.
  6. 14. Shop display figure animated in 'Spearhead from Space'.

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  1. 1. Sound of speech, given a harsh electronic quality by the pepperpot invaders.
  2. 2. Kaled scientist who created the Daleks on Skaro.
  3. 3. Furry Himalayan creature imitated by the Great Intelligence's machines.
  4. 4. Seeing organ on the end of a Dalek's stalk.
  5. 7. Clone soldier from the potato-headed alien race.
  6. 9. Animal form taken by the Mara in 'Kinda'.
  7. 11. Greek letter used as the name of the villain in 'The Three Doctors'.
  8. 12. Dimension measured in seconds that the Weeping Angels exploit.

Doctor Who: The TARDIS and Time Travel Terms

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  1. 5. Central control panel used to steer the traveling police booth.
  2. 6. Inside portion of the police booth, surprisingly larger than its exterior.
  3. 7. Regular traveling friend of the show's Gallifreyan hero.
  4. 9. British street fixture seen in the series: police ___.
  5. 10. Planet where Rose Tyler and Martha Jones were born.
  6. 11. Small object used to unlock the traveling police booth.
  7. 12. The time happening right now.

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  1. 1. Adjective meaning 'relating to sound' in the name of the hero's signature handheld tool.
  2. 2. Hinged entrance beneath the 'Police Public Call' sign.
  3. 3. Numbers specifying an exact location, entered to guide a journey.
  4. 4. Place a traveler intends to reach.
  5. 7. Wall-mounted instrument whose hands mark hours and minutes.
  6. 8. Period before the current moment, reachable by traveling backward through time.
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