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* [[Screwed by the Network]]: Happened quite a few times in the 80's, which ultimately put the show on a year and a half hiatus and was the reason Colin Baker was fired.
* [[Series Hiatus]]: The 1985-86 hiatus.
** The cancellation of the classic series in 1989 was originally described as a "hiatus" by the BBC. And it was, of a sort. It just lasted considerably longer than the earlier one: at least seven years (until the 1996 TV movie) and up to sixteen years (until the series resumes on a regular basis with
* [[Sure Why Not]]: In the non-canon [[Comic Relief]] special "The Curse of Fatal Death", the Doctor regenerates into a woman. In ''The End of Time'', the Eleventh Doctor feels his face and hair and freaks out, thinking he's regenerated into a woman. In "The Doctor's Wife", the Doctor mentions that the Corsair has had both male and female incarnations.
** The idea of the word "doctor" meaning wise man or healer and deriving from the Doctor himself has been in [[Steven Moffat]]'s mind [http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.drwho/browse_thread/thread/7cd734f99a62ae98/c845f05e9b213df9?lnk=st&q&hl=en&pli=1 for at least 16 years, back when he was just a fan].
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