History Recap / DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors

* TheNthDoctor

* TakeThatAudience, and TakeThatMe: The Second Doctor decides that they need to confuse the anti-matter monster with "mindless noise," then wonders if there's a television handy. [[spoiler: At the time this aired, wouldn't you, the viewer, watch this series on one?]]

** And what we saw on screen was actually ''toned down'' from the first take. Barry Letts happened to be escorting some children on a tour of the set when this scene was shot and Stephen Thorne's first scream scared the daylights out of them. Letts asked him to take it down a notch for a second take.

[[caption-width-right:350: [[Creator/PatrickTroughton Two]] [[Creator/JonPertwee Doctors]] are better than one. (When they aren't bickering, that is. Then you need a [[Creator/WilliamHartnell third one]] on a fuzzy monitor to break them up.)]]

[[caption-width-right:350: [[Creaypr/PatrickTroughton Two]] [[Creator/JonPertwee Doctors]] are better than one. (When they aren't bickering, that is. Then you need a [[Creator/WilliamHartnell third one]] on a fuzzy monitor to break them up.)]]

[[caption-width-right:350: Two Doctors are better than one. (When they aren't bickering, that is. Then you need a third one on a fuzzy monitor to break them up.)]]

* TakeThatMe: The Second Doctor decides that they need to confuse the anti-matter monster with "mindless noise," then wonders if there's a television handy.

Driven mad by his isolation and physically corroded to the point where only his will survives inside his armor, he threatens to destroy the universe, but he is tricked into picking up the Second Doctor's recorder -- the only thing not converted to antimatter when they travelled through the black hole -- and is destroyed.

* ArtisticLicenseMilitary: British Army officers should not salute civilians. However, given that the Brigadier thought the Doctors were about to do a HeroicSacrifice to save the entire universe, he probably felt bending the rules was justified.
* BattleInTheCenterOfTheMind: The Third Doctor challenges Omega to one of these... and loses, badly. The only reason he doesn't die is because the Second Doctor talks Omega out of it.

* TravelingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: The sidekicks escape from Omega's stronghold and head back to the Doctor's lab at UNIT HQ in the Doctor's car while the Doctors confront Omega and then escape themselves. The Doctors, on foot, arrive back at the lab only moments after everybody else, despite everybody else having the car and a significant head start.

The [[MilestoneCelebration tenth anniversary]] of ''Series/DoctorWho'' was marked with the first "Multi-Doctor" episode, a concept which would be used several more times over the coming years.

->''"Oh so you're [[Creator/WilliamHartnell my]] replacements -- a [[Creator/JonPertwee dandy]] and a [[Creator/PatrickTroughton clown]]!"''

* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: At one point the Brigadier -- suspicious about the Second Doctor's presence and not fully understanding the situation, believing that the Third Doctor has somehow regressed into his previous body -- demands to know whether he's still the Doctor by quizzing him about their previous experiences, including [[Recap/DoctorWhoS5E5TheWebOfFear the Yeti in the Underground]] and [[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E1SpearheadFromSpace the Nestene]] [[Recap/DoctorWhoS8E1TerrorOfTheAutons Consciousness]]. Partially subverted, however, since while the Second Doctor can remember the first one, as he cheerfully points out the second one hasn't happened for him yet, so he can't answer it.]]

* [[SubvertedCatchphrase Subverted]] SharePhrase: The "BiggerOnTheInside" line.

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->'''[[Characters/DoctorWhoJackHarkness Jack Harkness]]''': ''[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E13JourneysEnd Three Doctors?]] I can't tell you what I'm thinking right now...''

* ShoutOut: [[Music/TheBeatles "And we are all together, koo koo kachoo?"]]

* AGodAmI: Omega has fallen into this ''big'' time due to his years of isolation and bitterness and his control over the anti-matter realm. Made clear when the Doctor points out that he and Gallifreyian society regards him as a hero for what he did to establish Time Lord society:
-->'''Omega:''' A ''hero''? ''[[LargeHam I should have been a]] '''[[EvilIsHammy GOD]]'''!!!''

->''"Oh so you're my replacements -- a [[Creator/JonPertwee dandy]] and a [[Creator/PatrickTroughton clown]]!"''

* AGodAmI: Omega

* DudeWheresMyReward: Omega is not happy at being forgotten in spite of all of his achievements.

* EvilIsHammy: Omega, so much. To quote WebSite/SFDebris:
-->This is the kind of performance where Creator/BrianBlessed tells you, 'Can you tone it down a notch?'

* WholePlotReference: To ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.

* TakeThat: The Second Doctor decides that they need to confuse the anti-matter monster with "mindless noise," then wonders if there's a television handy.
** Could also count as a TakeThatMe, since this ''is'' a television series.

The one with killer pixels and the Doctor arguing with himself.

The [[MilestoneCelebration tenth anniversary]] episode of ''Series/DoctorWho'' was marked with the first "Multi-Doctor" episode, a concept which would be used several more times over the coming years.

* EvilIsHammy: Omega, so much. To quote WebSeries/SFDebris:

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