Talk:The End of Time (Doctor Who)

Serial or single episode?
Considering that this was broadcast in two parts, should it be counted as a serial, as opposed to a single episode? 86.7.148.216 (talk) 10:05, 19 February 2023 (UTC)


 * The current consensus is that it's a two-part episode. See The Best of Both Worlds (Star Trek: The Next Generation). DonQuixote (talk) 14:06, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm really sorry to bother you, but I still don't quite understand. If you don't mind, would you mind explaining the difference? 86.7.148.216 (talk) 16:51, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
 * Old Doctor Who is a serialised format, much like Star Trek Picard, Hawkeye, The Umbrella Academy, etc. New Doctor Who is an episodic format, much like Star Trek TOS, The Flash, Red Dwarf, etc. Episodic television can have two-part episodes. DonQuixote (talk) 17:05, 19 February 2023 (UTC)
 * In that case, what makes "Mission to the Unknown" an episode rather than a serial? Aquanafrahudy (talk) 16:24, 2 March 2023 (UTC)
 * It's literally a single episode. It was when every episode had their own titles (part 1, episode 1, etc didn't happen until season 4). DonQuixote (talk) 17:00, 2 March 2023 (UTC)

For what it's worth I have never agreed with The End of Time and Spyfall being not considered the same as two-part stories from the "old" series and seems merely to be a severe case of WP:IDONTLIKEIT, attempting to draw an arbitrary distinction between classics and new. Series 22 is, structurally, no different to revived Series 9 so to say NuWho is episodic is a generalisation. There's also many two-part stories from the classic series, such as Black Orchid, which are described as a "serial", terminology that only exists to be arbitrary for the sake of it, it would seem. Spa-Franks (talk) 22:20, 20 February 2023 (UTC)