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= June 12 =

Doctor Who - Earth-like Gallifrey/Second Doctor errors
1. In the Doctor Who episode The Five Doctors, why did the Time Lords' home planet Gallifrey appear to be like Earth? The grass was green, not red. The trees were green, not silver. The rocks were grey, not red, brown, purple and gold. 86.130.115.252 (talk) 17:50, 12 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Somebody failed to keep a close check on continuity. Wymspen (talk) 20:06, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
 * And/or they had a limited budget. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 20:09, 12 June 2016 (UTC)
 * Bugs is right about the budget. Also it was 1983 and CGI was non-existent. It should be noted that some of the descriptions of what Gallifrey looks like come after this story. BTW if you want WP:OR the outdoor scenes take place in the "Death Zone" which had not been described before so it could easily look different from the rest of the planet. MarnetteD&#124;Talk 20:22, 12 June 2016 (UTC)

The whole planet (especially the sky and the landscape) was not all brown, yellow, orange and red. As seen in the episodes The Invasion of Time, The Sound of Drums, The End of Time, The Name of the Doctor, The Day of the Doctor, Heaven Sent and Hell Bent. 86.130.115.252 (talk) 16:41, 13 June 2016 (UTC)

2. Also in that episode, why did the 2nd Doctor say to the illusions of his two last companions Jamie McCrimmon and Zoe Heriot that the Time Lords wiped out their memories of their adventures with him before returning them home in their own times? Because they departed in his final story The War Games, before the Time Lords forced him to regenerate and sent him to Earth in the 1970s in exile as the 3rd Doctor. He would not have been at UNIT Headquarters in the 1980s before he regenerated. I assume that he would've had a fourth meeting with the older Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart after their second meeting in The Invasion and third in The Three Doctors, while Jamie and Zoe were in the TARDIS. And the illusions would've been of his first two companions Polly and Ben Jackson, since they never met the Brigadier. 109.158.183.53 (talk) 18:06, 14 June 2016 (UTC)

Also, why did he mention Omega? I thought his memory of the events of The Three Doctors had been wiped out when he was returned to his own time. 109.158.183.53 (talk) 15:55, 15 June 2016 (UTC)


 * Speculation on what any script writer "meant", or any discussion of "why did they ..." is not the bailiwick of the Reference Desk. Here is a page full of search results for Doctor Who discussion forums, any of which would be a more appropriate place to ask these questions.  -- LarryMac  | Talk  16:29, 15 June 2016 (UTC

In another episode The Two Doctors, how come his hair was grey, rather than dark? And how come his TARDIS console and interior had the appearance used by the 4th and 5th Doctors? 109.158.183.53 (talk) 18:45, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
 * You should read the Continuity (fiction) article. ←Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots→ 18:47, 15 June 2016 (UTC)