From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10gl35t$1o8k5$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Your Name   wrote:   
   >On 2025-12-01 12:40:11 +0000, Daniel70 said:   
   >> On 1/12/2025 11:22 pm, solar penguin wrote:   
   >>> Daniel declared:   
   >>>> On 1/12/2025 2:30 pm, Nomen Nescio wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Could a retcon be concocted that way?   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Sorry. What do you mean?? Peter Cushing being one of the missing   
   >>>> Timeless Child incarnations?? (I could live with that.) Peter Cushing   
   >>>> being after DoctorJo?? (I could live with that ... but less so.)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> What do you mean??   
   >>>   
   >>> The only trouble is that the Cushing Dr Who films were remakes of   
   >>> Hartnell serials. You would have to explain why both Doctors were   
   >>> present at the same events, doing the same things at the same time, but   
   >>> never saw each other.   
   >>>   
   >>> And that's before you deal with the alternative versions of Susan, Ian,   
   >>> Barbara, etc. Are they all Timeless Children too?   
   >>>   
   >>> You could probably find a way to make it work, but it seems like it   
   >>> would be a lot of trouble.   
   >>   
   >> Oh!! Is that right? O.K., then, that WOULD make things difficult!!   
   >   
   >Peter Cushing theorised that the Toymaker made the Dcotor relive the   
   >adventures:   
   >   
   >    When Cushing was asked how his Doctor fit into the continuity   
   >    of the series, he said, "One of the few episodes of the Doctor   
   >    Who series that I saw involved a kind of mystical clown   
   >    (The Celestial Toymaker), and I realised that perhaps he   
   >    kidnapped Doctor Who and wiped his memory and made him relive   
   >    some of his earlier adventures. When Bill Hartnell turned into   
   >    Patrick Troughton and changed his appearance, that idea seemed   
   >    more likely. I think that's what happened, so I think those   
   >    films we did fit perfectly well into the TV series."   
   >   
   >   
   >BUT, an in-universe solution already exists where the character Peter   
   >Cushing was playing in the two movies was NOT the real Doctor Who.   
   >Cushing was playing a human actor making the story with the real   
   >Doctor's approval:   
   >   
   >    In the 2018 novelisation of "The Day of the Doctor", it is   
   >    established that in the Doctor Who universe, these two Dr. Who   
   >    movies are fiction movies, Peter Cushing was an actor, and the   
   >    actual Doctor approved of these movies. This has been described   
   >    as "corrective canon"."   
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   Thank you SM.   
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