From: notemmanuel@mail.fr   
      
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   > 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."   
      
   This ties in nicely with both the RTD2 reboot (where the Toymaker said   
   he made a jigsaw of the Doctor's lives) and also a short story published   
   by BBC Books, where the Fourth Doctor was apparently kidnapped by the   
   Toymaker and everything after that was implicitly made up by the   
   Toymaker.  (Not sure, but I think that one was Gareth Roberts under a   
   pseudonym?)   
      
   > 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"."   
   >        
      
   This reminds me of Lance Parkin's "Dying Days" novel, where it was   
   implied that all of the Doctor Who novels were based on true adventures   
   that the Doctor had, but some of the details of the stories set on Earth   
   had to be changed, so people wouldn't know it was actually real.   
      
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