From: doctor@doctor.nl2k.ab.ca   
      
   In article <10gn2d4$2eh8i$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Don Macron   wrote:   
   >Your Name  wrote in   
   >news:10gl35t$1o8k5$1@dont-email.me:   
   >   
   >> 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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