Doctor Who is one of the longest-running sci-fi TV series for a reason. More than any other sci-fi show on television, Doctor Who is built for change, ready to adapt and evolve with the times. The key to the series’ endless evolution through the ages is, of course, the Doctor’s own regeneration. Unlike other long-running franchises that have to either periodically write out central characters or awkwardly ignore a recasting, Doctor Who has embraced the changing face of its protagonist, making it a core tenet of the series’ mythology. When the first actor to play the Doctor, William Hartnell, left the series in 1966, producers came up with a clever way of keeping Doctor Who — and the Doctor — alive.Through regeneration, a Time Lord such as the Doctor can change their entire body in order to cheat death. Normally, Time Lords can only regenerate 12 times, but it is possible for additional regenerations to be granted — something that has happened to the Doctor on at least one occasion. There have now been 15 different regular Doctors serving as the lead of Doctor Who, though the full number of incarnations the Doctor has lived through remains a mystery. Thanks to a few shocking revelations in later years, previously unknown incarnations of the Doctor have been unveiled, revealing new layers to the universe’s most enigmatic Time Lord.The Timeless Child was a child of unknown origin, discovered by the Gallifreyan explorer Tecteun beneath a wormhole. The child’s ability to regenerate was replicated by Tecteun and spliced into native Gallifreyans to create the Time Lord race. As well as a number of young incarnations glimpsed in “The Timeless Children,” these forgotten lives of the Doctor included the “Morbius Doctors,” who were the unexplained additional faces of the Doctor seen in 1976’s “The Brain of Morbius.”
Doctor Who is one of the longest-running sci-fi TV series for a reason. More than any other sci-fi show on television, Doctor Who is built for change, ready to adapt and evolve with the times. The key to the series’ endless evolution through the ages is, of course, the Doctor’s own regeneration. Unlike other long-running franchises that have to either periodically write out central characters or awkwardly ignore a recasting, Doctor Who has embraced the changing face of its protagonist, making it a core tenet of the series’ mythology. When the first actor to play the Doctor, William Hartnell, left the series in 1966, producers came up with a clever way of keeping Doctor Who — and the Doctor — alive.
Through regeneration, a Time Lord such as the Doctor can change their entire body in order to cheat death. Normally, Time Lords can only regenerate 12 times, but it is possible for additional regenerations to be granted — something that has happened to the Doctor on at least one occasion. There have now been 15 different regular Doctors serving as the lead of Doctor Who, though the full number of incarnations the Doctor has lived through remains a mystery. Thanks to a few shocking revelations in later years, previously unknown incarnations of the Doctor have been unveiled, revealing new layers to the universe’s most enigmatic Time Lord.
The Timeless Child was a child of unknown origin, discovered by the Gallifreyan explorer Tecteun beneath a wormhole. The child’s ability to regenerate was replicated by Tecteun and spliced into native Gallifreyans to create the Time Lord race. As well as a number of young incarnations glimpsed in “The Timeless Children,” these forgotten lives of the Doctor included the “Morbius Doctors,” who were the unexplained additional faces of the Doctor seen in 1976’s “The Brain of Morbius.”
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