Doctor Who: 14 Cool Details Revealed In Steven Moffat's Eleventh Hour Commentary

14. This Is What The Episode Was Originally Called

"The Eleventh Hour" is about as fitting as episode titles get.

The Doctor saves the day at the last minute - at the eleventh hour, if you will - and it's also the first hour of the Eleventh Doctor's life. Realistically, there was nothing else this episode could've been called.

But of course, some other titles were still considered.

Immediately after the opening credits, Moffat remarks that the episode was originally called "The Doctor Returns", presumably because the Doctor is sort of... returning? Or maybe because he returns to Amy after leaving her as a kid?

Moffat doesn't go into the nitty-gritty of the reasoning behind this title, but regardless, it's a bit of a boring one, so we're glad that he settled on The Eleventh Hour instead.