10 Doctor Who Deleted Scenes That Would Have Changed Everything
7. Wardrobe Malfunction (Twice Upon A Time)
Sticking with the First Doctor now, and his reinvention at the hands of David Bradley.
In the 2017 Christmas special Twice Upon a Time, the Twelfth Doctor meets his original self, as played by Bradley. The two have a chinwag, rescue a soldier, and then go their separate ways to regenerate into a new form.
Regeneration is the subject of this entry, as Twice Upon a Time almost answered a question about the process that had gone unanswered for decades.
When the First Doctor regenerated into the Second Doctor in The Tenth Planet, he famously changed clothes too. This has been a question mark for all this time, but Twice Upon a Time almost explained it away.
Writer Steven Moffat confirmed this in an interview, but he never actually revealed what the answer was going to be, because the scene was cut.
This could’ve potentially been a huge deal, revealing something about regeneration that we didn’t know before, while also solving a decades-old plot hole.
Of course, now that we've seen the Thirteenth Doctor's regeneration also feature a clothes change, maybe some answers are imminent. Or, maybe Neil Patrick Harris is just messing with us.