10 Doctor Who Scenes Even More Impressive When You Know The Truth

Doctors past, present, and future combining forces to save Gallifrey is an all-time great Doctor Who moment, especially when you think about how tricky it must've been to pull off.

Finding suitable archive clips for every single Doctor, piecing all their disparate lines together to make them fit the scene... it's enough to give you a headache just thinking about it.

But as impressive as the scene is, there's one particular element that makes it even more impressive then you realise.

Though most of the dialogue was indeed plucked from prior episodes, there's one notable exception. Because "Gallifrey" wasn't spoken onscreen until the Third Doctor's era, the First Doctor's line "calling the War Council of Gallifrey, this is the Doctor!" wasn't possible to create with William Hartnell's voice. And with Hartnell having passed away in the '70s, he wasn't around to record it afresh!

So, the production recruited voice artist John Guilor, whose First Doctor impression is so uncanny that it fits seamlessly into the scene, and you never even notice that you're actually listening to an impersonator.

Another fun quirk in this sequence revolves around the Seventh Doctor. Due to his footage being pulled from both his original run and the 1996 TV movie, his age, costume, and TARDIS interior inexplicably change halfway through. Wibbly-wobbly indeed.