10 Longest Pay-Offs In Doctor Who History

The Morbius Doctors appeared way back in 1976's serial, The Brain of Morbius. Their inclusion was said to hint at the potential of multiple lives before Hartnell's Doctor but for years it was completely overlooked or dismissed. Some fans were convinced it meant something though, and theories about the forgotten lives have caused controversy for years.

After the Timeless Child twist in 2020, the Morbius Doctors were no longer possible to ignore. The modern twist proved that the Doctor had lived many lives before becoming what we knew as the First Doctor and The Timeless Child story has become a major source of division between fans.

Whether we love it or not, the Timeless Child is a part of Doctor Who now and it does manage to make sense of the Morbius Doctors by giving us a payoff that goes beyond the shows beginnings in 1963. This takes us way back beyond the life of the First Doctor and into a distant past that we were completely unaware of.

The earlier mention of keeping the mystery of Doctor Who has really been emphasised with this development which keeps us guessing and wondering how much we'll be able to learn about this mysterious past. This is definitely a pay off that's still paying off and will continue to for a very long time.