Doctor Who: 14 Cool Details Revealed In Steven Moffat's Wedding Of River Song Commentary

13. The Doctor's Knitting Magazine Was Meant To Appear In The Beast Below

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While on Calisto B, the Doctor reads a magazine called Knitting For Girls... because reasons.

It's a weird gag that somehow still fits the Doctor's character (and in fact, Eleven does mention a knitting lesson in The Impossible Astronaut), and according to Moffat, he's been wanting to do something like this for a very long time.

Apparently, he originally wrote this magazine into The Beast Below - which aired well over a year before The Wedding Of River Song did - but the idea was ultimately scrapped.

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