Doctor Who: 14 Cool Details Steven Moffat Just Revealed About The Day Of The Doctor

4. John Hurt Improvised The TARDIS Joke

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In an earlier entry, we mentioned a John Hurt joke that was removed from the final edit. Well, here's one that made the cut - and it was thought up by the actor himself.

When the three Doctors are saying their goodbyes at the end of the episode, Hurt's War Doctor quips "which one is mine?" (while observing the parked TARDISes) before stepping inside his run-down police box and flying away from the scene.

As revealed by Moffat, this line wasn't in the script. Rather, it was something that John Hurt came up with - either in the moment, or just before the cameras started rolling - and it was so good that everyone just went along with it.

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