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

12. The Story Was Almost Structured A Lot Differently

Doctor Who The Day Of The Doctor Steven Moffat Matt Smith
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One thing Moffat isn't know for is his linear storytelling, and fittingly, The Day Of The Doctor bounces around between several different timelines, characters, and locations.

But the final layout of the episode took a lot of time to get right, and at one point in time, Moffat toyed around with the idea of introducing the three main Doctors in a completely different order.

The writer tweeted that an earlier version of the script started with John Hurt's War Doctor, before moving onto David Tennant's Tenth Doctor, and finally landing on Matt Smith's Eleventh Doctor.

In the end though, this idea was scrapped, and Moffat chose to start with Eleven - mainly because he was the star of the show at the time the episode aired.

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