10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About Modern Doctor Who

One of the key defining features of Classic Doctor Who is the cliffhanger. Before the end of each episode, the Doctor would reach some sort of problem, someone would die, or there would be a big reveal of a crudely scary monster, before we hear that oh-so-iconic credit sting and jump into the credits. One thing about Classic Who that is different to NuWho is how the stories are told through serials, split into episodes, which is why Classic Who is often referred to as "Stories" rather than episodes.

When the show came back in 2005, serials had largely fallen out of fashion; however, cold opens were all the rage, so to pay homage to the classic days, each episode started with a cold open largely organised the same as those classic... classic endings. It is widely believed that every single episode had one, which is not the case; there are a handful of episodes across the Russell T Davis and Steven Moffat era, such as Smith and Jones, Partners in Crime, and, surprisingly and most notably, Rose that did not include a cold open. That's right, the episode that brought Doctor Who back omitted one of the show's defining features.

Of course, when showrunner Chris Chibnall took over the reins of the show, he brought a whole new feeling to it: the aspect ratio changed, the lens style changed - and, most notably in our case here, he removed the cold open. The Woman Who Fell to Earth didn't even have a title sequence; it is often theorised that this was a late change in the edit; however, this has never been confirmed. There is a strange pacing jump featured in every single episode of series 11, one best suited for a gold old-fashioned cut to titles.