He decided to take a nice long holiday after his nervous breakdown. On the Oodsphere, the Doctor steps out of the TARDIS wearing a cowboy hat and a lei around his neck. A woman proceeds to explain to him the "Legend of the Blue Box" and the story of the "Sainted Physician", and then spookily disappears. Wilf enters a church only to see a stained glass window depicting the TARDIS. He states that as The End of the World as We Know It approaches, everyone on Earth has been plagued by nightmares, but they've all forgotten, save one man: Wilfred Mott. We begin with Timothy Dalton narrating over a shot of Earth, gradually zooming in to London. It would also be the only Revival Series story to hold this distinction until "Spyfall" in 2020. Incidentally, both stories were season finales and marked both the departure of the incumbent showrunner and the last full-length televised appearances of the incumbent Doctor note do note the "full length" part the Seventh Doctor's actual final appearance as the incumbent was in the 1996 TV movie, but that only occupies a sliver of the total runtime. This story is somewhat notable for being the first Multi-Part Episode to be separated into explicitly numbered "parts" (rather than having each part have its own title a-la the show's first 25 serials) since "Survival" twenty years prior. Davies, this two-episode serial first aired from 25 December 2009 to 1 January 2010. note They just really seems to love Bond at this point, huh? Guess that's what happens when you have a show that previously cast an actual former spy and friend of Ian Fleming as the main character. The one where Sam Tyler hams it up all the way until James Bond outshines him.
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