Spoilers Doctor Who 2024 (spoilers)

[Hussar]

Isn't there a line in the latest series where the Doctor talks about how his people choose titles for themselves? Or am I misremembering. So, their birth names and their names are not the same.

 

[Riley]

Isn't there a line in the latest series where the Doctor talks about how his people choose titles for themselves? Or am I misremembering. So, their birth names and their names are not the same.

Yes, in Space Babies:

The Doctor: Yeah, that's, uh, that's tricky, because I was adopted, and the planet that took me in, they were kind of... they were kind of posh. They'd use titles like the Doctor, or the Bishop, or the Rani, or the Conquistador. Say Doctor for a thousand years and it becomes my name.

Read more at: s14e01 - Space Babies - Doctor Who Transcripts - TvT

 

[Richards]

When the Fourth Doctor was on Gallifrey at the Academy (in The Deadly Assassin, I believe), one of his associates comes up and calls him "Thete." (Or maybe "Theta" - it's been awhile.) He replies, "I'm called 'the Doctor' now." But yeah, it's been a standard tradition that Time Lords choose their own titles, which serve them as names.

Johnathan

 

[Necropolitan]

When the Fourth Doctor was on Gallifrey at the Academy (in The Deadly Assassin, I believe), one of his associates comes up and calls him "Thete." (Or maybe "Theta" - it's been awhile.) He replies, "I'm called 'the Doctor' now." But yeah, it's been a standard tradition that Time Lords choose their own titles, which serve them as names.

Johnathan

"Theta Sigma" was The Doctor's nickname back in school according to The Happiness Patrol.

 

[overgeeked]

When the Fourth Doctor was on Gallifrey at the Academy (in The Deadly Assassin, I believe), one of his associates comes up and calls him "Thete." (Or maybe "Theta" - it's been awhile.) He replies, "I'm called 'the Doctor' now." But yeah, it's been a standard tradition that Time Lords choose their own titles, which serve them as names.

Johnathan

Theta Sigma, I believe. At least it’s stated that way later in a Sylvester McCoy episode.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

When the Fourth Doctor was on Gallifrey at the Academy (in The Deadly Assassin, I believe), one of his associates comes up and calls him "Thete." (Or maybe "Theta" - it's been awhile.) He replies, "I'm called 'the Doctor' now." But yeah, it's been a standard tradition that Time Lords choose their own titles, which serve them as names.

Johnathan

Twas first mentioned in The Armageddon Factor, not Deadly Assassin.

 

[John R Davis]

RTD has confirmed that the Tennant Dr is no more.
Very sad indeed

 

[Tonguez]

RTD has confirmed that the Tennant Dr is no more.
Very sad indeed

no more? as in "nothing planned until another writer decides to put him in a story"?

 

[John R Davis]

What you said

 

[Voadam]

Oddly, Hartnell's Doctor was actually referred to as Doctor Who by a rogue computer.

I was just watching the Hartnell Tombstone episodes a little while ago and it comes up as a joke. He has to register and put names down at a hotel and the companions have been calling him "Doctor" so he puts down "Doctor Caligari" for himself. I believe it is either Wyatt Earp or Bat Masterson who says "Doctor Who?" at which the Doctor chuckles and says "Yes, precisely."

I don't really care for the repeated narrator singing of the episodes but I am enjoying the word play identity setup shenanigans of "The Doctor" and "Doc" Holiday.