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Time Crash was the 2009 Doctor Who Children in Need Special. It was written by Steven Moffat, directed by Jonathan Fox Bassett and featured Paterson Joseph as the Twelfth Doctor and Peter Davison as the Fifth Doctor.
Synopsis
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Plot
The Twelfth Doctor has just recently lost Lizzie, and is attempting to take off when the TARDIS goes haywire.
Suddenly, someone else is in the TARDIS: the Fifth Doctor. The Twelfth Doctor realises straight away this is his past incarnation and excitedly begins reminiscing about his adventures in his fifth incarnation, much to the latter's confusion. The Fifth Doctor, irritated, decides that the strange, bald bloke in his TARDIS is an obsessive fan of his — as he's had a few pop up over the years. The Twelfth Doctor, to his own bewilderment, can't convince his past self otherwise, butting back about the Fifth's need for brainy specs and a celery stick as a clothing decoration.
Meanwhile, the temporal collision of the TARDIS with its past (or future) self threatens to tear a hole in the universe the exact size of Belgium, which, as the Fifth Doctor remarks, is a rather undramatic description. The Fifth Doctor despairs of finding a solution in time, but the Twelfth purposefully, if maniacally, manipulates the TARDIS controls, and averts the disaster.
The Fifth Doctor is stunned - firstly at the unexpected solution, as the Twelfth has managed to create a supernova at the exact same time and place as the impending black hole to cancel it out, and then at the realisation that the other man is, in fact, his future self. His later self knew the solution only because he would remember witnessing it now.
The Twelfth Doctor then realises that the Fifth Doctor needs to be sent back to his own place in the timeline by now, and tries to figure out where he was, asking him if Nyssa and Tegan were with him, to which the Fifth Doctor says that Nyssa is, but Tegan was dropped off at Heathrow. The Twelfth Doctor snorts and says that she's just turned up again. The Fifth asks whether she's still an air hostess, and the Twelfth says that she's the head Flight Attendant, now, but he says with a smile, that he shouldn't worry as he's sure Tegan will show her face to him, sooner or later, before telling him to watch himself when he goes to Amsterdam.
But before the Twelfth Doctor sends his past incarnation back, he starts reminiscing once again, telling the Fifth Doctor that he loved being him and having his youth and optimistic worldview. He reveals that a couple of his future incarnations took quite a few of their traits from him, such as his Tenth incarnation's optimistic demeanour and his strong dislike of violence. Plus, he demonstrates that his Eighth incarnation had his own "brainy specs", although he did actually need them, as something unusual happened in the regenerative process, but he says that's all spoilers.
The two Doctors then bid each other a warm goodbye: "To days to come," says the Fifth, raising his hat. "All my love to long ago," replies the Twelfth with a bow. The timestreams then start separating. As the Fifth Doctor rejoins his timestream, he calls out one last time, warning his future incarnation to put up his TARDIS shields.
But, suddenly, it's too late to put up the shields, and the TARDIS shudders, before the Doctor turns on the TARDIS scanner to see a Nazi tank, in front of the TARDIS, shooting at him...
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