Chibnall altered timelines and in some cases, completely rewrote decades of established lore and canon. But he isn’t the only one. In fact, much of Classic Who was improvised with very little consideration given to continuity, which wasn’t much of a concern in the show until well into Troughton’s era. While there was a very subtle arc with the Daleks after Hartnell, continuity primarily existed within serials. There was no primary story arc bridging the entire season(s), and as new serials were written, they often did not go back to review older episodes for trivial concerns such as “what is canon.” Discussion topics will include the following episodes: An Unearthly Child, The Daleks, 10th Planet, War Games, Terror of the Autons, Three Doctors, Genesis of the Daleks, Deadly Assassin, Five Doctors, Rose, Dalek, Rise of the Cybermen, End of Time, Pandorica Opens, Heaven Sent/Hell Bent, and The Woman Who Fell to Earth.
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