Much has been made of Doctor Who<\/a>\u2018s fresh new start with Ncuti Gatwa\u2019s Fifteenth Doctor, but it\u2019s certainly true that the show has not been afraid to embrace its past in recent episodes.<\/p>\n This was perhaps no less clear than in the two-part season 14 finale, The Legend of Ruby Sunday<\/a> and Empire of Death<\/a>, with saw the return of Fourth Doctor villain Sutekh<\/a> as a major reveal.<\/p>\n However, when it comes to references, a sequence in the remembered TARDIS<\/a> has to take the cake. Midway through Empire of Death, the Doctor, Ruby and Mel boarded the new version of the TARDIS (as previously seen in spin-off show Tales of the TARDIS<\/a>), which was created via a combination of Ruby\u2019s memories and the UNIT Time Window.<\/p>\n As in Tales of the TARDIS, the remembered TARDIS was full of nods to the show\u2019s past \u2013 including some notable tribute to previous Doctors.<\/p>\n One particularly moving sequence saw Bonnie Langford\u2019s Mel<\/a>, who first travelled with Colin Baker\u2019s Sixth Doctor<\/a>, grasping fondly at that incarnation\u2019s cravat and coat.<\/p>\n Read more:<\/strong><\/p>\n She was later also seen sleeping while holding onto the iconic question mark jumper worn by Sylvester McCoy\u2019s Seventh Doctor<\/a>.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, a tribute was also paid to Tom Baker\u2019s Fourth Doctor<\/a>, with Ncuti Gatwa\u2019s Doctor and Millie Gibson\u2019s Ruby seen observing his memories of Sutekh via the Time Window, which took the form of clips from Pyramids of Mars<\/a>.<\/p> A behind-the-scenes look as part of Doctor Who: Unleashed<\/a> revealed some other paraphernalia from the show\u2019s past which formed part of the set, including the Eleventh Doctor\u2019s trusty cyberman head Handles and Vinder\u2019s mobile phone from The Power of the Doctor.<\/p>\n In the episode, the Doctor remarked that the remembered TARDIS contains \u201cbits and pieces of every TARDIS that ever was, held together by hopes and wishes and luck\u201d \u2013 meaning any future appearances of the machine, or any new episodes of Tales of TARDIS, still have plenty of the show\u2019s history they can turn to for nods and references.<\/p>\n Doctor Who will return Christmas 2024 on BBC iPlayer and BBC One.<\/strong>\u00a0Previous seasons are available to stream on\u00a0BBC iPlayer<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Check out more of our\u00a0Sci-Fi<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a> to see what\u2019s on tonight. <\/strong>For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to\u00a0<\/strong>The Radio Times Podcast<\/strong><\/a>.<\/strong><\/p> <\/body><\/html>\n Eagle-eyed fans will no doubt be spotting Easter Eggs in Doctor Who’s season 14 finale for a long time to come. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":53659,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-pays-tribute-to-past-doctors-with-remembered-tardis.jpg",2412,1634,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-pays-tribute-to-past-doctors-with-remembered-tardis-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-pays-tribute-to-past-doctors-with-remembered-tardis-300x203.jpg",300,203,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-pays-tribute-to-past-doctors-with-remembered-tardis-768x520.jpg",768,520,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-pays-tribute-to-past-doctors-with-remembered-tardis-1024x694.jpg",800,542,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-pays-tribute-to-past-doctors-with-remembered-tardis-1536x1041.jpg",1536,1041,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2024\/06\/doctor-who-pays-tribute-to-past-doctors-with-remembered-tardis-2048x1387.jpg",2048,1387,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Eagle-eyed fans will no doubt be spotting Easter Eggs in Doctor Who's season 14 finale for a long time to come.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/53658"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Sylvester](\"https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2023\/11\/451416-6455770.jpg?quality=90&resize=620%2C413\" "\\"Sylvester")
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