River didn’t look into the 10th Doctor’s eyes and say he was actually young, she was saying he’s the youngest she’s ever seen him, having only know the 11th and 12th.

The biggest lie the Doctor ever told was that he was universally recognized as a mature and responsible adult.

Regarding lying about his age. He can say he's 500, then step inside his Tardis, leave for five minutes, rematerialize, and then claim he's 1500 years old and be accurate. Time is not a straight progression. Given the warped travel path he takes through it, it's also entirely possible he's lost track.

Time Lords ruined their own world and society. Gallifrey, as a planet, was quite aesthetically beautiful. I don't blame the Doctor for wanting to remember the good bits about his homeworld, especially when he truly believed that it was gone forever.

Excuse me, but it’s rude to ask a Time Lord about his age!

#4 isn't fair on Rory's part. Rory was opening the door to let older Amy in when she interjected. She told him "If you love me, don't let me in". She sacrificed herself to give the years she would've spent with him back to her younger counterpart.

Not only did the 10th Doctor return to Sarah Jane, but he helped her kick off her own series until she, sadly, went home.

I have a hard time understanding why misunderstandings are categorized as "lies". I feel lies imply that someone knows they aren't telling the truth, and say something contradictory regardless.

On number 9, The Doctor did actually come back to Sarah Jane Smith in the School Reunion episode, but only as the Tenth Doctor and he didn’t know Sarah Jane was in the school.

I honestly wouldn't expect the Doctor to know how old they are. I can barely remember my own age and I'm not even 30

Regarding the Time Lords always being "good guys," we learn in "Mysterious Planet" (the first story of The Trial of a Time Lord, Sixth Doctor) that the Time Lords shift Earth 2 light years away, thus destroying a good chunk of life on Earth. In "The Stolen Earth" (Tenth Doctor), he mutters to himself how he'd only seen that happen one time before.... but at least in that story, the Daleks put a shield around Earth when they moved it to the Medusa Cascade. Granted, the Daleks didn't do it out of kindness -- they wanted lifeforms to experiment on (not sure why they had to be living organisms -- I'd think any baryonic matter would've sufficed).

They key scene loses all tension when you remember that he can open the doors with a snap of his fingers.

The biggest lie that doctor ever told was in the Christmas carol special when he said he was the most responsible babysitter in the universe.

The doctor lives in the tardis and since it can move freely through time and space, it’s basically timeless inside. There are no days. What would they measure off? Earth days? Gallifray days? How would he know how long has really passed if he runs freely through time. Therefore how could be possibly know his age? And why do they attribute one to themself?

Hiding from the Family of Blood was because of their short lifespan - the goal was never to hope they change their ways, it was just to outlast them.

We’re all forgetting about the 9th doctor threatening the Slitheen with alcohol. Easily my favourite lie he ever told.

The Doctor's biggest lie: "I'm always all right."

Well, technically, the Doctor never really described the Time Lords as good. After all, he DID run away from them, with reason, and, if the First Doctor can be considered more a scholar than his later incarnations, it is very likely the Doctor is well aware that his own people are not the paragons of virtue and omnipotence they pretend to be. In The War Games, it is clear that the Doctor never truly trusted the Time Lords almost from the beginning. The Second Doctor felt forced to call them for help, and just hoped that he would just get away before they showed. His arguments justifying his own actions is very much an indictment against the Time Lords' NON-actions. But the Doctor is still beholden to them, as they proved when they exiled him to earth. Then, when we truly began seeing them more during the Third Doctor's exile, they had begun using him for their own dirty deeds (if you believe the Series 6B theory, the Time Lords have been doing this for a while now), and the Doctor justifiably resents this. Moreover, it makes the Time Lords more hypocritical as they continue to do this through future incarnations. Once the Doctor is freed from his exile, this doesn't stop the Time Lords from continuing to manipulate him. In the end, the Time Lords get plausible deniability - officially, they are NOT interfering and if something goes wrong, they can always condemn the Doctor for going rogue and claim no knowledge of his actions. Which, of course, is what happened during Trial of a Time Lord - the only reason the trial takes place at all is because the Doctor discovered a secret of the Time Lords, but doesn't quite realize this, and the Time Lords decide to punish the rebel and rogue for their OWN actions before he figures out the truth. So, when the Time Lords remanifested as villains during the new series, this is supposed to be a sudden shift in character, but it really isn't. It is just the culmination of what has been happening for years. Ask yourself: who REALLY started the Time War - the Daleks, not wanting to deal with the Time Lords' interference any more, or the Time Lords themselves, taking the opportunity to rid themselves of the Daleks once and for all. And, yet again, the Time Lords used the Doctor as cover for their OWN actions. No wonder he tried so hard to avoid getting involved. Staying out may have lead to BOTH enemies destroying themselves, and the universe would be better because of it. No, I don't think the Doctor lied about the Time Lords. The Second Doctor provided a simple explanation without going into detail, mostly because he anticipated being able to escape them, and then he wouldn't need to reveal his true opinions. But he did not escape, and he and his companions paid dearly for this. In the end, the Doctor has been the scapegoat of the Time Lords at least since he chose to leave Gallifrey. We also know that, in a way, the Master has been their pawn for far longer (The Sound of Drums, and, of course, The Timeless Children), and arguably has suffered even worse than the Doctor. The Time Lords are the TRUE villains of Doctor Who, and always HAVE been.

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In "The Girl Who Waited" I thought the Doctor said by Rory choosing the younger Amy, the older one would cease to exist, because by taking the younger Amy this prevents her from going through all of that thereby causing that timeline to cease its existence.

Sixth Doctor “I have impeccable fashion sense”

The Family of Blood lie was hardly a big discredit to the Doctor - they thoroughly deserved it. But the lie he told in The Girl Who Waited - that really hurt. Even though it wasn't the Doctor's fault and he was doing all he could to fix things, shutting the Tardis door on Old Amy was a shock and a betrayal. One implicit lie not in this list - in Hell Bent, when he 'extracted' Clara and didn't tell her the neural block would wipe her memories. (And, of course, in the diner scene, one of them must be lying in pretending not to remember the other - we don't find out till the end which one it is. But that hardly counts as a lie).

The Doctor has to the same thing as with Ace later with Amy to also break her fierce confidence in him in the episode The God Complex, to stop the monster.

my favorite clip of the Doctor was "Demons Run" “Madame Kovarian: The anger of a good man is not a problem. Good men have too many rules. The Doctor: Good men don't need rules. Today is not the day to find out why I have so many.” The Doctor always tries so hard to be good, because it's easy to be bad, but he can prove it's possible to be good and win. "Live life the way it should be, to show people what it can be" I don't know where I got this line but it reminds me of this

10:08 there’s at least 3x The Doctor has pulled the fluid link trick 1. 1st Doctor on Skaaro 2. 12th Doctor in Oxygen 3. 13th Doctor in the DW: Wizard of Oz book

The 11th Doctor lying to the Daleks that a Jammy Dodger biscuit was a destruction button was hilarious!

Make a 'top 10 best doctor who season openers' video (the first episode not the opening sequences)

I always wondered if types of measurements are translated by the Tardis as well. Like if Daleks mesure length in (x) and humans mesure it in meters, if a Dalek says something is 3(x)s long, it gets translated to it being 18 meters long. If humans measure their lifetime in years, Timelords measure their lifetime in (a). So if the Doctor says he is 40(a)s old, humans hear he is 900 years old. But Timelords have a completely different concept and understanding of time, so maybe it would be impossible to translate it accurately. And that might be why the doctors age doesn't make sense.

Just a reminder Wedding of River Song happened AFTER The Doctor’s Wife and in the former he spent 200 years travelling across the universe on a farewell tour.

My thing about the age - how long is a year in time lord years? One time lord year could be 50 earth years. The doctor may never be lying, just changing years based on different planetary systems

Becuase you did unlucky characters please could you do top 10 luckiest characters like Mr Copper in Voyage of the Damned

Regarding his age, how old is he now considering the time it took him to punch through the diamond wall in the tower?

But hang on a second, you claim (number 9) that The Doctor lied about coming back, but in fact HE DID RETURN & meet up with Sarah-Jane again so he DIDN'T LIE.Other than that, great video, keep it up.

Fun Fact: If something is irradiated, it means that it's not radioactive, it just means that it's been hit with radioactivity. Although I don't know how dangerous irradiated material can be, the fact is that it's NOT radioactive, which is what would be harmful to someone exposed to radiation.

The doctor lies was a clever and neat line to cover up huge issues being written into the show at the time

Rule 1: the Doctor lies. Rules 2-100: see Rule 1.

About the key one it doesn’t matter if she even did get all the keys because the doctor can snap and open the tardis

Couple mistakes in this video, the curse of Fenric wasn’t early in Ace’s adventures it was her second last story, and Scaro is spelt Skaro

I thought Skaro was spelt with a K

Maybe the TARDIS is the only one who knows all the truth, behind the Doctor's lies. ❤️

The doctor did go back to sarah jane when he is in his 10th reganaration

Note on the Doctor's age: River Song does say when she meets 10 that he looks young. But we have to remember that she had not met this incarnation and was used to running about with 11. Of course 10 looked younger to her--he was! I never took it to be a comment on his actual age so much as River recognizing that this incarnation was younger than *her* Doctor.

The point about the Doctor's age is ridiculous. When the show started he was 200-something. In season 6 he was 900-something. That's 700 years of travel...

The Doctors age is going to change depending on who he talks to since a year on earth isn't the same as a year on Gallifrey or any other planet. So it's possible he calculates his age relative to where he is in the cosmos.

Hot tip: if you want some lose backstory on the time lords you should read river of time which is the 5th and final story in the legends of river song

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But the “first “ Doctor wasn’t the first time the Daleks met the Doctor, the “forth” Doctor was sent by the time lords to the beginning of the Daleks to destroy them in “Genesis of the Daleks “ so that is the first time that the Daleks and their creator encountered the Doctor and realised that there was life on other planets.

10:06 I'm so sorry but I have to. There is a typo on skaro.

Yeah to be honest I'm willing to wager that the Doctor is somewhere around 3000 years old maybe. The 6th and 7th Doctors both mention that they are somewhere over 900 (I forget the exact age) and the 7th especially went on to live an extensive life, meaning the 8th Doctor was probably somewhere around 1000. At some point, 8 loses his memory and says he'll begin counting again from age 2. 8 then goes on to live for probably around 400 years (given the amount of material his Doctor has) and The Last Great Time War is credited as being "at least 400" years long. Either way, this means that 8 + War have to equal about 900 years, as the 9th Doctor is 900. We then get up to the 12th Doctor, who states he is over 2000 years old. So this plus the first 900 years of the first 7 incarnations = about 3000.

Sarah Jane and the Doctor did meat meet again. She had a few episodes in David Tennant's series. Also she had her own TV Doctor who Style show called The Sarah Jane Adventures. Where David Tennant popped in a few episodes. So the doctor didn't really break his promise. He just took a long time to get back to her.🤔🙂

There are dozens of reasons why The Doctor might not be lying about his age. 1) at any given time he might be referring to the time between his birth and whatever year he is currently occupying. 2) He may be experiencing and number of Time Dilatuon or Lorenz’ Transformation effects. 3) He still has a human brain that is trying to process the memories of hundreds of lifetimes. He might be adding up whatever memories fugues that he retains at that moment into a consistent span of time. 4) The stories are not necessarily in direction chronological order. There could be any amount is time elapsing between them. 5) Usage of the TARDIS could have created an infinite number of alternative temporal Doctors. 6) etc etc etc

So we arent going to talk about how he has keys for the TARDIS, that he doesnt really need? Ive seen the doctor oen the TARDIS door with a snap.

I though that when the 11th doctor told the boy in the Christmas episode that he was a mature responsible adult should have been on the list

The doctor does eventually go back to Sara Jane just many years later.

Regarding the Doctor’s age. I think RTD screwed this up. I believe Doctor #6 stated age as 900 years old. Doctor #7 did state is age as 953 years old. So when Doctor #10 states he is 903 years old that is a major continuity error. I think when Doctor #12 states he is 2000 years old, that is probably a plausible correction to the Doctor’s actual age.

I like how he says putting aside the timeless child as though that isn't what most fans do anyway

You forgetting the Doctor does return for Sara the 10th Doctor in the school reunion episode

the doctor is atleast 4 and a half billion years old, according to what the timelords told clara

Wait I'm early. I shouldn't be so excited for that-

It is one of the things I'm deeply concerned about him; he broke his word to his loved ones, lie to the people to give false trust and belief, continuing butchering his way to victory over the enemies than showing them compassion or mercy. Part of him is truly the antagonist than being a good man with moral principles or careful understandings. It breaks my heart for believing he's some hero who considering some choices more carefully instead did countless unforgivable mistakes.

Thank you for digging in to Old Who as well. Too often people tend to lean in to NuWho and act like everything from Nine forward is all fresh and new. Nope, not even.

The doctor also claimed to have 700-ish regenerations, in one of the Sarah Jane Adventures...

1:19 it's not even wrong because they did meet again in school reunion

Er...UNIT didn't steal the 3rd Doctor's keys from his shoes...they had to pry it from his cold, unconscious hands after he found them and was shot in the head in a kidnapping/escape attempt....

if you count the time he was in prison he is over 4 billion years old, he went the long way around.

The statement that he's "half human, on his mother's side." ;-)

The 10th Doctor wants to remember only the good of Gallifrey in the past and not their flaws, it’s what a lot of people will do with those who have passed in their lives.

The thing with determining how old the Doctor is... the Doctor travels through time. How can you measure how old something is when it's time traveling? Beyond the obvious stuff like if you're on a planet for an hour in that planet's timeframe, that means you're one hour older. But like, how long is a year on Gallifrey? Is it the same as a year on Earth? How does the Doctor determine how much time has passed when on a planet that doesn't have a 24-hour day or 365-day year? How can the Doctor know how old they are if they haven't been on one planet consistently for their entire life (lives??). We can only reliably count on the couple of times the Doctor was actually on a planet for a significant amount of time, like that one time 12 was with River for 24 years. So we can say that the Doctor is for sure at least 224 years old.

"The doctor may once have been correct" With a race like the timelords isnt the part you call "present" kinda arbitrary? When he dreamt of returning he could dream of a specific place as well as a specific time. Its not much of a difference to the time lords.

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The Doctors age was relatively consistent in the classic series, in addition to your cited examples he is said to be 950 in Time and the Rani (apparently the Rani and the Doctor are the same age). Following this the Doctors conversation with Rose in Aliens of London has the line “900 years in time and space and I’ve never been slapped before” and in The Doctor Dance 900 years of time and space are also uttered, Rose assumes this means he’s 900 and he simply says “yeah”. The obvious solution being that Eccestones Doctor has travelled for 900 years, in addition to some 200 prior, making them about 1100 years old. It would seem though that they’ve taken to using a young figure given they pass for it 😆

by the time 14th doctor hits, my "man" is like over a million years old (fisher king)

Can we all agree that the doctor is like one of those 40 something year old women that claim they're still 25, until they have to bump it up to 30 when they reach mid fifties.

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Hey don't know if anyone reads the comments after 5 hours but I'm rewatching new who for the first time ever (Entirely because of this channel btw) but I'm on Season 1 episode 6 "Dalek" and one scene at the end of the episode just sent chills down my spine. The doctor lost his temper and told the Dalek to kill itself and the Dalek simply said "You would be a good Dalek" just want to talk about it w anyone who wants to

It’s Skaro Not Scaro

"That brought him face to plunger" I see what you did there.

Currently binge watching doctor who, I’m on season 3 and it’s only been a few weeks, pretty nice :)) so far I really like eccleston and rose a lot (I miss them lmao)

10:04 - It's Skaro, not Scaro.

When it comes to the thumbnail, the doctor's age in that episode is closer to 2000-3000 years old depending on how you measure it, the 7th doctor was older than the age given by the 10th doctor. It could be fixed by the war doctor resetting the count because they no longer view themselves as the doctor. To be fair the doctor starting losing count in their 4th incarnation. Also I don't think that age matters to timelords, they probably measure time more in the number of incarnations than age.

Telling Martha he has no idea what happened to Adeola. (in the BBC novel 'Made of Steel')

Age is irrelevant - "There’s this emperor, and he asks the shepherd’s boy how many seconds in eternity. And the shepherd’s boy says, ‘There’s this mountain of pure diamond. It takes an hour to climb it and an hour to go around it, and every hundred years a little bird comes and sharpens its beak on the diamond mountain. And when the entire mountain is chiseled away, the first second of eternity will have passed.’ You may think that’s a hell of a long time. Personally, I think that’s a hell of a bird.”

I always thought the doctor with one heart who was trapped in wherever he was trapped with Rose Tyler, should have somehow jury-rigged a TARDIS and materialized around old Amy the second before she is killed by the robots. I'm sure this is an idiotic idea, but I always liked old Amy. She didn't look like jailbait. Thank you for the time and effort you put it to your video, thumbs up.

YOU SPELT SKARO WRONG… AHHHHHHHHHHHH WHOVIAN??????????????.

He didn't lie to Sarah... he came back and gave her the K-9 built from Earth sourced parts and a trimmed down database to prevent future knowledge. That would have been the last time he saw her, not when she left the Tardis until the modern cycle of events.

From what I have seen of who new and classic imho the only timelords that were decent people were Romana, Drax and the Doctor (possibly Andred but since we didn't see much of him can't say).

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The doctor is billion of years old if you count that episode about the prison, where he's cloned again and again and again.

The 3rd doctor wasn't ashamed of what he did, he was ashamed it hadn't worked.

The 10th says he is 903 years old, but he probably had this age while he was still 8th (if we count all audiodramas and stuff), so yes, he's older than he says, lol

"Putting aside the Timeless child for a moment..." Well, please do, Sean. In fact, bare it no mind at all.

Also, when River Song described the 10th Doctor as "young", that is comparatively true. When she knew the Doctor in her own history, it was mostly in his 11th and 12th incarnations (not counting the "war" incarnation), when he was older than he was in his 10th incarnation.

Regarding all the ppl saying “the Doctor could’ve easily forgotten his own age; centuries are long”: The Doctor managed to “count”/calculate all the billions of children left on Gallifrey when it was “destroyed”, so I think something as “minuscule” as a few hundred/thousand years might not be as hard to forget. :P (Speaking of which, didn’t he lie about that number too?)

The doctors age is a little tricky to determine. As for one thing, back on galafrey. The age he would have quotes would probably be in galafreyan years. Different planet. Different amount of time to circle around the sun. So the bigger question is which calender do they use each time he quotes his age. Does this count time spent on the TARDIS. Time spent on other planets. Heck, the doctor would either be ancient or relatively young depending on how you perceive his time in the confession dial. He did die and was reborn countless times over billions of years. So he is either billions of years old. Or he was born a few days before escaping the dial. Or you don't count the dial at all and just add a few days to his total age. Let's just say age is not a metric that is easily applied to the dr who universe

First we get Peri's name wrong, now we misspell Skaro

"He's set the ship to self destruct." Tenant, silently: "Oh yes!"

Remember that episode where Capaldi was trapped in the confession dial and spent millions or billions of years breaking through a wall harder than diamond with his bare fists?

The end result of the Family of Blood was shown to me by a friend. This is what got me into watching Doctor Who

Did no one send a memo to the countdown maker that skaro doesn’t have a c ?

One of my favourite quotes is literally when 11 says "I can't even remember my age, thats how old I am".