PLEASE NOTE: These caches were originally all letterboxes, with stamps that I personally painstakingly made. Unfortunately, they have proven quite popular, and with that comes muggling. Apparently a number of the stamps have gone missing, and as some have complained about this, and I haven't the time to go and check all 100+ of them on a regular basis, I will be converting them to Traditional caches as needed.
It pains me to make this decision, but it must be done. I recognize that with a powertrail, caches are bound to go missing (that is the nature of the beast), and I appreciate that many of you have helped out by bringing along spares. However, your average cacher does NOT carry around spare stamps, and even if you did, it wouldn't be the one that I originally and personally made for the cache.
So, I am asking for your help: please let me know in your logs which ones are indeed missing their stamps, and I will be changing them to Traditionals (the alternative is archival, unfortunately). Thanks for your assistance in this endeavor, and thanks for supporting this series. I am glad that I spent the many hours needed to create these. However, I cannot justify consistently having to make and then replace all the stamps, due to time constraints.
Sincerely, the CO, josephaw
9/27/15
First off, let me thank you for finding this geocache! I hope you enjoyed the experience of finding it as much as I enjoyed creating and hiding all of these letterbox caches.
This is just one of many such caches in my Dr Who Letterbox Series, made with the help and inspiration of friends. As a Letterbox cache, please leave the stamp for others to see and use, thanks! Each cache has a unique stamp, so bring an inkpad and collect them all! Have fun, and be safe!
"The Name of the Doctor"[1] is the thirteenth and final episode of the seventh series of the British science-fiction drama Doctor Who and was broadcast on 18 May 2013. It was written by Steven Moffat and directed by Saul Metzstein.
The episode stars Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and Jenna-Louise Coleman as Clara Oswald. It also features the return of Alex Kingston as River Song, Neve McIntosh asMadame Vastra, Dan Starkey as Commander Strax, Catrin Stewart as Jenny and Richard E. Grant as the Great Intelligence.[2] The episode also features new monsters called the Whisper Men.[3]
Mini-episodes and supplementary material
"She Said, He Said" is a mini-episode that acts as a prelude to "The Name of the Doctor", in which the Doctor and Clara each have a monologue about how little they know about each other and that they discovered each other's secret at Trenzalore. It was released on 11 May 2013 on BBC Red Button and online. Viewers using Red Button were able to access the prologue between 7:40 until midnight every evening, until "The Name of the Doctor" aired on 18 May 2013.[4]
A second mini-episode, entitled "Clarence and the Whisper Men", depicts the imprisoned Victorian murderer Clarence DeMarco being threatened by the Whisper Men (whom he believes to be a figment of his deranged imagination) into learning a set of space-time coordinates - promising him, in return, a "long, full life", though one overshadowed by his fear of them.
Also released to promote the episode were three "Strax Field Reports", in the first of which, subtitled "The Name of the Doctor", Strax informed the Sontarans of a great battle predicted to occur and admitting suspicions that it had to do with the Doctor's greatest secret. He informed Sontar that the operation was called "The Name of the Doctor".[5] The second, subtitled "A Glorious Day Is Almost Upon Us...", Strax discussed a 'glorious day' in which death was likely.[6] The final Field Report — "The Doctor's Greatest Secret" — discussed the cliffhanger, commenting that this new Doctor had the appearance of a warrior.[7] This was the only Field Report released after the episode.
Plot
In 1893, the Paternoster Gang (Madame Vastra, Jenny Flint, and Commander Strax) are given information concerning the Doctor by Clarence DeMarco, in return for a stay on his execution. They use soporific drugs to bring themselves, River Song, and Clara Oswald across space and time to a dream realm as a "conference call". Vastra repeats the man's words: "It is a secret he will take to the grave, and it is discovered." She reiterates the prophecy about the Doctor's name on the planet Trenzalore ("The Wedding of River Song"), as well as showing the planet's space-time coordinates. During their conference, strange faceless humanoids called Whisper Men attack the gang; River shocks the others to wake them out of the dream to save themselves.
Clara awakes in contemporary London to find the Doctor visiting her for their weekly outing. Clara tells him the events from the conference call; the Doctor, deeply shocked, decides that he must go to Trenzalore to save his friends, even though visiting the location of his own grave is dangerous for a time traveller. The TARDIS resists the Doctor's efforts to land on Trenzalore, but they eventually arrive after the Doctor forces it into a crash landing. The planet is covered with tombstones, the result of a great war, according to the Doctor, while a future version of the TARDIS (having deteriorated and grown to enormous size due to its failing transdimensional circuits) stands above the graveyard. The duo are attacked by Whisper Men. River, still telepathically linked to Clara but apparently unseen by the Doctor, helps direct the two to an escape route, disguised as her own grave, that leads to the giant TARDIS. River also reveals that she died saving the Doctor, and is now only the echo saved by his tenth incarnation in "Forest of the Dead". Vastra, Jenny and Strax awaken by the structure and are surrounded by Whisper Men and meet their controller, the Great Intelligence, in the form of Dr Simeon from "The Snowmen".
The Doctor and Clara arrive at the TARDIS, and the Great Intelligence threatens to kill the Doctor's allies unless he says his true name to open the TARDIS doors. The Doctor refuses, but River — still only visible to Clara — says the Doctor's true name (unheard by the viewer) and opens the doors. Inside, a pulsating column of light representing the Doctor's traversal of time and space sits where the console would usually be. Crossing his own time stream sends the Doctor into convulsions. The Great Intelligence sees the light as a wound in the fabric of space and time, and enters it in order to undo the Doctor's past as revenge for all the defeats it has been dealt. The Doctor warns that this will prove fatal to the Intelligence, but it sees its own death as a peaceful release, while the Doctor will be forced to suffer. The Great Intelligence and its Whisper Men disappear into the timeline, and Vastra notices that the stars in the sky are going out as the positive effects of the Doctor's travels are nullified by the Intelligence's interference. Jenny and Strax both disappear.
Clara, who has had recollections of the erased timeline from "Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS" due to the telepathic link with the TARDIS, realises that she has helped the Doctor in other places in time and space ("Asylum of the Daleks" and "The Snowmen"). She decides to enter the column of light to restore the Doctor's timeline by preventing all the damage the Great Intelligence is trying to deal. The Doctor and River try to stop her, but she calls back "Run, you clever boy, and remember me" before disappearing into the light. Clara is seen falling through space and time, and appearing throughout the Doctor's past incarnations. She saves the various incarnations of the Doctor but most of them did not notice her, except for the First Doctor - suggesting he should steal a different TARDIS because although its navigation system is "knackered" he'll have "more fun" — and the Eleventh, in the lives he has previously encountered.
The Doctor, Jenny, Strax, and the universe are restored to normal. The Doctor prepares to save Clara, instructing the others to get away in the TARDIS in case he fails to return, but River yells at him to stop, as it is perilous for him to enter his own time stream. The Doctor finally reveals that he could hear, see, and even touch River all along, but did not acknowledge it because it was too painful for him, saying that she was an "echo" just like Clara. Only the Doctor can see River in the room and they share a passionate kiss, before River asks for the Doctor's goodbye to be spoken as if they will see each other again, which the Doctor grants her. But she does point out that she was linked to Clara, and since she's still here Clara must still be alive. After River fades, the Doctor enters the column of light to save Clara.
Clara lands in a cavernous place where she sees several previous incarnations of the Doctor running past her. Unseen, the Doctor calls out to her, informing her that she is caught in his timeline, which is now collapsing in on itself since he is inside it. He provides her with the leaf that was responsible for her existence ("The Rings of Akhaten") from his memories to guide her to him. Reunited, the two spot another figure in the shadows which Clara does not recognise from the Doctor's past. The Doctor tells her that it is yet another version of himself, but not as "The Doctor"; he explains that his chosen name is a promise he made to himself, and that the stranger is his secret: "The one who broke the promise". Clara suddenly collapses from exhaustion, and as the Doctor picks her up the stranger addresses the Doctor, saying "What I did, I did without choice... in the name of peace and sanity", to which the Doctor replies angrily "But not in the name of 'The Doctor'." As the Doctor carries Clara away, the stranger turns around to reveal an elderly bearded man; an on-screen caption identifies him as 'The Doctor'...
Continuity
Imagery of the Doctor's prior incarnations is used during scenes in which Clara and the Great Intelligence interact with the Doctor. Footage of the First (from The Aztecs), Second, Third (both from The Five Doctors), Fourth (The Invasion of Time), Fifth (Arc of Infinity), and Seventh (Dragonfire) Doctors was shown. Stunt doubles were used for some other brief appearances, including the Sixth Doctor walking past Clara while she is in a corridor, and theEighth Doctor who can also be seen[citation needed] moving in front of Clara just before she sees the Second Doctor. The Ninth Doctor can also be seen running past her in the Doctor's time stream.
The opening scene also includes a representation of Susan Foreman and reference to the Doctor's original departure from Gallifrey (as a globed city, previously seen in "The Sound of Drums", and later seen destroyed in The End of Time).
Audio of the First (from An Unearthly Child and The Web Planet), Second (from The Moonbase), Third (from The Time Monster), Fourth (from Genesis of the Daleks), Fifth (from The Caves of Androzani), Sixth (from The Ultimate Foe), Ninth (from "The Parting of the Ways"), Tenth (from "Voyage of the Damned"), and Eleventh (from "The Pandorica Opens") Doctors is also heard.
The Great Intelligence says that the Doctor has been cruel several times, talking about the leader of the Sycorax (whom the Tenth Doctor kills in "The Christmas Invasion"), Solomon the trader (whom the Eleventh Doctor sent to his death in "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship"), the Daleks, and the Cybermen. The Great Intelligence also states that the Doctor will be known as the Valeyard before the end of his life. The Valeyard appeared in the 1986 serial The Trial of a Time Lord, where he is described as an amalgamation of the darker sides of the Doctor's nature, somewhere between his twelfth and final incarnations.[9] Vastra mentions the Doctor dying on Androzani, a reference toThe Caves of Androzani, in which the Fifth Doctor regenerates.
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