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closest The Doctor has been to dying?
james2018
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I think perhaps in 'The Unicorn and the Wasp' where he gets poisoned....
Or maybe in Utopia when the futurekind are chasing him, Martha and Jack.
Or maybe in Utopia when the futurekind are chasing him, Martha and Jack.
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It also depends on your definition of 'close'. The most damage taken before regenerating? The tightest escape?
For him to be close to dying without regenerating, it would have to be something fast. The episode Turn Left suggests that flushing the Racnoss spiders down the plughole would have done it.
So, when else has the Doctor had a close escape from something that would make instant mincemeat of him? The fan blades in The End of the World?
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That's to all intents and purposes true of all other Doctors except the Eleventh.
I think Planet of the Spiders wins this 'contest'. The 3rd Doctor was dead, having barely survived the trip home to UNIT HQ. Sarah and the Brigadier were stunned by the larger-than-life Doctor lying limp and broken on the floor.
The 7th Doctor in the TV movie was pretty dead too but a different kind having suffered an arrest to both his hearts. His body cells were still not all dead, unlike Dr 3, and only the cold of the mortuary slowed down his regeneration process. The 8th Doctor did mention his being very close to not regenerating but still he DID regenerate unlike Dr 3 who needed a timely intervention from K'Ampo.
Wasn't there a similar intervention for the Fourth Doctor by the Watcher?
...and the Second.
Hmmm not really.. hence his "It's the end-- but the moment has been prepared for..."
The fourth doctor seemed pretty content during his regeneration (although that might have been Tom Baker glad his time was over).
Which may answer the question of why the Fourth Doctor regenerated after simply falling from what didn't look like a very high altitude onto soft grass, while the Tenth Doctor fell from what looked like a much greater altitude through a glass ceiling onto a hard floor and only had a few cuts and bruises. It was a case of he former "wanting to go" and the latter most certainly "not wanting to go".
You try jumping, see if you live.
I'm not the Doctor! The Tenth Doctor seemed to jump from a significantly higher altitude, and sustained a few cuts and bruises.