Talk:Dragonfire (Doctor Who)

150th story

Wasn't this originally down as the 150th story (the number the official BBC video gives it as)? Why has it been bumped down to 151? A wikipedia member with an awful username 12:29, 17 February 2007 (UTC)

The BBC as a whole doesn't really go in for "official" positions handed down from on high on a lot of stuff, including story numbering, and what we actually have is a series of statements from different individuals at different times for different purposes. I believe that in 1986 the BBC promoted The Trial of a Time Lord as one story, which is after all how it's billed on screen. This would make Dragonfire #147. But the following year the production team promoted Dragonfire as the 150th story, arrived at by counting Trial as four stories, and this was repeated by whoever wrote the sleeve for the late 1993 video release (although huge lists of errors on video sleeves can be compiled). The motive in 1987 may have been little more than finding additional reasons to publicise the end of the season. Then in 1998 when the BBC published The Television Companion it gave the following in its myths section:

This is the 150th Doctor Who story. (It is the 147th, although the BBC promoted it as the 150th. The production team apparently arrived at the total by counting the four segments of season twenty-three's The Trial of a Time Lord as four separate stories.)

(Text now online at http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/dragonfire/detail.shtml )

This time we have a reference guide, with the main market being fans. Then whoever did the US DVD sleeves used a numbering system that counts Trial as four stories and also counts the unfinished Shada (at #109). Meanwhile when the BBC created the online website they imported large chunks of text from both the Television Companion and Discontinuity Guide (which have some inconsistencies between themselves) they repeated the statement above.

There isn't really a single "right" answer here. Timrollpickering (talk) 14:04, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

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Miranda Borman

Hello. Please be wary if receiving an email from someone claiming to be the above actress. There is a hoaxer going around, for some reason. Apply good faith, of course, but be wary... The JPS^{talk to me} 18:16, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

I got one of those on 24 April 2012. I already ignored it. --Redrose64 (talk) 22:07, 16 July 2012 (UTC)

Plot edit

Pretty sure that in the episode, it claimed that Xana killed herself while her and Kane were being chased by authorities so that she wouldn't be arrested, and that she wasn't killed during chase, so I made an edit. Feel free to...well...edit said edit as you please. Vincinel (talk) 02:58, 19 April 2019 (UTC)