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A Kettle and Some String
FEATURE BY
MARK WRIGHT
Patrick Troughton as the Doctor, tinkering with technology in a publicity shot from
The Ice Warriors
(1967).
The Doctor (David Tennant) offers his past self a sonic screwdriver in
Time Crash
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