Every Mention of the Doctor's Family | Doctor Who

“Do you have a brother?” “No, not anymore…” I personally like to think he was talking about the Master here

I blame the toymaker. He made a jigsaw of the doctors life.

60 plus years of the show and all we have to show referencing the Doctor family is less than fourteen minutes? To quote Susan Triad, "Top marks for enigmatic."

That first scene was pretty sad

My personal headcanon from the newest episode is that based off what the doctor says in The Devil's Chord, "I did have, I will have, some future doctor has kids and sends them back to live with the first doctor, so The Doctor is still a dad and has had family but hasn't yet had them.

Man, Doctor calling his female companions Susan in various occasions is just like my grandfather and grandmother lol

Anyone else confused about the doctor saying he might have kids in the future in the Legend of Ruby Sunday when he’s mentioned his lost children multiple times before 🤔🤔

4:26 she looks like Techeun, her eyes. Perhaps an early regeneration of Techeun

7:18 AWWW!!! Photos of his granddaughter Susan Foreman and late wife River Song!!!

Confirmed Grandaughter - Susan Uncle - Unnamed Father - Unnamed Children - Unnamed Brother - Unnamed Daughter - Jenny Sisters - Unnamed Grandmothers - Unnamed

Confused on why Kate has no idea about Susan being the doctors granddaughter when in the day of the doctor they have an entire File on her on the board in the black archive

Kate [referring to visiting Susan.] "Personally, I think you bring joy." Next Christmas Special: Joy to the World

1:49 I like to think he’s talking to Victoria about the family he had prior to being adopted by Tecteun since the memories of his past life were erased. The memory of the Doctor’s real parents lives somewhere deep within him and he has to think really hard to see them again (“they sleep in my mind”).

Constantine: “Before this war began, I was a father and a grandfather. Now I am neither, but I'm still a doctor.” Ninth Doctor: “Yeah, I know the feeling.”

My interpretation/headcanon of The Doctor saying he was a parent when he hasn't had kids yet is that with Susan having no knowledge of her parents I think there's nothing left but conclude that she was a foundling just like The Doctor and Ruby, meaning that she was pretty much raised entirely by The 1st Doctor. What I'm getting at is that I think The Doctor calls himself a parent because he very much had to act as a surrogate/foster father for Susan. Feels fitting with how a current theme in the new season is how adoptive parents can be just as valid if not more than biological ones. Plus, surprisingly, it doesn't really fully contradict any previos scene. Unless I've missed something, in all of these scenes The Doctor doesn't ever state he has had biological children, he just states he has a family and that he was a parent once. The first thing doesn't necessarily mean having kids (as we know The Doctor had parents, uncles, grandmothers, etc.) and the second one doesn't necessarily mean being a parent to multiple kids. Meaning the idea of him acting as a single foster parent for Susan remains untouched. The only scene shown here that actually contradicts this is Clara saying he has children, but I think it's fine to assume Clara doesn't know The Doctor hasn't had his kids yet. She either assumed this because he told her about Susan or The Doctor did tell her about them but skipped the "haven't met them yet" part (which is pretty in character for The Doctor to not go into detail lol). The one scene I can recall where The Doctor actually states he had kids specifically is missing on this video, which is in 'The Empty Child' when The Doctor tells Constantine he knows the feeling of being both a father and a grandfather. But really this can just be interpreted as The Doctor saying he knows the feeling because he had to act as both a dad and a granddad for Susan. Is The Doctor having kids on his personal future clearly not the original intention? Yeah, but this works less as a retcon and more as a recontextualization of previous scenes and a new piece of knowledge on his family tree.

The bit at 3:18 where Ten says he “was a dad once” contradicts the bit at 12:03 where 15 says “not yet” to having kids. 🤷🏻‍♂️ And yet at 11:54, The Doctor says he’s trying to shake off his past enigma which he kinda isn’t as RTD is just making it complicate

One thing from the expanded lore I like is that Yaz eventually figured out that the 13th Doctor made up her anecdotes to lighten the mood and keep from having to break from her jovial persona. She brought up many wishy washy stories in series 11, but didn't tell the Fam where she was from until they cornered her at the end of Spy Fall.

Man, The Five Doctors really dropped the ball regarding representing Susan. The doctor went from mistaking others for Susan because he couldn't let go of her to not even batting an eye when she reappeared after nearly a century.

Stephen Greenhorn and RTD1: "Donna, I've been a father before" RTD2: Forget about that. Just think about salt or something.

I've been waiting for someone to make a comprehensive video like this for a long time. Cheers!!!!!!