Do Time Lords have infinite regenerations?

In The Deadly Assassin (1976), it is established that a Time Lord can only regenerate 12 times, for a total of 13 incarnations. This statement is later repeated in Mawdryn Undead (1983), the 1996 TV film and "The Time of the Doctor" (2013).
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Can Time Lords regenerate infinitely?

A Time Lord can only regenerate 12 times, meaning after the 13th incarnation, they would truly die. This way, the show could switch leads a good deal of times throughout its run, and leave the problem of what to do when that run is up for the future writers to address.
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How many regenerations can a Time Lord have?

He travels through time and space, saves the Earth, and has millions of fans all over the world. But as every "Whovian" knows, the Doctor cannot last for ever: Time Lords are able to regenerate only 12 times before they die.
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How long can a Time Lord live in one regeneration?

Well, the way I see it, at least from the point of view as it's presented, is each timelord life gets around about 80-100 years, so they age normally, if a timelord regenerates due to injury (as every doctor bar Hartnell) has, the "extra years" stack up into the next regeneration, so they could potentially live twice ...
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Can Time Lords choose to regenerate?

Can Time Lords choose there next regenaration. We know only the Sisters of Karn are capable of choosing it with some "Regen-Potion". Well, since Time Lords can change sex when they regenerate I imagine there aren't many distinctions regarding gender. I think for his regenerations, he chooses subconsciously.
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Is Julia Foster going to be the 14th Doctor?

Julia Foster is the 14th Doctor, with Tennant Back as Companion. Veteran actress Julia Foster will replace Jodie Whittaker after she bows out from Doctor Who in this year's festive special. Despite claims to the contrary, Whittaker in fact filmed her final scenes late last year.
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How many regenerations does River song have?

Assuming they did not, it would appear that Melody Pond/River Song gave up TEN incarnations (9 regenerations) to save The Doctor. First Regeneration - while homeless, young Melody Pond apparently succumbed to hunger & illness, undergoing her first regeneration in the episode "Day of the Moon".
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Is the Doctor the oldest Time Lord?

The three oldest Time Lords were Rassilon, Omega, and the other the oldest of them presumably being Rassilon and the other (childhood friends) then Omega their age is unknown but it has subtle hint they say the doctor could be the other reason being in the episode Terror of the Autons of the classic Doctor who you get ...
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Are all Gallifreyans Time Lords?

There are still Gallifreyans whom are not Time Lords, some which lived outside of the Capital Cities. There are also non-Timelord farmers in the series such as in the episode Hell Bent. Essentially from all this we can determine that Time Lords are Gallifreyan but a Gallifreyan may not always be a Time Lord.
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Are Time Lords possible?

In fact, given the sheer scale of the universe — how big it is, how long the universe will exist for before it dies, land the number of habitable planets — it's fairly likely that Time Lords actually already exist. Or will exist in the future.
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Can Time Lords regenerate into children?

Yes. Show activity on this post. From what I've been able to find; Yes, a Time Lord can regenerate into a child-like form. The best example I've been able to find thus far is The Master regenerating into Professor Yana.
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Who will replace Jodie Whittaker?

Ncuti Gatwa will take over from Jodie Whittaker as the Time Lord in Doctor Who, the BBC has announced. The 29-year-old will become the 14th Doctor on the popular BBC show after Whittaker announced last July she would be leaving the role.
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Why did the 10th Doctor not regenerate?

As Moffat also mentions in the video, this recalls the viewpoint of the Tenth Doctor (as played by David Tennant) on the idea of regeneration. He resisted changing for as long as possible because, as he said, regeneration “feels like dying. Everything I am dies. Some new man goes sauntering away.”
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Is River a Time Lord?

No. River Song is not a Time Lord. The title and distinction belongs solely to those beings from the world of Gallifrey who have been indoctrinated, trained and introduced to the Time Vortex via a particular set of rituals, instruction and guidance.
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How many regenerations does the master have left?

Despite being the first Master to appear on screen, this iteration of the character is actually the Master's final natural regeneration, having previously renewed himself 12 times off-screen.
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Why is Gallifrey in a bubble?

At the conclusion of "The Day of the Doctor" (2013), Gallifrey is revealed to have actually survived the Time War, though it was frozen in time and transported into a bubble universe, before being unfrozen and arriving at the end of the universe at a chronological point before "Hell Bent" (2015).
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Are Weeping Angels Time Lords?

The Weeping Angels being disgraced Time Lords creates a classic Doctor Who time travel paradox - the Time Lord punishment was inspired by the Weeping Angels, but the Weeping Angels were created by the Time Lords' punishment.
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Can all people from Gallifrey regenerate?

As much as it annoys me to say it, the evidence points towards Gallifreyans not being able to regenerate, at least without Symbiotic Nuclei. One case of such is when we see Gallifreyan citizens being slaughtered by Daleks. On the other hand, Daleks have some pretty goddamn good weapons.
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Are there black Time Lords?

Doctor Who unveils its first black portrayal of the Time Lord in show's 57-year history... as show boss CONFIRMS actress Jo Martin is 'definitively the Doctor' Doctor Who has introduced its first black portrayal of the titular Time Lord in its illustrious 57-year history.
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Do Time Lords have two hearts?

The process allows them to disguise themselves as humans physiologically and psychologically, meaning they only have one heart and are stripped of non-human powers, and of any memory of having been a Time Lord.
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Did the 11th Doctor live the longest?

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And all of this was before the 2015 Christmas Special in which he defended Trenzalore for 900 years before dying of old age. The specific figures are uncertain, but the 11th Doctor almost certainly lived for over 1,000 years.
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How long is a Gallifreyan year?

So 237 Gallifreyan Years is equal to 209 Earth Years. This means one Earth Year is 1.133971291866 Gallifreyan Years.
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Is Clara River Song's daughter?

Clara is a future regeneration of River Song who's had her memory erased. River is, after all, a Time Lord. We've seen her regenerate before.
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Is River Song the Tardis?

Melody Pond's third incarnation, best known as Professor River Song, was a "child of the TARDIS" and the wife of the Doctor, specifically of their eleventh and twelfth incarnations, although she also had encounters with their tenth and thirteenth incarnations, as well as earlier incarnations whose memories were later ...
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Why is River Song backwards?

River Song's Timeline isn't backwards (and neither is the Doctors). Their individual timelines move forward from birth to death (in the loosest sense of the word) but as time travellers they are free to visit any time and space in any order.
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