Does Clara know the Doctor's name?

In Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS, Clara learnt the Doctor's name from the Time War Book - but thanks to the time reset she forgot it. Then along came The Name of the Doctor, in which Clara starts remembering those un-happened events, including the Doctor's amazement at her multiple incarnations.
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Does Clara remember the Doctor?

She knew she couldn't let the Doctor live with those consequences. But when Twelve suggested they wipe her memory to see if they could reverse this whole incident, Clara put her foot down. No one would take away her moments of triumph, her adventures, her memories of the Doctor.
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Will the Doctor's name ever be revealed?

John Smith is also a favourite name of the Doctor outside of the TV series, cropping up regularly in Doctor Who comic books, novels and audio dramas, even including the sneaky use of “Jane Smith” by the Thirteenth Doctor (Jodie Whittaker). It seems unlikely that we will ever truly know the Doctor's real name.
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Does Clara know the Doctor's name Reddit?

Due to the fact that Clara retained her memories of the alternate timeline, she knows the Doctor's name by reading it in the book.
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Why is the Doctor's name a secret?

Long story short: the Doctor lies. Recently, fans have hypothesized that the reason why the Doctor never speaks their own name is for their own safety. And the hypothesis also suggests that the only occasion for which a Time Lord would reveal their name is at the moment of their final death.
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Is Clara a Time Lord?

Clara is a future regeneration of River Song who's had her memory erased. River is, after all, a Time Lord.
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Does the Doctor speak English or Gallifreyan?

The Doctor does indeed talk in Gallifreyan everytime and has not even the faintest idea about speaking in English, according with Dead of Winter.
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Why did the Doctor forgive Clara?

Eventually, the Doctor gained the upper hand and regained the TARDIS. While Clara expected the Doctor to cut her out of his life, he instead instantly forgave her, claiming she was too important to him that even her betrayal meant nothing.
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Who is the longest companion of the Doctor?

We've had a lifetime of Clara Oswald — several, in fact — as Clara is the longest-serving companion the series has had since its 2005 revival.
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Why does the Doctor forget Clara?

But at the end of the ninth season, Peter Capaldi's Doctor lost his memories of Clara. It was moving, wibbly wobbly, and weird. Since Clara died a bunch of times before in different lives, erasing her from the Doctor's memory seemed like the only way to really write her out.
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Does anyone know the Doctor's real name?

John Smith. The Doctor's most common alias (apart from the Doctor, obviously), this is his standard pseudonym on Earth.
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What did the Doctor whisper to River?

On The Wedding of River Song he whispers, "Look into my eye." and then lies and says that he just told her his name. That's when River realized that what he whispered to her when they first met was his name.
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What did the Doctor whisper to Rose?

In the Doctor Who Confidential episode End of an Era, executive producer Julie Gardner confirmed that the intention was that the new Doctor did indeed say "I love you" when he whispered in Rose's ear.
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Why does the TARDIS not like Clara?

In answering that question in Doctor Who Magazine, Moffat suggested that the TARDIS' dislike of the current companion may be due to her sceptical nature and how she did not seem suitably awed by the Doctor's spaceship. Or, as he said, “It's almost like it's all building to something…
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Does Clara become a Dalek?

She is the sole survivor of the starship Alaska, which crashed on the Asylum, a prison planet for insane Daleks. Oswin then learns from the Eleventh Doctor (Matt Smith) that she has been converted from human into a Dalek and has coped by retreating into a fantasy of her own intact survival.
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Who is the companion after Clara?

Marsay played Shona in the 2014 Christmas special 'Last Christmas' in what was supposed to be Jenna Coleman's final episode as Clara. When Coleman did eventually leave the show one year later, she was replaced by Pearl Mackie's companion Bill Potts.
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Which Doctor has the most screentime?

Tom Baker holds the record as the Doctor who has spent most time on screen - 71 hours and 37 minutes in all of his regular episodes, while Paul McGann's one episode revival game him only one hour and four minutes screen time overall until that was bumped up by the recent three minute short 'Night of the Doctor'.
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Who did the Doctor love the most?

1 The Most: Amy Pond And Rory Williams

They grew up side by side and were friends for a long time before they got together. Their relationship had a strong base, and they were made for each other.
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Who was the youngest Doctor Who companion?

He was a confirmed Doctor Who fan and had had at least one letter printed in Doctor Who Weekly before he took up the role. Adric was a companion of Tom Baker and Peter Davison's Doctors from 1980 to 1982. Waterhouse was the youngest actor to play a companion and remains the youngest male to have done so.
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Did the Doctor and Clara date?

Clara Oswald was always the Eleventh Doctor's “Impossible Girl,” a mystery to be solved “wrapped in an enigma, squeezed into a skirt that's just a little bit too … tight.” And according to the Eleventh Doctor himself, she was also his girlfriend.
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Did the Doctor love Rose?

To some, companion Rose Tyler was the greatest love of the Doctor's life. He seemed to have a closer bond with her than almost anyone he'd travelled with before, and as time went on it was increasingly clear that she was deeply in love with him.
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Is the Doctor in love with River Song?

River makes a point of it that she knows the Doctor doesn't love her, but the Doctor never confirms that. It also seems that anytime River claims the Doctor doesn't love her, the Doctor looks rather uncomfortable (or at least 12 did).
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Why does River know the Doctor's name?

The simple answer is that we do not know. River's method of learning the Doctor's name has not yet been shown or explained on-screen. It is strongly implied that she knew it before she died in the Library, however, as it's the Doctor's explanation for why he trusts her.
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Can the TARDIS translate Gallifreyan?

Sometimes two circles would overlap and cancel each other out. What if, like the drops of water in the puddle Gallifreyan as a text keeps shifting in size and shape. Perhaps even in 4th dimensional space. Maybe human brains aren't equipped to deal with this kind of language so the TARDIS can't translate it.
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Is the Doctor's first name Basil?

Steven Moffat, the executive producer, has said the Doctor's real name is Mildred, but this is generally assumed to be a joke. (Rule #0: the Moffat lies.) In Series 9, the Doctor tells Osgood that his first name is Basil, but this is presumably also a joke.
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