How did Dr Who Beat The Silence?

The Silence were defeated when the Doctor ensured the world saw footage of a Silent apparently ordering people to attack them on sight. This 'command' acted like a post-hypnotic suggestion and humans finally turned on the aliens.
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Why did the Doctor and the Silence work together?

The Church of the Silence's goal was to keep the Doctor from speaking his name. They fought against the Daleks in order to keep the Doctor from having to bring back the Time Lords to protect Trenzalore.
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What is the question of the Silence Doctor Who?

a Question will be asked, a question that must never, ever be answered. the Doctor will have no choice but to reveal his name, which opens his Tomb, providing unfettered access to his entire timeline, a power which could pervert or destroy the Universe.
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How did the Silence destroy the TARDIS?

2. How did the Silence blow up the TARDIS? Tasha Lem admitted in The Time of the Doctor that the rogue Kovarian Strain of the Silence blew up the TARDIS in The Pandorica Opens.
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What are the Silence aliens called?

A single member of the species is known as a "Silent" while more than one are called "Silents".
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Why do The Silence wear suits?

The appearance of the Silents in suits is a mental construct of an authority figure created by them as part of their obedience compulsion. This would likely mean in previous eras, they wore whatever the dominant members of that society wore that would add to a desire to please them.
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What's the scariest episode of Doctor Who?

Doctor Who's Scariest Episodes: One Fan's Horror Highlights
  • The Happiness Patrol. In November 1988 I was three and we'd just moved from the Highlands to just outside Glasgow. ...
  • Hide. This is simply a well-made haunted house story. ...
  • Kinda. ...
  • The Awakening. ...
  • The Curse of Fenric. ...
  • The Power of the Daleks. ...
  • Terror of the Zygons. ...
  • Midnight.
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What race are the Silence?

The Silence are a religious order in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, represented by humanoids with alien-like physical characteristics.
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Why did the TARDIS explode in Season 5?

Doctor Who confirmed the Silence was responsible for blowing up the TARDIS in season 5, but how they managed to accomplish this is still a mystery. The Silence, a religious sect of the space church called the Papal Mainframe, made the TARDIS explode at the end of season 5 of Doctor Who.
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Is the TARDIS indestructible?

The TARDIS is almost indestructible. If it was completely indestructible then life wouldn't be very interesting, but it does appear to be resilient to extermination, being plunged into black holes and falling off cliffs.
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What is the scariest Doctor Who monster?

The Daleks are best known for their trademark expression “exterminate” and are one of the most feared races in the universe. No matter how many times The Doctor stops them, they always come back with a vengeance, making them one of The Doctor's greatest foes.
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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 caused the cracks in Doctor Who?

The cracks were caused by the TARDIS exploding which, it being a space/time machine, took place at all moments in space and time. From what we were shown, as the Doctor/TARDIS' personal timeline got closer to the event, the cracks became more numerous and more dangerous (they were wider each time).
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What is 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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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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What did the silence want Amy to tell the Doctor?

They wanted her to tell him about her pregnancy.
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What was the crack in the wall Dr Who?

The Doctor landed on the planet and discovered a crack in space and time. The crack was described as a split in the skin of reality. It was left over from the TARDIS exploding in an alternative timeline. The Time Lord's were trying to communicate through it.
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Why was the crack in Amy's wall?

These cracks were caused by the explosion of the TARDIS. Thus, the explosion led to several points in time and space touch when they shouldn't have been. These are linked to Amy because the explosion takes place in Amy's timeline as mentioned in this quote from Flesh and Stone.
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How was the TARDIS created?

The production team conceived of the TARDIS travelling by dematerialising at one point and rematerialising elsewhere, although sometimes in the series it is shown also to be capable of conventional space travel.
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Who will be the 14th Doctor?

Doctor Who casts Sex Education's Ncuti Gatwa as 14th Doctor - Polygon.
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What is the best Doctor Who episode?

30 Best Doctor Who Episodes Ranked
  1. Blink. BBC.
  2. Heaven Sent. BBC. ...
  3. The Forest Of The Dead. BBC. ...
  4. The Day Of The Doctor. BBC. ...
  5. Silence In The Library. BBC. ...
  6. Vincent And The Doctor. BBC. ...
  7. Doomsday. BBC. ...
  8. The Girl In The Fireplace. BBC. ...
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What are the monsters in the silence?

Vesps are the main antagonists of the 2015 book The Silence by Tim Lebbon, and its 2019 film adaptation of the same name. They are an ancient species of bat-like monsters that, while blind, are highly sensitive to sound.
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What is the saddest episode of Doctor Who?

8 of Doctor Who's saddest moments EVER, from Donna's exit to "I don't wanna go"
  1. The Tenth Doctor saves Caecilius. ...
  2. Rose's dad dies saving the universe. ...
  3. Van Gogh visits the future. ...
  4. Donna's memory is erased. ...
  5. The Ninth Doctor sends Rose back to Earth. ...
  6. The Tenth Doctor doesn't wanna go. ...
  7. The Eleventh Doctor's farewell speech.
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Who played Dr Who the longest?

The longest-lasting on-screen incarnation is the Fourth Doctor, played by Tom Baker for seven years. Within the narrative, these changes were explained as regeneration, a biological process which heals a Time Lord when their incarnation is about to die.
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What is the longest Doctor Who story?

The Key To Time

If you really want to break out the big guns, you can argue that Season 16, during Tom Baker's tenure, was the longest story in the show's history, running for twenty-six episodes.
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