Is River Song a time traveler?

Because River Song is a time traveller herself, her adventures with the Doctor occur out of synchronisation; their first meeting (from the audience's perspective) is with the Tenth Doctor (played by David Tennant), the Doctor's first and apparently her last.
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Is River Song a time Traveller?

During the events of "The Pandorica Opens", we see River buying a vortex manipulator from Dorian Maldovar. This is the time-travel device that Time Agents use to time travel. This allows her to travel to several time periods in that episode to finally meet the Doctor.
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Why is River Song a Time Lord?

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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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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Did the Doctor spend 24 years with River Song?

In the end he stays with her on Darillium for 24 years, but he also does this knowing it's his last chance to ever see her. Also I think River's ending makes it clear that ever if the Doctor loves River, he doesn't really understand her.
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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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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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Why did the Doctor tell river his name?

Obviously this couldn't just be a coincidence of "Oh, look, there's some person with me while I'm dying, I'll tell my name to them," because River uses her knowledge to convince the Doctor that one day, he will trust her absolutely.
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Who are River Song's parents?

River Song (born as Melody Pond) is the daughter of Amy Pond and Rory Williams, the wife and occasional companion of The Doctor and a recurring guest character in Doctor Who.
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How was River Song born?

River Song. I was born in battle on an asteroid called Demons Run. I was the daughter of Amy Pond and Rory Williams. They named me Melody Pond.
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How did River Song get regenerations?

River Song is Amy and Rory's daughter, also known as Melody. Also known as Mels. It's complicated. River was born with the power to regenerate but used up all her remaining regenerations when she saved the Doctor after she poisoned him because she was programmed to kill him...
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Is River Song immortal?

She died sometime in the 51st century, but "the Doctor saved her consciousness digitally to the Library's computer system, granting her a form of theoretical immortality." Here's a brief timeline of events, giving some indication of her age during the series.
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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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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 did the Doctor marry river?

But rather than let that happen—she went to school to learn to love the guy, come on! —she decides that she'd rather destroy the universe than fulfill that function. But the universe has to be righted, so to appease her, the Doctor agrees to marry her.
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Is River Song the Doctor's wife?

Case in point: it feels like a shame we've never seen Jodie Whittaker's Doctor share the screen with Alex Kingston's River Song, the Doctor's sometime wife and companion who appeared regularly alongside the Tenth, Eleventh and Twelfth Doctors from 2008 to 2015.
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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 happens to Donna Noble?

Donna becomes an asset to the Doctor on his adventures and it is she who ultimately saves the universe in the series 4 finale, although tragically at the cost of the memories of her travels with the Doctor.
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Did River Song meet the 13th Doctor?

While that didn't close the TARDIS door on future appearances from her, she hasn't appeared alongside Jodie Whittaker's Thirteenth Doctor.
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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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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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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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Why does River have Time Lord DNA?

In "A Good Man Goes to War", it is revealed that River is Amy and Rory's daughter Melody (Harrison and Maddison Mortimer), who was conceived in the TARDIS while it was in the Time Vortex and consequently carries Time Lord DNA.
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Does River Song have 2 Hearts?

Although it's a 'blink-and-you'll-miss-it' moment, she does indeed appear to have two hearts... You might want to mention that the novel seems to be contradicted by screen evidence in The Doctor's Daughter.
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What are female Time Lords called?

As last year's Christmas Special revealed, Broadchurch star Jodie Whittaker has taken on the role of the Thirteenth Doctor – and we couldn't be more excited for her adventures starting later this year. But some fans slightly baulked at a female Time Lord, or Time Lady if you will.
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