Why did the Doctor have to forget Clara?

Because it wasn't safe for the two of them to be together any more. The Doctor himself says (when recounting his adventures to Clara in the diner, when he doesn't know who she is): DOCTOR: There was only one way to keep Clara safe. I had to wipe some of her memory.
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Does the Doctor get his memories of Clara back?

Just before the Doctor returned to his TARDIS to make a final decision about whether to regenerate or die, this Bill gives the Doctor a gift. She kisses the Doctor on his cheek and suddenly his memories of Clara Oswald are restored. Jenna Coleman reprises the role for a brief cameo scene.
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Does the Doctor remember Clara Oswald?

It turns out it was the exact opposite. The Doctor didn't remember Clara, but she would never forget him.
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Why was Clara so important to the Doctor?

Clara Oswald is one of the Doctor's most extraordinary companions. In order to help the Doctor she allowed the time winds to tear her into countless different iterations of herself, or as River phrased it, 'A million versions of you, living and dying all over time and space, like echoes.
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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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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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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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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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How is River Song a Time Lord?

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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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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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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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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Does the Doctor love Clara?

Both of them had ties to each other since their childhoods ⁠— thanks to time travel ⁠— and their relationship blossomed as she was the companion of his eleventh and twelfth incarnations. Soon enough, it became clear that Clara and the Doctor were most definitely in love with each other, despite not becoming lovers.
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Does Clara have her own TARDIS?

Clara gets her own TARDIS and her own companion. She gets to adventure through the cosmos.
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Why is the doctors 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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Who will be the 14th Doctor?

Doctor Who casts Sex Education's Ncuti Gatwa as 14th Doctor - Polygon.
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What happened to Clara and Ashildr?

Ashildr, who later began calling herself Me due to her immortality-related memory loss, was a Viking girl encountered by the Twelfth Doctor and Clara Oswald. After a battle with the Mire, Ashildr died, but she was resurrected by the Doctor via a Mire repair kit. As a result of this, Ashildr became immortal.
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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 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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Who is the best Dr Who of all time?

1. David Tennant - Tenth Doctor. Named the most popular Doctor in the show's history, David Tennant brought a whole new fanbase to the Who-niverse. An evergreen fan of Doctor Who himself, his enthusiasm and love for the character shone through.
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How did Clara's mother died?

While the circumstances of Ellie's death are never revealed, her death date of 5 March 2005 coincides with the events of Rose, when the Ninth Doctor and Rose faced the Nestene Consciousness. It is therefore possible that Ellie was killed in the Auton invasion.
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Can Clara fly the TARDIS?

Yes Clara piloted the TARDIS without a timelord present.
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How did Clara get the Doctor's number?

The woman in the shop who gave Clara the Doctor's number is brought up in "Deep Breath". The Twelfth Doctor remarks it seems as if someone is trying to bring the Doctor and Clara together. The episode "Death in Heaven" reveals it was the Master (as Missy) who gave the number to Clara.
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Did the Doctor ever kiss Rose?

Rose and the Doctor remain one of the most iconic Doctor Who couples. But funnily enough, the Tenth Doctor and Rose never actually kissed - even though she told him she loved him. Nevertheless, Rose got her happy ending thanks to the human version of the Doctor who regenerated out of his severed hand.
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