From Newsgroup: rec.arts.drwho.moderated
From Address: jameskuyper{at}verizon.net
Subject: Re: New Regeneration cycle

On 07/30/2013 07:34 AM, jsreckley{at}atlanticbb.net wrote:
...
> Can someone check Matt Smith's guest appearance in the Sarah Jane
> Chronicles? The partial clip I viewed had The Doctor responding to a
> question about his number of regenerations. His answer was I beileve
> over 500. 
> 
> The clip was on Youtube, since the final season of the Sarah Jane
> Chronicles was never shown in the US.

The limit of 12 regenerations was well and firmly established in "The
Deadly Assassin", and has been reinforced many times since then.
http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Death_of_the_Doctor> mentions the 507
regeneration limit, but says "Later statements by Russell T Davies
suggest this was likely a joke."

I fully expect the Doctor to have more than 12 regenerations, but I
expect him to do so by extraordinary means, just as the Master did
(though the Doctor's extraordinary means should not be as evil as the
ones the Master used). I hope they don't give him the extra
regenerations just by arbitrarily re-writing the limit.
-- 
James Kuyper

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