Ian only heard one heartbeat from the unconscious Doctor in "The Edge of Destruction", which fans took for many years to mean that the first Doctor had only one heart (though of course this didn't necessarily mean that all Time Lords have only one heart prior to their first regeneration). "The Christmas Invasion" gave a possible retcon for this by establishing that one or the other of the Doctor's hearts might intermittently stop beating for a short while when the Doctor's body has undergone severe trauma--one of the neatest little piece of retcon the new series has done for classic series continuity problems, IMHO.
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Ian only heard one heartbeat from the unconscious Doctor in "The Edge of Destruction", which fans took for many years to mean that the first Doctor had only one heart (though of course this didn't necessarily mean that all Time Lords have only one heart prior to their first regeneration). "The Christmas Invasion" gave a possible retcon for this by establishing that one or the other of the Doctor's hearts might intermittently stop beating for a short while when the Doctor's body has undergone severe trauma--one of the neatest little piece of retcon the new series has done for classic series continuity problems, IMHO.
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