AN INTRODUCTION clip released in April has caused potential issues for Doctor Who show runner Steven Moffat, due to its involving new character Bill running from Daleks.

The BBC used the two minute teaser as a way of unveiling the identity of Doctor Who’s newest companion (Bill, played by Pearl Mackie), and saw her and The Doctor (Peter Capaldi) fleeing from the infamous Daleks.

Fans were thrilled to learn about Pearl, and to be treated to a glimpse at what’s in store for series 10, but it seems that this scene may purely be for publicity purposes and might very well be ignored in the forthcoming plots of the tenth series.

“Knowing how pedantic I am, I’ll probably work [the intro scene] in somewhere,” he told Doctor Who Magazine. “But there is also an absolute possibility that I just won’t bother.”

Some fans have expressed concerns about this, arguing that continuity might suffer if there were a Dalek episode in the next season, as Bill states to never have seen one before in this clip.

Moffat didn’t seem fussed, adding: “I mean, so what? In a show that embraces alternate universes and changed timelines, how can you go wrong? I don’t know we might do it.”

The clip features Bill asking The Doctor what a Dalek is, to which he replies: “It’s the deadliest alien war machine ever devised.”

She doesn’t appear too worried by this, as she is seen quipping about how the Dalek is “too fat” to get through the door to them and that its “sucker” weaponry doesn’t seem very threatening.

The Doctor then tells her they “need to get back to the future” before finding themselves face-to-face with one of the Daleks.

Moffat has occasionally led Doctor Who fans up the garden path with regards to potential storylines in the past. Is he doing this again with this scene?

Season 10 of Doctor Who starts in 2017, but a Christmas special will air in December on BBC One.