This year’s Doctor Who Christmas special takes place in the city that never sleeps, New York! The Return of Doctor Mysterio is set in the North American city – but this is not the first time the Doctor has ventured to New York. Check out the Time Lord’s guide to Big Apple below. THE CHASE During an eclectic trip through space and time, the First Doctor took a pitstop on top of the Empire State Building. The third ep, Flight through…
One of the more notable aspects of Doctor Who last year was its tone. With episodes like The Zygon Invasion / Inversion, Face The Raven, Heaven Sent and Hell Bent, the show took on a darker direction; as is to be expected of a series where a companion dies (well, kinda dies). Yet next year’s series 10 will see the tone of the show shift once again — this time with a focus on making Doctor Who feel ‘brand new.’…
You wait ages for a trailer of new Doctor Who spin-off Class and two arrive on the same day — typical. Yes, following on from the short, Peter Capaldi-centric teaser shown at New York Comic Con earlier today, the BBC have just unveiled a longer, more rounded look at the spin-off, which will air later this month on BBC3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAycTsDzW-w#action=share The footage gives us our first proper look at the world of Class, including its characters, monsters and tone. Set…
Over the last month, a tall, blue curiosity slowly took shape in Michael Thompson’s carport: a plywood box that looked like a telephone booth to the inexpert eye but which any sci-fi fan instantly recognized as a TARDIS, the space- and time-traveling ship immortalized by “Doctor Who.” Building an 8-foot prop might seem extreme even for Thompson, 37, whose enthusiasm for the Doctor runs so high that he once made his own Time Lord collar – an elaborate costume piece…
Cybermen are better than Daleks? There, I’ve said it. But can you believe it’s been 50 years since they first stomped into the Antarctic to menace the Doctor and his companions? With their never-ending quest to convert everyone they can (and destroy anyone who they can’t), the Cybermen are remorseless, emotionless and the stuff of nightmares. Here are just some of their finest moments from five decades of television… 1. First Encounter (The Tenth Planet, 1966) This was our first look at the metal monsters –…
Doctor Who’s stars and writers discussed their own fandom of the show, dealing with fans and why the show is getting more diverse at a panel during New York Comic-Con on Friday. Doctor Who’s new companion Pearl Mackie was in attendance, as was showrunner Steven Moffat, and the current Doctor himself, Peter Capaldi. Mackie said she had no idea she was even auditioning for the role at first. “My agent did an availability check for something called Mean Town, which was…
IN July last year, Peter Davison died. The actor and star of Doctor Who and All Creatures Great and Small didn’t realise he was dead until his son emailed him to tell him he was, and so he went online and sure enough, there it was. Dead. A Facebook tribute page. The lot. Funnily enough, it wasn’t the first time the actor had glimpsed his death – in the 1980s, he remembers getting home one night just in time to…
After months of uncertainty, BBC3’s Class has begun dropping all sorts of information about what we can expect from the Doctor Who spin-off, ranging from the presence of Peter Capaldi’s Doctor to the threats our heroes will face– and now the biggest pile of information yet has appeared in the form of episode summaries for the first two instalments of the series. Appearing in online programme information ahead of the two episodes’ release on BBC3 on Saturday 22nd October, the summaries…
When the Doctor can’t be there, you have to take survival upon yourselves. Here’s a first peek at the new Doctor Who spin-off ‘Class’!
This Christmas on BBC One, the Doctor joins forces with a comic-book superhero in New York for a heroic special written by Steven Moffat, titled ‘The Return of Doctor Mysterio’. The family favourite will return on Christmas day as the Doctor, played by Peter Capaldi, joins forces with an investigative journalist, played by Charity Wakefield (Wolf Hall, The Player) and a superhero to save New York from a deadly alien threat. Steven Moffat, Writer and Executive Producer, says: “I’ve always…