Doctor Who Charity Auction for BBC Children In Need
The Doctor Who charity auction, in partnership with Propstore, will open its digital doors to fans globally from 11th February until 25th February. Bidding for all lots will start at £100, giving fans from around the world the opportunity to own exclusive and affordable Doctor Who memorabilia.
Amongst the 150 lots, fans will have the chance to bid on Doctors’ and companions’ costumes and many more props featured in the series between 2005 and 2022 including…
Tenth Doctor’s (David Tennant) Tuxedo Costume and Spares; Eleventh Doctor’s (Matt Smith) ‘Closing Time’ Costume; Twelfth Doctor’s (Peter Capaldi) ‘Mummy on the Orient Express’ Costume;Thirteenth Doctor’s (Jodie Whittaker) Costume; Screen-matched ‘An Adventure in Space and Time’ TARDIS.
With over 150 lots, bundling iconic props and costumes from the rich history of the much-loved TV-show, this is expected to be the biggest Doctor Who auction to date, with the net proceeds to go to BBC Children in Need, the BBC’s UK charity, which supports children in communities across the UK helping them to overcome challenges that they face.
Registration for the auction will open from January 28, 2025, on the Propstore website. A full list of lots to be auctioned can be found on the Propstore website.
Biggest Doctor Who props and costume auction to date for Children in Need
Coming February 2025, an online Doctor Who auction to benefit BBC Children in Need!
This is expected to be the biggest Doctor Who props and costume auction to date and follows a record 2-lot auction to benefit BBC Children in Need which ended on Doctor Who Day 2024.
The Thirteenth Doctor’s outfit with scarf
There were previously two Doctor Who lots which earned Children in Need – £12,000 for Kylie Minogue’s costume from the 2007 Christmas special Voyage of the Damned, and a record £11,000 for the TARDIS used by the Thirteenth Doctor, Jodie Whittaker, in the 2022 New Year’s Day special Eve of the Daleks.
A battle damaged Dalek
The February auction will include around 150 lots, bundling props and costumes from the 60-year history of Doctor Who spanning the Tenth to Thirteenth Doctors eras.
The Eleventh Doctor’s outfit from Series 6
The auction will include primary costumes from four Doctors, Weeping Angel Statues; a Traitor Dalek; and a 50th Anniversary TARDIS. Fans from all over the world will have pieces of TV history at their fingertips and bidding for many lots will start from £100.
A Weeping Angel costume
Launching next February on the Propstore website, the proceeds from the BBC Studios auction will go to BBC Children in Need, the BBC’s UK charity for disadvantaged children and young people in the UK.
A special-one-off Doctor Who scene starring the fourteenth Doctor, David Tennant. Fans can also catch a glimpse behind the scenes of making the scene in an exclusive episode of Doctor Who: Unleashed, which will be available on BBC iPlayer.
BBC Children in Need will air at 7:00pm on BBC One, Friday 17th November 2023 and will be available to catch up on BBC iPlayer.
Big Night In: Doctor Who stars past and present unite for BBC charity show
Clockwise from top left: Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Jo Martin, Jodie Whittaker, Peter Capaldi, Matt Smith and David Tennant
Ten Doctor Who actors from the past 50 years will say thank you to real doctors and other NHS staff on a star-studded BBC fundraising telethon later.
Jodie Whittaker will be joined by a host of her predecessors as the Doctor on BBC One’s The Big Night In.
Little Britain, Peter Kay, The Vicar of Dibley and Catherine Tate will all also return during the three-hour special.
The show begins at 19:00 BST and will see Children in Need and Comic Relief join forces for the first time.
The Doctors have recorded a message thanking front-line staff for their work during the coronavirus crisis. It will be broadcast just before the weekly Clap For Carers at 20:00 BST.
The actors taking part range from Tom Baker, who played the role between 1974-81, to current Tardis-dweller Jodie Whittaker, and Jo Martin, who appeared as an alternative incarnation of the Doctor in two episodes earlier this year.
Other highlights of the night will include Matt Lucas and David Walliams doing Little Britain on TV for the first time in a decade.
Dawn French will revive The Vicar of Dibley, and Kay will unveil a new video for (Is This The Way To) Amarillo.
Tate will bring back schoolgirl Lauren – who is struggling with being remotely educated by her teacher, played by David Tennan
The three-hour show will aim to raise millions of pounds for vulnerable people around the UK who have been affected by the pandemic. The government has pledged to match all public donations, with a minimum of £20 million.
The programme also promises to “celebrate the acts of kindness, humour and the spirit of hope and resilience that is keeping the nation going”.
It will include the unveiling of a home-made video for a charity single featuring stars like Dua Lipa, Chris Martin and Rita Ora.
They – along with the likes of Ellie Goulding, Jess Glynne, Paloma Faith and Rag ‘N’ Bone Man – have recorded a cover of Foo Fighters’ 2003 track Times Like These.
Gary Barlow, Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon, Jack Whitehall, Romesh Ranganathan, Miranda Hart and the cast of People Just Do Nothing are among the others expected to appear on the show.
And the Strictly Come Dancing professionals have come up with a new routine for people to learn at home.
The programme will be hosted by Matt Baker, Zoe Ball, Sir Lenny Henry, Paddy McGuinness and Davina McCall.
‘Something positive’
“It’s so exciting to actually be able to do something positive… especially bringing Comic Relief and Children In Need together for one night only,” McCall told BBC Radio 5 Live on Wednesday.
“We’re actually going to be in a studio, which I’m personally extremely excited about – being in the same room as other people.
“We’re going to be in the BBC One Show studio, so there will be Matt, Lenny and me for the first hour and we will all be two metres apart.”
Sir Lenny told BBC Breakfast on Saturday: “We’re all going to be socially distanced, and then do a bit, and then move away from each other, and then nearly everybody else is doing stuff from home or from a remote location. It’s going to be great!”
The aim of the night is to let “the key workers and the care workers know that we really respect what they’re doing”, he said.
Speaking about the fundraising, he added: “A lot of the projects that we support have come to us and said that they’re really struggling in this time. They need our help.”
