Doctor Who: Lockdown!

Doctor Who: Lockdown!
Subject:	Doctor Who
Date of event:	21 March 2020 - 28 February 2021

Doctor Who: Lockdown! (also styled Doctor Who: LOCKDOWN!, and originally titled Who at Home) was a project founded by Emily Cook from Doctor Who Magazine who proposed the idea to Doctor Who fans as a simulcast watch-along of the show's 50th Anniversary, The Day of the Doctor, worldwide as a way to pass the time in self-isolation due to worldwide outbreak of COVID-19. The story was shown on 21 March 2020. She added that if the concept gained enough popularity, she would arrange more watch-alongs. which did indeed come to pass.

The event even developed its own website.

Nature

Minisodes and extras

For the first watch-along, Steven Moffat penned a short introductory skit, Strax Saves the Day, which was released on Twitter. The home-produced video starred Dan Starkey as Strax, represented on screen with a stuffed toy of the character, and featured the voice of Neve McIntosh as Vastra.

For the second watch-along Russell T Davies penned a sequel audio story, Revenge of the Nestene, which was released onto YouTube and depicted the aftermath of the Nestene Consciousness's defeat at the hand of the Ninth Doctor. He also released a previously withheld prequel short story, Doctor Who and the Time War, which was released onto the Doctor Who website and depicted an alternate account to the Eighth Doctor's involvement in the Last Great Time War and the Ninth Doctor's origins. This was the first of a series of COVID-era releases on the Doctor Who website, which soon ceased directly tying in with tweetalongs, but were still ultimately part of the same broad phenomenon, with Paul Cornell's BBC website short story The Shadow Passes tying in directly with his contemporary Lockdown! webcast The Shadow in the Mirror.

Such releases continued with each new watchalong, bringing together established DWU writers, actors and/or characters in a variety of new original content, released alongside each instalment of this event. DWM 554 dubbed the impromptu series "the unexpected ‘Lockdown Season’ of Doctor Who in 2020" in an article penned by Steve O'Brien — although the article concerned itself only with the webcast releases, failing to document Spoof Scenes and How The Monk Got His Habit, it did include the non-narrative webcast Lockdown Long Song | Choir-Only Version.

After a Doctor Who: Lockdown! website was created in late 2020, it introduced a new classification, separating video Minisodes, video Singalongs, and prose Extras. Soon after the website's launch, a page entitled Fan Content was also added. This section of the website encouraged viewers to create their own works inspired by the subject of the current tweetalong, as well as posting them on Twitter within the relevant hashtag. A selection of these fan-generated stories and pieces would then get an official release on the website in the Fan Content section.

As of 1 May 2021, the majority of the Fan Content shared as part of the tweetalongs is no longer accessible due to the expiry of the Lockdown website. Only the Fan Films are currently available, due to their hosting on YouTube rather than the website itself.

The Tweetalong phenomenon

"Doctor Who: Lockdown!" was originally conceived of by Emily Cook as an "umbrella term for online Tweetalongs, where fans could revisit old episodes together, alongside some of the people who wrote, made and starred in them". (REF: The Lockdown Season)

Indeed, many tweetalongs with no official connection to the BBC or other right-holders were organised, beginning as a The Five Doctors watchalong (with the hashtag #GameofRassilon) organised by Ellie Collins ("TardisMonkey") was promoted by Emily Cook but was not directly part of the Lockdown! line, and also saw a small scene with Paul Jerricho as the Castellan being filmed and released for the event. Other watchalongs promoted by Emily Cook included The Three Doctors, organised by Ellie Collins (which had two short spoofs starring Jon Culshaw and Katy Manning), and The War Games, organised by Pip Madeley.

Radio Times organised Torchwood simulcasts with John Barrowman tweeting along and Billie-Adora ("Transgirlbillie") organised watchalongs of Class. Big Finish organised a livestream of The Chimes of Midnight (with the hashtag #PlumPudding) with Paul McGann tweeting along. The Doctor Who pages themselves organised a tweetalong of the then-latest episode The Timeless Children on the 23rd November (with the hashtag #DoctorWhoDay). The same DW-pages later organised another tweetalong of the then-latest special, New Year Special Resolution on the 21st December to celebrate the 57th anniversary of the Daleks (with the hashtags #Resolution and #DalekDay). On the 27th February, 2021, the organisation known as “Friends of Ace” held a tweetalong of Remembrance of the Daleks with Sophie Aldred as a way of remembering those who had passed, using the hashtag #WhoAreYouCallingSmall.

The tweetalongs were not the only occasion for the release of new webcast Doctor Who content, with Russell T Davies or even the BBC itself releasing new webcasts not connected with a particular watchalong in an effort to spread awareness of various facets of the crisis.

Fundraising and awareness

Doctor Who: Lockdown! minisodes and extras were usually released for free on various online platforms such as YouTube, the official Doctor Who YouTube channel, and the official Doctor Who: Lockdown YouTube channel. As such, they did not constitute charity publications in the conventional sense. However, much like Doctor Who Comic Relief or Children in Need specials, one dimension to their existence was to raise awareness of a charitable cause: the publicity around theLockdown! event was leveraged to encourage Doctor Who fans to donate to the COVID-19 Film and TV Emergency Relief Fund. In addition, the webcast The Best of Days was rewritten late in production to make prominent reference not just to the coronavirus pandemic, but also to the Black Lives Matter movement.

Tweetalongs

Lockdown 1 Tweetalongs

Promotional posters for Lockdown 1 were made by Stuart Crouch.

#	Poster	Episode	Hashtag	Featured commentary	Date and occasion
1	N/A	The Day of the Doctor	#SaveTheDay	Steven Moffat	21 March 2020
2		Rose	#TripofaLifetime	Russell T Davies Mark Benton	26 March 2020 15th Anniversary
3		Vincent and the Doctor	#TheUltimateGinger	Richard Curtis Matt Smith Tony Curran Karen Gillan Emma Freud	30 March 2020 Van Gogh's birthday
4		The Eleventh Hour	#FishCustard	Steven Moffat Matt Smith Karen Gillan Arthur Darvill Adam Smith	3 April 2020 10th Anniversary
5		The Doctor's Wife	#BiggerOnTheInside	Neil Gaiman Richard Clark Michael Sheen	11 April 2020
6		Heaven Sent	#HellOfABird	Steven Moffat Rachel Talalay Jami Reid-Quarrell	14 April 2020 Peter Capaldi's birthday
7		The Stolen Earth / Journey's End	#SubwaveNetwork	David Tennant Catherine Tate Freema Agyeman John Barrowman Noel Clarke Russell T Davies Graeme Harper Nicholas Briggs Nicholas Pegg Barnaby Edwards Georgia Moffett	19 April 2020 Anniversary of Elisabeth Sladen's death
8		Human Nature / The Family of Blood	#DoctorOfMine	Paul Cornell Charles Palmer Lor Wilson	24 April 2020
9		Dalek	#TheMetaltron	Robert Shearman Nicholas Briggs Barnaby Edwards	30 April 2020 15th Anniversary
10		The Girl in the Fireplace	#Clockdown	Steven Moffat Russell T Davies Sophia Myles	6 May 2020 14th Anniversary
11		The Zygon Invasion / The Zygon Inversion	#TruthOrConsequences	Peter Harness Ingrid Oliver	10 May 2020
12		The Fires of Pompeii	#VolcanoDay	James Moran Tracey Childs Francesca Fowler Francois Pandolfo	17 May 2020
13		Listen	#FearIsASuperpower	Steven Moffat Douglas Mackinnon	20 May 2020
14		An Adventure in Space and Time	#London1963	Mark Gatiss Sacha Dhawan	23 May 2020 "Half-birthday" of Doctor Who
15	N/A	Dinosaurs on a Spaceship	#ImRiffing	Emily Cook	24 May 2020
16		The Rings of Akhaten	#FestivalOfOfferings	Murray Gold Farren Blackburn Millennium FX	26 May 2020
17	N/A	The End of the World	#BurnBabyBurn	Russell T Davies	30 May 2020
18		New Earth / Gridlock	#NewNewYork	Russell T Davies Anna Hope
19	N/A	Silence in the Library / Forest of the Dead	#HelloSweetie	Emily Cook	31 May 2020

Lockdown 2 Tweetalongs

Promotional posters for Lockdown 2 were made by Andrew-Mark Thompson.

#	Poster	Episode	Hashtag	Featured commentary	Date and occasion
20	N/A	The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances	#AreYouMyMummy	James Hawes	15 August 2020
21	N/A	Blink	#DontBlink	Steven Moffat	31 October 2020
22		The Husbands of River Song	#HelloSweetie	Douglas Mackinnon	7 November 2020
23		Turn Left	#TrickstersBrigade	Graeme Harper	14 November 2020
24		The Pilot	#ATimeForHeroes	(none)	21 November 2020
25		Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways	#BadWolf	(none)	28 November 2020

Festive Tweetalongs

Promotional posters for the Festive Tweetalongs were made by Andrew-Mark Thompson.

#	Poster	Episode	Hashtag	Featured commentary	Date and occasion
26		Thin Ice	#TheBigFreeze	Pearl Mackie, Sarah Dollard	5 December 2020
27		The Unquiet Dead	#WhatTheDickens	Mark Gatiss	12 December 2020
28		The Runaway Bride	#SantasARobot	Russell T Davies, Catherine Tate	18 December 2020
29		A Christmas Carol	#HalfwayOutOfTheDark	Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Danny Horn, Laurence Belcher, Steven Moffat	20 December 2020
30		Dark Water/Death in Heaven	#HeyMissy	Chris Addison, Rachel Talalay	3 January 2021

Lockdown 3 Tweetalongs

Promotional posters for Lockdown 3 were made by Thiago Luz.

#	Poster	Episode	Hashtag	Featured commentary	Date and occasion
31		Partners in Crime	#IJustWantAMate	(none)	9 January 2021
32		Robot of Sherwood	#OutlawsAndLegends	(none)	16 January 2021
33		School Reunion	#MySarahJane	(none)	23 January 2021
34		Boom Town	#Raxacoricofallapatorious	(none)	30 January 2021
35		Dinosaurs on a Spaceship	#WhosALovelyTricey	Saul Metzstein	6 February 2021
36		Love & Monsters	#LINDAunited	William Grantham	14 February 2021 Valentine’s Day Special
37		A Town Called Mercy	#ThyKingdomCome	Toby Whithouse, Sean Benedict	21 February 2021
38		Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords	#YANA		28 February 2021 The Grand Finale

Cancelled

The tweetalong for World Enough and Time and The Doctor Falls was cancelled due to concern from the fanbase, particularly people of colour, that it was inappropriate to highlight a story featuring the shooting of Bill Potts, a black woman, so soon after the death of George Floyd and the subsequent uproar.

The tweetalong for The Unicorn and the Wasp was cancelled due to an influx fan feedback to Emily Cook after its announcement, expressing the feeling that it would be better to avoid having a massive celebration of any of Gareth Roberts' work given his removal from working on a Doctor Who short story anthology as a result of trans-misogynistic tweets he'd made and been unapologetic about.

Poster	Episode	Hashtag	Featured commentary	Date and occasion
	World Enough and Time / The Doctor Falls	#BlackHolesAndRevelations	Steven Moffat Matt Lucas Pearl Mackie Rachel Talalay	6 June 2020 (Cancelled)
	The Unicorn and the Wasp	#HarveyWallbanger		28 February 2021 (Cancelled)

Associated releases

Minisodes

Several new short stories and webcasts were released to tie into the watchalongs, or the COVID-19 pandemic in general, some of them on a dedicated Doctor Who: Lockdown YouTube channel.

#	Title	Featuring	Tweetalong	Author	Release date
1	Strax Saves the Day	Strax, Vastra	The Day of the Doctor	Steven Moffat	21 March 2020
2	Doctor Who and the Time War	Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor	Rose	Russell T Davies	26 March 2020
3	Revenge of the Nestene	Nestene Consciousness
4	The Raggedy Doctor by Amelia Pond	Amelia Pond	The Eleventh Hour	Steven Moffat	3 April 2020
5	Rory's Story	Rory, Amy	The Doctor's Wife	Neil Gaiman	11 April 2020
6	Farewell, Sarah Jane	Jo, Ace, Gita, Luke, Clyde, Rani, Mr Smith	The Stolen Earth/Journey's End	Russell T Davies	19 April 2020
7	Shadow of a Doubt	Bernice Summerfield, Daughter of Mine	Human Nature/The Family of Blood	Paul Cornell	24 April 2020
8	The Shadow in the Mirror	Thirteenth Doctor, Daughter of Mine
9	Sven and the Scarf	Sven	Dalek	Andrew Ireland	30 April 2020
10	Pompadour	SS Madame de Pompadour	The Girl in the Fireplace	Steven Moffat	6 May 2020
11	The Zygon Isolation	Osgood, Osgood	The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion	Peter Harness	10 May 2020
12	The Descendants of Pompeii	Lobus Caecilius's descendants	The Fires of Pompeii	James Moran	17 May 2020
13	Listen	Twelfth Doctor	Listen	Steven Moffat	20 May 2020
14	Fear Is a Superpower	Danny Pink, Clara		James Peaty
15	Doctors Assemble!	The Doctors	An Adventure in Space and Time	James Goss	23 May 2020
16	The Secret of Novice Hame	Hame, Tenth Doctor	New Earth/Gridlock	Russell T Davies	30 May 2020
17	The Best of Days	Bill, Nardole	World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls	Steven Moffat	7 June 2020
18	U.N.I.T. On Call	UNIT, Third Doctor	Turn Left	Emily Cook, Jon Culshaw	14 November 2020
19	The Genuine Article	Tenth Doctor, Abzorbalovians	Love & Monsters	Dominic G. Martin	14 February 2021

Extras

#	Title	Featuring	Tweetalong	Author	Release date
1	Message from the Doctor	Thirteenth Doctor	N/A	Chris Chibnall	25 March 2020
2	Incoming Message	Yvonne Hartman	N/A	Russell T Davies	26 March 2020
3	United we stand, 2m apart	Thirteenth Doctor	N/A	Chris Chibnall	8 April 2020
4	Dalek: Spoof Scenes	Ninth Doctor, Rose	Dalek	Robert Shearman	30 April 2020
5	How The Monk Got His Habit	The Monk	The Zygon Invasion/The Zygon Inversion	Peter Harness	11 May 2020
6	Sally Sparrow and the Weeping Angel	Sally Sparrow, Weeping Angels	Blink	Steven Moffat	2 November 2020
7	A Christmas Carol: Draft 1		A Christmas Carol

The Fan Gallery

Starting with the tweetalong of The Husbands of River Song, the Doctor Who: Lockdown! website also included a section entitled "The Fan Gallery". It published stories and artwork submitted privately to, and reviewed by, the Lockdown! team by fans, in contrast to the extras of previous tweetalongs, which usually featured the contribution of one or more crewmember associated with the original story.

Short stories

The fan-fiction posted on the official Doctor Who: Lockdown! website were for the most part unlicensed. However, A Better World saw the start of Jacob Black and Aristide Twain's collaboration with the licensed use of the Auteur - who later appeared in Auteur's Abecedarium and Resurrection of the Author. LINDA United acted as a prequel to The Jack Who Stole Christmas, which was published in the charity anthology Twice Upon A Time Scope in December.

Since 1 May 2021, the stories are no longer accessible due to the expiry of the Lockdown website. Some of the authors have expressed their sadness, and their hope to either see the website return or to reissue their stories elsewhere.

Of the 100 stories, versions of at least 27 of them still exist elsewhere. All 11 of Aidan M Phillips' stories still exist as unofficial audio adaptations, produced by the author (amongst other audio projects of theirs). All 4 of Felix O'Kelly's stories have also been republished on their own personal blog. Callum Phillpott posted their story on their blog. All 3 of Aristide Twain's stories have been republished on their blog. A further 12 other stories are also being adapted as unofficial audio adaptations, with the permission of their respective authors.

#	Title	Featuring	Tweetalong	Author	Release date
1	Nardole's Very Bad Day	Nardole	The Husbands of River Song	E. J. Robinson	7 November 2020
2	The Search for the Surgeon	Nardole, Twelfth Doctor		Andrew Hsieh
3	Expectations	Thirteenth Doctor, Bernice Summerfield		Philip Scholes
4	A Night on Darillium	River Song, Twelfth Doctor, Slitheen family		Harry T. Jones
5	Halfway Through The Night	River Song, Twelfth Doctor		Samuel Johnstone
6	The Final Night	River Song, Eleventh Doctor		Ben Greenland
7	Ever After	River Song, Twelfth Doctor		Eliza Tem
8	Goodbye Sweetie	River Song		Aidan M Phillips
9	The Inevitable End of River's Song	River Song		Calum Brown
10	Ramone's Story	Ramone, River Song, Nardole, Dorium Maldovar		Cornelius Blanc
11	Cross Roads		Turn Left	Aidan M Phillips	14 November 2020
12	Original			Matthew Holmes
13	An Alternate Death Of The Doctor			Danny Bunyan
14	No One To Stop Him			Connor Cahill-Hayes
15	Who's Left			Jamie Lawson
16	Project Lodestone	Liz Shaw, Rose Tyler, Daniel Claremont, Erisa Magambo		Felix O'Kelly
17	Bad Night At The Office			Ezekiel Thorp
18	A Star And A Beetle			Aisleen Sturrock
19	Matter And Death			Matt Jordan
20	A Better World	Auteur, Donna, "Wolf-girl", Alice		Aristide Twain
21	Turn Back	Donna Noble, Wilfred Mott, Thirteenth Doctor		Chris Newton
22	Turn Left Poem			Lauren Gordon
23	A Star In Her Eye	Bill Potts, Heather	The Pilot	Cornelius Blanc	21 November 2020
24	A Most Unfortunate Pit Stop	Heather		Joel Newton
25	Present and Future	Twelfth Doctor, Nardole, The Curator		Philip Scholes
26	Visitors to the Vault	Sarah Jane Smith, Jo Jones, Twelfth Doctor, Missy		Toby Sutton-Long
27	The Substitute	Missy		Chris Newton
28	Quantum Physics Lecture	Twelfth Doctor, Bill Potts		Samuel Johnstone
29	The Imposter	Bill Potts, Nardole, Twelfth Doctor		James Hornby
30	Time After Time	Twelfth Doctor, Bill Potts, Daleks, Movellans		Jamie H. Cowan
31	A Christmas Gift	Bill Potts, Twelfth Doctor, Rosie		Danny Bunyan
32	Beyond Normality	Twelfth Doctor, Bill Potts		Lauren Middleton
33	Susan's Picture	Twelfth Doctor, First Doctor, Susan Foreman		Taylor Edwards
34	Superiority	Twelfth Doctor, Bill Potts, Daleks, Dalek Time Strategist		James Hawkins
35	I Bring Life	Jack Harkness, Ninth Doctor, Rose,	Bad Wolf / The Parting of the Ways	James Morgan Belcher	28 November 2020
36	A Missed Appointment	Face of Boe		Scott Varnham
37	Jackie's Favour	Rose, Jackie Tyler, Mickey Smith		Samuel Johnstone
38	LINDA United	Linda Moss		Cornelius Blanc
39	Letters From Home	Gwen Cooper		Aidan M Phillips
40	The Battle of Floor 499	Jack, Daleks		Andrew Hsieh
41	The Last Secret of the Emperor	Dalek Emperor, Ninth Doctor, Daleks		Aristide Twain
42	The Face from the Future	Ninth Doctor, Dalek Emperor, Daleks, The Moment		Chris Newton
43	Parting of the Cells	Daleks		James Hawkins
44	The Lone Survivors			Jamie Lawson
45	While He Worked	Ninth Doctor		Felix O'Kelly
46	Donna Noble Prologue	Donna	Partners in Crime	Liam Gradwell	9 January 2021
47	Lost and Found			Alex Wakeford
48	The Weight is Over			Jamie Lawson
49	An Adipose Adventure			Samuel Johnstone
50	Many Hands Make Light Work			Cornelius Blanc
51	The Complete Story of My Life (So Far)			Toby Price
52	Kevin and Jenny Take on the Universe			Aidan Phillips
53	Robin Hood and the Legend of Dr Who		Robot of Sherwood	Aidan Phillips	16 January 2021
54	No Such Thing As Robin Hood	First Doctor,Susan Foreman,Fourth Doctor, K9, Amy Pond, Eleventh Doctor		Jamie Lawson
55	When Robots Fall Asleep	Missy, Seb		Harry T Jones
56	They Are Not The Heroes			Lauren Middleton
57	The Statue of Sherwood	Twelfth Doctor, Bill Potts		Kat Wheeler
58	Welcome to Sherwood	Sheriff of Nottingham		Liam Gradwell
59	The Apple Of His Eye	Twelfth Doctor, Clara Oswald		Samuel Johnstone
60	A Hunter's Bounty	Tenth Doctor		Philip Scholes
61	Lives On	Twelfth Doctor, Clara Oswald		Ben Greenland
62	Fallout	Seventh Doctor, Chris Cwej, Roz Forrester, Zygon	School Reunion	Philip Scholes	23 January 2021
63	Family Reunion	Tenth Doctor, Rose		Samuel Johnstone
64	Flight of the Krillitane	Krillitane		Harry T Jones
65	K-9 and Company: Brendan's Sacrifice	Brendan Jones, Lassar, Yvonne Hartman, Sarah Jane Smith, K9 Mark II		Aidan Phillips
66	Lunchtime Detention			Jamie Lawson
67	Shady School	Tenth Doctor, Lassar		Andrew Hsieh
68	K9's Message	K9 Mark III		Liam Gradwell
69	Mickey	Mickey, Sarah Jane		Kat Wheeler
70	Life of Blon	Blon	Boom Town	Harry T Jones	30 January 2021
71	The Passport	Mickey, Jackie		Samuel Johnstone
72	Writer's Block			Philip Scholes
73	Conclomeration	Blon		Kat Wheeler
74	Waiting on a Train	Mickey Smith		Jamie Lawson
75	The Legend of the Big Bad Wolf	Ninth Doctor, Rose, Captain Jack		Liam Gradwell
76	Slitheen's Special Surprise Sarnie	Blon		Aidan Phillips
77	Life of Tricey		Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
78	A Normal Life?			Calum Brown
79	The Life of Brian
80	The Power of the Orb
81	The Father Who Waited			Aidan Phillips
82	Planet of the Dinosaurs			Harry T Jones
83	Afternoon Tea By The River
84	Ursula and the Thing From Space		Love & Monsters	Aidan Phillips
85	Thoughts on the Way			Felix O'Kelly
86	High Score of Death!			Callum Phillpott
87	UNIT Sgt Elton Pope
88	Fast Food			Samuel Johnstone
89	Penance		A Town Called Mercy
90	Wake Up Call			Samuel Johnstone
91	The Lone Doctor			Aidan Phillips
92	The Tale of Three Little Toclafane		Utopia/The Sound of Drums/Last of the Time Lords	Aristide Twain
93	Education, Education, Education			Felix O'Kelly
94	The Christmas That Never Was
95	The Blaidd Drwg Invasion
96	Lockdown of the Daleks			Aidan Phillips
97	O Master! My Master!			Harry T Jones
98	When Harry Met Paddy			Andrew Hsieh
99	The Master of War
100	The Psychic Plain

Fan films

To be added.

Comic stories

#	Title	Featuring	Tweetalong	Author	Release date
1	Turn Left Prequel Comic	The Trickster, Fortune teller, Time Beetle	Turn Left	Nick Lodge	7 November 2020

Documentary features

#	Title	Subject	Released by	Release date
1	Vincent and the Doctor's Gallery	A collection of fan art	YouTube	30 March 2020
2	BBC News | Friday 3 April 2020	Doctor Who: Lockdown!	BBC News; YouTube	3 April 2020
3	The Long Song: Fan Cover | How To Get Involved...	#LockdownLongSong	YouTube	14 April 2020
4	Tests for the Mechanism of Heaven Sent's Confession Dial	Early screen tests for Heaven Sent
5	Heaven Sent Previsualizations
6	The Doctors Say Thank You	Thanking the NHS		25 April 2020
7	An A-Z of Impressions with Jon Culshaw!	Jon Culshaw's impressions		19 May 2020
8	Lockdown Long Song | Choir-Only Version	The Long Song		26 May 2020
9	Doctor Who: Lockdown! | Tweetalong Trailers Mega Mix	Doctor Who: Lockdown! Tweetalongs		8 June 2020
10	Doctor Who: LOCKDOWN | Lockdown Long Song (with the Doctor's Rings of Akhaten Speech)	The Long Song		12 June 2020

Doctor Who: Blackout

Originally, the episodes World Enough and Time and The Doctor Falls were scheduled to be shown as the 'finale' of the watchalongs. However, due to events concerning the death of George Floyd, they were pulled due to their content being considered by the fanbase to be badly timed. In their place, fans used the hashtag #DoctorWhoBlackout while watching The Ghost Monument, The Haunting of Villa Diodati, Thin Ice, and Knock Knock. Although the event was not officially organised, it did receive some support from organisers of Lockdown.

External links

• Doctor Who: Lockdown! at the Doctor Who: Lockdown! wiki