Doctor Who: Lockdown!

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Doctor Who: Lockdown! (also stylised Doctor Who: LOCKDOWN!, 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.

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 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, and 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.

Watchalongs

#	Episode	Hashtag	Featured Commentary	Date and Occasion
1	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 Russell T Davies Graeme Harper Nicholas Briggs Nicholas Pegg Barnaby Edwards	19 April 2020 Anniversary of Sladen's death

Associated releases

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.

Stories

#	Title	Featuring	Author	Release date
1	Strax Saves the Day	Strax, Vastra	Steven Moffat	21 March 2020
2	Things She Thought While Falling	Thirteenth Doctor	Chris Chibnall	25 March 2020
3	Message from the Doctor
4	Doctor Who and the Time War	Eighth Doctor, Ninth Doctor	Russell T Davies	26 March 2020
5	Revenge of the Nestene	Nestene Consciousness
6	Incoming Message	Yvonne Hartman
7	Press Play	Thirteenth Doctor, Susan	Pete McTighe	1 April 2020
8	Breaking Isolation	Daleks	Russell T Davies	2 April 2020
9	The Raggedy Doctor by Amelia Pond	Amelia Pond	Steven Moffat	3 April 2020
10	The Terror of the Umpty Ums	The Doctor		7 April 2020
11	United we stand, 2m apart	Thirteenth Doctor	Jodie Whittaker	8 April 2020
12	Rory's Story	Rory, Amy	Neil Gaiman	11 April 2020
13	The Shadow Passes	Thirteenth Doctor, Yaz, Ryan, Graham	Paul Cornell	15 April 2020
14	Farewell, Sarah Jane	Jo, Ace, Luke, Clyde, Rani, Mr Smith, K9 Mark IV	Russell T Davies	19 April 2020

Documentary features

[BBC News - Friday 3 April 2020 (webcast)|BBC News | Friday 3 April 2020]]

Doctor Who: Lockdown!	BBC News; YouTube	3 April 2020
2	The Long Song: Fan Cover | How To Get Invovled…	#LockdownLongSong	YouTube	14 April 2020
3	Tests for the Mechanism of Heaven Sent's Confession Dial	Early screen tests for Heaven Sent
4	Heaven Sent Previsualizations

Footnotes

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