Doctor Who: Lockdown!

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Just Lockdown!, per Thread:116217 and Forum:Doctor Who prefix in titles

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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.

Doctor Who: Lockdown! was only the hub of several varyingly-official watchalong projects on Twitter at the time. 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. Radio Times organised Torchwood simulcasts with John Barrowman tweeting along. Nor were the tweetalongs 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.

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 Noel Clarke Russell T Davies Graeme Harper Nicholas Briggs Nicholas Pegg Barnaby Edwards	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
10	Dalek	#TheMetaltron	Robert Shearman Nicholas Briggs Barnaby Edwards	30 April 2020 15th Anniversary
11	The Girl in the Fireplace		Steven Moffat Sophia Myles	6 May 2020

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		Chris Chibnall
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, Gita, Luke, Clyde, Rani, Mr Smith	Russell T Davies	19 April 2020
15	The Simple Things	Thirteenth Doctor, Graham, Yaz, Ryan	Joy Wilkinson	22 April 2020
16	Shadow of a Doubt	Bernice Summerfield, Daughter of Mine	Paul Cornell	24 April 2020
17	The Shadow in the Mirror	Thirteenth Doctor, Daughter of Mine
18	The Castellan has returned and has brought a message from Gallifrey!	The Castellan	N/A	25 April 2020

Documentary features

#	Title	Subject	Released by	Release date
1	BBC News | Friday 3 April 2020	Doctor Who: Lockdown!	BBC News; YouTube	3 April 2020
2	The Long Song: Fan Cover | How To Get Involved...	#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
5	The Doctors Say Thank You	Thanking the NHS		25 April 2020