Wild Blue Yonder (TV story)

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Wild Blue Yonder
Novelised as:	Wild Blue Yonder
Doctor:	Fourteenth Doctor
Companion(s):	Donna
Key crew
Writer:	Russell T Davies
Director:	Tom Kingsley
Release details
Story number:	302
Number of parts:	1
Premiere broadcast:	2 December 2023
Premiere networks:	BBC One, Disney+
Format:	1x60 minute episode
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Wild Blue Yonder will be the second of the three 2023 specials of Doctor Who, broadcast on 2 December 2023 as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations.

Synopsis

The TARDIS takes the Doctor and Donna on a journey to a faraway, mysterious place and abandons them in the middle of Hostile Action.

Plot

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Cast

• The Doctor - David Tennant
• Donna Noble - Catherine Tate
• Mrs Merridew - Susan Twist

Uncredited cast

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Crew

Executive Producers   Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter with Phil Collinson and Joel Collins

Written by Russell T Davies	Produced by Vicki Delow	Directed by Tom Kingsley	Production Designer Philip Sims
Make-up Designer Steve Smith	Casting Director Andy Pryor CDG	Music Murray Gold	Costume Designer Pam Downe	Special Effects Real SFX

General production staff Production Executive - Steffan Morris Co-producer - Ellen Marsh Production Manager - Delmi Thomas Script department Script Editor - Scott Handcock Camera and lighting department	Art department Costume department	Make-up and prosthetics General post-production staff Special and visual effects Sound

Not every person who worked on this adventure was credited. The absence of a credit for a position doesn't necessarily mean the job wasn't required. The information above is based solely on observations of the actual end credits of the episodes as broadcast, and does not relay information from IMDB or other sources.

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Worldbuilding

• The Doctor once spent three years in orbit because the HADS prevented him from landing anywhere.

Notes

• Unlike the other two 2023 specials, The Star Beast and The Giggle, the marketing of Wild Blue Yonder was kept incredibly vague and told very little about the plot. The BBC wished to maintain the surprises of the story and Russell T Davies wanted one of the specials to be a complete mystery. According to director Tom Kingsley, the secrecy had naught to do with "any surprise returning actors or villains", but because "we thought you might find it fun to watch it without knowing what's going to happen next".
• This story's upcoming debut was mentioned alongside the other 2023 specials in the non-fiction feature Back in Business published in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024 on 7 September 2023.
• The preview of this episode released in DWM 597 revealed a teaser of the plot and a snippet of dialogue between the Doctor and Donna.
  • It also revealed a cast list consisting of Tennant, Tate, and three other names that had all been replaced with a "[REDACTED]".
• The title of the episode was named after the song "Wild Blue Yonder".
• David Tennant called this special "unlike any Doctor Who episode ever", referring to the specials as a whole as "Russell [T Davies] off the leash".
• This will be the second story to stream exclusively on Disney+ outside of the United Kingdom.
• According to an advertisement on the BBC, the robot featured in promotional materials is named "Jimbo".

Myths and rumours

• Matt Smith, Peter Capaldi and Jodie Whittaker will return as the Eleventh, Twelfth and Thirteenth Doctors.
• John Simm will return as The Master.
• The Wirrn will return.
• Ncuti Gatwa's Fifteenth Doctor will make an early debut in this episode alongside Millie Gibson's Ruby Sunday, marking the first Multi-Doctor story told from the perspective of a former incarnation.

Filming locations

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Production errors

If you'd like to talk about narrative problems with this story — like plot holes and things that seem to contradict other stories — please go to this episode's discontinuity discussion.

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Influences

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Continuity

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Home media releases

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Gallery

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