The Giggle (TV story)

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The Giggle
Novelised as:	The Giggle
Doctor:	Fourteenth Doctor
Companion(s):	Donna
Featuring:	Fifteenth Doctor, Kate
Main enemy:	The Toymaker
Main setting:	London, 2023
Key crew
Writer:	Russell T Davies
Director:	Chanya Button
Release details
Story number:	303
Number of parts:	1
Premiere broadcast:	9 December 2023
Premiere network:	BBC One
Format:	1x60 minute episode
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The Giggle is set to be the third and final of the three 2023 specials of Doctor Who, airing on 9 December 2023 as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations. It will feature the conclusive onscreen appearance of the Fourteenth Doctor and his companion Donna, the reemergence of the Toymaker, as portrayed by Neil Patrick Harris, and will introduce Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor.

Cast

The Doctor - David Tennant Donna Noble - Catherine Tate The Toymaker - Neil Patrick Harris Kate Lethbridge-Stewart - Jemma Redgrave John Logie Baird - John McKay Charles Banerjee - Charlie De Melo And introducing Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor

Crew

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

Written by Russell T Davies	Produced by Vicki Delow	Directed by Chanya Button	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
Original theme music by Ron Grainer

General production staff 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.

Notes

This special's announcement was made alongside the other 2023 specials in the feature Back in Business published in Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024 on 7 September 2023.

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.

Continuity

Doctor Who The Official Annual 2024 featured several fictional works that hinted at characters in The Giggle:

• • The short story First Day of the Doctor included a part of a page from the Fifteenth Doctor's diary about his first adventure.
  • The game Double Danger showed the Doctor with an individual helping against the Toymaker as portrayed by Neil Patrick Harris.