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Looking for Pudsey was a one-part 2016 minisode on Children in Need that featured the Twelfth Doctor as played by Peter Capaldi. The programme was later added to BBC iPlayer in a whole story format.
Synopsis
Eddie Redmayne is searching for Pudsey so he gets into contact, assisted by Mel and Sue, with many famous individuals, the Twelfth Doctor being one of them.
Cast
- Twelfth Doctor - Peter Capaldi
- Eddie Redmayne - himself
- Mel Giedroyc - herself
- Sue Perkins - herself
- Alan Sugar - himself
- Mary Berry - herself
- Paul Hollywood - himself
- Tess Daly - herself
- Jonnie Peacock - himself
- Simon Cowell - himself
- Craig David - himself
- Graham Norton - himself
- Tim Peake - himself
- Bruno Tonioli - himself
- Len Goodman - himself
- Gary Lineker - himself
- Alan Shearer - himself
- Jamie Dornan - himself
- Nick Grimshaw - himself
- Britney Spears - herself
- Sister Julienne - Jenny Agutter
Crew
to be added
Notes
- During the Doctor Who scene, the intro theme can be heard playing.
- This is the first freshly filmed Children in Need special since The Great Detective.
- It is the second appearance of Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor on screen in 2016, the other being the Class television story For Tonight We Might Die.
- The appearance of the Doctor in the sketch was not publicised.
- Pudsey was originally the Twelfth Doctor's companion in Doctor Who Game Maker, this ties in with the Twelfth Doctor perhaps knowing who he was and being contacted in the special.
- The Twelfth Doctor appears on the TARDIS phone.
- The Doctor mentioned Pudsey - a green fellow with five tentacles that's always screaming, Pudsey a semi-invisible, beard and squirts ink out of his belly button and Pudsey a Gelatinous with a large hat and loves custard. As well as a yellow, fury, spotty eye patch wearing Pudsey that destroyed three galaxies with his mega sonic death ray.
- Even though Mel and Sue knows about the Doctor and the TARDIS, the BBC Switchboard does not have access to the TARDIS phone. The only way they patched Eddie through to TARDIS, was because they spilled a banana milkshake on the console.
- The Doctor thinks Eddie Redmayne is a "strange man".
Doctor Who continuity
- The TARDIS has not been redecorated since last time its interior was seen on screen. (TV: The Husbands of River Song)