The Day of the Doctor (TV story)

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The Day of the Doctor was the fiftieth anniversary special of Doctor Who. The episode featured the return of David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, and the appearance of John Hurt as a previously unknown incarnation of the Doctor; The War Doctor. The special also included a surprise cameo from an elderly Tom Baker, the former Fourth Doctor, deliberately keeping the nature of his role ambiguous as either the Doctor or someone else entirely - The Curator.

Synopsis

The Doctors embark on their greatest adventure in this 50th anniversary special. In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London's National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor's own dangerous past comes back to haunt him.

Plot

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Cast

Crew


References

Story notes

  • The story uses the original opening sequence, modified to include a BBC logo.
  • With the regeneration of the War Doctor into the Ninth Doctor, every incarnation of the Doctor up to his current life has been depicted onscreen.
  • This episode marks the fifth televised Multi-Doctor story, not counting the times he meet his past or future self in the same regeneration.
  • Two specially recorded scenes were shown before the special in its showing in cinemas. The first featured Dan Starkey as Commander Strax, accompanied by his Sontaran clone batch, lecturing the viewers on cinema etiquette. The second featured Matt Smith and David Tennant as the Eleventh and Tenth Doctors instructing viewers to put on their 3D glasses.

Production errors

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Continuity

Footnotes

  1. The BBC iPlayer notes credit John Hurt's character as "the Other Doctor"
  2. Tom plays an enigmatic character implied to be the Doctor known as "the Curator" towards the end of the episode. However, the credits only credit Tom as "the Doctor".
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Plays a Zygon duplicate as well as the original
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