Ace Returns! (webcast)

Ace Returns!
Main character(s):	Ace
Featuring:	Seventh Doctor
Main setting:	A Charitable Earth, London, 21st century
Key crew
Writer:	Pete McTighe
Release details
Premiere broadcast:	3 September 2019
Premiere network:	YouTube

Ace Returns! was a trailer for the Blu-ray release of season 26 of Doctor Who.

Synopsis

Ace is standing in her office reminiscing over her past adventures with the Doctor, when suddenly the sound of the TARDIS is heard and the Doctor knocks on her door and she runs off.

Plot

In the middle of the streets of London is a building standing tall, belonging to A Charitable Earth. In an office with a large wall-length window overseeing the Thames is a woman. Ace.

Ace thinks about what happened thirty years ago. How she was just a kid who thought she knew it all when she met him and he showed her the universe full of adventures: monsters, demons, friends, enemies, fights, justice and so much more...

The Doctor and Ace... teammates.

When suddenly, he let her go to make the world a better place. She says she loves what she does for a living now. But that she some times still look for him from her office-window because he left her with a promise that he would return one day.

Then she hears the sound of the TARDIS and sees a familiar sillouette behind the door and a question mark handle knocking on the door. She exclaims "Wicked".

Ace grabs onto her trademark jacket and heads out the door of her office.

Cast

• Ace - Sophie Aldred

Crew

to be added

References

• The building housing Ace's organisation A Charitable Earth appears.
• Ace is looking out through the window in her office towards the Thames.
• Ace mention knights from another dimension, ghosts from the past and horrors from the future.
• A picture of the Seventh Doctor and Ace is sitting on her desk table, along with a picture of her in Africa with a bunch of orphans and some headphones.
• The sound of the TARDIS is heard.
• the shadow of the Doctor can be seen behind the door.
• Ace has a coat rack on which hangs her signature Ace-jacket.
• The Doctor knocks with his question mark umbrella handle.
• The door to her office has roundel shaped windows.

Story notes

• During the webcast clips from Sophie Aldred's time on Doctor Who in season 26 are shown while she is talking about her adventures in-character.
• This is the first on-screen evidence of Ace's organisation since it was mentioned by Sarah Jane Smith at the end of Death of the Doctor in the spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures in 2011.
• This webcast clears up what happened to Ace following the cancellation of the show after 1989's Survival.