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First The Day of The Doctor Poster Image

First The Day of The Doctor Poster Image

Doctor Who 50th anniversary schedule revealed by BBC

The BBC has announced a raft of programmes to mark the 50th anniversary of the first episode of Doctor Who.

A 75-minute special episode called The Day Of The Doctor will star the soon-to-leave Matt Smith and David Tennant.

Smith said: “Hope you all enjoy. There’s lots more coming your way.”

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Other highlights include a BBC Two lecture by Professor Brian Cox on the science behind the hit show and the drama An Adventure In Space and Time, written by Mark Gatiss.

The one-off programme stars David Bradley – known to millions for his role as Filch in the Harry Potter films – as William Hartnell, who played the first Doctor in 1963.

BBC Four will introduce new audiences to Hartnell, with a re-run of the first ever story. The four episodes are being shown in a restored format, not previously broadcast in the UK.

BBC Two’s flagship arts programme The Culture Show is to present Me, You and Doctor Who, with lifelong fan Matthew Sweet exploring the cultural significance of the BBC’s longest running TV drama.

A 90-minute documentary on BBC Radio 2 will ask “Who Is The Doctor?” – using newly-recorded interviews and exclusive archive material to find an answer.

For those less familiar with the show, Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide will provide a handy primer.

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Danny Cohen, BBC director of television, said: “It’s an astonishing achievement for a drama to reach its 50th anniversary.

“I’d like to thank every person – on both sides of the camera – who has been involved with its creative journey over so many years.”
Daleks The anniversary episode, which also stars Jenna Coleman and Billie Piper, sees the return of the Daleks

Smith has already started filming his final scenes as the Doctor, which are due to air in this year’s Christmas episode. His replacement, Scots actor Peter Capaldi, was announced in August.

Steven Moffat, lead writer and executive producer on Doctor Who, said: “50 years has turned Doctor Who from a television show into a cultural landmark. Personally I can’t wait to see what it becomes after a hundred.”

CBBC will broadcast a show, 12 Again, bringing together stars to share their memories of Doctor Who.

They include the seventh Doctor, Sylvester McCoy, Tommy Knight, who played Luke Smith in The Sarah Jane Adventures, Warwick Davis, who played Porridge in a Doctor Who episode and Louise Jameson, who was the fourth Doctor Tom Baker’s companion Leela.

Blue Peter is launching a competition giving viewers aged between six and 14 the opportunity to design a new gadget that will become part of the series and Matt Smith will appear on the Blue Peter sofa to answer viewers’ questions.

BBC Three audiences will be encouraged to get involved and vote in Doctor Who: Monsters and Villains Weekend.


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182 comments

  • the astronaut of death

    September 11th, 2013 - 7:45pm

    booboo what do you think of the title and the poster

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    • booboo

      September 11th, 2013 - 8:00pm

      very good, wondering where bad wolf fits in

    • 100000BC

      September 11th, 2013 - 8:41pm

      Rose returning, I expect. Possibly some other meaning though…

    • Kroton

      September 11th, 2013 - 10:58pm

      Hasn’t it just come to mean the end of the universe. So it’s probably in there cos it fits with tennants era and the the universe will more than likely be in danger again in the 50th.
      But on the other hand, this is Moffat. So he probably planted this years ago and had a mastermind plan in action.

    • Oodkind25

      September 14th, 2013 - 1:36pm

      Bad Wolf Means roses return!

      In series 1, The Bad Wolf signs meant rose was returning/going to the Game station.

      And in series 4, Bad Wolf was also representing her return! The only reason the doctor said “Its the end of the universe” Was because he knew if rose returned, the walls off reality were breaking!

  • the astronaut of death

    September 11th, 2013 - 7:44pm

    it is probably a dvd extra

    or they are making us this think they are definitely not in the 50th but actually they are

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  • Sam Davern

    September 11th, 2013 - 7:41pm

    Well we know from filming that Coal Hill is revisited with Ian Chesterton on the board of governors.

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  • Cyberking281

    September 11th, 2013 - 7:40pm

    It hopefully shouldn’t be long until we get a trailer

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  • the astronaut of death

    September 11th, 2013 - 7:34pm

    yeah there were protests out side the bbc studios a few weeks ago peter Davidson, Colin baker and Sylvester McCoy were all there with signs

    saying no classic for the 50th have a heart

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    • booboo

      September 11th, 2013 - 7:42pm

      i think that was bit tongue in cheek for a video

  • The Supreme Dalek

    September 11th, 2013 - 7:20pm

    Is this still being shown in cinemas?

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    • the astronaut of death

      September 11th, 2013 - 7:35pm

      yes

    • TheExtremeBlueTARDIS

      September 11th, 2013 - 7:36pm

      Oops! Forgot to change my name! 😳

      Thanks the astronaut of death! 🙂

    • jimmy white

      September 11th, 2013 - 7:48pm

      i hope it is still going in 5 more years

  • the astronaut of death

    September 11th, 2013 - 5:54pm

    it looks like David has a bit of a different hair style from series 2

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    • Some bloke

      September 11th, 2013 - 6:20pm

      Yes he does, it’s not stuck up, rather more flattened and side swept. It’s fine by me

  • Da Big Friendly Button

    September 11th, 2013 - 5:52pm

    Love this, though I hope we see the Cybermen.

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    • Tardis’nt

      September 11th, 2013 - 6:19pm

      I reckon they’ll be back at Christmas

    • Some bloke

      September 11th, 2013 - 6:20pm

      They are rumoured to be

    • Some bloke

      September 11th, 2013 - 6:20pm

      back at christmas i mean

    • King Ninja

      September 11th, 2013 - 6:48pm

      I agree with all my heart! It would be nice for Matt to face them again before he leaves…

    • TheExtremeBlueTARDIS

      September 11th, 2013 - 7:38pm

      For the Christmas Special I would like to see either:

      The 2013 Cybermen
      The Zygons (if the Christmas Special is like a “second part” of the Day of the Doctor)
      The Ice Warriors
      The Silence

    • Dalek The Supreme

      September 12th, 2013 - 3:37pm

      I’d like to see the Silence plot wrapped up. Also, if you think about it, an easy, one line explanation for the TARDIS blowing up at the end of Series 5 could be that that was the Great Intelligence attacking the Doctor’s timestream. I don’t think it was stated anywhere in the show that the Silence did it.

    • The Moffat Paradox

      September 15th, 2013 - 7:30pm

      No but it seemed to be a least strongly implied by the end of series 5.

    • Dalek The Supreme

      September 26th, 2013 - 2:17pm

      Yes, but we don’t know for sure. Besides, why would the Silence try to save the universe from the Doctor, by blowing it up? Seems more like something the GI would do at this point.

  • The Ice Cold Ice Warrior

    September 11th, 2013 - 5:13pm

    BAD WOLF

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  • RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND

    September 11th, 2013 - 5:05pm

    ooh! looks fab! hope its good, there is so many things going, have to make sure i remember!

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  • Kroton

    September 11th, 2013 - 5:02pm

    So the BBC said they’d make it up to us for not having the trailer, and we’ve got the name, length, poster and details of everything that’s going to happen. They said we’d love it, so I was wondering….do you? Are you happy with all of this as compensation to no trailer? (Although I think something fishy is going on, we’ve seen everyone in filming except billie. Maybe something’s not quite as we’re expecting or she just isn’t in ANY outdoor scene?)

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    • Some bloke

      September 11th, 2013 - 5:08pm

      No, I’m still not that happy because everything you’ve mentioned isn’t exclusive to us in the UK, it’s worldwide info, so really, we haven’t been given ANY compensation 🙁

    • booboo

      September 11th, 2013 - 5:16pm

      unless you are shown something in a closed room nothing is exclusive with the internet age evrything is just copied and spread around like wildfire

    • Kroton

      September 11th, 2013 - 5:20pm

      Well we shouldn’t get anything exclusive to the uk. And it’s whovians all Over the world who are owed compensation, not every American whovian was at comic con. Who is just as popular in the US as in the UK so we shouldn’t get anything just here, but then we shouldn’t get anything just to those who can afford to go to comic con.
      Dr who is a children’s sh

    • Kroton

      September 11th, 2013 - 5:22pm

      Well we shouldn’t get anything exclusive to the UK. And it’s Whovians all over the world who are owed compensation, not every American Whovian was at comic con. Who is just as popular in the US as in the UK so we shouldn’t get anything just here, but then we shouldn’t get anything just to those who can afford to go to comic con.
      Dr who is a family/children’s show so the BBC should be focusing on letting them see the trailer, not just adults who can afford to go to these events. (Not that they shouldn’t see it, just that it shouldn’t just be them who do)

    • Kroton

      September 11th, 2013 - 5:22pm

      Sorry, that posted twice.

    • Da Big Friendly Button

      September 11th, 2013 - 5:51pm

      I understand that but remember who pay the taxes for this show to be made in the first place and you are right that other should be allowed to watch doctor who.

    • Dalek The Supreme

      September 26th, 2013 - 2:20pm

      I’m American, but I can’t afford to go to Comic Con, and while the poster, length title, etc. are nice, a trailer still would have been nicer. Still, you just have to take what you can in life, I guess.

  • The TARDIS

    September 11th, 2013 - 4:38pm

    Why do they have to go and make such a nice piece of work, and then go and stick disgusting BBC logos all over it?

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    • Some bloke

      September 11th, 2013 - 5:00pm

      there’s only one on the poster, and before you say it, you don’t count the one above ‘DOCTOR WHO’ because that’s part of the doctor who logo

    • The TARDIS

      September 11th, 2013 - 9:18pm

      The logo doesn’t need to be burdened with the BBC logo though. It’s not as though we’re ever likely to FORGET that the Beeb makes the show…

    • Scott’s TARDIS

      September 11th, 2013 - 9:22pm

      They have to put it on though.

    • ‘I ain’t afraid of no ghosts’ – Ten

      September 16th, 2013 - 10:42am

      You can get the poster without the logos on the BBC – Doctor who web site
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/articles/The-Day-of-the-Doctor-Wallpapers

  • LEWIS

    September 11th, 2013 - 4:28pm

    Guys who noticed the bad wolf sign in the bottom left corner and the posters look pretty awsome

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    • Some bloke

      September 11th, 2013 - 4:58pm

      I think we all noticed it because Booboo posted a larger version of the bad wolf section below the main poster so…

  • Dalek Smith

    September 11th, 2013 - 4:25pm

    I really hope there are plenty of references to classic who.

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    • Dalek Smith

      September 11th, 2013 - 4:30pm

      this is because i don’t think the poster doesn’t do 50 years any justice and i am personally more excited about an adventure in time and space but that is just my opinion

    • The TARDIS

      September 11th, 2013 - 4:37pm

      I have to agree… A shame really, but Steven Moffat is a Doctor Who fan, I’m sure he’ll do well.

      Maybe.

    • Dalek The Supreme

      September 11th, 2013 - 6:31pm

      He’s not the best show runner, but he has written great episodes.

  • INJUSTICE

    September 11th, 2013 - 1:57pm

    OMG!!!!!!!!!

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  • DALEKSKITTLES

    September 11th, 2013 - 1:30pm

    I reckon the daleks are gonna be a big part in this e.g bad wolf I’m so excited 😀

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  • Dalek The Supreme

    September 11th, 2013 - 1:29pm

    WOW! This episode looks really exciting! Moffat, you better not let us down with this one!

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  • drjakeyoung

    September 11th, 2013 - 12:06pm

    The only thing that would have made this poster even better is if they didn’t have that BBC logo on top of the Dr who logo. Seriously, is no one else bugged by this??!

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    • The TARDIS

      September 12th, 2013 - 4:48pm

      Yup – I don’t like the one on the DW logo, but I can stand it. The BBC One logo though… that makes it look cheap.

  • Some bloke

    September 11th, 2013 - 11:02am

    They are GORGEOUS poster designs! Well done to Lee Binding for designing them! He’s done a MAGNIFICENT job 😀

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  • CyberGuy500

    September 11th, 2013 - 10:54am

    I’m really looking forward to it but I wish it was longer than 75 minutes.

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  • Anonymous

    September 11th, 2013 - 9:16am

    I hope classic doctors at leaat make a cameo like in the name of the doctor but slighty longer

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    • Dalek The Supreme

      September 11th, 2013 - 1:30pm

      I wouldn’t actually mind not having them if the episode is good enough, considering every Doctor had a cameo in the Series 7 finale.

  • bigfin20

    September 11th, 2013 - 8:23am

    Oh my glob, this is going to be AWESOME!!! Hope that the local cinema get it…

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  • DOCTOR WHO ONE

    September 11th, 2013 - 8:22am

    Look at John’s right hand [his left, our right] in the close up picture of him.

    It looks like there’s a little red light there, suggesting to me his holding a Sonic Screwdriver or some other device emitting a red light.

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    • Geronimo(11th Doctor) 2010-13 :(

      September 11th, 2013 - 12:33pm

      I know this sounds stupid but is it

      Rivers screwdriver with red emitter

    • DOCTOR WHO ONE

      September 11th, 2013 - 3:17pm

      No, cos if John is the Doctor [which as far as I’m concerned, he really is not, there’s always a twist when it comes to Moffat’s stories] he did not known her back then until his 10th incarnation, thou the red settings thing did spring to my mind too, but the 10th Doctor did say to River “It doesn’t have red settings” and “It doesn’t have dampeners”, and she told him “It will do one day”.

  • T4RD1S

    September 11th, 2013 - 8:21am

    WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i agree with scott’s tardis we need a trailer!!!!!!!!

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  • Scott’s TARDIS

    September 11th, 2013 - 7:54am

    Ok so yesterday we had the title, today we get the poster. Anyone else think we’ll get the trailer tomorrow?

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    • booboo

      September 11th, 2013 - 7:55am

      cant be far away

    • Dalek The Supreme

      September 11th, 2013 - 1:31pm

      We need a trailer desperately!

  • The Supreme Dalek

    September 11th, 2013 - 7:48am

    If this becomes a poster in Doctor Who Adventures, then I will definetaly buy it to put it on my wall. 😀

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  • DoctorArkham

    September 11th, 2013 - 7:46am

    BAD WOLF

    Anyone spot it?

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    • booboo

      September 11th, 2013 - 7:55am

      yes just added a bigger image

    • Scott’s TARDIS

      September 11th, 2013 - 7:55am

      Yep.

    • Dalek The Supreme

      September 11th, 2013 - 1:32pm

      Aye. Almost certainly has something to do with Rose Tyler.

  • dalek 105

    September 11th, 2013 - 7:44am

    epic

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  • WouldYouLikeAJellyBaby?

    September 11th, 2013 - 7:44am

    LOOKS EPIC!!!

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  • the astronaut of death

    September 11th, 2013 - 7:41am

    we could not of got a better image I will definite being bring this as a wall poster

    Reply

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