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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 25th, 2013 - 7:24am

    I wonder if we will get to see a john hurt tardis.

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    • dalek god

      September 27th, 2013 - 10:42pm

      do you think the cybermen are in the 50th anniversary or not? what do you guys think are they in it?

    • Anonymous

      September 28th, 2013 - 8:24am

      well they are suppose to be in the xmas special so

    • dalek god

      September 28th, 2013 - 12:36pm

      are the cybermen really in the christmas special or the 50th anniversary episode which one are they in?

    • Anonymous

      September 28th, 2013 - 8:57pm

      well filming for the xmas special saw matt smith holding a cyberman head

    • dalek god

      September 28th, 2013 - 10:32pm

      So the cybermen are not in the 50th anniversary special it’s just the daleks and cybermen as well?

    • the astronaut of death

      September 29th, 2013 - 10:16am

      well I don’t know about the cyberman in the 50th only the daleks and zygon have been the only one>s announced

      but the cyberman could very well be announced

      but they are in the xmas specie;

  • ROCKSTAR

    September 23rd, 2013 - 9:38pm

    Greatest cover ever !

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  • AG1

    September 23rd, 2013 - 9:08pm

    What cinemas are going to show it?

    Reply
  • Chris Quigley

    September 21st, 2013 - 6:40am

    I think the doctors greatest secret isnt his name i think it was the reason he stole the tardis in the first place,i think something happened in gallifrey that caused him to run.The ultimate sacrifice?

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    • cyber robert

      September 22nd, 2013 - 2:16pm

      yey i think you are rith

    • Dalek The Supreme

      September 22nd, 2013 - 4:04pm

      The Second Doctor claimed he was “bored” and fed up with the Time Lord’s unwillingness to explore the universe. I believe his secret is how he ended the Time War. We all know he ended it using something called The Moment, but we have no idea what The Moment was or how it killed the Time Lords and Daleks.

    • Da Big Friendly Button

      September 22nd, 2013 - 5:21pm

      In the episode Dalekthe ninth doctor statesd that the daleks burned, which must mean that the moment is fire, or sme sort of explosion. Also if the doctors do indeed go back into the time war then it could mean the possible return of the master.

  • Chris Quigley

    September 21st, 2013 - 6:33am

    Anyone wonder my the master and the doctor went from being friends to enemies,i think a love triangle with the doctor causing the death of the woman they both loved?

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    • RYCBAR123

      September 22nd, 2013 - 8:37pm

      I don’t think it was a love triangle. It’s probably something more with how The Master got the sound in his head and went a bit crazy from it, making him evil and angry, even towards his friends. :3

  • dalek 105

    September 20th, 2013 - 7:55am

    booboo are they going to do a non 3d version

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    • MasterKasterborous

      September 24th, 2013 - 6:02pm

      They’ve filmed it in 3D which means you can watch it in either 2D on BBC1 or 3D on a separate channel.

  • Anonymous

    September 18th, 2013 - 9:53pm

    clara jumped into the doctor’s time stream, so she should have seen all of the doctor’s faces, even the future ones. which means that if she remembers all the versions of herself, she should also recognise capaldi’s doctor. but then she says ‘ive seen all your faces, 11 doctors’ which means she didn’t see all of the doctor’s time stream :/

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    • the astronaut of death

      September 19th, 2013 - 7:23am

      maby she only sees the ones up to her doctor

    • crazy guy

      September 20th, 2013 - 6:22pm

      well actually i think its only the 11th doctors time stream not the futures it and this time stream is probably where the christmas special is

    • Dalek The Supreme

      September 22nd, 2013 - 4:05pm

      She only needed to save the Doctors up to the Eleventh, as far as I could tell. Otherwise she’d see the future, which, as we know, is extremely dangerous.

  • steven

    September 18th, 2013 - 5:04pm

    I think Clara might be Captain jacks sister or the doctor’s daughter who knows she could be anything she could be the univers

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    • the astronaut of death

      September 18th, 2013 - 5:23pm

      we already no who clara is

      she is just a normal girl who stepped into the doctors time stream scattering her self through out time

    • greyzinychimp

      September 19th, 2013 - 6:21pm

      it would be call if she was the doctors daughter

  • steven

    September 18th, 2013 - 5:00pm

    I think Bad wolf has something about it and I think the person that John Hurt is playing I think he is the one who ended the the time war and helped the dalekes and I also think Clara is the Doctors daughter (Jenny)

    And i am going to see the 50th yeah

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  • Anonymous

    September 17th, 2013 - 11:37pm

    Just been watching Eccleston’s first ep ‘Rose’, which is supposed to be the 9th incarnation’s first outing, suggested by the line ‘not too bad, oo the ears’ in Rose’s flat. But clive has pictures of him at JFK’s assassination and the family by the Titanic etc, and Rose goes with him at the end of the episode, so when does the 9th doctor visit these places? It could be a fair assumption that at this moment in the doctor’s timeline he hasn’t been to those places yet, but Rose is with him for his whole life as that incarnation and its never redressed. Just food for thought….

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    • steven

      September 18th, 2013 - 5:05pm

      What I what to know is the regerration of the 8th dr -9th

    • Doctor Stu

      September 18th, 2013 - 8:38pm

      But we didnt really see what the ninth doctor was doing before he met rose because he just appeared out of the blue and saved her so this could have happened before he met her

    • Matt Smithy

      September 20th, 2013 - 5:27pm

      or alternatively Rose may have just been somewhere else when the photos were taken.

  • the astronaut of death

    September 17th, 2013 - 8:28pm

    ok please no one hate me I don’t think any doctor should return

    it is just that I think it takes the fun ad drama out of regeneration we are saying goodbye to an actor a doctor and I don’t want it to get to the point when we see a regeneration and we all go ” I don’t care we will se him again in a special in a few years”

    I think once a doctor is gone he should be gone

    but I am still very happy that the 10th doctor is returnig

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    • the astronaut of death

      September 17th, 2013 - 8:30pm

      oh I have changed my mind I love when other doctors meet?

    • Dalek The Supreme

      September 22nd, 2013 - 4:07pm

      Matt Smith will leave in the Christmas Special. David Tennant is returning in the 50th Anniversary Special. We’re fairly sure Tennant isn’t in the Christmas Special.

    • Stomping

      October 4th, 2013 - 11:19pm

      Take it you’ve never seen the three Doctors(Omega), or the Five Doctors(Rasalon). They can have their time streams cross if the Timelords deem it. Or if they are pulled together. I still feel the 50th will be a Mawdryn Undead style episode, shame sarah and the brig, won’t be in it. Plus why didn’t SM want McCory or McGain in this? They still look young enough to play their Doctors. As a fan since 1973, I have issuses with the show since SM took over. I honestly think Sherlock means more to him. Stomping

  • the astronaut of death

    September 17th, 2013 - 7:34pm

    I hope in matts final ep we se the return of some key character he met

    Vincent
    Winston
    craig

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    • RYCBAR123

      September 17th, 2013 - 8:35pm

      It would be cool to see Craig again! :3 But I reckon if Vincent returned, it’d take a bit of the sadness from his episode. Winston, yeah, I guess. We’re still to find out where Hitler went when he disappeared from the cupboard though! 😉

    • Doctor Stu

      September 17th, 2013 - 11:45pm

      I’ve always thought, when ever the doctor meets new companions, the other companions kind of get forgotton. For example when the Doctor is raising army for demons run, he invites characters that have been in the previous episodes the series and when he invited people to his death it was just amy Rory and river but why not Martha or mickey (the companions that are still on earth and not parrallel earths or Donnas situation) also in the synopses of one of the epsiodes (can’t remember exactly which because series 7 part 2 wasn’t very memorable for me) it said (someone is kidnapping the doctors friends etc:)something along those lines so why was it only vastra, Jenny and Strax and not Martha, mickey, Sarah Jane etc: surely it would be easier to track doown companions from the present than to trawl back in time and kidnap vastra Jenny and Strax. It just seems that as the series continues old faces are forgotton.

    • Anonymous

      September 18th, 2013 - 12:13pm

      doctor stu, they only kidnapped vastra, jenny and strax because they were the friends that the great intelligence met in The Snowmen.

    • Dalek The Supreme

      September 22nd, 2013 - 4:11pm

      The Doctor probably invited his last group of companions before his death because they were the ones he knew he was going to travel with before he died. He brought Rory because his wife was there and he probably didn’t want to endanger any companions, he only brought Rory and people who owed him favors. The Great Intelligence only met Jamie, Victoria, Jenny, Vastra, and Strax, and since Jamie and possibly Victoria would have been dead by then, he kidnapped the closest of those to the current incarnation of the Doctor.

  • eurgh

    September 16th, 2013 - 8:31pm

    Did no-one else notice that John Hurt’s costume is a cross between 8th’s and 9th’s…

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    • Scott’s TARDIS

      September 16th, 2013 - 8:31pm

      We’ve all noticed this.

    • eurgh

      September 16th, 2013 - 8:38pm

      Ew.

    • Scott’s TARDIS

      September 16th, 2013 - 8:43pm

      What?

    • Anonymous

      September 17th, 2013 - 7:12am

      I think this costume suits john hurt and it is great

      but it dose not look like the doctor

    • the astronaut of death

      September 17th, 2013 - 7:20am

      oops forgot to put my name in sorry

    • Dalek The Supreme

      September 22nd, 2013 - 4:12pm

      To me, it does look like something the Doctor might wear. It suits him very well too, and he really does look like he’s been fighting a war.

  • Dalek The Supreme

    September 16th, 2013 - 1:46am

    I don’t think anyone’s considered yet that what John Hurt is holding could be The Moment, because in The End of Time, the Time Lord prophet says that the Doctor will use the Moment to wipe out the Daleks and Time Lords.

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    • cyberman2

      September 23rd, 2013 - 4:30pm

      it may be his own sonic or just a light behind him

    • pug dalek

      September 24th, 2013 - 11:43pm

      The doctors got now too so the zygons may
      Need it to kill doctor and the humans and all
      Life

    • pug dalek

      September 24th, 2013 - 11:44pm

      The doctors got it now too so the zygons may
      Need it to kill doctor and the humans and all
      Life

    • Dalek The Supreme

      September 26th, 2013 - 2:04pm

      It’s just a theory. For all we know, it could be The Moment, his Sonic Screwdriver, or something else entirely.

  • the astronaut of death

    September 15th, 2013 - 8:08pm

    I wonder if we will get to see a john hurt tardis

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    • Dalek The Supreme

      September 26th, 2013 - 2:05pm

      It would be interesting, but I’m thinking IF they show it, they’ll just use the 2005-2010 TARDIS, or maybe if we’re very VERY lucky, the 1996 one.

  • the doctor

    September 15th, 2013 - 7:07pm

    red sonic

    Reply
  • DALEKSKITTLES

    September 15th, 2013 - 10:51am

    Apparently the cybermen are gonna be in it , do you think we will see daleks vs new cybermen?
    Also we will probably see a lot of the time war which will be awsome 😀

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    • DOCTOR WHO ONE

      September 15th, 2013 - 5:30pm

      Don’t think the Cybermen are in the 50th special. They are said to be in the Christmas Special thou.

    • Dalek The Supreme

      September 26th, 2013 - 2:08pm

      It still would be great to see New Daleks vs New Cybermen before they change one of them again. Both have been seen to be more powerful than the previous design, even if one was unpopular enough to be shoved behind their predecessor’s. I’d like to see a more even fight, as Daleks shouldn’t be able to just slaughter Cybermen like humans, but Cybermen shouldn’t just tear down Daleks with ease. Both are highly powerful and extremely advanced, and are more than a match for eachother.

  • tav

    September 14th, 2013 - 1:04pm

    It’s probably a detonator

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  • Dr Evil Fez

    September 14th, 2013 - 12:53pm

    I can’t wait!

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  • AlphaOmega

    September 13th, 2013 - 5:22pm

    Is it me, or do those Dalek eye pieces seem rather short…?

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    • DALEKSKITTLES

      September 14th, 2013 - 11:14am

      I noticed that , it’s probably just bad editing or if you look closely they don’t have the two lights on their heads either still looks good though 😀

  • whofan4ever

    September 13th, 2013 - 4:52pm

    bad wolf…

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  • the astronaut of death

    September 13th, 2013 - 4:04pm

    apparently tom baker has been seen filing the xmas special

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    • booboo

      September 13th, 2013 - 4:07pm

      no he hasn’t, sites posting headline grabbing articles again.

    • the astronaut of death

      September 13th, 2013 - 4:16pm

      what do you mean

    • booboo

      September 13th, 2013 - 4:19pm

      its was a promo for I’ve got news for you so some pretty pointless news articles getting peoples hopes up going around

    • Anonymous

      September 20th, 2013 - 1:10am

      I’m glad it’s not true because Tom Baker looks absolutely nothing like the 4th Doctor anymore….his appearance would be a gimmick….as would any of the remaining actors prior to Paul McGann. Peter Davison only JUST got away with it in Time Crash because they explained his ageing and it was all tongue n cheek anyway. Tom, Peter, Colin and Sylvester were childhood icons….but they should now only ever stick to Audio.

  • spaceBUZZlite

    September 12th, 2013 - 5:21pm

    I think, the thing hurt is holding is the sonic screwdriver that the doctor later gives to river song

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    • DOCTOR WHO ONE

      September 12th, 2013 - 5:25pm

      It’s not, cos if you recall, when he see’s River’s Sonic Screwdriver, he notices that it’s similar to his, and she said “You gave it to me”, so he had never seen it before until that first time he met her.

      Funny thou, we see him giving River her familiar Tardis shaped Diary, but we never actually see him give her her very own Sonic Screwdriver, plus we never discovered how she got hold of Captain Jack’s Sonic Blaster or his [or perhaps a copy of] Vortex Manipulator.

    • the astronaut of death

      September 12th, 2013 - 6:27pm

      it looks more like a ring

    • Doctor Stu

      September 12th, 2013 - 9:33pm

      Think its a screwdriver because if you look above the red light you can kind of see the depth of it going back underneath his hand. Also it looks like Rivers screwdriver.

    • Scott’s TARDIS

      September 13th, 2013 - 7:26am

      Yeah, I think it’s safe to say its a sonic screwdriver.

    • AlphaOmega

      September 13th, 2013 - 1:47pm

      It’s either River’s Sonic Screwdriver, or the Eighth Doctor’s one (from Dark Eyes) with a red diode…

    • Anonymous

      September 13th, 2013 - 5:04pm

      doctor who one, she got the vortex manipulator off of dorian, who said it was off a time agents wrist, with the hand, or something to that effect.

    • Dalek The Supreme

      September 13th, 2013 - 8:52pm

      I heard a theory she did get it from Jack, sort of. We all know eventually his body withered away until only his head was left (The Face of Boe), so it’s reasonable to guess that Dorium somehow obtained Jack’s hand and thus his Vortex Manipulator.

    • DOCTOR WHO ONE

      September 14th, 2013 - 6:07pm

      Anonymous – Oh yeah, your right, I forgot she mentioned that, thanks for reminding me 🙂

    • Matt Smithy

      September 20th, 2013 - 5:32pm

      you know Jack can grow his body back, right? Don’t ask me how he becomes a big head in a jar (hey, maybe that’s just what age does to you!) but its always likely it could have been from jack. The only problem: Jacks manipulator had a cover on it. The only time River ever has a manipulator with a cover on it is in the angels take Manhattan. So probably not :/

    • the astronaut of death

      October 13th, 2013 - 9:12am

      it is not rivers

      it is a classic one probably 8th

  • the astronaut of death

    September 12th, 2013 - 4:18pm

    great poster!!

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  • Anonymous

    September 12th, 2013 - 12:37pm

    classic doctors must appear in the 50th

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    • Anonymous

      September 12th, 2013 - 4:31pm

      they appeared in the name of the Doctor…it would be over kill to have them again especially when we have a short time to get through the far more interesting plot of “who/what is the John Hurt Doctor”

    • MasterKasterborous

      September 12th, 2013 - 4:41pm

      But that was only reusing old footage; it would be great if at some point this years the old Doctors (as well as Tennant) could reprise their roles on DVD>

    • The TARDIS

      September 12th, 2013 - 4:45pm

      I don’t find the whole John Hurt thing particularly interesting to be honest. Feels very contrived to me. And I think they really should bring back classic Doctors, but properly. The Name of the Doctor only featured them through CGI and body doubles, which does a real disservice to those actors from the past.

    • Dalek The Supreme

      September 16th, 2013 - 1:48am

      I agree with both of you in some areas. I am interested in the John Hurt plot thread, and I like the idea of an incarnation of the Doctor so dark the others hate and fear him. However, I do think it would be a good idea to include the Classic Doctors in the 50th, even though it was great seeing them in some form in The Name of the Doctor.

  • Connor Kelly

    September 12th, 2013 - 12:21pm

    The wait is too unbearable!!! If only I had a TARDIS!

    Reply
  • Doctordredd67

    September 11th, 2013 - 10:54pm

    Really looking forward/backward to these events !

    🙂

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  • RYCBAR123

    September 11th, 2013 - 9:04pm

    Can’t wait! This is going to be brilliant! 😀

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    • Stomping

      October 4th, 2013 - 11:26pm

      Your under 30 yrs old an’t you. lol. I really wish some of the noob’s on here would watch the classic series.

  • cyberman2

    September 11th, 2013 - 8:09pm

    come on 50th happen already. got everything prepared so come at me 🙂

    Reply
  • ILOVEJENNALOUISECOLEMAN

    September 11th, 2013 - 7:51pm

    I am soo excited soooo mega excited even more so since i just went to doctor who the experience in cardiff bay A MUST SEE FOR ANY DOCTOR WHO FAN its out of this universe

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    • ILOVEJENNALOUISECOLEMAN

      September 11th, 2013 - 7:53pm

      the shop in there as equally exciting too wooooow mind blowing!!!!!!!!

    • the astronaut of death

      September 11th, 2013 - 7:56pm

      I know it is so cool is,nt it I went 3 weeks ago

    • ILOVEJENNALOUISECOLEMAN

      September 11th, 2013 - 7:59pm

      yeah i went two weeks ago sooo amazing it will be two weeks ago from tom i went

    • ILOVEJENNALOUISECOLEMAN

      September 11th, 2013 - 8:03pm

      i went with my sister and my neice and nephew and i was more excited than them they only 7 and 9 lol

    • ILOVEJENNALOUISECOLEMAN

      September 11th, 2013 - 8:06pm

      booboo what did you think to doctor who the experience ? it was sooo cool

    • booboo

      September 11th, 2013 - 8:10pm

      very very good

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