A musical concert commemorating six decades of music for Doctor Who will be broadcast on BBC Radio 2 (thanks to a story from The Radio Times). The special event, titled Doctor Who @ 60: A Musical Celebration, is expected to debut sometime in the autumn (likely to coincide with the 60th anniversary specials) and will be hosted at the … Read more
A classic Doctor Who serial from 1967, The Underwater Menace, is set to be restored with colour animation and original audio recordings, courtesy of a story from The Radio Times. Into the 1970s, the BBC had no official policy for archiving programme content, and as such, many stories within Doctor Who’s classic era (including two of the four episodes … Read more
A significant fact of Doctor Who history could actually be, after almost sixty years, a myth. Paul Hayes, author and broadcaster, who’d previously penned The Long Game in 2021, a book that chronicled Doctor Who’s absence and eventual revival between 1996 and 2003, has written another, Pull To Open, a story that documents the show’s development between 1962 to … Read more
David Tennant has shared his first ever television memory, and it happens to be a Doctor Who serial dating back to 1974. The story in question was the sixth and concluding chapter of Planet of the Spiders, Jon Pertwee’s last episode as the Third Doctor. He’d served as the Time Lord since the turn of the … Read more
The CEO of the television archive group Kaleidoscope believes missing Doctor Who episodes still exist and can be recovered in the future. Into the 1970s, the BBC had no official policy for archiving programme content, and as such, many stories within Doctor Who’s classic era (the majority of William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton’s back catalog) remain incomplete or … Read more
Yasmin Finney, who’ll be appearing alongside David Tennant and Catherine Tate in Doctor Who later this year, talked about her experiences filming alongside the two actors for the round of specials to commemorate the show’s 60th anniversary. She’ll be playing a character called, ironically, Rose (not to confuse them with Billie Piper’s companion). In an interview … Read more
A new trailer for Doctor Who’s upcoming 60th Anniversary Specials has been revealed – along with the episode titles for the three feature-length episodes. You can watch the new trailer at the link below. The episode titles are as follows: Episode 1 – “The Star Beast” Episode 2 – “Wild Blue Yonder” Episode 3 – “The … Read more
A serial killer on the prowl discards a body on a wasteland in Kettering. These chilling revelations filter through a radio as Vicky (Claire Rushbrook) prepares for a date. Someone at her door, in black leather gloves, rings the intercom for her door. Number 9. Vicky meets Edgar (Matthew Horne), a landscape gardener. Palm Date … Read more
The BBC has revealed the first look at Jonathan Groff in costume for his upcoming role in the new series of Doctor Who. The images, as relayed on Twitter, tease that the 38-year-old actor will appear alongside Ncuti Gatwa’s Fifteenth Doctor and his companion Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson) in a period piece. “Dress to impress, … Read more
If you were wondering about the title, this particular phobia is a fear of Friday the 13th, the date, not the franchise. With that out of the way, it should give us a clearer picture of what to expect from this latest episode of Inside No. 9. Gareth Beckman (Reece Shearsmith) has a fear of … Read more