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On 30 January 2017, Peter Capaldi confirmed that the tenth series would be his last as the Twelfth Doctor, and that he was set to leave after the 2017 Christmas special. [13] The episode also sees the introduction of Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, whose casting was announced on 16 July 2017. [14] [15]
During the first run of the programme (1963–1989), special episodes were not a frequent occurrence. During the third season, the twelve-part serial The Daleks' Master Plan was broadcast weekly beginning in November 1965 and ending in January 1966, with its seventh and eighth episodes scheduled for Christmas and New Year's Day, respectively.
Peter Capaldi then took over the role for three series as the Twelfth Doctor, and left following the 2017 Christmas special, along with Moffat. He was replaced by Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, the first time the Doctor was officially played by a woman; Chris Chibnall took over as showrunner.
In 2011, he returned in the Series 6 episode "The Wedding of River Song" as a character known as Gantok, and in the 2017 Christmas special "Twice Upon A Time" as "The Captain". [ 17 ] [ 18 ] Also in 2007, he appeared as Robert Louis Stevenson [ 19 ] in Jekyll , a BBC One serial by his fellow Doctor Who scriptwriter Steven Moffat . [ 20 ]
The "Twice Upon a Time" Christmas special included the departure of both Capaldi and Mackie from the series. [80] [81] It also saw one-off appearances by David Bradley who had been cast as the First Doctor and Mark Gatiss as The Captain. [82] [83] Bradley was first introduced in the final episode of the tenth series. [84]
Coughlan had been long-rumored to be joining the “Doctor Who” universe, which Davies confirmed ahead of last year’s Christmas special. She also starred alongside Gatwa in last year’s ...
Preceded by a Christmas special in December 2016, "The Return of Doctor Mysterio", the series is the third and final series starring Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor, an incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in his TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box on the outside; Capaldi announced in ...
The following contains spoilers from the Doctor Who holiday special Joy to the World, now streaming on Disney+. There have been many Doctor Who Christmas specials, but never one quite like Joy to ...