When is 50th anniversary episode of doctor who

What would fans like to see? There was little pomp or spectacle, not by Who standards anyway. Ad — content continues below. By , things had been kicked up a notch. No amorphous blobs or bonkers old Time Lords in ball-gowns here, but Cybermen , Daleks, Yetis, The Master — and newcomer the Raston Warrior Robot, a sort of ninja-dancing death machine in a tight lycra gimp-suit.

Still, what the feature-length episode lacked in marquee names, it made up for with a state banquet of companions, even bringing back K9. The story is a nonsensical, confusing, over-the-top mess, nothing more than a rising pyramid of side-quests and fan-service set-pieces all culminating in a damp squib of an ending.

But you know what? Coo as the First Doctor tricks the Cybermen at electric chess. Cheer as the Second Doctor encounters his old nemesis the Yeti.

Laugh your pants off as the Third Doctor uses a tow rope to save Sarah Jane from the perils of a very slight incline.

His vengeful, genocidal actions at the close of the serial pretty much kick-started the Time War. Ace was on fine form, too, dashing around Coal Hill school in wielding explosives and a baseball bat.

Nazis, Cybermen, medieval interlopers, an angry statue, the Doctor bopping to jazz. The show had become, in deed and in memory, a parody of itself; a forgotten, end-of-the-pier relic. The only thing left of its legacy was a shared perception of how it had been at its campiest and silliest. Get the best of Den of Geek delivered right to your inbox!

The Day of the Doctor: Behind the Lens. A special programme, narrated by Colin Baker the Sixth Doctor that takes you behind the scenes during the making of the 50th Special.

The Five ish Doctors Reboot. With the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who about to film, the 'Classic' Doctors are keen to be involved. But do they manage it? Find out in this Doctor Who special written and directed by Peter Davison. Preview of the Christmas Special. The Day of the Doctor Deleted Scene.

Three Doctors in one cool deleted scene…. An Evening With Steven Moffat. An Adventure in Space and Time. The reality of the Time War projects around them: children crying, innocents suffering. The Doctor could not find another way to end it all, but Clara believes in a different solution. She calls the past two Doctors the Warrior and the Hero, but this leads the Eleventh to wonder what he is.

Clara asks if he truly has forgotten; he has, asking Clara to tell him what to do. Any old idiot can be a hero. Be what you've always been. Be a Doctor. The Tenth and War Doctors recite "Never cowardly or cruel. Never give up; never give in. At that, a brilliant new idea descends on the room; the Eleventh Doctor says that he's had a long time to think about it — he's changed his mind! The intent of the Moment worked: the War Doctor saw the future he needed to see.

Picking up on his future self's idea without explanation, the War Doctor exclaims that he could just kiss "Bad Wolf girl" right now, which catches the Tenth Doctor's attention, only for him to be distracted from it as he realises what his counterparts were getting at and agrees that it's a wonderful idea. They have changed their minds about using the Moment, and the Eleventh Doctor disarms the device with his sonic screwdriver. Instead, they intend to freeze Gallifrey in a moment in time, slipped away in a pocket universe, the way the Zygons froze themselves into Time Lord art.

When Gallifrey vanishes, the sphere of Dalek ships surrounding the planet and firing constantly will be exterminated in their own crossfire before they can cease firing, and the universe will believe that the two races destroyed each other. Three transmissions, each showing a different Doctor, much to the General's dismay, appear. They explain their incredible plan to save Gallifrey. They will position themselves around the planet equidistantly, and freeze it — just like the stasis cubes, but to a whole planet and all the people on it.

The General objects, saying that they'd be lost in another universe, frozen in a single moment with nothing, but the Doctors tell him the alternative is burning and they've seen that and don't want to again. The Eleventh Doctor also informs him that with this plan, the Time Lords will at least have hope, something they don't have now.

The General is dumbfounded, he tells them that the idea is delusional, claiming that even if it was possible, the calculations alone would take centuries. The Eleventh and Tenth Doctors agree, saying it would take "hundreds and hundreds" of years, but they've had "a very long time" to think about it.

In fact, he could say they've been working on it all their lives At that, the voice of the First Doctor is heard contacting the War Council. Nine more police boxes fly around the planet, and all the past incarnations of the Doctor come together to save Gallifrey, all making contact with the Council. The General bemoans the idea that all twelve Doctors have arrived when three was bad enough. However, his count is one short. Androgar points out that all thirteen incarnations of the Doctor are present to save Gallifrey — a new incarnation from the Doctor's days yet to come is also on the way.

A brief glimpse of this future Doctor shows a hand reaching for a lever in the console room, and a pair of piercing blue eyes watching the console monitor. Back in the National Gallery, the Tenth, Eleventh, and War Doctors muse on the ambiguity of whether their plan succeeded. The presence of the mysterious painting of the fall of Arcadia remains an enigma to the three Doctors.

While they don't know if their plan worked, they agree that it was better to have failed having done the right thing than succeeding in doing the wrong. The War Doctor bids a fond farewell to his replacements, they return an equally fond farewell as they finally address him as "Doctor": a man fully worthy of the title, even if he will only know it briefly.

Because the timelines are out of sync, the War Doctor and the Tenth Doctor won't be able to retain their memories of these events. They will forget them completely until they catch up to their eleventh incarnation.

However, right now, the War Doctor is content and pleased that he can refer to himself as "Doctor" again. As he pilots his TARDIS away, he suddenly sees his hands glowing with regeneration energy , and says that it makes sense, as his old body is "wearing a bit thin.

With his work done in the battle, the energy begins to overtake the War Doctor. He expresses one last desire that the change will leave him with "less conspicuous" ears this time. The War Doctor smiles peacefully as his next regeneration begins. Acknowledging that he won't be able to remember the answer, the Tenth Doctor questions his successor as to "Where it is we're going that you don't wanna talk about. The Tenth Doctor says that's not how it's supposed to be, but the Eleventh Doctor tells him it is determined now.

Preparing to leave, the Tenth Doctor shakes his successor's hand and says that he's glad his future is in good hands. Before he does, he expresses his desire to change their final destination of Trenzalore, saying: "I don't want to go. Clara asks the Doctor if he would like to sit and look at the painting for a little while.

He smiles, asking how she knew. Clara kisses him on the cheek and tells him that she always knows — it's his sad old eyes. As the Doctor sits down and looks at the painting, he begins musing out loud that he would be a great curator. He says with a laugh that he could call himself "the Great Curator", retire and become the curator of this gallery. A deep voice affirms that he really might.

The astonished Doctor looks over to see a very familiar face standing next to him. An old man who greatly resembles the Fourth Doctor. The Doctor studies the old man in wonderment, as he tells him that he never forgets a face, and the old man replies that he knows he doesn't and that he might find himself revisiting some of them in the future, "but just the old favourites, eh? The man then turns the Doctor's attention to the painting, explaining that he acquired it under "remarkable circumstances".

He tells the Doctor that its two names are actually one: the true title of the painting is Gallifrey Falls No More. The Doctor realises that he was successful, and Gallifrey was indeed saved. The mysterious man comments that he surely wouldn't know as he is merely a humble curator. The Doctor excitedly asks him if he knows where Gallifrey is, but he only cryptically reveals that it is simply "lost", and that the Doctor has a lot to do.

The Doctor asks if that means that he is supposed to go looking for Gallifrey, but the Curator tells him that that decision is entirely up to him. He also muses that he and the Doctor might be the same man from different perspectives, sounding wistful about days having gone by, congratulating the Doctor on the new journey he is about to commence. As to whether or not he truly is an incarnation of the Doctor from the future, the Curator simply teases the thought, "Who knows, eh?

The Eleventh Doctor concludes that he has a mission, the mission of a lifetime: he must find Gallifrey and return it and all its people to the universe. Clara would laugh at him when he said that he dreamed about where he was going, as he was always going nowhere. However, he says that he finally realises where he has been travelling all this time: home. He simply says that it has taken so many years and lifetimes to take the long way around. As he exits the TARDIS in the dream, the Doctor joins his eleven past selves in gazing up at the magnificent planet in the sky, determined to find Gallifrey and save his home once and for all.

Milk VFX [16]. As the show was being celebrated, I was being abused in the press, and that was hard to take. And very confusing. So I looked at it and I thought, 'Is this really the way I want to come back? Christopher Eccleston. It was one thing to include him among all the other archive Doctors, as they flew in to save the day — in fact, it would have been disgraceful to have left anyone out — but placing him in that scene might have given the impression he'd actually turned up for filming, which would have been crossing the line.

Not taking part in the 50th was a difficult decision for Chris, taken after a lot of thought and with great courtesy, and not respecting his wishes would have been grossly unprofessional and disrespectful to a good man and a great Doctor. Number 9 may not have turned up for the celebrations, but there would have been no party without him. Steven Moffat [ [src ]]. Tardis Explore. Main episode list Classmates. Main episode list K9 and Company. Other media. Real people. Explore Wikis Community Central.

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