50th Anniversary Year Lineup Revealed!!!

Hi All,

OK, I'm a couple of days late with this, but in case you are not already aware BBC Worldwide has launched a new Doctor Who website. You can visit it at:

http://www.doctorwho.tv/

The website contains profiles of Doctor Who characters - the Doctor's 11 incarnations, companions and monsters/villains, as well as a number of clips and pics from the show (at the moment there is a focus on the Hartnell and Smith years but more characters and clips will be added over time). There's also some on-line games to play and an on-line shop.

And details about the 50th anniversary lineup have also been released by the BBC.

The 2013 programming will include:

8 episodes making up the second part of series 7 (transmission beginning in the UK and on BBC America on March 30th - NZ dates have not presently been confirmed by Prime TV)

A 60 minute 50th anniversary special broadcast in the UK autumn (presumably sometime close to November 23)

An Adventure in Time and Space, a one-off 90 minute docudrama about the show's creation written by Doctor Who writer Mark Gatiss, also due to be broadcast in the UK autumn.  

Doctor Who Revisited: 11 x 25 minute features each month on BBC America to coincide with screenings of classic stories throughout the year - one story from each Doctor, beginning with The Aztecs on January 27.

In Australasia, UKTV has begun screening classic stories, each month a different Doctor.

With regards to the 60 minute 50th anniversary special there is talk that the script will feature ALL ELEVEN ACTORS to have played the role since 1963. Apparently Moffat is close to completing a script that will feature all incarnations of the Time Lord - with studio trickery used to resurrect the first three Doctors – William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee – in brief flashback scenes. All that said, I recently noticed that Colin Baker (the sixth Doctor) mentioned on Twitter that he had not been approached to take part in any 50th anniversary stories, but whether they've been told to say that to keep the lid on the surprise, I guess we'll just have to wait and see ...

Thanks for Reading,
Nick.