Leave it to the BBC—and Russell T. Davies—to make us have feelings in all of forty seconds. This too-short teaser for the Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials (all three of them) knows exactly which buttons to push, and one of those buttons is labeled “the Doctor apologizes to Donna.”
My heart.
The specials feature the return of David Tennant (as not Ten but the Fourteenth Doctor) and Catherine Tate (as Donna Noble) as well as the appearance of Neil Patrick Harris (as a dancing villain?) and Yasmin Finney (playing a character named Rose). Jacqueline King also returns as Sylvia Noble, and Karl Collins as Shaun Temple; another new face is Ruth Madeley as Shirley Anne Bingham.
And, as in the previous trailer, we also have the first live-action appearance of Beep the Meep, who looks cute but is actually trouble. Beep first appeared in a 1980 comic called Doctor Who and the Star Beast, which clearly relates to the first special, which is titled “The Star Beast.”
The other two episode titles are “Wild Blue Yonder” and “The Giggle,” and said giggle already seems enough to drive someone a bit mad.
Specific airdates haven’t been announced for the specials, but they’ll be here in November. And then—at long last!—at some point even farther in the distant future, Ncuti Gatwa will take his turn as the next Doctor.
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