Nothing like starting out the work-week with a whole lot of Donna Noble feelings. There’s a new trailer for November’s trio of Doctor Who 60th anniversary specials, and it is just full of classic Donna (Catherine Tate)—including some footage of that time the Doctor (younger David Tennant as the Tenth Doctor, as opposed to current David Tennant as the Fourteenth) had to erase her memory to save her life.
She can’t remember him, or she’ll die—which poses a bit of a problem when a spaceship crashes in front of her and an alien turns up in her shed.
“I don’t believe in destiny, but if destiny exists, then it is heading for Donna Noble,” Tennant says. And Donna Noble certainly knows she’s missing something, though not what it is, given that she clocks the Doctor the minute she sees him.
As for said Doctor, he’s remembering something (again)—some villain from his past. That’d be a gloating Neil Patrick Harris playing the Toymaker, a classic character who hasn’t appeared in Doctor Who for 57 years.
🎲 Neil Patrick-Harris is the Toymaker.
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Along with Harris, the anniversary episodes feature some returning cast members (including Jemma Redgrave as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart) as well as new faces and voices, including Yasmin Finney as Rose Noble and Miriam Margolyes voicing Beep the Meep. The trailer ends on a close-up of the new new Doctor, Ncuti Gatwa, and though it’s only a brief moment it immediately made me form about six different theories about how the plot of these special episodes is going to go.
Said episodes are titled “The Star Beast,” “Wild Blue Yonder” and “The Giggle,” but we still don’t know exactly when they’re going to air—just that they’re coming in November.
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