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The First and Twelfth Doctors may have to work together in the Doctor Who Christmas special but they’re also going to find themselves clashing – over the original Time Lord’s outdated views about women. “What we did emphasise [about the First Doctor] was the old fashioned nature and how he is from the 60s,” revealed David Bradley, who plays the part opposite Peter Capaldi’s more enlightened incarnation. “He goes into the Twelfth Doctor’s Tardis and says ‘it’s a bit dusty around…

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It’s no great secret that many great Doctor Who stories – most of them from the 1960s – are missing from the BBC archives. But while experts and collectors continue their search for lost episodes, there’s one story that seems destined always to elude them – because it was never finished. Shada – Douglas Adams’ Fourth Doctor story that would have seen Tom Baker and Lalla Ward tackle alien invasion in the heart of Cambridge – was famously cancelled in…

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Steven Moffat hadn’t originally intended to do the tenth series of Doctor Who, that finished last month with The Doctor Falls. Instead, he was expecting that job to go to Chris Chibnall, but Chibnall’s commitment to Broadchurch for ITV meant a delay in him taking over Doctor Who. Moffat, therefore, steered the tenth series of the show. He’s also penned his last Doctor Who script, in this case for the Christmas special, Twice Upon A  Time. And in a new…

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Steven Moffat has revealed who will be directing Jodie Whittaker’s first scene as the new Doctor Who. In his Doctor Who Magazine column, Moffat reflects on the shooting of Peter Capaldi’s final outing as the Doctor, this year’s Christmas special ‘Twice Upon A Time’, and hinted that Rachel Talalay will be directing Whittaker’s debut as the 13th Doctor. “[Rachel’s] come back to see number 12 off into the shades but I very much hope she’ll be directing more Doctor Whos…

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