The countdown to the new series hots up as the complete list of episode titles are revealed!
As Doctor Who gears up for its highly anticipated simultaneous global premiere this May, the team have revealed the episode titles for the season. Plus, another incredible guest star has jumped aboard the TARDIS for an upcoming episode. As another Easter treat, viewers are getting another official trailer that will launch on the BBC Doctor Who social channels at 1800 before its first airing on BBC One later today, Sunday 31st March.
The first two episodes drop on iPlayer at 0000 on the 11th of May before that evening’s BBC One broadcast. They’ll also be simultaneously on Disney+ around the world. Up first, in the Julie Anne Robinson directed Space Babies. Golda Rosheuvel (Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story) joins Doctor Who as Jocelyn, who the Doctor and Ruby collide with in their first adventure in the TARDIS together.
Russell T Davies, Showrunner added: “It’s been amazing to see the whole world appreciate Golda’s talents, because of Bridgerton, and it’s been an absolute joy to invite her to Cardiff to help launch Ncuti and Millie’s first season.”
Rounding out the explosive double bill is previously announced Jinkx Monsoon who stars in The Devil’s Chord. She plays the Doctor’s most powerful enemy yet as the Doctor and Ruby step into the 1960s to meet The Beatles.
Over the rest of the season there are an array of brilliant new guest stars jumping aboard the TARDIS. These include Callie Cooke, Dame Siân Phillips, Alexander Devrient, Bhav Joshi, Majid Mehdizadeh-Valoujerdy, Tachia Newall and Caoilinn Springall. They join the previously announced guest cast: Michelle Greenidge, Angela Wynter, Anita Dobson, Aneurin Barnard, Yasmin Finney, Jonathan Groff, Gwïon Morris Jones, Bonnie Langford, Genesis Lynea, Jemma Redgrave, Lenny Rush and Indira Varma.
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Space Babies
Written by Russell T Davies, directed by Julie Anne Robinson.
Guest starring Golda Rosheuvel (Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story). The Doctor and Ruby’s first adventure brings them to a space station containing a group of talking babies! But there are also horrific looking creatures in the corridors.
The Devil’s Chord
Written by Russell T Davies, directed by Ben Chessell.
Guest starring Jinkx Monsoon (Drag Race All-Stars, Chicago). The most powerful foe the Doctor has ever faced is stalking the famous Abbey Road in the 1960s. Can the Doctor and Ruby save the Beatles and keep human history on track?
Boom
Written by Steven Moffat, directed by Julie Anne Robinson.
Our heroes find themselves on a desolate planet in the middle of someone else’s war. Reported to feature the return of the Clerics (The Time of Angels/Flesh and Stone, A Good Man Goes to War).
73 Yards
Written by Russell T Davies, directed by Dylan Holmes Williams.
Guest starring Aneurin Barnard (1899, the upcoming Rogue Trooper) as Roger ap Gwilliam and Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart. The TARDIS returns to a present where things seem to become more supernatural day by day. The trailer teases this episode may feature a TARDIS disguised as a lamp post…
Dot and Bubble
Written by Russell T Davies, directed by Dylan Holmes Williams. Probably the episode about which the least has been officially released so far.
Rogue
Written by Kate Herron and Briony Redman, directed by Ben Chessell. Guest starring Jonathan Groff (Hamilton) and Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Torchwood) as the Duchess. Ruby gets to live out her greatest Bridgerton fantasies, with added birdlike aliens on the prowl! And who is the mysterious charming rogue played by Jonathan Groff?
The Legend of Ruby Sunday
Written by Russell T Davies, directed by Jamie Donoughue. The start of the two part finale guest starring Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart, Yasmin Finney as Rose Noble, and Bonnie Langord as Mel Bush. UNIT brings the Doctor and Ruby home. But soon they’re in the fight of their lives with the whole world at stake.
Empire of Death written by Russell T Davies, directed by Jamie Donoughue
The series concludes in, undoubtedly, the high stakes, high emotion fashion we’ve come to expect from Russell T Davies!
and I’m sure we will finish with a deus ex machina ending
Why does RTD hate other planets?