DOCTOR WHO rumor - THE 11 DOCTORS?

The UK's Daily Mail is reporting that an upcoming Doctor Who 15-minute special for the charity Children In Need will bring together all 11 incarnations of Doctor Who's Doctor character, including both current Doctor David Tennant and future Doctor Matt Smith. (Click the image at left to buy the fourth season of Doctor Who.)

"This is a momentous episode for all Doctor Who fans," the paper says. "Never before have all the Doctors been in the same room, let alone in the same show. It's been a logistical nightmare getting all the actors together and available for shooting on the same days. But the script has already been started and it's classic Doctor Who – really witty and very sharp. Viewers will see the Time Lords regenerating and emerging one by one from the Tardis, each with their own quirky opening line. David Tennant is the central character in the episode. He's trying to hunt down some special time travel apparatus. What he's actually lost has not yet been decided, but the idea is for all the other Doctors to club together to help David find it. The actors who are no longer with us, (William Hartnell, Jon Pertwee and Patrick Troughton, will make special cameo appearances, with footage from original shows being flashed up on screen. It's a really exciting project – and all for a good cause."

Decades ago, the special episodes The Three Doctors, The Five Doctors and the charity special Dimensions In Time brought together the then-current incarnations of the Doctor, and more recently Children in Need specials featured the first appearance of Tennant's Doctor and a meeting of Tennant's Doctor and Peter Davison's fifth Doctor. This new special would be the most elaborate yet by far, although so far it is just a rumor.

"Nothing has been finalised yet," a BBC spokesman told the paper, "although there is discussion of a Children in Need Doctor Who special. It is too early to say what.”


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