Doctor Who 2023 Specials
The Star Beast November 25 2023 Based on a comic story by Pat Mills and Dave Gibbons, screenplay by Russell T Davies, directed by Rachel Talalay.
The Doctor runs into Donna Noble, her daughter Rose and her husband Shaun as a spaceship crashes in London.
The Doctor goes to investigate and meets up with UNIT scientist Shirley Anne Bingham. The spaceship takes control of some of the UNIT soldiers.
Rose befriends a cute alien and lets it hide in the family's shed. After chaotic interaction with the family the Doctor arrives. The Meep tells them all he's being chased by aliens, called the Wraith Warriors, who are after it's fur.
It's all a lie, the Meep is really a despotic ruler ruler of a violent race. He's the last one and the Wraith's are trying to capture him. The Meep kills the Wraiths and escapes. He takes the Doctor and friends as hostages.
The Meep plans to use London as fuel for it's spaceship, the result will kill millions. Trapped in the Meep ship the Doctor restores Donna's memory and they shut down the ship. The Wraiths arrive to take the Meep into custody.
Donna doesn't die, part of the metacrisis had been transferred to Rose when she was born. Mother and daughter shed themselves of the metacrisis and life goes on.
The Doctor and Donna take the Tardis to go visit Wilfred Mott. Dona spills coffee on the Tardis and it dematerializes.
Wild Blue Yonder December 2 2023 Written by Russell T Davies, directed by Tom Kingsley.
After a brief encounter with Isaac Newton the Doctor and Donna transport to a spaceship on the edge of space.
The Tardis belches flame and disappears. The Doctor and Donna go have a look about.
The pair encounter a slow moving robot and some weird aliens mimicking the Doctor and Donna.
Eventually the Doctor figures out the problem, the ship is set to explode and the boom time is neigh.
The Tardis returns and the Doctor and Donna take off to visit Wilf. He's fine but the world is in chaos.
The Giggle December 2 2023 Written by Russell T Davies and directed by Chanya Button.
The Doctor finds the human race has been reprogrammed to be huge assholes. There are riots all over the world. The Doctor and Donna get picked up by UNIT and taken to their HQ.
The Doctor finds Mel Bush working there.
UNIT has found a hidden set of notes in all TV screens, the Doctor finds a hidden image.
The Doctor and Donna go back to 1925 and visit the Toymaker at his shop.
They get trapped in his hotel corridor like labyrinth. and encounter some odd creatures.
Soon after UNIT gets a visit from the Toymaker, he puts on quite a show. Then he blasts the Doctor with a ray cannon.
The Doctor starts to regenerate and stops. He has Donna and Mel pull his arms and becomes two Doctors. They kick the Toymaker's ass and banish him from reality.
The Doctor with David Tennant's face gets to retire and he parks his Tardis in Donna's back yard. The Doctor with Ncuti Gatwa's face creats a second Tardis and goes off on new adventures.
A nice trio of adventures and a nice ending to the Doctor Donna saga. The BBC had some extra material, there's a making off for each episode and a video commentary for The Star Beast and The Giggle. There was a Children in Need special with Davros. Theose were all pretty entertaining. It was probably a good idea for Russell to take some time off, he came back strong and hopefully he'll be able to keep up with the new Doctor. He's a bit of a firecracker. Looking forward to taking a bit of a trip with him.