Showrunner CHRIS CHIBNALL bows out with memories of his favourite Doctor Who moments – and tributes to the team who brought a remarkable era to life.

Showrunner Chris Chibnall on the TARDIS set.

Oh! Am I still here? I thought I’d left!

There’s a lot of finals in this job, even after you’ve stopped. We finished shooting almost a year ago, finished the edit nine months past, and the final mix was done in June. I’ve been working on new stuff and had a glorious two months off, all my untaken holidays from the past five years crammed into one. My sons have passed GCSEs and A Levels: my eldest will have started at university by the time you read this. (He was four when we filmed 42, and he first walked onto the TARDIS set. We have measured out his life in Doctors).

Yet, here I am, back for the last hurrah. Last week I was in a studio in London with Jodie and Mandip, to record the DVD commentary for The Power of the Doctor. In a couple of weeks, we have a press screening in a London cinema, as well as a private screening for our postproduction team, who work separately and never get to meet each other – so post-production supervisor Ceres Doyle and I promised we’d get them all into a room to meet and screen our/their last episode. And then transmission itself. Surely then it’s over, my final Doctor Who duties.