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YEARBOOK 2019

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“I’m the Doctor!”

From the top of a crane in Sheffield to the mists of the planet Ranskoor Av Kolos, Jodie Whittaker talks us through the highlights of her first year as the Doctor.

The Woman Who Fell to Earth

The newly regenerated Doctor crashes into the lives of Ryan, Yaz and Graham. She soon enlists their help in investigating an extraterrestrial incursion in South Yorkshire. They discover an alien warrior engaged in a hunt for a human trophy…

NORTHERN HEIGHTS

Jonny Dixon played Shefield crane operator Karl Wright in The Woman Who Fell to Earth.

The Ghost Monument

Welcome to planet Desolation for the final stage of the Rally of the Twelve Galaxies. First one to the Ghost Monument’s the winner – but there’s no prize for the second…

SPACE RACE

Four thousand competitors entered the Rally of the Twelve Galaxies but just two finalists vied for the prize of 3.2 trillion krin. One of them was Angstrom, played by Susan Lynch.

Rosa

The Doctor and her friends investigate mysterious traces of artron energy in 1955 Alabama. They discover a mass murderer from the future attempting to change history by preventing Rosa Parks from making her iconic stand against racial segregation…

Making History

Vinette Robinson played Rosa Parks in a powerful and thought-provoking episode of Doctor Who. But Rosa wasn’t the first time she’d appeared in the series…

Arachnids in the UK

The Doctor and her friends discover that something strange is happening to the spiders in Sheffield. And the outsized creatures aren’t the only ones weaving a sinister web…

RELATIVE DIMENSIONS

She’s been a self-confessed fan since she was a little girl. Now Shobna Gulati is finally part of the Doctor Who family and she’s delighted to be playing Yaz’s mum - sorry Najia!

The Tsuranga Conundrum

A mishap with a sonic mine lands Team TARDIS on the medical ship Tsuranga. But that seems like the least of their problems when something else comes aboard. Something hungry…

NOW WE ARE WITNESSES

Writer Vinay Patel discusses the real and difficult history of Partition that underlies his episode, Demons of the Punjab.

Demons of the Punjab

Seeking the answer to a family mystery, the Doctor and friends travel to Yaz’s grandmother’s past. At a crucial point in India’s post-war history, they learn that the fixed force of time cannot be stopped.

SPECIAL DELIVERY

Kerblam! was written by Pete McTighe, a lifelong fan who was delighted to earn a place on the 2018 series. But the full extent of his involvement with Doctor Who goes much further…

Kerblam!

A Delivery Bot brings a new fez for the Doctor – and

Post Production

Julie Hesmondhalgh talks about delivering Kerblam!’s Head of People, Judy Maddox, to our screens…

The Witchinders

Witch-crazed 17th-century Lancashire is no place for a woman possessed of arcane knowledge and a magic wand to materialise out of the ether!

THE HILLS ARE ALIVE

With her script for The Witchfinders, Joy Wilkinson conjured one of the most disturbing and thought-provking episodes in Series 11

It Takes You Away

In a remote cabin by a Norwegian fjord, a frightened teenager awaits the return of her missing father. A bedroom mirror holds the key to his disappearance but the Doctor’s investigations uncover a threat to the existence of two universes…

SEE NO EVIL

Ed Himeʼs intriguing epsiode, It Takes You Away, shifted the action to a remote Norwegian cabin where nothing was what it seemed…

Cabin Fever

In It Takes You Away the challenging role of the terrified and isolated Hanne went to the multi-tasking Ellie Wallwork.

The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos

Nine separate distress signals bring the Doctor, Graham, Yaz and Ryan to a bleak, nightmarish world and a rematch with an old enemy.

TWO’S COMPANY

In her thousands of years exploring the universe, the Doctor hasn’t encountered the Ux before. What light can Phyllis Logan and Percelle Ascott shed on this intriguing species?

Blu Box

The first box set in the new range of Doctor Who: The Collection Blue-rays went on sale in July 2018 – and sold out in a week. It was an encouraging start to the new project, says executive producer Russell Minton.

IN MEMORIAM

Tributes to the Doctor Who luminaries who passed away between December 2017 and November 2018.

Running With The Doctor

Working as a runner on Doctor Who is an energetic and varied job. Occasionally it even involves on-screen cameo appearances.

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THE 2019 YEARBOOK

Jodie Whittaker’s debut as the Doctor was one of the