Thank You

The show itself has endured high times and low years but during those low years it was never forgotten. Never unloved. Because Doctor Who fans have always remained loyal and passionate. Donna, Martha and many others have commented that the Doctor needs companions, and as if to echo that, we know that Doctor Who needs fans. People who recognize and celebrate its magic, madness and the fact that since the evening of Saturday, 23 November, 1963, it has been one of the very best programmes – no, very best things – in the universe.

Doctor Who fans can be jubilant and bonkers… Just like the programme itself. Today, for example, almost 80 countries across six continents simultaneously broadcast The Day of the Doctor to hundreds of millions of fans in the US, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Nigeria, Hong Kong and Thailand to name just a few. As if that wasn’t enough, 1,450 cinemas in the UK and Ireland, the US and Canada, Germany, Kazakhstan, Russia, Colombia, Uruguay, Peru, Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil and Argentina flung open their doors to hundreds of thousands of fans and screened the special in 3D – with over half synchronised with BBC One’s transmission.

How crazy is that? And how wonderful! Tonight’s ‘global’ adventure celebrated 50 years of Doctor Who but we’re already looking forward to the next 50. Why? Because there are so many more adventures to come and memories to be made. As the Doctor once said, ‘the future lies this way.’

We hope you’ll be traveling with the Time Lord every step of the way and however you reached the show, and wherever it will take us all, today, on 23 November, 2013, we want to say one thing to every single Doctor Who fan ever – thank you.

Now. The next half century… Allons-y and… Geronimo!