Doctor Who on Children in Need: Five Fave Moments!
The Doctor Who Team
On Friday (Nov 18th) you’ll be able to catch an exclusive preview clip from this year’s Christmas Special – The Return of Doctor Mysterio! It’ll be shown as part of the BBC’s Children in Need night and continues a tradition that’s seen Doctor Who supporting and appearing in the charity’s big evening for over 30 years!
So we dipped into the TARDIS archives and present five of our favourite times that Doctor Who has materialised on Children in Need…
Time Crash! (2007)
The Tenth Doctor met the Fifth Doctor in the special minisode that showed both of them doing what they do best – showing off, trading quips and saving the universe! But it was also a lovely nod to the show’s past. ‘You know,’ the Tenth Doctor told his Fifth incarnation, ‘I loved being you… You were my Doctor!’
'To days to come...'
'All my love to long ago...'
The Great Detective (2012)
Things were looking bad for the Doctor in 2012. He’d lost the Ponds and had ‘retired’, sulking about Victorian London wearing a grim expression and a rather fabulous hat. But things were looking good for Doctor Who fans on Children in Need night that year as this special minisode, The Great Detective, caught up with the Time Lord and his old friends, Vastra, Jenny and Strax…
The Five Doctors (1983)
Doctor Who first got involved in Children in Need back in 1983 when the show’s twentieth anniversary special was broadcast on the charity’s big night. The Five Doctors featured Cybermen, a Dalek, a Yeti, old companions and (yep, you guessed it), five – count ’em – five Doctors! What a way to make an entrance…
Splendid fellows... All of them!
Meet the Tenth Doctor! (2005)
We’d glimpsed the Tenth Doctor at the very end of The Parting of the Ways, but a brief scene shown during 2005’s Children in Need properly introduced David Tennant’s take on the Time Lord. Ahh, memories… Allons-y!
New Doctor... New teeth!
'Hold on tight - here we go!'
Dimensions in Time (1993)
Okay. It was a bit nuts. Lots of returning Doctors, companions, the brilliant Brigadier and a bunch of familiar foes who are (Albert) squaring up to each other in EastEnders’ Walford. And if that wasn’t crazy enough, there was a bit of timey-wimey action going on as we zipped back and forth between 1973 and 2013. Sample dialogue from the Fourth Doctor: ‘…a renegade Time Lord known only as the Rani… She hates me. She even hates children!’ Come on… Where’s your sense of humour?!
And Coming Soon…
We nipped forward in time and had a gander at the exclusive The Return of Doctor Mysterio clip that’ll be shown on BBC One on Friday! And yes, we can confirm it’s now one of our fave Children in Need moments…
Find out more about this year’s Children in Need!
