Doctor Who Trio Due on Disney+

Three new Doctor Who specials will stream on Disney+ next month, as a curtain raiser to the latest series with the 15th Time Lord launching next year.

The 60th anniversary specials star David Tennant as the Doctor’s 14th incarnation but there’s no word on whether earlier series featuring his predecessors will materialise on Disney+, too.

In the UK, more than 800 episodes of the iconic sci-fi series will be available next month to stream on the BBC’s iPlayer but Tech Radar reports they won’t be on Disney+:

Responding to TechRadar’s request for comment about whether Doctor Who‘s full collection would be coming to Disney+ in November, a Disney spokesperson revealed the Walt Disney Company had nothing to share at this time. In short: don’t expect the iconic Time Lord to time-travel his way onto Disney’s primary streamer just yet.

Here’s the Disney+ media release:

NEW WHO, NEW HOME!
DISNEY+ REVEALS TRAILER FOR NEW ‘DOCTOR WHO’ 60^TH ANNIVERSARY SPECIALS STARRING DAVID TENNANT AND CATHERINE TATE
FIRST OF THREE SPECIALS PREMIERES NOV. 26
NEW SEASON TO PREMIERE IN 2024

Last spring, Disney Branded Television and the BBC announced that they had joined forces to bring fan-favourite series Doctor Who to a global audience.

Today, the trailer and premiere dates were revealed for the three new Doctor Who 60^th  anniversary specials, set to debut on Disney+ in New Zealand.

The three specials, titled The Star Beast (Nov. 26), Wild Blue Yonder (Dec. 3) and The Giggle (Dec. 10) will reunite the Fourteenth Doctor (David Tennant) and Donna Temple-Noble (Catherine Tate) as they come face-to-face with their most terrifying villain yet: the Toymaker (played by Neil Patrick Harris in his Doctor Who debut).

Additional new cast includes Yasmin Finney as Rose Temple-Noble and Miriam Margolyes as the voice of the Meep, as well as returning characters Jacqueline King as Sylvia Noble, Karl Collins as Shaun Temple, Ruth Madeley as Shirley Anne Bingham, and Jemma Redgrave as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart.

Doctor Who is the longest running action-adventure television series in the world spanning 60 years and winning over 100 awards.

This quintessentially British show has a huge global following, with 9.6m fans across social platforms/channels and 100m video views on YouTube in the last year alone.

Doctor Who is produced by Bad Wolf and BBC Studios. The series returns under the creative vision of returning showrunner Russell T. Davies, who also serves as a writer and executive producer.

Additional executive producers include Phil Collinson, Joel Collins, Julie Gardner and Jane Tranter. The 60^th-anniversary specials are written by Russell T. Davies and directed by Rachel Talalay, Tom Kingsley, and Chanya Button, respectively.

A new season of Doctor Who, featuring Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor, will stream globally in 2024 on Disney+ and on the BBC in the UK and Ireland.