BBC Worldwide have released a new clip from the forthcoming animation for episode for of The Tenth Planet, which features the original change of lead actor from William Hartnell to Patrick Troughton:

Talking about the sequence, lead animator Chris Chapman said:



The DVD is due to be released in late 2013.

Award winning author Marcus Sedgwick has been revealed as the author of the third instalment in Puffin’s series celebrating the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who.

Sedgwick has re imagined the Third Doctor, played by Jon Pertwee, and created a brand new Doctor Who adventure called The Spear of Destiny, to be released globally on 23rd March. The Spear of Destiny follows on from Michael Scott’s Second Doctor story, The Nameless City, and A Big Hand for the Doctor – a First Doctor adventure from Eoin Colfer.

In total there will be eleven short stories in this ebook series, each based on one of the Eleven Doctors, released on the 23rd of each month from January to November 2013. Each story is written by a different author, bringing together some of the best known names in children’s fiction.

Marcus Sedgwick was born and raised in Kent in the South-east of England. Alongside a 16 year career in publishing he is established as a widely-admired writer of young adult fiction and winner of many prizes, most notably the Branford-Boase Award for a debut novel (Floodland), and the Booktrust Teenage Prize (My Swordhand is Singing). His books have been shortlisted for over 30 other awards, including the Carnegie Medal (four times), Edgar Allan Poe Award (twice) and Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize (four times). Talking about the new book Sedgwick said
The authors of the subsequent eshorts will continue to be unveiled on the BBC Worldwide Doctor Who Facebook page on the first Tuesday of every month throughout the year.

This is what the Ice Warriors will look like when they return to Doctor Who next month.

The picture was given to SFX magazine by the show's production team and released today.

The Martian monsters will feature in the third story of Series 7B, which has been written by Mark Gatiss, and is set to air on BBC One on Saturday 13th April. It co-stars David Warner and Liam Cunningham, with Nicholas Briggs doing the vocal honours for the adversary.

The new edition of SFX - on sale from tomorrow - has a Doctor Who cover, plus executive producer Caroline Skinner talking about the new series.


UPDATE 6th MARCH: The BBC has now made a number of new images from the new series available to see via its official Doctor Who page.

David Tennant has signed a new batch of greetings cards to raise money for Headway Essex.

The Colchester-based charity, of which he is the patron, cares for people who have suffered a brain injury, and the actor became involved with the organisation while researching for the 2007 BBC TV drama Recovery, in which he played businessman Alan Hamilton who is left brain-injured after being hit by a car. The production co-starred Sarah Parish as Hamilton's wife, Tricia.

The cards have a black-and-white picture of Tennant on the front and are A5-sized and high-gloss. They come with an envelope and feature the words "With Best Wishes" inside and an explanation on the back about the donation.

This is the second time that he has personally signed cards for the charity.

Other Tennant-related merchandise is also being sold by the charity, namely, a "David Doodle" pillowcase, "David Doodle" T-shirts (for men and women), and a David Tennant tote bag (available in pink or black).

The items are available via the charity's webshop, and all of them can be sent worldwide. Money raised will help people with brain injuries, their families, and carers.

The first tease for Doctor Who's return to television was broadcast today, confirming to the nation that the series will be back on the 30th March! BBC One Viewers this morning were informed just after Saturday Kitchen, with this evening's entertainment kicking off with the tease just before Pointless Celebrities.


The BBC released the first promotional image for the series yesterday.

Sunday 3rd March sees the broadcast of the four-part 1970 Jon Pertwee story Spearhead from Space in Australia and New Zealand. The story is the ninth instalment in the 50th Anniversary season of classic Doctor Who stories on the UKTV channel.

The story is scheduled in New Zealand at 4:15pm and in Australia at 4:30pm. New Zealand has a additional screening on Monday 4th March at 3:50am.

Spearhead from Space was first broadcast in Australia in 1971. New Zealanders first got to see it in March 1975 (38 years ago this month).

UKTV is showing stories every week throughout the year in the lead-up to the anniversary in November. Spearhead from Space is the first of a set of four stories featuring Jon Pertwee's Doctor scheduled to screen in March. The next three stories are The Daemons (10th March), The Three Doctors (17th March), and Death to the Daleks (24th March). There is no story scheduled on UKTV on the last Sunday of March.

Up-and-coming broadcasts from both 20th and 21st Century series of Doctor Who can be found via UKTV's Doctor Who sections  for Australia and New Zealand.

After some four weeks of recreating the 1960s, today finally saw the completion of principal photography for An Adventure in Space and Time, with producer Matt Strevens saying: "So that's a wrap. It's off down the pub if someone will let me out of this box. Goodbye AAISAT it's been special.". Meanwhile, writer/executive producer Mark Gatiss reflected: "Sadly, the end of the Adventure. But it's far from being all over..."

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Nicholas Briggs has spoken about his experience filming the drama in the latest Vortex Magazine from Big Finish:

Forbidden Planet have announced a set of limited edition prints to celebrate the 50th Anniversary, with the first three to be released featuring the First, Second and Third Doctors, as played by William Hartnell, Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee respectively.


The prints are limited to 50 of each Doctor, and are released on the 10th March.

The Dr Who 8th Anniversary Special is a follow-up to 2011's The Wonderful Book of Dr Who 1965, this time paying homage to the iconic Radio Times 10th Anniversary Special. Produced by Paul Smith, this volume takes a tongue-in-cheek look at the current series over its eight years, with contributions from a variety of fan writers.


The Special is a 36 page, full colour fanzine which includes a wraparound cover from the toy photographer "Tomfan". Contributors include Andrew Blair, Johnny Candon, Frank Collins, Martin Day, Philip Sandifer, JR Southall, Keith Topping and Alex Wilcock, with artists Jason Fletcher & Westley Smith, Jon Pinto, M Jason Reed, James Taylor, Will Thompson and more.

For more details visit the Wonderful Book Anniversary Special website.

BBC AudioGo have released details for this month's release in their classic novelisation range, the Second Doctor adventure The Tomb of The Cybermen; it is read by Michael Kilgarriff - who played the Cyber Controller in the original television story.