The BBC have released a number of new publicity photos to promote the forthcoming 50th Anniversary adventure The Day of the Doctor. Images feature Matt Smith, David Tennant and John Hurt as the Doctor, with Jenna Coleman as Clara and Billie Piper as Rose, and featuring Joanna Page as Elizabeth and Jemma Redgrave as Kate.

The Night of The Doctor

Some publicity images are also available for the minisode, The Night of The Doctor. (Note: these images are currently hidden by default for those who have yet to see the episode and its revelations.)

The BBC have released a special mini episode, The Night of the Doctor - an introduction to the forthcoming 50th Anniversary Special, The Day of the Doctor:




The 6'54" episode will also be available to watch on UK television via the BBC Red Button service over the course of the following week at the following times:

• Sat 16 Nov: 7:30-9:55pm
• Sat 16 Nov: 10:30-11:45pm
• Sun 17 Nov: 6:30-9:55pm
• Mon 18 Nov: 7-10:30pm
• Tue 19 Nov: 9:30pm-Midnight
• Wed 20 Nov: Midnight-7:00am
• Wed 20 Nov: 7:30pm-Midnight
• Thu 21 Nov: Midnight-7:00am
• Thu 21 Nov: 5:30-8:10pm
• Thu 21 Nov: 10pm-Midnight
• Fri 22 Nov: Midnight-7:00am
• Fri 22 Nov: 7:30pm-Midnight
• Sat 23 Nov: Midnight-2:30pm
• Sat 23 Nov: 6:00-7:45pm

The TARDIS is being taken on tour across Wales for a week as part of Doctor Who's 50th-anniversary celebrations.

The special event starts this weekend and will see the phone box appearing overnight at secret locations in eight towns and cities, with the exact spots revealed on the morning of each visit via #TARDIStourWales.

The tour culminates in Cardiff - where the series is made by BBC Cymru Wales - on the day that the special anniversary episode The Day of the Doctor is broadcast.

Brian Minchin, the series' co-executive producer, said: The tour itinerary is as follows:

• Saturday 16th November - Holyhead
• Sunday 17th November - Llandudno
• Monday 18th November - Wrexham
• Tuesday 19th November - Aberystwyth
• Wednesday 20th November - St Davids
• Thursday 21st November - Swansea
• Friday 22nd November - Newport
• Saturday 23rd November - Cardiff

The BBC have released a video of an event from BBC Cymru Wales, where Doctor Who's lead writer Steven Moffat looks back over 50 years of the show.

The BBC have confirmed that Doctor Who's very first adventure, An Unearthly Child will be broadcast next week on BBC4 as scheduled.

Recent newspaper reports indicated that writer Anthony Coburn's son Stef had challenged the Corporation's ownership of the copyright of the TARDIS, leading to a question over whether or not his father's story could be broadcast. Coburn himself stated this morning via his Twitter account that he had been informed that the BBC were not going to show the episodes.

However, the BBC Press Office have told us:

An Unearthly Child is to be broadcast at 10:30pm on Thursday 21st November on BBC4, immediately following the television premiere of origins drama An Adventure in Space and Time, showing on BBC2 from 9:00pm.

The BBC have released a number of new publicity photos from the forthcoming drama An Adventure in Space and Time, which had its premiere at the BFI last night. The images feature behind-the-scenes with the cast and crew, including first glimpses of Jeff Rawle as Mervyn Pinfield, David Annen as Peter Brachacki, and Anna-Lisa Drew as Maureen O'Brien, plus recreated moments from Marco Polo, The Dalek Invasion of Earth and The Web Planet.

The drama An Adventure in Space and Time, which tells the story of the creation of Doctor Who in 1963 in fictionalised form, received a standing ovation from the audience following its première at the British Film Institute's BFI Southbank venue on Tuesday evening. An Adventure, produced by the BBC as part of the celebrations to mark Doctor Who's 50th anniversary this month, will receive its television début on BBC Two on Thursday 21st November at 9pm, before being shown in the US and Canada the following day, and in Australia on the 24th.

Tuesday's screening was the latest in the BFI's own series of anniversary events, which have previously seen each Doctor celebrated with a screening of one of their stories. The screening of An Adventure in Space and Time proved immensely popular with fans, some of whom had waited for eight hours in the queue for returns in order to gain their seats. The screening was introduced by speeches from its writer and executive producer Mark Gatiss, from the BFI's Television Programmer Marcus Prince and from Clare Hudson, the Head of BBC Cymru Wales productions, which made An Adventure in Space and Time.

Among the audience were director Waris Hussein, who appears as a character in the drama played by Sacha Dhawan; former companion actors Carole Ann Ford (also a character in the programme) Louise Jameson, Anneke Wills (who also appears briefly in the drama), Sophie Aldred and Matthew Waterhouse, and 1970s producer Philip Hinchcliffe. Taking part in the panel discussion following the screening, conducted by journalist and Doctor Who fan Matthew Sweet, were Gatiss, stars Dhawan and David Bradley (who portrays William Hartnell), director Terry McDonough and Hartnell's real-life granddaughter Jessica Carney, the latter of whom was clearly very moved by the drama.

A spoiler-free review of An Adventure in Space and Time is now available in our reviews section, here. For our An Unearthly Series features, telling the real story behind the creation of Doctor Who fifty years to the day since each major event occurred, click here.

New Zealand's Prime television channel will screen The Day of the Doctor a little later than the simulcast that will be seen in many other countries.

If simulcast, the 50th anniversary special would have screened at 8:50am NZ time on Sunday 24 November. It will instead commence just ten minutes later, at 9:00am.

This brief delay is believed to be because Prime is not permitted to broadcast PGR (Parental Guidance Recommended) classified programmes before 9:00am in the morning. New series episodes of Doctor Who invariably receive this rating in New Zealand. Prime will repeat the special at 8:30pm the same day.

A couple of new documentaries to mark the anniversary are also scheduled on Prime for 24 November. Doctor Who Explained will screen at 6:30pm followed by Doctor Who in the U.S. at 10:15pm.

One additional item appears in Prime's line-up for 24 November. Closing Time will screen on 2:00pm. This is not part of the anniversary schedule but rather the latest in a run of weekly repeats of the latter half of Series Six.

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who, Doctor Who Magazine 467 is the biggest issue ever, at 116 packed pages! It also comes complete with a very special 1960s-themed mini issue, which imagines how DWM might have celebrated the series' first anniversary. PLUS! There's also a set of 12 amazing art cards, featuring all 12 Doctors, and NINE free audio downloads of Doctor Who stories!

Also inside this issue:

• Matt Smith and David Tennant – two Doctors interviewed together!
• The Day of the Doctor – a preview of the 50th Anniversary Special, with exclusive new photographs!
• Jenna Coleman (Clara Oswald) interviewed!
• An Adventure in Space and Time – huge behind-the-scenes feature!
• A fascinating feature on Anthony Coburn – Doctor Who’s greatest unsung hero!
• An Unearthly Child – the draft scripts of Doctor Who’s very first episode revealed!
• The Watcher’s Guide to Anniversaries!
• The Wonder of Who – a guide to Doctor Who’s supposedly 'indefinable magic'!
• The Five Doctors – a fascinating guide to Doctor Who’s 20th anniversary adventure!
• Mary Peach – the guest star of The Enemy of the World reacts to the story’s recent recovery!
• Production Notes – showrunner Steven Moffat is joined by someone from his past...
• John Smith and the Common Men – a special anniversary comic strip!
• The Time Team watch Last of the Time Lords and Time Crash!
• The Watcher’s 50th Anniversary Quiz!
• Competitions, puzzles, and much more!

Celebrate 50 years of Doctor Who with DWM 467, out Thursday 14 November.

The Australian broadcaster ABC announced today that it will be joining in with the global simulcast of The Day of the Doctor by screening it on ABC1 at 6.50am Australian Eastern Daylight Time on Sunday 24th November, with a repeat later the same day at 7.30pm.

It will be joining more than 75 countries around the world in showing the 50th-anniversary episode at the same time.

Local time of broadcast in capital cities:

• Sydney, Melbourne, Hobart, Canberra - 6.50am
• Adelaide - 6.20am
• Brisbane - 5.50am
• Darwin - 5.20am
• Perth - 3.50am

As previously reported, ABC1's primetime evening repeat of the adventure will then be followed at 8.45pm by the drama An Adventure In Space And Time, exploring the genesis of Doctor Who.