The Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials finally get a release date

We’ve known for a long while now that we were going to get three special episodes of Doctor Who this year, to mark the show’s 60th anniversary. As the new trailer tells us, Doctor Who is “the longest running sci-fi series in the universe,” so the anniversary specials need to be something special.

For the occasion, returning showrunner Russell T. Davies has brought back David Tennant, the man who played the Tenth Doctor, to play the Fourteenth. Also returning is Catherine Tate as the Doctor’s companion Donna.

Meanwhile, new faces include Neil Patrick Harris as the villain the Toymaker, who last featured on the show back in the damn 1960s. All of these folks make appearances in the trailer below. Watch:

Doctor Who returns with anniversary specials on November 25

By far my favorite part of the trailer comes at the 0:35 mark, where Neil Patrick Harris flails his arms around while wearing a little drummer boy suit in a room that seems to be raining roses from the ceiling. Someone make a GIF of that, pretty please.

We also finally got a release date! The first Doctor Who 60th anniversary special will drop on Disney+ on November 25.

And yes, Disney+ now has the rights to Doctor Who, at least in the U.S. I think the show has done a good job of building hype around these specials, to say nothing of the fourteenth season of the show that will follow in 2024, where Ncuti Gatwa will play the Fifteenth Doctor on a more permanent basis.

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