Specials, Episode 7 | 1 part | First broadcast: 25 December 2009 | Writer: Russell T Davies | Director: Euros Lyn
Cast
- David Tennant as the Doctor
- Bernard Cribbins as Wilfred Mott
- John Simm as the Master
- Timothy Dalton as the Narrator / Lord President Rassilon
Summary
Sensing his own impending death growing closer, the Doctor is drawn back to Earth by Wilfred Mott, who warns of dark, cultish rumblings surrounding the resurrection of the Master. As the Master returns transformed, granted terrifying new powers, and a shadowy cabal reveals a scheme reaching all the way back to Gallifrey, the Doctor must reckon with an old enemy and the mounting sense that his own end is finally approaching.
Interesting Facts
- This was the first of a two-part special serving as David Tennant’s penultimate story before regenerating into the Eleventh Doctor.
- John Simm’s Master returns with an altered, cannibalistic hunger and enhanced physical abilities following his resurrection.
- Timothy Dalton, known for playing James Bond, appears as the ominous narrator and is later revealed to be Time Lord President Rassilon.
- The story reintroduces long-running mythology about the Time War and the Time Lords, setting up their attempted return in Part Two.
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