Doctor Who series 15#References
{{Short description|2025 season of British sci-fi TV series}}
{{About|the 2025 series|the 1977–78 season|Doctor Who season 15{{!}}Doctor Who season 15}}
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| showrunner = Russell T Davies
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| num_episodes = 8 (+1 special)
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| first_aired = {{Start date|2025|4|12|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{End date|2025|5|31|df=y}}
| episode_list = List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present)
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The fifteenth series of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who premiered on 12 April 2025. This series is also known as "Season Two" following the production changes and the acquisition of Doctor Who{{'}}s international broadcasting rights by Disney+ prior to the previous series. It is the sixth series led by Russell T Davies as head writer and executive producer and the second since his return to the show in 2023, having previously worked on it from 2005 to 2010. This series is the fifteenth to air following the programme's revival in 2005, and is the forty-first season overall.
This is the second and final series to star Ncuti Gatwa as the Fifteenth Doctor, an incarnation of the Doctor, an alien Time Lord who travels through time and space in the TARDIS, which appears to be a British police box from the outside. Varada Sethu joins the series as new companion Belinda Chandra, with Millie Gibson also featuring as Ruby Sunday, the previous series' companion, for her second and final series in the role. The series was preceded by a Christmas episode in December 2024, written by former showrunner and head writer Steven Moffat, where Nicola Coughlan appears as a one-off companion.
The series consists of eight episodes, directed by Alex Sanjiv Pillai, Peter Hoar, Amanda Brotchie, Ben A. Williams, and Makalla McPherson. Alongside Davies, who wrote four episodes and co-wrote a further one, the writers include Juno Dawson, Inua Ellams, Pete McTighe, and Sharma Angel-Walfall. Filming began in October 2023 and concluded in May 2024.
Episodes
{{See also|List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present)|l1=List of Doctor Who episodes (2005–present)}}
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| airdateR = {{efn|The first seven episodes for the fifteenth series were released simultaneously at 8{{nbsp}}a.m. BST in the United Kingdom on BBC iPlayer (followed by a 7{{nbsp}}p.m. BBC One broadcast the same day), and at 12{{nbsp}}a.m. PT in the United States on Disney+.{{cite web |date=26 February 2025 |access-date=26 February 2025 |last=Shafer |first=Ellise |url=https://variety.com/2025/tv/global/doctor-who-season-2-premiere-date-alan-cumming-guest-star-1236320958/ |title='Doctor Who' Sets Season 2 Premiere Date, Reveals Alan Cumming as Guest Star |website=Variety}}{{cite web |url=http://www.thefutoncritic.com/showatch/doctor-who/listings/ |title=Shows A-Z - Doctor Who on Disney Plus |website=The Futon Critic |access-date=7 May 2025}} The final episode was released simultaneously at 7{{nbsp}}p.m. BST in the United Kingdom on BBC iPlayer and BBC One, and at 11{{nbsp}}a.m. PT in the United States on Disney+.{{cite web |url=https://press.disneyplus.com/news/next-on-disney-plus-may-2025 |title=Next on Disney+: May 2025 |work=Disney |date=6 May 2025 |access-date=7 May 2025}}}}
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| Title = Joy to the World
| DirectedBy = Alex Sanjiv Pillai
| WrittenBy = Steven Moffat
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2024|12|25|df=y}}
| Viewers = 5.91
| Aux4 = 76
| ShortSummary = The Doctor arrives at the Time Hotel, an establishment that allows visits to historical points. The Doctor enlists the aid of Trev, a hotel employee, as he investigates a mysterious briefcase. Trev's Silurian manager arrives in Joy Almondo's hotel room with the briefcase and the Doctor following him. The briefcase takes control of Joy, and the Doctor finds a strange device inside about to disintegrate Joy; suddenly a Doctor from the future arrives from the Time Hotel with the required code. The future Doctor returns to the Time Hotel with Joy, stranding the current Doctor. He takes a job working at the hotel, befriending the manager Anita, awaiting an opportunity to get back to the Time Hotel, which he does a year later. He opens a door to the distant past, where he frees Joy by provoking her anger. The briefcase, of Villengard origin, is to be used to create an energy source. Trev, who connected psychically to Villengard's system before he died, reveals the briefcase's location. The Doctor opens it, but Joy lets the star seed enter her. Joy pilots it into space, where it detonates safely as the Star of Bethlehem, and the star gives hope and comfort to those who see it.
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| EpisodeNumber = 313
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = The Robot Revolution
| DirectedBy = Peter Hoar
| WrittenBy = Russell T Davies
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2025|4|12|df=y}}
| Viewers = 3.57
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| ShortSummary = Robots abduct nurse Belinda Chandra, whose ex-boyfriend Alan Budd named their system’s star after her. Caught in a time fracture as he pursues them, the Doctor arrives six months earlier, finding the robots have enslaved the natives, and joins a rebel group, rescuing Belinda before the robots can augment her into their cyborg queen. Belinda surrenders to protect the rebels and discovers the robots are being controlled by Alan, who was also abducted, although the time fracture caused the robots to bring him to Missbelindachandra I in 2015, causing the revolution in the first place. Alan has a future copy of Belinda’s star certificate, which was inexplicably sent back five thousand years and formed the basis of the planet’s society. Belinda touches the present copy with the future copy, triggering a reaction that kills Alan and restores the robots to normal, thus liberating the natives. The Doctor agrees to return Belinda home to Earth, but the TARDIS is repelled from landing in 2025.
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| EpisodeNumber = 314
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = Lux
| DirectedBy = Amanda Brotchie
| WrittenBy = Russell T Davies
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2025|4|19|df=y}}
| Viewers = 3.01
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| ShortSummary = The Doctor attempts to take Belinda home via an indirect route, causing them to land in Miami in 1952, where they investigate the disappearance of fifteen people at an abandoned cinema. Inside, they encounter Mr Ring-a-Ding, a cartoon character who has been possessed by Lux Imperator, the God of Light and a member of the Pantheon of Discord. Lux traps the pair inside a film reel, subjecting them to false cinematic realities as they try to escape, including one where they meet Doctor Who fans. Upon finally escaping, Lux imprisons the Doctor, hoping to steal his regeneration energy to create a body that can survive the world outside the cinema, but is defeated when Belinda convinces the theatre's owner to set the film reels alight, causing an explosion that lets sunlight pour into the cinema. Exposed in his light form, Lux expands infinitely until he becomes one with the universe and his fifteen victims return unharmed.
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| EpisodeNumber = 315
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = The Well
| DirectedBy = Amanda Brotchie
| WrittenBy = Russell T Davies & Sharma Angel-Walfall
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2025|4|26|df=y}}
| Viewers = 3.24
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| ShortSummary = The Doctor and Belinda arrive on a planet 500,000 years in the future, where an expedition is investigating a mining colony that has gone silent. A deaf cook named Aliss is the only person left alive, after a mysterious entity emerged from the mining well and killed the crew. The entity is concealing itself behind Aliss, and anyone who moves directly behind her is killed. The Doctor realizes that this is the planet formerly known as Midnight and the entity is one that he previously encountered.{{efn|As seen in "Midnight" (2008)}} Aliss explains that the entity causes the person it is hiding behind to attack others, but her deafness appears to protect her from its influence. But anyone who kills the entity's host becomes the new host. Several troopers rebel against the captain, Shaya, but many are killed by the entity. Aliss is freed when the Doctor forces the monster to see its reflection, but the entity moves behind Belinda before she can escape. Shaya non-fatally shoots Belinda to force the entity to transfer to her and then dives into the well, allowing the others to escape. Back onboard the TARDIS, Belinda tells the Doctor that none of the troopers had ever heard of Earth, leaving troubling implications. Meanwhile, one of the troopers believes she sees something behind another's back.
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| EpisodeNumber = 316
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = Lucky Day
| DirectedBy = Peter Hoar
| WrittenBy = Pete McTighe
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2025|5|3|df=y}}
| Viewers = 2.80
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| ShortSummary = On New Year's Day, 2007, 8-year-old Conrad Clark encounters the Doctor setting up a homing device, the Vindicator, alongside Belinda, leading to his obsession with aliens. In 2024, Conrad again sees the TARDIS and is saved by the Doctor and Ruby Sunday from a creature called the Shreek. A year later, Conrad seeks out Ruby, who is still adjusting to normal life, and invites her to talk on his podcast about her experiences with the Doctor. The two begin dating. Ruby believes the Shreek, which uses bodily secretions to mark its prey, is after Conrad and gives him an antidote that blocks the secretions. In addition, UNIT has captured the creature. It turns out that Conrad is leader of a group of conspiracy theorists who want to publicly discredit UNIT. His livestream of UNIT's confrontation with two phony Shreek leads to public backlash against UNIT. When Conrad breaks into UNIT Tower, Kate releases the Shreek, and the terrified Conrad admits that he was wrong. His confession is seen by millions on the livestream he was broadcasting. Devastated by his betrayal, Ruby tells Kate she needs to take time to herself to recover. An earlier version of the Doctor pulls the imprisoned Conrad into the TARDIS to berate him for his actions. He tells an unrepentant Conrad about his own dismal future. After he is returned to prison, Conrad is released by Mrs Flood.
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| EpisodeNumber = 317
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = The Story & the Engine
| DirectedBy = Makalla McPherson
| WrittenBy = Inua Ellams
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2025|5|10|df=y}}
| Viewers = 2.70
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| ShortSummary = The Doctor and Belinda arrive in 2019 Lagos to boost the Vindicator's signal. When the Doctor stops by his friend, Omo the barbershop owner, for a haircut, two people named the Barber and Abena trap the Doctor inside and ask him for stories. The TARDIS alerts Belinda to trouble and directs her to the barbershop. The Barber tells the Doctor that he was the creator behind much of humankind's mythology. But when the web of stories expanded to the point where he was no longer needed, the gods banished him from their dimension. Out of revenge, the Barber built the Story Engine, a god-killing device which feeds on stories, and took over Omo's barbershop. Initially recognizing Abena, the Doctor remembers meeting her in his Fugitive incarnation and realises her anger is because she was left behind. Belinda persuades Abena to braid a route to the Engine's power source into the Doctor's hair, affording his escape. The Doctor overloads the Engine with his memories, defeating but then redeeming the Barber. Omo retires and convinces the Barber to remain as the shop's manager before the Doctor leaves.
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| EpisodeNumber = 318
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = The Interstellar Song Contest
| DirectedBy = Ben A. Williams
| WrittenBy = Juno Dawson
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2025|5|17|df=y}}
| Viewers = 3.75
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| ShortSummary = In 2925, the Doctor and Belinda are attending the Interstellar Song Contest – evolved from Earth’s Eurovision Song Contest – when two terrorists from the planet Hellia remove the station’s oxygen shield, propelling the Doctor and 100,000 people in the audience into deep space, where they begin to freeze. However, before he can die, the Doctor is awoken by a psychic message from his granddaughter Susan Foreman, and returns to the station, where he vengefully shuts down the terror plot before the Hellians can broadcast a deadly wave to the programme’s trillions of viewers across the universe. The live audience members are saved and revived by the Doctor and station staff using cryogenic technology. Just before leaving to take Belinda home, the Doctor and Belinda are informed by a hologram of Graham Norton that the Earth ended on 24 May 2025 – the day Belinda left. The TARDIS finally makes it to that date, only to have the doors explode inwards. After they depart, Mrs Flood is the last of the attendees to be revived. Her body has been fatally damaged in space, but she bi-generates, becoming two women who reveal themselves to be The Rani. The two Ranis prepare the next step in their plan.
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| EpisodeNumber = 319a
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = Wish World
| DirectedBy = Alex Sanjiv Pillai
| WrittenBy = Russell T Davies
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2025|5|24|df=y}}
| Viewers = 2.86
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| ShortSummary = On 23 May 2025, the Doctor and Belinda wake up in their home, believing themselves to be a married couple. After breakfast with their "daughter", Poppy, they are visited by Ruby Sunday, who expresses doubts in their seemingly perfect world. Both the Doctor and Belinda start having doubts about the reality around them following the visit. Later, the Doctor receives a message from Rogue, telling him he is caught in a trap. After the Doctor realizes reality is wrong, he and Belinda are brought to the Bone Palace by the Rani. Here, the Doctor learns the world was changed by Conrad Clark to be his perfect vision, using the power of Desiderium, the infant God of Wishes, and the Vindicator. The Rani reveals that doubt from the Doctor and humanity is being used by her in order to break reality, thus releasing Omega, the founder of the Time Lords, from an alternate dimension, the Underverse. Remembering everything, the Doctor tries to stop her, but is locked out of the Bone Palace, with Belinda imprisoned. Mrs. Flood and the Rani prepare for the release of Omega, as the fake reality crumbles beneath them amid purple fire, while the clock hits midnight, and the start of 24 May: the day Earth dies.
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| EpisodeNumber = 319b
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = The Reality War
| DirectedBy = Alex Sanjiv Pillai
| WrittenBy = Russell T Davies
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|2025|5|31|df=y}}
| Viewers = 3.44
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| ShortSummary = The Doctor is rescued by Anita who pulls him into the Time Hotel as time resets to 23 May 2025. With Anita's help, the Doctor is able to restore the memories of UNIT and Belinda before the Rani reveals that the surviving Time Lords are sterile; she intends to use Omega as a gene bank to rebirth their race. The Doctor confronts the Rani as Omega is released in the form of a massive beast who devours the bi-generated Rani; Mrs Flood escapes as the Doctor uses the Vindicator to force Omega back into the Underverse. Ruby uses Desiderium's power to give Conrad a new life and restore reality, but at the cost of Poppy being erased while the baby god is adopted by Carla Sunday. Despite the Thirteenth Doctor, who was popped out of her timeline, trying to talk him out of it, the Doctor uses the power of his next regeneration to shift reality so that Poppy is Belinda's daughter. After saying goodbye to Belinda and Poppy, the Doctor appears to regenerate into a form resembling his previous companion Rose Tyler.
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Casting
{{See also|List of Doctor Who cast members|l1=List of Doctor Who cast members}}
Ncuti Gatwa confirmed that he would return for a second series in July 2023.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.co.uk/tv/ncuti-gatwa-interview-doctor-who-barbie-31011/ |title=Ncuti Gatwa on Doctor Who: 'The Doctor is me' |magazine=Rolling Stone |last=Rumfitt |first=Alison |date=10 July 2023 |access-date=9 December 2024}} In November 2023, it was announced that Nicola Coughlan would appear as the companion in the 2024 Christmas special.{{Cite web |access-date=2 February 2025 |last=Shafer |first=Ellise |title=Nicola Coughlan Will Appear on 'Doctor Who' With Ncuti Gatwa, Russell T Davies Says |url=https://variety.com/2023/tv/global/doctor-who-nicola-coughlan-ncuti-gatwa-russell-t-davies-1235785692/ |website=Variety |date=9 November 2023}} Millie Gibson was revealed to be filming for her second series in November 2023,{{cite web |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-jonah-hauer-king-newsupdate/ |title=Doctor Who fans spot Little Mermaid star Jonah Hauer-King on set filming |website=Radio Times |last=Craig |first=David |date=16 November 2023 |access-date=28 January 2025}} though reports emerged in January 2024 that Gibson would be leaving the show after the fourteenth series, to be replaced by Varada Sethu.{{Cite web |last=Yossman |first=K. J. |date=20 January 2024 |title='Doctor Who' Star Millie Gibson to Be Replaced by Varada Sethu After One Season |url=https://variety.com/2024/tv/global/doctor-who-millie-gibson-varada-sethu-1235880343/ |access-date=20 January 2024 |website=Variety |language=en-US}} However, in April 2024 it was announced that Gibson and Sethu would appear concurrently throughout the series.{{Cite web |title=Doctor Who - First Look at Ncuti Gatwa with Varada Sethu and Millie Gibson ahead of season two |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/doctor-who-ncuti-gatwa-varada-sethu-millie-gibson/ |access-date=12 April 2024 |website=BBC |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Doctor Who's Russell T Davies responds to Millie Gibson exit confusion |first=Sam |last=Warner |website=Digital Spy |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a60522899/doctor-who-millie-gibson-exit-confusion/ |date=17 April 2024 |access-date=18 April 2024}} Subsequent promotional material foregrounded Gatwa and Sethu as the series' "TARDIS team", highlighting them as the first to consist solely of people of colour, with Gibson described as an "outgoing series regular".{{cite web |title=Doctor Who's Varada Sethu: 'Belinda is main character of her own story – not in awe of the Doctor' |first=Jimi |last=Famurewa |work=Radio Times |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/varada-sethu-doctor-who/ |date=1 April 2025 |access-date=1 April 2025}} Gibson appeared in the fourth episode, "Lucky Day", and appears in the seventh and eighth episodes, "Wish World" / "The Reality War".{{cite web |url=https://thedirect.com/article/doctor-who-millie-gibson-left-why-ruby-sunday |title=Here's Why Millie Gibson Left 'Doctor Who' as Ruby Sunday for the Time Being |last=Hargrave |first=Sam |date=14 April 2025 |access-date=4 May 2025 |work=The Direct}} Sethu made a surprise appearance in the series prior in "Boom" (2024) as Mundy Flynn before her debut as the new companion. On 27 July, it was announced at San Diego Comic-Con that Sethu's character would be called Belinda Chandra.{{cite web |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-varada-sethu-character-newsupdate/ |title=Doctor Who reveals who Varada Sethu will be playing |website=Radio Times |last=Hibbs |first=James |date=27 July 2024 |access-date=28 July 2024}} It is later revealed in "The Robot Revolution" that Mundy is a descendant of Belinda.{{cite web |last=Griffin |first=Louise |date=18 May 2024 |title=Who is Varada Sethu's character in Doctor Who? Star makes early appearance as Mundy Flynn |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-varada-sethu-character-explained/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240520230920/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-varada-sethu-character-explained/ |archive-date=20 May 2024 |access-date=21 May 2024 |work=Radio Times}}
Alan Cumming guest starred in "Lux" as a cartoon character named "Mr Ring-a-Ding"; he had previously appeared in the show as King James VI in "The Witchfinders" (2018). Davies stated that only Cumming could give the character "so much wit, malice, danger and fun". Rose Ayling-Ellis{{cite news |last1=Mensah |first1=Katelyn |title=Doctor Who casts Rose Ayling-Ellis in scariest season 15 episode: 'It's absolutely terrifying' |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-casts-rose-ayling-ellis-season-15-newsupdate/ |website=Radio Times |date=20 December 2024 |access-date=27 January 2025}} and Christopher Chung appears in "The Well" as characters Aliss and Cassio, respectively.{{cite web |last=Flook |first=Ray |title=Doctor Who: Slow Horses Star Christopher Chung Joins Season 2 Cast |url=https://bleedingcool.com/tv/doctor-who-slow-horses-star-christopher-chung-joins-season-2-cast/ |access-date=3 March 2025 |website=Bleeding Cool |date=21 February 2025 |language=en}}{{cite web |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/rose-ayling-ellis-doctor-who-deaf-exclusive-newsupdate/ |title=Rose Ayling-Ellis Says It "Makes Sense" for Her Doctor Who Character to Be Deaf |last=Jeffery |first=Morgan |date=25 April 2025 |access-date=26 April 2025 |work=Radio Times}} Jonah Hauer-King portrayed Conrad in "Lucky Day", a podcaster and Ruby's boyfriend.{{cite web |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-jonah-hauer-king-character/ |title=Who Is Conrad in Doctor Who? Jonah Hauer-King Character Explained |last=Griffin |first=Louise |date=30 April 2025 |access-date=3 May 2025 |work=Radio Times}} Jemma Redgrave also returned as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart in the same episode.{{cite web |url=https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/doctorwho-luckydate-txannouncement |title=Doctor Who: Synopsis, Timeslot and Cast List Revealed for Fourth Episode, Lucky Day |date=23 April 2025 |access-date=3 May 2025 |work=TVZoneUK}} Following the episode's broadcast, Gibson revealed in an interview that Hauer-King would also appear later on in the series.{{cite web |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-millie-gibson-conrad-return-confirmed-newsupdate/ |title=Doctor Who's Millie Gibson confirms return of series villain in finale episodes |last=Craig |first=David |publisher=Radio Times |date=7 May 2025 |access-date=7 May 2025}} Jo Martin reprises her role as the Fugitive Doctor in "The Story & the Engine".{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-jo-martin-fugitive-doctor-return-newsupdate/|title=Doctor Who icon returns for surprise cameo – and hints at future return|last=Griffin|first=Louise|date=10 May 2025|accessdate=10 May 2025|work=Radio Times|archive-date=10 May 2025|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250510075958/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-jo-martin-fugitive-doctor-return-newsupdate/|url-status=live}} Showrunner Russell T Davies stated that because the episode explored the Doctor's ethnicity it "felt like Jo Martin was missing" and that he wanted to "acknowledge her" and show "she still exists". On 2 March, following the release of the series trailer, Rylan Clark was announced to be in the series, presenting an intergalactic song competition in "The Interstellar Song Contest", an episode inspired by the Eurovision Song Contest which also stars Graham Norton.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crldj0x9x9eo |title=Graham Norton to star in Doctor Who-Eurovision crossover |publisher=BBC News |date=11 April 2025 |access-date=26 April 2025}} In the same episode, Freddie Fox appears as a villain,{{Cite web |last=DWTV |date=6 March 2025 |title=Freddie Fox Revealed as New Villain in Series 15 of Doctor Who {{!}} Doctor Who TV |url=https://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/doctor-who-freddie-fox-103596.htm |access-date=6 March 2025 |language=en-GB}} as well as Kadiff Kirwan{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2025/doctor-who-season-2-kadiff-kirwan |title=Kadiff Kirwan joins Doctor Who season 2 |website=BBC Media Centre |date=20 March 2025 |access-date=20 March 2025}} and Charlie Condou,{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2025/charlie-condou-doctor-who |title=Charlie Condou joins Doctor Who season 2 |website=BBC Media Centre |date=25 March 2025 |access-date=25 March 2025}} and Carole Ann Ford reprised her role as Susan Foreman, last appearing in the programme over 30 years prior in Dimensions in Time.{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-susan-carole-ann-ford-return-newsupdate/|title=Legendary Doctor Who companion finally returns after more than 40 years|last=Griffin|first=Louise|date=17 May 2025|accessdate=17 May 2025|work=Radio Times}} Anita Dobson appears in every episode of the series as the enigmatic Mrs Flood; in the sixth episode, her true identity is revealed to be The Rani, a villainous Time Lord. Archie Panjabi was introduced as another incarnation of the Rani through a bi-generation process.{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-mrs-flood-the-rani-explained/|title=Doctor Who reveals Mrs Flood's identity – major twist explained as classic villain returns|last=Jeffery|first=Morgan|date=17 May 2025|accessdate=17 May 2025|work=Radio Times}}{{cite web |url=https://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/archie-panjabi-doctor-who-rani-104890.htm |title=Official: Archie Panjabi Revealed as Classic Doctor Who Villain the Rani |website=Doctor Who TV |date=17 May 2025 |access-date=17 May 2025}} Bonnie Langford returns as Mel Bush in "Wish World", as well as Jonathan Groff as Rogue in a cameo recorded in 2023 during the production of the series 14 episode, "Rogue".{{cite web |url=https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a64001570/doctor-who-season-15-trailer-rylan/ |last=Anderton |first=Joe |title=Doctor Who releases season 15 trailer with new and returning guest stars |date=2 March 2025 |access-date=2 March 2025 |website=Digital Spy}}{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-rogue-wish-world-newsupdate/|title=Doctor Who airs fan-favourite character return – but what could it mean?|last=Jeffery|first=Morgan|date=24 May 2025|accessdate=24 May 2025|work=Radio Times}} Jodie Whittaker reprised her role as the Thirteenth Doctor in a surprise cameo in "The Reality War".{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-jodie-whittaker-return-regeneration-ncuti-newsupdate/|title=Jodie Whittaker makes surprise return to Doctor Who for major finale scene|last=Knight|first=Lewis|date=31 May 2025|accessdate=31 May 2025|work=Radio Times}}
Billie Piper also returned to Doctor Who after previously portraying the Doctor's companion Rose Tyler last appearing in the 2013 fiftieth anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor",{{cite web|url=https://www.tvinsider.com/1194858/doctor-who-billie-piper-sixteenth-doctor-rose-tyler-explained/|title=Who Is Rose Tyler? Billie Piper's First 'Doctor Who' Character Explained|last=Jacobs|first=Meredith|date=31 May 2025|accessdate=31 May 2025|work=TV Insider}} when the Fifteenth Doctor regenerates into a character portrayed by her at the end of the episode.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyvzy82l4no|title=Ncuti Gatwa leaves Doctor Who in shock regeneration|last1=Mzimba|first1=Lizo|authorlink1=Lizo Mzimba|last2=Davies|first2=Alys|date=31 May 2025|accessdate=31 May 2025|work=BBC News}} While Piper's official role remains undisclosed, with the closing credits merely reading "Introducing Billie Piper",{{cite web|url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-ncuti-gatwa-exit-regeneration-billie-piper-newsupdate/|title=Doctor Who airs huge twist as Ncuti Gatwa departs – and regenerates into returning star|last=Griffin|first=Louise|date=31 May 2025|accessdate=31 May 2025|work=Radio Times}} some sources assumed her to be taking on the Doctor's sixteenth incarnation.{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/billie-piper-to-be-next-doctor-who/|title=Billie Piper to be next Doctor Who|last=Perkins|first=Liz|date=31 May 2025|accessdate=31 May 2025|work=The Daily Telegraph}}{{cite web|url=https://www.thepopverse.com/tv-doctor-who-the-reality-war-spoilers-fifteenth-doctor-ncuti-gatwa-regeneration-rumor|title=The season finale of Doctor Who reveals the future of Ncuti Gatwa on the show and a cliffhanger likely to excite and enrage fans in equal measure|last=McMillan|first=Graeme|date=31 May 2025|accessdate=31 May 2025|work=ThePopVerse}}{{cite web |title=Doctor Who's Ncuti Gatwa says final farewell to the TARDIS as the Fifteenth Doctor regenerates |url=https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2025/doctor-who-ncuti-gatwa-fifteenth-doctor-regenerates |website=BBC Media Centre |access-date=31 May 2025 |language=en |date=31 May 2025}}
Production
=Development=
Similar to the fourteenth series, the fifteenth series consists of a Christmas special to be followed by eight regular episodes, consisting of six standalone episodes and a two-part finale.{{sfn|Quinn|2024f|p=6}} The synopsis of the series was officially stated to be about an "epic quest" getting Belinda back to Earth, as the TARDIS team face "wider terrors than ever before".
=Writing=
Davies was writing the 2024 Christmas special by December 2022,{{sfn|Hearn|2022|p=7}} and the fifteenth series by June 2023.{{cite web |last1=Cremona |first1=Patrick |title=Russell T Davies reveals 3-word teaser for Doctor Who season 15 |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/russell-t-davies-3-word-teaser-doctor-who-season-15-newsupdate/ |website=Radio Times |access-date=16 October 2023 |date=22 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230714115530/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/russell-t-davies-3-word-teaser-doctor-who-season-15-newsupdate/ |archive-date=14 July 2023 |url-status=live}} By 18 September 2023, five of the nine scripts had been completed according to Davies' column in DWM.{{sfn|Quinn|2023b|p=11}} By 2 January 2024, Davies' DWM column stated that the fifth episode was now on Draft 5, while Episode 6 was about to enter Draft 9, "getting this script ready has been epic...but all worth it, what a story!"{{sfn|Quinn|2024c|p=8}}
In May 2024, former showrunner and head writer Steven Moffat confirmed that he had written the 2024 Christmas special instead, and that it was entitled "Joy to the World".{{cite web |url=https://www.denofgeek.com/tv/steven-moffat-doctor-who-2024-christmas-special/ |title=Steven Moffat Confirms He's Written Doctor Who 2024 Christmas Special 'Joy to the World' |last=Mellor |first=Louisa |date=14 May 2024 |access-date=14 May 2024 |work=Den of Geek}} The episodes of the series itself were written by Davies and four other writers,{{sfn|Quinn|2024a|p=10}} revealed on 27 January 2025 to be Juno Dawson, Inua Ellams, Pete McTighe, and Sharma Angel-Walfall.{{Cite web |title=New voices join the TARDIS for Doctor Who Season 2 |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2024/doctor-who-season-2-new-writers |date=27 January 2025 |access-date=27 January 2025 |website=BBC}}
=Filming=
With filming for the previous series concluding in July 2023, crew were given a four-week turnaround before pre-production started for the next series, on 14 August.{{sfn|Quinn|2023a|p=12}} Each production block was given ten weeks of preparation.{{sfn|Quinn|2024d|p=10}} The first readthrough was held on 17 October 2023.{{sfn|Quinn|2024a|p=12}}
Principal photography began on 23 October 2023 at Bad Wolf Studios, with the 2024 Christmas special "Joy to the World" assigned to the first block, directed by Alex Sanjiv Pillai.{{sfn|Quinn|2023b|p=4}}{{sfn|Quinn|2024a|p=12}}
The second block — containing the first and fourth episodes — had its first readthrough on 7 November 2023,{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JP0syD1g1e4 |title=What Lies in UNIT's Vault? {{!}} Behind the Scenes of "Lucky Day" {{!}} Doctor Who #UNITLies |date=3 May 2025 |access-date=3 May 2025 |via=YouTube |type=Behind the scenes featurette}}{{sfn|Quinn|2024b|p=10}} and began filming on 14 November 2023, directed by Peter Hoar.{{sfn|Quinn|2024b|p=10}}{{Cite magazine |magazine=Doctor Who Magazine |title=Issue 596 |editor-last=Quinn |editor-first=Jason |date=November 2023 |publisher=Panini Comics |issue=596 |page=4}} Hoar had previously directed the sixth series episode "A Good Man Goes to War" (2011), and had worked with Davies on It's a Sin and Nolly.
Filming for the third block — containing the second and third episodes — began on Monday 8 January 2024 after the Christmas break,{{sfn|Quinn|2024c|p=6}} directed by Amanda Brotchie.{{sfn|Quinn|2024c|p=8}}{{sfn|Quinn|2024d|p=4}} Location filming at Penarth Pier marked the first time that Sethu was photographed on-set as the new companion.{{Cite web |last=Cook |first=Sam |date=22 January 2024 |title=Doctor Who films in Welsh seaside town as rumoured 'new' companion spotted |url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/tv/gallery/bbc-doctor-who-filming-rumoured-28492472 |access-date=19 August 2024 |website=Wales Online |language=en}}
Makalla McPherson and Ben A. Williams directed further blocks, with McPherson directing the fifth episode, where she described she had "created a unique crane shot as the Doctor runs through a maze as they escape their captors" {{sfn|Quinn|2024d|p=4}} and Williams directing the sixth episode, which he described as a "very big episode", and Davies described as "epic".{{Cite web |title=Ben A Williams |url=https://www.independenttalent.com/directors/ben-a-williams/ |website=Independent Talent |language=en-GB |access-date=2 February 2025}}{{sfn|Quinn|2024c|p=8}}{{sfn|Quinn| 2024e|p=6}}{{sfn|Quinn|2024f|p=6}} The episode from Williams is themed after the Eurovision Song Contest.{{Cite Instagram |user=filmbenwilliams |postid=DGtlPqoCqsN |title=I directed an episode of #doctorwho written by @junodawson called The Interstellar Song Contest starring @rylan and that is literally the tip of the iceberg. |date=3 March 2025}}{{Cite web |last=Hibbs |first=James |title=Doctor Who season 15 trailer confirms Eurovision episode – with first look at new guest stars |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-new-trailer-eurovision-newsupdate/ |date=3 March 2025 |access-date=3 March 2025 |website=Radio Times |language=en-GB}} Production for the series wrapped on 24 May 2024.{{cite web |url=https://screenrant.com/doctor-who-season-15-filming-wrap-update-russell-t-davies/ |title=Doctor Who Season 15 Officially Wraps Filming |last=Graham-Lowery |first=Nathan |date=25 May 2024 |access-date=25 May 2024 |work=Screen Rant}}
Production blocks were arranged as follows:{{sfn|Quinn|2024c|p=8}}{{cite web |url=https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/doctor-who-season-2-episode-titles-revealed |title=Doctor Who Season 2 episode titles revealed |date=21 March 2025 |access-date=22 March 2025 |work=DoctorWhoTV}}{{cite episode |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002c5gy/doctor-who-unleashed-season-2-5-the-story-and-the-engine?seriesId=m001sx3r-structural-3-m002b1m8 |title=The Story and the Engine |series=Doctor Who: Unleashed |series-link=Doctor Who: Unleashed |series-no=15 |number=5 |credits=Powell, Steffan (presenter); Aiken, Jonathon (director) |network=BBC |station=BBC Three and BBC iPlayer |airdate=10 May 2025 |access-date=23 May 2025}}{{cite episode |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002cgzg/doctor-who-unleashed-season-2-6-the-interstellar-song-contest?seriesId=m001sx3r-structural-3-m002b1m8 |title=The Interstellar Song Contest |series=Doctor Who: Unleashed |series-link=Doctor Who: Unleashed |series-no=15 |number=6 |credits=Powell, Steffan (presenter); Aiken, Jonathon (director) |network=BBC |station=BBC Three and BBC iPlayer |airdate=17 May 2025 |access-date=23 May 2025}}{{cite magazine|title=Douze Points|magazine=Doctor Who Magazine|issue=617|editor-last=Quinn|editor-first=Jason|date=21 May 2025|publisher=Panini Magazines|page=31}}{{Update inline|date=May 2025|reason=Need source for the blocks of episodes 7 through 8.}}
| class="wikitable" style="width:100%; margin-right:0;" | ||||
| style="width:8%" | Block | Episode(s) | Director | Writer(s) | Producer{{cite web |url=https://www.doctorwho.tv/stories |title=Stories {{!}} Doctor Who |work=Doctor Who TV |access-date=22 March 2025}} |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1
| Christmas special: "Joy to the World" | Alex Sanjiv Pillai | Alison Sterling | ||||
| rowspan="2" | 2
| Episode 4: "Lucky Day" | rowspan="2" | Peter Hoar | rowspan="2" | Vicki Delow | ||||
| Episode 1: "The Robot Revolution" | ||||
| rowspan="2" | 3
| Episode 2: "Lux" | rowspan="2" | Amanda Brotchie | Russell T Davies | rowspan="2" | Chris May | ||||
| Episode 3: "The Well"
| Russell T Davies & Sharma Angel-Walfall | ||||
| rowspan="2" | 4
| Episode 5: "The Story & the Engine" | Makalla McPherson | rowspan="2" | Vicki Delow | ||||
| Episode 6: "The Interstellar Song Contest"
| Ben A. Williams | ||||
| rowspan="2" | {{TableTBA}}
| Episode 7: "Wish World" | rowspan="2" | Alex Sanjiv Pillai | rowspan="2" | Russell T Davies | rowspan="2" | Chris May | ||||
| Episode 8: "The Reality War" |
Release
=Broadcast=
On 21 February 2025, a trailer stating that the series would launch on 12 April was shown during the BBC's coverage of a Six Nations Under 20s Championship rugby match between England and Scotland.{{cite web |title=Doctor Who fans confused by 'random' announcement about new season |first=Greg |last=Evans |work=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/doctor-who-season-two-date-b2702782.html |date=22 February 2025 |access-date=22 February 2025}} The series is released in the UK on BBC iPlayer and internationally on Disney+.{{sfn|Quinn|2023b|p=11}}{{cite web |url=https://deadline.com/2022/10/doctor-who-moves-to-disney-plus-outside-uk-and-ireland-1235154220/ |title='Doctor Who' Moves To Disney+ Outside UK And Ireland Via BBC-Disney Branded Television Partnership |last=Hayes |first=Dade |work=Deadline Hollywood |date=25 October 2022 |access-date=26 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221025141346/https://deadline.com/2022/10/doctor-who-moves-to-disney-plus-outside-uk-and-ireland-1235154220/ |archive-date=25 October 2022 |url-status=live}}
The episodes are released weekly on Saturdays at 8{{nbsp}}a.m. BST. Episodes also air on the evening of their release on BBC One.{{Cite web |title=Doctor Who season 15 release date, cast, latest news {{!}} Radio Times |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-season-15-release-date/ |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=www.radiotimes.com |language=en-GB}} The sixth episode of the series, "The Interstellar Song Contest", was scheduled to be broadcast on BBC One on 17 May, ahead of the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2025. However, if the FA Cup final, which was also scheduled to be played that afternoon, went to extra time, the episode would not be shown on BBC One.{{Cite web |title=Doctor Who season 15 episode might not air on BBC One - Russell T Davies explains why {{!}} Radio Times |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-interstellar-song-contest-air-date-newsupdate/ |access-date=2025-04-10 |website=www.radiotimes.com |language=en-GB}} The two-part finale, "Wish World" / "The Reality War", were screened together in UK cinemas on 31 May. Release of "The Reality War" across streaming and cinemas and internationally aligned with its simultaneous evening BBC One broadcast. The episode was released at 6:50{{nbsp}}p.m. BST in the United Kingdom, and at 11{{nbsp}}a.m. PT in the United States.{{cite web |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-season-finale-cinema-newsupdate/ |title=Doctor Who season finale confirmed for cinema screenings |work=Radio Times |first=Louise |last=Griffin |date=29 April 2025 |access-date=30 April 2025}}
Due to the terms of a deal between BBC Worldwide and SMG Pictures in China in May 2017, the company has first right of refusal on the purchase for the Chinese market of future series of the programme until and including series 15.{{cite web |url=http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-06-03/the-bbc-is-already-preparing-for-at-least-five-more-series-of-doctor-who |title=The BBC is already preparing for at least five more series of Doctor Who |last=Fullerton |first=Huw |date=3 June 2017 |access-date=19 June 2017 |website=Radio Times |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170608210206/http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-06-03/the-bbc-is-already-preparing-for-at-least-five-more-series-of-doctor-who |archive-date=8 June 2017 |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/worldwide/2017/doctor-who-china |title=Doctor Who Gets Brand Boost in China |date=25 May 2017 |access-date=19 June 2017 |publisher=BBC |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190621052159/https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/worldwide/2017/doctor-who-china |archive-date=21 June 2019 |url-status=live}}
= Aftershow =
{{Main|Doctor Who: Unleashed{{!}}Doctor Who: Unleashed}}
The series is accompanied by Doctor Who: Unleashed, a behind-the-scenes companion show. Adopting a similar format to the former behind-the-scenes programme Doctor Who Confidential, Unleashed follows every new episode of Doctor Who with a 30-minute instalment on BBC Three, hosted by Steffan Powell.{{Cite web |date=27 September 2023 |title=Coming to BBC Three, Doctor Who: Unleashed |url=https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/coming-to-bbc-three-doctor-who-unleashed |access-date=18 November 2023 |work=Doctor Who TV |archive-date=18 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231118133628/https://www.doctorwho.tv/news-and-features/coming-to-bbc-three-doctor-who-unleashed |url-status=live}}{{Cite web |last=Craig |first=David |date=12 April 2023 |title=David Tennant confirms return of Doctor Who Confidential-style show |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/david-tennant-doctor-who-confidential-newsupdate/ |access-date=16 April 2023 |work=Radio Times |archive-date=16 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230416014359/https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/david-tennant-doctor-who-confidential-newsupdate/ |url-status=live}}{{cite web |url=https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/pr-doctorwho-unleashed-s2 |title=Doctor Who Unleashed Season 2 Preview (BBC Three) |work=TVZoneUK |date=5 April 2025 |access-date=9 April 2025}}
=Home media=
{{See also|List of Doctor Who home video releases|l1=List of Doctor Who home video releases}}
{{#lst:List of Doctor Who home video releases|Series15}}
=In print=
{{see also|List of Doctor Who novelisations|l1=List of Doctor Who novelisations}}
{{#lst:List of Doctor Who novelisations|Series15}}
Reception
=Critical response=
{{Rotten tomatoes prose|98|7.0|54|consensus=Ncuti Gatwa's sly Time Lord has an excellent new foil in Varada Sethu, helping steer this latest slate of Doctor Who adventures on a starry path.}}{{cite Rotten Tomatoes |id=doctor_who_2023 |title=Doctor Who |type=TV |season=2 |access-date=14 April 2025}} {{Metacritic film prose|66|13|type=series}}{{cite Metacritic |id=doctor-who-2024 |title=Doctor Who |type=tv |season=2 |access-date=14 April 2025}}
=Ratings=
{{Television episode ratings/consolidated
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| OVviewers1 = 4.11
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| CONrank1 = 6
| total1 = 5.91
| auxD1 = 76
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| n2 = 1
| title2 = The Robot Revolution
| date2 = 12 April 2025
| OVviewers2 = 2.00
| OVrank2 = 4
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| CONrank2 = 21
| total2 = 3.57
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| n3 = 2
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| date3 = 19 April 2025
| OVviewers3 = 1.58
| OVrank3 = 8
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| CONrank3 = 25
| total3 = 3.01
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| CONrank5 = 29
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| n7 = 6
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| OVviewers9 = 2.17
| OVrank9 = 2
| CONviewers9 = {{#expr:{{#expr:3.436 round 2}}-2.17}}
| CONrank9 = 18
| total9 = 3.44
| auxD9 = —
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Soundtrack
In June 2025, composer Murray Gold commented on the release of the related soundtrack, and that there would likely be "one big music dump" for the soundtracks of the tenth series, 2023 specials, fourteenth series and fifteenth series.{{cite web |url=https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-soundtrack-murray-gold-newsupdate/ |title=Doctor Who composer Murray Gold says new soundtrack release "is coming" |work=Radio Times |first=Morgan |last=Jeffery |date=7 June 2025 |accessdate=8 June 2025}}
References
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{{cite web |url=https://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/most-viewed-programmes/ |title=Weekly Top 50 Programmes |work=Barb Audiences |access-date=10 June 2025 |archive-date=18 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211018150742/https://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/most-viewed-programmes/ |url-status=live}} (No permanent link available. Search for relevant dates.)
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=Bibliography=
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External links
- {{IMDb episodes|season=2|31433814||Season 2}}
- {{TardisIndexFile|Season 2 (Doctor Who 2023)|Season 2 (Doctor Who 2023)}}
{{Doctor Who episodes|N15}}
{{Doctor Who episodes by Russell T Davies}}
{{Fifteenth Doctor stories}}