David Morrissey – "The Next Doctor" (Jackson Lake)
Velile Tshabalala – Rosita Farisi[2]
Guest
Dervla Kirwan – Miss Hartigan
Nicholas Briggs – Cybermen voices
Paul Kasey – Cyber Leader
Ruari Mears – Cybershade
Edmund Kente – Mr Scoones
Michael Bertenshaw – Mr Cole
Jason Morell – Vicar
Neil McDermott – Jed
Ashley Horne – Lad
Tom Langford – Frederic
Jordan Southwell – Urchin
Matthew Allick – Docker
Production
Directed by
Andy Goddard
Written by
Russell T Davies
Script editor
Lindsey Alford
Produced by
Susie Liggat
Executive producer(s)
Russell T Davies Julie Gardner
Music by
Murray Gold
Production code
4.14
Series
2008–2010 specials
Running time
60 minutes
First broadcast
25 December 2008 (2008-12-25)[1]
Chronology
← Preceded by "Journey's End" (episode) "Music of the Spheres" (mini-episode)
Followed by → "Planet of the Dead"
List of episodes (2005–present)
"The Next Doctor" is a special episode of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, broadcast on 25 December 2008 as the fourth Doctor Who Christmas special of the revived series.[3] During its original airing, the episode had an audience of 13.1 million viewers[4] and was the second-most-watched programme of Christmas Day 2008.[5] It was the final Doctor Who episode to be filmed in standard definition.
David Tennant stars as the Tenth Doctor with one-off companions Jackson Lake (David Morrissey) and Rosita Farisi (Velile Tshabalala).[6][7] The episode is set in London during the Christmas period of 1851. In the episode, the Doctor teams up with a man who appears to be another incarnation of himself; in their quest to foil a plot by the Cybermen to create a giant Cyberman called a CyberKing under the control of workhouse matron Miss Hartigan (Dervla Kirwan), the two inadvertently discover that the "new" Doctor is actually Jackson Lake, a regular human who began suffering from amnesia and believing himself to be the Doctor after interacting with Cyberman technology.
^Spilsbury, Tom (21 August 2008). "Letter from the Editor". Doctor Who Magazine (399). Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Panini Comics: 3.
^Walker, Stephen James (17 December 2008). "Series Overview". Monsters Within: the Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who 2008. Tolworth, Surrey, England: Telos Publishing. p. 232. ISBN 978-1-84583-027-4.
^"Programme Information - BBC Network TV Weeks 52/53: Doctor Who – The Next Doctor". BBC. Retrieved 27 November 2008.
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^Mark Cossey (executive producer), Zoë Rushton (producer), Gillane Seaborne (series producer) (25 December 2008). "Xmas 2008". Doctor Who Confidential. Series 4. Episode 14. BBC. BBC Three.
^Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner (hosts) (25 December 2008). "The Next Doctor". Doctor Who: The Commentaries. Series 1. Episode 14. BBC. BBC Radio 7.
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