Jodie Whittaker ’s final outing as the star of Doctor Who,“The Power of the Doctor,”was a full mess , but you have to say this about it — it sure starred a lot of previous Doctors .
Peter Davison ( the Fifth Doctor ) , Colin Baker ( the Sixth ) , Sylvester McCoy ( the Seventh ) , Paul McGann ( the Eighth , and adept of the ill - fated 1996 U.S. doc Who TV pic ) , and David Tennant ( the Tenth ) all made appearances in the special , along with Game of Thrones ’ David Bradley as theFirst Doctor , having play the role originated by the late William Hartnell in previous Who specials . Of the persist dwell actors who have work the Doctor , that pass on Tom Baker ( the Fourth ) , Christopher Eccleston ( the Ninth ) , Matt Smith ( the Eleventh ) , and Peter Capaldi ( the Twelfth ) off - screen , and it turns out there were reasons for all of them .
harmonise toThe Mirror , Tom Baker was “ unavailable , ” which at age 88 may admittedly be codification for “ not young . ” but go away showrunner Chris Chibnell gave an interesting reply for why the later Doctors did n’t show up : “ Chibnall said he had not invited back any of the post - reboot MD because of what is being planned for next year to stigmatise the show ’s 60th anniversary . Chibnall say : ‘ I did n’t want to trample on anything that might be happening in futurity , so those I finger the correct ones . ’ ”
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This sure make it sound like Smith and Capaldi — and peradventure even Whittaker — could make a return for the 60th - day of remembrance series , which will asterisk Tennant as the Tenth / Fourteenth personification of the Doctor before regenerating into Ncuti Gatwa . As for Eccleston , he saidas recently as a year agohe doubted he ’d ever fall to the Doctor of the Church Who TV series , but he amended that in March to say hemight be willing to show upin a solo Ninth Doctor adventure . That does n’t go like it ’s in the wag for the next special , but who lie with ? Time mend all wound , even Time - Lord ’s .
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