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A rather odd announcment that there will be a brand new episode of the Tales of the TARDIS series airing on BBC Four on Thursday June 20th - 28 hours or so before the series finale. This new episode will see Ncuti Gatwa and Mille Gibson feature.


All previous episodes have had classic companions or Doctors (and Clyde from the Sarah Jane Adventures in lieu of anyone else available from the Third Doctor era) reunited to rewatch a Classic Who episode with a new interaction bookmarking the original episode. There is plenty of theories that the big villain of the series finale (a two parter by the way) could be a classic era character returning, so it is only natural to assume this could be reintroducting this character. There is also a shot from a Disney+ trailer that features Ncuti with a background of the memory TARDIS (the set of Tales of the TARDIS) from before the series began - that no longer looks like a mistake.

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Confirmed that the new Tales of the TARDIS episode that will air on Thursday on BBC Four will be a reshowing of the Fourth Doctor adventure Pyramids of Mars. Sensible to reshiw this serial I think in light of Sutekh returning and unknown to the modern audience, so this will allow anyone to see his only other appearance before the next episode.


There is a bit of discussion elsewhere online about bringing a one-off villain from 50 years ago when trying to attract a new audience. Personally, I was fine with this - I think there was enough build-up for the audience to be able to understand how big and evil a threat he is, with an added bonus of a returning character for anyone who knows the show's history. And it was great to have the original voice actor Gabriel Woolf return despite being in his nineties; his last Doctor Who appearance was as The Beast in 2006.

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