A cracking closer, with truly shocking returns, the showdown to end all showdowns – and a doozy of a cliffhanger! Roll on Christmas
The end seems like a good place to start. Only that isn’t quite possible, because this doozy of a cliffhanger can’t play out until Christmas – and even then there are so many feelings to process I’m not sure any of us have the emotional energy. Yes, that was David Bradley as the First Doctor, replacing William Hartnell and the perhaps-best-forgotten portrayal by Richard Hurndall in 1983’s 20th-anniversary special The Five Doctors. In any other circumstances, recasting a deceased actor in the role would feel cheap. In these ones, Bradley was simply so good in the 50th-anniversary biopic An Adventure in Space and Time – both as a struggling Hartnell and his reimagining of Hartnell’s portrayal – that we must applaud it. I spent time with Bradley on set of that production, and his “Doctor face” is the most disarming thing in the world.
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