Series 23

Series 23 of Doctor Who ran from March 2033 to December 2033. It was the tenth series produced by BBC Essex in cooperation with Disney+ and the BBC. It starred Alfred Enoch as the Eighteenth Doctor . The series opened with The Time Collar and concluded with Time's Gift.
==Overview==
This series sees the addition of Ruby and Cryte to the series. There are ten episodes in this series. Series 23 sees two two-parters take place.
==Production==
Episodes would continue with 1 hour episodes.
Series 23 continued its traditional Saturday night viewing slot whilst it remained accessible on streaming platforms to those overseas via Disney+.
======Eleventh Doctor Special Episodes======
After much discussion, it was decided that Matt Smith would once again return for a series of specials to mark the shows 70th anniversary but this time with Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill returning as Amy Pond and Rory Williams. The episodes would be set throughout their adventures in Series 7A to avoid any clash with time and space itself. The episodes would be aired in the week leading upto the 70th anniversary as 1 hour long episodes.
==Cast==
*The Doctor - Alfred Enoch
*Ruby - 
*Cryte - 
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===Recurring===
*The Master -
*The Rani -
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*Cybermen - voiced by Nicholas Briggs
===Guest===
* Amy Pond - Karen Gillian (featured in Whispers Of The Angels)
* Jamie McCrimmon - Frazer Hines (featured in Rise Of The Macra)
* Zoe Heriot - Wendy Padbury (featured in Rise Of The Macra)
* Vicki - Maureen O'Brien (featured in Pythagoras' Virus)
* Elise Jackson - (featured in The Variety Trio)
* Macy Gray - (featured in The Variety Trio)
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==Television stories==
===Story formats and arc===
All of the episodes were one-part stories spaced over the whole series, concluding with a two-parter finale with 9 stories.
===Episodes===
Episode Number	Title 	Writer 	Director 	Notes
1 	The Time Collar 	Andy Wilkins 	Sally Wainwright 	
2 	Whispers of the Angels 	 	Julie Anne Robinson	
3 	Rise Of The Macra 	Pete McTighe 	Richard Clark 	
4 	The Iron Legion 	Neil Gaiman 	Richard Clark 	
5 	Falling In Time 	Malorie Blackman 	Haolu Wang 	
6 	Pythagoras' Virus 	Daniel O'Hara 	Haolu Wang 	
7 	Plague Eaters 	Maxine Alderton 	Alice Troughton 	
8 	The New Kaiser 	Catherine Tregenna	Alice Troughton 	
9 & 10 	The Variety Trio / Warriors Of The Tamed	Andy Wilkins 	Jamie Magnus-Stone 	
X1 	Time's Gift 	Andy Wilkins 	Emma Sullivan 	
==Stories set during this season==
=== 70th Anniversary Special Episodes ===
Episode Number	Title 	Writer 	Director 	Air Date 	Notes
X50A 	A Smeg To Save The Universe	Andy Wilkins & Doug Naylor	Tom Vaughan 	 	A special episode to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Red Dwarf.
XP70A 	The Heart Of Time 	Mark Gatiss 	 	1st November 2033 	Animated special episode
XP70B 	The Mind Of Space 	Nick Briggs 	 	5th November 2033 	Animated special episode
X70A 	The Doctor Of The Unknown 	Andy Wilkins 	Julie Anne Robinson	12th November 2033	
X70B 	The Tombs Of The Time Lords	Andy Wilkins 	 	19th November 2033	
X70C 	The Future Of The Doctor 	Andy Wilkins 	 	26th November 2033	
===Eleventh Doctor Special Episodes===
Episode Number	Title 	Writer 	Director 	Air Date 	Notes
1C 	The Music Of The Monk 	Andy Wilkins & Steven Moffat	Charles Martin	12th November 2033	
2C 	Temporal Tango 	Andy Wilkins & Steven Moffat	Chloe Thomas 	16th November 2033	
3C 	Ashes Of The Cybermen 	Andy Wilkins & Steven Moffat	James Strong 	19th November 2033	
4C 	Mind Of The Master 	Andy Wilkins & Steven Moffat	Chanya Button 	23rd November 2033	
5C 	Anniversary of the Daleks	Andy Wilkins & Steven Moffat	 	26th November 2033	
===Novels===
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===Audio stories===
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===Comics===
===Minisodes===
===Short stories===
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==Promotional trailers==
For the series, several promotional trailers were created, utilising shot footage of the upcoming season.
*Several short, wordless five-second "stings" were also produced. These showed close-ups of the Doctor and the TARDIS. No series logo or title is shown, with only a snippet of the Doctor Who theme or the TARDIS sound effect to identify the programme.