| 024 – The Celestial Toymaker | |||
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| Doctor Who serial | |||
 The Toymaker | |||
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| Production | |||
| Directed by | Bill Sellars | ||
| Written by | Brian Hayles Donald Tosh (uncredited) | ||
| Script editor | Gerry Davis | ||
| Produced by | Innes Lloyd | ||
| Executive producer(s) | None | ||
| Music by | Dudley Simpson | ||
| Production code | Y | ||
| Series | Season 3 | ||
| Running time | 4 episodes, 25 minutes each | ||
| Episode(s) missing | 3 episodes (1–3) | ||
| First broadcast | 2 April 1966 | ||
| Last broadcast | 23 April 1966 | ||
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The Celestial Toymaker is the mostly missing seventh serial of the third season in the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, which was first broadcast in four weekly parts from 2 to 23 April 1966.
In this serial, the alien time traveller the First Doctor (William Hartnell) and his travelling companions Steven Taylor (Peter Purves) and Dodo Chaplet (Jackie Lane) are pitted against a powerful adversary called The Toymaker (Michael Gough). The Toymaker separates the Doctor from his companions to play the Trilogic Game, while Steven and Dodo are forced to win a series of seemingly childish but deadly games before they can be reunited with the Doctor and return to the TARDIS.
Only the last episode of this story, "The Final Test", is held in the BBC archives; the other three remain missing. "The Final Test" has been released on VHS and DVD, and the story has been novelised. A fully animated version was released on DVD and Blu-Ray in 2024.