The Next Doctor

199 – "The Next Doctor"
199 – "The Next Doctor"
Doctor Who episode
Cast
	Doctor David Tennant – Tenth Doctor;
	Companions David Morrissey – "The Next Doctor" (Jackson Lake); Velile Tshabalala – Rosita Farisi;
	Guest Dervla Kirwan – Miss Hartigan; Nicholas Briggs – Cybermen voices; Paul Kasey – Cyber Leader; Ruari Mears – Cybershade; Edmund Kente – Mr Scoones; Michael Bertenshaw – Mr Cole; Jason Morell – Vicar; Neil McDermott – Jed; Ashley Horne – Lad; Tom Langford – Frederic; Jordan Southwell – Urchin; Matthew Allick – Docker;
Production
Directed by	Andy Goddard
Written by	Russell T Davies
Script editor	Lindsey Alford
Produced by	Susie Liggat
Executive producer(s)	Russell T Davies; Julie Gardner
Music by	Murray Gold
Production code	4.14
Series	2008–2010 specials
Running time	60 minutes
First broadcast	25 December 2008
Chronology
← Preceded by; "Journey's End" (episode); "Music of the Spheres" (mini-episode)	Followed by →; "Planet of the Dead"
	List of episodes (2005–present)

"The Next Doctor" is a special episode of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who, broadcast on 25 December 2008 as the fourth Doctor Who Christmas special of the revived series.^[3] During its original airing, the episode had an audience of 13.1 million viewers^[4] and was the second-most-watched programme of Christmas Day 2008.^[5] It was the final Doctor Who episode to be filmed in standard definition.

David Tennant stars as the Tenth Doctor with one-off companions Jackson Lake (David Morrissey) and Rosita Farisi (Velile Tshabalala).^[6]^[7] The episode is set in London during the Christmas period of 1851. In the episode, the Doctor teams up with a man who appears to be another incarnation of himself; in their quest to foil a plot by the Cybermen to create a giant Cyberman called a CyberKing under the control of workhouse matron Miss Hartigan (Dervla Kirwan), the two inadvertently discover that the "new" Doctor is actually Jackson Lake, a regular human who began suffering from amnesia and believing himself to be the Doctor after interacting with Cyberman technology.

^ Spilsbury, Tom (21 August 2008). "Letter from the Editor". Doctor Who Magazine (399). Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Panini Comics: 3.
^ Walker, Stephen James (17 December 2008). "Series Overview". Monsters Within: the Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who 2008. Tolworth, Surrey, England: Telos Publishing. p. 232. ISBN 978-1-84583-027-4.
^ "Programme Information - BBC Network TV Weeks 52/53: Doctor Who – The Next Doctor". BBC. Retrieved 27 November 2008.
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^ Mark Cossey (executive producer), Zoë Rushton (producer), Gillane Seaborne (series producer) (25 December 2008). "Xmas 2008". Doctor Who Confidential. Series 4. Episode 14. BBC. BBC Three.
^ Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner (hosts) (25 December 2008). "The Next Doctor". Doctor Who: The Commentaries. Series 1. Episode 14. BBC. BBC Radio 7.

[dwm399-1] Spilsbury, Tom (21 August 2008). "Letter from the Editor". Doctor Who Magazine (399). Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent: Panini Comics: 3.

[2] Walker, Stephen James (17 December 2008). "Series Overview". Monsters Within: the Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Doctor Who 2008. Tolworth, Surrey, England: Telos Publishing. p. 232. ISBN 978-1-84583-027-4.

[bbcproginfo-3] "Programme Information - BBC Network TV Weeks 52/53: Doctor Who – The Next Doctor". BBC. Retrieved 27 November 2008.

[viewercount-4] Cite error: The named reference viewercount was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[ratings-5] Cite error: The named reference ratings was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

[Doctor_Who_Confidential-6] Mark Cossey (executive producer), Zoë Rushton (producer), Gillane Seaborne (series producer) (25 December 2008). "Xmas 2008". Doctor Who Confidential. Series 4. Episode 14. BBC. BBC Three.

[Doctor_Who:_The_Commentaries-7] Russell T Davies, Julie Gardner (hosts) (25 December 2008). "The Next Doctor". Doctor Who: The Commentaries. Series 1. Episode 14. BBC. BBC Radio 7.

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