Wild Blue Yonder

David Tennant as the Doctor?

One episode (Wild Blue Yonder)

First broadcast: Dec 2 2023
Audience for story: 7.14m

REGULAR CAST

David Tennant (The Doctor) Born Apr 18 1971 Click here for David Tennant's entry on The Parting of the Ways

Catherine Tate (Donna Noble) Born Dec 5 1969 Click here for Catherine Tate's entry on Doomsday

GUEST CAST

Bernard Cribbins (Wilfred Mott) Dec 29 1928 to Jul 27 2022 Click here for Bernard's entry on Voyage of the Damned

Nathaniel Curtis (Isaac Newton) Born Dec 29 1990

Career highlights

Further work includes It's a Sin (2021) and The Witcher: Blood Origin (2022).

Facts

Nathaniel was the winner of the 2021 Great British Bake Off Christmas special which featured cast members of the drama It's a Sin. Nathaniel is 6ft 5in tall.

Susan Twist (Mrs Merridew) Born c.1957

Doctor Who credits

Played: Mrs Merridew in Wild Blue Yonder (2023)

Played: Woman at concert in The Church on Ruby Road (2023, uncredited)

Played: Gina Scalzi in Space Babies (2024, uncredited)

Played: Tea lady in The Devil's Chord (2024)

Played: Ambulance in Boom (2024)

Played: Hiker in 73 Yards (2024)

Played: Penny Pepper-Bean in Dot and Bubble (2024)

Played: The Portrait in Rogue (2024)

Played: Susan Triad in The Legend of Ruby Sunday/ Empire of Death (2024)

Career highlights

Susan's debut came in The Squad (1980), followed by roles in The Chinese Detective (1981), Reckless: The Movie (1998), Always and Everyone (2000), Girls in Love (2005), The Royal (2006), Doctors (2007), Being Eileen (2013), In the Flesh (2013), Eric, Ernie and Me (2017) and Playing Dead (2018). She also played Rosie Banks, on and off, in soap Brookside (1993-96).

CREW

Russell T Davies (writer) Born Apr 27 1963 Click here for Russell T Davies' entry on Rose

Tom Kingsley (director)

Career highlights

Tom's first directing work was on the 2009 short Cockroach, followed by Black Pond (2011), Halloween Comedy Shorts (2016), True Horror (2018), Pls Like (2017-18), Stath Lets Flats (2018-19), Ghosts (2019-20) and This is Going to Hurt (2022).

Awards

2012: Evening Standard British Film Award for Most Most Promising Newcomer (Black Pond) - shared with Will Sharpe

2020: BAFTA TV Award for Scripted Comedy (Stath Lets Flats) - shared with production team

Vicki Dellow (producer)

Doctor Who credits

Produced: The Star Beast, Wild Blue Yonder, The Giggle (all 2023)

Career highlights

Vicki began as a script editor on soap EastEnders in 2005, followed by work as a senior editor and script editor on both EastEnders (2006) and Holby City (2008), before becoming a producer on That Thing That Happened (2014), The Tunnel (2016), Tin Star (2017), Humans (2018), The Last Kingdom (2020) and His Dark Materials (2022).

Chris May (producer)

Doctor Who credits

Produced: The Star Beast, Wild Blue Yonder, The Giggle (all 2023)

Career highlights

Chris's other work includes being associate producer on the 2012 short film Bacon, and first assistant director on Sex Education (2019), His Dark Materials (2019-20), The Mezzotint (2021), Litvinenko (2022) and The Last Bus (2021).