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Wild Blue Yonder (Doctor Who)

2023 Doctor Who episode

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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"Wild Blue Yonder" is the second of the 60th anniversary specials of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who. It was first broadcast on BBC One on 2 December 2023, and was written by Russell T Davies and directed by Tom Kingsley. David Tennant stars as the Fourteenth Doctor, alongside Catherine Tate as Donna Noble.

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“Wild Blue Yonder (Doctor Who)” enters the record as 2023 Doctor Who episode. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wild, Blue and Yonder can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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