In her ebook, Oh Miriam!: Tales From An Extraordinary Life, Miriam Margolyes recalled the time when Tom Baker requested that she painting his Physician Who companion.
“I’ve by no means been a science-fiction fan – fairly the alternative – however I’ve at all times cherished the assorted Physician Whos (or is it Medical doctors Who?) I’ve met. Some forty-six years in the past, the scrumptious rainbow-bescarfed former monk, and fourth Physician Who, Tom Baker, had requested me to play his assistant. But it surely was to not be. The BBC baulked at a cumbersome sidekick for the Physician. As a substitute, they selected the beautiful Louise Jameson as Leela and the robotic canine K9. (Fools!) However nearly half a century later, issues have modified and I’ve been allowed to affix Physician Who in November 2023.”
Along with the discharge of her new ebook, Margolyes was introduced as voicing a Physician Who character known as Meep within the Physician Who sixtieth anniversary specials. Meep makes an look to the teaser trailer for the primary particular titled The Star Beast.
“[Seventh Doctor actor Sylvester McCoy] informed me about travelling all over the world, being paid to seem at occasions known as ‘Comedian Con’, ‘Superior Con’ and ‘Chicago TARDIS’, assembly science-fiction buffs and being photographed with them. I slightly favored the sound of that. After all, I wasn’t in Physician Who then, BUT I AM NOW! Simply you wait until you meet the Meep.”
Physician Who will return in November 2023 with three sixtieth anniversary specials starring David Tennant because the Fourteenth Physician and Catherine Tate as companion Donna Noble titled The Star Beast, Wild Blue Yonder and The Giggle.
Ncuti Gatwa will star in his first full Physician Who episode because the Fifteenth Physician within the Physician Who Christmas particular alongside Millie Gibson as companion Ruby Sunday in December 2023.
A brand new 8-episode Physician Who sequence starring Ncuti Gatwa because the Physician and Millie Gibson as Ruby will debut in Spring of 2024.