Doctor Who (2013 specials) Doctor", saw the departure of Smith from the series and the introduction of Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor. "The Day of the Doctor" features the return of the Zygons for the first time since "Terror of the Zygons" in 1975. "The Time of the Doctor" draws together a number of plot threads that have run through the series since the Eleventh Doctor's first episode in 2010. <onlyinclude></onlyinclude> In "The Day of the Doctor", Smith and Coleman star alongside David Tennant and Billie Piper; Tennant reprised his role as the Tenth Doctor, while Piper, although credited as playing Rose Tyler,
Doctor Who (series 1) Doctor Who (series 1) The first series of the 2005 revival of the British science fiction programme "Doctor Who" began on 26 March 2005 with the episode "Rose". This marked the end of the programme's 16-year absence from episodic television following its cancellation in 1989, and was the first new televised "Doctor Who" story since the broadcast of the television movie starring Paul McGann in 1996. The finale episode, "The Parting of the Ways", was broadcast on 18 June 2005. The show was revived by longtime "Doctor Who" fan Russell T Davies, who had been lobbying the BBC since the