An Adventure in Space and Time led to him being cast as the First Doctor himself in the 2017 "Doctor Who" episodes "The Doctor Falls" and "Twice Upon a Time" and in a series of audio adventures for Big Finish Productions. In 1966, William Hartnell (David Bradley) is in his dressing room at the BBC. He insults a stagehand who calls him to the set, where the delay caused by his absence is noticed. Hartnell enters in costume, ready to film his last moments as the First Doctor and stands in front of the TARDIS console. Three years earlier, BBC executive Sydney Newman (Brian Cox) is
Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS programme's fiftieth anniversary in 2013, when the one-off special "An Adventure in Space and Time" was broadcast on BBC Two. Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS Doctor Who: Thirty Years in the TARDIS is a one-off, 50-minute television documentary, broadcast to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the science-fiction series "Doctor Who". It was originally transmitted on Monday 29 November 1993, on BBC One (BBC Two in Scotland). The programme was the first BBC-produced, in-depth documentary chronicling "Doctor Who" since the earlier "Whose Doctor Who" was broadcast in April 1977, although a thirty-minute, categorized compilation of archive clips had been