The Doctor Falls the episode, the Doctor (Peter Capaldi) must save himself and the remaining human population of a gigantic colony ship from Mondas, while also dealing with two different incarnations of the Master (Michelle Gomez and John Simm) at once. The episode features a cameo from the First Doctor, now portrayed by David Bradley. He had previously played William Hartnell, the original First Doctor actor, in the 2013 "Doctor Who" docudrama "An Adventure in Space and Time". Aboard the colony ship reversing from the event horizon of a black hole, the Doctor finds Bill has been converted into a Cyberman. The Master
William Hartnell "The Name of the Doctor". The following story and the 50th anniversary special of the show, "The Day of the Doctor", featured two new pieces of dialogue for Hartnell's Doctor, recorded by John Guilor, who had previously voiced the actor in a reconstruction of "Planet of Giants". Hartnell's Doctor also made a silent cameo appearance in the Series 9 episode "The Witch's Familiar" (2015) again played by a body double. David Bradley, who portrayed Hartnell in the biopic "An Adventure in Space and Time", played the First Doctor in the Series 10 episode "The Doctor Falls", and the 2017 Christmas