David Bradley (English actor) in the final episode of the tenth series of "Doctor Who", "The Doctor Falls", Bradley returned to portray the First Doctor, having previously been portrayed by Hartnell, who originally played the character. He reprised this role in the 2017 Christmas special, "Twice Upon a Time". This makes him the third actor to play the role in the television programme, after William Hartnell and Richard Hurndall since the premiere of "Doctor Who" in 1963, and at the age of 75, he is the also the oldest actor to play the role of the Doctor. Bradley serves as the President of Second
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