First female lead bows out with an unexpected end in a cameo-laden special as part of BBC centenary celebrations
Jodie Whittaker’s tenure as the first woman to lead Doctor Who came to a spectacular end after four years on Sunday night in a special episode featuring a host of returning faces from the 59-year-old show’s past – and a surprise twist when she regenerated not into her recently announced successor, Ncuti Gatwa, but into the returning Time Lord David Tennant.
Gatwa, however appeared briefly in a trailer at the end of the programme, saying “Someone tell me what the hell is going on here?”
