The Day of the Doctor is a special episode of the British science
fiction television programme Doctor Who, marking the programme's 50th
anniversary. It was written by Steven Moffat, an executive producer
alongside Faith Penhale. It was shown on BBC One on 23 November 2013,
in both 2D and 3D. The special was broadcast simultaneously in 94
countries, and was shown concurrently in 3D in some cinemas. It
achieved the Guinness World Record for the largest ever simulcast of a
TV drama and won the Radio Times Audience Award at the 2014 British
Academy Television Awards.The 77-minute episode shows the last day of
the Time War, in which the War Doctor (John Hurt) chooses to kill both
Daleks and his own race of Time Lords to end the destructive conflict,
paralleling this with a present-day choice by paramilitary
organisation UNIT to destroy London rather than allow an alien
invasion. Revising the back story, the Doctor succumbs to Clara
Oswald's plea to change his mind; and instead, at the last instant of
the Time War, he hides his war-torn home planet in time, rather than
destroy it. Unfortunately the time distortions incurred causes all but
his latest incarnation to have no memory of his changed decision.The
episode starred Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and Jenna Coleman as
his companion, Clara Oswald. Previous lead actors David Tennant and
Billie Piper returned for the episode, Tennant reprising his role as
the Tenth Doctor, while Piper portrayed a sentient doomsday weapon
called the Moment, projected as an image based on her character Rose
Tyler. She is invisible and inaudible to everyone but the War Doctor
(John Hurt). Other appearances included a very brief glimpse of the
then-upcoming Twelfth Doctor (Peter Capaldi), and a guest appearance
by Fourth Doctor actor Tom Baker, in his late 70s. Rounding out the
guest cast were Joanna Page as Queen Elizabeth I and Jemma Redgrave as
Kate Stewart, the daughter of 1970s central figure Brigadier
Lethbridge-Stewart. The special also featured the return of the Daleks
and the Zygons, shape-shifting aliens who had previously appeared only
in Terror of the Zygons (1975). The Day of the Doctor Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter