- Oh yeah, tell 'em what they say.

- Let's do it together, one, two, three.

- Exterminate.

[Doctor Who theme music]

- Hi, I'm Jodie Whittaker.

- I'm Mandip Gill.

- And I'm Tosin Cole.

- And we're here to explain the latest adventures

of Doctor Who.

[upbeat music]

Doctor Who is

an epic sci-fi adventure

that transcends physical boundaries,

time boundaries, universe boundaries.

We have the ability as adventurers, to go anywhere.

So this show isn't limited to the town

that it's originally set in,

because we have this extraordinary time machine

called the TARDIS.

[eerie music]

- We're home.

We're actually home!

- Yes.

- What she said. Yeah, what she said.

[Jodie laughs]

- Who are you?

- Yes, I'm glad you asked that again.

Bit of adrenaline, dash of outrage, and a hint of panic,

knitted my brain back together.

I know exactly who I am.

I'm the Doctor.

Sorting out fair play throughout the universe.

So,

who is the Doctor?

I have the ability to travel through space and time.

I'm continually curious.

I am a Time Lord from the planet Gallifrey,

I have two hearts and I can regenerate,

hence why I am the current Doctor.

- Doctor.

[dramatic music]

- I let you go.

[dramatic music]

- So what you witnessed there is the 12th Doctor

regenerating into the 13th Doctor.

And regeneration is very much a huge theme of Doctor Who.

So we've had 12 previous Doctors spanning over 50 years

and so it's a Timelord trait

that you can move from one body to the next

but you don't have the control of the body

or know until you open your eyes and see your

reflection in the console what you're going to look like.

And my reaction to that was "Oh, brilliant."

Double thumbs up.

It's debatable in some Whovian circles how many

Doctors there has been.

John Hurt is a Doctor in an episode so it's,

there's Matt, David and John Hurt so it's like,

what number is he? - Yeah.

- Or is he the older version of?

- Them, yeah. - Who are you talking to?

- Myself.

- How can they all be there?

- That's what I'm saying, so is he a regenerated

body or is he...

Is he another Doctor?

- Good afternoon,

I am looking for the Doctor.

- Well, you've certainly come to the right place.

- But I'm claiming 13, lucky number 13.

[TARDIS engine roaring]

[heavy breathing]

- My beautiful coast monument.

- TARDIS is a time machine.

It's a police box and inside it's bigger

than what it seems on the outside.

- So the TARDIS stands for time and relative

dimension in space. - There you go.

- How do you fit all this stuff inside a police box?

- Dimensional engineering.

- This Doctor's TARDIS is really colorful,

it's got lots of dials on for her to fly the TARDIS.

It's got lots of little egg timers on,

loads of little switches, which I'll be honest,

I've no idea what they do because--

- I know. She doesn't let us touch them.

[Jodie chuckling] - Can I press any of these--

- No.

- And for me, the most exciting part is

it has like a custard cream dispenser.

- Oh yeah, that's the sneaky best bit.

Also, all the dials are all covered in Gallifreyan text,

so I am able to translate every single

element, The Doctor, but for these guys,

it's essentially a foreign language to them.

[wistful music]

- Tada!

[Sonic Screwdriver exploding]

- Ooh!

Should be fine.

So my Sonic Screwdriver is unique

because I've built this one.

Now, my Sonic which I may have worn in my inside pocket.

Ah!

My Sonic!

So, I will do an example.

[electronic buzzing]

- Oh, wow.

- So, I read my information here and it tells me

that you are human with one stone, cold heart.

[laughing]

No, with a very big heart and ooh, you're healthy!

It basically is a gadget to be able to,

it does a bit of everything!

Scanner, diagnostics, tin opener.

More of a Sonic Swiss Army knife.

Only without the knife, only idiots carry knives.

[dramatic music]

[Doctor Who theme music]

- What?

Actually, my favorite scene.

It's the most exciting entrance into

any TV show I'm ever, ever, ever gonna get.

I've had things like in Broadchurch, I just sat up in bed.

Doctor Who, I got to fall through the sky

and through the roof of a train

and

stand up into shot to the iconic Doctor Who theme tune.

Which when I saw that in post,

nearly made me wanna cry because it was so brilliant.

Um...

- Right, get away from the door.

Grace get to the back of the carriage!

- Those guys are absolutely terrified

and have got this alien creeping towards them,

when another alien falls through the roof

and buys them some time but this entire scenario,

I suppose for them, is completely out of this world.

Literally out of this world whereas for me,

it's probably just another day at the office.

Put the gun down, Ryan!

- What's your better idea.

- Outthink them.

- You can't outthink bullets.

- Where's the reload?

Where's the reload?

Ryan Sinclair is a kid from Sheffield

who is studying to be an engineer.

His grandma past away, so now he lives with Graham,

which is his step grandfather.

He suffers from dyspraxia, well not suffers,

but he goes through dyspraxia which is a condition

that affects his balance and coordination

and so he can't ride a bike,

like you saw in the first episode.

He went to primary school with Yaz.

- Name, sir.

- Ryan Sinclair.

- Wait, Redlands Primary?

- Yeah.

- Yasmin Khan.

- Oh my God, Yaz!

Wow!

- I know!

- [Tosin] Who--

- Forgot about him.

- Yeah, yeah, she forgot about me,

you know what I mean, life goes on.

[laughing]

[dramatic music]

- Yaz!

Be careful what you say back there.

The wrong word in the wrong moment,

you could interfere yourself out of existence,

do you understand?

- You know there are aliens here, right?

In the Punjab during Partition,

and you're worried about me being gobby?

- I play Yasmin Khan.

Yaz is a police officer from Sheffield.

She's only just starting out but she really enjoys her job.

- Tell me you don't get hassle.

- Course I do, especially on the job.

I get called a Paki when I'm sorting out a domestic

or a terrorist on the way home from the Mosque.

- Yeah, exactly.

- But they don't win, those people.

I can be a police officer now because people like

Rosa Parks fought those battles for me, for us.

I think they have a nice relationship,

I think sometimes they do annoy each other sometimes.

You know, you'll see scenes where it is just

Ryan and Yaz going away and talking about

their feelings, I think there is sort of like

a level of understanding between them because

of where they've come from and their age and what not.

You find out about her background and why she is

a police officer and what it means to her.

But then it also explains why she's really excited

by meeting these people

and going on these journeys with them.

In our first series, sometimes she's a bit apprehensive

about going into situations because she is

a police officer, you know, you don't always

run into difficult situations,

you kind of have to assess it.

But then, she becomes really confident--

- Oh yeah.

- In the Doctor's abilities and her own abilities.

I think she becomes a better police officer in space

than she could've done in Sheffield.

- Oh, that's good.

- She's got like a normal sister relationship

with her sister, Sonia, who happens to find Ryan cute.

- Are you and Yaz--

- Mates.

We were at primary school together.

- Just mates then?

- Yeah.

- That's good.

- Which in a way annoys me, that's just because

I feel like maybe she's trying to get into my new life

and these are my second family.

- Everybody wants a bit of Ryan, you know. [laughing]

You know.

- Don't panic, not the end of the world.

Well it could be the end of the world

but one thing at a time.

- Are we supposed to understand anything you're saying?

- She thinks that thing is an alien.

- Don't be daft, there's no such thing as aliens.

Anyway even if they was,

they ain't gonna be on a train in Sheffield.

- Why not? I'm alien and I'm here.

Graham O'Brien, played by Bradley Walsh.

- Yes, sir.

Sad times, he isn't here.

We meet him at a particular stage in his life.

He's newly, happily married to Grace,

which is Ryan's grandmother.

- Just beat cancer.

- Yeah, he's just beat cancer.

He met her when she was his nurse when

he was going through recovery.

And he's at the start of his retirement

from being a bus driver, in Sheffield.

Best be quick and thank you to Kevin,

the bus driver, for location intel.

- See, always ask a bus driver.

- He ends up being sort of like

a grandfather figure

to both of us.

- There is such a fear factor, he represents that,

the opposite of you, which, you know, the Doctor

likes to ask questions and assess and go in.

Graham would wait a week and then open the door

to see if anyone was there

and have a little sandwich in between.

- These days, I always carry a cheese and pickle sarnie,

you know, just for emergencies.

- Tim Shaw?

- Tzim-Sha.

- Tim Shaw?

- Tzim-Sha!

- Yeah, he basically goes around killing people

and then every time he kills people, he like,

collects their teeth and, as you can see,

his face is like full of teeth.