Doctor Who at the Proms

The 2013 specials of the British science fiction television programme Doctor Who are two additional episodes following the programme's seventh series. In addition to the traditional Christmas episode broadcast on 25 December 2013, a feature of the revived series since 2005, there was also a special celebrating the 50th anniversary of the programme broadcast on 23 November 2013, both airing on BBC One. Production of "The Day of the Doctor" began on 2 April 2013, and production of the Christmas episode, "The Time of the Doctor", began in September. Two supplemental episodes were also filmed alongside the specials; "The Night of the Doctor" (which featured the return of Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor for the first time since 1996.) and "The Last Day" were both produced as lead-in mini-episodes for the 50th anniversary special, and were released online days before the special's broadcast. The two special broadcast episodes were initially released in separate home media sets, before being released together alongside the mini-episodes in a collector's boxset. Both episodes starred Matt Smith as the Eleventh Doctor and Jenna Coleman as Clara Oswald. The 50th-anniversary special, "The Day of the Doctor" also starred David Tennant, Billie Piper, and John Hurt. It also featured a special cameo from Tom Baker who played the Fourth Doctor as The Curator, a potential future incarnation of the Doctor. "The Time of the Doctor" saw the departure of Smith from the series and the introduction of Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor.