The first trailer with actual footage for the BBC's upcoming 50th anniversary special for it's popular science-fiction television series, Doctor Who, has been released. Titled "The Day of the Doctor" the special will air on the 23rd of November, and will be simultaneously broadcast around the world in 76 countries, and is considered to be the largest simulcast of a television drama in history. In some countries the episode will also be screened in participating cinemas.
The official synopsis for the episode, which the BBC released on November 4th, is: "The Doctors embark on their greatest adventure in this 50th anniversary special. In 2013, something terrible is awakening in London’s National Gallery; in 1562, a murderous plot is afoot in Elizabethan England; and somewhere in space an ancient battle reaches its devastating conclusion. All of reality is at stake as the Doctor’s own dangerous past comes back to haunt him."
Matt Smith and Jenna Coleman will return as the Eleventh Doctor and his assistant Clara Oswald, respectively, while the Tenth Doctor and his assistant Rose Tyler, David Tennant and Billie Piper, will also reprise their roles. Both Tennant and Piper have not appeared in the series since the departure of there characters at the end of its fourth series back in 2010. John Hurt will also star as an incarnation of the Doctor, his character being introduced in the last episode of the series to air, "The Name of The Doctor" in the seventh series final. It is speculated that Hurt's Doctor is a forgotten incarnation that existed between the Doctors' Eighth and Ninth incarnation (Paul McGann and Christopher Eccleston) although this has yet to be confirmed.
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