As we all get ready for The Power of The Doctor later this month, Jodie Whittaker’s final outing as The Doctor and also (yay!) showrunner Chris Chibnall’s goodbye to the long-running sci-fi classic, we have a cool new look at a highly anticipated returning character.
The images, from SFX Magazine, show the return of Sophie Aldred’s Ace McShane – who traveled with Sylvester McCoy’s Doctor back in the 80s – and Janet Fielding’s Tegan who traveled with both Tom Baker’s and Peter Davidson’s Doctors in the 1970s and 1980s.
We have already seen these two briefly in the episode’s trailer, below, but the new image, above, is notable for a really cool reason.
In the new image, Ace is wearing her old bomber jacket, complete with badges, patches and, yes, Blue Peter badge and is armed with a baseball bat. Oh, and according to Aldred, this is the original jacket she wore in the 80s as she still had it all these years later: “[Costume designer] Ray Holman said, ‘Can we borrow this to copy?’ and I said, ‘Why copy it? We’ll just use the jacket. You might have to sew the badges on again, though.’ Because the badges notoriously always fell off,” she says.
Aldred’s Ace became a big part of Doctor Who lore because she beat a Dalek with a baseball bat (here) in Remembrance of the Daleks and later, in extended lore, traveled to Gallifrey after her adventures with the Doctor and eventually became a Timelord. It’s unclear if The Power of The Doctor will acknowledge this or if it’ll create a new fate for the character.
All I know is that in 1988 when I discovered Doctor Who with McCoy (always will be my Doctor) and Aldred, Ace was a real favourite for my impressionable young mind… and I cannot wait to see her return!
Let’s hope the episode, which will lead into the 60th-anniversary episodes, is better than Chibnall’s output so far… Whittaker deserves at the very least, a good send-off.
Here’s an exclusive first-look image from The Power Of The Doctor – part of our #DoctorWho feature in the new issue of SFX, on sale 5 October!@bbcdoctorwho pic.twitter.com/zxMHPImu3k
— SFX magazine (@SFXmagazine) October 3, 2022
Marc
Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….
Nerd Comments