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This page is specifically for the three 60th Anniversary specials released in November 2023.

Series 14 has its own WMG page and more general WMG and spoilers for later stories should go on WMG Doctor Who (with spoilers) or other relevant WMG pages, not this one.

"The Giggle" has its own WMG page.

Potential villains

• Wrarth Warriors and Beep the Meep of all people are confirmed.
  • Unlike the comic, "Beep" appears to be the Meep's title, rather than a personal name.
• Although not yet officially confirmed, Neil Patrick Harris's character appears to be the Celestial Toymaker based on props seen during filming.
  • Confirmed, although he is referred to as "the Toymaker", probably because "Celestial" is also a slur for Chinese people, and the original Toymaker was likely named with this in mind.

Potential returning characters

• Donna Noble, Shaun Temple and Sylvia Noble are confirmed.
• UNIT is confirmed.
  • Kate Stewart.
    • Confirmed.
  • Martha Jones.
    • Jossed.
• Wilfred Mott
  • He gets a mention in The Star Beast. However, considering Bernard Cribbins passed away shortly after the Specials finished filming and was quite frail before then, he may or may not appear in person...
  • Confirmed.
• Mel Bush.
  • Mel is confirmed to be returning in Series 14, so she could make her first proper introduction to NuWho (besides the cameo in The Power of the Doctor) towards the end of the 60th Anniversary specials.
  • Seemingly confirmed to be appearing in The Giggle, as a blurred red-haired figure in an outfit with the same colours as Mel's S14 outfit can be seen in an officially released snippet.
  • Indeed, she appears in this episode.
• Susan Foreman. RTD commented "whatever happened to her 🤔" on an Instagram post by the BBC's official Doctor Who promotion account which showed the scene where the First Doctor leaves Susan on Earth and promises to return.
  • Jossed.
• The Eleventh Doctor.
  • The man in a long black coat, holding an umbrella, seen in front of the toy shop with his back to the camera in the trailer is the Eleventh Doctor in some form, or at least played by Matt Smith.
  • Jossed — and the man is John Logie Baird's assistant, not played by Matt Smith.
• The Twelfth Doctor.
  • Unlikely, as Peter Capaldi has repeatedly stated that multi-Doctor episodes don't appeal to him/"aren't for his Doctor", but the appearance could be in the form of a (non-speaking) cameo/archival footage/audio.
  • Jossed.
• The Thirteenth Doctor. While it may seem unlikely since Jodie Whittaker had only just finished filming for Doctor Who the year prior, and would have shortly given birth to her second child while the 60th was filming and therefore in no condition to film, she could show up in a cameo/archival footage/audio.
  • Jossed.
• Doom from the Doom's Day multimedia event. There must be a reason for this multimedia event featuring a character we have never heard of before being promoted as a celebration of Doctor Who's 60th anniversary. It also helps that Doom's goal is to find the Doctor, and while she has met multiple incarnations of the Doctor, she has not found the right one.
  • Doom eventually met the First Doctor, who was the right Doctor. However, this does not necessarily negate the possibility of her appearing in the specials.
  • Jossed.

The new David Tennant Doctor is The Valeyard

At least one of the 60th Anniversary Specials will continue the "X of the Doctor" naming convention

In order to tie it back to the 50th Anniversary Specials (similar to how the 10th and 20th Anniversary Specials had similar names) as well as making it feel more like a direct follow up to "The Power of the Doctor".

• Jossed.

Fourteen won't stay as David Tennant.

As seen when the Master regenerates into the Doctor, the regeneration is unstable. The Doctor therefore is cycling through their past and the regeneration will grow to be a brand new face.

• Jossed. Fourteen does indeed keep his face for the entirety of the three specials.

Tennant isn't playing the Fourteenth Doctor, he's playing the Tenth again due to shenanigans.

• Mainly because this would take the wind out of Ncuti Gatwa's casting. If you pay attention to the episode, when the Master forced the Doctor to regenerate into him, and later when it was reversed, the resulting incarnation kept the clothes they were wearing before, yet when Thirteen regenerates her clothes change into other ones. I think something's going on here. I'm thinking someone's pulling shenanigans with body-swapping technology similar to what the Eleventh Doctor used in Death of the Doctor.
• Looking Jossed, as promotion material consistently refers to Tennant as 14 and Gatwa as 15, as well as RTD confirming that Tennant is "unashamedly the Fourteenth Doctor", not “a trick, illusion or flashback".
  • Definitively jossed when the Doctor, played by David Tennant a second time, explicitly mentions his incarnations since the Tenth.

The Celestial Toymaker is behind why the Fourteenth Doctor resembles the Tenth Doctor, and why the clothes changed during the regeneration.

• Jossed. No mention is made of the Toymaker influencing the Doctor's appearance.

In a breaking of tradition, the first full episode of Fourteen will not take place immediately after the regeneration.

• At the least, there will be no (onscreen) post-regenerative trauma.
  • Confirmed that the Fourteenth Doctor does not experience post-regenerative trauma.
• Looking confirmed, as 14's first story is Liberation of the Daleks, a 13-part comic strip published in Doctor Who Magazine which is overseen by RTD, although it is not written by him, intended to be "in lockstep" with TV continuity. The comic picks up where The Power of the Doctor left off.
  • The episode probably won't reference the comic, to avoid alienating the majority of the audience who hasn't read the comic. However, there will still be some indication that the Doctor recently regenerated.
    • Confirmed - no references to Liberation of the Daleks in The Star Beast. The Doctor does not mention having regenerated shortly before, but the psychic paper not having adapted to the Doctor being male again is certainly an indicator that not much time has passed since the regeneration.

Fourteen is played by David Tennant due to the Master.

Thirteen ended up having her body hijacked for the Master for some time, which'd bound to have some complications down the line. Due to what happened the Doctor's body was still confused, so it regenerated into a previous appearance. We know from Commander Maxil and 6 that he can regenerate to look like other people, and we know from 12 that the Doctor can subconsciously choose their face on some level. So after having a serious identity crisis in both "The Timeless Children" and the Master literally stealing her identity, 13 regenerated into an earlier form. So why 10's face? For one, 10 is the only incarnation to "survive" regeneration, in addition to having at least one semi-incarnation in the Meta-Crisis Doctor, so 10's appearance might just be the most recognizable to the Doctor's body/subconscious. In addition, 10 had "vanity issues" and dreaded the idea of regeneration so maybe 13 identified with 10 on some level when she regenerated.

Admittedly this theory doesn't explain why the clothes regenerated, but that could just be a consequence of the Master's prior meddling; regeneration already radically alters someone's body, so altering clothes might be somewhat possible (and it happened before with 1-2).

How the 60th Anniversary Specials bring up the Flux

RTD teased in Doctor Who Magazine Issue 585 that the second 60th Anniversary Special includes the word "Flux" (capitalisation his) in the dialogue. Hence, it is likely that this is a reference to the Flux. One complaint about Series 13 is that the destruction of a large swath of N-Space by the Flux was left unresolved and unacknowledged.

• It is very unlikely that RTD will resolve/continue Chibnall-era plotlines extensively onscreen. However, perhaps the impact of the Flux on the Whoniverse has been resolved offscreen, and some character acknowledges that.
  • The mention of the Flux was in the context of it having destroyed half the universe (Chibnall did not specify how much of the universe the Flux destroyed, just an arbitrarily large portion), which remains destroyed.
• More likely, it is a continuation of the running gag that Donna consistently "slept through" alien invasions as long as she lives an ordinary life without the Doctor present. She slept through the Flux too!
  • Probably was on vacation when the Monks and Robertson’s Daleks showed up, too.
  • Jossed, in a way — "Not-Donna", who has the DoctorDonna's memories, tells the Doctor that she knows about the Flux and the Doctor's role in it. It is left ambiguous whether the real Donna ever had access to the Doctor's experience of the Flux.
• Or maybe "Flux" isn't The Flux, but rather the name of the small, white robot seen in the official poster for 'Wild Blue Yonder'.
  • Or it is the name of the spaceship/building with the white corridors the Doctor and Donna have been shown to be in in trailers/posters.
  • RTD has confirmed that the Timeless Child and the Flux will be mentioned in the specials, but it is still possible that at least one of the robot/spaceship/building are named something with "Flux" in it.
  • Jossed: neither the spaceship nor the robot have names containing "Flux". The mention of "Flux" was indeed referencing The Flux.

The Fifteenth Doctor's location when he says, "Now, someone tell me, what the hell is going on here?"

RTD mentions in Doctor Who Magazine Issue 585 that the cloudy sky behind Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor, seen in the teaser for the 60th Anniversary Specials, as he says this line, is a CGI backdrop created specifically for the teaser to hide his actual location during this scene. This location is...

• The Fourteenth Doctor's TARDIS interior.
  • Probably not; in the "Next Time" trailer for The Giggle which aired after Wild Blue Yonder aired, we see 15 (in the remains of 14's outfit, albeit tidier-looking than in the first teaser) in 14's TARDIS. However, the shot of 14 regenerating has the same cloudy background, so the location of 14's regeneration (which is not the TARDIS) is being kept under wraps.
• The Fifteenth Doctor's TARDIS interior (which may or may not be the same as the Fourteenth's)
• Gallifrey (restored offscreen, or maybe not - after all, Gallifrey is now simply a barren rock with ruins on it, so it is still possible for one to be there)
  • Whether the Death Particle, in addition to eliminating organic life, also prevents organic life ever existing on a planet again is ambiguous...
• A bizarre realm ruled by the Toymaker, or whoever the villain is.
• The Edge of Existence, where he is prevented from emerging as the real 14.
  • Gatwa is wearing the tattered remains of 14's outfit in this scene. It's most likely just a post-regeneration scene. Why would merchandise, marketing, extra-TV narratives, and RTD consistently establish Tennant as 14 and Gatwa as 15 for over a year only to re-number Gatwa as 14? It would be highly alienating.
• The cliff where 13 regenerated, after the Toymaker has been defeated and his manipulation of the Doctor's regeneration undone - we will see a re-do of 13's regeneration, even if we don't see 13 herself.
• All jossed — Ncuti's Doctor makes his first appearance atop the UNIT building. The blurred background hides the Fourteenth Doctor also being there.

Ncuti Gatwa is the Fourteenth Doctor.

As a consequence of the Master's forced regeneration, or the machinations of the Toymaker (if that is NPH's character), he sees himself as his previous selves, mainly Ten, but also sees Eleven in a reflection. Thus the Doctor's line that "I don't know who I am anymore." The current numbering is done specifically to troll the audience even further.

• Why would the BBC and RTD troll the audience for over a year? It would be highly impractical and alienating for merchandise, marketing and extra-TV narratives (14's first story is a comic in DWM) to consistently refer to Tennant as 14 and Gatwa as 15 for about a year, only to call Gatwa 14 in short order.
• And we see Ncuti in the tattered remains of 14's costume, as though fresh after regenerating, to boot.
• Tantalisingly, newspapers and interviews have reported that Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor will have around 20 minutes of screen time in total over the three specials, and Yasmin Finney's Rose shares noteworthy amounts of screen time with him - far longer than would be for a simple post-regeneration scene.
  • DWM 594 mentions that Yasmin Finney wrapped filming in July 2023 - presumably her scenes with Ncuti, which her interviews from around this time mentioned, are in Series 14 rather than the 60th anniversary episodes.
    • This last point is confirmed, as the Season 1 Teaser shows the Fifteenth Doctor reuniting with Rose in UNIT HQ. Finney and Gatwa do not otherwise share screen time in the 60th Anniversary Specials.

Donna is the reason the Fourteenth Doctor looks like the Tenth

Obviously the Thirteenth Doctor had no way of knowing she would soon reunite with an old friend, but perhaps she subconsciously did so due to sensing their fates were intertwining once again? Fourteen comments that while they don’t believe in destiny, if it exists, it’s heading for Donna.

• Or quite simply "Ten" is back due to his unfinished business and regrets from that incarnation, among which Donna is the biggest.
  • Confirmed, or at least implied. Donna theorizes that the Doctor returned to looking like Ten and found her again as a sign that it was time for them to settle down for a bit with some loved ones, and finally let themselves emotionally heal.

The specials will be a metacommentary on how appeal to nostalgia holds back Doctor Who/the entertainment industry.

Early on, many fans have pointed out that the 60th Anniversary Specials (what was initially publicised, anyway) seem disproportionately focused on RTD's initial time as showrunner, with many elements from the most popular era of the show (David Tennant as the Doctor, Donna Noble, Donna's family, a major character named Rose), despite it being the anniversary of the Doctor Who franchise as a whole. This may be a deliberate choice.

NPH's character (symbolizing the audience) has passively enjoyed the Doctor's adventures from afar but they have slowly lost their luster. He attempts to reboot the Doctor, bringing back an old face and making the Doctor re-live old adventures and meet companions they should have moved on from, taking the Doctor back to a time that meant a lot to him/was the most enjoyable for him to observe. This stops Ncuti's Doctor, with a new face and new stories to tell, from emerging at the right time. (This ties in with the theory that Ncuti is actually 14.)

Why, then, would virtually all promotion of the Specials been focused on RTD1 nostalgia - up to 14's mannerisms being virtually identical to 10's (even saying "Allons-y!"), and the episode title cards in the title reveal trailers basically being HD versions of the 2005-10 episode title cards - if there is a significant amount of non-RTD1-celebrating content? This way, the specials appeal to the people who stopped watching because RTD1 ended and are only into Doctor Who because of RTD1 - those who are most in need of the lesson that dwelling on nostalgia isn't nice and Doctor Who needs to move on.

• The Toymaker's (NPH's character) defeat will involve the NuWho Doctors and/or companions since the Tenth Doctor, even if they only appear briefly, to cement the message "Yes, 10/Donna was amazing, but there have been wonderful developments in Doctor Who since and there will continue to be, look forwards not backwards!"
  • Jossed. No past Doctors appear in the three Specials (except the flashbacks to the Doctor's first encounter with the Toymaker).

Each special will be an adaptation of a DWM comic from the Classic era.

We know that one of the Specials features the Wrarth Warriors and a Meep (possibly Beep), characters which debuted in the 1980 DWM comic Doctor Who and the Star Beast.

• The 1996 DWM comic Endgame features the Celestial Toymaker creating a version of the Doctor which he pits against the real Doctor.
• Looking jossed - the first special, with Wrarth Warriors and the Meep, is titled The Star Beast, obviously drawing from the 1980 comic. However, the other two episodes are titled Wild Blue Yonder and The Giggle, and there are no DWM comics (or other written Doctor Who work) with these names (preceded by "Doctor Who and [the]..." or not). The other Doctor Who televised adaptation of a written work (Human Nature) had the same title as the original work, so it stands to reason that the other two special episodes are not adaptations of comics.

The Doctor will find a way of restoring Donna's memories of him without killing her.

Otherwise, bringing her back only to leave her the way she is would be rather pointless and cruel.

• Seemingly confirmed by the second trailer showing the Doctor and Donna embracing with no (apparent) ill effects and Donna excitedly exclaiming "Skinny man!" as she sees the Doctor and as Sylvia awkwardly tries to block her view. However, this may not necessarily mean that she has recognised the "skinny man" as the Doctor, or recalled the precise nature of their adventures together...
  • This scene occurs before Donna fully remembers the Doctor, as it turns out.
• The Doctor restores Donna's memory because of the risk of Donna being "part Time Lord". We know that a Time Lord's biological material is considered extremely valuable due to its miraculous properties, to the extent that races throughout the universe are willing to destroy planets to obtain just one Time Lord cell. Perhaps there are aliens out there (maybe NPH's character is among them) who are coming for Donna - to save Donna, the Doctor removes Donna's Time Lord energy, restoring her memories in the process.
  • Jossed. Donna and Rose Noble remove the Metacrisis on their own, with about as much effort and fanfare as taking a coat off. Also, it turns out that Donna's memories of the Doctor could be restored without killing her because Rose Noble inherited some of the Metacrisis, relieving the strain on Donna's brain.
• Maybe Donna will not permanently regain her memories, but this time, when she loses them, it will be her choice.
  • Donna and Rose's shaking off the Metacrisis appeared permanent. But it can't possibly be that easy, can it?

Donna's family are now multimillionaires.

The Doctor did get Donna a triple rollover lottery ticket as a wedding gift.

• Jossed. Donna donated all the lottery money to charity.

Alternatively, little has changed with Donna's living conditions.

Maybe they made donations with most of the lottery money.

• Confirmed that Donna donated her winnings to charity — in fact, the Noble family is now even worse off.

There will be significant time jumps between the three specials.

This would give ample leeway for additional stories set during 14's lifetime, and extend it - 14's lifetime would otherwise be very short (under a day), undoubtedly the shortest lifespan of the numbered Doctors.

• Looking jossed as The Star Beast appears to be leading straight into Wild Blue Yonder.
• And Wild Blue Yonder seems to lead straight into The Giggle.

The Fourteenth Doctor's last words.

Since the Doctor is set to regenerate into his fifteenth incarnation by the end of the 60th anniversary specials, what could he say before he passes? Here are some suggestions:

• "I'm ready to go." An inversion of 10's last words about not wanting to go.
• Alternatively, "Allons-y!"
  • Somewhat confirmed — the Fourteenth Doctor intended for these to be his last words, but due to the bi-generation he doesn't stop existing.
• The score accompanying the regeneration scene will be titled "Vale Quattuordecim", and harken back to "Vale Decem".
• Alternatively, something different which may or may not invoke a similar meaning or call-back.

The Fourteenth Doctor built his sonic screwdriver.

14's sonic screwdriver has elements of all the revived era's Doctors' sonic screwdrivers (12's blue light in the middle, 11's extendable prongs and curved handle section, 9/10's cracked handle) - except 13's. Perhaps the allusion to 13 in the design of the sonic screwdriver will be the fact that the Doctor built it himself, if not the aesthetics of the screwdriver.

• The curving prongs on the screwdriver could be a subtle nod to 13's.

The meaning of RTD's comment on the BBC's official Doctor Who Instagram account post about Wild Blue Yonder

"Oh my God, that's 🔔 and then they 🍎 and 🕛 until 💥🔥⚡️🐧"

• A hint at the return of the Twelfth Doctor and/or Clara, as indicated by the apple symbolising Clara Oswald's work as a teacher (and possibly also 12's stint as a university lecturer) and the clock indicating 12 o'clock. The penguin preceded by emojis depicting an explosion, a flame and a lightning bolt could be a reference to Twelve's "running like a penguin with its arse on fire".
  • Jossed: no previous Doctors or companions appear in Wild Blue Yonder.
• A hint at the on-screen appearance of Frobisher from comics and Big Finish audios (indicated by the penguin). Given the popularity of the suggestion to bring this fairly niche character to the screen (and RTD's engagement with the fanbase), and one of the specials adapting The Star Beast, a niche piece of Doctor Who media, this is not a slim probability.
  • Jossed — Frobisher does not appear.
• A hint at the return of Amy and/or the Eleventh Doctor, indicated by the apple and clock and possibly the explosion (references to The Eleventh Hour).
  • Jossed.
• A hint at the return of Bel from Flux (indicated by the bell - see the use of a rose emoji to announce the appearance of Yasmin Finney's Rose)
  • Jossed.
• The bell indicates a cloister bell, the clock indicates time running out, and the explosion, flame and lightning bolt indicate (impending) regeneration.
• The apple is a reference to the saying "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" - perhaps there will be a storyline about the Doctor being missing/absent.
  • Jossed — it is in fact referencing the Doctor's encounter with Isaac Newton at the beginning of the episode.
• Or it could all be a massive red herring.
• The clock could be referencing the slow countdown, and the penguin the Toymaker (who wears a tuxedo in his latest appearance), who makes his NuWho debut in The Giggle which Wild Blue Yonder is leading straight into. The flames, explosion and lightning are either a reference to the ship exploding, or the chaos on Earth that the Toymaker seems to be behind. But that leaves the bell...
  • The cloister bell, as predicted above? It did start ringing as soon as Donna spilled coffee on the console, which is before the Isaac Newton opening of the episode.

The Fourteenth Doctor will regenerate by tripping over a brick.

The Tenth Doctor once said, "I hope I don't just trip over a brick" - thus, this would be a literal Brick Joke.

• 15's exclamation, "someone tell me what the hell is going on here", is in reference to the Doctor not realising he just died and regenerated, as a result of his quick, freak death of tripping over a brick.
• It would fit well with a regeneration episode titled The Giggle - an unexpectedly whimsical title for a regeneration episode, usually a very sombre affair.
• Jossed — he is hit by the Galvanic Beam.

If Donna does lose her memories again...

Her last conversation with 14 will have a Call-Back to one of 10's lines in "Journey's End".

Donna: We had the best of times, didn't we?
The Doctor: The best.

• Jossed. Donna keeps her memories.

The Fourteenth Doctor is meant to be a “default” Doctor of sorts

Regardless of whether or not some theories he may switch faces or see other incarnations in the reflection turn out to be true, Fourteen's personality will at least include aspects of various other Doctors. His outfit notably has a few cues from several past Doctors, even more so with his sonic.

Donna's regaining of her memories of the Doctor has a cost - the Doctor must sacrifice himself and thus regenerate.

If Donna doesn't die when her memories are regained, the Doctor must.

• Jossed — Donna regains her memories and removes the Metacrisis from herself in The Star Beast with no harm to the Doctor.

The Fifteenth Doctor's location when the first view of him in his official costume is seen

In the September 2023 trailer, we see a glimpse of Ncuti Gatwa's Doctor from the shoulders up (where he is wearing the brown jacket that is part of his official costume), with a blurred golden orangey-brown background behind him. This location is...

• Gallifrey.
• The Edge of Existence.
• The cliff where the Thirteenth Doctor regenerated.
• Or perhaps this is just another placeholder background for the trailer, and the real background has none of these colours.

The man in the long black coat and umbrella, played by a "big actor", seen walking into the old-fashioned toy shop in the May 2023 trailer is...

• The Eleventh Doctor.
  • Jossed.
• John Logie Baird, the inventor of television.
  • In the May and September 2023 trailers, we see images of Stooky Bill, a dummy head that Logie Baird used to test his televising technology, projected onto screens in what appears to be an UNIT office.
  • Logie Baird bought Stooky Bill from the Toymaker. Stooky Bill has strange powers.
  • Jossed. It's Charlie, Logie Baird's assistant. He's the one who indeed buys Stooky Bill from the Toymaker.
• The "big actor" is Matt Smith, even if he isn't playing the Eleventh Doctor.
  • Jossed.

The small, white, eggcup-on-legs robot seen in the official poster for Wild Blue Yonder doesn't appear in the episode.

• It's a placeholder for the major villain, to avoid spoiling the appearance of said villain.
• The robot could appear, but not as a major antagonist.
  • Confirmed — the robot is programmed to detonate the spaceship, with the major villains being the "No-Things".
• The robot appears on the cover of the novelization of Wild Blue Yonder, so presumably it has a prominent role.
• Jossed — the robot does appear.

The Tardis' change.

• She changed for the same reason as why they designed it in the real world — to be wheelchair-accessible, as they were going to pick up Wilf before Donna pulled a Donna, and obviously the Tardis would want him to be able to actually board her easily.
  • The Tardis is explicitly identified as wheelchair-accessible in "The Giggle", though neither of the wheelchair-using characters (Wilf and Shirley) board her.

Beep was a Bowdlerised translation

When the Meep said "I am the Beep of all the Meeps", that was the TARDIS translator's swear filter going off.

This isn't the last we'll see of the Meeps

The Meep said it will tell 'The Boss' about the Doctor, opening the floodgates for more Meep invasions.

• "The Boss" is almost certainly the Toymaker. For one thing I believe they said that the rest of Meepkind were wiped out prior to the episode, for another I also believe that they said that, before becoming the last of Meepkind, The Meep was their leader, so if The Meep has a boss, presumably it isn't another of Meepkind.
• The Meep's boss is The Duchess (the character Indira Varma is announced as playing), and the Duchess is the Rani...

The TARDIS' new interior will survive blowing up in the cliffhanger.

Not all that Wild, but really, even with Disney money, they're not gonna build an all new TARDIS set, the biggest one to date save possibly the movie TARDIS, use it for one scene and then have it be destroyed and make a new one. If WMG was a game, this would probably be cheating.

• OP: Sure enough, confirmed, after it regenerates the TARDIS retains the design that debuted in this episode.

The Fourteenth Doctor will encounter Ncuti Gatwa, but not as the Fifteenth Doctor.

Rather, Ncuti will play a side character that the Doctor and Donna run into and, like Lobus Caecilius, leaves such an impact on the Doctor that it causes him to adopt his face when he inevitably regenerates. It would be a neat parallel considering Donna was also present last time this happened and her insistence on saving at least somebody from Pompeii was what Twelve's face was supposed to be a reminder of.

• Jossed.

Should the Guardians of the Edge appear in "Wild Blue Yonder"...

Their sub-plot will involve killing 14 so 15 can take his rightful place. More seriously...

• Jossed — the Guardians of the Edge do not make an appearance in this episode.

15 will make an earlier appearance in the specials than anyone expects.

Either via a mid-episode regeneration in "The Giggle", or a cameo appearance in "Wild Blue Yonder".

• Ncuti Gatwa does not appear in "Wild Blue Yonder".
• Confirmed that a mid-episode regeneration happens.

Where the TARDIS went at the end of The Star Beast

• To the time of its own construction, on Gallifrey — the TARDIS teleported within an older version of itself.
• A Doctor Who set, having crossed into our universe. RTD did say Wild Blue Yonder was going to be especially weird and experimental, going where Doctor Who has never gone before...
  • This would fit with the theory that the Specials are a metacommentary on television viewing/the Doctor Who fanbase.
• The Division HQ, as seen in Flux.
• A human starship — Wild Blue Yonder acts as a sequel to/adaptation of The Ark in Space (RTD's favorite Doctor Who story), at least partially, with the ominous rustling heard in the "Next Time" teaser being a Wirrn, and the small white robot in the poster being a guardian/sentry. The Doctor is puzzled as to why he is reliving old adventures, until The Giggle when it all comes together...
• All jossed.

The Toymaker will act as a stand-in for (and exploration of) certain subsects of the fandom.

More specifically, he’ll represent the fans that Accentuate the Negative at the expense of missing the point of a story. For example, the Toymaker has given the Fourteenth Doctor the Tenth’s face in the misguided belief that a violate, emotionally unstable Doctor would make the game more “fun”. He’ll also be under the belief that the Timeless Child is now the only thing that defines the Doctor, and that the 60 years leading up to that revelation “doesn’t count” because he’s not “ordinary” anymore. The Doctor’s main arc now (and continuing arc into Series 14 / Season 1) is that his past is irrelevant, and his future choices are what matter.

• Jossed. The Toymaker didn't influence the Doctor's regeneration, and in fact it's implied he came back only due to the Doctor's own actions in "Wild Blue Yonder".

Fourteen's mention that the "timelines and canon are rupturing" in the Children In Need special is why it was so easy to change "gravity" to "mavity".

As noted under Artistic License – History, "gravity" was derived from "gravitas", a word far older than Newton. But what if it technically wasn't Artistic License because the damages to time erased "gravitas" from history?

The Not-Things are related to the Midnight entity

The way they operate is not identical, but similar: both attempt to escape an isolated and inhospitable climate by studying and gradually growing more skilled at impersonating other beings. Both cause massive paranoia and distrust, whether intentionally as a strategy to help their escape, or simply as a byproduct of their modus operandi. Both refer to humanity as "warm" in contrast to their "cold" origin (though the Midnight entity speaks of the warmth of humanity rhapsodically while the Not-Things seem disdainful). And in both cases, the Doctor has no clue what the hell they are.

The Toymaker is another member of the Timeless Child's species.

RTD mentions that "The Giggle" will introduce radical changes to Doctor Who lore. This WMG links the Timeless Child story to the original intention of the Toymaker being a member of the Doctor's species/people (back when the Doctor wasn't specified as a "Time Lord" yet).

• The "radical change to lore" referenced is most probably bi-regeneration.

The Toymaker's original appearance will be explained as in-universe Yellowface

Clips show him affecting French and German accents. He's an Eldritch Abomination cosplaying as a human, and this was just one more part of that.

• Jossed in the show itself, him no longer dressing as an Asian stereotype isn't addressed. Although RTD's commentary provides Word of God that this was a factor in his portrayal.

The One Who Waits

It's Ashildr/Me at the end of time, in the bitter, nihilistic mood she was in before meeting Twelve and Clara again.

The Fourteenth Doctor will eventually use an Elysian Field to become The Valeyard and The Curator.

That would cover all the alternate versions of The Doctor running around right now.

The hand that took the Toymaker's gold tooth containing the Master belonged to Lucy Saxon.

It kind of looks like her hand, and it makes sense that if she somehow survived the explosion in "The End Of Time" she would still be interested in revenge on her ex-husband.

The TARDIS took The Doctor to the ship in Wild Blue Yonder to make bigeneration possible

The TARDIS always takes The Doctor where he needs to go, but if anything his appearance in Wild Blue Yonder is actively detrimental - without his input, the Not Things would have been killed, and his appearance gave them a chance to escape. While he's there he invokes superstition by spilling salt, and later worries that this opens the door for mythical things to occur in real life.When 14 bigenerates into 15, 15 specifically tells the others that bigeneration is a myth and isn't supposed to exist, so maybe the reason the TARDIS took the Doctor where it did in Wild Blue Yonder is to open the door and make bigeneration possible.

• Adding to this, Donna theorises that 14 picked his face as a hint that he needed to find her and retire. After bringing him to Donna, at the beginning of a situation where she can regain her memories, it takes him to a place that opens the door for him to retire, allowing him to take some much needed rest and relaxation without the burden of worrying about the fate of the universe, instead leaving it in 15's hands.

Now that we know "the boss" isn't the Toymaker...

...it could be a Collector-type character, as the Meep specifically stated that a being with two hearts is very rare, which is why "the boss" will be interested.