Doctor Who Series 10 trailer: 14 things you need to see in Peter Capaldi’s final season

New takes on old villains, a divisive accessory, and a brand new companion
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Ben Travis14 March 2017

It’s been two years since the last full series of Doctor Who, so it’s fair to say that Series 10 is hotly anticipated.

Add in the fact that it’s Peter Capaldi’s last run and the end of Steven Moffat’s tenure as showrunner, and this should be something special.

The latest trailer gives some tantalising hints at what’s to come – new takes on old villains, the return of a divisive accessory, and our best look yet at new companion Bill.

Here are 14 significant things we noticed in the latest clip.

1) Nardole’s back – for good?

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Initially introduced in 2015’s Christmas Special, Matt Lucas’ hapless bald-headed Nardole seems to have become a favourite of showrunner Steven Moffat. After returning for 2016’s festive episode The Return of Doctor Mysterio, he seems to have full sidekick status in Series 10.

2) The new companion

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Pearl Mackie joins the cast this year as Bill, the Doctor’s new companion. We don’t know much about her yet, but she seems more in the ‘ordinary girl on extraordinary adventures’ vibe of Billie Piper’s Rose Tyler than Moffat’s usual penchant for magical time-warping women.

3) Like and subscribe

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We’re giving a thumbs-up to this new robot design which, as Bill points out, “speaks emoji”. Don’t we all these days.

4) Back in time

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It’s been a while since Doctor Who had a proper good old back-in-time romp. One story looks set to find Bill and the Doctor in 1814, a year which saw George Stephenson launch his first locomotive, and something called the London Beer Flood – which might sound great, but demolished buildings and killed a number of people.

5) Something fishy

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There seems to be a water-centric episode, with several shots of sentient liquid – and this huge monstrous eye.

6) Call in the exterminators

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It wouldn’t be a series of Doctor Who without at least one Dalek story. This scene looks similar to the one which revealed the casting of Mackie as Bill, where the Doctor and his mystery companion found themselves running away from the iconic aliens.

7) New evolutions

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Immediately after the shot of the Dalek we know and love comes this – a girl who seems to consist of water and says one very telling word: ‘exterminate’. Could the water story and the Dalek story be one and the same?

8) Nightmare fodder

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The family-friendly show usually includes one or two especially scary episodes per series – and these new foes look set to haunt kids’ nightmares for weeks to come.

9) Familiar foe

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Michelle Gomez is confirmed to return as Missy, the latest incarnation of nefarious Time Lord sort-of villain The Master. She’s been a highlight of Capaldi’s run – but will she be regenerating by the end of the series as well as The Doctor?

10) Sneaky creaker

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This wooden creature bears more than a passing resemblance to the tree creatures found in 2011 Christmas Special, The Doctor The Widow and the Wardrobe.

11) Special specs

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Brace yourselves, it looks like those hugely divisive ‘sonic sunglasses’ (in lieu of the typical screwdriver) are making a comeback.

12) Blast from the past

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Much has been made of the return of the original ‘Mondasian’ Cybermen, which haven’t been featured on the show in over 50 years. Apparently they’re a firm favourite of Capaldi, and are thought to play a part in his final episodes.

13) Scaled up

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It’s not just the Daleks that might be getting a makeover – this reptilian creature bares more than a passing resemblance to the Silurians, but they’ve never looked exactly like this before.

14) New accessory

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If the return of the sonic sunglasses hint that the Doctor’s current blue screwdriver gets broken somehow, here’s another interesting tidbit – is that a new red screwdriver wheeling through the air?

Doctor Who Series 10 begins on BBC One on Saturday, April 15

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