With rumours flying about a legion of old companions, references to the recent past and something terrible waiting at the end of the season, this is shaping up to be the most apocalyptic series of MDoctor Who to date.  However, in amongst all this, a single piece of the puzzle, the largest piece, has been hidden in plain sight.  Something remarkable is happening to the series this year, and it all comes down to the presence of Bernard Cribbins


A beloved performer in England. Cribbins has been the voice of decades of children's classics and is a gifted comic and serious actor.  We've even seen him once already, as Wilf Mott, the newspaper vendor who seemed unusually bullish in the face of alien attack in Voyage of the Damned.

That was the first clue.

Wilf Mott is not Wilf Mott.  Wilf Mott, is PC Tom Campbell and his presence could change the series forever.

  We can exclusively reveal that Cribbins, who played Campbel in Daleks-Invasion Earth 2150AD one of the two movies based on the series,  Made in 1966 it saw Cribbins, as PC Tom Campbell, get caught up in the time travelling adventures of the Doctor, a human scientist who had invented the TARDIS.

Our sources have confirmed that this is the character Cribbins is playing in season four, that Campbell has spent his life waiting for the Doctor to return and now he has, Campbell needs his help.  What that help involves remains to be seen but surely the presence of a character from the films, long since disavowed in accepted continuity and the radically different version of the Doctor they presented will be at the centre of the season arc.  Is this Doctor real?  Who was the human scientist?  Why is Wilf, or Tom, in this case, so desperate to find him?  What does this all have to do with 37 Nostrum Avenue, Wilf's home?

As is always the case with the Doctor, time will tell...