It’s A Lucky Day To Dip In The Well Of New 'Doctor Who' Episode Titles

The Robot Revolution will be televised. Season begins April 12.

We are mere weeks away from the April 12 premiere of Doctor Who’s second season on Disney+ and with Ncuti Gatwa as the Doctor, or of its third era on the BBC. Another episode title reveal video to match last year’s was highly anticipated, except it couldn’t piggyback off of being an Easter treat because Easter is April 20 this year, the Sunday after the airing of episode 2. Still, we got the title reveal Saturday afternoon. All episodes will release at midnight Pacific on Disney+ internationally, which equates to 3 AM Eastern and 8 AM local time on BBC iPlayer. A linear BBC One timeslot has yet to be revealed.

The season kicks off with “The Robot Revolution”, which explains all the scenes with the red robots and their capturing of Belinda Chandra, played by Varada Sethu. A given description from Cultbox, as all will be, since the official website’s individual episode pages only use the general season synopsis, reads “Giant red robots abduct a nurse named Belinda and take her to an alien planet with the Doctor in hot pursuit”. It’s written by showrunner Russell T. Davies and directed by Peter Hoar. The known guest stars for the episode are Belinda Owusu, Evelyn Miller and Max Parker. On April 19 comes “Lux”, written by Davies and directed by Amanda Brotchie. As previously reported, the episode guest stars Alan Cumming as the old-timey cartoon character Mr. Ring-a-Ding. He originates from a happy, funny, singalong cartoon, and lives in Sunny Town with his friend Sunshine Sally. However, in 1952, after years of his cartoons playing in theaters he looks beyond the screen and sees the real world outside, to terrifying consequences. Its aesthetic is appropriately a ‘50s era movie theater. This will see Anita Dobson’s first episode this season returning as Mrs. Flood, and counts Lewis Cornay among its other guest cast.

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On April 26 is “The Well”, written by Russell T Davies & Sharma Angel Walfall, and directed by Amanda Brotchie. The title adorns the door of what looks to be an underground vault. Very Fallout, though not an exact aesthetic match. It was previously believed to be called “Five Miles Deep” and is indeed the episode for Rose Ayling-Ellis and Christopher Chung. Here, the Doctor and Belinda don suits and helmets to join Troopers on a mission into the deep. Caoilfhionn Dunne and Bethany Antonia are other known guest stars. May 3 sees the return of last season’s companion Ruby Sunday, played by Millie Gibson, in the episode “Lucky Day”, written by Pete McTighe and directed by Peter Hoar. Lately she’s struck up a romance with Lucky Day podcast host Conrad Clark, played by Jonah Hauer-King, and begun work with UNIT, which faces suspicion about what occurs at their headquarters. Of course a trip to UNIT means the returns of Jemma Redgrave as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, Alexander Devrient as Colonel Ibrahim, and Ruth Madeley as Shirley Anne Bingham. Blake Patrick Anderson, Madison Stock, Kareem Alexander and Benjamin Chivers also guest star.

May 10 brings “The Story and the Engine”, written by Inua Ellams, who revealed the season’s airing period before it was formally announced, and directed by Makalla McPherson. It centers on a barber shop situated precariously on the the abdomen of a spider. The barbershop table is appropriately cluttered but also has the missing poster for the Nigerians which the season trailers have touched on. Adrian Pang will guest star. Next, on May 17 we have “Interstellar Song Contest”, the one we’ve been able to gather the most informationIt’s the season’s sixth episode, the final adventure before the two-part finale, written by Juno Dawson, directed by Ben A. Williams and airing the day of the Eurovision Grand Final. The episode features the 803rd edition of Interstellar Song Contest in the Harmony Arena space station, hosted by Rylan as himself, and a feline alien named Sabine played by Julie Dray. Other guest stars include the returning Dobson as Mrs. Flood, Kadiff Kirwan looking like a talent handler, or maybe talent himself. and Freddie Fox as the episode’s horned alien villain.

The two-part finale will play over May 24 and 31, both parts written by Russell T. Davies and directed by Alex Sanjiv Pillai. It starts with “Wish World”, where the Doctor and Belinda enter a strange world made of bones and the Doctor must go undercover alone. When he does, in “The Reality War”, Belinda joins Ruby and UNIT to fight to save the world they know. Not only is Ruby still with Conrad, meaning Hauer-King returns too, but the already-confirmed UNIT trio has two of its major employees, Bonnie Langford’s Mel Bush and Yasmin Finney’s Rose Noble, returning. Meanwhile, Michelle Greenidge as Ruby’s mother Carla, Angela Wynter as grandmother Cherry and Susan Twist as Susan Triad, who was last seen getting recruited to UNIT despite being injected into the world by last season’s finale villain Sutekh as a tech CEO, do not have their episodes confirmed, but that finale seems pretty likely again. Archie Panjabi also has a villain role this series.

Davies said: “Excitement mounts as the new season gets closer, and there's nothing a Doctor Who fan loves more than facts! So here’s a whole bunch of them, with titles and writers, everything you need to get ready for transmission!” While there’s no official non-shorts upload of the titles reveal, it can still be watched below.

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Sources: Doctor Who, Cultbox