Doctor Who to Face an Old Enemy

The Zygons will be returning to Doctor Who as part of the show’s 50th anniversary celebrations.

The BBC today made the following announcement:

Aside from flashbacks these malevolent shape-shifters have only appeared once before, threatening earth in the fourth Doctor adventure, ‘Terror of the Zygons.’ Despite the fact that their solitary outing was over 30 years they remain a popular old enemy and in the 2010 episode, ‘The Pandorica Opens,’ they were amongst the massed aliens said to be gathering above Stonehenge.

Later, in ‘The Power of Three,’ we learnt that Zygons had one of their ships under the Savoy Hotel in 1890 and apparently replaced half the staff with imposters. But this time they really are back…

As previously announced, David Tennant, Billie Piper and Joanna Page will be joining Matt Smith and Jenna-Louise Coleman in the anniversary special.

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