THE WHOS THE BOSS Two villainous machines and a time-traveling phone booth were on hand for this week's cover shoot, which spotlights iconic pieces of the Doctor l/l/ho-verse. (That'd be a Cyberman, a Dalek, and the TARDIS, respectively.) But photographer Ian Derry says the "brilliant" chemistry between Matt Smith, as the bow-tied Time Lord, and MPi Jenna-Louise Coleman, who -?> plays the new companion, was the real star: "[They were] probably the best two I've -*•" photographed in a long time." —Adam Carlson ON THE COVERS Louise Coleman and jmith photographed ' ir FW by Ian Derry >013, in London AND MAKEUP PROPS r : BRIGIT ""X""DUCER. MICKEY: DOCTOR DUO Get twice the Time '": Lord with our collector's $^*3i covers featuring the Doctor with a Cyberman and his WHO companion. Buy either (or both!) at eiv.com/ Jenna-Louise doctorwhocovers. Coleman and Matt Smith 4 | EW.COM March 29, 2013 Photograph by IAN DERRY 50 YEARS OF D 0 Q D CI D • M • El CLARK HOME IS WHERE COLLIS POUCE 'aw? BOX PHOTOGRAPH THE TA R DIS Kfl DERRY How will DOCTOR WHO, which has been thrilling (and terrifying) fans with intergalactic adventures since 1963, celebrate the big 5-0? With new monsters, a new companion, and the return of some old foes. PLUS Peter Jackson pays tribute to the Time Lord. r ^^^^^^m- f; j |8 Ito ^5 *: 1''• in NS| T *»«£ ^B, ,. ; ::; Br ^„ ;1 flO ^r| i^^Hi -' i ^^9 JK'-X^^^^^'''>' i* iB J '41 BLV'''^ i • i ^L ' Br-Sfc*"" SH • * — * * 1 1 Hf Jf '' :r . •F I™ •'' *-~~0' Jenna-Louise Coleman and Matt Smith (with a Cyberman and a Dalek) photo­ graphed on March 4, 2013, in London ^T^ For the uninitiated, the TARDIS is the spaceship (disguised as a 4 V phone box) that transports the Doctor through space and time March 29, 2013 EW.COM 33 At a Manhattan restaurant, five months after EW's visit to the Doctor Who set, Matt Smith is looking a little like one of his Time Lord character's many S THE MONA LISA is to art lovers and the Stanley Cup is to summer of 2012, the TARDIS monstery foes, the lizardlike looks rather, well, crappy. Situ­ Sea Devils. Which is to say, he's hockey nuts, so the TARDIS is to fans of the long-running ated at the end of an alley in the green around the gills. You science-fiction show Doctor Who. Since Who debuted on the small Welsh village of Llantrisant, the Ultimately, the case of the TARDIS' could blame his sickly pallor on jet lag, as U.K.'s BBC network in the fall of 1963, this time-traveling ship is—predictably, yet still somehow unglued handle proves to be one of the Smith flew into New York a couple of days disappointingly—the same size inside Doctor's less incident-packed adventures, ago, after wrapping the 2012-13 season. Or spaceship—which is, famously, bigger on the inside than its that its outward dimensions indicate. and Smith and Coleman are soon back at you could blame it on the previous night's exterior would suggest—has transported the series' alien hero And as the interior walls of this clearly work. They're in the midst of filming the party at the BBC America offices, during made-from-wood prop haven't even been to a vast array of locales where he has battled a variety of second half of the 2012-13 season, which which Smith, Coleman, Moffat, and painted, the structure seems more tool- premieres on BBC America March 30 at Moffat's fellow exec producer Caroline monsters. While the Doctor's ability to physically regenerate shed than time-travel vehicle. Also: It's 8 p.m. and kicks off Doctor Who's 50th- Skinner delighted the troops by forming has allowed 11 actors of different shapes and sizes to play the missing one of its door handles. Which is anniversary year. Expectations are high a conga line on the dance floor. Regard­ why the current Doctor, Matt Smith, and among fans around the world that the part on TV, the TARDIS still resembles a blue, '50s-era British less, Smith's worse-for-wearness is not his Who costar Jenna-Louise Coleman show will commemorate this milestone in preventing him from attacking a filet police phone box. Over time it has become a bona fide sci-fi icon, have stopped shooting as various crew momentous style. In short, the Who crew mignon as plump as the actor is willowy with its distinctive design replicated on toys, T-shirts, towels, members shout out the same refrain: has bigger things to worry about than while enthusing about the eight upcom­ "The handle came off the TARDIS!" errant handles—not least of which is ing episodes of Doctor Who. "We've got a and even teapots (did we mention this is a British show?). ill* bus? "The handle came off the TARDIS!" "The ensuring the time traveler has a future as great alien-planet episode," he reveals. Alas, in real life, and specifically on this overcast morning in the handle came off the TARDIS!" well as a storied past. "I think Doctor Who "We've got a great horror-movie episode, -O March 29, 2013 EW.COM | 35 Cn 50 YEARS OF H][j]|p[T][o]{R}[*j[W)Qj][o] cy TOM BAKER detailed a number of forthcoming "event THE GOOD Doctor data Once more a dramas," including what was described planet-hopping traveler, Baker's as "the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary long-scarfed Doctor beguiled a DOCTORS Special." Beyond that, nothing has been generation of young sci-fi fans for reasons that included his frequent proffer­ publicly disclosed except that the special ing of "Jelly babies" candies. Most memorable will be shot in 3-D and broadcast in the companions Sarah Jane Smith again, the prim­ WILLIAM fall. Moffat says he can't offer further itive Leela (Louise Jameson), and K-9, which HARTNELL illumination. "Well, I could," he dead­ was a robot shaped like (you guessed it!) a dog. New monsters battled The Dalek-creating ^^^S^ Doctor data Hartnell \ pans, "but I'm not going to." Davros and the Loch Ness monster-controlling JV^fl I 55 when he first played the Given this information vacuum, it is no Zygons. Best adventure 'The Ark in Space": Vm Jl I Time Lord and is still the surprise that the Who rumor mill (the The Doctor battles an egg-laying alien in a tale oldest actor to be cast in the role. Most that proved that when you're a kid hiding memorable companion The Doctor's Whomor mill?) has been working over­ behind a couch, everyone can hear you scream. "granddaughter" Susan Foreman (Carole time. The most repeated piece of scuttle­ Did you know? Before he was cast as the Ann Ford), although Whovians still debate butt is that the anniversary special will Doctor, Baker was working in construction. whether she really was related to the find the current Doctor joined by some or Time Lord. New monsters battled The PETER DAVISON extermination-crazed Daleks and the all of his former incarnations and, when Cybermen. Best adventure Series debut possible, the actors who played them Doctor data Davison, whose "An Unearthly Child": the Doctor, the (including Smith, there are currently big break had been on the BBC TARDIS, the Stone Age. A legend is born. ^^M veterinarian drama All Creatures Did you know? Future Blade Runner eight living actors who have had the role). The show has previously featured multi- 1" N. Great and Small, portrayed the director Ridley Scott was tasked with Doctor as compassionate and patient. Most designing the Daleks until a scheduling Doctor adventures, but with the excep­ memorable companion The at-times rather conflict prevented him from doing so. River Song's parents (we could fill the metallic maniacs the Doctor has been the first draft of his new one. You know: tion of a for-charity sketch, the latest scantily clad Peri Brown (Nicola Bryant). New rest of this magazine explaining that battling almost since the start of the 'Stop putting the jokes in the stage iteration of Who has shied away from that monsters battled The reptilian Terileptils, the PATRICK temporal head-scratcher). But the enig­ show. Just as thrillingly, the installment directions, Neil, it really doesn't help!' particular trope. Regardless, in October similarly reptilian Mara, and the sluglike Tractators TROUGHTON has been penned by sci-fi icon Neil Best adventure 'The Caves of Androzani": a matic nature of Coleman's character— I'm not kidding. I'd say, 'That's a really at New York Comic Con, Fifth Doctor Phantom of the Opera-inspired saga of an age- Doctor data A seemingly and her pixieish beauty—has piqued Gaiman. Moffat tends to either write the good line, Neil—[but] it's in the f—ing Peter Davison made clear that he was halting drug, and Davison's last adventure. Did absentminded bumbler, fans' interest. Following her first appear­ Who scripts himself or entrust them to stage directions!'" Smith, meanwhile, very interested in donning his own you know? In 2011 the Fifth Doctor became the Troughton's Doc enjoyed ance, Coleman was voted "the Time one of his showrunner peers, such as Neil father-in-law of the Tenth Doctor when Davison's says the 2013 class of Cybermen proves Doctor's togs for the anniversary. "Every daughter, Georgia, married David Tennant.