David Tennant's return (again) as the Doctor in the Doctor Who 60th anniversary special will be helmed by former showrunner Russel T. Davies, Empire reported.

Davies, who revived the show from 2005-2010 after a 16-year hiatus, said the special is “unlike any Doctor Who episode ever.”

Donna Noble returns

Also returning for the special is Catherine Tate as Donna Noble, one of the Doctor's companions who had her memories of him tragically wiped. For a good cause, though. It was to save her life.

The 10th Doctor exclusively told the magazine, “It's like the band getting back together for one last hurrah.”

In the trailers, Donna still feels like “something's missing.” She and her daughter Rose (oh, the name) are then pulled into an adventure with the Doctor due the alien known as The Meep.

David Tennant isn't 10, he's… 14?

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While Tennant is returning as the Doctor, he isn't Ten. He's Fourteen.

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“That was the first exciting piece of mischief that Russell created. That I was going to be Doctor No. 14 rather than Doctor No. 10 again. You’ll just have to wait and see why the 14th Doctor is so much like the 10th,” Tennant teased.

Davies took the storyline from a 1980 Doctor Who comic strip called The Star Beast.

“I needed to bring Donna back into the story,” Davies explained.

“Which meant setting it in London, which meant something alien landing on top of London, and I automatically thought of Star Beast as the best way to tell that story,” he added.

The teasers to the 60th anniversary specials have been a bit shocking. In the 2022 season finale, the 13th Doctor played by Jodi Whittaker, regenerated into David Tennant. The shock? That it wasn't the already announced 15th Doctor, Sex Education's Ncuti Gatwa.

Fans will have to wait for Gatwa's turn, but Tennant assured that, “These new specials are Russell of the leash.”

The Doctor Who 60th Anniversary specials will air on BBC and its new home, Disney+, sometime in November.