According to a BBC one listing for the programme, the seventh and penultimate Doctor Who Season Two episode Wish World will air on BBC One Saturday 24 May at 6:50pm.
The Great Day is coming, the most important date in history — 24 May 2025. The clock is ticking and everyone is preparing for a joyous tomorrow, when the whole world will change forever.
Welcome to a strange new world in which the old saying “There’s many a slip ‘twixt cup and lip” is gaining a terrifying new power. Even when a good outcome seems certain, things can still go wrong.
What are the Bone Beasts? Why is Mrs Flood hiding in the sky? What secrets do the Dispossessed keep? And why is a mysterious message echoing across time and space, saying, “Tables don’t do that”?
Traps are sprung and old enemies unite as the Doctor and Belinda finally arrive home to find a very different world. Can the Doctor see the truth before midnight arrives?
The Cast:
Ncuti Gatwa: The Doctor
Varada Sethu: Belinda Chandra
Millie Gibson: Ruby Sunday
Jonah Hauer-King: Conrad Clark
Atilla Akinci: Otto Zufall
Leni Adams: Violett Zufall
Sienna-Robyn Mavanga-Phipps: Poppy
Bonnie Langford: Melanie Bush
Ruth Madeley: Shirley Anne Bingham
Jemma Redgrave: Kate Lethbridge-Stewart
Susan Twist: Susan Triad
Alexander Devrient: Colonel Christofer Ibrahim
Nila Aalia: Lakshmi Chandra
Josephine Lloyd-Welcome: Devika Babu
Anita Dobson: Mrs Flood
Hermon Berhane: Val Balham
Sam Lawton: Winnie Petheridge
Joshua J Parker: Brian Dale
Michelle Greenidge: Carla Sunday
Angela Wynter: Cherry Sunday
• Space Baby Poppy returns after a brief appearance in The Story & The Engine
• Millie Gibson returns as Season One companion Ruby Sunday
• Bonnie Langford reprises her role as former companion and UNIT operative Melanie Bush
• Susan Triad, the tech mogul who offered service to UNIT, is back
• Conrad Clark, having been released from prison by Mrs Flood, is back to foment his version of reality
• Lakshmi Chandra is possibly a relative of Belinda, perhaps her mother
• Not only are there Bone Beasts but there is also a Bone Palace
• Archie Panjabi, heavily rumoured to play a villain in the series, is not on the cast list
Written by Russell T Davies and directed by Alex Sanjiv Pillai, the 44-minute Wish World transmits on Saturday 24 May at 8am on BBC iPlayer and 6:50pm on BBC One in the UK. Those outside of the UK can stream Wish World on Disney+ where available simultaneously starting at 3am ET/12am PT.
Directly after the BBC One broadcast, Steffan Powell goes behind the scenes of Wish World in Doctor Who: Unleashed on BBC Three and on the official YouTube channel where available at 7:35pm.