The Witchfinders (TV story)

The Witchfinders was the eighth episode of series 11 of Doctor Who.

Synopsis
Team TARDIS lands in early 17th century England in the midst of a witch trial, and despite her own non-interference policy, the Thirteenth Doctor cannot help but try and stop the killings. However, with King James growing suspicious of the Doctor and her ways, it is up to her friends to play Witchfinders and uncover the hidden mysteries behind the trials.

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Cast

 * The Doctor - Jodie Whittaker
 * Graham O'Brien - Bradley Walsh
 * Ryan Sinclair - Tosin Cole
 * Yasmin Khan - Mandip Gill
 * King James - Alan Cumming
 * Becka Savage - Siobhan Finneran
 * Willa Twiston - Tilly Steele
 * Old Mother Twiston - Tricia Kelly
 * Smithy - Arthur Kay
 * Alfonso - Stavros Demetraki

Uncredited

 * Mud Witch - Marina Stoimenova

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Filming locations

 * Little Woodham - Bilehurst Cragg

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Continuity

 * The Doctor has met James I before, in her first incarnation. (PROSE: The Plotters)
 * King James notes to Ryan that people have tried to blow him up. (PROSE: The Plotters, GAME: The Gunpowder Plot)
 * Ryan refers to the death of his nan and mum. (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth, The Tsuranga Conundrum)
 * The Doctor once again tries calling her friends "gang", "team", and "fam". (TV: The Woman Who Fell to Earth)
 * The Doctor reminds her friends not to mess with history. (TV: Rosa)
 * The Doctor mentions having met Harry Houdini. (AUDIO: Smoke and Mirrors, PROSE: Houdini and the Space Cuckoos, COMIC: Theatre of the Mind, PROSE: The Great Escapes)
 * The Tenth Doctor was previously accused of witchcraft by the Sycorax leader after he used excess regeneration energy to regrow his severed hand. (TV: The Christmas Invasion) The Sixth Doctor was called a warlock by the Carrionites after he commanded the use of an incantation found in Reminiscences of the Peculiar. (AUDIO: The Carrionite Curse) The Doctor's granddaughter[ Susan was also accused of witchcraft — and hunted — during the Salem witch trials in 1692. (PROSE: The Witch Hunters)
 * The Seventh Doctor once quoted Clarke's Law to Ace. (TV: Battlefield)
 * The Doctor uses her respiratory bypass system. (TV: Pyramids of Mars, Four to Doomsday, AUDIO: Return of the Krotons)

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