BBC Studios is bringing one of David Tennant's best-known Doctor Who stories back to the big screen for Doctor Who Day. Doctor Who: The Satan Pit Extended Cut, a feature-length version of the 2006 two-parter The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit, screens in more than 1,000 cinemas on Monday, November 23. The official Doctor Who account is also promoting an exclusive Doctor Who Day t-shirt tied to the screening. Check out the official post down below:
When And Where The Satan Pit Extended Cut Screens
The extended cut plays in cinemas across the UK, Ireland, the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand on November 23, with additional screenings at select cinemas on Saturday, November 28. The t-shirt in the post is the Doctor Who Day 2026 The Impossible Planet The Satan Pit T-Shirt, sold through Hot Topic.
The extended cut is a movie-length re-edit of both episodes. It restores the deleted scenes from the original DVD release and adds extended footage that has never been seen before. Screenings also include an interview with director James Strong, and the poster art is by Peter Strain. The release marks 20 years since the Tenth Doctor and Rose's adventures in Series 2, which aired on BBC One in 2006 and also featured the Cybermen's return from a parallel world and the Battle of Canary Wharf.
The event is a collaboration between BBC Studios, CinemaLive and Fathom Entertainment, which handles tickets in the US through its official site. Doctor Who Day falls on November 23 each year, the anniversary of the show's first broadcast on BBC TV in 1963.
Here is the official trailer for The Satan Pit Extended Movie Cut:
What The Impossible Planet And The Satan Pit Are About
The Impossible Planet and The Satan Pit aired on BBC One on June 3 and June 10, 2006, as episodes 8 and 9 of the second series of the revived Doctor Who. Matt Jones wrote both episodes. The Doctor, played by David Tennant, and Rose Tyler, played by Billie Piper, arrive at Sanctuary Base 6, a human mining base on Krop Tor, a planet that should not be able to exist in a stable orbit around a black hole. The crew is drilling toward a power source deep below the surface, and the base is staffed by the Ood, who made their first appearance in these episodes.
As the drilling goes deeper, a creature that calls itself the Beast takes over the Ood and one of the crew, and the TARDIS is lost in a ground collapse. The Doctor descends into the pit below the base while Rose leads the survivors on the surface. The Beast is voiced by Gabriel Woolf, who played Sutekh in the 1975 serial Pyramids of Mars and returned to voice Sutekh again in 2024's "The Legend of Ruby Sunday" and "Empire of Death." The Satan Pit drew 6.08 million consolidated viewers and an Appreciation Index of 86 on its original broadcast.
Where Doctor Who Stands Now
The screening comes while the show itself is between eras. Billie Piper's appearance in the regeneration cliffhanger at the end of the most recent series was covered in Doctor Who: Billie Piper Reveals Whether She's Playing The Next Doctor Following Regeneration Cliffhanger. The BBC has since opened a competitive tender for a production partner on new episodes, as covered in Doctor Who's Next Era Takes Shape As BBC Issues Tender For New Series Targeting 2028/29 Launch.
Fathom's US trailer for the event lists the November 23 date:
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