There's no doubt that David Tennant is one of the greatest actors to portray the Doctor yet. While I suspect that current Doctor Matt Smith's legacy will be just as revered, Tennant has often been voted the favorite Doctor in polls. And while his final moments as the Doctor in last year's "The End of Time, Part 2" were absolutely heartbreaking, who's to say that we won't be seeing him again?
Tennant's no Christopher Eccleston -- he's game to return to the series, he said in an interview with Total Film. The actor, who will appear in the upcoming vampire film Fright Night, told the website that a reappearance by the Tenth Doctor is "not impossible forever, but no plans at the moment. People keep telling me that they’ve read online that I’m coming back – but believe me, if that happens I’ll be the first to tell everyone, I’ll be shouting about it very loudly."
"I’m very proud of the show and I’m fully aware it casts a long shadow professionally, but I’m quite happy about that. It’s a shadow wearing a very cool, long coat!"
While the Doctor Who mini-episode "Time Crash" saw David Tennant's Doctor interact with the Fifth Doctor (Peter Davison), could the show's impending 50th Anniversary Special in 2013 stage a similar reunion between Tennant and Matt Smith? We can only hope...
Doctor Who returns in the fall with the episode "Let's Kill Hitler."
Wow I would love to see david back even just for one show he was the one who got me hooked on the show been watching since 2008 thank u david tennent for such a great show
The problem with multi-Doctor episodes is they're very hard to pull off without messing with continuity. People are still debating aspects of "The Three Doctors", the first multi-Doctor story which aired 38 years ago. And Google "Season 6B" for some interesting and controversial theories regarding a 1985 outing called "The Two Doctors". There was planned special called The Dark Dimension back in 1993 that was to have been set in a parallel universe where the Tom Baker Doctor never regenerated, and he found himself meeting other incarnations. A story like that might work. In Tennant's case we also know there's a clone Doctor in a parallel universe so he could always come back as that version of the Doctor.
Alex – I tend to lean hopefully toward the idea of seeing the meta-crisis (clone) doctor in some form. That would avoid the potentially continuity problem your rightly brought up, and it would allow for the normal physical changes (ie: looking older) that happen to an actor after he's left a role, without having to come up with some timey-whimey reason for it — although I would hope we would have the opportunity to see Mister Tennant again before "aging" became an issue! LOL.
I'm surprised that nobody that I have seen has brought up the fact that they have rebuilt the set for the Tenth Doctors Tardis control room over two years after that run had ended (as seen in s06e04 The Doctor's Wife). I have a hard time that the would go through the expense of all that for just one episode. What I am trying to say is that I think we are going to see the return of the David T. Doctor sooner rather than later.
maybe David Tennant could come back as Doctor 10.5 with Rose. i'd love to see Rose meet the new Doctor as well. it would be just fantastic if David could come back for just a spell to feed us rabid fangirls frenzy.
Come on David Tennant. Come on David Tennant. You were my Doctor and you have to come back. Also I agree with Kate. The 11th doctor (Smith) should be introduced to some of the tenth doctor's companions, I would be really interested to see how they would react. On the other hand they really are the tenth doctor's so I would be sad to see something special to David's character go to Matt.I have nothing against Matt in fact he really has grown on me but those companions are David's, and are special to that Doctor. Like this comment if you agree with me. :)