Doctor Who: 10 Things You Didn't Know About Ncuti Gatwa

10. His First TV Role Was With An Ood And A Sontaran

In the first episode of the second series of BBC Scotland sitcom Bob Servant, Bob pioneers a new "Meat Attack" burger, which is bought by a young Ncuti Gatwa.

Gatwa's first TV role as a future victim of serious food poisoning is particularly interesting because of who he appeared onscreen with.

He was served his burger by Bob's loyal employee Frank, played by Jonathan Watson. Watson would go on to don the armour and potato heads of several Sontarans in Doctor Who Series 13 – including Commander Skaak, who really wanted to ride a horse.

Bob Servant himself was played by Brian Cox, who had previously voiced the Ood Elder in The End of Time. A year prior to Gatwa's episode of Bob Servant, Cox had also played Doctor Who co-creator Sydney Newman in the biopic An Adventure in Space and Time.

These connections got even more wibbly-wobbly when, in 2023, Gatwa was edited into An Adventure in Space and Time in place of Matt Smith, to commemorate Doctor Who's 60th anniversary.

So there you have it – Doctor Who's past and future convening around a burger van just outside Dundee!