Doctor Who: Everything We Just Learned At Comic-Con 2021

3. The Series Starts With The Doctor In The Middle Of An Adventure

Doctor Who Series 13 Mandip Gill, Jodie Whittaker, John Bishop
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While the panel was light on story details, we did get a few regarding the opening moments of the series.

Chibnall revealed that, when we meet them in the first episode, the Doctor and Yaz have been travelling together "for some time", perhaps indicating that we might be in for quite a significant time jump. Maybe the duo has been using that time to try and unlock more of the Timeless Child mystery?

Chibnall also mentioned that we join the Doctor and Yaz while they're smack-bang in the middle of an adventure, which sounds like a really propulsive way to kick the series off. They soon bump into a character called Dan Lewis - played by John Bishop - so the new TARDIS team should be established pretty early on.

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