Number 11

[morwen]

In case anyone hasn't seen it elsewhere David Tennant's replacement has been cast and will be announced tomorrow. It would have been nice to have this kept a secret until the episode in question, but I suppose this was inevitable (especially given the media circus of the previous switchover).

I expect I will be in a pub in Reading at the time. Damn.

Comments

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

If this is true it can only have happened once.

with 4/5

*Tom Baker quitting announced in October 1980
*Peter Davison announced as cast on 3 December 1980
*appears at tail end of 'Logopolis' on 21 March 1981
*appears in first full serial 'Castrovala' on January 4 1982

Can't seem to find dates for Baker, but he appears to have had a press conference before he was seen in costume, and this (http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A6127841) says before that the press had been speculating on Pertwee's replacement.

With Pertwee you didn't actually see his face in "The War Games", and the show was being re-tooled anyway, so he must have been announced before "Spearhead in Space".

[vampwillow]

Well I don't recall knowing in advance that Doctor #1 was about to be replaced, or #2 or #3 ...

and it certainly wasn't a case of announcing to massive publicity well over a year in advance!