Doctor Who - The Night of the Doctor - Behind the Scenes

The Night of the Doctor was a mini-episode released just prior to the 50th anniversary special. It starred Paul McGann as the Eighth Doctor, in his first on-screen appearance since the 1996 TV movie. It also featured his regeneration — meaning that McGann has uniquely appeared on television only in regeneration stories.

As of 2014, it is the only BBC Wales production that stars the Doctor, but never shows even a glimpse of the current incarnation. It instead showed the origin of a retroactively introduced incarnation from a moment in the Doctor's past, the War Doctor, portrayed by John Hurt.