BBC Studios Celebrates Doctor Who Day 2025 with interactive TARDIS Treasure Hunt

13 NOVEMBER 2025 – London: BBC Studios has unveiled plans for Doctor Who Day 2025, a global celebration of the iconic sci-fi series, taking place on Sunday 23rd November. This year’s festivities centre around an exciting digital activation: VWORP AROUND THE WORLD, an interactive TARDIS treasure hunt inviting fans to help locate the Doctor’s missing time machine.

The virtual scavenger hunt unfolds across five missions, each guiding fans to a secret location via clues that when solved will reveal a location using what3words. Participants will log into the UNIT HQ section of the official Doctor Who website and enter the discovered TARDIS locations to unlock exclusive digital prizes, including deleted scenes, unseen scripts, and behind-the-scenes content. The fifth and final mission, launching on 20th November, will culminate in a dramatic real-world reveal of the TARDIS landing. The first three missions are now live on the Doctor Who website ​ (Mission 1, Mission 2, Mission 3).

In addition to the treasure hunt, fans can look forward to a host of activities to celebrate Doctor Who Day including:

Fans can follow the hunt and join the celebration via the Doctor Who website, social media channels, and the Doctor Who newsletter. The hashtag #DoctorWhoDay will be used across platforms to unite fans around the world.

Doctor Who will be back on screens at Christmas 2026 with a special episode written by Russell T Davies and produced by Bad Wolf with BBC Studios for the BBC. ​

The brand-new Doctor Who spin-off series, The War Between the Land and the Sea will air on BBC iPlayer and BBC One in the UK in December, and exclusively on Disney+ outside of the UK (where available) in 2026.

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