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The Celestial Toymaker

  • byJoe Siegler
  • Posted on December 9, 2021December 14, 2022
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The Celestial Toymaker

This Story: Series 3, Story 7. Production Code Y.
Overall: Story 24, Episodes 111-114
Airdates: 2 April 1966 to 23 April 1966
Written by Brian Hayles & Donald Tosh (uncredited). Directed by Bill Sellars

The four individual episode titles are:

  1. The Celestial Toyroom
  2. The Hall of Dolls
  3. The Dancing Floor
  4. The Final Test

Links: [ Wikipedia | Tardis Data Core | Reconstruction ]

Found this fun video of Peter Purves at a convention in 2016 talking about the Trilogic game prop from this story leading to his getting a gig at Blue Peter.


#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 111 - "The Celestial Toyroom" (1/4 - Serial "Y", Story 24) - 2 Apr 1966. #DoctorWho 1/2

1st/4 of "The Celestial Toymaker", a story with an intriguing concept, but is mostly lost. Only Ep4 survives. Our crew land in the Toymaker's realm, and the Doctor is pic.twitter.com/vDBgdtGXJN

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 6, 2021

#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 111 - "The Celestial Toyroom" (1/4 - Serial "Y", Story 24) - 2 Apr 1966. #DoctorWho 2/2

rendered invisible, which spoke to behind the scenes problems with Hartnell and the producer. Our crew are forced to play the Toymaker's games to regain the Tardis. pic.twitter.com/vfwNlABGAr

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 6, 2021

#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 112 - "The Hall of Dolls" (2/4 - Serial "Y", Story 24) - 9 Apr 1966. #DoctorWho

Only the Doctor's hand is in this episode, no Hartnell. Steven & Dodo continue to play the Toymaker's games. Notable: this episode contained the n word on original broadcast. pic.twitter.com/ioo1tTk8m3

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 8, 2021

#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 113 - "The Dancing Floor" (3/4 - Serial "Y", Story 24) - 16 Apr 1966. #DoctorWho

Ep3 feels a lot like Ep2 - more games for Steven & Dodo to play, and most of it kind of boring. Still no Hartnell in this episode, which probably contributes to that feeling. pic.twitter.com/LAVo2vTgad

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 9, 2021

#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 114 - "The Final Test" (4/4 - Serial "Y", Story 24) - 23 Apr 1966. #DoctorWho 1/2

The only ep of 4 that exists, and w/Hartnell back, I enjoyed it a lot more. The final game for Steven & Dodo is "Tardis Hopscotch", of which they play against Cyril. He loses pic.twitter.com/pXoPkfv9bC

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 10, 2021

#DoctorWhoMarathon Ep 114 - "The Final Test" (4/4 - Serial "Y", Story 24) - 23 Apr 1966. #DoctorWho 2/2

and Steven/Dodo make it to the Tardis. The Doctor, now visible, comes within one move of winning, but doing so traps his companions. He tricks the Toymaker into an escape. pic.twitter.com/SPVPdfePS2

— jᎾᎬ sᎥᎬᎶᏞᎬᏒ (@JoeSiegler) December 10, 2021

UPDATE 28 MAY 2022: 

There was an excellent Twitter discussion by user Kieran Highman about various behind the scenes things for this story.  It’s long (25 part tweet thread) – I’ve linked to it below.  The biggest surprise to me is that the Toymaker’s outfit was used previously in Doctor Who – it was one of the outfits used in Marco Polo.

I’ve been thinking about this, and I always say it’s my favourite #DoctorWho story, so I'd best chat on it...

Let’s talk about The Celestial Toymaker

(THREAD ? 1/25) https://t.co/haF9HqERhH

— Kieran Highman (@The66Ramblers) May 28, 2022

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