Countdown to 60: Vale Decem

The BBC's Christmas idents,

GMTV,

Never Mind The Buzzcocks,

QI,

CBeebies,

Breakfast,

Radio 2,

Desert Island Discs,

Greatest TV Shows of the Noughties,

Radio 5 Live,

Nan's Christmas Carol,

Alan Carr; Chatty Man,

BBC One News,

The One Show,

Hamlet,

The Graham Norton Show,

Loose Women...

The list went on. And on. He even spoke the continuity link for his final episode.

He didn't want to go, and to the public at large it seemed that, if he was going to go, then he wasn't going to do so quietly...

We were all sad to see him go - arguably the most popular Doctor since Tom Baker. But, after some 75 appearances across numerous TV programmes and radio shows between 14th December and 3rd January 2010, there were some who - like Tory MP Nigel Evans, who used this as an excuse to attack the BBC - were heartily sick of David Tennant by the time he relinquished the TARDIS to Matt Smith.

He did come back, in 2013 for the 50th Anniversary, but he was very much a guest in that and so politely stepped back to allow Smith and John Hurt to get most of the attention.

It's just coming up to 6 weeks until the 60th Anniversary (though we still don't have actual transmission dates for the three Specials), so expect the publicity to begin stepping up a gear.

Let's see just how much we get of DT in November 2023. It can't possibly be as much as those few weeks around the festive period at the close of 2009, when the man was everywhere.