
As part of the writing staff since 2005, former Doctor Who showrunner Steven Moffat wrote for all of the modern Doctors up to Peter Capaldi, as well as a bunch of the others he brought back from time to time. He handed over the reins of the show to successor Chris Chibnall back in 2017, who then cast Jodie Whittaker as the Thirteenth Doctor, but now, Moffat is able to add Whittaker to the list of Doctors he’s covered, as a new short story from the writer has been shared online.
The tale, titled “The Terror of the Umpty Ums,” was published on the BBC’s Doctor Who website earlier today. It begins with an alien being called Karpagnon in the guise of a young boy called David. To say any more would be to spoil it, as – like we know to expect from all Moffat’s work – the story is