Thirteenth Doctor actress, Jodie Whittaker, has said that the screening of The Woman Who Fell To Earth, her debut episode, was her proudest moment related to Doctor Who.

Specifically, she pinpoints the premiere of the Series 11 episode during 2017’s New York Comic Con.

She explains:

“It’s slightly narcissistic because I think if it’s the single proudest moment, it slightly involves you. I was given the best entrance to a TV series in the world. Falling through a roof to the iconic soundtrack. Standing up to see thousands of people cheering. It was just absolutely brilliant, and I was given a gift there of how to enter the series, and I just think that entire first episode, watching it with fans, watching it with the creatives, who were also really emotional sharing it and knowing that it was just being received… 

“That’s what it’s like to be in this bubble: you can be cast, you can be doing stuff, but it’s not until you hear people in the room and that group breath that happens with viewing, when you have a mass people watching and sharing those moments. That sums up Doctor Who to me: the shared breath that creates joy.”

I love the phrase, “the shared breath that creates joy” — absolutely wonderful.

And how lovely that she has that memory. Like the Thirteenth Doctor era or not, it’s great that she still feels part of this community and that she took some brilliant memories from her time on the show.

Indeed, The Woman Who Fell To Earth, written by Chris Chibnall, didn’t include the Doctor Who title sequence, instead playing some notes from it when the Doctor crashes through the roof of a train, meeting her companions-to-be, Graham O’Brien, Yasmin Khan, and Ryan Sinclair.

Do you have any favourite moments from the Thirteenth Doctor era?