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This Saturday (tomorrow) the worldwide, global, transdimensional simulcast of the 50th anniversary episode of Doctor Who will be broadcast in North America on BBC America beginning at 2:50 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and running until 4:10 p.m.  You can watch the official BBC trailer here.  

This 50th anniversary episode is titled "The Day of the Doctor" and features, among so much else, the return of the Tenth Doctor as he joins forces with his own Eleventh incarnation for the purposes of [spoilers!].  The BBC released last week a prequel titled "The Night of the Doctor."  This prequel re-introduces the Eighth Doctor who (no pun intended) previously had appeared only in the one-off 1996 made-for-American-television movie and which was, at best, a pseudo Doctor Who.  In this prequel, the Eighth Doctor is canonized as a full-fledged regeneration and, for the first time, viewers see his own regeneration into the secretive War Doctor, an incarnation between the Eighth and Ninth Doctors and which was only first hinted at in last season's series finale/cliffhanger.  In "The Night of the Doctor" prequel, the Eighth Doctor's first lines are meant as much for the character he is addressing as it is for Doctor Who viewers who were taken completely surprised by his inclusion.  You can watch the 7-minute prequel here.