The Night of The Who What Now? Mini Prequel Episode To Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Special Released

So I think I heard something about some video on the Internets today…

We’re a little late to the party on this, given that our Twitter feed exploded around breakfast time that this thing existed – funny story: my own brother gave away the Goddamned spoilers to me on this one, which is why he is getting a restraining order for Christmas – but the BBC has released a seven-minute mini episode of Doctor Who to fill in some of the blanks between the season seven finale (which showed us John Hurt as some Doctor or another) and the upcoming 50th Anniversary special (featuring, well, everybody) which will air simultaneously across the world – around 2:30 p.m. here on the American East Coast – on November 23rd.

The video is called The Night of The Doctor, it is set during the Time War between the Time Lords and the Daleks, and it features, well, The Doctor. Or one of them. And another one by way of spiffy computer graphics. And it not only fills in a few blanks for the upcoming The Day of The Doctor special, but a few blanks that have been kicking around for a few years now.

Yeah, I know that’s vague, but I don’t want to spoil it for you. I don’t want to descend to the level of my brother… not that I want to paint him as a bad guy or anything! Not when he’s gonna be spending the holidays at your house. You know, provided you live at least 300 yards away from me.

Anyway, why would I bother to spoil it? Because If you haven’t seen it for yourself, you can check it out after the jump.