4 Times The Toymaker Almost Returned To Doctor Who Before The 60th Anniversary (& Why They Didn’t)

The Toymaker (Neil Patrick Harris) returns to Doctor Who after an absence of 57 years, but there were four failed attempts to bring back the cosmic trickster following his 1966 debut. The First Doctor (William Hartnell) defeated the Toymaker and destroyed his celestial toyroom in the 1966 serial “The Celestial Toymaker”, but after a long time, the classic era villain is returning to Doctor Who. The Fourteenth Doctor (David Tennant) and Donna Noble (Catherine Tate) face off against the Toymaker in “The Giggle”, the third of Doctor Who‘s 60th anniversary specials.