Wish World

319a – "Wish World"
319a – "Wish World"
Doctor Who episode
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Cast
	Doctor Ncuti Gatwa – Fifteenth Doctor;
	Companions Varada Sethu – Belinda Chandra; Millie Gibson – Ruby Sunday;
	Others Archie Panjabi – The Rani; Atilla Akinci – Otto Zufall; Leni Adams – Violett Zufall; Sienna-Robyn Mavanga-Phipps – Poppy; Jonah Hauer-King – Conrad Clark; Bonnie Langford – Melanie Bush; Ruth Madeley – Shirley Bingham; Jemma Redgrave – Kate Lethbridge-Stewart; Susan Twist – Susan Triad; Alexander Devrient – Colonel Christofer Ibrahim; Nila Aalia – Lakshmi Chandra; Josephine Lloyd-Welcome – Devika Babu; Anita Dobson – Mrs Flood; Hermon Berhane – Val Balham; Sam Lawton – Winnie Petheridge; Joshua J Parker – Brian Dale; Michelle Greenidge – Carla Sunday; Angela Wynter – Cherry Sunday; Carole Ann Ford – Susan Foreman; Jonathan Groff – Rogue;
Production
Directed by	Alex Sanjiv Pillai
Written by	Russell T Davies
Produced by	Chris May
Executive producer(s)	Russell T Davies; Julie Gardner; Jane Tranter; Joel Collins; Phil Collinson;
Music by	Murray Gold
Series	Series 15
Running time	1st of 2-part story, 44 minutes
First broadcast	24 May 2025
Chronology
← Preceded by; "The Interstellar Song Contest"	Followed by →; "The Reality War"

"Wish World" is the seventh and penultimate episode of the fifteenth series of the British science-fiction television series Doctor Who. The episode is the first in a two-part story, concluding with "The Reality War" one week later on 31 May. In the episode, the Fifteenth Doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) and his companions, Belinda Chandra (Varada Sethu) and Ruby Sunday (Millie Gibson), find themselves living in a false, heteronormative, 1950s-era themed reality. This world was engineered by Conrad Clark at the behest of the Rani, a long-time enemy of the Doctor whose ultimate plan is to make the residents doubt the universe they live in and rescue Omega.

Written by Russell T Davies and directed by Alex Sanjiv Pillai, the episode was released on BBC iPlayer, BBC One, and Disney+ on 24 May 2025. It draws together several themes that were present throughout the fifteenth series and was filmed throughout April and May 2024. Production crews faced issues working with animals and a baby while recording took place. Interior scenes were shot at Wolf Studios Wales. The episode was viewed by 2.86 million. "Wish World" received mixed reviews; critics positively highlighted the execution of the false reality, but some criticised the characterisation of the Rani and the return of Omega. The two-part story was also given a limited theatrical release.