Season 3 (Dokter Wie)

Season 3 of Dokter Wie, subtitled Eindspel, premiered in the spring of 2022. It featured Wendy van Dijk as De Dokter, Koert-Jan de Bruikn as Evert de Vries, Tamara Brinkman as Berendjen Visser and Jade Olieberg as Stijntje Meyer.

Ending Dokter Wie
Back in 2019, Wendy van Dijk, the show’s main star, had decided to leave after the third season, however, she hadn’t quite expected to be making that third season as late as she did. She did consider not returning for the third season, when approached to finalise her contract in 2021, but was eventually persuaded around to doing it. In that case, there probably wouldn’t have been a third season and the show would have just ended. Speaking of the show ending, it was only during the production of Season 3 that NPO actually made the decision to end the show, with the “Endgame” adaptation, originally intended, to see the Dokter being resurrected and played another actor, as one would expect. However, essentially NPO decided they hadn’t really missed the show, during its 2020 & 2021 hiatus and they didn’t really have much desire to continue it without Wendy. Additionally, with Paramount+ launching in the Netherlands soon, Dutch people would be able to access actual Doctor Who in a Dutch dub extremely easily, potentially cutting into the show’s audience. With all those factors considered, it was decided that De Dokter would die for good at the end of the season.

Adapting Endgame
Pre-production on Season 3 had already begun, with a few scripts already written, when COVID-19 hit the Netherlands. Filming was due to begin in May 2020, with a later premiere of November 2020 planned. This didn’t come to fruition. Throughout 2020, attempts were made to start up production, but priorities at NPO had changed, due to the pandemic, and the show was side-lined. Additionally, a change in Season 3, as a whole, was considered during this time, after being suggested by incoming Doctor Who Franchise Executive, Mal Young. The idea was to adapt Doctor Who: Endgame as a 10-episode season arc.

The inception of the idea to adapt ‘Doctor Who: Endgame’ was Mal Young’s idea, and was decided upon for many reasons, but chief of them was kind of just the “for the hell of it” reasoning previously employed. Doctor Who on TV now had the rights to the movies, so it was kind of the Dutch going “if we can do it, then let’s do it, and just see how it goes”… So, Season 3 or Dokter Wie: Eindpsel as its title, was the audience seeing if adapting a single movie into a 10×45 minute epic would actually work.

Cast for Eindspel
Stijntje left as a companion at the end of Season 2, and obviously this had a knock-on effect for Season 3. Originally, the actress had decided to leave, in 2019, but since this was quite a while on and it was the end etc etc, she was happy to come back, reprising her role in all 10-episodes of this season. That means that Dokter Wie has the same main cast for every single episode it produced.

Cosmetically, the fact the show’s title is Dokter Wie: Eindspel is reflected in the title sequence, but much of the look and feel of Season 1/2 is kept the same.

Regular

 * De Dokter - Wendy van Dijk
 * Evert de Vries - Koert-Jan de Bruikn
 * Berendjen Visser - Tamara Brinkman
 * Stijntje Meyer - Jade Olieberg

Recurring

 * To be added.

Guest

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Main Cast

 * The Dokter - Nicola Walker
 * Evert de Vries - James Joyce
 * Berendjen Visser - Beth Chalmers
 * Stijntje Meyer - Claudia Grant

Recurring Cast

 * To be added.

Guest Cast

 * To be added.

Crew
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Shooting Blocks
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Filming
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Aliens and Enemies

 * To be added.

Viewing Figures
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Physical Media
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